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CURE OF ADVANCED CANCER BY DIET -GERSON, 30 YRS CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

 

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from Physiol. Chem. & Physics 10 (1978)

THE CURE OF ADVANCED CANCER BY DIET THERAPY:

A SUMMARY OF 30 YEARS OF CLINICAL EXPERIMENTATION

 

MAX GERSON, M.D.

Gerson Institute, Box 535, Imperial Beach, California 92032

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonspeech.html

 

(1978 Publisher's Note. This is a lecture given by Dr. Gerson in

Escondido, California, in 1956. Dr. Gerson died in 1959. More complete

information on his therapy for advanced cancer may be found in his book

A Cancer Therapy: Results ol 50 Cases, by Max Gerson, 3rd edition, 1977,

Totality Books, Del Mar, CA or from his daughter Mrs. Charlotte Gerson

Straus at the Gerson Institute, Box 535, Imperial Beach, CA 92032.

Socioeconomic and political perspectives are discussed in the book Has

Dr. Max Gerson a True Cancer Cure? by S. J. Haught, 1976, Major Books,

21335, Roscoe Blvd., Canoga Park, CA 91304.)

 

Abstract:

 

Thirty years of clinical experimentation has led to a successful therapy

for advanced cancer. This therapy is based on the concepts (1) that

cancer patients have low immuno-reactivity and generalized tissue

damage, especially of the liver, and (2) that when the cancer is

destroyed, toxic degradation products appear in the bloodstream which

lead to coma and death from liver failure. The therapy consists of high

potassium, low sodium diet, with no fats or oils, and minimal animal

proteins. Juices of raw fruits and vegetables and of raw liver provide

active oxidizing enzymes which facilitate rehabilitation of the liver.

Iodine and niacin supplementation is used. Caffeine enemas cause

dilation of bile ducts, which facilitates excretion of toxic cancer

breakdown products by the liver and dialysis of toxic products from

blood across the colonic wall. The therapy must be used as an integrated

whole. Parts of the therapy used in isolation will not be successful.

This therapy has cured many cases of advanced cancer.

 

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I came here on vacation; I didn't come here for a lecture. I didn't

bring anything. So, I wrote down some things since I was asked to tell

you first how I arrived at the cancer treatment. It is a funny story.

 

When I was a physician for internal diseases in Bielefeld [Germany) in

1928, one day I was called to see a lady. I asked her what was wrong

with her but on the telephone she didn't want to tell me. So I went

there, a little outside of town. Then I asked her " What's wrong? " She

told me she was operated on in a big clinic nearby and they found a

cancer of the bile duct. I saw the operation scar. She was running a

high fever, was jaundiced. I told her, " Sorry, I can do nothing for you.

I don't know how to treat cancer. I have not seen results, especially in

such an advanced case where there is no longer the possibility of

operation. " So, she said, " No, doctor, I called because I saw the

results in your treatment of tuberculosis and arthritis in various

cases. Now, here is a pad and you write down a treatment. On that table

over there, there is a book, and in that book, you will be good enough

to read to me aloud the chapter called The Healing of Cancer.”

 

It was a big book of about 1,200 pages on folk medicine and in the

middle there was that chapter. I started to read. That book was edited

by three schoolteachers and one physician. None of them practiced

medicine. So they put together that book. I read that chapter. In it

there was something about Hippocrates who gave these patients a special

soup. I should like to tell you, we use that soup at the present time!

That soup from that book, out of the practice of Hippocrates - 550 years

before Christ! He was the greatest physician at that time, and I even

think the greatest physician of all time. He had the idea that the

patient has to be detoxified with the soup and with some enemas and so

on.

 

I read and read but finally I told the lady, " Look, because of my

tuberculosis treatment physicians are opposed to me. Therefore I'd like

not to treat you. " Again she insisted, " I'll give you in writing that

you are not responsible for the outcome of the treatment and that I

insisted that you do so. " So with that signed statement, I thought, all

right, let's try. I wrote down the treatment. It was almost the same

which I used for tuberculosis patients (1-7) which I had worked out and

used at the University Clinic in Munich with Prof. Sauerbruch. After the

work at the University Clinic the treatment had been established and had

been found effective. (8, 9). I thought that maybe it will be effective

in cancer too. It is always written in scientific books that

tuberculosis and cancer are both degenerative diseases where the body

has to be detoxified. But this latter thought was written only by

Hippocrates.

 

I tried - and the patient was cured! Six months later she was up and

around in the best condition. Then she sent me two other cancer cases.

One of her family with a stomach cancer where it had been found during

an attempted operation that there were metastasized glands around the

stomach-also cured! And I had to cure then, against my will, a third

case. I expected to have still more opposition from the medical

profession. The third case was also a stomach cancer. It was also cured.

Three cases were tried and all three cases were cured!

 

I have to tell you that up to this day, I don't know how this happened,

how I stumbled into that, how this was achieved. At that time I always

said that I didn't know why they were cured. I didn't know enough about

cancer and it was such a difficult problem to go into. But once it was

in my head and in my hands and in my heart, I could no longer separate

myself from that problem.

 

Some time later I was in Vienna. I had left Germany due to the political

upheaval at the time of Hitler. There in Vienna I tried six cases and in

all six cases, no results-all failures. That was shocking. The

sanatorium where I treated my patients was not so well organized for

dietary treatments. They treated other diseases by other methods and

didn't pay much attention to diet. So, I attributed the failures to

that.

 

Then I came to Paris. In Paris, I tried seven cases and I had three

results. One of the cases was an older man. He had a cancer of the cecum

where the colon starts, 70 years old. Another case was a lady from

Armenia. This was a very interesting case. I had to work against the

whole family. There were many physicians in the family, and I had plenty

of trouble. But, anyway, I came through in that case. She had cancer of

the breast which regrew. Every time the family insisted that she was " so

much down. " She weighed only 78 pounds. She was skin and bones and they

wanted me to give her egg yolks. I gave her small amounts of egg

yolks-the cancer regrew. Then they insisted that I give her meat, raw

chopped meat. I gave her this and the cancer regrew. The third time,

they wanted me to give her some oil. I gave her that oil and the third

time the cancer regrew. But, anyway, three times I could eliminate the

cancer again and cure. And still I had no idea what cancer was. If

somebody asked me about the theory, just what it was I was doing, I had

to answer, " I don't really know myself. "

 

Some time later I came to this country. I couldn't get the cancer

problem and the cure of the first three cases out of my mind. I kept

thinking " It must be possible, it would a crime not to do it. " But is

wasn't so easy. When I came here, I had no clinic. I didn't even have a

license to practice medicine. When I had taken the exams and could take

patients, I had to treat them at home and that was hard work. The

patients didn't like to obey the diet, to do it at home. They were

accustomed to save kitchen time and not to work hard to make all the

juices necessary for the treatment as it had been worked out.

 

Now the treatment for tuberculosis was a saltless diet, mostly fruit and

vegetables, vegetables cooked without added water, steamed in their own

juices, with a heavy pot, no aluminum. The cover had to be heavy and fit

well so that the steam could not escape. Then they had to have most of

the food raw, finely grated. They had to drink orange juice, grapefruit

juice, and apple and carrot juice. This had to be produced in a special

machine-a grinder and a separate press-because I found that in

centrifugal juicers or liquefiers, I couldn't obtain the kind of juice

which cured patients.

 

At first, I had thought that liquefiers would be the most wonderful

thing. All the material was there, nothing was lost. But it didn't work.

