Apricot Seeds kill Cancer Cells - this is true. No need to FEAR CANCER now!

Dear Readers,

This is for your personal health education - it is important to know and do, if ever you need it. Remember,Chemotherapy and Radiation kills the patient before the Cancer kills him. This is a true fact - you can ask your friends who are doctors. Doctors recommend Chemo and Radiation to others but will NEVER take this road if they are a victim of Cancer!

Remember, long time ago, I was helping my good friend who had Nose Cancer. I travelled with him all the way to Penang to search for cure. Well, today he is still alive, has been free of Cancer for 6 years and is now helping others who are in the same straits, through a NPC(not sure of the initial) organisation.

I met him last week and he said again - No need for Chemo and Radiation. Got to believe a person who went to hell and came back alive and well! And is now a helping others to survive Cancer.  He said you need three things to survive Cancer attack:

Juice fresh Papaya leaves and stalk to drink

Boil Lemon grass and drink as water

Eat Apricot seeds to kill the Cancer cells. (read attached doc on Apricot)

He said Apricot seeds is nature's Chemotherapy. It is cheap and natural. Chemo kills you - it kills everything - the collateral damage is total. Apricot seeds which contain natural cyanide kills Cancer without any collateral damage.

I am going to eat Apricot seeds or boil them as in dessert. 

With these three natural cures - Papaya leaves (or raw fuit), Lemon Grass and Apricot Seeds, there is no need to FEAR CANCER! Later, I hope to share with him (so he can share with the cancer victims) the Art of Breathing. Breathing empowers the Cells to fight Cancer better.   

Now you can share this article with your friends and love ones. And if someone needs to contact my friend for advise and treatment, let me know. 

Saving a life, lets go a mile longer.   

Simon Sim

Simon Sim Advisory Research Pte Ltd

Author of The Joseph Cycle

Apricot Seeds Kill Cancer Cells without Side Effects

Thursday, September 24, 2009 by: Paul Fassa, citizen journalist

Are apricot seeds a source for a natural substance that kills cancer cells without destroying the cancer victim's health and wealth? The essential ingredient has been called laetrile or vitamin B 17. If there is any merit to it, why is this information being suppressed? Why are people who have been cured or have cured others being censured and imprisoned? Could be there is something to the claims.

Keep in mind that the cancer industry world wide is estimated at a 200 billion dollar a year industry. There are many in various associated positions within that industry who would be without a job if that cash flow dried up suddenly with the news that there are cheaper, less harmful, and more efficacious remedies available. Big Pharmacy would virtually vanish.

What is B17, or Laetrile Anyway?

In 1952, a biochemist named Dr. Ernst Krebb, Jr. in San Francisco decided that cancer was a metabolic reaction to a poor diet, and a missing nutrient from modern man's diet could be the key to overcoming cancer. His research led to a compound found in over 1200 edible plants throughout nature. That compound is amagdylin,

Amagdylin is found with the highest concentration and necessary enzymes in apricot seed kernels. A primitive tribe, the Hunzas, were known to consume large amounts of apricot seed kernels. The hard pit had to be broken to get into the soft kernels. There was no incidence of cancer with them at all, ever. And they had long, healthy life spans. Laetrile was created by simply extracting amagdylin from the soft apricot kernels, purifying it and putting it into a concentrated form.

Amagdylin is a nitrioloside. Nitriolisides are difficult to categorize since they are in foods but not foods themselves. As a nitrioloside, amagdylin resembled the B complex structures, so Dr. Krebb called it B17 since by that time 16 types of B vitamins had been isolated.

Dr. Krebb injected himself with laetrile to ensure there would be no toxic side effects. He conducted further lab animal and culture experiments to conclude that laetrile would be effective in the treatment of cancer. By the way, the FDA standard for drug safety is known as LD 50, LD stands for lethal dose, and the 50 is the percentage threshold of lab animals poisoned to death by the drug tested. As long as the percentage killed is under 50%, FDA will approve it!

Since laetrile is derived directly from a food substance in nature and not chemically developed in a laboratory, it is impossible to patent. And of course it's not toxic. In other words, just as with all natural healing substances, Big Pharma and the AMA can't make a fortune from the substance and from the remedies for the long term side effects. There have been several testimonies from cancer victims who cured themselves by chewing large quantities of the apricot seeds alone.

