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Preface
This booklet, one of a series, lays no claim to being a scientific document. What it aims to do is
to present, through a number of factual case histories, a novel approach to cancer and other
chronic 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, often
achieving healing in so-called incurable cases where all else had failed. Yet until very recently it
existed in relative obscurity. It is only now, when the limitations of modern high-technology
medicine have become painfully obvious, that the potential of a truly holistic, scientifically
sound medical modality is attracting growing interest.
What the Gerson Therapy lacks at present is the kind of large-scale research material, yielding a
significant amount of statistics, without which its claims will not be accepted by the medical
and/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 by
Charlotte Gerson and several physicians in a newly established clinic in Mexico. In those early
days the only aim was to help as many desperate patients as possible. Although naturally precise
records were kept, embarking on a systematic research program was not feasible.
Years later, with the therapy running smoothly and attracting growing interest, another obstacle
to research has become evident. Patients arrive from all parts of the world to a Gerson facility
in Mexico and after a few weeks return home, where they are supposed to remain on the therapy
for a minimum of two years. In order to compile the results of the treatment in a statistically
meaningful form, it would be necessary to follow up individual patients scattered all over the
globe, 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 this
expensive operation. Clearly, this puts it at a disadvantage from the orthodox medical point of
view, which puts a high value on statistics and on randomized double blind clinical trials. The
latter are suitable for testing a single new drug or treatment modality, but not a complex, manyfaceted system of healing whose every component interacts with all the others. Until this basic
difference is recognized by the critics of the therapy, it will be impossible to engage in a
meaningful dialogue.
Hence the present series of booklets contains no statistics. What it offers instead is a number of
authentic 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 it
on an unorthodox therapy. Their stories may be dismissed by the strictly scientifically- minded
as anecdotal evidence, but unless the lessons of such individual experiences are properly
evaluated, there can be no hope of true progress in modern medicines fight against todays killer
diseases. Yet progress is badly needed, since some other sets of statistics, those of cancer
mortality and of the rising tide of new cases, show no sign of improvement. It is time for
conventional medicine to search for new paths of healing, and that is what the Gerson therapy
has to offer.
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Introduction
In his last book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, Dr. Gerson described the therapy
he developed during the course of his long clinical career to heal cancer, even in its most
advanced 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, specifically
including the immune system, to their normal function. During the years of his medical
residency, in his mid-20s, Dr. Gerson suffered from intense and extremely frequent
migraine headaches. He discovered that neither his professors nor specialists were able to
help 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 could
not 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 in
an obscure Italian medical journal reporting that a woman migraine sufferer had obtained
relief 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, he
tried various changes to his diet until he discovered that a vegetarian, salt-free diet kept him
free 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. His
life and the direction of his career took a dramatic change when a patient suffering from
migraine headaches reported that his skin tuberculosis had also healed. Dr. Gerson was
skeptical, since skin tuberculosis (lupus vulgaris) was considered an incurable disease. But
the man produced laboratory proof that, indeed, his lesions had contained tuberculosis
germs.
Subsequently, Dr. Gerson treated a number of additional skin tuberculosis patients
successfully with his migraine diet. This treatment was subsequently tested by the famous
lung 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 lung
tuberculosis, kidney tuberculosis, bone tuberculosis, and other locations wherever the
infection might occur. And they recovered. It also became eminently clear to him that he
was 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 other
diseases with the same nutritional treatment. It became more and more evident that he was
restoring the bodys ability to heal itself, and no longer treating, or drugging a disease and
its 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. Orthodox
medicine treats and suppresses symptoms; but the disease does not disappear. Usually
patients suffering from any of the hundreds of chronic diseases are able to function for a
fairly 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 and
mineral deficiencies, and the huge load of toxins that accumulate in the body due to damage
to the soil, pesticides and fungicides, use of hormones in raising animals, as well as use of
alcohol, cigarettes, street drugs, and processed foods.
These contain up to 10,000 chemicals, certified to be SAFE by the FDA (Food and Drug
Administration) 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 is
loaded down with these chemicals, and is nourished with depleted foods from artificially
fertilized soils, it loses its defenses, deteriorates and sickens.
