What about spicy powders before an athletic competition involving agility? How about rugby?

Website design By BotEap.comThe largest organ in the human body is the epidermis, that is, the human skin. It’s a fascinating evolutionary strategy for an elite species based on carbon bipeds. Your sense of touch works because there are sensors under your skin connected to your nervous system and neurons. Every time something touches your skin, you feel it immediately. It is something that itches or feels pain, you know immediately. The other day I was reading some research articles on this and some new studies that are helping biotech science figure it all out.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen your skin is too hot or starts to burn, you feel it right away. That pain in your body tells your brain that you need to do something fast. Itching is another sensation that is connected in a different, but almost the same way. If you flail when your skin itches, it will raise your heart rate and nervous system. What if you wanted to use this strategy to help increase your athletic performance during competition? What if you wanted to cause an itchy sensation to improve your agility? Would that work? How is it possible not? Let me explain my theory here.

Website design By BotEap.comWhen you touch something hot, your muscles contract rapidly and you jump back. It is almost an involuntary movement. This is because your skin, just below the surface, is so well connected to the rest of your biological system. This is why I would suggest that those involved in sports that require a great deal of agility, fast-acting maneuvers, and rocket reflexes, could try some kind of powder that causes the itch to stop. What about those who play rugby?

Website design By BotEap.comMaybe runners could put it on their legs? The same goes for soccer players: maybe boxers put the gloves inside the gloves, that is, they sting into dust. Unfortunately, after carefully reading Google Scholar, I found no legitimate research papers to support my theory for or against. However, you are right, and I must ask once more; How can it not work? The question would be to do experimentation and get empirical data from the actual research of athletes and their performance to see how much itch would provide optimal performance without frustrating the athlete or distracting their mind from the important tasks required to play the sport.

Website design By BotEap.comIf you are a researcher involved in such things, I hope you will consider all this and think about it. I think there is more to this story and we need to know the answer. Could this be a simple way to increase performance by 5-10%?