THE GERSON THERAPY
The Amazing Nutritional Program for Cancer
and Other Illnesses
CHARLOTTE GERSON AND MORTON WALKER, D.P.M. Kensington Books
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Gerson Institute, Post Of fice Box 430, Bonita, California 91908-0430. This book has been written and published strictly for informational
purposes, and in no way should be used as a substitute for advice from your
own health care professional. Therefore, you must not consider educational
material found here as a repla cement for consultation with oncologists,
cardiovascular disease specialists, endocrinologists, and other types of
medical practitioners. Most of the information in this book comes from the procedures
perfected and utilized by Max Gerson, M.D., as described in the original
1958 edition of his book A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases . Such
procedures were developed and put into practice from findings he
uncovered durin g a thirty-year period preceding the publication of this
landmark text. Inasmuch as Dr. Gerson’ s 1958  publication had focused on the reversal
of cancer , another book needed to be written. That’ s because Dr. Gerson
realized early on that the Gerson Therapy employed for curing cancer
works equally well as correctiv e treatment for nearly all other acute and
chronic degenerative diseases that have been labeled “incurable.” As will be
learned from reading our text, what had in the past been thought “incurable”
is curable. Derived from several sources other than the first through sixth editions of
A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases , our new book offers a great deal
of addit ional information. It comes from interviews with informed health
care personnel who have monitored patients’ progress by their use of
laboratory tests and clinical examinations. Also for our readers’ education,
numerous patien ts who have experienced either low levels of wellness,
subclinical illness, or outright life-threatening disease tell their stories. All
the patient case histories are true, and in most instances, unless indicated as
a pseudonym, the identities of patients are given.These patients discuss their illnesses, and the alternative/compl ementary
medical approach they used to overcome them permanently . Although every  word published here about the Gerson Therapy is
documented by case studies, this book’ s coauthors and publisher are
providing educational material and nothing more. If inform ation gleaned from these pages raises questions about your own
or a loved one’s medical condition, you should contact the Gerson Institute
directly for a list of Gerson-approved health care practitioners. Please take the above message as a disavowal of all responsibility by the
authors, publisher , the Gerson Institute, listed organizations, and product or
services suppli ers for any practice, procedure, diagnostic technique,
nutritional supplement, food, utensil, or other item mentioned in the text. Information taken from this book and acted upon by a reader or other
interested parties is carried out at that individual’ s personal risk. For the best information about  the Gerson Therapy , please contact the
nonprofit Gerson Institute. OceanofPDF .comTo Max Gerson, M.D., who,   
for having developed viable therapies for the permanent r emission of
cancer , was challenged by individual inter ests in the cancer industry
because, by application of the Gerson Therapy , these inter ests would be  put
out of business. T oday , nearly half a century later , such legitimized  interests
continue to flourish at the expense of ill people ar ound the world. OceanofPDF .comTable of Contents
Title Page  
Authors’ Disclaimer  
Dedication  
About the Authors  
Preface  
INTRODUCTION  
Part One  - HOW THE  GERSON  THERAPY  WORKS  
Chapter One  - HOW NUTRITION HEALS  
Chapter T wo - A BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF DR. MAX GERSON  
Chapter Three - THE BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE GERSON
THERAPY  
Chapter Four  - THE CORE OF THE GERSON THERAPY  
Chapter Five  - REMISSION—HOW IT HAPPENS  
Part T wo - THE GERSON  THERAPY  IN ACTION  
Chapter Six - HEALING MELANOMA WITH THE GERSON
THERAPY  
Chapter Seven  - SUCCESS WITH OTHER DISEASES  Chapter Eight  - FOODS ON THE GERSON DIET PLAN  
Chapter Nine  - THIR TEEN GLASSES  
Chapter T en - THE GERSON SAL TLESS DIET  
Chapter Eleven  - NUTRITIONAL SUPPLEMENTS ON THE
DIET  
Chapter Twelve  - LIVER DET OXIFICA TION WITH COFFEE
ENEMA  
Chapter Thirteen  - COFFEE ENE MA AND HOW TO TAKE
THEM  
Part Thr ee - ADAPTING THE  THERAPY FOR  VARIOUS  DISEASES  
Chapter Fourteen  - STANDARD GERSON THE RAPY FOR
MOST CANCERS  
Chapter Fifteen  - MODIFIED THERAPY DURING
CHEMOTHERAPY  
Chapter Sixteen  - MODIFIED THERAPY FOR SEVEREL Y
WEAKENED CANCER P ATIENTS  
Chapter Seventeen  - MODIFIED THERAPY FOR NONCANCER
PATIENTS  
Part Four  - USING THE  GERSON  APPROACH  
Chapter Eighteen  - PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROA CHES OF THE
GERSON THERAPY  Chapter Nineteen  - HOW TO FOLLOW THE GERSON
THERAPY ON YOUR OWN  
Chapter T wenty  - GERSON LAB TESTS EXPLAINED  
Chapter T wenty-One  - SUCCESS ST ORIES BY P ATIENTS  
Chapter T wenty-T wo - RECIPES  
APPENDIXES  
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY  
Copyright Page  
Notes  
OceanofPDF .comAbout the Authors
Charlotte Gerson, the youngest daughter of Max Gerson, M.D., whom he
lovingly addressed as “Lotte,” was an assistant for her father in his work on
an almost continuous basis. In the first edition of his book A Cancer
Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases , Dr. Gerson thanked her for giving help
“wherever she could with great interest and understanding encouragement.”
