First things first, we want to make it clear that hot sauce won’t cure cancer. However, studies in 2006 may have shown a link in the consumption of hot sauce may slow cancer growth when it was studied in relation to prostate cancer in mice. It basically destroyed cancer cells while keeping healthy cells intact, which would be revolutionary.
Unfortunately, capsaicin would have to be taken in extremely large quantities for humans to have the same effect. We’re talking levels of hot sauce consumption that would make the most hardcore hot sauce aficionado blush.
More recently, scientists in India were able to see exactly how capsaicin actually binds to the membranes of cancer cells and tears it apart. That’s the first step in finding a way to use capsaicin to treat cancer in humans.
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