LIVING LEGACY: THE WORKS OF GENIUS

Dr. Dan Rogers, M.D., N.M.D. • Dr. Josef Issels, M.D. • Max B. Gerson, M.D.

Dr. Dan Rogers, MD, NMD

Dr. Rogers has been treating patients using complementary, alternative, holistic medicine since the late 1970’s. His practice started at the “Jardines de La Mesa” facility in 1978. Charlotte Gerson, Dr. Gerson’s daughter and Norman Fritz were just reintroducing the idea of Gerson Therapy to the medical world, as it was just a “book on the shelf”, from the time that Dr. Max Gerson passed away in 1959, until the late 1970’s. Charlotte Gerson and Norman Fritz had essentially been unsuccessful except in a very limited way until that time.

Dr. Rogers along with several other physicians started using the therapy as per Dr. Gerson’s Book. Dr. Rogers soon realized that the practice needed to continue to develop, just as Dr. Max Gerson did while he was alive. As one example, Charlotte Gerson would not allow patients with prior chemotherapy to be treated, as they did not do well in her limited experience. Dr. Rogers developed the treatment protocols that everyone currently practicing true Gerson Therapy still uses today for the treatment of cancer patients with prior treatment using chemotherapy, radiation or surgery.

Dr. Rogers continued his practice at “Hospital La Gloria” when the two facilities merged in the early 1980’s. After a destructive fire in the kitchen area of La Gloria, the practice was moved to “Hospital Del Sol” in the beach area of Playas Tijuana. When the practice subsequently moved to “CHIPSA Hospital”,

also in the beach area in the mid 1980’s, Dr. Rogers took over as Chief of Staff and Director of Clinical Investigations.

He is now in a solo practice and continues to develop and improve on what he now calls “The Gerson Plus Therapy – The Better Choice.” Dr. Rogers holds the registration in Mexico to provide medical treatment for human illnesses by means of nutritionally based Gerson Therapy (Marca Registrada # 512646). He also holds all rights reserved under the following trademarks: Marca Registrada # 512642, #512643, in Mexico and Registered Trademark/Service Marks in the European Union (CTM) #66563 for Classes 9, 16 and 42.

Cancer is a generalized disease of the body arising in the following phases:

1. Causal factors, leading to disease symptoms (including the formation of tumors).
2. Secondary damage, leading to disease symptoms (including the formation of tumors).
3. Disease milieu and lowered resistance, leading to disease symptoms (including the formation of tumors).
4. Susceptibility to infection and pathological change, leading to disease symptoms (including the formation of tumors).

Dr. Rogers treatment program includes:

1. Correction of all known causal factors;
2. Desensitization to causal factors;
3. Normalization of secondary damages to host metabolism by dietotherapy and supportive treatments, correction of acid-base derailment by treatment of serum alkalosis and tissue acidosis, hyperthermia, fever therapy, oxygen/ozone treatment, ultraviolet blood irradiation, enzymes, glandulars, organ extracts, neural therapy and;
4. Vaccines.

Clinical observation and statistical analyses have revealed the following:

· In incurable cancers, when all standard treatments have been exhausted, immunological modalities improve general condition, prolong life and, in a variety of cases, achieve complete long-term remissions.

· Immunological treatment following surgery, radiation and chemotherapy significantly reduces the incidence of relapse and raises the cure rates in most cancers.

· During immunological treatment, cancer patients experience relief from a vast variety of chronic conditions that have been resistant to standard treatment.

GERSON PLUS THERAPY – “The Better Choice”

Dr. Josef Issels and Dr. Max Gerson, based their treatments on the concept that cancer along with chronic and degenerative diseases do not develop in a healthy body with intact defense and repair functions. This is the basis that Dr. Dan Rogers continues to use for his medical practice.

Cancer presents in a specific internal environment that promotes malignant growth. This environment develops over a period of time due to multiple causes and conditions that persist and remain chronically active even after treatment of the malignancy (by surgery, radiation, and/or chemotherapy). These remaining causes are responsible for the formation of new disease, which occurs after anti-malignancy treatment in every second cancer patient according to world statistics.

In 1996, Dr. Issels moved to California to become co-principal investigator and senior medical consultant with Dr. Rogers. He taught Dr. Dan Rogers his medical philosophy and protocols. Together, they worked to integrate Gerson's therapy and Dr. Issels' Comprehensive Immunotherapy. Josef M. Issels, M.D. joined the research team and medical practice as Senior Consulting Physician and Co-Principal Investigator in July of 1996. He led the initiative to merge his Whole Body Immunotherapy with the Gerson Therapy. Dr. Issels touched every part of the research team and medical practice with his wisdom, insight, cutting vision, patience and humor. His gift to mankind lives on in Dr. Rogers practice as he furthers his quest for more cures.

