Childhood obesity is particularly dangerous, since the 
child’s developing organism is less able to deal with the many complications of gross overweight 
than that of an adult. Several British researchers have stated that for the first time in human history 
it will be normal for parents to outlive their offspring. A hugely successful recent movie produced by Morgan Spurlock, “Super Size Me,” unveiled 
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www.thegersonway.comto eat all his meals at McDonald’s for 30 days, to find out what this exclusive diet would do to 
him. Throughout the experiment he was regularly examined by gastro-enterologist Dr. Daryl 
Isaacs, who declared that Spurlock was “an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating 
this McDonald’s diet.” At one stage the doctor even told Morgan Spurlock that his liver had turned 
into pat é and asked him to stop his experiment. But the moviemaker persisted. At the end of the 
month he reported, “I got desperately ill. My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut. { He gained 
25 pounds in 30 days.} My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so quickly. It 
was amazing and frightening.” On top of it all, his liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from 
a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered from headaches and depression. Within a few 
days of beginning his ‘drive-through diet,’ Spurlock was vomiting out the window of his car, and 
doctors who examined him were shocked by how rapidly his entire body deteriorated. Mothers cannot be solely blamed for their children’s faulty nutrition and inactivity. Very few 
mothers receive any nutritional guidance from their pediatrician. The problem is that he doesn’t 
know much about nutrition, either. All he has learned in medical school boils down to the usual 
“protein, carbohydrates and fats” doctrine. And so he is unable to recognize the harm done by 
the children’s favorite foods; for instance, that the animal products used in fast foods are heat-
damaged, poorly assimilated, too high in cholesterol and salt, but deficient in true nutrients—
vitamins, minerals and enzymes. As a result they don’t satisfy hunger, and so a vicious circle 
is created, leading to overfed but undernourished children. If a child asks for more food after a 
complete meal, the mother’s instinctive reaction is to dish out an extra portion; she doesn’t realize 
that no additional amount of food will make up for the missing essential nutrients. The average American diet leaves children not only hungry but also with low energy, so they 
spend a lot of their free time lounging around, doing nothing. Yet they would also like to play, win 
at games, run, and eventually ‘show off to the girls.’ To make up for their low energy, they start 
to ‘look for something,’ and unfortunately find it, too. What they find are cola drinks containing 
caffeine and sugar stimulants, cigarettes full of toxic substances, and eventually alcohol and street 
drugs, giving a brief ‘high’ and leading to addiction. The same vicious circle affects adults, too. Since the conventional American diet is devoid 
of live nutrients, the body remains unsatisfied and craves more—not quantity but quality, proper 
nutrition that it needs to function smoothly and well. Sadly, people don’t know or understand this, 
and so they try to satisfy their craving with rich desserts, ice cream, cakes and cookies. These 
don’t satisfy, either, but they do create weight gain, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and 
eventually diabetes and worse. Obesity is a morbid condition indeed, and can only be overcome 
by changing to a junk-free, nutrient-rich wholesome diet. One doesn’t need a degree in nutrition to know that all kinds of sugar are fattening, and that 
the modern Western diet with its vast range of convenience foods is over-rich in sugar. However, 
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www.thegersonway.comcommercial reasons, which frequently clash with the interests of public health. One such recent 
clash concerned the upper safe limit of sugar added to food, as recommended by the WHO (World 
Health Organization). Professor Colin Campbell reported on this event in his book, The China 
Study,  and with his permission we quote his account:
“The recommendation on added sugar is as outrageous as the one for protein. When this FNB 
(Food and Nutrition Board) report was being released, an expert panel put together by the WHO 
(World Health Organization) and the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) was completing 
a new report on diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases. Professor Philip James 
was a member of this panel and a panel spokesperson on the added sugar recommendation. Early 
rumors of the report’s findings indicated that the WHO/FAO was on the verge of recommending 
an upper safe limit of 10% for added sugar, far lower than the 25% established by the American 
FNB group. “Politics, however, had early entered the discussion, as it had done in earlier reports on added 
sugars. According to a news release from the director-general’s office at the WHO, the US-based 
Sugar Association and the World Sugar Research Organization, who ‘represent the interests of the 
sugar growers and refiners, had mounted a strong lobbying campaign in an attempt to discredit 
the WHO report and suppress its release.’ According to The Guardian newspaper of London, 
the US sugar industry was threatening to ‘bring the WHO to its knees’ unless it abandoned these 
guidelines on added sugar. WHO people were describing the threat as ‘tantamount to blackmail.’ 
The US-based group even publicly threatened to lobby the US Congress to reduce the $406 
million US funding of the WHO if it persisted in keeping the upper limit so low at 10%. There 
were reports that the Bush administration was inclined to side with the sugar industry . “So, for added sugars, we now have two different upper ‘safe’ limits: a 10% limit for the 
international community and a 25% limit for the US,” is Professor Campbell’s wry conclusion. Clearly, despite official claims, the obesity epidemic hitting the American people is not solely the 
result of insufficient exercise!”
Osteoporosis
Also known as ‘brittle bones,’ this progressive loss of bone mass is unfortunately becoming 
very common. It causes fractures or breaks at the slightest impact, such as a fall or other 
accident. Fractures are immensely painful and heal slowly—or, in old people, not at all. A serious 
break, necessitating weeks of bed rest, can lead to infected bedsores and other, potentially fatal 
complications. More women than men suffer from osteoporosis, so it is assumed to be caused by ageing, post-
menopausal loss of the female sex hormone estrogen, lack of exercise, and smoking. However, we 
have seen a 28-year-old man suffering from this condition! The conventional medical treatment 
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www.thegersonway.comachieve is to slow down the disease process, not reverse it. Moreover, female sex hormones can 
cause cancer of the breast, the ovaries or the uterus; the body is unable to utilize the calcium and 
the synthetic Vitamin D; this treatment does not restore bone mass. In the course of worldwide research it was found that women in SE Asia, who regularly bear 
six to eight children and nurse them all, do not suffer from osteoporosis. In fact it is virtually 
unknown in those parts. Referring to this fact, the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible 
Medicine (PCRM) reports: “The average calcium intake in Singapore is 389 mg/day, less than 
half of the recommended daily allowance in the U.S. Yet the fracture rate in Singapore is five 
times lower than that of the U.S., where the calcium intake is much higher.” Further on the report 
comments: “Dietary and lifestyle factors that encourage the loss of calcium include: Animal 
protein, sodium, caffeine, phosphorus, tobacco and sedentary lifestyle.” In one study it was found 
that “Eliminating meat from the diet cuts the urinary calcium losses in half.” Also, “Cutting 
sodium intake by half can reduce calcium requirements by 160 milligrams per day. Avoiding 
tobacco has demonstrable effects: smokers have 10% weaker bones than non-smokers.”
