Blog 內容整理篇之~~~開新Blog 2~^v^~

搬Blogs 過來中, 為了繼續令這裡簡潔, 我替我那少量的travel blog開了新家, 因為........我打算嚟緊的日子要努力去旅行~~~除咗係補償以前養BoGe時的犠牲, 亦係作為為咗養另一隻狗狗的準備 :p   (想去的地方都去咗先, 第2時就可以專心陪狗狗啦~^^v~ 好啦~~~~ here's my next blog !!!!~~~~~

Travel by the Ark

http://arktraveller.blogspot.hk/

 

有興趣看以下Topic的bloggers可以看一下啊! ^.^

你有定時為肌膚去角質嗎？

不知什麼時候開始， 我居然成為了美容達人！！ 明明直到今年頭，我還是一個連洗臉也不是每天做的女子.......不要誤會, 我是有注意護膚的， 只是我只會間唔中做一些基本的就算了.........

我想是由轉用natural skin care 開始吧，因為這些東東要靠自己不斷找資料及資源，因此我得到了很多美容資訊，亦引發了我改善自己膚質的興趣及明白到這的重要........that's right, it's more like a exploration more than beautification~~~~ of course, successfully transforming oneself is a very good proof to my knowledge/ theory, & behind is all about understanding both chemistry & biology, which has always been my interest ^^" a better way for adapting theory than fighting illness or maintaining health in fact!! ^^v

不過, 這範疇確實是一個無底深谷！ 看了10萬樣皮膚需要的東西後， 前2天又發現另一個不容忽視的護理程序： 去角質---

這當然不是新的term! (I mean to myself)..... 我本來就也很喜歡做磨砂的^^ 曾經我也有每星期做一次磨砂的習慣。 只是我之前是因為喜歡那滑滑的感覺而做， 而現在我知道了我們是必需把這作為基本程序的很經常的做=.= 最近我看到的是"應該要每天做"!!!! 事實上, 我看到人家很多的分享, 每天的正常護理程序中都有exfoliation的的, 真的令我驚訝!!!!! 

美容升級 ~^^~" ---Vitamin A 之Retinol

各位有睇小妹的blog的或許有讀過我不久前在發現Vit C Serum 時, 一拼發現的另一美容聖品---Vit A~~~~~

當時, 小妹的感想係:
1. 由於Vit A的product無得DIY, 我應該唔會特別去買別的護膚品牌的產品用 (因我大部分已轉用天然護膚品^^)~~~~所以應該唔會試到

2. 唔想不斷try out every product other people are complimenting........that would be a dark hole !!!!

3. According to my research, Vitamin A對皮膚的刺激比較大, 要慢慢適應同埋會有反應期.......好似好複雜, 我未有資格試 ^^"

但係, 聰明的讀者應該已經sense 到, 在寫呢篇blog之時, 我已經變咗!!!! hahaha~~~~~~ That's right! 我已經在試某一隻Retinol cream ~^^~ 以下係我的經歷同分享--------------

由於我經常都讀到Vitamin A..........呢一刻我已經係半個達人, 所以我要用正確的名稱----係Retin-A / Retinol ...........對皮膚的anti-aging有不可取代的功效, 我越來越發現, anti-aging的達人基本上都有用呢類product (亦同時有用vitamin C! ).  咁我都已經follow佢哋用咗Vitamin C, 我當然越來越覺得Retin-A / Retinol 值得一試啦~~~~~但係始終基於上面的reason 1 & 2, 我都只係比較留意咗有關呢2個成分的post..........except............我時不時search 吓iherb有冇得買-------到咗上個月, 我終於見到有1隻Retinol cream 買!!!!!!


我當然第1吓睇價錢.....唔貴!!!! 再睇product review, 有讚有唔讚, 原因之後會明. 我再馬上花多3-4日, research 多啲Retinol cream 的資料, 決定真係想試, 就買咗我的第1支Retinol cream lu ~^^~

 

 

介紹一下Retinol Cream: retinol 可以當係Vitamin A as a skin care product的入門級. 終極的可以話係Tretinoin or Retin-A. 以往基本上都係只有呢2級, 不過多年來專家都發明咗不同的形式的strong d, 但係又温和d 的Vitamin A over Retinol & Tretinoin, 所以還有起碼3種其他種類的外用的Vitamin A啊~~~~~ back to Retinol, 佢係最温和的, 對皮膚的刺激最低, 不過用呢種product時都係會有反應的, 因為始終皮膚的去角質速度快咗:  不外乎發紅呀, 吉吉地以及脫皮(乾).......當然有人更嚴重啦, 不過Retinol 的反應都係濾積一段時間, 然後相對mild 地發生一排, 適應咗就冇嘢~~~~只要開頭唔好用幾次以為自己冇反應就晚晚用又越搽越多, 比足夠時間皮膚在Retinol 的影響下慢慢轉換, 咁多數人都可以冇咩嚴重問題下長期使用, 又在一段時間後慢慢見到皮膚越變越靚~^^~

注意的係, 使用Vitamin A product 的效能係要慢慢先出的, 其實Vitamin C都係一樣, 有資深的用家都話可能你用咗成年都唔覺有好大分別, 但係, 過多3-5-7年, 你就會發現皮膚Age-lock咗, 原本的Sun damage亦唔知幾時冇咗!       所以呢, 有啲心急的人, 又或者Sun damage 嚴重的人, 可能會覺得Retinol 的反應慢, 因為佢的___透力係冇Tretinoin 强; 咁, 其實都好多人一用就用Tretinoin的, but I'm just testing the water here, 所以都係試吓我對retinol 有咩反應先啦~^^~  BTW, Tretinoin 係要响藥房先買到的藥膏嚟㗎~~~~just another reason I'm not buying this.......香港比較少聽到人長期搽藥膏做skin care囉....=.=


BTW, 我的這Retinol Cream是從綱上 iherb.com 買的, 用DHL 送貨, 很放心, 比在香港買到同一隻品牌平好多啊!~~^0^~~如果你們也想買, 落單confirm order 時入呢個Code:MMC444 可以有discount! ~^^~ Enjoy!!!

最近發現的漫畫~~~銀騎女王~^^~

呢1-2 年都冇發掘到好的漫畫, 追開的都係成個月先更新, 所以都有好一排冇咩點睇.
前2日去check 吓7Seeds有冇update, 唔覺意見到右邊pop up的其他"相關"的漫畫群中, 有一個的名caught my eye~~~~~(其實我有時都會這麼spread出去睇睇有咩好睇的漫畫)~~~~~~按程序的睇下簡介, 睇下畫風etc.......eeeee? 好似幾啱我喎, 開開心心的開始睇吓~~~~~~


呢本漫畫各方面都唔錯, 我睇咗幾篇已經開始停唔到~~~~當覺得好睇就埋怨佢得10期太短 (開始係覺得有成10期唔錯喎~~~~~BTW, 我一般唔鍾意太短的漫畫, 得1期的基本上唔會睇 :p) .........所以好想自己可以認住唔好睇咁快! haha~~~~但係做唔到=.="

所以睇完第1期, 發現佢係2005年的漫畫, 我都幾suprise!, 因為那正是我開始上網睇漫畫的時期, 都俾我睇到冇嘢好睇, 居然仲有一套好睇但我未聽過的東東存在, 真係my luck!........不過宜家開始知知地係咩事, 原來呢位作者的漫畫資源好少, 佢其他的5-6套(長篇只有另一套)網上都冇的! 所以有可能呢套都係放咗上網冇幾耐~~~~~~~~

雖然我覺得作者有點兒未能將呢個故事發揮得最好 (基本上係同田村由美的Basara比啦, right, 呢2套的故事性有d似) 我覺得可以寫得深入, 深刻同長一d;但係因為我唔知作者的風格, 所以唔可以評論太多..........所以我先想多睇1-2套.............不過, 因為search 佢另一套漫畫時聽聞係悲劇收場, 令我睇呢部漫畫到尾聲時覺得都有可能向"非大團圓結局"方向發展, 加上本身情節, 睇到我都喊咗好幾頁..........可以睇一部漫畫............其實even books & movie, 可以睇到觸動到你的腦袋, 情感或情緒, 真係一件好滿足的事~~~~ 呢部漫畫做到了2點, 看完之後, 有一點令我再次思考生命的意義...................... 早2個月, 在表弟的婚宴上遇到一位高人, 係親戚的御用風水師, 久不久會碰到的, 所以大家說話都很直接, 他說我有點兒看破紅塵 (not exact wordings la~~~)我心想, 也對~~~~看完這部漫畫, 萬樣思潮中, 他的說話又浮起~~~~啊, 原來是我看書太多了, 每事都一看到結局, 看多了, 真的有影響啊!

