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"Alternative Therapies Health Medicine 1:29-37, 1995] A naturopathic doctor tracked 21 cancer patients on gerson therapy and found only one had survived past the 5-year mark. [Townsend Letter for Doctors, August 1995] Gerson therapy touches on a mechanism of cancer control, that of depriving tumors of iron. Fasting and vegetarian diets deliver low amounts of iron, which may explain any reported successes. [Townsend Letter for Doctors, April 1996] But Gerson therapists have little understanding of how iron controls cancer. It is just intuitively practiced." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Gerson believed that 80 percent of all disease could be eradicated by eliminating canned, frozen, and processed foods from the diet, foods completely devoid of enzymes. The gerson therapy uses intensive detoxification to eliminate wastes, regenerate the liver, reactivate the immune system, and restore the body's essential defenses, including the enzyme, mineral, and hormone systems. RALPH E. HOLSWORTH, JR, DO, BSC Dr. Holsworth has authored several publications related to the antioxidant properties of electrolyzed water and nattokinase, a fibrinolytic enzyme." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"Even Wynder said "/ would not put my dog on gerson therapy." Among the many substances and practices he followed, the only alternative measures likely to have been beneficial would be his low-iron diet and high vitamin D therapy. Guerin-Tosh, like many millions who live in northern climates, most likely did not produce enough vitamin D from sun exposure due to the angle of the sun at that latitude. The cancer belt in the world runs around the globe in northern latitudes. Guerin-Tosh's advisors gave him enough information to avoid toxic treatment which carries the risk of death." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Joan read a book by Beata Bishop about curing melanoma, and this led her to do the gerson therapy. She remains free of cancer today. "Do you remember Carmen Wheatley?" I ask. 'Yes. Very beautiful girl. Blonde hair. Had to sort her out. Did she not end up with you?" "She is interesting me in Gerson." "Have you got cancer?" 'Yes." "For God's sake, do not let the doctors kill you." "Carmen suggested that I ask you about coffee enemas." "Delightful. I read War and Peace having mine." Joan tells me that the place to buy enema equipment is a health store in Paddington Street. I go at once." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) "I follow the Gerson therapy: strict diet, vegetable juices, enemas, injections of liver juice and vitamin B12-1 also do Chinese bone breathing exercises. With visualisations. I finish and there is silence. "Do you think I am mad to try what I am doing?" I ask. Sir David Weatherall is a man who thinks for as long as he wishes before he speaks. A minute or two pass. 'What you must understand, Mr. Gearin-Tosh, is that we know so little about how the body works." I am astonished. Sir David repeats his remark. 'We know so little about how the body works." Nine short words." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) "Lucky you, Michael. The gerson therapy enema is two pints." "Of coffee?" "Yes." "You mean two milk bottles ... of coffee . . ." "And every day. Four times." "Two pints four times?" "Correct." "That is a gallon." "And I have found out something else." "Enough for today." "Do you know who was Rachel's co-examiner when I applied for Oxford? Before you took me?" "No idea." "There was an examiner in Modern Languages at Rachel's college, Joan Spencer." "I know Joan. She is delightful." "She has had cancer. And cured it with Gerson. Go on, phone her up about enemas." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.) "There is a cancer therapy she is finding out about. The gerson therapy. Joan Spencer did it." "Joan had cancer?" "Yes." "I never knew. Joan is a good scholar and sound woman. She tried carrots?" "Yes." "Carrots cure cancer?" "The juice seems to help." "So why does not everyone do it?" The breathing exercise is difficult. Even the first part takes more time: I have to relax for so long before I can start. Going through the body bone by bone makes you identify with each part, as it were come to terms with it. The visualisations have a life of their own. They will not be forced." - Michael Gearin-Tosh, Living Proof: A Medical Mutiny (Get the book.)

"Gerson therapy ... 117 Fluke Worm Theory ... 117 Hoxsey treatment... 117 Hydrazine sulfate ... 118 Hyperthermia (Coley's toxins) ... 118 Iscador... 118 Kelley metabolic therapy ... 119 Laetrile... 119 The Macrobiotic Diet... 120 Bloodroot... 121 Oxygen therapies... 121 Rife therapy... 122 Shark cartilage ... 122 A story... 123 Conventional vs. Alternative Cancer Therapy ..." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"GERSON THERAPY Perhaps the oldest alternative therapy for cancer, gerson therapy was devised by Germany's Dr. Max Gerson, who was looking for a cure for his own migraine headaches. After solving his problem by developing a low-salt, largely vegetarian diet, he began to use the same regimen to successfully treat people suffering from tuberculosis and other problems. One of his patients was the great humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who, after receiving gerson therapy for his diabetes, said: "I see in [Dr. Gerson] one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine." - Larry Clapp, Prostate Health in 90 Days (Get the book.)

