READ ABOUT THE ROLE OF VITAMIN B17 IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CANCER.
(Other names associated with vitamin B17 are
amygdalin, laetrile, nitrilosides and apricot kernels.)
This site is an
information site for those interested in preventing or treating cancer in a
natural, health-promoting way.
Who we are
Disclaimer - read this first!
Where Are You in
Relation to Cancer?
(1) I do not have cancer - its not going to happen to me!
(2) I do not have cancer - I want to take prevention
(3) I had cancer and I think I'm free now
(4) I have cancer now
Why Eat Apricot
Kernels?
Summary of Suggestions for Eating Apricot Kernels
Toxic Crisis - Coping with Reactions
anticancerinfo comments on a new Food Standards Agency
recommendation and articles in the newspapers of 12th April 2006
The Importance of Enzymes - a two
page summary of this website.
For more information, a copy of the B17 In Brief Series, or a full set
of notes please telephone Karen Kirkpatrick on 01483 423235 (UK) Monday-Friday
9am-5pm. This is a private line, so if no-one can answer just now, please keep
trying.
Please feel free to photocopy further sets of notes.
B17
IN BRIEF SERIES – a summary. Print
these ten pages first, then see the rest of the website for further information
(1) Why eat apricot kernels?
(2) Quotes – Did you know?
(3) One page on amygdalin/vitamin B17
(4) How to eat apricot kernels or laetrile tablets
(5) Toxic crisis - coping with reactions
(6) One page on supplements
(7) Other herbal supplements
(8) One page on diet
(9) Should we be
avoiding dairy?
(10) One page on lifestyle
Find out about the link between iodine and cancer
Cancer Prevention - A Change in Our Diet
(1) The body’s natural defence
(2) Examples of toxins and other carcinogens in our lifestyle
(3) What
causes a breakdown in our defence mechanism?
(4) Boosting the immune system (first line of
defence) and providing a second line of defence (B17)
(5) Do we need supplements?
(6) Summary
of Cancer Prevention
(7) Understanding
what cancer is
(8) Foods
containing vitamin B17 (nitrilosides)
(9) Researchers
use cyanide
(10) PREVENTION
IS FOR NOW AND FOR YOU!
Vitamin
B17 Therapy - Does it work?
(1) Does vitamin B17 work in the laboratory?
(2) How does orthodox cancer therapy compare?
(3) Is vitamin B17 toxic?
(4) Does vitamin B17 work in real life?
Cancer Cures - Who
Can You Trust? - An answer to the ITV programme of February 2004
Critique of an article by
Professor Ernst assessing websites on complementary and alternative medicine
for cancer
Nutrition Therapy
for People Suffering with Cancer - a summary of different sources
(1) FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions including how to take larger doses of
vitamin B17)
(2) Herbal and Natural Supplements which are Anti-Cancer/Boost the Immune
System
(3) Some thoughts in conclusion
So Why Doesn’t Everyone Know About Cancer and Vitamin B17?
"Chemotherapy cures cancer - and the
earth is flat!" - This is the title of an
article in ODE magazine (11-03) which contained an interview with Lothar
Hirneise, founder of 'People Against Cancer' in
“A Kernel of Hope” - This is an article
in Add Lib magazine (Spring 2006) written by Emma Keyne. Reprinted here with permission.
Recommended books,
video and websites for more information
Contacts - suppliers and
helplines
Maintenance lifestyle for those who have had cancer
HELPLINE (Homepage
last amended August 2007)
Karen Kirkpatrick is happy to talk to anyone about vitamin B17 on 01483 423235
(UK) 9am-5pm Monday-Friday
This is a private telephone number and she may not always be able to answer,
but keep trying.
