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This is Scientific American's 60-second science. I'm Christopher in Taliatta.

The ingredient that makes hot chilies hot is called Capsacin, and it can set your mouth on fire.

But the spicy compound has a soothing effect, too. In your gut, it kicks off a chemical cascade

that might calm the immune system and reduce inflammation. Researchers studied that phenomenon in mice.

Once inside the gut, the capsaicin molecule is plugged into a specific receptor,

spurring the release of another compound called anandamide.

Anandabine happens to be an endocannabinoid,

similar to the active ingredients in marijuana,

and it binds to cannabinoid receptors in the gut.

That last step in the cascade ramped up the production of cells that damped down inflammation

in the mice, and even cured them of a mouse model of diabetes type 1, an autoimmune disease.

If all this sounds a bit similar to the chemical messaging that happens in the brain, that's because it is.

The gut has a very large, well-ard nervous system. It's almost as large as the brain itself.

Promotes Ravastava, an immunologist at Yukon Health and one of the studies leaders.

We don't quite fully understand what's this huge amount of neurons are doing in the gut.

We don't understand its language and the molecules and mediators.

And I think with this work, we can at least claim to have found a couple of words in that

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