Vitamin B15 – Pangamic Acid

Description

Like B17, it too was discovered by Dr. E.T. Krebs, Jr. while exploring the chemical properties of apricot kernels in 1952. It could be said that it was an unexpected bonus or by-product of the search for vitamin B17. “The best way to understand the effect of vitamin B15 is to think of it as instant oxygen‖ says Dr. Krebs. ―It increases the oxygen efficiency of the entire body and aids in the detoxification of waste products. Since cancer cells do not thrive in the presence of oxygen but depend rather on fermentation of glucose, it is probable that B15, indirectly, is an enemy of cancer”.

In 1965 the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences released a 205-page symposium of its findings up to that date. In 1968 the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Health unanimously ratified all the original claims in the report and authorised the Soviet drug industry to begin mass-production of B15 for general use. It has been reported that the Russian athletes have been given heavy doses of B15 during their participation at the Olympics. If this is true, there is good reason for it. Experiments have shown that this substance, although just a natural food factor, greatly increases physical strength and stamina. When rats were put into tubs of water and forced to swim, those that had received vitamin B15 were all still swimming long after the others had fatigued and drowned. When other rats were put into glass chambers from which oxygen gradually was removed, those that had received vitamins lived much longer—thus on less oxygen—than the control group.

The Soviet scientists disclosed that vitamin B15 is effective in such areas as circulatory problems, heart conditions, elevated blood cholesterol, skin disorders, hardening of the arteries, bronchial asthma, diabetes mellitus, and wound healing. They were especially emphatic in their findings that B15 was effective in retarding the ageing process! Professor Shpirt of the City Clinical Hospital No. 60 in Moscow concluded: ―I believe the time will come when there will be calcium pangamate (B15) next to the salt shaker on the table of every family with people past forty.‖
For a detailed analysis of these findings, see Vitamin B15 (Pangamic Acid); Properties, Functions, and Use. (Moscow: Science Publishing House, 1965), translated and reprinted by McNaughton Foundation, Sausalito, Calif.