Then I found out through a physicist that in the liquefier, in the

center, there is positive electricity and in the fluid there is negative

electricity. This electricity kills the oxidizing enzymes. And that is

also true for the centrifugal juicer and the other apparatus. The juice

must therefore be made by a grinder and a separate press - if possible,

made of stainless steel. (Editor's note: a masticating juicer, such as a

Champion, might also work.)

 

The patients must drink a lot of those juices. They have to have the

Hippocrates soup. I can't go into all the details. The evening would not

be long enough for that. But very important for the detoxification are

enemas. I felt that the detoxification as suggested in the book of

Hippocrates was a most important part.

 

Finally, I had a clinic. The patients saw that also the more advanced

cases and even some terminal cases, very far advanced cases, could be

saved. They brought me more and more of these terminal cases. I was

forced into that. On the one side, the knife of the AMA was at my throat

and on my back. I had only terminal cases. If I had not saved them, my

clinic would have been a death house. Some of the cases were brought on

stretchers. They couldn't walk. They could no longer eat. It was very,

very difficult. So, I really had to work out a treatment that could help

these far advanced cases.(10,11) Again, I was forced into it.

 

On the need of where to put the emphasis: reading all the literature, I

saw that all the scientists treat the symptoms. These, I thought, are

only symptoms. There must be something basic behind them. It has to be

impossible that there are symptoms in the brain, others in the lungs, in

the bones, it the abdomen and in the liver. There must be something

basic, or else this is impossible.

 

Already, through my work with tuberculosis, I learned that in

tuberculosis and in all other degenerative diseases, one must not trcat

the symptoms. The body-the whole body-has to be treated. But that is

easily said. How will you do it? Little by little I came to the

conclusion that the most important part of our body is the digestive

tract. For all our intake to be properly digested, and for the other

organs of the digestive tract to function right and help in the

digestion to the end product-and at the same time eliminate all the

waste products-all the toxins and poisons which must be eliminated so

that nothing will accumulate in our system, I thought that this was the

most important thing in the tuberculosis treatment. It must be the same

in all the other degenerative diseases, too. And still, up to the

present, I am convinced that cancer does not need a " specific "

treatment.

 

Cancer is a so-called degenerative disease, and all the degenerative

diseases have to be treated so that the whole body at first is

detoxified. In my tuberculosis work again, I saw that the liver plays

the important role. It eliminates the toxins from the body, prepares

them so they can enter into the bile ducts, and can thus be eliminated

with the bile-that is not an easy job. In addition, the liver helps to

prepare the stomach juice with the help of the visceral nervous system.

The liver helps to prepare the pancreas, trypsin, pepsin, lipase, the

digestive enzymes-all that is regulated with the help of the visceral

nervous system. The liver has many, many more very important functions.

One of them is the reactivation of the oxidizing enzymes as we know

through Rudolf Schoenheimer. He did the work along these lines. It would

go too far to go into that at this time. It is very important to note

that oxidizing enzymes are at a low level of function in cancer

patients.

 

Now let us anticipate the theory. During these years the idea occurred

to me that there are two components in cancer which are of particular

importance. One is the whole body, the general component. The other is a

local one, the symptom. The treatment has to be applied to the general

component. When we are able to bring this into balance, the local one

disappears.

 

What is the general component and what does the treatment have to do to

bring it into balance? I should like to devote this evening mostly to

that question. The general component is the digestive tract and the

liver. The digestive tract is very much poisoned in cancer. How can we

handle that? Detoxification is an easy word, but it is very difficult to

do in cancer patients. These cases, when they are far advanced, can

hardly eat. They have no stomach juice, the liver doesn't function, the

pancreas doesn't function, nothing is active.

 

Where do we begin?. The most important first step is the detoxification.

So let us go into that. First, we gave some different enemas. I found

out that the best enema is the coffee enema as it was first used by

Prof. 0. A. Meyer in Goettingen. This idea occurred to him when together

with Prof.Heubner he gave caffeine solution into the rectum of animals.

He observed that the bile ducts were opened and more bile could flow. I

felt that this was very important and I worked out coffee enemas. We

took three heaping tablespoons of ground coffee for one quart of water,

let it boil for three minutes, then simmer 10 to 20 minutes, and then

gave it at body temperature.

 

The patients reported that this was doing them good. The pain

disappeared even though in order to carry through the detoxification, we

had to take away all sedation. I realized that it is impossible to

detoxify the body on the one hand and put in drugs and poisons on the

other, such as sedation medication - demerol, codeine, morphine,

scopolamine, etc. So, we had to put the medication aside which again was

a very difficult problem. One patient told me that he had one grain of

codeine every two hours and he got morphine injections . . . how can you

take these away? I told him that the best sedation is a coffee enema.

After a very short time he had to agree with that. Some of the patients

who had been in severe pain didn't take coffee enemas every four hours

as I prescribed - they took one every two hours. But no more sedation.

 

After just a few days there was very little pain, almost none. I can

give you an example. A lady came to me not so long ago. She had cancer

of the cervix and then two large tumor masses around the uterus. The

cervix was a large crater, necrotic, producing blood and pus, and the

poor lady couldn't sit any more. The condition was inoperable. She had

been given X-rays and vomited any food she took in. She couldn't lie

down anymore. She could not sit. She walked around day and night. When

she came to my clinic the manager told me, " Doctor, you can't keep her

here. This moaning and walking day and night is keeping the other

patients from sleeping. " After four days she was able to sleep with no

sedative whatsoever - which had not helped her much anyway. The sedation

had worked for perhaps half an hour or so. After 8 to 10 days, she asked

me for just one thing: let her omit that night enema at 3 or 4 o'clock

in the morning. These patients who absorb the big tumor masses are

awakened with an alarm clock every night because they are otherwise

poisoned by the absorption of these masses. If I give them only one or

two or three enemas, they die of poisoning.

 

I did not have the right as a physician to cause the body to absorb all

the cancer masses and then not to detoxify enough. With two or three

enemas they were not detoxified enough. They went into a coma hepaticum

(liver coma). Autopsies showed that the liver was poisoned. I learned

from these disasters that you can't give these patients too much

detoxification. So I told this lady that for one night she could sleep

for seven hours-but only for one night. I wouldn't risk more! When I

didn't give these patients the night enemas, they were drowsy and almost

semi-conscious in the morning. The nurses confirmed this and told me

that it takes a couple of enemas till they are free of this toxic state

again. I cannot stress the detoxification enough. Even so with all these

enemas, this was not enough! I had to give them also castor oil by mouth

and by enema every other day, at least for the first two weeks or so.

After these two weeks you wouldn't recognize these patients any more!

They had arrived on a stretcher and now they walked around. They had

appetite. They gained weight and the tumors went down.

 

You will ask, " How can such a cancerous tumor go down? " That was a

difficult question for me to understand. I had learned in my treatment

of tuberculosis patients that I had to add potassium, iodine, and liver

injections to help the liver and the whole body to restore the

potassium. Now as far as I can see this is the situation. At first we

give the patient the most salt-free diet possible.(12) So, as much salt

(sodium) is removed from the body as can be. During the first days, 3

grams, 5 grams, up to 8 grams a day of sodium are eliminated while the

patients receive only about one half gram of sodium content in the diet

and no sodium is added.

