The Gerson Institute, Past and Present

In 2012, Charlotte Gerson will celebrate her 90th birthday and the Gerson Institute will celebrate 34 years of spreading Dr. Gerson's message of hope and healing. Charlotte founded the Gerson Institute in 1978 to keep her father's work alive, and still serves on the Gerson Institute's all-volunteer Board of Directors. Talking with Charlotte about the Institute's history and future showed us just how far we've come and how much we have left to do. If you would like to make a year-end gift, please consider giving to the Gerson Institute so we can work to make her vision a reality.

The Early Days

"There were only three people running the Gerson Institute. At that time, I went to Mexico every day. If somebody didn't arrive on time in the morning, we were up in the kitchen, first thing in the morning making oatmeal and juice for the patients!"

Charlotte taught the clinic's staff how to prepare the meals and juices, prepare the coffee enema solution, and recognize and cope with healing reactions. Her daughter Peggy recalls that Charlotte "juiced and cooked for patients when help evaporated, and spent hours on the phone encouraging the desperate and placating their fears."

Today

The Institute has grown dramatically since those days. Today, we have over 20 people on our staff! In addition to licensing clinics, we now run training programs for medical professionals and Gerson Home Set-Up Trainers. We offer telephone coaching to those following the Therapy at home, run educational workshops, provide information via our website and social media, and continue to answer calls and emails from people around the world who want to learn more about the Gerson Therapy.

"That's why we need the Gerson Institute. Patients need to have a place to call, to have a place to ask questions, to learn, to read literature, to get information, to get instruction."

"Along with the growing demand for information, the Gerson Institute is growing."

The Future

Charlotte's ultimate goal for the Gerson Institute?

 "A university. Teaching the Gerson Therapy to doctors, to people who want to learn, who want to do this kind of work and help people."

"For the long-term future, we need to teach. More intensively, more carefully, and keeping the integrity of the Therapy."

In addition to training more medical professionals about the Therapy, Charlotte wants to see the Gerson Institute develop more literature so that one day information on the Gerson Therapy will be available in health centers and doctor's offices across the globe.

But we can't do it without you! So please, if you believe that the Gerson Therapy should be available to all people, help us make that a reality with your year-end gift. Every donation helps.

If we all do our part, however small, some day Charlotte's vision will be a reality.

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