Anybody familiar with vitamin B17?

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I’m currently reading ‘World Without Cancer’ from G. Edward Griffin. I’m skeptical of the deficiency hypothesis, but I did encounter some interesting findings that I could use some perspective on.

So, B17 / laetrile / amygdalin breaks down into three parts in the human body. One part is hydrogen cyanide. According to the ‘laetrilists’ the cyanide is detoxified by rhodanese / thiosulfate transferase (TST). Rhodanese is expressed by mitochondria in healthy human cells and underexpressed in cancer cells (I could find some scientific backing for this, but not overwhelming). So the hypothesis is that cancer cells are destroyed by the hydrogen cyanide, while healthy cells detoxify the hydrogen cyanide into thiocyanate.

Thiocyanate, that sounded familiar. Why? Because of isothiocyanates. Recently a lot of papers are published on broccoli sprouts as ‘green chemo’. The most abundant isothiocyanate (sulfuraphane) in broccoli sprouts has downstream anti-cancer effects.

Since iso indicates a different configuration, I assume it should be possible to convert thiocyanates into isothiocaynates for a double anti-cancer whammy. But my bio-chemistry is not sufficient to really find proof for this.

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