It was a rabbit hole of information once I started researching this topic. Some incredible studies are ongoing at the moment. If there is interest, I will make a follow up video in the future with some of the results the current studies.
I had a really bad case of food poisoning during a visit to Thailand. I had stuff coming out of me at both ends for hours and hours. After I was emptied, my stomach was very jittery and all I was able to get down for almost 4 days was water and maybe a couple of bananas. At that point, I was very hungry and finally had to force myself to some food. I chose a dish that I didn't think would be too spicy. Was I wrong! It was very hot but being starved, I managed to get about 4 tablespoons of rice with the sauce into me. Ten minutes later, I was 100% cured! Hot food really does settle the stomach!
Fact 6 explains why I'm one of the rare people who experiences burn when I pee after eating extremely hot peppers. Also I melt my face off at least one meal a day and I've only been sick twice with a cold since 2009. I'm 52 years old so I joke with people saying that I've already caught everything at my age! The truth may very well be the herbs and spices and hot peppers I eat daily. Just saying.
I have had a similar experience. I eat a lot of "spicy" food and add my own hot spices. Also lots of garlic, Greek olive oil and butter. Really strong health, despite stress. I was sick twice this year and couldn't do anything. It felt like a bad flu. Had the Corona finally caught up with me? This was the first serious infection in 10 years. First time in January 2023 and then again in April 2023, which is quite unusual for me.
Glad to hear all the benefits of chilis since I'm a chili addict. I didn't grow up on it but came to love it as an adult. My mother always says I'm skinny (I'm 122 lbs at 5'10") because of all the hot food I eat. Who cares? I feel great!
I was not aware of all these health benefits. Maybe (one day) being a chile eater will reduce our insurance costs lol. Thank you for doing all the researching condensing it down. I now have more things to read up on.
I was eating the second half of my cayenne chilli pepper when watching this video. I'm eating chilli everyday now, and i like it more and more. I think they are good for me, that's why i support this video
This was awesome Shaun! I know this took a ton of research to validate the information. I learned quite a few things watching this. You may have a second career as a professor at a college. So well done. I look forward to the LS tomorrow. V/R Shane
After a year and a half with hot pepper sauce a daily part of my diet I have kept my excess weight off and last summer during an extremely hot summer I was not bothered but the heat after about 6 weeks of building fences out in the direct sun and heat! This video explained a LOT for me!! I have shared this video many times on my videos and IRL! I am VERY interested in a follow up when more information is available!
A lot of Super hero's in the world. And You are mine. I've seen a lot of your videos and every one of them are colorful and very beautifully done.ThankYou for making these awesome videos
Greeting from the other side of the pond. Found your channel thanks to the Google suggestions algorithms, amazing information. As a chile (Mexican style) adept I loved your channel and this video in particular made me appreciate chiles even more. For reference, I have two eggs sunny side up, three tortillas, a cup of black coffee and a serrano pepper for breakfast almost every day :) Thank you for this information, I wish I could safely purchase seeds from you but I'm afraid customs will reject the package. Can't wait to see the end of your harvest, those chiles look amazing!
Awesome fact filled video Shaun! The boat load of reading available in your resource listing is a complete bonus! I had a general awareness of positive health benefits within the native populations in the southwestern part of the states here. But generally that would be old data now. One curious feature to perhaps keep in mind is the negative health consequences associated with the typical westernized diet. At one time a general observation could have suggested that a diet rich in hot spicy foods seemed to lead to a much healthier system overall. I suspect a mere glance at the growing waistline of many populations would lead to the understanding that good peppers are lacking. Any follow up to these studies or new trials could be very interesting when available. Stay Spicy! -Bob...
I’ve been enjoying habanero peppers pretty much daily. I love the taste of them but I don’t really try the hotter varieties. I wish I could have just even a small scale green house just to grow peppers. Keep up the good videos you make.
