INTERESTING FACT

If this is a fact, why are we still dying from cancer at an increasing rate?

It should say, "B17 can TREAT or PREVENT cancer". Saying it's a cure is foolish and indicates poor information grading. False media. This is more conspiracy theory than fact; if you can prove that everyone in the entire FDA system is cheating the people, show me, and I'll believe it. Until then, please stop stating this as a "fact".

Although certain web sites state this as fact, just as many other sites state that B17 (which is not a vitamin by the way) contains a mild poison, Arsenic.

I've lost faith in this site - seems to be stating fiction as fact. Interestingfacts.org is therefore causing real damage to the world by stating something wrong as fact.

Please check Google before you consider something as fact!

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Fact submission process is something we take extremely serious. Each fact, before it is approved by editors, goes through process of validation. That means that we conduct research for valid source to verify submitted fact. Valid source is trustworthy book, website, television program or magazine. User edited websites do not fall into trustworthy categories. Some of the valid sources are: Discovery Channel, BBC, NASA website or CNN.com. We are surrounded by so many interesting facts and there is no reason to make up facts. You would be surprised how easy is to verify if fact is false.

SO IS THIS FACT OR FICTION -

http://www.cancerhelp.org.uk/help/default.asp?page=21859

this is obvioiusly factual. AWOL & Mark Crosby: wake the f@ck up. the fda is out to do 2 things, make more money, and help with population control. get your heads out of your respective asses

There is so much on regular news cnn, bbc that is lie and follow it blindly.

Why not research something that so many people, doctors, website talk about and say its true. Research it for yourself because that is the only way that you can find real truth. Do not believe one source or organization, but think why would so many credible people made up story like this. Watch the video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6xR5ilBSo8

TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO FROM 2:00 MINUTES AND UP IF YOU DON'T WANT TO HEAR BEGINNING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFnP9sU1KW4&feature=related

A rather long post but please read.

The use of Amygdalin (Laetrile/Vitamin B17) in the treatment of human cancer dates back at least to 1843, although the ancient Chinese are reported to have used bitter almonds containing significant quantities of it in the treatment of tumors some 3,000 years ago.

NATURAL SOURCE
Laetrile is not a miracle drug . It is simply a concentrated form of Nitriloside. Amygdalin (Laetrile/ Vitamin B17) is particularly prevalent in the seeds of those fruits in the Prunus Rosacea family (bitter almond, apricot, blackthorn, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum.) It is found in natural foods which contain nitriloside and has been used and studied extensively for well over 100 years. It is also contained in grasses, maize, sorghum, millet, cassava, linseed, apple seeds, and many other foods that, generally, have been deleted from the menus of modern civilization. Fruit kernels or seeds generally have other nutrients as well, some protein, unsaturated fatty protein, unsaturated fatty acids, and various minerals. The most common source of B17 is the apricot kernel and is present in about a 2-3 percent levels of concentration within the seed kernel.

So there is no confusion please note; there are 3 names which are interchangeable being Vitamin B17, Laetrile and Amygdalin. Vitamin B17 was the name given to the purified form of Amygdalin by a Bio Chemist named Ernst T Krebs in 1952. He also called it Laetrile which is simply short for Lavo-mandelonitrile and was awarded its vitamin status officially in 1952 after advice from Dr Dean Burke who was the co-founder of the National Cancer Institute. Amygdalin on the other hand is said to have been first discovered and used by a German chemist Leibig as far back as 1830. So, laetrile/Vitamin B17 on the other hand is simply a more soluable and concentrated form of amygdalin which allows it to be administered in a much greater concentration. Either way all 3 are essentially the same thing.

Vitamin B17 / Laetrile is probably one of the most controversial medical topics in the last 30 years. You may remember back in the 50's - mid 70's there was a lot hype in the medical world regarding a new natural cancer treatment that was discovered that killed cancer cells. This was the result of Dr Ernst Krebs findings and his research in a book called World Without Cancer. Well after several years of court cases and controversy regarding Laetrile it was finally stamped out by the FDA and reported to the mass media in the US as a fraud and failure. They called it Quackery in those days.

TODAY the hype has and is starting again as a result of THE INTERNET. The internet has allowed us to gain information from all over the world on what perhaps really happened.

