To prevent or cure cancer you had better go to school on the work of Dr. Max Gerson. This physician, who died in 1959, had a 50% cure rate, even on far-advanced cancer cases, but he
didn't use surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy.

He realized that cancer was a symptom of disturbed metabolism; that treating the symptom was rarely efficacious; and to get at the underlying cause the first step was to detoxify the whole body.

That first step was a series of coffee enemas given every four hours to dilate bile ducts, which facilitate excretion of toxic cancer breakdown products by the liver and the removal of toxic
products from blood across the wall of the colon.

Gerson understood that liver activity was tied into all aspects of human physiology. Not only does it filter out toxins from the body, it transforms them so they can enter into the bile ducts,
and can thus be eliminated with the bile.

The liver also works interdependently with the pancreas and stomach in the production of trypsin, pepsin, and lipase, the digestive enzymes. The liver has many, many more very
important functions. One of them is the reactivation of oxidizing enzymes that are at a low level of function in cancer patients.

Gerson knew that cancer cells thrive in a low oxygen, low potassium condition-an anaerobic environment. When he took away the conditions that cancer needs to continue to live, by
providing the malignant cells with a high level of potassium and oxidizing enzymes to absorb, the cells died by themselves.

Through trial and error he learned he had to add the mineral iodine to help the liver and the whole body restore its cellular level of the mineral potassium.

He observed that in advanced cases the liver went to hell in a hand basket. Therefore he had to restore the function of the liver--the tissue and the function of the liver.

To that end he gave his patients liver injections, and as most of them needed an increase in their red blood cell count, he added some vitamin B12. They received 3 cc of crude liver extract
together with 100 mcg of B12.

When Gerson learned that our fruit and vegetables no longer provide a normal content of the mineral potassium, and not enough of the oxidizing enzymes, he looked for the best source
of potassium in the best composition and the best supply of oxidizing enzymes.

 That source turned out to be calves liver!

He gave his patients freshly pressed calves liver juice, combined with equal parts of carrots.

He took ½ pound fresh calves liver (not frozen) and ½ pound of carrots to make one glass of 200 cc (approx. 8 oz.) of fresh juice.

Quoting Dr. Gerson: "The patients, the far advanced cases, get two glasses a day, even three glasses, and they like it!"

Calves liver turns out to be a mineral accumulator, and cobalt is one of the minerals it accumulates; and this was key to Gerson's success.

Humans and all vertebrates require the mineral cobalt, the center of the vitamin B12 molecule.

Cobalt activates several metabolic enzymes. It is needed for the production of thyroid hormone and for myelin, the insulating material found around nerves. We require cobalt for protein, fat
and carbohydrate metabolism, and the production of DNA and RNA, the body's genetic material.

Indigenous bacteria manufacture the B12 molecule in the human small intestine, primary site of B12 absorption, provided they have cobalt and certain other nutrients to work with. The B12 is
stored in the liver and subsequently cycled to bone marrow for red blood cell production..

Sadly, cobalt has been disappearing from the soil, and thus our diet, for decades. Under deficient conditions, we draw down the liver's cobalt-containing B12 reserves.

In Gerson's own words:

"What we have to do in cancer--a degenerative, deficiency disease--is to refill the organs which are empty and poisoned."

Gerson cleaned out his patients and, in his own way, reintroduced them to the diet of their healthy ancestors-a diet dense with minerals-that refilled their organs. And he had proof
of this.

His proof of the pudding, so to speak, came from taking tiny tissue samples from the liver by liver punctures. As time passed and patients recovered, their livers showed microscopically and
chemically that recovery had taken place. Cobalt content, as well as that of potassium and iron increased.

He had given the body the nutrients it needed to mount a powerful immune response to seek and destroy cancer cells throughout the blood, lymph, organs, and glands.

Dr. Gerson provided interesting commentary on the patients he was unable to save:

"The real problem arises when we cannot restore the liver. Then there is no hope. The liver--the restoration of the liver and its functions--are so important that some of the patients whose
livers cannot be restored die some six months to 2½ years later from cirrhosis. Autopsies show no cancer cells in the body. They did not die from cancer. They died from a shrunken liver."

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