We just saw Dr Cervantes for Laura’s final blood work review at the Gerson Clinic. Her LDH (lactic dehydrogenase), which had been coming down steadily (Dr Cervantes said this was a good sign), has just shot up higher than it was when she arrived. It’s now 300. Normal is below 176. A couple of the…
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How Not To Do An Enema
One of the people here at the Gerson Clinic just set their bed on fire and it wasn’t by smoking or illicitly trying to grill a steak. They were trying to help their partner do an enema.. For modesty’s sake we’ll refer to the patient as J. She was lying on the enema couch in…
Preparing to Climb the Everest of Alternative Health
We’re getting ready to go home to New York next Tuesday. And I’ve started to wake up again in the middle of the night in a panic. How are we going to do this in New York? Here in Tijuana at the Gerson Clinic we have a team of 5 doctors and 4 nurses who…
Melatonin
Laura is so buzzed from all the caffeine in the coffee enemas, she is finding it hard to fall asleep. The prescribed valerian tablets had no effect. Now Laura is on 6mg of Melatonin at bedtime. It not only helps with sleep, melatonin is supposed to help fight cancer and boost your immune system too….
Health Update
Good news! Laura’s Lactic Dehydrogenase (LDH) level just dropped significantly for the second time. It is now 206. Normal range is below 176. Cancer patients tend to have elevated levels. When Laura arrived at the clinic, her LDH was up at 271. Dr Cervantes says this latest blood work shows her body is detoxifying very…
Dreaming of Meat…
Blue cheese burger with bacon, sauteed mushrooms and onions, the whole roast pig at the local taco stand, razor clams, scallops and lobster. Laura has been dreaming of meat the past few days. For once, the only thing she is not craving is sugar. ‘I’ve no interest in it at all,’ she says.
Good News + Not Such Great News
‘Don’t worry. It is a typical healing reaction, and a very good one,’ Dr Melendez told Laura this morning after breakfast. Dr Melendez is co-owner of the clinic and one of the best known Gerson doctors. She has treated patients at the Gerson clinic for over 20 years. She and Dr Cervantes have dropped Laura…
Shopping List
Lunch and dinner at the Gerson Clinic are the same. The Hippocrates soup is made of potatoes, celery root and tomatoes. I don’t know which is worse Laura’s new daily schedule (which I’ll post later), or our weekly shopping list which we just received. It starts off: “50 lbs carrots, 40 lbs apples, 38 heads…
Castor Oil Enema
The castor oil enema is something every Gerson patient dreads. It tastes vile and it is the mother of all detoxes. It strips all 32 feet of your intestine removing parasites, worms, fat deposits, toxins, food residues, dead and malignant tissue and defunct blood cells, according to Dr Ramos. You have to drink a couple…
The Gerson Clinic vs ‘Healing the Gerson Way’ (the book)
Almost everyone at the Gerson clinic seems to start slowly rather than launch into 13 juices and 5 enemas a day as prescribed in ‘Healing the Gerson Way’, Charlotte Gerson’s helpful book. ‘When people do the full protocol too soon, they can get into big problems and end up with an ulcer or in…
Mucosal Melanoma – the cause?
Laura has a very rare mucosal melanoma of the cervix. The Gerson Clinic has only seen one other case in all its years. But according to a top doctor we saw at Memorial Sloan Kettering these mucosal melanomas are becoming more common. What is the cause? Dr Cervantes at the Gerson Clinic thinks it is…
The Gerson Clinic
This is how we spend our days at the clinic… Note the barbed wire – Is it to keep us in or intruders out? Laura in ‘Poo Corner’.
Bleeding
Laura’s bleeding a little less today for the first time. This is good news according to Dr Cervantes. Her only symptom for her melanoma of the cervix is the ever increasing bleeding. In recent weeks it has gotten so bad she soaks through 5 big pads a day (even getting up in the night to…
Going gray
Laura – I’m a vain person. I want to look as young as possible. I’ve dyed my hair since my 40s. This is the last vanity that I have right now and I’m scared to let it go. I’ve been Googling pictures of women with gray hair – some look old, some look beautiful….
Soul Love Forever 