The dying officer treated for cancer with baking soda. The father of the alkaline diet, Robert O Young, is hailed as an inspiration by one of the UK's most popular food writers, Natasha Corrett, but he faces a jail sentence for practising medicine without a licence. One patient who believed he could cure her cancer, British army officer Naima Houder- Mohammed, paid thousands of dollars for his alkaline treatment, which consisted mainly of intravenous infusions of baking soda. In May 2. 00. 9 Naima Houder- Mohammed was commissioned as a captain in the British army. The following year, tragedy struck. Naima was diagnosed with breast cancer. She received treatment and was declared cancer- free.

But in 2. 01. 2, while training with the army skiing team, it was discovered the cancer had returned. Her condition was so serious she was offered end- of- life care."She refused to accept that this was the end," recalls her friend and former fellow officer, Afzal Amin. Naima was a fighter. She fought to get through selection for Sandhurst. She fought through Sandhurst and she fought her way through her life in everything she dealt with - army skiing or whatever it may have been. And this for her was another fight in that long list of victories."Image copyright. David Poole. Image caption.

Naima Houder- Mohammed. As her medical options were limited, Naima did what many of us would do - she turned to the internet for a solution. She came across Dr Robert O Young, an American alternative health writer selling a message of hope for cancer patients online. Naima began an email correspondence with him, which reveals how pseudo- science can be used to manipulate the vulnerable.

Young is the author of a series of books called the p. H Miracle, which has sold more than four million copies around the world. These books lay out his "alkaline approach" to food and health which has influenced many others, including the work of the British clean- eating guru Natasha Corrett, whose Honestly Healthy brand promotes her take on an alkaline diet. Natasha Corrett. Image copyright. Getty Images. In the introduction to her book Honestly Healthy Cleanse, the food writer says acidity in the body causes "dis- ease", which can show itself in "everyday discomforts" like acne, dry skin and bloating, "to much more serious illnesses, such as cancer, diabetes, heart disease and obesity"She says Young "discovered that eating a plant- based diet free from processed foods can help to cure terminal diseases in the body"She adds that his work is not recognised by the medical industry, "perhaps because giant pharmaceutical organisations wouldn't be able to make money out of doctors prescribing vegetables"In one email Young sent to Naima in July 2.

He went on: "I would suggest your healing program is going to take at least 8 - 1. It will not be easy but you will be in a controlled environment that will give you the care you need."Naima set about raising the money she would need - in one email Young mentioned a figure of $3,0. Naima's family used their savings, ran fund- raising events and managed to pull together tens of thousands of pounds with the help of a charity so that Naima could be treated by Young.

But the treatment did not have the outcome she was hoping for. Image caption. Email from Robert O Young to Naima Houder- Mohammed. On one recent sun- kissed Californian morning, we drove up into the hills outside San Diego to visit Young. Watch Hustle &Amp; Flow Youtube.

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As we turned off Paradise Mountain Road, the parched golden grass eventually gave way to groves of avocado trees and we entered a millionaire's paradise known as the "p. H Miracle Ranch". The front door, preposterously set behind a moat, is reached by walking across some stone slabs. As Young welcomed us into the ranch, our eyes were drawn to an empty spherical fish- tank built into the wall that separated the living area from the kitchen. Noting our interest, he began to share his alkaline view of the world, starting with what he calls the fish- bowl metaphor. If the fish is sick - what would you do?

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Treat the fish or change the water?" He went on: "The human body in its perfect state of health is alkaline in its design." Media playback is unsupported on your device. Media caption. Inside the "ph Miracle Ranch" of Robert Young. The p. H of our blood is 7. Young is broadly correct - although different compartments of our bodies, such as our stomach, function at very different p. Hs. But then Young's "alkaline living" vision becomes complete fantasy.

Young believes that in order to maintain the p. H of our blood, we have to eat "alkaline" foods. The main problem with this view is that it doesn't appear to take into account the stomach, which functions at a p.

H of about 1. 5 and is the most acidic compartment in the body. Thus, everything we consume, regardless of its starting p. H, becomes acidic before passing into the intestines. Also, the categorisation of foods into alkaline or acidic does not appear to follow any consistent rules, with certain citrus fruits (full of citric acid) considered to be alkaline, for instance.

However, Young's view that alkalinity is good and acidity is bad goes beyond food. He told us: "All sickness and disease can be prevented by managing the delicate p. H balance of the fluids of the body." He believes that when your blood becomes acidic, something weird happens, and your blood cells transform into bacteria - a phenomenon he calls pleomorphism - thereby resulting in a diseased state. This, frankly wild, view goes against all current scientific understanding. When we put this to him, he simply disagreed, saying: "Germs are nothing more than the biological transformation of animal, human or plant matter. They're born out of that." This is post- truth. Image caption. Dr Giles Yeo with Robert O Young at the "p.

H Miracle Ranch". The biggest problem is that because Young believes that disease emerges from acidity, then by extension disease can be reversed with alkalinity - echoing his fish- bowl metaphor that you don't treat the disease, but you change the environment. When Young said Naima would be cared for in a controlled environment, he meant the p.

H Miracle Ranch, which has a large area set aside as a "clinic" to treat cancer. Young told us he uses the term "cancerous" as an adjective to describe a state of acidity. Since 2. 00. 5 he has brought more than 8.