Gerson Institute

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Oh boy, has THIS subject stirred me up!

<< Has anyone any direct experience of how this helps people with MS? I

beleive it helps but may not be a total cure.

My mother went to the Gerson Institute in 1980 for colon cancer (never heard

of it being suggested for MS) and has been cancer-free since completing the

therapy, which IIRC involved coffee enemas and a diet that included a drink

with triturated raw organic calves' liver, not injections. I met Charlotte

Gerson, I went to that clinic, and I saw that program do for my mother what

doctors did not. I was very skeptical at the time, but who can argue with

results? If anyone wants to correspond with her, write me privately and I

will give you her e-ddress.

Sorry, Jock, I SO disagree with you about Quackwatch. The overwhelming

majority of what has helped my MS has been the stuff that the allopathic

neuros and NMSS pooh-pooh, and all the stuff they push has done nothing but

lighten my wallet, exhaust me, and give me false hopes.

<<You can strive for the healthiest eating you can manage. Diet is agreed by

most folks with MS that speak of their management to be the single most

useful thing to change. Move from standard fare: fresher food, more organic,

less animal fat, less dairy, less gluten, less sugar (some report progress

if less becomes none). One of the best sources of common sense summaries and

critical review of the medical literature, is Embry Ashton's site

http://www.direct-ms.org/.

According to EVERY neuro I've ever talked to, the best diet for MS is to eat

a " healthy, balanced, low-fat, food-pyramid-based-diet high in whole grains. "

What a bunch of hooey, these guys got half a week of nutrition class in med

school and nothing about nutrition and MS. I have been off sugar completely

for 4 years, off all grains and gluten for 3, and I'm the first person to

jump up on the diet soapbox for MS. But I assure you that that is merely

what we alternative-oriented MSers think, NOT what the standard neurology

community thinks. I can't understanding you embracing Quackwatch's validity

while saying that diet is the biggest benefit, when those are contradictory!

<< Only recently, medications that work a bit are available - that reduce

exacerbations, that reduce sclerosis as evidenced by MRI. They are extremely

expensive and not without side effect though. Not for all. Learn about them

and talk to your physician. If they are not for you now, they may be at some

future time.

Been on Avonex for nearly 5 years, during which time my MS lesions went from

brain to also spinal cord, where my condition went from dancing to

walker/wheelchair. Yeah, you can just imagine what *I* think of Avonex, IV

steroids, IViG, Novantrone. Damn slash-and-burn neurologists. Don't accept

being conned? I am finally accepting that I let myself be conned BY the

allopathic community.

You don't know me, Jock, but some other folks on this list do, and they could

tell you that I have a very positive and spiritual approach to life in

general and my MS in particular. I am very certain that when I beat it, it

will not be with drugs and neurology.

Rani