Just as the whole country is celebrating the National Day, the world's scientific community has also ushered in an annual feast - the Nobel Prize is announced. This year's Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine may surprise many people, because the most vocal before the results were announced has always been the founders of the mRNA vaccine, Hungary's Katharim Kauriko and American Drew Weisman, and the result was won by David Julius and Arden Pataptian, so many people say that this year's Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has exploded. Moreover, when the research topics of these two Nobel Prize winners were announced, many netizens could not believe that one of the topics was to say that it was found that eating peppers would feel hot. Many places in our country love to eat peppers, and it is not normal to eat peppers that will be hot? Don't worry, let's look at the experts' interpretation first.
Humans are able to feel the cause of heat and pain
The two biologists, from the University of California, San Francisco and the Scripps Institute, have been working on the mechanisms by which humans feel temperature and pain for the past 15 years. Professor David Julius's research is the use of capsaicin to stimulate the human body to produce pain and burning sensations, so as to find dna fragments in millions of DNA fragments that can feel the hot stimulation of chili peppers and respond to them, and then further research has discovered the protein receptor - TRPV1, which is activated after feeling the temperature of the pain stimulus. Professor Arden Pataputian, on the other hand, discovered not only TRPM8, a protein receptor that humans feel cool, but also proteins Piezo1 and Piezo2, which are important for human tactile and motor perception.
These two new findings have revealed to us the principles that make humans feel temperature and pain. Using these new findings, we can lay the foundation for the development of new drugs, find new targets and receptors for our drug effects, for example, by inhibiting the activation of the TRPV1 protein to achieve analgesic effects, so as to develop new analgesic drugs, and such discoveries can be further used in the development of other new drugs. Regarding the interpretation of peppers and pain, I will not go deep here, I want to popularize the question of whether it is good to eat peppers or not, and the analysis here is as follows.
3 benefits of eating chili peppers: reduced cancer, cardiovascular and all-cause mortality
Recently, a prospective study of chronic diseases of 512,000 Chinese found that people who ate spicy had a lower risk of esophageal cancer than those who did not eat spicy or ate less spicy, especially among residents who did not smoke or drank alcohol. And studies have shown that people who eat chili peppers 6 to 7 days a week have a 14% lower mortality rate than those who eat less than once a week. And there is also a study for more than 570,000 people in China, the United States, Italy, and Iran that eating spicy can reduce cardiovascular disease, cancer, and all-cause mortality. Since so many studies show that eating spicy is good, is it suitable for everyone to eat spicy?
While spicy eating has been more beneficial to the body in some studies, most of those studies have focused on healthy people. Because the capsaicin produced by chili peppers will stimulate the pain receptors on the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, it is not recommended to eat spicy for people with damaged and fragile mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, such as gastric ulcers, gastroenteritis, newborns, etc. These people eat spicy but are harmful to the stomach and intestines. And eating spicy does not mean that you have to eat high-salt and high-fat foods such as red pepper hot pot and spicy pot at meals, so as not to offset the benefits of chili peppers.
epilogue
Rubbing this wave of Nobel Prize in medicine heat, pepper has attracted the attention of countless people, and what I want to say here is that chili pepper eating is not harmful to the body, it is good for healthy people, but not everyone is suitable for eating spicy, according to the doctor's advice to decide, and do not eat greasy, angry food at the same time.
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