Gregory Colbert Laura – I started meditating at the age of 17 with Transcendental Meditation. I would sit in bed repeating my mantra and fall asleep. So much for meditation. Over the years I would try to connect with a Higher Power, the Universe, whatever you want to call it but always had a hard…
Author: Lucie Young
Weekend Warrior Schedule
We’re trialing a new version of the Weekend Warrior schedule for our kind-hearted volunteers. We’ve pruned the schedule way back so it’s now 3.5 hour shifts (instead of the mammoth 5 hour shifts of yore) and we’re asking for just one Weekend Warrior for each shift (instead of two people each morning and one person…
Tumors Disintegrating
Laura – This is going to sound disgusting but the whole purpose of the Gerson protocol is to get rid of the cancer and I just had a sign that it’s working. In my underwear I found a blob of flesh. Now never in my 58 years have I had this experience and I’m going…
Brenda
Here’s our weekday angel Brenda straining the coffee concentrate and the chamomile tea. Brenda loves to dance (as do we) and recently showed us some popular Bolivian dance moves, including one where you pretend to be an old person and stagger along bent double jabbing about like you have a cane and another where you…
Gerson French Fries
On castor oil days Laura usually can’t eat her soup, never mind her baked potato, because she feels bilious and poorly. But we’ve discovered a neat trick, Gerson ‘French Fries’. You bake them in the oven for an hour @ 350 F (absolutely no salt or oil!). Even on her worst day, Laura will happily…
The Importance of Gruel
Gruel, the milky white juice that you get when you boil organic rolled oats in a lot of water for 15 minutes (and then strain off and discard the oats) seems to be the key to keeping Laura’s stomach happy. When she drinks a little before and after every enema, her stomach is less upset,…
Shopping
If we had a car, this is what it would look like. Our weekly shopping feels as if we are catering to a ravenous pony (all the carrots, apples and oats) and a coffee addict. Here’s Laura’s weekly shop list (all organic) – 60 Granny Smith apples 50 gallons of distilled water 30 lbs of…
Cross Dressing + Opera
Perhaps we should open a salon? We’re having so much fun. This weekend George tried on Laura’s clothes, Jeff sang opera, Pawel brought the most gorgeous tulips (George arrived with lovely sunflowers) and Fatima entertained us while juicing, vacuuming and cleaning the kitchen floor (Fatima you get the Wonder Woman award)! Thank you one and…
Snorty Pants
Laura – I used to be a very heavy snorer and for several years suffered from sleep apnea, which I just read can cause cancer. A 2012 study reported that people with sleep apnea have a 4.8 times higher incidence of cancer mortality. Apparently the oxygen deprivation causes angiogenesis (rapid new blood vessel growth), which feeds…
Energy Beings
Laura has the magical ability to transform pain into a bearable place for me. Skyping her from England after my mum had a stroke, I was too distraught to speak, but just looking into her eyes soothed me. In New York, after an arduous day, I wrap myself around Laura in bed or on the…
The Incredible Mattress Thief
Some people swipe the covers at night, but I don’t know of anyone except Laura who can steal the mattress out from underneath you while you sleep. Short of installing a spy-cam, I’ll never know how she does it. Every night, 6-inches-to-a-foot of mattress vanishes on my side and reappears as a kind of ‘terrace’…
More Gruel…Please!
Dr Cervantes wants Laura to drink more gruel – her least favorite food – a little before each enema and a little after to soothe her tum. We are also toying with different varieties of organic coffee, castor oil packs, hot water bottles, less green pepper in her green juices, in fact anything that might…
Blood Work Update
Today, Laura had her first phone check-up with Dr Cervantes at the Gerson Clinic in Mexico . He reviewed her blood work and said her urine PH 8.5 is too alkaline (apparently this happens to most Gerson patients after 6 weeks), so he wants her to eat a little animal protein. Her ears perked up…
Sweet Tooth
Laura – You won’t believe this, but I’m NOT enjoying sweet food. This from a sugar addict who couldn’t stop binging on it. During 41 years of sugar cravings, I’ve tried everything (12 step programs, hypnosis, talk therapy, the GAPS diet, in fact loads of diets). The Gerson Therapy has cured me of this problem…
The Week That Was
What a difference a week makes. Today mum came home from hospital. One nurse’s parting words were, ‘We’re so pleased. We didn’t know if you were going to make it.’ This is probably because it took mum 12 hours to wake up after the bypass surgery and the anesthetic usually wears off in 4 hours….
Soul Love Forever 