Habanero peppers

I heard that Imus primary method of treatment is eating three Habanero peppers a day, which I think is insane but everyone has the right to treat the disease by their choice.

Since their orginal method of treatments have u included these peppers in your diet? Has any of your doctors recommeneded?

http://www.thecancerblog.com/2006/03/15/habanero-peppers-drive-prostate-cancer-cells-to-suicide/

Just curious is I should start eating as a preventive measure??

Side Note completed my Relay for Life event last friday, event raised over 40,0000 dollars to Amecian Cancer Society!!!

LIVESTRONG!!!

Wow...three peppers a day...I can imagine what Montezuma's Revenge feels like. Honestly though, I am sure that we are what we eat and for Imus...it's fitting.

Can anyone find a actual Cedar Sinai site that says this or is it all second hand?

I've been looking, but can't.  Maybe they have a letter you must subscribe to?

I subscribe to several (MD Andersen, Cleaveland Clinic, Berkely ) and I haven't read this, so maybe it's all hype by the supplement industry.?

That link above says eatting 3-8 a week would do the job.  But, I wouldn't trust my life to this!  well, maybe if I just had an elevated psa, or post treatment.

Ha Ha...good one geezer...needed something to make me smile today...and that one did it....thanks

I think I'd almost rather have cancer then to eat one of those red devils. Jalapenos make me ill just for looking at them.

And I don't drink tea either   Born and raised in Texas and I don't drink tea.

I would go find my post in the GERD/Heartburn forum here but you get the picture about the hot stuff

geezer99 said...
To be absolutely honest I did find one study that reported positive results with capsicum.

[Cancer Research 66, 3222-3229, March 15, 2006]

Capsaicin, a Component of Red Peppers, Inhibits the Growth of Androgen-Independent, p53 Mutant Prostate Cancer Cells
Akio Mori1, Sören Lehmann1, James O'Kelly1, Takashi Kumagai1, Julian C. Desmond1, Milena Pervan2, William H. McBride2, Masahiro Kizaki3 and H. Phillip Koeffler1

But note that this was done in laboratory dishes, not in human beings.

The study used Capsaicin dissolved in 100% ethanol present at >0.5%
Thus, if you were to replace all of your blood with alcohol with some hot pepper dissolved in it, then 24 hours later your tumor would be growing more slowly. Of course this would kill you in less than a minute.

Having once tried eating a whole peper (as a bet), I understand how it could drive those pesky PCa cells to a suicide...

This is the same cite that I posted above. So, lets follow the logic. As I noted above the published research used capsicum dissolved in ethanol as a 0.5% solution and the finding was that it slowed cancer growth.

OK
ASSUME that capsicum in the bloodstream is as effective as it is in alcohol.
Given that the human body has about 5,000 grams (5 l) of blood, then to replicate this experiment you must get 25 grams of capsicum into your blood stream.

ASSUME that when you eat habanero peppers that 100% of their capsicum goes into your blood stream. Now I haven’t been able to find out what percent of a habanero pepper is capsicum but let us generously suppose it is 1% (since any vegetable is over 90% water this assumes that 10% of the solids are capsicum)

Then you would need to eat 2,500 grams, 5 ½ pounds of habaneros to get the equivalent dose.

ASSUME that, unlike this experiment, you don’t want to just slow the growth of your cancer, you want to kill it. So let’s double the dose.

To “cure” your prostate cancer eat ten pounds of habaneros a day!
Here are your 70 pounds of peppers, call me in a week!

This is still fresh in my mind. The capsiacin study returns is right, Billymac...

I contacted Cedars Sinai on this. The rats in the study were treated with processed capsiacin. There was plans to move this to a clinical trial but it was stopped in 2007. Apparently side effects did exist and one that was being investigated was high dosages actially inhibiting the performance of chemotherapy drugs, including HT and Taxotere.

Personally, I have always loved peppers, still do. Give me the crushed red peppers any day. Unfortunately, I have advanced prostate cancer. It did not help me.

If you are going to suppliment with peppers, be sure, like in all supplimentation, that it is safe with your doctors. Blindly assuming that this would be effective against prostate cancer is not wise. And if you eat extra peppers, do so because you like them. And if you start developing digestive issues, don't talk to those rats, that's not the way they ingested them...

Tony

Now  ...   it's broccoli??    When will this every end? 

One of the posters on the MD Junction site swears by wheat grass -grows his own.  Think fresh lawn clippings in a blender.

There are worse things than PCa  . . .

Another take on the same subject as Gooog

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7869709.stm