I moved here several years ago.
It is a land where you can touch the pulse of nature's rhythms in their raw.
It is a place where one is able to step back in collect your thoughts.
To contemplate. Contemplate life and what matters.
The privilege to feel the exhilaration of nature's heart beat demands I have to take risks.
Just like a wild animal does each day to survive.
I found that chronicle in the laws of nature as a film maker
has its rewards here.
I guess you could call me a naturalist
and the witness intimately what occurs each day in the wilderness
amongst various live organisms eventually opens the door to a perspective of live
that few no longer can find, even if they want to.
This one one log cabin I live in here in no mans land Alaska, is only where I spend most of my time.
It isn't my home. Home is outside, the environment.
This region, this state,
the air, water, food and even the climate here is dependent upon what goes on in far away places like
Paris, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, Bagdad
even Wall Street, New York City, has an effect.
On clear winter nights, when I step out of my cabin porch
you can see more than just what your eyes witness
to me the northern lights invite wonder and curiosity
and stimulate one to think and question.
Tonight I reflected in a documentary I'd just completed on the threats to Alaska's environment.
Signs of global warming are everywhere.
Polar bears are starving having to be shot because of it.
The native people are protesting the destruction of the Arctic.
They talk about the effect on northern wildlife as a result of climate change
and oil development brings everybody in on a freaks.
That Alaskan documentary also had made the connection
between some pharmaceutical firms being owned by oil companies.
And then the door opens profoundly wide to polices about human health.
And all would be just as sacrosanct
as was your cemetery or Yellowstone.
We are better than this.
We have to invent our way out of these trenches.
There was one statement in my documentary I will never forget:
It is a scientifically verifiable fact
that the Gerson Therapy cures cancer
as well as almost every other chronic degenerative disease.
Privately I could not deeply accept that statement from Charlotte Gerson
without doing some more research.
After a few phone calls my mind was made up.
I had another documentary to do,
focusing this time on the cure for cancer and chronic disease.
Within a short time my bags were packed
and I was on my way, just ahead the road would end.
And I would have to take a bush plane to get to a major Alaskan airport.
I had no idea what this investigation would uncover as the trip would go along,
but I would devote exactly 52 days to make this movie.
DYING TO HAVE KNOWN
This film began almost before I was ready.
As a passenger seated next to me gave me his perspective about the pharmaceutical industry.
What I can tell you more?
I have a neighbor and her father is a very known immunologist.
He studies vaccines, he develops vaccines.
But his daughter never vaccinates her children.
So... - her children? - Yea!
- She won't vaccinate her children? - No, no. - Why?
- Probably she has enough information about vaccines to know better.
The pharmaceutical industry has links with oil companies,
but there is much more to at the net as I was about to find out on this trip.
An airport is a good place for a visual reality check of public health.
In the USA 2/3 of americans are overweight and 20 million of us have diabetes.
Half of all americans take prescription drugs
and hundred million of us have high cholesterol.
The cancer rate has gone from 1 in 50, in 1900
to almost one in two at the present time in industrialized countries.
Before boarding my connecting flight
there was time to reflect on the history behind Charlotte Gerson's efforts
to inform people about her father incredible success in curing cancer and chronic disease.
In Toronto, Ontario, I've documented one of her lectures.
Charlotte was one of three girls born to Dr. Gerson and his wife Gretchen.
Growing up, Charlotte took a particularly strong interest in her father's ability to heal the hopeless.
Earlier, during Dr. Gerson's time as a resident physician in Germany
he suffered from severe migraine headaches.
He cured his migraines by changing to a special diet.
This diet was then discovered by Gerson to cure skin tuberculosis.
Dr. Robert Koch had been studying tuberculosis
and in 1905 received the Nobel Price for his research at the organism.
So did Dr. Niels Finsen for a special treatment of the disease.
But Dr. Gerson received nothing for actually curing tuberculosis.
Basically, Dr. Gerson's cure was and is a special combination
of fresh raw and cooked organic foods and their juices.
Later, Gerson discovered in conjunction with this,
that organic coffee taken as a 15 minute retention enema
aided in the restoration of the liver and the blood purification.
In 1924, a clinical trial of 450 tuberculosis patients was launched with Gerson's treatment.
446 out of the 450 walked away cured.
Then, Nobel recipient Dr. Albert Schweitzer asked to cure him from diabetes
along with his wife's lung tuberculosis and their daughter's weird skin disease.
And Gerson did.
By the time Gerson escaped Nazi persecution in Germany
and fled to the U.S. with his family,
he was already curing people with cancer.
This profound success caught the attention of senator Claude Pepper
who held Senate subcommittee hearings with Gerson and some of his patients in July of 1946.
The astounding testimony was quickly reported by Raymond Gram Swing via ABC Radio.
The publics reaction was swift and favorable.
But it also provoked threatening reactions from the medical and drug community,
which resulted in Raymond Gram Swing's firing from ABC two weeks later
in astounding display of censorship by commercial interests.
- I was investigated twice time.
- What do you mean by being investigated?
- They investigated you. - Yes, twice time.
Every time they come, I show them. Here is the patient you sent home to die: cured.
Other patient. You sent home to die: cured.
Next patient. You sent home to die: cured.
- What are you going to do?
To try to get this across, so that it will be accepted by the American Medical Association.
First I write the cancer book
and in this cancer book I will bring in as many cases as possible
sent home to die.
So, that every physician here in the country can read it.
And I will have it translated,
the editor, the publishing company will translate it in many languages.
I had now flown to San Francisco
and thought that who better discuss Dr. Gerson's historical legacy with
than someone from Dr. Gerson's very own family.
I met Howard Strauss, the grandson of Dr. Gerson and son of Charlotte Gerson.
Howard is a scientist, author and historian who's careful record keeping of Gerson's past
serves as an invaluable aid to researchers, scientists and medical professionals with an open mind.
The day I visited with Howard, he reviewed his grandfather's book with me
which outlined the treatment protocol.
Howard feels his grandfather's treatment is more desperately needed now
by the sick and dying than ever before.
And yet, the opposition to this treatment remains relatively steadfast.
Howard's personal life has been permanently tied to Dr. Gerson's discoveries.
Nearly 17 years ago, when my wife and I were engaged to be married,
she came down with her third occurrence of skin cancer,
it was a small lesion about a size of a dime on her ankle
but it was the third time, so it was pretty serious, it was coming back.
Rather than do anything other, we went on the Gerson Therapy,
we went immediately down to the hospital in Mexico,
we went on the Gerson Therapy, we stayed faithfully on it,
and in the middle of the therapy we got married.
