I heard about this book and the author several years ago, and was aware of the many negative reviews for it. It is not until recently that I was able to take a gander for myself. Some of the claims in this book are absolutely ridiculous, and he does not offer any real cures. To get the "cures" he keeps blabbing about, you have to go to his site. I checked the site out of curiosity, and you have to PAY for this info. And it's information that you can find for FREE on the Internet... there are all sorts of sites with various herbal remedies and what have you that you can get for free. This book and the site are a scam.

I also found the language to be simplistic, as if he is speaking to children. He 'explains' things which are completely false. he also demonizes food that is not one hundred percent organic. Yes, one should stay away from heavily processed food and chemical-riddled food, but chemicals are needed to preserve certain sorts of foods, and he speaks of chemicals as if they are bad. Salt is a chemical (NaCl) and is it bad for you? No! Sugar is also a chemical, and plenty of the things in organic food are technically chemicals, but he does not clarify that for you.

He also refers to newsletters many times, so you are basically not only required to go to his site, you're also required to look at previous articles he has written because he is too lazy to put them in this book.

There are ridiculous quotes in this book such as...

'Food that is not one hundred percent organic are all full of toxins'. I suppose I'd be dead then, because while I do eat healthy, I admit to eating some processed foods. Such as... bagels... canned soup... cake... snack foods (which I only eat in moderation)

He also claims that drinking the juices of three fruits will make diseases disappear. No, seriously. He claims that the juices of mangosteen, wolfberry, and noni. He has the nerve to say that these juices can cure stuff like fibromyalagia (which there is NO cure for) lupus (again, no cure) diabetes (still no cure) and about twenty other diseases.

He claims that the toxins in food cause these diseases. Not genetic defects or old age. Ridiculous.

He also talks about cleansing, but he refuses to specify what products you should use for the various cleanses he mentions.

What little helpful information in here is commonsense, such as eating breakfast instead of skipping it.

This book is also painfully redundant, with so much repetition, yet with very little, if any substance.

There are so many things wrong in this book, and if I were to list them all, this review would be too long to publish. But the things I did mention should give you an idea how bad and unhelpful this book is. AVOID AT ALL COSTS. Avoid the website as well, because once you give them your credit card info, it is impossible to cancel your subscription to them, and this 'author' has been investigated for multiple counts of fraud.

Three words... "Quack! Quack! Quack!"

ignore the self-promoting and it's a great book I would have everyone read.

This book was better than I expected it to be. Amongst an enormous amount of self promotion and highly questionable treatment advice is some good health advice and USA-based political information.

The number one idea promoted in this book however is that the author is completely wonderful, selfless and unique that supporting him in all ways – including financially – is the only way to improve the health and food systems in the USA.

The self promotion really is extreme and takes away the credibility of this book. In asking the question of who to trust on health information the author does not say that people should be educated and learn to think for themselves and take information from many sources. Instead he says, ‘you should trust me’ and that he is in fact the only person you should trust and the only person not in it for the money. This just has to set your alarm bells ringing.

The book also gives little detailed health information and constantly directs readers to his website which you have to pay to be able to read. There is no reason some of this health information couldn’t have been included in the book, unless the motivation is solely to make more people pay to use your website.

Many of the health claims made are not backed up by references. The reader is continually being asked to take the author’s word for it. The author also flippantly goes way too far with claims for many therapies. Supposedly one woman recovered from M.S. just by stopping drinking diet carbonated drinks. Even if that is true, it is misleading to put this forward as any sort of typical outcome. It is also claimed that many illnesses can be cured purely with positive thought, Scientology, sun exposure or by taking a herb.

