Gerson Therapy

I did Gerson for about 6 weeks prior to my mastectomy while taking Tamox to shrink my  tumor. The side effect from the Tamox were so horrid, I really needed the enemas for elimination and detoxification. I juiced and juiced and juiced and it is very hard and expensive to keep up this diet. I believe it also has some dangers as there is little to no protein allowed, and high protein, but no meat the way I  understand it is very important for fighting cancer. With the Gerson method even if the diet helps to rid the cancer, the patient can die of malnutrtion before they have a chance to reap the benefits of any success from the diet. Some of the supplements required are also dangerous, the potassium salts are very strong and dangerous unless used correctly. You'd definately wan to keep these compounds away from children. The lugols is also dangeroud, and the pancreatic enzymes really messed up my system the first  few times I too, them. Anyway, My tumor shrank from 10cm to 5.5 cm in one month prior to surgery. Not sure if it was the tamx the gerson or the combonation. I lost a lot of weight and also lost my appetite completely which I learned was not healthy for me.  i still drink a lot of juices but eat beans eggs nuts fish seeds and lots of fruits and veggies, I don't know how it's all gonna pan out. None of us do. I just do my best with what I know. Best to you Joleelee! 

Firm believer in Gerson here. When I was diagnosed, I met a wonderful lady who had worked for a long time I think with Charlotte Gerson in the CA clinic. She gave me stacks of research paper photocopies. Modern diet is sorely deficient in the right vitamins and minerals.

I did it strictly for almost a year...but in conjunction with traditional treatment. I even did the hippocrates soup which is a toughie to find all the ingredients for in my area! I got blasted on this topic awhile back, so I dont post much about my treatment path. It works for me, and I dont need the headache of arguing my choices.



It is too difficult to stick to so long post treatment. I remained vegan....no dairy, meat, sugar etc. I still start and end my day with 16 ounces of juice. I also grow and
juice wheat grass. I also exercise and try to sit in the sun daily. Too me, it's just all common sense stuff.

If you havent picked up the book on Gerson Therapy, it's worth a read!!

Unless a person has leaky gut or other digestive issue, Gerson Therapy will nourish the body with nutrition.  In my opinion, the liver flushes are immensely healing for almost every known illness.  The liver is the largest organ in the body and has something like 500 functions to do.  I passed thousands of stones and I swear it cured me of everything I had along with the good nutrition.  Also, the lack of protein is a good thing for cancer reversal.  Proteolitic enzymes kill cancer cells when they are not busy digesting protein and remember that breast milk is something like 5% protein.  The Standard American Diet and the food pyramid are all about big business and vested interests.  We eat way too much protein according to many cancer experts.  The strongest animals are elephants and they are vegetarians.  One thing though, the mind must be addressed because fear or an old traumatizing experience or a death of a loved one can suppress the immune system so do take care of that.  So, do not be afraid.  Surgery you must be careful about.  The surgeon can break the envelope containing the cancer and spread it as can a needle biopsy.  If you keep the tumor there, you will know what treatments are working for you.  Many experts do not require the surgery and advise it only when the tumor is life threatening such as for a total bowel obstruction.  If you listen to Leonard Caldwell's story on YouTube, sugery killed his grandmother that had cancer for many years that had left her alone.

The Healing Cancer World Summit is coming up and I registered for the free online interviews with alternative cancer therapy experts.  Have you listened to Dr. Day's Cancer Cure on YouTube because she had a breast cancer that she healed naturally and she shows it on her site and it was similar to Gerson Therapy?  It was remarkably huge but it dissolved with her recipe of 10 steps to heal cancer naturally.  They are sunlight, fresh air, exercise, nutrition, rest, trust in god, benevolence, temperance, water, and one other.  Dr. Day refused chemo and radiation and had surgery that didn't remove the cancer.  It grew back with a vengeance but then disappeared.

The 10th step is an attitude of gratitude.

Do not be afraid.  Orthodox medicine is extremely invasive.  If I was you I probably would not have the scan if there is nothing that is palpable for me to observe.  The diagnosis will only incite fear which must be avoided.  Since it is already staged, I don't think the new scans will change the stage, do you?  I would wait until the therapy has had a chance to work on the underlying problem before having any raidiation and only if absolutely necessary to check for the progress of the therapy. 

Chillipadi had a lot of chemotherapy.  It doesn't work for breast cancer, measly 1.5% success, and most likely killed her by killing her immune system along the way.  It does more harm than good for breast cancer, is a carcinogen, and can make the cancer more aggressive.  I do 2 coffee enemas each day and attest to their ability to detoxify the body.  My brain was a mess and speech was slurred from a prescription drug and it cleared with the coffee enemas.

I'm a tad bit suspicious of the "conversation" going on here between 2 very new posters with very similar names. Hmmmm......

I too am a big fan of Jessica Ainscough, a Gerson therapy success story.  I love her blog.  She will be interviewed in the healing cancer summit next week.  I listened to the first summit last year.  I posted the link last year on the natural girls thread.  It was a safe haven for many of us to discuss a variety of topics.  Then my post got 'removed by the community' for violating rule #11 or some such nonsense.  It was no different than links we'd been posting for years.  I was accused of being an affiliate, which I wasn't. 

