Charlotte Gerson - The Gerson Way - Healing Auto-Immune Diseases

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Acknowledgements

The author gratefully acknowledges the tireless and dedicatedassistance of both Beata Bishop for her able editing of thematerials, and Howard Straus for the mechanical work involvedin turning words into published material. Without their help,the production of these booklets would have beenfar more difficult and time-consuming.

But the real heroes, and the people without whom these booklets

would be impossible are the patients and companions whodid the day-to-day kitchen work associated with healing thesediseases. We are deeply indebted to them for permission to usetheir inspiring stories.

These booklets were prepared under the auspices of the CancerResearch Wellness Network, with generous grants from Mrs.

Faye Joseph, Sting and Mrs. Trudie Styler.

2002, 2004 Charlotte Gerson, all rights reserved.The material contained in the publication is protected by the copyright laws of the United State of America

and cannot be copied, reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever, including, but not limited to,hard copy, optical or electronic forms, without the express, written permission of the author.

Permission to use the Gerson and Gerson Therapy marks has been grantedby the Gerson Institute.

Contact the Gerson Institute to find out more about merchandise, services andeducational programs concerning the Gerson Therapy. The Gerson Institute

may be reached at:toll-free: (888) 4 GERSON (443 7766)

(619) 685 5353www. erson.or


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Healing Autoimmune Diseases The Gerson Way

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Preface

This booklet, one of a series, lays no claim to being a scientific document. What it aims to do isto present, through a number of factual case histories, a novel approach to cancer and otherchronic degenerative diseases that is totally different from the present-day philosophy and

practice of orthodox medicine.

This approach, the Gerson Therapy, has been practiced successfully for over sixty years, oftenachieving healing in so-called incurable cases where all else had failed. Yet until very recently itexisted in relative obscurity. It is only now, when the limitations of modern high-technologymedicine have become painfully obvious, that the potential of a truly holistic, scientificallysound medical modality is attracting growing interest.

What the Gerson Therapy lacks at present is the kind of large-scale research material, yielding asignificant amount of statistics, without which its claims will not be accepted by the medicaland/or academic Establishment. The reasons for this lack are simple. After Dr Gersons death in

1959 the therapy was not practiced anywhere, right until 1977 when it was reactivated byCharlotte Gerson and several physicians in a newly established clinic in Mexico. In those earlydays the only aim was to help as many desperate patients as possible. Although naturally preciserecords were kept, embarking on a systematic research program was not feasible.

Years later, with the therapy running smoothly and attracting growing interest, another obstacleto research has become evident. Patients arrive from all parts of the world to a Gerson facilityin Mexico and after a few weeks return home, where they are supposed to remain on the therapyfor a minimum of two years. In order to compile the results of the treatment in a statisticallymeaningful form, it would be necessary to follow up individual patients scattered all over theglobe, monitor their progress, assess their success or failure, and obtain full medical

documentation of each case.

The non-profit Gerson Institute has never had the funds or the manpower to carry out thisexpensive operation. Clearly, this puts it at a disadvantage from the orthodox medical point ofview, which puts a high value on statistics and on randomized double blind clinical trials. Thelatter are suitable for testing a single new drug or treatment modality, but not a complex, many-faceted system of healing whose every component interacts with all the others. Until this basicdifference is recognized by the critics of the therapy, it will be impossible to engage in ameaningful dialogue.

Hence the present series of booklets contains no statistics. What it offers instead is a number ofauthentic case histories, chosen from a large amount of clinical material. They tell the full,

factual human stories of individuals confronted with life-threatening disease and overcoming iton an unorthodox therapy. Their stories may be dismissed by the strictly scientifically- mindedas anecdotal evidence, but unless the lessons of such individual experiences are properlyevaluated, there can be no hope of true progress in modern medicines fight against todays killerdiseases. Yet progress is badly needed, since some other sets of statistics, those of cancermortality and of the rising tide of new cases, show no sign of improvement. It is time forconventional medicine to search for new paths of healing, and that is what the Gerson therapyhas to offer.


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Introduction

In his last book,A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, Dr. Gerson described the therapyhe developed during the course of his long clinical career to heal cancer, even in its mostadvanced stages. He states in the very first chapter, however, that the therapy he developed

is not only a cancer treatment. It is capable of restoring all the body systems, specificallyincluding the immune system, to their normal function. During the years of his medicalresidency, in his mid-20s, Dr. Gerson suffered from intense and extremely frequentmigraine headaches. He discovered that neither his professors nor specialists were able tohelp him overcome the problem that debilitated him frequently for several days each week.He also refused to follow their advice, to learn to live with it, felt that he absolutely couldnot do that, and decided to find a cure for himself.

His efforts took much time and led him down many false paths until he found an article inan obscure Italian medical journal reporting that a woman migraine sufferer had obtainedrelief by changing her diet. This was an entirely new idea in those years, prior to World War

I. But Dr. Gerson was desperate and willing to try. Using his own body as a test tube, hetried various changes to his diet until he discovered that a vegetarian, salt-free diet kept himfree of migraines.

Following this discovery, and newly established in his practice in the town of Bielefeld(Westphalia, Germany), he counseled other migraine sufferers to try the same approach. Hislife and the direction of his career took a dramatic change when a patient suffering frommigraine headaches reported that his skin tuberculosis had also healed. Dr. Gerson wasskeptical, since skin tuberculosis (lupus vulgaris) was considered an incurable disease. Butthe man produced laboratory proof that, indeed, his lesions had contained tuberculosisgerms.

Subsequently, Dr. Gerson treated a number of additional skin tuberculosis patientssuccessfully with his migraine diet. This treatment was subsequently tested by the famouslung tuberculosis specialist, Dr. Ferdinand Sauerbruch, in Munich, Germany. Prof.Sauerbruch was able to reproduce the therapys success with tuberculosis in a clinical trial:of 450 incurable patients taking part in the study, 446 recovered.

This led Dr. Gerson to work with other tuberculosis patients: some suffering from lungtuberculosis, kidney tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, and other locations wherever theinfection might occur. And they recovered. It also became eminently clear to him that hewas restoring and strengthening the immune system with his dietary treatment since

tuberculosis is caused by a germ, it is an infectious disease.

In spite of increasing opposition by the medical establishment, he started to treat otherdiseases with the same nutritional treatment. It became more and more evident that he wasrestoring the bodys ability to heal itself, and no longer treating, or drugging a disease andits symptoms. It has been almost a century since his first successes with incurable disease,his treatment has shown all over the world that not only advanced cancers can be reversed,but almost all other chronic diseases.