Blog 內容整理篇之~~~開新Blog ~^v^~

由於我正在把Yahoo的Blog 都搬過來, 我發現這裡的platform 沒yahoo 的簡潔.   要從一個Sub topic 中找到不同的sub-sub-topic好像很不好看, 所以我決定把這關於健康資訊的內容另開新家~^^~   總算Google Blog是有這麼一點自知之名, 它是很方便地讓一個account holder 擁有多個blog 的~~~~  here you go!!!!~~~~~

Pinky's health Station

http://healthypinky.blogspot.hk/

 

 

這裡我可以把不同的健康related 內容分類~~~~

 

有興趣看以下Topic的bloggers可以看一下並分享大家的心得啊!  ^.^

 

 

 

Topic~~~~

 

Gerson Therapy

 

Budwig Diet 布緯療法 (inspired by 嚴導演)

 

椰子油 (inspired by 嚴導演)

 

Health Supplements that i came across

 

分享其他的療法/保健小工具

 

& more to come ~^^~

 

 

Hope seeing you all there! 到訪過請留下足印啊! 現在這新blog 很冷清呢>_<"

 

 

 

BTW, 我的用品盡量都是從綱上 iherb.com 買的, 用DHL 送貨, 很放心, 比在香港的門市買到同一隻品牌平好多啊!~~^0^~~如果你們也想買, 落單confirm order 時入呢個Code:MMC444 可以有discount! ~^^~ Enjoy!!!

第11個Jazz Course!

 Let's celebrate my 11th Jazz Course !!!!!!

每次開新班我都好佩服自己又繼續上~~~^^”
不過正確嚟講, 今次係天后阿Sir的第11個course,應該真的值得鼓掌^0^

阿Sir的第11隻舞係The Flood ...........Cheryl Cole~~~

呢隻舞跳得我好down, 因為好似得我一個跳得特別差...=.=" ...... 相反的, Miss 的嗰邊情況好好, 我跳得比人地好.....搞到我真係好想quit 咗星期四堂.................加油頂住呀!!!!!!


今期銅鑼灣Miss的第2隻舞:  SHINEE 的 Evil ~~~~

 

今期我向一位同學仔八到, 原來呢位Miss 每年都有一個showcase, 會揾班中的同學仔參演!!!! 而相中位助教的T就係showcase時的隊T~~~~每年唔同, 我都係借問點解佢有件T同Miss & team 的logo一樣, 而得知showcase 的嘢 ~^^~           唔知我會唔會有機會被選中呢? ^_^"   oh, 本來因為Miss的舞幾啱我跳, 而且班中同學的質數............=.= 我覺得自己表現OK, 都幾比心機, 宜家又多咗個目標, 要落力d先得! haha~~~~~

 

最後來一張我跟friend 自己practice 的capture 啦~~~~^^v

 

Yahoo Blog關閉?! 新Blog 的開始~~~~人生的新開始

係咪覺得我個Topic有啲誇?.....................

尋日一開blog就發現上面個行嚇死人既紅色字句=v=

雖然yahoo blog真係唔算好好用
但係點都話用左好耐有感情... 從2006年起, 已習慣了這空間7年, 估唔到連這裡也有別離的一日.......................

Good Bye 我的Yahoo blog~~~~~ Good Bye, my Boge~~~~~

 

"兩隻幸福小狗，有人錫，有爸爸媽咪姐姐哥哥，有床床, 有公仔..........~~~wish them always be happy and happy~~~ ※ALWAYS MISS THEM...........※主人熱愛追求知識----大自然奧秘,動物生態,水晶欣賞"

正如我blog的簡介所寫, 這個Yahoo blog 一開始成立是為了記下我2隻寶貝的點滴, 雖然後來它的用途變了, 但當中每一樣事情的發生, 都總有牠們在身邊一起經歷.  這一句短短的句子記錄了我當時的想法, 以及我曾經擁有的世界.   今天, 把它的內容轉過來這裡, copy到這一句句子時, 我猶豫了................這個blog再不會有牠們的足跡.........不再是for吸引其他狗主blogger一起交流的地方.........我應該要改名換性嗎?

雖然上天要我在Boge都走了的2個月後好好的放下過去, 連為他們而成立的網站也要close down! >.< 不 過我只會以另一個心情去繼續打理這個blog,因為 Boge永遠都是我家的Captain, 即使有一天我可能會有養另一隻狗狗的機會, 但BoGe都依然是老大, 帶領這條載着我們的Noah's Ark, 一直走到天國再重聚.

尋日未考慮到轉去邊, 腦入面諗唔到第2個blog spot.......(點知我就係走去Blogspot! :P) 拿拿淋去search.................
yahoo話會有第三方合作既新網址, 但係唔support 中文................
見到第1個pop up的yahoo blogger 話轉了到QOOZA, 我都即刻開咗個A/C, 不過睇睇吓都唔知係咩公司, 我自己都記唔到個web link 啦,
唔駛指意多人post/ read.....再睇第2個pop, 終於見到個大機構的service~~~~~而且那blogger的page都幾好睇咁, 等我試吓add 佢先:p


寫咗2段, 發現呢度冇cartoon facial expression >< 唔係好慣...............即管睇下其他service 如何!

其實yahoo blog上年左右轉過1次板面, 之後已經唔多好用=.=" 早2個月我發現add唔到新friend, 原來佢已經打算摺埋, 所以唔提供咁多service!!! 不過雖然唔多好用, 但我有好多一直keep up的friend (簡直好似一齊成長!) 宜家各散東西, 唔知有冇得再睇佢哋的生活lu~~~~~~希望呢度係一個大platform, 多數人都係轉到呢邊啦~~~~

Happy Blogging!

Gerson Theraphy---The Juice #2~~Apple-Carrot Juice

Gerson Therapy 有4種Juice要病人每天飲用~~~~以下是第2款:

Gerson’s Carrot-Apple Juice~~5 times a day~~
for patient

This juice requires approximately 8-12 oz each of carrots and (preferably tart) apples such as Granny Smith, Macintosh, Ida Red, Pippin, and Gala.

1. Cut the apples and carrots into pieces that fit into the machine. Patients need to remove seeds from apples, but others will do well with them in it.

2. Feed the ingredients into the juicer by alternating the apples and carrots.

3. Serve in a glass.

我之所以先介紹呢種Juice, 係因為佢係我選擇飲的第一種Juice ~^^~原因好簡單， 就係因為容易做 （材料少， 聽落又正常，味道都正常化（直情係好味道^.^）.......而其他的3款Juice, 等我都簡介吓：

#1 ----Orange Juice or citrus juice:  drink 1 glass as a start of the day~~~~~因為太simple, 應該只係用嚟開胃， 我pass 咗佢 :p
#3 ----Carrot Juice: 1日飲3-4杯， for 重點補肝， 但要加補肝的supplements, 唔加可能冇乜意義， 飲Apple-carrot 好過！
#4 ----Green Juice: a variety of lattice juice with some of specific other veggies of your choice~~~基本上全日餘下的Juice數由佢fill up, 大約4-5杯. 材料多， 要花啲心機買， 成本都較高，味道似乎會怪怪地......(不過聽聞唔難飲:p ), 但比人知道又有啲怪=.= 不過我會試！ ^.^

究竟這Carrot-Apple Juice有咩神奇之處呢? 有說Mr Gerson從沒explain 給大眾知; 我聽過他女兒說的訪問, 覺得有可能係因為佢發現養生之道時是由只吃蘋果開始的~~~~~說來重大的大自然埋論好像都跟蘋果有關啊~~~~Newton's 1st Law 都係由蘋果啟發的! ...............話說地球上有人類也多得當年Adam & Eve 偷吃了蘋果呢! 有空我也思考吓蘋果的奧妙, 回報應該比雞及雞蛋來得大啊 現在大多數的人都不會盲目跟隨別人推介的事情, 所以有很多有chemistry / nutrional background 人去研究/explain.
首先說說它們的基本營養:
Carrot juice is known for beta carotene which gives the body Vitamin A, B Vitamins, Vitamin E and many minerals. Just one cup of carrots offers 400% of Vitamin A, 12% Vitamin C, 11% potassium, 20% Vitamin K. High levels of vitamin E, G, and B are also found in carrots. The health benefits of drinking carrot juice are thought to be good prenatal health, eyesight, bones and teeth, liver and nails, skin and hair as well as helping in cancer prevention.

