RED-hot chillies contain an ingredient that drives prostate cancer cells to kill themselves, research shows.
Capsaicin, which causes the heat in chillies, prompts human prostate cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis, studies published in the American journal, Cancer Research, revealed. Scientists from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, together with researchers from UCLA, found capsaicin has a "profound inhibiting effect on the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo". It induced about 80 per cent of prostate cancer cells growing in mice to "follow the molecular pathways" leading to apoptosis. Tumours treated with capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of those in non-treated mice.
Capsaicin, which causes the heat in chillies, prompts human prostate cancer cells to undergo programmed cell death, or apoptosis, studies published in the American journal, Cancer Research, revealed.
Scientists from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, together with researchers from UCLA, found capsaicin has a "profound inhibiting effect on the growth of prostate cancer cells in vitro and in vivo".
It induced about 80 per cent of prostate cancer cells growing in mice to "follow the molecular pathways" leading to apoptosis. Tumours treated with capsaicin were about one-fifth the size of those in non-treated mice.
The good news – kills cancer. The bad news? The weekly application of Dave’s Insanity Sauce on your prostate.