The seeds are more available to consumers now than laetrile because in 1971 the FDA banned laetrile. Laetrile is difficult, but not impossible, to purchase. The seeds are actually the soft almond shaped, bitter tasting kernels from inside the pits. A few users prefer extracting those soft kernels from the pits themselves. But the soft kernels are available and inexpensive.

So How Does It Work?

Amagdylin contains four substances. Two are glucose; one is benzaldyhide, and one is cyanide. Yes, cyanide and benzaldyhide are poisons if they are released or freed as pure molecules and not bound within other molecular formations. Many foods containing cyanide are safe because the cyanide remains bound and locked as part of another molecule and therefore cannot cause harm.

There is even an enzyme in normal cells to catch any free cyanide molecules and to render them harmless by combining them with sulfur. That enzyme is rhodanese, which catalyzes the reaction and binds any free cyanide to sulfur. By binding the cyanide to sulfur, it is converted to a cyanate which is a neutral substance. Then it is easily passed through the urine with no harm to the normal cells.

But cancer cells are not normal. They contain an enzyme that other cells do not share, beta-glucosidase. This enzyme, virtually exclusive to cancer cells, is considered the "unlocking enzyme" for amagdylin molecules. It releases both the benzaldyhide and the cyanide, creating a toxic synergy beyond their uncombined sum. This is what the cancer cell's beta-glucosidase enzyme does to self destruct cancer cells.

Amagdylin or laetrile in conjunction with the protective enzymes in healthy cells and the unlocking enzymes in cancer cells is thus able to destroy cancer cells without jeopardizing healthy cells. Chemotherapy, on the other hand, kills a lot of other cells and diminishes one's immune system while killing an undetermined amount of cancer cells.

Those cancer cells tend to return elsewhere because the patient's general health was reduced from the pervasive chemo toxins. The cancer industry has declared the bench mark for curing cancer as being cancer free for 5 years. It's estimated that of those who undergo the AMA big three for curing cancer, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, no more than 3% make the 5 year cancer free mark. Besides the treatments' debilitating effects, they are much more expensive!

But for someone with cancer, it takes a considerable amount of daily B17 consumption to enable the amagdylin to reach the cancer cells with beta-glucosidase. That's because some of the amagdylin molecules will be neutralized by the normal cells containing rhodanese.

Many practitioners who use laetrile have an 85% cure rate among cancer victims who did not undergo much of the standard cut, burn, and poison that is main-stream - while the cure rate for those who come to laetrile therapy as a last resort after all that conventional medicine could only have a 15% recovery rate. There is a clinic in Mexico that claims a 100 percent cure rate!

The Medical Mafia's Suppression

Since around 1920, practitioners of alternative cancer therapies and remedies and their messengers have been marginalized, harassed, imprisoned, and even killed. Federal agencies have been used to bring about bogus charges or IRS tax liens that are enforced by US Marshals the way Dr. Gary Glum was hassled for even writing books on Essiac Tea. See Natural News article "Essiac Tea: A Cancer Cure Big Pharma Doesn't Want You To Know About." http://www.naturalnews.com/

A young Brooklyn man, Jason Vale, was imprisoned because he refused to stop telling others on TV and in lectures how he cured himself of cancer using those nasty apricot pit kernels! Jason is a more recent public example of the Medical Mafia's grip on the legal system regarding B17. Laetrile, which is non toxic, was banned by the FDA in 1971.

Shortly after the 1971 laetrile ban, a practicing physician in San Francisco, Dr. John Richardson, who had been using laetrile successfully on cancer patients, came to his friend G. Edward Griffin, a published investigative journalist, and asked Griffin if he could write up something to help him and others continue using laetrile on their cancer patients.

G. Edward Griffin's research evolved into his groundbreaking book, World Without Cancer. This book not only explained laetrile and chronicled several cancer cures, but Griffin's investigative nose led him down the rabbit hole and into the underbelly of the cancer industry's efforts at keeping alternative cancer cures from the light of day. That's how he discovered that the Sloane-Kettering Cancer Institute had buried documentation from scientists' research, which proved laetrile was "highly effective" at curing cancer.

