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The risk–benefit balance of laetrile or amygdalin as a treatment for cancer is therefore unambiguously negative. [3] The authors also recommended, on ethical and scientific grounds, that no further clinical research into laetrile or amygdalin be conducted. [3] Subsequent research has confirmed the evidence of harm and lack of benefit. [32]
The amygdalin found in apricot seeds has been marketed as an alternative cancer treatment; however, studies have shown it to be ineffective in treating cancer. [3] Cancer Council Australia have commented that "eating apricot kernels in large amounts is not only ineffective for treating cancer, but could also be very dangerous".
Cancer Research UK note that superfoods are often promoted as having an ability to prevent or cure diseases, including cancer; they caution, "a healthy, balanced and varied diet can help to reduce the risk of cancer but it is unlikely that any single food will make a major difference on its own."
The report said that if a cell with natural chirality can be created from lifeless molecules, then, in theory, a mirror-image cell could be created from mirror-image molecules using the same methods.
One known example of this kind of memory is what happens to pancreatic cells when they are exposed to a large amount of sugar. In response, they release into the bloodstream a pulse of insulin, a ...
I checked the conclusions in "Amygdalin from apricot kernels induces apoptosis and causes cell cycle arrest in cancer cells: an updated review" and "Recent updates and future perspectives about amygdalin as a potential anticancer agent: A review" from 2018 and 2019.
Examples include amygdalin and prunasin which are made by the bitter almond tree; other species that produce cyanogenic glycosides are sorghum (from which dhurrin, the first cyanogenic glycoside to be identified, was first isolated), barley, flax, white clover, and cassava, which produces linamarin and lotaustralin. [6]
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