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Dr. Max Gerson's
Nutritional
Therapy for
Cancer and
Other Diseases
Katherine Smith
The story of Doctor Max Gerson and the nutritional therapy he developed
for cancer and other diseases is another sad chronicle of the suppression
of a therapeutic programme which has the power to help—if not cure—
many people who would otherwise suffer continuing illness and death.
Born in 1881 and raised in Germany, Dr. Gerson began the development
of his nutritional therapy in an effort to find relief from the crippling
migraine headaches from which he suffered as a young man. Working on
a hunch that a chemical imbalance in his body might be responsible for
the painful headaches which plagued him, Gerson decided to alter his diet
and see if his condition improved. After trying a milk-based diet, using the
rationale that milk was the primary food of mammals, he tried treating
himself with a diet comprised mainly of raw foods, and found that his
migraine headaches disappeared. Dr. Gerson then tried out the therapy on
those of his patients who suffered from migraines, and found that they too
found relief, and this painful condition disappeared.
One of the people Dr. Gerson treated for migraine headaches also suffered
from lupus vulgaris—a so-called "incurable" disease. To Gerson's
surprise, not only did this patient's migraine attacks disappear after beginning
the nutritional therapy, but his lupus was also healed.
Dr. Gerson successfully treated other people suffering from lupus with
his diet therapy. Then, since lupus vulgaris is also known as tuberculosis
of the skin, Gerson had the inspiration to begin treating people suffering
from other forms of tuberculosis. In 1933, he published his book, Dietary
Therapy of Lung Tuberculosis. Unfortunately, the rise of Hitler to power
in Germany meant that he was unable to publicly demonstrate his discoveries
to the Berlin Medical Association. Paced with a deteriorating political
situation in his homeland Dr. Gerson went to work in Vienna and
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