I grow 10 variaties of peppers in my livingroom windowsill, I have a lot of sunshine there and the grow just like any plant would grow. I get lots of peppers 🙂
Habaneros taste amazing! All of them from yellow to chocolate... Some say they are superhot but that's a myth. I make my own sauces and ferment chilies for up to 3 yrs. This year I decided to add ONE trinidad scorpio to a 1kg mash of habaneros. A bit more evil hot but still tasty. My problem with superhot chilies is the taste. There's verry little taste and a lot of burning sensation. So this year I'm experimenting with superhot sauces that actually taste good. Next year I'll try to crossbreed different superhots with different habaneros...
Wow very informative thanks, I have debates with people all the time about spicy food and they always tell me these myths that this will happen and that, I say where's the proof
OMG! That has to be one of the best videos you have ever done Shaun. absolutely astounding and mind blowing information. I would imagine that there has been a good few weeks of work gone into producing that 10 minute video. well done and thankyou for such invaluable information as unfortunately I do suffer with a number of the medical conditions listed, but luckily for me I also grow lots of chili's , although not a patch on what you do! Phil
There is also the mental health benefit. Depression, unhappiness - then make a chili, a good curry, pizza with chili will cheer you up. Especially for breakfast. Well, it works for me.
Congratulating you on producing the longest UA-cam video comprising of the longest words ever produced by Man/Women. On an even sillier note I arrived at your videos because my Daughters say I'm a bit eccentric. Why you may ask? Well I found a seed packet of chillies that were ELEVEN years old, so forever the optimist I chucked them into a square fifteen inch flower pot which was about the same depth and I am just about to pick my first ever bright red chillie (pot must have TWENTY plants and around fifty bright red chillies) which I've named Chump in your honour. Sadly I'm never going to be able to forget what Eunuchs use chillies for.....and CUT!
An incredibly professional channel. I'd be interest to know if you found anything on Parkinsons Disease. My mother has it and finds relief from CBD. I'd be interested in other herbal relief such as capsaicin. Thanks as always for your efforts.
great looking garden fellow Chilli head 😀 🌶 i have iBS im just finding out about this with peppers and I've been a long time fan of peppers. Johnny scoville actually informed me of this
Err thanks for pointing to specifics of studies rather than just saying “scientists found…” UA-camrs even Astro physicists and “serious” science communicators are forgetting this important point these days. I could rant on but I’ll leave it there.
Please keep the great work up we maybe chilli heads but it is far from a matcho I can eat hotter than you.chillis taste great and the real bonus is they are really good for you In so many ways.We are just scratching the surface but with your videos you are opening others eyes to the possibilitys of jus
wow, thanks for this, even if chillies can help at all, this is fantastic news for me. Thanks for your in depth research and citing your information. Really thorough work.
I'm surprised it actually helps with IBS. I eat spicy food pretty much daily and it wrecks my bowels. I wake up most mornings with fire in my gut 🥵 But spicy food is just so damn good I just can't stop eating it 😋
I used to get torn up by spicy food, but then I quit eating so many processed foods and seriously limited intake of pork and shellfish it went away mostly. The fire farts are still there, but the rage cramps basically disappeared. Another thing I changed was I limited refined sugar. Idk what exactly helped but these were some of the changes
@@ChilliChump I rubbed my eye while driving accidentally. I was driving with one eye on the highway. I felt more like I was going to die. Anyways I'm hoping by tomorrow things are back to normal. Lesson learned.
I use capsaicin (0.07%) cream several times a day for postherpetic neuralgia (ongoing pain after shingles). Over two years now. But the narration could sound as it it can be used in the acute blistering phase of shingles. And, while I didn't try it because I had not researched at that point, I doubt that is a good idea. Indeed, I suspect ot is an awful idea! Currently (2023/2024) the only UK-licensed capsaicin cream is unavailable and won't return until at least 2025. So I buy my own Hansaplast ABC Warme Cream from Germany. Price is manageable and I buy about 8 at a time. Reckon about a tube a month.
