Восстановление Гомеостаза-залог исцеления любой болезни

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http://www.safetymeds.com/raw_food_diet_18.html В 50-е годы прошлого века врачи рекомендовали в жару принимать соляные таблетки, якобы позволяющие компенсировать потери натрия, выходящего с потом. Но уже в 80-е годы мнение медицинских светил изменилось на прямо противоположное: теперь они стали советовать снизить или вообще исключить потр***ение соли, чтобы не допустить повышения артериального давления. Результаты некоторых последних исследований свидетельствуют, что диета с низким потр***ением соли почти не влияет на кровяное давление. А вот одно из исследований, о котором писали в «Журнале американской ассоциации кардиологов», якобы показало, что сердечным приступам более подвержены как раз те, кто потр***яет мало соли, а не те, кто придерживается нормы или превышает ее. Как видим, мнения медицинских специалистов кол***ются, как маятник. Причина этого прискорбного явления кроется в том, что они зачастую не делают различия между органическим натрием и неорганическим компонентом хлорида натрия.
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«Хлорид натрия, если он не включен естественным образом в состав пищи, действует скорее как наркотик, чем как еда». Доктор Бернард Йенсен, «Как лучше ухаживать за своим кишечником».
Зачастую слова «соль» и «натрий» используются как синонимы, что в корне неверно. Соль – это хлорид натрия. Растворяясь, столовая соль распадается на два компонента: положительно заряженный натрий (металл) и отрицательно заряженный хлор (газ). Химически этот натрий такой же, как натрий органического происхождения, но характер их воздействия на организм различается коренным образом.
Диета с низким потр***ением натрия сокращает попадание в организм неорганического натрия, что само по себе хорошо. Однако при этом она предполагает и уменьшение потр***ения продуктов, являющихся органическими источниками натрия, что уже опасно для здоровья. Высокая концентрация хлорида натрия отрицательно влияет на функционирование нашего организма, но для здоровья вредно и слишком низкое потр***ение натрия. Отсюда логически вытекает, что столовая соль является плохим заменителем органического натрия.
Но если медицинские специалисты безнадежно запутались во мнениях о вреде или пользе соли, то эксперты по красоте единодушно утверждают: соль придает лицу одутловатый вид. В любой книге, написанной признанными красавицами – современности и прошлого, рекомендуется максимально сократить потр***ение хлорида натрия. Тело человека не может существовать без натрия, но вполне способно обходиться без столовой соли.
Возьмите в рот щепотку столовой соли. Вы почувствуете жжение, которое сильно раздражает губы, десны и язык. Учтите, что подобное едкое действие соль оказывает на все внутренние органы и ткани. Теперь возьмите в рот кусочек ст***я сельдерея, который богат органическим натрием. И хотя ваши оглушенные столовой солью вкусовые рецепторы не ощутят его солоноватый вкус, вы все равно почувствуете, насколько мягче его воздействие на ротовую полость.
Попадающая внутрь частица соли воспринимается организмом как чужеродное тело, яд, от которого он начинает обороняться. Защищая клетки и ткани от этого раздражающего вещества, организм скапливает влагу, нейтрализующую его вредное воздействие. Согласно данным, приведенным в замечательной брошюре Виктории Бидвелл «Соляной заговор», при попадании внутрь одна унция (28,35 г) соли удерживает в организме 3 кварты (около 3,3 л) воды, что приводит к скапливанию в нем примерно 2,7 кг избыточной внутренней жидкости. Легко подсчитать, что соль удерживает в организме избыточную жидкость, вес которой превосходит ее собственный в 96 раз! В среднем наше тело может удерживать около 6,9 л избыточной жидкости, которая и придает нам одутловатый вид.
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«Куда соль, туда и вода».
