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Interview
with CHARLOTTE GERSON |
Charlotte Gerson |
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(1922-2019)
"Max Gerson, M.D., treated a
series of cancer patients with special (mostly vegetable juice) diets and with
some nutrients including niacin 50 mg 8 to 10 times per day, dicalcium phosphate with vitamin D, vitamins A and D, and
liver injections. He found that all the cancer cases were benefited in that
they became healthier and in many cases the tumors regressed. In a subsequent
report, Gerson elaborated on his diet. He now emphasized a
high potassium over sodium diet, vitamin C, niacin, brewers yeast and lugols iodine. Right after the (second world) war there
was no ready supply of vitamins as there is today. I would consider the use
of these nutrients in combination very original and enterprising. Dr. Gerson
was the first physician to so emphasize such use. "I am familiar with the
Gerson method and believe that it has a lot of merit. I have always been
frustrated that it was not taken seriously and studied intensively as it
should be. It does take a lot of dedication and time, and patients do need a
lot of help in preparing their food and juicing and the coffee enemas. Of
course, as with any treatment, not everyone recovers. But I think it has a
very good track record. I know DY NEWS:
It is a pleasure to see the Gerson therapy continue to gain acceptance and
press worldwide. All this is primarily due to your efforts, which are truly
an everlasting honor to your father's work. Could we begin with these
questions, please. I have seen the Gerson VHS videos
produced about 15 years ago, such as "Doing the Gerson Therapy at
Home." How is your intention for this new documentary different? CHARLOTTE
GERSON: The Gerson videotapes were produced well over 10 years
ago mainly to provide information to patients about the therapy, how and why
it produces results, how to manage the therapy (Vol. II, The Workshop) and
(Vol. III) how to cook, juice, prepare coffee concentrate for enemas, and
handle medications. The new documentary presents Dr. Gerson's work, how he
started to understand the importance of the soil, how his own health problems
forced him to search for solutions - then how he was
able to elaborate on those to achieve healing of cancer. The documentary also
presents 8 or 9 patients, most of them long-term recoveries after desperate
diagnoses. This documentary should be distributed all over the world to
inform the suffering public of the available healing, the natural approach
instead of drugging symptoms. And this healing is not just for patients
suffering from cancer, but for those suffering from other chronic 'incurable'
diseases. DY NEWS:
The documentary contains some very strong words and absolute statements about
pharmaceuticals and modern medicine. What are the chief
obstacles to your work at present (2004)? CHARLOTTE
GERSON: The chief obstacles to spreading this information worldwide is the powerful medical/pharmaceutical industry. According
to Dr. Ralph Moss, in his book "The Cancer Industry" (New York:
Paragon Press, 1989), cancer treatments are bringing in over $100 billion
dollars annually in the DY NEWS:
Dr. Gerson was, and still is, widely denounced by the pharmaceutical/medical establishment. For a therapy that
works, why the resistance from doctors? CHARLOTTE
GERSON: After my father presented five "cured hopeless cancer
patients" before a U.S. Senate Committee in early July, 1946, the
medical establishment increased its attacks with articles in the JAMA on Dr.
Gerson. It published an editorial about the Gerson treatment with the heading
"Of Fraud and Fables." It even either forced or paid a physician to
retract his positive testimony during that hearing and had him write to DY NEWS:
I hesitate to bring this thought forward, but the movie more than suggests
that Dr. Gerson was murdered by arsenic poisoning. Can you comment about this
sensitive issue? CHARLOTTE
GERSON: Dr. Gerson rented his office in a building originally supplied by
grateful recovered patients. However the staff, headed by the same physician
I referred to earlier, spied on Gerson, reported names and addresses of his
patients who were then contacted by their prior doctors - and many of the
patients' files and records "disappeared." It was a fact that even
at an advanced age (77 years) Dr. Gerson had a somewhat low blood pressure
and enjoyed one cup of coffee in the afternoon. He noted at one point that
every evening, after having coffee served at his office, that he had violent cramps
and diarrheas. He stopped taking this coffee but a subsequent 24-hour urine
collection showed that he excreted arsenic! He did not die immediately;
however this weakened him considerably and he subsequently contracted a viral
lung infection that killed him Then the doctors committed their ultimate
insult: they claimed that he died of lung cancer! Of course his lung X-rays
did not show tumors but lung damage from his infection. You will find a good
deal of this information in my son's biography of Dr. Gerson (http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm).
Actually, Howard found it impossible to find a publisher in the DY News:
Ms. Gerson, do you have early memories you'd be willing to share of your
helping Dr. Gerson in the clinic? Charlotte
Gerson: That would take us back to about 1949, in his clinic in upstate DY News:
As a New Yorker myself, I am curious to know where Dr. Gerson's clinic was
located? Charlotte
Gerson: My father's clinic was located in DY News:
What was your role there? Charlotte
Gerson: I helped mainly by relieving him of having to do the daily liver
injections. But it was more a learning experience making rounds with him. I
remember a lady who had colon cancer with liver metastases, very ill, pale
and bedfast. My father asked her at one point when she had had her last bowel
movement. She was silent for a little while, so my father repeated the question.