And that was 16 and a half years ago
and she's been fine ever since.
It's seems at any local that was truly sick that was in, that Howard has a life changing experience.
Back on 1978, I was, I thought, in very good health
living a very normal life and my husband discovered a lump in my breast.
So, we went to go to an oncologist and he sent us to a surgeon,
the surgeon did the biopsy, he said you have cancer,
we will have surgery in two days.
I got a panflet in the mail - I still think it's a miracle -
which said that Charlotte Gerson was going to give
this lecture for the National Health Federation, on cancer.
So I said: I might, so I go and listen, because that's another way
and I listen to her, everything she said made sense.
I started to wonder how the critics would react to these testimonies.
After the therapy we went back to ah... you talked to a specialist on blood and she
said my body was so clean and clear that she couldn't tell that I ever had cancer
and she said I were the first patient that ever happened to.
Now I have two doctors friends we are very closed with and
every time they talk we were doing quackery, we were doing this and they said every time they...
every time he sees me, he says... by calls on the phone, he says:
- How are you feeling now, Don?
As if any day I'm gonna fall down dead.
I started to wonder if this is just coincidence.
The next lady has had breast cancer.
... needed biopsy, found out it was cancer, called me back and told me.
The doctor explained to me my choices: one was lumpectomy, the other was mastectomy.
And because of the lumpectomy are just taking a large portion of my breast
I thought that maybe I should just have the mastectomy and so
when I told my husband, he told me that he had a client
that his mother knew about nutrition.
Of course, she was talking about Howard and his mother Charlotte.
The first phone call I got, when I started taking phone calls,
was my gone oncologist and he...
and I was telling him what I was doing, he told me I was making a big mistake
and he even said he would recommend me to a doctor up in San Francisco or Stanford or some place.
And he wanted me to go and talk to him.
And I said: No.
You know, I wouldn't do this. This is what I wanted to do.
It just shocked me and scared me for like one second.
But then I knew, what I was doing was the right thing.
The other doctor I went to was just my regular intern.
One of them told me I was like committing suicide
and that was eleven years ago.
Prostate cancer had struck this lady's husband.
Howard's CPA (certified public accountant)
Almost 6 years ago, Howard.
When I had that needle biopsy and sent the biopsy up to Stanford.
And they sent it back and said: Well, it looks like cancer to us.
So, I decided, I know what I'm gonna do.
Gerson Therapy for me.
Howard explained to me that even the daughter in this family,
who had pleurisy, was healed with Gerson's treatment.
All three in one family with different ailments. All cured.
All with medical records to prove it.
Coincidence?
The colors of fruits and vegetables are derive from a variety of chemicals called anti-oxidants.
Only plants produce anti-oxidants.
Anti-oxidants subdue what is wrong in our bodies.
A law of nature Dr. Gerson understood and used.
Just outside, San Francisco, I was scheduled to interview Dr. Dean Edell,
a radio and television personality, in reports on health and science issues.
I don't think the Gerson Therapy has ever cured a terminally ill patient.
People get very confused by this.
This is a world of science, a world of data, I would like to think of it as a courtroom,
a courtroom of science and medicine.
You don't send somebody to jail or convict somebody without hard, hard evidence.
And Gerson was in looked at many, many times.
If you think of basically what's in Gerson's Therapy, you really wouldn't expect it to cure cancer.
But people, ha... sometimes cancer cures itself.
There is a rate of cancer goes away by itself,
some people didn't really have cancer, it's a misdiagnoses.
Sometimes people had chemotherapy many months before
and then try, for instance, Gerson Therapy.
They get better and attribute it to the Gerson Therapy or what ever they have done.
So, no, I don't think there is any evidence that anybody is ever been cured by Gerson Therapy.
The problem with the scientific proof is that the alopathic medical world
has defined scientific proof so narrowly, that the only thing which can be tested,
using their definition, are drugs.
In her final editorial, as editor and chief of the New England Journal of Medicine,
Marsha Angel, MD, asks the rhetorical question: "Is academic medicine for sale?"
and throughout the article, she answers emphatically: "Yes".
The pharmaceutical companies have totally corrupted the institutions,
the researchers and the publications to the point where
a medical research is literally an advertisement for drugs,
rather than actual a research for the truth.
Dr. Gerson published more than 50 publications detailing his therapy
and many other subjects in the worlds finest medical journals at that time
and all over the world, not just in Germany, but all over the world.
They were hundreds of other articles by senior medical researchers
and esteemed medical scientists confirming his work
also published in the finest medical journals at that time.
So if the Codex cannot find any publications by Gerson,
they need to find a new researcher system for sure.
He did published several papers in the U.S.
right up until he started to submit articles on the subject of cancer.
At that point, he was totally and forever banned from publication in the U.S.
Dr. Gerson was a German Jew, who lost his seven siblings in the Holocaust.
According to his daughter Charlotte, he faced another holocaust in the U.S.
witnessing the deaths of untold thousands
after his successful treatment was rejected by the medical establishment.
Gerson's treatment did not use or need drugs.
Essentially the vegetables and the juices in conjuction with coffee enemas did the trick.
Coffee enemas have been scientifically proven to aid the liver in detoxification
with the rest of the Gerson protocol.
It would seem that our pollution damaged bodies are in need of this now, more than ever.
I'm a coffee drinker, and I drink it, I can not imagine a cappuccino through your rectum.
We've lived in harmony with nature a long time, but in less than a century all that is changed.
The toxins in our environment are now off the charts.
And cancer rates are blasted skyward as well.
Fundamentally, does our health really boil down to breakfast, lunch and dinner?
Does the Gerson Therapy provide the key to initiating a return to living sustainable on this planet?
How can this acceptance be accomplished?
- What would it take to convince people and yourself that the Gerson Therapy has merit?
That's a simple question, Steve: what would it take to convince me
that the Gerson Therapy works? A simple double blind study, follow up, real data.
And, of course, we'd all be the path to Gerson's door.
And to Gerson Clinic's door, if it turned out to work.
And why people don't do that, I don't know.
This is how you convince science, this is how we move forward,
this is how we got to where we are today.
I agreed with Dr. Dean Edell to move forward and so I drove south to Los Angeles
after hearing that Charlotte Gerson was giving a lecture at a health convention in Long Beach.
When I entered the convention building, I got the feeling that I was about
to meet many people who are dissatisfied with the effectiveness of orthodox medicine.
That felt smothered, restricted and forth fed medical propaganda that simply didn't work.
Why else would they be here?
