All who experience the flush, please review the early posts - you are at risk of developing a very serious and deadly cancer. Please read the medical research. This is a genetic disorder that has been passed down for 1000's of years. I have no 'history' of Asian ancestry, however, if you look to the halpogroups that populated the world and how they traveled across time, you will see that it is entirely possible to have northern European ancestors who evolved from Asian ancestors 40,000 years ago. The American Indians were recently linked (via mitochondrial DNA) to Asian ancestors who traveled across the Bearing Straits in Alaska and populated the North and South American continents. We are all a 'hybrid' human being of some sort. The only way to truly know is to have the genetic testing done. As far as I can trace I'm of "German" ancestry - and we can look back on one branch of our tree to the 1400's. I turn bright red, throb, get the fast heart rate. Two years ago I was diagnosed with Esophogitis - which made no sense to me at all as I can't eat spicy food (they burn my mouth), I eat fairly bland. I have only consumed alcohol casually, but now that I know what I know - there is no magic medicine to cure what has mutated in the DNA. Please read more at aldh.org
April 25, 2006:
NOTE: Please do NOT treat information posted here as medical advice. However, once you've read these forums you'll probably want to get ahold of some Pepcid AC. Please support these forums and buy pepcid from Amazon.com.