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Hot Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer
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CowboyNeal
on Thu Mar 16, 2006 10:36 PM
from the cajun-health-food dept.
from the cajun-health-food dept.
brian0918 writes "U.S. and Japanese researchers have announced results of a study showing that capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves. 'Capsaicin led 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to commit suicide in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said.' This led to tumors one fifth the size of those in untreated mice."
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In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
Great... Just Great. (Score:5, Funny)
(I can hear Johnny Cash singing "Ring of Fire"...)
Re:Great... Just Great. (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Great... Just Great. (Score:5, Funny)
Fail that remedial comedy? Your funny bone is nowhere (topologically) near your asshole. But then, I hear there is a great deal of confusion between asses and elbows sometimes.
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Remedial anatomy (Score:5, Informative)
A simple correction - your prostate is between your urethra and your rectum [osu.edu]. In fact, the prostate makes most of the liquid in the ejaculate. If your prostate is too large (BPH [urologyhealth.org]), then the the urologist will sometimes do a TURP (also in the BPH article), where the urologist basically goes up your urethra and scoops out heaps of the prostate, in order to free up some space for the poor fellow to relieve himself.
If concern for prostate cancer is raised, a biopsy is done with a terribly evil device [prostatecentre.ca] that goes up the rectum and spears the prostate with six separate little needles. If they left a little capsaicin behind you would be so sore you wouldn't notice...However, the study as reported by the article was simply consumed capsaicin, not topically applied
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Re:Great... Just Great. (Score:5, Funny)
Not a big shocker though, a poison in high concentrations caused cancer cells to die
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Forget the cells! (Score:5, Funny)
Three to eight... (Score:5, Insightful)
I may be a lightweight bastard, but I cannot eat a single habanero without violently vomiting.
400 mg of Capsaicin is basically like eating pepper spray. Even if it's in capsule pill form you may vomit it up from your stomach. I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
Re:Three to eight... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Three to eight... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Three to eight... (Score:5, Funny)
Woman screaming in the middle of the night
Why?
Because cunnilingus is not so fun when the tongue hitting your clit is still swathed in hot sauce that is 100x hotter than anything you can buy at Safeway.
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Re:Three to eight... (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Three to eight... (Score:5, Informative)
Now if your vomiting is from a reaction from something besides taste and burning mouth, you screwed.
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Re:Three to eight... (Score:5, Insightful)
Most birds, incidentally, don't have receptors that capsaicin works with, so they can eat peppers all day long and not have a problem.
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Great news for my wife! (Score:5, Funny)
Capsaicin - topical analgesic (Score:5, Informative)
is an excellent topical analgesic also for neural problems, like Diabetic neuropathy.
There is a substance P which transmits the pain to the brain. Capsaicin destroys substance
P if you apply it for 4-5 days multiple times a day & hence for the next couple of weeks
you will not have pain, then you have to report it. Instead of the expensive Capsaicin
cream you can also use a paste made at home of red chilli powder etc. Or even McIlhenny's Tabasco [idiom.com]
I have meralgia parasthetic condition & nothing provides relief like chilli paste.
Another thing you can do... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Another thing you can do... (Score:5, Funny)
Dammit. Now my peppers taste funny.
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Re:Another thing you can do... (Score:5, Funny)
Why even post this here? There won't be case of prostate cancer among the Slashdot crowd for the next 65 fucking years!
Back in 5
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Re:Another thing you can do... (Score:5, Funny)
That explains why no one on Slashdot has EVER gotten prostate cancer.
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Quick Google Scholar Search (Score:5, Interesting)
The cancer increase was dependent on the concentration of these groups in a county. These results strengthen and extend an earlier case-control study which found odds ratios above 5 for the stomach cancer association with capsaicin pepper. It is further evidence that capsaicin is a human carcinogen.
Thoughts?
This clearly demonstrates (Score:5, Funny)
Jalapeño suppositories anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
What are the rates in cultures that like hot food? (Score:5, Interesting)
There be FLAMES shooting out my ass! (Score:5, Funny)
Loving spicy foods pays off! Finally, my wife will have to stop complaining when I aromitize the bedroom in the middle of the night.
"But honey, it's part of my health management program!"