 

The patients are given thyroid and lugol solution (lugol's solution is

iodine plus potassium iodide) I learned first through the so-called

Gudenath tadpole experiment that iodine is necessary to increase and

help the oxidation ability. Then we gave the patients large amount of

potassium.(12) It took about 300 experiments until I found the right

potassium combination. It is a 10% solution of potassium gluconate,

potassium phosphate (monobasic), and potassium acetate. From that

solution the patient is given four teaspoonsful 10 times a day in

juices. That large amount of potassium is introduced into the body.(12)

At the same time 5 times one grain of thyroid and 6 times three drops of

lugol solution, ½ strength. That's 18 drops of lugol which is a large

dose. Nobody was observed to develop heart palpitations from that, even

if some patients told me that they could previously not take thyroid

because they would develop heart palpitation. And all allergies

disappeared! Some patients claimed that they could previously not take

one teaspoonful of lemon juice or orange juice - they were allergic. But

when they are well detoxified and have plenty of potassium, they are not

allergic. Allergies and other hypersensitivities are eliminated.

 

When introduced into the system, thyroid and lugol solution go

immediately into the cancer mass. These ripe cells take it up fast and

they perhaps grow a little faster but they soak in more with great greed

- as much as they can - together with a little bit of sodium, probably.

But then there isn't much sodium left. So then these cells pick up

potassium and the oxidizing enzymes and die by themselves. You have to

realize that cancer cells live essentially on fermentation but potassium

and oxidizing enzymes introduce oxidation. And that is the point at

which we can kill cancer cells because we take away the conditions which

they need to continue to live.

 

But now we have to deal with a mass of dead cells in the body, in the

blood stream -and they have to be eliminated wherever they may be. And

that is not so easy! The ripe cells, the mature cells are very abnormal.

These are much more easily killed than the other cells which are unripe,

not yet mature, and not so well developed. And there are other cancer

cells in lymph vessels. These are clogged at both ends by cancer cells.

No blood and no lymph can reach them. There are cancer cells in the

glands. They are hidden there, protected from regular circulation. So it

isn't easy to reach these. At first it is only the big mass which

killed. But this dead mass now has to be absorbed wherever it is -

perhaps in the uterus, perhaps in the kidney, or in the lung, or in the

brain - this has to be absorbed. This absorption is only possible

through the blood stream. I call this " parenteral digestion. " Enteral

digestion is in the intestinal tract. Parenteral digestion takes place

outside of the digestive tract, through the blood stream. It becomes

important then to continually carry on detoxification day and night in

order to bring the parenteral digestion to the highest point, even to a

" hyperfunction. " How can this be done?

 

I found that in order to bring the parenteral digestion to the highest

function, it is necessary to start with the soil. Our soil must be

normal, no artificial fertilizers should be used, no poisons, no sprays

which go into the soil and poison it. Whatever grows on a poisoned soil

carries poison too. And that is our food, our fruit and vegetables. I am

convinced that the soil is our external metab6lism. It is not really far

removed from our bodies. We depend on it. But our modern food, the

" normal " food people eat is bottled, poisoned, canned, color added,

powdered, frozen, dipped in acids, sprayed-no longer normal. We no

longer have living, normal food, our food and drink is a mass of dead,

poisoned material, and one cannot cure very sick people by adding

poisons to their systems. We cannot detoxify our bodies when we add

poisons through our food which is one of the reasons why cancer is so

much on the increase. Saving time in the kitchen is fine but the

consequences are terrible. Thirty or fifty years ago (this speech was

delivered in 1956) cancer was a disease of old age. Only elderly people

whose liver was no longer working well - was worn out-became sick. They

contracted cancer when they were 60 to 70 years old and cancer was a

rare disease. Everybody knows that. And now four, even going on one out

of three dies of cancer. Now in the second generation it is even worse.

The poor children get leukemias more and more. There is no country which

has so much leukemia as this country (USA), no country in the world.

That is our fault. Ice cream is made with invert sugar. Coca-Cola

contains phosphoric acid. Is it surprising that children get

degenerative disease? These things constitute our external metabolism.

 

Now let us consider our digestive tract. As part of the digestive tract,

the most important thing is that we restore the function of the liver -

the tissue and the function of the liver. That is very hard work. We

give the patients (including also the tuberculosis patients) liver

injections, and since most of these patients need an increase in the red

blood cells, we add some vitamin B12. They receive 3 cc of crude liver

extract together with 100 mcg of B12. In addition when I found that our

fruit and vegetables no longer have the normal content of potassium and

not enough of the oxidizing enzymes, I looked for the best source of

potassium in the best composition and the best supply of oxidizing

enyymes. I found that to be calves liver. But we cannot give the patient

calves liver because it contains too much fat and cholesterol. As you

know, fat and oils cannot be given Therefore we give these patients

freshly pressed calves liver juice, which is made in a special way with

equal parts of carrots. Liver alone cannot be pressed. We take ½ pound

fresh calves liver (not frozen) and ½ pound of carrots to make one glass

of 200 cc (approx. 8 oz.) of fresh juice. The patients, the far advanced

cases, get two glasses a day, even three glasses, and they like it!

 

All this is done in the effort to restore the enteral digestion. When

that functions, we add stomach juice (Acidol Pepsin) and we add

pancreatin not coated. The cancer patients cannot digest the coated

pancreatin. The pancreatin is given five times a day, three tablets each

time. So they always have plenty of trypsin, pepsin, lipase and diastase

in their systems. The blood can carry this around and digest the tumor

masses wherever they may be.

 

Now, since I am running out of time, I should like to tell you what we

do to prove that this treatment really does work on cancer.(13,14)

Number one, the results. I think I can claim that I have, even in these

far advanced cases, 50% results. The real problem arises when we cannot

restore the liver. Then there is no hope. The liver-the restoration of

the liver and its functions-are so important that some of the patients

whose livers cannot be restored die some six months to 2½ years later

from cirrhosis. Autopsies show no cancer cells in the body. They did not

die from cancer. They died from a shrunken liver. Since I give more

liver juice and I give more for promoting the parenteral digestion,

these cases of a shrunken liver are rare.

 

I think I could do a lot to improve the results. I do not want to go

into the problems that patients face when they go home and the family

physician tells them that they need not " eat that cow fodder. " Or the

family thinks they cannot carry through this treatment because it is too

much work as it takes one to one and a half years to restore the liver.

The liver cells are renewed in four to five weeks, five to six weeks in

older patients. To restore such a liver, you would need 12 to 15 new

generations of liver cells. That is 1½ years. But the most important

part of the treatment, I have learned, is to give the patients a new

functioning liver.

 

Now, for the proof of this theory. I had the idea to make an animal

experiment in which we connected two rats - one cancerous rat and one

healthy one. We cut them open along the side and connected a blood

vessel, then sewed them together: The blood from the healthy rat

circulated in the sick one day and night and cleared up the sick body.

Thus we showed that with a healthy normal metabolism you can cure

cancer. You can cure the cancerous rat with the healthy body of the

normal rat. But we are in the early stages of this type of experiment.

There was one patient whose husband wanted to be connected to his wife

because of her very poor condition. But she said no, she didn't want to

have him immobilized so long, next to her, with extensive nursing day

and night. When she was first brought in to me, she had a very bad liver

with probably hundreds of metastases, also in the rest of the body. I

had told them that I didn't believe I could do anything for her, so the

husband had offered his healthy body. But, even as it is, she is still

living and improving. At any rate, with this type of experiment we have

had no experience on human beings, only on rats.

 

Our next step to prove the theory was by taking tiny tissue samples from

the liver by liver punctures. When time goes on and the patient

recovers, the liver shows microscopically and chemically that recovery

has taken place. This is done by micro-chemistry. There is an increase

of the potassium content and iron, and now we can even trace the content

of cobalt.

