Have you ever heard of vitamin B17?
Maybe you have heard of its other name – Laetrile.
B17
After the 1970s, Americans could not access vitamin B17 because the FDA took it off the market, and they also removed it from the B-Complex vitamins, alongside B15.
For many reasons, the censorship of these 2 vitamins has eased up these days, and I mainly attribute this to the truth coming out through the Internet.
Now, everyone can learn that these two B vitamins are totally natural, they are eaten by every other animal on the planet, and have no proven side-effects.
Until recently, it was jail-time for any American health practitioners that administered B17 to their patients. It was a threat primarily because it is inexpensive competition to expensive chemo and radiation therapies.
Apricot seeds are the best source for B17, but they had been outlawed and removed from the shelves of every health food store and natural market throughout the USA.
Was this human ignorance or greed? Can you imagine outlawing apricot seeds?
Since 1977, limited research has been conducted on vitamin B17 in the United States. Once it was banned, B17 was forgotten and buried in America. The research has continued in other countries, nonetheless.
Mind-Blowing Research
Have you ever heard the old wives-tale that apple seeds are poisonous? Well, this is why that’s incorrect.
According to the research provided by nutritionists and medical scientists before the 1970s, vitamin B17 is a natural cyanide-containing compound that gives up its cyanide content only in the presence of a particular enzyme group called beta glucosidase or glucuronidase.
Why is this so important?
Miraculously, this enzyme group is found almost exclusively in cancer cells. When this enzyme is found elsewhere in the body, it is accompanied by greater quantities of another enzyme, rhodanese, which has the ability to disable the cyanide and convert it into completely harmless substances.
Cancer tissues do not have this protecting enzyme.
Now THAT’s important.
So, according to past scientific knowledge, cancer cells are faced with a double threat:
- the presence of one enzyme exposing them to cyanide;
- while the absence of another enzyme found in all other normal cells results in the cancer’s failure to detoxify itself.
Leave it to nature to provide a form of cyanide that can naturally destroy a cancer cell.
The cancer cells that are unable to withstand the cyanide are destroyed, while the non-cancerous cells are not threatened by the cyanide, and, therefore, remain unharmed.
Never underestimate the body’s potential to heal itself! Don’t overlook the tools that Nature provides to assist all animals in preventing disease.
Vitamin B17 is found naturally in many foods. If you eat the foods containing vitamin B17, your body will know what to do next. All other animals instinctively do this.
Consider it nature’s cancer prevention.
If only modern medicine would allow it.
The Discovery of B17
San Francisco’s Ernst T. Krebs, Sr., M.D. discovered the healing qualities of vitamin B17 in 1923. His sons, Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., PhD, and Byron Krebs, M.D. continued their father’s research in 1952, refining Laetrile’s (B17) nutritional qualities.
From their research, the Krebs believed cancer was not caused by an outside invading force but rather by malfunctions of the normal mechanics within the body itself.
They identified cancer as a “deficiency disease.”
The body’s malfunctions, according to their research, were the result of a deficiency of certain chemicals found in food, a deficiency of chemicals they specifically identified as vitamin B17, as well as a deficiency of enzymes known as trypsins produced in the pancreas.
The Krebs had discovered a natural, drugless method to help prevent cancer. But their discovery wasn’t original.
Years prior to any of the Drs. Krebs’ works, Drs. George B. Wood and Franklin Bache, M.D. published a reference volume in 1833 in which they described amygdalin, derived from B17, as a common treatment for a wide range of diseases and disorders.
Vitamin B17 is also referred to as a nitriloside, which is the foundation for Laetrile, amygdalin, and prunasin.
Together with the pancreatic enzyme trypsin, these can form a natural barrier against cancer growth.
According to the research, if foods containing any of the nitrilosides are eaten regularly, the body’s own immune mechanisms can naturally battle cancer-forming cells. But if foods containing these critical vitamins are not regularly consumed (such as manufactured foods), nature’s mechanisms cannot work as effectively against the buildup of factors at the root of cancer, and the countless number of other degenerative diseases.
This build-up of disease is happening to us today. Not only are advanced societies environmentally polluted to dangerous levels, but more foods are being altered from their natural state by man’s own doing.
Modern freeze-dried, fat-free, sugar-free, calorie-free, weight-watchful, GMO, and microwavable artificial food substitutes don’t contain nitrilosides.
Food manufacturers don’t even know what nitrilosides are.
Never in our history have artificial foods saturated with preservatives and unhealthy chemicals dominated our food supply to the degree that they do today.
Modern nourishment is no longer nourishing.
More Proof
In the late 1970’s, Dr. Harold W. Manner, PhD., Chairman of the Biology Department at Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois, studied the overall value of Laetrile (B17).
His work was well respected and considered among the first unbiased studies since the Krebs’ studies in the 1920s. He reported Laetrile as being virtually non-toxic.
When Dr. Manner used Laetrile in his medical research, along with vitamin A and digestive enzymes, he discovered that the production of antibodies was stimulated against spontaneous breast tumors in his laboratory mice.
He studied the results of complete regression in 76 percent of the treated mice with mammary gland cancers.
Dr. Manner believed Laetrile received its best results when used in conjunction with digestive enzymes, a traditional balanced diet, and with vitamin A.
No physician has had more clinical experience with Laetrile than Ernesto Contreras, Sr., M.D. of the Contreras Hospital in Tijuana, Mexico, formerly The Oasis Of Hope Hospital.
Dr. Contreras has clinically used Laetrile for more than 40 years on thousands of terminally diagnosed patients, and has received impressive results.
One of Dr. Contreras’ patients was a man suffering from severe colon cancer.
Using Laetrile treatments in conjunction with detoxification protocols and proper vitamin supplementation, Contreras was able to arrest the progression of his patient’s cancer. The man lived more than 15 years beyond his predicted death.
Foods With Vitamin B17
The following is a list of foods rich in vitamin B17:
- Watercress
- Spinach
- Bamboo sprouts
- Alfalfa sprouts
- Lentil sprouts
- Whole nuts
- Mung bean sprouts
- Ground nuts
- Garbanzo sprouts
- Apple seeds
- Apricot seeds
I highly recommend Apricot Power’s B15 and B17 supplements.
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Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only, and is educational in nature. The FDA may not have evaluated some of the statements. This article is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. Please discuss with your own, qualified health care provider before adding supplements or making any changes to your dietary program.
Before taking vitamins, consult your doctor; pre-existing medical conditions or medications you are taking can affect how your body responds to multivitamins.
