Max Gerson was a
Jewish doctor born in Germany in 1881. Suffering from migraine headaches he
resolved to cure his pain through his diet. While he and other patients were on
the “migraine diet” Dr Gerson discovered that the diet had cured one patient of
skin tuberculosis. From here on Dr.
Gerson went on to successfully treat many tuberculosis patients.
Dr. Gerson went to
work at Munich University where his clinical trials records 446 complete
recoveries from skin tuberculosis out of 450 cases. It was after that Gerson
met and befriended his most famous patient, the Nobel Prize winner Dr Albert
Schweitzer. Dr. Schweitzer’s wife suffered
from tuberculosis of the lung and no treatment had helped her until Dr Gerson’s
therapy cured her. Dr Schweitzer who
suffered from type II diabetes was also cured by the Gerson therapy. Following
that Dr. Gerson successfully applied his treatment to heart disease, kidney
failure and finally—cancer.
Dr. Gerson went to
New York in 1938 just before the outbreak of war in Europe and for the next 20
years he cured 100’s of cancer patients who had been deemed terminal,
incurable. During that time Dr. Gerson demonstrated his therapy, treatments and
findings and case studies to various committees and funding bodies but only a
handful of peer reviewed journals were responsive to his “radical” views. The
establishment opposed him then just as they oppose him today.
In 1958 he published
“A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases” detailing theories, treatments and
results of his therapy. Dr. Max sadly died shortly after this in 1959 and his
good friend Dr Schweitzer has this to say of the man who cured his wife,
“…I see in him
one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine. Many of his basic
ideas have been adopted without having his name connected with them. Yet, he
has achieved more than seemed possible under adverse conditions. He leaves a
legacy which commands attention and which will assure him his due place. Those
whom he has cured will now attest to the truth of his ideas.”
I hope to write more about Dr. Max in more detail especially the
persecution he suffered at the hands of the Nazis, his battle against the
medical establishment, his indefatigable research and how his notes kept
mysteriously getting burnt, lost or stolen and finally his questionable death.
This is the link to homepage of The Gerson Institute http://gerson.org/gerpress/ and with it my deepest and most sincere thanks.