 

For ten years, I examined the potassium content in the serum of human

beings and I made about 200 curves. But these are not characteristic. On

the other hand, if we take a little tissue - a little mucous membrane or

muscle tissue with the improvement of the patient, the tissue also shows

a return to the normal potassium content. (12) This is of tremendous

importance.

 

Two months ago when I planned to come here for my vacation, the parents

of this little boy wrote me and asked me for treatment for leukemia.

Here is the little boy. He was treated with blood transfusions, had been

50 and 60,000 white blood count and his red blood count was down to

1,400,000. He lost eight pounds in one week, couldn't eat or drink. I

started the treatment about six weeks ago. Since that time, the boy is

up and around, he can ride his bicycle, he is active and gained a total

of five pounds. The blood count is normal. Lymphocytes are 6,500;

hemoglobin is 73; 4,500,000 red blood cells - from 1,400,000! And here

is the little boy. (The mother adds: “I want to tell you doctor, he

really likes the liver juice, he doesn't want to eat chocolate!”) You

see, the liver juice, the children really like it and ask for more. In

the clinic where the parents had taken the child, they were told that

nothing could be done for him but I feel that now we can save

this child. (Applause)

 

I have here another patient: Mr. Eyerly. Could you come here? Mr. Eyerly

came here to see me. He lives in Salem, Oregon. The man had cancer of

the prostate and it had grown into the urine bladder. He went to the

University Clinic at Portland, Oregon, to a famous urologist. He

diagnosed the metastasis into the urinary bladder and said that they

could do nothing. Besides, the cancer had grown into the pelvic bones.

This was two years ago. The physicians, including the family doctor, all

told him that he could live only 4 to 6 weeks, especially since all

bones of the pelvis were full of cancer. He looked terribly ill when he

came to me. His wife brought him with a nurse. He had made his last will

and did not expect to live. Now we cured that. It was especially

difficult. I should like to thank his wife. She prepared the treatment

with the greatest devotion. She was wonderful and we could rely on her.

In a family where there is real devotion in the application of this

treatment, we can even save these far advanced cases. Of course, we

cannot save all of them but we can save more than we sometimes even

consider possible. (Question from the audience: “How long did it take?”)

In the urinary bladder, it didn't take but a few weeks and there was no

longer any blood and pus, nor in the stools either. But in the pelvis

there were hundreds of spots, and that takes a long time because the

body transforms this cancer first into so-called osteoplastic areas, not

an osteolytic process which is bone reducing. With my treatment more

bone is produced. The body produces more bone, and then the hypertrophic

bone is transformed into normal bone tissue. Then there is no more pain.

Now the patient can get around and is even the manager of a company.

 

By chance I had these two patients here and could show them to you.

 

Post-Lecture Questions and Answers

Q. Can fibroid tumors be dissolved in the same manner?

 

A. Fibroid tumors are mostly benign. Benign tumors take 10 to 20 times

as much time to absorb as malignant tumors. This goes for adhesions and

scars. Fibroid and benign tumors are dissolved only very slowly because

they are not abnormal. It is difficult for the parenteral system to

bring its digestive powers to bear on these benign tumors. But when they

turn malignant, then they are quickly dissolved.

 

Q. (from a doctor) Dr. Gerson, when I visited your hospital in 1946 your

housekeeper was drinking fresh carrot juice. She had had an inoperable

cancer of the pancreas. Please tell us about her. She was doing very

well for such a bad condition.

 

A. She is living and in good condition now, 10 years later.

 

Q. Is cancer a state of reaction of unrestrained excessive factors of

certain hormones working on various degenerated organs or tissues?

 

A. No, I don't think so. There is much more and to answer that question,

I have to go deeper into the problem. We have to separate the state of

pre-cancerous condition from the state where the cancer appears. In the

pre-cancerous condition, all is prepared. The liver is sufficiently

damaged and the other organs of the intestinal tract are damaged enough

and then later the symptoms appear. Until then we have the pre-cancerous

condition and this condition cannot be cured with hormones and enzymes,

etc. We can to a certain degree stimulate the liver with hormones. We

can stimulate the liver with cortisone. We can stimulate the liver with

adrenalin etc., but then we take out the last reserves. We empty the

liver instead of refilling it. What we have to do in cancer -a

degenerative, deficiency disease- is to refill the organs which are

empty and poisoned. Therefore it is almost a crime to give cortisone and

the other stimulants which will take away the last reserves and improve

the condition for a short while only.

 

Q. Why are all berries prohibited?

 

A. Some of the patients are hypersensitive, especially in the beginning,

against berries which are a little difficult to digest. Therefore I cut

them out.

 

Q. Are tomatoes OK?

 

A. Tomatoes are OK.

 

Q. Soy products and soy beans are forbidden. But is lecithin forbidden,

which is made from soy beans?

 

A. Since soy beans contain fats, I had to forbid them. Cancer patients

are not able for a long time to digest fats to the end products. When

some intermediate substances are left in the body, they work as

carcinogenic substances. Therefore we had to cut out fats, oil, and

goods containing them for a long time.

 

Q. What metabolic tests do you do before and after to further prove

recovery systematically as well as clinically?

 

A. I examine in all these case the urine, the complete blood count,

basal metabolism or protein-bound iodine, and potassium in serum and

tissue. To see how the liver functions, I found it best to examine the

end product of the protein metabolism, urea nitrogen and uric acid. When

these are normal and stay normal, then I assume that the patient is all

right. But potassium in serum does not give a characteristic picture and

makes it difficult to judge. The patient can be cured yet the serum

potassium still shows low because the tissues take it away. In some of

the cancer patients when they arrive as terminal cases, potassium is

above normal! One of the physicians asked me once, " Are you crazy? With

the potassium above normal, you give such big doses of potassium? " And I

said, “Yes, sir, I am not crazy. The patient is losing the potassium.

(12) That is how it is increased in the serum. "

 

Q.Is fat-free lecithin OK?

 

A. Yes. But not in the beginning. After six weeks, fat-free lecithin is

OK.

 

Q. How harmful is coffee as a drink?

 

A. Coffee as a drink can be used by the patients only when they take the

castor oil because coffee increases the motility of the stomach so the

castor oil moves more quickly out of the stomach.

 

But otherwise, coffee as a drink disturbs the function of the

capillaries and therefore it has to be cut out.

 

Q. Would not detoxification be advisable in the majority of illnesses?

Is this not comparable to what is called " a cleansing program? "

 

A. We have to detoxify the body in all degenerative diseases, in acute

diseases too. But not to the extent as is required in cancer. Even most

of the arthritis cases are not so toxic. I found that almost all of the

arthritis cases have a weak liver or damaged liver. This is also true of

coronary disease.

 

Q. Are (synthetic) vitamin and mineral supplements OK?

 

A. No, they are wrong because calcium and many other minerals cannot be

added so easily. They bring the system out of harmony.

 

With calcium you can produce cancer. I was forced in three cases of

hemophilia to give calcium to bring the blood to coagulate. I did it but

the cancer regrew and I lost all three cases.

 

No calcium, no magnesium, no other minerals. I tried it. There must be

harmony in our body under the law of totality. One should not change the

mineral metabolism, especially not in cancer. Only the two most

important minerals potassium and sodium must be balanced. This is the

need of the cancer patient.

 

Q. In John Gunther's book, Death Be Not Proud, mention is made of your

treatment as used on John Gunther's son. Spectacular results were

obtained at first but then there was a relapse and the patient died.

Could you have cured this case without the regular MD's interference?

