capsaicin

alessandra · New User Joined: 09 Jan 2009 Posts: 6

I recently read an article talking about a 2006 study from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Inst at Cedars-Sinai which found that red pepper extract caused prostate cell death in mice. The dose was the equivalent of 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week to a 200 pound man. Is anyone taking red pepper extract? Do you have to work up to the necessary dosage? Has it made in difference in PSA? Thanks for any info you can provide.

Replicant · Moderator Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 744

There was some discussion here about this after a gentleman posted "Pepper Cured My Prostate Cancer!!"
I still puzzle over why he stopped at two exclamation marks.
http://www.cancerforums.net/about8898.html

The writer simultaneously posted the same message on several other boards, sparking discussion there as well. There are people out there taking pepper supplement, or following a certain diet that includes habaneros.

The writer, HaydnLover, disappeared soon after making this claim of a cure, which he did back away from, reluctantly, saying it APPEARED he was cured. His basis to claim a cure? A second biopsy didn't find the Gleason 6 cancer that a first biopsy had.

As we all know, biopsies can easily miss cancer, so it's not a huge leap to assume that biopsy #2 simply missed what biopsy #1 had found, or that the difference could be chalked up to slide interpretation.

I'm just trying to recapture the essence of those postings. I'm not saying that there isn't a basis for believing hot peppers could help.

I would advise looking into the literature for updates--searching PubMed for "capsaicin and prostate" brings up some relevant material. Some articles found in PubMed are now free, by the way.
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johnw100 · Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 5:56 am Post subject: Re: capsaicin

[quote="alessandra"]I recently read an article talking about a 2006 study from the Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Inst at Cedars-Sinai which found that red pepper extract caused prostate cell death in mice. The dose was the equivalent of 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week to a 200 pound man. Is anyone taking red pepper extract? Do you have to work up to the necessary dosage? Has it made in difference in PSA? Thanks for any info you can provide.[/quote]
I tried it but found no positive impact to PSA.

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