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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"...)
Try to hack my 31337 firewall!
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...
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!
-- Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Well, sure, we can...but trust me, you're probably going to prefer the mouth to the urethra, when it comes to capsaicin treatments.
I bet the test mice were Speedy Gonzalez and his pals....
It's only paranoia if your wrong...
I'm sure there is, but it would burn like a motherfucker.
I sense a new product and service for locations near hospitals and clinics offering treatment.... Buttermilk enemas!
I had a sucky sig.
You can also masturbate for prostate health! Just make sure you do that before handling hot peppers. Trust me on that one.
My sig is too lon
how much the Slashdot userbase is aging. Now where are my glasses? I can't find my Viagra without them.
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
- "Nobody came out that night, not one was ever seen. But Old Man Stauf is waiting there, crazy sick and mean!"
"Trust me"? And you know this because...?
Give up.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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.
If a pepper-spray enema is the cure for prostate cancer, I'll swap you your haemmorhoids...
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!"
Woman screaming in the middle of the night
Why?
Because cunnilingus is not so fun when the tongue hitting your clit is still swathed in hot sauce that is 100x hotter than anything you can buy at Safeway.
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
You make me want to eat a habanero.
You're supposed to start with ginger and work your way up. Dammit, man, you've never heard of foreplay?
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
You're supposed to start with ginger and work your way up. Dammit, man, you've never heard of foreplay?
Ginger first, THEN Mary Ann!
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.
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
The question is, if rolling a die a thousand times in a specific order would give you a horrible, disfiguring and probably deadly disease, would you rather roll the die 1 billion times, or 100 billion times?
Since each die roll would take at least two seconds, a billion die rolls would take at least two billion seconds or over 126 years. Therefore, I really don't care if it's a billion or 100 billion rolls - either way I'm rolling the die my entire life. And if I must spend my entire life rolling a die, I'm hoping the deadly sequence shows up before puberty.
As a fellow, scientist, I'm surprised you wouldn't know to make this very important distinction.
Someone needs a copy of "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves."
Same thing goes for contact lens wearers....