Booklets by Charlotte Gerson: * Healing “Auto-Immune” Diseases the Gerson Way * Healing Brain & Kidney Cancer the Gerson Way * Healing Breast Cancer the Gerson Way * Healing Colon, Liver & Pancreatic Cancer the Gerson Way * Healing Lung Cancer & Respiratory Diseases the Gerson Way * Healing Lymphoma the Gerson Way * Healing Melanoma the Gerson Way * Healing Ovarian & Female Organ Cancer the Gerson Way * Healing Prostate & Testicular Cancer the Gerson Way Gerson Health Media info@gersonmedia.com www.gersonmedia.com Acknowledgements The author gratefully acknowledges the tireless and dedicated assistance of both Beata Bishop for her able editing of the materials, and Howard Straus for the mechanical work involved in turning words into published material. Without their help, the production of these booklets would have been far more difficult and time-consuming. But the real heroes, and the people without whom these booklets would be impossible are the patients and companions who did the day-to-day kitchen work associated with healing these diseases. We are deeply indebted to them for permission to use their inspiring stories. These booklets were prepared under the auspices of the Cancer Research Wellness Network, with generous grants from Mrs. Faye Joseph, Sting and Mrs. Trudie Styler. © Copyright 2012 all right reserved. No part of this booklet may be reproduced, physically or without written permission of Gerson Health Media. ISBN: 978-1-937920-00-5 clectronic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 Gerson’s death in 1959 the therapy was not practiced anywhere, right until 1977 when it was re-activated 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 thetreatment in a statistically meaningful form, it would be necessary to follow up individual patients scattered all over the globe, monitor their progress, assesstheir 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, many-faceted system of healing whose every component interacts with all the others. UntilPreface 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 medicine’s fight against today’s 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. iiiii 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-20’s, 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 tubercu- losis had also healed. Dr. Gerson was skeptical, since skin tubercu- losis (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 therapy’s 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Introduction 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 treat- ment. It became more and more evident that he was restoring the body’s 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. 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 body’s immune system fail? Why does it not heal, what are chronic diseases? Essentially, the failures are due to the deterioration of the body’s 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 pre- serving, 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 ivIntroduction the system. However orthodox medicine does not accept that idea; doctor’s 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 don’t 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 effec- tive treatments than pills or shots. And another question arises: why the different diseases? There are several answers to that question. One reason could be hered- ity: 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 child’s immune system is further damaged and weakened by antibiotics, causing infections to recur more and more frequently. 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!Introduction 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 formal- dehyde; 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. Also 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 Alzheimer’s 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 vivil Introduction 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 the person’s immune system has been so altered that it doesn’t recognize the self from diseased tissue, germs and/ or viruses. Actually, it is assumed that the altered immune system attacks the body’s normal healthy 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 body’s 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Introduction 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 arthri- tis, 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 over- come for long periods of time, with extensive use of antibiotics. Chronic fatigue used to be called “Epstein-Barr” and was recog- nized 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 ortho- dox medicine. Overcoming these diseases proves that the Gerson Therapy is not limited to one type of immune disturbance. When you truly heal, everything heals. viiiThe Nutritional Healing Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D. In order to help the body, with the liver as its major healing organ, to restore and heal, a number of life-style factors have to be radically changed. The first thing is the