FAQ – Is Laetrile Toxic?
Technically, every food on the planet earth is toxic. However, when a person uses the term “toxic” it generally means the substance is poisonous when taken in low doses. With this definition, laetrile is not toxic, even when taken in high doses. If you want to read a very interesting story about laetrile read the first chapter of the online book by Dr. Binzel at:
http://www.whale.to/m/binzel.html
It is almost humorous (but it is not humorous) how desperate the FDA was trying to “prove” that laetrile was toxic.
Two famous “studies” on laetrile done at the Mayo Clinic also claimed that laetrile was toxic and that some of the patients in the studies had “cyanide” poisoning.
Largely the same people at the Mayo clinic who did these studies had also participated in three bogus Vitamin C studies to attempt to discredit a study done by two-time Nobel Prize winner Linus Pauling.
Tens of thousands of people had been cured of their cancer with laetrile and word was spreading that this vitamin could actually cure cancer. Something had to be done to stop the spread of truth. The public was beginning to believe that laetrile actually worked.
Guess what, the Mayo Clinic did not follow standard American protocol and dosages for laetrile therapy.
For example, if they had followed the standard laetrile diet, which is virtually the same thing as a “raw food” diet, the diet alone would have significantly extended the lives of the patients.
But in this case it was the watered-down and phony “laetrile” the NIH provided to the Mayo Clinic that was perhaps the most bogus part of these studies. The NIH, which funded the bogus studies, did not allow an alternative treatment vendor to supply the laetrile for at least one of the studies, even though they offered to supply the laetrile for free.
Did the patients actually have cyanide poisoning? If they did it was because the NIH put inorganic cyanide into the bogus pills they made. Organic cyanide, the kind in laetrile, is far less toxic than sugar!!
I have written an article on Laetrile that can be found at:
The article has links to two sites where you can legally buy apricot seeds (the soft part that looks like an almond).
Another good site is:
http://www.navi.net/~rsc/#cancer
The most famous book of all on laetrile is the book:
World Without Cancer – The Story of Vitamin B17 by G. Edward Griffin, which has recently been revised.
WARNING: In order to trick the public, one of the pharmaceutical companies created a drug and called it “Laetrile.” This pharmaceutical product may be toxic, I don’t know.