Griffin received those documents himself from a Dr. Ralph Moss, who had been told to cover up that evidence and claim that laetrile was worthless. He refused and left his position as PR manager with Sloane-Kettering. Since that time in 1977, Dr. Ralph Moss has gone on to write or edit several books on cancer cure options. It's always encouraging to see an insider come out! Someone else filled Dr. Moss's vacant position and lied the lies about laetrile that filled the medical journals.

And what about those medical journals? Lately, the most prestigious New England Journal of Medicine dropped its standard of not allowing articles contributed to the journal from anyone who was receiving money from Big Pharma, as long as it's less than 10 grand annually. If they didn't drop that standard, there wouldn't be enough articles to fill the journal! Of course, most medical journals are glossy ad forums for Big Pharma anyway.

Both G. Edward Griffin with World Without Cancer and Phillip Day in his book Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth, make it very clear that the cancer industry does not really want a cure. Even non-profit organizations get millions in donations from the brainwashed, huddled masses along with funding for promoting Big Pharma. A non-profit organization can and will have key people working for 6 figure plus annual salaries, by the way.

Doctors mostly do as they are trained and told; medical journals contain false reports and lies. Cancer foundations have breast cancer months or whatever as PR to get people into the disease industry's money mill as early as possible, and at the top, there is Big Pharma. It's all about money and career. Not about public health and "The War on Cancer."

So far in mainstream medicine, it's been a losing battle with more getting cancer than ever. Around 1 out of 3 is destined to get cancer these days, and more are dying from cancer after conventional treatments. Talk about pandemics! All this with lots of cash going their way, enabling some to live a lush lifestyle and others hanging on to their comfy, secure jobs at the expense of our health.

Meanwhile, too many true humanitarian doctors and herbalists and writers concerned with the truth wind up being treated like criminals or nut cases, sometimes with their lives destroyed. That's tragic. And so is the fact that millions suffer and die while being conditioned against using effective and less painless procedures.

Laetrile Treatment

There are many success stories from people using just laetrile or apricot pit kernels. The usual recommendation for prevention is around 5 to 7 over the course of a day. For actual cancer cases use 2 to 3 times that. Some say one kernel for every 10 lbs of body weight. For maintenance after a cure, go back to 5 to 7 per day.

Some laetrile therapists have patients use vitamin B15 tablets and digestive enzymes such as papaya's papain and pineapple's bromalene. Too many apricot pit kernels can create nausea or dizziness. There are no recorded deaths or disabilities from the apricot seeds or laetrile, however. Although some success has been recorded with patients undergoing conventional therapy and using laetrile, it's not recommended. Eventually most of those who combine the two get off the chemo or die anyway.

There are many practitioners and writers who recommend you combine other alternative cancer therapies while taking laetrile or using the apricot pits - especially if you go for it alone at home. It should be obvious to Natural News readers that a foundation of healthy food and less stress is necessary. A fundamental lifestyle change has to be a part of any permanent cancer cure. In addition, a little eclectic mix and match with other alternative therapies seems like a good approach.

For example, Gerson's cancer cure therapy's juicing protocol with the right type of juicer and using coffee enemas to detox the liver could be added with laetrile use. It's hard to go wrong with that healthy combination. See Natural News article on the Gerson Therapy for more details here:

http://www.naturalnews.com/

Do your own research by starting with the source links below this article. Those sources are for more than showing the author has done his homework. The author intends for you to use them as a springboard for your own research. Why waste your money and health on toxic remedies when so much is available as alternatives for far less money and negative side effects? 

One reader wanted to know if apricot kernels really were a cancer fighter. It's a subject that's been raised before and, once again, many readers point to the work of Philip Day, and his research into the subject, which is encapsulated in his book 'Cancer: Why we're still dying to know the truth' (see: http://www.credence.org). One reader explains that apricot kernels contain vitamin B17, which is also known as laetrile or amygdalin. They're used as metabolic therapy in clinics. It's been recommended to eat 10 kernels a day as a preventative, and 40 as a therapy. They have a very bitter taste, and that's because of the cyanide in them. Readers assure us that the cyanide is inert, and can cause no harm - a view not shared by regulators in Australia, where they have been banned, according to one of our readers in New South Wales. A herbalist in New York tells us that our healthy cells have an enzyme that helps protect them from the cyanide, but cancer cells don't have the enzyme and so get zapped by the cyanide. It certainly seemed to work for one reader, who went for treatment at the Oasis of Hope clinic in Mexico. The therapy was mainly dietary, and focused on daily treatment with B17, vitamin C and other chelation infusions, plus the occasional colonic/coffee enema. Another reader stresses the importance of diet in relation to B17 therapy. He believes that cancer can be associated with a lack of two pancreatic enzymes and B17. While we produce the two enzymes naturally, we also use them to help digest animal protein, and so it's important to follow a vegan diet while supplementing with B17. The vitamin is found in the kernels and seeds of many non-citrus fruits, such as cherries, nectarines, peaches, plums and apples, although its highest concentration is found in apricot kernels.  