Obviously, these problems must be reversed in order to restore the system. However
orthodox medicine does not accept that idea; doctors treatments suppress symptoms. To
some extent the patients are to blame: they prefer to take a pill or a shot, even a quick
surgery, and then continue on their damaging lifestyle until it is no longer bearable. It is
very 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 these
dont 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 they
have eaten those things, smoked and used alcohol for years and feel fine! They do not
understand that, little by little, the body breaks down and they are not willing to change
this 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 are
before they look for more effective treatments than pills or shots.
And another question arises: why the different diseases? There are several answers to that
question. One reason could be heredity: an especially weak organ or system. Another reason
is often accidents with resulting scar tissue and areas of weakness. Then, and most
frequently, we are dealing with germ and especially viral infections. Since about the middle
of World War II, around 1943, antibiotics have been used. Doctors have severely overused
them, already on children with infections and fevers. Mothers expect their pediatricians to
help their child over the fever and get rid of the infection. This is understandable; however
the 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 and
weakened 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 antibiotics
and doctors have to use more and stronger ones. Even so, as we know, a new generation of
germs has developed: the superbugs. Tuberculosis, for example, is coming back in force
since the superbugs no longer respond to antibiotics!
Still another calamity has developed since World War II: the pesticides and fungicides have
also been used since about 1943, starting with DDT. Within about 18 months, it was
reported that DDT could be found in meat, in butter, in milk, and even in mothers milk. As
we know, embryos and infants are much more sensitive to these highly poisonous
substances and are more seriously damaged than older people whose livers have already
developed. Worse, the pesticides have caused pests to become resistant, and in order to
control them, more toxic and stronger ones have had to be developed. In other words, we are
now raising the second and third generation of children damaged already in utero and as tiny
infants, by more and more powerful pesticides. This partly explains the terrible statistic that
cancer, 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 not
only with agricultural poisons, damaged foods and addictive substances, but with
occupational toxins, e.g.: the carpenter who uses paints, solvents, glues containing
formaldehyde; or the artist whose materials are very toxic, or the garage mechanic who
handles toxic solvents aside from fuels. The list goes on and on.
Toxins are contained in a large number of household cleaning substances. And we use
underarm deodorants containing aluminum that enters the blood stream, bleaches or dyes on
hair that quickly enter the blood stream through the highly vascularized (containing many
blood vessels) scalp. Other aluminum sources are often blamed for the onset of Alzheimers
disease. In order to heal, all these things have to be eliminated from the patients
surroundings, foods and intake.
Returning once again to the immune system: it is part of various body organ systems and
needs 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 are
poorly absorbed and not truly nourishing. The human body is designed for vegetarian foods
and is unable, especially as it ages, to handle the large amounts of proteins that are part of
the modern Standard American Diet (SAD). And if the body deteriorates with age, it
slowly becomes incapable of digesting the damaged foods. If the body has already failed
and immune problems have taken hold, the Gerson Therapy with its high levels of nutrients
and 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 so
altered 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 that
autoimmunity 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, if
the 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 damaged
cells so that they no longer appear foreign and are no longer the subject of attack by the
bodys own immune system. And the disease disappears.
The dictionary also gives a long list of diseases considered to be autoimmune. This is an
interesting statement, implying that the idea is not really a proven fact. The list contains the
following diseases; hemolytic anemia, myasthenia gravis, chronic thyroiditis (see the case of
Gay Mau, below) Graves disease, systemic lupus erythematosus (see Avrill Bishop and
Barbara Cleaver, below) rheumatoid arthritis (Penny Martin, Deanna Powell and Susan
Adams); multiple sclerosis (John Stout). The true cause of all types of arthritis is the excess
of 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 the
delicate membranes and cartilage lining the joints and inflammation, pain, and lumps
appear. Multiple sclerosis is a breakdown of the myelin sheaths that provide insulation for
the nerves.