So how does B17 kill cancer?...... Here we go....

Firstly we need to understand that our bodies use several enzymes to perform many tasks. Our body has one particular enzyme called Rhodanese which is found in large quantities throughout the body but is not present where ever there are cancer cells. Yet, where ever you find cancer in the body, you find another enzyme called Beta-Glucosidase. So, we have the enzyme Rhodanese found everywhere in the body except at the cancer cells, and we have the enzyme Beta-Glucosidase found in very large quantities only at the cancer cell but not found anywhere else in the body. If there is no cancer in the body there is no enzyme Beta-Glucosidase.

Now the following is what scares most people. You see, Vitamin B17 is made up of 2 parts glucose, 1 part Hydrogen Cyanide and 1 part Benzaldehyde (analgesic/painkiller). So its very important you understand the following:

When B17 is introduced to the body, it is broken down by the enzyme Rhodanese. The Rhodanese breaks the Hydrogen Cyanide and Benzaldehyde down into 2 by-products, Thiocyanate and Benzoic acid which are beneficial in nourishing healthy cells and forms the metabolic pool production for vitamin B12. Any excess of these by-products is expelled in normal fashion from the body via urine. Vitamin B17 passes through your body and does not last longer than 80 minutes inside your body as a result of the Rhodanese breaking it down. (Hydrogen Cyanide has been proven to be chemically inert and non toxic when taken as food or refined pharmaceutical such as laetrile. Sugar has be shown to be 20 times more toxic than B17.

HERE IS THE GOOD PART - When the B17 comes into contact with cancer cells, there is no Rhodanese to break it down and neutrelise it but instead, only the enzyme Beta-Gucosidase is present in very large quantities. When B17 and Beta-Glucosidase come into contact with each other, a chemical reaction occurs and the Hydrogen Cyanide and Benzaldehyde combine synergistically to produce a poison which destroys and kills the cancer cells.

This whole process is known as selective toxicity. Only the cancer cells are specifically targeted and destroyed.

Good & Bad Cyanide?

We all know that cyanide is bad for you, yet here we are jumping up and down saying its good for you because it kills cancer. Lets look at the real story.

Hydrogen Cyanide must be FORMED!! There is no free Hydrogen Cyanide in laetrile floating around freely in our body waiting to harm us when we eat apricot seeds or take laetrile. The enzyme Beta-Glucosidase, and only that enzyme is capable of manufacturing and forming the Hydrogen Cyanide from Laetrile. If there are no cancer cells in the body, there is no beta-glucosidase. If there is no beta-glucosidase, no hydrogen cyanide will be formed from laetrile. Even if there were some other way to manufacture cyanide from laetrile in the body, the amount would be so minute it would have little, if any toxic effect.

Laetrile does on the other hand contain the cyanide radical (CN-). So does Vitamin B12 , Cassava and strawberries and a host of other foods we consume. You never heard of anyone getting cyanide poison from vitamin B12 or from eating strawberries because it just does not happen. Lets also look at table salt which is made up of sodium Chloride (NaCl) and is very common in most households. Yet, did you know pure sodium (Na+) is one of the most toxic substances known to man? Yet in their form locked together they are not toxic. Any good toxicologist will tell you sugar is 20 times more toxic than laetrile and salt is also much more toxic.

Now, here is the irony of all of this. Milligram for milligram, the chemotherapeutic agents which are commonly used in the treatment of cancer today, are hundreds of times more toxic than laetrile.

The best way to prove or disprove the vitamin B17 theory of cancer, would be to take several thousands of people, over a period of many years, expose them to a consistent diet of B17 rich nitriloside foods and then check the results. Fortunately this has already occurred by the study of the following cultures; The Hunza, aboriginal Eskimos, Hopi and Navajo Indians, Abkhazians.

HUNZA
In the remote recesses of the Himalayan Mountains, between West Pakistan, India and China there is a tiny Kingdom called Hunza. These people are known world over for their amazing longevity and health. They live well beyond 100 years and have commonly been known to still father children at the age of 110. One of the first medical teams to study the Hunza was headed by world-renown British surgeon Dr Robert McCarrison. Writing in the AMA Journal Jan 7, 1922 he reported:

"The Hunza has no known incidence of cancer. They have an abundant crop of apricots. These they dry in the sun and use largely in their food".