Charlotte Gerson was born in Germany and underwent her early
schooling there. When her famil y fled from Germany to Austria  as a means
of escaping what became the holocaust, Lotte attended school in a suburb of
Vienna. Later , upon her father ’s moving the Gerson family to France, which
he consi dered safer , she studied French and continued high school under the
French educatio nal system. Dr. Gerson practiced medicine in France for
only a short period under the licensure of another physician. Next, the Gersons emigrated to England to escape domination by the
French Vichy government. Lotte continued school for a short time in
London, where she started to learn English. She received her high school
diploma in New York City, where the Gerson family finally felt safe and
could settle down. Eventually Dr. Gerson established his medical practice
on Park Avenue in Manhattan and at a clinic in Nanuet, a small town
located between Suf fern and Nyack in upstate New Y ork. The young woman attended Smith College. She is literate in Spanish,
which stands her in good stead since the Gerson Therapy was for close to
twenty-five years primarily administered in Tijuana, Mexico, just across the
border from San Diego, California. Charlotte Gerson visits patients who are currently receiving medically
supervised Gers on Therapy at the Gerson Therapy Hospital. She consults
with these patients’ doctors, studies their progress toward health, answers
many questions  from the patients and their companions, lectures on the
intricacies of the Gerson Therapy , and of fers everyone encouragement. This charitable and humanitaria n effort is natural for Charlotte Gerson,
for she was alwa ys interested in her father ’s work. Even as a young womanher greatest joy involved readin g medical literature. She spent much of her
free time assisting Dr. Gerson by translating and writing his papers. She
listened to and critiqued his lectures to health professionals and medical
consumers. Often Charlotte made hospital rounds with her father and acted
as one of the medical assistants at his Oakland Manor Cancer Clinic in
Nanuet, New Y ork. In fact, to beco me a more valuable aide, Charlotte enrolle d in and
completed a formal course for medical assistants, which qualified her to
help in patient nursing work at the Gerson clinic. When Dr. Gerson was
absent lecturing , consulting, or on vacation, she carried out his telephoned
instructions regarding the clinic’ s patients. After the young  woman married and became Charlotte Gerson Straus,
she spent a number of years in her husband’ s import/export  enterprise,
which caused her to become familiar with many business techniques. However , the marriage eventually ended in divorce. When Dr. Gerson died in 1959 , Charlotte carried on by publicizing his
last, classic book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases. From public
demand and the need to dispose of three thousand copies, she proceeded to
lecture on the Gerson Therapy . Such lecturing, locally at first and later
nationally , was what gained initial broad distribution for the Gerson title
and its healing program. As a result, Charlotte Gerson has been invited to speak on the Gerson
Therapy at several hundred organizations involved with aspects of health. A
few of them include:
• The Cancer Control Society—every year for twenty-five years —in two
California locations, Pasadena and Los Angeles
• The National Health Federation—eighteen locations around the United
States. • The Alternative and Complementary Therapies Conve ntion in
Arlington, Virginia, put on by the clinical journal publishing house Mary
Ann Liebert, Inc., of Larchmont, New Y ork
• International Association of Cancer V ictors and Friends—ten cities
• Consumer Health Or ganization of Canada—T oronto, Ontario, Canada
• Australian Health Groups-Sydney , Melbourne, Brisbane, and the Gold
Coast
• “Fit fuers Leben” (Fit for Life)—W aldthausen Verlag, Munich and
Bonn• The Municipal Hospital—Graz, Austria
• The Gerson Support Group—London, England
• Wirral Health Clinic—Manchester , England
• Gerso n Practitioners Training groups—San Diego, California, and
Sedona, Arizona
Moreover , Char lotte Gerson gives numerous seminars at conventions
organized by the Gerson Institu te that are held periodically in many of the
important cities around the United States and Canada, including Honolulu,
Hawaii; and Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary , Edmonton, Victoria, and
Vancouver , Canada. The Gerson Therapy message has been carried to people on numerous
television shows, including twice on Oprah Winfrey’ s programs in
Baltimore and Chicago, before Oprah joined her national TV network. Charlotte Gerson has appeared on Christian Broadcasting, Trinity
Broadcasting, PBS, cable stations, and national radio. For example, she is
interviewed frequently by Gary Null, on WBAI, by the synd icated radio
columnist Dr . James W iner, and for magazine articles. With an associate in 1977, she supervised the establishment of the first
Gerson Therapy hospital in Tijuana, Mexico. Her specific goal then, as it is
now, was applying and teaching  the Gerson Therapy to everyon e interested
in surviving life-threatening diseases. To accomplish her task, she helps to train physicians, nurses, kitchen
staff, and patien ts, and others so that they learn the elements of nutritional
treatment. Some one hundred holistic physicians in the United States and
many more located around the world have been trained by Charlotte Gerson
and the Gerson Institute to practice the Gerson Therapy as the health
professionals’ medical tool to reverse degenerative diseases. This woman, who seems to have  no shortage of energy, teaches,  coaches,
and trains the Mexican hosp ital nursing staff, the kitchen staff, the
receptionists who respond to potential patients’ questions, and even the
hospital’ s passenger van drivers. For the past five years she has written
most of the news articles for the bimonthly Gerson Healing Newsletter  ,
and she has created many articles for publication in health magazines. Her stamina and capacity to perform are not Charlotte Gerson’ s only
amazing charac teristics. At age seventy-nine, she looks like a much
younger woman . By faithfully following the Gerson Therapy program for
prevention, Charlotte never needed to wear eyeglasses or contact lenses, hasall of her own teeth, exhibits absolutely no liver spots (age spots), suffers
from no arthritis or osteopor osis, and shows a smooth, unblemished
complexion. Because she refuses to use hair dye or any other kind of
cosmetic, the hair on her head is white, her skin appears fair and alabaster ,
her body remains strong and well proportioned, and her mind stays acutely
sharp. Charlotte Gerson gracefu lly grows older , but she is a true reflection
of her father ’s medical philosophy . Morton Walker , D.P.M., a form er practicing doctor of podiatric medicine
for seventeen years, has for the last thirty years worked full-time as a
professional freelance medical journalist. He has had seventy-three books
issued by major trade publish ers, including Bantam Books , Simon &
Schuster , Prentice Hall, Kensington Books, Avery, G. P Putnam’ s Sons, E
.P. Dutton, Macmillan, M. Evans, Keats, Arco, Devin-Adair , Hampton
Roads, and more. Twelve of his book titles have become 150,000- to
2,000,000-copy best-sellers. Dr. Walker has produced 2,250 clinical journal or magazine articles for
about fifty periodicals, including monthly columns for Health Products
Business, Towns end Letter for Doctors & Patients, Healthy & Natural,
Nutrition Scienc e News, Explor e Professional Journal,  a Britis h magaz ine,
and two Australian magazines. His works have been reprinted in eleven
languages in thirty-nine countries, and the numbers continue to grow . The result is that twenty-three medical journalism awards and medals
have come his way. Dr. Walker was recognized with the 1992 Humanitarian
Award from the American Cancer Control Society , which named him “the
world’ s leading medical journalist specializing in holistic medicine.”
He received the 1981 Orthomole cular Award from the American Institute
of Preventive Medicine for his “outstanding achievement in orthomolecular
education.”
Dr. Walker was presented with the 1979 Humanitarian Award from the
1,250 physician  members of the American College for Advancement in
Medicine “for informing the American public on alternative methods of
healing.”
And he has received two prestigious Jesse H. Neal Editorial Achievement
Awards from the American Business Press, Inc., for creating the best seriesof magazine articles published in any audited United States magazine in
both 1975 and 1976. As a medical journalist who researches and writes exclusive ly in the
areas of holistic medicine and alternative healing methods, Dr. Morton
Walker has been highlighted by, or appeared as a guest with, Oprah
Winfrey , Jay Leno, Sally Jessy Raphael, Merv Griffin, Mike Douglas, and
Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford, plus several dozen other television
talk show hosts—a minimum of two thousand media appea rances. For
example, discussing his book The Power of Color  (Avery Publishing
Group), he recently was featured on the early morning NBC’ s Today  show . Avery Publishing has given him his own imprint (subdivision) with the title
“A Dr. Morton Walker Health Book,” and this publisher has issued twelve
of his books under that imprint. OceanofPDF .comPreface
 
Dr. Max Gerson dedicated his life to the mastery of this
scour ge of cancer and all should honor his great work. —The Honorable United States Senator  
Claude Pepper (D-Florida)
 
This book offers readers a documented means for reversing the pathology
of nearly any illness, whether acute or chronic, when its occurrence is
related to malfunctioning of the immune system or essential organs. Our
reader must be warned, howeve r, that the Gerson program is stringent and
difficult to follow . Assuredly it can save the life of a termi nal patient. However , the menu plan is quite work-intensive and not easily acceptable to
friends and acquaintances who aren’ t oriented to holistic health and
alternative methods of healing. The Gerson Therapy is a natural contemporary , biological treatment,
either self-administered at home  or under physician supervision, which uses
the body’ s own healing mechanisms for the elimination of debilitating
ailments. It was introduced to Western industrialized nations more than
sixty years ago by Max Gerson, M.D. (1881-1959). This revolutionary
dietary program was so far adva nced at the time of its development that no
scientific ration ale was available to explain why it produced reversal of
chronic and infectious diseases. But because it actually cured patients with
advanced tuberculosis, diabetes, migraines, heart disease, cancer, arthritis,
skin disorders, and numerous other life-threatening conditions, the Gerson
Therapy has long since established itself as a major contributor to the
medical armamentarium.Dr. Max Gerson treated many  hundreds of patients and continued to
refine his therapy until he died in 1959, at the age of sevent y-eight. His
most famous patient was medical missionary and philosopher Albert
Schweitzer , M.D., whom he cured of adult-onset diabetes when Dr.
