Hi Lapis,

Thank you for your inspiring and informative post. I have not watched the video clips yet, I'm impatiently waiting for them to download over my soooo slow dial-up connection.

I agree with what you say and I know from personal experience that the days I eat all raw and have my vege juices I feel great and as soon as I eat cooked food, I feel heavier and more sluggish.

I have had an avid interest in the Gerson therapy for many years and would like to add a few things. The basis of the therapy is restoring the potassium/sodium balance to the tissues of the body. This is achieved by following a high fruit and vege diet with appropriate supplementation over a period of 2 years. The bulk of this being achieved by 13 glasses of freshly pressed juices per day. However, the diet is not 100% raw nor 100% vegan. The Hippocrates soup, which is an important part of the diet for its high potassium content, consists of potatoes and other veges cooked for 2 hours. Other cooked and slow stewed fruits and veges are also allowed. Another very important part of the therapy is the supplementation of raw liver which was replaced with crude liver injections due to toxicity of commercially raised livestock. While the diet is very low fat and low protein, low fat dairy products in the form of pot cheese, churned buttermilk and non-fat plain yogurt are added after six weeks. However, the first six weeks of the therapy does not allow any concentrated protein foods but these are added as Gerson discovered that immunity is compromised when such severe protein restriction is continued beyond six weeks.

I'm not sure if the protein restriction causes compromised immunity only in those persons with terminal illnesses (as most following the Gerson protocol would have) or if this would be a general issue. Perhaps a 100% raw diet would not raise the same protein issues??? This info conflicts with other raw food diets and philosophies and has been a conflict for me as well. I have been following MH's protocol for a few weeks now (mono fruit diet and OJ fasting) and while I'm feeling great, I'm a little concerned that I may be setting myself up for long term deficiencies. I have noticed that I have lost muscle mass and have become quite 'soft' in places I don't want to be soft.

Lapis or anyone, your comments and input would be much appreciated.

Thank you for that post and the links. I haven't watched all the clips yet but I've seen a few and even my 9 year old watched them with me. That first part with the pictures of the oil spill made us both cry but it's important to know. (She and I both have strong ties to the ocean, she spent the first years of her life on the beaches, in boats and swimming with the wild dolphins, catching seahorses and starfish, just to hold for a moment and then releasing them.) I feel like if she absorbs all this good info maybe she won't forget it when she grows up & leaves home. I can't wait to watch the rest. Thanks again!!!!!

Kimber

Thank you, Lapis,

I have watched the entire documentary and enjoyed it very much. If we each clean up our own little corner of the world (and our own bodies), there will be a ripple effect, touching many others and encouraging them to do the same.

I still have to check out some of the other sites.

Kindest thoughts.

fsnaturelady

Hi, Lapis,

Thank you for all of your work. I watched the entire documentary; very educational. I still have to check out some of the sites.

Kindest thoughts.

fsnaturelady

Greetings,

Max one of many greats! Just think a 100 or so years ago before electicity these Natural healers had plenty of time to understand nature! The doctors union stopped these Natural ways. Reading A world with out Cancer is a great beginners book, yet depressing to learn how we have been used.

Blessings,
MH

Hi Lapis... could you tell us how Max Gerson died from arsnic?

also do you know about the Hippocrates Health Intitute in West Palm Beach Florida founded on the principles of eating raw aand drrinking wheat grass juice that Anne Wigmore taught of. If anyone is having symptoms that a doctor can not diagnose I would suggest going there. It is expensive, but a greaet way to learn the principles of health and start a path to wellness. The doctors I went to said the knew something was wrong with me, but did not know what and I should just take prozac. I went to Hippocrates for three weeks and they detected yeast in my bllod as well as parasites and I have been on a healing path ever since. I had never heard of amalgam removal before they told me about it. I have since found the curezone and have learned so much more. I am starting the process for remeoval of my 15 dental metals in two weeeks. I have been on a path to radiant health since my stay at Hippocrates a year ago and am getting better every day.

peace,
healing

http://www.hippocratesinstitute.org