Thursday, August 13, 2015

Vitamin B-17 or laetrile

Question: What is vitamin B-17?

Answer: vitamin B-17 is another name of "laetrile", a substance found in plant especially seeds were used to make products for cancer treatment in some countries.
But it has not been tested the effectiveness of the treatment in cancer patients and has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration of U.S.A.
Moreover, the research published in The New England Journal of Medicine in 1982 that laetrile is not effective in the treatment of cancer. And there is a danger of cyanide, which is released from that substance.

Vitamin B-17 is not essential vitamin to the human body in any way.

Refererences:

http://www.fda.gov/fdac/departs/2001/201_irs.html

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