Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   AI's story started when his first wife died - in his own words,
"from treatments she got for breast cancer. We were looking
for other treatment options and found laetrile, but it didn't
slow her cancer. It did give her some pain relief, but she died.
I continued to search for other options and came across the
Gerson book."

   Al states that he has been a "Gerson Person" for some 20
years, even before he was diagnosed with colon cancer in
1978, aged 53. At the time he was connected to the Florida
chapter of the International Association of Cancer Victors and
Friends (IACVF), searching for non-toxic approaches to the
treatment of cancer.

   Two and a half years after his wife died, Al was found to
have colon cancer. During the Christmas vacation of 1977, he
went to the Bahamas and took the test developed by Lawrence
Burton. Burton said that Al had "an old tumor that was
breaking up". Then Al sent a urine specimen to Dr Navarro in
the Philippines, and was also tested by the BioSciences Lab of
Van Nuys, CA, for the Human Chorionic Gonadotropic hormone
(HCG), which is only found in pregnant women and
cancer patients. All these tests were positive for malignancy.

   At the end of May 1978, Al went to the Livingston Clinic
in San Diego, CA, for additional diagnostic tests. "I was disgusted
with the conventional treatments that my wife had
received, and with orthodox medicine's invasive treatments,"
he explains. By then his CEA (Chorionic Embryonic Antigen)
showed +74 (it should be below 5), positive for cancer. He had
been losing weight and came down to 115 lbs.

   In June 1978, Al arrived at the Gerson Therapy Hospital
in Mexico. At first he lost a little bit more weight, but
responded quickly to the treatment, and three weeks later,
before he left the Hospital, he had started to regain his lost
weight. Over time, on the Gerson Therapy he went up to 147
Ibs. After two weeks' sick leave, followed by four weeks of
part-time work, he returned to full-time work at Pratt &
Whitney Aircraft Co. Even so, he was able to manage the full
intensive Therapy single-handed.

   Today (in 2002), 24 years later, AI, aged 76, is alive and
well. He has stayed on a reduced Gerson program, eating
organic vegetarian food and drinking 1-2 glasses of carrot and
apple juice and at least 1 green juice a day. Occasionally he
detoxifies with coffee enemas, especially if he eats something
he shouldn't. In his own words, "I am now very healthy with
lots of energy. Using the Gerson Therapy has provided me
with good health all these years. Recently I was interviewed
for 30 minutes on a television show in Seattle."

   In 1986 Al retired from his job and got involved with TV
programs and various health and cancer support groups and
church activities. He is glad to see that there is now more outreach
and support for Gerson patients than in the past, so that
they do not feel isolated and entirely on their own while
working hard to regain their health.