by Paul Fassa
Originally published September 24 2009
(NaturalNews) 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/026928_c....
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/027004_c...
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?
Sources:
Excellent interview of G. Edward Griffin on laetrile and the cancer industry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFnP...
An excellent overview of different cancer cure options
http://www.1cure4allcancer.com/the_...
A vast, indexed and categorized free source of cancer cure options with details
you can use - It's the free online bible of cancer cure options
http://www.cancertutor.com/index.html
Information on apricot seeds with more details
http://www.detailshere.com/cancerap...
Vitamin B17 - contains information on supplements to include with B17 and a list
of foods with B17, also a few caveats on using B17
http://www.detailshere.com/cancerb1...
Author Phillip Day's blog
http://www.credence.org/
http://www.naturalnews.com/z027088_cancer_laetrile_health.html