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The cancer-fighting properties of carrot juice are often thought to be excellent due to the high amounts of beta carotene. Beta carotene changes to Vitamin A in the body. Studies have connected Vitamin A with cancer prevention by its antioxidant properties that help eliminate cancer-causing free radicals in the body.

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Deficiencies in Vitamin A can cause dryness and damage to the skin, nails and hair.

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Drinking carrot juice is thought to be extremely beneficial for the liver due to Vitamin A's cleansing effects. Vitamin A reduces bile and fat in the liver. However, for the liver to reap the maximum benefits of Vitamin A, it is said that drinking carrot juice needs be done regularly rather than occasionally. The liver can store Vitamin A.

Carrot juice tends to help the body detoxify and can even remove infections from the kidneys. It has amazing regenerative properties and can heal and prevent digestive issues.


Relationship between the carrots and apples provides greater nutrient absorption when they are juiced together. the malic acid (contained in the apples) mixed with the ground carrots also helps to release the minerals from the carrots.

The Juice has a pleasant flavor and is easier on the digestive system. This juice is high in beta-carotene, calcium, minerals, vitamins, and phytochemicals. The carrot-apple juice, like all of the other juices, should be consumed immediately after pressing, but may be kept for 2-3 hours.

台灣就有一部專門介紹紅蘿蔔汁的書, 當中的receipt都是撘上蘋果的~~~~~

【紅蘿蔔汁真的有效】.石原結實著.徐玉枝譯.暖流出版社著

主要介紹紅蘿蔔汁的神奇, 治好各種病症.每天喝讓很多人的病都好了.書上寫了很多實例.
紅蘿蔔蘋果汁是很營養的東西.每天喝是OK的.作者也說了.頂多皮膚變黃囉.^^

紅蘿蔔有人體必需的的維他命A.C.E等.及礦物質.鈣.能讓人視力恢復.強化骨骼及牙齒.補血.懷孕後期持續喝紅蘿蔔蘋果汁.奶汁會比較多喔! 蘋果含有維他命A、B群、C.各種酵素.及豐富的礦物質.
紅蘿蔔蘋果汁需要2根紅蘿蔔(約400公克)+蘋果(約300公克).用刷子洗乾淨後.連皮一起搾汁.因為皮跟肉之間也有很多營養喔!蘋果不需要去子唷!種子含有維他命B17.比例沒有絕對.也可以加芹菜(鼻炎.)或檸檬或高麗菜(防癌.氣喘)或鳳梨100克(能溶解血中的固體物質.痔瘡)或牛蒡(修復皮膚)或白蘿蔔(氣喘.去痰)或黃瓜100克(護胃)或波菜200克(便秘)或葡萄或洋蔥(強心.止痛)或萵苣100克(失眠)或甜椒200克(禿頭.白髮)..讓自己愛喝最重要.^^喝的時間依照個人體質不同...所以找出適合自己的時間吧。也可以一餐不吃.只喝紅蘿蔔蘋果汁.看個人習慣早餐或午餐或晚餐.

Who Inspire my Gerson Therapy research??

雖然這療法已創立了超過 60年, 但我相信由於在美國是不受醫學界所歡迎, 所以它的認知程度很低.......well, there's always something as American rush........反而因此, 很多其他國家的此療法的追隨者更加花思去介紹推銷這療法 (我相信她們都沒有"直接"的得益的), 以下是我看到過一些很好看的Blogs~~~~~

http://gersonandme.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/46/



http://www.thewellnesswarrior.com.au/



看她們的blog, 除了可以很真實地了解 Gerson Therapy的操作, 更好看的是了解到她們路程上的ups & downs, 如何克服了2年的另類生活, 以及對她們以後人生的變化~~~

Enjoy!!!!

 

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To read more of my sharing about Health Issue , please visit my other Blog~~

Pinky's health Station

http://healthypinky.blogspot.hk/

重大發現!!!! Have you heard of Gerson Therapy in Hong Kong?? ~~~~My New Research Topic

早前試行了10多天的dry body brushing~~~~有空的時候我也會嘗試多research 吓這 Protocol 的資訊, 看着看着那些link , 這Body brush 又把我帶到另一個人的世界:

The World of Gerson Therapy

我之前從未聽過這個"療法" , 連它所做的"療程"的變化/簡化模式也沒聽過! 真枉我自以為對養生/治療很有見聞!

首先說一點： 這是一個治病的"療法". 跟早前接觸到的另類療法不同, 這program 所做的都是有病的人才要做的. 也跟那些另類療法不同, (也許) 它因為是從scientific methodology / thinking 出發, 所以它只是跟據實際它掌握到的數字來跟你說什麼病它可以醫, 什麼病它沒處理過, 什麼病沒作用.......並沒有因它的原埋來跟你說它能醫百病. 多數的病人都是因為癌症而跟隨這"療法"的, 但也有其他現代醫學所沒法根治的"退化性"疾病病人也會give it a try~~~~~例如心臟病, 糖尿病.....還有很多我很少接觸但並不罕見的病......在Gerson的web-page 有詳細的列出的.

雖然好像說得這"療法"是要做什麼奇異事情, 其實它是很有medical support 的, 發明它的人本身也是正統西醫, 當中所做的事情各自都是傳統/常見的養生/輔助療程, 只是它把它們綜合再exaggerate.......................就有點那個..........oops! ............不過它是很正宗的, 也有正式的治療中心, 可親身接受原創人(的後代) / 參與者的說明, 敎育, 分享, 及有醫生為你提供最適合各人不同的內容.

我看了關於這"療法"的資料很多天, 因為它的內容實在很多我的個性是必須把事情看得透徹, 弄清楚它是有科學理據 (合理或是不合理) , 還是personal will........ 看我一下子post 了好幾個related posts, 大家也不難估到我個人對於這Therapy 還是挻buy的.


我個人最buy的是它對於人體運作/生病觀. 雖然我沒有因此而打算成為100%Vegetarian~~~~因為我某情度上不認為要做得它那麼澈底/極端~~~~以我自己的重新組織, 它的theory 是, 人體自身是不應該發生病變的, eg Cancer. 大多數的病都是因為某些器官沒有正常運作, 而它們沒能運作不是因為衰退, 而是因為它們沒得到足夠的保養, 只要把它們重建就好~~~~而重點是: 重建身體的能力是利用天然的材料就可!  

說到這, 是否覺得可以採納為養生之道?  答案是"不"  =.="     因為這"Therapy" 做的事情是病人才願意做 (其實是被迫着做........) .   好了, 說了半天, 這Therapy究竟做什麼~~~~~~~~here you go:

My Research on Gerson Therapy --published material

(Excerpted from Options: The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book, Avery Publishing Group, 1993)

"There is no cancer in normal metabolism," wrote Max Gerson, M.D. ( 1881-1959). A pioneer of what is today known as nutritional metabolic therapy, the German-born physician, who lived in the United States for twenty-three years, believed that cancer cannot occur unless the functions of the liver, the pancreas, and the immune system as well as other body functions have degenerated. Cancer, in his theory, results from faulty metabolism due to poor nutrition and long-term exposure to pesticides, chemical fertilizers, air and water pollution, and other irritants that increasingly saturate the environment.

