Well, I guess technically, Natural News, Mercola, or Food Babe can claim that the Apricot kernels can kill the cancer cells, they just take the whole patient with it. This guy was just lucky.. for now...
...After conducting a battery of tests, doctors were stunned to find high levels of cyanide in the man's blood, reports Andrew Masterson for Cosmos. Yes cyanide, the poison that can kill a person in minutes if taken in high-enough doses. Luckily for the patient, the poison was present in "moderate" amounts: 1.6 milligrams of cyanide per liter of the man's blood. This is below the 2.5 milligrams per liter mark that can put a person into a permanent coma, Masterson reports.....
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And the amazing part at the end.. Apparently it took brain cells out first.
The man at the center of this case was allowed to leave the hospital. But despite all of the evidence presented to him, he has decided to continue on self-treating with apricot kernels, reports Potenza.