Despite clear scientific proof that calcium is not the answer to osteoporosis, in January of 
1997 a new advertising campaign promoting milk consumption was launched, sponsored by 
the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board. Among other things the publicity claimed, 
“With calcium galore, milk is one of the best things around.” The ads featured female or male 
celebrities sporting the new ‘celebrity milk moustache,’ The PCRM lodged a complaint with the 
Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C., pointing out that “increasing milk consumption 
is one of the weakest possible strategies for protecting the bones, and to suggest otherwise is 
dangerously misleading.”
The PCRM also stated that since calcium was needed in the diet, the kind provided by green 
vegetables appeared to be of greater bio-availability (was better assimilated) than the calcium 
found in milk To underline their claim, they added: “Excessive calcium intake does not fool 
hormones into building much more bone, any more than delivery of an extra load of bricks will 
make a construction crew build a larger building.”
As the evidence accumulates, it becomes increasingly clear that osteoporosis, like so many 
chronic degenerative complaints, is largely the result of wrong eating habits. Further confirmation 
comes from best-selling author John Robbins, considered to be a world-class expert on the dietary 
link with the environment and health. He writes, “One long-term study found that with as little 
as 75 grams of daily protein (less than three quarters of what the average meat-eating American 
consumes), more calcium is lost in the urine than is absorbed by the body, establishing from the 
diet a negative calcium balance.” 5 Every study came up with the same result: The more protein 
was taken in, the more calcium was lost. Dr. John McDougall, one of the nation’s leading medical 
authorities on dietary association with disease, adds: “I would like to emphasize that the calcium-
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www.thegersonway.comThe many studies performed during the past 55 years consistently show that the most important 
dietary change that we can make if we want to create a positive calcium balance that will keep our 
bones solid, is to decrease the amount of protein we eat each day .” 6 
All the above serves as yet another proof that the Gerson Therapy not only maintains the 
calcium balance of the body, but that it is also able to reverse osteoporosis by restricting animal 
protein, salt and smoking, while flooding the body with calcium from vegetable sources, along 
with the proper enzymes to lodge this calcium in the bones. In fact, in numerous patients bone 
mass has been increased and the discomfort or pain of osteoporosis has been cleared. Case History:  After stumbling and falling on an uneven pavement, long-term recovered 
Gerson patient A.C.  was sent for an X-ray by her doctor, to check whether her hip had been 
fractured. The hip turned out to be unharmed, but osteoporosis was discovered in three places 
in the spine. The woman doctor, who gave the patient the bad news, offered her a supply of 
painkillers, which she refused on the grounds of feeling no pain. Instead, she got in touch with 
Charlotte Gerson, who advised her to drink a liter of freshly made carrot and apple juice and eat 
some green leaf every day, in addition to her Gerson maintenance routine. She added, “If those 
guys tell you that osteoporosis is irreversible, don’t believe them.”
A.C.did as she was told. Six months later, at her request, her doctor arranged another X-ray 
for her. This proved that not only had the condition not worsened, in fact it showed considerable 
improvement. The woman doctor gave her the good news without expressing any surprise or 
interest in this unusual development; all she had to say was to offer the patient a supply of —
painkillers. Some fifteen years have elapsed since this incident, and although A.C.is now in her 
eighties, she isn’t showing any sign of osteoporosis. Teeth
It is a sad fact that the concept of totality, or holism, is poorly understood and not applied 
to dental health, although teeth are an integral part of the body and can powerfully influence its 
general condition. Rarely do physicians consider checking the teeth of the patient who presents 
with various problems, perhaps a tendency to infection, a weakness or some other malfunction of 
the metabolism that is difficult to diagnose. The reason for this omission is that teeth belong to a 
totally different area of medicine that a physician is not concerned with. And yet it is a serious mistake to ignore teeth. Worse still, it can become a terrible mistake 
to treat them incorrectly. Only a few years ago did the dental profession become aware of the 
problems caused by root canal treatment. This came about because Dr. George Meinig, DDS, 
F.A.C.D., former head of the Root Canal Society, was reading a book written some hundred years 
ago by Dr. Weston Price, D.D.S., F.A.C.D.,7 and began to understand that it was a grave mistake 
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www.thegersonway.comtaken care of the problem. In his book Dr. Price relates that he was asked to treat the tooth of a lady who was bedfast with 
rheumatoid arthritis throughout her body. He removed the previously root canal filled offending 
tooth, cleaned and sterilized it, and implanted it under the skin of a rabbit. In five days the rabbit 
developed severe rheumatoid arthritis; in 10 days the disease killed it. Meantime the patient started 
to feel better, was able to get up, lost much of her pain and swellings, and eventually recovered. Dr. Price was impressed by this development and decided to research it further. Whenever he 
removed a damaged tooth, he proceeded in the same way to sterilize and implant it under the skin 
of a rabbit. To his amazement whatever disease the patient had suffered from, showed up in the 
rabbit within five days, and killed it in ten. This happened dozens, even hundreds of times with 
teeth removed from patients suffering from kidney disease, heart disease, and other problems. Dr. Price then carried out two more experiment. In one, he implanted a tooth lost by accident 
from a healthy person under the skin of a rabbit and noted that the rabbit remained healthy and 
eventually survived for 15 years. Next he took a tooth from a diseased patient and autoclaved it 
(exposed it to steam pressure at 250 0 F=121 0 C). It made no difference: the rabbit still died of 
the patient’s disease. Having understood the biochemical damage inflicted on the whole body by treating root 
canals with fillings, Dr. George Meinig resigned from the Root Canal Society and wrote a book 
titled The Root Canal Cover-Up,8 exposing the facts originally discovered and recorded by Dr. 
