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- Himself - Presenter: I moved here several years ago. It is a land where you can touch the pulse of Nature's rhythms in the raw. It is a place where one is able to step back and collect your thoughts, to contemplate, contemplate life and what matters.
- Herself - Author: I see the Gerson Therapy as the antidote for our chemically damaged bodies and environment.
- Himself - Author: If the Gerson Therapy would be approved in America - and I think it should be - we would see a dramatic decrease in deaths from cancer. I would estimate the mortality rate go down by at least 50%, possibly more so.
- Herself - Dr. Gerson's Daughter: It is a scientifically verifiable fact that the Gerson Therapy cures cancer as well as almost every other chronical degenerative disease.
- Himself - Author: Why was the American Medical Association so opposed to the Gerson Therapy? I think *all* the medical associations were opposed to the Gerson Therapy. Here comes a new approach, a nutritional approach, and an effective approach. The medical pharmaceutical industry - if it even wants a cure for cancer, since there is so much profit in this disease - certainly does not want the cure a *nutritional* one!
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- Himself - Presenter: For each of us, eventually, whether we are ready or not, some day it will come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours, or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame, and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or owed. Your grudges, resentments, frustrations, and jealousies finally disappear. So, too, your hopes, ambitions, plans, and to-do lists will expire. The wins and losses that once seemed so important will fade away. It won't matter where you came from or which side of the tracks you lived at the end. It won't matter if you're beautiful or brilliant. Even your gander and skin-color will be irrelevant. So what will matter? How will the value of your days be measured? What will matter is not what you bought, but what you built; not what you got, but what you gave. What will matter is not your success, but your significance. What will matter is not what you learned, but what you taught. What will matter is every act of integrity, compassion, courage, or sacrifice that enriched or empowered others to emulate your example. What will matter is not your competence, but your character. What will matter is not how many people you knew, but how many will feel a lasting loss when you're gone. What will matter is not your memories, but the memories in those who loved you. What will matter is how long you will be remembered by whom and for what. A life lived that matters is not of circumstance but of choice.
- Himself - Presenter: As someone said to me, "More people make a living off Cancer than die from it."
- Lymphosarcoma-survivor: [80 years old, case #18 in Gerson's book, about Dr. Gerson] I was very impressed with his integrity in the sense that he said, "I cannot promise you anything, but I'm going to try my best to help you." And he also impressed me with his sense of kindness and caring.
- Himself - Presenter: In the US, two thirds of Americans are overweight, and 20 million of us have diabetes. Half of all Americans take prescription drugs. The cancer rate has gone from 1 in 50 in 1900 to almost one in two at present time in industrialized countries.
- Howard Straus: The problem with the scientific proof is that the allopathic world has defined "scientific proof" so narrowly that the only thing that can be tested by their definition are drugs.
- Himself - Presenter: In 1924 a clinical trial of 450 tuberculosis patients was launched with Gerson's treatment. 446 of the 450 walked away cured.
- Himself - Presenter: The pharmaceutical industry has links with oil companies; but there is much more to it than that.
- Airplane seatmate: What can tell you more? I have a neighbor, and her father is a well-renown immunologist, he studies vaccines and develops them. But his daughter, she never vaccinates her children.
- Himself - Presenter: She won't vaccinate her children?
- Airplane seatmate: No, no.
- Himself - Presenter: Why?
- Airplane seatmate: Probably she has enough information about vaccines to know better.