Which give rise to another observation.
If orthodox treatment for cancer and chronic disease really worked,
I would think nobody would want to come to hear Charlotte Gerson talk in the first place.
Take this audience member, for example.
There were many like him there.
Three years ago, I discovered I had lymphoma cancer.
I had the best chemotherapy that there was and I thought I was cured.
Three years later the cancer returned at the highest stage, the stage 4.
I had then commenced my second set of chemotherapy.
But I realized that the prognosis was poor.
During the chemotherapy I did some research,
in fact I spent three months of researching.
And I found that the Gerson's Therapy was my best chance of escaping this cancer.
And I then started to meet Charlotte Gerson. I'm from Australia. I flew out just for the weekend
to meet with Charlotte and hear her talk and to learn more about my therapy.
When the cancer returned for the second time,
my spleen was so large, it was pocking up from just below my rips.
After five months of Gerson's Therapy, the spleen have reduced back to normal size
and in fact the oncologist said that I was in total remission.
William's story is profound, but I sense that many people would to naught a testimony like this.
Like some that claims have seen a ghost or listen to some infomertial.
But what if William's story like the people I met earlier were up hundreds
even thousands of cured people.
We had a wonderful story of a little boy, 8 years old,
who was of a group of seven other kids all of them had Ewing's sarcoma.
He came to Mexico, to the Gerson Clinic
pale, very thin, no hair: bald and quite, quite sick with pain.
He was put on the Gerson Therapy, sent home and the mother reported that,
within three months, the tumor was gone. Not only that, two years later
he was a strapping young fellow with lots of hair, he was growing, he was active in school.
More important yet, he recovered while the other 6 children in the group
who had received chemotherapy, and only chemotherapy, were all dead.
If that story was rare, perhaps it would be easier to some how dismiss.
But this is another typical recovery. Charlotte allowed me to stay at her home a little longer.
And to actually go through the files of 1500 patients
Dr. Gerson was treating and following at the time of his death.
Further any physician is heartedly invited to come to the Mexican Hospital
and visit and see a patient there or visit with the patients
and with their permission then they would have access to their medical records.
I remembered what Dr. Dean Edell said.
- What would it take to convince people and yourself that the Gerson Therapy has merit?
That's a simple question, Steve: what would it take to convince me
that the Gerson Therapy works? A simple double blind study, follow up, real data.
And, of course, we'd all be the path to Gerson's door.
And to Gerson Clinic's door, if it turned out to work.
And so, I joined Charlotte at the Mexican Clinic witness the treatments, met the patients.
This man had cancer at the mouth.
She had cervical cancer.
He had prostate cancer.
She had an ascites tumor.
The Gerson Clinic is unusual and at the atmosphere there seems more like a Royal Hotel.
I met others that were previous patients.
This lady had pancreas cancer and became friends with actor Michael Landon
when he was diagnosed with it.
She recounted how after he went on network TV stating that he was doing the Gerson Therapy,
his doctor discouraged him from continuing it, whereupon he died.
This woman had ovarian cancer.
With this lady it was cervical cancer.
And this girl had liver disease.
I then met with Dr. Wallace Sampson, clinical professor emeritus at Stanford University.
An editor of the Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine.
Today he took me for a walk instead of his dog.
All reason we don't like these therapies is first of all it gives people false hope.
And they rip off, you know, there is someone making big profit out of this kind of activity.
And this is morally wrong, morally wrong, ethically wrong.
It's not right from any aspect at all.
But has the Gerson Therapy ever cured a cancer patient?
No, of course not. They won't even release their records.
They published one paper on something called melanoma, skin cancer
but they selected the cases they reported, they didn't report everything that happened
they don't keep that kind of record on all patients.
So, they have nothing to show us.
And now they keep on, they are making the same claims they made in 1920's,
when Dr. Gerson first came over here from Germany, in 1930's,
but he was doing this for tuberculosis and other diseases also.
What would it take for you to be convinced or even persuaded
a slight bit that this therapy has credibility?
First of all, they have to show some reason why it should work.
We know how cancer behave and we know the kinds of things that cause cancer,
so they have to come up with some kind of a believable theory of why their diet should work.
But, second of all, they have to convince us, that everything we know about it in the past,
50 years, is wrong. And they're right. How they can come up with a material like that?
That's impossible, they don't have it. So, we are left with nothing, with that offer.
What do they charge?
I've heard as much as US$ 15.000 of front for a week, for a few days.
And they charge as much as they can until you go broke and send you home.
Have you ever met any of their patients that claimed that they recovered?
No, I never met one. Most of them die.
Either that or they don't have cancer in the first place
or they had a very low grade cancer and they would have lived, don't matter what they did.
I knew Dr. Sampson had exaggerated the cost of the Clinic by a factor of five,
so, now, what could I believe?
So, each cancer is gonna have to be its characteristics determined, individually probably,
and a tailored treatment developed by the oncologist.
Now, we are talking real medicine here, we are not talking alternative medicine
we are talking real medicine, this is how it is going to be.
Alternative medicine, there really is no such thing, few people know this,
but the word 'alternative' and the whole concept of alternative medicine is only 20 or 30 years old.
Someone invented it, they invented it as a marketing slogan.
There is no such thing as alternative medicine, it is just a series of unproven, disproven
and implausible kinds of proposals made for commercial purposes.
They are some that bell goods.
A few other questions came to mind.
Your son is a... he works for the American Cancer Society.
What does he think of a therapy such as Gerson Therapy?
He knows the same things that we know, that I know.
The American Cancer Society used to be active in exposing these kinds of things,
but more recently they've backed off, because of the public relations aspect.
There are so many political power houses and rich people who will back of these implausible proposals
that in order to keep their contributions coming, they can't be too opposed to some of these things.
Like the Gerson Therapy?
Yea, well, they are opposed to it.
But they don't put nearly the amount of publicity into their opposition as they use to.
What is the answer to cancer in the future? What do you think?
All the combination are finding out what the molecular basis is.
In other words, there are certain molecules, that are made by the body, that stimulate growth.
And certain other are genes that called for the behavior of cells,
and we'll figure that out, and then we'll combat them with drugs.
Dr. Gerson treated the sick human organism in his totality.
He was inducted into the orthomolecular hall of fame just last year.
Almost 50 years after his death.
Considering on both, Dr. Dean Edell and Dr. Wallace Sampson,
stayed that no one has ever been cured at anything on the Gerson Therapy,
I visited the Gerson Institute and found over a hundred more patients on file.
I selected two at random and requested interviews.
