{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/692e431c1fc8491a7b9a3769/6a5f32794a280e7311e6c422?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"22:The Gerson Diet | Curing Cancer with Coffee Enemas","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/692e431c1fc8491a7b9a3769/1784623566193-c2863ff6-1a35-40a0-91d9-4a612ddcffe0.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Every morning at the Gerson clinic in Tijuana, patients wake up and drink juice. Then they drink more juice. Then they have a coffee enema. Then more juice. Thirteen glasses before dinner, every day, for weeks - at a cost that runs to thirty thousand dollars a month. The people doing it are not gullible.&nbsp;He also prescribed coffee enemas and carrot juice to cancer patients, charged them a significant amount of money, and kept his own records in a way that made independent verification essentially impossible. Both of those things are true, and the wellness industry has spent seventy years making sure you only hear about one of them.</p><p><br></p><p>So what does it mean when a protocol this easy to debunk has this many true believers — and some of them have the scans to back it up?</p><p><br></p><p>This week, Richard Baker and Dr. Nick Coatsworth go through what the evidence actually shows, what's been conveniently overlooked, and what the gap between those two things tells us.</p><p><br></p><ul><li>The Albert Schweitzer problem: why the most credentialled endorsement in alternative medicine history doesn't actually say what people think it says, and what Schweitzer was and wasn't claiming when he called Gerson a genius</li><li>The biology of the protocol: what the sodium-potassium hypothesis actually proposes, where it intersects with legitimate cellular research, and where it quietly stops making sense before the brochure notices</li><li>Survivorship bias and the testimonial economy: why every alternative cancer clinic in the world has a wall of thank-you letters, what that data looks like when an epidemiologist runs it, and why the people who didn't get better aren't at the reunion</li><li>The peer review gap: why Gerson's results have never been independently replicated, what it would actually take to run a clean trial, and whether the absence of evidence here is as suspicious as the true believers insist</li><li>Coffee enemas and the detox myth: what the liver actually does, what \"detoxification\" means in a clinical versus a marketing context, and why the same word is doing very different work depending on who's using it</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Some of this is documented. Some is genuinely unknown. And almost none of it is as settled as the people selling the protocol want you to believe.</p><p><br></p><p>Join Rich Baker and Dr Nick Coatsworth as they suss it all out.</p><p><br></p><p>Contact the show at <a href=\"mailto:conspiracycabal@outlook.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">conspiracycabal@outlook.com</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>The Conspiracy Cabal doesn't promote conspiracy theories — we examine them. We search for the kernel of truth in every story, exploring how conspiracies start, why they persist, and what drives people to believe them.</p>","author_name":"Southern Ocean Media"}