The Charismatic Magic of Medical Medium Charlatans

"It's considered such a basic ingredient."
"To have it become as precious as asparagus or fiddleheads is a little startling for those of us who buy it on a regular basis."
Dana McCauley, food analyst

"Celery juice, from what I know, has something called sodium cluster salts in it."
"That's what does a lot of the good, which is disarming and neutralizing harmful pathogens that cause illness."
Anthony William, 'medical medium', United States

"This is exactly what people who are promoting pseudoscience do, they use these terms that most laymen wouldn't even understand and most people in general see and think 'Oh, well that sounds right, so why wouldn't it be correct'?"
Amanda Lapidus, registered dietitian

Dubious claims about the health benefits of celery juice are driving the vegetable’s sudden popularity. Getty Images

Identifying himself as a 'medical medium', someone who has an inside track to mystical otherwordly contact informing him of food properties unknown to science, has a large following on social media -- evidently 1.8 million on Instagram -- who seek to benefit from his superior knowledge of plant food properties guaranteed to solve chronic disease dilemmas that have hitherto eluded medical science.

Celery, he claims, has such medical properties that no one should doubt his word on. A spirit communicates with him, providing him with "advanced medical information" that amazingly no one else has access to. In the goodness of his heart, he shares it with his followers who are legion. It is not particularly surprising that among his followers are celebrities of the ilk of Sylvester Stallone and Gwyneth Paltrow.

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| 10 HEALTH BENEFITS OF CELERY JUICE |
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1. Critical for chronic acid reflux
Acid reflux means 3 things are happening: low hydrochloric acid production, unproductive bacteria such as strep and e. Coli & a weakened liver. Celery juice helps improve these.
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2. Fights autoimmune disease
Pathogens are the true cause of the inflammation that’s mistakenly considered autoimmune. Celery juice’s undiscovered sodium cluster salts can break down & flush out these pathogens.
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3. Helps restore adrenals
The undiscovered sodium cluster salts in celery juice help keep your adrenals stable & functioning.
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4. Contains undiscovered sodium cluster salts that reverse illness
Celery juice’s undiscovered sodium cluster salts act together as an antiseptic. When they make contact with viruses & bacteria—troublemakers responsible for chronic illness—the salts begin to break down the pathogens’ cell membranes, eventually destroying them.
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5. Neutralizes & flushes toxins out of the liver
Celery juice’s sodium cluster salts bind onto neurotoxins, dermatoxins, & other viral waste, as well as troublemakers, & draw them out of the liver.
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6. Helps eradicate strep bacteria
Strep is responsible for many conditions, like acne, UTIs, SIBO, yeast infections, & more. Celery juice helps destroy strep.
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7. Kills Epstein-Barr & Shingles viruses
The white blood cells of the liver’s personalized immune system add the cluster salts to their cell membrane coatings, making them toxic to viruses.
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8. Brings down toxic liver heat
Celery juice purges a sluggish liver while bringing down liver heat.
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9. Powerful weapon against SIBO & bloating
Celery juice is a powerful stomach acid replenisher so that gastric juices can kill strep, which causes SIBO. It also breaks down rotting protein & rancid fats in the stomach & small intestinal tract, helping bloating.
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10. Repairs hydrochloric acid & liver bile production
Celery juice strengthens hydrochloric acid & bile production & strengthens the liver, which then allows for better bile production

What does surprise is that Robert DeNiro also follows this charlatan of the first order. Can he possibly believe in this man's spiritual connection to an uberworld of divine knowledge linked to medical miracles? Or does he follow the narrative of drinking 16 ounces of celery juice each morning before eating will advance one's health in a vast area of problems vexing people's health purely as a study in human nature and the gullibility of mature minds?

Celery juice effectively treats in the most beneficial of health initiatives, fibromyalgia, Lupus, eczema, psoriasis and lesser ailments like bloating, acid reflux through to a variety of aches and pains. Because of course, celery is replete with 'sodium cluster salts', the properties of which solve all the world's health ills.

To which Ken Riedl, an analytical chemist at Ohio State University states along with David Jenkins, Canada research chair at University of Toronto along with dietitian Amanda Lapidus state their professional careers have never brought to their attention anything that remotely sounds like 'sodium cluster salts'.

Yet this 'medical medium' is so influential on social media sites that a whole medical revolution has arisen around celery juice. To the extent that celery is becoming less accessible for ordinary, normal use in cooking and salads, and that which is available on grocery shelves has doubled and tripled in price, as a result.

Simon Somogyi, Arrell Chair in the Business of Food and a faculty member in the College of Business and Economics at University of Guelph professes to complete ignorance of the miracle properties of the hitherto-unknown 'sodium cluster salts' with which celery is imbued, the poor man completely mystified. Obviously, he needs his very own spirited health muse.

Ah, health food fads, there's nothing quite like them.