The Real Deal on Laetrile (Vitamin B-17)

Now it is timely that we discuss the "war on cancer". What exactly is cancer? Cancer isnot contagious, so therefore it is a chronic metabolic disease. This implies that it is a diseaserelated to a deficiency such as scurvy or any of the other diseases. How does cancer grow inthe body? In 1902 Professor Beard of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland (published in theBritish medical journal "Lancet") discovered that cancer cells were in fact the same astrophoblasts which are normal cells found in human embryos as they are growing in thewomb of the mother.Cancer is simply these trophoblast cells reproducing uncontrollably in the human body.They are in fact human cells produced by the human patient which in fact kill the host by over producing. Estrogen in the female body is what triggers the reproduction of the trophoblastcells in the fetus. Dr. Stewart M. Jones in his book "Nutritian Rudiments in Cancer" dated1972 page 6 says that when hormones go imbalanced in the human body promotingtrophoblast production, that is the beginning of cancer. It has been discovered that almost anykind of hormonal imbalance can cause different kinds of cancers (i.e. estrogen or testosterone, etc.). In short, trophoblast cells (cancer) are a result of hormone imbalancewhich is directly related to poor diet. Why doesn't the human fetus continue to growuncontrollably with the trophoblast cells? Trophoblast cells continue to grow until about the eightweek when the pancreas forms. The pancreas sends out special enzymes to fight the trophoblast.One main problem with the pancreas in today's world is that the modern diet is so short invitamins and minerals that the pancreas is busy supplying enzymes to supplement the foodconsumed by people that it cannot keep up with the production of enzymes to fight thetrophoblast cells. When this imbalance occurs then the individual is susceptible to cancer (carcinoma).Vitamin B-17 (Laetrile or Amygdalin to the rescue)There is however one chemical compound available to us in nature that will make upthe deficit. It is called vitamin B17 (Laetrile or Amygdalin). B17 contains nitriloside, which is achemical composition made of two units of glucose, one of benzaldehyde and one of cyanide.Cyanide is a poison but it is completely inert in this molecular structure. Many people say

that this makes it unsafe for human consumption. Before commenting on that let us reviewthat water is made up of hydrogen and oxygen both of which are explosive individually butinert when you put them together. B17 is no different than water. B17 is a vitamin and hasnever killed anyone, but aspirin, which is twenty times more toxic than B17 kills 90 people ayear in the U.S. alone. Cyanide is also in vitamin B12 but no one says we can't consume it.There are 100,000 people who die every year from prescription drugs in the U.S. alone andno one says stop selling prescription drugs. Why this outcry against B17? So how does 1317work?

The only thing that can unlock the cyanide and benzaldehyde is anenzyme called beta-glucosidase. Once this unlocking enzymecontacts the B 17 molecule with water it releases the poison on contactwith the cell that releases the beta-glucosidase. The amazing thing isthat the only cell in the body that releases a beta-glucosidase enzymeis the cancer cell.

It is as though the B 17 molecule was specifically designed for killing cancer cells.Amazing or is it? The vitamin 1317 is found in seeds such

the apricot, peach, plum,nectarines, cherries, apples, lima beans, bean sprouts, millet, alfalfa, peas, buckwheat andalmost all berries. Oddly enough in Genesis 1:29 The Lord God Almighty said as part of our diet to eat seeds. Flow do you suppose God knew this, or could it be that He planned it?In 1922 a report was written on the Hunza's in the Himalaya Mountains where they never diedof cancer and many lived well beyond the 120-year age. They prize their apricot seeds as wewould prize gold. Apricots are a main staple of the Hunzas In 1960 a study was done on theInuit of the far north who also never died of cancer. Their diet consisted mainly of tundragrasses of which Arrow grass is very high in B17.

Illustration 1: Typical Apricot Seeds, some recommend about 5 a day..

Today there is a whole conspiracy against vitamin therapy especially B 17. In order to discreditthe B 17 complex the FDA tried to release biased studies that would reveal the B17 didn'twork. Their criteria was to advise if the B 17 was able to reduce the tumor size by at least 60percent. If so it would be called a success. Now understand that not all tumors are madeentirely up of cancer cells. Many tumors have less than 15 percent of the whole mass made up of cancer cells. In cases such as these a 15 percent reduction in tumor size is classified as cured. Of the 22patients 18 were cured but since not all of the tumors shrunk by at least 60 percent it was called afailure. How can you have an 82 percent success rate called a failure? Of all the tests that wereperformed on B 17 by the AMA or any other cancer institute controlled by Rockefeller money, every oneof them was declared as a failure.The Sloan-Kettering Institute (operated by the Rockefeller conglomerate) was then hiredto discredit B17. In 1978 the National Cancer Institute was contracted to study B17. Even whenworld famous cancer research Doctor Kanematsu Sugiura was contracted to study B17 by the Sloan-Kettering's laboratory and the first test was a 100 percent success, but the results were tooembarrassing to formally publish (even though the results were leaked to the media by insiders), so theyreissued the tests by reducing the amount of prescribed 1317 to the patients until the results were to theliking of the institute. They then tried to ruin Dr. Sugiura's reputation by spreading false rumours abouthim in order to take away his credibility. While all this was going on Dr. Martin of the Sloan-Kettering's laboratory admitted in an interview on December 23, 1977 that the experimentwas not set up to answer whether 1317 works it was set up to embarrass the B17 proponents.The implication here is that the Sloan-Kettering's institute is above reproach and would not

Illustration 2: Typical Arrow Grass... Note Laetrile is found in MANY GRASSES even plain old ditch grass or wheat grass