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Hot Pepper Kills Prostate Cancer
brian0918 writes "U.S. and Japanese researchers have announced results of a study showing that capsaicin, the chemical that makes peppers hot, can cause prostate cancer cells to kill themselves. 'Capsaicin led 80 percent of human prostate cancer cells growing in mice to commit suicide in a process known as apoptosis, the researchers said.' This led to tumors one fifth the size of those in untreated mice."
In other news, cause for Mexican-food flatulence not determined yet.
I don't know about the rest of you, but the idea of Habanero suppositories just does not sit well with me...
(I can hear Johnny Cash singing "Ring of Fire"...)
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Sometimes the stuff in those peppers (on their way out...) makes me want to commit suicide!
I don't care what those scientists say, I ain't stuffing that jalapeno up my ass!
Yeah, But those Hot Sauce enema treatments are a bitch!
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
Lehmann estimated that the mice ate the human equivalent of 400 milligrams of capsaicin three times a week. That is about the amount found in three to eight fresh habanero peppers, depending on how hot the peppers are.
I may be a lightweight bastard, but I cannot eat a single habanero without violently vomiting.
400 mg of Capsaicin is basically like eating pepper spray. Even if it's in capsule pill form you may vomit it up from your stomach. I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
The right kind of pepper can cause anything to want to kill itself, especially if they dont have milk on hand.
My wife *loves* super hot foods, so if this is true, she'll never get prostate cancer!
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a prostate cancer cell you insensitive clod!!!
Gives whole new meaings to the phrases "Fireball", "It's a Spicy Meatball!", and "Goodness Gracious, Great Balls of Fire!".
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I bet the test mice were Speedy Gonzalez and his pals....
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
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I'm cooking up a great big pot of hot hot hot chili for my girlfriend right now!
Capsaicin
is an excellent topical analgesic also for neural problems, like Diabetic neuropathy.
There is a substance P which transmits the pain to the brain. Capsaicin destroys substance
P if you apply it for 4-5 days multiple times a day & hence for the next couple of weeks
you will not have pain, then you have to report it. Instead of the expensive Capsaicin
cream you can also use a paste made at home of red chilli powder etc. Or even McIlhenny's Tabasco
I have meralgia parasthetic condition & nothing provides relief like chilli paste.
I sense a new product and service for locations near hospitals and clinics offering treatment.... Buttermilk enemas!
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Your medication sir.
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Ah. Nothing like waking up to take your morning medication which may now include a 300,000+ SCOVILLE SCALE PILL FROM HELL.
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
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You can also masturbate for prostate health! Just make sure you do that before handling hot peppers. Trust me on that one.
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If you take your medication right, you'll never taste an ounce of spiciness. All the "spicy" stuff will be kept inside a neat little pill casing, presuming the chemical IS all that spicy when isolated from the peppers. Just don't bite.
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Hmm, a quick Google Scholar search for "capsaicin cancer" revealed this. That link, from NIH, seems to indicate that there's evidence that capsaicin is a carconigen:
The cancer increase was dependent on the concentration of these groups in a county. These results strengthen and extend an earlier case-control study which found odds ratios above 5 for the stomach cancer association with capsaicin pepper. It is further evidence that capsaicin is a human carcinogen.
Thoughts?
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I'm trying to understand if this is a vague reference to oral sex or are you saying your girlfriend has prostate cancer?
I hope no one gets the terrible idea to try treating their cancer themselves by...
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What the fuck am I saying? This could be hilarious!
I hope to hell that someone gets the idea to treat their cancer using the most direct method possible... and I hope that it ends up in the news
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http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capsaic
"Capsaicin is also the active ingredient in the chemical riot control agent pepper spray. When the spray comes in contact with skin, especially eyes or mucous membranes it is very painful."
Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepper_spray
"Pepper spray (also known as OC spray (from "Oleoresin Capsicum"), OC gas, or capsicum spray) is a lachrymatory agent which is used in riot control, crowd control and personal self-defense, including defense against dogs. It is a non-lethal agent that can be deadly in rare cases. The American Civil Liberties Union claims to have documented fourteen fatalities from the use of pepper spray. The active ingredient in pepper spray is capsaicin, which is a chemical derived from the fruit of plants in the Capsicum genus, including chillis. Long-term effects of pepper spray have not been effectively researched."
Apparently someone was curious.. (Mental image of evil scientist deviously spraying innocent mice with pepper spray while laughing
Make it for yourself. According to the summary, it wouldn't make a difference to her body.
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Give up.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
why indians don't get prostate cancer.
who works at Pfizer Global Research & Development, there are many natural substances that can treat diseases and conditions that are not known to the general public. For example, Lipitor, last year contributed to $13 BILLION of Pfizer's $16 BILLION profit. Drinkng 6 to 8 ounces of RED WINE per DAY (AND NO MORE!!!) will likely negate the need of Lipitor and similar drugs later in life for the treatment of elevated cholesterol and plaques in the arteries. The important point of this statement is that one cannot exceed 6 to 8 ounces of RED WINE per day, or else the effects of alcohol(ism) will have serious detrimental effects on the body. Google or Wikipedia 'resveratrol'.
Big pharma doesn't like the general public knowing that natural compounds present in everyday foods can prevent/treat diseases/conditions that arise later in life due to certain metabolic syndromes/disorders/lifestyles, etc... How else would big pharma demand high prices for its 'miracale/block-buster drugs'?
Since I'm a contract scientist working at Pfizer, and not employed by Pfizer, I feel obligated to tell the truth about some of the secrets hidden by the pharmaceutical industry. Don't read too much into what I've written, I'm not advocating the consumption of alcohol, but drinkning 6-8 ounces of red wine per day will keep high cholesterol and the doctor away, for a long, long time.
I have big issues with a particular cell phone service company. They've got people thinking that "cingle" is a word!!
they could find a cure for haemmorhoids
Having to choose between prostate cancer and jalapeño suppositories is definite proof that God exists and that he has a very sick sense of humor.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002ZBPGQ/002-27 72924-7220044?v=glance&n=1036592 It's so tough. Cats or protstate cancer. Cats or prostate cancer. Meh.. lets I'll go with masterbating. Have to keep the pet population down.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
What are the rates in countries such as South Korea, where many foods are extremely spicy?
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As such, large amounts could cause cancer. Or, it could be that, in humans, capcasin always causes cancer.
Who knows. We'll figure it out in a few years.
Disclaimer: Above is basicly a wild theory. I haven't looked at mice or carcenogens in years.
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In Fact, put it with this news article and you'll have one of the most deadly WMD (Weapon of Mass Derision) known to man!
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You know, something tells me that if I ever get prostate cancer, I'm just going to have to say no to this one. Something tells me that shoving hot peppers up my ass just isn't worth it.
A simple correction - your prostate is between your urethra and your rectum. In fact, the prostate makes most of the liquid in the ejaculate. If your prostate is too large (BPH), then the the urologist will sometimes do a TURP (also in the BPH article), where the urologist basically goes up your urethra and scoops out heaps of the prostate, in order to free up some space for the poor fellow to relieve himself.
If concern for prostate cancer is raised, a biopsy is done with a terribly evil device that goes up the rectum and spears the prostate with six separate little needles. If they left a little capsaicin behind you would be so sore you wouldn't notice...However, the study as reported by the article was simply consumed capsaicin, not topically applied
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Well, I think the REAL question is whether cancer is caused / accelerated by the american eating habits and way-of-life (i.e. tons and tons of chemicals, fertilizers, and God-knows-what in your food and beverages).
Loving spicy foods pays off! Finally, my wife will have to stop complaining when I aromitize the bedroom in the middle of the night.
"But honey, it's part of my health management program!"
"I'm cooking up a great big pot of hot hot hot chili for my girlfriend right now!"
Was this modded insightful so he'd be encouraged to tell his girlfriend how much he cares about her prostate? Heh.
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Turmeric also prevents prostate cancer, especially when combined with cauliflower. Curry, anyone?
