Apricot kernels don't cure cancer, and they might poison you

Twice, Jason Vale was diagnosed with cancers that should have killed him. But 30 years after the first tumor was found in his chest when he was 18, Vale is still alive. The reason for his survival is not chemo, radiation, cancer drugs, or surgery, Vale claims. He says he owes his life to a controversial natural product that’s been making headlines for years: apricot seeds.

Vale first learned about the seeds when he was 25 and was diagnosed with renal cell carcinoma, a common type of kidney cancer. He refused any medical treatment and he says he only treated himself with the kernels, eating up to 40 a day. "When I ate the seeds, my tumor shrunk down and when I stopped eating the seeds the tumor grew," Vale said in a voice message sent...