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The name Max Gerson doesn’t ring a bell with most people. We can thank the dirty tricks of the American Medical Association for that. Gerson is one of the great doctors of the 20th century. If more of us knew his name, there wouldn’t be millions of needless cancer deaths in the US every year. In fact, there might even be monuments erected in his honor.
In the 1920s, Dr. Gerson pioneered a revolutionary diet that proved to be a potent nutritional and metabolic therapy for tuberculosis, diabetes, and even migraine headaches. Then amazingly, he started curing his patients’ cancer with it. The Gerson therapy blends a diet of organic fruits and vegetables and fresh juices with special detoxification methods. For decades — both during and after Gerson’s lifetime — his therapy has helped thousands of people recover from cancer — despite the fact that the FDA and AMA did everything they could to discredit him.
Dr. Gerson understood the connection between diet and cancer. He knew that poor nutrition, exposure to chemicals, and cooking that destroys vital nutrients are big reasons our bodies get sick. When we add to these factors a poorly functioning liver, pancreas, and immune system, cancer can flourish. But importantly, Gerson also believed cancer could be controlled with a healthy liver and a proper balance of sodium and potassium in the body.
His theory was that a sick body quickly becomes overtaken by sodium. But with his dietary therapy, potassium could be built up and sodium could be excreted, returning a sick body to its natural balance. His findings show that a low-sodium metabolic therapy that includes detoxification and nutritional replacement can stimulate the immune system to naturally dissolve tumors.
The diet is rich in whole, natural and organic foods. It does not allow coffee or foods with additives or preservatives like white flour and sugar. The vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that are added to the therapy help the immune system to properly deal with toxins produced by tumors. Enemas, gallbladder flushes, herbal teas and lots of fresh juices also contribute to detoxification.
By 1946, Dr. Gerson had so many successes with his natural therapy, that he presented his findings and many of his recovered patients to the US Senate. Soon after, the medical director of New York’s Gotham Hospital called his recoveries “miraculous.” An independent doctor who reviewed Gerson’s records for Congress stated that “relief of severe pain was achieved in about 90 percent of cases.”
With this kind of recognition and success, why didn’t the Gerson therapy become the gold standard of cancer care? Enter the AMA Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Here’s why Gerson became an enemy of the AMA. First, he had the sense to take a stand against tobacco. This upset Fishbein because Phillip Morris was JAMA’s biggest source of advertising revenue at the time. (Can you believe it?!) Second, by presenting his dietary findings to the Senate, Gerson ignored the formal stance of the AMA that [incorrectly] stated there is no connection between cancer and diet.
As a result of his honesty, Dr. Gerson was openly attacked in writing in JAMA, expelled from the New York medical society, and deprived of all hospital affiliations. He even lost his malpractice insurance. In 1959, Dr. Gerson, one of the great minds of modern medicine, died. This after years of harassment from the AMA who pressured hospitals, labs, and other doctors not to work with him.
It’s outrageous at how badly this brilliant doctor was treated by the medical establishment. It’s even worse when you consider how many millions of lives might have been saved if his therapy was accepted by mainstream medicine. But the medical establishment did not defeat Dr. Gerson. His legacy lives on with forward-thinking health professionals who continue to save lives based on his findings.
In next week’s Undercover we’ll take a closer look at the Gerson therapy and the latest research that supports his work.
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I checked the Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gerson) entry (I know, not necessarily the best source) and found a link to Quackwatch.org. The Quackwatch site (http://www.quackwatch.org/) does not specifically address Dr. Gerson, but does list a number of tactics used by quacks - one of which is to claim persecution. Of course, quackwatch might not be reliable either (http://www.raysahelian.com/quackwatch.html). We need to have clinical trials for any “alternative” approaches.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 10:40 am. PermalinkI agree and try to tell people about natural ways. Have you sent this to EVERY member of Congress? Medicare must be changed to favor this policy, because it affects all people, especially in hospitals and nursing homes, who are not getting supetr nutrition…I know…been there, done that. BUT…nursing homes must buy menus from a Medicare approved ‘nutritionist’; no care is paid to what really heals, whole foods, especially whole food supplements. Please let me know if I can help in any way but with money, for, I am a poor senior citizen. Even so, I go to a naturopath and a homeopath when I can afford it and avoid legal drugs, unless hospitalized in an emergency.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:06 am. PermalinkThank you,
Marcia Greenshields
So whats your point as regards Dr. Gerson?
