Interesting.
I guess you caught the thread about the rat studies on diabetes . . . they injected capsacin into the pancrease ilet cell areas to kill the nerves that registered pain or some such.
Cured the diabetes. CURED it. The ilet cells began producing insulin again. Shocked the researchers big time.
Not to appear to pedantic, pancrease is a digestive enzyme (the suffix -ase betrays its properties). The islet cells are pancreatic.
Wow, I hope they can do something to help people with diabetes. That would be an amazing discovery. Actually, I think it was Kim Clemente who prophesied that there would be a cure for diabetes and other chronic diseases in the next year. Hmmm. Interesting indeed.