On the Gerson Therapy, food IS medicine. In addition to prescribed Gerson juices, patients are encouraged to consume raw and cooked foods in generous quantities. Equally important to what we eat is what we cook with. Common cookware such as non-stick Teflon and aluminum contain toxic chemicals that leach into our food. For example, non-stick Teflon cookware is coated in PTFE (polytetrafluoroethylene), a plastic polymer, and PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid). Aluminum is a neurotoxic metal linked to some diseases of the(...)