Для сохранения здорового внешнего вида в теле должен поддерживаться определенный баланс между натрием и калием. Натрий присутствует за пределами межклеточных оболочек во внеклеточной жидкости. Калий, наоборот, находится внутри клетки во внутриклеточной жидкости. В результате процесса, который называется осмосом, в клетки поступают питательные вещества, а из них удаляются отходы. Это движение и регулируется с помощью натрия и калия.
Баланс натрия и калия регулирует распределение жидкости в нашем теле, а взаимодействие содержащих эти вещества жидкостей непосредственно влияет на наш внешний вид. Чистота каждой клетки нашего организма зависит от поддержания оптимального электролитического баланса между натрием во внеклеточной жидкости и калием внутри клеток. А потр***ение соленой пищи такой баланс нарушает.
Диффузия – естественное стремление вещества перемещаться из области с высокой концентрацией в область с низкой. Если концентрация натрия во внеклеточной жидкости будет выше, чем внутри клетки, он будет стремиться проникнуть в клетку. Нарушение баланса натрия-калия в организме приводит к ускорению его дегенерации и возникновению болезней.
Хлорид натрия – токсичный неорганический состав, который не используется организмом, приводит к преждевременному старению и вызывает дегенеративные болезни. Например, хотя японцы получают всего 15 % калорий с жирами, а смертность от рака груди, кишечника и простаты у них очень низка, заболеваемость раком желудка у них выше, чем у американцев, поскольку их пища гораздо более насыщена солью.
Доктор Макс Герсон лечил смертельно больных раком пациентов с помощью диеты, чрезвычайно насыщенной питательными веществами. Основной упор в его методике лечения при этом делался на полное исключение хлорида натрия. Он был убежден, что указанный фактор играет ключевую роль в замедлении роста и уничтожении раковых клеток.
Согласно данным исследований доктора Герсона, все хронические болезни начинаются в результате утраты калия клетками и попадания в них натрия. Сам натрий не вызывает рака, но играет в его возникновении далеко не последнюю роль. В своей книге «Лечение рака: результаты пятидесяти случаев и лечение рака на поздних стадиях» Герсон утверждает, что, удаляя из организма избыточный натрий, можно ликвидировать и опухоль (отек), которая защищает и поддерживает злокачественные раковые клетки. В этом случае открывается к ним доступ содержащихся в свежих овощах и соках ферментов и кислорода. Те в свою очередь атакуют раковые клетки, которые в результате набухают и погибают. Далее доктор Герсон разъясняет, что раковые клетки хорошо развиваются в богатой натрием среде и погибают в среде, насыщенной кислородом, калием и ферментами.
Широкое использование консервантов в последние два столетия привело к изменениям вкусовых рецепторов большинства людей, приучив их к вкусу соли. Считается, что использование соли при приготовлении усиливает вкус мяса и вареных овощей и что благодаря ей можно восстановить привычный и узнаваемый вкус продуктов. Но поскольку в процессе обработки натуральные вкусовые оттенки теряются, фактически соль просто маскирует вкус уже разрушенных ингредиентов блюда.
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«Никогда не доверяйте человеку, который солит блюдо до того, как его попробует! Этот человек подвержен крайней степени зависимости, когда мысли и ощущения уже не действуют». Бенджамин Франклин(1706—1790).
Когда мы едим прошедшую обработку пищу, в которую добавлена соль, мы получаем избыточное количество натрия и недостаточное количество калия. При этом окружающие ткани и клетки теряют содержащуюся в них жидкость, которая расходуется на разбавление соленой межклеточной жидкости. Пространство между клетками начинает увеличиваться, как бы разбухая, а клетки и капилляры лишаются калия и обезвоживаются. Капилляры сужаются и теряют эластичность. Потр***ение соли приводит к сокращению мышц и артерий и к появлению на них шрамов.
