Chronic Disease Are Curable

The beginning of all chronic diseases in the body is the loss of potassium from the cells.

Potassium is lost because of our nutrition. Poorly grown, artificially fertilised, sprayed foods are low in potassium. The sodium content usually goes up in plants that are artificially fertilised. This fact was published in 1927 in an agricultural publication in Germany.

Potatoes from fields artificially fertilised had lost their normal potassium content. The sodium content went up with the water content. The potatoes grew nice and big, but they were oedematous potatoes.

They are much like your body when it loses potassium because sodium penetrates the cells and holds the water so your body gets oedematous. The water in the cells ties the sodium. If the sodium isn’t tied, it is toxic.

Now, in order to reverse this situation, one must eat organic, natural, and unprocessed foods because they are the ones that produce health. Remember the processing procedure.

First, food is grown on large corporate farms where they are artificially fertilised and sprayed. They may look beautiful, but they are empty of potassium. Lots of sugar is added for taste and salt is added for flavour. The result is a denatured food that is processed. Sodium is added, potassium is lowered, and enzymes are killed through processing.

Now do you really expect to keep your bodies healthy on this type of diet? You are punishing yourselves. You are punishing your system. Eating processed foods is like putting sugar water in your car motor and expecting it to produce energy. You know that if you don’t give your machine the right fuel, it won’t work.

In contrast to maintaining a well-kept machine, many people do not hesitate to feed their bodies denatured and damaged food.

Now I am not going to get into the basic causes of cancer like germs, viruses, genetic changes, burns or various chemicals.

My father who worked with cancer patients has shown that he could heal the disease by reversing one’s body chemistry which would have been severely disturbed. He also ridded the body of excess sodium and replaced potassium by introducing potassium-rich foods plus potassium supplements into the system. He was also able to reactivate the digestive system and the body’s ability to generate enzymes. All this enabled the body to detoxify itself by establishing the healing mechanism that exists in all our systems which we suppress. Thus, the body heals itself!

Once the body is in a condition to begin the healing process, it removes the layer of encapsulation, or the seal, by which the tumour protects itself. If you heard Dr. Nieper you understand that there is a layer around the tumour masses which protects itself against the bodies’ defences. Dr. Gerson believed this to be largely a layer of sodium oedematous cells. If the sodium excess is attacked and the deem removed, it is possible to destroy the tumour by forcing in potassium and Lugol Solution (iodine), which he gave.

However, before anything can be done with these severely toxic patients, they must be detoxified. This is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the story. Absolutely nothing can be done until the accumulated toxicity in the body is removed. Once the toxicity is removed and medicine, juices and enemas administered, the immune reactions activate once again.

Once the immune reactions take place, the body begins to attack the tumour, as shown by research work done by immunologists.

Dr. Good, an immunologist and head of research at Sloan Kettering, has shown that in order to attack any tumour in the body, a normal healthy system is needed to mobilise certain lymphocytes to attack a sick cell, a cell which they recognise as not normal. Any of us might have these sick cells floating around. If we are in reasonably good health, we have properly operating defence mechanisms. We have an immune response in our body which sends the lymphocytes right out to kill and eliminate the foreign and diseased tissue.

However, the defence mechanisms associated with the immune system will not work if our bodies are toxic and damaged. The enzyme system is also adversely affected and can no longer work properly.

Enzymes need a high potassium level in the body in order to function, but they are inhibited from functioning when a large amount of sodium is present.

A book called Enzymes, by Dixon and Webb, details the various enzymes the body needs to produce. In almost all cases the activating ion necessary for these enzymes is potassium. The main inhibiting ion interfering with the enzyme production is sodium. This shows that too much sodium in the body inhibits the enzymes, which, in turn, inhibits the body’s ability to fight. In other words, the first line of defence is a high level of potassium.

Potassium is found in natural foods which are unprocessed, unsalted, unfrozen, unbottlcd, unsmoked, unpickled, etc. Natural foods support life and are not antagonistic to the body’s requirements.

My father realised he could handle severe kidney degenerations with this kind of detoxification diet. One time a patient came to him who was going blind. Her retina was detaching, and she had been to many eye specialists. The eye doctors tried all kinds of treatments, but nothing helped so they were going to operate. She was continually worsening and going blind. When she came to my father he examined her whole body and found her kidneys severely damaged and infected. He restored her kidneys and the retina grew back. Her eyesight became quite normal!

It is possible for severely damaged kidneys to be restored. There is little need for kidney machines. There is no need for doctors to go through agonising decisions regarding these patients and the availability of treatment. People do not need to die unnecessarily from kidney failure. Kidneys that are degenerated can be restored. Transplanted kidneys would be unnecessary.

