Dietary Healing & Detoxification in the management of chronic disease and cancer: based on the work of Dr. Max Gerson
Next course dates:
July 19th -21st, 2013
Location: Maleny, QLD Australia
Maximum attendance: 8
This three-day training program is for health professionals (both medical and allied) who wish to incorporate dietary healing techniques into their practice.
The course covers:
- The principles of diet therapy and detoxification
- The practical application of the therapy (diet, juices, enemas, medications)
- Case taking and evaluation with reference to real case studies
- Case monitoring with reference to blood pathology and scan reports
- Crisis management and medical intervention
- Integrative medicine: evaluating the risk/benefit of adjunct therapies within the given case
Each delegate will receive course material which includes a copy of Nutritional Healing; a patient management handbook
Lunch will be provided on all three days.
Day 1
Morning Session (9.30 – 13.00)The biological basis of the Gerson Therapy®
- Sodium, fat and protein restriction and their synergistic effect on the rapid reversal of the tissue damage syndrome.
- Re-instatement of the sodium/potassium balance: the restoration of intracellular potassium; increasing oxidation and free energy. Reference will be made to the scientific validation of these principles.
- Provoking the immune response
- Detoxification and elimination of the toxic bi-products of tumour metabolism.
- The liver detoxification pathways
- Supporting the pathways through nutrient and herbal supplementation
- Facilitation of specific pathways by the coffee enema
- Discussion of the 6 year clinical trial, Oncological Outpatient Department, Landeskrankenhaus, Graz, Austria, using adjuvant dietary therapy and coffee enemas in conjunction with surgical oncology
- Making and administering the coffee and castor oil enema
The Diet Rationale
Morning Session (9.30 – 13.00)
- Meeting dietary requirements
- Protein restriction and making good protein requirements
- Allowed and prohibited foods
- Food preparation
- Types of juices
- Juicing equipment
- The juicing schedule
Day 2
Morning Session (9.30 – 13.00)
Intake, Assessment and Contra-indications to the Program
- Case taking with specific reference to disease history, histology, scan reports, blood results and treatments undertaken to date
- Determining realistic outcomes (cure, remission, symptom-management, palliative) and time-frames from case assessment and risk factors
- Monitoring the patient
- Contraindications to the program
- Evaluation of several case studies
- Potassium, Lugol’s and Thyroid medication
- Digestive enzymes
- Crude liver extract
- Niacin
Medication Rationale (contd.)
- Basic medication schedules and determining appropriate modifications within the context of the case
- Long-term application and changes to the dietary and medication schedule
- Adjunct nutritional and herbal supplements
- Determining the toxic, detoxification or healing reaction and appropriate treatment
- The treatment of fever, nausea and diarrhoea
- Pain management
Day 3
Morning Session (9.30 – 13.00)Interpreting blood pathology for the Gerson Patient
- Interpreting progression/remission, flare-ups, immune function, renal and liver function and paraneoplastic syndromes
- Modifying the diet and prescription for abnormal blood pathology
- Indications for crisis management
- Evaluation of several case studies
Afternoon Session (14.00-17.00)
Intervention in crisis management
- Discussion of common crises for the cancer patient (including cardiac, renal, respiratory and gastro-intestinal complications, bone metastases, jaundice, cachexia)
- Determining the most appropriate method of intervention
- Chemotherapy, radiotherapy
- Surgery and surgical procedures
- Drugs
- Evaluating non-toxic options (IV vitamin C, laetrile, herbs, IPT, PDT, hyperthermia) within the framework of the nutritional protocol
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