elimination of all animal proteins. This is a ‘shocker’ for most people who are trained and imbued with the idea that proteins (in their minds, animal pro- teins) have to be part of their diet to promote normal health and tissue repair. More and more evidence is accumulating that the human body is not designed for and doesn’t thrive on animal proteins. Our teeth, stomach acid level, long intestinal tract and more are all features of vegetarian animals. Furthermore, addi- tional research now proves that the higher the animal protein consumption, the higher the chronic disease and cancer incidence. Dr. T. Colin Campbell, a professor in the division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, and senior advisor to the American Institute for Cancer Research, said that there is . a strong correlation between dietary protein intake and cancer of the breast, prostate, pancreas and colon.” (as quoted in Lang, S., “Diet and Disease,” Food Monitor, May/ June 1983; p. 24.) Dr. Campbell recently (June ‘01) quoted additional research showing a clear relationship between cancer incidence and protein consumption in all cancers. He also showed graphs pointing to the fact that those patients who stopped all animal protein consump- tion had arrested their cancers or even occasionally caused them to be reduced. Then comes the inevitable question, “But where will I get my proteins?” There are now many studies, such as one from The Journal of the American Dietetic Association, noted by Nathan Pritikin, John Robbins, and various US Government agencies, that clearly state that “A dict adequate to cover hunger, satisfied with natural foods, is more than adequate in proteins.” I often simply ask the questioner to consider, “Where does the cow get her proteins?” and the answer is, of course, from grass. The Gerson Therapy is more than adequate in vegetable proteins, so much so that it is capable of restoring and rebuilding organ systems, bones, and tissues ravaged by cancer. The next problem of an average diet is the sodium (salt) intake.The Nutritional Healing Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D. Dr. Gerson was aware from the start of his experimenting with diet changes that salt caused some of the worst damage to the metabolism. He found it hard to prove, except by what he consid- ered the most important thing of all, the results at the sickbed. When patients came to his clinic, generally given up by their doctors and in terminal condition, he was able to reverse the disease. He found that one lady who didn’t respond to his therapy at all, was only using salt to brush her teeth. (Presently, baking soda [sodium!] is recommended by doctors and dentists!) On discontinuing this practice, she showed good healing. It was only after Dr. Gerson’s death in 1959 that researchers were able to study the damage caused by salt. Two scientists, Malcolm Dixon and Edwin C. Webb published their study in a book called Enzymes, 2nd Edition, pp. 422-423, published by the Academic Press, Inc., New York, 1964. In this table they show that as the body manufactures enzymes for all its needs, it uses potassium as its “activating ion,” while in almost all cases, sodium (salt) is an enzyme inhibitor. “Poisons” are also 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 patient’s 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 elimi- nated 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 Healing the Gerson Way 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)The Nutritional Healing Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D. and other additives. If no fluoride is present, reverse osmosis will adequately clear the water. All water used for the patient, includ- ing 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 poi- sons. That is accomplished with the coffee enemas. A correct diet that doesn’t 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 didn’t help it to eliminate this toxic burden. That is done via the coffee enemas. These 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 body’s immune system attacks and destroys. It is an ongoing 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 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,The Nutritional Healing Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D. 12 minutes will be quite easy. Nutrition: In order to restore the depleted body systems, we have to use a form of ‘hyper-alimentation’; however, DON’T 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. Gerson’s own composition is used. Also as part of the patient’s medication, certain digestive enzymes are given, including pancre- atic 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 pre-treated with chemotherapy drugs is described in great detail in the newly updated book, Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases. (Available from Gerson Health Media, 316 Mid Valley Center #230, Carmel, CA 93923. Cost: $29.95, plus $4.00 shipping. California residents, add 8.5% 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The Nutritional Healing Therapy of Max Gerson, M.D. not specific for cancer, nor for any one particular chronic disease. When the treatment activates the body’s “Healing Mechanism” (as Dr. Gerson called it) it is impossible to selectively clear just one disease. Everything heals. 