FOX NEWS SHOW MAN BEATS CANCER USING APRICOT SEEDS PART 2

05:37  - 2 years ago

PART 2 - World Champion armwrestler Jason Vale was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 18 years old. After researching this type of cancer, called Askin's Tumor, Jason found that every one of the 28 people who had this disease died. He was given a death sentence through a letter from his doctor that said "100 % mortality rate". Instead of using conventional medication like chemo and radiation, Jason used alternative natural healers like apricot seeds which contain vitamin B17. This brought on a battle with the FDA, eventually landing Jason in jail. PART 2 - World Champion armwrestler Jason Vale was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 18 years old. After researching this type of cancer, c...all » PART 2 - World Champion armwrestler Jason Vale was diagnosed with terminal cancer at 18 years old. After researching this type of cancer, called Askin's Tumor, Jason found that every one of the 28 people who had this disease died. He was given a death sentence through a letter from his doctor that said "100 % mortality rate". Instead of using conventional medication like chemo and radiation, Jason used alternative natural healers like apricot seeds which contain vitamin B17. This brought on a battle with the FDA, eventually landing Jason in jail.«

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arl8efAVVxY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ADF3WGIxzA&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-06wR3kPNE0&feature=related 

Cure and Prevent Cancer -- B17

Cancer & Biopsy

 Cure and prevent cancer  

The answer to cancer is found in the cause of cancer...

The answer to cancer has been known!  We are talking about something which was banned by the FDA years ago...Vitamin B-17, also know as laetrile and amydalin which is found in most fruit seeds...Namely apricot seeds.  The apricot seed was claimed as the cure for all cancers over 30 years ago.  It was even more strongly claimed that when one eats about 3-7 apricot seeds per day they can never develop cancer, just as one can never get scurvy if they have an orange every day, or pellagra if they have some B vitamin food here and there. Of course when a person's body is completely eaten up by cancer, the apricot seed and it's extract (laetrile and vitamin b17) would only prolong their life many times longer than chemotherapy and might not completely save them. The pharmaceuticals pushed the FDA into making it illegal to sell apricot seeds or vitamin B17.  Even to this day, you can't get "raw" apricot seeds in your health food store, only the dried ones which have all the important enzymes killed off.

The information that you're about to read will guide you in how you can nearly guarantee a cancer free life.  Most of the people that already have cancer clusters in their body, who eat the apricot seeds and/or take the vitamin b17 show near to complete tumor regression, although cancer patients that get rid of their cancer also have the problem of the organ damage that the cancer has caused.  This is another issue where other herbs and remedies are necessary for proper organ regeneration. The info at this site is not just for preventing cancer, it is for those that have cancer now and are on chemo at this moment, as well as for those that haven't started any conventional methods and have cancer.  

Vitamin B-17 is found in all fruit seeds.  It's components make it vital for our survival without cancer.  Seeds are for everyone to eat.  Don't wait and see if you develop cancer to start eating the seeds.

Vitamin B17 was the subject of great controversy 18 years ago when some of the world's top scientists claimed that when consumed, the components of the seed make it 100% impossible to develop cancer and will kill existing cancer in most cases.  The pharmaceutical companies pounced on this claim immediately and demanded that FDA studies be conducted. Pharmaceutical companies conduct studies on patented chemicals they invent so that at the end of their study, if the drug gets approved, they have sole rights on its sale. (They make back tons more than the mere 200 million that they invested) They never do studies on foods that can't be patented and that can be sold by any supermarket.

Note: This is just a quick version of the facts found at this web site and in the book "World Without Cancer" by G. Edward Griffin.   

