Introduction to the Gerson therapy

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I wanted to look up someone in Charlotte Gerson's book " The Gerson Therapy " who

five years ago was found to have esophageal cancer. He did the Gerson Therapy

religiously and his cancer shrunk, broke apart, and was eliminated. I was able

to find this person through his place of work. I found out he is still going

strong. My father died of esophageal cancer. It was wonderful to see that Dr.

Gerson's therapy was successful for this man.

 

Kelly

 

http://www.gerson.org/

 

The Gerson Therapy Charlotte Gerson is daughter of the late Dr. Max Gerson, M.D.

who was well known for his revolutionary nutritional healing therapy for cancer

and degenerative diseases. His method is described in his classic book, " A

Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases and the Cure of Advanced Cancer " . Dr.

Albert Schweitzer called Dr. Gerson " a medical genius who walked among us " .

Charlotte Gerson is founder of the Gerson Institute and is a consultant for the

Gerson therapy.

The Gerson Therapy has been and is still the most basic, the best recognized,

the most complete, and the longest existing effective cancer treatment. Patients

on the Gerson therapy also know that they have to stick very exactly to the

treatment. Everything you must or must not do has a very important reason. The

whole Gerson Therapy is aimed at detoxifying the body and putting lots of fresh

nutrients into it. The Gerson therapy is not effective with cancer only. With

the Gerson Therapy, patients have seen heart disease, high blood pressure,

thyroid problems, lupus, colitis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid

arthritis, herniated disks and many other problems disappear. Some have seen

Alzheimer's disease improve if it's not too advanced.

The importance of pancreatic enzymes in the Gerson TherapyBefore the body can

deteriorate into cancer all the body's defense systems have to be depressed and

out of balance. If your pancreas is working properly and if you have adequate

pancreatic enzymes, you cannot develop cancer.

 

Pancreatic enzymes , trypsin in particular, disolve the protective protein

coating which covers malignant tissue and makes it impossible for the body's

natural immune defenses to recognize the cancer cells as foreign.

Fresh juices and vegetarian meals in the Gerson Therapy

Dr. Gerson gave seriously ill patients fresh juice every hour, freshly pressed,

organic, free of poisons, rich in the best nutrients, minerals and enzymes. It

is all described in Dr. Gerson's book " A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases

and the Cure of Advanced Cancer " . " We give a fresh glass of juice every hour:

five glasses of apple-carrot juice, three glasses of plain carrot juice and we

give liver capsules with it, four glasses of juice from leafy type greens rich

in chlorophyll, iron, nutrients, enzymes, everything the body has been lacking

over the years.

 

We also give three full vegetarian meals and a fruit plate every day. By

drinking the juice, you get an enormous flooding of nutrients, minerals,

enzymes, and vitamins which start to flush out the kidneys. The nutrients go

into the tissues, into the cells and force out the poisons, and all those

poisons are released into the blood stream. The liver filters them out. You have

to help the liver get rid of them, and there is only one way - by opening the

bile ducts " , and Dr. Gerson did this with the famous and much joked about coffee

enemas which is the key to successful treatment.

Gerson Therapy: Excess protein in the diet is carninogenic

Excess protein causes cancer. Especially when it is cooked. Doctors and

nutritionists advise you that animal protein is needed for strength and tissue

repair, but that is absolutely the worst advice you can get. Researchers at the

Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that when any kind of flesh including red

meat, poultry, pork and lamb was heated to 212 degrees, whether it was boiled,

broiled, fried or baked, the protein in the meat CHANGED into toxic amides that

do nothing in your body except provide you with carcinogens.

Cooked meat is strictly a carcinogen. Now if you like meat for the taste, that

is a different story, I won't argue about tastes. The latest research done at

the University of California at Irvine, showed that children who eat as few as

three hotdogs a week had 10 to 12 times higher incidence of leukemia and brain

tumors. Sausages are perhaps the worst food. They are chemically treated, dyed

and preserved. They have nitrates and nitrosamines.

 

Potassium versus sodium in the Gerson Therapy

 

Gerson found that sodium stimulates tumor growth. It interferes with body

function. According to Gerson you need high potassium and low sodium, the same

ratio which can be found in fresh live foods. All processed foods contain

reduced potassium and raised sodium. Sodium is necessary for tumor growth. The

Gerson Therapy supplements the body with potassium.

Liver regeneration and the Gerson Therapy

The liver is the most important organ in the body. It is the filtration system

for detoxification. I have heard doctors say that if your liver functions up to

35%, you are all right, but when it drops below that, disease develops, whether

it is diabetes, cancer, arthritis, lupus or anything else. By the time cancer or

chronic disease develops, liver function is below 35%.

 

So when the tumor, the cancer, arthritis or other disease symptoms are gone,

that doesn't mean the body is cured. The body isn't really restored until the

liver goes back to its full activity of somewhere between 90 and 100%. We never

really know how long it takes to get there, but we can estimate it takes at

least 1 1/2 year or 2. If you go back to eating average food right away, the

foods you used to eat, candies, ice cream, cheese and meat, the cancer will come

back rather quickly because the liver is not able to deal with these things.

Flaxseed oil and the Gerson Therapy

Dr. Gerson found, after observing for a long time, that patients, especially

with cancer and also with heart disease, atherosclerosis and so on cannot handle

oils and fats, and that is why his book says no oils. Yet he was very much aware

that the body needs a certain amount of essential fatty acids and that after

deprivation for a year or year and a half, until the tumors disappear, there is

a lack of essential fatty acids in the Gerson diet.

 

He searched and searched and tried every kind of oil he could think of,

everything from olive oil, sesame oil, safflower oil to sunflower oil. None of

them were usable because in each case the tumors would regrow. Fats stimulate

tumor growth. But after the book came out, he came across the work of Dr.

Johanna Budwig in Germany who showed that one may use flaxseed oil and that it

is well tolerated by cancer patients. It helps to stimulate the immune system,

and kills the tumor tissue. He used two tablespoons of flaxseed oil per day -

one at lunch and one at dinner, and after a month on the therapy, he cut it down

to one tablespoon a day. He advised against cooking with oils. You can't cook

with flaxseed oil because if it is heated, it deteriorates and causes problems.

So the flaxseed oil must only be used raw and cold.

You can visit the Gerson Institute for more information on the Gerson Therapy.

 

 

 

 

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