It is interesting to note that the traditional Hunza Diet contains over 200 times more nitriloside (B17 Rich food) than the average American or Australian Diet. There is no such thing as money in Hunza. A mans wealth is measured by the number of apricot trees he owns. And the most prized of all foods was considered to be the apricot seed. It is very common for the Hunza to eat between 30 - 50 (ie. about 30mg of B17) apricot seeds as an after lunch snack. The thousands of seeds they do not eat they store or grind them very finely and then squeezed under pressure to produce a very rich oil used in cooking and to apply to the skin. The apricot is staple food in Hunza. They use the apricot, its seed and the oil for practically everything. In addition to the ever present apricot, the hunzahuts eat mainly grain and fresh vegetables. These include buckwheat, millet, alfalfa, peas, broad beans, turnips, lettuce, sprouting pulse and berries of various sorts. All of these with the exception of lettuce and turnips contain vitamin B17.

It is important to know when the Hunza leave their secluded land and adopt the menus of other countries, they soon succumb to the same diseases and infirmities including cancer as the rest of man kind.

ESKIMOS
The Eskimos are another people that have been observed by medical teams for many decades and found to be totally free of cancer. The traditional Eskimo diet is amazingly rich in B17 nitrilosides that come from the residue of of the meat of caribou and other grazing animals, and also from the salmon berry. Another Eskimo delicacy is green salad made out of the stomach contents of caribou and reindeer which are full of fresh tundra grass. Tundra grasses such as Arrow are have shown to be contain the highest content of B17 than other grasses.

Alaska's most famous doctor Dr Preston A Price claims that, "In his 36 years of contact with these people he had never seen a single case of malignant disease among the truly primitive Eskimos, although it frequently occurred when they were modernized.

An interesting point to note is that when an Eskimo leaves his traditional way of life and begins to rely on a western/modern diet he becomes even more cancer prone than the average American.

HOPI & NAVAJO INDIANS
The Indians of North America are another people who are remarkably free from cancer. The AMA went as far as conducting a special study in an effort to discover why there was little to no cancer amongst the Hopi and Navajo Indians. The February 5, 1949 issue of the journal of the American Medical Association declared that they found 36 cases cases of malignant cancer from a population of 30,000. In the same population of white persons there would have been about 1800. Dr Krebs research later found that the typical diet for the Navajo and Hopi Indian consisted of nitriloside-rich foods such as Cassava. He calculated that some of the tribes would ingest the equivalent of 8000mg of Vitamin B17 per day from their diet !!!

ABKHAZIANS
The Abkhazians are found deep in the Caucasus Mountains on the Northwest side of the Black Sea. They are a people with almost the exact same health record and longevity as the Hunzakuts.Their food and lifestyle having to live in a harsh rugged terrain are almost identical. They follow a diet which is low in carbohydrates, high in vegetable proteins and rich in minerals and vitamins, especially vitamin B17.

Well, I guess that answered everyones' questions xD good job on that post! Now i will be cancer free for the rest of my life!!!! Healthy food ftw!

Awesome post, thank you!! Very interesting facts... I will eat apricots from now on, haha.
God bless y'all :)

The rest of the world doesn't care what the FDA says they can't do! You are right it's all about the money, but not the FDA cheating your health to get it... this is propaganda from the companies that want to sell you vitamin B17 as a miracle cure.

this cant be true check out this site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_kernel

Hemp oil cures cancers. And yes, I said cure. If you read it here first, you haven't been reading enough.

srry kevin but not everything on wikipedia is not true..people can go on there and change stuff.

the only reason why its illegal is because vitamin B17 contains about 6& of cyanide in it and the FDA considers it highly toxic

COULD YOU PLZ GIVE US A CONCLUSION?
BCOZ WE NEED IT BADLY

This is quite obviously a devious scheme concocted by 'big apricot' to get our money!
I can clearly see their plan now. By selling this poison as a medicine, at a dramatically lower cost than current cancer treatment, they intend to corner the market in cancer medication. Once the inflicted are only relying on b17 and apricots, not only will 'big apricot' get roughly 10-20$ from each schmuck who buys this poison, they'll make the majority of their profits from literally robbing the dead, because everyone will die if they consume it.