The nerves have to carry electrical messages from all parts of the body to the brain and
back. They are protected by the insulation of these sheaths. However in cases of multiple
sclerosis, the sheaths have ulcerations, interruptions of the insulation. We understand that
this causes shorts to develop and messages are no longer carried at all or are distorted. The
ulcerations may well be caused by germs and/or viruses even though the medical books
claim that the cause of MS is poorly understood. Nevertheless, once they assume that it is
an 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 orthodox
physicians have done the same with rheumatoid arthritis, namely used chemotherapy to
destroy 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 as
chronic fatigue. This booklet also contains cases suffering from infections that were not overcome
for long periods of time, with extensive use of antibiotics. Chronic fatigue used to be called
Epstein- Barr and was recognized to be an invasion of the Epstein- Barr virus that the body was
unable to overcome. However, in the meantime, it has been found that other viruses may also be
involved. That caused the name to be changed to chronic fatigue. It is not curable by orthodox
medicine. Overcoming these diseases proves that the Gerson Therapy is not limited to one type of
immune disturbance. When you truly heal, everything heals.
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defined as enzyme inhibitors. But Dr. Gerson did not have the facilities to do research of
this type and went by the results he obtained.
Added sodium in every form had to be totally banned from the patients diet. This presents a
problem 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 fresh
garlic, onion, celery and tomatoes instead of salt. Appetite returns.
The third damaging food item that must be completely eliminated is fat. There is only one
exception: straight, organic flax seed oil (without any additions). ALL other fats and oils
promote and stimulate tumor growth. They have been tried. Also, never heat or cook with
flax seed oil. Use this oil raw in salad dressing or on baked potatoes once they are cool
enough to eat.
The book The Gerson Therapy lists 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 otherwise
damaging 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 no
fluoride is present, reverse osmosis will adequately clear the water. All water used for the
patient, 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. The
problem is two-fold: Toxicity and Deficiency. Both must be addressed. Above all, we are
dealing to some extent with preventing further toxins from entering the body. We not only
have to be concerned with that situation; but we also have to detoxify the body of years of
accumulated 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 pressed
juices, causes the cells and tissues to release these toxins into the blood stream. The
blood stream is filtered through the liver; it passes through the liver approximately once
every three minutes.
But there would be a huge overload on the liver if we didnt help it to eliminate this toxic
burden. That is done via the coffee enemas. Coffee enemas have been shown to open bile
ducts and allow the liver to clear itself not only of old accumulations but also of diseased
tissue that the bodys immune system attacks and destroys. It is an on-going process for
many months. The patient may be surprised that it takes five such coffee enemas daily (once
every four hours starting at 6 AM) to keep the liver clear. This procedure also overcomes
pain 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, replace
water 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 protected
by a rubber or plastic sheet and towel) on your right side with your knees drawn up. Bucket
or 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 is
present, 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 hyperalimentation; however, DONT use canned or processed products. USE only fresh, organic
foods and juices. Thirteen 8-ounce glasses of freshly prepared juices are needed, one every
hour starting at 7 or 8 AM. The correct kind of juicer (NOT a centrifugal type) is needed to
get proper mineral extraction. One glass of orange juice, also freshly pressed, is given at
breakfast; the other juices are five glasses of a mix of carrots and apples; three glasses of
carrot juice only, four glasses of juice made from salad greens with one apple added per
glass. 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 better
digested 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 most
essential 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 own
composition is used. Also as part of the patients medication, certain digestive enzymes are
given, including pancreatic enzymes and a combination of stomach acid and pepsin, called
Acidoll. Liver medication, Vitamin B3 and other items are also needed and given. All
foods, enema preparation, healing reactions, medication, and changes in the treatment
required for patients pretreated with chemotherapy drugs is described in great detail in the
newly updated book, The Gerson Therapy Curing Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
(available from Charlotte Gerson, 355 Greenwood Place, Bonita, CA 91902. Cost: $17.00
plus $3.50 shipping. California residents, add 7.5% sales tax.)
Most important of all: The Recovered Patients. These are accounts by the patients of their
experiences before the treatment and their recoveries from autoimmune diseases. It is
important to note that some (especially the first case described) suffered from multiple
problems that were all cleared. The Gerson Therapy is not specific for cancer, nor for any
one particular chronic disease. When the treatment activates the bodys Healing
Mechanism (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 what
the word TIRED meant. At age 50, due to a recent divorce, I was managing a 16-unit
apartment and was active in a business. Besides that, I had several members of my family
staying at my house.
