Pictured is Charlotte Gerson with Angie Cooper and mum Val 🙂
Kathleen Blake was diagnosed with thyroid cancer 32 years ago, was told the surgeon wanted to remove her thyroid. This didn’t sound right to her, So she started to look for alternatives, prayed for guidance. At a health food store a few days later, she found Dr. Gerson’s book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of 50 Cases. Instinctively, she knew this was the right way to go, but, as the mother of four young children, could not afford the time or cost to go to the Mexican clinic for two weeks.
So she proceeded to do the Gerson Therapy herself, very strictly at home for two years, and to this day, stays close to the Therapy’s recommendations for good health. She has continued to research natural health, worked in the local health food store, and is a vocal advocate for natural healing, including facilitating local seminars for Charlotte Gerson in Sedona, AZ.
April 8, 2013 Hosted by Howard Straus
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If your on Facebook: Kathleen Blake’s Gerson Therapy Support Group has a high success rate of members. . . if they stay committed like Angie Cooper.
S0 Here is Angie’s Story In Her Own Words 🙂
I was diagnosed in June 2012 with stage 3 nodular melanoma the tumour presenting as a small sore on my upper right arm. Having no knowledge whatsoever at this time that people were curing themselves with natural treatments I chose to follow the conventional route and completed one month of interferon treatment in December 2012.
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My oncologist encouraged me to give the treatment a try and told me it would increase my five-year survival rate by 5% with little to no side effects. How wrong he was I ended up with horrendous side effects including hair loss, severe depression, vomiting blood and damage to the liver, I ended up in emergency and was admitted for three days and placed on a drip, my weight plummeted, I was in bad shape.
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I completed the month long treatment of daily IV’s the week before Xmas 2012.
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In January 2013 I felt a lump in my hip and after further scans and a biopsy it was confirmed that the cancer had metastasized, I was given a terminal diagnosis from my oncologist. I was offered no further treatments and there were no clinical trials available. The only course of action to be taken was a pet scan every 3 months to see further tumours as they appeared, when I queried him why so often he said so that they only find one tumour in my liver at a time not 20.
From the time I was diagnosed I started to do research into both conventional and natural treatments. I went on you tube and Google searching for any survivor story. I could find from people who had received the same diagnosis as myself and had healed. It consumed most of my days reading and watching one story after another. Time after time I was lead to the Gerson Therapy this therapy became my focus and backup plan when conventional treatments failed me.
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In March 2013 I applied to the Gerson Institute in San Diego, within a few days I received an early morning phone call advising me that my application had been accepted. You can’t imagine my relief and excitement knowing that the Institute felt that they would be able to help me, I had hope and a plan to reverse the diagnosis I was given.
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I left Perth 10th May arriving in Mexico 11thMay 2013. I was introduced to Dr. Cervantes, the nurses and staff, I was shown to my room where I stayed for three weeks with my Mum who traveled the 24 hours with me to be my companion. I have only positive feedback with regards to my time spent at the clinic, Dr. Cervantes was very thorough, and I felt he was 100% invested in my treatment program.
My schedule started off with 10 juices and 3 coffee enemas a day but by the end of the first week I was consuming the full 13 juices and doing 5 coffee enemas a day. Meal times were set the same for all patients 8am Breakfast, 1pm Lunch and 6pm dinner. In addition to these meal times and juices I was given a vegetable sandwich at both 11am and 4pm and an extra bowl of oats after dinner. This was because I was malnourished having lost 8-9 kilos on an already slight frame.
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I was consuming many supplements approximately 80 per day. I was privileged in the first week to have Charlotte Gerson and her daughter Margaret Strauss attend the clinic for our own personal lessons, it was amazing here in front of me was the daughter and grand daughter of Dr. Max Gerson. By the second week Dr. Cervantes introduced Castor oil to my schedule, this included drinking a tablespoon of castor oil followed by a black coffee chaser, this was the only time we could drink coffee. This would continue to be part of my therapy every second day for the first six weeks gradually tapering off to twice a week, then weekly, monthly etc.
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After three weeks at the clinic I returned home to follow the full therapy for the minimum two years required to totally rebuild my body and liver. My day included three meals, 13 juices, 5 coffee enemas and over 80 supplements a day, drinking castor oil every second day. I dreaded castor oil days as not only had my one tablespoon spoon increased to two but the thought of drinking it had me gagging at just the thought of it.
On castor oil days I was completely left without energy and had detoxing side effects of dry retching and feeling ill. Over time the symptoms lessened like I was told they would do and eventually I could drink the castor oil with no ill effects at all, apart from not going to far from the bathroom castor oil days were manageable.
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I experienced a lot of emotional healing reactions and also a few physical ones, I had a lot of ulcers in my mouth in the beginning and I would have to keep swallowing. It was like I had fluid draining continually down the back of my throat. I never experienced the high temperatures some patients talk of.
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Where I had surgery to remove the tumour from my hip I would have pain in that area on and off eventually it never bothered me again. The emotional flare ups were intense:
I would feel like I was suffering depression for a few days then as quickly as these feelings began they would disappear, I could literally feel the depression starting or finishing.
I would go through days of anxiety that was to the point I would gag on the oats I enjoyed, or I would throw up the juice I had just finished. Tears were never to far from my eyes and I would vent my frustration at these feelings I was constantly having with my new Gerson Friends who were all feeling the same way.
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3 months after I had surgery to remove the tumour from my hip my oncologist wanted me to have a pet scan, Dr. Cervantes however wanted me to wait 6 months to allow the Gerson Therapy time to start healing my body. I fully trusted the Gerson Therapy so chose to wait the six months. The oncologist was not happy and expressed this to me.
At the six months mark I did have the pet scan which showed no evidence of disease, the oncologist never once congratulated me for staying cancer free nor did he ever show any interest in what I had been doing. In fact, he refused to let me tell him what I was doing, needless to say I sacked him and never went back.
I continued the Gerson Therapy for the full two years not once cheating as I knew that meant I was only cheating myself and my chance at a full life. Every month I would do full blood work and send my results to Dr Cervantes, we would then have a phone consultation to discuss the changes that were happening. Very gradually the therapy reduced and by the end of the two years I was doing 9 juices and 2 coffee enemas a day and the odd castor oil day when I felt I needed it.
I am now (May 11th) five years cancer free and still live my life following the teachings of Dr. Gerson, I have allowed more foods to be added to my diet staying with a plant-based diet. I chose to continue to one coffee enema a day and drink five juices, I do not know if I will do this forever but for now it just feels right.