The Gerson therapy combines vigorous detoxification with nutrition aimed at restoring the body's natural immunity and healing power. Believing cancer to be a systemic rather than a localized disease, Gerson emphasized the rebalancing of the cancer patient's entire physiology. The therapy is thought to reverse the conditions necessary to sustain the growth of malignant cells. To rebuild the patient's healing mechanism, a twofold attack is mounted: a detoxification program helps the body eliminate toxins and waste materials that interfere with healing and metabolism; and a low-fat, salt-free diet floods the body's cells with easily assimilated nutrients that strengthen the natural immune defenses.

The diet, the core of the therapy, includes organically grown fresh fruits and vegetables and thirteen glasses of freshly squeezed juices daily, taken at hourly intervals. The emphasis on fresh fruits and vegetables means the patient receives high levels of vitamin C, beta-carotene, and other antioxidants that scavenge free radicals. Patients also receive supplements such as thyroid extract, potassium iodide, liver extract, pancreatic enzyme, and niacin. No meat is allowed. Animal protein is omitted for the first six to twelve weeks, then kept to a minimum. The diet is largely fat-free but includes some yogurt, pot cheese, cottage cheese, and churned buttermilk as well as linseed oil, a rich source of omega-3 fatty acids. Research shows that these fatty acids kill human cancer cells in tissue cultures without destroying normal cells in the same culture.

The key detoxification method is the coffee enema, which patients are taught to self-administer several times daily. Through his wore with cancer patients, Gerson came to the conclusion that many patients on a radical detoxification program died not of the cancer itself, but rather from the liver's inability to absorb the toxic breakdown products of the rapidly dissolving tumor mass. Coffee enemas, long a part of more orthodox medicine, seemed to him a logical component of a detoxification program. Caffeine taken rectally is believed to stimulate the action of the liver, increase bile flow, and open the bile ducts so that the liver can excrete the toxic products of tumor breakdown more easily.

Although coffee enemas may sound bizarre, and are distasteful to some, many cancer patients taking them report increased energy, improved appetite, relief from nausea, and a marked decrease in pain. Coffee enemas have been used by a number of other metabolic and immunotherapeutic practitioners, notably William Kelley (Chapter 18).

As a further aid in detoxification, some patients take castor oil orally and by enema every other day.

Max Gerson, a refugee from Nazi Germany with impeccable scientific credentials, was an eminent if controversial figure in Europe because he successfully treated tuberculosis, migraines, arthritis, and cancer by means of his salt-free vegetarian diet. One of Gerson's patients was Albert Schweitzer, the Nobel Prize-winning doctor-missionary. Through a prescribed nutritional program, Gerson enabled Schweitzer, at the age of seventy-five, to control his diabetes so well that he stopped taking insulin. Gerson also cured Schweitzer's wife of apparently terminal tuberculosis. Schweitzer wrote of the nutritional healer: "I see in him one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine..

But in the United States, where he emigrated in 1936, Gerson was persecuted and harassed by the medical establishment. Because of his unorthodox cancer therapy, Gerson was expelled from the New York Medical Society and deprived of his hospital affiliations. His therapy was prominently featured on the American Cancer Society's Unproven Methods blacklist, where it remains today, even though his anticancer diet is quite similar to the preventive diet now endorsed by the ACS, the NCI, and the American Heart Association.

Over the years, the Gerson therapy has yielded an impressive number of long-term cancer survivors, all of whom had well-documented illnesses. A current brochure gives the mini-case histories of thirty-six cancer patients, reportedly termed "incurable" by their orthodox physicians, who achieved long-term remission using the Gerson regimen. The names, ages, and photographs of these "cured incurables" are given, along with the details of their illnesses and treatments. Several of these patients are featured in Max Gerson's 1958 book, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases (see Resources), and are still alive and well-and cancer-free- over thirty years later.

Among the thirty-six cases profiled are seven survivors of cancer metastasized to the lung, which usually kills patients quickly, and three survivors of "hopeless" spreading melanoma who have lived thirty-six to forty-four years free of cancer after diagnosis. Other recovered patients include two survivors of metastasized pancreatic cancer and a fifteen-year survivor of advanced liver cancer who was given three to five weeks to live by her conventional doctor. These two forms of the disease are incurable by chemotherapy, radiation, or surgery. Also profiled in the brochure are long-term survivors of inoperable brain cancer, uterine cancer spread into the pelvis, metastasized breast cancer, prostate cancer, recurring bone cancer, and colon cancer.

Dora Sherken, now in her late eighties, was brought unconscious by ambulance to Dr. Gerson at Gotham Hospital, New York City, in March 1944. Doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital had diagnosed her in June 1943 with an exceptionally large tumor of the pituitary gland that left her blind in the right eye, with the left optic nerve and surrounding bones partially destroyed. Dora, who lived in Brooklyn at the time, had noticed a progressive loss of vision in both eyes during 1941 and 1942. At Mount Sinai, she had been given X-ray treatments, which were ineffective. Told by many doctors that she had six months to live and would shortly go totally blind, Dora was advised to have surgery to remove the large tumor mass pressing on the optic nerve. She refused, having seen the adverse aftereffects in other hospitalized patients who underwent neurological operations.

Under Dr. Gerson's care, Dora remained unconscious during the first week of treatment, which began immediately. Teaspoon by teaspoon, day and night, she was induced to take fruit and vegetable juices. She was also given many enemas. After one week, she regained full consciousness. At the end of two months, she was feeling fine, was able to do housework, and had improved visual acuity. At the end of eight months, she resumed her part-time job as a secretary to her husband. Tests taken in 1945 indicated that her cancer was in remission. Dr. Gerson's treatment had saved her life and also saved the remaining vision in her left eye, allowing her to resume her active schedule.

Dora followed a strict Gerson regimen for seven years. Her husband assisted with the food preparation and gave Dora her liver-extract and vitamin injections as required. "My mother has a tremendous will to live, and once she decided to go on the Gerson diet, she never once cheated or went off it," recalls Diane Rosen, Dora's daughter. After seven years of strict adherence to the protocol, Dora gradually did go off it and has remained in good health. Two CAT scans in 1980 showed her brain, bones, and pituitary completely cancer-free.

Gregory Grover, at age fifty-six, was diagnosed by X-rays in October 1966 with an advanced, aggressive tumor in the bladder. The tumor, rated Stage III to IV, was removed, but doctors at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles advised him to have his bladder removed also. They told him that even if the operation went well, he had only a 50 percent chance of survival, and that if the bladder was not removed, he had a 5 percent chance of survival.

Refusing further surgery, Grover started the Gerson therapy in January 1967. "I followed it 100 percent, by the book, with no deviations through the end of 1968." After he had been on the program one year, he had a cystoscopy performed at UCLA. According to Grover, the urologist was amazed to discover that his patient was completely cancer-free. "'How do we account for this?' the assisting physician whispered to the urologist as he did the cystoscopy," recalls Grover, who is now in his eighties, still in remission, and quite active.

Almost all types of cancer are said to respond to the treatment. The types that respond particularly well, according to personnel at the Gerson Institute, are melanoma and lymphoma. The Gerson therapy has not been effective in leukemia, in the opinion of various alternative therapists. Chemotherapy gives at least a 50 percent five-year survival rate with leukemia.

During his lifetime, Max Gerson claimed a 30 percent rate of remission in his terminal patients. The current patient literature states that "the Gerson Therapy is able to achieve almost routine recoveries in early to intermediate cancers. Even when the disease is advanced and incurable by conventional standards (i.e., involves the liver or pancreas or multiple internal sites) excellent results are possible." The patient literature also claims that for cancer patients with additional afflictions (for example, arthritis, heart disease, or diabetes), the treatment "usually heals the body of all diseases simultaneously." Norman Fritz, vice president of the Gerson Institute, stated in "Cancer? Think Curable! The Gerson Therapy," by S. J. Haught (see Resources), that the Gerson treatment "can save about 50 percent or more of advanced 'hopeless' cancer patients" and that "the percentage who recover can exceed 90 percent for early cancers and some 'early terminal' cancers."

