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World without Cancer - G. Edward
Griffin:
Movie and Audio Transcript.
This year 350,000 Americans will die from cancer. One out of four
of us will develop cancer in our lifetime. That's over 50 million people
in the United States alone.
The purpose of this presentation is to show that this great human tragedy
can be stopped now entirely on the basis of existing scientific knowledge.
We'll explore the theory that cancer, like scurvy or pellagra, is a
deficiency disease aggravated by the lack of an essential food compound
in modern man's diet and that its ultimate control is to be found simply
in restoring this substance to our daily intake.
We are not in the business of promoting vitamins, food supplements or
products of any kind. We're not prescribing any course of treatment. We
endorse nothing, except freedom of choice. We have nothing to sell, but
facts.
What you're about to hear does not carry the approval of organized medicine.
The Food and Drug Administration, the American Cancer Society and the American
Medical Association have labelled it fraud and quackery.
The average physician, however, is less dogmatic. He's more apt to say:
"Let's give it a try and then pass judgement!" Consequently, an increasing
number of doctors all over the world now are testing and proving in their
own clinics that the vitamin concept of cancer is true.
With billions of dollars spent each year on research, with other billions
taken in from the cancer-related sale of drugs and with vote-hungry politicians
promising ever-increasing government programs we find that today there
are more people making a living from cancer, than are dying from it. If
the riddle were to be solved by a simple vitamin, this gigantic commercial
and political industry could be wiped out overnight. The result is
that the science of cancer therapy isn't nearly as complicated as the politics
of cancer therapy.
ONGOING PERSECUTION
In the past the FDA and other agencies of
government have used every means at their disposal to prevent this story
from being told. They've arrested citizens for holding public meetings
to tell others of their convictions on this subject. They've confiscated
films and books. They even now are prosecuting doctors, who apply these
theories in an effort to save the lives of their own patients.
With this background in mind it may appear to be the height of folly
to proceed with this presentation. But ladies and gentlemen, if the story
that follows is true, - as we firmly are convinced, it is - then in the
name of humanity someone simply has to stand up against the bureaucracy
and we are determined to do it!
Greatest Discoveries Often Rejected, Maligned
Or Supressed By Scientific and Medical Estabishment:
The history of science is the history of struggle against entrenched
error. Many of the world's greatest discoveries initially were rejected
by the scientific community and those, who pioneered those discoveries,
often were ridiculed and condemned as quacks and charlatans.
Columbus was bitterly attacked for believing, the Earth was round. Bruno
was burned at the stake for claiming, the Earth was not the center of the
universe. Galileo was imprisoned for teaching that the Earth moved around
the Sun. Even the Wright brothers were ridiculed and condemned for claiming
that a machine could fly above the Earth.
In the field of medicine Andreas Vesalius was denounced as an impostor
and heretic because of his discoveries in the field of human anatomy. William
Harvey was disgraced as a physician for believing that blood was pumped
by the heart and actually moved around the body through arteries. And Ignaz
Semmelweis was fired from his hospital post for requiring his maternity
staff to wash their hands.
SCURVY:
Centuries ago it wasn't unusual for entire naval expeditions to be
wiped out by scurvy. Between 1600 and 1800 the casualty list of the British
Navy alone was over one million sailors. Medical experts of the time were
baffled, as they searched in vain for some kind of a strange bacterium,
virus or toxin that supposedly lurked in the dark holds of ships. And yet
for hundreds of years the cure was already known and written in the record.
In the winter of 1535, when the French explorer Jacques Cartier found
his ships frozen in the ice off the St. Lawrence River, scurvy began to
take its deadly toll. Out of a crew of one hundred and ten, twenty-five
already had died and most of the others were so ill, they weren't expected
to recover. And then a friendly Indian showed them the simple remedy. Tree
bark and needles from the white pine - both rich in ascorbic acid or vitamin
C - were stirred into a drink, which produced immediate improvement and
swift recovery. Upon returning to Europe, Cartier reported this incident
to the medical authorities. But they were amused by such "witch-doctor
cures of ignorant savages" and they did nothing to follow it up.
