JUICING

The Gerson Therapy is a natural treatment that activates the body’s extraordinary ability to heal itself through an organic, vegetarian diet, raw juices, coffee enemas and natural supplements.

With its whole-body approach to healing, the Gerson Therapy naturally reactivates your body’s magnificent ability to heal itself – with no damaging side effects. This a powerful, natural treatment boosts the body’s own immune system to heal cancer, arthritis, heart disease, allergies, and many other degenerative diseases. Dr. Max Gerson developed the Gerson Therapy in the 1930s, initially as a treatment for his own debilitating migraines, and eventually as a treatment for degenerative diseases such as skin tuberculosis, diabetes and, most famously, cancer.

The Gerson Therapy‘s all-encompassing nature sets it apart from most other treatment methods. The Gerson Therapy effectively treats a wide range of different ailments because it restores the body’s incredible ability to heal itself. Rather than treating only the symptoms of a particular disease, the Gerson Therapy treats the causes of most degenerative diseases: toxicity and nutritional deficiency.
An abundance of nutrients from copious amounts of fresh, organic juices are consumed every day, providing your body with a super-dose of enzymes, minerals and nutrients. These substances then break down diseased tissue in the body, while coffee enemas aid in eliminating toxins from the liver.
Throughout our lives our bodies are being filled with a variety of carcinogens and toxic pollutants. These toxins reach us through the air we breathe, the food we eat, the medicines we take and the water we drink. The Gerson Therapy’s intensive detoxification regimen eliminates these toxins from the body, so that true healing can begin.

How the Gerson Therapy Works

The Gerson Therapy regenerates the body to health, supporting each important metabolic requirement by flooding the body with nutrients from about 15- 20 pounds of organically grown fruits and vegetables daily. Most is used to make fresh raw juice, up to one glass every hour, up to 13 times per day. Raw and cooked solid foods are generously consumed. Oxygenation is usually more than doubled, as oxygen deficiency in the blood contributes to many degenerative diseases. The metabolism is also stimulated through the addition of thyroid, potassium and other supplements, and by avoiding heavy animal fats, excess protein, sodium and other toxins.

Degenerative diseases render the body increasingly unable to excrete waste materials adequately, commonly resulting in liver and kidney failure. The Gerson Therapy uses intensive detoxification to eliminate wastes, regenerate the liver, reactivate the immune system and restore the body’s essential defenses – enzyme, mineral and hormone systems. With generous, high-quality nutrition, increased oxygen availability, detoxification, and improved metabolism, the cells – and the body – can regenerate, become healthy and prevent future illness.

Juicing

 Fresh pressed juice from raw foods provides the easiest and most effective way of providing high quality nutrition. By juicing, patients can take in the nutrients and enzymes from nearly 15 pounds of produce every day, in a manner that is easy to digest and absorb.

Every day, a typical patient on the Gerson Therapy for cancer consumes up to thirteen glasses of fresh, raw carrot/apple and green-leaf juices. These juices are prepared hourly from fresh, raw, organic fruits and vegetables, using a two-step juicer or a masticating juicer used with a separate hydraulic press.

We purchased the Jack LaLane juicer from Amazon which works great.    The recipe Mike uses tastes pretty good.    It includes romaine lettuce, spinach, kale, cucumber, green squash, celery, granny smith apple, lemon, line, and ginger.  We purchase the vegetables on the weekend and Mike freezes cups of this for him to drink throughout the week.  We do not know how much vitamins are lost this way, but with all the other things he does throughout the week after he gets home from work, he is not able to do this fresh every day.  

 Sorry, for some reason, I could not get the pictures to turn.  There is a disposal container that catches the wastes from the vegetables and fruits that makes clean up easy.

 

 

 

 

Another thing that was suggested to Mike by  a fellow patient at the clinic was coffee enemas, especially with his liver cancer.   He is only able to do this on the weekends.   

 

Detoxification

Coffee enemas are the primary method of detoxification of the tissues and blood on the Gerson Therapy. Cancer patients on the Gerson Therapy may take up to 5 coffee enemas per day. Charlotte Gerson explains the necessity of coffee enemas in Healing the Gerson Way:

“The moment a patient is put on the full therapy, the combined effect of the food, the juices and the medication causes the immune system to attack and kill tumor tissue, besides working to flush out accumulated toxins from the body tissues. This great clearing-out procedure carries the risk of overburdening and poisoning the liver—the all-important organ of detoxification, which, in a cancer patient, is bound to be already damaged and debilitated.”

