Stop Prostate Cancer Cold with Hot Chili Peppers

Stop Prostate Cancer Cold with Hot Chili Peppers

by Barbara Minton
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(The Best Years in Life) Chili peppers make food taste great. Now we're learning they may be even better for keeping the human body feeling in the spice of life. Capsaicin is the active ingredient in hot chili peppers, and the one that turns up the heat. It is a compound useful in nature for preventing pepper plants from being eaten by insects and animals. When capsaicin is consumed by humans in the form of hot sauce, chili peppers or cayenne pepper, it offers a wealth of health benefits. One that has received much recent attention is its ability to make prostate cancer cells commit suicide.  Read More.