Health and Nutrition: My Secret Drink

I just love doing research. This was interesting.

Certain kinds of foods contain chemicals that can also help destroy cancer cells. This second line of defense against cancer is made up of these compounds called NITRILOSIDES. For example, amygdalin is a nitriloside contained in apricot kernels, apple seeds, grape seeds, grasses, and other foods. Nitrilosides work like this:

Cancer cells contain an enzyme called BETA-GLUCOSIDASE that converts nitrilosides into two molecules of GLUCOSE, one molecule of BENZALDEHYDE(extremely toxic to the cancer cell), and one molecule of HYDROGEN CYANIDE (somewhat toxic to the cancer cell). Normal body cells contain the enzyme RHODANESE which converts nitrilosides into food. Only cancer cells contain beta-glucosidase. Thus only cancer cells can convert nitrilosides into benzaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, and the process kills the cancer cells while it only nourishes normal cells! This is a target-specific reaction. It does not adversely affect normal cells.

This is an example of how you would find this in your daily diet.

Common juice recipe 

1/2 lb carrots

1 apple whole

3 cloves garlic

1 stick of celery

This recipe I found dates back to the late 1700's and seems to be a good example of the synergy theory that is current to today as well as the information above.

Looking forward to doing more research on this.