The author is also out of touch with the treatment of serious illness. He says that either you’ll be cured in a few months, or your disease may be too far gone and beyond the help of any treatment. He seems completely ignorant of the fact it can take years to slowly heal serious diseases (such as M.S. and M.E.) and that even then, recovery will likely not be total. He flings the word ‘cure’ around relentlessly and never really even mentions the fact that many of us will get only partial recoveries. This is an important distinction. For one thing, partial recovery is still wonderful if you’ve been severely ill, and I also worry that giving healthy people the message that anyone can cure themselves of illness and disability if they do the right things will lead to lack of support or even mistreatment of ill people. How could it not? The author says over and over that virtually every disease is curable. The truth is actually a lot more complicated than that. Cure is not the right word. A better word might be ‘improvable’ perhaps. How much you can improve depends on how much damage you have is permanent and irreversible.

(It also going to take intelligent supplement use as well and not just dietary changes! That just isn’t enough if you’ve been very ill for many years.)

The author is also ignorant of healing reactions and gives no warnings about them at all. Daily FIR sauna sessions are recommended, for example, and no warning at all is given of the massive detoxification this would cause and the need to go slowly with it if you are ill, lest it cause significant relapse. No mention is given either of the need to take extra detoxification and other nutrients when using a sauna, such as vitamin C. The author says, ‘All natural remedies are in fact extremely safe, with virtually no side effects, and all natural remedies are incredibly effective.’ This is utter nonsense!

Lots of good if unreferenced information is given about the need to buy organic fruits and vegetables and also meats and eggs, natural vitamin E, minimising toxin exposures, minimising drug use both prescription and over-the-counter, various cleanses such as the liver/gallbladder cleanse, and the causes of disease being nutrient deficiencies, toxin overload, stress and EMFs. But the issue is this is mixed in with equal support for homeopathy, herbology, aromatherapy, reiki, expensive pasturised/bottled ‘super’ fruit juices, magnetised mattresses and lots of other things which wont even make a dent in a serious disease let alone get to the cause of it, as well as advice to avoid all but those expensive and very-low-dose ‘whole food’ vitamins and claims that synthetic vitamins such as ascorbic acid haven’t been shown to benefit anyone really. Ummm...what?

To tell people to get homeopathy and herbs to take, or aromatherapy, before they have had their nutrient levels sorted out and optimised is just madness. We need the right amounts of a few dozen nutrients to live and to heal. It is essential. Nobody is ill due to a lack of a specific herb, homeopathic treatment or not enough essential oil use. There is no priority given in this book to the far more important treatments. This could lead many readers into wasting lots of money and time on things which don’t do anything good and so may then lead them to the conclusion that all ‘alternative’ therapy doesn’t work or at the very least delay their healing by many years. It’s irresponsible.

You can also get all the information on the various cleanses etc. the author’s paid website for free on the internet, so don’t be sucked in to thinking subscribing to his site is the only way to get this information. It isn’t. (I also recommend getting a copy of this book from the library, rather than buying it.)

This book has some good ideas but contains way too much self promotion and lots of not-so-good health information mixed in. The treatment topics aren’t discussed in any depth whatsoever too. It would be a poor book to use as a primary reference on health, especially if you haven’t read some of the really good books in this field for background information or more detailed treatment advice.

Far better choices would be the vitamin C book ‘Primal Panacea’ by Dr T. Levy, ‘Primal Body, Primal Mind’ by Gedgaudes on nutrition, ‘Detoxify or Die’ by Dr Sherry Rogers on detoxification, supplements and nutrition and how to use an FIR sauna safely, ‘The Vita-Nutrient Solution’ by Dr R. Atkins or ‘Orthomolecular Medicine for Everyone’ by Dr Abram Hoffer, or books by Andrew Saul, on intelligent vitamin supplementation. These books cover all the good information given in this book but in a more scientific way and with lots of references as well as wisdom from their years of experience in treating their patients with these therapies.

Curing serious disease is not an easy one week or two month task for everyone as this book promises, but it is true we can do a lot more to improve our health than we have been led to believe. There really are some wonderfully helpful books out there to help you start to do this too.

Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E. (HFME) and Health, Healing & Hummingbirds (HHH)

This man is a scam artist.