I went to bed one night feeling like Sweet Sixteen and awoke feeling 116. My hands
felt as though a 16-ton truck had driven over them and crushed every bone. I felt as though
all 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 had
suffered from R/A [rheumatoid arthritis], so I started to see her doctor, a Dr. Boland in Los
Angeles. He wanted to start me on gold and prednisone. My dearest friend (my guardian
angel), who also suffered from R/A, said, Dont do it, Penny. She had gone the drug
gambit and knew all the pitfalls. She kept telling me, Penny, NUTRITION is our only
hope.
I tried many things, chased rainbow after rainbow, and followed many suggestions but
didnt get helped. Then I heard about the Gerson Therapy, bought and read the book, and
could tell this was an accelerated nutritional approach. I entered the Mexican Gerson
hospital 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 didnt
take 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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L.Y.
Rheumatoid Arthritis
L.Y., a young woman of 34 years, had suffered from rheumatoid arthritis for 14 years,
beginning when she was 20. Since her father is a physician, a cardiologist, one would expect
that she had always received the best standard medical care for her condition.
For four years, L.Y. had been treated with gold injections that had supposedly shown some
promise in a few cases. She had also had several shots of chemotherapy (methatrexate).
(The allopathic physicians reasoning behind this is that rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder, of an overactive immune system that destroys the patients own tissues.
Treatment therefore is given to kill the immune system that is supposedly doing this
damage!)
L.Y.s condition, however, constantly worsened. When she found out about the Gerson
Therapy, she wanted to try this approach. When she arrived in Mexico at the Gerson
Therapy hospital, she had painful, red, and swollen joints virtually everywhere in her body:
her fingers, knuckles, wrists and elbows, shoulders and cervical spine, hips and knees, and
big toes. The balls of her feet were particularly painful. She suffered from pain in spite of
taking a lot of pain-relief medications. She also complained of severe stiffness in virtually
all her joints upon awakening every morning.
L.Y. got extraordinarily prompt results on the Gerson Therapy in Mexico after she came in
July 2000. In three weeks at the Gerson hospital, she was free of pain and off the
painkillers and any other drugs. All the redness (inflammation) and most of the swellings
were gone from her joints, which were soft and pliable. The balls of her feet were still
somewhat sensitive, but aside from that, she was in almost perfect condition.
However, L.Y. made a mistake. It had been stressed to her that she would have to continue
the Gerson Therapy for at least a year, if not more, since she had been treated for so long
with drugs, toxic gold injections, and the chemo drug methatrexate. Upon returning home,
she felt so well that she wanted to do something. For some two years, she had wished to
clean up her garage, but with her intense pain and stiffness she had been unable to do such
work. Now, on returning home, she felt she really could! So she embarked on a two- or
three-day job in her garage, and neglected to make her hourly juices and take the coffee
enemas.
L.Y.s pain and stiffness swiftly returned, since she was not cured yet; only her symptoms
had been cleared with the optimal support of the Gerson Therapy. So she wisely came back
to the Gerson hospital for another week and alleviated the problems again. When she left
this time, she was urged to continue the treatment resolutely to fully and permanently heal
her body.
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Susan Adams
Rheumatoid Arthritis
In April 1979, three weeks after Susan went through childbirth, It hit all at once. Her
joints 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 arms
became immovable, her knees swelled to three times their normal size, and her ankles were
huge. Unable to do anything much, she lay in bed, crying.
Then she heard of the Gerson Therapy. She started by taking coffee enemas. Because they
helped by decreasing her pain and swelling, they gave her some hope of recovery. In June
1980 she then came to the Mexican Gerson hospital. Within two weeks, she was able to get
up and walk after having been bedfast for many months.
Gradually, she improved. After one year she felt really better. And 12 years later, she
reported 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 in
1979.
Still more recently, in May 2001, we received a communication from her father, which we
quote: Almost 20 years ago, the Gerson Therapy brought our daughter, Susan Adams, out
of helpless bedridden [rheumatoid] arthritis back to a reasonably normal life.
It may be assumed that the high calcium content in the milk she was urged to take was
causing the problem. But that is not so. Milk, overloading the body with excess animal
proteins, produces high levels of uric acid, which, in turn, irritates and inflames the delicate
membranes lining all joints. The body then tries to encapsulate the inflammations, and
produces calcifications, stiffness and lumps.
