Gerson Therapy and Juicing for Hair!

The Gerson Therapy seems to be effective with many degenrative diseases, I am assuming it also would help one correct metabolic issues and restore the body to a more natural state leading to hair improvement, wont you think?

Anyone here into Juicing or knows a bit about Gerson therapy (and how it effects hair)?

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The Gerson Therapy seeks to regenerate the body to health, supporting each important metabolic requirement by flooding the body with nutrients from almost 20 pounds of organically grown fruits and vegetables daily. Most is used to make fresh raw juice, one glass every hour, 13 times per day. Raw and cooked solid foods are generously consumed. Oxygenation is usually more than doubled, as oxygen deficiency in the blood contributes to many degenerative diseases. The metabolism is also stimulated through the addition of thyroid, potassium and other supplements, and by avoiding heavy animal fats, excess protein, sodium and other toxins.

Degenerative diseases render the body increasingly unable to excrete waste materials adequately, commonly resulting in liver and kidney failure. To prevent this, the Gerson Therapy uses intensive detoxification to eliminate wastes, regenerate the liver, reactivate the immune system and restore the body's essential defenses - enzyme, mineral and hormone systems. With generous, high-quality nutrition, increased oxygen availability, detoxification, and improved metabolism, the cells - and the body - can regenerate, become healthy and prevent future illness.

http://www.gerson.org/GersonTherapy/gersontherapy.htm

This therapy seems to avoid meats and animal fats ... I bet Mister E. will be happy to hear that

Yet again, it seems this therapy does work!

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The metabolism is also stimulated through the addition of thyroid, potassium and other supplements, and by avoiding heavy animal fats, excess protein, sodium and other toxins.

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The Gerson diet is naturally high in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, micro-nutrients, extremely low in sodium and fats, and rich in fluids.

The following is a typical daily diet for a Gerson patient on the full therapy regimen:

* Thirteen glasses of fresh, raw carrot/apple and green-leaf juices prepared hourly from fresh, organic fruits and vegetables.
* Three full vegetarian meals, freshly prepared from organically grown fruits, vegetables and whole grains. A typical meal will include salad, cooked vegetables, baked potatoes, vegetable soup and juice.
* Fresh fruit and fresh fruit dessert available at all hours for snacking, in addition to the regular diet.

If anyone here has first hand experience with Gerson plz let me hear from you.

CS has posted here that the Gerson diet have a roughly 40% survival rate with cancer.... whereas the survival rate for the all raw meat diet was much higher, I'd love to hear him elaborate on that.

Me too, the Gerson website makes it sound as a very successful therapy.

Also a quick note, since we all are interested in Orthomolecular Medicine:

Most recently, Dr. Gerson was recognized as a pioneer in his field when he was inducted into the Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame in Ottawa, Canada on May 14, 2005. He joined seven other giants of medicine whose seminal work has been influential in the medical and scientific worlds, and are considered pioneers in their respective fields.

teacup - Juicing was my initial foray into trying to stop hair loss, other than wasting time and money on the Helsinki formula (which didn't work).

When I tried juicing I ate very little food, and consumed 80% vegetable juices, and 10 fruit juice and 10% solid food.

Is Gerson therapy the answer for hair loss?

It depends on one's metabolite type and/or oxidation rate.

The following test is fairly accurate at telling you what diet methodology would work best for you.

http://www.naturalhealthyellowpages.com/metabolic/self_test.html

If juicing is appropriate, say for a slow oxidizer type who does benefit from avoiding lots of meat and fat, choosing vegetable juices that are pro-hair would be cruciferious vegetables, celery, sprouts and beets.

The fruits would be pineapple (use the skin) because of the enzymes.

If one is a medium to faster oxidizer type, this method is not appropriate other than for brief periods.

The reason a raw meat diet is good against cancer is because enzymes (protein form) are one of the very best defenses against cancer. Proteolytic enzyme therapy has been used since the 1970's to kill cancer at a success rate above 90%.

CS - thanks

The reason a raw meat diet is good against cancer is because enzymes (protein form) are one of the very best defenses against cancer. Proteolytic enzyme therapy has been used since the 1970's to kill cancer at a success rate above 90%.

Would you say that desiccated liver has these enzymes or does the dessication process destroy the enzymes? I don't really want to eat raw meat, but dried or dessicated things are ok with me.

teacup - The enzymes are not present in the desiccated liver. The enzyme comment was just for cancer treatment. And as a side-note, one can simply buy large quantities of pancreatic enzymes (eating raw meat is not necessary).