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:08 am. Permalink2. Marcia Greenshields Says:
I agree and try to tell people about natural ways. Have you sent this to EVERY member of Congress? Medicare must be changed to favor this policy, because it affects all people, especially in hospitals and nursing homes, who are not getting supetr nutrition…I know…been there, done that. BUT…nursing homes must buy menus from a Medicare approved ‘nutritionist’; no care is paid to what really heals, whole foods, especially whole food supplements. Please let me know if I can help in any way but with money, for, I am a poor senior citizen. Even so, I go to a naturopath and a homeopath when I can afford it and avoid legal drugs, unless hospitalized in an emergency.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:09 am. PermalinkThank you,
Marcia Greenshields
I mean….Whats your point as regards Dr. Gerson? Question is for Pat’sRick. Are you inferring that Dr. Gerson could be a quack?
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:11 am. PermalinkI agree, Dr. Gerson was a brilliant, brilliant man. I’ve worked with his therapy. And it works. I would like to give this article 10 stars — Dr. Gerson’s work doesn’t get anywhere near the attention it requires.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:14 am. PermalinkThese principals seem sound to me. Basic common sense will tell you the SAD (Standard American Diet) has deteriorated to an unnatural, highly processed, artificial colors, flavorings, sweeteners, hormones, antibiotics and preservatives. We have strayed from common sense, basic nutrition.
Once we come up with a way to fund clinical trials on “alternative” health options, we should be able to prove common sense healthly eating. Also, hopefully prove “science” is creating crap food. That would be one way to make a huge impact on health care costs.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:16 am. PermalinkI would point out that his daughter Charlotte, in a Vancouver address in 1994, stated that a core therapy in their program was ozone therapy.
Best of Health!
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:18 am. PermalinkDr. Saul Pressman
What stated in the article may or may not be true. However this opens up the possibility of such kind of act. This is definately frightening. But it looks like this is the future we will have to face if we are already not facing that.
Body immunity levels plays a tremendous role in any kind of diease. There is enough evidence and study available now which shows there is great effect of the diet on the diseases we have. The change in diet habbits shown to have definate improvements in general oveall health.
Only thing is The Total Health Breakthrough surely in next article will want us to buy something that will save us from the ills we have already committed.
This is just like in olden days the priests and Poojaris (Pandits)use to suck the poor people out of any money they had by using the fear of God.
So lets hope that this article is truly for the public awareness at large.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 11:48 am. PermalinkPat’sRick needs to do a little research. Wikipedia, whose entries can be changed by anyone, and Quackwatch, which has been discredited totally, obviously have infected his uninformed mind!
And Pramod NB has a point, what will THB try to sell us next? I’m a cynical senior citizen…
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 12:04 pm. PermalinkThis is the very thing that confuses me about natural healing. I just read an article that says eating alkaline diet will cure cancer. another article said that some lady in Canada made some teas that had a huge success rate with curing cancer. So who do we believe? Are they all right? All wrong?
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 12:53 pm. PermalinkI’m a “senior citizen” the opposite to Cynical. I have worked with The Gerson Therapy and have seen what it can do. We are all different and some therapies are right for some people, its a case of finding the right therapy for your issues. Also it needs a positive attitude, cynicism will get you nowhere. Essiac works as well, they all aim at the body’s own healing system, something that most of us abuse.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 3:15 pm. PermalinkI recall back in the early ’70s when a fellow worker sent his twin daughters to Mexico for a similar treatment. Don’t know if it was Gerson Therapy or not, but I do know when they returned, he bought a vegetable juicer, and his teenage daughters were cured of their leukemia when MDs here in the USA had given up hope for their survival. Everyone has a different DNA, metabolism, etc. and it is indeed unfortunate that most MDs reject “alternative” medicine, or at least don’t send you to someone who does.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 3:40 pm. PermalinkI WONDER WHY THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT MAKES IT HARD TO CURE THERE PATIENTS LET ALONE WHY THE AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT MAKES IT HARD TO FIND GOOD HEALTHCARE SO YOU CAN FIND A GOOD DOCTOR? YET ALONE WHY ITS SO HARD TO FIND THE RIGHT REMEDIES AND THERAPIES TO HEAL OURSELVES. WHAT WORKS FOR ONE PATIENTS DOES NOT ALWAYS WORK FOR THE NEXT. I THINK THIS IS SAD HOW THIS PHENOMENOM HAPPENS TO ALOT OF GREAT PPL IN ALL FIELDS OF BUSINESS. BUT I SALUTE GERSON FOR HIS METHOD BECAUSE I HAVE TRIED IT AND IT WORKS I JUST HOPE ALL OTHERS FIND THERE OWN METHODS WHICH WORKS BEST FOR THERE HEALTH.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 4:09 pm. PermalinkSUPER-EXCELLENT article, Keep up the good work
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 6:04 pm. PermalinkYou are “REAL AMERICANS”
thank you
Right on. We have to get the word out to people who need to be cured from cancer. This sounds so simple and healthy, has the recovery rates on its side and beats radiation anytime.