Сужение кровеносных сосудов сразу же сказывается на кровоснабжении. Это может не только привести к повышению давления и нарушению мозгового кровообращения, но и нарушить нормальный доступ питательных веществ к коже и волосам. Это не может также не сказаться и на цвете лица. Как гласят правила диагностики в восточной медицине, сокращение сердечной мышцы и сужение капилляров вызывают болезненно бледный цвет лица. Дерматологи считают, что излишек натрия приводит к накоплению в организме избыточной жидкости и токсинов, что в свою очередь вызывает появление угрей. Волосы становятся ломкими и безжизненными.
Одна из важнейших функций натрия в организме – регулирование осмотического давления. Именно избыток натрия в рационе является основной причиной тревожной тенденции увеличения заболеваемости гипертонией и диабетом в США. А ведь гипертония – это тихий убийца, незаметно поражающий наше тело, перегружающий сердце и нарушающий мозговое кровообращение.
Особенно чувствительны к избытку натрия почки и мочевой пузырь. Натрий постоянно раздражает мочевую систему. Исключив соль из своей диеты, вы существенно ослабите нагрузку на почки. Кроме того, потр***ение хлорида натрия вместо органического натрия, содержащегося в сельдерее, томатах, другой зелени и овощах, приводит к формированию отечных темных мешков под глазами, что в наше время уже далеко не редкость и не вызывает удивления.

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BIOLOGICAL BASIS OF THE GERSON THERAPY:
Salt and Water Management and Tissue Damage Syndrome
From a lecture by Gar Hildenbrand, 1990.
The Gerson Therapy is a salt and water management. There is a whole chunk of the
medical literature on salt and water management: and that salt and water management
also means hormone manipulation, and manipulation of the energy production and the
integrity of the human cell. What that meant to the average person who’s trying to get his
or her body to work better is that, when one controls the types of salts that are found in the
individual cell – the building blocks of our lives – and when one controls the water content –
how much water there is in the cell – one can affect the way that the cell functions: the
health of the cell, the energy production capabilities of the cell, the ability of the cell to stay
alive and to stay normal.
We yield and lose the barrier between ourselves and the environment when we are
poisoned. For example, when the toxic air and the toxic water are too much, or when we
come into contact with industrial materials that are toxic, these environmental factors will
pollute us.
The same is true with the individual cell. Freeman Cope, M.D., a pioneering
physician, physicist and researcher, found that when cells are poisoned, there is a unifying
set of occurrences, whether the damage occurs by oxygen starvation, by trauma, by any
type of insult such as poisoning or malnutrition. The same responses may occur in cells
throughout any part of the body, no matter what the tissue of origin. First the cell will lose
potassium, second the cell will accept sodium, and third, the cell will swell with too much
water. Such cell swelling is called cellular edema. No matter what tissue in the body, and no
matter what the cause of injury, the unifying set of occurrences in the tissue damage
syndrome are 1) loss of potassium, 2) acceptance of sodium, 3) swelling with excess water
to create cellular edema, and 4) loss of cell energy production.
What happens to a cell that has swollen with too much water? Inside the cell, the
environment becomes inappropriate for the manufacture of energy. You will notice, when
you study Gerson’s book that he talked about increasing free energy; that was one of his
goals. Free energy, in a medical dictionary, translates to ATP, a compound – adenosine
triphosphate – that is manufactured by most cells in the body. It is the energy storage
compound of the body, the energy currency of the body.
ATP is the cellular product of burning sugar through oxidation, and it is made and
broken, remade, and re-broken in order to liberate bursts of energy. Essentially, it is an
adenosine molecule with three phosphate bonds. It is the immediate source of energy for
most energy-requiring functions of the body at the cellular level. Without ATP the cell dies.
Without ATP we die. When the cell has swollen with too much water, cellular burning of
sugars is inhibited; ATP production is inhibited, along with the protein synthesis and lipid
metabolism. Inside every cell are small organelles, tiny factories in the cell. They are
microscopic filaments called mitochondria.
In our mitochondria, we have the ability to burn sugar with oxygen. Otto Warburg,
who won the Nobel Prize twice in medicine, advanced a theory of cancer that held that
cancer was a fermentative disease. The Warburg generalization is probably not correct,
although the observations that led Warburg to the generalization are most likely correct.
