8/29/25: Gerson's Therapy & Pseudoscience; (More) Saladino Bad Advice; Nutrition Practitioners & Malnutrition; 42 Factors That Affect Blood Sugar; RD Swag
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🤪Gerson’s Therapy & Pseudoscience
We recently posted this meme about coffee enemas, and it brought up some discussion of Gerson Therapy. If you’re not familiar, “… Gerson therapy has been used by some people to treat cancer and other diseases. It is based on the role of minerals, enzymes, and other dietary factors.”
The key parts of Gerson Therapy are:
-🍽️a strict, restrictive diet (usually vegetarian organic)
-💊use of supplements
-☕ “detoxification” featuring enemas (like the coffee enema) and drinking large amounts of water🚰
Does Gerson Therapy work?
-Have any preclinical (laboratory or animal) studies been conducted using the Gerson therapy? No results of laboratory or animal studies have been published in scientific journals.
-Have any side effects or risks been reported from use of the Gerson therapy? Reports of three deaths that may be related to coffee enemas have been published. Taking too many enemas of any kind can cause changes in normal blood chemistry, chemicals that occur naturally in the body and keep the muscles, heart, and other organs working properly.
More on this from McGill OSS What is Gerson therapy? | Office for Science and Society - McGill University
-Is the Gerson therapy approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use as a cancer treatment in the United States? The Gerson therapy has not been approved by the FDA for use as a treatment for cancer or any other disease.
🦆Saladino’s Bad Advice on Folic Acid
“Dr. Paul Saladino recently advised against using folic acid in prenatal vitamins, preferring ‘natural’ L-5-methylfolate, citing a Boston Birth Cohort paper on cord unmetabolized folic acid (UMFA) and autism risk….”
and yet…
“…Folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy helps to prevent serious, sometimes fatal birth defects. Multiple randomized trials and large population programmes highlight the benefits of folic acid to prevent Neural Tube Defects (NTDs) in babies….”
👩🏼🔬👨🏽🔬Research: The Role of Nutrition Practitioners in Malnutrition
“…Credentialed nutrition and dietetics practitioners should collaborate with organizations and professional leadership, quality improvement professionals, and interprofessional teams to systematically assess the influence of high-quality malnutrition care across the continuum of care, focusing on its effect on clinical outcomes, cost of care, and improving population health and quality of life.”
42 Factors that Affect Blood Glucose
Abigail P. mentioned this list in our Build Up Dietitians DIABETES group so we looked it up. You can purchase this as a poster or as a booklet or download it HERE.