Introducing Season Eight of Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Chameleon: Dr. Miracle

Sony Music

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

A wellness center some called Miracle Ranch, nestled in the scenic mountains of Southern California, promised a luxurious escape and a path to wellness through clean, alkaline living. Its leader, Dr. Robert O. Young, attracted wealthy clientele with his “groundbreaking” health protocols and friendly, family-man persona. But beneath the serene surface, Miracle Ranch harbored a dark secret. The people who stayed there didn’t get better; they got worse. Through legal documents and candid interviews with former patients and employees, law enforcement officials, and affected family members, this series unravels the chilling true story of one man who convinced scores of people that cancer is not a cell but an “acidic, poisonous liquid,” and how his popular “alkaline diet” turned deadly. From Campside Media, Dorothy Street Pictures and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Season 8 of Chameleon: Dr. Miracle Subscribe now to unlock all shows on The Binge and you’ll be the first to access Chameleon: Dr. Miracle s as soon as it drops on July 1st, Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Let me take you back to a time before Gwyneth Paltrow hawked bone broth and jade eggs.
0:07.0	Back to the mid 2000s, when exercise classes were on DVD, when people followed the Atkins diet
0:14.4	or the South Beach diet to lose weight.
0:17.6	And there was another one that was really big back then,
0:20.8	a miracle diet that would not only slim your waste but make your body reject diseases.
0:27.0	Back to the garden, back to the greens, back to God's butter, avocado.
0:31.0	It was called the Alkyline Diet,
0:34.2	and tons of celebrities toyed with it.
0:36.9	Kate Hudson, Victoria Beckham, Kelly Rippa,
0:40.4	even the Queen of Goop, Gwyneth herself.
0:43.0	It involved drinking lots of green juice and not very much else.
0:48.0	I dropped weight like crazy, but I wasn't dropping weight where I look haggard like people do when they're on a diet.
0:56.0	Right.
0:57.0	The alkaline lifestyle was pioneered by Dr. Robert Young.
1:01.0	Breakfast should start out with a fresh juice. Robert Young. But Robert Young didn't just promise weight loss.
1:08.1	He promised hope.
1:09.8	He promised a miracle cure.
1:13.0	Sick people, especially cancer patients,
1:16.0	desperate for that hope, flocked to Dr. Young.
1:19.0	He called it the new biology.
1:21.0	He had a way of making you feel special and like you were on this
1:25.5	great crusade. He just convinced her, stay the course, follow my protocol. it works, I've cured cancer, like she was desperate.
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