Chili peppers for your heart?
From Men’s Health magazine March 2010:
Chili peppers may soon be the hottest heart-attack treatment. When University of Cincinnati researchers applied capsaicin (the chemical that gives chili peppers their heat) to the skin of mice, they found that it reduced the cardiac damage the mice suffered during a heart attack by 85 percent. It may be that capsaicin stimulated the rodents’ nervous systems, which in turn activated protective cardiac-muscle cells.
