Dr. Josh Axe

And like, if I have a patient with cancer versus inflammatory bowel disease, those are very different diets.

Inflammatory bowel disease is like soup, soup, and more soup, like all cooked meat, really well-cooked vegetables, maybe even some rice congee and, you know, things like that.

And then some of the cancer, I'll probably do a lot of juice vegetables, a lot of raw, those sort of things.

Because I think with cancer, so in Chinese medicine, that's known as, basically it's stagnation.

One of the biggest causes of cancer is things are stuck and they're not moving.

So you wanna really move the body a lot and you wanna address nutritional deficiencies and toxicity.

Max Gershon, who developed Gershon therapy, believed that one of the best ways to do that is to flood the body with nutrients.

What's the best way of doing that with whole food nutrition?

Juicing vegetables.

You know what else he juiced?

This is going to sound gross and crazy to people.

Raw beef liver.

He took raw calf liver from young calves and juiced it.

And so the Gershon diet, now originally that's what they did.

Then some other people took over and they're like,

oh, that can't be good because it's an animal product.

And then now I think they do maybe recommend desiccated liver as tablets.

But overall, that's what he did because beef liver is probably the most nutrient-dense food there is.

So Gershon therapy, and if you're combining that with the Chinese medicine ideals as well, you're doing lots of organ meats, you're doing lots of vegetables and berries and those things where you're really flooding the body with nutrients.

And then you're really supporting the body's detoxification protocol.