Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Chuck Kohlhase was at the original Mexican Gerson Hospital as
much as 22 years ago. He had an incredible, long history of various
illnesses: In his teens he had undulant and rheumatic fevers. At 17
he developed bulbar (the most severe) polio, which left him with
weakness in his left side. In his early thirties he had several heart
attacks from heart damage caused by the rheumatic fever.

   By age 46, before he came to the Gerson Hospital, Chuck had
been 'delirious' for 2-1/2 years, unable to recognize his own
children. He tried the Kelly and a few other alternative therapies,
with some improvement, but no healing. When he arrived at La
Gloria, he weighed 115 pounds, had lymphoma, including a
tumor behind his left eye, which caused him to lose vision occasionally.
He also had a partial paralysis of his right leg and arm,
as if he had suffered a stroke.

   As a child, Chuck had suffered a number of fractures due to
falls from a horse, with three bones in his right hand, his left
ankle, and, later, three ribs and the left hip being broken. These
areas reacted almost immediately at the start of the Gerson
Therapy: severe sharp pains, and in a few days his rigid knuckle
was moveable. He also had a sharp pointy pain behind his eye (he
says it felt as though somebody had fired a bullet from his lower
skull through the side of his nose near the eye, and he thought he
had been killed); and his leg and other injuries flared up and
healed within three days. He struggled for some time, stayed on
the full intensive therapy for three years, is now on a modified
therapy. He still is virtually vegetarian (after 15 years) and weighs
a normal 175 pounds.

   When Chuck first arrived at the Gerson hospital in Mexico in
1980, he took along his mother who embarked on the Gerson
Therapy together with her son. Aged 67 at the time, she had a
grapefruit size tumor in her lung. 90 days after starting the
Therapy, she had a new X-ray taken, which showed her lung clear.
Happily, she is alive and well, aged 89. Chuck's father, who also
went on the Gerson Therapy at the time, found that within six
months his hearing improved from 30% to 60%. He enjoyed
good health until he died two years ago, aged 84.

   Chuck looks fit and young for his 66 years. He recalls with a
chuckle that I had originally estimated his age as 70ish (when he
was 46). He also states that, in the recent past, for some three years
he was under extreme stress, due to being involved in litigation.
He says that the Gerson Therapy helped him to handle the stress
without any serious effects. Not only is Chuck very well and
active: his wife and four children also follow the Gerson lifestyle
and enjoy excellent health: none of them even wear glasses!

   Last contact: July, 2004.