Monday, July 25, 2011
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
(NaturalNews) Peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots and almonds are all closely related fruit trees with very similar pits. In all these fruits, the pit must be broken open to reveal the almond-shaped kernel within. In fact, this is what almonds actually are: the kernel within the pit of the fruit of the almond tree!
The kernels of all these species contain high concentrations of a chemical known as
laetrile. It's also known as
amygdalin or vitamin B-17. Research has shown that laetrile induces programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving healthy cells alone. It's sort of like
Mother Nature's chemotherapy except that it doesn't make you suffer the way man-made synthetic chemotherapy does.
Laetrile appears to work because the nutrient is actually composed of four separate molecules: two of
glucose, one of
benzaldyhide and one of
cyanide. The latter two chemicals are toxic, but are bound up in a non-bioavailable form. Cancer cells contain an enzyme that healthy cells do not, known as
beta-glucosidase. This enzyme actually breaks apart the component pieces of laetrile, and the cell is poisoned by a combination of benzaldyhide and cyanide. Healthy cells do not undergo this effect, which is why they remain unaffected by laetrile.
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