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Why Your Brain Can’t Feel Pain
Your brain is the control center of your entire body, but here’s the strange part:
the brain itself cannot feel pain.
Brain tissue has no pain receptors. That’s why surgeons can perform brain surgery on awake patients without the brain feeling pain directly.
When you get a headache, the pain actually comes from surrounding tissues like blood vessels, muscles, and nerves, not the brain itself.
The organ that interprets pain is incapable of feeling it.
One of biology’s strangest contradictions.
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