Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Delphine's history illustrates how young people (she was in her
early thirties) can go downhill, their defenses weakening, to the
ultimate breakdown: cancer.

   She started with pneumonia at three years of age; then had
appendicitis and surgery for removal of the appendix at age four.
During her teens she had some minor problems, and in her early
twenties started developing cystitis (bladder infection). Since this
is a rather stubborn infection, she was treated with wide spectrum
antibiotics.

   The infection was finally overcome - but then Delphine developed
candidiasis. (This is also to be expected, because antibiotics
kill bacteria in the colon and thus eliminate the organisms competing
for nutrients with yeast: result, candida. Yeast is not
affected by antibiotics and can flourish when it has no competition.
So, Delphine was given drugs to combat the candida. When
that problem was overcome, she again suffered with cystitis. More
antibiotics - more candida, more drugs, more cystitis.

   This cycle continued for a number of years, leaving Delphine very
depressed, more or less constantly ill and on drugs. When her
depression became severe, the doctors had drugs to deal with that
problem. But antidepressants are very damaging. It is therefore
not at all surprising that after years of treatment with numerous
and powerful drugs, she developed an unusually aggressive for~
of lymphoma, She was told that there was not really any effective
treatment available for her problem. The possibility of a bone
marrow transplant was offered - but she refused and came
instead to the Mexican Gerson Therapy hospital in 1986. There
she noted some immediate response: an improvement of her skin
problems, which encouraged her. She faithfully followed the
Therapy for some three years or more upon her return home.

   Delphine has received no treatment other than the Gerson
Therapy.