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 ber will to live. This, then, is Penny’s story, in her own words: “I have always been blessed with a bountiful amount of energy. Didn’t 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, ‘Don’t do it, Penny.’ She had gone the drug gambit and knewPenny Martin 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 didn’t get helped. “Then I heard about the Gerson Therapy, bought and read the book, and could tell this was an accelerated nutritional approach. Tentered 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 didn’t take so much as an aspirin for 18 years. “| finally chased the right rainbow, for it was there that I finally found the POT OF GOLD.” L.Y. — Rheumatoid Arthritis L., 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. 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 “auto-immune” disorder, of an overactive immune system that destroys the patient’s own tissues. Treatment therefore is given to “kill the immune system” that is supposedly doing this damage!) L.’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. got extraordinarily prompt results on the Gerson Therapy inLY 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. 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.’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. Susan Adams — Rheumatoid Arthritis In April 1979, three weeks after Susan went through childbirth, “Tt 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.Susan Adams 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 son’s 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.” Deanna Powell — Rheumatoid Arthritis In 1970, Deanna was a high school athlete. Her trainer suggested that she drink a lot of milk to strengthen her muscles and give her a good supply of calcium. Within a year, when she was not yet 20 years old, she started to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. Deanna’s joints became progressively more inflamed and swollen, then developed lumps and calcifications. In spite of treatments with gold and prednisone, by 1976 she was bedfast. In constant pain, she had stiffness and bony deformities in all her joints—fingers, knuckles, wrists, elbows, knees, and ankles. Additionally suffering from heart palpitations and labored breath- ing, she had great difficulties in walking. She was pale, anemic, and hypoglycemic. Though she took 15 to 20 aspirins daily because they took the sharp edge off her pain, she was still in constant pain, and had insomnia. “I feel like a prisoner in my own body,” she stated. Deanna started the Gerson Therapy at the Mexican hospital in May 1979. Within six weeks, she was virtually free of pain, most of her lumps were dissolving, and her frozen wrists had started to move. Eventually, all her problems were resolved, except for a few joints that were not quite clear. By 1981, she was water skiing. Fourteen years later, in 1995, she had excellent energy, was active, had gotten married and had started a family.Deanna Powell 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. Avrill Bishop — Advanced Lupus Avrill got married at age 20, in October 1971 in her native Australia. In early 1972, she developed symptoms involving sore and swollen joints, especially in her knees and hands. During her second pregnancy, in 1973/4, all her symptoms mysteriously disappeared. However, they returned after the baby was born. During all this time the doctors had been unable to make a definite diagnosis. Only in late 1976 did a specialist in Melbourne diagnose systemic lupus erythematosus. The diagnosis was con- firmed by tests done on specimens sent to the United States. By 1978, Avrill had long periods during which she was com- pletely incapacitated. In 1979, she was hospitalized for a week. That is when she started taking steroids, in the form of cortisone injections. Her husband reported that her knees would swell up like footballs; the doctors would drain fluid from them and then, inject cortisone. Even though Avrill had developed a high pain tolerance, the pain was often so intense that she spent nights sobbing and hitting her arms on the side of the bed. All through the 1980s, she continued the heavy doses of steroids and needed almost constant care for all her physical needs. In 1989, her husband retired to the country to in order to be free to take care of her. By 1992, Avrill required morphine. “There’s nothing else we can do,” the doctors told the Bishops. But that year a friend gave them A Cancer Therapy. After reading Dr. Max Gerson’s book, Avrill’s husband thought that this pro- gram for detoxifying the body and rebuilding it might indeed help her. However, Avrill objected to the need to take coffee enemas, so they dropped the idea.Avrill Bishop By early 1993, Avrill was so ill and in such severe pain that she received two morphine injections daily, plus 75mg of prednisone and sleeping pills. One day near the end of March, Avrill said that she “had had enough,” and that she wanted to try the Gerson Therapy. One thing her husband noticed during the first days on the Therapy was the “bad odor” Avrill’s body gave off — the odor of a dead animal. Within days, her husband reported, she was able to urinate properly for the first time in many months. The healing reactions were often violent, but enemas gave her considerable relief. Avrill admitted that occasionally she strayed from the diet. These errant episodes were invariably followed by a trip to the hospital for a morphine injection! By 1994, Avrill’s 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!) Barbara Cleaver — Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Barbara, who was born in 1950, had used street drugs—all of them—as was common among many young adults during the ‘70san Barbara Cleaver and ‘80s. When she was about 21 or 22, she tapered off the drugs, and then stopped cold. At age 32, after the birth of her third child, Barbara developed skin sores in her hairline and on her face, as well as a rash all over her body. Her hands were itching and burning, and she even had sores in her nose. Her hair came out in patches; her joints had arthritic swellings and were burning; her hands also developed tiny blisters containing fluid. She had ulcers and experienced dizziness, rapid heartbeat, and general pain. She said later that she had seen “at least four physicians” —but got no help from them. ‘When Barbara was tested for food allergies, she proved allergic to 200 foods. She suffered from depression and read about the macrobiotic diet. Unfortunately, this diet contains a good deal of salt and mostly cooked foods. When she tried it, she felt much worse. Then she borrowed Max Gerson’s book, A Cancer Therapy. (When reporting on her situation years later, she still felt guilty about never returning the book to its original owner.) The Gerson Therapy made sense to her, and she started a modified form in 1984. Almost two years later, she decided to come to Mexico to undergo the treatment totally and exactly. Six years later, in September 1992, she reported to us that she was totally recovered and was now “a normal vegetarian.” Megan Grey — Crohn’s Disease In 1996, Megan was a very sick 15-year-old girl. She spent much of that year going back and forth between her home and the General Hospital in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada. Having been taken to the hospital several times with near bowel obstruc- tion, she was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease. She began being treated with various medications. She remained ill and frequently had to return to the hospital. She missed two out of five school days every week, and couldn’t attend afternoon and evening functions with her teenage friends. Unable to adequately absorb nutrients from the foods she ate,Megan Grey she finally weighed only 78 pounds. Physicians discussed with her parents the prospect of surgery and long-term hospitalization with a feeding tube Finally, they heard from a recovered patient in the same town about the Gerson Therapy. “The situation changed completely when she began the Gerson. Therapy on her own at home,” her mother, Donna Grey, reported. “Megan told us that it was at a time when she finally seemed to be totally obstructed that she started the coffee enemas and the Therapy. It helped her quickly enough, so that she didn’t need to go to the hospital nor did she require surgery.” Her mother continued by saying, “After three months on the Gerson diet, the pain was gone and her energy was returning. A year later, she had gained 26 pounds, no longer missed school, and lost the black circles under her eyes.” Megan could now lead a normal life and was able to go out with her friends. The Greys’ family doctor was totally impressed with Megan’s health and weight gain. “And all this without any prescription, drugs!” he remarked. “Tt has now been three years that Megan is symptom-free, thanks to the Gerson diet, which she continues to follow in a modified version,” her mother told us in 2000. “Megan is looking forward to a bright future,” she said. By now Megan was attend- ing a university. Taking the pre-med program, she planned to become a naturopathic physician, as have others before and since, inspired by the results of the Gerson Therapy. Chris Matiesen — Ulcerative Colitis In 1974, after a proctoscopy and colonoscopy, Chris — who was then in his early 30s — was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. He was treated with Sulfadine as well as prednisone. The latter caused considerable weight gain, acne, and the typical “moon face” as well as facial redness. The drugs, though, were not effective. But when Chris asked about the possible value of making changes in his diet, his doctors stated that diet makes no difference in ameliorating this serious and chronic intestinal disease. They urged him to have his entire13 Chris Matiesen colon removed, since the bleeding was continuing. Chris refused surgery. 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. John Stout — Multiple Sclerosis John was born in 1960. He was 35 in January 1995 when he noticed the first serious symptoms of disease. One day while stepping out of his pickup truck, he was unable to direct his leg properly to take his weight, which caused him to fall. He had many more falls after this first episode. Also, one of his eyes was becoming virtually unusable. John’s health history is a typical one—of ongoing damage caused by toxins and accidents. All his life he had lived on a ranch, and for that reason was exposed to agricultural chemicals from infancy on. Also starting in his childhood he had eaten the “wrong” foods: meats, fried and preserved foods; and heavily salted pickled items. When six years old, he had been in a serious accident, and though he escaped with few apparent injuries, he possibly retained some scar tissue. Most notably, as a teenager he had an accident with a pickup truck that left him with an “uneven” gait. A number of accidents followed, right into his adult years. The probable ultimate blow to his health came from a fall that resulted in a severe and painful injury to his shoulder. To be able to manage the pain he was given a powerful painkiller, Naprosine.John Stout The drug had a strong effect, and he suspected that it could have caused the onset of serious symptoms. John had always been extremely active—riding horses, carrying fence posts and baby calves, climbing in and out of grain trucks and tractors. He was also an avid hunter. In March he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis by the local neurologist, Dr. Hisanori Hasegawa, at the Benefis Hospital in Great Falls, Montana. When John’s wife, Debbie, contacted other doctors in the area to get advice, she was frankly told that there was no cure for MS. Struggling now with progression in this serious neuromuscular disease, John had very low energy; he could hardly get through the day. His eyesight in the affected eye was extremely poor, and his leg did not move normally. Further- more, he had a constant urge to urinate. There were no periods of partial remission followed by exacerbations, as in many MS patients; he was just going from bad to worse. 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. Further- more, as Debbie remarked, “I began to notice that his walk was different. He had lost the ‘swagger’ I'd 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15 John Stout 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, John’s 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. Anna K. — A collection of immune problems In the spring of 1994, when Charlotte Gerson was giving a presentation at a health convention in Chicago, Anna K. asked to testify. She said that she lived in Detroit and had traveled to Chicago just to attend the convention. The story she told sounded almost incredible. In 1991, she had been so ill, weak, and non-functional that when she heard about the Gerson Therapy and learned that Charlotte Gerson would be giving a lecture and seminar in Miami, she traveled all the way from Detroit to learn what she could do to restore her health. Extremely impressed, she embarked on the Gerson Therapy in September, hopeful of overcoming at least some of a long list of problems: endometriosis, allergies, sinus infections, chronic bronchitis, recurrent kidney infections, chronic fatigue, ocular migraines, arthritis, heart valve problems, stomach ulcers, and candida. Now at the convention three years later, Anna K. reported that she was doing extremely well, felt strong and healthy, and no longer suffered from any of the above conditions. She had good concentration and good energy, and really looked well and fit. 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Anna K. 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 dicts so as to achieve better energy, concentration, and muscle control. Brad Mavis — Chronic Fatigue A struggle with illness covered much of Brad’s life until the age of 24. Allergic to milk fat right from birth, he received soy milk until he was six months old; then he was given cow’s milk. When he was two, his tonsils were so swollen with infection that they almost closed his throat necessitating a tonsillectomy. At five he had a hernia operation. This was followed during the next five years by most of the usual childhood diseases: chicken pox, measles, and scarlatina (scarlet fever). From ages 10 to 17 Brad was in good health — “despite what I was eating.” Since he grew up on a Minnesota farm, a good deal of fresh food was available, but most of it was subsequently cooked, or else preserved by freezing or canning and then stored. He later noted that raw foods helped him to feel better. When Brad was 17 years old, a tiny chicken bone got stuck in his larynx and had to be surgically removed. After that surgery his throat was always sore. In October 1976, in his second month of college, he felt tired and had no energy. Diagnosed with mono- nucleosis, he rested for a few weeks and then went back to school. In January 1977, he had a relapse, with a sore throat that wouldn’t heal. Antibiotics didn’t help, and his health went17 Brad Mavis downhill. By summer of 1977, during the summer heat he felt freezing cold, and was losing weight. At 5’9” his normal weight was about 145, but he was down to 125. Brad happened to see a copy of Cancer Winner — Jacquie Davison’s story of her recovery from terminal melanoma by undertaking the Gerson Therapy. But the book scared him. Nevertheless, some months later he purchased a copy and began reading it. He soon started doing coffee enemas, and he bought a Champion juicer. He had become night-blind, but after some juicing and coffee enemas, this problem disappeared. 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 Gerson’s 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. Brad’s 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 $2 (in 2012), he is an insur- ance inspector. At present, his weight is up to a normal 155, and he feels that he is even a little overweight George Smalley — Chronic Fatigue George had an incredible array of problems. They included candidiasis, arthritis, high blood pressure, migraine headaches, pancreatic infections, high blood cholesterol, edema, and “feeling old.” His major health problem, though, was a case of severe chronic fatigue syndrome. CFS was diagnosed in July 1992, when he was 53 years old. This disease— sometimes called the “Yuppie Syndrome”—caused George the worst problems.George Smalley An engineer, George had worked in his field for over 20 years. When the chronic fatigue (usually caused by the Epstein-Barr or similar virus) invaded his nervous system, he lost a portion of his brain functions. Naturally, this mental decline meant that he could no longer do his job, so he had to quit. Given a California state disabled-driver placard, he said that there was even a question as to whether he should drive at all. George learned about the Gerson Therapy in December 1992, a half-year after the CFS diagnosis. He started the Gerson Therapy seriously several months later, in March 1993. Below is George’s own story of his experience, written several years later: “Before I did the Therapy I sometimes couldn’t find my car if I parked a little too far away. I have a Master’s degree in engineer- ing; I graduated with honors, yet I couldn’t balance my check book anymore. If anybody has Chronic Fatigue, they know about the black cheesecloth that falls over you and the cotton that goes in your ears, Coffee enemas did away with those symptoms. “I soon found out what coffee enemas can do for you—and I had been afraid to take them! After I started the Gerson Therapy, I started to feel better almost within a week, and I have been improving ever since. The whole thing has been the most marvel- ous adventure of my life. “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 won’t 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 it’s nice to be back there again—and I am not kidding! My coordina- tion is back, eyesight, hearing—everything. I can do things today that I could not do at 30. And I am still getting better.”19 Gay Mau Walker Gay Mau Walker — Hashimoto’s; ITP, ‘pre-lupus,’ “autoimmune” Thyroiditis Gay, trained as a nurse, held a responsible position as a nursing supervisor at Chicago’s Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s Medical Center. In 1976, at the age of 25, she was diagnosed with ITP (idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura). A disease of insufficient platelets in the blood, it causes bleeding. Her platelet count was below 100,000 (it should have been around 230,000 or more). She was suffering from vaginal hemorrhaging, and also bleeding into her tissues, evidenced in purple spots on her skin. For better diagnosing, Gay was given an exploratory lapa- rotomy (opening of the abdomen to have a “look/see”) at the same hospital where she worked. It was discovered that she had an “auxiliary” spleen, an extra growth, and this was removed. Following that surgery, her platelet count increased. She was also given steroid (prednisone) treatment for some six months. How- ever, her recovery was slow, and she continued to suffer from severe weakness. Later in 1976, Gay moved to California. Becoming a patient at the City of Hope, in Los Angeles, she was diagnosed with Hashi- moto’s disease. (This condition is considered an “autoimmune” thyroiditis, or inflammation of the thyroid gland.) The ITP resolved, but her sedimentation rate rose (the rate at which clumps of red blood cells settle in a test tube) and rheumatoid arthritis (related to lupus) developed. In early 1977, Gay happened upon Dr. Gerson’s book, A Cancer Therapy, and read it with