Lots of interesting content! Be nice if they included human test subjects in the studies and capsaicin levels consumed. I try to eat one or two superhots a day. Growing 30 plants ranging chocolate scotch bonnets, to Trinidad moruga scorpions, butch t scorpion and 7 pot barrackpore. Definitely feel healthier
Wonderful work Shaun...you have elevated your channel to a higher level and you have definitely separated yourself from the ordinary chilli growers and chilli eaters who are hundreds of them on UA-cam...very professional approach
Is Capsaicin actually a neurotoxin or is that just propaganda being pushed online. I love peppers and will never stop eating peppers. I was just curious!
I eat multiple chillis a day usualy very hot chillis I’ve had 3 scotch bonnets today and eaten probably a whole one while I was cutting the 3 up and I keep having people tell me I’m crazy and going to end up hurting myself cheers for clearing this up for me I’m going to up the dose now 😂😂
Beta-Carotin converts to vitamin A in some people. Most people need real vitamin A (retinol) and therefore (and some other issues) can't live long time vegan without pharmaceutical substitution.
The "bad" cholesterol part I laughed at and funny how people still don't realise the whole lipid theory is a lie based on selective results from a study to prove cholesterol or certain fats, specifically animal fats are bad. Cholesterol lowering drugs have not made a difference in something like 98% of people who identified at being at risk of a heart attack or another heart attack. Meaning low "bad" cholesterol had no impact on the outcome of cardiovascular diseases. It's most likely that you have inflammation of some sort that needs to be reduced. Cholesterol is like a band-aid and more a potential indicator of something is wrong or there is too much inflammation and oxidative stress in your body. Too much stress could be created by your diet, incorrect nutritional intake with intense or heavy training or physical activity, or just from general life and work. Association does not imply causation. It's a basic fact. Saying cholesterol kills is the same as saying that many people who get fatally injured on the road chewed gum in their lifetime, therefor the chewing gum was a factor to their demise. Perhaps then, rather than looking at "bad" cholesterol, look at what the chilli's improved in your diet with regards to inflammation and oxidation. Seeing as peppers has lots of vitamins, this could already have been a market of providing your body with a better chance or reducing inflammation and oxidative stress. You aren't what you eat, you are with what your body does with what you eat.
Question I would have is a lot of these studies that you cite. You mentioned the consumption of capsaicin but not were the same results found in just straight eating peppers with capsaicin in them?. The require like special medicines developed from capsaicin etc
The majority of the studies were consuming actual chillies. The reason capsaicin is mentioned so much is because that is the active part of the chilli that has the effects.
@@ChilliChump Good to know. I was hoping so just because I do like to eat my chilies. Definitely gives me a little more motivation to work on my tolerance 🙂
@@ChilliChump going to try and convince my wife to do a pepper a day with me. I figured that'd be a good place to start. She's pretty resistant to it at this moment 🙂
I absolutely love your channel. in your experience what is the best way to ripen cayenne indoors? I'm in Canada zone 5B and this year got a huge amount of cayenne peppers but solid green and our season is almost done. Any advice to ripen them faster so I can make sauce?
Thank you! To help ripen your chillies, as long as they are fully grown...get them somewhere cool. This will speed up the ripening process. Same thing happens naturally outdoors as we go into Autumn
Hi Sean, great video and thank you. One question: does this research only apply to fresh chilli or does it include cayenne pepper for example or other dried chilli products?
Thankfully capsaicin is present even when the chillies are dried. So the benefit is still there. Many of the studies were done on the consumption of chillies, but some were done with isolated extracts of capsaicin.
@@ChilliChump Many thanks for the supa-quick reply. I did see one 'alternative' health person state she had prevented a serious heart attack by administering half a tea spoon of cayenne pepper in water and prevented a serious outcome. Maybe a chilli a day keeps the doctor away, not the apple.
Great video, this was informative and entertaining. Cool switch up from the normal videos. Can we see more chili reviews though?! We wanna see you sweat.
Thanks for providing all that information it was really helpful. Equally amazing was the speed at which you pronounced all those medical terms. Well done.
