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THE
GERSON
TH ERAPY
The Proven Nutritional Program for
Cancer and Other Illnesses
REVISED AND UPDATED
Charlotte Gerson and Morton
Walker, D.P.M.
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Authors' Disclaimer
he Gerson Therapy is a registered service mark (trademark) of the Gerson
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Institute, Post Office 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 replacement 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
during 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 corrective 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
additional 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
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patients 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/complementary
medical approach they used to overcome them permanently.
Although every word published here about the Gerson Therapy is doc-
umented by case studies, this book’s coauthors and publisher are providing
educational material and nothing more.
If information 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 suppliers 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.
To Max Gerson, M.D., who, for having developed viable
therapies for the permanent remission of cancer, was challenged byindividual
interests in the cancer industry because, by application of the Gerson Therapy,
these interests would be put out of business. Today, nearly half a century later,
such legitimized interests continue to flourish at the expense of ill people around
the world.
Contents
About the Authors xi
Preface xvii
Introduction 1
PartOne.HOW THE GERSON THERAPY WORKS
1. How Nutrition Heals 1 I
2. A Brief Biography of Dr. Max Gerson 23
3. The Biological Basis of the Gerson Therapy 35
4. The Core of the Gerson Therapy 47
5. Remission—How It Happens 56
PARTTwo.THE GERSON THERAPY IN ACTION
6. Healing Melanoma with the Gerson Therapy 71
7. Success with Other Diseases 84
8. Foods on the Gerson DietPlan 97
9. Thirteen Glasses 111
10. The Gerson Saltless Diet 126
11. Nutritional Supplements on the Diet 137
12. Liver Detoxification with Coffee Enemas 154
13. Coffee Enemas and How to Take Them 167
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PARTTHREE.ADAPTING THE THERAPY FOR VARIOUS
DISEASES
1. Standard Gerson Therapy for Most Cancers 181
2. Modified Therapy during Chemotherapy 199
3. Modified Therapy for Severely Weakened Cancer Patients 214
4. Modified Therapy for Noncancer Patients 228
PARTFOUR.USING THE GERSON APPROACH
5. Psychological Approaches of the Gerson Therapy 257
6. How to Follow the Gerson Therapy on Your Own 269
7. Gerson Lab Tests Explained 275
8. Success Stories by Patients 298
9. Recipes 323
APPENDIXES
Gerson Therapy Financial and Contact Information 375
Gerson Therapy Dietary Preparation Summarized 378
Gerson Therapy Supply Resources 386
Gerson Therapy Support Groups 390
Patient Hourly Schedule 392
Nutrition Report: The China Study 393
The Anti-Cancer Ingredients in the Gerson Therapy 395
Household Chemicals: Another Source of Toxicity 397
Cosmetics: Another Source of Toxicity 399
Why are Children on Antidepressants? 401
Immunization—Vaccination 403
The Root Canal and Dental Amalgam Cover-up 407
Selected Bibliography 411
Index 429
About the Authors
harlotte Gerson, the youngest daughter of Max Gerson, M.D., whom he
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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 family 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 considered
safer, she studied French and continued high school under the French
educational 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 settledown. Eventually
Dr. Gerson established his medical practice on Park Avenue in Manhattan and
at a clinic in Nanuet, a small town located between Suffern and Nyack in
upstate New York.
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.