The book 'World Without Cancer' covers a lot of information on studies that were covered up and great scientist who where arrested when they began telling others about the truth of vitamin B17. Highly annotated for the serious student who wants to research the information for himself. Contains studies on Amygdalin (vitamin B17, laetrile) that were conducted at the famous cancer institute, Sloan Kettering and covered up. Full explanation of the politics of cancer from Mr. Edward Griffin. Go through the pages to hear it from educated scientists and doctors. 

Vitamin B17 is found in all fruit seeds such as the apple, peach, cherry, orange, nectarine and apricot. It is found in some beans and many grasses such as wheat grass. The hard wooden pit in the middle of the apricot or peach for example, is not supposed to be thrown away. In fact, the wooden shell is actually a strong armor protecting one of the most important foods known to man, the seed. It is one of the main courses of food in cultures such as the Navajo Indians, the Hunzakuts the Abkhazians and many more. Cultures such as these have never had a reported case of cancer!  

There is a company that will provide vitamin B-17 in tablet form as well as in the raw apricot seeds...Click here to visit that site now.  (TODAY there are doctors and scientists from the U.S. living within these tribes studying this phenomena) We don't need to make the seed a main course in our diets, but we do need the equivalent of about seven apricots seeds per day. This will nearly guarantee a cancer free life. Other foods that contain vitamin B-17 are: bitter almonds, millet, lima beans and more. (The bitter almond tree has been banned from the U.S. years ago.)  

Apricot seeds have the highest content of B-17 on earth.  They are chewable and bitter and a necessity in our diet. Although apricot seeds are bitter, they must be integrated into our diets.  They may be added to food or chopped up and swallowed with a teaspoon of honey. The seeds may be used in combination with the Laetrile Cancer Therapy. As a preventative, Dr. Krebs asserts that 7 to 10 apricot seeds per day will make it impossible to develop cancer in one's life time. One or two of the B-17 tablets (100 mg) is an acceptable supplemental dosage per day. Stores do not sell apricot seeds because of the raids the FDA made on those stores with vitamin B17 and the apricot seeds years ago.

If you have cancer, you must eat the apricot seeds along with some type of digestive/pancreatic enzyme. All else is additional. Even if you are taking the injectable form, you must eat some seeds every day, as little as it may be. If you are taking chemotherapy, it is all the more imperative that you take the B17/enzymes/agents alongside. In nearly all cases the tumors shrink. Now one is faced with the confusion of staying on the chemotherapy or stopping the chemo, due to the unclearness of what shrunk the cancer. Those that continue on with the chemotherapy have a relatively poor outcome. We understand that once an individual is caught in the vacuum cycle of chemotherapy, radiation and operations, it is very difficult to pull away from this higher authority (principalities, prestigious doctors and hospitals) and say "NO" to more chemotherapy. My friend Jason Vale still has a small tumor in his kidney and would not let Dr. Nagler of Beth Israel Hospital remove his kidney despite his certified "scare" letters sent to his house over and over again. 

The Bible says with knowledge there is long life.  Hundreds of people make the wrong decisions because they were expecting their tumor to disappear. ( This is one of the things you have to know.) When it shrinks down that's it, start rejoicing and continue on your natural regimen. Do not stop eating the seeds.  The tumor doesn't disappear. Most doctors will still see a tumor and continue to give a person chemotherapy (until they're dead) in attempts to make it disappear. Malignant (cancerous) tumors are only a small percent cancer and when the cancer part starts dying off, the tumor only shrinks down the percent that the tumor was cancerous. In other words, if a kidney tumor is 10 percent cancerous the tumor will shrink down only 10 percent. On CAT scans, which one should never get (with 6 CAT scans there is over 60% more of a chance of one developing Leukemia; MRI's are much safer as they use magnetic imaging and not radiation) a 10 percent shrinkage can be concluded as "NO CHANGE".

As you continue looking through the pages at this site you will find; Biological and chemical descriptions of the destruction of a cancer cell by the components of a seed (B-17), politics of cancer, as well as doctors and scientists that are 100% sure that cancer is a direct result of a deficiency in B-17. Remember how scurvy, rickets, pellagra and Beri Beri were results of deficiencies in vitamins B & C. It took decades and killed millions before the kings and medical industry of the time accepted the simple vitamin solutions. Today, we are in a nearly identical situation concerning cancer. Click  below on "nature of cancer"to read Dr. Krebs speech on B17 at the Cancer control convention. 