Entered: October 21st, 2009 at 10:10 pm. PermalinkAs a Wellness Counsellor I read many articles, and have
read many about cancer, plus material about Gerson.
This article was able to encapsulate many valuable ideas,
information and background - plus the medical pressure
being exerted in a compact way.
It was readable and interesting and should make great sense
and inform those who are unaware of these issues.
Keep sending it out into the community.
Jacqui
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 1:19 am. Permalinkgreat article ! dr gerson
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 1:54 am. PermalinkEducated Mafia is the scourge of the society.If a patient visits a doctor,without even holding the wrist a nd checking the pulse,he is asked to carry out a string of tests,many uncalled for. The reason is simple,kickbacks from the string of clinics.
Medical treatment in society in most countries is an organized feaud, they are the true Talibans.
Pharma companies are in league,this HIV will continue.
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 2:46 am. PermalinkIn Japanese JAMA means to obstruct or be in someone’s way. Seems the organization is aptly named.
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 9:51 am. PermalinkI think the artical is just super, i am looking forward to the next instalment. Thank you, thank you.
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 9:56 am. PermalinkAlso how do i get further information about the Gerson treatment?
The prevention and reversal of cancerous tumours has been demonstrated and proved again and again - yet Cancer Research etc still bleat about ‘together we will find a cure’!
However, the real reason we will never here about the simple prevention of cancer and other chronic diseases is because those with power and money (eg. big pharma) must protect their market. Healthy people do not buy drugs, hence the continued distortion of the media and our politicians.
Prevention is simple (just not always easy!)
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 am. PermalinkI have a friend of my wife’s who is dying of brain cancer. She’s expected to go any day now. She’s been fighting it for 6 years. She will leave behind a husband and young children. It’s so sad, and so unfair. I wish they had tried some alternative treatments. She just did surgery, radiation and chemo.
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 1:05 pm. PermalinkWhile I was a medical school professor for 30 years and you’ll probably say I am one of the co-conspirators, I dont think a “cancer” cure that cannot stand the scrutiny of scientific study should be promoted. There is a reason why clinical trials are the gold standard for approval of various therapies. Most dietary interventions are effective in preventing cancer, but few have been shown to have a significant effect on already established tumors.
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 9:50 pm. PermalinkWithout clear scientific standards and evidence based medicine, every snake oil salesman out there will be preying on the vulnerabilities of cancer victims. Ask yourself when you read about these “miracle cures”. Isn’t it ironic that everyone of them is authored by some person that just so happens to have the best price on some expensive supplement- talk about conflicts of interest!
I agree with Bob H. I am no fan of the AMA, and I think finding then cure for cancer has become such a big business that if they ever succeeded, the economy would falter, But, this website is little better, no money…..no info. You don’t get my vote until you start healing the poor, and the people without health insurance, then I might beleive you.
Entered: October 22nd, 2009 at 11:26 pm. PermalinkI suggest that Bob and Anne read Dr. Gerson’s book, A Caner Cure, Fifty case studies, in which he clinically describes the incredible results he got with terminally ill patients. You may also want to know that according to the people I have spoken with, there is no record in the Library of Congress that Dr. Gerson ever presented there. However, there are recordings of his testimony and documents in existence declaring a war on caner created by Congress in response to Dr. Gerson’s testimony. THB’s article did not mention that the reason for Max Gerson’s death was Arsenic poisoning. Not once, but twice! This was how scared “modern medicine” was for this information to get out.
Entered: October 23rd, 2009 at 7:08 am. PermalinkI have read a report which seems contrary to what was being espoused by Dr Gerson. Can anybody further comment on this? …
“”Questionable Cancer Therapies”
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D.
… Gerson Method
Proponents of the Gerson diet claim that cancer can be cured only if toxins are eliminated from the body. They recommend “detoxification” with frequent coffee enemas and a low-sodium diet that includes more than a gallon a day of juices made from fruits, vegetables, and raw calf’s liver. This method was developed by Max Gerson, a German-born physician who emigrated to the United States in 1936 and practiced in New York City until his death in 1959. Gerson therapy is still available at Hospital Meridien in Tijuana, Mexico and, since February 1997, at the Gerson Healing Center in Sedona, Arizona.