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In general the public is not aware that chronic diseases are considered incurable. Orthodoxmedicine treats and suppresses symptoms; but the disease does not disappear. Usuallypatients suffering from any of the hundreds of chronic diseases are able to function for afairly long time with those drug treatments. If a drug no longer provides relief, the doctor

switches to others, often stronger ones. Or he urges surgery to remove a diseased organ.Still, the disease generally continues to spread.

Why does the bodys immune system fail? Why does it not heal, what are chronic diseases?Essentially, the failures are due to the deterioration of the bodys defenses, the vitamin andmineral deficiencies, and the huge load of toxins that accumulate in the body due to damageto the soil, pesticides and fungicides, use of hormones in raising animals, as well as use ofalcohol, cigarettes, street drugs, and processed foods.

These contain up to 10,000 chemicals, certified to be SAFE by the FDA (Food and DrugAdministration) until such a time when they prove to cause serious toxicity. No chemicals

used in food processing and preserving, and in pesticide treatment are safe. As the body isloaded down with these chemicals, and is nourished with depleted foods from artificiallyfertilized soils, it loses its defenses, deteriorates and sickens.

Obviously, these problems must be reversed in order to restore the system. Howeverorthodox medicine does not accept that idea; doctors treatments suppress symptoms. Tosome extent the patients are to blame: they prefer to take a pill or a shot, even a quicksurgery, and then continue on their damaging lifestyle until it is no longer bearable. It isvery difficult for people to understand that all these degenerative diseases can be prevented.

Healthy organic fruit and vegetables, freshly prepared, work toward that goal. But thesedont fit into the modern lifestyle of fast foods, restaurant meals, canned, pickled, preserved,boxed and frozen foods, social drinking and smoking. More seriously, people feel that theyhave eaten those things, smoked and used alcohol for years and feel fine! They do notunderstand that, little by little, the body breaks down and they are not willing to changethis situation until, as Dr. Gerson put it, the knife is at their throat.

The patients reports in the last part of this booklet illustrate how far gone many patients arebefore they look for more effective treatments than pills or shots.

And another question arises: why the different diseases? There are several answers to thatquestion. One reason could be heredity: an especially weak organ or system. Another reasonis often accidents with resulting scar tissue and areas of weakness. Then, and mostfrequently, we are dealing with germ and especially viral infections. Since about the middleof World War II, around 1943, antibiotics have been used. Doctors have severely overusedthem, already on children with infections and fevers. Mothers expect their pediatricians tohelp their child over the fever and get rid of the infection. This is understandable; howeverthe antibiotics often just knock the bugs down, not out. Not only that, but all antibiotics are,at least to some extent, toxic. So the childs immune system is further damaged andweakened by antibiotics, causing infections to recur more and more frequently.


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Another problem as a result is that the germs have developed a resistance to the antibioticsand doctors have to use more and stronger ones. Even so, as we know, a new generation ofgerms has developed: the superbugs. Tuberculosis, for example, is coming back in forcesince the superbugs no longer respond to antibiotics!

Still another calamity has developed since World War II: the pesticides and fungicides havealso been used since about 1943, starting with DDT. Within about 18 months, it wasreported that DDT could be found in meat, in butter, in milk, and even in mothers milk. Aswe know, embryos and infants are much more sensitive to these highly poisonoussubstances and are more seriously damaged than older people whose livers have alreadydeveloped. Worse, the pesticides have caused pests to become resistant, and in order tocontrol them, more toxic and stronger ones have had to be developed. In other words, we arenow raising the second and third generation of children damaged already in utero and as tinyinfants, by more and more powerful pesticides. This partly explains the terrible statistic thatcancer, a disease that used to be associated with aging and degeneration, is now the No. 1

killer of children under 17!

Returning to the damaging lifestyle discussed above, we weaken the immune system notonly with agricultural poisons, damaged foods and addictive substances, but withoccupational toxins, e.g.: the carpenter who uses paints, solvents, glues containingformaldehyde; or the artist whose materials are very toxic, or the garage mechanic whohandles toxic solvents aside from fuels. The list goes on and on.

Toxins are contained in a large number of household cleaning substances. And we useunderarm deodorants containing aluminum that enters the blood stream, bleaches or dyes onhair that quickly enter the blood stream through the highly vascularized (containing manyblood vessels) scalp. Other aluminum sources are often blamed for the onset of Alzheimersdisease. In order to heal, all these things have to be eliminated from the patientssurroundings, foods and intake.

Returning once again to the immune system: it is part of various body organ systems andneeds to be nourished with the best, fresh organic foods and juices, and kept free of toxins.Since all animal proteins (milk, meat, fish, poultry, eggs, cheese) are heat damaged, they arepoorly absorbed and not truly nourishing. The human body is designed for vegetarian foodsand is unable, especially as it ages, to handle the large amounts of proteins that are part ofthe modern Standard American Diet (SAD). And if the body deteriorates with age, itslowly becomes incapable of digesting the damaged foods. If the body has already failedand immune problems have taken hold, the Gerson Therapy with its high levels of nutrientsand its intensive detoxification has proved to be the answer: the patients heal.

Why Autoimmune Diseases?

It is assumed that with Autoimmune Disease the persons immune system has been soaltered that it doesnt recognize the self from diseased tissue, germs and/or viruses.Actually, it is assumed that the altered immune system attacks the bodys normal healthy


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tissue. That is not true; the immune system only attacks diseased or damaged tissue.Looking up autoimmunity in the Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, one can read thatautoimmunity is formed when viruses or trauma changes cells so that they appear foreign.That makes more sense. Since the Gerson Therapy restores and raises the immune system, ifthe immune system were already overactive, the Therapy would worsen the condition! But it

does not. So, we have to assume that the body becomes capable of restoring the damagedcells so that they no longer appear foreign and are no longer the subject of attack by thebodys own immune system. And the disease disappears.

The dictionary also gives a long list of diseases considered to be autoimmune. This is aninteresting statement, implying that the idea is not really a proven fact. The list contains thefollowing diseases; hemolytic anemia, myasthenia gravis, chronic thyroiditis (see the case ofGay Mau, below) Graves disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (see Avrill Bishop andBarbara Cleaver, below) rheumatoid arthritis (Penny Martin, Deanna Powell and SusanAdams); multiple sclerosis (John Stout). The true cause of all types of arthritis is the excessof animal proteins we eat. These form as the end product of their digestion uric acid. If the

body is no longer able to excrete these masses of generated uric acid, they irritate thedelicate membranes and cartilage lining the joints and inflammation, pain, and lumpsappear. Multiple sclerosis is a breakdown of the myelin sheaths that provide insulation forthe nerves.