The day that my oncologist gave me 3 to 6 months to live,
I had to go home and tell my children. That was the first thing on my mind: to tell them.
And I was devastated. My husband had to practically carry me out the office.
I went home and I told them. I had two teenagers there.
And my daughter was 17, she was in her senior, a year of high school.
And she cried, she told me: Mom, you're supposed to be there
when I get married, when I have my first baby.
And my son, he just went silent.
I had two big tumors on my liver and I stayed there for two weeks.
After the first week, I started feeling better.
I started gaining weight, I had hope and after two weeks there,
I went home. But ten months on the diet
I had my first scan, my CT (computerized tomography) scan. And it was clear.
I wondered if it was possible, this was a made up story, that she was lying.
I attended a cancer support group at a church that we went to.
And during that time, I was the only one that was doing alternative therapies.
Everyone else was doing conventional, and I watched each and everyone of them dying.
She then gave me her official diagnosis.
As I would see my oncologist, he expected me to die.
He gave me 3 to 6 months to live, and as I did the Gerson Therapy,
I wasn't dying. I was getting better. I was looking much better,
feeling better and he asked me from time to time each what I was doing.
I would try to tell him about the juicing, ye he didn't want hear it.
Then came the other patient with testicular cancer.
When I spoke with the oncologist about this Gerson Therapy,
he looked at me and he said that there would probably get to be a mistake
because the chemotherapy was gonna help me and not any other treatment.
Yes, and after I had gone back to the oncologist,
after I've done the Gerson Therapy for a couple months.
At that time, when they had found that I was cured of cancer from
the CT scan that they had done of my abdomen,
he couldn't believe it, he thought it was a miracle.
He had no explanation for it and he was just amazed.
My last appointment with my oncologist was approximate 10 years ago.
The gentleman that had the testicular cancer was actually a doctor himself.
I was amazed how easy it was to get patients to come forward.
I do not pay them to speak.
As they left the Gerson Institute, I noticed a framed letter on the wall.
A closer look, revealed it was from Prince Charles office.
Prince Charles has demonstrated a profound interest in Gerson's work
after seeing a patient with terminal cancer, that was sent home to die, recover.
Doctors often bring up the argument against the Gerson Therapy
that it is an unproven cancer treatment, and my question is: What does unproven mean?
You see, you cannot prove this therapy the same way as you prove a new drug.
What I have in mind is the double blind random as clinical trial
which is great, if you want to test one new drug.
How do you apply this to a therapy that is a total life style?
Charlotte Gerson had two children, Howard, whom I met earlier,
and Peggy, who lives in Italy with her husband and daughter Etha.
Dr. Gerson's Therapy was and is in complete unity with sustaining the environment.
They're intertwined.
Dr. Gerson observed and proved that the natural world is our external metabolism.
I cannot understand why my great grandfather's gift is kept from suffering people on purpose.
In Holland, I learned of a doctor, who had been treating
his patients with Gerson successfully for over 16 years.
I met with him and his wife at the local organic food store,
where we became acquainted. As we walked along,
he invited me to meet the rest of his family.
His name is Dr. Wilko van der Vegt an I was quiet impressed
that his young son and 15 years old daughter already understood
and enjoyed a lifestyle that would profoundly affect the rest of their lives.
Undoubtedly, they had witnessed at their young age the healing of their father patients.
I had never seen a young child look forward to and register such enjoyment
in a glass of fresh pressed carrot and apple juice, like Wilko's son.
(dutch)
Dr. van der Vegt brought me to his office where he pulled out drawer after drawer
of detailed files of patients treated with the Gerson Therapy successfully.
But why is this doctor implementing this therapy to his patients?
Part of the reason is that his uncle in Switzerland suffered from cancer
and had a tumor on his right shoulder that literally rotted away on the therapy.
I would say 75% of my patients would react on the Gerson Therapy favorable.
Within minutes of my request to meet a patient to Wilko's,
a lady arrived that recovered from a number of ailments.
She described a recovery that astound her regular doctor
and he could not understand how this amazing transformation had taken place.
He could only surmise it must have been the Pregnison he prescribed once.
Treating cancer patients with alternative therapies
is very difficult, a few doctors have had process from authorities,
and it is very difficult to treat them with alternative medicine
it's like a kind of quackery to treat this patients.
Why is it so forbidden, you think?
Well, they fear that many people want to do or want have treatments on a natural way.
And I think there is a lot of pressure from the pharmaceutical industries
and they treat all the patients with chemotherapy and radiation
and when they see that food plays an important role in the treatment of cancer,
they fear they will loose control of the popularity of the people.
In Spain I got 4 or 5 colleagues who joined me in the Clinic
to help me to do the therapy and we had nothing to fear in Spain.
Next 2000 year old roman ruins high in the bluff
just outside the village of Ronda on the southern tip of Spain
Wilko pointed out to me in the underlaying valey below
his new Gerson Clinic now being prepared to open within the next year.
Dr. van der Vegt drove me to this facility before renovations begin.
His current caretaker who previously own the property took me in a tour on the grounds.
Well, now from here, I should say about 60 - 70 km to La Villa
Oh, this land is quite fertile, this land is not wood, is not forest.
Perhaps someday, somebody I know may come here to reclaim their life.
When I landed back in the U.S., I looked of in the distance at an icon that gave me hope.
And on this winterly New York day, I had a chance to visit two special landmarks.
In round to those locations, I was able to experience what the locals busy themselves with each day.
And it was also memorable to discuss how this folk view
someone with the camera trying to make a documentary.
On the first landmark, I found the Sloan-Kattering Hospital.
This section on the hospital is new, but on the backside was the older part of the building,
build when Dr. Gerson lived in New York.
Nobody at Sloan-Kattering would talk with me and for good reason, I suppose.
The founder there was Dr. Cornelius P. Rhoads
a physician who despised everything Dr. Gerson stood for and called Gerson "a notable quack".
As someone said to me: More people make a living of cancer than die from it.
Then I found the second landmark, on Park Avenue.
At 815 Park Avenue I met up with Dr. Carolyn Dean, a MD.
This is where Dr. Gerson was up until the day of his death
where he had a Clinic, where he saw patients, where patients recovered from cancer.
Where he documented so many recoveries, yet, those recoveries are not available to the public.
Those published articles have been published in Europe,
but have not been allowed to be published in American journals.
Why?
The reason for that is the fact that it's not a patented medicine.
And it's not an expensive medicine. This is the crux of the matter.
This is a natural therapy that allows people to take control of their own health
and not require drug interventions and therefore
it doesn't fit into the medical scientific model of American medicine.