What Warburg contributed was an understanding and a description of both the oxygen and
the hydrogen shuttling enzyme systems of mitochondria that burn sugar with oxygen to
make our cellular energy in the form of ATP.
Gerson’s therapy is aimed at increasing free energy production; making more ATP
available in the cell. In order to do that, Gerson attempted to manipulate the tissue damage
syndrome that, although Cope did not describe it until 1977, was known clinically to Gerson
in the 1920’s; and he was active and correct in his management of it. What Gerson did was
to eliminate sodium from the diet, to supplement a high potassium diet with an additional
potassium, and to find ways to remove toxins from the bloodstream that inhibit normal
cellular enzyme functions, metabolism and respiration.
Gerson was a neatly packaged genius, a low-tech genius. What he did was very low
tech, but it can be measured with very high tech means to prove that it is, in fact, doing
what he said it was doing. Gerson provided a way for a damaged cell to be confronted with
less sodium so that it would have an opportunity to bind some potassium, to improve its
hydration by lowering its water content, and to improve its mitochondrial function.
In order to ensure that the mitochondria would function, Gerson gave thyroid, and
he gave it in pretty high doses. Thyroid is, very simply speaking, an amino acid iodinated
and oxygenated by the thyroid gland which, when administered in significant dosages, first
signals cellular mitochondria to replicate, which they do independent of the cell because
they have their own DNA and RNA, and second tells mitochondria to make more energy in
the form of ATP by burning sugars fast.
Just as a note, if you think of the cell as a planet, the mitochondria are the industrial
cities. They are the cities of industry. And when a cell has lost potassium and gained sodium
and swollen with water, the sewers back up, the industrial cities are shut down in their
function, and energy cannot be made to clean out the sewers. That is the problem with
tissue damage syndrome.
Around every tumor and around every arthritic joint and in most chronic viral
conditions, our tissues that have lost potassium have gained sodium and have swollen with
too much water. As early as 1957, Christine Waterhouse and Albert Craig, working on a
National Cancer Institute grant, were able to measure water retention in cancer patients,
which was a general systemic edema, not visible, not discernible clinically, but measurable.
Let me quote them from the article “Body-composition and changes in patients with
advanced cancer” which was published in the American Cancer Society’s journal Cancer 11
(6), November-December 1957.
“Recent communications from this laboratory have emphasized that gross-weight
changes in patients with advanced cancer may be minimal even when large amounts of
body fat are being lost. Under these conditions it has been shown that there may be a great
gain of total body water even though there may be no detectable edema.”
In an earlier article, Waterhouse admitted to inadvertently killing a third of her
advanced cancer patients in an experimental high fat – double the normal calorie intake –
force-feeding trial. I’m quoting her from an article she co-authored with Raymond Terepka
called, “Metabolic observations during the forced feeding of patients with cancer,” which was
published in the American Journal of Medicine, February, 1956.
“Our data do not warrant any direct analysis of these changes, but if one assumes
that the calculated caloric discrepancy is approximately correct and that this is all made up
by body fat stores, in every instance a gain in weight as a result of forced (fat) feeding was
due almost entirely to a gain in intracellular fluids.” These are the changes of tissue damage
syndrome stemming from advanced disease, a great gain of total body water, a gain in
intercellular fluid, cellular edema; and what Gerson did was to work against this.

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Protein Restriction
Toward the goal of getting more sodium out of the body, out of damaged cells,
Gerson eliminated not only sodium from the diet; he also eliminated protein from the diet
for a period of time. In his experiments, as Dr. Ward noted, Gerson had extraordinary
laboratory support in the best equipped medical and scientific community in the world at
that time. He was able to observe that once you put somebody on a high-potassium, lowsodium
diet, the first thing that happens is that tremendous quantities of sodium are
excreted in the urine.
