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Czerniak frames this as a return to ancestral eating patterns, citing Native Americans who used Lomatium and the Hunza who eat apricot kernels. He argues that the modern carbohydrate-heavy diet is harmful and that replacing it with seeds, fats, and protein will restore health. He emphasizes that even if the taste is unpleasant, parents must model the behavior so children adopt it. The protocol is not just about adding seeds but fundamentally restructuring the diet away from carbohydrates. He claims that animals instinctively follow this pattern, and humans have deviated to their detriment.

Czerniak describes Lomatium dissectum as a carrot-like plant with yellow or red flower umbels and seeds resembling pumpkin seeds. The whole plant is medicinal, but the root is especially valued. Native Americans used all parts: root decoction for asthma, rheumatism, coughs, colds, flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, and stomach problems; poultices for wounds, ulcers, and boils. Ernst Krebs Sr. identified the antibiotic leptoten in the early 20th century, before penicillin. Despite initial ridicule, his findings were later confirmed by researchers at Ohio Western Reserve University (1948) and the University of Utah Medical School (1953), who demonstrated leptoten’s activity against the influenza virus. Czerniak laments that this knowledge has been scrubbed from the internet and Wikipedia in recent years, which he attributes to pharmaceutical suppression.

Czerniak recounts that Ernst Krebs Jr. isolated vitamin B15 (pangamic acid) and later B17 (amygdalin) and developed laetrile. After animal tests, Krebs Jr. tested it on himself to prove its safety, experiencing no side effects. The speaker claims that his own patients who took laetrile did not suffer cancer pain, thanks to the analgesic benzoic acid released, and saw improvements in blood counts. He presents laetrile as a suppressed cure that would render chemotherapy obsolete, which is why, he argues, it is attacked by the medical establishment.

Czerniak briefly mentions that Ernst Krebs Jr. also extracted vitamin B15, pangamic acid, which he says is significant for cardiovascular diseases. He notes that Russian athletes take it to boost their sports performance, implying it enhances oxygen utilization or endurance, though no mechanism is detailed. This is presented as another example of a natural, unpatentable substance that is ignored or suppressed in the West.

Czerniak argues that in normal epidemics the very young and old die, but the Spanish flu disproportionately killed people in their prime. He labels it “Rockefeller flu” to imply that the Rockefeller family or pharmaceutical interests were behind it, possibly as a pretext to promote patented medicines. He contrasts this with the Native American use of Lomatium root decoction, which he says was effective against the flu, suggesting that natural remedies were suppressed then as now. This narrative serves his broader thesis that natural substances are deliberately hidden to protect profits.

Czerniak explains that amygdalin consists of two glucose molecules, benzaldehyde, and a cyanide group. The molecule can only be broken apart by the enzyme beta-glucosidase, which is present in cancer cells at concentrations hundreds of times higher than in normal cells. In the aqueous environment of the cell, the freed benzaldehyde acts as an analgesic and anti-inflammatory, while the cyanide is converted by the enzyme rhodanese (abundant in healthy organs like liver, spleen, endocrine glands) into thiocyanate, a natural blood pressure regulator and precursor to vitamin B12. He claims this explains why his patients did not suffer pain despite avoiding narcotic painkillers, and why blood morphology improves (higher hemoglobin and red cell count). He cites a 1933 mouse study showing cyanide increased erythrocytes. This mechanism, he argues, makes amygdalin a precise, non-toxic cancer treatment that also normalizes gut flora and oral bacteria.

Czerniak claims that animals in the wild consume bitter apricot kernels and similar seeds. If they fail to do so, they develop tooth decay and tumors, which makes eating painful, leading to weakness and eventual predation. This, he says, is natural selection at work—the sick become the prey. He uses this to argue that humans, by abandoning bitter seeds, have removed a crucial dietary component, resulting in modern diseases. He also speculates that the toxicity of seeds to birds (e.g., chickens die if they eat too many) is an evolutionary defense from the age of reptiles, when flying reptiles might have eaten the seeds, and that mammals later evolved to tolerate small doses.

Czerniak describes how sickle cell hemoglobin (HbS) evolved in Africa as protection against malaria, because the parasite cannot thrive in sickle-shaped cells. However, when people with this trait move to Europe or adopt a Western diet, they stop eating bitter seeds and thus lack dietary cyanide. Without cyanide, he claims, the red cells begin to stick together, leading to blockages, strokes, and clots. He contrasts this with the traditional diet that included bitter apricot kernels, which provided micro-doses of cyanide that kept the cells from clumping. He argues that pharmaceutical companies prefer to sell patented anticoagulants and painkillers rather than promote cheap, unpatentable seeds. He also mentions that quinine (an old malaria remedy) is now found in tonic water, but the focus should be on cyanide from seeds.

Building on his earlier biochemical arguments, Czerniak concludes that the absence of amygdalin-rich foods (bitter apricot kernels, other fruit seeds) from contemporary diets is the root cause of a wide range of modern illnesses. He lists cancer, hypertension, dental caries, rheumatic conditions, and intestinal dysbiosis as direct consequences. He points to the Hunza people, who traditionally eat apricot kernels and routinely live to 80–100 years, as evidence. He also notes that amygdalin normalizes oral and gut flora by reducing Lactobacillus overgrowth and killing anaerobes, which would make antibiotics and proton pump inhibitors unnecessary for ulcers and gastritis—another reason, he says, the medical industry suppresses this knowledge.