These claims should be taken with great skepticism, as should all such claims in the alternative cancer field. (A figure of 80 percent or greater for five-year survival seems to be a favorite among alternative practitioners.) The reality appears to be that remission remains the exception rather than the rule with Gerson patients, according to Michael Lerner in his study Varieties of Integral Cancer Therapy.1 Lerner cites a resident of a Gerson halfway house in the San Diego area who reported that during her stay of several months, she observed one of the approximately twenty patients in residence make a significant recovery. This story, of course, is anecdotal, but even if roughly accurate, the 5 percent recovery rate is a far cry from the claims made by the Gerson clinic.

Another evaluation of the Gerson treatment's efficacy comes from Steve Austin, a naturopathic physician who recently completed a survey tracking twenty-one Gerson cancer patients over a five-year period.2 Austin, who teaches nutrition at Western States Chiropractic College in Portland, Oregon, visited the Gerson clinic in Mexico in 1983 and, at random, asked approximately thirty cancer patients for permission to follow their progress. He was able to track twenty-one of these patients over a five-year period, or until death, from 1983 to 1988, through annual letters or phone calls. At the end of the five years, only one of the twenty-one patients was still alive. All the rest had succumbed to their cancers. This also suggests a recovery rate of around 5 percent.

Austin, who plans to publish his study, comments, "The patients tracked had a wide variety of cancers. Many appeared to do well when they were at the Gerson clinic, but when they went home they died 'on schedule.' I was favorably predisposed, even prejudicially so, toward the Gerson therapy, because you hear so many remarkable stories about recovered Gerson patients in alternative cancer circles. But the reality turned out to be different. The Gerson staff may be out of touch with the ultimate results of the therapy. They see patients doing well while they're at the clinic, something I observed myself. When these people go back home, however, most of them go downhill. The data admittedly are based on a very small sample, but they suggest that the therapy does not work as well as its advocates claim."

Interestingly, Austin also tracked eighteen late-stage cancer patients at Hospital Del Mar in Tijuana, a clinic run by Drs. Francisco Contreras and Ernesto Contreras, which combines metabolic therapy with detoxification, laetrile, enzyme supplements, megadoses of vitamins, and special vaccines. All eighteen patients died within three years of their stay at the Contreras clinic, according to Austin. "On the basis of these results, I recommend that all cancer patients avoid the laetrile clinics, despite the fact that I've run across occasional anecdotes suggesting efficacy. Even if a rare patient is helped, zero out of eighteen is a terrible indicator," says Austin.

More positive evaluations of the Gerson therapy, and scientific research supporting the validity of key components in the Gerson protocol, will be discussed later in this chapter.

The Gerson clinic lacks the staff to monitor patients' conditions once they return home. Gerson Institute members tend to explain the therapy's failures by saying those patients either did not follow the regimen strictly enough or went off the therapy. This is often true, but sometimes patients discontinue the therapy because they are no longer seeing results: tumors continue to grow or the patient becomes too weak to adhere to the program.

What is beyond dispute is that the therapy is not easy to follow. It's a rigorously demanding approach and should not be undertaken without the intention to persevere. Sticking to the regimen may sometimes seem like a full-time job. In his book, Max Gerson cautions, "It is advisable not to start the treatment, if for any reason strict adherence to it is not possible." Each element in the therapy is important, and all are interrelated in their workings. The diet is restrictive. Milk, most cheeses, and butter are forbidden, as are tobacco, salt, coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, alcohol, sharp spices, refined sugar and flour, candies, ice cream, cakes, nuts, mushrooms, soybeans, pickles, cucumbers, and all berries with the exception of red currants. Also taboo are canned, frozen, processed, smoked, salted, dehydrated, powdered, or bottled foods.

Juices must be freshly squeezed every hour so that the oxidizing enzymes will not be destroyed by light or air. Even the type of juice extractor and grinder are specially selected. Standard home juicers are not recommended because the electric charge produced by their centrifugal actions destroys enzymes and their preparation process mixes oxygen into the juices, hastening their decomposition. Gerson patients are encouraged to buy a more expensive, stainless-steel grinder and press.

After treatment at the Gerson hospital, patients are advised to continue the regimen at home for one and a half years or more, until the liver, pancreas, and oxidation, immune, and other systems have been restored sufficiently to prevent a recurrence of cancer. The support of family and close friends-both emotionally and on a practical level-is believed to play a vital role in the therapy's success.

For those who do persevere, the benefits can be dramatic. "It's a lot of work," says Charlotte Gerson, "but those people who want to be well, and remain well, with their bodies rebuilt, with their organs rebuilt, and normal and functioning, they go through it, and they do the job, and they regain health in all areas, whether we are talking about cancer, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, glaucoma, kidney disease, or even diabetes."

The therapy is multifaceted. Dr. Gerson placed great emphasis on the liver, which he believed to be the body's most important organ in defeating malignancy. He maintained that nearly all cancers were allowed to develop because of poor liver function. Support for this view comes from Dr. Jesse Greenstein, former chief of the National Cancer Institute's biochemistry laboratory. In his 1954 book, Biochemistry of Cancer, Greenstein wrote, "There seems to be little doubt that hepatic insufficiency is a concomitant phenomenon with cancer." According to Dr. Raymond Brown, former investigator at Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, Gerson's "thesis that a damaged liver is a primary precursor of degenerative disease is consistent with current concepts that liver status reflects the functional capacity of the reticuloendothelial system.", The reticuloendothelial system defends against infection and disposes of the products of cell breakdown. It is composed of macrophages, liver cells, and cells of the lungs, bone marrow, spleen, and lymph nodes.

The liver, the body's largest organ, weighs seven to ten pounds and performs a multitude of tasks. Among its vital functions are metabolizing essential fats (and thus preventing their accumulation in the bloodstream), synthesizing necessary blood proteins, breaking down and eliminating toxic substances, and secreting bile, which is stored in the gallbladder and the enlarged bile duct. Bile, which empties into the small intestine, acts as a carrier for all liver wastes. One reason animal proteins are drastically reduced on the Gerson diet is that they have been found to interfere with liver-boosting medications and to impede the detoxification process. Keeping animal protein at a minimum frees the protein-dissolving enzymes to "digest" cancer tissue rather than food, according to Max Gerson.

Gerson also found that both animal and vegetable fats have the effect of promoting tumor growth. Whenever he eliminated fats from his cancer patients' diets, the results improved substantially. Recent research supports his finding. Studies show that the higher the level of cholesterol and fats in the blood of cancer patients, the less chance the patients have of surviving. Cancer patients receiving Gerson therapy therefore avoid both animal and vegetable fats. An exception is linseed oil, which helps the body transport vitamin A. Linseed oil has been shown to have antitumor action, and it is rich in an essential fatty acid that reduces blood viscosity. Low blood viscosity correlates with a decreased tendency to spreading (metastases) of cancer.

Eliminating animal protein is only one aspect of Gerson's liver therapy. Patients are also given injections composed of liver extract, administered daily for four to six months, sometimes longer. These liver injections provide vitamins, minerals, and enzymes believed to help restore the liver to its proper functioning. Intramuscular injections of liver extract are combined with vitamin B~12 injections, which Dr. Gerson held to be important for proper protein synthesis. Full restoration of the liver may take from six to eighteen months, during which time patients should have their blood monitored by a physician so that the supplements and diet can be adjusted.