The nerves have to carry electrical messages from all parts of the body to the brain andback. They are protected by the insulation of these sheaths. However in cases of multiplesclerosis, the sheaths have ulcerations, interruptions of the insulation. We understand thatthis causes shorts to develop and messages are no longer carried at all or are distorted. Theulcerations may well be caused by germs and/or viruses even though the medical booksclaim that the cause of MS is poorly understood. Nevertheless, once they assume that it isan autoimmune disease, they feel they can best treat it by killing the immune system,which they do by treating MS patients with chemotherapy drugs.

These drugs have never helped MS patients, have only caused further damage. The orthodoxphysicians have done the same with rheumatoid arthritis, namely used chemotherapy todestroy the immune system they assumed was causing the disease. With that approach, too,the results were disastrous.

You will note that we have also included a few other straight immune deficiency diseases such aschronic fatigue. This booklet also contains cases suffering from infections that were not overcomefor long periods of time, with extensive use of antibiotics. Chronic fatigue used to be calledEpstein- Barr and was recognized to be an invasion of the Epstein- Barr virus that the body wasunable to overcome. However, in the meantime, it has been found that other viruses may also beinvolved. That caused the name to be changed to chronic fatigue. It is not curable by orthodoxmedicine. Overcoming these diseases proves that the Gerson Therapy is not limited to one type ofimmune disturbance. When you truly heal, everything heals.


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The Nutritional Healing Therapy of

Max Gerson, M.D.

In order to help the body, with the liver as its major healing organ, to restore and heal, a

number of life-style factors have to be radically changed. The first thing is the elimination ofall animal proteins. This is a shocker for most people who are trained and imbued with theidea that proteins (in their minds, animal proteins) have to be part of their diet to promotenormal health and tissue repair. More and more evidence is accumulating that the humanbody is not designed for and doesnt thrive on animal proteins. Our teeth, stomach acidlevel, long intestinal tract and more are all features of vegetarian animals. Furthermore,additional research now proves that the higher the animal protein consumption, the higherthe chronic disease and cancer incidence. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a professor in the divisionof Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, and senior advisor to the American Institutefor Cancer Research, said that there is

. . . a strong correlation between dietary protein intake and cancer of the breast,prostate, pancreas and colon. (as quoted in Lang, S., Diet and Disease, FoodMonitor, May/June 1983; p. 24.)

Dr. Campbell recently (June 01) quoted additional research showing a clear relationshipbetween cancer incidence and protein consumption in all cancers. He also showed graphspointing to the fact that those patients who stopped all animal protein consumption hadarrested their cancers or even occasionally caused them to be reduced.

Then comes the inevitable question, But where will I get my proteins? There are nowmany studies, such as one from The Journal of the American Dietetic Association, noted by

Nathan Pritikin, John Robbins, and various US Government agencies, that clearly state thatA diet adequate to cover hunger, satisfied with natural foods, is more than adequate inproteins. I often simply ask the questioner to consider, Where does the cow get herproteins? and the answer is, of course, from grass.

The Gerson Therapy is more than adequate in vegetable proteins, so much so that it iscapable of restoring and rebuilding organ systems, bones, and tissues ravaged by cancer.

The next problem of an average diet is the sodium (salt) intake. Dr. Gerson was aware fromthe start of his experimenting with diet changes that salt caused some of the worst damage tothe metabolism. He found it hard to prove, except by what he considered the most important

thing of all, the results at the sickbed. When patients came to his clinic, generally given upby their doctors and in terminal condition, he was able to reverse the disease. He found thatone lady who didnt respond to his therapy at all, was only using salt to brush her teeth.(Presently, baking soda [sodium!] is recommended by doctors and dentists!) Ondiscontinuing this practice, she showed good healing. It was only after Dr. Gersons death in1959 that researchers were able to study the damage caused by salt. Two scientists, MalcolmDixon and Edwin C. Webb published their study in a book calledEnzymes, 2nd Edition, pp.422-423, published by the Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1964. In this table they showthat as the body manufactures enzymes for all its needs, it uses potassium as its activatingion, while in almost all cases, sodium (salt) is an enzyme inhibitor. Poisons are also


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defined as enzyme inhibitors. But Dr. Gerson did not have the facilities to do research ofthis type and went by the results he obtained.

Added sodium in every form had to be totally banned from the patients diet. This presents aproblem with appetite at the start of the treatment. However, in about a week or two, the

patients taste buds become accustomed to the natural flavor of foods, spiced with freshgarlic, onion, celery and tomatoes instead of salt. Appetite returns.

The third damaging food item that must be completely eliminated is fat. There is only oneexception: straight, organic flax seed oil (without any additions). ALL other fats and oilspromote and stimulate tumor growth. They have been tried. Also, never heat or cook withflax seed oil. Use this oil raw in salad dressing or on baked potatoes once they are coolenough to eat.

The book The Gerson Therapylists many additional forbidden items, such as white flour,sugar, alcohol, cigarettes, canned, frozen and pickled foods; cosmetics and underarm

deodorants, household chemicals, sprays, pesticides and many more toxic and otherwisedamaging materials. Also, all food and materials used for juices must be organically grown,free of poisons.

Water must be cleared of fluorides (only possible with distilling) and other additives. If nofluoride is present, reverse osmosis will adequately clear the water. All water used for thepatient, including that used in coffee enemas, must be clear of additives.

Returning to the original premise of all chronic disease and, of course, cancer patients. Theproblem is two-fold: Toxicity and Deficiency. Both must be addressed. Above all, we aredealing to some extent with preventing further toxins from entering the body. We not onlyhave to be concerned with that situation; but we also have to detoxify the body of years ofaccumulated poisons. That is accomplished with the coffee enemas.

A correct diet that doesnt burden the body with difficult-to-digest and toxic materials(animal proteins and fats; drugs, alcohol, etc.) combined with the hourly freshly pressedjuices, causes the cells and tissues to release these toxins into the blood stream. Theblood stream is filtered through the liver; it passes through the liver approximately onceevery three minutes.

But there would be a huge overload on the liver if we didnt help it to eliminate this toxicburden. That is done via the coffee enemas. Coffee enemas have been shown to open bileducts and allow the liver to clear itself not only of old accumulations but also of diseasedtissue that the bodys immune system attacks and destroys. It is an on-going process formany months. The patient may be surprised that it takes five such coffee enemas daily (onceevery four hours starting at 6 AM) to keep the liver clear. This procedure also overcomespain in almost all cases, usually within the first two to three days of the Treatment.

