The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation

November 23, 2006

The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation.Physiol Chem Phys 1978;10(5):449-464Back to bibliography

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The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentationMax Gerson, M.D. Gerson Institute, Box 535, Imperial Beach, California 92032

(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 of 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 it 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 mater

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December 2, 2007

Hi Jane,

Yes, I would agree

with you there. If people need probiotic, it’s probably due to a poor

diet or too much alcohol or medication. Sometimes the soil lacks certain

minerals and so the foods we eat are lacking in them too. This is why sea vegetables

are good, as the sea has all the minerals in it, although pollution is getting

worse and so toxic contamination is also high when eating sea food.

Alice J

On Behalf Of Jane MacRoss

Sunday, 2 December 2007 7:52

pm

Re:

The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical

experimentation

If you read the

thing I sent:

http://www.esalenctr.org/display/confpage.cfm?confid=8 & pageid=78 & pgtype=1

this technique always

show what bits are missing in the individual diets - always far less than

people imagine or need to take - as you say - but nearly always people are

short of magnesium and sometimes a probiotic. And sometimes the things you may

like the best are the worst things you could eat or drink.

December 3, 2007

Everyone is different - I'd say its impossible to generalise - only because I am about to start taking a probiotic - as a vegetarian who eats organic, rarely has wheat, never has junk food, doesn't smoke or drink, doesn't taken medication and only 2 anti-biotics in my life I know that my gut is a weak point - and the VAS diagnosis indicated that a probiotic would be beneficial - otherwise i might agree with you - I asked if this because i was not breast fed and the answer came up that I was suddenly allergic to almost all fruit! So you just cannot always tell!

Best,

Jane

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Alice

Monday, December 03, 2007 8:42 AM

RE: The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation

Hi Jane,

Yes, I would agree with you there. If people need probiotic, it’s probably due to a poor diet or too much alcohol or medication. Sometimes the soil lacks certain minerals and so the foods we eat are lacking in them too. This is why sea vegetables are good, as the sea has all the minerals in it, although pollution is getting worse and so toxic contamination is also high when eating sea food.

Alice J

December 4, 2007

Hi Jane,

I don’t

understand what the VAS diagnosis is, can you explain?

Alice J

On Behalf Of Jane MacRoss

Monday, 3 December 2007 5:36

pm

To:

Re:

The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical

experimentation

Everyone is

different - I'd say its impossible to generalise - only because I am about to

start taking a probiotic - as a vegetarian who eats organic, rarely has wheat,

never has junk food, doesn't smoke or drink, doesn't taken medication and

only 2 anti-biotics in my life I know that my gut is a weak point - and the VAS

diagnosis indicated that a probiotic would be beneficial - otherwise i might

agree with you - I asked if this because i was not breast fed and the answer

came up that I was suddenly allergic to almost all fruit! So you just

cannot always tell!

Best,

Jane

December 4, 2007

Vascular Autonomic Response ....... if you google it you will get lots of fascinating info

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Alice

Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:07 PM

RE: The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation

Hi Jane,

I don’t understand what the VAS diagnosis is, can you explain?

Alice J

On Behalf Of Jane MacRossMonday, 3 December 2007 5:36 pm Subject: Re: The cure of advanced cancer by diet therapy: a summary of 30 years of clinical experimentation

Everyone is different - I'd say its impossible to generalise - only because I am about to start taking a probiotic - as a vegetarian who eats organic, rarely has wheat, never has junk food, doesn't smoke or drink, doesn't taken medication and only 2 anti-biotics in my life I know that my gut is a weak point - and the VAS diagnosis indicated that a probiotic would be beneficial - otherwise i might agree with you - I asked if this because i was not breast fed and the answer came up that I was suddenly allergic to almost all fruit! So you just cannot always tell!

Best,

Jane