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What about Hot Coffee?
Do countries that have generally high capsasin consumption have a lowered incidence of prostate cancer? If one compares countries that eat tons of peppers and ones that don't, if you compensate for age and other factors can you see if there is some kind of correlation?
Very interesting.
She can tell him it will be good for his uterus.
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I hate to ask where you put the peppers...
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Well, I guess I'd rather suffer severe ulcers and heartburn my whole life than contract prostate cancer.
thanks, that was a good one :)
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"miracale" (with a Spanish pronounciation) would be an excellent name for Pfizer jalapeno suppositories!
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It's all fine and well to joke about mexican food all over this thread, some of the zingers are very funny, but this gives me an idea: how about determining the incidence of prostate cancer in Mexico's population?
As an example, one of the typical "delicacies" found in the city of Guadalajara is a dish called "torta ahogada" or "drowned torta", which is pork meat stuffed in baguette-style bread, dipped in tomato sauce, then again in ultra-hot chile de arbol sauce. Garnished with pickled onions, you squeeze lemon juice, add a little rock salt and dig in. A LOT of people in Guadalajara eat this on a regular basis.
As a side note, just as in the United States some people bob for apples in a bucket full of water, there's one stand in Guadalajara that holds competitions, bobbing for tortas in a bucket full of chile de arbol sauce. The winner eats there free for a year. Strictly for masochists, if you ask me.
Anyway, if we compare the percentage of prostate cancer cases in Guadalajara as opposed to, say, Minneapolis, maybe a "real world" result will stick out plainly and clearly. Then again, maybe not, maybe a race is genetically more susceptible to contract prostate cancer, I dunno, but to dig up the data would cost next to nothing and could be worth a try.
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Shouldn't the headline say something like "Hot peppers causes extreme depression in prostate cancer cells, 80% suicide rate?
No matter how hot a girl is - some guy somewhere is sick of her shit.
Purple grape juice reportedly has the same beneficial effects.
"I can't swallow that!"
"Well then, good news! It's a suppository!"
Take a generous helping of Jalapeno Jelly and apply liberally to your penis 3 times daily, If you're still worried about a little lump after a week, you should seek a psychiatrist for further advice.
I wouldn't consider the mad hatter mad. Just reality impaired. He sure can make a mean cup of tea.
Researchers have found that Hot Coffee assists Prostate Cancer
So we can add a dowl of hot chili to that other safe-guard against prostate cancer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3072021.stm/
All they need to do now is prove the health benefits of beer and my life will be complete.
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Capsaicin is like garlic, or tea. You can't get too much of it and it does great things for you. Capsaicin has several cardiovascular benefits. It's an anti-coagulant and it also lowers cholesterol and triglycerides. It's an analgesic (particularly effective against pain caused by nerve disorders and arthritis). It's also an effective topical analgesic (though I suspect in very weak mixtures, since it burns like hell otherwise).
Capsaicin kills the bacteria responsible for most stomach ulcers thus, contrary to popular opinion, it actually protects against stomach ulcers. As most people might surmise, it's excellent for clearing congestion.
If you need to lose weight, start eating hot sauce. Capsaicin increases the metabolism, thermogenesis, and oxygen consumption.
If you find hot sauce "too hot", then work your way up. Start with mildly hot sauces and slowly increase the heat over time. Most web sites that specialize in selling hot sauces also have the Scoville ratings for those sauces, so you can do be methodical about it if you want. Your body builds up a tolerance for the burning sensation in the mouth and before long, you'll find yourself able to eat sauces you didn't think you could. You just need to be consistent and eat some every day. I try to consume at least 3 teaspoons of 12,000 Scoville salsa a day.
My personal preference is El Yucateco Salsa Kutbil-ik de. It's a brown Mayan style habanero salsa from the Yucatan. I'm kind of partial to it 'cause I lived in the Yucatan for several years and it's pretty popular there. They also make a red sauce (6000 Scovilles) and a green (9000 Scovilles).
And all this time I thought Robert Smith was singing about lightning...