Gerson therapy is still actively promoted by his daughter, Charlotte Gerson, through lectures, talk show appearances, and publications of the Gerson Institute in Bonita, California. Gerson protocols have included liver extract injections, ozone enemas, “live cell therapy,” thyroid tablets, royal jelly capsules, linseed oil, castor oil enemas, clay packs, laetrile, and vaccines made from influenza virus and killed Staphylococcus aureus bacteria.
In 1947, the NCI reviewed ten cases selected by Dr. Gerson and found his report unconvincing. That same year, a committee appointed by the New York County Medical Society reviewed records of 86 patients, examined ten patients, and found no evidence that the Gerson method had value in treating cancer. An NCI analysis of Dr. Gerson’s book A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases concluded in 1959 that most of the cases failed to meet the criteria (such as histologic verification of cancer) for proper evaluation of a cancer case [16]. A recent review of the Gerson treatment rationale concluded: (a) the “poisons” Gerson claimed to be present in processed foods have never been identified, (b) frequent coffee enemas have never been shown to mobilize and remove poisons from the liver and intestines of cancer patients, (c) there is no evidence that any such poisons are related to the onset of cancer, (d) there is no evidence that a “healing” inflammatory reaction exists that can seek out and kill cancer cells [17].
Between 1980 and 1986 at least 13 patients treated with Gerson therapy were admitted to San Diego area hospitals with Campylobacter fetus sepsis attributable to the liver injections [18]. 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. As a result, Gerson personnel modified their techniques for handling raw liver products and biologicals. However, the Gerson approach still has considerable potential for harm. Deaths also have been attributed to the coffee enemas administered at the Tijuana clinic.
Charlotte 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 [19]. Although clinic personnel later said they would follow their patients systematically, there is no published evidence that they have done so. A naturopath who visited the Gerson Clinic in 1983 was able to track 21 patients over a 5-year period (or until death) through annual letters or phone calls. At the 5-year mark, only one was still alive (but not cancer-free); the rest had succumbed to their cancer [20].””
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 3:48 am. PermalinkJimmy … an earlier post pointed out that Quackwatch with which both Stephen Barrett, M.D. and Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D. are associated have been not only discredited but also successfully sued for (if I remember correctly) slander, etc. Unfortunately, just about the last people in the world that you want to believe about the curing of cancer are those medical doctors who are beholding to Big Pharma and using the terrible practice of oncological chemotherapy. There are, as you see in this forum, better ways.
Do your own research, don’t merely take the word of others … even me. And I’m 80 years young and in excellent health. There are lasting beneficial results to be obtained by ingesting whole, plant-based foods. Try it, you’ll love it and it will love you in return.
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 8:01 am. PermalinkIs there a report a little more current than this one quoting information from 1986? Surely someone has documented/done clinical trials since then…
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 8:21 am. PermalinkI took my own advise and went back to personally check my facts about this so-called Quackwatch expert. I discovered by Googling Stephen Barrett, MD. that he was, according to hisown fellow medical doctors, “anti-alternative medicine and anti-chiropractic: and was the founder of this same zealot organization that he used to castigate anything that failed to agree whole-heartedly with dictates of the AMA. So now some questions should be evident to the readers of this forum:
Where does Quackwatch get funding? Quackwatch has been involved in a number of lawsuits and apparently Stephen Barrett had lost one or more lawsuits where the judge made him pay the opposing attorneys fees. Where does he get his funding? He is a retired psychiatrist, how can he afford getting involved in so many lawsuits and pay all the legal bills? Is it possible that this self-styled quack-buster is a watchdog for the AMA, in the same way that the notorious Dr. Morris Fishbein was when he was editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Always check your sources. Always check your facts. Hey, fair is fair, right?
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 8:41 am. PermalinkThank you patrick and red for the information and comments …
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 8:52 am. PermalinkThese are great information, please keep continue.