Dr. Dan Rogers, a 25+-year veteran of alternative medicine, is the Director of Clinical Investigations. Under his leadership, the medical team applies the new and far reaching Gerson Plus Therapy protocols. The physicians place equal importance on the destruction of malignant cells AND on the causes and conditions leading to the body's tendency to develop cancer, chronic and degenerative diseases in the first place.

Holistic comprehensive immunotherapy as practiced by Dr. Rogers is able to reverse chronic degenerative diseases such as arthritis, lupus, Grave's disease, Sjoegren's syndrome, asthma, ALS, Alzheimer’s Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Candida, allergies, Degenerative Diseases, etc.

JOSEF M ISSELS MD
Nov 21, 1907 - Feb 11, 1998

Dr. Josef Issels is regarded throughout the world as the Father of Integrative Medicine. His "Hypothesis of the Pathogenesis of Cancer, Chronic, and Degenerative Diseases" is the algorithmic template which guides the integration of alternative, complementary, and standard treatments by physicians. Two independent retrospective epidemiological reviews confirmed that Issels consistently cured many exhaustively pretreated and hopelessly advanced cancer patients during his forty years as head of a hospital for incurable cancer patients.

The focus of integrative medical care is the individual patient – the implementation is two-fold, comprising 1) both standard and unconventional methods directed at the elimination of malignant cells as well as
2) a system of non-specific immunological treatment modalities aimed at the restoration of the internal milieu and enhancement of the natural defense and repair mechanisms of the whole person.

According to Roger Newman Turner, N.D. (Naturopathic Medicine – Treating the Whole Person), "Dr. Issels provides what can be regarded as a 'blueprint' for our understanding of all chronic disease in his theories on the pathogenesis of disease.

Dr. Issels was the subject of a 1970 BBC documentary entitled "Go Climb a Mountain." BBC researchers concluded that the results of two independent epidemiological chart reviews had confirmed the cure of many cases of advanced cancer. A.G. Audier reported a 16.6% cure rate in 252 histologically verified Stage IV metastatic malignomas by the Issels comprehensive immunotherapy even after all conventional methods were exhausted (world wide cure rate is 2%). Using the same exclusion criteria, John Anderson, M.D., reported 17% cures of histologically verified metastatic malignomas all Stage IV, by the Issels comprehensive immunotherapy. The study comprised 570 patients, 87% of which were alive and disease-free after 5-years.

Josef M. Issels, MD, became internationally known for his remarkable rate of complete long-term remissions of "incurable cancers" in patients who had exhausted all standard treatments, such as advanced cancers of the breast, uterus, prostate, colon, liver, lung, brain, sarcomas, lymphomas, and leukemias. After completion of Dr. Issels' treatment, these patients remained cancer free for up to 45 years, leading normal healthy lives. Dr. Issels' treatment also significantly reduced the incidence of recurrent cancer after surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, thereby considerably improving cure rates.

Dr. Rogers states that “it was my privilege to work with Dr. Issels for the last years of his life. What he taught me will remain with me as part of my practice forever. He was a genius and humanitarian and I have deep respect for him as a human being. He told me how he had always wanted to combine Issels Therapy with Gerson Therapy and for him this combination, as practiced by Dr. Rogers, ‘is incredible’”.

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MAX B. GERSON, M.D.
October 19, 1881 - Mar 7, 1959

Within the context of modern science and medicine, Dr. Rogers offers the various dietary and detoxification treatments developed by Max B. Gerson, MD. For more than two decades, the medical team headed by Dr. Rogers has used an in-hospital treatment environment as the primary venue for the study, development and refinement of the Gerson nutrition, life style change, detoxification, diet therapy. Today, Gerson's therapy is used as the foundation upon which other therapies are placed.

Gerson's dietotherapy for cancer is an intensive nutrition-based form of immunology. Macro-nutrient manipulation in the context of micronutrient supplementation stimulates immunity and promotes tissue integrity. It works closely with the healing forces of nature to stimulate tissue repair and normal growth through the input of more fresh, raw vegetable materials than any other nutritional intervention. Fresh, raw fruits and vegetables are the source materials of almost all micronutrients in their pristine organic composition. Although the diet includes some cooked foods in its three daily vegan meals, extraordinary amounts of unaltered foods are consumed. Specific fruits and vegetables, both raw and freshly prepared, and their raw juices supply enormous quantities of many phytochemicals currently under study worldwide for exciting anticancer and health promoting properties. Moreover, the use of raw materials ensures that patients receive even those health-promoting factors not yet identified.

Oncological dietotherapy is a medical specialty, not unlike oncological radiotherapy. In many instances dietotherapy will be sufficient to cause complete regression of cancer. Dr. Rogers believes that complementary use of medical specialties will lead to more satisfactory overall outcomes. To this end, all patients are enrolled in outcomes studies. Results will be published in future medical literature.

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