Weston Price. Dr. Meinig explains that there are two factors behind the actual damage caused by root canal 
fillings. One is that removing the nerve of a tooth leaves that tooth dead. No nutrients can enter 
it via the canules ( the equivalents of capillaries in other tissues) , nor can metabolic residues 
be released from it. However, the now empty canules fill with germs and viruses, which then 
penetrate the jawbone and can in time cause severe infectious bone damage. Toxins from these 
infections are released into the blood stream, causing an almost permanent poisoning. Unfortunately even deep bone infections with resulting cavitations (hollowed out bone)  do 
not cause pain, so that frequently the patient is not aware of having a problem. Even a standard 
dental X-ray doesn’t show the bone damage; only the new ‘panoramic’ dental X-rays are able to 
do that. The only solution is to remove the offending tooth and clear infectious material from the 
cavitation, which allows the hollowed-out bone to heal. If a dentist discovers an abscess at the tip of the root of a tooth, he or she will urge the patient 
to have a root canal treatment done. DO NOT AGREE. The filling used in the canal eventually 
shrinks a tiny bit, allowing germs and viruses to enter via the canules, which become conduits for 
the invaders, causing much trouble. The dentist will assure you that the filling material currently 
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www.thegersonway.comof the dead tooth, the germ-filled canules, and a constant focus of infection active within the 
organism. So, rather than having the root canal treated, regretfully that tooth has to be extracted. Beside root canals there are many other dental problems, such as receding gums, gum 
infections, cavities, etc., that are easily detected and corrected. These should be cleared, so that no 
oral infections can interfere with the healing process. Once we have understood the unbreakable 
unity of the organism, it becomes clear how an unresolved and ignored dental problem can cause 
serious damage in some other part of the body. Mercury fillings should never be used. There is much information and research material 
proving the damage caused by releasing small amounts of mercury into the system by chewing, 
drinking, swallowing. These small but continuously released amounts of what is a potent nerve 
toxin are also absorbed by the lungs and the linings of the digestive system into the bloodstream, 
leading to severe harm. Despite the mass of scientific research material confirming this risk, some 
dentists and the American Dental Association (ADA) vociferously claim that mercury is perfectly 
safe once installed in the tooth. It is not. These days there are various minimally toxic inert filling 
materials available to deal with cavities. Crowns are another problem. A crown must never be fitted over a mercury filling, nor should 
gold be used if there is any mercury—also known as silver amalgam—present in other parts of 
the mouth. Between those two metals a tiny mild electric current is generated, which is capable 
of interfering with the enzymes and other factors of pre-digestion that are active in the mouth. If 
a crown is necessary, it should be made from other materials, such as plastic or porcelain. Dental anesthesia needs to be handled with care. When the body is well detoxified, it becomes 
more sensitive to any toxins, including anesthesia used by dentists to overcome the pain of dental 
work. It is extremely important that a Gerson patient should tell his/her dentist the following, 
prior to the use of anesthesia drugs:
  •  To use no more than one third to one half of the normal dose,
  •  To use no epinephrine in compounding the drug,
  •  To start the treatment immediately (the effect wears off quickly.) Upon returning from the dentist’s office, the patient should take a coffee enema, whether or 
not one is scheduled for that time. Any additional pain is likely to be cleared by another coffee 
enema. NOTE: If the dentist avises the patient to take a dose of antibiotics, this must not be refused. A dental infection can be very serious and even become life-threatening. Case Histories: We have several patient reports of dramatic improvements after the removal 
of root canal treated teeth. One breast cancer patient using the Gerson Therapy was making slow 
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www.thegersonway.comprocess, he had her examined by a dentist. Indeed, a cavitation was found and cleared, and the 
infected tooth removed. Subsequently the remaining breast tumor tissue was rapidly absorbed, 
she recovered and remained well for many years. In another case a young woman, married to an athlete and hoping for children, conceived 
readily but suffered three miscarriages in a row. A full examination of her teeth disclosed a far 
advanced cavitation in her jawbone. When the offending tooth was extracted and the infection in 
her jawbone was cleaned up, shortly afterwards she had three normal pregnancies. A father wrote to us to say that he was impressed by the report, published in our Newsletter, 
on the damage caused by root canal treated teeth. It caused him to arrange a dental examination 
for his son who had been suffering from schizophrenia for several years, without being helped by 
the drug treatment he had received. When the young man’s teeth were checked and a root canal 
filled tooth was removed, he gradually recovered and needed no further medication. Fibromyalgia
This chronic condition is another eloquent example of the many kinds of ill-health caused 
by the toxic condition of the body. Fibromyalgia causes severe chronic pain in muscles and 
soft tissues surrounding joints. Efforts to control it with anti-inflammatories, including cortico-
steroids, have not been helpful, nor has any effective treatment been found for it so far. Pain 
relieving drugs are used to help the patients sleep. According to the conservative estimate of the National Fibromyalgia Research Association, 
6 million people in the U.S. suffer from this disease. In our experience, fibromyalgia is basically a toxic condition, caused by the combined impact 
of polluted air and water, poisonous chemical residues in agricultural produce, and food additives 
used in processed foods. There comes a point where the body can no longer excrete these harmful 
substances; in order not to overload the liver and to keep the toxins ( enzyme inhibitors)  from 
interfering with the functions of the essential organs, it releases them into the muscles and soft 
tissues. Once there, the toxic irritants cause pain, which eventually becomes almost unbearable. Like all conditions resulting from a high degree of toxicity in the body, fibromyalgia yields 
very promptly to the organic, vegetarian, toxin-free diet of the Gerson Therapy, combined with 
intensive detoxification via the coffee enemas. We have seen some cases in which it took only a 
few days to ease and then banish the pain, enabling the patient to resume normal activity. In more 
advanced cases, aggravated by the use of many pain relieving drugs, and also with bedridden 
patients, it takes possibly several weeks to obtain lasting pain relief and healing. We recall with wry amusement the experience of a seriously ill, mostly bedridden lady, who 
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www.thegersonway.comseveral years and had eventually found the physician who was regarded as the top authority of 
that condition. However, he himself was suffering from an advanced case of fibromyalgia and 
was unable to help her. On the contrary: on one occasion, when she called him after a particularly 
painful, miserable night, he replied to her complaint by saying, “Y ou are telling me!”