strong interest. This nutritional and detoxifying approach to helping the body heal itself made good sense to her. She went to Mexico to have a look at the Gerson hospital there, and decided to undertake the Gerson Therapy at home on her own. She continued on it for about two years at her home in Fullerton, California. In 1980, feeling well and with normal energy, Gay went back to nursing. By then she was clear of both lupus and rheumatoid arthritis—both collagen diseases, as well as of her thyroiditis. She got married in 1982. When she had first been diagnosed with a “pre-lupus” condition, she was warned against ever becoming,Gay Mau Walker pregnant. Nevertheless, Gay subsequently had two children, who are now teenagers. She continued in excellent health until just recently, when age-onset diabetes was diagnosed. She controls the problem with diet and exercise, and has reduced her elevated blood sugar to near normal levels. Last Contact: March 2001. Elwood Goodier — Osteomyelitis, endocarditis Elwood Goodier was suffering from osteomyelitis as well as endocarditis. When he arrived at the Gerson hospital in Mexico in. February 1995, this 77-year-old man was on heavy doses of morphine as well as drug patches in an effort to control his pain. These medications, however, were minimally effective, and Elwood’s original doctor had done nothing to address the underly- ing health problems. While Elwood was in Mexico receiving the Gerson Therapy, his pain began to abate, and eventually completely disappeared. A year later he wrote that he was now active again and enjoying life. When Elwood was at the Gerson hospital, his mother-in-law was also being treated there. She had some fatty tumors (presum- ably benign), and Elwood reported later that these had disap- peared after two weeks on the Therapy. Dr. James Clark — Immune deficiency; Arrhythmias, Insomnia In 1963, in his late teens, Jim suffered a minor ankle injury. An infection set in, and the sore wouldn’t heal. He had a total of 13 operations, consisting of debriding (cleansing) the lesion and grafting new skin over it. However, the grafts didn’t “take,” since the surrounding tissues were infected. He spent a whole year in the hospital. Finally, his doctors despaired of healing his wound and feared that osteomyelitis would develop. They could only see one proce- dure to overcome the problem: remove Jim’s leg below the knee. Jim agreed to it. The amputation, however, did not cure him. He 20a Dr. James Clark continued to suffer infections and was constantly treated with antibiotics. Each drug treatment caused new problems. Now Jim suffered stomach distress, arrhythmias (heart irregularities), confusion, headaches, and loss of concentration — to the point that he despaired of living. He also had severe insomnia. Jim’s constant problems landed him on the hospital’s psychiat- ric floor — the theory being that if the doctors can’t find or diagnose the disease, it must be “mental.” Naturally, the psychiat- ric drugs given to him only made his overall condition worse. Finally, in February 1978, Jim arrived at the Gerson Therapy hospital in Mexico. His first question was “Do you have enough antibiotics for me?” Naturally, antibiotics were available if patients truly needed them. However, his problems very quickly cleared without further drug treatments. Already on the second night, he slept normally — for the first time in months, maybe years. All of Jim’s 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. Clifford Sherrell — Psoriasis Clifford was born in 1929. His problem began in 1970 with dry skin and itching, and he suffered from it for years. He did not go to a doctor until 1978 or 1979. The doctor gave him prescriptions for painkillers. But Clifford didn’t really have pain; his problems were mostly itching on his upper legs, and swelling. The other doctors he consulted later didn’t help at all either. Eventually he saw a dietician, who suggested vegetarian, salt-free foods. On this diet the itching and swelling disappeared for over 10 years while Clifford remained on the vegetarian diet (not organic). However, the problems returned in 1990, after he retired and moved to Alabama. Clifford had not changed anything he was eating or doing, soDr. James Clark at first he couldn’t think of any reason why his condition should have worsened at that time. Later, he suspected electromagnetic radiation from an overhead power line, only about 20 feet from his bedroom window. After Clifford moved, the swelling and itching would disappear during the fall and winter months, then return. In November 1992, the problem recurred, then disappeared again. In early 1996, it became so severe that Clifford saw a doctor. “Whatever it is, it is caused by your nerves,” the doctor told him — revealing his inability to diagnose the problem. When Clifford came to the Gerson hospital in Mexico in July 1996 after allopathic physicians could not help him, he had many large, open sores on his hands and feet. His ankles and feet