My understanding is that as a general guideline the Gerson Institute recommends surgery, as do MOST alternative practitioners and clinics. Most chemotherapy drugs enormously diminish Gerson therapy's success rate. The same probably applies to radiation (but only to a slight degree) but the opposite appears to be the case with surgery, at least with melanoma (according to what I've read and heard from Gerson practitioners). But even amongst patients who haven't had chemo or radiation, my impression is that their rate of full remissions is well below 50% (even among compliant patients), except for early/middle-stage melanoma and perhaps lymphoma.

http://www.healingcancernaturally.com/gerson4.html

It does appear, based on the case histories, that they have an unusual number of successes in melanoma. The Gerson Institute recently published a major retrospective study on melanoma in an alternative therapy journal. They reviewed all of the records at the Gerson Clinic and checked on the survival of patients with melanoma. They found for stage I and II, and especially stage III that survival was substantially better than historical averages for similar patients. Stage IV patients who had metastases in the internal organs did not do well,

http://cancerguide.org/gerson.html

Among his initial successes was a 99% cure rate at a sanitarium for tuberculosis , unheard of with allopathic medicine. Beginning his work in the 1920s in Germany, he later immigrated to the United States, where in 1938 he was licensed to practice in New York. In 1946 he became the first physician to demonstrate recovered cancer patients before a U.S. Congressional Committee. Gerson had a 50% success rate even with terminal cancer patients that allopathic medicine had given up on. Albert Schweitzer referred to him as "a medical genius that walked among us."

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3435100340.html

Seems there is a good success rate. I don't know how this compares to the success rates of other "alt" cancer therapies though. I want to follow a diet not only to stop hair loss and regrow but one to keep me healthy and cancer-free into old age.

A couple abstracts from PubMed:

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Oncology (Williston Park). 2010 Feb;24(2):201.
Gerson regimen.


Abstract

The Gerson regimen, developed by Max Gerson in the 1930s, is promoted as an alternative cancer treatment. It involves consuming fresh, raw fruit and vegetable juices, eliminating salt from the diet, taking supplements such as potassium, vitamin B12, thyroid hormone, pancreatic enzymes, and detoxifying liver with coffee enemas to stimulate metabolism. Gerson therapy is based on the theory that cancer is caused by alteration of cell metabolism by toxic environmental substances and processed food, which changes its sodium and potassium content. It emphasizes increasing potassium intake and minimizing sodium consumption in an effort to correct the electrolyte imbalance, repair tissue, and detoxify the liver. The coffee enemas are believed to cause dilation of bile ducts and excretion of toxic breakdown products by the liver and through the colon wall. None of these theories has been substantiated by scientific research. Despite proponents' claims of recovery rates as high as 70% to 90%, case reviews by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the New York County Medical Society found no evidence of usefulness for the Gerson diet. An NCI-sponsored study of Gonzalez therapy, which is similar to the Gerson diet, showed that patients with inoperable pancreatic adenocarcinoma who underwent standard chemotherapy with gemcitabine (Gemzar) survived three times longer and had better quality of life than those who chose enzyme treatment, which included pancreatic enzymes, nutritional supplements, detoxification, and an organic diet.

PMID: 20361473 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20361473

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Physiol Chem Phys. 1978;10(5):465-8.
A medical application of the Ling association-induction hypothesis: the high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson cancer therapy.

Abstract

The high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson therapy has been observed experimentally to cure many cases of advanced cancer in man, but the reason was not clear. Recent studies from the laboratory of Ling indicate that high potassium, low sodium environments can partially return damaged cell proteins to their normal undamaged configuration. Therefore, the damage in other tissues, induced by toxins and breakdown products from the cancer, is probably partly repaired by the Gerson therapy throught this mechanism.

PMID: 751080 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/751080

CausticSymmetry wrote:teacup - The enzymes are not present in the desiccated liver. The enzyme comment was just for cancer treatment. And as a side-note, one can simply buy large quantities of pancreatic enzymes (eating raw meat is not necessary).

Is that why an all raw meat diet is better than gerson?

teacup - Yes, also note that Gonzalez uses extremely high dose enzyme therapy, usually 50 to 150 grams per day per person.

He will match the patient with the correct diet for their type. So he will have some eat plenty of meat, and others vegan food.

CausticSymmetry wrote:teacup - Yes, also note that Gonzalez uses extremely high dose enzyme therapy, usually 50 to 150 grams per day per person.

He will match the patient with the correct diet for their type. So he will have some eat plenty of meat, and others vegan food.

Enzymes + typing diet, is that why the Gonzales therapy (?% survival rate) more effective than Gerson's (40% survival rate)?