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 12:43 pm. PermalinkI am a survivor of colon cancer that metasticized to the liver. In the U.S., almost nobody survives liver cancer. This was back in the 70’s when Gerson therapy was being performed at La Gloria Hospital which as located about halfway between between Tijuana and Rosarita on the inland route to Ensenata in Baja California. I was treated there and strictly followed the Gerson therapy protocals. I have been cancer free for well over a quarter of a century. I had been told by Veterans Administration doctors to go home, make out my will, and all other preparations for my death which was supposed to occur very shortly. Well here I am. My health is excellent. …picture perfect lab tests; no sighn of any “age related” degenerative diseases nor any other ailment. I SCUBA dive, backpack, rock climb, bicycle tour, and sky dive. University students have trouble keeping up with me on field trips. I am 71 years old and look about 45.
As for “Quackwatch”: Stephen Barrett, M.D. and Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D. are the biggest quacks on Internet. Barrett is not permitted to practice medicine in any state that I am aware of, and has not done so for many decades, although for a few years he did practice phychiatry even though he was not certified to do so. He has made his living by trying to ferret out former patients (those patients who could be tempted into making a quick unscrupulous buck through unjustified malpractice suits) of doctors who practiced natural medicine, and then offering to be the plaintif’s “expert” medical witness. Barrett has been assisted financially by “Big Pharma” and has also been brought up on charges of purgery and fausifying evidence. He is the founder of “Quackwatch.” Victor Herbert, M.D., J.D., is no more pristeen that Barrett as far as my investigations can determine. I wouldn not let either one of them treat my pet goldfish much less a humanbeing except perhaps for one like Osama Bin-ladin.
Dr. Gerson did not die a natural death. He was poisoned with arsenic. The perpetrator was never caught. La Gloria Hospital was put out of business by one or more arsenists who used the strategy of burning down the building where the medical records were kept and where all of the meals and juices for the patients were prepared. My own records went up in smoke in that fire. Fortunately, I had completed my hospital stay and been taught how to continue my therapy treatments and diet at home.
A great many of those who seek help from Gerson Therapy practitioners do so when they are in the late stages of Cancer and have been given up on by their “establishment physicians” who vehemently discouraged them from seeking alternative therapies. Most of these had their immune systems severely damaged by chemo-therapy and radiation. Gerson Therapy relies on restoring the immune system to the level that it can destroy the cancer. If the patient has had too much radiation or chemo-therapy, there is a point at which the immune system cannot recover enough to defeat the cancer. If I recall correctly, when a patient’s lymphocyte count is lower than 10%, there is little hop of surviving the cancer. I remember a clinical research study that was conducted out of U.C. San Diego Medical School in which the researchers were surprized to discover that Gerson Therapy has a significantly higher survival and cure rate than does surgery, radiation, and chemo-therapy (establishment’s therapy of slash, burn and poison). Remember, a huge percentage of Gerson patients are those who came the this alternative as a last resort, when they had been given up on by establisment medicine and their immune systems severely damaged by radiation and poisoned by chemo-therapy. Yet this group won out over the control group treated by surgery, radiation, and the conventional treatment had the advantage of getting to the patients at a much earlier stage in their cancer. Essiac. Pau d’ Arco, and some other therapies have also save many lives. But “Big Pharma” and establishment medicine constantly try to keep information about these superior treatments from the public.
Entered: October 24th, 2009 at 7:37 pm. PermalinkThanks for your excellent testimony, Dr. Kennedy. And I’m glad to see that I wasn’t being too hard on the Quackbusters. By the way, I just found out that Victor Herbert, MD recently passed away. So now there is only one of them to have to discredit.
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Entered: October 25th, 2009 at 6:26 pm. PermalinkPlease give some evidence besides personal testimony. You say there was a study at UC San Diego- give the reference. All you cured people. Dont you feel strongly enough about curing cancer to document your cure? Obviously if conventional medicine gave up on you, there are medical records documenting the diagnosis and the extent of the cancer. I know it’s easier to take pot shots at organized medicine than to prove your points, but evaluating evidence- not off the cuff remarks is how we make progress.
Entered: October 26th, 2009 at 4:56 pm. PermalinkHow many times have you read “A new study shows that a diet rich in fruits and vegtables reduces the risk of…. When are people going to get the hint. And organics are even better, but big pharma,big agra, and the ama don’t make money from people being healthy, or buying locally grown organic produce. If people would just practice what we all know is true there would be a drastic reduction in people needing treatment in the first place.
Entered: October 28th, 2009 at 11:06 am. PermalinkThere were lots of anti-cancer therapies that were commented on by the doctors that was mentioned earlier. You could try reading the link below:
http: //www. alternativehealth. co. nz/anti/ cancertherapies. htm
Entered: October 30th, 2009 at 6:07 pm. Permalink