Schweitzer was seventy-five years old. Completely well after only six
weeks of Dr. Gerson’ s therapy , the patient returned to Lambaréné in Gabon,
French Equatorial Africa. Dr. Schweitzer ministered to many thousands of
African patients, won the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, and work ed past age
ninety . With diabetes eliminated  from his life, Albert Schweitzer lived to be
ninety-three years old. Incidentally , Dr. Gerson successfully cured lung tuberculosis for Dr.
Schweitzer ’s dying wife, Helene. She went on to live another twenty-eight
years. And he healed a serious skin disease for Dr. Schweitzer ’s nineteen-
year-old daughte r, Rhena. Lotte Gerson and Rhena Schweitzer were friends
during their teen years. As the eulogy for his close personal friend, Dr. Albert Schweitzer wrote
in sadness: “I see in Dr. Max Gerson one of the most eminent  geniuses in
the history of medicine. Many of his basic ideas have been adopted without
having his name connected with them. He has achieved more than seemed
possible under adverse conditions. He leaves a legacy which commands
attention and which will assure  him his due place. Those whom he cured
will now attest to the truth of his ideas.”
The most complete presentatio n of the Gerson Therapy program is
currently found in Dr. Gerson’ s book A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty
Cases, originally  published by him in 1958, the year before his death. It has
since been reprinted thirty-eight  times with over 250,000 copies in English. These were distributed by Dr. Gerson’ s daughter , Charlotte (Lotte) Gerson,
as well as by the Gerson Institute. Some 88,000 additional copies were
printed in four other languages and dispersed around the world. Represented by the Gerson Institute, Charlotte has carried on her father ’s
educational work and promoted his treatment protocol for eliminating
chronic diseases of all types, in particular against malignancies.1 The book
you are reading now expands upon that prior book written by Max Gerson,
M.D. MAX GERSON  TESTIFIES  BEFORE  SENA TEDuring a three-day period, July 1 to 3, 1946, the United States Senate
took testimony from nationally known cancer researchers relating to U.S.
Senate Bill 1875, also referred to as the Pepper -Neely anticancer proposal. In this bill, Senators Pepper and Neely recommended the appropriation of
$100 million from the U.S. government’ s budget for cancer researchers to
find a cure for cancer once and for all. After his two Washington, D.C.-based investigators, a physicia n and an
attorney , reporte d back to Senator Claude Pepper (D-Florida) that Dr. Max
Gerson did, indeed, have a successful treatment for cancer for the first time
in history , the United States Senate invited a medical doctor to demonstrate
his speci fic therapeutic approach for curing cancer . Accordingly , Dr. Gerson
brought five of his cured cance r patients and the records of five more for
presentation before the Pepper -Neely anticancer subcommi ttee of the
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations of the Seventy-ninth Congress. The impressive testimony of this anticancer specialist and his patients
caused Senator Pepper to call a press conference for bringing information
about the Gerson Therapy before the media. However , massive numbers of
lobbyists for the immensely wealthy Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’
Association (PMA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the
American Canc er Society (ACS) prevailed on reporters to ignore the
Gerson press conference and attend a cocktail party instead where free food
would be served and libations would be flowing. The only reporter who
preferred to hear the Gerson presentation was American Broadcasting
Corporation newscaster Raymond Gram Swing. During World War II, Mr. Swing had been a famous war correspondent on a par with Edward R.
Murrow . He attended and took copious notes at the Senate press  conference
for use in his East Coast 6:00 P.M. ABC network broad-east of Wednesday ,
July 3, 1946. Here is what Raymond Gram Swing broadcast then
throughout the United States:
 
I hope I have my values right if, instead of talking tonight
about the agreement reached on Trieste by the Foreign
Minister in Paris, or the conti nuing crisis of the OPA in
Washington, or President Truman’ s signing of the Hobbs
antiracketeering bill, I talk about a remarkable hearingbefore a Senate Subcommittee in Washington yesterday on
cancer and the need for cancer research in new fields. ... A bill is before Congress, the Pepper -Neely bill, to
appropriate a hundred million dollars for cancer research
with something like the zeal and bigness with which it went
for the release of atomic energy, turning the job over to the
scientists with resources generous enough to solve the
problem. This alone would make a good theme for a broadcast, just
an example of the use a great democracy can make of its
intelligence and wealth. But the subject has been made
peculiarly gripp ing by unprecedented happenings yesterday
before the subcommittee which is holding hearings on this
bill, and of which Senator Pepper is chairman. He invited a witness, a refugee scientist, now a resident of
New York, Dr. Max Gerson, and Dr. Gerson placed on the
stand, in quick succession, five patients. They were chosen
to represent the principal preva iling types of cancer , and in
each instance they showed that the Gerson treatment had had
what is conservatively called “favorable effect on the course
of the disease.” That in itself is remarkable, but it is the more
so because Dr. Gerson’ s treatment consists mainly of a diet
which he has evolved after a lifetime of research and
experimentation. To say that Dr. Gerson has been curing
cancer by a dietary treatment is medically impermissible, for
the reason that there must be five years without recurrence
before such a statement is allowed. Dr. Gerson has cured
tuberculosis and other illnesses with his diet, but in the
U.S.A. he has only been worki ng on cancer for four and a
half years.... Yet anything that offers even a possibility of treating
successfully at least some of the four hundred thousand
existing cancer cases in this country is stirring news, no
matter how conservatively it is formulated. There would be
no Pepper -Neely bill to appropriate a hundred million dollars
for cancer research if the existing research were coping with
the need.... I have  spoken  about this carefully and abstractly , which
underplays some  of the shock and delight of the experience
yesterday at the hearing of the Pepper Committee. It is one
thing to talk about chemistry and diet and vitamins and other
factors in medical science. It is another to see, as the
Committee yesterday saw, a seventeen-year -old girl, who
had a tumor at the base of the brain, which was inoperable,
and which had paralyzed her. Yesterday , she walked without
assistance to the witness chair , and told clearly about her
case and her treatment. There was a sturdy man, who had been a sergeant in the
army . He had had a malignant tumor , also at the base of the
brain, which had been operated on but needed deep X-ray
treatment, and this he could not receive because of the
danger to the brain. Yesterday he was the picture of health as
he testified, and quite naturally he was proud of his
remarkable recovery . There was a woman who had had cancer of the breast
which spread. Yesterday she was well, and testified with
poise and confidence. A few cases showing such improvement cannot, of
themselves, affect the outlook of the medical profession. But
they are attested  facts and not flukes, and as such they have
to be accounted  for. And there are many , many more cases
which could have been cited. It would  seem to be the business of medical research to
leap on such facts and carry every hopeful indication to a
final conclusion.... So the advocate s for the Pepper -Neely bill can argue that,
unless we learn  now how to deal successfully with cancer ,
many millions of persons now living in this country are
condemned to die from cancer . A hundred million dollars is
little more than a token payme nt for America to make, in
order to avert such a sweep of death, and they can then point
to the Gerson dietary approach as a most promising field of
research. . . .Dr. Gerson was an eminent if controversial figure in pre-
Hitler Germany . He was bound to be controversial because
he was challenging establis hed practice in treating
tuberculosis by diet. He has been assistant to Foerster , the
great neurologist of Breslau, and for years assistant to
Sauerbruch, one of the great physicians on the Continent. The Sauerbruch-Gerson diet for skin tuberculosis is well-
known to European medicine, and the account of it is part of
accepted medic al literature. Dr. Gerson told the Pepper
Committee that he had first come upon his dietary theory in
trying to cure himself of migraine headaches. Later he
treated others, among them a man with skin tuberculosis as
well. Dr. Gerson was an acknowledged dietary authority in
Weimar , Germany , and was responsible for the German army
of his time being placed on dehydrated, rather than canned
food.2
 
PUBLIC  RESPONSE  TO THE  BROADCAST
Raymond Gram  Swing continued with his network radio broadcast and
brought in some additional news too. After he ended, the telephone
switchboard lit up at the Americ an Broadcasting Corporation in New York
City. People called in from all over the nation to learn about the Gerson
Therapy . But other , darker , more powerful commercial and political forces
had been listening as well. The executive directors of pharmaceutical companies producing
cytotoxic agents for cancer treatment—members of the PMA— threatened
to cancel all radio advertising contracts for their drugs sold over the counter ,
an annual loss in revenue for ABC amounting to tens of millions of dollars. Within two weeks of that fateful radio broadcast which apprised people of a
potential cure for cancer , after thirty years at the same job Raymond Gram
Swing was fired from his position as a newscaster for the ABC network. You might also wish to know what happened to the Senate’ s 227-page
Pepper -Neely anticancer bill of 1946—Document No. 89471. By efforts ofthe lobbyists working with four senators who were also medical doctors, the
bill was defeated. Today , Document No. 89471 is stored in boxes and
gathers dust in the archives of the U.S. Government Printing Of fice. Meanwhile, since the Pepper -Neely bill was buried, the number of people
getting cancer each year has worsened beyond what anyone could have
predicted. According to Reno, Nevada, oncologist, homeopath, and internal
medicine specia list W Douglas Brodie, M.D., H.M.D., in his book Cancer
and Common Sense , the annual incidence of cancer has increased from
402,000 in 1946 to 1.9 million in 1996.3 Thus, during a half century since
the defeat of Senator Pepper ’s proposed anticancer legislation , the yearly
occurrence of cancer among the American populace has more than
quadrupled.4 Worse still, medical journalist and author Michael Culbert
points out even more graphical ly that at the stroke of midnight, upon our
ringing in the twenty-first century , every forty-five seconds thereafter a U.S.
