There has been a lot of information circulating in books and on the internet lately that many of our diseases (especially in the United States) are caused by our nutrient deprived diet. Anything from cancer to joint pain has been mentioned as preventable, and at the very least treatable, by maintaining a healthy diet. There are many diets that are effective in the prevention of diseases and the premise is that we need to be eating healthy, pesticide-free, non-hybrid, un-processed foods. Sounds easy, but up until the recent past, they were hard to find. The market is shifting and answering the public’s concern by offering organic foods (in the produce, meat , and dairy section), safer processing for canned goods (less or no added preservatives), and the move towards using glass over plastic. Although these subjects are all worth exploring individually, this article will talk about the benefits of juicing, specifically, the Gerson Therapy.

Dr. Max Garson, by accident, found cures for many ailments of his time (early to mid 1900’s) when he was trying to find a natural cure for his headaches.  Knowledge  has grown over the years since that time to where there are now books about the subject (The Gerson Therapy: The Amazing Nutritional Program for Cancer and Other Illnesses), videos (The Gerson Therapy for Cancer Explained  and The Beautiful Truth) and a couple of clinics that are licensed by the Gerson Institute to practice the full Gerson Therapy. What makes the Gerson Therapy so unique and effective is that is gives the cells a high dose of complete enzymes, minerals, and nutrients that in turn break down the diseased tissue in the body, while the enemas eliminate the toxins in the body.  Please click on the links provided here to learn all you can about the process of preventing and curing diseases, as they are full of information that would be too lengthy to go into in this article.

I can testify to first-hand knowledge of the validity of the claims made by doing the Gerson Therapy. One is of a friend (Robert) who had cancer and was sent home to die, and the other is of my husband (Ernest Hancock, publisher of Freedom’s Phoenix). As for Roberts’s story, he was a middle aged man with wife and kids who developed cancer and went thru the normal protocol for treatment. He was not getting better, and the doctors could do no more for him. So as a last resort because he was staring death in the face and he had nothing to lose, another friend has sent him information on the Gerson Therapy and urged him to do it for some time, so he decided now was that time. He started doing the Gerson Therapy at home with the help of his wife, and his cancer started to go away and as of this writing (it has been at least 4-5 years), Robert is cancer free and was hiking the Canadian Rockies not too long ago.  And as for Ernest’s story, fortunately he did not have cancer or any other serious disease, but was suffering from the effects of aging (joint pain, not wanting to get out of bed in the morning, feeling tired all day, etc…). He decided to try the Gerson Therapy (to some degree) so that he would feel better and not feel so run down all the time. From the very first day he did the juicing, Ernest felt healthier and the pain in his joints started to go away. The nutrition was being pumped into his cells so that they could do what they were supposed to do.  Ernest has been juicing for nearly two years now and feels younger than he did when he was in his late 30’s/early 40’s (he is now 50). There are many testimonials to this effect and they are well worth exploring.

So what is the Gerson Therapy? In short, you drink organic juice made from juicing green apples (granny smith - must remove the core as the seeds contain cyanogenic acids which can give you cyanide poisoning in the body. A few seeds won‘t hurt you, but in quantity they can be fatal), carrots, and some type of greens (kale, collards, spinace, etc…).

 

 

 

 

If you are fighting cancer, you would drink 13 of these juices a day, in addition to eating just a small amount of meet (all organic) such as chicken or fish, no processed foods (no salt or sugar) , and you must do 3 organic coffee enemas a day (this is to ensure that whatever you are putting into your cells to push out the bad stuff gets removed from your body. If you don’t do the enemas as part of the therapy, you will re-absorb some of the toxins back into the body). The juice must be freshly made with a press type of juicer for maximum benefit (such as the Norwalk Juicer or the Champion Juicer). These types of press juicers are very expensive, but cause less damage to the cells of whatever you are juicing so that they are in a more perfect enzymatic state for your body to use. You can make enough juice to last you the whole day with this type of juicer. For those on a budget, there is another juicer you can use and it is a centrifugal juicer. These types of juicers are much less expensive and you will still get beneficial results, but should drink the juice within an hour of preparation for maximum benefit. For the juicing that I did, I used a centrifugal juicer to make 3 to 5 pint sized juices per day in the morning and kept them in the refrigerator for Ernest to drink throughout the day.

 

 

 

Plus, the chickens we have in our backyard love the pulp that is left over from the juicing, so nothing goes to waste.

 

 

Chickens Eating Pulp

 

Pretty simple, but very effective. 

Whether you are using freshly made juices to cure a disease or ailment, or simply because you want better health, you cannot argue with the science behind it and the testimonies of those who use this process.  It is a good idea to learn about better ways to better health because we all have people in our families and circle of friends that are suffering unnecessarily with diseases that can be cured or at least slowed down, and none of us are getting any younger. So it is up to us to get this information out, since much has been done to keep it out of the mainstream media. If that happened, people might just take it upon themselves to get well and not have a need  to go to doctors to have expensive treatments done that will leave their bodies in ruins, or be stuck on some ineffective, liver damaging drug for the rest of their lives. And you can bet that the drug companies are behind a good portion of wanting this information under wraps (you can’t watch a program on TV that doesn’t have some type drug commercial). So take some time to get educated on ways to better health. Juicing the Gerson way is a very good start to a much better, longer, healthier life.