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Title: Sick and Tired?: Reclaim Your Inner Terrain by Robert Young PhD, Shelley Redford Young ISBN: 1-58054-056-2 Publisher: Woodland Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.15 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Dr. Youngs' Research is Nobel Prize
Comment: While reading Dr. Youngs' book I realized that his contextual theory of sickness and disease and health and wellness is revolutionary. I love the fish bowl metaphor: that you are only as healthy as the fluids in which your body cells swim. In other words if you are sick you don't treat the fish you change the water. What a simple truth! Classical medical science is treating the fish and ignoring the water, in otherwords the context.
I found his theory that bacteria, yeast, molds or even viruses are the expression of a state of imbalance from an inverted way of living, eating and thinking and not the cause of any specific disease, incredible. What I believe Dr. Young is trying to tell us is that germs are the expression of cellular breakdown from physical and emotional disturbances, not the cause of any specific disease. You don't get cancer or diabetes, you do it by your lifestyle. And to try and kill the germ is in reality killing part of oneself.
I also found Dr. Youngs' theory of red blood cell transformation and reverse transformation revolutionary. He uses the words dedifferentiation and rededifferentiation of the red blood cells to body cells, body cells to red blood cells and/or to morbid cells like bacteria, yeast, molds or viruses. This phenomena takes places right inside our bodies. This is why I am so impressed with Dr. Youngs' work, because he shows in his case studies blood cells that do and can transform!
Dr. Youngs' work in this area is revolutionary and he should be honored with a Noble Prize.
Rating: 5
Summary: REVIVED & REVISED WISDOM FOR 20TH CENTURY HEALTH & VITALITY
Comment: Reviewer: a grateful, healthier reader July 14, 2000
WHAT AN EYE OPENER! Sick and Tired?--Reclaim Your Inner Terrain is fascinating and if you are into scientifically proven information about the healthiest diet and lifestyle I've ever learned about and experienced, this book is certainly for you!
It begins with a short history about 19th and 20th century scientists and their scientific findings that were ignored then and are continuing to be ignored today by most health professionals and unfortunately by most of us. This ignorance has led us to the "take a pill or cut it out mentality" for almost every symptom ever since and we just keep getting sick and tired and sicker and more tired until we eventually come down with major diseases. Have you ever asked yourself why? Dr. Robert O. Young has.
Dr. Young gives us answers based on his years and years of research and clinical work as a microbiologist and biochemist. In scientific and simple terms he explains the biochemistry of the blood. We learn the vital importance of why the pH balance of the blood must be kept in a 7.3 pH range and not in lower acidic ranges if we want to experience long term balanced health and vitality. We learn the red blood cells literally change their forms and functions when the pH continuously and over the years stays more in the acidic range. This is knowledge most of us know little about and so we continue our cycle of harmful habits. His term for this is The Cycle of Imbalance.
As the red blood cells continue to live and flow in fluid with an acid pH range, they get biochemical signals to begin disorganizing/changing their functions and forms into that of bacteria and yeast, then fungus and mold! Yes they do change. There are pictures to show this and lots of information to show why and how all this happens! They then start circulating in our bodies as these new forms and excrete wastes, which are also acidic, into our blood stream. All this flows in our blood and lymph and so it goes into our tissues and organs and begins the process of breaking down/rotting/decomposing our tissues and vital organs, slowly or rapidly, depending on the weakened areas in our bodies.
This book goes beyond other health books to explain and show where the imbalance and overgrowth of yeast keeps coming from and why and what we can do to bring our body back into balance and health naturally, through proper hydration, diet and other choices, without adding even more acids to our blood system from medications which supposedly "kill" the germs and/or "cure" the disorder, but in biochemical reality only cause even more acid imbalance and toxicity and the quicker decline of the health of our tissues, organs and us!
The great news is that thanks to Dr. Young and and his wife, Shelley, it doesn't have to be this way! They give us health guidelines to take us to a whole new level of health and vitality if we choose to use them! Dr. Young calls this The Cycle of Balance and they both go into great detail on just how we can rebalance our pH, blood system and bodies. They include dietary suggestions, cleanses, foods to eat and foods to begin eliminating from our diets, and some recipes too, although there are many more in the companion book Shelley Young wrote, Back To The House of Health.
Even more scientific and practical information follows in the case studies, essays, biochemical flow charts and tables as part of this book.
Dr. Young is one of many scientists throughout the world who knows the vital value pH balanced blood is to our health, energy, clear thinking and well-being. Throughout his years of research and clinical work, he and Shelley kept asking themselves, "How can we help people balance their pH more quickly than with diet alone? What do we need to teach them? How can we show them how tasty and nutritious this new, healthier lifestyle is? I applaud their commitment and courage to step up and speak out in this age of chemical profusion, confusion and delusion! As we read Sick and Tired?, we begin to realize chemicals aren't the answer for everything at all. WE must take control and responsibility to maintain and improve our health and that of our families. I'm so grateful for this book and for what it continues to teach me. I enjoy a greater quality of health thanks to using what they teach in it. I've kept off 38 extra pounds, lifelong respiratory problems are gone, and my liver recovered after being so toxic from so many years of pills and/or shots to kill all those "germs" from the outside coming into me when all along it was the acid imbalance inside that was causing the symptoms, diseases and disorders. I know this to be true because as I become more and more alkaline and balanced, I am less and less sickly and have more energy and ambition! Now I have 2 questions for you. Did you nourish your red blood cells today? Do you even know how? When you nourish them, they will nourish you and your tissues and organs and give you the health and vitality you desire and deserve!