citizen is destined to die from cancer . That number adds up to about 1,900
Americans per day .5
Oncologists informed about nutrition estimate that diets filled with fruits
and vegetables instead of fats and animal proteins—along with taking
greater amounts of exercise, more stringent weight control, and avoidance
of cigar ette smoke—could reduce cancer incidence by up to 40 percent. This program would amount to nearly 4 million fewer worldw ide cases of
malignancies per year . Thus, dietary and lifestyle improvements among Americans as advocated
by Dr. Max Gerson more than fifty years ago would be particularly
effective as the means to preve nt occurrence of the four most frequently
occurring life-threatening malignancies in the United States. According to
the November 30, 1998, issue of Newsweek  magazine:6
1. Prostate cancer  strikes with a minimum of 184,500 cases predicted in
1999. Among American men today , 17 percent will be diagnosed with
prostate cancer during their lifetimes. But improved diet, nutrition, and
general lifestyle would reduce that proportion to 13.6 percent. 2. Breast cancer  hits with a minimum of 180,300 cases estimated for
1999. Among American women  today , 14 percent will be diagnosed with
breast cancer during their lifetimes. But improved diet, nutrition, and
general lifestyle would reduce that proportion to 7 percent. 3. Lung cancer  happens with a minimum of 171,500 cases anticipated for
1999. Among everyone in this country today , slightly more than 7percent will be diagnosed with lung cancer during their lifetimes. Still,
improved diet, nutrition, and general lifestyle (especially eliminating
exposure to tobacco smoke) would lower that proportion to just 0.35
percent. 4. Colon/r ectal cancer  shows up with a minimum of 95,600 cases
expected in 1999. Among the populace of the United States, 6 percent
will be diagnosed with colon and/or rectal cancers during their lifetimes. But improved diet, nutrition, and general lifestyle could reduce that
proportion to 1.5 percent. “In spite of all the advances in chemotherapy and surgery,” report
officials of First Circle Medical, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minnesota, a main
manufacturer of antimalignancy  hyperthermia equipment, “ove r 1,800,000
patients in North America, Europe and Japan with disseminated lung,
prostate, breast [cancer] and melanoma die each year .”
As you read our book, three questions you may understandably raise are:
• Why didn’ t the U.S. Senate over half a century ago adopt the anticancer
budgetary measure that came before it? • Wasn’t the prevention of or treatment for Americans coming down with
cancer vital enough? • Why weren’ t anticancer expe rts requested to at least test the Gerson
Therapy back then when senators were presented with the opportunity? Finally , are you aware of the following additional, significant, estimated
statistic? Averag ing between the numbers of United States residents getting
cancer in 1946 and those so victimized this year, it’s likely that 39,697,000
Americans could have been prevented from contracting the scour ge or
saved from cancerous deaths. Application of the Gerson Therapy may have
accomplished that particular worthy undertaking. It can do it even now . CHARLOTTE  GERSON   
Bonita, California  
MORTON WALKER , D.P .M. Stamford, Connecticut
References for the Preface
1Gerson, M. A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases,  6th ed. Bonita,
Calif.: The Gerson Institute, 1999. 2
Quoted in Dego, G. Doctor Max: The Story of Pioneering Physician Max
Gerson’ s Acclaim ed Cancer Therapy and His Heroic Struggle to Change
the Way We Look at Health and Healing. Barrytown, N.Y.: Station Hill
Press, 1997, pp. 513-516. 3
Brodie, W D. Cancer and Common Sense: Combining Science and
Natur e to Contr ol Cancer . White Bear Lake, Minn.:  Winning
Publications, August 1997, p. 46. 4
Rugo, H.S. “Cancer .” In Curr ent Medical  Diagnosis and Treatment 1997,
36th ed., ed. by L.M. Tierney , S.J. McPhee, and M.A. Papadakis. Stamford, Conn.: Appleton and Lange, 1997, p. 69. 5
Culbert, M. Medical Armageddon. San Diego, Calif.: C and C
Communications, 1995. 6
Cowley , G., with Underwood, A., Springen, K., and Davis, A. “Cancer
and diet: eating to beat the odds: what you need to know .” Newsweek,
November 30, 1998, pp. 60-66. OceanofPDF .comINTRODUCTION
The chief of medical oncology at the Strang Cancer Prevention Center in
New York City, Mitchell Gayno r, M.D., understood a lot about cancer when
he finish ed his cancer specialty training at Cornell Medical Center, but he
admits to knowing little about  diet, nutrition, and their significance for
preventing and treating degenerative diseases. Cancer , a specific cluster of
body cells under going uncontro lled cell division and multiplication, is the
ultimate example of a degenerative disease in progress. Dr. Gaynor was flabber gasted when he showed up at the prestigious
Rockefeller University in 1986, for a postdoctoral fellowship in molecular
biology , and found his more enlightened oncology colleagues buzzing about
the cancer -inhibiting qualities of brussels sprouts, cauliflower , cabbage, and
certain other cruciferous vegetables rich in the chemical called
sulforaphane. Sulforaphane boosts production of the body’ s phase II
enzymes that cart off dangerou s residues of procarcinogens, those cancer -
causing precursors capable of damaging cellular DNA (see chapter 3 for
details). During that 1986 period, laboratory researchers had started discovering
dozens of new chemicals in common fruits and vegetables. In test tube and
animal studies, these obscure compounds were exhibiting a remarkable
ability to disrupt the formation of malignant and benign tumors . Today our
knowledge of such phytochemicals (compounds of plant origin) is
exploding. And as scientists learn more about the chemistry of plants and
other edibles, they are growing increasingly hopeful about sparing people
from being struck by maligna ncies. “We’ve seen the future,” says Dr.
