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One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn't have enough poison in it.
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The morning necessity is probably caffeine.
But capsaicin is a neurotoxin, and high enough doses absolutely can be dangerous and even fatal. The pain involved long before those doses are reached keeps most sensible people safe.
We take common food stuffs and feed it to yeast until the yeast dies in it's own excrement and then drink that poison. Usually to celebrate. As long as we moderate and allow the body to recover from the poisonings, we're good, more or less.