Part III
It must be remembered that despite its great healing potential in so many areas of ill health, 
the Gerson Therapy is no panacea, and that there are conditions in which it can heal only partially 
or not at all. There are sound reasons why the high-powered twin Gerson methods of hyper-
alimentation and detoxification don’t work under some circumstances, and in this chapter we set 
them out briefly in two sections. Diseases Difficult to Cure with the Gerson Therapy:
Brain Cancer:  We have seen total long-term recoveries of brain cancer cases—but also 
failures. The problem is not the cancer itself, but the location of the tumor. In the course of a 
healing reaction the body almost always produces an inflammation, which in itself is desirable, 
since inflammation fluid usually destroys tumor tissue. However, it also causes swelling in regular 
tissue. But a brain tumor is enclosed within the skull, where there is no room to accommodate  the 
swelling.. Instead, the ‘healing inflammation’ with its swelling causes serious pressure, which is 
likely to bring on seizures. These have to be handled carefully, reducing the swelling to decrease 
the seizure activity—thus blocking the healing process! It is hard to find a middle way between 
allowing inflammation, yet relieving severe headaches and seizures. Understandably the dilemma 
also worries the patient. There have been several who gave up on the Gerson Therapy and returned 
to orthodox treatment. Bone Metastases:   Certain cancers can be counted on to produce metastases ( spreading of 
malignancy)  into specific tissues. Thus a majority of prostate and breast cancers, if they spread, 
are found to have migrated to the bone(s). Bone tissue is difficult to heal. While a regular tissue lesion, sewed up, can be relied on to 
heal within a week to ten days, a bone fracture will take many weeks, often even several months 
to heal. As bone metastases are painful, the patient must remain determined and strong-minded, 
knowing that the healing will take a long time. Open Breast Cancer Lesions:  While Dr. Gerson warned that cancers within glands are more 
difficult to reach, generally breast cancer has responded well to the therapy over many years. The situation changes if and when the breast tumor breaks through the skin: open lesions leading 
possibly to infections are much more difficult to heal, and require the best possible care and much Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 8 0Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.compatience. Leukemias:  There are several kinds of chronic leukemia, usually of the age-onset type, 
which do not present special problems. However, the rapid-advance childhood leukemias must 
be stopped rapidly. This is far from easy. For various reasons, such as difficulty in administering 
the complete intensive Gerson Therapy, the child’s resistance or other external problems, the 
effectiveness of the treatment is hampered and slowed down. When this happens, an acute 
leukaemia can possibly advance too rapidly for the therapy to stop and reverse it. Multiple Myeloma:  Like leukemias, this condition does not belong in the class of solid 
tumors. It is a disease of the bone marrow, with myeloma cells ‘forming multiple tumor masses.’ 
These infiltrate the surrounding bone, generally the blood-forming long bones of the upper leg, 
but other parts of the skeleton as well. The disease occurs more frequently in men than in women, by a ratio of 3:1. Since it damages 
the blood-forming bone marrow, it causes anemia and renal (kidney) lesions. As explained above, 
it is always more difficult to heal bone lesions, and this also applies to Multiple Myeloma. It 
takes longer, and—according to Dr. Gerson’s observations confirmed by the latest research on 
this condition, it also requires more Vitamin B 12 than other kinds of cancer. Due to the invasion 
of bone by Myeloma tissue, it is also possible for pathologic fractures (weakened bone breaking 
without external cause) to occur. On the Gerson Therapy we have seen such fractures heal, very 
slowly. Long Term Prednisone Treatment and/or Chemotherapy : All drugs are liver-toxic, hence 
long-term use causes severe liver damage. Prednisone, a powerful steroid routinely prescribed 
for Multiple Sclerosis, lupus, arthritis and many other conditions, depletes the body’s defenses 
and causes considerable organ damage. If this damage becomes excessive due to long-term use, 
it can be difficult or even impossible to truly heal, i.e., fully restore the liver and other essential 
organs. Chemotherapy is much more toxic. While we have seen many reversals of chemo-treated 
patients’ disease, beyond a certain point the damage caused by powerful chemotherapy is no 
longer reversible. As a general rule, patients treated for lengthy periods with toxic drugs are more 
difficult to heal than those who were treated for only a short time or , preferably, not at all. Diseases Not Curable by the Gerson Therapy:
The list of chronic degenerative diseases that are curable by the Gerson Therapy includes 
some 1500 conditions. However, a very small number of diseases, mainly those affecting the 
Central Nervous System, do not respond well, or not at all, to the nutritional healing approach. It 
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www.thegersonway.comso highly specialized that it does not replace lost tissue; for that reason it is almost impossible to 
heal serious damage afflicting this area. Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, A.L.S. :   This is also known as Motor Neuron Disease 
(M.N.D. ), or popularly as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. While orthodox medicine considers its cause 
unknown, in our experience all affected patients had had extensive exposure to pesticides. Interestingly, while we were able to obtain healthy young calves’ livers and produce liver juice for 
the treatment of these patients, a number of them showed considerable improvement. Since liver 
juice is no longer safe, owing to widespread campylobacter infection, A.L.S patients have made 
little progress toward healing with the Gerson Therapy, although they deteriorate more slowly 
than they would without it. We consider that a failure. Parkinson’s Disease, P.D. :   This belongs to a group of conditions called motor system 
disorders, which result from the loss of dopamine-producing brain cells. The four primary 
symptoms of PD are tremor, or trembling in hands, arms, legs, jaw and face; rigidity, or stiffness of 
the limbs and trunk; bradykinesia, or slowness of movement; and postural instability, or impaired 
balance and coordination. As these symptoms worsen, patients have difficulty in walking, talking, 
or completing simple tasks. P.D. usually affects people over the age of 50, and is also known as paralysis agitans,  or 
popularly as “shaking palsy.” The allopathic treatment normally uses dopamines and several 
other drugs, which help the patient to function for a while, but do not cure the problem. The 
Gerson Therapy has also failed to produce a cure. Alzheimer’s Disease:  Described as pre-senile dementia, this condition is caused by the 
atrophy (wasting) of the frontal and occipital (rear) lobes of the brain. According to Taber’s 
medical cyclopedia, it causes “progressive and irreversible deterioration of intellectual function, 
apathy, speech and gait disturbance, disorientation and loss of memory.” In many cases it responds 
reasonably well to the Gerson Therapy, which alleviates and/or much improves the most severe 
symptoms. However, only brain cells that are diseased or damaged can be improved and even 
restored. Those that are dead are gone, so the disease is not cured. Chronic Kidney Disease:  If this has advanced to the point of requiring dialysis, it cannot 
be reversed. The specific function of the kidneys is to remove the waste products of protein 
digestion (urea, uric acid, creatinine), as well as excess minerals (sodium, potassium) or other 
toxic substances from the blood, in order to maintain homeostasis of the system. This is done via a 
delicate filter system of structures, sacs, the glomeruli; if the latter lose their permeability through 
inflammation and excess toxins and can no longer function, disease sets in. However, if disease has damaged kidney function by no more than 80% and 20% is still 
active, the condition can be treated and patients can improve and survive. Yet kidney tissue, 
similar to brain tissue (see above), when dead is gone. Therefore the kidney patient whose 
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www.thegersonway.comaverage diet. The price of survival is to remain on the Gerson program for life. In brief, kidney 
disease is treatable and can achieve long-term survival, but it is not curable. Once dialysis has 
been started, normally when kidney function drops below 10%, the patient should NOT attempt 
to go on the Gerson Therapy. Emphysema:  This is another disease that can be greatly alleviated, but not cured. Also 
referred to as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,  emphysema causes changes in the structure 
of the air sacs that filter out carbon dioxide for secretion, and allow oxygen to pass into the blood. Here the lung tissue is severely damaged by smoking, air pollution toxins or inflammation, so that 
it loses its permeability and the exchange of gases is seriously inhibited. The sick tissue can be 
restored; dead tissue is gone. The patient can probably function normally with only about 50% of 
functioning lung tissue, but he or she cannot be fully restored. Muscular Dystrophy:  Thought to be a familial (genetic) disease, this condition causes 
progressive atrophy (wasting away) of muscles and usually starts in childhood, more frequently in 
boys than in girls. The underlying cause is described as “A disorder caused by defective nutrition 
or metabolism” (Taber). In Dr. Gerson’s day it responded favorably to his treatment, but more 
recently we have not seen good results and have to consider it incurable. In one case, diagnosed 
as Duchenne’s Disease, which usually results in death at an early age, we have seen a more than 
twenty year long survival. TO SUM UP:
The Gerson Therapy would be useless and could even cause harm to the following, who should 
not undertake it under any circumstances:
 •  Patients on dialysis
 •  Patients with organ transplants (the therapy would cause a rejection)
 •  Patients with melanoma that has spread to the brain (the only case in which
     melanoma, eminently curable in any other body part, does not respond)
 •  Patients with pancreatic cancer if chemotherapy has been administered. (Pancreatic cancer is curable, but only if not pre-treated with chemotherapy . )Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 8 3Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comReferences:
1. Budwig, J.  Flax Oil as a True Aid Against Arthritis, Heart Infarction, Cancer and 
Other Diseases , Apple Publishing, 1994. 2. Taber’ s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary , F.A.Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1993. 3. Ibid. 4. Booth, F. boothf@missouri.edu
5. Robbins, J. Diet for a New America , New World Library, 1998. 6. McDougall, J. The McDougall Program for Women,  Plume, 2000. 7. Price, W.A. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration , Keats Pub., 15th edition, 2003. 8. Meinig, G. Root Canal Cover-Up , Bion Publishing, Ojai, CA, 1994.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 8 4Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 7
Restoring the Body’s Defenses
“I look forward optimistically to a healthy, 
happy world as soon as its children are taught 
the principles of simple and rational living. We must return to nature and nature’s God.”
          Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
“Physicians and the public have exclusively 
focused on drug therapy to the detriment 
of at least one of the foundations 
of good health—appropriate nutrition.”
       Dr. Mary Keith, St.Michael’ s Hospital, Toronto
By now, two basic facts will have become clear to the reader:
1) Everybody’s health and well-being is under constant attack from those factors of modern life 
that undermine the body’s natural defenses and self-healing ability, leading to a multitude of 
diseases;
2) The complex, precision-built nutritional program of the Gerson Therapy is able to undo the 
harm, restore the organism’s damaged defenses and enable the body to heal itself. In his thinking Dr. Gerson always made a close connection between the body’s defenses and its 
healing mechanism. Indeed, he invariably saw in his patients that the healing mechanism had 
been disturbed or severely damaged before the body succumbed to disease. Moreover, he was 
convinced that the appearance of malignant disease, i.e., cancer, represented the ultimate, most 
severe kind of breakdown, and that it needed the best expert care and effort to reverse the 
destructive process and achieve healing. Perhaps the greatest of Dr. Gerson’s many revolutionary insights was his realization that the 
underlying causes of chronic disease were deficiency and toxicity . This approach differs greatly 
from that of conventional medicine, which prefers to assign a clear-cut cause to each individual 
disease, but omits to look for the truly basic problems that are common to many. And this 
difference in approach is one of many factors that separate the Gerson protocol from orthodox 
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www.thegersonway.comOnce the underlying problems are recognized, they can be treated: the deficiency  is eliminated 
with hyper-alimentation, the toxicity with systematic detoxification. Despite their vital importance 
these methods are simple, straightforward and transparent. Above all, they make sense. We have already touched on this subject in general terms (see Chapter 2 , Knowing the 
Enemy), but now we need to take a closer look at its practical application. Hyper-alimentation : The answer to deficiency is to give the patient maximum amounts of 
the best possible foodstuffs. However, seriously ill patients are usually unable to eat much. Their 
appetite and digestion are poor, and their elimination is inadequate. Under the circumstances the 
only way forward is juicing, since almost every patient is able—and normally willing—to drink 
a freshly prepared glass of organic juice every hour. Once that routine is established, the nutrients 
the body so desperately needs are in constant supply . A few extremely debilitated patients, who cannot cope with the usual hourly 8-ounce glass of 
juice, are given 4- or 6-ounce portions at the beginning of the treatment. To their surprise, after 
only a few days of juicing and intensive detoxification they are able to eat three full vegetarian 
meals a day, prepared from fresh organic produce, and drink 13 standard size glasses of juice, 
besides snacking on fruit. Once they reach that stage of hyper-alimentation, each patient consumes 
approximately 20 pounds of food a day. Critics of the Gerson Therapy, who find the hourly preparation of fresh juices onerous, (which 
it certainly is!) often suggest the use of vitamin and mineral supplements instead. What they 
don’t realize is that the sick body is unable to assimilate and utilize pharmaceutically prepared 
substances; which would simply pass through the organism without doing any good. Only live, 
fresh, raw vegetables and fruits are absorbed, and exclusively in the form of juice, which bypasses 
the digestive process and is immediately assimilated. Detoxification : As soon as the body is being flooded with live nutrients, these are rapidly 
absorbed and force accumulated toxins from the cells into the blood stream, which in turn 
transports them to the liver, the body’s chief organ of detoxification. However, the patient who 
embarks on the Gerson Therapy after a lifetime of living on a so-called normal modern diet has 
already accumulated considerable amounts of food additives, residues of pesticides and other 
agrochemicals, plus toxins from many sources that block his or her liver. As a result the liver is 
unable to deal with the newly arriving toxins, driven from the tissues by the live nutrients. Unless quickly shifted, this logjam of toxins could lead to life-threatening self intoxication 
and liver coma; hence the vital role of the rapidly detoxifying frequent coffee enemas which 
are a cornerstone of the Gerson treatment. There are several cancer therapies which use various 
methods to kill tumor tissue, but without removing dead toxic material from the liver. In order to 
allow the liver to discard its toxic load slowly and gradually, the treatment has to be interrupted, 
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www.thegersonway.comis able to work continuously, which explains its effectiveness—and also why the coffee enemas 
are an indispensable part of the protocol. Without them, the additional load of newly released 
toxins could even cause new liver damage. Whoever wants to embark on the Gerson Therapy 
must include the required practice of coffee enemas.Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 8 7Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 8
Why Does The Gerson Therapy Work? So far so good. The basic principles of the Gerson protocol are simple and clear and 
obviously its practice has been yielding remarkable results over more than sixty years. But the 
question remains: is there any current scientific research to confirm the methods Dr. Gerson 
developed partly intuitively, partly through constant study and clinical observation, but without 
sophisticated research facilities, all those decades ago? Putting it simply: has anyone discovered 
just why this therapy works? The answer is yes. Since Dr. Gerson’s death in 1959, a series of eminent scientists and 
researchers have made discoveries that confirmed one or another of Dr. Gerson’s insights and 
methods. It is the sum total of these piecemeal discoveries that explains why his protocol, used 
in its entirety, is so effective. In the following we present a sample of the most striking scientific 
endorsements. In the late Seventies the physicist, mathematician and biophysicist Dr. Freeman Widener 
Cope, M.D., wrote in a paper, “the high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson therapy has 
been observed experimentally to cure many cases of advanced cancer in man.”1 In another paper 
he stated that in cell damage of any kind, the same responses may occur in cells throughout the 
body: “First the cell will lose potassium, second the cell will accept sodium, and third, the cell 
will swell with too much water (cellular edema). When the cell has swollen with too much water, 
energy production is inhibited, along with protein synthesis and lipid (fat) metabolism. Gerson 
was able to manipulate tissue damage syndrome, which he recognized clinically in the 1920s, 