Enemas are prepared as follows: Use a quart of clean (distilled or filtered, see above)water; add three rounded tablespoonfuls of organic ground coffee (NOT de-caffeinated),boil briskly for three minutes, then let simmer about 18 minutes. Let cool, strain, replacewater that has evaporated to make up a full quart at body temperature; place into enema


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bucket or bag. Lie comfortably on a padded place or cot (or use your bed properly protectedby a rubber or plastic sheet and towel) on your right side with your knees drawn up. Bucketor bag should not be much more than about 18 inches above your body so the flow is gentle.If possible, hold the coffee for no more than 12 minutes. If cramping or serious urgency ispresent, let it out when necessary. In time, 12 minutes will be quite easy.

Nutrition: In order to restore the depleted body systems, we have to use a form of hyper-alimentation; however, DONT use canned or processed products. USE only fresh, organicfoods and juices. Thirteen 8-ounce glasses of freshly prepared juices are needed, one everyhour starting at 7 or 8 AM. The correct kind of juicer (NOT a centrifugal type) is needed toget proper mineral extraction. One glass of orange juice, also freshly pressed, is given atbreakfast; the other juices are five glasses of a mix of carrots and apples; three glasses ofcarrot juice only, four glasses of juice made from salad greens with one apple added perglass. This is NOT a juice fast. Three regular vegetarian, salt- and fat-free meals are given.All foods and juices are freshly prepared from organic fruit and vegetables. Juices are betterdigested with some solid meals, consisting of salad, soup, potatoes and vegetables, and fruit

(raw or stewed) for dessert.

Dr. Gerson became aware that patients were severely deficient in potassium, one of the mostessential minerals. Potassium is amply present in all fruit, a little less so in vegetables.However, since the deficiency is so great, a potassium supplement of Dr. Gersons owncomposition is used. Also as part of the patients medication, certain digestive enzymes aregiven, including pancreatic enzymes and a combination of stomach acid and pepsin, calledAcidoll. Liver medication, Vitamin B3 and other items are also needed and given. Allfoods, enema preparation, healing reactions, medication, and changes in the treatmentrequired for patients pretreated with chemotherapy drugs is described in great detail in thenewly updated book, The Gerson Therapy Curing Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases(available from Charlotte Gerson, 355 Greenwood Place, Bonita, CA 91902. Cost: $17.00plus $3.50 shipping. California residents, add 7.5% sales tax.)

Most important of all: The Recovered Patients. These are accounts by the patients of theirexperiences before the treatment and their recoveries from autoimmune diseases. It isimportant to note that some (especially the first case described) suffered from multipleproblems that were all cleared. The Gerson Therapy is not specific for cancer, nor for anyone particular chronic disease. When the treatment activates the bodys HealingMechanism (as Dr. Gerson called it) it is impossible to selectively clear just one disease.Everything heals.


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Recovered Patients

Penny Martin Rheumatoid Arthritis

Note from Charlotte Gerson: When Penny Martin reintroduced herself to me, I had to admit

that I did not remember her. It turned out that she had been at the Mexican Gerson Therapy

hospital some 16 years earlier. She came right out and told me that she was very grateful

because we had saved her life. Before coming to Mexico, she had been in a deplorable state

from rheumatoid arthritis; mostly bedfast, she was in such severe pain that during the

previous three months she had prayed daily for death. She said that after she started the

Gerson Therapy, the pain abated and her swellings were absorbed. In time she became

perfectly normal and functioning, and since her stay in Mexico had enjoyed good health.

She remains well having recovered from an unacceptable quality of life that had robbed

her of her will to live.

This, then, is Pennys story, in her own words:

I have always been blessed with a bountiful amount of energy. Didnt seem to know whatthe word TIRED meant. At age 50, due to a recent divorce, I was managing a 16-unitapartment and was active in a business. Besides that, I had several members of my familystaying at my house.

I went to bed one night feeling like Sweet Sixteen and awoke feeling 116. My handsfelt as though a 16-ton truck had driven over them and crushed every bone. I felt as thoughall the skin had been peeled from my body and left every nerve exposed.

I was stricken with inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis. I learned that Jane Withers hadsuffered from R/A [rheumatoid arthritis], so I started to see her doctor, a Dr. Boland in LosAngeles. He wanted to start me on gold and prednisone. My dearest friend (my guardianangel), who also suffered from R/A, said, Dont do it, Penny. She had gone the druggambit and knew all the pitfalls. She kept telling me, Penny, NUTRITION is our onlyhope.

I tried many things, chased rainbow after rainbow, and followed many suggestions butdidnt get helped. Then I heard about the Gerson Therapy, bought and read the book, andcould tell this was an accelerated nutritional approach. I entered the Mexican Gersonhospital in 1978 and was there for three weeks, learning all about the program that I

followed to the letter for 18 months. IT RESTORED MY LIFE!!! So much so that I didnttake so much as an aspirin for 18 years.

I finally chased the right rainbow, for it was there that I finally found the POT OF GOLD.


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Susan Adams Rheumatoid Arthritis

In April 1979, three weeks after Susan went through childbirth, It hit all at once. Herjoints were swollen and stiff. When she took aspirin, she lost her hearing and her stomach

was upset. Then for one year she took Motrin. Still, her hands locked shut, her armsbecame immovable, her knees swelled to three times their normal size, and her ankles werehuge. Unable to do anything much, she lay in bed, crying.

Then she heard of the Gerson Therapy. She started by taking coffee enemas. Because theyhelped by decreasing her pain and swelling, they gave her some hope of recovery. In June1980 she then came to the Mexican Gerson hospital. Within two weeks, she was able to getup and walk after having been bedfast for many months.

Gradually, she improved. After one year she felt really better. And 12 years later, shereported to us that she was normal; she was even able to play piano duets with her son and

was riding horseback activities that would have been unthinkable after her sons birth in1979.

Still more recently, in May 2001, we received a communication from her father, which wequote: Almost 20 years ago, the Gerson Therapy brought our daughter, Susan Adams, outof helpless bedridden [rheumatoid] arthritis back to a reasonably normal life.

Deanna Powell Rheumatoid Arthritis

In 1970, Deanna was a high school athlete. Her trainer suggested that she drink a lot of milkto strengthen her muscles and give her a good supply of calcium. Within a year, when shewas not yet 20 years old, she started to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis.

Deannas joints became progressively more inflamed and swollen, then developed lumpsand calcifications. In spite of treatments with gold and prednisone, by 1976 she was bedfast.In constant pain, she had stiffness and bony deformities in all her joints fingers, knuckles,wrists, elbows, knees, and ankles. Additionally suffering from heart palpitations and laboredbreathing, she had great difficulties in walking. She was pale, anemic, and hypoglycemic.

Though she took 15 to 20 aspirins daily because they took the sharp edge off her pain, shewas still in constant pain, and had insomnia. I feel like a prisoner in my own body, shestated.