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"Cancer is predicted to become
the number one cause of death within 20 years when the risk of developing
cancer in your life will be greater than 50%". [Patrick Holford, founder
of the Institute of Optimum Nutrition, Say No To Cancer (Piatkus, London
1999 pages ix, xi)]
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"Already one in eight women in
the UK develop breast cancer" and "within 20 years one in four men
are predicted to develop prostate cancer". (Holford, page xii )
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"All the billions of dollars of
research we’ve thrown at cancer hasn’t influenced survival one little bit. More
people than ever are dying from the solid tumours that make up 90% of all
cancers. You’d never know any of this if you talked to the average
oncologist." [Lynne McTaggart The Cancer Handbook (What Doctors
Don’t Tell You, London 2000)]
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‘The fact is, for most of today’s
most common cancers, the ones that kill 90% of cancer patients every year,
chemotherapy has never been proved to do any good at all and in fact may do
harm.’ [ed. Lynne McTaggart The Medical Desk Reference (What Doctors
Don’t Tell You, London, 2000) p50]
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"…many medical oncologists
recommend chemotherapy for virtually any tumour, with a hopefulness
undiscouraged by almost invariable failure." [Oncologist Dr Albert Braverman
(Lancet, April 13, 1991)]
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What we eat has a great effect on
the immune system, which is the first line of defence against cancer. A healthy
diet including vegetables and fruit, with vitamin, mineral and herbal
supplements, and exercise can all boost the immune system. However when the
body is under stress, of whatever kind, sometimes this is not enough.
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There is a second line of defence to
prevent cancer - vitamin B17, which is found in nitrilosides in hundreds of
edible plants, plants which have generally been eliminated from a Western diet.
Vitamin B17 contains a substance which directly targets cancer cells in the
body.
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"After more than twenty years
of specialised work, I have found the non-toxic nitrilosides - that is,
laetrile (concentrated vitamin B17) - far superior to any other known cancer treatment
or preventative. In my opinion it is the only existing possibility for the
ultimate control of cancer," Dr Hans Nieper, former Director of Medicine
at Silbersee Hospital in Hanover, and Director of the German Society for
Medical Tumour Treatment told news reporters on his visit to the USA in
1972."
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"The ultimate question is,
‘Does nutritional therapy work?’ That depends on how you define ‘work’. If you
are tumour oriented and are looking for something to make the tumour magically
disappear, no, it doesn’t. If you are looking for something that will prevent
the disease from spreading and save the life of the patient, yes, it
does." Dr Philip E Binzel Alive and Well (American Media,
California 1994), General Practitioner in the USA, where he used vitamin B17
and nutritional therapy with phenomenal results for 18 years until he retired
in 1991.
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"Laetrile is goddamned
quackery! " Helene Brown, president of the American Cancer Society of
California. [Today’s Health, Nov. 1973 p28, quoted in World Without
Cancer, G. Edward Griffin (American Media, California 1974 and 1997)
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Those with cancer can do much to
help themselves. "Other treatments (than chemotherapy) - the ones the
American Cancer Society considers unproven - have better success rates. Once we
all admit that, we can go forward." [Lynne McTaggart The Cancer
Handbook (What Doctors Don’t Tell You, London 2000) p9]
This site concentrates on one of
those ‘other treatments’ - vitamin B17, but also refers to other natural
treatments which will work alongside it. In a war it is not usual to rely on
one type of weapon. Similarly, it may be wise to combine vitamin B17 and
nutritional therapy with other therapies to increase their effectiveness.
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"Since so few cancers can
actually be completely cured by the official medical establishment despite
billions of dollars being spent on drug development, the crucial issue is not
to contract it in the first place." Chris Woollams M.A.(Oxon) Everything
you need to know to help you beat cancer (Health Issues, Buckingham 2002)
Most people reaching this site will
be here because they, or people they know, have cancer - and they will find
much information that relates to them. Nevertheless we believe the special role
of VITAMIN B17 is in cancer prevention. It is easy to include in
a normal, every day diet, and if everyone would recognise the necessity of
doing this to prevent cancer and realise how easy it is to do, then cancer
could be confined to the history books. However, since Dr Krebs did his
pioneering work in the 1950s the chemicalisation of our world has continued
unabated – “As the American Chemical Society catalogues the ten millionth
man-made chemical….. there are 3500 chemical food additives…….” [Patrick
Holford Say No To Cancer (Piatkus, London 1999 p24)]. And our food continues to contain fewer and
fewer nutrients (e.g. between 1940 and 1991 magnesium in food has declined 25%,
calcium by 47%, iron by 36% and copper by 62% [Dr Paul Clayton Health
Defence (Accelerated Learning Systems, Aylesbury 2002)]. So supplementation as well as changing our
diet has become a necessity, as well as removing as many toxins from our
lifestyle as possible.