Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   This is a particularly interesting story since it involves two
generations of the same family, a mother and her son, both of
whom recovered from life-threatening diseases on the Gerson
Therapy.

   The first contact occurred in1981 at a convention in San
Diego, held at the 100th anniversary of Dr. Gerson's birth. At
that celebration, Mrs. Irene Harrison, 91 years old at the time
and barely five feet tall, strode up to the podium proud and
erect, and told how, around the age of 50, she had been very
ill. So serious was her kidney disease that her family was
given a hopeless prognosis. She, however, traveled to New
York from her home in Pennsylvania and consulted Dr.
Gerson. With the help of his treatment, she recovered completely.

   The second contact came in February 1997 when her son,
Bob Harrison, got in touch with Charlotte Gerson by telephone
and told his own story: He had been diagnosed with
colon cancer that required radical surgery. After the operation,
the surgeon told him that he had removed a very large
tumor which, for several months, had completely blocked the
lower portion of his colon. His body had developed a fistula
(an abnormal tube-like passage) allowing fecal matter to pass
from a point in the small intestines to a spot below the blockage
in the colon. This allowed the evacuation of feces, but in
the process a six-inch portion of his small intestine became
infected and had to be removed.

   Although the surgeon stated that all evidence of cancer
had been eliminated, he added that Bob had only one year to
live. The oncologist, more charitably, gave him a 50% chance
of surviving for two years, stating that if he submitted to
chemotherapy, his chances would increase by 30%. Bob
refused the offer.

   Instead, he followed the Gerson Therapy the way he
understood it: he cut out all salt, fat, caffeine, refined sugar
and alcohol, and switched to therapeutic nutrition. After six
months, he was much better, except for cholesterol problems.
He added flax seed oil to his daily food which consisted of
organic vegetables, salads and fruit; he did not eat nuts or
seeds.

   Six years later he was able to report that he was well.
When Charlotte Gerson asked him about his mother, whom
she had met sixteen years earlier at the Convention, aged 91 at
the time, Bob said, "Oh, she's just celebrated her 107tn birthday!
She's rather weak and needs a companion - but her mind
is as clear as a bell."