Yes, the cure for scurvy was known. But because of scientific arrogance
it took over two hundred years and cost hundreds of thousands of lives,
before the medical experts began to accept and apply this knowledge.
Finally in 1747 John Lind, a young surgeon's mate in the British Navy discovered
that oranges and lemons produced relief from scurvy and recommended that
the Royal Navy include citrus fruits in the stores of all its ships. And
yet, it still took forty-eight more years, before his recommendation was
put into effect.
Pellagra:
The twentieth century has proven to be no exception to this pattern.
Only a generation ago large portions of the American Southeast were decimated
by the dread disease of pellagra, which was thought to be contagious and
probably caused by an as yet undiscovered virus. As far back as 1914 Dr.
Joseph Goldberger had proven that this condition was related to diet and
later showed that it could be prevented simply by eating liver or yeast.
But it wasn't until the 1940s - almost thirty years later - that the medical
world fully accepted pellagra as a vitamin B deficiency.
By 1952 Dr. Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., a biochemist
in San Francisco, had advanced the theory that cancer, like
scurvy or pellagra, is not caused by some kind of mysterious bacterium,
virus or toxin, but is merely a deficiency disease aggravated by the lack
of an essential food compound in modern man's diet. He identified this
compound as part of the nitriloside
family, which occurs abundantly in nature in over twelve hundred edible
plants and found virtually in every part of the world. It's particularly
prevalent in the seeds of fruits, but also is contained in grasses, maize,
sorghum, millet, cassava, linseed, bitter almonds and many other foods
that generally have been deleted from the menus of modern civilization.
A chronic disease is one, which usually doesn't pass away of
its own accord. A metabolic disease is one, which arises within
the body and isn't transmittable to another person. Cancer therefore is
defined as a chronic, metabolic disease.
Dr. Krebs has pointed out that in the entire
history of medical science there hasn't been one chronic, metabolic disease
that was ever cured and prevented by drugs or mechanical manipulation of
the body. In every case the ultimate solution was found only
in factors relating to adequate nutrition. And he thinks that this is an
important clue as to where to concentrate our scientific curiosity in the
search for a better understanding of cancer.
Animals Natural Instinct:
But there are other clues, as well. Before looking at the more technical
aspects of Dr. Krebs's theory, it's well that we examine some of them.
For example, domesticated pets often seek out certain grasses to eat, even
though they're adequately filled by other foods. This is particularly likely
to happen, if the animals are not well. It's interesting to note that the
grasses selected by instinct are Johnson grass, Tunis grass, Sudan grass
and others that are especially rich in nitrilosides or vitamin B17.
Monkeys and other primates at the zoo, when given a fresh peach or apricot,
will carefully pull away the sweet, fleshy part, crack open the hard pit
and devour the small seed that remains. Instinct compels them to do this,
even though they've never seen that kind of fruit before. These seeds are
one of the most concentrated sources of nitrilosides to be found anywhere
in nature.
Wild bears are great consumers of nitrilosides in their natural diet.
Not only do they seek out berries that are rich in this substance, but
when they kill small grazing animals for their own food, instinctively
they pass over the muscle portions and consume first the viscera and rumen,
which are filled with nitriloside grasses.
In captivity, animals seldom are allowed to eat all the foods of their
instinctive choice. In the San Diego Zoo, for example, the routine diet
for bears, although adequate in volume and nutritious in many other respects,
is almost totally devoid of nitrilosides. In one grotto alone over a six-year
period five bears died of cancer. It was generally speculated by the experts
that a virus had been the cause.
Now, it's highly significant that one never finds cancer in the carcasses
of wild animals killed in the hunt. These creatures contract the disease
only, when they are domesticated by man and forced to eat the foods that
he provides and the scraps from his table.
Dr. George M. Briggs, professor of nutrition at the University of California
has said: "The typical American diet is a national disaster... If I fed
it to pigs or cows without adding vitamins and other supplements, I could
wipe out the livestock industry."
The American Diet:
A brief look at the American diet tells the story. Grocery shelves
now are lined with high-carbohydrate foods that have been processed, refined,
synthesized, artificially flavored and loaded with chemical preservatives.
Some manufacturers even boast of how little real food there is in their
product.