"In this biography, he describes how he dealt with this diagnosis, eventually using only alternative methods, including nutrients and the gerson therapy. He is alive and well 8 years later, despite the fact that the foremost experts in England told him he would be dead in 1 year if he did not take standard cancer treatment. This type of medical anecdote surely should be taken very seriously. Of the diseases and disorders that appear related to vitamin B-3 deficiency and dependency, only the schizophrenia and cholesterol relationships have been assessed using double blind studies." - Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD, Feel Better, Live Longer with Vitamin B-3 (Get the book.)

"A more recent review of melanoma patients found gerson therapy improved survival of small groups of patients compared to other selected studies. For instance, of 14 patients with stages I and II (localized) melanoma, 100% survived for 5 years, compared with 79% in a large study. Of 17 patients with stage lll-A melanoma, 82% were alive at 5 years, in contrast to 39% in another study. Remarkably, of 18 patients with stage IV-A melanoma, 39% were alive at 5 years, compared with only 6% in another widely compared study." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

"Gar Hildenbrand, current executive director of the Gerson Institute, has expressed his view that the gerson therapy is a necessary adjunct to standard modalities. This move away from the original claims of cure is an important move toward a scientific middle ground. One day, the gerson therapy may be recognized as being of supreme historical importance in the recovery of the nutritional component in cancer management. However, I believe it will prove to be only one version of a necessary adjunctive nutritional treatment." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

"The gerson therapy is most famous as an alternative therapy for the treatment of cancer. There is no scientific evidence that potassium is protective against cancer or that it is beneficial in the treatment of cancer. The gerson therapy is not accepted by orthodox medicine. But was Gerson really all wrong? We have already seen that foods rich in potassium are protective against hypertension and probably against stroke-related deaths." - Sheldon Saul Hendler, The Doctor's Vitamin and Mineral Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"Regardless of the merits of the gerson therapy, mainstream medical opinion at that time firmly held the view that nutritional therapies had nothing to offer for cancer treatment, and to this day the evidence for decisive, positive results from gerson therapy remains highly questionable. In contemporary studies, the Gerson program emerges as a potentially useful complement to conventional therapies." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

"Gar Hildenbrand, of the Gerson Research Organization, and Shirley Cavin, from the University of California at San Diego's Cancer Prevention and Control Program, compared five-year melanoma survival rates of gerson therapy patients to rates found in comparable, conventionally treated groups.The study examined 153 cancer patients, 25-72 years old, in various stages of melanoma. Here is a summary of the results: • Of patients with Stage I and II melanoma (localized), 100% of gerson therapy patients survived for five years compared with 79% of patients receiving conventional treatment." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"If adequate controlled clinical trials of the gerson therapy are undertaken by open-minded and reasonably sympathetic researchers who have carefully studied the cancers in which gerson therapy seems to yield the best results, I predict that the therapy will prove to be a significant adjunct to the judicious use of conventional therapies for those cancers. Further, it may also improve outcomes for some cancers where conventional treatment would bring few— if any—results." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

"His work has since focused on documenting the gerson therapy and designing credible testing methodologies. He has worked with the OAM and now Berkley Bedell's National Foundation for Alternative Medicine reviewing patient records from treatments including the late Dr. Lawrence Burton's IAT and Dr. Burzynski's antineoplastons. One study Hildenbrand designed and published looked at melanoma patients using the gerson therapy." - Kenny Ausubel, When Healing Becomes A Crime: The Amazing Story of the Hoxsey Cancer Clinics and the Return of Alternative Therapies (Get the book.)

"He felt that at the beginning chronic disease is caused by the loss of potassium from the cell system; accordingly, another primary objective of gerson therapy is to reestablish proper levels of potassium in the body. Because of the specific relationship between sodium and potassium, in which an increase in one mineral causes a decrease in the other and vice versa, one of the first things Gerson advocated is the elimination of salt and sodium-rich foods from the diet. Additionally, all patients on gerson therapy immediately begin receiving large amounts of a potassium solution which Dr." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.) "The Patients_ Cancer patients have been treated with gerson therapy for over fifty years, and the results have been amazing, especially in contrast to those reported by conventional cancer specialists and agencies. The therapy was administered at treatment centers in New York and then California before the establishment of the new gerson therapy Center in Mexico in 1977. It was at this time that statistical analyses began to be recorded. A 40 to 50 percent improvement rate was recorded in terminal patients, and an 80 percent improvement in early to moderate cancer cases." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"Patients with metastases in the liver seem to be the best responders to the gerson therapy," Lechner found. After radical surgical resection, Lechner's patients are no longer given intravenous or intraarterial chemotherapy, "the results having been rather poor in the past." For most patients—except those opting for liver transplants—"the gerson therapy remains the only treatment. . . . We have already surveyed eight pairs by now, ten men and six women between 32 and 74 years of age. The laboratory findings of all of them show significant differences between the GP and NGP groups." - Michael Lerner, Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer (Get the book.)

