The only biography of Dr. Max Gerson, German dietary therapy pioneer who developed the now-famous Gerson Therapy for cancer and other chronic diseases. Gerson started his departure from conventional medicine by curing his own migraine headaches with a diet of his own devising, and discovered by accident that it also healed skin tuberculosis. Further clinical experiments showed that the holistic, diet-based therapy was effective against virtually all chronic and degenerative diseases, including advanced cancer.
Gerson's lifelong friend, Nobel Laureate Albert Schweitzer, called Gerson "one of the most eminent medical geniuses to ever walk among us."
Despite unrelenting attacks by chemical, drug and surgically oriented colleagues and the pharmaceutical industry, and while on the run from Hitler's Holocaust, Gerson continued to refine his therapy and treat patients successfully. He eventually settled in the United States, where the constant attacks continued.
When Gerson was invited to speak to the Pepper-Neely Congressional Subcommittee, and brought with him five cured patients declared "terminal" by other oncologists, his testimony was expunged from the Congressional Record!
After he published his own book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases, he fell ill and died under mysterious circumstances, later revealed to have been linked to arsenic poisoning.
In the half century since his death, Gerson's empirical principles have been repeatedly and uniformly confirmed by the more precise analytical tools available to modern medical and chemical research. He is still considered a "quack" by the money-oriented pharmaceutical, agricultural, chemical and cancer industries, who have no interest in prevention or cure of the dread diseases Gerson healed.
In 2005 Gerson was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the International Society of Orthomolecular Medicine, co-founded by double Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling and orthomolecular pioneer Dr. Abram Hoffer.
Dr. Gerson's story spans World War I, World War II, the Holocaust and the rise of allopathic, drug-oriented medicine. It is instructive to see what happens to a true healer in a medical industry that has no interest in healing.