Millet once was the nation's staple grain. It is high in nitriloside
content. But now it's been replaced by wheat, which has practically none
at all. Sorghum cane has been replaced by sugar cane with the same result.
Even our cattle are fed increasingly on quick-growing, low-nitriloside
grasses, so there's less vitamin B17 residue in the meat we eat. In some
places livestock now are being fed a diet containing fifteen percent paper
to fatten them quicker for market.
And so we see that in the past 50 years the foods, that once provided
the American people with ample amounts of natural vitamin B17, gradually
have been pushed aside or replaced altogether by foods almost devoid of
this factor. Significantly it's during this same time span that the cancer
rate has moved steadily upward to the point, where today one out of every
four persons in the United States is destined to contract this disease.
Various Tribes Who Eat Rich-Nitriloside Foods,
Have No Cancer:
The ultimate scientific test of the vitamin theory of cancer would
be to take a large number of people numbering in the thousands and over
a period of many years expose them to a consistent diet of rich-nitriloside
foods and then check the results. Fortunately this already has been done.
In the remote recesses of the Himalaya Mountains between West Pakistan,
India and China there is a tiny kingdom called Hunza. These people
are known world over for their amazing longevity and good health. It's
not uncommon for Hunzakuts to live beyond a hundred years and some even
to a hundred and twenty or more. Visiting medical teams from the outside
world report that there never has been a case of cancer in Hunza.
Although presently accepted science is unable to explain, why these
people should be free of cancer, it's interesting to note that the average
Hunza diet contains over two-hundred times more nitriloside, than the average
American diet. In fact, in that land, where there is no such thing as money,
a man's wealth is measured by the number of apricot trees he owns. And
the most prized of all foods is considered to be the apricot seed. It's
also interesting to learn that when the Hunzakuts leave their secluded
land and adopt the menus of other countries, they soon succumb to the same
diseases and infirmities - including cancer - as the rest of mankind.
The Eskimos are another people that have been observed by medical
teams for many decades and found to be totally free of cancer. The traditional
Eskimo diet is amazingly rich in nitrilosides that come from the residue
in the meat of caribou and other grazing animals and also from the salmon
berry, which grows abundantly in the Arctic areas. When the Eskimo abandons
his traditional way of life and begins to rely on westernized foods, he
becomes even more cancer-prone, than the average American.
There are many other peoples in the world that could be cited with the
same characteristics: the Abkhazians near the Black Sea, the Hopi
and Navajo Indians of North America, certain native populations
in South America and South Africa.
From all races and all regions of the world
the one thing they have in common is that the degree, to which these people
are free from cancer, is in direct proportion to the amount of nitrilosides
or vitamin B17 found in their native diet.
In answer to this the skeptic may argue that these primitive groups
aren't exposed to the same cancer-producing elements that modern man is
and perhaps that's why they're immune. Let them breathe the same smog-filled
air, smoke the same cigarettes, swallow the same chemicals added to their
food or drinking water, use the same soaps or deodorants and then see,
how they fare! This, of course, is a valid point. But fortunately even
that question now has been resolved by experience.
Thousands Of People Have Altered Their Diet
Accordingly:
For over two decades there has been a steadily growing group of people,
who have accepted the vitamin theory of cancer and who have altered their
diets accordingly. They represent all walks of life, all ages, both sexes
and reside in almost every advanced nation in the world. It's estimated
that there are many thousands in the United States alone.
Now it's true that there's no way to determine their exact number or
to conduct clinical examinations on each of them. But they do constitute
a rather well defined group that is both vocal and conspicuous. It's significant
therefore that after starting and maintaining a diet rich in vitamin B17
none of these people has ever been known to contract cancer.
Now let's repeat that statement! While their fellow citizens are suffering
from cancer at the rate of one out of every four, not one of these thousands
has ever been known to contract this dread disease.
For many persons the logic of all these facts put together is so great
that it would be easy to close the case right here. But in view of the
powerful opposition against this concept let's not content ourselves only
with the logic of the theory! Let's reinforce our convictions with the
science of the theory also, that we may understand, why it works the way,
our logic tells us that it must.
