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Thursday, April 02, 2009

Prostate cancer

Following on from “Cancer cure as a dessert” here we look at amygdalin which is a natural substance

Amygdalin is sometimes confounded with laevomandelonitrile, also called laetrile for short; however, amygdalin and laetrile are different chemical compounds. Laetrile, which was patented in the United States, is a semi-synthetic molecule sharing part of the amygdalin structure, while the "laetrile" made in Mexico is usually amygdalin, the natural product obtained from crushed apricot pits, or neoamygdalin.

Marzipan contains the enzyme emulsin which, in the presence of water, acts on a soluble glucoside, amygdalin, yielding glucose, cyanide and the essential oil of bitter almonds, which is nearly pure benzaldehyde. Benzaldehyde is the molecule that gives marzipan its distinctive taste. Bitter almonds may yield from 4–9 mg of hydrogen cyanide per almond.

A study in 2006 on the treatment of prostate cancer concluded: "Based on these results, amygdalin shows considerable promise in the treatment of prostate cancer."

Now although completely unproven the chemistry suggests that marzipan might help those with prostate cancer. Hydrogen cyanide is highly toxic but marzipan - I do not think so!

Lucinda Ball 04/02/2009

posted by Lucinda @ 7:08 AM  

2 Comments:

  • At 7:45 PM, Blogger skrashen said…

    Thank you for your informative and interesting website.
    Could you post the reference for the prostate cancer study? Or send it to me at skrashen@yahoo.com?

    I have been looking at the research on laetrile, and have come to the conclusion that the establishment has rejected Laetrile prematurely.

    The case against Laetrile rests on only two clinical studies. The first actually provides some support for Laetrile but has been inaccurately cited (Krashen, 2009a). The second, a major study by the Mayo clinic, is considered definitive, but has lots of problems, including the use of terminal patients, a strong possibility that a much weaker kind of Laetrile was used (a mix of pure and synthetic), the researchers' ignoring some signs of effectiveness, and an incorrect schedule in administering the Laetrile (Krashen, 2009b).

    The professional literature has a number of reports of patients who did well with Laetrile, reports written by professional physicians who report the cases carefully, and are not in the business of selling apricot pits. These cannot be ignored, and there are too many of them to attribute all to fraud, misdiagnoses or spontaneous remission.

    I hope a rational path can be followed with the use of Laetrile, a thorough investigation of its potential as a treatment for and preventative of cancer.

    Krashen, S. 2009. Inaccurate Reporting of the Effects of Laetrile: Mistreatment of Ellison, Byar and Newell (1978) in Professional Papers. The Internet Journal of Alternative Medicine. Volume 6 Number 2.
    http://www.ispub.com/ostia/index.php?xmlFilePath=journals/ijam/vol6n2/laetrile.xml

    Krashen, S. Does Laetrile work? Another look at the Mayo Clinic study (Moertel et al., 1982). The Internet Journal of Alternative Medicine, vol 7 Number 1. http://www.ispub.com/journal/the_internet_journal_of_alternative_medicine/volume_7_number_1_22/article/does_laetrile_work_another_look_at_the_mayo_clinic_study_moertel_et_al_1982.html

     

  • At 1:01 PM, Blogger Lucinda said…

    To answer your question: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/29/8/29_1597/_article

    Amygdalin was first isolated in 1830 and used as an anti-cancer agent in Russia as early as 1845. But it was reborn by the father/son team Ernst Krebs senior and junior who had who by 1955 isolated a purified form of the active ingredient (calling it laetrile) and, with others in the late fifties to seventies, sought to explain its action.

    Furthermore, vitamin B-12 (also called cyano-cobalmine) "contains" cyanide in the same way that B-17 does. B-12 is involved in over 300 enzymatic reactions in the healthy body, a deficiency is known to be linked to increased cancer risk and nobody in their right mind would tell you not to consume B-12.

    Not exactly new revelations: http://users.navi.net/~rsc/krebs3.htm

    If you are interested then I suggest: http://www.worldwithoutcancer.org.uk/faq.html

     

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