Max
Gerson, M.D. was
born October 18, 1881 in Wongrowitz, Germany.
He attended the universities of Bresslau,
Wuerzburg and Berlin, and graduated from
the University of Freiburg. Dr. Gerson,
who suffered from severe migraines, discovered
that a change in diet prevented the onset
of these crippling headaches.
His
outlook on the nature and treatment of degenerative
disease shifted dramatically when a patient
of his whom had been following the Gerson
"migraine diet" was cured not
only of migraines, but of skin tuberculosis
as well. Dr. Gerson published his findings
on skin tuberculosis in a dozen of the world's
leading medical journals, establishing the
Gerson Therapy as the first cure for this
disease.
Through
his work with tuberculosis, Dr. Gerson attracted
the friendship of Albert Schweitzer, M.D.
In 1931, after nine months on the therapy,
Mrs. Helene BresslauSchweitzer (1879-1957)
was cured of lung tuberculosis. Dr. Schweitzer
himself came to Dr. Gerson at age 75 depressed
and weary with advanced adult onset diabetes.
In a few weeks Dr. Schweitzer was completely
off his heavy insulin dosage. He returned
to Africa, invigorated and full of optimism.
This great humanitarian worked past age
90 and was honored with the Nobel Peace
Prize for his medical missionary work. Schweitzer
followed Gerson's progress over the years,
seeing the dietary therapy successfully
applied further to heart disease, kidney
failure and cancer.
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