Where does it come from? It’s coming from inside individual damaged cells. In a
really sick person, with extensive tissue damage syndrome, tissues all over the body are
dumping sodium. Because sick people got better when they dumped sodium in the urine,
Gerson wanted to increase that effect and prolong it. He found that by eliminating dietary
protein, he could cause even more of what he called “Natrium Ausschuss”, sodium
outpouring, or sodium flooding out in the urine – more, and more, and more.
The problem with extreme protein restriction is that you can’t do it for too long,
because then you being to compromise immunity. This has been observed for a long time.
Science has long known that protein is necessary for good immunity, but has never known
how much. It has been assumed, wrongly, that we should have lots of it, and that we
should always have it.
Gerson, however, said the opposite. He said you must stop dietary proteins for a
period of six to eight weeks in order to cause sodium to leave damaged cells and in order to
cause edema to be absorbed. In his mind, it was clear that sodium was trapped in the body
with protein; it was trapped in deposits of protein and sodium that were somehow
complexed together. This is accurate. It is accurate within the context of Ling’s work, and
Ling’s work is modern-day biophysics.
We know now, from the work of Robert Good, that protein restriction, something
that you’re doing on the Gerson Therapy, can actually stimulate cell-mediated immunity. Tlymphocyte
activity can be stimulated by protein restriction.
Robert Good was the Director of the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research.
Prior to his position with Sloan-Kettering, Good spent time in Egypt visiting a friend in
Alexandria who had been working with malnourished children. Good took a deep interest in
the immune profiles of these long-malnourished children. He asked his friend why certain
panels of the immune profile were disturbed, why they were off, and his friend said, “We
don’t know. We just know that they are, but we don’t know which dietary deficiency is
causing which immune abnormality”. Good decided it was high time to do some basic
research to answer some of these questions.
When he arrived at Sloan-Kettering, he set up a guinea pig experiment, a very
simple experiment. He had laboratory chow that contained no protein. He took this noprotein
lab chow and fed it to group A, and group B was given normal chow. Group A
received no protein. Group B was the control group, the putatively well-fed guinea pig. Good
had expected to see deterioration of serum and cell-mediated immunity. Serum immunity is
antibody production, key to some of our bacterial and viral immunity, the ability to fight
some bacteria and viruses. Cell-mediated immunity is conducted by T-cells – lymphocytes –
and these are the ones that fight bacteria, fungi, and also fight tumors. Good predicted
failure of, at least, serum immunity. He was unprepared for what he saw. Not only did
serum immunity remain stable, but lymphocytes, especially T-lymphocytes – the thymus
lymphocytes – became tremendously increased nonspecifically active, and remained
aggressively and nonspecifically active for a long period of time.
And at that point, Good realized and wrote that he had stimulated immunity by dietary
restriction of protein. This led to a long series of experiments in many laboratories, all
related to Robert Good, who is known as the most published pathologist in the western
medical literature. His experiments have shown, in one animal model after another,
diseases which are called long term or degenerative diseases – often genetically
predetermined – in mice, guinea pigs, and other animals, can be affected by protein and
calorie restriction. Some of these diseases have been direct analogues of human diseases,
and the weight of the evidence strongly suggests similar effects in man.
Calorie restriction is another aspect of your treatment here. How can that be when
you’re eating all the time? Because the fats are gone from the diet. A tablespoon of
carbohydrate and a tablespoon of protein yield approximately the same number of calories.
A tablespoon of fat provides more than double that number of calories. Fats are everywhere
in the Western diet, in our civilized diet; bakery goods, cakes, candies, rolls, meats,
cheeses, fried foods, nuts, and seeds. But not in this diet. In this diet the only fats are those
in oatmeal, which is 1.5% its total calories in fat – that’s why it congeals when it gets cool –
and individual fatty acids through some of the vegetables and fruits – individual and small
number of them, I might add – and, of course, the flax oil. The patient receives about
ninety calories a day in fats.
