Archived from Charlotte Gerson's booklet

Story

Note from Charlotte Gerson: When Penny Martin reintroduced
herself to me, I had to admit that I did not remember her. It
turned out that she had been at the Mexican Gerson Therapy
hospital some 16 years earlier. She came right out and told me
that she was very grateful because we had saved her life. Before
coming to Mexico, she had been in a deplorable state from
rheumatoid arthritis; mostly bedfast, she was in such severe pain
that during the previous three months she had prayed daily for
death. She said that after she started the Gerson Therapy, the pain
abated and her swellings were absorbed. In time she became
perfectly normal and functioning, and since her stay in Mexico
had enjoyed good health. She remains well — having recovered
from an unacceptable quality of life that had robbed her of her
will to live.

This, then, is Penny’s story, in her own words:

“I have always been blessed with a bountiful amount of energy.
Didn’t seem to know what the word TIRED meant. At age 50, due
to a recent divorce, I was managing a 16-unit apartment and was
active in a business. Besides that, I had several members of my
family staying at my house.

“I went to bed one night feeling like ‘Sweet Sixteen’ … and
awoke feeling 116. My hands felt as though a 16-ton truck had
driven over them and crushed every bone. I felt as though all the
skin had been peeled from my body and left every nerve exposed.

“I was stricken with inflammatory rheumatoid arthritis. I
learned that Jane Withers had suffered from R/A [rheumatoid
arthritis], so I started to see her doctor, a Dr. Boland in Los
Angeles. He wanted to start me on gold and prednisone. My
dearest friend (my guardian angel), who also suffered from R/A,
said, ‘Don’t do it, Penny.’ She had gone the drug gambit and knew
all the pitfalls. She kept telling me, ‘Penny, NUTRITION is our
only hope.’

“I tried many things, chased rainbow after rainbow, and
followed many suggestions — but didn’t get helped.

“Then I heard about the Gerson Therapy, bought and read the
book, and could tell this was an accelerated nutritional approach.
I entered the Mexican Gerson hospital in 1978 and was there for
three weeks, learning all about the program that I followed to the
letter for 18 months. IT RESTORED MY LIFE!!! So much so that
I didn’t take so much as an aspirin for 18 years.

“I finally chased the right rainbow, for it was there that I finally
found the POT OF GOLD.”