A Potential Cancer Treatement, B17
Could B17 open a new world to cancer treatment? A study by the Department of Physiology at Kyung Hee University in South Korea discovered that laetrile/amygdalin (Vitamin B17) could be a possible treatment for prostate cancer. B17 is a vitamin that is a concentrated from apricot kernels. Various agencies in the United States have banned the prescription and consumption of B17 due to the minimal but deadly risk of cyanide poisoning. Studies on animals also show that B17 greatly kills cancerous cells when mixed with antibody-enzyme complexes. However, B17 shows no great effect when used in studies with lung and breast cancer cells, so there is no absolute of it being a cancer treatment.
In the book “Death of Cancer,” Dr. Harold W. Manner has said that “the success of cancer treatment with laetrile (B17) is as high as above 90%. B17 creates a chemical reaction, which produces cyanide when it penetrates the trophoblastic cells that surround the cancer cells. The cyanide then kills the cancer cells and gives nutrients to the healthy cells. Sandi Rog was a cancer patient; she started taking 2,500mg of B17 every day. Doctors told her she was going to die, but as she started taking the B17, five tumors were wiped out and she is still alive three years later. Sandi says, “I was at Colorado University Hospital, and when everything failed, I told them I was going to take B17. They were willing to monitor me on it when usually they’d tell us an alternative we brought up was quackery. If you contact them, you can find out that I am cured. They told me to go home because what I was doing was better than anything they had to offer (which was chemo and radiation).”
High sources of B17 can be found in many foods such as apricot kernels/seeds, fruit seeds, lima beans, fava beans, wheatgrass, almonds, raspberries, elderberries, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, buckwheat, sorghum, barley, millet, cashews, macadamia nuts, bean sprouts, and bamboo shoots. Other effects of B17 are boosting immunity, reducing pain, and lowering high blood pressure. B17 can be taken as an injection, a pill, or food intake. Although there have been studies and cases where B17 has reduced the effects of cancer, but there is no proof that it is an actual “cure.”
