Redheads have more pain?

So whether the red-haired people are experiencing more pain than owners of other hair colors? Scientists are going to test one of the most dubious theories.

Ginger already come to life is not easy - their hair color is a frequent cause for ridicule at school. In addition, red firmly close the ratings of sexual attractiveness, and this applies to both men and women. And now scientists have assumed that Redheads   may have a lower pain threshold than the rest of the population of the earth.

Experts from the Hospital of the University of Southampton are going to conduct a study to see how the owners red hair   pale skin and react to pain. If the study proves the validity of this theory, the doctors have to treat red somewhat differently than all the other patients.

Now researchers have already attracted a large group redheads   volunteers over the age of 30 who receive small electrical discharges in the hip under anesthesia. In the control group is men and women with a different hair color, which receive the same level. Pain response of all study participants carefully recorded.

At the final stage the researchers compared how to respond to the pain of the same intensity holders of different shades of hair that would allow to come to a definite conclusion. Results of the investigation are looking forward to 3% of people in the UK who were born with red hair. In Russia, a comparable percentage of redheads.

Red color is the result of variations in a gene that plays a key role in the shade of hair and color of human skin. The same gene is involved in the production of endorphins - natural painkillers that our body releases independently as needed. Therefore, it is theoretically possible to assume that pain threshold   red in humans may vary from the threshold in people with a different color of hair.

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