Is There a Relationship Between Pain Tolerance and Gender?

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Elise Van Meerbeek wants to know, is there an observed relationship between pain tolerance and genders? The thing about pain tolerance is, I don't exactly know what that word means. You have receptors in your mouth that respond to touch and heat and sensation. So you have sensors on your tongue that pick up on how hot or spicy a food is. It doesn't become interpreted as pain until it gets to your brain and your brain inputs all the other information also.

PAIN. What is it? Where does it come from? And how can we hurt less? Which hurts more, a kidney stone or heartache? Why does chronic pain persist? Can we turn down our pain dials? To answer these huge questions, pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness enthusiastically explains the brain, pain and how to retrain it. She is an unabashed neuronerd and a ray of hope in a field that is misunderstood, neglected and under-explained. A true life-changer of a person.

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Her website, which has a resource page with a ton of free info: zoffness.com

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