Deanna started the Gerson Therapy at the Mexican hospital in May 1979. Within six weeks,she was virtually free of pain, most of her lumps were dissolving, and her frozen wrists hadstarted to move. Eventually, all her problems were resolved, except for a few joints thatwere not quite clear. By 1981, she was water skiing. Fourteen years later, in 1995, she hadexcellent energy, was active, had gotten married and had started a family.


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It may be assumed that the high calcium content in the milk she was urged to take wascausing the problem. But that is not so. Milk, overloading the body with excess animalproteins, produces high levels of uric acid, which, in turn, irritates and inflames the delicatemembranes lining all joints. The body then tries to encapsulate the inflammations, and

produces calcifications, stiffness and lumps.

Avrill Bishop Advanced Lupus

Avrill got married at age 20, in October 1971 in her native Australia. In early 1972, shedeveloped symptoms involving sore and swollen joints, especially in her knees and hands.During her second pregnancy, in 1973/4, all her symptoms mysteriously disappeared.However, they returned after the baby was born.

During all this time the doctors had been unable to make a definite diagnosis. Only in late1976 did a specialist in Melbourne diagnose systemic lupus erythematosus. The diagnosiswas confirmed by tests done on specimens sent to the United States.

By 1978, Avrill had long periods during which she was completely incapacitated. In 1979,she was hospitalized for a week. That is when she started taking steroids, in the form ofcortisone injections. Her husband reported that her knees would swell up like footballs; thedoctors would drain fluid from them and then inject cortisone. Even though Avrill haddeveloped a high pain tolerance, the pain was often so intense that she spent nights sobbingand hitting her arms on the side of the bed.

All through the 1980s, she continued the heavy doses of steroids and needed almost constantcare for all her physical needs. In 1989, her husband retired to the country to in order to befree to take care of her. By 1992, Avrill required morphine. Theres nothing else we cando, the doctors told the Bishops. But that year a friend gave them A Cancer Therapy. Afterreading Dr. Max Gersons book, Avrills husband thought that this program for detoxifyingthe body and rebuilding it might indeed help her. However, Avrill objected to the need totake coffee enemas, so they dropped the idea.

By early 1993, Avrill was so ill and in such severe pain that she received two morphineinjections daily, plus 75mg of prednisone and sleeping pills. One day near the end of March,

Avrill said that she had had enough, and that she wanted to try the Gerson Therapy.

One thing her husband noticed during the first days on the Therapy was the bad odorAvrills body gave off the odor of a dead animal. Within days, her husband reported, shewas able to urinate properly for the first time in many months. The healing reactions wereoften violent, but enemas gave her considerable relief. Avrill admitted that occasionally shestrayed from the diet. These errant episodes were invariably followed by a trip to thehospital for a morphine injection!


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By 1994, Avrills health had improved dramatically. For the first time in 20 years, she hadlonger and longer periods without pain. By 1998, she had weaned herself off prednisone,and by early 1999 she was drug-free and remains so. Since that time, Avrill has been ableto run their country property unassisted. She has painted and repaired the inside of theirhouse, mows seven acres of lawn, landscapes gardens, moves rocks and more. Such

physical accomplishments are particularly remarkable since only a few years earlier she hadbeen unable to lift a plate from the table, take a shower, or put on make-up.

In 1999, Avrill had two operations to straighten her fingers, which had been bendingbackwards. The damage apparently was done by the years of being medicated by drugs usedto control pain and swelling. Her operation incisions healed quickly and without a scar orany infection. In previous years, a cut or a scratch would get infected and take weeks andeven months to heal. (Please note that the medical profession generally considers lupus anautoimmune disease, with the immune system working overtime!)

Barbara Cleaver Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Barbara, who was born in 1950, had used street drugs all of them as was commonamong many young adults during the 70s and 80s. When she was about 21 or 22, shetapered off the drugs, and then stopped cold.

At age 32, after the birth of her third child, Barbara developed skin sores in her hairline andon her face, as well as a rash all over her body. Her hands were itching and burning, and sheeven had sores in her nose. Her hair came out in patches; her joints had arthritic swellings

and were burning; her hands also developed tiny blisters containing fluid. She had ulcersand experienced dizziness, rapid heartbeat, and general pain. She said later that she had seenat least four physicians but got no help from them. When Barbara was tested for foodallergies, she proved allergic to 200 foods. She suffered from depression and read about themacrobiotic diet. Unfortunately, this diet contains a good deal of salt and mostly cookedfoods. When she tried it, she felt much worse.

Then she borrowed Max Gersons book, A Cancer Therapy. (When reporting on hersituation years later, she still felt guilty about never returning the book to its original owner.)

The Gerson Therapy made sense to her, and she started a modified form in 1984. Almost

two years later, she decided to come to Mexico to undergo the treatment totally and exactly.

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Megan Grey Crohns Disease

In 1996, Megan was a very sick 15-year-old girl. She spent much of that year going backand forth between her home and the General Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada.Having been taken to the hospital several times with near bowel obstruction, she was

diagnosed with Crohns disease. She began being treated with various medications. Sheremained ill and frequently had to return to the hospital. She missed two out of five schooldays every week, and couldnt attend afternoon and evening functions with her teenagefriends.

Unable to adequately absorb nutrients from the foods she ate, she finally weighed only 78pounds. Physicians discussed with her parents the prospect of surgery and long-termhospitalization with a feeding tube Finally, they heard from a recovered patient in the sametown about the Gerson Therapy.

The situation changed completely when she began the Gerson Therapy on her own at

home, her mother, Donna Grey, reported. Megan told us that it was at a time when shefinally seemed to be totally obstructed that she started the coffee enemas and the Therapy. Ithelped her quickly enough, so that she didnt need to go to the hospital nor did she requiresurgery. Her mother continued by saying, After three months on the Gerson diet, the painwas gone and her energy was returning. A year later, she had gained 26 pounds, no longermissed school, and lost the black circles under her eyes. Megan could now lead a normallife and was able to go out with her friends.

The Greys family doctor was totally impressed with Megans health and weight gain. Andall this without any prescription drugs! he remarked.

It has now been three years that Megan is symptom-free, thanks to the Gerson diet, whichshe continues to follow in a modified version, her mother told us in 2000. Megan islooking forward to a bright future, she said. By now Megan was attending a university.Taking the pre-med program, she planned to become a naturopathic physician, as haveothers before and since, inspired by the results of the Gerson Therapy.

Chris Matiesen Ulcerative Colitis

In 1974, after a proctoscopy and colonoscopy, Chris who was then in his early 30s was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. He was treated with Sulfadine as well as prednisone.The latter caused considerable weight gain, acne, and the typical moon face as well asfacial redness.

