(Yeh, I wanted to type “Red Hot Chili Peppers for Prostate Health” but I was sure that would be taken wrong…)
According to researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the University of California Los Angeles School of Medicine, capsaicin—the substance that makes hot peppers hot—was effective in reducing the size of human prostate cancer sells grown in laboratory mice by 80%.
“Capsaicin had a profound anti-proliferative effect on human prostate cancer cells in culture,” said Dr. Soren Lehmann. “It also dramatically slowed the development of prostate tumors formed by those human cell lines grown in mouse models.”
So, if you like spicy foods of the type loaded with capsaicin, eat up, men. It may just improve your prostate health.
And see other health benefits of capsaicin, here, here and here.
Crossposted at Balanced News Blog.
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