Coffee enemas accomplish this essential task, assisting the liver in eliminating toxic residues from the body for good. 

Is the Gerson Therapy Right For You?

No treatment works for everyone, every time. Anyone who tells you otherwise is not giving you the facts. We know that when you have been diagnosed with a life-threatening ailment, choosing the best strategy for fighting your illness can be a bewildering task. Everyone claims to have either “the best treatment”, “the fastest cure”, or “the only therapy that works.” In most cases your trusted family physician only has knowledge of conventional treatments, and is either unaware of, or even hostile toward alternative options.
No matter how many opinions you receive on how to treat your disease, you are going to make the final decision on what to do, and you must be comfortable with your decision. Choose a treatment that makes the most sense to you.
Most therapies–conventional or alternative–treat only the individual symptoms while ignoring what is ultimately causing the disease. The reason the Gerson Therapy is effective with so many different ailments is because it restores the body’s incredible ability to heal itself. Rather than treating only the symptoms of a particular disease, the Gerson Therapy treats the cause of the disease itself. Although we feel the Gerson Therapy is the most comprehensive treatment for disease, we don’t claim it will cure everything or everyone.

Caution: Do not start the Gerson Therapy if any of the following conditions apply without referring to Charlotte Gerson’s book, Healing the Gerson Way, or without the supervision of a Gerson doctor:

• Chemotherapy
• Diabetes
• Brain metastases
• Severe kidney damage and/or if the patient has ever been on dialysis
• Foreign bodies such as pacemakers, breast implants, steel plates or screws.

Patients must be able to eat, drink and eliminate normally


PRODUCTS MIKE USES IN HIS FIGHT AGAINST CANCER

January 25,  2014

I wanted to write a post about the appliances/machines  that Mike uses in his fight against cancer.  I have spoke about things he does while using these things, but I wanted to show you what he does use.
There are many things out there to try and use, but each person has to decide what route they want to take and what will be best for them.  

Prior to going to the clinic in Germany, we talked to two gentleman who had been there for treatment and asked what they were doing on their own at home to control their cancer.   They told us about water filtration systems that they use. Cancer loves the body to be in a state of acidity.  Mike decided this was one of the first things he was going to do.  So we purchased  a water filtration system. 

This system takes chemicals and metals out of the water. This machine will make alkaline, purified, or acidic water.  Therefore, Mike drinks the alkaline water to put his body in the opposite direction of what the cancer wants.   He even has our dogs drinking the alkaline water.   I have just started drinking this myself.  In the beginning, Mike dove headfirst into drinking the highest level of Alkaline water he could.  However, it gave him flu-like symptoms.   The body has to be gradually adjusted to this.   The highest level on this machine is a 4 which has a pH of 9.5.   I am currently at a level of 3.  The following is taken from lifeionizers.com.  


Alkaline water is water with a pH of greater than 7. In nature, water gets alkalinity from the minerals it absorbs. The most common minerals found in alkaline water are calcium, magnesium and potassium. These minerals are commonly found in tap water as mineral carbonates such as calcium carbonates and magnesium carbonates. Tap water rich in mineral carbonates is considered to be hard water.

Did you know? Hard water with it’s mineral carbonates can also be alkaline water if it has a pH of greater than 7. But it’s not the same kind of alkaline water that you get from a water ionizer!
Water ionizers make tap water more alkaline by separating the minerals from the carbonates. Once freed of the carbonates, the minerals chemically combine with hydroxyl ions taken from water molecules - to form mineral hydroxides. These mineral hydroxides - calcium hydroxide and magnesium hydroxide are recognized by the FDA for their contribution to human nutrition (FDA GRAS).

Alkaline water from a water ionizer has been in the USA for about 20 years, but has been studied and consumed in Asia for over a 50 years. The US FDA has not evaluated alkaline water for health purposes since it is not considered a drug; the information on this page about alkaline water comes from Japan and the Mayo Clinic in the USA.