Nobel Prize-winning biochemist Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi believed that the liver may hold the secret of cancer prevention and cure. In 1972, he reported that extracts of mouse liver "strongly inhibited" the growth of inoculated cancer in mice. He and his associate, Dr. Laszlo Egyud, isolated from liver extract a potent anticancer substance, which they dubbed retine. This liver derivative proved so effective in the laboratory, Dr. Szent-Gyorgyi was moved to predict, "We are on the verge of finding the key to curing cancer.... Retine stops the growth of cancer cells without poisoning other cells."4

Another major feature of the Gerson therapy is restoring the balance of potassium and sodium in the body. Dr. Gerson maintained that cancer alters the body's normal sodium-to-potassium balance, already disturbed by the modern oversalted diet. Liver, brain, and muscle cells normally have much higher levels of potassium than of sodium, but in cancer patients, observed Gerson, the ratio is reversed. The Gerson therapy aims to remove as much sodium from the cancer patient's body as possible, replacing it with potassium. The diet stresses foods rich in potassium and low in sodium, with no salt added.

In addition, patients receive a potassium solution, added to juices ten times daily. Edema, or fluid retention, caused by an excess of sodium, reportedly disappears with great frequency when patients ingest high amounts of potassium in juices. Restoring potassium levels to normal in the major organs of severely ill patients can take a year or two.

Gerson's emphasis on restoring the potassium balance in cancer patients finds considerable support in modern research. Several studies outline rationales to explain Gerson's theory that elevating the potassium level while restricting sodium in the diet acts against tumor formation.5 Freeman Cope, M.D., wrote in Physiological Chemistry and Physics in 1978, "The high potassium, low sodium diet of the Gerson therapy has been observed experimentally to cure many cases of advanced cancer in man, but the reason was not clear. Recent studies from the laboratory of Ling indicate that high potassium, low sodium environments can partially return damaged cell proteins to their normal undamaged configuration. Therefore, the damage in other tissues, induced by toxins and breakdown products from the cancer, is probably partly repaired by the Gerson therapy through this mechanism."

Supplying oxygen to the cells is another central feature of the Gerson therapy. Dr. Gerson believed that cancer cells thrive by fermenting sugar in an oxygen-depleted cellular environment. This still-controversial theory, put forward by the great biochemist Otto Warburg in 1930, has some support in modern research. To enhance the patient's oxidation function, Dr. Gerson gave patients oxidizing enzymes through vegetable, fruit, and raw-calves'-liver juices. The Gerson clinic discontinued the use of raw-liverjuice in 1989, but the present diet is still a rich source of oxidation enzymes. These enzymes are also produced naturally by a healthy, restored liver. Through the Gerson treatment, "oxidation is usually more than doubled," says the patient brochure, which adds that "most 'incurable' diseases are oxygen deficiency diseases also (heart attack, strokes, cancer, etc.)."

Tumor breakdown begins, according to Max Gerson, when the detoxification process is active, the repaired liver is producing oxidative enzymes, and the potassium-to-sodium balance has been restored. Once the body starts breaking down and eliminating the tumor, detoxification is critical so that the liver is not overloaded with toxins. Here is where the coffee enema becomes especially important. Some recent scientific research gives credence to the coffee enema as a detoxification measure. In 1981, for example, Dr. Lee Wattenberg and colleagues demonstrated that substances found in coffee promote the activity of a key enzyme system that detoxifies a vast array of electrophiles from the bloodstream. According to Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson Institute, this "must be regarded as an important mechanism for carcinogen detoxification." This enzyme group is responsible for neutralizing free radicals.

Dr. Peter Lechner, who is investigating the Gerson program in Graz, Austria, has reported that "coffee enemas have a definite effect on the colon which can be observed with an endoscope." Two chemicals in coffee, theophylline and theobromine, dilate blood vessels and counteract inflammation of the gut. Palmitates, a group of substances also found in coffee, enhance the enzyme system responsible for the removal of toxic free radicals from the serum. (Note: While coffee enemas are part of the Gerson program, drinking coffee is forbidden.)

For a full review of the scientific research supporting the use of coffee enemas, see Ralph Moss's two-part article "Coffee: The Royal Flush," in The Cancer Chronicles, Autumn 1990 and December 1990.

The Gerson diet features three organic vegetarian meals daily. Along with a potassium supplement, six of the thirteen daily juices contain three drops of half-strength Lugol solution, an iodine-potassium compound, plus a small amount of thyroid extract. Dr. Gerson theorized that these substances are absorbed by the cancer mass along with the oxidizing enzymes. The combination makes it impossible for the cancer cells to ferment, and they die, he held. Iodine appeared to him to be a decisive factor in the normal differentiation of cells. He believed that iodine also counteracted the cancer-stimulating effect of certain hormones. Several studies validating Gerson's hunches have shown that thyroid extract boosts natural resistance to infection by increasing antibody formation and augmenting the power of reticuloendothelial cells.

Most cancer patients have a deficiency of digestive enzymes. To aid digestion, patients on the Gerson therapy take tablets of pancreatic enzyme (pancreatin), which helps restore stomach acid to normal levels. They also take tablets of niacin, which, according to Gerson, helps to check cancerous growth, restores cell energies, and raises depleted liver stores of glycogen and potassium.

Through carrot juice, liver supplements, and other foods, the Gerson diet supplies an enormous amount of beta-carotene, vitamin A's precursor, which the body converts to vitamin A. Recent research suggests that vitamin A inhibits the cancer-causing action of tumor promoters and tumor initiators. Furthermore, in laboratory experiments, vitamin A has been shown to transform cancer cells to cells that resemble normal cells. This effect has been noted with tumors such as lung cancer, prostate cancer, colon cancer, and neuroblastoma (a tumor of embryonic nerve cells).6 In a 1960 German study in Nutritional Abstracts and Reviews, 218 cancer patients received large amounts of vitamin A along with vitamin C for approximately three to seven months. Tumor growth generally stopped or regressed with no side effects.

Since 1983, the Gerson clinic has offered ozone therapy as an adjunct to its basic protocol. Available in many countries for cancer treatment but officially barred in the United States, ozone therapy has been shown to shrink tumors. (For a further discussion, see page 229.)

Max Gerson's nutritional treatment for cancer might never have come into being if not for his migraines. A brilliant medical graduate of the University of Freiburg (Germany) in 1909, Dr. Gerson was disabled by recurrent migraines for which his own doctors had no cure. By the early 1920s, Gerson had cured himself by devising a diet very high in fresh fruits and vegetables and very low in fats. He then prescribed his diet for migraine sufferers who came to him as patients. Their headaches disappeared. Next, using a slightly modified version of his diet, he cured patients with lupus vulgaris, a form of skin tuberculosis then considered incurable.

Gerson's success brought an invitation in 1924 from eminent German surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch, M.D., to test Gerson's diet in a lupus clinic at the University of Munich. Over a three-year period, the two doctors treated 450 lupus patients with the diet; 446 of them recovered, according to Sauerbruch in his autobiography Master Surgeon. Gerson extended his therapeutic system to other forms of tuberculosis. In 1928, he reluctantly accepted his first cancer patient, at the insistence of the patient-a woman who had undergone unsuccessful surgery for cancer of the bile duct that had spread to the liver. Within six months, the woman seemed fully recovered. Gerson's next two patients, both with inoperable stomach cancer, had the same good results.

After the rise of Hitler forced him to leave Germany, Gerson lived in Vienna and Paris, moving to the United States in 1936. He got his New York medical license in 1938 and was soon attracting more and more cancer patients, obtaining remissions even in far-advanced cases.

In 1946, Gerson testified before a Senate subcommittee along with five of his patients, all of whom had recovered from advanced cancer. One of the five was fourteen-year-old Alice Hirsch, whose orthodox doctors had predicted would be paralyzed by the end of 1945 due to an inoperable spinal cord tumor that would quickly kill her. Also testifying was George Miley, M.D., professor of medicine and medical director of Gotham Hospital, where Gerson was treating patients. Dr. Miley called the Gerson therapy "a highly encouraging approach." He presented the committee with signed statements from five other doctors who said that they had observed advanced cancer reversed by the Gerson regime.

