Re: Worth risking a life?

this looks very interesting... he's not even an ND but still think he can "cure" type 1 diabetes. perhaps he just a bit more openminded than your average doc. good to see there are people out there looking for a challenge.

john g


The pH MIracle for Diabetes

A Revolutionary Diet for Type I and Type II Diabetes

Released July 29th, 2004

Warner Book Publishing



According to mainstream medicine, while diabetes mellitus, either type I, which can be controlled by direct insulin injection, or type II, which may also be controlled by oral medication to stimulate insulin production, it has long been considered incurable. Physicians have been taught as such and patients are informed as such. Despite the fact that the scope of medications for diabetes has been expanding rapidly, the disease has now reached epidemic proportions, sadly more so among our younger generations. Practitioners in this field cannot help but wonder where we have gone wrong, and what we should do to better manage this disease.



In his book The pH Miracle for Diabetes, Dr. Robert Young presents a comprehensive approach to this disease, and aims for a complete cure: what modern medicine would claim as an unthinkable goal. But over the years, through Dr. Young's clinical experience, his studies in this field, as well as numerous testimonials from his patients and mine who have been benefited from his approach, which has been proven to be both medically viable and extremely exciting. What Dr. Young has accomplished in this book is creating a working manual for managing ailments associated with diabetes and may even offer a path for a cure.



Dr. Young's House of Health is built on a foundation of Acid-base balance or pH balance. Over-acidification of our body fluids, due to our diet and modern lifestyles, is the origin of myriad illnesses; therefore, in order to regain our health, it becomes imperative to minimize acidification and restore a critical balance. Indeed, this theory reminds me of ancient Chinese medical philosophy. Thousands of years ago healthcare providers in China already knew that the maintenance of a delicate balance between opposite forces in life -- yin and yang, hot and cold, fullness and deficiency, albeit in abstract terms -- was essential for human health. Different therapeutic measures such as herbal medicine, acupuncture, body manipulation (massage) and qi-gong were used to restore these balances. It would be interesting to ponder if pH balance is actually a modern scientific expression of this ancient medical philosophy.



Vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other essential nutrients from food and supplements have been recognized as crucial to the maintenance of health, as well as for slowing the aging process. In this book, a great deal of attention is paid to these substances, particularly in light of their beneficial effects on diabetes. Through scientific research conducted in recent years, aging, which is commonly viewed as an unavoidable natural process, can now be considered a syndrome of multi-deficiencies in our body. During the aging process the hormone system is weakened (e.g. through a lack of insulin), many essential minerals are lost through natural or artificial processes, and antioxidant levels also decline. Therefore, in order to restore health and delay the aging processes it would be logical to focus on strengthening, supplementing and regulating the natural functions of the human body.



Proper exercise should be an integral part of a diabetic treatment regiment. Dr. Young has an excellent review in this book on the rationale behind the medical significance of regular exercise on diabetes. He explains what constitutes the right kinds of exercise and links exercise to improving lymphatic circulation and cleansing -- providing a particularly illuminating dimension for general readers.



This book will not be complete without Mrs. Shelley Young's extensive recipes, which will certainly be appreciated by those who cannot understand how anyone can actually live on a completely vegetarian diet. As one who has actually tasted and enjoyed the dishes prepared from these recipes, I believe that this section of the book can truly transform people's dietary habits into a way to take control of their diabetes and work towards an eventual cure.



Many years ago, when I first arrived at the National Institute of Health to embark on my research career in the field of neurochemistry, a wise senior scientist advised me that a serious researcher should always dare to question and never accept blindly anything without thinking through and evaluating it critically. The importance of this inquisitive attitude was also pointed out by the great American physiologist, Professor Walter B. Cannon in his book The Way of an Investigator in the early part of the 20th century. Dr. Robert Young, a microbiologist and a true scientist in this inquisitive sense, boldly brings his independent research to bear on Louis Pasteur's Germ Theory of Disease and ultimately rejects it: bringing into question what has been the bedrock of modern medicine for more than a century. Because of Pasteur's misguided doctrine, Dr. Young argues, diseases have been considered by modern medicine to be created solely by external insults. Thus the importance of body's internal environment has totally been ignored. Modern therapeutic technologies have been designed in accordance to this thinking, and are directed toward counteracting foreign attacks. Serious collateral damages to our normal body functions often occur as a result of this approach. Dr. Young rediscovered lost theories of great scientific minds from more than a century ago and developed his own New Biology, which is based upon his understanding of acid-base balance. And so far the implementation of his theory has had a profound impact on the treatment of a wide array of diseases such as diabetes, cancers, chronic fatigue syndrome, obesity, urinary calculi, and more.



It is my belief that Dr. Young's theory, his therapeutic methodology, and his commitment to health care will continue to make history in years to come.







Chi C. Mao, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief Medical Officer

Select Specialty Hospitals-Houston

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