I love spicy food as much as the next guy, but when it gets too hot, I go running for a tall glass of milk. Why not water you ask? Because milk coats your mouth with a protein called casein that helps keeps your nerve receptors from going up into flames. Casein is a lipophilic (fat-loving) substance that surrounds and washes away the fatty capsaicinoids molecules (the stuff that makes peppers so damn spicy and hot) ...

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