Hey, maybe now everyone in my family won't complain when I dump in the cayenne pepper into all my dishes!
Bring on Blair's 6AM (10 - 16 million Scoville Units)! Heheh
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Play this right, and Intra-Urethra Pepper Spray could become the next great "Bar Game". Hell, I was stationed in Texas when they swapped out the digital displays on the house breathalyzer units with pass/fail leds because the rednecks were having contests to see who could blow the highest number -- and some drunk cowboy would inevitably spew Jack Daniels (with traces of tobaccy juice) into the sensor.
The point being, if someone's willing to pay bar prices to get loaded where they have to drive past the Sherrif to get home -- and are entertained by flashing neon beer logos -- you can sell 'em ANYTHING.
This is typical for how scientists try to make the best out of bad experimental results. Yes, it's true that 80% of the cancer cells committed suicide, but that's because 80% of the mice themselves committed suicide when the capsaicin was "applied" to their prostates. You would, too.
Some of the mice hung themselves, while some others shot themselves; the scientists still haven't figured out where they got the ropes and guns, which only underlines how painful the treatment is.
Yeah, I was about to say.
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http://www.firegirl.com/1259-02.html That's the hottest I've ever tried. My mouth and throat were on fire for about 30 minutes. This is way to hot for anything other than adding a few drops to your soup/stew, etc. I tried it with a drop straight on tongue. Not recommended for girly men. If you can handle the heat try: http://www.firegirl.com/1274-02.html or Scorned Woman Hot Sauce - http://www.firegirl.com/hs1130.html
You mixed up the details (as others pointed out) but the end result here is you'd be eating an average of 2.4 fresh habaneros a day.
That's not so much, but I do worry about that little word: "fresh".
I can eat some chilis by themselves once they're cooked (or out of a jar), but even jalapenos (much milder than habaneros) freshly cut can be tough to eat without coughing.
I'm guessing the heat affects the capsaicin....
I'm a nurse. This is great news! I can just come out with capsaicin impregnated catheters, and make my fortune. Just slide it on in and the timed release of all those scoville units will make your cancer cells end it all. Some patients may experience some side effects.....
Wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair and all the terrible things that happen to us, come because we actually dese
Just ate a sandwich with 4 hot peppers...and I KNOW I will be sorry in the morning. But at least I can thank the gods for the health benefits while I'm agonizing :)
Fool me once...shame on you, fool me twice...won't be fooled again (our president)
...I'm very glad to hear this (though it is, like most stories involving cancer, FUD or euFUD, it's "positive" counterpart). I will happily continue to put Dave's Insanity Sauce on my dishes :-) Anyone knows where I can get DI Spice or Vicious Vampire in Germany cheaper than at pepperworld.de (Especially VV is expensive at 10)? I want to try upgrading myself from grade 9 (50000-100000 Scoville) to grade 10 (100000-500000 Scoville), the hottest possible stuff (All above 500000 Scoville isn't produced for food, because humans apparently can't distinguish the taste anymore) for bragging reasons :-P
"It's too hot daddy, I don't want to eat it !" Just eat it son, it's good for you. "Will it make me big & strong ?" ...
Wanna fight ? Bend over, stick your head up your ass, and fight for air.
Maybe they'll sue chillie sauce manufacturers next?
Capsaicin is the "active agent" (AA) in chilli pepper, not just pepper. Black pepper (known where I live as just "pepper") has different AA.
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One of the more memorable factoids from a neurobiology course I took years back was that the long-term desenzitation that one experiences from enjoying a capsaicin-rich diet is due to cell death in the taste buds. Short term adaptation does occur via another mechanism, but tastbud necrosis is important in the long term. This also explains why you feel the impact of the tex mex spice much more after not having had any for a few months - you have regrown the previously killed taste buds!
The tast bud death is however a necrotic effect - cell killing, via a vanilloid receptor - rather than suicide. See e g Caterina MJ et al, Nature 1997.