Brilliant video as always .you are producing some fantastic content .on behalf of all gardening and chili growers thank you .Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 to you and your family .😊
Great informative video . I’m just wondering , does all that burning heat In your throat and stomach from eating super hot chillies have any negative effects on your body? For example ulcers and can it trigger heart problems.
Quite the opposite, according to Shaun's research. For me, the easiest was to understand the burn of chillies is that it is a false alarm: the receptor that Shaun talks about is programmed to respond to the capsaicin to warn us of potential danger. However, the burn is only an irritant and has no damaging effects on the body's tissue, thus it remains a false alarm..
Great research, great video! We'll all live until we're 100! 🌶💪Do you need to consume raw peppers for these potential benefits or will the vitamins disappear if you turn your peppers into sauce? The capsaicin I guess will still be around or hot sauces would just be sauces 🤣
The capsaicin should be good regardless of how it is processed. There will be a little degradation with some methods, but most capsaicin will still be present. With regards to vitamins....again depends how you process them
It was a rabbit hole of information once I started researching this topic. Some incredible studies are ongoing at the moment. If there is interest, I will make a follow up video in the future with some of the results the current studies.
a follow up video would be fun to see. this one was great!
Yes! the more information the better!
Really interesting subject! 👍👍
Yes, definitely love the information. I tend a nerd out on these kinds of things.
Please make 🙏
I had a really bad case of food poisoning during a visit to Thailand. I had stuff coming out of me at both ends for hours and hours. After I was emptied, my stomach was very jittery and all I was able to get down for almost 4 days was water and maybe a couple of bananas. At that point, I was very hungry and finally had to force myself to some food. I chose a dish that I didn't think would be too spicy. Was I wrong! It was very hot but being starved, I managed to get about 4 tablespoons of rice with the sauce into me. Ten minutes later, I was 100% cured! Hot food really does settle the stomach!
Fact 6 explains why I'm one of the rare people who experiences burn when I pee after eating extremely hot peppers. Also I melt my face off at least one meal a day and I've only been sick twice with a cold since 2009. I'm 52 years old so I joke with people saying that I've already caught everything at my age! The truth may very well be the herbs and spices and hot peppers I eat daily. Just saying.
I have had a similar experience. I eat a lot of "spicy" food and add my own hot spices. Also lots of garlic, Greek olive oil and butter. Really strong health, despite stress. I was sick twice this year and couldn't do anything. It felt like a bad flu. Had the Corona finally caught up with me? This was the first serious infection in 10 years. First time in January 2023 and then again in April 2023, which is quite unusual for me.
Do you drink alcohol ever?
@@ZakRios333 daily.....why ask that?
My condolences 😢
I love Tabasco 🔥
Now that I'm eating healthy, I like to add this to my fresh tomato juice.
Crazy! It’s always nice to hear that something enjoyable to eat can also have so many positive impacts on your body!
Glad to hear all the benefits of chilis since I'm a chili addict. I didn't grow up on it but came to love it as an adult. My mother always says I'm skinny (I'm 122 lbs at 5'10") because of all the hot food I eat. Who cares? I feel great!
Thank you Shaun!! I'll be having chilli tea with my breakfast from now on...
At the rate we eat spicy food...we should live forever 😂
Tnx Shaun. You answered many Q that I had for yrs... Well, now I know tnx to you. And this is why we chiliheads all love your channel. ❤💪
Right then, gonna start popping a Bhut Jolokia along with my daily multi-vitamin. Sorted.
I have been eating hot chiles in some form in my food for decades. I am super healthy at 73 years young.
Love it! My only vice with this is an unbearable urge to smoke a cigarette after a bowl of spicy noodles 😂
I put Cayann Pepper in my Black Coffee every morning it kills the plains and gives me so much ENERGY I love it ❤️🌶️🌶️
I was not aware of all these health benefits. Maybe (one day) being a chile eater will reduce our insurance costs lol. Thank you for doing all the researching condensing it down. I now have more things to read up on.
