Red Hot Chili Peppers May Cure Type 1 Diabetes

re: Red Hot Chili Peppers May Cure Type 1 Diabetes

isoptera — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:46:38 GMT

So far from curing diabetes, it has been proposed that capsaicin in chili peppers may CAUSE diabetes, possibly in synergism with a copper deficiency (Weber CE 2008 Does capsaicin in chili cause diabetes? Medical Hypotheses 71; 323-324.) If so it would explain why Hispanics in Texas have 3 times the diabetes as Anglicans and perhaps one reason why the Indians collapsed so quickly against the Spaniards.

re: Red Hot Chili Peppers May Cure Type 1 Diabetes

JayLeno — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:44:55 GMT

99% of this sort of thing never produces any cures or even improved treatments. Unless you're a real conspiracy theory nut legitimate organizations will become aware of real advances and spread the word when appropriate. It's good to be optimistic but you should also try to be realistic. Approach things with a healthy degree of skepticism and you'll get ripped off a lot less.

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JenJoan — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:25:17 GMT

I wonder why this exciting news has not hit the national newspapers and television? I can barely find anything about it online except for the original report.

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tyciol — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:55:12 GMT

I don't see why this, like every opportunity, has to be yet another time to bash drug companies. This is a victory for science and controlled testing NOT for natural medicine or nutritional cures.

What this shows is that we can begin human testing (or testing with other mammals more similar to humans, like apes) for capsacin injections to treat Type 1 diabetes. It can also lead to more extensive with dietary treatments (alone or mixed with various things, eaten at various times) as a treatment to see if that would also work, as it would be simpler than injection (but not tested).

Whether or not adequate capsacin would actually emigrate to the pancreas, whether it works on all cases of Type 1 Diabetes (multiple causes?), and what the side effects of the required dietary intake of capsacin supplements (or chili peppers if they work) for an observed response would also need to be tested, as it's impossible to think all of it would go only to the pancreas.

Jamaica's research doesn't catch my eye, it hasn't exactly popped up to me as a science centrepoint. For all I know it was funded by red hot chili pepper merchants. It does stimulate us to look for other research to see if their results are reproducible though. Not that anyone here would care of course... more likely it'd just start getting sold.

Just so I fit in with the others... OMG Mercola I'm such a big fan love your work you are the messiah can I buy some krill oil?

Actually, I do like the idea of krill oil, I've never eaten krill and I love trying varieties of meats and their fats.

re: Red Hot Chili Peppers May Cure Type 1 Diabetes

Natural_203 — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:24:48 GMT

Hello My name is Mark

I just want to say hello to everyone on this forum and its a great honor to be here

I am a huge fan Mr mercola you have changed my life dramatically for the good

This is a great article my Girl Friend suffers from type 1 diabetes i love her so much.. I know not to get my hopes up and im not going to mention this to her yet for the fact i dont want get her hopes up two, but im glad some news is their and its something to look forward too.

If anyone knows anything please email me mm10682@hotmail.com i love her so much and i will never give up on her

Keep up the good work mercola!

re: Red Hot Chili Peppers May Cure Type 1 Diabetes

betty m_wicker — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:50:30 GMT

Useful article on red pepper for type 1 diabetes. Too bad more people don't know that homeopathic remedies such as uranium nitricum have been curing type 1 diabetes for nearly 200 years.

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Judy_Spencer — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:16:03 GMT

What good news for diabetics but I wonder if it would help my daughter at all. Her pancreas was virtually distroyed by an infection. She was not diabetic until then.

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Witch Doctor — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:29:03 GMT

GrammyLaura59 is right. The capsaicin was injected into the pancreas to kill nerve cells. The infomation presented leads one to believe that any substance that kills the offending nerve cells could work. It is doubtful there is anything about the herbal benefits of capsaicin here, just an old researchers "trick" for killing nerve cells. (Certainly that explains the quick results, since hebs don't give "overnight" cures typically.) To flood one's body with capsaicin to kill off nerve cells everywhere would be a bad thing to do. However, if an MD needed to inject something somewhere in my body to kill millions of nerve cells, I would prefer it be capsaicin to a drug.

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VivianH — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:05:28 GMT

This is very interesting news!

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JL — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 16:52:01 GMT

Of course the drug companies will discredit it, but it seems like they can't do anything about it. It's just a matter of being fortunate enough to know about this cure and giving it a shot. It will be interesting to follow this research closely and see what other interesting developments come about related to MS and Crohn's.

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Swami Barmi — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:18:21 GMT

Well if people need the hottest chili pepper, then I suggest they look toward England.

"The hottest chilli pepper in The Guinness Book of Records is a Red Savina habañero with a rating of 570,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHU).

Mrs Michaud was stunned when the Dorset Naga gave a reading of nearly 900,000SHU. A fresh sample was sent to a lab in New York used by the American Spice Trade Association and recorded a mouth-numbing 923,000SHUs."

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2113507,00.html

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mmc88121 — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:35:03 GMT

This is a very promising article, but do you really think the pharmaceutical companies will even act on it. Either that or the price of chili peppers will go out of reach for most people.

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