"Gerson Therapy The gerson therapy was developed by Max Gerson, M.D, a German doctor who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1930s. Shortly after graduating from medical school, Dr. Gerson began to experience severe migraine headaches. He reasoned that he could alleviate his problem by reworking his diet. After succeeding in doing so, he found that he was able to successfully treat tuberculosis patients with diet alone as well. He then took the next leap, which was to treat cancer patients with his diet. He also treated both Dr." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"One of the few studies that investigate a holistic approach involved the gerson therapy in an evaluation of five-year survival rates of 153 melanoma patients. Here, 100 percent of gerson therapy patients with Stage I and II cancers survived, but only 79 percent did so with conventional therapy. With Stage III (regional metastases), the figures, respectively, were 70 percent and 41 percent; with Stage IVa (distant metastases), 39 percent with Gerson and 6 percent with conventional therapy62 As you can see from this short compilation, there is no evidence that conventional cancer therapy works." - Walter Last, The Natural Way to Heal: 65 Ways to Create Superior Health (Get the book.)

"Of patients with Stage IVa melanoma (a classification proposed by the authors to cover distant metastases), 39% of gerson therapy patients survived for five years compared with 6% of patients treated by conventional medicine.199 Even considering possible weaknesses in the study's design, the substantial differences in survival between the gerson therapy patients and conventionally treated patients is too great to be dismissed. Issels' Whole-Body Therapy The late Josef Issels, M.D." - Larry Trivieri, Jr., Alternative Medicine the Definitive Guide, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"ISBN 0-671-79623-2) Laetrile With the gerson therapy being considered the first widely used nutritional approach to cancer, the use of Laetrile should probably be considered the second. Most of us have heard about Laetrile, but unfortunately, the only thing we heard was that it was some kind of "bogus" or "fad" cancer treatment a few decades ago. I was truly surprised, myself, to find the truth about Laetrile to be quite different. In fact, when I found out what Laetrile is and how effective it could be, I was amazed!" - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.) "M. The gerson therapy. New York: Kensington Publishing, 2001. (ISBN 1-57566-628-6) Richard Walters. Options: The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book. New York: Avery Penguin Putnam, 1993. (ISBN 0-89529-510-5) James P. Carter, M.D. Racketeering in Medicine: The Suppression of Alternatives. Hampton Roads, 1993. (ISBN 1-878901-32-X) Ross Pelton and Lee Overholser. Alternatives in Cancer Therapy. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1994." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.) "It appears that the NCI believed it had time and power on its side and could afford to play a cat-and-mouse game. The gerson therapy was never fairly evaluated. Even though Dr. Gerson was not able to see his effective cancer treatment accepted by mainstream medicine, he moved his cancer clinic to southern California and tirelessly continued to treat patients until his death in 1959. His cancer therapy is still being offered today at a facility in San Diego called the Gerson Institute. This nonprofit organization is run by Gerson's daughter, Charlotte Gerson." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.) "In a similar way, the diet-based approaches which focus primarily on high amounts of fresh vegetables and fruits, such as the gerson therapy or wheatgrass therapy, may not be as effective as they were decades ago. This may be partly because it is difficult in this modern world to find fruits and vegetables grown in truly balanced, healthy soils. Even organically grown fruits and vegetables are likely to come from soil that has been overused. Artificial fertilization techniques are helpful, but may not be able to produce crops that are as abundant in nutrients as virgin soils can." - Tanya Harter Pierce, Outsmart Your Cancer: Alternative Non-Toxic Treatments That Work (Get the book.)

"She made me sit bolt upright with shock when she said, in reference to standard oncology, "Unless they can show me that they can cure pancreatic cancer, I am not interested—because the gerson therapy can." That is the fastest-kdling cancer there is. When I interviewed her for this article, I confided that I occasionally become very sad from my research into the criminality in modern medicine, the cancer industry probably being the worst." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) "These findings do not seem to agree with the agenda of the American Cancer Society which two years later published on its website a warning article on the gerson therapy in which they state the following: "The belief that poor diet and the budd-up of toxins from foods, additives, and environmental pollution are the main causes of chronic disease is without scientific basis." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.) "It took over 40 years before the National Institutes of Health finally was forced to acknowledge that no advance had been made in all that time in prevention, cure, or mortality rates, and serious research into the gerson therapy is finally starting (see www.dr-gonzalez.com. Turning to look briefly at the standard therapies for depression, cardiovascular disease, menopause, and asthma, we find that here the emperor is not only naked, but armed and dangerous. Two books show us how medicine was led down the garden path some 50 years ago. The first is by Dr." - Helke Ferrie, Dispatches From the War Zone of Environmental Health (Get the book.)

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