Then she replied, "I heard you doctor, and I am trying to remember.
While I was at the hospital, I think my last bowel movement was at least 6
weeks ago!" I'll never forget my father's face on hearing this
statement. DY News:
I had a relative who had the same experience at Charlotte
Gerson: An interesting experience was that of a lady suffering from breast
cancer. She was in an early stage, with 'only' a tumor in her breast, still
quite vigorous, eating and sleeping well and free of pain. But she presented
a strange problem: she didn't respond to the treatment in any way, no better
and no worse. And that was totally extraordinary. Then one day in the dining
room, I overheard her talk to her daughter who was coming up to visit her
from DY News:
What was the first health lecture you ever presented
by yourself? Charlotte
Gerson: After my father passed away, there was one overwhelming thought in my
mind: I have to continue to publish his book. (A Cancer Therapy: Results of
Fifty Cases, reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/bestbooks.html).
I arranged for another printing and then had 3,000 copies on my hands. So, I had to sell them since they
were not doing anybody any good stashed away in a warehouse. That is when I
started to do health lectures in (http://askwaltstollmd.com/archives/cancer/139762.html) and at meetings of the National
Health Federation's (http://www.thenhf.com)
many chapters. One of my
first lectures took place in DY News:
I understand that all of Dr. Gerson's siblings perished in the Holocaust. How
did you and your father spend your free time together? Charlotte
Gerson: When we lived in
DY News:
No doubt you are well aware of Prince Charles' recent (June 2004) statement
supporting the Gerson therapy, and the resulting medical backlash against the
Prince. The British press has taken some very rough shots at him (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1248282,00.html) and
especially (http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1250275,00.html). Would you
please comment the intensity of this criticism of the Prince, and His Royal
Highness' actual statement: "I know of one patient who
turned to Gerson Therapy having been told she was suffering from terminal
cancer and would not survive another course of chemotherapy. Happily, seven
years later, she is alive and well. So it is vital that, rather than dismissing
such experiences, we should further investigate the beneficial nature of
these treatments." Charlotte
Gerson: I think that Prince Charles was very courageous to talk about the
patient who recovered on the Gerson Therapy. I also think it is horrifying
and shocking to note the intensity of the criticisms - actually not
criticisms but outright vicious attacks. DY News:
A much more positive http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1115514,00.html . Charlotte
Gerson: Overall, it is amazing that so many of the "learned
scientists" of the Then they
talk about a "$20,000/year cost for injections on the Gerson
Therapy," which is simply not true. But what about the chemotherapy
injections and their costs? The recently FDA approved cancer drug, Erbitox, costs $2,400 for the weekly dose, or $125,000
per year; and although it has been shown to shrink tumors, it has not been
shown to prolong lives. (As reported by Michael L. Culbert,
ScD. in the "Intl. Council for Health Freedom", Volume VIII:2, Fall
2004.) DY News:
Have you been awarded any honorary degrees as of yet for your own work? Charlotte
Gerson: No. DY News:
On behalf of my readers, I thank you for all you have done to continue to
bring your father's important findings to the public. CHARLOTTE
GERSON: Thanks for this opportunity to inform your readers.
My review
of the complete how-to-do-it Gerson Therapy book: http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy.html
Dr.
Gerson's own words: http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonspeech.html
Review of
Dr. Gerson's biography: http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersonbio.htm
Review of
new DVD about the Gerson Therapy http://www.doctoryourself.com/gersontherapy2.html
References
and citations: http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson_therapy.html and http://www.doctoryourself.com/bib_gerson.html
. Also: Gerson M:
Dietary considerations in malignant neoplastic
disease. A prelimary report. The Review of
Gastroenterology 12:419-425, 1945. Gerson M:
Effects of a combined dietary regime on patients with malignant tumors. Experimental Medicine and Surgery 7:299-317, 1949. Hoffer A:
Orthomolecular Oncology. In, Adjuvant Nutrition in Cancer Treatment,
Ed. P. Quillin & R. M. Williams. 1992 Symposium
Proceedings, Sponsored
by Cancer Treatment Research Foundation and American To learn more, and to watch several movies about Dr. Gerson's work for free: Gerson Health Media
The
Gerson Institute's Website: http://www.gerson.org
Andrew Saul is the author of the books FIRE
YOUR DOCTOR! How to be Independently Healthy (reader reviews at
http://www.doctoryourself.com/review.html
) and DOCTOR YOURSELF: Natural Healing that Works. (reviewed at http://www.doctoryourself.com/saulbooks.html
) Interview and comments copyright
2004 by Andrew W. Saul. |
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