Vitamin B-17 Cancer Cure
It is found in many plants, but most notably in the seeds (kernels) of apricot (caise),
bitter almonds (Migdale amare),
apple, peach (Piersici), and plum (prune).
Griffin asserts that cancer is a metabolic disease
like a vitamin deficiency facilitated by the insufficient dietary consumption of.
G. Edward Griffin (born November 7, 1931 și încă nu a murit de cancer,
așa cum a murit de cancer Hulda Regehr Clark,
care tot așa susținea că poate vindeca cancerul)
is an American far-right conspiracy theorist, author, lecturer, and filmmaker.
He is the author of "The Creature from Jekyll Island" (1994),
which promotes false theories about the motives behind the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
Griffin's writings include a number of views regarding various political, defense and health care interests.
In his book "World Without Cancer", he argues that cancer is a nutritional deficiency
that can be cured by consuming amygdalin, a view regarded as quackery by the medical community.
Since the early 1950s, both amygdalin and a modified form named laetrile
have been promoted as alternative cancer treatments,
often using the misnomer vitamin B17.
But studies have found them to be clinically ineffective in the treatment of cancer,
as well as potentially toxic or lethal when taken by mouth, due to cyanide poisoning.
The promotion of laetrile to treat cancer has been described in the medical literature
as a canonical example of quackery, and as "the slickest, most sophisticated, and certainly
the most remunerative cancer quack promotion in medical history".
Amygdalin (Laetrile) and prunasin beta-glucosidases:
distribution in germ-free rat and in human tumor tissue.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
Newmark J, Brady RO, Grimley PM, Gal AE, Waller SG, Thistlethwaite JR.
Amygdalin, the gentiobioside derivative of mandelonitrile commonly referred to as Laetrile,
is presently under intensive investigation as a potential cancer chemotherapeutic agent.
Because of this interest, we investigated the activity of beta-glucosidases
that cleave glucose from amygdalin and from prunasin (mandelonitrile monoglucoside)
in tissues from germ-free rats and in normal and neoplastic human tissues.
Rat and human small intestinal mucosa contain high levels of activity of glucosidases
that act on both of these cyanogenic glucosides.
Release of glucose from these compounds was not detected in any of the human neoplastic tissues examined in the present study.
These observations are consistent with reports of cyanide toxicity
through the oral use of amygdalin or prunasin
and pose serious questions concerning the alleged tumoricidal effect of amygdalin.