“Dr.” Robert O. Young Arrested
Robert O. Young and two associates have been charged with multiple counts of conspiring to practice medicine without a license and grand theft. Young sports a “Ph.D.” from Clayton College of Natural Health, a nonaccredited correspondence school that closed in 2010 after Alabama began requiring accreditation for license renewal. The central premise of Young’s approach—which lacks scientific support—is that health depends primarily on proper balance between an alkaline and acid cellular environment that can be optimized by dietary modification and taking supplements. (The degree of acidity or alkalinity of body fluids is expressed as “pH.”) His best-selling book, The pH Miracle: Balance Your Diet, Reclaim Your Health, advises readers to check their pH, “cleanse” for several days, eat a vegetarian diet that emphasizes vegetables, and …
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