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Chili Facts When the heat content of a pepper is measured in Scoville units, a bell pepper rates zero, a jalapeno is 2,500 to 5,000 units, a cayenne 30,000 to 50,000 and the habanero, considered the hottest pepper, 100,000 to 500,000. They release endorphons into the brain, promoting a sense of well being. Chilies also can be used to remove barnacles from ships.
3 - 8 Huh-something peppers. Is it true for all hot peppers?
How much is that in Korma, Jalfeizi or Vindaloo?
(We don't have a Mexican place nearby; spicy --> Indian in the UK).
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I've long suspected a good Vindaloo was good for you! Now they've just got to find a way to prove that having anything covering your lower arms is bad for you .....
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As soon as I read the article, I did a Google search for prostate cancer and hispanic. I found this page which states:
Hispanic-American and Native-American men have lower rates of prostate cancer than do white men. Worldwide, the lowest rates of prostate cancer are in Asian countries; the highest rates of prostate cancer are in Northern European countries.
Seems to support the theory!
But why is the rum gone?
Oh well.
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My father recently was diagnosed with prostate cancer. The treatments that have been discussed included castration (surgical or chemical), radiation, chemo-therapy, rather invasive surgery and a whole host of other things that have got rather unfortunate side effects.
He's opted for the radiation - they actually put radioactive gold "seeds" in the area (yes, he's got gold pellets up his ass) and is getting daily radiation treatments. He's also been getting something to reduce his testosterone - which should help also keep the cancer from spreading. He's 81 years old, and, while in otherwise good health (he still works, and enjoys it) it is very unlikely that he's going to make a full recovery - likely his productive life is over, and for him that's *huge*. His best friend - they've known each other since before World War II - recently died from a similar cancer, though his friend didn't detect as early and didn't treat as aggressively.
So, I think I can say I'm 90% sure he'd be willing to try something like this - hell, he'd probably go to the store and buy some jalapenos right now and cram them up his ass - if it were likely to work and less overall damaging to his system.
Since I can't tell them apart, I treat all ACs as the same person.
A lot of posters here on commented on the gastro-intestinal affects of capsaicin. Especially for those who already have bad stomachs.
Couldn't't they somehow make this into an injectable?
When I put that habanero up my ass
The levels of capsaicin we're talking about is more in line with several of the hottest habañero peppers. We're talking several orders of magnitude hotter than jalapeños ;) Sick sense of humour indeed.
Hot peppers saved my ass.
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That was funny, but not so insightful.
Soaking beans does make them easier to digest, but improper soaking is not the sole reason they increase intestinal gas. Almost any food you don't eat on a regular basis can cause gas. Has to do with enzyme buildup.
Gringos who don't eat beans very much are going to suffer. Unless, like me, you go in for that. Sometimes I eat a cucumber, and then make a nice bean soup. Throw in some navy beans, kidney beans, red beans, black beans, pintos, great northerns, and a healthy dose of the dreaded garbanzo. Top it off with a tart green apple, just a little unripe. Really packs a wallop.
The key is to mix in a bunch of foods you don't normally eat. Why, if I were to eat a few sprigs of asparagus and some broccoli, foods which I normally can't stand for their smell when cooked, the output would do Old Faithful proud.
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That's a spicy 'a meatball!
I wonder if there's any way for a local application to the prostate instead of standard ingestion.
Fry: (looking at head-sized pill) I can't swallow that.
Professor: Good news then... It's a suppository!
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This property comes in really handy if squirrels start stealing from your birdfeeder. Just mix a healthy dose of cayenne pepper with the birdseed - the squirrels lose interest really fast, but the birds don't even notice. The only trouble is that the cayenne tends to cause the seed to stick together into a big solid mass when it gets damp. Also, refilling, emptying, and cleaning the birdfeeder can become an interesting process when you have clouds of cayenne pepper forming around you!
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One of my college housemates was wont to mooch some of my food from the fridge... which was fine, as I regularly mooched his back. What proved him an idiot was including a whole habanero pepper from the bag labeled "hot peppers" in with his stirfry. He didn't have problems with most spicy peppers, and enjoys the red thai ones. The habanero's heat surprised him... so much that he abruptly swallowed. He said for the next two days that he was aware every second of exactly how far along the pepper was. And was Not Happy about it.