Both this book and the sequel spend way too much time explaining how corrupt the FDA and the government are. I was more interested in the actual 'cures' parts of the book. It is worth reading once, just to get a different perspective on how to live a healthy life and consider what outside forces make it difficult for us to do so.

If you think this book to be helpful...Think "In what way, is it helpful"? The author is a fraud. How is that helpful? Well, it helps to know, so you are not drawn into a scam.

Ok. I read Kevin's How to get out Debt book. I only got a few tips from the whole book, I decided to read his health book. Out of 271 pages this book can be condensed down to half because he's repeating himself over and over again in different chapters. His tips are common sense ideas how to better your health on things to do. A few extra tips I learned I can do. He does not give you answers to any of his tips cause he uses the excuse he will get in trouble by the FTC and that you have to visit his website. Well when you visit his website you have to pay to be a member ($10 month) to get any answers. Also, the biggest scam is he is a SCIENTOLOGIST. He don't tell you in the book that he is one but you can Google him and it confirms that. I believe he is secretly trying to promote Scientology with helpful books and websites to go see to help you. Now I don't trust the books and websites he recommends. And of coarse the biggest thing he is against is to not use drugs or doctors (scientologist biggest belief). I didn't know all this before I decided to read this book but while reading it and he did mention on page 134 about Dianetics (Scientology) he recommends. It all made since to me about what he is promoting. Scientology is a cult and scam to take rich people's money. I advise so save your money and google how to take better care of yourself.

Medical advice from a used car salesman? If people want to kill themselves a gun to the head is much faster.

Criminal. This guy should be in jail...Oh, he is? Okay, that seems right.

I feel like an idiot. When I first found a used copy of Kevin Trudeau’s “Natural Cures 'They' Don’t Want You to Know About”, I riffled through the book and quoted Trudeau’s health claims to family for laughs, pointing out how absurd his advice was. I started to read the book, jokingly acting as if I was really into it, and then something happened. Kevin Trudeau actually started making sense to me. I already knew pharmaceutical companies provide incentives for doctors, so is it really such a stretch that they suppress natural cures to promote their prescription drugs? I already knew walking and drinking water was good for you, so maybe his claims about the health benefits of magnets and mini-trampolines are likewise true.

The “Illusion of Truth” effect explains how the brain can be manipulated through repetition; we are more likely to believe statements that we have heard repeated before. Perhaps that explains my embarrassing gullibility regarding Trudeau’s nonsense, especially considering he repeats everything he says endlessly throughout the book, some of his claims iterated thirty times or more. Either way, that’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it.

Even if you do fall hook, line and sinker for Trudeau’s all-natural bait, a few questionable things about the book should be immediately apparent to anyone. The first is that Trudeau seems to have both delusions of grandeur and just plain delusions: he goes on about how he’s the only guy fighting against the evil government agencies, how the pharmaceutical companies are scared of him revealing their dirty secrets, and at one point compares himself to Rosa Parks and Gandhi. Then, oddly enough, he implies he’s a secret government agent. He also believes in some strange conspiratorial agency, supposedly partially comprised of former Nazis, which is attempting to take control of all the worlds’ vitamins and natural medicines. It’s only mentioned once, but I swear to God it’s in the book.

Trudeau also talks a lot about freedom of speech, and he has a tenuous grasp of the concept at best. He waxes on incessantly about how there is no freedom of speech in the USA and how government agencies are oppressing him. What constitutes this violation of his freedom? Many things, including that certain TV stations won’t advertise his products. So not only does Trudeau’s idea of freedom of speech allow for him to say whatever he wants, but TV stations must also broadcast whatever he wants. I don’t think that’s how the concept works.

