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Anybody familiar with vitamin B17?

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I’m currently reading ‘World Without Cancer’ from G. Edward Griffin. I’m skeptical of the deficiency hypothesis, but I did encounter some interesting findings that I could use some perspective on.

So, B17 / laetrile / amygdalin breaks down into three parts in the human body. One part is hydrogen cyanide. According to the ‘laetrilists’ the cyanide is detoxified by rhodanese / thiosulfate transferase (TST). Rhodanese is expressed by mitochondria in healthy human cells and underexpressed in cancer cells (I could find some scientific backing for this, but not overwhelming). So the hypothesis is that cancer cells are destroyed by the hydrogen cyanide, while healthy cells detoxify the hydrogen cyanide into thiocyanate.

Thiocyanate, that sounded familiar. Why? Because of isothiocyanates. Recently a lot of papers are published on broccoli sprouts as ‘green chemo’. The most abundant isothiocyanate (sulfuraphane) in broccoli sprouts has downstream anti-cancer effects.

Since iso indicates a different configuration, I assume it should be possible to convert thiocyanates into isothiocaynates for a double anti-cancer whammy. But my bio-chemistry is not sufficient to really find proof for this.

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Yes, it's an "old" mythic treatment that's been making the rounds on the 'net for at least twenty years. It turns out that Apricot kernels, apart from containing that Laetrile substance, also contains significant amounts of arsenic which may or may not have an effect on cancerous tumors, but also has sn effect on the body's healthy tissues. So you may get a positive effect on the rampant cell division that happens in cancerous neoplasms, but also at a cost to your general health, ie. Arsenic poisoning.

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Well, here’s your opportunity to make a billion dollars. Get a method patent on treating cancer with this free substance.

I'll leave you to it, thanks.

My point is that just because the compound isn’t patentable, that doesn’t preclude making billions of dollars off of it.

In short, there’s a multibillion dollar payoff for anyone correctly betting that it works.

Rest assured that giant pharmaceutical corporations will. 😏

Maybe…there are millions of compounds to test.

The problem is either patent, which boils down to who has a better and longer standing legal team, or scale. Either way the corporate interests have the small genius innovation contingent beat.

True. But this doesn’t preclude anyone from trying…just from making money off of it.