What If You Couldn’t Feel Pain?

What if you couldn't feel pain? Not less pain. Zero. Ever. Nova can put his hand on a hot stove and feel nothing. At first, it's a superpower. Then a producer named Vance turns him into a livestream star: ice baths, beds of nails, burning coals. Two million people are watching. But Nova's body has been breaking for weeks, and he can't feel any of it. Would you trade your pain away? Tell us in the comments 👇 0:00 2.4 million watching 0:36 The hand on the stove 2:25 The Unbreakable Kid 3:56 What nobody can see 5:00 It hurts ME 5:32 The final stunt 6:17 Nothing hurt 7:04 For the first time The science is real: congenital insensitivity to pain is a rare condition, in some cases linked to the SCN9A gene. In 2015, researchers at UCL reported that the drug naloxone allowed a woman with this condition to feel pain for the first time. Source: Minett et al., Nature Communications (2015) This is an animated story. Don't try any of this at home. Novalore — animated what-if stories. Real science. A twist in every episode. Subscribe for the next episode: What if someone felt no fear? #whatif #animation #science