Dr. Dean is a health activist that gave me a new perspective.
C.P. Rhoads founded Sloan-Kattering and he did it on the scientific model,
he wanted to make cancer research very scientific.
However, the scientific model only tests for one variable at a time.
Gerson Therapy uses hundreds of variables,
therefore science is not equipped to test the Gerson Therapy.
How many people are dying in hospitals every year because of hospitals like this?
In a paper I wrote, called "Death by Medicine"
that then I expended into "Death by Modern Medicine"
I found that 784.000 people are dying annually prematurely due to modern medicine.
And these are statistics from peer review journals and government data bases.
I see the Gerson Therapy as the antidote to our chemically damaged bodies and environment.
And then I met Dr. Steven Barret who is hardly regarded by the medical
establishment as an authority on health fraud.
I don't believe there's any evidence that any diet will affect the course of any cancer.
Take the Gerson Therapy, for example. Gerson was a physician who claimed
that he could cure a cancer with diet and a number of other methods.
There is absolutely no scientific evidence that he has cured anyone.
Dr. Barret is also an author and his work is widely distributed to colleges and universities.
There are testimonials, there are some people who have been
tricked to thinking that, it worked for them.
But some of them may not have had cancer, some of them were not adequately studied.
The Gerson Clinic has not had any systematic follow up.
It's all smoke in mirrors.
The Gerson's Therapy is not a large part of the market place anymore,
they are actually hundreds of places that offer treatment.
Gerson is a historical interest, 'cause he was one of the big names in cancer quackery.
We collect information from the Internet, from clinic literature, from patients,
we get patients stories, we see what the proponents of the various methods write,
we look at their claims, we try to see if they make sense...
we get all sorts of information and try to put it together.
Have you ever interviewed any of the Gerson Therapy patients
that claim they have been recovered?
I've never interviewed any Gerson patients. Really is pointless because you can't tell
from an interview what took place. I looked at few patients treated by other doctors...
A few patients treated by other doctors, but not doctors practicing the Gerson Method.
Dr. Steven Barret had no substantive experience with Dr. Gerson at all.
Its disparaging cartoons in his books lumped the Gerson Therapy with the "other quacks".
I listen very carefully to Dr. Steven Barret's continue declarations.
He kindly autographed one of his books for me as a gift.
In the evening, at Dodges Community College Poughkeepsie in New York,
I had an opportunity to listen to a man who is considered
"the world's formalist authority on nutrition".
Dr. T. Colin Campbell, professor emeritus
of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University and author.
His lecture paralleled and confirmed the Gerson Therapy to the letter.
The audience was ripped at to every word.
I had a chance to speak with Dr. Campbell after the lecture.
I know something about the Gerson Clinic, specially its the fact on treatment of disease
and more specific on what respect on melanoma, they published a study on the effect
of their treatment on ability to keep melanoma in check
and I was very impressed of that because it showed really substantial effect
of the ability of plant based diet to keep melanoma from progressing forward.
Dr. Gerson has in fact print his ah... as a quack in the so called professional research community
and I know certainly about that because I had a chair of a comity one time
when we had looked at this kind of issues, but that was the opinion of the professional
community and unfortunately in my view they were wrong.
I asked Dr. Campbell his thoughts about critics of Dr. Gerson who dismissed
that therapy outright and what is the motivation.
I had known Steven Barret what for 9 years, he and some of his colleagues
have taken that approach and
supposedly identifying in a who are questioned, who are not.
I really strongly disagree with his opinions for one thing: he is very McCarthyist.
Here on, in a sense, that some how he
and others can decide if it was quackery if was not.
In the earlier days, for example, that group, included Steven Barret,
took a strong stand against dietary recommendations to consume
more vegetables and fruits variants.
They got involved with the
American Council on Science and Health (ACSH), to be specific.
And ACSH is basically an organization that is supported largely by industry.
They're looking for industrial interest.
And so they don't... And you know what I say obviously.
And they form other group too of the similar ilk.
If I or some member of my family would diagnosed with cancer, what I would do
is not what is traditionally done. I would not go the route of using drugs,
instead I would use totally a plant based diet, maybe enriched
with some other material that is particularly rich as some good qualities and plant based, fruits and vegetables,
exercise, sunshine and I would just let that nature take its course.
Probably not more than 16 or 17% of all physicians actually get trained
in nutrition at all, and the matter nutrition all training
they get is one course at the most.
I now began a journey west and crossed a building farmland of Pennsylvania.
It is no secret that the land and soil is depleted of nutrients and laden
with harsh chemicals to keep the crops even viable.
Dr. Gerson called the soil our external metabolism.
And without fertile organic soil our food cannot sustain us.
Now I remembered why I started this journey.
It is a scientifically verifiable fact
that the Gerson Therapy cures cancer
as well as almost every other chronic degenerative disease.
Was this statement mean true? I need more evidence.
I wondered if a clue could be found here.
No matter what our walk in life is, eating is a common thread to everyone.
Unfortunately only about 2%, less than 2% of the individuals
in this country know where the food comes from.
Since we've got away from our agrarian roots.
And they have little understanding in how the food is produced,
what chemicals are put on the ground that produce the food,
what the environmental impacts are
because of the practices used to produce that food.
Dr. Paul R. Hepperly, research manager at the Rodale Institute
is continually doing scientific analysis, soil and crop testing
and relaying this findings to the government.
He gave me a crash course of the basics of soil management and
the comparisons between organic farming practices
and conventional farming methods.
The Rodale Institute scientific landmark studies made my head spin
and the published findings are now gaining momentum in agricultural community.
The negative impacts of conventional farming practices,
including genetically modified foods, turn my stomach inside out.
It is now become a race against time for the cumulative negative impacts
of conventional farming has diminished the soil appreciable,
to the point of truly becoming a leading factor
as to how healthy we are as a society.
Our roots, our weight, even our personal relationships, as well as crime, drug
addiction and mental illness can be traced right back
to what Dr. Gerson called our external metabolism.
Steve, you know, you asked me whether these chemicals that are in agriculture are poisoning us,
and I believe that that definitively is the truth.
We're getting poisoned and this also correlates with the increasing
cancer rates. The epidemics in degenerative disease
are very much associated with environmental problems
that were experienced and I think that it's no accident
that this is happening in this way.
Dr. Max Gerson was one of the most intuitive minds in the medical
field that we've had in my lifetime, and I believe that actually if we
had gone to the nutritional model for disease rather than the chemical
germicide model, that we wouldn't be in this sad state of health
that we are in, presently.
