A Letter from Charlotte Gerson
Your gift helps us continue working for the day when children will find it difficult to believe that a holistic, nutrition based treatment for cancer could ever be considered “controversial.”
Running for a Cause: How I’m Helping a Young Gerson Patient (& You Can Too!)
Happy 2013 to everyone! I know that two of your resolutions are to get fit and help others, right? Well, those two things are my passions, and when I saw an opportunity to help a young Gerson patient out while getting fit I couldn’t pass it up. I know that once you learn about this [...]
Joyce’s Doctor Didn’t Think She’d Be Alive Today
7 ½ years after being diagnosed with stage IV mantle cell, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Joyce just celebrated another holiday with her family.
Phil Collen of Def Leppard Rocks the Gerson Institute for Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month!
Life at the Gerson Institute is always exciting, but last Thursday was especially exciting, since Phil Collen, the lead guitarist for Def Leppard, came for lunch. Actually, it was a little more than lunch. Collen came to our office yesterday with guitar maker Jake Willoughby to present the Institute with a $20,000 donation and give [...]
Introducing the Gerson Archive Project + Joan’s Breast Cancer Recovery
The Gerson Institute has been around for over three decades. As you can imagine, a lot has happened over the years. While some parts of our past will live on only as memories, others we were fortunate enough to capture on video. Recently, we began a project to bring the Gerson Institute’s history back to [...]
Rita’s Story: Healing Breast Cancer Holistically
by Rita S, August 2012. I am from a little town 25 km North of Barcelona, Spain. I was diagnosed with a hormone-dependent breast cancer in November 2009 called invasive ductal adenocarcinoma; stage II/III, tumor size 2cm. I felt devastated at that moment, and so did my husband, my mother and my sisters. But then [...]
Rethink Pink, Part II: Carcinogens for the Cure
Everything goes pink in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We are bombarded daily with pink products, armies of pink feather boa-clad women marching in Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure, and “Save the Boobies” bumper stickers. Turn on the TV, and every news anchor has a pink ribbon pinned to their lapel. Football [...]
Rethinking Pinktober: Are We More Aware of “Breast Cancer Awareness” Than the Disease Itself?
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so in the spirit of awareness-raising, I’d like to make you all a little more aware of what awareness campaigns are actually making you aware of.
Mercury Madness: Why Your Fillings Could Be Hurting Your Health (& What To Do About It!)
It’s no big secret that mercury is highly poisonous, and that exposure to mercury should be avoided at all costs. Why, then, do dentists keep putting mercury fillings in their patient’s teeth? Mercury fillings – sometimes called “silver fillings,” “metal fillings” or “amalgam fillings” – are incredibly toxic. Mercury fillings continuously emit mercury vapor, which [...]
How I’m Conquering Prostate Cancer
During a routine exam in 2007, the doctor found a nodule on my prostate. I got a biopsy and they found cancer on half of my prostate. They wanted to remove or radiate it but they couldn’t guarantee that I would be cancer free. Afterwards, I spoke to my friend Allison. She told me about [...]