 

A. I will tell you why this poor boy died. He had a terrible brain tumor

growing out of the skull, larger than my fist. I cured that. It's

written in the book. But after that, the boy had an eczema and this

eczema was of a special type which can usually be cured by giving the

anterior lobe pituitary extract, a hormone. The family doctor, Dr.

Traeger, said, " Why don't you give it to him? " But I told him that this

is a terrible risk and I don't like to take such a risk with the life of

that boy. When we give the pituitary, like many other hormones we may

kill. But finally I gave in and it was my fault. And for a long time

after that I couldn't sleep nights. I gave him the hormone and the tumor

regrew. I can add to that, that more than 12 years ago now, there

appeared an article by a professor in Chicago that cancer patients

benefit from administration of sex hormones. I gave it first to three

patients, then to five. They reacted well for the first two to three

months. Then I gave it to 25 more. They all reacted well for three to

four months but after five months they went downhill. I lost 25 of my

best cancer cases. Only six I could save again. That was the disaster

from the hormone treatment. The Gunther boy was another disaster. That

was not necessary. I want to reemphasize that we must not give the

cancer patient " a little something " for temporary relief. I learned that

the hard way.

 

Q. Your treatment worked in advanced cases of cancer of the liver?

 

A. If more than half to three-quarters of the liver is gone, you can't

restore its function enough to save the patient. You may save them for

half a year to a year, but then the liver may shrink and the patients

die of a shrunken liver, cirrhosis of the liver. The liver is such an

important organ that when it has to eliminate its own cancer, this has

to be done by the healthy liver tissue. But the process of elimination

can damage the healthy liver tissue if we don't detoxify constantly day

and night, especially in these cases.

 

Now about three or four months ago a case came to me from Philadelphia.

She told me when her son and. brother brought her in that she had

suffered from cancer of the rectum. At first the doctors didn't want to

operate, then they couldn't. It was too late. Then she spent a half year

at the Hoxey Clinic, and then she came home with a liver full of cancer,

and hard as a board. I told her son and brother that this was too much,

it wouldn't go. Take her home and make her comfortable. But they

insisted I must try. And I did. And she is doing well! She can eat and

drink, and the anterior part of her liver is a scar, hard as though it

were calcified. Probably there is enough liver left. The son asked when

they took her home after eight weeks, " You see, why didn't you want to

take her? " At least for four weeks, every two hours and sometimes even

every hour, she took coffee enema and castor oil enemas twice a day! She

had so much gas and eliminated such large amounts of evil-smelling

masses. When she left, we had to paint the room. It couldn't be washed

off the paint.

 

(Comment by M.C.: “I may say that I have looked through a lot of these

places in a general way. I have been through Dr. Gerson's sanatorium on

three different occasions and spent each time eight or ten days. I saw

cases come in there by ambulance, on stretchers - just like Dr. Gerson

said -hopeless metastatic cancers of the liver, the intestines, with

obstructions, getting morphine every three to four hours. To my

amazement within ten days these same patients would be walking around,

free from pain. I was so amazed I couldn't understand it. It was so

incredible that I made my son who was a senior in medical school come

back with me to see these things. But it was not only cancer. I saw

cases there of other degenerative diseases of all types.”)

 

Q. Is folic acid treatment contra-indicated during treatment of cancer?

 

A. Yes, (synthetic) folic acid did damage.

 

Q. Can arthritis be cured by the same treatment which you use for

cancer?

 

A. Yes. The treatment is not specific. It is not a specific treatment

for cancer.

 

Q. How do you account for the fact that many skin cancers and some other

cancers can be surgically removed and they never regrow or recur, even

though no metabolic changes have been made?

 

A. Some patients have only temporary damage of the liver and the liver

is then able to restore itself. But that is not in a majority of the

cases. Sometimes if you remove, say a breast cancer, the removal of

these toxins and poisons which the cancer itself generates is sufficient

in some cases to relieve the temporary damage from the liver. Then the

liver can recover. But these are the exceptions. And it is not basic.

Also some of these patients get recurrences later. Many of my patients,

after an initial operation, had stayed well for three or sometimes even

five years. Then the cancer recurred. They were inoperable and orthodox

medicine was helpless.

 

Q. Would it not be advantageous for the cancer patients to remain

permanently on a

vegetarian diet for the rest of their lives?

 

A. That depends on how far the liver can be restored. If it can be

restored entirely, after say 1½ years, we tell the patients only to

avoid fats and salt. Otherwise they are free. Many of them lead normal

lives. But I'd like to say that about 75% like to stay more or less on

the diet, and some even convince the other members of their families to

stay on it with them. For instance, we have a photograph here in

Escondido of Mr. Walter Wagg. He had a 100% incurable disease,

progressive muscular dystrophy. He had been in the best clinics and

could get no help. I cured him. Then his wife wanted to have another

baby and they were able to have one. Later he came to where I was

spending my vacation and showed me his wife and the baby. He told me

that the whole family sticks to the diet and said he would stay with it

as long as he lived since he is in such fine condition.

 

Q. What can be done for impaired lymph circulation following surgery in

one arm for what was diagnosed as cancer?

 

A. It is very difficult to absorb these scars so that the lymph

circulation can be restored, a very difficult task. It takes years.

 

Q. What is your conception of a prolonged fast or periodical three-day

fast?

 

A. You can't let the cancer patient fast. In the cancer patient the body

is so depleted, if you let them fast they go downhill terribly.

 

Q. What would you consider more important, diet or balanced emotions?

 

A. The balanced emotional condition is very important but without the

diet and the

detoxification you cannot heal.

 

Q. Would Parkinson's disease respond to a treatment similar as that for

cancer?

 

A. What is destroyed in the central nervous system - and Parkinson's

disease is a disease of the basal centers - is destroyed forever. But

you are able to help the arteries in the brain with the treatment, and

you can stop the progression, and you can restore what is not yet

entirely destroyed.

 

Q. Does anemia contribute to cancer?

 

A. Sometimes it is a pre-condition to cancer, especially a certain type

of anemia, not the so-called secondary anemia.

 

Q. Can too much vegetable juice cause alkalinity?

 

A. No.

 

Q. Dr. Otto Warburg advises increased intake of oxygen.

 

A. Oxygen would not go into the system so easily. You must have

oxidizing enzymes, you must have more potassium, you must have the

conditions under which oxygen can function.

 

Q. What vitamins are OK to take with your treatment?

 

A. With the vitamins we have a similar situation as we saw with the

hormones. I damaged patients with vitamin A, vitamin E, vitamin B and

B6. Patients get really damaged. Vitamin A and D is picked up by the

cancer cells immediately. Niacin we can use, that is B-3. (Editor’s

Note: the Gerson Diet is extremely high in natural vitamins. Cancer

patients are probably very sensitive to overdosage with synthetic

vitamin preparations.)

 

Q. What do you think of deep manipulation?

 

A. Cancer patients should not be massaged. Rubbing of the skin to open

the capillaries and to help the body to stimulate the circulation is

very valuable. We give the patient a rub two or three times a day before

meals with a solution of ½ glass water with two tablespoons rubbing

alcohol and two tablespoons of wine vinegar. To rub the whole body is

very refreshing and helps the circulation.

 

Q. Can a person with a colostomy take the same type of coffee enema as a

regular patient?

 

A. Yes.

 

Q. What are the principles of the coffee enema?

 

A. It opens the bile ducts. This is the principle.

 

Q. How can we prevent cancer?

 

A. Cancer must be prevented by preventing damage to the liver. The basic

measure of prevention is not to eat the damaged, dead, poisoned food

which we bring into our bodies. Every day, day by day, we poison our

bodies. The older people still have a better liver and resistance from

the food they had when they were young. The younger people get worse and

the babies, now the second generation on canned baby foods, are still

worse. They get leukemias. First of all, eat as much as you can of raw

food, keep the potassium level up,

and take some iodine.

 

 

NOTES AND REFERENCES

1. F. Sauerbruch, A. Herrmannsdorfer and M. Gerson, “Ueber Versuche,

schwere Formen der Tuberkulose durch dietetische Behandlungen zu

becinflussen, " Muench. Med. Wochenschr., 2, 1(1926).

 

2. M. Gerson, ibid, 77, 967 (1930).

 

3. M. Gerson, " Phosphorlebertran und die Gerson-Herrrnannsdorfersche

Diat zur Heilung der Tuberkulose, " Dtsch. Med. Wochenschr., 12, 1(1930).

 

 

4. F. Sauerbruch, A. Herrmannsdorfer and M. Gerson, Muench. Med.

Wochenschr, 23 (1930).

 

5. M. Gerson, " Wiederherstellung der verschiedenen Gefuchiqualitaeten

bei der Lupushei. lung, " Verli. Disch. Ge:. Inn. Med., 43, 77 (1931).

 

6. M. Gerson, Diattherapie der Lungentuberkulose, Deuticke, Vienne,

1934.

 

7. M. Gerson, " Einiges ucher die kochsalzarme Diat, " Hyppokokrates Z.

Einheitsbestr. Gegenwarismed., 12, 627 (1931).

 

8. F. Sauerbruch, Das War Mein Leben, Kindler und Schiermeyer Verlag,

Bad Woerischofen, 1951, pp 363-371. This contains an account of how the

author learned of Gerson's work by an accidental conversation on the

train with one of Gerson's cured TB patients, which led to a large scale

successful trial of the Gerson TB therapy at the Sauerbruch clinic.

 

9. E. Urbach and E. B. Le Winn, Skin Diseases, Nutrition, and

Metabolism. Grune and Stratton, New York, 1946, pp 4, 65-67, 530-537.

This contains a comprehensive review (in English) of the successful use

of the Gerson therapy to cure tuberculosis of the skin.

 

10. M. Gerson, " Dietary considerations in malignant neoplastic disease.

A preliminary report, " Rev. GastroenteroL, 12, 419 (1945).

 

11. " Effects of a combined dietary regime on patients with malignant

tumors, " Exp. Med. Surg., 7, 299 (1949).

 

12. F. W. Cope, " A medical application of the Ling association-induction

hypothesis: The high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson cancer

therapy, " Physiol. Chem. Phys., 10, 465 (1978).

 

13. M. Gerson, " Diattherapie boesartiger Erkrankungen (Krebs), " in

Handbuch der Diatetik. Scala, Ed., Deuticke, Vienna, 1954, pp 123-169.

 

14. M. Gerson, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, Third Ed.,

Totality Books, Box 1035, Del Mar, California, 1977. This is

comprehensive description of the Gerson method of cancer treatment

written both for the physician and for the layman.

 

 

 

 

 

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The Gerson Miracle

 

" I know of one patient who turned to Gerson Therapy having been told

she was suffering from terminal cancer and would not survive another

course of chemotherapy. Happily, seven years later, she is alive and

well. So it is vital that, rather than dismissing such experiences, we

should further investigate the beneficial nature of these treatments. "

(H.R.H. Charles, Prince of Wales)

 

" I am familiar with the Gerson method and believe that it has a lot of

merit. I have always been frustrated that it was not taken seriously

and studied intensively as it should be. I think it has a very good

track record. " (Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.)

 

" I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in medical

history. " (Albert Schweitzer, M.D., Nobel Prize laureate)

 

The Gerson Miracle

 

Review copyright 2004 Andrew W. Saul

 

" The cure for cancer has been discovered. In 1928. " These are the

opening words of the new one-and-a-half hour documentary movie, The

Gerson Miracle. No one that views it can possibly misunderstand its

uncompromising assertions that cancer is curable, and that Dr. Max

Gerson repeatedly proved it.

 

When Max Gerson, M.D., testified before the U.S. Senate on July 1, 2,

and 3, 1946, he likely had high hopes of acceptance of his work. No

such luck. In 1958, he published all the how-to-do-it details in A

Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases. He died the next year, under

suspicious circumstances. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm)

 

Even today it is necessary for persons seeking Gerson treatment to

leave the country to obtain it. As the film's narration says, " Laws in

virtually all of the United States prohibit any other treatment of

cancer than radiation, chemotherapy and surgery, even though they are

usually ineffective at best, and completely ineffective at worst.

Chemotherapy, for example, does not cure cancer at all, and usually

merely poisons the patient instead of the cancer. "

 

Strong words, those. If Oscar-winning documentarist Michael Moore

initially had difficulty obtaining distribution for his Fahrenheit

9/11 movie, you can be sure there will be some hefty opposition to

this one.

 

And yet, the heart of the Gerson therapy is ecological common sense. I

think this is why it makes a good subject for film, and why it

appealed so to producer/director Steven Kroschel. Kroschel's previous

documentary credits include work for the Learning Channel, National

Geographic, PBS, and the BBC, as well as contributions to a number of

Hollywood features including Straight Up, Vertical Limit, and I Spy.

Not surprisingly, Kroschel personally follows the Gerson diet.

 

 

The narration continues:

 

" The soil, and all that grows in it, is not something distant from us,

but must be regarded as our external metabolism, which produces the

nutrients for our internal metabolism. Therefore, the soil must be

cared for properly. It must not be depleted or poisoned Otherwise,

changes will result in serious degenerative diseases in animals and

humans. "

 

This sounds much like text from any biology textbook that I've taught

from.

 

" Mass-produced, commercially-grown fruits and vegetables are

fertilized with only three minerals: nitrogen, potassium and

phosphorous, " says the narrator. Yet plants " need over 50 more. " As a

consequence, " the plants are sick, and must be kept on life support

with toxic chemicals until market. " On the other hand, organic farming

methods enable both the plant, and you, to resist disease. This

especially includes cancer.

 

The film states that the two key factors that are " the underlying

cause of cancer are deficiency and toxicity. " A radical, organic raw

vegetable juice-based diet is proposed as the primary remedy. Why

juiced? Because " Dr. Gerson discovered early in his research that

fruits and vegetables must be juiced to flood the body with nutrients

that have been lacking within the human organism for so very long,

sometimes for decades. . . When juice is drunk, it can enter the blood

stream almost as fast as alcohol. . . Dr. Gerson required his patients

to drink one 8 ounce glass of juice 13 times a day. " That amounts to

some 20 pounds of produce, yielding " an organic medication straight

from the table of Mother Nature. "

 

The Gerson therapy calls for an expensive grind and press juicer, such

as a Norwalk. On the other hand, the film states, Norman W. Walker,

that particular juicer's inventor and namesake, died June 6, 1985 at

the age of 117. All of Max Gerson's brothers and sisters died in the

Holocaust.

 

Now for the second aspect of the Gerson therapy. Drinking such

enormous quantities of fresh juice every day " dislodges accumulated

body poisons, which are absorbed by the liver, somewhat overwhelming

it. " Therefore, to help out the hard-working liver, the Gerson

approach employs an unusual detoxification technique. " Organic

body-temperature coffee administered rectally stimulates the liver's

bile ducts to then dump those scavenged toxins into the colon for

evacuation. " This, the film states, ensures that " the immune system

will now have the upper hand " and the patient is more likely to recover.

 

 

You will not be disappointed to know that the film does indeed provide

step by step directions on exactly how to prepare a coffee enema. Boil

1 quart distilled water, add 3 tablespoons drip ground coffee, reduce

heat, and simmer for 15 minutes. Strain and add sufficient water to

again have 1 quart. Cool to body temperature, and then introduce eight

inches into the colon with an enema kit. Retain the enema for 12 to 15

minutes.

 

The movie's sound track music chosen to accompany the coffee enema

recipe preparation sequence is a performance of Beethoven's Concerto

for Violin and Orchestra in D Major by the City of Magenta, Italy

Symphony Orchestra. The violin soloist is Francesca Ettorina Dego, Dr.

Gerson's great-granddaughter, age 14. Her rendition is excellent.

 

There is more to the therapy than juices and coffee enemas. " Table

salt is a poison, " says the narration. Our " unrelenting " use of sodium

" causes displacement of potassium found naturally in human cells,

leaving them vulnerable to attack by disease. " For this reason,

debated to this day, Dr. Gerson gave patients on his already

very-low-sodium, potassium-rich diet still more supplemental potassium

in the form of equal parts of potassium gluconate, potassium acetate,

and mono potassium phosphate. Flaxseed oil was the preferred fatty

acid source, and was to be " raw and cold " and not to be used for a

cooking oil. Pancreatin, acidophilus, and vitamin B-3 (niacin) were

also provided supplementally.

 

The most common criticisms of the Gerson program are that the diet is

restrictive and that the coffee enemas are excessive. It is true that

the Gerson therapy is an extreme diet, but then cancer is an extreme

disease. One extreme may indeed call for another; it takes a lot of

water to put out a burning building. Chemical, radiological and

surgical extremes are the oncologist's stock in trade. Why not extreme

nutrition?

 

I enjoyed the section of the movie where the camera follows Dr.

Gerson's daughter and successor, Charlotte, as she interviews patients

under actual treatment at the Gerson facility in Mexico. There, it is

said, patients in " as little as two weeks are free from cancer. " 35

years after man first walked on the moon, this remains a revolutionary

statement, one that may invite either a physician's ridicule or a

cancer patient's serious investigation.

 

Charlotte Gerson, now 82, practices what her father preached. " I

cancelled my health insurance when I was 34 years old, " she says. " The

reason was that I'm not interested in the kind of hospital or medical

treatment that might be covered by insurance, because it's toxic. " She

says she saved money, plus feels good in the bargain. She is outspoken

and emphatic. On camera, she states, " I'm always telling women:

'Wouldn't it be wonderful if you never had to worry about finding a

lump in your breast?' But if you eat healthy, that's what happens.

Living in this manner, you don't risk cancer. "

 

She is in a position to know, having seen her father's work at close

range for so many years. I asked Charlotte about this, and she told

me, " My earliest childhood memories of helping my father go back to my

playing in our sandbox when I was about five years old. My father's

medical office was in the same house where we lived and patients would

come to see him there. Many of those were from the agricultural area

surrounding the city where we lived, Bielefeld (Westphalia), Germany.

The farmers who consulted my father could hardly believe that one

could survive in good health without meat and animal proteins. So my

father would send for me, a little dirty and full of sand, to show me

off. I was sturdy, tall for my age, healthy and rosy-cheeked and

presented a good picture of the effectiveness of vegetarian nutrition. "

 

She still does. Filmmaker Steven Kroschel says, " Working with

Charlotte Gerson touched me deeply, as she reminded me of my German

grandparents and the old fashioned hospitality that went along with

it. I have to say that I cannot recall meeting anyone quite as honest,

compassionate and giving as she is. "

 

Doctor-vexing patients' testimonials form the backbone of Kroschel's

documentary. There are plenty of them. One man with prostate cancer,

confirmed by biopsy, decided to go Gerson. After 18 months on the

therapy, his PSA was an extraordinarily low 0.06.

 

Ascites, the abdominal fluid buildup all too commonly accompanying

cancer or liver disease, may be reduced by way of the Gerson therapy.

One patient interviewed in the film reports a decrease of 8 cm on the

first day of the therapy, with 2 cm/day afterwards.

 

One woman, diagnosed with ovarian cancer and given 6 to 9 months to

live, speaks on camera of how she lived not nine months, but nine

years and is still in excellent, cancer-free health. Her therapy was

the Gerson diet. Three other women she knew, all of whom selected

chemotherapy, were, as predicted, dead in nine months or less.

 

Possibly the most moving testimonial comes from a child, named

Stephanie, who was diagnosed with widespread cancer in the kidney,

lungs, vena cava and heart before she was even six years old. After

conventional treatment had been tried and had failed, she (and her

parents as well) embarked on the Gerson program. Asked what she

thought of the diet, the girl responded quite frankly: " The food? At

first I thought it was kind of weird. But after, like, a week, it

started tasting better. "

 

Stephanie, who had been given six months to live, was very much alive

over two years later and shown horseback riding. The narration

presented her as not fully cured, but " on the road to recovery " to the

point that her doctors were " astounded. " Stephanie herself described

her quality of life improvement as well as it has ever been described:

" I've been feeling lots better. I've been having more energy when on

the diet. I feel very healthy, and stronger, and much better than I

did. "

 

The most skeptical viewer cannot possibly watch the scenes of this

lass horseback riding and not be at least a little bit persuaded.

 

Then there is Pat, a woman with pancreatic cancer which had spread to

her liver, gall bladder, and spleen. Throwing up blood, she was

diagnosed at age 46, and given 3 months to live. That was in 1986.

Pat's bleeding and pain stopped in 10 days of Gerson therapy. After

two years of Gerson, a CAT scan showed that the cancer was gone. Pat

is now 65.

 

Hollywood star Michael Landon was similarly diagnosed with pancreatic

cancer. He, too, had been given three months to live, and he likewise

tried the Gerson therapy. Landon appeared on the " Tonight " show,

looking hale and hearty after only a short time on the Gerson program.

Immediately afterwards, the narration says, Landon was warned off of

the Gerson diet by his physicians. He abandoned it, and his condition

promptly worsened. He later personally telephoned Pat and told her

that he " should have stayed with the Gerson therapy. " Michael Landon

died in 1991.

 

As a very young man, I made a documentary film about the pollution and

proposed reclamation of the Genesee River in Rochester, NY. Excessive

camera motion was the byproduct of my limited equipment and poor

technique. Although it may be an intentional stylistic tool, I for one

would ask that directors of feature documentaries everywhere lose the

hand-held camera reality-look and get themselves better tripods than I

had.

 

The Gerson DVD has no menu for chapter selection, and for those

wishing to re-study any one of the 30 chapters in this 90 minute

feature, a chapter menu would be most helpful.

 

This film makes no attempt at conciliation nor compromise, with

frequent unabashedly in-your-face statements, such as: " The only area

of which established orthodox medicine in the US is superlative is in

the cost. " Another: " The viability of life hinging essentially on what

we pour into our cups, and place on our plates, is so simple, and yet

profoundly hard to grasp by modern medicine. " The film also emphasizes

the detrimental effects of all manner of pollution on our internal

environment. Mercury-based dental amalgam condemned; Ritalin is

ridiculed, as is the Standard American Diet ( " SAD " ). Even

milk-drinking is eschewed by the Gerson approach. " With every meal, we

are either digging our own graves with the silverware, or ensuring a

healthy and productive life. "

 

There is something in The Gerson Miracle to provoke practically

anybody. On the other hand, there is such value in Gerson's therapy to

justify the film being seen by everybody.