by his dietary management, eliminating sodium, supplementing a high potassium diet with 
additional potassium amendments and finding a way to remove toxins from the body via 
the liver .”2 (Added emphasis.) This is a remarkably concise justification of all of Dr. Gerson’s 
methods, including the strict restriction of protein and fat, which the damaged cell cannot handle, 
the reason for increased potassium intake, and the need for liver detoxifi cation. In 1988, Patricia Spain Ward, Ph.D., campus historian of the University of Illinois, Chicago, 
presented an excellent monograph on the Gerson Therapy, under contract to the US Office of 
Technology Assessment (OTA). Although her study is not based on new research, it is worth 
including for its thoroughness and clarity. Describing Dr. Gerson as “ a scholar’s scholar and a 
superlative observer of clinical phenomena ,” Dr. Ward reported his observation that patients 
on a high potassium, low sodium diet excreted enormous amounts of sodium in their urine, and 
that by eliminating animal protein from the diet, this amount was increased. She added, “ The 
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www.thegersonway.comthe administration of dietary animal proteins for at least six to eight weeks .”3
Important research justifying Dr. Gerson’s withholding of animal protein from his cancer 
patients was carried out by Dr. Robert A. Good, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Minnesota and 
known as “the father of modern immunology.” He set up a guinea pig experiment, feeding one 
group of animals protein-free lab chow, while the other group received the normal variety of food. Dr. Good expected to see failure of the animals’ immune system on the protein-free regime, but 
the opposite happened. The guinea pigs’ thymus lymphocytes became tremendously active and 
remained aggressively so for a long time. Dr. Good realized that he had stimulated immunity 
by the dietary restriction of animal protein, thus confirming the rightness of the Gerson 
protocol’s identical insight. Perhaps this is the place for pointing out that Gerson patients do receive adequate amounts 
of easily absorbed plant proteins contained in the fresh vegetable juices, potatoes and oatmeal 
that are essential parts of their diet. It is a widespread mistake to believe that only animal foods 
contain protein. On the contrary: food animals, such as cattle, pigs and sheep are vegetarians! The Canadian scientist, Dr. Harold D. Foster,4 of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, 
approached the problem of cancer mortalities from the angle of mineral deficiencies in soils 
and water supplies. He also carried out an initial computer analysis of 200 cases of so-called 
“spontaneous” regressions of a wide variety of cancers, spontaneous regression having been 
defined as “a partial or complete disappearance of a tumor in the absence of treatment capable 
of producing a regression.” The result of Professor Foster’s painstaking research was that far 
from being “spontaneous,” most of the regressions were due to a combination of conventional 
treatments with drastic lifestyle changes and various complementary therapies. Of 200 patients, 
10 followed the Gerson diet, and many more used parts of the Gerson protocol, e.g. raw 
juices and detoxification. Further dietary regimes mentioned in the sample were partly 
or largely based on the same protocol, raising the percentage of those whose recovery was 
to some  extent due to the Gerson treatment . The most important conclusion Professor Foster 
was able to draw from his research was that cases of so-called spontaneous regression were far 
from being spontaneous; and were only categorized as such by orthodox medicine because 
they were the results of unconventional—alternative and complementary—therapies. One of the most important techniques of the Gerson Therapy is detoxification via the liver/bile 
through the use of coffee enemas. Dr. Gerson knew that these dilute the bile ducts, thus allowing 
the liver to release toxic accumulations. His discovery was confirmed more recently by three 
scientists, Wattenberg, Sparmins and Lam, from the Department of Pathology, University 
of Minnesota, who showed that rectal coffee administration stimulates an enzyme system—
glutathione-S-transferase—in the liver, which is able to remove toxic free radicals from 
the blood stream .5 The normal activity of this enzyme is increased by 600-700% by the coffee 
enema, hence vastly increased detoxification results. Coffee is also rich in potassium, which helps Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 8 9Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comprevent intestinal cramping by boosting the potassium content of deficient smooth muscles in the 
colon. In 1990 a remarkable study appeared in a peer-reviewed German medical journal under the 
title “Experiences with the Use of Dietary Therapy in Surgical Oncology.” Its author, Dr. Peter 
Lechner, of the Oncological Outpatient Department, District Hospital, Graz, Austria, reported 
on a six-year clinical study of a modified version of the Gerson Therapy followed by a group 
of 60 cancer patients who were also receiving orthodox treatment. According to Dr. Lechner, 
this greatly reduced version of the Gerson protocol was used as an adjuvant therapy, not as 
an alternative to conventional oncological treatments. Moreover, the patients carried out the 
nutritional therapy in their homes, which made strict supervision impossible. Even so, at the end 
of six years Dr. Lechner was able to report the following results: patients generally suffered 
fewer post-operative complications and adverse side effects of radio- and/or chemotherapy, 
their need for analgesics and psychotropic drugs was less than that of the controls, existing 
liver metastases progressed more slowly, and the patients’ psychological state was good 
throughout. The malnutrition-caused cachexia (severe wasting), which normally occurs in 
advanced stages of the disease could be prevented or at least greatly delayed in most cases. One 77-year-old woman patient on the nutritional regime achieved a complete remission 
without conventional therapy .6
In the course of the six-year clinical study Dr. Lechner and his colleagues were also able to 
justify Dr. Gerson’s use of coffee enemas, by following up independent research by Djerussi (1959) 
and Kaufmann (1963). This showed that the two active ingredients of the coffee, Cafestol and 
Kahweol, increased up to sevenfold the activity of Glutation-S-Transferase, which, as we know 
from the Minnesota research (see above), plays a central role in the elimination of toxins from the 
liver. All in all, cautious and restrained though Dr. Lechner’s conclusions are, it is clear from his 
report that even a greatly watered-down version of the Gerson Therapy achieves unexpected and 
unprecedented good results in the treatment of patients with metastasized malignancies. The most recent in-depth study of the anti-cancer components of Gerson’s food regime was 
written by Carmen Wheatley, Ph.D., a member of the Orthomolecular Oncology Group, U.K. 
