The pH Miracle for Weight Loss: Balance Your Body Chemistry, Achieve Your Ideal Weight

I want to clear up several things that I’ve seen in the other reviews:

1. Robert Young does *not* own InnerLight. He developed the products and sold the company some years ago. I’ve been to see him speak, and during that presentation he told us how to skip the supplements, like he does in the book, and mix baking soda in water and make sure that 90% of what we’re eating is alkaline. In the book he even tells you how to choose a supplement or how to mix your own.

2. No one *has* to do the 3-week fast. He shows you the rapid way (3-week fast) but also how to make gradual changes to your everyday lifestyle. He presents a plan for those that are looking to change their lives slowly and those that are looking to change their lives drastically. Both are in the book.

3. And it is a lifestyle, this is not a diet. This is showing you how to change your life style.

4. He does *not* advocate staying away from all fats, or fatty acids. In fact, he proposes that we don’t get enough of the right fats (omegas, cold pressed oils, etc.) and we eat all of the wrong ones (trans fats).

5. Robert Young got his degree from the Clayton College of Natural Health, yet he was able to work as a microbiologist for many years. I do not liken his degree to a person who got a degree in Wicker Basket Weaving and is now purporting to be an expert on home repair, or someone who got some other useless degree, hasn’t worked in the field, yet continues to refer to themselves as an expert on the subject.

6. If the idea that alkalinizing is so goofy, how is it that other people are also publishing books on the same topic?

Having said all that, it’s clear to me that there are people looking to make a change and looking to apply effort, and there are those who want to continue to make excuses and complain about how they feel and look. The former can do nothing about the latter.

I am on the greeny supplements. I know they aren’t cheap, but since I stopped eating at McDonalds and Wendy’s, I don’t notice the cost at all. In fact, my body no longer wants many things it used to gorge on when it was acidic, and buying green things at the grocery store is usually much cheaper than going out for cheeseburgers and sub sandwiches.

My first six months on the greens led to a 10-inch loss around my waistline. I lost the taste for sugars, junky sweets, crap from the vending machine. I lost these 10 inches, but only 20 pounds. And I hadn’t exercised, yet my muscles got bigger. I shrank out of all my clothes! Now that I’ve read this book, I am ready to implement the other lifestyle changes that are recommended (i.e. exercise and EFAs). I am not as concerned about my weight as I am concerned about feeling good, but if that means I look good too, I’m not going to turn it down.

There are numerous sources for these supplements; I happen to like InnerLight for the greens, but AlkaVision.com seems to have good drops, and I’ve seen other products in the health food stores. For people who don’t have money for supplements, remember that, in the book, it says to do as much as you can. Using the cost of supplements as a way to completely dismiss the book reeks of “excuses” to me, and maybe some people just aren’t ready to make changes.
Rating: 5 / 5