Gerson Therapy

Not surprising. Do your research....Gerson is a fraud.

Just letting you know that Jessica Ainscough mother, Sharyn, died from breast cancer last Friday. Jessica has just made a blog post about it. Also the type of cancer Jessica has is called epitheloid sarcoma. It usually grows quite slowly so it can take a long time before any serious symptoms develop, even without treatment. If you look closely at recent photos of Jessica you can see lesions in her arm and one of her fingers is always bent over. For these reasons, I believe that she still has cancer. She herself admits that she does not know if she is cured or not and has declined tests that would allow her to find out for sure.

To anyone at all interested in the Gerson Therapy there are other, much more supportive sites than this one where the members are kind and community oriented rather than judgemental and cynical. I am healing just fine on Gerson. As Jess Ainscough herself pointed out this week, no one therapy works for every single person as every one of us is an individual. I know far too many people who have followed the advice of their doctors to the letter and still succumbed to their illness. It's important to respect each person's choice of treatment and not cast judgement upon them. We are all, I think it's fair to say, seeking healing at the end of the day. The Gerson Therapy is not particularly easy to follow but it can and does heal the human organism. However, it's important to remember that no protocol works 100% of the time for everyone. If you are genuinely interested in finding out more there are some great youtube videos of Charlotte Gerson on the net. There are some very mean spirited people who have posted here and I can only wonder at their motivation for doing so. I am glad that I've found other, much more supportive sites which is why I am no longer active on this one.

There are no peer-reviewed (reputable journals), evidence-based studies that indicate the efficacy of the Gerson protocol. Plain and simple.

roadshow, as to the motivation of "mean-spirited" people who post here about alternative therapies that have zero evidence for their effectiveness, it's on behalf of readers who might be tempted to waste their time and money (and perhaps, lives) on cancer quackery. Has nothing to do with spirit, mean or otherwise.

Has anyone else read "Do you believe in magic?" by Paul Offit? My very alternative healing SIL pointed me to this book. A very good read, helps to elucidate the positions of lots of practitioners who therapies/ideas have been discussed on this forum. Like Gerson, Mercola, and Burtynski (I apologise for misspelling his name).

it was not my intention to be part of a polarized conversation. I thought only to share some information, and feel that that should be the point of this forum.

Since you ask, I try to be open minded. Also as a Canadian I have excellent medical coverage, and have coverage for access to many alternative therapies through extended healthcare insurance. So I can have whatever floats my boat. I have looked long and hard at many medical and alternative medicine treatments to try to find the best fit for me. I did have a mastectomy and I did do taxotere and herceptin for 6 months. Then went to letrozole and herceptin, and now I am only having herceptin every three weeks. By the end of the 6 months I was bald, sick, bone crushingly, soul suckingly fatigued and very unhappy. My blood pressure was elevated. I was taking a BP drug, gabapentin, dilaudid and started the conversation about ritalin to deal with these issues. I looked at alternative therapies to counter act the side effects from the drugs I was taking to get me to NED and couldn't find anything that did not have its OWN set of rather nasty side effects. So, 4 years after my diagnosis, I decided that I needed to get off all medications, including vitamins and supplements, except herceptin,which I believe is a game changer. I go to yoga 2x week, and meditate. I play with my grandchildren and I try to live as if the breast cancer is just more thing in my life. I believe the chemo and mastectomy, while not perfect, gave me a chance to get to NED and then try to figure out a way to LIVE with what I have been dealt. If I had opted for alternative therapies, Gerson springs to mind, I don't think I would have been able to buy as much time as I have had. But that is only my opinion.

I think that everyone needs to take as much time as they need, without ridicule or censure, to make decisions that will work for them. I think that the sisters who are writing here to make sure that their sisters in BCO have as much information as they can get in order to make informed decisions about their own health care are not (for the most part) trying to pooh-pooh anyone's ideas. But want the whole story out there. Thanks for the link to a negative link about Offit. I also found several, BMJ, Medscape that were not coming from the same place.

Testimonials really cannot be considered evidence. I know lots of people who smoke and none of them have lung cancer. Is this evidence that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer?

While Jessica has finally admitted that Gerson is not 100% effective, her earlier posts gave a different impression. For her new year's resolutions she wrote "Cultivate an even deeper trust in my body and it’s ability to heal. Always realise that as long as I’m giving it what it needs, it will reward me with perfect health." An earlier post regarding her mother stated "But the beauty of not having had conventional interference (in the form of surgery, chemo or radiation) means that mum is already at an advantage and it is going to be much easier for her to reverse the disease."

These and other earlier posts would give people the impression that Gerson is very effective. It seems the people behind Gerson gave Jessica some misleading information and she in turn has misled her audience. That's why I felt it was important to share the news of her mother's death.

Please direct me to those other sites. I have been doing Gerson for two and a half months and am looking for supportive and encouraging comments, rather than negativitity especially from people who have not done their research into this therapy by called it a diet which of course it is not.

Thanks!

B

I've been aware of the gerson therapy for 43 years or so. I actually met by accident charlott gerson. I was visiting my mother is carmel valley, CA, I'd bused to the thunderbird book store at the head of the valley, a wonderful place, with a restaurant full of books too, I found the gerson book & was taking the bus back when charlott introduced herself to me on the same bus. she was living in the retirement community on the way to carmel valley. she'd noticed the book I was carrying. my mother actually had bought a huse in this retirement community but she sold it before she would have used it. you needed to move in before you got sick. I gave the book to my mother, unfortunately, I think, the photo in the book was ill advised to have been included. I'll say no more about that. & as I told charlott, my mother too much loved spare ribs to be influenced by her father's work. when I went back to the house 10 years later the book was gone. It was charlott who said in a piece I read on the net, when asked, that it was salt caused cancer, that in her childhood at home there was never salt in the food or on the table. we on the other hand always had little dishes of it with little "salt" spoons to apply it

perhaps because it holds water, she didn't say. it certainly causes meniers syndrome. need to be careful to ingest enough iodine though if you delete salt from your diet

I would disagree. the meniers syndrom came on after a lifetime of eating a lot of salt. I figured dizziness low blood pressure & ate more of it. had horrendous vertigo attacks complete with drop attacks, but none since I stopped the salt. still dizzy & one ear some deaf but no debilitating attacks, no vertigo, no crawling to the john