 

We have to face the facts: Dr. Gerson saved lives and his methods

still do. Here is the very first movie to offer this essential message

to a new and ever-widening audience. To say that such a message is

somewhat controversial is understatement akin to saying that the

Beatles somewhat influenced popular music, or that Citizen Kane was a

pretty good flick. Fact is, the Gerson therapy exists. You can say

that it doesn't work, but you can also find living, breathing people

who will tell you differently. This documentary does exactly that, and

this is what documentaries should be doing.

 

(The Gerson Miracle. 91 minutes; 2004. VHS: 29.95; DVD: $24.95, from

Charlotte Gerson, 355 Greenwood Place, Bonita, CA 91902.

lg27- . Shipping is $3, CA residents add 7.5% sales tax.)

 

To learn more about how to do the Gerson Therapy:

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonspeech.html is the transcript of a

speech by Dr. Gerson himself.

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson_therapy.html is a

bibliography of published clinical studies showing the demonstrated

benefits of the Gerson treatment

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson.html is a bibliography of all

of Dr. Gerson's scientific writings.

 

Review copyright C 2004 by Andrew W. Saul, Number 8 Van Buren Street,

Holley, New York 14470 USA Telephone (585) 638-5357

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Really good conspiracies take decades to surface. In the case of

natural-healing physician Max Gerson, M.D., attempts to discredit his

vegetable juice, raw food and coffee enema cancer therapy were so

effective that the whole story has never been told.

 

Until now.

 

Dr. Gerson's grandson, Howard Straus ( hdst- ), has

just published the definitive Gerson biography. It is fascinating

reading, at times bordering on the unbelievable. And what a story: a

respected physician discovers a natural cure for cancer, and the

medical-pharmaceutical lobby actively and relentlessly conspires to

keep it from the public.

 

All of it is provably true. Mr. Straus has gone far beyond

requirements to research his subject and support his statements. And

he has had a family " in " that no other Gerson biographer has: his

mother, Charlotte Gerson Straus, the doctor's daughter. Together, and

with expert assistance from Barbara Marinacci, they have assembled

documentation I believe to be sufficient to topple the tower of

organized, politicized medicine.

 

For over sixty years, cancer treatment and research has been almost

entirely restricted to cut, zap and drug: surgery, radiation and

chemotherapy. Billions and billions of dollars have been expended

investigating every cure BUT a nutritional one.

 

Where is the real incentive to cure the disease, anyway? Business is

good. It is now pretty much an open secret that more people live off

cancer than die from it. The big money is to be made in disease, not

in health. Dr. Gerson guaranteed his own ostracism when he dedicated

his life to find out why patients lived, and what could be done to be

sure they did. Then he went and did it.

 

In 6th grade, Mrs. Palmer taught my class that debates are won when

you present your case as more compellingly and more factually than the

opposition. This may be true in most endeavors, with the exception of

medicine. Linus Pauling and Abram Hoffer (

http://www.doctoryourself.com/hoffer_vitc_can.html ), who each write

favorably of Gerson's work, pioneered and popularized widespread

megadosing with vitamin C and niacin, respectively. They did this so

successfully that the only angle left to their many critics was the ad

hominem: attack the men, not the idea.

 

" Coffee Enema " Gerson was attacked in much the same way. It has been

ridicule, not science, that has kept the Gerson therapy away from your

local oncologist's office. Try a simple test: ask ten doctors what

they think of using the Gerson therapy against cancer. Then ask the

same doctors what they KNOW of the Gerson therapy. I'll lay good odds

that about all they know is that the guy used coffee enemas. " Would

you like cream and sugar with that? " a physician once said to me. And

you'll likely hear worse.

 

Body temperature, fresh coffee enemas offer at least two vital

benefits for a seriously ill patient: pain relief, and detoxification.

One does have to accept the second to appreciate the first. Gerson's

extensive medical experience taught him that both are accomplished.

Patients and physicians who follow Gerson's protocol have seen that

he's right. That is the only standard that is absolutely necessary.

 

Too bad that some critic's egos let them forget the true healer's

prime directive: " For the good of the patient, to the best of my

ability. " If there is a down side to vegetable juices, I am yet to

hear it. The worst reproach I've encountered is that, while harmless,

vegetable juices have no special properties against cancer. How can

that be, when doctors now know (and our grandmas have known for

generations) that vegetables DO in fact help prevent and arrest

cancer. All vegetables are high fiber and low fat. Tomatoes are loaded

with lycopene. Orange and green vegetables tremendous sources of

carotene. Broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts and cabbage

(the cruciform vegetables) are all heavyweights in the fight against

cancer. (http://www.doctoryourself.com/cancer.html )

 

How, pray tell, could their juices NOT have anti-cancer properties?

Juice consists of the entire cytoplasmic contents of a vegetable's

cells, but without an unpalatable excess of indigestible fibrous cell

wall. It's the corn without the can; the nut without the shell; the

cash without the bank.

 

The two chief purposes of juicing is to increase the quantity of

vegetables consumed, and to increase a patient's absorption of what is

consumed. More vegetables is good. Better utilization is good. Ergo,

juicing is good, and Gerson was right.

 

I find that, like a method actor, I need to get into character before

discussing a book. To this end, I had two quarts of carrot juice for

lunch and now I can feel the part in a big way. I am juiced up and in

the groove. And for all my 20 years of juicing, for all the many miles

on my juicers, I owe a personal debt of thanks to Dr. Gerson. He was

pretty much the first physician ever to plainly set all this down into

a clear-cut, specific therapeutic regimen. This is provided in great

detail in two other books: The Gerson Therapy (reviewed at

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html ) by Charlotte Gerson

and Morton Walker (2001). NY: Kensington Publishing Corp. ISBN

1-57566-628-6 and A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases (briefly

reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/bestbooks.html ) by Max

Gerson (1977) Del Mar, CA: Totality Books.

 

In the next edition of Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, I would

to see paragraph by paragraph footnote references. Many a good-reading

history book provides this for obsessive scholars who just have to

challenge every statement. They are out there, and I think the

tightest possible citation system is best suited for such a

controversial work as this. I also think serious students of the

Gerson therapy would appreciate a topic index. I liked the inclusion

of photographs and an exhaustive international bibliography. I think

translating the mostly German-language reference titles into English

would be a worthwhile project.

 

Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless is a tribute, an education, and a

warning: there is a price to pay for true lifesaving innovation in

medicine. The best possible review of Dr. Gerson's life story could

not surpass what the great Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer, M.D.,

wrote:

 

" I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent geniuses in the

history of medicine. He has achieved more than seemed possible under

adverse conditions. Many of his basic ideas have been adopted without

having his name connected with them. He leaves a legacy which commands

attention and which will assure him his due place. Those whom he has

cured will attest to the truth of his ideas. "

 

" Medical heretic " Dr. Robert Mendelsohn said that one grandmother is

worth two MD's. Good fortune has favored Howard Straus. His

grandfather was worth hundreds.

 

Dr. Max Gerson: Healing the Hopeless, by Howard Straus (Kingston,

Ontario: Quarry Press, 2002) ISBN 1-55082-290-X. Softcover, 397 pages

plus bibliography. Ordering information is available from the author

at hdst- )

 

(This book review was written by Andrew W. Saul, PhD and was published

in the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, Second Quarter 2002, Volume

17, Number 2, pages 122-124. Reprinted with permission.)

 

 

Andrew Saul, PhD

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