Biography
Krebs was born in Carson City, Nevada, on May 17, 1911. His father was Ernst Theodore Krebs, Sr. (September 26, 1876 - January 25, 1970), a physician who promoted a syrup as treatment for various ailments which was later deemed fraudulent, seized, and destroyed, and later promoted the enzyme chymotrypsin as a cancer remedy. Krebs, Jr. would ultimately work closely with his father in promoting Laetrile and pangamic acid.
Krebs attended Hahnemann Medical College for three years, including one year spent repeating the first year but was expelled. Krebs later attended college in various states including Mississippi, California and Tennessee and ultimately received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Illinois. Although he claimed to have a Ph. D. from the University of Illinois, and his supporters often refer to him as "Dr. Krebs," his only doctoral degree was an honorary degree from the now defunct American Christian College in Tulsa, OK, which was a small bible college not accredited to award any advanced degrees. He would later spend two years doing graduate work in anatomy, but was dismissed for "his pursuit of what was deemed unorthodox."
He died at his home in San Francisco, California on September 8, 1996. He was not related to Hans Adolf Krebs, the biochemist known for discovering the Krebs cycle.
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