I can't believe no one has thought of this before. Believe it or not there is something even more profitable than keeping the population sick yet alive, always buying more medication and treatment. No, my friends, the most profitable thing you can do is poison your customers!

Big Apricot must answer to their crimes!

If it works, use it. If you feel better, use it. People who take control of their own health--LIVE LONGER. As for Big Pharma, I have one word: VIOXX. GOOD DAY!

When the cure for cancer is found, the American Cancer Society is required to disband. It was set up that way, it's a fact, read a book. They receive more donations than ANY other charity ANYWHERE. Period. Do you really think they are eager to give up their jobs and all that money??? NO! I'm not referring to the little people, I'm talking about the higher-ups.

Right......so here's my what I can conclude...

Possibilities:
1. B17 is really a cure for cancer
2. It is just a scam
3. FDA is corrupted enough to abolish a vitamin that can be a cure for cancer.
4. FDA did in fact know it's a good cancer treatment and abolished it.
5. Some people in here (from either part of the front) are just here to 'confuse' others.

Pros:
1. How come there is prove that is help cancer treatment and prevention in the past.
2. Civilizations cut out of the world with different diets are documented to have almost null cases of cancer documented over centuries meaning that their diets helped prevent this happening.
3. Thousands of people over hundreds of years have been studying and researching cancer for countless hours spending billions of dollars yet progress is almost null. How lame can this be................
4. Why would be people try to spread this over the INTERNET. How much profit will companies really make form selling almond seeds?!! (not much believe me depending on a number of factors)
5. Continuing with the one above....How come various videos on youtube...etc have been deleted, blogs closed,web sites closed or changed and how come everywhere a topic on a related discussion is introduced there is always some suspicious post using 'LanGUAgE"

Cons:
1. How come the rest of the world didn't say anything?
2. Can't there exist in the entire world someone who is kindhearted and who tried to inform other about it and prove it to others (are they all corrupted or 'under control')

YOU decide!!!!!!!!!!! :)

How confusing....it is so scary what one must read and decide what will work and won't. I totally agree that there will never out and out be a cure for cancer...just because of all the money involved. Dr., pharma comp. ect....
Some things are gonna work and something aren't for certain peopole, I guess. Interesting topic though.

Cancer is caused by particles that distort the light that cells use to communicate. So rather than wondering what you should intake to cure or prevent cancer, you should focus on what you should keep out of your bodies that may interupt the functions of cells and their processes. But, the innability to communicate can also be genetic. Modern science addmits that there is cancer causing agents but wont admit that cells use light to communicate.

I for 1 will try it if it works.... then ill thank God for it and to bless da ppl who brought this fourth and if it doesnt work... then I thank God for da food. BOTTOM LINE: its worth a try

http://www.canceractive.com/page.php?n=512

i think too many people are forgetting to read the bottom where it is in capital letters and bold that it is FICTION

it would be pretty sick though

beta-glucosidase is found all over the body and is responsible for the breakdown of glucose, if it was not found in your body except for cancer cells, as stated by Jessy, you would have Gauchers Disease..the facts are different than the "explanation" for the effects of B17 on cancer cells.

Ya vitamin B17 has been proved to be very helpful for curing cancer to a great extent. Vitamin B17 is found in foods like bamboo, alfaalfa, apricots, almonds, cashew kernels , strawberries, and seeds of apple, pear, plum, prune etc.

one of my friends survived cancer by takin pure vitamin C thorugh iv, VITAC encourages the reproduction of cells, that massive reproduction overthrew her cancer and she survived

Yes Ben there is Beta Glucosidase throughout our systems but it is 3000 times more where cancer cells are located. If someone wants to stay cancer free maybe try taking mineral supplements because our fruits and veggies dont have them in them like they used to. Or maybe eat organic food.

for all who dont believe or choose to believe this...why dont u get up off your rear lazy ends and do your own research. To take anyones word by it is foolish.... God gave u a brilliant mind to use...and yes, People cheat people. Thus far everytihng this site has said has been pretty on point...yet you come on here and say you lose faith in this site because of this one thing...dont be stupid....Obviously Doctors on both sides agree and disagree...figure it out..

there was a eldrely lady who had cancer she ate that it went away so i myself say it is a cure and they made it illegal or whatever because there greedy and bad people but God still loves them

Nathan (or anyone else who knows), please explain this sentence:

and how come everywhere a topic on a related discussion is introduced there is always some suspicious post using 'LanGUAgE"

Good luck deciding everyone, I know that all the things that are high in B17 have never made me ill and the scientific logic for it as a treatment makes sense, yet the only thing the opposition can say is that it's poisonous (with no solid proof that I can find) plus the article says underneath

"This fact has been proven as FICTION. Please see the comments and draw conclusions on your own research"

I'm guessing that the site was forced to put this up since they chose to put the original article up. Yet they were not forced to put up WHY it's fiction. I think that's pretty interesting. Moderator please correct me if I'm wrong here and also post exacltly what evidence changed your mind?

ok so maybe this is a conspiracy.. but if you really think about it, what this article states is completely possible.. the government has fooled the public in many occasions.. and the american cancer society does make more money off donations then any other organizations of this type.. i personally think that this is completely possible.. GReat job JAZY!! i enjoyed reading the facts u presented to the discussion.. =]

"Yes Ben there is Beta Glucosidase throughout our systems but it is 3000 times more where cancer cells are located. "

Can you provide any sources for this claim? Especially considering that there are lots of form of cancer made from different tissues with different properties and enzyme levels? I found some articles that claim from 2 times LOWER to 3 (not 3000) times higher activity of beta glucosidase in different types of cancer cells, compared to their precursors.

3 times higher is still not enough to achieve any therapeutical effect at safe doses.

The claim that amygdalin is safe for healthy tissue is false, it is main medium of toxicity of bitter almonds, and these are known to kill people.

Don't know about the rhodanese, but the claim that cancer cells "don't have it" is suspicious, too. Can you back it up?

All in all, this "innovative" and "natural" mechanism is called targeted chemotherapy. People don't "cover it up". They investigate it. Even other cyanide precursors are considered for it, but it is just not that simple.

the reason a lot of these secluded cultures are not getting cancer probably is due in a large way to the fact that they eat foods that DONT have all kinds of chemicals added to them, unlike the rest of us. just take a look at the ingredients list on just about ANYTHING you buy at a grocery store

If we, meaning people in general, are ever going to evolve rather than devolve, it is my opinion that we should start by discussing things passively rather than lash at each other for whatever reason or interests we may or may not have. Especially if we lack the intrinsic evidence or knowledge of exactly what it is we're talking about, on either side of the spectrum.

I won't use clinical studies or testimonials or anything of the sort to advocate or debunk B17 or Laetrile. I, by nature, am a skeptic, which means I don't believe anything until I've been able to study conclusive cold hard facts before I believe. However, I myself, was a skin cancer victim and patient in the US and UK for over 3yrs. Chemo and cancer drugs did absolutely nothing but prolong my process of awakening, but almost cost me my pancreas and liver. It wasn't until I had little left to turn to that I moved to Mexico for 9months..where I received IV and oral laetrile/amygdalin treatments along with raw fruit and vegetable diet, causing complete regression of any and all cancers. I've had numerous studies and tests done back in the West where no traces or indications of cancer exist, whatsoever.

So, does Laetrile or Vitamin B17 work against cancer? In the right hands of a knowledgable practitioner, and in concert with a healthy live-food diet, ABSOLUTELY.

On a broader note, for those of you that really believe the FDA and Pharma work with your best interests at heart. Please learn from our mistakes and actual data or proof of success. Even TV ads on Lapator or Klovix OPENLY STATE that one of the medications' side effects could be FATAL or DEATH. Do you really think they'd be trillionaires if they were out to cure or help people? If there's no money in it, they're not interested, period. You all need to wake up from that little dream we've been brainwashed with and take back our lands and agriculture. There isn't a single chemically engineered medication that can produce anything but more harm than good and while it only targets the SYMPTOM of an illness, it never actually cures or heals anything but rather breaks others that were trying to help you recover in the 1st place. Nothing replaces the real natural thing. Pharma cannot sell naturally available meds because they can't be patented. So while they started synthesizing them in the 60s, they saw more profit in making meds that would perpetuate the need for their existence. So, in essence, to agree with some of you, yes, they are in the population control business as well.

