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Ok, I assume I'm going to get ripped for this review but here goes. The entire movie is basically one testimonial after another. My wife and I kept waiting for the "data" to be presented. It never came. We watched a parade of people telling us how great the Gerson Therapy is and at the end we still had no idea what the Gerson Therapy was. We got the impression that if we sent $39.99 somewhere we could find out. You get just enough info to ascertain it's a juice and coffee enema diet. I guess I don't need to know why puffing organic coffee up my butt is good for me or not. Never mind if the info presented is correct, never mind if it cures cancer or anything else because the info just isn't there. You do get tidbits of info such as over half the patients at a clinic in Japan are either cured or in remission after following the Gerson Therapy. This statistic is meaningless when you don't put it in some sort of context. For example: 1. How many patients are cured? 2. How many are cured vs in remission? 3. What standard was used to determine "cured"? 4. What standard was used to determine "in remission"? 5. What sort of confounding variables might be at play? I assume this regimen restricts calories, processed foods and by extension sugar intake. Since cancer cells lose the ability to reproduce aerobically and rely on anaerobic activity to reproduce, one could logically form the hypothesis that would allow you to ask the question, was this a confounding variable. Many others could also be raised. In fact, according to "Overview of the Gerson Regimen". Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. March 18, 2009. Updated April 22, 2009. Alt medical facilities have a poor track record of accounting for confounding variables and state the following when they tried to critique Gerson's literature, "A serious flaw in this study is its failure to control for additional variable therapies used by patients, and failure to specify any prior or concurrent conventional treatments used." 6. Why have the people for the Gerson Therapy not applied for the NCI (National Cancer Institute) Best Case Series Program? If they have and have been denied and they have complied with all NCI criteria, then they should be screaming about this. It should have been in this documentary. It should have been in 4 more documentaries. It should have been on there website, paid print, billboards and anywhere else you could write the words "shafted by the system." It isn't, because I don't think they have and I don't believe they intend to. According to ^ "Gerson Therapy Overview". National Cancer Institute. September 6, 2007. Updated April 22, 2009. The National Cancer Institute states, "The NCI Best Case Series Program, which was started in 1991, is one way Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) approaches that are being used in practice are being investigated. The program is overseen by the NCI's Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM). Health care professionals who offer alternative cancer therapies submit their patients' medical records and related materials to OCCAM. OCCAM conducts a critical review of the materials and develops follow-up research strategies for approaches deemed to warrant NCI-initiated research." Worst case scenario they could fund there own double blind study and at least get the "no published hard data" monkey off their backs. At the end of the day, what anyone wants to know is this; If one opted for the Gerson therapy would your odds of survival be greater than or less than that of traditional treatments? The Gerson therapy does not have to bat .1000 but it does need to bat greater than something else. At the end of my day this documentary did nothing but parade a bunch of people at me, telling me a story that if true, God bless em'. What I want to know is how many people can't tell me their stories because they didn't make it. These are questions that could be answered. These are questions that need to be answered. This is in no way a complete list of questions that should be answered. This documentary does not even ask these questions so if you're looking for answers...skip this one. I would like to conclude on a positive point lightly touched by this documentary. What is the true cause of cancer and most diseases in our society today? I think the film hit it dead center. Toxicity. When our bodies toxicity surpasses its ability to overcome that toxicity, I believe we begin to suffer all sorts of problems. Cancer and a whole host of other diseases is an acute manifestation of our body's inability to regulate itself. Remove the factors that caused the toxicity and you give yourself a chance to heal. That may be one of the reasons why the Gerson therapy may or may not be effective. However, I can't tell from this documentary, it doesn't go that deep.