The drugs, though, were not effective. But when Chris asked about the possible value ofmaking changes in his diet, his doctors stated that diet makes no difference in amelioratingthis serious and chronic intestinal disease. They urged him to have his entire colon removed,since the bleeding was continuing. Chris refused surgery.


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In June 1979, still on prednisone and bleeding, Chris started the Gerson Therapy at theMexican hospital. In five months, he was back at work, off all drugs, had no moresymptoms, and had good energy.

Aside from his problems with the ulcerative colitis, Chris and his wife had unsuccessfullyattempted for some years to have a baby. Interestingly, once Chris recovered his health, hebecame a father.

More than 20 years later, he is still alive and well and free of drugs.

Last news: August 2001.

John Stout Multiple Sclerosis

John was born in 1960. He was 35 in January 1995 when he noticed the first serioussymptoms of disease. One day while stepping out of his pickup truck, he was unable todirect his leg properly to take his weight, which caused him to fall. He had many more fallsafter this first episode. Also, one of his eyes was becoming virtually unusable.

Johns health history is a typical one of ongoing damage caused by toxins and accidents.All his life he had lived on a ranch, and for that reason was exposed to agriculturalchemicals from infancy on. Also starting in his childhood he had eaten the wrong foods:meats, fried and preserved foods; and heavily salted pickled items.

When six years old, he had been in a serious accident, and though he escaped with fewapparent injuries, he possibly retained some scar tissue. Most notably, as a teenager he hadan accident with a pickup truck that left him with an uneven gait. A number of accidentsfollowed, right into his adult years. The probable ultimate blow to his health came from afall that resulted in a severe and painful injury to his shoulder. To be able to manage thepain he was given a powerful painkiller, Naprosine. The drug had a strong effect, and hesuspected that it could have caused the onset of serious symptoms.

John had always been extremely active riding horses, carrying fence posts and babycalves, climbing in and out of grain trucks and tractors. He was also an avid hunter.

In March he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis by the local neurologist, Dr. HisanoriHasegawa, at the Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Montana. When Johns wife, Debbie,contacted other doctors in the area to get advice, she was frankly told that there was no curefor MS. Struggling now with progression in this serious neuromuscular disease, John hadvery low energy; he could hardly get through the day. His eyesight in the affected eye wasextremely poor, and his leg did not move normally. Furthermore, he had a constant urge tourinate. There were no periods of partial remission followed by exacerbations, as in manyMS patients; he was just going from bad to worse.


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In December 1995 the Stouts found the Gerson Therapy and they started on the treatment ontheir own at home. By February 1996, about a year after the MS diagnosis, John was on thefull Therapy. Almost from the start, his energy increased. Furthermore, as Debbie remarked,I began to notice that his walk was different. He had lost the swagger Id noticed evenbefore we were married. He was now walking quick and straight. Thus the uneven gait

John had had since adolescence, probably due to scar tissue resulting from the truckaccident, cleared up with the Gerson Therapy.

Each week John and Debbie traveled 300 miles in order to stock up on all the neededorganic vegetarian foods required in the diet. This was difficult during the winter months,but they persisted. John continued his physically exhausting ranch work while keeping upwith the demanding Gerson Therapy schedule. He never complained, and he ate everythingI placed before him, Debbie said. Foods he was not supposed to eat he never touched.

By the fall of 1996, John was feeling well, and he and Debbie were very much encouraged.His eye was better but not clear, but he could use his other eye for hunting. All the other

symptoms that had disabled him were gone. In the fall of 1998, having been on the GersonTherapy for over two and a half years, John was in good health. By 2002, John wasmanaging to work many 16-hour days. Heat no longer affected him adversely. Debbiereported that he still has weakened eyesight in the one affected eye the only remaininghint that he had ever suffered from MS.

Moreover, Johns family has benefited from the Therapy diet. Our son grew into a healthy,active pre-teen without suffering from the childhood ailments my friends toddlers and kidswere battling, Debbie commented.

Anna K. A collection of immune problems

In the spring of 1994, when Charlotte Gerson was giving a presentation at a healthconvention in Chicago, Anna K. asked to testify. She said that she lived in Detroit and hadtraveled to Chicago just to attend the convention.

The story she told sounded almost incredible. In 1991, she had been so ill, weak, and non-functional that when she heard about the Gerson Therapy and learned that Charlotte Gersonwould be giving a lecture and seminar in Miami, she traveled all the way from Detroit to

learn what she could do to restore her health. Extremely impressed, she embarked on theGerson Therapy in September, hopeful of overcoming at least some of a long list ofproblems: endometriosis, allergies, sinus infections, chronic bronchitis, recurrent kidneyinfections, chronic fatigue, ocular migraines, arthritis, heart valve problems, stomach ulcers,and candida.

Now at the convention three years later, Anna K. reported that she was doing extremelywell, felt strong and healthy, and no longer suffered from any of the above conditions. Shehad good concentration and good energy, and really looked well and fit.


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Incredible as her story seemed, she was living proof of the maxim that when the body trulyheals, it cannot heal selectively; all problems tend to disappear. Anna K.s health conditions,when looked at closely, were more or less related to a malfunctioning immune system. (Partof her immune-suppression problem could well have been caused by the fluoridated water inDetroit.)

There was more to be told, too. Anna said that when she started on the Gerson Therapy, herson was 18 years old, and that he too was suffering from a collection of chronic healthproblems: ear infections (starting from birth), allergies, constipation (he moved his bowelsonly once a week), migraines, intermittent fevers, and strep infections.

Anna then said that her son had followed the Gerson Therapy as well. (This regimen isdifficult for a teenager to do because of peer pressure.) She was happy to report to the healthconvention attendees that he was now totally well. Moreover, he had become an instructorin self-defense, and was urging his students to change their diets so as to achieve betterenergy, concentration, and muscle control.

Brad Mavis Chronic Fatigue

A struggle with illness covered much of Brads life until the age of 24. Allergic to milk fatright from birth, he received soy milk until he was six months old; then he was given cowsmilk. When he was two, his tonsils were so swollen with infection that they almost closedhis throat necessitating a tonsillectomy. At five he had a hernia operation. This was followedduring the next five years by most of the usual childhood diseases: chicken pox, measles,

and scarlatina (scarlet fever).

From ages 10 to 17 Brad was in good health despite what I was eating. Since he grewup on a Minnesota farm, a good deal of fresh food was available, but most of it wassubsequently cooked, or else preserved by freezing or canning and then stored. He laternoted that raw foods helped him to feel better.

When Brad was 17 years old, a tiny chicken bone got stuck in his larynx and had to besurgically removed. After that surgery his throat was always sore. In October 1976, in hissecond month of college, he felt tired and had no energy. Diagnosed with mononucleosis, herested for a few weeks and then went back to school. In January 1977, he had a relapse, with

a sore throat that wouldnt heal. Antibiotics didnt help, and his health went downhill. Bysummer of 1977, during the summer heat he felt freezing cold, and was losing weight. At59 his normal weight was about 145, but he was down to 125.