I was eating the second half of my cayenne chilli pepper when watching this video. I'm eating chilli everyday now, and i like it more and more. I think they are good for me, that's why i support this video
This was awesome Shaun! I know this took a ton of research to validate the information. I learned quite a few things watching this. You may have a second career as a professor at a college. So well done. I look forward to the LS tomorrow. V/R Shane
Great video! I love these "deep dive" videos. I learned that I need to eat more of the chilis I grow.
After a year and a half with hot pepper sauce a daily part of my diet I have kept my excess weight off and last summer during an extremely hot summer I was not bothered but the heat after about 6 weeks of building fences out in the direct sun and heat! This video explained a LOT for me!! I have shared this video many times on my videos and IRL! I am VERY interested in a follow up when more information is available!
"If you learned anything on this video"
I knew peppers were awesome, but I couldn't hold the smile throughout this video. Thanks!
A lot of Super hero's in the world. And You are mine. I've seen a lot of your videos and every one of them are colorful and very beautifully done.ThankYou for making these awesome videos
Thank you, that is kind of you to say!
Appreciate the video - been looking for a fresh detailed breakdown on the benefits for a while now.
Wow great video Shaun.
Amazingly well-researched video, this is top top stuff! I didn't NEED another reason to enjoy growing and eating peppers but they don't hurt!!
Thank you mate
Been eating them all my life. I almost never get sick. 💯
Noted. Nice video, thanks for sharing❣
Greeting from the other side of the pond. Found your channel thanks to the Google suggestions algorithms, amazing information. As a chile (Mexican style) adept I loved your channel and this video in particular made me appreciate chiles even more. For reference, I have two eggs sunny side up, three tortillas, a cup of black coffee and a serrano pepper for breakfast almost every day :)
Thank you for this information, I wish I could safely purchase seeds from you but I'm afraid customs will reject the package.
Can't wait to see the end of your harvest, those chiles look amazing!
Truly awesome
Top notch mate. How did you remember and learn how to pronounce all those technical words. Much respect and love your work 🔥🔥🔥
Thank you, a lot of very encouraging and information, will try it out..
The summary is let's eat chili every day. Regards from Jakarta, Indonesia. We love chilies :)
Chilli, Garlic, Beer….. job done, no stress.
G'day, Shaun, I know you are busy, but my Fermented Chilli sauce won 1st place at the Royal Adelaide Show, thanks to your recipe, cheers Tom
That's fantastic to hear Thomas! Congratulations, you must be proud.
Thanks for the follow up cheers Tom
Awesome fact filled video Shaun! The boat load of reading available in your resource listing is a complete bonus! I had a general awareness of positive health benefits within the native populations in the southwestern part of the states here. But generally that would be old data now. One curious feature to perhaps keep in mind is the negative health consequences associated with the typical westernized diet. At one time a general observation could have suggested that a diet rich in hot spicy foods seemed to lead to a much healthier system overall. I suspect a mere glance at the growing waistline of many populations would lead to the understanding that good peppers are lacking. Any follow up to these studies or new trials could be very interesting when available. Stay Spicy! -Bob...
Thanks Bob. It was an interesting one to research (and time consuming!). Hope to see you on Sunday for the livestream!
@@ChilliChump Already have Sunday breakfast timed to enjoy just before the your live stream begins!
I love chillis as in, yes I will be on fire after consuming it but I still enjoy it and I love the facts around it. Another Good video
welcome back
tremendous work sire
Thank you kindly!
I’ve been enjoying habanero peppers pretty much daily. I love the taste of them but I don’t really try the hotter varieties. I wish I could have just even a small scale green house just to grow peppers. Keep up the good videos you make.
I grow 10 variaties of peppers in my livingroom windowsill, I have a lot of sunshine there and the grow just like any plant would grow. I get lots of peppers 🙂
@@margavanderwel1485 Thank you, that’s a great idea and I have plenty of sunlight in my back living room.
Habaneros taste amazing! All of them from yellow to chocolate... Some say they are superhot but that's a myth. I make my own sauces and ferment chilies for up to 3 yrs. This year I decided to add ONE trinidad scorpio to a 1kg mash of habaneros. A bit more evil hot but still tasty. My problem with superhot chilies is the taste. There's verry little taste and a lot of burning sensation. So this year I'm experimenting with superhot sauces that actually taste good. Next year I'll try to crossbreed different superhots with different habaneros...