Gaynor , “and the future is food.”1
Although the significance of consuming nutritious, whole, and natural
foods for health and healing was originally developed and taught by Dr.
Max Gerson about sixty years ago, we have finally awakened to the truth of
his teachings. It is a reality that improvements in diet, nutrition, and generallifestyle are the wave of the future for beating degenerative diseases of all
types. THE UNDERL YING  NUTRITIONAL  CONCEPT  OF DR. MAX GERSON
Dr. Gers on’s therapeutic program  seeks to regenerate an ailing body and
bring it back to health by flooding the sick patient with nutrients and
adopting other modalities. The nutrients come from raw juices plus raw and
cooked solid organic vegetarian foods generously consumed. Inasmuch as
the underlying nutritional concept of Dr. Max Gerson—proven by clinical
studies cited in our text—is that an oxygen deficiency in the blood
contributes to degenerative disea ses, his treatment invariably brings about a
doubling of circulatory oxygenation. The Gerson Therapy also stimulates metabolism, eliminates toxins, and
restores sluggish waste-removal functions of a patient’ s liver and kidneys. Thus, by using liberal amount s of high-quality nutrition, increasing the
patient’ s oxygen  availability , reinvigorating the entire organism with a well-
functioning metabolism, and improving cellular detoxification, one’s
suppressed immune system, imperfect physiology , muddled mind, and
dysfunctional brain and other essential organs are encouraged to regenerate
toward homeostasis once again. Dr. Gerson’ s healing program is advantageous for overcoming nearly
every illness. For malignancies especially , it is effective and far superior to
cancer chemotherapy . Statistically , for instance, chemotherapy boasts an
overall remission rate on average of 12 percent (7 percent for colon cancer
and 1 percent for pancreatic cancer), but the Gerson Therapy  offers total
remission success on average for up to 42 percent of its participating,
largely terminal cancer patients. Better than any other treatmen t method, the Gerson Therapy nutrition
program more significantly af fects ill people and can bring about reversal of
their diseases. It works permanently , in a surer manner than all other known
therapies, including cytotoxicology (chemotherapy), immunology ,
pharmacology , roentgenology (radiation therapy), and other usual
procedures provided by conventionally practiced allopathic medicine, since
the goal of the Gerson Therapy is to restore all essential or gans.SYNOPSIS OF THE  GERSON  THERAPY  NUTRITION  PROGRAM
Best represented by its dietary component, the Gerson Therapy
recommends a low-fat, salt-free program of food consumption to supply the
body’ s cells with easily assimilated nutrients for strengthening one’s natural
immune defenses. To prevent or correct most of the fifteen hundred known
degenerative diseases, the Gerson Therapy offers an ideal way to eat. In our
modern society  of processed packaged foods frequently containing
preservatives, additives, dyes, and sometimes outright carcinogens, all
forced upon us by accompanyi ng massive amounts of media propaganda
and advertising, the Gerson Therapy admittedly presents a difficult dining
program to follow . Yet if a sick person is serious about recovery , then
adopting the Gerson therapeutic technique does assure the restoration of
wellness. At the core of the Gerson Ther apy is its diet, which includes dining on
organically grow n fresh fruits and vegetables and drinking thirteen glasses
of freshl y squeezed juices daily , taken at hourly intervals. The emphasis on
organic fresh fruits and vegeta bles means the patient receives elevated
levels of minerals, enzymes, beta carotene, vitamins A and C, and other
antioxidants that scavenge free radicals. Yet these foods are recommended
to contain no residual pesticides and fungicides. Most of the diet’ s followers
consume huge amounts of naturally occurring phytochemicals that
scientists have discovered are true preventers of chronic degenerative
diseases. Gerson Therapy  patients also use supplements such as thyroid extract,
potassium iodide, liver extract, pancreatic enzymes, and niacin (nicotinic
acid or vitamin B3). No meat is allowed. According to the Gerson therapeutic program, all
animal protein is omitted for the person who is ill during the first six to
twelve weeks of treatment, and it’ s kept to a minimum thereafter .2
The diet is largely fat-free but includes some nonfat and unflavored
yogurt, nonfat and unsalted pot cheese, cottage cheese, and churned
buttermilk when  available (otherwise use nonfat yogurt), as well as flaxseed
oil. Research put forth by the seven-time Nobel prize candid ate Johanna
Budwig, Ph.D., of Freudenstadt-Dietersweiler , Germany , shows that the
omega-3 fatty acids in flax kill human cancer cells in tissue cultures without
destroying normal cells in the same culture.3Before Dr. Budwig published her groundbreaking works, Dr. Gerson,
first in Germany , then in Austria, and finally in the United States, was
applying nutritional knowledge he had gleaned about fats and oils for his
patients’ illnesse s. Today , the Gerson Therapy menu plan is being used by
the American Cancer Society (ACS). Yes, it duplicates the illness-
prevention diet advocated today by that same ACS which  once had
condemned Dr. Gerson and blacklisted his therapeutic diet. Moreover , the
National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the American Heart Association
(AHA) both encourage the use of a modified version of the Gerson eating
program. The diet works well against chronic diseases of many types but especially
for the production of remissions in various malignancies. Believing cancer
to be a systemic rather than a localized disease, as was an erroneous but
popular notion among health care professionals in the 1930s and 1940s, Dr.