Brad happened to see a copy of Cancer Winner Jacquie Davisons story of her recoveryfrom terminal melanoma by undertaking the Gerson Therapy. But the book scared him.Nevertheless, some months later he purchased a copy and began reading it. He soon starteddoing coffee enemas, and he bought a Champion juicer. He had become night-blind, butafter some juicing and coffee enemas, this prob1em disappeared.


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Still, every three weeks Brad would get a really bad sore throat, and for this he was givenmore antibiotics. In the winter of 1978, with nothing fresh to juice, his health deterioratedfurther. By then his weight was down to 90 pounds. Finally his health food store ordered acopy of Gersons A Cancer Therapy for him, and Brad started to go in that direction. In thespring, he sold his Mustang sports car and used the money to buy a water distiller in order to

clear the available water of fluoride and toxic residues, and more books; he also made adeposit on a Norwalk juicer.

Brads sore throat and other symptoms almost completely disappeared (about 90%), and hestarted to gain weight. For two years he did the Gerson Therapy. However, it took eight toten years to get his colon back to regular functioning.

Brad continues in good health but still is careful about his diet. He is active and working.Now 44 (in 2004), he is an insurance inspector. At present, his weight is up to a normal 155,and he feels that he is even a little overweight.

George Smalley Chronic Fatigue

George had an incredible array of problems. They included candidiasis, arthritis, high bloodpressure, migraine headaches, pancreatic infections, high blood cholesterol, edema, andfeeling old. His major health problem, though, was a case of severe chronic fatiguesyndrome. CFS was diagnosed in July 1992, when he was 53 years old. This disease sometimes called the Yuppie Syndrome caused George the worst problems.

An engineer, George had worked in his field for over 20 years. When the chronic fatigue(usually caused by the Epstein-Barr or similar virus) invaded his nervous system, he lost aportion of his brain functions. Naturally, this mental decline meant that he could no longerdo his job, so he had to quit. Given a California state disabled-driver placard, he said thatthere was even a question as to whether he should drive at all.

George learned about the Gerson Therapy in December 1992, a half-year after the CFSdiagnosis. He started the Gerson Therapy seriously several months later, in March 1993.Below is Georges own story of his experience, written several years later:

Before I did the Therapy I sometimes couldnt find my car if I parked a little too far away.

I have a Masters degree in engineering; I graduated with honors, yet I couldnt balance mycheck book anymore. If anybody has Chronic Fatigue, they know about the blackcheesecloth that falls over you and the cotton that goes in your ears. Coffee enemas didaway with those symptoms.

I soon found out what coffee enemas can do for you and I had been afraid to take them!After I started the Gerson Therapy, I started to feel better almost within a week, and I havebeen improving ever since. The whole thing has been the most marvelous adventure of mylife.


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Many people who are not feeling well are wishing that they could feel as good as theirpeers again and have the energy they have. That wont happen. Your peers and friends aregoing to be very upset with you because you throw away years. You will have far moreenergy; you have a brighter outlook on life, you become younger than they unless theyare doing the Gerson Therapy like you are.

My age is 55, and I passed through 25 some years ago, but its nice to be back there again and I am not kidding! My coordination is back, eyesight, hearing everything. I can dothings today that I could not do at 30. And I am still getting better.

Gay Mau Walker Hashimotos; ITP, pre-lupus, autoimmune Thyroiditis

Gay, trained as a nurse, held a responsible position as a nursing supervisor at Chicagos

Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center. In 1976, at the age of 25, she was diagnosedwith ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura). A disease of insufficient platelets in theblood, it causes bleeding. Her platelet count was below 100,000 (it should have been around230,000 or more). She was suffering from vaginal hemorrhaging, and also bleeding into hertissues, evidenced in purple spots on her skin.

For better diagnosing, Gay was given an exploratory laparotomy (opening of the abdomento have a look/see) at the same hospital where she worked. It was discovered that she hadan auxiliary spleen, an extra growth, and this was removed. Following that surgery, herplatelet count increased. She was also given steroid (prednisone) treatment for some sixmonths. However, her recovery was slow, and she continued to suffer from severe

weakness.

Later in 1976, Gay moved to California. Becoming a patient at the City of Hope, in LosAngeles, she was diagnosed with Hashimotos disease. (This condition is considered anautoimmune thyroiditis, or inflammation of the thyroid gland.) The ITP resolved, but hersedimentation rate rose (the rate at which clumps of red blood cells settle in a test tube) andrheumatoid arthritis (related to lupus) developed.

In early 1977, Gay happened upon Dr. Gersons book, A Cancer Therapy, and read it withstrong interest. This nutritional and detoxifying approach to helping the body heal itselfmade good sense to her. She went to Mexico to have a look at the Gerson hospital there, and

decided to undertake the Gerson Therapy at home on her own. She continued on it for abouttwo years at her home in Fullerton, California.

In 1980, feeling well and with normal energy, Gay went back to nursing. By then she wasclear of both lupus and rheumatoid arthritis both collagen diseases, as well as of herthyroiditis. She got married in 1982. When she had first been diagnosed with a pre-lupuscondition, she was warned against ever becoming pregnant. Nevertheless, Gay subsequentlyhad two children, who are now teenagers. She continued in excellent health until justrecently, when age-onset diabetes was diagnosed. She controls the problem with diet andexercise, and has reduced her elevated blood sugar to near normal levels.


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Elwood Goodier Osteomyelitis, endocarditis

Elwood Goodier was suffering from osteomyelitis as well as endocarditis. When he arrivedat the Gerson hospital in Mexico in February 1995, this 77-year-old man was on heavydoses of morphine as well as drug patches in an effort to control his pain. Thesemedications, however, were minimally effective, and Elwoods original doctor had donenothing to address the underlying health problems.

While Elwood was in Mexico receiving the Gerson Therapy, his pain began to abate, andeventually completely disappeared. A year later he wrote that he was now active again andenjoying life.

When Elwood was at the Gerson hospital, his mother-in- law was also being treated there.

She had some fatty tumors (presumably benign), and Elwood reported later that these haddisappeared after two weeks on the Therapy.

Dr. James Clark Immune deficiency; Arrhythmias, Insomnia

In 1963, in his late teens, Jim suffered a minor ankle injury. An infection set in, and the sorewouldnt heal. He had a total of 13 operations, consisting of debriding (cleansing) the lesionand grafting new skin over it. However, the grafts didnt take, since the surrounding

tissues were infected. He spent a whole year in the hospital.

