Based on the latest study, scientists proven that chili can slower the spread of cancer

News24xx.com - Not only is it delicious to make chili sauce, it turns out chili can also be used as to improve our health. According to NDTV Food, there are some recent studies that reveal that compounds in chili can help to slow the spread of lung cancer. Lung cancer itself is called as the leading cause of cancer deaths for men and women around the world.

Scientists also say that these compounds can help to suppress the spread of cancer. Most cancer-related deaths occur because the cancer spreads to locations far from the body, which go through a process called metastasis. "Lung cancer and other cancers usually metastasize to secondary locations such as the brain, liver or bone. That makes them difficult to treat" said study author Jamie Friedman of Marshall University in the US.

For this study, scientists studied three lung cancer cell lines in humans. Researchers observed that capsaicin, a substance from chili can stop the spread of cancer which happens to be the first step in the process of spreading cancer cells, based on a study of cancer metastasis which was conducted to a lab rat.

From this rat experiment, the area of ??metastatic cancer cells was smaller in the lungs of rat who consumed capsaicin compared to rat that did not consume capsaicin. The findings also show that rats with prostate cancer who consume capsaicin can kill 80% of cancer cells in them and make tumor shrunk to about one-fifth of its previous size.

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