Gerson emphasized the rebalancing of a patient’ s entire physiology . His
writings indicate  he intended that the therapy should reverse any conditions
sustaining the growth of malignant cells and restore those cells
dysfunctioning from other forms of pathology . The Gerson Therapy does accomplish reversal for most types of
degenerative diseases including  cancer; in particular , it produc es the most
dramatic positive results in lymphoma and melanoma. It seems to be less
useful for leukemia and other blood dyscrasias, although the therapy
reduces their incidence too. Dr. Gerson claimed a 30 percent survival rate in
his terminal cancer patients (i.e., where the patient recovered and lived at
least 5 years). In the book Censor ed for Curing Cancer: The American
Experience of Dr. Max Gerson , the Gerson Institute’ s former vice president
is quoted as making a claim of cancer recovery even for terminal patients of
up to 42 percent, as we’ve stated.4
THE DETOXIFICA TION  COMPONENT
But the Gerson Therapy consis ts of more than an eating program. It is
actually divided into three primary components.5
1. As mentioned, it contains an intensive menu plan of nourishment to
flood the body with healing nutrients naturally present in the best quality
of or ganically grown vegetarian foods.2. It provides the means for the body’s complete detoxification of wastes
and metabolic poisons (enzyme inhibitors) that interfere with healing and
normal metabolism. 3. It requires supplementation of the diet with just a few specific
nutrients. For the body detoxification component, Dr. Gerson’ s procedures employ
coffee enemas, which patients self-administer several times daily . Discussed
in more depth below (see chapters 12 and 13), the coffee enema makes a lot
of sense  physiologically because cancer patients and all others suffering
from the life-threatening metabolic illnesses, according to Dr. Gerson’ s
observations, die not of the disease process itself, but rather from the liver’s
inability to eliminate toxic breakdown products of rapidly dissolving tumor
masses generated by the effects of the Gerson therapy or from the healing
reactions of formerly dysfunctional cells. Caffeine taken rectally stimulat es the liver’s action, increases bile flow,
and opens bile ducts so that one’s liver can excrete the toxic products of
metabolic improvement more easily . Coffee enemas are excellent for
preventive medicine as well as for treatment. They also bring about
remarkable pain relief.6
As a further aid to detoxification and part of the component involving
food supplemen tation, Dr. Gerson’ s procedures require the use of a few
orally self-admi nistered dietary supplements every day or every other day. In some specific situations where patients suffer from severe vomiting and
disturbances in the upper digestive tract, these supplemen ts may be
administered rectally for easier absorption. TESTIMONY  BEFORE THE  UNITED  STATES SENA TE BY  DR. MAX GERSON
In our preface, we have reprinted the unmodified text broadcasted by
Raymond Gram Swing in his American Broadcasting Corporation news
program of Wednesday , July 3, 1946, describing the appearance earlier that
same day of Max Gerson, M.D. , before the Pepper -Neely subcommittee of
the United States Senate’ s Foreign Relations Committee in Washington,
D.C. Relative to this descriptio n of his dietary treatment for cancer and
other degenerati ve illnesses, what follows are the most pertinent portions of
what Dr . Gerson stated during his testimony:7 
My office and residence is at 815 Park Avenue, New York
City. I am a member of the AMA, Medical Society of New
York State, and Medical Society of New Y ork County . The dietetic treatment, which has for many years been
known as the “Gerson diet,” was developed first to relieve
my own severe migraine condition. Then it was successfully
applied to patients with allergic conditions such as asthma,
as well as diseases of the intestinal tract and the liver-
pancreas apparatus. By chance a patient with lupus vulgaris
(skin tuberculosis) was cured following the use of the diet. After this success the dietetic treatment was used in all other
kinds of tuberculosis—bones, kidneys, eyes, lungs, and so
forth. It, too, was highly favorable in many other chronic
diseases, such as arthritis, heart disease, chronic sinusitis,
chronic ulcers,  including colitis, high blood pressure,
psoriasis, sclerosis multiplex [multiple sclerosis], and so
forth. The most striking results were seen in the restoration
of various kinds of liver and gall bladder diseases which
could not be influenced by other methods up to the present. The great number of chronic diseases which responded to
the dietetic treatment showed clearly that the human body
lost part of its resistance and healing power , as it left the way
of natural nutrition for generations. The fundamental damage starts with the use of artificial
fertilizer for vegetables and fruits as well as for fodder . Thus,
the chemically transformed vegetarian and meat
nourishment, increasing through generations, transforms the
organs and functions of the human body in the wrong
direction. Another basic defect lies in the waste of excrements of the
cities. Instead of returning the natural manure to the fruit-
bearing soil, it is let into the rivers, killing underwater life. The natural cycle is interrupted and mankind has to sufferdearly for the violation. Life in forest and wilderness should
teach us the lesson. But we can regain the lost defense and healing power if
we retur n as close as possible to the laws of nature as they
are created. Highly concentrated for speedy reaction, they
are laid down in the dietetic treatment. The first cancer patient (bile ducts) was treated in 1928
with success. Seven favorable cases followed out of twelve
and remain free of symptoms up to seven years. My experience leads me to believe that the liver is the
center of the restoration process in those patients who
improve striking ly. If the liver is too far destroyed, then the
treatment cannot be ef fective. Aware of the imperfection of this as well as any other
theory , I shall try, nevertheless, to explain the end results of
the Gerson diet. It is condensed in three surpassing
components:
1. The elimination of toxins and poisons and returning of
the displaced “extracellular” Na (sodium)-group, connected
with toxins, poisons, edema, destructive inflammation from
the tissues, tumors, and organs where it does not belong, into
the serum and tissues where it belongs—gall bladder with
the bile ducts, connective tissue, thyroid, stomach mucosa,
kidney medulla, tumors, and so forth. 2. Bringing back the lost intracellular K (potassium)-
group combined  with vitamins, enzymes, ferments, sugar ,
and so forth, into the tissues and organs where they belong:
liver, muscles, heart, brain, kidney cortex, and so forth; on
this basis, iodine, ineffective before, is made effective,
continuously added in new amounts. 3. Restoring the differentiation, tonus, tension, oxidation,
and so forth, by activated iodine, where there were before
growing tumors  and metastases with dedif ferentiation, loss
of tension, oxidation, loss of resistance, and healing power . In 1991, two decades following President Richard M. Nixon’ s confident
December 23, 1971, declaration of another “war on cancer” and his promise
of a cure by the 1976 Bicentennial, a group of sixty noted physicians and
scientists declar ed their disgust at the failures of the medical profession in
general and oncologists in particular . They called a press conference and
made the following statement: “The cancer establishment confuses the
public with repeated [false] claims that we are winning the war on cancer ....
Our ability to treat and cure most cancers has not materially improved.”
Rather , the best way to corre ct the cancer problem is through the
application of dietary improvem ents, nutrients, whole body detoxification,
and overall nutritional therapy . Some of these aspects of degenerative
disease treatment are what our next chapter introduces. Refer ences for the Intr oduction
1
Cowley , G. with Underwood, A.; Springen, K.; Davis, A. “Cancer and
diet: Eating to beat the odds: what you need to know” Newsweek,
November 30, 1998, pp. 60-66. 2
Walters, R. Options: The Alternative Cance r Therapy Book. Garden City
Park, N.Y : Avery Publishing Group, 1992, pp. 189,190. 3
Budwig, J. Flax Oil as a True Aid against Arthritis, Heart Infar ction ,
Cancer and Other Diseases. Vancou ver, B.C., Canada: Apple Publishing,
1994. 4
Haught, S.J. Censur ed for Curing Cancer . Bonita,  Calif.: The Gerson
Institute, 1991. 5
Moss, R.W Cancer Therapy: The Independent Consumer ’s Guide to
Non-T oxic Treatment and Prevention. New  York: Equinox Press, 1992, p.
189. 6
Op. cit.,  Walters, p. 190. 7Gerson, M. Testimony during hearings on Senate Bill 1875, conducted
July 1, 2, 3, 1946 by Senator Claude Pepper (D-Florida), for the Pepper -
Neely Subcommittee of the Foreign Relations Committee, the 79th
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HOW NUTRITION HEALS
In 1992, at the Fukushima Medi cal College on the island of Hokkaido in
northern Japan, Professor of Medicine Yoshihiko Hoshino, M.D., Ph.D.,
learned that he had developed cancer of the colon. During the course of
surgery to remove the malignan cy, his oncological surgeon discovered that
Dr. Hoshino’ s cancer had already metastasized to the liver. While under
postoperative care, the patient was advised by his personal friend and
former classmate, the same surgical oncologist, to under go multiple courses
of chemotherapy . As it happens, the Gerson therapeutic program for reversing acute and
chronic degener ative diseases such as cancer , diabetes, stroke, arthritis, and
other life-threatening illnesses is quite well known and highly respected in
the industrialize d countries of Europe and Asia. Professor Hoshino was
among a growing number of health professionals aware of Dr. Max
Gerson’ s well-established book A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases
(translated into Japanese) and the medical efficacy of his treatment
program. Because of well-recognized adverse side effects and an excessi ve rate of
failure for colon/rectal cancer (93 percent of patients die after receiving
chemotherapy for such malignancy) and an even worse prognosis for liver
cancer metastases (97 percent of patients succumb after receiving
chemotherapy), this professor of medicine refused to take cytotoxic agents. Instead, owning the broadly disseminated Japanese translation of Dr.