Most people who post here follow the mainstream recommendations.  Even though two sections are devoted alternative and complementary treatments, a supportive environment for discussing such matters is usually shortlived.  Every message board has its own climate.  Like many others, I now spend more time elsewhere and less time here.  I love many things about bco.  I'll be forever grateful for the support I got here during treatments.  For Gerson therapy, however, the supportive environment you desire will probably be located somewhere else.  jmho

Maybe the Gerson therapy works, maybe it doesnt, I have no opinion.  But, speaking of common sense, an "attitude of gratitude"?  Im pretty sure cancer cells could care less about my attitude.

I really didn't post to defend myself, just sharing my experience while doing the Gerson Diet and giving a word of caution. Yes I've done my homework, I wouldn't have tried it had I not. You can research the dangers of taking iodine supplements yourself. I think it's really important for everyone to do their own research before trying any alternative approach. I still take lugols, have seen The Beautiful Truth.  My Natropath is certified in Gerson and worked together with Charolette in Mexico.  I think there is some wisdom in Gerson, which is why I was willing to try it in the first place. I believe it may have helped to shrink my tumor. I believe there are compounds (enzyme, flavinoids, poyphenols,vitamins and minerals) in fresh fruits and vegetables that can help us fight cancer. I just think people need to be aware of the potential dangers of relying on Gerson to cure them, to be aware of some potentially serious health risks, and to keep potassium salts and iodine away from small children. Improper dosing of these substances can be very dangerous. I care about people, which is why i'm sharing this.

 Here is some research on Gerson.

Between 1980 and 1986 at least 13 patients treated with Gerson therapy were admitted to San Diego area hospitals with  sepsis attributable to the liver injections . None of the patients was cancer-free, and one died of his malignancy within a week. Five were comatose due to low serum sodium levels, presumably as a result of the "no sodium" Gerson dietary regimen.

Deaths also have been attributed to the coffee enemas administered at the Tijuana clinic.

Gerson claims that treatment at the clinic has produced high cure rates for many cancers. In 1986, however, investigators learned that patients were not monitored after they left the facility

A naturopath who visited the Gerson Clinic in 1983 was able to track 21 patients over a 5-year period . At the 5-year mark, only one was still alive (but not cancer-free); the rest had succumbed to their cancer .

Austin S, Dale EB, DeKadt S. Long-term follow-up of cancer patients using Contreras, Hoxsey and Gerson therapies. Journal of Naturopathic Medicine 5(1):74-76, 1994.

What I have come to realize is that there is such medical bias in these studies.  Maybe 21 patients were followed and they died while on a Gerson regimen.  That doesn't mean that they died because of the Gerson regimen.  Many of Gerson's patients have failed orthodox treatments and have been on so much chemotherapy and radiation that they die of malnutrition.  It's very common for cancer patients to succumb to the orthodox treatments, some 60% of them, not even of their disease. 

There have been studies that have concluded that cancer patients live longer if they do nothing at all rather than undergo orthodox treatments which are virtually worthless.  The following states that "After almost 40 years as a cancer researcher, Dr. Jones found, for example, that survival in breast cancer is 4 times longer without conventional treatment. He stated, "People who refused treatment lived for an average of 12-1/2 years. Those who accepted other kinds of treatment lived an average of only 3 years. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, radical surgery on cancer patients does more harm than good." (The Naked Empress, Hans Reusch, p. 74)"

The Untreated Live Longer

http://www.rethinkingcancer.org/resources/magazine-articles/8_11-12/the-untreated-live-longer.php

And what if Gerson removes the sodium?  There is sodium in all fruits and vegetables.  Carrots have a significant amount of sodium and this is a staple of the Gerson Therapy as seen below.

http://www.healthyeatingclub.com/info/books-phds/books/foodfacts/html/data/data5a.html

Also, NCCAM is part of the NIH and I have heard that it is there to undermine the alternative medicine world, much like the FDA, so I pay no attention to their studies.  Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez' regimen was thwarted by lack of oversight by the NIH.  He wrote about this in his new book called What Went Wrong: The Truth Behind the Clinical Trial of the Enzyme Treatment of Cancer. 

Madribra, there is new research on the effect of the autonomic nervous system on the development of metastatic breast cancer in mice.  The sympathetic nervous system is actively involved in the spread of breast cancer so stress-related emotional and phsychosocial factors are significant in the treatment and development of cancer as seen below.

Stimulation of Host Bone Marrow Stromal Cells by Sympathetic Nerves Promotes Breast Cancer Bone Metastasis in Mice

http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001363

As for Gerson, he took terminally ill patients and reversed whatever prognosis they were given.  The modern medical community can't touch their success rate.  The cures are not in conventional therapies.  It is in rebuilding and strengthening the body's defenses through effective nutritional and detoxifying approaches.

Coffee is the New Chemo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbzmczPuquc