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A bit more to the story. Some of us older oldfags remember the Laetrile business. It was going to cure cancer, it was THE evasive, hoped-for 'one day we'll find a cure for cancer.'

It had been through clinical trials in the 50s and 60s…laetrile being the chemically synthesized version of B17 (amagdylin) that they could own and patent. Never mind you could get it with food if you knew what to eat, but it was now Laetrile.

Now, if you read up on Laetrile's history, it fomented a war. You'll find Jesuits and the U.N. involved, and the Securities and Exchange Commission and something called 'The Cancer Advisory Council' and the Cancer Control Board. Everyone stuck their hand in the pot to stir it. The man who founded a company to synthesize and distribute it, suddenly found himself on the wrong end of lawsuits and indictments on unrelated drugs or financial issues.

in spite of 144 case studies of cure, The Cancer Advisory Council saw no proof that said cures were effected by Laetrile and recommended its ban and it was made 'illegal'. Except, laetrile was turned over to the big pharma companies and they started putting it in some chemo cocktails. They don't do that anymore, and the only place it is synthesized now is in Mexico.

At about the same time as some real positive press was reaching America in the 1970s, you started seeing some propaganda turn up. One notable example was the highly popular and near-perfect Nielsen rated tv show Emergency! Its season 4 episode 3, 'Gossip', featured a boy who was dying from eating peach pits. You don't want to do that, everybody! Stay away from anything to do with stone fruit pits. And who wouldn't believe tv Dr. Robert Fuller?

Laetrile is the SYNTHESIZED version. You don't want to O.D. by eating too many peach pits and thereby not knowing what amounts you're getting. But I do this:

Every day, I eat an apple. And when I finish the apple, I eat the seeds. Horses and deer and other animals do it just fine. Recently I've started another horse medicine as well ;)

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.