She became interested in the subject through the experience of her friend, Oxford Professor of 
English Literature Michael Gearin-Tosh, who was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1994. His 
prognosis was poor: 6-9 months’ survival without any treatment, 1-2 years with “appropriate” 
chemotherapy. Professor Gearin-Tosh refused the latter and after considerable searching chose 
the Gerson Therapy, boosting it with meditation, acupuncture, and Chinese breathing exercises. He described the process from diagnosis to his then current state in his brilliant, highly amusing 
book, Living Proof—A Medical Mutiny7 (Against expectations, he lived for 11 years and 
eventually died of blood poisoning following dental work.) Watching her friend’s progress, Dr. Carmen Wheatley became intrigued by the fact that Dr. Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 9 0Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comGerson, apparently intuitively, selected foods for his Therapy that have since, some 50 years later, 
been shown to have anti-cancer properties. She wrote up her findings in an essay, titled “The Case 
of the 0.005% Survivor,” which was peer-reviewed by four eminent physicians, and appeared 
as an afterword in Professor Gearin-Tosh’s book. To start with, Dr. Wheatley points out that the 
Gerson diet contains several foods in which modern research has identified some key cancer-
fighting components, e.g. flax seed oil with its important contents of Omega-3 fatty acids, fruits 
rich in minerals and in bioflavonoids, vegetables of the cruciferous family, namely cauliflower, 
cabbages and broccoli, whose anti-cancer properties are borne out by current scientific nutritional 
research. She comments, “ Gerson’s fruit and vegetable diet could be subjected to exhaustive 
analysis in the light of modern nutritional oncology research. He didn’t have any of this 
scientific knowledge, yet empirically devised a method which ensures that a large range of 
these products would be delivered to the cancer patient, intact and in pharmacologically 
active doses ” (added emphasis). In the rest of her study Dr. Wheatley reviews further components of the Gerson Therapy, 
from the value of juicing to the importance of coffee enemas and finds all of them scientifically 
justified. In conclusion let us quote one of her shrewd comments: “ Conventional medical 
methods of treating cancer—chemotherapy, radiation—routinely wipe out an already 
depressed immune system and do little to restore it. Yet, as Gerson realized, it is the immune 
system which is needed to fight cancer, and therefore building it up should enhance chances 
of survival. ”
As time goes on and the lack of success of much of conventional oncology becomes ever 
more obvious, research into nutritional therapies is bound to expand and take up its due place in 
mainstream medicine. Its findings are bound to confirm again and again that the principles and 
practice of the Gerson Therapy are sound and accurate, offering an eminently logical way to heal 
disease and maintain health. References:
1. Cope, F.W. Physiological Chemistry and Physics , V ol.10, No.5. 1978
2. Ibid  V ol.9, No.6, 1977
3. Spain Ward, P. Monograph submitted to the US Office of Technology Assessment, 1988
4. Foster, H.D. International Journal of Biosocial Research , V ol.10, No.1, 1988
5. Sparmins, V .L; Lam, L.K.T; Wattenberg, L.W. Proceedings of the American Association 
of Cancer Researchers and the American Society of Clinical Oncology , 22:114, Abstract 
453, 1981
6. Lechner, P. Aktuelle Ernaehrungsmedizin , V ol.2, No.5. 1990
7. Wheatley, C. in Living Proof— Medical Mutiny , by Michael Gearin-Tosh, Scribner, 2002Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 9 1Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comCHAPTER 9
The Gerson Household
Whether a patient is able to spend some time at a Gerson facility or decides to embark on the 
therapy at home, the longest part of the healing process—up to two years or more with malignant 
disease, much less with other chronic conditions—will have to take place in his or her residence. For the duration of the treatment the home needs to be turned into a kind of private clinic, where 
everything serves the goal of getting well, and nothing is allowed to interfere with that process. How do we go about that? Quite simply by bearing in mind that the twin pillars of the Gerson 
program are nutrition and detoxification. Since the ill patient suffering from a chronic disease is 
both toxic and nutritionally deficient, as a first task the household has to be cleared of all toxic 
chemicals and damaging materials or appliances. These are present in vast arrays in most modern 
households. Chemical cleansers, gadgets and labor-saving devices emitting harmful radiation or 
so-called electro-smog are used daily and taken for granted. It’s only when their dire effects on 
the body are understood that we get rid of them. As the second pillar of the therapy is to provide the patient with hyper-nutrition, a suitably 
equipped kitchen is the all-important center where all foods and juices are prepared daily in large 
amounts. Let us start by listing the correct equipment for a smoothly running, efficient Gerson 
kitchen. Refrigerator : one very large one or two of average size will be needed to store the large 
quantities of organic produce required. A cool, preferably dark, well-ventilated pantry or laundry 
room is ideal for storing root vegetables, which don’t need refrigeration. Juice Machines
As freshly made organic juices are one of the most important healing components of the 
Gerson program, they must be of the best possible quality, and therefore it is vital to choose the 
most efficient juicer—one that will stand up to constant use over two years or so. There are plenty of models on the market. The simplest and cheapest is the centrifugal type, 
one of the first to become widely available. It is wasteful, produces deficient, enzyme-poor juice 
and cannot be used for healing. Another type is the Champion juicer, which extracts more minerals as well as more fluid. However, it is not satisfactory in itself, since what it produces is not so much juice as a mushy 
layer of vegetables on top of a watery base. Even so, the Champion juicer can be used , but as a Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 9 2Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comgrinder only. The machine comes with a plate that can be placed under the base where the strainer 
is usually located, releasing the ground up pulpy material. This then has to be put through a hand-
operated press, based on a hydraulic jack, to squeeze the juice from the pulped vegetables. The 
cost of the two items runs at present [2006] at about $400.The Champion is widely available in 
the US and in several other countries. For the manual press, contact www.juicepressfactory.com . Other machines, imported from Korea but also made in the US use two interlocking helical 
blades, which grind against each other. They do a better extracting job than the Champion alone 
and may be used, especially if the patient is not suffering from advanced cancer. However, these 
“one-process” juicers do not actually conform to Dr. Gerson’s instruction to use a two-process 
method, consisting of a grinder and a press, for obtaining the best juice. These juicers are claimed 
to extract more enzymes than the Norwalk (see below), but no mention is made of the equally 
important mineral extraction. The cost of these machines is between $750-900. The Norwalk : The best two-process juicer is the Norwalk, which is also most attractively 
styled, with a stainless steel exterior, or a wood grain plastic outer cover. Naturally in either model 
all parts of the machine that come in contact with food are made from stainless steel. The Norwalk 
