Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

John was born in 1960. He was 35 in January 1995 when he
noticed the first serious symptoms of disease. One day while
stepping out of his pickup truck, he was unable to direct his leg
properly to take his weight, which caused him to fall. He had
many more falls after this first episode. Also, one of his eyes was
becoming virtually unusable.

John’s health history is a typical one—of ongoing damage
caused by toxins and accidents. All his life he had lived on a
ranch, and for that reason was exposed to agricultural chemicals
from infancy on. Also starting in his childhood he had eaten the
“wrong” foods: meats, fried and preserved foods; and heavily
salted pickled items.

When six years old, he had been in a serious accident, and
though he escaped with few apparent injuries, he possibly retained
some scar tissue. Most notably, as a teenager he had an accident
with a pickup truck that left him with an “uneven” gait. A
number of accidents followed, right into his adult years. The
probable ultimate blow to his health came from a fall that resulted
in a severe and painful injury to his shoulder. To be able to
manage the pain he was given a powerful painkiller, Naprosine.
The drug had a strong effect, and he suspected that it could have
caused the onset of serious symptoms.

John had always been extremely active—riding horses, carrying
fence posts and baby calves, climbing in and out of grain trucks
and tractors. He was also an avid hunter.

In March he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis by the local
neurologist, Dr. Hisanori Hasegawa, at the Benefis Hospital in
Great Falls, Montana. When John’s wife, Debbie, contacted other
doctors in the area to get advice, she was frankly told that there
was no cure for MS. Struggling now with progression in this
serious neuromuscular disease, John had very low energy; he
could hardly get through the day. His eyesight in the affected eye
was extremely poor, and his leg did not move normally. Furthermore,
he had a constant urge to urinate. There were no periods of
partial remission followed by exacerbations, as in many MS
patients; he was just going from bad to worse.

In December 1995 the Stouts found the Gerson Therapy and
they started on the treatment on their own at home. By February
1996, about a year after the MS diagnosis, John was on the full
Therapy. Almost from the start, his energy increased. Furthermore,
as Debbie remarked, “I began to notice that his walk was
different. He had lost the ‘swagger’ I’d noticed even before we
were married. He was now walking quick and straight.” Thus the
uneven gait John had had since adolescence, probably due to scar
tissue resulting from the truck accident, cleared up with the
Gerson Therapy.

Each week John and Debbie traveled 300 miles in order to
stock up on all the needed organic vegetarian foods required in
the diet. This was difficult during the winter months, but they
persisted. John continued his physically exhausting ranch work
while keeping up with the demanding Gerson Therapy schedule.
“He never complained, and he ate everything I placed before
him,” Debbie said. “Foods he was not supposed to eat he never
touched.”

By the fall of 1996, John was feeling well, and he and Debbie
were very much encouraged. His eye was better but not clear, but
he could use his other eye for hunting. All the other symptoms
that had disabled him were gone. In the fall of 1998, having been
on the Gerson Therapy for over two and a half years, John was in
good health. By 2002, John was managing to work many 16-hour
days. Heat no longer affected him adversely. Debbie reported that
he still has “weakened eyesight in the one affected eye — the only
remaining hint that he had ever suffered from MS.”

Moreover, John’s family has benefited from the Therapy diet.
“Our son grew into a healthy, active pre-teen without suffering
from the childhood ailments my friends’ toddlers and kids were
battling,” Debbie commented.