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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
This is a fine example of the kind of pseudo-scientific mumbo-jumbo that can be found circulating everywhere these days, claiming remarkable improvements to blood glucose control by means of some previously unheard of, and currently unproven, theory. In this particular case, Dr Young claims that disease is due to an acid-alkali imbalance in the body, and proposes a methodology and diet to redress this imbalance. As with all such books, there are no doubt elements of truth, in that it is generally the case that an improved diet and frequent exercise will help people with diabetes to manage their condition better. However, this book is based on a ‘discovery’ by Dr Young of a property of cell biology that does not appear to have been validated by the remaining body of scientific expertise. The only validation he can find to support his ‘discovery’ is the writings of an obscure nineteenth century scientist who is said to have observed something similar.
The tactics used in the book to convince the reader are familiar: discredit current diabetes therapies that rely on medications and insulin by blaming the greed of big pharmaceutical companies who wish to hold onto their grip of the lucrative diabetes drug market; undermine the confidence of worried and vulnerable people in their current therapy by intimating that they will inevitably end up blind and on dialysis with both their feet missing; back up your theory with scientific studies of your own, plus anecdotal evidence that it works. In this particular case, the author conducted a study on 40 diabetics (types 1 and 2), 10 of whom dropped out before the study was complete. Now, set this against the myriad studies involving hundreds of thousands of people, conducted independently of drug companies – which would provide more convincing evidence, do you think? The good doctor then cites ‘testimonials’ from people who have followed his plan, with remarkable results. One in particular struck me – the case of ‘Kevin’, a type 1 diabetic for 33 years, who managed to stop taking insulin and ‘virtually eliminate his Type 1 diabetes’. This is not possible, full stop – there is nothing currently available to a type 1 diabetic whose body no longer produces insulin that will mean he can stop injecting it – and especially not from drinking a ‘green drink’. There are many other similar ‘case studies’, none of which can be independently verified – I could invent a thousand of them, but it wouldn’t make them true!
Complete hogwash and dangerous nonsense, read it only as a work of fiction!
The PH Miracle for Diabetes: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Wikipaedia page for Robert O Young states the following:
The tactics used in the book to convince the reader are familiar: discredit current diabetes therapies that rely on medications and insulin by blaming the greed of big pharmaceutical companies who wish to hold onto their grip of the lucrative diabetes drug market; undermine the confidence of worried and vulnerable people in their current therapy by intimating that they will inevitably end up blind and on dialysis with both their feet missing; back up your theory with scientific studies of your own, plus anecdotal evidence that it works. In this particular case, the author conducted a study on 40 diabetics (types 1 and 2), 10 of whom dropped out before the study was complete. Now, set this against the myriad studies involving hundreds of thousands of people, conducted independently of drug companies – which would provide more convincing evidence, do you think? The good doctor then cites ‘testimonials’ from people who have followed his plan, with remarkable results. One in particular struck me – the case of ‘Kevin’, a type 1 diabetic for 33 years, who managed to stop taking insulin and ‘virtually eliminate his Type 1 diabetes’. This is not possible, full stop – there is nothing currently available to a type 1 diabetic whose body no longer produces insulin that will mean he can stop injecting it – and especially not from drinking a ‘green drink’. There are many other similar ‘case studies’, none of which can be independently verified – I could invent a thousand of them, but it wouldn’t make them true!
Complete hogwash and dangerous nonsense, read it only as a work of fiction!
The PH Miracle for Diabetes: The Revolutionary Lifestyle Plan for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes
Wikipaedia page for Robert O Young states the following:
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Maybe he should have switched to beer to redress the imbalance. 