In 1902 John Beard, a professor of embryology
at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, reported that there
were no discernible differences between highly malignant cancer cells and
certain pre-embryonic cells that were quite normal in the early stages
of pregnancy. In technical terms these normal cells are called trophoblasts.
Extensive research had led Professor Beard to the conclusion that cancer
and trophoblast are in fact one and the same. His theory therefore is known
as the trophoblastic thesis of cancer.
The trophoblast in pregnancy indeed does exhibit all the classical characteristics
of cancer. It spreads and multiplies rapidly, as it eats its way into the
uterus wall preparing a place, where the embryo can attach itself for maternal
protection and nourishment.
The trophoblast is formed as a result of a chain reaction starting with
another cell identified as the diploid totipotent. For our purposes let's
call this simply the "total-life" cell, because it contains within
it all the separate characteristics of the complete organism and has the
total capacity to evolve into any organ or tissue or for that matter into
the complete embryo itself.
About eighty percent of these total-life cells are located in the ovaries
or testes, where they serve as a genetic reservoir for future offspring.
The rest of them are distributed elsewhere in the body for a purpose not
yet fully understood, but which may involve the regenerative or healing
process of damaged tissue.
The hormone estrogen is well known for its ability to effect
changes in living tissue. Although it's generally thought of as a female
hormone, it's found in both sexes and performs many vital functions. Wherever
the body is damaged either by physical trauma, chemical action or illness,
estrogen always appears in great quantities, possibly serving as a stimulator
or catalyst for body repair.
It's now known that the total-life cell is triggered into producing
trophoblast, when it comes into contact with estrogen. When this happens
to those total-life cells that have evolved from the ferilized egg, the
result is a placenta and umbilical cord, a means of nourishing the embryo.
But when it occurs non-sexually as part of the general healing process,
the result is cancer.
When cancer begins to form, the body reacts by attempting to seal it
off and surrounding it with cells that are similar to those in the location,
where it occurs. A bump or lump is the usual result. Under microscopic
examination most of these tumors are found to resemble a mixture or hybrid
of both trophoblast and surrounding cells; a fact, which has led many researchers
to the premature conclusion that there are many different types of cancer.
But the degree, to which various tumors appear to be different, is the
same degree, to which they're benign; which means that it's the degree,
to which there are non-cancerous cells within it.
The greater the malignancy, the more these tumors begin to resemble
each other and the more clearly they begin to take on the classic characteristics
of pregnancy trophoblast. And the most malignant of all cancers, the chorionepitheliomas,
are almost indistinguishable from trophoblast cells. For, as Dr. Beard
pointed out over seventy years ago, they're one and the same.
Let's turn now to the question of defense mechanisms! Before we can
hope to conquer cancer, first we must understand, how nature conquers cancer,
how nature protects the body and controls the growth of trophoblast cells.
White Blood Cells:
All animals contain billions of white blood cells. One of the functions
of these cells is to attack and destroy anything that is foreign and harmful
to our bodies. For this reason it would seem logical that they would attack
cancer cells, also. But since cancer is trophoblast and since trophoblast
is not foreign to the body, but is in fact a vital part of the life cycle,
nature has provided it with a very effective means of avoiding the white
cells.
One of the characteristics of the trophoblast is that it's surrounded
by a thin protein coating that carries a negative electrostatic charge.
The white cells also have a negative charge. And since similar polarities
repel each other, the trophoblast is well protected.
Enzymes:
Part of the solution to this problem is found in the pancreas, which
secretes an enzyme called trypsin.
When this enzyme reaches the trophoblast in sufficient quantity, it digests
the protective protein coat. The cancer then is exposed to the attack of
the white cells and it dies.
Applying this to the embryo we find that the trophoblast cells there
continue to grow and spread right up to the eighth week. And then suddenly
with no apparent reason they stop growing and are destroyed. Recent research
has provided the explanation. It's in the eighth week that the baby's pancreas
begins to function.
Now it's significant that the upper intestines
- near the point, where the pancreas empties into it - is the one place
in the human body, where cancer is almost never found.