We strongly suggest that you start prevention now and do not wait for cancer to develop before you take action.

One last thing I would like to add is that there are many things you can do to help the vitamin B-17 to do its work.  

You must get off all the sugar and caffeine.  Sugar feeds cancer.  Caffeine is very bad for your liver and kidneys. 

Stay away from the enriched flower and drink a lot of good water.  

The best water I know of is Micro water.  

If you would like more info on Micro water before I get it on this site call me at 810-743-1306.  

Although life on earth may be spared, it is irrelevant if we do not have eternal life with Jesus Christ awaiting us. John 3:3  Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.

Hosea 4:6 "My people perish for lack of knowledge"

As a courtesy we provide the links below in case you would like to order apricot seeds or vitamin B-17. Click here to go to that site now  The FDA will not allow vitamin B-17 and information about vitamin B-17 to be sold together. We do not sell or provide apricot seeds or vitamin B17 at this site.  

 Laetrile -Vitamin B17 -amygdalin

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The diet of primitive man and most fruit-eating animals was very rich in nitrilosides. They regularly ate the seeds (and kernels) of all fruits, since these seeds are rich in protein, polyunsaturated fats, and other nutrients. Seeds also contain as much as 2 per cent or more nitriloside. There are scores of other major foods naturally, or normally, very rich in nitriloside.

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Vitamin B-17 (nitriloside, amygdaline) is a designation proposed to include a large group of water-soluble, essentially non-toxic, sugary, compounds found in over 800 plants, many of which are edible. These factors are collectively known as Beta-cyanophoric glycosides. They comprise molecules made of sugar, hydrogen cyanide, a benzene ring or an acetone. Though the intact molecule is for all practical purposes completely non-toxic, it may be hydrolyzed by Beta-glycosidase to a sugar, free hydrogen cyanide, benzaldehyde or acetone.

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Apricot Kernels (Vitamin B17)

Apricot Kernels are the richest source of B17 (Laetrile). Ernst Krebs is the world's leading authority on the relationship between cancer and nitrilosides, and the inventor of laetrile.

• G. Edward Griffin's book World Without Cancer (American Media, 1974), available from Health World
• Ernst Krebs discussion of The Nature of Cancer
• Ernst Krebs discussion of the Trophoblast Theory of Cancer
• Ernst Krebs discussion of Trophoblasts and Morning Sickness
• Ernst Krebs discussion of the Metabolism of nitrilosides (Vitamin B17)
• Charles Gurchot's explanation of How Vitamin B17 Works

Apricot kernels are known to prevent and cure cancer, even though the medical establishment has worked night and day and even lied to suppress it. Vitamin B17 is found in most all fruit seeds such as the apple, peach, cherry, orange, nectarine and apricot. It is found in some beans and many grasses such as wheat grass. The hard wooden pit in the middle of the peach is not supposed to be thrown away. In fact, the wooden shell is strong armor protecting one of the most important foods known to man, the seed. It is one of the main courses of food in cultures such as the Navajo Indians, the Hunzas the Abkhasians and many more. Did you know that within these tribes there has never been a reported case of cancer. (And there are doctors and scientists from the U.S. living within these tribes right now studying this phenomena) We don't need to make the seed a main course but we do need the equivalent of about seven apricots seeds per day to nearly guarantee a cancer free life. Other foods that contain vitamin B-17 are: bitter almonds, millet, wheat grass, lima beans and more. (The bitter almond tree was banned from the U.S. in 1995.) The kernel or seed contains the highest amounts of vitamin B17.

One of the most common nitrilosides is amygdalin. This nitriloside occurs in the kernels of seeds of practically all fruits. The seeds of apples, apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, and the like carry this factor; often in the extraordinary concentration of 2 to 3 per cent. Since the seeds of fruits are possibly edible, it may be proper to designate the non-toxic water soluble accessory food factor or nitriloside that they contain as vitamin B-17. The presence of nitriloside in the diet produces specific physiologic effects and leaves as metabolites specific chemical compounds of a physiologically active nature. The production by a non-toxic, water-soluble accessory food factor of specific physiological effects as well as identifiable metabolites suggests the vitamin nature of the compound.

