(The Best Years in Life) With some help from the Dr. Oz disinfo theater, a widespread paranoia has sprung into foodie and health improvement circles regarding apple seeds as a source of cyanide poisoning. If that were true there would be a pile of dead bodies instead of thousands of cancer cure testimonies from amygdalin, the compound in most fruit seeds and the essence of B-17 or laetrile.

San Francisco biochemist Ernst Krebb, Jr. created laetrile after researching cancer free indigenous mountain tribes whose diet incorporated apricot kernels. After testing the laetrile he had extracted from the active compound in apricot kernels known as amygdalin for safety and efficacy, he sent it to the prestigious Sloane-Kettering Cancer Institute of NYC for them to test it. Read More.