We note also that diabetics - those, who suffer
from a pancreas malfunction - are three times more likely to contract cancer,
than non-diabetics. These facts, which have puzzled medical
investigators for years, at last can be explained in light of the trophoblastic
thesis of cancer.
But what happens, if the pancreas is weak or if the rate of cancer growth
is so high that the enzyme trypsin can't keep up with it? Then what?
The answer is that nature has provided a backup mechanism, a second
line of defense, that can do the job, even if the first line should fail.
It involves a unique chemical compound that poisons the malignant cell,
while nourishing all the rest. And this is, where the vitamin concept of
cancer finally comes back into the picture.
The chemical compound in question, of course, is vitamin B17, which
is found in those natural foods containing nitrilosides. It's known also
as amygdalin and as such has been used and studied extensively for
well over a hundred years. But in its concentrated and purified form developed
by Dr. Krebs specifically for cancer therapy it is known as Laetrile.
For the sake of clarity in this presentation, however, we shall favor the
more simple name: vitamin B17.
The B17 molecule contains two units of sugar, one of benzaldehyde
and one of cyanide, all tightly locked together within it. Now,
as everyone knows, cyanide can be highly toxic and even fatal, if taken
in sufficient quantity. However, locked as it is in this natural state,
it's completely inert chemically and has absolutely no effect on living
tissue.
There is only one substance that can unlock this molecule and release
the cyanide. That substance is an enzyme called beta-glucosidase,
which we shall call the "unlocking enzyme". When B17 comes in contact with
this enzyme, not only is the cyanide released, but also the benzaldehyde,
which is highly toxic by itself. In fact, these two working together are
at least one hundred times more poisonous, than either of them separately.
The unlocking enzyme is not found to any dangerous degree anywhere in the
body, except at the cancer cell, where it always is present in great quantity.
The result is that vitamin B17 is unlocked at the cancer cell. It becomes
poisonous to the cancer cell and only to the cancer cell.
There's another important enzyme called rhodanese, which we shall
identify as the "protecting enzyme. The reason is that it has the ability
to neutralize cyanide by converting it instantly into by-products that
actually are beneficial and essential for health. This enzyme is found
in great quantities in every part of the body, except the cancer cell,
which consequently is not protected.
Here then is a biochemical process that destroys cancer cells, while
at the same time nourishes and sustains non-cancer cells. It's an intricate
and perfect mechanism of nature that simply couldn't have been accidental.
Carcinogens:
There's much speculation today about carcinogens, the things that supposedly
cause cancer. We're told that researchers now have proven that smoking
or excessive exposure to the sun or chemical additives to our food or even
certain viruses all can cause cancer. But as we have seen, the real
cause is an enzyme and vitamin deficiency. These other things merely
are the specific triggers that start the process.
Anything that producess prolonged stress or damage to the body can trigger
off the production of estrogen as a part of the healing process. If this
goes unchecked, because the body lacks the necessary chemical ingredients
to fight back, then the result is cancer.
Specific carcinogens therefore do not cause
cancer. They merely determine, where it's going to occur.
Combination Of Defense Against Cancer:
Of course, nature's defenses against cancer include more, than just
the pancreatic enzymes and vitamin B17. Research has shown that an important
role also may be played by other enzymes, other
vitamins, oxygenation of the blood, pH levels and even body temperature.
Vitamin B17 seems to be the most vital and direct-acting of all these factors,
but none of them can be ignored, for they're an interlocking part of
the total natural mechanism.
Fortunately, it's not necessary for man to understand fully every theoretical
aspect of this mechanism, in order to make it work for him in practice.
All that he really needs to know is the necessity of eating foods rich
in all the vitamins and minerals and of minimizing damage or stress to
the body.
The reality of the vitamin B17 concept of cancer has been proven in
the laboratory beyond any doubt. For example, Dr. Dean Burk, head of
the Cytochemistry Section of the National Cancer Institute, has reported
that in a series of tests on animal tissue the B17 had no effect on normal
cells, but released so much cyanide and benzaldehyde, when it came in contact
with cancer cells that not one of them could survive. He said: "When
we add Laetrile to a cancer culture under the microscope, we can see the
cancer cells dying off like flies."
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