[RKDinOKC]

Good Morning group.

Glen, bet what happened is when you got older you ate the hot stuff less often and that's why it started bothering you. I've had it bother me on and off at times depending on how often I get into the hot stuff. The entrance burn is just as much as the exit burn. Sometimes just get hungry for the hot stuff, the less it seems hot eating no matter what scoville says, the less exit burn. Sometimes the only way I can tell it's really hot is the top of my head sweats.

I use garlic powder and ground red pepper to battle colds a flu. Garlic powder acts as an antiseptic that kills the virus and the red pepper is high in vitamin C that raises the acidity making the environment too acidic for the virus to spread. If I feel a cold or flu coming on I start eating garlic powder pills. My go to is a diet heavy in garlic powder, not cloves. The powder has better antiseptic ability in your system than raw garlic. Discovered it when looking for something to battle the symptoms of a particularly bad cold and sore throat and had lost my voice.

What I found was...Chicken broth (not the low sodium kind) with garlic powder, red pepper, and black pepper. Something in the chicken broth helps the white blood cells zero in on where the virus is instead of just being all over your body. The white blood cells being everywhere is what makes you feel achey all over. The old chicken soup thing actually has some validity. Have also gotten my voice back within 10 minutes of sipping on the doctored up chicken broth.

When start feel like eating something do Pop corn with butter, garlic salt, and red pepper and Garlic toast with lots of butter, garlic powder, red pepper and mozzarella, found can take more garlic if add the mozzarella. Getting enough garlic if my sweat/bo starts smelling of garlic.

When I start feeling better the garlic laden stuff starts tasting like it's got way too much garlic and cayenne.