The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health
by Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford Young
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Author: Robert O. Young, Shelley Redford YoungEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05-01
ISBN: 044669049X
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Wellness Central
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Summary: 5 Stars
There may be no area of health more controversial, more confusing, with more divergent prescriptions, or more fraught with failure than that of weight loss. There is probably no important physical challenge or affliction that affects more Americans--children and adults alike--than being overweight.
Thus, it is amazing to me that some obviously literate contributors have somehow misunderstood the basic and foundational principles of Dr. Robert O. Young's trailblazing science set forth in The pH Miracle. And if they don't understand the concepts set forth there, they won't understand The pH Miracle for Weight Loss any better.
What is so fascinating about the groundbreaking health and nutritional information set forth by Dr. Young is that one could take the "pH Weight Loss" volume and insert any other disorder--arthritis, heart disease, cancer, diabetes--you name it--in place of "weight loss." The pH Miracle for Weight Loss is so fundamental and so radical that it literally sets forth what Dr. Young refers to as "New Biology" and a new foundation for understanding the health and well-being of the entire human race.
Thus, reading some of the lame-brain criticisms found here and there under Dr. Robert and Shelley Young's books is very disturbing. You can tell from the confused and biased comments of these pseudo-medical savants that they do not even recognize the powerful seminal discovery represented by that which they so carelessly denigrate.
Based on the a few obtuse, mean-minded and devious comments seen on the Internet, it is obvious that some of Dr. Young's critics have not done their homework, are completely disingenuous, are perhaps threatened in some way--or may very well "have another dog in the fight."
It is equally amazing that any critic who takes themselves seriously would deny even the possibility that fat cells are one of nature's many attempted protective mechanisms for coping with acid foods and lifestyle--just as are most tumors, polyps, inflammations, acne, boils, swelling and so on. Despite their hyperbole, certain critics are obviously unaware that overweight people willing to follow the alkaline regime universally lose weight. And they usually lose a great deal of weight.
In addition to weight loss, it is both fascinating and instructive to see how the body returns to an earlier healthier and more harmonic state when one actually feeds it properly and gives it what nature intended. Dr. Young's theory makes incredible sense: Fat cells are one of the body's attempts to isolate excessive and destructive acids from the blood, tissues, organs and other important cells of the body. Dr. Young's microscopy work with 10,000 blood samples coupled with nutritional regimens and follow-up blood analyses verify these phenomena in case after case.
Understanding blood is one of the many areas in which Dr. Young excels. When your doctor orders a blood test on you, for instance, the lab tests are not done by identifying the etiology, cause, or relevance of a myriad of unhealthy blood cells. Labs don't pay much attention to the number and nature of unhealthy cells--the cells that tell you the most serious information about the overall health of the body. They miss the big picture. Labs simply count cells and report numerical values for sugar levels, liver and heart enzymes, kidney by-products and factors for blood coagulation. They are looking for numbers. It's a quantity concept, not a quality analysis. The lab does generally look at the type and shape of red blood cells and sometimes comments on them in their reports. But they are not understanding the real meaning of what they are viewing, and the information that is sent back to the doctors does not give them much information to help treat you. Rarely, if ever, does your doctor see your blood under the microscope, nor would he or she be trained to understand the most important component in your body--your blood.
And yet, looking at healthy blood under a microscope is nothing less than a thing of beauty--a dazzling ballet of beauty and symmetry dancing and swirling under the light of the microscope. Nonetheless, few doctors have ever seen such a picture. In fact, looking at their lab partner's blood cells in hematology 101--given the eating habits of most med students--must have been nothing short of a nightmare--despite the fact that the slides all looked sickeningly similar. The novice med prodigy had no way to recognize the acidic blood bombardment for what it was. It takes only a few minutes for one's cheeseburger and greasy onion rings to create the incipient pathology of the body--starkly highlighted in the blood--whether or not it was recognized as the early beginning of the early end.
Dr. Young's research focuses on the nature of the pathological cells. He can tell in the blood where the acids of the body have begun to accumulate and where the body is breaking down--long before you have symptoms. Dr. Young exposes the key vulnerability in human pathology--the acid level in the small intestine. It is in this area of the body that Dr. Young's theories are perhaps the least understood. It is in this area of the body that his dietary regimen has the most immediate impact, and why people feel so better so quickly when Dr. Young begins educating them about how the body REALLY works--and what to eat and not to eat to achieve certain results.