Gerson’ s book, Dr. Hoshino followed its instructions and on his own
proceeded to follow the Gerson Therapy . Today , with a decent interval of almost nine years having elapsed since
Dr. Hoshino’ s diagnosis, he and his oncologist have declared the patient
“cured” of both colon cancer and liver metastases. Here is the letterCharlotte Gerson recently received from Professor Yoshihiko Hoshino,
M.D., Ph.D.:
 
As you know , I suffered from colon cancer and metastatic
liver cancer in 1992 and recove red from them by use of the
Gerson Therapy . I have written a book introducing Gerson
Therapy to medical consumers in Japan. My book was
published in August 1998 and is the first about Gerson
Therapy written by a medical doctor in Japan. It has caused a
big sensation among Japanese people, because using the
Gerson program twelve addition al cancer patients also were
cured. My book not only tells of my recovery but also
includes the stories of these twelve Japanese who no longer
suffer from cancer . HEALING BY A  POWERFUL  NUTRITIONAL  THERAPY
In applying the techniques of healing, all health practitioners
acknowledge a common truth:  there exists just one science  of human
immunology , which possesses specific laws of biochemistry . In the
profession of medicine, howeve r, two opposing factions or sets of practice
principles preva il that often are contentious with each other . They are at
odds. Disease-o riented orthodo x medicine and patient-cente red holistic
medicine agree only on the current facts of biochemistry and immunology
but hardly on anything else. Disease-oriented medical practice  directs its efforts to finding the
generalized formulas for treatin g types or classes of people who resemble
one another in certain symptom atic respects. Its classification of patients
into groups or categories is indispensable for finding a treatment to be used. For uncovering  the therapy that works best, single- or double-blind,
placebo-controlled clinical trials are frequently employed. With a patient’ s
physiology , whatever is found wrong, the allopathic (drug-using) physicianattempts to correct the health problem with FDA-approved pharmaceuticals,
chemotherapeutics, surgery, immunotherapy , radiation therapy , or other
forms of high technology . Disease-oriented medicine is a system primarily
employing drugs in an attemp t to produce effects in the body that will
directly oppose and so alleviate the symptoms of disease. Applying
chemotherapy for cancer is the perfect example of disease-oriented
medicine in practice.1
Patient-center ed medical practice  approaches its healing procedu res by
seeking out everything that can possibly be done to optimize the health of a
given unique individual. An orientation like this, also defined as “functional
medicine” by health professional educator Jeffrey Bland, Ph.D., of Gig
Harbor , Washington, demands decisions based on judgments by holistic
physicians, chiropractors, homeopaths, naturopaths, acupuncturists, some
nurse practitioners, nutritionists, and other types of healers. It also requires
close personal participation by the patients themselves. The doctor
frequently devotes as much time teaching a patient as administering
treatment. Even if the patient shows no outward sign of disease but has only
subclinical symp toms, as manifested by irregular laboratory tests, an effort
is made in patient-centered medicine to accomplish three specific
physiological restorations:
1. Harmonize the person’ s biochemistry . 2. Elevate the workings of a suppressed immune system. 3. Rectify the malfunctioning of essential or gans. Prescribing a homeopathic remedy is a perfect example of patient-
centered medicine in practice.2
The Gerson Therapy is another example of how one might put to use
patient-centered medicine. It is the best to be found in self-help health care,
especially for the reversal of really serious illnesses. The Gerson Therapy
utilizes mostly nutrition as the means to achieve for people, sick or well, all
three components of holistic, biological, patient-oriented medicine. It is the
ultimate in natural healing and a powerful antidote to the unnatu ralness that
prevails in the new millennium of our society’ s high technolog ical way of
life. In the following sections of this chapter , we offer a general discussion of
the underlying source of cancer— its pathological changes within the tissues
and cells. And the description of such alterations from normal physiologywill offer insights into some of the other degenerative disease
abnormalities. Since he first introduced it around 1926, there had been no place in the
allopathic medical community for Dr. Max Gerson’ s powerfully healing
nutritional thera py. For instance, among the four deciding votes cast by
legislators to defeat the U.S. Senate’ s 1946 Pepper -Neely anticancer Bill
No. 1875, those voting negative ly were four physicians turned senators. At
the time, treating people with diet to eliminate their degenerative diseases
was just too excessively simple. Doing so removed a great deal of decision-
making power from the medical profession; consequently , those four
physicians who were U.S. senat ors at the time voted to kill Senator Claude
Pepper ’s bill. So cancer patients then and later became victims of the
shortsighted vote for special interests. Dr. Gerson plodded on and continued bringing sick people who consulted
him back from the brink of death. Now , with the pioneer gone these past
forty years or more, his daughter and the Gerson Institute carry on with
their task of educating the public. THE GERSON  THERAPY  IS DE FACT O RECOGNIZED BY THE  U.S.
GOVERNMENT
As we alluded to in our introduction, the most revolutionary and
promising field of medical research against degenerative diseases is that of
chemoprevention: the use of micronutrients or macronutrients,
phytochemicals, nutraceuticals, and other organic components often found
in foods that can prevent, stop, or retard the process of illness. By the
beginning of 1995, the National  Cancer Institute was pursuing forty new or
established studies in the area of nutrition that involved enzymes, fiber, fat,
micronutrients, vitamins, and phytochemicals. By 1999, the forty abstracts summarizing those same 1995 beginning
investigations on cancer and nutrition had been completed and sent to the
U.S. governmen t’s American Association for Cancer Resea rch. These
studies are currently providing critical information on the substances
needed to be added to or eliminated from the human diet to combat cancer . You probably are not surprised that nearly all of the components of the
Gerson Therapy do play leading roles among these phytochemicalingredients. By such adoption, the Gerson Therapy is, in effect, recognized
as a viable treatment against cancer and most other degenerative diseases. It’s a de facto recognition by the United States, but without lawful authority
and literally unofficial. Still, the Gerson Therapy’ s componen ts are very
much in evidence and being utilized to save lives. They even form the
foundation for advisories given by profit makers of the cancer industry such
as the American  Cancer Society , the National Cancer Institute, the Sloan-
Kettering Cancer Clinic, and many pharmaceutical companies merging
nutrient manufacturers into their corporate structures. As part of our preface we stated that in the United States every year, a
minimum of 1.9 million people are diagnosed with some type of
malignancy (excluding skin cancer and in situ cervical cancer). And we
cited holistic oncologist, internist, and homeopathic physician W. Douglas
Brodie, M.D., H.M.D., of Reno, Nevada, who states that at least 700,000
Americans die from cancer annually . Almost every health care profes sional and most medical consumers now
know that the cause of over 70 percent of malignancies is in some way
related to what we eat. Denatured food, in fact, is a main source of breast
and colon/rectal cancer as well as of lung cancer in nonsmokers. Every year
more medical and scientific evidence accumulates revealing that what we
take in as food has tremendous influence on whether we will develop
cancer and whether we can cure it once malignant disease symptoms arise.3
This is a tremendously exciting field of scientific inquiry that the
conventional medical community is just now beginning to investigate
seriously . Yet, probably half a century ahead of his time, during an active
professional life spanning forty years, from 1919 in Bielefeld, Germany , to
1959 in New York City, one modest physician developed the food and
nutrition answers for cancer and other degenerative diseases. Max Gerson,
M.D., however , was unmerciful ly vilified, harassed, and persecuted in the
United States by the AMA, especially its journal editor , Morris Fishbein,
M.D., and his physician-politician cohorts.4
After a 1946 patient demonstration before a committee of the U.S. Senate
that received national media attention, Dr. Gerson was attacked editorially
in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) . Reasons for the attack were related to prevailing domestic medical politics
