One of the most famous Gerson experiments was conducted by Gerson and his colleague, Dr. Ferdinand Sauerbruch. Together, they ran a clinical trial on tuberculosis, which, at the time, was
considered an incurable disease.
Dr. Sauerbruch describes this famous clinical trial in great detail in his autobiography, “Das War Mein Leben”. He gave Dr. Max Gerson a tuberculosis ward with 450 end-stage TB patients and told him that if he could cure even just one patient, he would believe everything that Gerson claimed about this plant-strong therapy. After several weeks, results were not noticeable and therefore Sauerbruch wrote Gerson to cancel the experiment, which was deemed a total failure.
However, after posting the letter, Sauerbruch discovered that one of his nurses was sneaking an assembly of the processed and refined 'treats' to the patients when Sauerbruch was not present.
Sauerbruch later fired the nurse and assigned guards on the doors of the ward, and saw to it that the patients got the full Gerson
Therapy. The trial continued and of the 450 patients with
tuberculosis, 446 or 99% of the “incurable” cases were cured in the first clinical trial of Gerson’s therapy. If that sneaky nurse had not been caught, the trial would have stopped and these results would never have been realized.
Sadly, I can relate to this story. I’ve met people newly diagnosed with cancer or another life-threatening disease, and had them tell me in June, “I’m sick, so I want to have a fun summer and really
enjoy myself. I want to live life to the fullest and have all my favorite things.” They spend the summer eating cheeseburgers, fries, and milkshakes, drinking beer, and having a big steak every other night, and then by September…they were dead.
I can’t help but wonder, “Could we have reversed their disease if they’d been willing to make some changes?” It’s impossible to know for certain, but the answer is, “Potentially, yes.” And now we’ll
never know, because they’re gone. It breaks my heart.
This is why I am relentlessly passionate about helping people upgrade their eating habits—because, oftentimes, it can mean the difference between life and death.
I wish more people would choose real food—clean, organic, plant- based food—but of course, I can’t force anybody to do this. We all have to make this choice individually. You can choose to give
yourself the best possible fuel, or, like those nurses who worked for Dr. Gerson, you can decide that it’s more “fun” to eat garbage and harm your body. Personally, that doesn’t sound like “fun” to me, but, ultimately, the choice is yours.
And I’ve been where you are today, wondering if the effort to clean up my diet or the pain of letting go of those addictive foods was worth it. Years ago, while building my businesses, I burned myself out. I was eating out every day, and, though I was choosing the healthiest vegetarian options that cafes and restaurants offered at that time, the foods I was consuming were still not organic—they were full of cell-damaging glyphosate and overloaded with refined flours, sugar, salt, and oils. I was consuming cell-damaging meals and was simultaneously highly stressed, constipated, and not sleeping: a perfect recipe for a health disaster.
My lab results proved it. What prompted me to head to the doctors and start collecting my baseline health data was that my joints ached worse than those of a ninety-year-old with lifetime arthritis, my heart was experiencing palpitations and misfires, my skin was so sensitive and painful that I couldn’t even enjoy a light-touch
massage, I suffered from insomnia, I had no libido, my teeth hurt, my brain felt like it was in a constant fog, and I couldn’t concentrate
or complete a task. My body was experiencing severe inflammation, and my blood work showed this to be true. My ESR and CRP levels were through the roof. My doctor, a highly intelligent integrated- health-care medical doctor, a loving mother of two, and someone who knew about my hectic lifestyle, put my file down, placed her hands on my shoulders, looked me sternly in the eyes and told me point-blank, “If you don’t start practicing what you preach, you are going to have a heart attack in less than five years.” Knowing that I wouldn’t accept prescription drugs, she gave me a dose of my own medicine: “Stop everything you are doing right now and start doing the Gerson Therapy.”
My MD’s care, attention, and frankness provided the kick in the behind that I needed. My poor lab results, coupled with my severe symptoms, served as the reality check that I needed. As a mother of three beautiful girls, I knew that I could no longer play the martyr. I needed to heal myself now or suffer the consequences later, which wasn’t an option. So, I called everyone I knew, my staff, my
husband, my family and friends, and I told them that I would be out of commission for the next month, or until I healed myself.
I started the Gerson Therapy that day, and within three days, my skin pain was gone. My teeth no longer hurt. Within five days, my joints no longer ached. I can’t recall how long it took for my heart palpitations to stop, but it was definitely less than two weeks, as that’s when I had my next set of lab work completed and my
inflammatory markers were back to normal. Yes—it took less than two weeks! I had lived with these symptoms for nearly two years. By the end of the month, all my symptoms had disappeared. I was
pooping like a queen and sleeping like a baby. Libido?—Yes, ma’am!
This wasn’t surprising to me, as I’ve had thousands of clients over the last decade who all had similar healing stories, no matter what their diagnosis or disease was. I was, however, grateful to my body for healing itself, and to myself for not waiting a second longer to get started.
And you can too.
Become the CEO of your own health. Simply copy what Kris Carr of
Crazy Sexy Cancer did in her journey to heal herself. She became the CEO of a company that she dubbed “Save My Ass Technologies, Inc.”
As Phil Knight, CEO of Nike, says: “Just do it.”
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