The ravel of capsaicin and cancer

Sep 14
09:32

2012

David Yvon

David Yvon

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In recent years although many researches about capsaicin and cancer is not specified that eat chili can cause stomach cancer, but may have started to make many people worry about themselves because they eating chili every meals: pepper on gastrointestinal stimulus is so big, whether it will lead to cancer?

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In fact,The ravel of capsaicin and cancer Articles researches about capsaicin and gastrointestinal cancer have the other side, a cell experiments show that gastric cancer cells more easily to capsaicin-induced apoptosis than normal cells, and capsaicin still can cause people’s colon cancer cell apoptosis. So about the debate of chili is carcinogenic or cancer medicine is never stopped.

In daily life we've always been told to eat less spicy things, especially those gastrointestinal function is bad more to avoid hot, but studies have found that capsaicin can protect a stomach mucosa, and can inhibit the gastric acid secretion, increase gastric mucosal blood flow to treat gastric ulcer.

The problem of whether chili can treat cancer or will cause cancer is still have an argument in the scientific community, the researchers haven't been able to draw a clear conclusion in capsaicin and cancer relationship, even for role to the same kind of cancer, it also exist controversial, take for prostate cancer, a study said capsaicin can induce prostate cancer cells apoptosis and inhibit xenograft prostate tumor growth, but there still have other studies show that capsaicin can promote the proliferation of prostate cancer cells. The relationship between capsaicin and cancer is needed to more researches to clarify.

It is important to clear is that these researches about whether capsaicin is carcinogenicity or a cancer medicine, no matter the results is what we are looking forward to or not, as a kind of pharmaceutical raw materials, capsaicin promote cancer cell to grow or induced cancer cells apoptosis were not equal to the chili we eat is carcinogenic or a cancer medicine.

Because, first of all, although cell experiment and animal experiment results can be used for further clinical trials to provide ideas and basis, but they are still have very big disparity and clinical experiment, animal experiment results can not only reflected in the human body, it for the rest of the human body influence and usage and dosage issues is also need to solve; Secondly, peppers have many other substances, continue to eat chili contain capsaicin whether can produce the same effects with pure capsaicin is still unknown, and there is lack of capsaicin enter the body dynamics research.

So now, whether the capsaicin exactly is able to cause cancer or cure cancer, or auxiliary causes cancer, the scientific community has not unified conclusion, and these cells or animal experiment results also cannot directly equal to clinical experiment, we cannot judge on that the chili we daily eat will lead to cancer or to treat cancer. So, there's no need to refuse to or eat chili just according to those researches.

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