and the various financial polici es being enforced at the time by longtimeAMA politician, JAMA  editor , and nonpracticing physician Morris
Fishbein, M.D. Why has it taken  organized allopathic medicine so long to appreciate the
connection between diet and cancer? Why have oncological pioneers  like Dr. Max Gerson been denigrated,
been stigmatized, and had their hearts broken when they’ve attempted to
use nutrition as a therapeutic tool? At least for the first of these penetrating questions, the authors of this
book can figure out four particular answers:
1. In the United States, advan ces in medical technology maintain
prejudicial leads  over any other means of treatment. As a nation we have
tended to focus on technolog y for battling cancer and other health
problems. Eating vegetables as recommended by Dr. Gerson employs
hardly any technology . 2. The American pharmaceutica l industry rules the way medicine is
allowed to be practiced not only in this country but also around the
world. If a therapeutic substance or method is unpatentable—without
profits to be made from a synthesized drug—it’ s usually ignored or
opposed and suppressed. No medically oriented commercial company
will be amenable to investing research time and money to promote it. 3. Admitting that there’ s a strong  relationship between what we eat and
getting cancer or some other sickness, points a self-directed finger at two
groups: (a) the food processors who sell us malnour -ishing synthetic or
otherwise unnatural packaged edibles and (b) ourselves as the source of
our own illness. Although we may recognize the truth of such
condemnation, it truly is a discomforting mental burden nonetheless.5
4. Most medical doctors have had extremely poor education  in the
nutritional sciences. Those physicians who currently utilize nutrition as
treatment are primarily self-educated. There has been no place for the Dr. Gersons of this world—u ntil now. Today the medical times are changing remarkably for doctors—not only
financially but also nutritionally . The more conscientious of them have
found it necessary to turn to nutritional therapy almost as a last resort
against cancer , arthritis, heart and blood vessel disorders, diabetes, stroke,
and other disabling forms of degenerative diseases. Why? Simply because
too many of their patients never get well with the applications of standard,
conventionally practiced allopathic medicine and oncology . Gradually ,physicians are looking at the true causes of debilitating diseases  like cancer
and deciding that for too long they’ve been treating symptoms and not the
underlying sources of illness, which they didn’ t understand. THE VARIOUS  FORMS OF  CANCEROUS  GROWTHS
Of the 150 different types of cancerous growths, five major groups are
conventionally recognized in oncology (the study and practice of tumor
treatment). They are classified in accordance with the tissues exhibiting an
abnormally wild and excessive cellular growth. The classifications listed
below are taken from the book An Alter native Medicine Definit ive Guide to
Cancer , coauth ored by W John Diam ond, M.D., director of the Triad
Medical Center in Reno, Nevad a, and cardiologist W Lee Cow den, M.D.,
consultant to the Conservative Medicine Institute in Richardson, Texas,
with contributor Burton Goldber g, publisher for Future Medicine
Publishing, Inc.6
Carcinomas  form in the epithelial cells that cover the skin, mouth, nose,
throat, lung airways, and genitourinary and gastrointestinal tracts or that
line glands such as the breast or thyroid. Solid tumors invading the lung,
breast, prostate, skin, stomach, and colon/rectum are labeled carcinomas. Sarcomas  develop in the bones and soft connective and supportive tissues
surrounding organs and tissues, such as cartilage, muscles, tendons, fat, and
the other linings  of the lungs, abdomen, heart, central nervous system, and
blood vessels. Leukemias evolve in the blood and bone marrow . Abnormal white blood
cells produced in those tissues travel throughout the bloodstream damaging
the spleen and other tissues. They don’t form solid tumors but rather are
considered blood dyscrasias (imbalances). Lymphomas  are lymph gland malignancies composed of abnormal white
blood cells (lym phocytes) congr egating in the neck, groin, armpits, spleen,
chest center, and around the intestines as solid tumors. Two of the most
prevalent lymphoma types affecting North Americans are non-Hodgkin’ s
lymphoma and Hodgkin’ s disease. Myelomas,  while rare, arise in the antibody-producing plasma cells or
blood-cell-producing (hemopoietic) cells of the bone marrow .Cancer cells are essentially parasitic and immortal. They fail to develop
specialized functions, develop their own blood vessel network to siphon
nourishment away from the normal cells, and grow to such a state of
abnormality that they kill their host. Cancer cells are not encapsulated by
fiber and thus may invade nearby normal cells. If they do not invade, the
cancerous growt h is considered to be localized;  if they spread to other body
parts, the malignancy is labeled metastasized. REASONS FOR  CANCER AND  OTHER  BODY DEGENERA TIONS  TO ARISE
In 1958, Max Gerson, M.D., was the first physician ever to describe
cancer as arising from multiple  interdependent factors. He had identified
numbers of such factors during his forty-one-year career as a physician. Now , with the passing of another forty-one years, the original list offered by
Dr. Gerson has expanded.
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The Amazing Nutritional Program for Cancer
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purposes, and in no way should be used as a substitute for advice from your
own health care professional. Therefore, you must not consider educational
material found here as a repla cement for consultation with oncologists,
cardiovascular disease specialists, endocrinologists, and other types of
medical practitioners. Most of the information in this book comes from the procedures
perfected and utilized by Max Gerson, M. D. , as described in the original
1958 edition of his book A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases. Such
procedures were developed and put into practice from findings he
uncovered durin g a thirty-year period preceding the publication of this
landmark text. Inasmuch as Dr. Gerson’ s 1958  publication had focused on the reversal
of cancer, another book needed to be written. That’ s because Dr. Gerson
realized early on that the Gerson Therapy employed for curing cancer
works equally well as correctiv e treatment for nearly all other acute and
chronic degenerative diseases that have been labeled “incurable. ” As will be
learned from reading our text, what had in the past been thought “incurable”
is curable. Derived from several sources other than the first through sixth editions of
A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, our new book offers a great deal
of addit ional information. It comes from interviews with informed health
care personnel who have monitored patients’ progress by their use of
laboratory tests and clinical examinations. Also for our readers’ education,
numerous patien ts who have experienced either low levels of wellness,
subclinical illness, or outright life-threatening disease tell their stories. All
the patient case histories are true, and in most instances, unless indicated as
a pseudonym, the identities of patients are given. These patients discuss their illnesses, and the alternative/compl ementary
medical approach they used to overcome them permanently. Although every  word published here about the Gerson Therapy is
documented by case studies, this book’ s coauthors and publisher are
providing educational material and nothing more. If inform ation gleaned from these pages raises questions about your own
or a loved one’s medical condition, you should contact the Gerson Institute
directly for a list of Gerson-approved health care practitioners. Please take the above message as a disavowal of all responsibility by the
authors, publisher, the Gerson Institute, listed organizations, and product or
services suppli ers for any practice, procedure, diagnostic technique,
nutritional supplement, food, utensil, or other item mentioned in the text. Information taken from this book and acted upon by a reader or other
interested parties is carried out at that individual’ s personal risk. For the best information about  the Gerson Therapy, please contact the
nonprofit Gerson Institute.
Max Gerson, M.D.
Who wrote the book "A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases"?
He focused on the reversal of cancer and other chronic and acute degenerative diseases.
What was the main focus of Dr. Gerson's work?
To regenerate the body and restore its natural healing processes.
What is the primary goal of the Gerson Therapy?
To flood the body with healing nutrients and adopt other modalities.
What is the primary focus of the Gerson Therapy?
To restore the body's physiology, eliminating toxins, and stimulating metabolism.
What is the primary focus of the Gerson Therapy?
Dr. Max Gerson
Who was the first physician to describe cancer as arising from multiple interdependent factors?