I was referred to another expert on nutrition.
Why was the American Medical Association so opposed to the Gerson Therapy?
I think, all the Medical Associations were opposed to the Gerson's Therapy.
Here comes a new approach, a nutritional approach,
an effective approach. The medical pharmaceutical industry,
if they even wants a cure for cancer, since they have so much profit in this disease,
certainly does not want the cure to be a nutritional one.
I was beginning to wonder how many of the public know this.
If the Gerson Therapy were permitted inside the U.S.,
and I believe that it should be, we would see a dramatic decrease
in deaths from cancer. I would estimate the fatality rate
would go down by at least 50 %, very possibly more so.
The Gerson Therapy is specially helpful in cases of malignant melanoma
and other types of cancer that are generally considered to be very dangerous, very aggressive.
After I left Dr. Saul's office, it was here on the endless toll roads and highways
as I headed west that the impact of his words started to sink in.
What would happen to the pharmaceutical industry?
Oh, they'll be fine. I think that a half trillion dollar world
wide industry would manage to find other diseases that they can market drugs for.
You have only to look at the television to see how hard they try.
But there are no drugs of the Gerson Therapy, it's all based on nature.
It's all based on common sense, it's all based on nutrition,
detoxification and metabolic therapy. It makes so much sense,
that it doesn't make very many dollars.
I raised my children on a natural foods diet, vitamins supplements,
and they never, not once, had a dose, not one dose of any antibiotic.
The kids get sick sure, did they need drugs to get better? No.
Did we have a pediatrician? Of course.
Did we go? It didn't have to.
By the time I got to the Ohio border, I thought back to my first interview
for this film as I left Alaska.
I have a neighbor and her father is a very known immunologist.
He studies vaccines, he develops vaccines.
But his daughter never vaccinates her children.
So... - her children? - Yea!
- She won't vaccinate her children? - No, no. - Why?
- Probably she has enough information about vaccines to know better.
At the time I head Cleveland, another piece of the puzzle fell in the place.
The Cleveland Clinic is well renowned and visited by the
rich and famous for coronary heart disease.
It is here that research by noted heart specialist Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn
confirmed what his own peers do not even want to talk about.
He was trained as a surgeon in Cleveland and London
and awarded a brown star in Vietnam.
... some of the basic path of physiology and heart disease.
It's been my conviction now for about 20-21 years, that
coronary heart disease, which is really one of our
number one cause of death for men and women in western civilization,
really this is a disease that need never ever exist.
And if it does exist, it need never ever progress.
Now, we just try to visualize at the moment, a plaque or
the disease which sort of its deposits...
Dr. Esselstyn's independent discovery to resolving heart
disease is almost identical to Gerson's.
What is happening? What seems to happen is
rapid rapidly when you make complete metabolic changes
due to this plant based nutrition, you restore the capacity
of the endothelial cell, the inner lining of the artery, that metabolic dynamo,
that endothelial cell has its capacity restored to manufacture nitric oxide.
Nitric oxide is the strongest dilator of blood vessels that the body makes.
And it is so powerful that somebody that has an angina
instead of getting this vessel constriction, with nitric oxide the vessel would dilate.
With dilatation there is a much greater increase in flow
and the symptom of angina will disappear.
And obviously it's a continuous with the pass of the time,
unlike bypasses, it stands with the benefits will grow.
The benefits will endure and continue to improve.
In one of his published papers he challenges the established
U.S. government food pyramid - formed essentially by special interest groups,
including candy makers - but his findings are unmistakable.
Here is a gentleman with his right coronary artery with a 30% improvement.
From this pinched area here to this area over here,
where it is now completely resolved, measures a 30% improvement.
This was another surgeon actually who had a heart attack and you can
see alongside the bracket here on the left this long moth-eaten
injured area which was too far gone for standing too far down the artery for bypass.
But with plant based nutrition, he profoundly altered his blood cholesterol
and with plant based nutrition, as you can see, within 30 months,
he had completely restored the opening of this vessel.
We get another study, and here what you see is on the left.
Dr. Esselstyn's prove like Gerson's cure for chronic diseases
by utilizing nutrition has been met with almost complete denial by his own peers.
When I got to Loveland - Ohio, I was about to meet a very special patient.
A patient, I guess, that could be called a lier?
Because I was able to remember who Ed spoke to earlier:
No, I don't think there is any evidence that anybody
is ever been cured by Gerson Therapy.
Has the Gerson Therapy ever cured a cancer patient?
Of course not, they won't even release their records.
I never interviewed any Gerson patients, really is pointless because you can't
talk from an interview what took place.
I... I with... I don't know how many years ago, this is around 50 years ago.
What am I supposed to tell you?
Yeah, it's fine, yeah. Go ahead.
What... Mary and I were young married couple, and we had three children.
And I got this trouble in my abdomen, we went to the doctor
and they said I had a cancer of the lymph system,
they call that lymphosarcoma.
And they told my wife and I, that I really had only a month or two to live.
My wife is no easy looser, so she scoured around
and looked in prevention magazine and discovered the name of Dr. Max Gerson.
So, I was very impressed with his integrity in the sense,
he said: I cannot promise you anything but I'm going to try my best to help you.
And he also impressed me with his, just his sense of kindness and care
about us traveling from Ohio with our young children to be there.
In those days I had a lot of friends who where praying for me
that I would survive and not having a whole lot of complex that I would.
And most of them now gonna their reward and here I am.
This eighty year old patient treated by Dr. Gerson himself
was case number 18 in Dr. Gerson's classic book.
I earned my living as a professional, or just a designer,
and it's a very hard thing to do, as you probably know.
But I've been able to do it.
It seems to me, Steve, this parallel between Dr. Max Gerson and Mother Theresa,
in the sense that they both spent their lives caring for other people.
At that moment, I thought back to what Dr. Barret said.
It's all smoking mirrors.
Driving away, I thought back to what Dr. T. Collin Campbell observed.
I've known Steve Barret's work for 9 years, here in Summerhills College.
They're looking for industrial interest.
You know what I'm saying obviously.
My suspicions about industrial power against reliable information and health choices
grew ever stronger when I requested interviews with medical doctors
and medical students about the Gerson Therapy.
Some medical doctors were afraid to speak about it for fear of jeopardizing their livelihoods.
Medical students were afraid to speak for fear repercussions.
Even the American Cancer Society refused to talk.
I've had calls for 24 years from women that have breast cancer.
I think some how my name got on the Internet as a survivor of breast cancer.
