Monday, November 10, 2008

The Beautiful Truth

Here's a short trailer to a very important movie opening in L.A. and New York City this month. You can view the longer trailer at the Apple trailer site.



This is a movie that tells the story of cancer and how one man, Dr. Max Gerson, a German doctor, discovered that cancer could be cured nutritionally. The American Medical Association (along with sanctioning doctors to appear in cigarette advertisements and commercials) was so threatened by Dr. Gerson's work in the late 1940's and early 1950's that they used all manner of surreptitious means to shut him down and make his work illegal -- Dr. Gerson being the man that Dr. Albert Schweitzer called "one of the most eminent geniuses in the history of medicine." I have read the books available by and about Dr. Gerson -- they were a primary impetus in my own pursuit of the power of nutritional healing therapies. (Dr. Gerson's work is carried on by his daughter, Charlotte Gerson, at the Gerson Institute in San Diego, though the Gerson Therapy has to be practiced at a hospital across the border in Mexico -- it's illegal for doctors to use the Gerson nutritional therapies in the U.S. And you didn't think the AMA has power?)

From what I can tell, this movie isn't scheduled for nationwide distribution -- only the two openings in L.A. and New York later this month. You can read more about the movie at its website.

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