@@saturnative Wow this sounds amazing 🤩
Wow very informative thanks, I have debates with people all the time about spicy food and they always tell me these myths that this will happen and that, I say where's the proof
Also the spicier the pepper the greater the health benefits, i eat carolina reapers like its nobody's business
Great video!!
Fantastic video! Does the capsaicin have to come from fresh peppers, or do dried peppers produce the same positive health benifits?
Dried will have the same effects, the capsaicin will still be present
Great information! I really enjoyed watching and reading. You did a fantastic job collecting these information!
OMG! That has to be one of the best videos you have ever done Shaun. absolutely astounding and mind blowing information. I would imagine that there has been a good few weeks of work gone into producing that 10 minute video. well done and thankyou for such invaluable information as unfortunately I do suffer with a number of the medical conditions listed, but luckily for me I also grow lots of chili's , although not a patch on what you do! Phil
Thank you Phil. Very kind of you to say.
There is also the mental health benefit. Depression, unhappiness - then make a chili, a good curry, pizza with chili will cheer you up. Especially for breakfast.
Well, it works for me.
Wow!
Time to go and have a therapeutic chilli!
Nasally.......that just sounds like a nightmare.
Congratulating you on producing the longest UA-cam video comprising of the longest words ever produced by Man/Women. On an even sillier note I arrived at your videos because my Daughters say I'm a bit eccentric. Why you may ask? Well I found a seed packet of chillies that were ELEVEN years old, so forever the optimist I chucked them into a square fifteen inch flower pot which was about the same depth and I am just about to pick my first ever bright red chillie (pot must have TWENTY plants and around fifty bright red chillies) which I've named Chump in your honour. Sadly I'm never going to be able to forget what Eunuchs use chillies for.....and CUT!
Felt like a loooong tongue twister 😄
Mushrooms are very similar as far as health benifits but aren't painful. I like both tho
I encapsulate cayenne pepper so I can take 500 mg a day.
Thank you for showing the cited references.
An incredibly professional channel. I'd be interest to know if you found anything on Parkinsons Disease. My mother has it and finds relief from CBD. I'd be interested in other herbal relief such as capsaicin.
Thanks as always for your efforts.
Unfortunately I didn't see anything around Parkinson during my research. I am sorry to hear that your mum has it.
It always seems that very complex molecules seem to have a lot of utility when it comes to medicine.
Just started to watch your channel you've been so good at explaining things that was good information will keep eating 🌶
Super hot superfoods, my favourite.
great looking garden fellow Chilli head 😀 🌶 i have iBS im just finding out about this with peppers and I've been a long time fan of peppers. Johnny scoville actually informed me of this
Err thanks for pointing to specifics of studies rather than just saying “scientists found…” UA-camrs even Astro physicists and “serious” science communicators are forgetting this important point these days. I could rant on but I’ll leave it there.
Stop whinging
Known fact: They are delicious!
Even more reasons to eat chillies... Lol
Please keep the great work up we maybe chilli heads but it is far from a matcho I can eat hotter than you.chillis taste great and the real bonus is they are really good for you In so many ways.We are just scratching the surface but with your videos you are opening others eyes to the possibilitys of jus
Just how good they are for you.keep up the great work
After more than 3 Years of suffering of reflux, Pepperonis and chilli makes me like new.
I use Chilli or pepper to clear my nostrils when I have the common cold. Vicks inhalers just backs up the mucus but peppers clear them out of you.
wow, thanks for this, even if chillies can help at all, this is fantastic news for me. Thanks for your in depth research and citing your information. Really thorough work.
How convenient, I just tonight grabbed up the last of the habaneros and other chilis from the garden! I might live forever!
Makes me thankful I grew up in Colorado, which is definitely chilli country.
