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

I bought this book because I felt it was time for some serious dietary changes. Though I didnt eat junk food, mostly unprocessed, organic whole foods, I always felt unwell (spacey, fatigued, depressed, chronic pain, etc.). Also gained lots of weight since menopause. Medical check-ups revealed nothing. I tried various supplements, diets, and fitness programs. but none helped me feel better or loose weight.

The pH program is real shift from the way I was used to eating. It took time to ease into it. I had to re-read some topics over again before they clicked (still working on it).

The first week I stayed with my regular diet, but added the green drink. I lost five pounds. The second week I started the cleanse phase. I lost another four. Best of all, the pain and brain fog have cleared. Also found myself de-junking and organizing my house, unplanned. When I tried to do that before it would overwhelm me. Not this time. I am entering my third week of the Cleanse. I wont say its been easy. Old habits and cravings tempt me, but Ive been able to persevere because I feel so much better.

The information in The pH Miracle for Weight Loss has been very helpful for me. But I gave it 4 stars because the index is not thorough enough. Some things Ive read and want to check again arent listed in the index. Frustrating.

The book starts out telling people that they can lose 1/2 lb per day if they follow the cleansing diet. There is no miracle in this. If you starve yourself on a bunch of supplements and shakes, of course you will lose weight fast. Of course, you will probably gain it back after you begin eating again. I gave the book 2 stars because there is some valuable information on the acid/alkaline foods. Other than that, I say save your money. I wish I did..

I agree that this one surpasses those that came before it. Unlike another reviewer, I found this book difficult reading. I read very quickly, but it still took me a week to get through it all. The first 4 chapters are the obligatory why-my-diet-works-and-yours-doesnt portion that every diet book has, chapters 5-10 go into the nitty gritty of each individual component of the plan (water, beneficial fats, emotions/spirituality, excluded foods and included foods, supplements and exercise), and chapter 11 sums up the entire plan into a cohesive whole including sample menus. Chapter 12 is the recipe section. I give this book 4 stars because the program itself is quite complicated and requires a hefty monetary investment. It states numerous times throughout the book to implement the changes either all at once, or one at a time for a more modest lifestyle transformation. If you were to follow this program as outlined, you would invest USD250-300 for a mini-trampoline (rebounder), USD650 for a water ionizer (Im not certain this is the best way to treat water), and hundreds on supplements (7 different ones, not including the green drinks and pH drops). I commend the authors for not including blatant marketing but at the same time listing names of distributors for those who need the help. I think alkalizing is the missing link not present in other diets, and it provides true help to those of us who havent been able to lose previously. A sacrifice must be made in the name of health, so put down that milkshake and pick up a green drink. Overall this diet is effective, but a difficult one to implement fully considering todays hectic lifestyle and the tag involved. I wouldnt let that stop you from getting started on the program. Young may not have invented the wheel with regard to this program (others came before him), but he presents it in a comprehensive way that most can understand and follow (at least partially) in order to get results.

I have read all of Dr. Youngs books and this one is his best yet. Dr. Young has brought the reader straight to the heart of his new biology...simply and with the gentleness he shows every person who is blessed to meet him. This book allows the reader to learn about the new biology with clear instructions on how to follow his protocol, while giving them a true feel for the man behind the science. Dr. Young brings it all home...in order to be successful in achieving your goals you MUST be willing to change the way you think, live and eat. It is a true mind-body connection and he took the time to give examples on how to begin reconnecting to yourself to live the life you dared to dream possible. You dont have to suffer, be ashamed of what you eat, how you look or depend on drugs to get the results you want. You have a choice and reading this book will be one of the best choices you can make for yourself and loved ones. No matter what your situation is...Dr. Youngs book will help you to achieve your ideal life. I am personally grateful for his work and energy he has put into each book. Because of them I have been living a life without chronic diarrhea, pain, high blood pressure, and GERD. Together my husband and I have lost over 42 pounds and are in the best shape of our lives. Thank you Dr. Young...buy this book--it is the answer for anyone truly ready to live again. Any parent out there wanting to save your child from a life of depression, being an outcast, developing diabetes, heart disease and all the things associated with being over weight will benefit from reading this book. It is never too late to help our children.

Do yourself a favor. Buy this book, and read it as though your life depended on it. Guess what It does. Youre not overweight, youre over acid. If that isnt bad enough, your acidic body is now prone to disease. The Youngs explain this in a way that everyone can understand. I love the pictures on Pg. 51 that show what happens to our blood when we eat one meal of bacon and eggs. The book is so well written. Youll feel as though the Youngs are standing in the room talking directly to you.

