Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Chilli Can Fight Prostate Cancer


Capsaicin, compound that make chilli is felt hot, can trigger cells of prostate cancer to suicide. The statement is expressed by researchers from Japan and THE UNITED STATES.

Capsaicin makes around 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells that inculcated at body mouse to kill themselves, in a process called apoptosis.

Tumors of prostate cancer in mouse body given capsaicin shrinks till one fifth of tumor size at mouse that pay no capsaicin, said researchers that write down the result in journal Cancer Research.

"Capsaicin haves effect anti-growth which is powerful for cells of prostate cancer," said Dr. Soren Lehmann from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and Medical Faculty of California University, Los Angeles.

"This Compound dramatically also slow downs growth of prostate cancer from human cells that is planted in mouse body."

Although it is far easier to heal human cancer planted at a mouse than in human body itself, nevertheless the invention above emerges expectation of effective cancer medication in the future. This is especially more please for everyone who likes hot food.

Lehmann predicts mice on trial has consumed capsaicin equivalent to 400 milligrams capsaicin for human, three times a week. This Amount can be supplied by three till eight chillis habanero (the most hot chilli), depending how hot the chillies are.

Prostate cancer is the most commonly cancer met in men in the world. Globally, around 221.000 men die per annum because of prostate cancer.

Source: Kompas, Indonesian daily News

2 comments:

  1. This is very exciting stuff, the mice were simply fed capsaicin for a few weeks and their tumors shrank! Find out how it works at capsicum-capsaicin.com

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  2. Thank you for your comment and your website about capsaicin. It's very interesting. There are many chili plants in my country and I hope everyone know about its benefit for their health.

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