Most diets tell you WHAT to eat. And some are on the right track--although many, like Atkins acid diet, are extremely acidic and unhealthy. But even those dieticians on the right track do not understand the inner working of the blood and intestines and do not know the real reason they are correct. Vegetables aren't healthy because they are vegetables--or even just because they have vitamins, minerals, etc. Vegetables are especially healthy because of their high alkaline content. Consequently, many diets prescribe correct foods but the reasoning and underlying rationale is off target. This is one of the reasons that people lose weight and constantly regain it--because they did not understand the underlying principles--the common denominators of all health, disease, and most dis-ease. Once the bulls-eye is identified, you will keep your weight off as long as you wish. You can eat all you feel like eating, but you have to know what to eat and why--and how to prepare certain vegetable foods so they are scrumptious.
Some critics appear to misunderstand and criticize the intelligent, career-long, case-study type of research of Dr. Robert and Shelley Young. True, the pharmaceutical industry has not seen fit to study their health and nutritional program. And no wonder! The inexpensive alkaline diet will one day cut deeply into Big Pharma's lucrative and poisonous prescriptive "medicines" supposedly aimed at society's health problems. Pharmaceutical executives have known that for several decades. This is part of the reason that large pharmaceutical companies are attempting to buy out herbal and nutritional companies, suppress positive nutritional research, highlight negative herbal research, and exhort the FDA into new administrative laws that attempt to tie the hands of many professional alternative medicine practitioners--and put them out of business.
Yet, overwhelming evidence exists that (probably all) prescription medications are acidic, including all those dietary pills. Despite some apparent short-terms gains, prescriptive acids, masquerading as medicine, are poisonous chemical compounds and sooner or later, in one way or another, add to the body's problems.
When you are tempted to think that all those non-stop drug ads you see on TV are actually helping you, keep in mind the following: It is possible to win a battle once in awhile and still lose the war. It is possible to lose weight, for instance, with some prescription drugs and unhealthy diets, but still be incurring various side-effects and multiple areas of damage to other parts of the body. It is possible to suppress certain symptoms even though the acidic drug(s) used are sewing the seeds for later health problems. Meanwhile, the real cause of illness and disease is not addressed.
Yet, despite the fact that Big Pharma is unwilling--and will forever be unwilling--to fund a medical school research laboratory to properly test Dr. Young's decades of work, pharmaceutical and allopathic proponents nonetheless blame Dr. Young for his inability to have amassed the resources to orchestrate randomized, large scale, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies. Big Pharma may be greedy, but they are not stupid. What Dr. Young and others are learning about how the body is designed and how it functions will sometime in the near future rob pharmaceutical companies from the fruits of their main obsession--profits.
Despite those few loud detractors, Dr. Robert Young's N-of-1 research is very useful and is well respected in many scientific circles. It is especially useful in the behavioral sciences wherein professional helping agents assist individuals in tracking their own self-administered and self-controlled behavior modification studies. N-of-1, studies can be used whenever the independent variable (treatment) is easily managed and the dependent variable (outcome) is readily observed. This is certainly the case in most weight-loss situations.
What could be more empirical or scientific than tracking and recording your own food for several months and matching it up with the pH level of your urine and saliva 5 or 10 times a day? With this method, one can see the evidence whenever and wherever one wants. Just eat "right" for a few days and then eat "wrong" for a few days while tracking body weight and the pH of body fluids. Do that off and on. Such studies are referred to as "A-B-A-B" trials and consist of carefully repeated measures of baseline-treatment-baseline-treatment observations. Any adult can easily keep track of his/her pH results with pH strips. The bathroom scales will tell you the rest. Thus, in the privacy of your home, you can do your own N-of-1 or single-participant research. You will see how very quickly your body is telling you what is going on inside of you. If you think a tummy ache or morning hangover is the body's main feedback that you have overdone something or are eating wrong, wait until you see what your blood, saliva and urine are telling you.
And as a result of some of those few tasteless, personal attacks on The pH Miracle for Weight Loss and some of Dr. Young's other best-selling books, I have several other beefs to pick with those few misguided Young critics and their near-sighted and out-of-context examples, and I will address them one by one.
First, Dr. Young is not the only scientist under attack by powerful interests. I suspect that some of the personal character attacks I see on the Internet are pharmaceutical industry "insiders." These may consist of employees, paid consultants, or some other aligned confederates generally deployed to create world-wide disinformation in the public mind and protect Big Pharma profits and shore up their flagging reputation. Consider this: If all those toxic drugs were so desperately needed and valuable to the public, why, according to TNS research and the Wall Street Journal, would the pharmaceutical industry spend $100 billion on advertising in 2005, far more than was spent on their own research and development? And guess who pays for all that advertising!
Secondly, despite 5 degrees in science and 3 doctorates, Dr. Young is criticized for his training and extraordinarily brilliant education. Dr. Young decidedly avoided typical M.D.-type medical training. Early in his career he believed that the germ theory was wrong and was not willing to undergo continuous medical indoctrination of information based on faulty theoretical underpinnings. Dr. Young received his education from complementary and alternative graduate science programs. These programs routinely question and disagree with the shoddy science coming from many medical schools which are largely controlled by the FDA and its pharmaceutical "partners," the same cronies who trade management and executive jobs back and forth like youngsters trade baseball cards.
