The Gerson Therapy
By: Howard Straus author of Dr. Max Gerson Healing the Hopeless and grandson of Dr. Max Gerson.
The Gerson Therapy is an extremely effective, all-natural therapy for cancer and most chronic disease that really works and is supported by an 80-year track record of success. It is the oldest, most effective and best-documented holistic therapy in existence today.
The Gerson Therapy is not a quick fix and it is not something that is done to you. It is done by you, for you, in loving care for that amazing body that has been with you all these years. We invite you to read on about the Gerson Therapy and see with your own eyes what it has done for tens of thousands of people who were literally on death’s doorstep when they began and are alive today to tell their stories.For those who may not believe or doubt this can work, all we ask is that you temporarily set aside your disbelief, just for a moment, and let us show you the full story. The life you save may just be your own!
The Gerson Therapy and Lisa St.John
I would like to share my story with you and how the Gerson Therapy saved my life. I am fortunate to have met Howard Straus and his wife Sally at a time when I was very ill with a brain tumor. It is ironic how all my life I prescribed natural whole foods for the animals to achieve health and vitality and yet never really understood how to do it for myself. I have learned much on this healing journey and am very fortunate to have had this illness, for it has taught me much about nutrition and allowed me to personally experience heavy clearings and a true healing. This experience has given me an understanding of how the body heals so I may better assist the animals in this natural and necessary process. I will be forever grateful to Howard and his mother Charlotte Gerson, daughter of Dr. Max Gerson, for continuing Dr. Gerson’s therapy and mission to save lives. This therapy is not just a cure for degenerative diseases but a way of life and a pathway to vitality.
With love and appreciation to the Gerson Therapy
Lisa St.John
Doing The Gerson Therapy on Her Own
By: Charlotte Gerson
Lisa St. John was born on August 21, 1965. It was in May of 2002 when she noticed that she didn’t feel quite right. She stands at 5’3” and had always weighed around 105 pounds, never gaining or losing much weight. Then, in a period of about two months she suddenly gained an incredible 65-70 pounds.
Lisa was living on her own by the time she was 15 years old, with no family with whom to consult or provide any help. She worked for her living while studying, sometimes holding several jobs at once. At the age of 19 she finished her studies and earned a high school equivalency diploma. Lisa worked at an amazing number of occupations, including work as a cosmetologist and as an interior designer in her own business. In retrospect she realizes that she was always working with chemicals of one kind or another. 
What she really loved though, was working with animals. She remembers that at the tender age of 5 years old she already seemed to have an intuitive understanding of animals’ needs. As Lisa grew older, more and more people became interested in her work taking care of animals.
“Lisa was then told by the doctor that she had a pituitary tumor and probably had only about two months to live.”
She finally figured out that this was the work she really wanted and needed to do in her life. At age 30 she had become a full time “Animal Nutritionist.”
Unfortunately, weakness and forgetfulness accompanied her sudden and huge weight gain. In 2004 Lisa made an appointment to see a holistic physician recommended to her. Interestingly, this doctor’s mother was an iridologist. The doctor performed a diagnostic scan, noted her symptoms and then studied her iris. Lisa was then told by the doctor that she had a pituitary tumor and probably had only about two months to live. The doctor told Lisa that his mother had suffered the very same condition and managed to overcome the problem with some herbal treatments. However, felt certain that for her, an herbal treatment would not be enough.
In the meantime, Howard Straus of Carmel, California had consulted Lisa for his dog’s health problem and was very impressed with her ability to help the dog. Shortly thereafter in 2004 when Howard was making plans to visit our great friend and cinematographer Stephen Kroschel in Alaska, he invited Lisa to come along. Stephen picks up abandoned baby animals in the Alaskan wilderness in the wintertime and raises them. At the time Howard was unaware of Lisa’s recent diagnosis of a pituitary tumor, but at Stephen’s home, she learned about the juicing and food preparation that are fundamental to the Gerson Therapy. She chose not to tell Howard about her problem to avoid burdening him with any possible responsibility for her healing.
Lisa obtained copies of the Gerson Therapy book and DVDs and put herself on the full treatment. She went through the usual difficult periods of healing, weakness, high fevers and even regular seizures, all the while completely on her own. She persevered even though she had neither friends nor family to help her. It took about two years before she really felt a great deal better and had appropriate cravings for greens and the nutrients her body needed. She was delighted, but not until 2009 did she feel decidedly better and lose much of her weight. At present her weight has nearly returned to normal. Lisa noted that her weight is coming off now almost as fast as it came on! She is eating huge bowls full of greens now that she realizes this is what her body needs, and she is doing the coffee enemas and juices by the book.
Along her healing journey, Lisa has become aware that animals go through the same reactions and know what it is they need. She now finds herself trying to explain to her clients, the owners of horses and other pets for whom she renders care, just what these reactions are that they don’t understand. Lisa points out that after six years, the two months of remaining life predicted by her doctor have still not run out.
