Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

   Joan was born in Montana in 1935. She had her first asthma
attack at the age of 10. It seemed to have been caused by a fall
during ice skating, which injured her neck. After that, her attacks
came fairly regularly, depending on the season. Mostly, they were
caused by cold temperature, or by changes in the weather during
fall or spring.

   At the time, the family was not able to afford doctors. However,
they were ranching - raising animals - and Joan had
become allergic to animals of all kinds. Her worst problems,
however, were with dogs, cats, and - surprisingly - by any
contact with mice.

   During Joan's teenage years, her parents would take her to
higher elevations, which helped to alleviate her asthma attacks.
All this time, she never took drugs, since the family didn't see
physicians. At about age 20, she started to work in town, away
from the ranch. She began to consult doctors about her asthma.
They treated her with serum and vaccines, which helped a little, so
that her attacks were less severe.

   In her mid-20's Joan married a man who was 17 years older.
She moved back to the family ranch, and raised three children.
With all the hard work involved in the ranching lifestyle, she did
suffer additional asthma attacks - and took the prescribed drugs.

   Then, in 1984, her husband had a stroke. It left him without
speech and paralyzed on one side. For the next 13 years Joan took
care of him. He was confined to a wheelchair during the day. She
was also looking after the ranch, the three kids, and all the
animals.

   Then her husband developed prostate cancer. Joan found out
about the Gerson Therapy and decided to use it with him. Joan
wanted to share with as many people as possible the amazing
improvements the therapy caused in her husband. Thirteen years
after his stroke, having been paralyzed and unable to speak all
that time, when on the full therapy, his speech returned, and he
also regained movement in his left side. Because his muscles had
been immobilized for so long, they had atrophied. He was unwilling
to do required exercises to strengthen them, but at least he did
have movement again.

   Meanwhile, however, Joan became totally exhausted from
taking care of her invalid husband, along with obtaining and
juicing the organic foods so as to give him that crucial part of the
Gerson diet. She had no energy at all, and couldn't even walk
across the room. To try to improve her condition so that she could
function better, Joan went on the Gerson Therapy herself. After
nine months, she was completely free of asthma for the first time
in many years and felt "wonderful."

   With all his improvements, once he felt better, her husband
started to raid the refrigerator and cheat as far as the Gerson
Therapy was concerned. His cancer worsened and it eventually
killed him After her husband died Joan needed to deal with all
sorts of legal matters. For some while she was unable to do the
therapy for herself, so that her condition worsened. Still, eventually
she was able to get back on the Gerson Therapy, and she is
again much better. She is able to take care of the ranch, the house
and the garden ... and reports that she feels she's doing "wonderfully
well."