Worth noting, specifically regarding the apricot kernel thing:
(TW for poisoning, child poisoning, gaslighting)
There is no such vitamin as B17. You can call amygdalin “Vitamin B17″ if you want to, and some people do - but saying that apricot kernels contain two or more cancer-fighting ingredients is misleading. Vitamin B17, amygdalin and laetrile are functionally the same thing.
Apricot kernels contain other things besides the very small amounts of amygdalin you might get from them.
This is a recommendation for an easy and convenient way to get cyanide poisoning.
50g of laetrile contains enough cyanide to kill you.
The symptoms of cyanide poisoning include stumbling, nerve damage, brain damage, disability, and of course death.
The UK’s Food Standards Agency recommended in 2006 that if people want to eat apricot kernels, they should limit them to 2 kernels per day - more than that puts you at risk for cyanide poisoning - but the consistent recommendation from alternative medicine peddlers is 10 kernels per day.
Here are some studies and case reports of people specifically poisoning themselves with apricot kernels, including a January 2015 paper on about a little 4-year-old boy who went into a coma, because parents just fed him handfuls of apricot kernels in an attempt to treat his brain tumor, until he collapsed from cyanide poisoning.
Complementary alternative medicine (CAM) encourages people to overdose on other “cyanogenic glycosides” - or natural products that can contain lethal amounts of cyanide. That’s the term to google if you’re interested in learning more.
Anyway, the reason doctors and scientists and pharmaceuticals are “keeping this a secret from you” is because there are plenty of other things that are just as effective at improving cancer outcomes - like psychosocial support, light guided meditation, or even practicing religious faith - which are easy to recommend, don’t require buying expensive supplements, aren’t toxic in large doses, and which DON’T ACTIVELY TRY TO KILL YOU because that is a CONTRADICTION OF MEDICINE.
OP’s phrasing of “my dad MADE my mom do this” plus my recent detective series kick makes me think how well this would work as a Perfect Murder Mystery Story. Like, the poor concerned daddy just wanted the cancer patient to get better! And she succumbs naturally and non-suspiciously to the cyanide. There would be less likelihood of an inquest for a cancer patient… and if the coroner noticed the cyanide, well, we all knew about her belief that the apricot kernels would save her.
There you go, there’s a free murder mystery plot for you all.
In conclusion, it’s important to analyze evidence independently or consult trusted advisors before starting a course of CAM. Like in all things that you see on social media.
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