A good friend gave me a bag of apricot pits the other day. His uncle, who is battling lymphoma, is using them. Apparently they are a natural source of laetrile (did I spell that correctly?). Some practitioners, including the American FDA, classify them as some sort of poison ’cause they produce cyanide. Notice how I said that; they produce cyanide. The chemistry stuff that I’ve managed to winkle out of the Internet indicates that one of the compounds in the pits, when it comes into contact with one of the sugars in the cancer, combine together to make cyanide, which … Continue reading Apricot Pits