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March 17, 2006
Cili, The Cancer Killer
Men, listen up ... cili padi is hot:
Capsaicin, which makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, U.S. and Japanese researchers said on Wednesday.Capsaicin led 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to commit suicide in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said.
Prostate cancer tumors in mice fed capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of tumors in untreated mice, they reported in the journal Cancer Research.
"Capsaicin had a profound anti-proliferative effect on human prostate cancer cells in culture," said Dr. Soren Lehmann of the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine.
"It also dramatically slowed the development of prostate tumors formed by those human cell lines grown in mouse models." [Reuters via Yahoo! News]
So load up on the arse-burning sambal. The repeated trips to the toilet will be worth it, I tell you.
Posted by aisehman at March 17, 2006 05:18 PM
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haemoroids or prostate cancer that is the question!?
HAEMOROIDS GOOOOO CHILI !!!!! >:D
Posted by: jonn at March 18, 2006 12:39 PM