Dr. Gerson Diet

The treatment of Dr. Max Geresona

Max Gerson - German physician from Wągrowiec, who developed his treatment in 1930 to get rid of migraine attacks. Then tried it on patients who suffered from tuberculosis to good effect in the University Hospital in Munich.

What is the treatment of Dr. Gerson?

Its aim is to stimulate the body's healing powers. It is based on a vegetarian diet, fresh juices rich in natural vitamins and enzymes and supplements. According to Dr. Gerson cause of most diseases are the toxins and nutritional deficiencies, and therefore his patients received meals mainly fruit and vegetables, raw and finely grated.

Remember! Gerson Therapy assumed: that vegetables cooked without added water, steamed in a pot in its own juices. Patients received either juices: orange, grapefruit, apple and carrot in an amount of 13 glasses per day. Prepared in a special Miller, not a juicer.

Using this diet, Max Gerson pulled from tuberculosis Nobel laureate's wife - Albert Schweitzer. His daughter cured of boils, and Schweitzer of diabetes.

Cure for cancer

According to Dr. Max Gerson cause of cancer tissue is wasting syndrome resulting from an imbalance of sodium-potassium.

Gerson Therapy for cancer is therefore based on a diet rich in potassium, low in sodium, contains no fats or oils, with the minimum amount of animal protein.

Juices from raw fruits and vegetables and extracts of raw calf's liver to restore disrupted in cancer liver functions, which include is to inhibit the cancer.

Gereson gave the sick preparations of iodine and niacin (vitamin B3) and felt the need for enemas of black coffee in the amount of five per day.

Black list of products according to Dr. Gerson

Dr. Max Gerson was banned:

• salting foods, white flour, oil (you could use only linseed oil) and white sugar, eating pineapple and berries, chocolate, ice cream, nuts.

Patients also had to resign from cucumbers, beans, spicy foods, meat, butter, eggs, fish, milk and cream, mushrooms. They could not drink tea, alcohol, cocoa and coffee.

Remember! The efficacy of cancer therapy Dr. Gerson has not been confirmed in studies of the National Cancer Institute, USA. According to the American Cancer Society, this method has no scientific basis and is potentially dangerous. However, despite the lack of evidence of it still has many supporters.

Dr. Gerson diet for healthy people

It is less restrictive.

Dr. Gerson recommended that three quarters diet was based on vegetarian food, and the fourth on personal preferences. Juices, fruit and vegetable "soup of Hippocrates", potatoes and oatmeal is the basis of poisoning the body, and a necessary condition for maintaining health.

Remember! Raw materials must come from organic farming.

Intake of foods and juices should be as large as possible, because the diet is low in calories.

Recommended fruits in the diet Garson:

• bananas, melons, peaches, apricots, cherries, cherries, papaya, grapefruit, pears, oranges, apples, currants, mangoes, plums, grapes and tangerines all vegetables (except cucumbers).

As a snack you can eat rye bread wholemeal sourdough, skimmed yogurt and cottage cheese. Brown rice just once a week.

Sweetened with brown sugar, maple syrup, and honey.

What must include a menu according to Dr. Gerson diet?

Breakfast: a glass of juice, oatmeal, stewed fruit.

Lunch: salad, a glass of hot soup, a glass of juice, a large baked potato, stewed vegetables.

Dinner: salad, a glass of juice, a large baked potato, steamed vegetables (2 types).

Remember! During the addition of 12 glasses drink juice.

The recipe for oatmeal: half a cup of oatmeal shitting glass of boiling water and boil. Then reduce the heat, partially cover with a lid and cook for 10 minutes (petals should soak before approximately 8 hours).

The recipe for the soup of Hippocrates

Ingredients: 1 celeriac, parsley root 1, 2 small onions, a few cloves of garlic, half a bunch of parsley, 1 kg of tomatoes, 50 grams of potatoes.

Scrub everything thoroughly and coarsely chop (do not peel!). Pour water in a pot 2 liter so that only covered her vegetables. Cook over low heat for 2.5-3 hours, and then, feed the mill or blend.

Juices in the diet of Dr. Gerson

Remember! According to Dr. Gerson optimal amount of juice to 13 glasses of 0.25 l (total should consume about 7.5 kg of vegetables and fruits).

Juice drink every hour from 8 am to 20 pm.

Note! Juices must be fresh and not to drink cartons and after they are prepared, because the enzymes under the influence of oxygen, light and temperature within half an hour to lose 60% of the activity.

Orange juice - 1 cup for breakfast - apple juice - Carrot - 4 cups a day. The juice of the green parts of the plant (young leaves of beet, lettuce, watercress, 1/4 green pepper) - 4 cups a day. In addition to this drink grape juice, grapefruit, apple and tomato.

Remember! You should give up drinking water, tea and coffee, because the water taken from the juice causes bloating and digestive problems.

At night you can prepare a weak brew of mint.