After Gerson's congressional appearance, his anticancer diet surged in credibility and prestige. But it was just at this time that chemotherapy was seeking public acceptance, soon to become a gigantic money-making operation for the medical-pharmaceutical industry. Within five months of Gerson's Senate hearing, the American Medical Association launched a vehement campaign intended to discredit his therapy. Gerson was attacked in the pages of JAMA, the association's prestigious journal, for treating cancer patients with diet and for warning against cigarettes. In the same issues, JAMA ran ad copy in praise of cigarettes: "Many leading nose and throat specialists suggest, 'Change to Philip Morris,'" read a typical ad. Cigarette maker Philip Morris was the main source of advertising dollars for JAMA during the years of its assault on Max Gerson. The marriage of medicine and the tobacco industry, which helped addict hundreds of thousands to cancer-causing cigarettes, was "one of the most outrageous alliances in the history of medicine," says Gar Hildenbrand of the Gerson Institute.

Dr. Gerson's medical privileges at Gotham Hospital were revoked, and he was unable to secure an affiliation with any other hospital. In 1953, he was denied malpractice insurance because his therapy was not "accepted practice." Refusing to give up, he opened a sanatorium of his own. However, laboratories used by Dr. Gerson were threatened with economic ruin if they continued to provide services to him. In 1958, the New York Medical Society suspended him for "advertising." He died a year later.

A modified version of the Gerson therapy was tested, beginning in 1984, by Dr. Peter Lechner at the Krankenhaus in Graz, Austria. Lechner's program excluded niacin and liver juice and used thyroid supplements only in hypothyroid patients. In addition, it limited coffee enemas to two per day because the four enemas per day originally recommended by Gerson led to colitis (inflammation of the large intestine) in three patients at the very beginning of the project.

Lechner's study involved sixty post-operative cancer patients using this modified Gerson regimen as an adjunct, often with chemotherapy or radiation, over a four-year period. In several forms of cancer, the Gerson-derived therapy made an impressive difference in comparison to a control group of sixty cancer patients who chose not to try it. For example, breast cancer patients with liver metastases who received the Gerson-based treatment tolerated chemotherapy better, and one of three was reported in a steady state for more than a year. (The remaining five patients died.) Patients with brain metastases on the modified Gerson treatment experienced decreased edema and lived four months longer than their counterparts in the control group.7

In a highly suggestive 1988 study of cancer patients who underwent so-called spontaneous regressions, Harold Foster, Ph.D., of the University of Victoria, British Columbia, presented data on 200 recovered patients who had used various alternative treatments, including the Gerson therapy, Hoxsey's herbs, Kelley dietary approach, macrobiotics, Moerman diet, and Jason Winters Herbal Tea.8 Over half of the group had used some form of detoxification, such as coffee enemas, castor-oil enemas, saunas, colonies, or fasting. In addition, 88 percent of the patients had made major dietary changes, usually switching to a strictly vegetarian diet. A total of 65 percent of the patients had taken mineral supplements, potassium and iodine being by far the most frequently used. Niacin, digestive enzymes, bioflavonoids, red clover, and vitamins A, Bl2, and C were also taken frequently.

Foster noted that the "spontaneous" cancer regressions "tended to occur most frequently in vegetarian non-smokers, who did not use table salt, white flour, or sugar and who avoided canned, smoked, or frozen foods. Typically such individuals eschewed alcoholic beverages, tea, coffee, and cocoa, but instead drank freshly pressed fruit and/or vegetable juices. Many took vitamin and mineral supplements together with various herbs. The time spent by patients eating such special diets varied from one month to 15 years, the median time period being 41 months."

Foster pointed out that "there is really no such process as spontaneous regression" since there must always be a cause for the regression. The data, in his judgment, support the view that many dramatic remissions occurred "in association with major dietary changes, which must inevitably have resulted in alterations in the availability of bulk and trace elements to both the immune system and to tumors."

The Gerson therapy is heavily represented in the summary of cancer patients "who exceeded their anticipated lengths of survival by at least a factor of ten." In this group were persons who followed the Gerson protocol and recovered from brain tumors, Iymphosarcoma, basal cell carcinoma, kidney sarcoma, spreading melanosarcoma, breast cancer, spinal cord tumor, metastasized testicular cancer, and cancer of the pituitary gland. Recovered Gerson patients were represented in nearly every category of cancer mentioned in the study. In summary, Foster concluded that "the potential role of diet in the treatment of cancer appears to merit far greater attention than it is currently receiving."

References
1. Michael Lerner, Varieties of Integral Cancer Therapy (Bolinas, CA: Commonweal, 10th ea., 1990.)
2. Steve Austin, correspondence with the author.
3. Raymond Keith Brown, AIDS, Cancer and the Medical Establishment (New York: Robert Speller Publishers, 1986), p. 168.
4. Jane Kinderlehrer, "Liver May Hold the Secret of Cancer Prevention," Prevention, November 1972; and Cancer Control Journal, vol. 3, no. 1-2, 1975, pp. 49-55.
5. See, for example, William Regelson, Journal of the American Medical Association, vol. 243, no. 4, 25 January 1980, pp. 337-339.
6. Kedar N. Prasad, Vitamins Against Cancer (Rochester, VT: Healing Arts Press, 1989), pp. 27-28.
7. Peter Lechner, "Dietary Regime to Be Used in Oncological Postoperative Care," a paper presented at Graz, Austria, 21-23 June 1984.

8. Harold D. Foster, "Lifestyle Changes and the 'Spontaneous' Regression of Cancer: An Initial Computer Analysis," International Journal of Biosocial Research, vol. 10, no. 1, 1988, pp. 17-33, reprinted in Healing Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 3, 1989, available from the Gerson Institute.

Resources
Today, Gerson's legacy is kept alove by the Gerson Institute, founded in 1977 by Charlotte Gerson, Max Gerson's daugher. For more information on licensed Gerson clinics, contact:

Gerson Institute
Phone: (619) 685-5353
Website: www.gerson.org

To view a free online documentary about the Gerson Therapy visit www.gersonmiracle.org.

Reading Material

A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases, by Max Gerson, M.D., Gerson Institute (see above for address and phone number), fifth edition, 1990.

Cancer? Think Curable! The Gerson Therapy, by S. J. Haught, Gerson Institute (see above for address and phone number), 1983.

Cancer: A Healing Crisis, by Jack Tropp, Exposition Press (New York), 1980. Out of print; check your local library.

My Triumph Over Cancer, by Beata Bishop, Keats Publishing (27 Pine Street, New Canaan, CT 06840; 203-966-8721), 1986.

Gary Null's Complete Guide to Healing Your Body Naturally, by Gary Null (see Appendix A for description).

The Cancer Survivors and How They Did It, by Judith Glassman (see Appendix A for description).

Special Gerson therapy issue, Cancer Control Journal, vol. 3, no. 1-2, 1975.

Healing Newsletter, published by the Gerson Institute (see page 202 for address and phone number). Semi-monthly magazine.

From Options: The Alternative Cancer Therapy Book by Richard Walters, © 1992. Published by Avery Publishing, New York. For personal use only; neither the digital nor printed copy may be copied or sold. Reproduced by permission.

New Health Regimen---Dry body brushing

上上星期六, 我試咗又一保健玩意---Dry body brushingStart Date: 10/8/2013事源我閒時的週六坐在父母親大人的麻雀枱背後一般都係聽住iphone, 上吓facebook etc.............早排愛上了看某幾位youtube vlogger的videos, 其中一位不經意地提到她枱上的brush係dry brushing 時用的........都已經係幾個月前聽到的, 不過就對個term 印象好深................ 咁當晚我又冇所事事, 個term 又不知怎的pop up, 我就search咗一下, 睇咗幾條video, 發覺雖然未見到一個logical的說明呢個regimen有咩好 (除咗如果用力一d去做, 某d人係用嚟當推lymph瘦身), 但就好多人都有做, 而且都很讚的~~~~~睇到我心思思好想試 心裏面諗咗一下去咩地方買到工具, 越諗越想試~~~~估唔到那一晚mummy想早d返屋企, 咁我就有機會即刻可以去我打算check out的shops 到行一轉呢 第一個路過的shop係Sasa~~~~其實以前好少買bathing tools, 但覺得好多homeware shop都有, 我都係後來先feel到, 真係有specific item要買時先知, 其實每間shop賣的款式都唔多的. 我入咗Sasa就知, 佢bathing brush只係得1款, 所以真係估唔到我咁好彩, 第一間鋪的唯一一款brushing就係我要買的那款, 仲要係exactly the same! 唔單止係個款, 後來我再睇人哋買brush的sharing先知, 買natural wood & bristle的好啲......我的那隻就係咁連物料都中埋! 仲要價錢合理! 所以第2日, 我仲去買多1隻tim!

