I went to the hippie-dippie health food store to buy fixins for gluttony-resistant almond butter and came across something magical.

Apricot cyanide

I know what it says on the label, but I’d had them before so it’s not like I’m going to read it.

Apricot pips!!! If you are not aware, the pip is the little nut inside an apricot pit. They are what amaretto is made from and they taste just like it: bitter and sweet, and amazingly fragrant. These little wonders are lovely and amazing and after putting them in some of my not-almond-butter almond butter to make not-amaretto not-almond-butter almond butter, I sat down to have a snack.

The celery, as is its eternal place, was merely the vessel. Deliciously less-terrible for you not-almond butter was the glue, then coconut butter crumbled while cacao nibs danced on top and the whole thing was perfectly presented by a darling row of pip after pip after pip!

Apricot cyanide

Look at the little almondy lovelies!

2/3 of the way down the log, my mouth went numb. It happens sometimes with fresh pineapple, but was more pronounced with the pips, so I googled, realizing I was a little dizzy as well.

This is the amount of pips that are lethal to 50% of ladies my size:

Apricot cyanide

Apricot pips are lethal to humans because they contain cyanide and cyanide makes you die. That was an alarming discovery and that is not very many pips, so I tried to remember how many I’d eaten (as I said, they are delicious!). I figured about 15, and also figured I would be fine, dizziness and stomachache notwithstanding.

To the rescue came Bulletproof Coconut charcoal, not just for accidental poisonings! It’s also good for absorbing “flavenoids” from endogenous gas.

Apricot cyanide

In conclusion, try not to be a glutton like me, and understand that everything has a dose…

j

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  1. Interesting experience you had. Not at all uncommon with large first time dosage. There is a serious numbing and painkilling effect. I have grown wild apricots in South Dakota for over 10 years. Usually just for making delicious wine from the fruit. But it is the pips I am after. Are you aware of the cancer prevention/curative effects. The usual preventive dosage is said to be one pip per 10 lbs of body weight per day. For active growth cancers 20-30 pips per day are recommended. This should take less than one month. This therapy does not work well on slow growth cancers like some prostate. I love your aerial performances. Keep up the good work.

  2. On a further note, The lethal dosage estimate you presented may be an urban myth. I have personally ingested 5-30 wild apricot pips per day for over 10 years with no adverse effects – except that I remain cancer free. I am told that the Cyanide-Benzaldehyde (yes, they are both present in apricot pips) are harmlessly linked to remain inactive until reaching a cancer site. They are normally digested in the inactive state and only separate into their lethal components in the presence of cancer cells – which then die. This is the herbal equivalent of targeted chemo-therapy! Check it out.

  3. So … I think I got some of that incorrect – just a layman’s way of sharing some important insights. Please check out the bio-chemistry and let me know. Memory becomes less reliable with age. LOL

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