It is common knowledge that it is impossible to receive accreditation from many sanctioning bodies when turf, money, greed and power speak so loudly. Some of the greatest medical scientific work in history has barely seen the light of day. (see Dr. Royal Rife, Dr. Antoine Bechamp, etc.) Those who attack Dr. Young's training are heavily invested in a competitive, self-seeking, self-serving and monopolistic approach to the health and wellness industry. This approach is designed to disparage successful alternative treatment programs and efforts. If you are not familiar with this issue, ask yourself when the last time was that you heard of a person dying from a nutritional supplement or an alternative medical treatment program? The answer is "rarely" or "never." Then ask yourself how many people have died from "FDA tested and approved" medicine? The answer is 125,000 people died in one recent year according to The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Third, is it true that Dr. Young, despite having published eight books and two decades of research including journal articles, has never published articles in major peer-reviewed scientific journals controlled by the AMA? Yes, it is absolutely true. Why? Because without the over-hyped M.D. degree, with the pharmaceutical throttle-neck grip on the entire medical industry, and with the financially dependent hospital researchers and educators competing for Big Pharma drug-research funds, who is going to publish an article by Dr. Young that challenges the very basis of all western allopathic pharmaceutical medicine? Dr. Young has been among the small but brilliant cadre of scholars over the last century who have been relegated to the shadows of the medical spotlight for totally disagreeing with Louis Pasteur's germ theory set forth nearly two centuries ago. It is quite obvious that "no one" will touch Dr. Young's anti-pharmaceutical research with a ten foot pole. Such boldness could easily result in professional ostracism and financial suicide.
Yet, Dr. Young has quiet, private, conversations with many prominent allopathic medical leaders across the country who support and encourage his work and praise his findings--but cannot or will not stand up in the face of a trillion dollar industry--and the loss of their own personal and professional standing.
Fourth, Dr. Young, too busy with research and education, did turn over some of his marketing efforts to a MLM company many years ago. Later, disappointed by the lack of professionalism, public education, research, and excessive focus on sales and marketing, Dr. Young admitted his mistake and took all possible legal and ethical steps to disassociate himself from his mistaken business decisions.
Fifth, Dr. Young, in lieu of standard large-scale research which the powerful medical monopoly will not undertake, has published hundreds of case studies and reports of miraculous and often instant success once his nutritional regimen is understood and followed. Not only are most of his individual successes NOT anonymous, but many are quite well-known professionals with worldwide reputations who have publicly attested to the power and efficacy of Dr. Young's science and have praised the nutritionally excellent dietary recipes published by his wife and co-author.
Lastly, like a thousand other professional complementary and alternative practitioners, and because Dr. Young is a threat to the largest industry in America--the medical-pharmaceutical complex--Dr. Young has found himself the target of pursuit and legal entrapment by authorities who themselves are pressured to enforce and hop-scotch through a maze of restrictive and onerous laws which have been enacted over the past 50 years as a result of political pressure and the lobby of powerful economic interests. Despite his three doctoral degrees, charges have twice been brought against Dr. Young for practicing medicine. Dr. Young has prevailed in both instances. No court record exists, and the only mention of these false charges are a few incomplete and out-of-context newspaper accounts. Like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and all fight courageously for the rights of their fellow men, I believe that Dr. Young is proud to stand up to the morally bankrupt charges of those in power who seek to bring him down.
Young's work represents the personification of disruptive technology, and he is a threat to the status quo and the egos of the powerful. Most trailblazers in the history of the world have had to withstand the slings and arrows of those whose economic interests, personal office, or perception of the world has been threatened.
For me personally, after age 60, with an attack of what could have been anything from stomach cancer to severe gastritis, within a week, while only beginning to implement the Young regimen, I rid myself of severe stomach pain that had been keeping me from sleeping. Actually, my stomach was so swollen and sensitive that I couldn't even get comfortable in bed. Additionally, in two or three weeks I no longer had to take the glucosamine and chondroitin arthritis medicine I had taken for 8 years. I began losing weight immediately and as of today I'm down about 50 pounds. It also seems that my memory has been improving and I will have to monitor that possible side benefit more carefully. Obviously, however, a rising tide lifts all boats, and theoretically every cell in my body has probably improved. My sleep requirements dropped from 8 or 9 hours to 7 hours or less. I no longer need naps. I'm able to run again and play full-court basketball.