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By 1994, Avrills health had improved dramatically. For the first time in 20 years, she had
longer 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 able
to run their country property unassisted. She has painted and repaired the inside of their
house, mows seven acres of lawn, landscapes gardens, moves rocks and more. Such
physical accomplishments are particularly remarkable since only a few years earlier she had
been 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 bending
backwards. The damage apparently was done by the years of being medicated by drugs used
to control pain and swelling. Her operation incisions healed quickly and without a scar or
any infection. In previous years, a cut or a scratch would get infected and take weeks and
even months to heal. (Please note that the medical profession generally considers lupus an
autoimmune disease, with the immune system working overtime!)
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In June 1979, still on prednisone and bleeding, Chris started the Gerson Therapy at the
Mexican hospital. In five months, he was back at work, off all drugs, had no more
symptoms, and had good energy.
Aside from his problems with the ulcerative colitis, Chris and his wife had unsuccessfully
attempted for some years to have a baby. Interestingly, once Chris recovered his health, he
became a father.
More than 20 years later, he is still alive and well and free of drugs.
Last news: August 2001.
In December 1995 the Stouts found the Gerson Therapy and they started on the treatment on
their own at home. By February 1996, about a year after the MS diagnosis, John was on the
full 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 even
before 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 truck
accident, cleared up with the Gerson Therapy.
Each week John and Debbie traveled 300 miles in order to stock up on all the needed
organic 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 up
with the demanding Gerson Therapy schedule. He never complained, and he ate everything
I 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 Gerson
Therapy for over two and a half years, John was in good health. By 2002, John was
managing to work many 16-hour days. Heat no longer affected him adversely. Debbie
reported that he still has weakened eyesight in the one affected eye the only remaining
hint 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 kids
were battling, Debbie commented.
Incredible as her story seemed, she was living proof of the maxim that when the body truly
heals, 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. (Part
of her immune-suppression problem could well have been caused by the fluoridated water in
Detroit.)
There was more to be told, too. Anna said that when she started on the Gerson Therapy, her
son was 18 years old, and that he too was suffering from a collection of chronic health
problems: ear infections (starting from birth), allergies, constipation (he moved his bowels
only once a week), migraines, intermittent fevers, and strep infections.
Anna then said that her son had followed the Gerson Therapy as well. (This regimen is
difficult for a teenager to do because of peer pressure.) She was happy to report to the health
convention attendees that he was now totally well. Moreover, he had become an instructor
in self-defense, and was urging his students to change their diets so as to achieve better
energy, concentration, and muscle control.
Still, every three weeks Brad would get a really bad sore throat, and for this he was given
more antibiotics. In the winter of 1978, with nothing fresh to juice, his health deteriorated
further. By then his weight was down to 90 pounds. Finally his health food store ordered a
copy of Gersons A Cancer Therapy for him, and Brad started to go in that direction. In the
spring, 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 a
deposit on a Norwalk juicer.
Brads sore throat and other symptoms almost completely disappeared (about 90%), and he
started to gain weight. For two years he did the Gerson Therapy. However, it took eight to
ten 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.
Many people who are not feeling well are wishing that they could feel as good as their
peers again and have the energy they have. That wont happen. Your peers and friends are
going to be very upset with you because you throw away years. You will have far more
energy; you have a brighter outlook on life, you become younger than they unless they
are 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 do
things today that I could not do at 30. And I am still getting better.
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All of Jims health problems disappeared not long after he returned home and carried on
with the Gerson Therapy. He became normally active, and took up work again. He had a
Ph.D. in Physical Education and worked with young people in the Washington State school
system. He was even able to do sports in spite of the prosthesis in his lower leg. He
remains well.
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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 - Charlotte
Gerson and Dr. Morton Walker.
The first new Gerson Therapy book in over 40 years. Gerson and Walker give illustrative
case histories from Charlotte Gersons 30 years of clinical experience, recipes, scientific
evidence, guides to medication, treatments for most cancers and specific treatment
information for many other chronic diseases from diabetes to MS. A must-have. $17.00
All books and videos can be ordered from: Charlotte Gerson 355 Greenwood Place, Bonita,
CA 91902 (619) 656 2504 or charlotte@charlottegerson.com
Other related books, audio and video tapes available from The Gerson Institute, 1572
Second Ave., San Diego, CA 92101 Tel.: (888) 4-GERSON www.gerson.org
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