A pH of 9.5 is recommended for daily use

Read more: http://www.lifeionizers.com/water-facts/alkaline-water.html#ixzz2rReczKG8

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are three main benefits to Ionized Water.

First and foremost, it is a powerful antioxidant. People spend hundreds of dollars a month purchasing antioxidants because they are anti-diseases, anti-aging, anti-cancer, which they accomplish through neutralizing free radicals. Free Radical damage causes us to age and causes disease. Since Ionized Water is a liquid antioxidant, it is easily absorbed into the body which makes it much more effective and a powerful antioxidant.

Once the Ionized Antioxidant in the form of Hydroxyl Ions (oxygen molecule with an extra electron) donates its extra electrons to free radicals (oxygen molecule that is missing one electron) you are left with lots of oxygen. Ionized Water gives you Energy by providing your body with lots of oxygen! This is one of the most incredible aspects of Ionized Water!  ( cancer does not like oxygen)

Secondly, Ionized Water Balances body pH because it is very alkaline. Our diet is often extremely acidic . Soft drinks, fast foods & processed foods deposit acid waste in our bodies that builds up over time and creates an ideal environment for diseases of all kinds to thrive. Look at any cancer patient for instance and their bodies are invariably acidic to some degree. This is, of course, true even with children. Chronic soft drink consumers such as children put themselves in grave danger by allowing their bodies to build up acid waste. Many end up with serious diseases at a very young age. Maintaining an alkaline pH (6.9-7.2) helps us to maintain an environment in our bodies that is NOT conducive to disease. It may take years depending on how acidic your body is, but Ionized Water, because of its alkaline properties, will flush acid waste from our bodies.

Ionized Water is meant to work as a preventative measure, however if you are ill with any disease it always helps to stay Alkaline. Spirulina and Chlorella are also good for this.

Thirdly, Ionized Water has a different molecular cluster size. It contains only five to six water molecules instead of the ten to thirteen that conventional water molecule clusters have. It has changed from an irregular shape that is 10-13 molecule to a hexagonal regular shape that is half the size. This smaller or "reduced" water is much more hydrating than conventional water. There are two consequences of this. First, Ionized Water is much more hydrating than conventional water and, second, it is extremely detoxifying.

The detoxification properties of Ionized Water are powerful and astounding. They simply can not be ignored. A Water Ionizer has different levels of intensity because the average person cannot start out drinking strongly ionized Water. This is particularly true of the elderly, who need to start out at the lowest level and work their way up slowly. People who have spent a lifetime building up acid waste in their bodies will suffer headaches and diarrhea if they drink too much too soon.




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CONTINUING TO DO WHAT IS NEEDED

Monday, January 06, 2014

Happy New Year!  Hope,

I hope this finds you and you loved ones in good health.  Mike and I are hoping for a better year this year and continued success with his treatment to co-existing with his cancer.

Mike is continuing to take his daily supplements, drinking his alkaline water, receiving his weekly Vitamin C infusions, and eating organically/carbohydrate (as much as possible) & sugar free.  We have also ordered a juicer as he is going to start juicing green vegetables.   He already eats a lot of broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus, cabbage, brussel sprouts, green beans but is now going to be incorporating spinach, kale, and cucumbers into his diet.   He has been continuing to eat tomatoes and onions which he is not particularly fond of, but does it because he knows it is beneficial to his health.

When we were in Germany, Mike from Tazmania (a patient there as well) showed us a video - Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead by Joe Cross from Australia.  He did nothing but drink green juices and lost a lot of weight and became healthier by doing this.  It was suggested to Mike that he should juice by a couple of different patients while we were at Marinus am Stein.  The juicing helps the body heal itself by giving proper nutrients to the immune system which in turns helps the body to self heal.


The following is taken from The Benefits of Juicing for Cancer Patients at Livestrong.com:

      Juicing is a way to get antioxidants -- substances that protect the body from cellular damage created by free       radicals. According to the National Cancer Institute, free radicals can cause cancer or progress an existing        disease.

     Phytonutrients  provide a boost to the immune system, aid cell-to-cell communication, fight cancer, and              repair DNA damage resulting from free radicals.  

Each and everyone has to determine what is best for their own health and do what they need to do to maintain their health.   Best Wishes in 2014!