So, women that get in trouble call me and they're just happy to hear me say
Hallo, because they know I'm still around. For the ten years phoning, being on the
Gerson Therapy which took a year and a half,
I started going back to the Mayo Clinic
and seeing Dr. Scott, who's an oncologist there, just for check-ups, to be sure I was clear.
And he said everything was like an 18 year old girl again.
My blood profile was perfect and he couldn't believe how I looked
and how much energy I had. And he asked me what I've done.
And I run over the Gerson Therapy with him.
Dr. Scott said: That's great, but we can't sell that.
I learned here that if my own son, who helps shoot this movie, got cancer,
I'd be throw in jail for child abuse, if I wanted to treat him with the Gerson Therapy.
She is a survivor, so am I. I survived the battle of Bastogne in WW2.
In history books it's a pretty important battle
with the turning point in the winning or loosing at WW2.
So, we're both survivors this form at that goes, but hers is more important.
Here in Minnesota happens to be the farm where I grow up and my parents still reside.
I've not been back here for a few years and to see my mother and father again
triggered a rush in feelings and memories.
I found also that my mother, she looked healthier than I recall.
And she went down a list of ailments that no longer existed since she heard
about the Gerson Therapy from me, and put it into practice.
But the real bit of hard evidence that was tested into its efficacy perhaps
came from my father who is a farmer his entire life.
He was still raising a few beef cattle, but no longer ate meat himself
after seeing the health of my mother improved
and then his own health when he too follow the same principles.
I was excited to visit many people who I remembered, loved and admired.
But it was too late for many of them.
It was at this place that I was impacted as to how devastating
that was holding of true medical information really is.
One after the other had past on from cancer, heart attacks
and strokes well before their time.
None of them had ever heard about Dr. Gerson
and despite their earthly wealth, it was that lack of information
that resulted in these wonderful rule models for me, to pay the ultimate price.
They were dying to know the truth.
I had given exactly 52 days to make this movie, time was running out.
It was day 40 of this journey since leaving Alaska to investigate Gerson's cancer and disease cure.
But in the motel room in Great Falls, Montana, something changed for me about this story.
It happened while reading the daily paper about the deaths of well known people from cancer.
Not the mention people that have trouble with being overweight.
If cancer is cured on the Gerson Therapy, so is virtually everything else, including
the problem of concern about body fat. Virtually everything clears.
Another clue to that deduction was 120 miles away
in the middle of Montana's wide open ranching country.
It was here that I met a cattle farmer and his family.
And an insightfull story about finding Dr. Gerson's old book
which changed the course of their lives.
This time, it was not cancer that came as an uninvited guest, but multiple sclerosis.
The man that's walking on the left, John, was destined for life in wheelchair.
And was diagnosed by his doctor with MS (Multiple sclerosis).
Refusing drugs and conventional treatment,
his wife found the directions in Dr. Gerson's book
and became John's caregiver and source of inspiration.
Day in and day out, starting in 1995,
John's wife believed she could bring her husband back
by caring for him with the directions in Gerson's book.
I started to think back at the countless recovered patients I had now met,
and read about and documented on this trip.
It was a moment of introspection and day 42 of this journey.
The Gerson Therapy was known some 75 years ago.
If doctors know there is a cure and sent patients home to die,
that's an atrocity worse that the holocaust.
What would it take for you to be convinced or even persuaded
a slight bit that this therapy has credibility?
First of all, they have to show some reason why it should work.
We know how cancer behave and we know the kinds of things that cause cancer,
so they have to come up with some kind of a believable theory of why their diet should work.
But, second of all, they have to convince us, that everything we know about it in the past,
50 years, is wrong. And they're right.
It has been published, it has confirmed by other... it's been duplicated by other medical scientists
and they themselves have published confirming articles.
I was trained in MIT as a scientist and to me, that's scientific prove.
Publication, replication, confirmation articles published in the scientific literature
that all exists.
It is a scientifically verifiable fact that the Gerson Therapy cures cancer
as well as almost every other chronic degenerative disease.
I don't believe there is any prove that the Gerson Therapy works.
In other words, Charlotte Gerson was lying.
No, I don't think there is any evidence that anybody is ever been cured by Gerson Therapy.
This is a world of science, a world of data, I would like to think of it as a courtroom,
a courtroom of science and medicine.
If this was the courtroom of science and medicine, what would be the verdict?
What if I suddenly had amnesia and forgot all the evidence gathered so far?
And had to use one single experience?
I decided to take that test on the 50th floor of Hotel room in Tokyo.
I studied a published paper by a renown Japanese surgeon.
And researched as much information as I could find about the Japanese Medical
Community and their experiences with Dr. Gerson's work. If any.
It was now day 45 and I would give myself
5 days to research and verify Dr. Gerson's claims.
Using the scientific modality of replication, confirmation and publication.
I figured that if I gave myself only 5 days to prove or disprove Gerson's Therapy,
that would be a reasonable amount of time for even the most harden and skeptic
from some other cancer research organization or medical branch
to at least lurk into what Dr. Gerson have done.
If a skeptic would be unwilling to spend even that short amount of time,
I would have to then conclude that there is definitively a close mindedness
and a bias that is bigger than Texas and Alaska combined.
First, I took the bullet train from Tokyo to a nearby town called Fukushima,
where I was scheduled to meet two doctors
who studied cancer in a meticulous and a record keeping.
It is here, at the Loma Linda Clinic that a precedent was set 16 years ago,
when one of these doctors developed cancer himself.
Colon cancer that metastasized to his liver.
And by accident found Dr. Gerson's book.
Trying to be as cynical and skeptical as possible, like the CEO of some drug company,
I looked forward to hearing and seeing the evidence in a courtroom of blind justice.
My name is Dr. Yoshihiko Hoshino. About 16 years ago I would suffered
from a colon cancer. I changed to Gerson Therapy.
And over these 16 years, I continued to take the Gerson Therapy.
The metastasized liver cancer disappeared.
I underwent a ultrasound Eco examination.
And after this examination, there is no metastasized liver cancer, in the liver, over these 15 years.
Over 500 patients with a cancer visit us here at the Loma Linda Clinic
at first we like to try statistical analysis.
This statistical analysis is already well underway on these 500 cancer patients
treated with the Gerson Therapy. And well over half of them are cured or recovering.
The scientific tracking on data is over a period of years and continues.
While I was doing this interview, one of the patients came to visit and
get updated on his condition of prostate cancer.
The doctors and this private patient agreed to leave the doors open
allowing me to scrutinize and question with my cameras.