Dr. Young shows that best selling diets like Weight Watchers, Atkins, and South Beach make you acidic and can actually cause you to GAIN unwanted weight because your body produces fat to protect itself from the acid. (I dont imagine they made many friends in the diet industry). The book explains which foods are acidic and alkalizing and emphasizes the importance of hydrating, supplementing and exercising.

I thought I knew all about exercising until I read this book. Did you know that improper exercise can make you more acidic, thus make you MORE fat. Their exercise program is totally different than any I have seen before. It is amazingly simple and anyone can do it in 15 minutes a day. The old no pain, no gain is thankfully taboo.

The recipes range from simple to complicated with great variety and taste. Try to incorporate as much as you can into your daily life. Select the easy recipes in the beginning. Allow yourself the time to transition to a more alkalizing life style. There are great testimonials and real stories throughout the book. I found these to be very motivating.

For the first time, I understand why I am overweight, sick and tired. It finally makes sense. I am grateful for the information in this book. The rest is up to me.

First off, I am a 35 year old female with a weight problem (65 lbs over ideal) and have tried most all the popular diet programs out there. I came across this book as a referral from another diet book and thought I could stand nothing to lose by reading this one too. Glad I did.
Yes, Dr. Youngs program is very different from the Standard American Diet (SAD) that most of us are used to and it does take some effort to prepare for starting this program, pantry andamp. refrigerator cleaning out big time.
The book is all most people will need to get started but if you are more a visual type person, the DVDs offered on their web site are very helpful and very affordable. Shelly Young, Dr. Youngs wife has 3 DVDs that are great. There is one where she takes the viewer through a health food store and shows what to buy and what to look for as far as freshness. She is awesome and very helpful. Her other two are just as fun and informative. She has cooking demonstrations using some of the recipes found in the book.
The book andamp. DVD sets couldnt lay it out any easier.
I really loved all the great testimonies that were added on just about every other page. I found that it was hard to put this book down once I got started. I hated for it to end.
The Youngs are really on to something here. Scientific proof is there to back it up.
Common sense is like a brick wall sometimes when we are so brain washed by the media into thinking that the food we find in our conventional grocery stores are good for us. This book knocks down that wall and restores the right andamp. wrong of food choices.
I have been following this program for two weeks and have lost 13 lbs. Thats more than any other program Ive tried, including personal trainers at the gym. I have loads of energy everyday. Im a walking, talking testimony that Dr. Youngs program does work. Its not a magic pill or potion, its common sense and it DOES take effort but what in life thats worth much doesnt We Americans have such a laid back approach when it comes to weight control. If its not sold in a bottle with a fancy label or some type of exercise gismo that looks easy, were not interested. Weve got to change that mind set. We are suffering more and more and teaching our children our same bad ways of thinking about food and nutrition.
I encourage anyone who wants more quality to their life, more hope for a healthy future and more energy from day to day to pick up this book and make the transition to the Alkalized side. It has been my missing link that Ive searched high and low for. I believe with all my heart that following an Alkalized lifestyle will add years to my life without worry of dying of cancer or wasting away in a nursing home from dementia or disease.
My book shelves in my office are 3/4 filled with health and nutrition books, all of which have some great information but when it comes down to it, this book sums it up fully.
Thank You Doctor Young and Shelly Young. You are truly a Saving Grace. Thanks for spreading your wonderful knowledge to all that will listen. May God give you long and prosperous lives and many, many Blessings along the way.
I hope to come to one of your retreats in the near future.
See you then.

For the first time in my 47 years of life, I decided to go on a program after reading Dr Youngs book.

I must say I was impressed, and at the same time understood that not taking any incentive would mean poor health for the rest of my life. So I took up the challenge.

I followed religiously all of your recommendations and tips and succeeded finally, oh btw I forgot to mention that my lower back used to hurt all the time and also my liver used to bother me. But now all the pain is gone thanks to this system. Here are just a few of the benefits I received. my blood pressure now is 117/84 (still cant believe it),

I lost 19 pounds in 2 weeks, although I wasnt overweight, my skin is firm and silky and everybody is giving me compliments wherever I go, they just cant believe Im 47.

