The Vitamin T Complex

Vitamin T was first discovered as a factor in meal worms and termites, thereby the designation of “T” factor.¹

Small monkeys soon die in captivity unless fed meal worms. The source of vitamin T for human use seems confined to sesame seed and sesame seed oil. The human family appears to be able to get along in a way without much vitamin T, although its use in supplementing baby food is very outstanding; the effect on infants whose progress had been subnormal was such as to indicate “that an avitaminosis had been abolished.” There were more consistent weight gains, some exceeding the physiological rate. There was a 15% increase in hemoglobin. Livid skin became normal, muscle tone was very definitely improved.

In test animals, a low protein diet caused a 23% death rate, where the same diet with vitamin T complex promoted a 100% survival.²

Vitamin T seems to synergize with riboflavin and pantothenic acid.^2b This might put it into the class of an adrenal supporter. Its effects as above listed confirm this (the effect on livid skin capillaries and on muscle tone).

Vitamin T: Physical Properties

1. A Complex soluble in water and dilute alcohol (and in oil to a degree).³
2. Not affected by ultraviolet light.²
3. Survives heat up to 120° C.³

Sources:

Meal worms, termites, sesame seed. The insect gets its vitamin T by splitting yeast factors which otherwise show no vitamin T activity. Apparently the human digestive enzymes fail to release vitamin T like those of the insect from such sources. (Fungus, non-chlorophyll plants, yeasts, etc).

Physiological Action:

Increases blood platelets. Twenty drops a day of sesame oil administered to healthy children doubles the platelet count in three to four weeks.¹

Therapeutic Uses:

(ADJUVANT IN TREATING)³

Infantile Anorexia

Celiac Disease (Remarkably Effective)

Rickets (Potentiates Vitamin D)

Osteoporosis (Potentiates Vitamin D)

Paralysis (Infantile)

Paresis (Infantile)

Poliomyelitis

Acute Pseudo-paralytic Myasthenia

Muscular Dystrophy

Pituitary Cachexia

Pituitary Obesity

Sexual Neurasthenia

Dermatoses such as infantile eczema, psoriasis, burns, allergic dermatitis.

 

Local application of sesame oil was found beneficial in burns and frostbite to produce rapid healing. The “effectiveness is notable where it is desired to accelerate cellular growth.”³

Test animals can tolerate the inhalation of histamine for three times the period otherwise effective for disablement if supplied with vitamin T.⁴

We here have the probable secret of the vitamin T function for the platelet is the carrier of histamine in the blood. Without active platelets, histamine cannot be picked up and disposed of. (This function has been attributed to the platelet).⁵

In shock, whether anaphylactic, surgical, traumatic, or from burns, histamine rise in the blood has been considered responsible for serious reactions and death.⁶ In the toxemia of pregnancy, blood histamine has become much augmented,⁷ and is considered a causative factor.

In thrombocytopenic purpura the blood platelets are much reduced, and the spleen has been found responsible.⁸ It is highly probable that thrombocytopenic purpura is a state of acute vitamin T deficiency. The relation to spleen function may mean that spleen disease, enlargement, etc., is also a vitamin T deficiency.⁹

The blood platelets are considered as probable carriers of tissue determinants.¹⁰ That would explain the need for platelets to catalyze the formation of thrombin in blood coagulation.

It would explain the various effects of vitamin T through its promotion of an increase in platelet numbers in blood.^11a The speeding of repair and healing. The improvement in growth rate and food assimilation in infants. Since the enzymatic dissolution of these determinant factors (protomorphogens) is followed by a release of histamine, the association of histamine with platelets is clear. In any cause of shock there is tissue damage and a release of these determinants. Unless an ample supply of platelets is present to isolate and pick up these determinants, the histamine formed can be fatal. In the cell cytoplasm (within the cell) the counterpart of the blood platelet is the mitochondria granules, and the mitochondria are known to be carriers of histamine.^11b

Mitochondria are disintegrated by X-ray¹² and are carriers of determinants (protomorphogens) like platelets (of chromosome origin), being the cytoplasmic source of blueprints to guide cell morphology, which explains how X-ray can cause changes in hereditary pattern; explains how X-ray can cure cancer (by releasing determinants to promote natural tissue growth which if vigorous, digests and overcomes cancer); how X-ray can cause cancer (by releasing determinants that then are taken up by the reticuloendothelial system and create natural tissue antibodies that now destroy and oppose the normal tissue growth and repair).

This reversible effect of X-ray is a common one with drugs, especially those administered by injection. If an antibody is formed, the next dose will be a possibly violent reversal of the normally expected effect. (We here recommend the study of a new book, Who Is Your Doctor and Why?, by Alonzo Jay Shadman, M.D., who disagrees with the official medical opinion that injectable remedies are justified. He gives us scientific evidence of the futility of smallpox vaccination, blood transfusions, polio vaccines, etc. He also exposes medical rackets in general. Every doctor should have this book written by a medical authority, on approval from us, $6.95.)

All this adds up to the presumption that vitamin T is a very important factor, that it maintains our stamina and resistance to stress and shock.

Turkey is one country where sesame seed products are a long established part of the food pattern. Tahini, a liquefied sesame butter, is used as we use butter or lard. How much stamina have the Turkish people? Here is a report on Turkish soldiers in Korea.

Major William E. Mayer, an Army psychiatrist, in an interview reported by U. S. News and World Report (1956) said that one third of U. S. prisoners taken by Communists in Korea yielded to Communist brainwashing and “caved in without even being subjected to physical torture.” Major Mayer studied for four years the case histories of nearly one thousand G. I. captives. He said one-third of our men in enemy hands died. But in the case of our allies, the Turkish soldiers, “several hundred held under approximately identical conditions survived almost to a man.”

Major Mayer, of course, was at a loss to explain this difference. He said that physically, the Turks were no better than our men. “They certainly were not, at the outset, in better physical condition than the American Soldier.” But our soldiers “lost even the will to live. He would crawl off in a corner, refuse to eat, and–without having any disease whatever–simply die.” (Remember the lack of appetite in the baby needing vitamin T?)

Another third of our men turned Communist, became sympathizers¹³ or collaborators during their stay in the prison camp. But not one of the Turks was influenced to admit any change of belief, or lost confidence in his cause.

Maybe the old Roman custom of using cakes of sesame seed and honey as an emergency ration for soldiers has more to it than we thought. They did know from experience that a man could travel farther on a given weight of that food than on anything else. The mental stamina in a soldier is as important as the physical. Too many people give up in an emergency long before they are actually physically unable to carry on. It might be said civilization itself has been maintained by people who had that characteristic–the unwillingness to surrender to any odds whatever.

The fact that there are so many people in Turkey over one hundred years old may possibly be another effect of sesame seed and its vitamin T.

 

References Cited:

1. Schiff, E., Herschberger, C., Jol. A.M.A. 110, 3:244, 1938. (Abstract)
2. Goetsch, W. Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau, 1(3):115-118, 1948.
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8. Troland & Lee, Jol. A.M.A., Feb. 5, 1944, p. 444.
9. Kracke, R. R., Diseases of the Blood, Lippincott, 1941, p. 97.
10. Lee & Hansen, Protomorphology, Lee Foundation, Milwaukee.
11. (a) Copenhaver, Nagler & Goth, 1953, Fed. Proc. 12, 314. (b) Histamine, 1956, Little Brown & Co. p. 25.
12. Otto Warburg, The Metabolism of Tumors, Richard R. Smith, Inc., New York.