Pepper Protein Lowers Insulin Levels
Jamaican experts have discovered a compound that makes peppers hot, which has proven to be effective in lowering blood sugar in dogs, suggesting that it might someday be used to treat diabetes in humans.
Peppers are used by traditional Jamaican healers to treat diabetes, but the compound, capsaicin, has never been formally tested. The compound is also used in the US to treat painful nerve damage called diabetic neuropathy. The investigators tested the effects of capsaicin on blood sugar and insulin levels in dogs.
Beginning two hours after receiving a sugary treat, blood sugar levels in the dogs that received capsaicin were well below those in dogs that did not receive the pepper protein.
The levels of insulin -- the hormone that controls the body's handling of sugar -- were higher after 2.5 hours in the dogs that received capsaicin, even though the insulin appeared to stick less strongly to blood cells.
The Phytotherapy Research (August 2001;15:391-394) mentioned that the researchers said that they were not sure whether the pepper extract increased the release of insulin or slowed down its breakdown.
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