ReviewBiomolecules2022
Dietary Capsaicin: A Spicy Way to Improve Cardio-Metabolic Health?
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- Capsaicin Receptor TRPV1 Delays Aortic Aging in Atherosclerotic Mice by Inhibiting the ISG15-p53 Pathway.Journal of cellular and molecular medicine · 2026Article
- Capsaicin for cardiometabolic syndrome: multitarget mechanisms and therapeutic potential.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Review
- Dietary hormesis: beyond nutrition and energy supply.NPJ science of food · 2025Review
- Boosting Therapeutic Effect of Turmeric, Coffee, and Chili Extracts Through Experimental Design and Encapsulation as Nanostructured Lipid Carriers for Novel Heath Supplements.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Effect of 8-Methyl Nonanoic Acid, a Degradation By-Product of Dihydrocapsaicin, on Energy and Glucose Homeostasis in Diet-Induced Obese Mice.Journal of experimental pharmacology · 2025Article
- Silico study: Hepatoprotective effects of capsaicin on the liver of aflatoxin B1-intoxicated mice (Open veterinary journal · 2025Article
- Consuming spicy food and type 2 diabetes incidence in Southwestern Chinese aged 30-79: a prospective cohort study.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- The effects of systemic diseases, genetic disorders and lifestyle on keloids.International wound journal · 2024Review
- The Vanilloid (Capsaicin) Receptor TRPV1 in Blood Pressure Regulation: A Novel Therapeutic Target in Hypertension?International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Today's sedentary lifestyle with too much food and too little exercise has made metabolic syndrome a pandemic. Metabolic syndrome is a major risk factor for type-2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. New knowledge of medical and nutraceutical intervention in the early stages of metabolic syndrome is central to prevent these deadly complications. People who eat chili pepper on a regular basis seem to stay healthier and live longer than those who do not. Animal experiments suggest a therapeutic potential for dietary capsaicin, the active principle in hot chili pepper, to reduce the risk of developing metabolic syndrome. This is an attractive theory since capsaicin has been a culinary staple for thousands of years, and is generally deemed safe when consumed in hedonically acceptable doses. The broad expression of the capsaicin receptor TRPV1 in metabolically active tissues lends experimental support to this theory. This review critically evaluates the available experimental and clinical evidence for and against dietary capsaicin being an effective dietary means to improve cardio-metabolic health. It comes to the conclusion that although a chili pepper-rich diet is associated with a reduced risk of dying due to cardiovascular disease, dietary capsaicin has no clear effect on blood glucose or lipid profiles. Therefore, the reduced mortality risk may reflect the beneficial action of digested capsaicin on gut microbiota.
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