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Dietary Healing & Detoxification for the management of chronic disease & cancer 

(Based on the work of Dr. Max Gerson) 

Please go to events for booking of attendance workshops.

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 role of the coffee enema and castor oil treatment in detoxication
  • 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

Afternoon Session (14.00-16.30)


The Diet Rationale
  • Meeting dietary requirements
  • Protein restriction and making good protein requirements
  • Allowed and prohibited foods
  • Food preparation
The Juicing Rationale
  • 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
Medication Rationale
  • Potassium, Lugol’s and Thyroid medication
  • Digestive enzymes
  • Crude liver extract
  • Niacin
Afternoon Session (14.00-16.30)

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
Flare-ups and non-toxic pain management
  • 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 (14.00-16.30)

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