The only drawback is that I had to go and get my lenses replaced in my reading glasses because my vision has improved so much I couldnt use them anymore they became too strong.

I now feel very light and even enlightened, and feel at least 12 years younger, my sleep has improved tremendously, and I go to the bathroom at night only once compared to 2 or 3 before.


Thank you very much I will recommend your book to all of my friends, boy are they unhealthy and overweight.

This is not some fad diet though. it WILL influence your decisions to the better. Dr Young explains that its not the fat that is making you fat but rather the acid.

Well, I dont want to give the whole book away you will have to find out for yourself.

Scientific Health is Yours. Go get it.

I also read the Ph Miracle book by Dr. Young. Both books were written well and easy to understand. I do feel that the sequencing of the book isnt very user friendly when I was trying to look up meals for the cleanse compared to the meals for after the cleanse. The cleanse was very hard on my body. I was only able to stay on it for 5 days. They recommend the cleanse for 2 weeks if you have less than 50 pounds to loose and 3 weeks for more than 50 pounds to loose. I was in such pain last night and had such terrible anxiety that I almost admitted myself to the hospital. I believe that people need to be warned that the cleanse can be too harsh for some people. They really push you to buy their own products which are very expensive. There are many other sources for products that arent as expensive. Do your research before you buy products from the Youngs.
I do feel that most of the book is very worthwhile and easy to understand for any person. His ideas have made me look at what I eat in a new light. I now grow my own wheatgrass and sprouts. I do believe that I have made a life time change for the better because of reading the Youngs books.

MediaCritic may not have gotten results because he/she most likely did not follow the protocol outlined in The pH Miracle for Weight Loss. MediaCritics review was more of an MLM bashing, attempting to divert peoples attention to a false idea of schemes and scams rather than present the truth written in the book, The pH Miracle for Weight Loss, by an earnest microbiologist who has presented the age-old truth of health and vitality. Dr. Young brings to those who are sick and tired of being sick and tired and overweight an easy to understand book about how to make sense of why we become dis-eased and fat and how we can allow our body to do what it does naturally, heal itself.

I, for one, had Graves disease since 1973 and over the years underwent treatments with meds, meds and more meds, radioactive iodine, ending up Hypothyroid and at my wits end. My medical bills mounted even though I had health insurance (which I privately paid to the tune of thousands yearly). My health kept me from working at my fullest potential.

In 2001, at a time when I was ready to call it quits, I was introduced to The pH Miracle. I had nothing to lose and decided to give it a try. Its now 2005 and Ive never felt better in all my life. I no longer take Synthroid. Anyone who knows anything about this med knows once on it, never again can you live without it or so the doctors say. I no longer carry health insurance at USD1700.00 every three months, as I havent used the deductible since I began alkalizing.

As for the weight loss, I went from 147lbs and am down to 125lbs, am 51. At age 55, many mistake me for being in my early 40s. Not only did I lose the weight and keep it off, but I also have incredible energy, vitality and joy.

You dont have to MLM it to enjoy the benefits of alkalizing and following a protocol that is life-saving. MediaCritic, sad to say, sounds very acidic. Dont let your life continue in an acid drain. Read the book, follow what it says and you may get the same wonderful results I and many others have gotten. Dont let some media critic burst your bubble before you give it a read. Its your health, dont give up. The truth will set you free...

May 13th 2005. THis is the only diet book I have read that promotes true health and a sustainable life-long diet. I lost my entire goal of 30 pounds in 6 weeks.. I feel great. I did not increase my exercise beyond my usual 30 minute daily walk.

Update. It has now been 16 weeks and I have effortlessly lost an additional 10 lbs. for a total of 40 (227 to 187) . Most significant learning is the paradigm shift I have had from weight loss to a sustainable healthy diet (finally at age 55). This diet seems daunting at first but you will find it easy to follow once you retrain your eating tastes. I say retrain because I had a life-long aversion to vegetables and the more I have eaten the more I like them. The way you feel after pigging out on vegetables is a far cry from the sugar hanovers and bloated feeling I have experienced in the past with other foods. I have found my pallate has made a permanent change and I have aquired a taste for alkaline foods. (You can still eat bread and pasta with spelt flour). It is now effortless and sustainable. What a permanent gift. Do yourself a favor and test it yourself for 90 days. Loose your goal and enjoy a lifelong new weight and size. Dr. Youngs science is easily tested. Judge from your own direct experience not from others or your own skepticism.