Just do your research people, stop believing everything you hear and read. Don't recite what you've been brainwashed and think for yourselves for once. Just don't go ranting about how ridiculous this and that w/out 1st doing your research. Ignorance is man's biggest flaw; don't perpetuate that with your empty claims and futile defenses just because you can't come to terms with the fact that you've lost control of your country and life and have been led like sheep to the slaughter.

Go out and take your lives back!

God bless us all.

-Seth

It is worth mentioning that cancer is a normal everyday process in all of us, for we constantly have primitive and somatic cells scattered throughout our bodies. Cancer, to put it simply, is a healing or re-generative process that occurs every day to each and everyone of us, for we all lose millions of cells every day through hair, skin, abrasions, cuts, bruises, etc.. The problem occurs when our bodies pH levels remain inclined towards the Acidic side of the spectrum, rather than Alkaline which is where we would be if we consume live food. When we eat junk food or dead food, our bodies are in in a HI-REV CONSTANT state of repair because we're not giving it much of anything with nutritional value. Therefore, the body, being the most incredible machine man has ever known, does the best thing out of a bad situation; therefore it goes on overdrive seeking out what little nutrition in our foods like water, and maybe a little nutrient here and there, creating ATP or adenosine triphosphate [spelling?] as energy to keep us going. Interestingly enough though, we will inevitably become sick if we don't obtain our calcium and other nutrients, vitamins and minerals, since the heart, lymph system, and cardio-vascular system don't run on ATP - they run on Calcium battery exclusively. This is why we become arthritic or weak-boned after 40-50 because our calcium deposits have been getting tapped for 40yrs due to bad diet. Makes sense when you sit and think about it all.

Sorry for the long winded explanation. My point was simply that even when Hunzas or Eskimos join our society, they remain cancer-free...until they adhere to Western diet. So in short, diet is everything. Before wheat, Millet was the grain staple in America. Rich in nitrolosides, it gave our bodies the B17 vitamin that watched over trophoblastic cells repairing beyond control...and regulated everything. I can go on and on, but the point is don't debate something you know little or nothing about - get educated my friends. It's all out there, in the tip of your fingers; you just have to...want to learn it.

As someone said in this forum, everyone's health is an individual responsibility but unless we work collectively to protect our food and water sources, we will all inevitably die well before our time. All to make some fat cats just a little richer, while dominating the world.

Ok, I'm off the box.

i cant stand idiots who talk shit about "theories" this world was composed on theories and if youre forgetting most of the shit we believed before these great theorist came to be was bullshit.. i do believe our "leaders" came alot from our view so that they can live lavishly, you think someone whos never met you is going to give a shit about helping you when hes making tons of money off youre very problems, dont corporations do it all the time? arent we being run by corporations? wake up people the majority of the only people that can save you just want your money they scare you into getting vaccines, medicine, sanitizers ect and there you have it! the wonderful magic of propaganda!

If they didn't write that is was fiction, it would have been deleted. This site obviously believes people need to know this. But the information can be found all over the net. The reason it hasn't been clinically tested is because it costs money to test a product. And how much money will they get back if it's proven effective? Nothing. You can buy this product in every supermarket, or grow it at home. So it probably never will be clinically tested as there's no money in it & money makes the world go round!
You really need to take notice of Jessy's rather long but highly accurate post - yes there are people making profit out of this, but it's not huge. The profits from the main book in question that explains all of this is going to help people in Africa (if I remember right) & when the writer dies, the book belongs to the public. So not everyone is making profit out of the idea.
Most of the internet, if you search for B17 will tell you it cures Cancer. Only the official Cancer Foundation site will tell you it's fiction.
Many people are saying the Oasis hospital in California uses Laetrile as a treatment, but you won't find any mention of it on their internet site, even though it appears to be their main treatment. The Cancer Foundation would probably close them down if they told the public this, when their treatment cures twice as many people as conventional treatment.
OK, I don't want to make this too long, but I've spent many hours browsing the internet trying to find out if this is too good to be true or it is true. I even Googled "B17 doesn't cure Cancer" to try to be unbiased & it still came up with sites saying it does cure Cancer - try it yourself.