What I'm saying is pretty straightforward: you are making unsubstantiated and absurd claims.

I think Ralph is correct, that there is no evidence of a cyanide pathway in vivo (in our bodies) but it turns out there is a cyanide pathway to synthetic vitamin C that was explored during the early efforts to find the best way to synthesize it.

I stumbled across the book VITAMIN C: Its Chemistry and Biochemistry by Michael B. Davies, John Austin, and David A. Partridge. On page 57,


Again, I don't see any relevance to reactions within our bodies, and the following is interesting:


And on a different topic, the books describes the chemistry of ascorbic acids first oxidation product - dehydroascorbic acid (DHA) (Which still has reduction properties). It is interesting that one of the several substances listed that recycle DHA back into AA is cysteine.

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Yes! They are out there and they walk among us. < Quote from "The outer limits."


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I've been thinking outside the box for 64 years.

What supports the notion that there is a cyanide pathway to ascorbic acid synthesis in humans?

Where are YOU going to get your supplements when they are no longer available?

If you acknowledge the box, your thinking is already constrained.

I am switching over to the apricot kernals.My thought is the bean lectins are much too toxic.Thanks and I hope this helps.Maybe 2 or 3 apricot kernals throughout each day should be enough.Van

What's the current info on this? Looks like it slowed to a stop, been a while since a post!

Cyanide Pathway to ascorbic acid synthesis in a Pfizer plant
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1021 ... 0200.ch001

"The intermediacy of the imino ether was proved by the isolation of 7 when D-glucosone was
treated w i t h potassium cyanide (16). The initial cyanohydrin adduct (3a) easily undergoes cyclization to the imino ether intermediate (aqueous solution for 10 m i n at room temperature, Scheme 5 ) ."

In order for this to work in humans, they would have to be at room temperature.

I know very little about this laetrile stuff, but let me pose a question out of my ignorance. As I understand it, in cancer therapy, the laetrile is supposed to travel to the tumor cells where it releases the cyanide to kill the tumor cells. At least I think that is what is claimed.

If something like this occurs, is it plausible that laetrile provides a vitamin C sparing service so that in people with high vitamin C demand, it may appear as if it were synthesized???

I cannot grasp the synthesis idea, but some vitamin C sparing activity seems plausible.

Every molecule runs a gamut from electron donating to electron accepting depending on their relative electro negativity.

Any number of molecules spar vitamin C.

I think this thread should continue.The benefits of Vitamin B17 are very apparent.Look what it does for the Hunza people.Thanks,Van

Van what happened to you using olive leaf to repair your GLO?

Keep an open mind, but never so much that your brain falls out.

The olive leaf if nothing else is vitamin C sparing.Being powerfully antioxidant it allows vitamin C to do its over 3000 other jobs in our body.By the way olive leaf has trace amounts of cyanide.Thanks,Van

I have been bothered with gastric runaway(bloating and flatulence).Nothing gave much relief so in desperation I tried one apricot kernal.I seconds I felt relief.How long this effect lasts I don't know but I plan to have more kernals available when needed.Try this to see if it works for you.Thanks,Van