is fully automatic, with a simple lever activating the press. Well serviced and guaranteed, it 
is also the most expensive juicer, costing at present: $2,100-2,250. The stainless steel exterior 
model also has a lever that adjusts it to the 220-240 volt current used in Europe. For information 
call 1-800-405-8423 (outside USA 760-755-8423). http://www.nwjcal.com . Taking Care of Your Juice Machine
Aside from your normal routine of maintaining maximum cleanliness in the kitchen, it is 
especially important to keep your juicer clean and free from dried up juice or fibers. Since these 
are raw, they can easily spoil, dry, and attract flies and other insects, not to mention germs or 
worse. To avoid contamination, the juicer must be cleaned after each use. This should not take up 
much extra time, since those parts of the machine that come in contact with fruit and vegetables 
are made of stainless steel and are easy to take apart, rinse, dry and re-assemble for the next 
juice. Use only clean sponges or cloths and reserve them for the juicer alone. Do not use soap or 
detergent for each cleansing, for it is highly important that not even the smallest amount of soap 
or cleanser remains on the parts that come in contact with the vegetables. If you use a Norwalk 
juicer, remember to wipe the press plate at the top. The juice cloths should be rinsed carefully in clean—not soapy—water after each pressing, Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author .Page 9 3Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www.thegersonway.comand kept in the freezer until the next juicing. It is best to have separate cloths for the carrot/apple 
or plain carrot juice, and for the green juice. At night, after all the juices have been made, you may use slightly soapy water for the day’s 
final cleansing; afterwards rinse thoroughly to make sure that no soapy film remains. Even a small 
residue of soap getting into the juices could cause the patient diarrhea, cramps or worse. The same 
applies to the juice cloths. Wash them in slightly soapy water and rinse carefully, to get rid of any 
soapy residue. Keep the cloths in the freezer overnight. If you use a grinder, i.e., a Champion and a press operated by a hydraulic system, the same 
rules apply. Keep both machines scrupulously clean and clear of soap. Stove & oven—electric or gas
Neither type is ideal. The cooking temperature is easier to control with a gas stove. However, 
gas burns oxygen, and if the patient spends time in the kitchen, the oxygen-depleted air is likely to 
prove harmful. The kitchen has to be well ventilated, which may be difficult on cold winter days. It is recommended to install in the kitchen/living area a room ozone generator in order to restore 
a better oxygen level. CAUTION: too high an ozone level could be set on fi re by open flames. Electric stoves or ovens are more expensive than gas to operate in most areas of the US. Their 
advantage is being cleaner and not using up oxygen. However, the cooking temperature, so very 
important for the correct preparation of vegetables, is more diffi cult to control on these stoves. Microwave Oven
Because of its speed and apparent efficiency, this gadget has spread to countless kitchens 
in the U.S. and elsewhere, without its serious health hazards becoming known.
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        Childhood obesity is particularly dangerous, since the 
child’s developing organism is less able to deal with the many complications of gross overweight 
than that of an adult. Several British researchers have stated that for the first time in human history 
it will be normal for parents to outlive their offspring. A hugely successful recent movie produced by Morgan Spurlock, “Super Size Me,” unveiled 
the truth about the destructive effects of fast food. Spurlock, a healthy 33-year-old man undertook Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007. All rights reserved. This material may not be reproduced in any medium, print or electronic without prior written permission from the author. Page 7 2Healing the Gerson Way—Defeating Cancer and Other Chronic Diseases
www. thegersonway. comto eat all his meals at McDonald’s for 30 days, to find out what this exclusive diet would do to 
him. Throughout the experiment he was regularly examined by gastro-enterologist Dr. Daryl 
Isaacs, who declared that Spurlock was “an extremely healthy person who got very sick eating 
this McDonald’s diet. ” At one stage the doctor even told Morgan Spurlock that his liver had turned 
into pat é and asked him to stop his experiment. But the moviemaker persisted. At the end of the 
month he reported, “I got desperately ill. My face was splotchy and I had this huge gut. { He gained 
25 pounds in 30 days. } My knees started to hurt from the extra weight coming on so quickly. It 
was amazing and frightening. ” On top of it all, his liver became toxic, his cholesterol shot up from 
a low 165 to 230, his libido flagged and he suffered from headaches and depression. Within a few 
days of beginning his ‘drive-through diet,’ Spurlock was vomiting out the window of his car, and 
doctors who examined him were shocked by how rapidly his entire body deteriorated. Mothers cannot be solely blamed for their children’s faulty nutrition and inactivity. Very few 
mothers receive any nutritional guidance from their pediatrician. The problem is that he doesn’t 
know much about nutrition, either. All he has learned in medical school boils down to the usual 
“protein, carbohydrates and fats” doctrine. And so he is unable to recognize the harm done by 
the children’s favorite foods; for instance, that the animal products used in fast foods are heat-
damaged, poorly assimilated, too high in cholesterol and salt, but deficient in true nutrients—
vitamins, minerals and enzymes. As a result they don’t satisfy hunger, and so a vicious circle 
is created, leading to overfed but undernourished children. If a child asks for more food after a 
complete meal, the mother’s instinctive reaction is to dish out an extra portion; she doesn’t realize 
that no additional amount of food will make up for the missing essential nutrients. The average American diet leaves children not only hungry but also with low energy, so they 
spend a lot of their free time lounging around, doing nothing. Yet they would also like to play, win 
at games, run, and eventually ‘show off to the girls. ’ To make up for their low energy, they start 
to ‘look for something,’ and unfortunately find it, too. What they find are cola drinks containing 
caffeine and sugar stimulants, cigarettes full of toxic substances, and eventually alcohol and street 
drugs, giving a brief ‘high’ and leading to addiction. The same vicious circle affects adults, too. Since the conventional American diet is devoid 
of live nutrients, the body remains unsatisfied and craves more—not quantity but quality, proper 
nutrition that it needs to function smoothly and well. Sadly, people don’t know or understand this, 
and so they try to satisfy their craving with rich desserts, ice cream, cakes and cookies. These 
don’t satisfy, either, but they do create weight gain, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and 
eventually diabetes and worse. Obesity is a morbid condition indeed, and can only be overcome 
by changing to a junk-free, nutrient-rich wholesome diet. One doesn’t need a degree in nutrition to know that all kinds of sugar are fattening, and that 
the modern Western diet with its vast range of convenience foods is over-rich in sugar. However, 
when it comes to official policy concerning nutrition, such basic facts are often swept aside for Copyright © Charlotte Gerson, 2007.
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