How could this happen so suddenly? Why is the brilliant Young family weight loss program and other health regimens not yet well known? Allow me a few additional thoughts:
The truth is that some of the problem lies with everyday people like you and me. Not many people in America are willing to do the serious investigation--to take the time that is needed--to read widely and critically and search out that which is required--to take more seriously their responsibility to themselves and their families.
It is still a minority of Americans who are willing to admit that we have been bamboozled by the food industry, by the allopathic medical/pharmaceutical industry, and by the Congress of the United States that, sadly, every day, takes egregious sums of money from all three.
CBS's 60 Minutes recently showed the fraud and deceit perpetrated on the American public by the pharmaceutical industry and shameless elected representatives.
The reason that I began experiencing a relief of symptoms so quickly is because Dr. Robert O. Young, great, great grand-son of Brigham Young, is onto something powerful that challenges and exposes traditional medicine. Dr. Robert and Shelley Young have already begun to change the food industry forever. Their work will send us back to the drawing board and the family vegetable garden.
The reason my life changed forever is because I now know what to eat, the balance between various fruits and vegetables, and which supplements may be needed and when and why. I now know if a carrot is more alkaline than stalk of celery. I know if a piece of organic whole wheat bread is more acidic than a piece of organic rye. I now know which foods I should avoid entirely--no matter what.
Dr. Young has provided proof of what he says, and he gives you the simple tools to prove it to yourself. The proof comes as often as you want it. Drink a coca-cola with your fries and burger and watch what happens to your pH. When your urine pH drops to 6 or 5 or lower, how in the world can your blood maintain 7.365?
When your body is overwhelmed by an acidic diet wherein various pH measurements do not begin to approach a pH of 5 or 6, what does your body do with all that acid? The answer is simple. The body turns itself inside out and upside down trying to cope with a diet of food that the human body was never designed to handle. Wherever your body finds a weak link--probably hereditary--and tries to hide or bury that acid, that's where you eventually get sick.
Obesity is a good example. If the average American is ONLY 20 pounds overweight, that comes out to 6 BILLION pounds of fat in America. What is fat? Fat is acid. Fat cells are one of the body's desperate mechanisms to handle acid so that organ systems do not become overwhelmed by all the acid food and drink that we consume.
If you read the Scriptures of all the major religions of the world--Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, Islam, Christianity--they all talk about eating correctly and the importance of living from the fruit of the earth. All Sacred Scripture from major world religions speak the same language about love, peace, truth, right conduct and non-violence.
Scripture does not talk about stuffing helpless, crowded animals with cheap food and hormones and then coloring and radiating the meat so it can sit in the meat case for several extra days. They do not recommend drinking milk from cows after the animal and the product have been devastated by 75 different toxins in the dairy chain.
If you REALLY want to understand the BEAUTY of Dr. Young, the scientist, then you have to dive into his work. You will not find many pearls in the shallows. So dive deep into 30 years of science and read his seminal works such as Sick & Tired, Reclaim Your Inner Terrain. By microscopically studying the blood of over 10,000 people, Dr. Young has documented instant feedback from pictures of healthy and unhealthy blood cells. It is this information that allows him to apply "New Biology" and begin to educate the world and to point the way to a revised understanding of the health and dietary requirements of our bodies.
Unfortunately, it is true that Dr. Young and his brave and talented wife, Shelley, have taken flak from a number of clever pundits and buffoons. Having failed to have performed conscientious homework, these narrowly educated exhibitionists have very little grasp of that which they write. Yet, the fight will be long and hard, because for every brilliant, visionary like Dr. Young searching for truth, they will always find themselves 'fighting at the crossroads against the 10,000 men who guard the past.'
Summary of The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health
Forget counting calories, fat grams, and cholesterol.In many ways, The pH Miracle is reminiscent of an earlier generation of diet books. Much of the focus is on an intestinal cleansing program, followed by a diet that is 70 to 80 percent vegetables, coupled with a tremendous selection of supplements that authors Robert and Shelley Young recommend to everyone, no matter what their age, gender, or state of health.
The Youngs point their fingers at candida as a main culprit in the poor health of many people. Unfortunately, they back up their claims with only vague references, such as "a 1991 study" and "a leading cancer researcher." Many readers may wish for more specific evidence, but instead will have to make do with enthusiastic recommendations, alphabetized lists of vegetables, and pleasing chapters with vegetarian recipes that taste good no matter how you feel about the diet as a whole.
Sprinkled throughout the book are short testimonials of people who were able to reverse cancer, improve their digestion, and lower their cholesterol by following these recommendations, and it's hard to argue with the cholesterol-lowering results that a 70 percent vegetable diet will achieve. Still, the medical value of much else in the book remains hotly contested, and as always, it's wise to check with your doctor before starting off in search of miracles. --Jill Lightner
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