What we mean, when we say we have a protein-calorie restricted diet here is that we
have a better diet. We don’t keep people off of supplemental protein for too long. Six to
eight weeks is all we can do without compromising immunity to some extent. However, it is
entirely safe as we use it, because we give nonfat dairy proteins after six to eight weeks.
This provides plenty of protein for the patient.
In this dietary program, even as patients receive it in the early weeks, there is
enough protein input from the highly bio-available protein content of potatoes, oatmeal,
vegetables and vegetable juices to offset daily obligatory protein loss. A typical patient loses
about 40 grams of protein a day through entrails – obligatory protein loss – but that is
mostly replaced through the basic vegan diet already before adding the dairy protein. When
you add the dairy protein, you will have 30-40 grams more than you require. You’re kept in
what’s called positive nitrogen balance.
Good and his coworkers established that protein and calorie restriction can do some
really quite remarkable things with animal models. The first mouse that was studied
extensively was the (NZB X NZW) F1 (B/W) mouse, called NZB for short. This mouse is a
very rare direct analog mouse. The disease it develops, systemic lupus erythematous, is a
direct human analog. That means that it is the same disease in the mouse and the human,
and if you can affect it in the mouse, you can affect it in the human.
The NZB mouse, when protein-calorie restriction is implemented, will not develop
lupus. This is a mouse genetically preprogrammed to develop lupus. Protein-calorie
restriction initiated at weaning will prevent the development of an otherwise inevitable
disease. Even if the disease is allowed to develop, it can be caused to regress by initiating
protein-calorie restriction after the disease has presented.
Another mouse, the kdkd mouse, gets vascular lesions and has a tendency toward
nephropyosis. These mice, if protein-calorie restriction is initiated at weaning will not
develop blood vessel lesions, and plaque, and kidney problems. Kidney problems can
develop when blood vessel supplies are pinched off. The same is true with the heart. You
cut off the blood supply and organs get into trouble, and muscles get into trouble. Kdkd
mice, even if they are allowed to develop the disease, can be regressed if protein-calorie
restriction is initiated after the disease presents.

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Another mouse, the C3H mouse (these last two mice are not direct analogs), gets
mammary tumors, always mammary tumors. At weaning, protein-calorie restriction will
prevent, in a large percentage of those mice, the development of tumors. Even if the diet is
initiated after they develop tumors, outcroppings of tumors can be kept to a minimum and
extension of survival of the mice is established as being marked over the controls.
Let me read you a paragraph written by Dr. Good and David Jose. This is from
“Quantitative effects of nutritional essential amino acid deficiency upon immune responses
to tumors in mice” which was published in The Journal of Experimental Medicine 137, in
1973:
“Protein-calorie malnutrition may produce profound and sometimes
paradoxical changes in the immune defense mechanisms against infection and malignancy.
Depression of host resistance to some viral infections and malignant tumors has been
reported in nutritionally deprived animals. Our previous studies have demonstrated that
animals fed limited amounts of a casein (milk protein – ed.) diet showed intact mycotoxic
cell-mediated immune responses to tumor antigens at a protein intake that resulted in
profound depression of specific humoral antibody responses, including serum “blocking
antibody”.
These findings suggested that specific cell-mediated mycotoxic immunity may
operate more effectively against tumor cells in the moderately protein-deficient animal,
because of the absence of serum inhibiting factors. Further reduction in the level of protein
in the diets of tumor-bearing animals resulted in depression of both humoral and cellular
responses. In addition, a persistent defect in mycotoxic cell-mediated function was found in
animals after nutritional protein deprivation at a young age. Thus the animal’s immune
resistance could be either increased or depressed depending on the timing and the severity
of the nutritional deprivation. Similar inhibitory effects upon the incidence and growth of
malignant tumors have been reported in animals fed diets imbalanced or deficient in the
essential amino acids.
Normal mice with protein-calorie restriction initiated at weaning live double the
normal life span. They will not grow to full size. But, although they are somewhat smaller
that full size, they remain tremendously active, with sleek coats, and live twice as long.
