You're listening to Bulletproof Radio with Dave Asprey.

Today's cool fact of the day is hot.

It's actually about the world's hottest pepper.

A guy ate the world's hottest pepper called Carolina Reaper and this thing's about 250

times as spicy as a whole opinion with about a 2 million Scoville heat unit measure.

He ended up being the first person ever to have severely narrowed arteries in his brain

that showed on a CT scan as a result of eating a hot pepper.

And I can tell you, I was one of those people who would slice raw habaneros on my omelets.

I just loved to cry when I ate until I realized that I was absolutely sensitive to night-shade

vegetables.

And unfortunately, my soul food, these peppers that make you cry are more in that family.

When I eliminated those things, which are really good in anti-inflammatory for about three-quarters

of people, if you're in the quarter people like me, they're actually a krypsinite food.

They're on the suspect foods list and they're a suspect food that actually can be guilty

for some people and really good for others.

So you gotta know.

But in the meantime, even if you do enjoy peppers as much as I used to, you probably don't

want to eat the ones that are that spicy, straight unless you want to experience a thunder

clap headache, which apparently is pretty, pretty negative.

Today's guest on the show is a friend and a best-selling author, a motivational speaker,

and a guy who's helped about two million people online with his teachings.

I wrote the forward for his last book called Claim Your Power and it's none other than

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