{"id":3574,"date":"2023-05-11T09:54:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/is-laetrile-amygdalin-or-vitamin-b17-an-effective-alternative-cure-for-cancer\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T02:54:25","slug":"is-laetrile-amygdalin-or-vitamin-b17-an-effective-alternative-cure-for-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/?p=3574","title":{"rendered":"Is Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) an Effective Alternative Cure for Cancer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Mayo Clinic puts laetrile to the test to see if it is an effective cancer treatment.<\/p>\n<p>My video <a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/does-laetrile-amygdalin-or-vitamin-b-17-work-as-an-alternative-cancer-cure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Does Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure?<\/strong><\/a> looks at amygdalin and whether it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/27002407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is<\/a> \u201cquackery or cure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A cyanide-containing compound found in apple seeds, amygdalin is ten times more concentrated in the seeds of peaches, apricots, and bitter almonds. It can be sold as a derivative called laetrile, which has been advertised with the misnomer \u201cvitamin B17.\u201d \u201cAmygdalin gained high popularity among cancer patients in the 1970s\u201d as an alternative treatment, but the reason researchers published a review of amygdalin in 2016 and why I\u2019m doing videos about it is that it has \u201cexperienced a renaissance,\u201d thanks to the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1970s, the FDA could only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17812936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">send<\/a> out its <em>Bulletin<\/em> to a million doctors and other health professionals, warning them that laetrile is not only worthless, but dangerous. About ten thousand copies of the alert were posted in U.S. post offices, and <em>The New York Times<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1977\/05\/05\/archives\/laetrile-to-and-fro.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">editorialized<\/a> that we should be able to choose our own placebo. But laetrile was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/633565\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">killing<\/a> people. Finally, as the <em>New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7351911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> it, the \u201cSupreme Court stops the nonsense\u201d with Justice Thurgood Marshall writing the unanimous court opinion that terminally ill patients deserve the same FDA protections against unsafe drugs. At last, laetrile was banned on a federal level.<\/p>\n<p>Rational argument <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18747536\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">failed<\/a> to dissuade people, though, so the State stepped in, but that had the opposite effect. \u201cCancer victims and their families almost universally respond[ed] by accusing organized government and organized medicine of conspiracy.\u201d At an FDA meeting, for example, a physician from M.D. Anderson Cancer Hospital rhetorically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17821792\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">asked<\/a>: \u201c\u2018You surely cannot believe that the quarter of a million of American physicians are sitting on a cancer cure just so they can get rich?\u2019 He was answered with a chorus of yeses from the audience, many of whom had been borne to the hearings on chartered buses.\u201d Some laetrile advocates <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/379378\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">were<\/a> getting rich, though, like the head of the \u201cCommittee for Freedom of Choice in Cancer Therapy.\u201d More like committed to the freedom of pocketing millions a year in laetrile sales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaetrile\u2019s proponents <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/25918920\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">consider<\/a> it to be a \u2018natural cancer cure\u2019; whereas opponents consider it \u2018the slickest, most sophisticated, and certainly the most remunerative [lucrative and profitable] cancer quack promotion in medical history.\u2019\u201d Which is it? You don\u2019t know until you put it to the test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Cancer Institute, in response to widespread public interest, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/683212\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">undertook<\/a> a retrospective analysis of Laetrile treatment.\u201d In other words, it sent out a letter to every physician in the country and tens of thousands of other health professionals, and contacted all of the pro-laetrile groups, basically saying, <em>send us the best you got<\/em>. Although at least 70,000 Americans are estimated to have used laetrile, only 93 cases were submitted for evaluation, and, of those, only six appeared to be legitimate, where taking laetrile was associated with at least some partial improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Now, of course, the people sending in those reports may have gotten things wrong or falsified data, but, maybe those six actually did respond to the treatment. If that\u2019s out of 70,000 treated, though, you\u2019d think maybe that\u2019d just be by chance. Regardless, the fact that so many people <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/339090\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tried<\/a> it should count for something. They may have all just been boondoggled, but maybe there\u2019s something to it. Certainly, the fact that it didn\u2019t seem to help with any of the laboratory animal cancers doesn\u2019t mean it couldn\u2019t work in people. The only way to know for sure is to put it to the test: \u201ca tightly controlled clinical trial performed in competent and experienced hands.\u201d The Mayo Clinic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7033783\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accepted<\/a> the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred seventy-eight cancer patients were treated with it and all of the patients died rapidly. \u201cNo substantive benefit was observed in terms of cure, improvement, or stabilization of cancer, improvement of symptoms related to cancer, or extension of life span.\u201d There were only adverse effects of cyanide toxicity.<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion? \u201cAmygdalin (Laetrile) is a toxic drug that is <em>not<\/em> effective as a cancer treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The books have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/7054687\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closed<\/a> on this for more than 30 years. \u201cLaetrile doesn\u2019t work.\u201d It is unsafe and ineffective. Researchers \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/17106659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">found<\/a> no sound evidence that laetrile is effective as an anticancer agent.\u201d So, the label \u201cunproven\u201d cancer remedy may be too generous at this point; \u201cit is time to vehemently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23514560\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">assert<\/a> that laetrile cancer therapy has been \u2018disproven.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What about eating apricot seeds directly? In case you missed my previous video, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/nutritionfacts.org\/video\/do-apricot-seeds-work-as-an-alternative-cancer-cure\"><strong>Do Apricot Seeds Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure?<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"et_social_bottom_trigger\"\/>  <\/div>\n<p><script>\n            !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n            {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n                n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n            if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n            n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n            t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n            s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n                'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n            fbq('init', '1582627921973608');\n            fbq('track', 'PageView');\n        <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1675549\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayo Clinic puts laetrile to the test to see if it is an effective cancer treatment. My video Does Laetrile (Amygdalin or Vitamin B17) Work as an Alternative Cancer Cure? looks at amygdalin and whether it is \u201cquackery or cure.\u201d A cyanide-containing compound found in apple seeds, amygdalin is ten times more concentrated in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loudhdtv.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}