Most of you have noticed how large people become eating the western diet, regardless of
their racial background. Maybe we’d all be better off small.
Maybe we have been killing ourselves with this high protein based diet on an attitude
that holds that we should, “eat lots of protein, it’s good for you.” When Good first published
on this subject in the 1970’s, he speculated that high protein diets may cause cancer and
heart disease. Because he had rattled some cages and rocked some boats at SloanKettering,
when he left to go to the University of South Florida at Tampa, Good was out of
favor with the same cancer industry that had earlier promoted him. But he had
tremendously advanced the study of the effects of isolated dietary influences on the
immune system, and his contributions have helped us to understand more about how
Gerson’s therapy works.
Gerson saw the immune-stimulating effect of protein restriction in people in his
clinics in the 1930’s. He published, through well-known medical publisher Franz Deuticke, a
book called Diattherapie der Lungentuberkulose, which translates “dietary treatment for
lung tuberculosis”. In that book, Gerson described the same kind of changes Good saw. He
noted that his protein-restricted patients showed increased white cell counts with a shift to
the left in the differential. That doesn’t mean they had car trouble. It’s the old German
notation for increased lymphocyte activity, nonspecific immune activity. Gerson repeated
this observation in a number of later publications, including the monograph you are all
familiar with, A Cancer Therapy: Results of Fifty Cases.
To refresh our memories, let’s review what we have discussed: potassium
supplementation, sodium restriction, calorie restriction, protein restriction, and thyroid
supplementation. When you provide high potassium, low sodium environment, even badly
damaged cells may be able to structure their water somewhat. When water is structured,
the cell is able to control its water content, because its water is approaching the kind of
molecular organization seen in crystals. This molecular organization limits the amount of
water in the cell.
When you have the basics in place, you have something to work with. Tissue that’s
functioning can be pushed to greater function. Gerson saw a depressed cellular metabolism,
depressed tissue function, in cancer and other diseases. Gerson’s attitude toward
metabolism was a bit like that of the makers of the old Volkswagen “bug” toward the
towards the car’s cabin heater. Those heaters had two positions, “on” and “off”. If you
wanted to regulate the cabin heat, you had to do it yourself, manually. The carmakers
probably thought, “if you vant heat, you got heat. If you vant it off, shut it off”. Gerson
wanted metabolism, so he turned it on with large loading dosages of iodides and iodine, and
up to five grains of thyroid.
Thyroid hormone signals mitochondria to multiply and increase production of ATP.
This gives your cells, like little planets, more industrial cities producing more energy.
Iodides and iodine affect some tissues directly in the same way.
Protein restriction turns on T-lymphocytes, which are important because they are a
big part of tumor immunity, capable of infiltrating tumors and killing tumor cells. They also
help orchestrate larger and more general systemic responses from the greater immune
system.
Protein restriction also avoids feeding the process of toxic waste manufactured by
damaged tissues and neoplastic tissues. Cancers tend to deal with proteins poorly and to
create metabolites that are toxic to nearby normal cells. Take, for example, a melanoma
tumor. It’s easy to talk about this because there are magnetic imaging studies of these
things. A melanoma will spread damage outward in a sphere maybe several times the
volume of the tumor.
In this sphere, tissue doesn’t work well because it is waterlogged, insulted, and
damaged by tumor toxins, metabolic waste from the tumor. That tissue will just sit there,
stewing in its own juices, without good drainage. When you take out that tumor and look at
the battleground, the damaged normal tissue, with an imager that gives good T1 and T2
measurements, you can still see the sphere of waterlogged tissue for months after the tumor is gone; months, if the patient is not otherwise provided a way to correct that tissue damage. With Gerson’s therapy, that sodium ring around tumors will disappear within
weeks, because that’s how effective Gerson’s management is against the kind of tissue
damage syndrome that is seen around tumors.