The full title of this page, "32421411 Health the Gerson Way", includes its catalog number, which shows the place I have given it among the many fascinating topics I have arranged in the Table of Contents of this website's amazing Vault!

As for "Health the Gerson Way", I am pleased to offer information concerning the Gerson Therapy as a part of Yehovaw's promise through Yehoshua that ha Kodesh Ruakh, His "Spirit of truth" (John 16:13), "will guide you into all truth", my concern in this case being that people learn, once and for all time, the truth about degerative diseases of all kinds, what causes them and what can relieve a person of them, to be restored to wonderful vibrant health for the remainder of his or her days!

Without attempting to be academic, by giving references to source materials and so on, the following is my best understanding of the Gerson Therapy, for visitors of this website who want a quick view of what that therapy is about! Anyone wanting to research this therapy more extensively can look up the Gerson Institute on the Internet!

The therapy's being called "the Gerson Therapy" is in recognition of the astounding work performed by Dr. Maxwell Gerson during his practice first in Germany and then in the United States some sixty years ago! Excellent books on his life and contribution to humanity's understanding of the human body and its functioning relative to degenerative disease are available and cannot be given here, except to say that his practice and research led to the healing of thousands of people who were given up by the medical profession as being beyond help, including those who were afflicted with cancer!

For those who have been touched by degenerative disease in any way, through personal suffering or that of a loved one, I offer the following information, which I obtained largely from Charlotte Gerson's book The Gerson Therapy:

This information is given only for the education of anyone desiring to know more about degenerative diseases and is not intended as professional advise for anyone suffering such a disease, as to what he or she personally may choose to do about his or her disease; and anyone's use of the information contained in this book with respect to his or her personal needs must be done taking personal responsibility for the results of that use, whatever they may prove to be!

With my disclaimer's being clearly stated, let me begin by saying the obvious, to lay the foundation of understanding for what is to follow, that the health of the cells in one's body is directly affected by what one eats or drinks, since food and the nutritional substances that food provides are what cells rely upon, to fulfill their intended functions!

Equally appreciated at least by the well informed is the fact that cells also are affected adversely by the toxic waste that they produce in their normal functioning, as well as by toxins introduced from our environment, either by food, water or air, which must be removed from the cells by our blood, which then must be cleansed of those toxins, which is the function of one's liver!

But not so well known or appreciated is the fact that without the nutrients upon which the cells of one's body depend, the cells cannot do what Yehovaw has intended that they do! At the same time, if the cells' functioning has been disrupted by toxic waste or by toxins from poor diet and the environment and if the liver has been overwhelmed by the amount of toxins that have accumulated in one's body, the result is degenerative disease, as opposed to infectious disease, which comes of the body's being invaded by harmful organisms!

Harmful organisms are controlled by the body's ability to find and destroy them, which functioning relies upon the white blood cells that Yehovaw has given each of us by which to defend our bodies; and those cells rely upon both the good nutrition and removal of toxic waste upon which every other cell depends; so, again, we are brought back to the basic dual needs of good nutrition and the liver's efficient removal of toxins!

The Gerson Therapy affects the health of each cell in one's body, by abundantly providing the nutrition that all cells must have for their proper functioning and by assisting the liver in its removal of toxins from the blood! The nutrition is accomplished by one's eating oatmeal for breakfast and potatoes for lunch and dinner, for plant protein, together with a variety of fruits and vegetables, some of them cooked, and by juicing them, which juice, when taken every hour of one's active day, provides the vitamins and enzymes that are lost in cooking, the juice being immediately absorbable by the digestive system.

Dr. Gerson felt that water for one's body should be taken as little as possible, as it is provided in the juices, whereas water taken alone absorbs nutrients and flushes them out of the body!

Juice can be made either by blending fruits and vegetables with water with high speed blades that cut them up finely or by grinding them up and pressing the juice out of the pulp, which is preferable, since that method does not require diluting the juice with water and separates the juice from the pulp, which, when it is well pressed, no longer contains nutrition of any appreciable value.

Juicing by any method other than the grinding and pressing of the fruits and vegetables should be used only as a temporary expedient, until the cost of the grinder and press can be covered! For the juice made by the press method leaves its pulp behind, which is without any appreciable nutritional value! And the pressed juice can be taken by the glassful each hour of each active part of one's day, thus continually providing the cells of one's body with the nutrients by which to overcome most degenerative disease and reach the cells' highest level of performance!

Salt or sodium replaces potassium in all the cells of one's body, causing them to swell up with fluid, which then interferes with the cell's normal way of taking in nutrients and expelling toxic waste; and cells being thus affected are diseased cells; so Dr. Gerson insisted that salt or anything with “sodium” in it must be removed from one's diet!

Protein eaten in excess of the body's need for it must be processed, by the liver, as a toxin and is a burden on the liver! And, since animal protein is an highly concentrated form of it, the Gerson Therapy avoids animal proteins and even the more concentrated form of them in beans and legumes!

Dr. Gerson was also of the opinion that avoiding both animal and vegetable fats was helpful in alleviating the liver's burdens for maintaining a clean blood supply. To function properly the body must have fats; and most fruits and vegetables have them in their natural forms! But the fats in meats, dairy, nuts and avocados are concentrated and therefore avoided by the Gerson patient.

The liver's function of removing toxins from one's blood is accomplished by the liver's making bile, which then moves the toxins into the upper intestine! From there the bile makes its way through the colon and out the rectum, unless it is used to digest the fats of the food making its way through the intestine, which is the other known function of the liver's bile!

When the liver's bile is needed to digest many fats, obviously, the toxins with which the bile was laden must be reabsorbed by blood servicing the intestine and recycled through the liver! So one can readily see that the more fats one has that his or her bile must digest the less bile is available to carry the toxins as bile salts through the colon and out of the body! Hence the need to reduce fats in one's food, to free the bile for its intended use as the carrier for the toxins gathered by the liver!

Drinking coffee accelerates the colon's natural reabsorption of the bile, which also takes its toll on the bile's functioning, whereas taking coffee as an enema blocks the bile's being reabsorbed, so that it can be directly expelled from the body!

Taking coffee as an enema also stimulates the liver to make more bile, thus assisting it in its removal of the toxins.

The coffee enema increases important enzymes in the upper colon that are important for their removing “free radicals” from the body, which attack cells, disrupt their functioning and ultimately destroy them.

So the Gerson Therapy is a three-way approach to restoring good health for anyone! Its reputation for curing cancer and other degenerative diseases over the past sixty years is amazing! And Faith Harvest Israel is proud to include information about it, to help fulfill Yehovaw's promise through Yehoshua that ha Kodesh Ruakh “will guide you into all truth”! (John 16:13)

Amen! Alleluia!

For those who would like to learn more about the Gerson Therapy I have written a free ebooklet entitled "3242141 Health the Gerson Way"

You can have that ebooklet, by going to the Vault of this website and simply clicking on Downloads; and the file will immediately be yours in PDF format!