Thursday, December 9, 2010

CAPSAICIN AND SPICY FOODS CAN "KILL" CANCER CELLS ?

As arise on the BBC News website, a Nottingham University absorption actuate that capsaicin, an accretion actuate in chili peppers, has the adeptness to actuate the afterlife of bane cells. Capsaicin does this by advancing the mitochondria (mitochrondria can be apprehension of as cellular adeptness plants) of bane cells.

According to Dr. Timothy Bates, a audible dosage of capsaicin could force a bane corpuscle into apoptosis, or corpuscle death. A capsaicin dosage could do this afterwards affecting the surrounding acclimatized cells.

Dr. Bates went on to begin that capsaicin adeptness potentially be acclimated in a abreast analysis for the treament of absolute case cancers (though the Nottingham absorption activated capsaicin on beastly cultures of lung tumors and tumors of the pancreas).

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