Finally, his doctors despaired of healing his wound and feared that osteomyelitis woulddevelop. They could only see one procedure to overcome the problem: remove Jims legbelow the knee. Jim agreed to it. The amputation, however, did not cure him. He continuedto suffer infections and was constantly treated with antibiotics. Each drug treatment causednew problems. Now Jim suffered stomach distress, arrhythmias (heart irregularities),confusion, headaches, and loss of concentration to the point that he despaired of living.He also had severe insomnia.

Jims constant problems landed him on the hospitals psychiatric floor the theory being

that if the doctors cant find or diagnose the disease, it must be mental. Naturally, thepsychiatric drugs given to him only made his overall condition worse.

Finally, in February 1978, Jim arrived at the Gerson Therapy hospital in Mexico. His firstquestion was Do you have enough antibiotics for me? Naturally, antibiotics wereavailable if patients truly needed them. However, his problems very quickly cleared withoutfurther drug treatments. Already on the second night, he slept normally for the first timein months, maybe years.


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All of Jims health problems disappeared not long after he returned home and carried onwith the Gerson Therapy. He became normally active, and took up work again. He had aPh.D. in Physical Education and worked with young people in the Washington State schoolsystem. He was even able to do sports in spite of the prosthesis in his lower leg. Heremains well.

Clifford Sherrell Psoriasis

Clifford was born in 1929. His problem began in 1970 with dry skin and itching, and hesuffered from it for years. He did not go to a doctor until 1978 or 1979. The doctor gave himprescriptions for painkillers. But Clifford didnt really have pain; his problems were mostlyitching on his upper legs, and swelling. The other doctors he consulted later didnt help at alleither. Eventually he saw a dietician, who suggested vegetarian, salt-free foods. On this diet

the itching and swelling disappeared for over 10 years while Clifford remained on thevegetarian diet (not organic). However, the problems returned in 1990, after he retired andmoved to Alabama.

Clifford had not changed anything he was eating or doing, so at first he couldnt think ofany reason why his condition should have worsened at that time. Later, he suspectedelectromagnetic radiation from an overhead power line, only about 20 feet from hisbedroom window.

After Clifford moved, the swelling and itching would disappear during the fall and wintermonths, then return. In November 1992, the problem recurred, then disappeared again. In

early 1996, it became so severe that Clifford saw a doctor. Whatever it is, it is caused byyour nerves, the doctor told him revealing his inability to diagnose the problem.

When Clifford came to the Gerson hospital in Mexico in July 1996 after allopathicphysicians could not help him, he had many large, open sores on his hands and feet. Hisankles and feet were badly swollen, and loose pieces of skin hung from his hands. It wasnever that bad before, he said. A biopsy was done: his disease proved to be psoriasis.

On the Gerson Therapy, 98% of Cliffords open sores closed in less than 10 days, and newskin covered his hands and the soles of his feet. His ankles became normal, with all swellinggone.

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ADDITIONAL READING:

A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases- Max Gerson, M.D.

This is Dr. Gersons landmark book, the work of a true medical genius. In it, Gerson details

the therapy, its history and development through 1958. Case histories, X-rays, photographs.$19.95

The Gerson Therapy: Healing Cancer and Other Degenerative Diseases- CharlotteGerson and Dr. Morton Walker.

The first new Gerson Therapy book in over 40 years. Gerson and Walker give illustrativecase histories from Charlotte Gersons 30 years of clinical experience, recipes, scientificevidence, guides to medication, treatments for most cancers and specific treatmentinformation for many other chronic diseases from diabetes to MS. A must-have. $17.00

Dr. Max Gerson, Healing the Hopeless- Howard Straus.

The first definitive biography of Dr. Max Gerson from his early years in Germany, throughhis stunning medical discoveries, flight from Nazism and battles with the American medicalestablishment. Thoroughly documented, over 20 photographs.

$19.95

A Time to Heal- Beata Bishop.

Beata Bishop, a novelist and writer for the BBC, received a diagnosis of malignant latestage melanoma normally a death sentence. When she met Charlotte Gersons daughterin London, she settled on the Gerson Therapy. This is the moving story of her completerecovery, over 20 years ago. Bishop is alive and well today. $12.95

The Gerson Miracle(DVD or VHS) - Stephen Kroschel.

This award-winning documentary about the Gerson Therapy is a powerful statement of theTherapys effectiveness. Cured patients, why we are ill, how we can recover.91 minutes, color. A must have! DVD: $24.95, VHS: $29.95

All books and videos can be ordered from: Charlotte Gerson 355 Greenwood Place, Bonita,CA 91902 (619) 656 2504 or [email protected]

Other related books, audio and video tapes available from The Gerson Institute, 1572Second Ave., San Diego, CA 92101 Tel.: (888) 4-GERSON www.gerson.org


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Max Gerson, MD (1881 - 1959)

Max Gerson, the originator of the holistic nutritional therapy nowknown as The Gerson Therapy, was born in Wongrowitz, Posen,Germany (now Poland) in 1881.

Throughout his German university and medical education, hesuffered terribly from migraine headaches, which neither he norany of his professors could alleviate.

Assigning himself the project of curing his own debilitatingheadaches, Gerson eventually discovered that by varying his diet,

he could prevent the problem.

When he discovered that his migraine diet would also cure cases of tuberculosis, hisotherwise fine medical career became highly controversial.

Gerson persevered, however, always searching for the underlying cause of disease. When apatient with cancer came to him for treatment, he was able to cure her with his therapy,contrary to his own expectations.

Gersons blossoming career was interrupted in 1933 when he and his family had to flee NaziGermany. They fled to the United States, and settled in New York City, where, intrigued byhis early successes, Gerson took up the problem of cancer, achieving a reputation amongpatients, if not among his jealous colleagues, of being able to cure many of the mostadvanced degenerative cases.

Shortly before his death in 1959, Gerson wrote his towering book, A Cancer Therapy:Results of 50 Cases, detailing his 30 years of clinical experience and research with thedisease.

In the more than 60 years that have elapsed since Gerson dedicated his life to solving theproblem of cancer, tens of thousands of grateful patients have successfully used his therapyto either cure or prevent degenerative diseases of all types. His book, translated into fivelanguages, has sold nearly half a million copies worldwide, and has been the basis on whicha dozen clinics in the United States and Mexico have been founded. The most advancedcancer research is only now catching up with principles Gerson so clearly articulated overhalf a century ago.

This booklet contains an introduction to, and synopsis of Dr. Gersons treatment, plus realpatient histories, some in the patients own inspiring words, about their experiences andsuccesses with the Gerson Therapy.

Documents

Charlotte Gerson - The Gerson Way - Healing Auto-Immune Diseases