The entire gastrointestinal tract is sensitive mucus membranes, and concentrated capsicum can irritate anywhere the length of it. A time release MIGHT work, but I'd expect side effects.
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you were doing a really great job for the first 5 seconds ;p
In light of this experiment, I'd like to see a study of how prevalent prostate cancer is among Hispanic and/or Asian men whose diet regularly includes a lot of spicy foods. If it's lower, then they may be onto something. :P
Either way, I'll keep eating spicy stuff. I'm already convinced it's good for keeping away colds and flu.
Besides, it's tasty.
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is that you need to shove the pepper up your bum...
Just for this purpose, a special variety of pepper has been developed. So the horticulturalists are ahead of the medical people this time. You can also find this pepper is several catalogs. Google for "peter pepper" to find some sources online. The eBay photos are among the best, but those peppers were selected for the photo. In reality, the plant produces a lot of rather distorted and strangely-shaped pepers. Only a few look as phallic as those samples.
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You can buy this new wonder vegetable drug in the Rub-On-"Salsa"-Cream, or Suppository Application
Oops; here's the special link to that variety of pepper.
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Something weird happened when I hit the Preview button, which produced a preview page, but when I submitted it, I was told that I'd already submitted the message. So I found it, and sure enough, it was a bit garbled and truncated. So I cut the link out and put it above, where it might work better.
Now let's see what the Preview button does
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Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
3 kilos of tabasco sauce. weekly.
FWIW, I do remove the seeds but retain as much of the placenta (where most of the capcaiscin is stored) as possible, so the resulting powder is more orange than red.
Great on eggs, chicken, pizza, aw heck, just about anything. I tend to use a pinch when I make vindaloo if it isn't hot enough, though I generally use dried red serranos or arbols when making vindaloo (about a tablespoon per two pounds of meat).
Don't try this at home, but if you must, here's what you do:
1. Get a bunch of habs: 15 to 30 nice red ones. Get Red Savina® if you like them really hot.
2. Slit them open, and cut off the stem. Remove the seeds, but try to retain as much of the white, fleshy placenta and ribs as possible. You may want to wear gloves while doing this: I'm a veteran at it (read: don't bother with gloves) and still get burns on my hands from time to time -- they take about 4-6 hours to really start burning, so you won't notice when you're cutting them up. The occasional burn doesn't bother me all that much: it burns more when the skin is heater (like in the shower or tub), but YMMV. Be careful what you do touch after slicing open the habs.
3. Arrange them non-overlapping in a food dehydrator. Cut big one in half so all the pieces are about the same size. Food dehydrators can be purchased for US$30 to US$50. They're great for drying all sorts of things (onions, garlic, fruit, etc.) and making beef jerky.
4. Dry for 8 to 12 hours (overnight) or until they are completely dry.
5. Grind up the dried peppers in a blade coffee grinder used only to grind spices.
6. Wait for the powder to settle. Carefully sift through a strainer to get a consistent size. Try to not get too much of it airborne -- it will irritate your eyes, nose, throat, etc. While stinging and hot, this is not likely to be fatal, but you might think your eyes and nose are about to bleed if you do get exposed.
7. Transfer to a spice jar, close tightly, and store in a cool, dark place. The freezer works well for maximum freshness, but any remaining humidity will lead to cluming.
Add as desired to food. It takes a while for the burn of habs to be noticible, so go slow at first.
Instead of grinding the dried habs, you may want to keep the pieces as intact as possible, stored in a freezer bag in the freezer, and grind them as required, or in small quantites to keep in a spice jar in the pantry. That's useful if you have a lot of habs.
You could also partially grind or crush them into flakes, for use over pasta, for example, where flakes are better than powder, but I find that the fruity flavour does not go all that well with pasta. I prefer arbols for this purpose.