I'm surprised it actually helps with IBS. I eat spicy food pretty much daily and it wrecks my bowels. I wake up most mornings with fire in my gut 🥵 But spicy food is just so damn good I just can't stop eating it 😋
I used to get torn up by spicy food, but then I quit eating so many processed foods and seriously limited intake of pork and shellfish it went away mostly. The fire farts are still there, but the rage cramps basically disappeared.
Another thing I changed was I limited refined sugar. Idk what exactly helped but these were some of the changes
Very nice and informative. Thank you for the citations as well! Stay spicy my man!
How does one remove the painful burning feeling on the skin you get after a day of hot pepper seed saving? My hands are on fire 🤣
My face and arms are still burning after making sauce all day. It's past midnight...and I expect to feel it well into tomorrow. Makes you feel alive 😂
@@ChilliChump I rubbed my eye while driving accidentally. I was driving with one eye on the highway. I felt more like I was going to die. Anyways I'm hoping by tomorrow things are back to normal. Lesson learned.
I use capsaicin (0.07%) cream several times a day for postherpetic neuralgia (ongoing pain after shingles). Over two years now.
But the narration could sound as it it can be used in the acute blistering phase of shingles. And, while I didn't try it because I had not researched at that point, I doubt that is a good idea. Indeed, I suspect ot is an awful idea!
Currently (2023/2024) the only UK-licensed capsaicin cream is unavailable and won't return until at least 2025. So I buy my own Hansaplast ABC Warme Cream from Germany. Price is manageable and I buy about 8 at a time. Reckon about a tube a month.
Wow that was very informative, never realised that chillies did so much, thanks for the video
Lots of interesting content! Be nice if they included human test subjects in the studies and capsaicin levels consumed. I try to eat one or two superhots a day. Growing 30 plants ranging chocolate scotch bonnets, to Trinidad moruga scorpions, butch t scorpion and 7 pot barrackpore. Definitely feel healthier
Wonderful work Shaun...you have elevated your channel to a higher level and you have definitely separated yourself from the ordinary chilli growers and chilli eaters who are hundreds of them on UA-cam...very professional approach
Great video today. Which pepper would you suggest for arthritis pain?
One can buy ointment with capsaicin.
Is Capsaicin actually a neurotoxin or is that just propaganda being pushed online. I love peppers and will never stop eating peppers. I was just curious!
I eat multiple chillis a day usualy very hot chillis I’ve had 3 scotch bonnets today and eaten probably a whole one while I was cutting the 3 up and I keep having people tell me I’m crazy and going to end up hurting myself cheers for clearing this up for me I’m going to up the dose now 😂😂
Beta-Carotin converts to vitamin A in some people. Most people need real vitamin A (retinol) and therefore (and some other issues) can't live long time vegan without pharmaceutical substitution.
The "bad" cholesterol part I laughed at and funny how people still don't realise the whole lipid theory is a lie based on selective results from a study to prove cholesterol or certain fats, specifically animal fats are bad. Cholesterol lowering drugs have not made a difference in something like 98% of people who identified at being at risk of a heart attack or another heart attack. Meaning low "bad" cholesterol had no impact on the outcome of cardiovascular diseases. It's most likely that you have inflammation of some sort that needs to be reduced.
Cholesterol is like a band-aid and more a potential indicator of something is wrong or there is too much inflammation and oxidative stress in your body. Too much stress could be created by your diet, incorrect nutritional intake with intense or heavy training or physical activity, or just from general life and work. Association does not imply causation. It's a basic fact. Saying cholesterol kills is the same as saying that many people who get fatally injured on the road chewed gum in their lifetime, therefor the chewing gum was a factor to their demise.
Perhaps then, rather than looking at "bad" cholesterol, look at what the chilli's improved in your diet with regards to inflammation and oxidation. Seeing as peppers has lots of vitamins, this could already have been a market of providing your body with a better chance or reducing inflammation and oxidative stress.
You aren't what you eat, you are with what your body does with what you eat.
Great info! Thanks.
I wonder if the heat level has an impact on the health benefits. I.e the hotter the better (or not).