 

過了剛剛的Sat, 正好過咗1week ~~~~我每一日都有dry brush 啊! 皮膚brush過的感覺幾好的, "它"好似被waken咁, 而且感覺好似有bright一啲. 其他的好處應該係冇咁快睇到的, 因為人哋係話要keep up for at least months to feel the benefit..............不過, 我發現我後大腿近pat pat的暗瘡就退得好快! 最近唔知係咪因為我太過focus 練一字馬, 對於大腿徧肥 (即少鍛鍊))的我來講可能太harsh, 所以排毒現象比較嚴重, 1個月間suddenly出現好多暗印, 我本來覺得到習慣咗啲exercise就會好, 但估唔到外加一啲按摩, 會好得咁快! 只係3日, 就差不多退咗8成! .................不過"面" 就冇咁明顯的好處!

《神曲》The Divine Commedy in real life ....inspired by Dan Brown

看一下我的blog list, 可以見到我2007年 讀過了坦丁的 《神曲》《The Divine Commedy》.
我也不記得當時有沒有跟我的那2位書友提過, 但不論如何, 就算當時提起, 她們應該也不太知道這是一部怎樣的書 (也許知道是名著....) 而且我當時是因為想多了解天堂, 煉獄及地獄的concept而看的, 所以也不會多分享書的感想吧~~~~

怎麼今天又提到它呢? 因為我最愛的其中一位作家出了新作, 居然這次的主題就是圍繞《神曲》的第一章: 地獄---- Inferno

話說我居然是在新書發行的前一週才知道這有部書!!!! 當發現了,我馬上text我那2位摰友~~~然後說故事主題的居然是一部我看過了的書很興奮之類, 這時她兩才好像很驚訝的表示你居然看過這書啊~~~~~

今天開這篇blog,不是要分享Dan Brown 的那部Inferno (我還只是剛看了2天.......oh, 很不錯的啊~~~~) 而是一邊看Inferno, 慣例的一邊search 地名呀,buiding呀, 名畫呀, sculptures........時我才知道這世上是有那麼多出名的藝術品是inspired by Dante's Divine Commedy~~~~~in particular~~~~~by the Charpter "Inferno" .當然, 可能其他天堂及煉獄篇的也有很多作品, 只是Dan Brown 這裡理所當然的只介紹了相關的Inferno作品啦~~~~ 我在這mark 一下, 因為它們又remind我Dante's Inferno的內容, 而且把內容實體化, 有一天大家(或我自己)要讀這名著時可以有用啊~~~~~


我才看了100多頁, 就看到了很多作品囉:

這是Auguste Rodin 的 The Three Shades

Auguste Rodin好利害的作了一系列的Dante's Inferno作品呢~~~~ 我也很想到法國他的Rodin Museum 去看一下啊!

In the Inferno Dante describes three shades, souls of his departed countrymen, who danced in a circle as they told of their woeful state in Hades. Rodin’s The Three Shades stood upon the uppermost lintel of The Gates of Hell, crowning the tympanum just above The Thinker. The downward thrust of their left arms and their heads conveys despair as they summon the viewer to gaze upon the tumultuous drama of sin and damnation unfolding below them on The Gates. The most remarkable aspect of the work is that the three figures—even their pedestals—are identical, seen from the left, straight on, and from the right. The three figures radiate from a single point where their left arms converge, like spokes on a wheel. Dante wrote, “They all three made of themselves a wheel.” Rodin’s decision to use three identical figures may have its origins in Dante’s text. Canto III of the Inferno opens with the words Dante and Virgil read inscribed on the summit of the gateway leading to hell: ”Through me is the way into the doleful city / Through me is the way into eternal suffering / Through me is the way that runs among the lost.” Rodin’s triplicate figures echo the triplicate repetition in Dante’s lines. In the original plan of The Gates of Hell, the Shades pointed downward to an inscription—the one on Dante’s infernal gateway: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” -

The Last Judgement by Michelangelo in Sistine Chapel, Vatican City

我都要防曬之3~~~~洗面篇

其實在2013 年頭開始, 我嘗試了坊間的一個天然洗面用品-----麥皮! 我用這個東東洗面大約有半年左右, 雖然沒有傳說中的神奇美容效果,但也沒有發現皮膚變差, (可能是因為我一直用的Nuskin護膚品已是標榜成分對皮膚有益吧). 這樣的話, 我當然覺得用這更天然又便宜的產品比較好啦~~~~ 不過是有catch的...........1) 我日間完全沒有用化妝品, 而且搽在面上的都是全天然的東東 (即使3月前, 我用在面上的還是nuskin的產品, 都是沒太多多餘的化學成分), 是不洗面一兩天也沒大問題的 2) 我沒有在家用啦, 在家(晚上) 都還是用有品牌的洗面品......因為在家用麥皮洗面會弄得很messy, 又不知對去水有沒effect........我都只是在physical用的啦)............不過我本身沒有每天晚上都用潔面品洗面的習慣
Anyways, 總之現在上班前, 我都在面上搽了sun block,sun block本身好像沒給皮膚做成太多burden,但理論上晚上沒洗掉的話皮膚不但沒了呼吸, 也吸收不到晚上用的護膚品, 所以這時, 我就有注意潔面的情況, 過程如下:

起初使用Sun block 的兩天, 我中午在physical還是用麥皮洗面, 感覺上洗不了全部的Sun block, 不過由於我用的sun block都是天然的, 所以姑且看看如何..........而且我也不想只在中午就洗掉它..............

不過到了第2天, 每次搽護膚品總覺得皮膚吸收不了, 而且也覺得開始有毛孔blocking的問題 (小小break out) , 所以我決定要用潔面產品.......不只面, 手臂也覺得沒洗淨呢~~~
第2天在晚上, 我就用我平常用的一支無泡潔面gel洗. 洗的時候發覺那gel 跟sun block mix埋, 會感覺到一層sun block 被推走! 那也表示麥皮沒洗掉sun block 啦~~~ 本來家中的那支無泡潔面gel也快用完(不過以我的用量, 也可last 最少3個月), 但洗sun block時, 發覺潔面gel消失得得快的, 用量要double............看來很快我就要買潔面產品(而且我習慣放一支在physical的包包中日間用, 即是馬上就要買囉~~~~)

其實我之前未用sun block以前, 也打算家中這支看門口的潔面gel用完後, 就用一直用開, 家中也一直有的Nuskin cleansing gel就可 (我手上這支另一品牌的無泡潔面gel是別人送的啦) 不過, 因為在iherb.com買東西多了, 就習慣性去看一下~~~~~以下的這品牌出的也是材料全天然, Organic及都是對皮膚有益的, 而且comment 很好, 還有一點是它是for 落妝的!!!! 價錢跟nuskin的也差不多, 所以就試一下啦

用第1次而很喜歡!!! 不單止能洗掉sun block,用量也比無泡的少, 泡泡是很light 的那種, 跟nuskin的差不多, 因為都沒有很强的化學起泡成分, 但清潔能力卻比nuskin 最basic的那條line的強~~~~very very good!
更重要的是, 用完它時, 感到皮膚有變好啊! 只是1次!!!! Nuskin的洗面gel也會洗完馬上feel到皮膚變軟, 但這支是覺得皮膚變細緻! 任何方面我都更喜歡這支~~~也令人很想多洗幾次面呢!

 

我是從綱上 iherb.com 買的, 用DHL 送貨, 很快很放心, 比在香港的門市買到同一隻品牌平好多啊! 如果你們也想開個A/C買, 落單confirm order 時入呢個Code:MMC444 可以有discount! Enjoy!!!