Rating: 1
Summary: Comments from an M.D. who wrote a textbook on pH balance
Comment: I am an M.D. and the author of a textbook on acid-base balance (pH balance). I have also published several technical pieces in medical journals on the pH consequences of diet, and the relationship between dietary ash-acidity/alkalinity and bone disease. A friend who had just spent $400 getting a kit from Dr. Young's organization asked me to give her an opinion. I should also add that I am open-minded and have a special interest in nutrition and holistic medicine; I personally spend close to a thousand dollars a year on nutrients; I have studied chi kung and yoga; and I have much skepticism about aspects of modern medicine. I say all this to make clear that I am not opposed to nutritional or holistic approaches to health.
I focused my attention on the parts of this book that pertain directly to pH balance, which is the center of Dr. Young's theory. I read with special care the part of the book that purports to explain the fundamentals of pH to the non-scientist. This section contains basic errors that suggest to me that Dr. Young is not very knowledgable about this area; his understanding of basic chemistry seems limited. His definitions of fundamental terms such as "hydrogen ion" are poor, and his explantion of what table salt (NaCl) is and how it dissociates in water is incorrect. He gives the same pH values for blood that comes from arteries and veins; in reality, venous blood is more acidic than arterial blood.
The manner in which Dr. Young writes suggests a religious fervor that has nothing to do with science. I saw no footnotes that support his extreme views; in fact, judging by the titles of the journal articles he cites, I saw no citations in either this or another book by him that pertain specifically to the effect of pH on disease. Further, Dr. Young does not describe any of his own experiments that might lead one to think he has a valid scientific basis for his ideas. He makes many extreme statements without any supporting evidence.
From what I can see, Dr. Young does not have any interest in actually *testing* whether his ideas are correct. For example, the simple way to test his assertions about the effects of pH on disease would be to give sick people a couple of teaspoons of baking soda per day mixed with water. Baking soda (NaHCO3) is a base and will alkalinize the person's blood at least as well as any of the dietary manipulations Dr. Young suggests. But he appears not to have done this, or even to have studied the medical literature to see if other's have.
I also listened to Dr. Young on a marketing-oriented group phone call, which one of the distributors of his diet plans invinted me to listen in on. Dr. Young repeats the phrase "alkalinize and energize" like a mantra, many times; yet he provides no evidence that I can see that "alkalinizing" the blood through dietary or any other means actually increases energy. I have nothing against an ash-alkaline diet; in fact, I personally believe such a diet might have a positive impact on bone strength. But if someone is to make broad assertions about the benefits of an ash-alkaline diet, they should have persuasive evidence; but I didn't see any evidence for his claims.
As Dr. Young correctly points out in his book, there is a long history of science and medicine making errors and going down the wrong paths; and sometimes these wrong turns are not identified for decades or perhaps even centuries (some surely have yet to be identified). However, what he seems to fail to recognize is that there is also a long (really, much longer) history of non-scientific healing going down the wrong paths. Both scientific and non-scientific healers have made mistakes, and these mistakes have sometimes gone uncorrected for long periods. The only way to catch these mistakes is to test one's ideas, to see if they actually work; this applies to both conventional medicine and holistic medicine. Dr. Young seems to have an almost paranoid skepticism about many aspects of accepted medical practice, yet he is entirely credulous about much that falls outside of the mainstream. He seems to be entirely credulous about his own ideas.
I accepted my friend's request to check out Dr. Young's ideas thinking that he might have something interesting to say. I didn't expect perfection, but I did at least expect enough evidence that one might think he has framed a plausible hypothesis, an idea that is interesting and worth exploring further. But I did not find even that. Instead I found an almost religious fervor, an inadequate grasp of the fundamentals of the very field that is central to his ideas (pH balance), and no evidence that he has any real interest in testing his ideas to see if they actually work.
To say this, however, is not to rule out the possibility that some of the particular dietary or nutritional interventions he recommends might be beneficial. For instance, he seems to recommend a low-carbohydrate diet (a la Atkins), various nutrients (which are supported by some valid studies), and the like. Some of these things might actually be good for a person. Perhaps doing many of them together will be even better for a person. But the point is this: Dr. Young believes and claims that these things all work through a common pathway: that they work *because* they alkalinize the body. For example, the low-refined carbohydrate diet is not effective, Dr. Young seems to believe, because it prevents rapid release of insulin, etc.; he believes the diet is effective because it (allegedly) alkalinizes the body. This emphasis on pH and alkalinization as the supposed common pathway behind a seemingly unrelated group of nutritional strategies lies at the core of Dr. Young's ideas. It is this emphasis that differentiates his approach from the approaches of many others who focus on nutrition. Yet it is precisely this aspect of his theory that appears to be almost entirely unsupported by evidence.
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Title: The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health by Ph.D./Young Robert O. Young ISBN: 044669049X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Back to the House of Health: Rejuvenating Recipes to Alkalize and Energize for Life! by Shelley Redford Young, Robert O. Young ISBN: 1580540716 Publisher: Woodland Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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