Table salt is a poison

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Table salt is a poison, "

JoAnn Guest

Jul 11, 2006 16:30 PDT

 

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

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

thenutrients for our internal metabolism.

 

Therefore, the soil must be cared for properly. It must not be

depletedor poisoned Otherwise, changes will result in serious

degenerativediseases in animals and humans. "

 

http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy2.html

 

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-

@cox.net

.. 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, 23 Greenridge Crescent,

Hamlin, NY 14464 USA

 

JoAnn Guest

mrsjo-

www.geocities.com/mrsjoguest/Diets