Transplanting organs is dangerous and unnecessary. It does not take into consideration the body as a whole. When an organ is transplanted, it is put into the very environment that produced a sick person and made that organ degenerate in the first place. Then these transplant patients must receive immune suppressive agents so that they will not reject a transplant. Further damage is done to the liver and the whole body. People with transplants are in poor health and usually do not survive. Why not just restore the body and get the damaged organ working again? It can be done and it is not too difficult.

It is possible to restore people with cardiac problems also. My father had a patient who had six heart attacks in eight days thirty-five years ago and he is alive and well today. He is 78 and fine. He did not need a new heart. He needed his heart restored.

Multiple sclerosis is another example of a disorder whereby the body can be rid of the damage caused by toxicity. The body’s ability to heal itself can be restored and it can rebuild the damaged nerve sheath.

I have seen a girl 24 years old healed from severe rheumatoid arthritis. She had this disease for about three years and was almost paralysed in all her limbs. They were all swollen and painful. After three days on a modified Gerson Diet, the structures in her skin and in her bones were visible again. About three weeks later, all the deformities in her joints disappeared. After four weeks, she went back to work. All evidence of arthritis vanished after four weeks.

I hope that I have left you with a very clear understanding that by healing the body you can heal cancer and almost any other chronic disease regardless of the cause.

Remove the toxicity from your body, then rebuild it with fresh juices from raw organic foods, as my father outlined in his book. Once toxicity is removed, the organs will begin to rebuild. For example, the liver is an organ that regenerates itself. After about 16 to 24 months, it is renewed and can tolerate the so-called “normal” foods, i.c., processed foods.

Those of you who have read the book called Death Be Not Proud, about Johnny Gunther, will remember Mrs. Sealy mentioned in it. Mrs. Sealy was running the clinic for my father and was diagnosed as having a pancreas tumour, which is deadly. She was completely restored by the Gerson Diet. I accidentally met her flying to Florida one day, about 15 years after she had recovered. She had a cigarette in one hand and a cocktail in the other. She was fine and didn’t seem to care. Well, this can happen; the body’s organs, if they are really restorable and not too severely damaged by radiation, chemotherapy or cancer, can often be restored fully and completely so that the body then will handle its own detoxification and will handle its own health even if you hurt it by going back to bad nutrition.

In many cases, of course, this is not possible. Some people were so far advanced in their diseases that they were brought to the clinic just days from death and their livers were not fully restorable. But many people could live a normal life within a certain set of limitations through early diagnosis and treatment. For instance, they could not eat junk foods, but could eat organic meat and other organic foods.

The body can heal itself. Detoxification is necessary at all times. If the body cannot detoxify itself, it must be helped. Detoxification includes the full digestion of foods. It is the basic mechanism of health in the body. The digestive process provides the cells with all their needs, and it reduces all foods to their end products and eliminates the waste. If it is unable to function in this capacity, then it needs help or certain foods must be avoided that cannot be utilised and eliminated properly. If not, toxicity will start to build up.

Think of a non-functioning digestive system in the way a sink stops up. If the sink doesn’t drain well and water pours in, the level of water will keep going up and up instead of draining down slowly. Finally it will overflow. This overflow is like chronic disease. The toxicity in the body is caused by improperly eliminated toxic material that builds up.

An American diet, unfortunately, is extremely high in protein. If the pancreas is not able to digest the protein and cannot break it down to the end product, utilising what is useable and eliminating what is toxic, then trouble results.

Albert Schweitzer was a diabetic who came to my father for consultation. A diabetic is usually told that he can eat nothing but protein. Dr. Schweitzer had been to the top specialists on diabetes. He was eating protein and felt terrible. A sick pancreas which is producing diabetes cannot function adequately when it is overloaded with protein. As you know, very often this leads right on into cancer.

Diabetes can be a precondition to cancer, because the pancreas is sick and then you further proceed to overload it with protein. It doesn’t work. Now would you believe with my father’s treatment, a person can drink carrot and apple juice with all the sugar the juice contains? A diabetic can even eat a baked potato a day. My father gave his patients lots of juices such as green juices and others, and vegetables and salads to eat. Within 10 days he could then reduce the insulin dosage to half of what the patient had been using, and within four weeks no more insulin was needed. Even with all the fruit sugars he was eating, as you very well know, Dr. Schweitzer lived until he was 92. He not only lived, but he was active and working.When he came to my father at the age of 75, he said, “The way I am going, I have no more energy. I am weary and I am tired of living and I don’t want to do anything more.”

But with the pancreas restored, he was able to live an active life again.

I want to leave you with this thought and that is that chronic diseases are curable. Cancer is only one chronic disease. It is not a specific disease. All chronic diseases are deficiency diseases and they can be healed by the proper approach.