In metabolism, nitriloside is hydrolyzed to free hydrogen cyanide, benzaldehyde or acetone and sugar. This occurs largely through the enzyme Beta-glucosidase produced by intestinal bacteria as well as by the body. The released HCN [hydrocyanide] is detoxified by the enzyme rhodanese to the relatively non-toxic thiocyanate molecule. The sugar is normally metabolized. The released benzaldehyde in the presence of oxygen is immediately oxidized to benzoic acid which is non-toxic. Thus this newly designated vitamin B-17 (nitriloside) could account for:

1. The thiocyanates in the body fluids--blood, urine, saliva, sweat, and tears;
2. For part of the benzoic acid (and subsequently hippuric acid); salicylic acid isomers;
3. For the HCN that goes to the production of cyanocobalamin from hydrocobalamin, or production of vitamin B₁₂ from provitamin B₁₂.

These are the physiological properties of the common nitriloside amygdalin. Before considering the possible antineoplastic activity of this vitamin B-17, let us recall that the benzoic acid arising from it has certain antirheumatic and antiseptic properties. It was rather widely used (in Germany and elsewhere) for rheumatic disease therapy prior to the advent of the ortho-hydroxy addition product of benzoic acid known as ortho-hydroxybenzoic acid or salicylic acid. It was originally obtained from beech-wood bark. As a matter of interest, the para- hydroxy isomer of benzoic acid occurs in the para hydroxybenzaldehyde aglycon (non-sugar) of the nitriloside found in the cereal millet. Millet was once more widely used in human nutrition than wheat. Wheat seed contains little or no nitriloside.

Recall now, that thiocyanate also was once widely used, in both Germany and American medicine, as an effective agent for hypertension. Used as such, as the simple chemical, the dosage was difficult to control. Obviously, this difficulty does not arise from the thiocyanate usually produced in the body through metabolizing vitamin B-17 (nitriloside). However, chronic hypotension has been reported in Nigerians who eat quantities of the nitriloside-containing manioc (cassava)--especially that of the bitter variety.

Let us pause to reflect upon this question: Might not the rheumatic diseases as well as certain aspects of hypertension be in some cases partially related to a dietary deficiency in nitrilosides? One can hardly deny that the ingestion of a sufficient quantity of nitriloside-containing foods will metabolically yield sufficient benzoic acid and/or salicylic acid isomers to palliate rheumatic disease and certainly to decrease, however temporarily, hypertension as well as to foster the nitrilosation of provitamin B-12 to active vitamin B-12: cyanocobalamin.

Despite all this, are we justified in suggesting that cancer itself might be another chronic metabolic disease that arises from a specific vitamin deficiency--a deficiency specifically in vitamin B-17 (nitriloside)?

There are many chronic or metabolic diseases that challenge medicine. Many of these diseases have already been conquered. What proved to be their solution? By solution we mean both prevention and cure. What really cures really prevents. Let us think of some of these diseases that have found total prevention and hence cure. We are speaking of metabolic or non-transmissible diseases. At one time the metabolic disease known as scurvy killed hundreds of thousands of people, sometimes entire populations. This disease found total prevention and cure in the ascorbic acid or vitamin C component of fruits and vegetables. Similarly, the once fatal diseases so aptly called pernicious anemia, pellagra, beri beri, countless neuropathies, and the like, found complete cure and prevention in specific dietary factors, that is, essential nutrients in an adequate diet.

Let's go a step further, almost to the border of dogmatism, to advance an axiom in medicine and biology:

No chronic or metabolic disease has ever found cure or prevention, that is, real cure and real prevention--except through factors essential to an adequate diet and/or normal to animal economy.

I would welcome a contradiction to this principle; but even an exception would "prove the rule."

Does it seem likely, therefore, that cancer will be the first exception to this generalization that to date has not had a single known exception? In my humble opinion, certainly not. But does it follow from this that vitamin B-17 (nitriloside) is the specific antineoplastic vitamin? Logically, by itself, alone, this conclusion that nitriloside is the specific antineoplastic vitamin does not follow. However, examine the brilliant laboratory studies of Dr. Dean Burk of the Department of Cytochemistry of the National Cancer Institute in Washington. I believe that in light of the experimental evidence that he has produced, you might agree that vitamin B-17 (nitriloside) is indeed the antineoplastic vitamin.*

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