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terminal cancer cases and that all testimonials the original one) results in cancer remission for
claiming otherwise are cases of misdiagnosis or many people. For anyone on the standard Ameri-
involved a type of cancer that would have dis- can diet and lifestyle, just about anything could
appeared without intervention anyway. Several promote health improvement. However, I think
others who are critical of the therapy say similar any implication that a vegan or near-vegan diet
things. This movie demonstrates that once your is the way to go in the long run is wrong. I find
mind is made up, it rarely changes regardless myself in the interesting position of disagreeing
of whatever evidence is out there to refute your at least to some extent with both sides of the
position. subject as presented here. That would mean my
The current medical system has its short- thumb is DOWN.
comings. Marcia Angell, former editor of the
New England Journal of Medicine wrote an In Search of the Perfect Human Diet
editorial titled “Is Academic Medicine for Sale?” Written and directed by CJ Hunt
Her answer, in a nutshell, is yes. Another good Hunt Thompson Media, LLC
question asked in the video is that if allopathic
medicine is the only thing that works and works We are inundated with contradictory in-
well, why are millions of people looking for formation about nutrition. The cacophony of
alternatives? claptrap is occasionally clarified with insight-
Dr. Wallace Sampson says that in order for ful newsflashes like this one from ABC News:
him to be convinced that the Gerson therapy has Americans are fat. David Getoff, vice president
any merit he would have to accept that everything of Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, is one
we’ve known about cancer for the last fifty years of the first experts to appear in this film. He
is wrong. Since we don’t have a cure yet, either explains that the facts aren’t changing but we
everything we think we know is not right, or it are confused because what the media want us
is right and the best we have been able to come to believe as fact keeps changing. Most believe
up with after fifty years are treatments that are that nutrition has something to do with obesity
worse than the disease. If that is the case then but there is little agreement beyond that.
I’m forced to conclude that we are truly a race of Anyone who has worked in some way with Max Gerson’s
slobbering idiots. I seriously doubt that anything nutrition will understand when Barry Sears, original
will ever convince Dr. Sampson to change his PhD, says that it is an emotionally charged is-
mind. sue. Religion, politics and nutrition are belief therapy
Max Gerson’s original therapy included systems, and people often don’t respond well to included raw
raw liver juice. When that became hard to get, challenges to these systems. They put a lot of liver juice.
daughter Charlotte dropped that part of the work into fortressing those beliefs so when you
therapy. Now a crude liver extract injection or come along with some offensive fact that upsets When that
desiccated liver tablets are used in the current that system, you will incur some hostility. became hard
protocol, something that is not mentioned in this Getoff briefly explains how Weston Price to get,
video. That may be because one of the things studied the health results of traditional cultures
being promoted here is a plant-based diet. T. that had been following their diet and lifestyle daughter
Colin Campbell (The China Study) and Caldwell for thousands of years and remained healthy. Charlotte
Esselstyn Jr. make appearances to promote that When a modern study covering six months or dropped that
very thing. even ten years appears to contradict what Weston
This video is pro-Gerson. It is not hard for Price saw, which one do you suppose is correct? part of the
me to believe that the Gerson therapy (especially Because the world is very different today it is therapy.
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