As Jane Clayson of CBS Early Show said The crew at The Early Show jokingly refers to it as my swamp water. the concoction of GREENS I drink every morning, first thing, at 4.30 A.M. I know it sounds funny to say I drink my greens, but its a quick, natural, oxygenating boost--healthier than any jolt of caffeine. (from the foreword to pH Miracle)

The problem I have with this book over his earlier one is that it is so very rigid and, at times, quite unrealistic. I do NOT want to become a vegan/vegetarian again because when I tried it for almost 10 years, I nearly died from malnutrition because legumes and other vegetarian proteins do not have complete amino acids required by the body chemistry according to my M.D./H.M.D.

There is no getting around the fact that it requires absolute rigid self control and total self absorption to follow it to the letter. For me, I would rather pop vitamins than eat carrot sticks and raw foods every day for the rest of my life. Been there, done that, no thanks.

Personally, I have used the pH diet myself (his earlier book) and have had amazing and lasting results. I eat lobster, steak, chicken and other goodies like chocolate in sparing amounts. I consume those foods separate from any other, and follow a meal with a chaser of alka seltzer gold which has the potassium needed to offset sodium imbalance, rxd by my physician. This simple step alkalinizes the body chemistry. In the two years I have used this modified pH diet, including my chocoholic munchies and other dietary sins, I have experienced zero weight regain or any other negative health consequences. I use only virgin coconut oil because it is a medium chain triglyceride and the only oil that does not store fat in your body. The research on it is amazing, and I have so much energy, that at 68, I feel and act like a much younger woman.

I have long used Peltier electrolyte concentrate added to Evian to raise the water pH and continue to get positive results. I use the green drink very often and it is wonderful to feel such a blast of energy in your system after a glassful. I agree with the one reviewer about the noxious marketing of some companies in the food supplementation industry with their MLMs and other overd machines and nutrients. I refuse to pay for their research and development costs. My own research has led me to pharmaceutical grade supplements from Life Extension Foundation and organic herbal supplements from Natures Sunshine. Both have been extraordinarily beneficial at a fraction of the cost of those listed in the book appendix. Research is easy to do online. For me the bottom line is always common sense.

Building on the success of their first book, the best-selling The pH Miracle, in this book Dr. Young and his wife turn their attention to what is considered by many health experts as Americas number one health crisisthe growing numbers of people who are seriously overweight or obese. Contrary to other popular weight loss books, most notably those, such as The Atkins Diet and The South Beach Diet, that tout a low-carbohydrate approach to achieving weight loss, the Youngs maintain that the primary culprit behind excessive weight gain, as well as many other health problems, is a chronic state of acidity in the body (a pH value below 7.1). Shifting the bodys chemistry to a more alkaline pH, they maintain, will quickly and easily result in the loss of excess weight and the buildup of more lean muscle tissue.

The goal outlined by the Youngs in this book is to replace dieting with a 12-week, seven-step program that is intended to not only rejuvenate the entire body by replacing current blood cells with blood cells at the peak of health, but also to create an ongoing lifestyle that will permanently keep off the pounds that were shed during the 12-week period. In addition to a rich section on eating tips to create more alkalinity in the body (complete with an extensive list of recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner menus), the book also covers the importance of adequate water drinking, proper exercise, important nutritional supplements, learning how to manage thoughts and emotions that can contribute to acidity, goal-setting, and, for optimum results, a two-week cleansing program. In support of the program, the book also includes a collection of testimonials from people who have achieved significant weight loss on the programfurther backed up by before-and-after photographs. With an increasing number of health professionals now emphasizing the importance of proper pH to overall health, the information this book presents is both timely and fairly easy to implement. Larry Trivieri Jr.

Book Description
Weight loss is not about fat. its all about acid. So forget about fat grams, cholesterol, carbs, and calories. reaching your ideal weight is simply a matter of maintaining the delicate pH balance of the blood. And in his new book, Dr. Young offers a simple 7-step diet and exercise plan to help you change your shape and shed those pounds once and for all. How ever many pounds you need to lose before you reach your ideal, healthy weight--10, 30, 100--multiply it by two. Thats the maximum number of days it will take to reach your goal with the plan. This revolutionary program explains which foods will help you obtain the best results and how the right type of water can make a big difference. Also including a specific exercise plan and menus with delicious recipes, THE pH MIRACLE FOR WEIGHT LOSS will help readers balance their body chemisty and lose those extra pounds for good.