Foreword by Charlotte Gerson who describes this book as the "bible" of the nutritional healer of the future. The original text was edited by Beata Bishop, co-author of Healing the Gerson Way. This comprehensive work brings the philosophy of the treatment according to Dr. Gerson into modern day practice providing an in-depth guide for health professionals on the treatment and management of patients who wish to embark upon on a nutritional therapy. Dr. Gerson observed that cancer and degenerative conditions were due to progressive deterioration of the whole metabolism caused by the accumulation of numerous damaging factors, among them being chronic poisoning of the vital organs and the loss of living nutrients and oxidizing enzymes. Dr. Gerson found that deficiencies could not be restored so long as the essential organs remained poisoned, and between 1928 and 1959 went on to perfect an intensive diet therapy which involved both the detoxification of the whole body along with its nutritional restoration. The su