Dr. Tominaga was explaining to this patient, via data and X-rays,
how his prostate cancer had spread to the bones of his spine,
but after the Gerson Therapy, this cancer is completely gone.
It is difficult for me to express how I felt, to see this amazing sample of success.
I was elated and frustrated at the same time.
Happy for him, because he had found doctors that are free to practice the true medicine.
Frustrated because in many other countries this is denied and people pay with their lives.
It affects us so profoundly, whether we have cancer, or not.
I was now outside the prestigious Ohtsuka Hospital, in Tokyo.
I was scheduled to have a private meeting with the social director of this hospital,
who was so impressed with the success of Dr. Hoshino and Dr. Tominaga
with the use of the Gerson Therapy, that he decided to implement the therapy
himself on his own patients. His name is Dr. Takaho Watayo.
I am looking for that treatment for advanced cancer patient.
Then I found Gerson Therapy like Jeffrey Yacoda method.
And I am very much surprised about the research, magnificent.
Magnificent, magnificent, he says.
Dr. Takaho Watayo is one of the most eminent and respected surgeons in Japan.
And he unabashedly took me on his rounds at the Hospital.
At this moment, he was looking at a scan just completed of one
of his cancer patients on the Gerson Therapy.
Dr. Watayo pointed out, on the eye at the computer monitor, the ongoing shrinking and disappearance
of tumors in this particular patient at the moment.
There were other floors at the Hospital that Dr. Watayo took me too,
where intense laboratory and scientific scrutiny of the Gerson Therapy takes place every day.
I tried the Gerson Therapy on 50 patients. These are the tables.
These tables of the 50 patients Dr. Watayo is tracking verify cures and recoveries of a period of years.
On one floor, the making of Gerson juices is being studied
and administered to patients and even the staff.
I've followed Dr. Watayo into his private office, where it was evident that he was very
proud of certain parts of his history and accomplishments.
He respects and admires many of his peers and brought them to our ears today.
Some of them were Americans.
I respect Dr. Max Gerson so much that I wondered, I hoped I could meet
the family of Max Gerson, and they came to us in September.
Above the Japan Press Club in downtown Tokyo, Dr. Watayo invited me to an exclusive restaurant
where he introduced me to two of the recovered patients of his, on the Gerson Therapy.
Dr. Watayo made special effort to show documentation of the cures from both patients.
The second patient was actually the owner of the restaurant
who had originally four different kinds of cancers.
Word of the Gerson Therapy is now swiftly spreading across Japan.
A skill businessman see this as well.
I met with two who are involved in opening up yet another Gerson Hospital within a month.
I listen to their perspective about why they think open another hospital is important.
Well, in Japan such a small country that has a problem, environmentally,
and also the lots of chemicals in our life.
And the Gerson Therapy is to avoid all the chemicals.
And have organic vegetables and coffee enema
is really important for our life.
These businessmen had arranged a number of doctors to be on the staff at the new hospital.
I noticed the pictures on the wall and the book.
So I relate some information I learned from Charlotte about the therapy.
Dr. Gerson had very little to do with chemotherapy,
it was unused in these days. Of course, nowadays, we see
quite a number of patients that come in who have had chemotherapy.
However, we see specially excellent results in melanoma and, believe that,
one of the reasons may be that melanoma is not being treated with chemo,
it doesn't work for chemo.
I could tell that Dr. Gerson's work was one they received in Japan.
And eventhough I can't understand Japanese, my interpreter reassured me,
that the other businessman was happy too.
It was time for me to return home.
And it was here that the memories of Dr. Gerson returned.
What are you going to do? You don't look the kind of man that give up at this point.
No. How could I give up this when I see this wonderful results?
That's impossible. First, I write the cancer book. Then I will have it translated,
translated in many languages, the treatment was there, that book he described.
I'm on the way home to Alaska, I thought about what I had discovered.
Am I biased? Of course, but I was willing to put the Gerson Therapy to the test.
And now, I would ask the same from the critics who despise the man
who Nobel laureate Dr. Albert Schweitzer called "the most eminent genius in medical history".
In the end, the film was completed in precisely 52 days.
And I didn't know what the verdict would be, but since it confirmed what I suspected,
the 52 days brought us precisely to one day before Charlotte Gerson's 84th birthday.
The messages of early Spring were everywhere
and of each passing day now science of new life intensified.
I took the cording call of the ruffed grouse to be the metaphor for a brightening future.
Underscoring that life, we'll find a way.
For each of us eventually, whether we are ready or not,
some day it will come to an end.
There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days.
All the things you collected
whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else.
Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance.
It will not matter what you owned or owed.
Your grudges, resentments, frustrations and jealousies will finally disappear.
So too your hopes, ambitions, plans and to do list will expire.
The wins and losses that once seem so important will fade away.
It won't matter where you came from,
nor on what side of the tracks you lived at the end.
It won't matter if you're beautiful or brilliant.
Even your gender and skin color will be irrelevant.
So what will matter?
How will the value of your days be measured?
What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built.
Not what you got, but what you gave.
What will matter is not your success, but your significance.
What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught.
What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage
or sacrifice that enriched, empowered and encouraged others to emulate your example.
What will matter is not your competence, but your character.
What will matter is not how many people you knew,
but how many will feel a lasting loss when you are gone.
What will matter is not your memories,
but the memories that live in those who loved you.
What will matter is how long you will be remembered, by whom and for what.
A life lived that matters is not of circumstance, but of choice.
When Dr. Gerson's first manuscript for his book was nearly done,
he fell inexplicably ill.
On nursing himself back to health, he found the manuscript missing.
Dr. Gerson released his secretary, who had been caught
stealing his files, and passing them to a rogue physician.
It took Dr. Gerson a full year to reconstruct the manuscript
for his towering classic "Cancer Therapy, Results of 50 cases."
After publishing his book, Dr. Gerson fell unexplainable ill again.
Before he died, he tested himself again
which confirmed that he had been poisoned with arsenic.
Had Dr. Gerson died the first time he fell ill from poisoning,
he and his classic book would have been erased forever.
FOREVER
At the age of 12, while fleeing Nazi persecution, Charlotte Gerson
contracted bone tuberculosis, at that time considered a death sentence.
Her father cured her, and at age 84,
Charlotte is the longest Gerson Therapy survivor in the world.
The Production gratefully acknowledges the kind cooperation of the
Gerson Institute www.gerson.org
The Director gratefully acknowledges the courage, time and support given
by Gerson Therapy Patients, Doctors, Scientists and Authors in the making of this Motion Picture.
This film is dedicated to the legacy of Dr. Max Gerson 1881 - 1959