were badly swollen, and loose pieces of skin hung from his hands. “It was never that bad before,” he said. A biopsy was done: his disease proved to be psoriasis. On the Gerson Therapy, 98% of Clifford’s open sores closed in less than 10 days, and new skin covered his hands and the soles of his feet. His ankles became normal, with all swelling gone. In 1998, Clifford said of the pain, swelling, lesions, and itching, “Now there is nothing left.” 2223 Additional Reading Healing the Gerson Way: Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases by Charlotte Gerson and Beata Bishop The best, most readable and useful Gerson Therapy book there is. Gerson and Bishop explain the rationale, science and method behind the Gerson Therapy, including 90 pages of recipes, guides to medication, case histories for cancer and many chronic illnesses. A must-have. Healing Arthritis the Gerson Way Healing Arthritis is a complete how-to guide to for repairing and reversing arthritic conditions using the well-known Gerson Therapy. Charlotte Gerson includes the latest medical research on arthritis and the most common forms of the disease. Case histories of patients who have healed themselves of various arthritis, bone and joint diseases will inspire and motivate you. Easy to follow, instructions guide readers through the program ... * How the Gerson Therapy helps to rebuild the immune system so that it stops and prevents arthritic conditions © What equipment and foods are necessary for the Gerson Therapy © Recipes and cooking techniques for preparing healthy foods and juices * How to perform natural detoxification © What patients can expect when doing the TherapyAdditional Reading Healing Diabetes the Gerson Way | Healing Diabetes the Gerson Way provides a powerful program to reverse type 2 diabetes and return you to complete health. Healing Diabetes is an easy-to-follow, how-to guide for using the Gerson Therapy to overcome type 2 diabetes. The simple step-by-step instructions cover everything you need to know and guide you through each part of the progeam. Here is some of what’s included ... The latest in scientific research on the causes of type 2 diabetes Foods and equipment necessary to implement the Gerson Therapy 90 pages of Gerson-approved recipes for healthy foods and juices Complete instructions for performing the natural detoxification process Hints and tips to make the Therapy easier HealingDiabete Healing High Blood Pressure the Gerson Way Based on the work of Dr. Max Gerson, the Gerson Therapy for high blood pressure will help you to open clogged arteries, lower elevated blood pressure, lose weight, reduce stress and return to complete health. It is commonly known that poor dietary and lifestyle choices lead to increased blood pressure. It also known high blood pressure can be eliminated by making the right choices and that is what this program is all about. Gerson Therapy is an all-natural method of reversing high blood pressure that eliminates its causes and restores your body’s natural defenses so it will repair damage already done. Easy to follow instructions guide you through every part of the program. Here is some of what’s included ... * How the Gerson Therapy works to rebuild the immune system * What foods and equipment are necessary for the Gerson Therapy * Techniques and recipes for preparing healthy foods and juices * Complete instructions for performing the natural detoxification process * What to expect when doing The Therapy Gerson Movies The Beautiful Truth Follow Garrett on a cross-country trip to investigate the Gerson Therapy. He meets with cancer survivors who tell stories of triumph and healing by following the Gerson Therapy. Garrett interviews scientists, doctors and researchers, who reveal it is in the best interest of the medical industry to dismiss the notion of alternative and natural cures. 2425 Gerson Movies Dying To Have Known Filmmaker Steve Kroschel presents patients, scientists, surgeons and nutritionists who discuss the Gerson Thera- py’s efficacy in reversing cancer and degenerative diseases and show scientific proof to back up their claims. Inter- views include a Japanese medical professor who cured himself of liver cancer, a lymphoma patient diagnosed as terminal over 50 years ago, and more. The Gerson Miracle This film introduces Dr. Max Gerson who developed a remedy for cancer and most chronic diseases over 80 years ago. The Gerson Therapy employs a diet and detoxification regimen to rebuild the immune system and restore the body’s ability to heal itself. Former patients talk about their recoveries and Dr. Gerson’s daughter, Charlotte discusses the medical and pharmaceutical industries and why they fear an all-natural therapy that allows people to take control of their own health. The Gerson Movie Collection on Blu-ray All three Gerson movies on one Blu-ray disc. * The Beautiful Truth * Dying to Have Known * The Gerson Miracle Books and DVDs available from: Gerson Health Media info@gersonmedia.com www.gersonmedia.com