The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health by Robert O. Young

While I really enjoyed all the information in this book, I truly could not eat to this extreme. I’m sure it’s good for you, but seriously, give up my glass of red wine with dinner? You still have to live.

Here’s what I got out of the book in a nutshell, your body is meant to be alkaline, or at least within a narrow zone between alkaline and acid. If you become more acid because of your diet, the little critters in your body start breaking things down in order bring your body back to the earth. That’s just the way it is. Everything has a purpose and a time, and through our diets, we can keep ourselves in the correct PH balance to keep on living. Of course you can live better and with more vitality, the closer you get to the Goldilocks range of PH of 7-7.35.

As the book lays out, lots of things can get a body out of the optimal range, and that’s when things go wiggy. And it’s all the food and drink we love that takes us into the acid range, like sugar, oh, and sugar, and sugar. I guess there aren’t that many things. When I say sugar, I mean simple sugars, like white bread, white pasta, and white sugar, and white wine, okay just about anything white. Of course you need to read the book to know exactly what I’m talking about, but in all seriousness, veggies produce an alkaline body; meats, sugar, alcohol, and stress, produce an acid body. And acid kills, just like the name implies.

This book is simple and easy to understand(I know because I understood it), and it has lots of recipes(not much chance of me even following one of them because I’m recipe-impared), and lots of advice on supplements. I originally bought the book in Kindle form, but it was so good, and has some much information that I’ll want to look up later, that I also bought the paperback version(serves me right for being cheap).

Read the book, and just remember that veggies should make up 70% of your diet, and mostly raw, which is easy with salads, and drink lots of pure water(PH drops a must), and take green pills. Green makes your blood happy, and cancer sad. Cancer likes low oxygen, sugar to eat, and lots of mucus to hide behind. So eat green, exercise and don’t eat things that make you have mucus.

I’m not a doctor so whatever I’ve said I only know from testing on myself. I do feel better eating more alkaline and it makes your mouth taste sweeter. Happy Eating!

I think a good dose of skepticism is warranted with all health claims…Doctors and pharmaceutical companies included. I approached Dr. Young’s work with a healthy dose of skepticism, but found that his approach lacked any suggestions that would be considered harmful (unlike the dangerous Adkins diet)…and that the best test was experiential…so I tried it for myself. I lost about 10lbs in one week, while never feeling hungry, and with no increased exercise. In addition my energy level skyrocketed and remained constant throughout the day! Although I did not have any particular health concerns to address, other than fluctuating energy level and a little extra weight…so my story is not miraculous…but certainly positive.

What is miraculous is my father’s story…he had been 30-40 lbs overweight, suffered from a severe case of gout and arthritis to the point he could barely walk at times. He also had a brain tumor that impaired his speech had caused him to go blind in his left eye…which the surgeon said was a permanent loss and definitely not reversible with any know treatment. Upon beginning the program my father only made some minor changes…eliminating acidic liquids like coffee, soda and sugary drinks…and replacing them with purified alkaline water…a gallon a day. Within a month he had lost 30lbs, and had completely cured his gout and arthritis! He looked and moved like he was 15 years younger! With this miraculous success, he agreed to increase the amount of raw greens in his diet and reduce meat, and other acidic foods like sweets…this was very difficult for him to do…but he plodded forward and supplemented his diet with a green drink and an alkaline salt’s drink as well. He also quit drinking and smoking at this time. In January of 2009 we went to visit Dr. Young to get expert guidance for implementing the PH Miracle program and how to optimize the program to restore pH balance and increase alkalinity in the body. Dr. Young had a wonderful Physician on staff to assist with the dietary program, he also provided access to his own raw “chefs” for instruction on preparing the various meals. While we were there my father underwent daily lymphatic drainage massage, hour long far infrared sauna sessions and colonic treatments for a complete spa experience and detoxification regimen. Within four days of being on a strict alkaline/PH Miracle diet my father partially regained vision in his blind eye(as stated before an irreversible condition according to his surgeon), and his speech (which had slowed down considerably due to the brain tumor and several operations) began to speak more quickly and fluidly without pause or searching for words. He was on the road to recovering his health completely! I am grateful for the brave work of Dr. Young, because in today’s hostile regulatory environment, alternative wellness approaches are vilified and their proponents are often persecuted. Health freedom and freedom of speech regarding health matters in the USA is a myth…instead we have a health dictatorship of the AMA, FDA and FTC! I can say from first hand experience this dietary approach will create miracles in your health…and can likely reverse many, if not all chronic health concerns you may be suffering from….not the least of which is cancer. I know Dr. Young can’t claim his diet cures cancer…or gout…or arthritis…or blindness…but I saw it do exactly those things. One day science will return to seeking the truth and will abandon the modern politicized, for profit “pseudo science” funded by big pharmaceutical companies; that is when the “heretics” of today will be shown to have been telling the truth…paradigm shifting truth! One day the discoveries of Dr. Young will be well known…and miracles like these will be commonplace. For your own sake, be open minded enough to try if for yourself…you will be shocked by the power of food to heal you.

As Mahatma Gandhi once said “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

“Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food.”

Hippocrates
Greek physician (460 BC – 377 BC)

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