Cheers
Question I would have is a lot of these studies that you cite. You mentioned the consumption of capsaicin but not were the same results found in just straight eating peppers with capsaicin in them?. The require like special medicines developed from capsaicin etc
The majority of the studies were consuming actual chillies. The reason capsaicin is mentioned so much is because that is the active part of the chilli that has the effects.
@@ChilliChump Good to know. I was hoping so just because I do like to eat my chilies. Definitely gives me a little more motivation to work on my tolerance 🙂
The interesting thing is that you don't need high doses of capsaicin to realise the benefits!
@@ChilliChump going to try and convince my wife to do a pepper a day with me. I figured that'd be a good place to start. She's pretty resistant to it at this moment 🙂
Give it time..she will come round. Mrs ChilliChump ne'er really at spicy things when we met...not she asks why I didn't make a meal spicy enough!
Thanks for teaching me something new today! Cheers
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August 3,2024 Saturday
Another natural plant that has so many benefits... I'm surprised that they haven't tried to make it illegal like Hemp
I absolutely love your channel. in your experience what is the best way to ripen cayenne indoors? I'm in Canada zone 5B and this year got a huge amount of cayenne peppers but solid green and our season is almost done. Any advice to ripen them faster so I can make sauce?
Thank you! To help ripen your chillies, as long as they are fully grown...get them somewhere cool. This will speed up the ripening process. Same thing happens naturally outdoors as we go into Autumn
@@ChilliChump Thank you very much :)
Great video, very informative. Thank you
Excellent video with actual research, it is much better than the usual bragging about chili doing miracles and such.
Hi Sean, great video and thank you. One question: does this research only apply to fresh chilli or does it include cayenne pepper for example or other dried chilli products?
Thankfully capsaicin is present even when the chillies are dried. So the benefit is still there. Many of the studies were done on the consumption of chillies, but some were done with isolated extracts of capsaicin.
@@ChilliChump Many thanks for the supa-quick reply. I did see one 'alternative' health person state she had prevented a serious heart attack by administering half a tea spoon of cayenne pepper in water and prevented a serious outcome. Maybe a chilli a day keeps the doctor away, not the apple.
Great video, this was informative and entertaining. Cool switch up from the normal videos. Can we see more chili reviews though?! We wanna see you sweat.
Watch my livestream this Sunday....can watch me sweat live!
Thanks for providing all that information it was really helpful. Equally amazing was the speed at which you pronounced all those medical terms. Well done.
Thanks David. It did take me 3 times to get that part right!
great video....let thy food be thy medicine
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Brilliant video as always .you are producing some fantastic content .on behalf of all gardening and chili growers thank you .Best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪 to you and your family .😊
Thank you Mark. That's kind of you to say!
I put a ton on my oats in the morning and with dinner as well awesome benefits been doing it for years
The bit about heart burn I don't quite get as I do get heartburn if it's too hot that's for sure
Great informative video .
I’m just wondering , does all that burning heat In your throat and stomach from eating super hot chillies have any negative effects on your body? For example ulcers and can it trigger heart problems.
Quite the opposite, according to Shaun's research. For me, the easiest was to understand the burn of chillies is that it is a false alarm: the receptor that Shaun talks about is programmed to respond to the capsaicin to warn us of potential danger. However, the burn is only an irritant and has no damaging effects on the body's tissue, thus it remains a false alarm..
Capsicum heat cream works great as pain controll
Great research, great video! We'll all live until we're 100! 🌶💪Do you need to consume raw peppers for these potential benefits or will the vitamins disappear if you turn your peppers into sauce? The capsaicin I guess will still be around or hot sauces would just be sauces 🤣
The capsaicin should be good regardless of how it is processed. There will be a little degradation with some methods, but most capsaicin will still be present.
With regards to vitamins....again depends how you process them
Great video! I eat raw (hot) peppers as an expectorant... it was super helpful when i had Covid
@ 6:00 YIKES!!!! (the snip sound had me laughing)
I have capsaicin nose spray, the burn is not that bad
Great video! Thank you!
Great information Thank you