Notice: I think, that in Canada, this process consitutes the manufacture of a weapon, and might be quite illegal. Check with your lawyer. (It probably is illegal in the U.S. too, if weapon's manufacture is your intent.)
You could've hired me.
I can envision the doctor saying "you may feel a slight pinch ..." Between the scooping and the biopsy, I wish I could give you "+1 Disturbing" mod points, but "Informative" will have to do.
Try adding a small blob on the end of a hot dog sometime. If you aren't used to hot stuff you will be rolling on the floor. For me it barely fazes me now, although if I don't eat the stuff pretty regularly then my tolerence goes back down.
It's also great for practical jokes };-)>
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According to a paper by Sanchez et al (2005) titled "Expression of the transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) in LNCaP and PC-3 prostate cancer cells and in human prostate tissue." the vanilloid receptor is expressed in these prostate cells. In fact, this is very often the case - cancer cells express extracellular markers and receptors drastically different from their "normal" counterparts. This has been a source of intense study, since it is possible to target cancer cells and not normal cells this way (by finding the difference). So really the effect on these cancer cells probably has nothing to do with neurons - it has to do with the expression of these vanilloid receptors (which are the receptors for Capsaicin)
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I tip toe like rats on vouge runnways.
I wish I could give you "+1 Disturbing" mod points, but "Informative" will have to do. ...says the person who just posted.
Never had anything "burn twice" until I hit 40. Used to eat raw habeneros, pickled jalapenos, homicide wings, you name it - if it could get in the front end it wouldn't bother me at all once past the gullet.
Nowadays I understand what all those other guys were crying about all those years. I still love the hot stuff, but I draw the line just this side of habeneros and Thai bird peppers. It's not worth the agony.
Enjoy your youth while, you've got it, my friend. I don't regret anything (well, maybe that time I ate that girl's necklace, but... never mind).
>then pulling the covers up right by your spouse's face
This hijink known as the 'covered wagon.'
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
the highest rates of prostate cancer are in.. ..ye gods! Bring me that suppository, stat!
True confidence comes not from realising you are as good as your peers, but that your peers are as bad as you are.
Cayenne peppers have 30,000 - 50,000 Scoville units. Pure capsaicin is 16,000,000 scoville units. You're full of hot shit. OTOH, I find nothing to contradict your other comments, which seem quite interesting.
r inger/scoville.htm has another decent chart.
http://members.visi.net/~mandy/pepguide.html has a nice pictorial guide
http://www.chemsoc.org/exemplarchem/entries/mbell
Anyone can google capsaicin or "scoville units" for tons of info.
Jon
O~ Him that studies revenge keeps his own wounds green. -- Francis Bacon
On the other hand, Korea is known for having one of the highest rates of digestive-tract cancers. Yes, it is thought to be associated with their over-spicy food, though I wouldn't know whether it means:
1) the spices themselves are toxic
2) they mask other flavors that would alert people to bad food
3) slightly toxic synthetic chemicals are being added to increase the spices' oomph.
A prostate biopsy feels like someone is shooting a bb-gun pointblank up your asshole. And then you get to piss pink for a couple of days.
It's much less painful than recuperating from the cancer surgery.
This happy thought caught my eye:-
I have only one thing to add:-How many beans make five, anyhow ?
The full exhaustive list can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoville_scale Do you mean... Who's that knocking at my door? Who's that knocking at my door? Who's that knocking at my door? Said the fair young maiden! It's only me from over the sea said Barnacle Bill the sailor... etc. etc. etc.
"full exhaustive list can be found....." But it doesn't include our friend Barnacle Bill does it ? So it isn't exhaustive, is it ? "Do you mean..." yes, that is indeed the song that came to mind. And Bill had gotten off of his ship had he not .... and without the help of chili peppers. I know I'm being bloody minded, but I think you have to admit that I've shown "proof of concept". (I acknowledge a lack of seriousness here - sorry about that, but couldn't resist it.) Have a really good day !
How many beans make five, anyhow ?
So the tumor would be smaller, but the side-effects could be most uncomfortable......
Only boring people are ever bored.