Then there is the abundance of typos and misspellings throughout the book, which call into question the professionalism of Trudeau’s venture, but can be easily ignored. Harder to ignore are Trudeau’s sporadic lapses of logic, where he uses the most backwards reasoning to decry modern medicine and support his natural cures. One of Trudeau’s frequent claims is that all chemicals, in any amount, are bad for you. He reasons this by saying that if you drank a cup of the chemicals, you will likely die. If you drink enough water you can also die, but that doesn’t mean water is bad for you. This isn’t sufficient reasoning to declare the tiny bit of fluoride in our drinking water as toxic to the body. Another claim Trudeau makes is that the sun doesn’t cause skin cancer because people in Africa, who don’t use sunscreen, have lower rates of skin cancer. Whether or not this statistic is even true, it doesn’t prove anything. There could be a multitude of reasons for this anomaly. He also says that swimming in a pool is a no-no due to the amounts of chemical in the water, but then says swimming in lakes is just peachy. Really? The lake I live by gets shut down every so often for contamination reasons; do you really think that has less toxic chemicals than my local pool? There are also the strange incidents where Trudeau declares something as solely his own belief, admitting that it’s not backed up by any science or proof or evidence, such as his belief that humans should live to over 100 on average.

However, the biggest flag for any reader should be the nonexistent sources, especially in lieu of the outrageous claims Trudeau consistently makes throughout the book. Most non-fiction books have sources for every fact, or a complete bibliography. If you hand in a college paper with a single fact missing a footnote, you can get a zero. Yet Trudeau’s book consistently makes claim after claim devoid of footnotes, end-notes or any sort of reference. Trudeau’s reasoning for this is that he simply doesn’t have enough room for all his sources: supposedly the sources would take up an extra 500 pages, and in their absence he leaves a truncated list for “Further Reading”. However, if you do want to see his sources, he will gladly send them to you…so long as you become a Member of Trudeau’s “All Natural Cures” website. Oh, and by the way, it costs to become a member of “All Natural Cures”. Trudeau rationalizes this by saying he doesn’t accept ads on his site and he employs staff, plus he has to pay lighting and electricity (yes, he says this). He’s also supposedly poured millions of his own money into the website; I remember making basic websites back in middle school and don’t remember them requiring millions of dollars, but what do I know. If the user fee was just meant to augment or offset a bit of the cost, then that didn’t seem too unreasonable to me. Something like $2 a month or $10-$20 annually would probably be worth fact-checking the information to ensure it’s correct, and you would get to use the other resources available on the site.

Imagine my surprise when I found out after reading the book that the membership cost $9.99 PER MONTH, or, if you want a lifetime membership, $499, plus another $79 to receive his newsletter. So if you even just want to see the sources for some of Kevin Trudeau’s claims and fact-check them, you’re looking at a $50 (assuming it takes you at the very least five months to sift through the 500 pages of material) to $100. And that’s assuming you can even get the proper lists of sources on his site; websites are abound with allegations of Trudeau’s shady practices, including selling memberships for the websites before the “Members” section was even running, and automatically charging the $79 newsletter onto the credit cards of people ordering the book. This is a scam, plain and simple. Not only do you have to pay $30 for the book (thank God I read it for free), you have to shell out another $10 per month to access his website to even fact-check his spurious claims.

The reason it’s easy for Kevin Trudeau to pull you under the wool (or at least me) is that many of his claims are true. Prescription drugs do have side effects and can cause death. Doctors do receive incentives from pharmaceutical companies. Drinking 8 glasses of water a day is good for you. You’re metabolism does slow down while you are asleep, so eating before 6:00pm is a great way to lose weight. The problem is that all this truthful information is mixed in with a whole lot of bullshit, and there’s no easy way to separate the two without proper sources, statistics and evidence. Just by doing some cursory Google searches on some of Trudeau’s recommendations, I’ve uncovered that regular colonics (as Trudeau suggests) are believed to not only be unnecessary, but damaging to your body. You simply cannot put any of Trudeau’s advice to good use: he uses faulty logic, doesn’t provide his sources, makes claims not rooted in any science, and doesn’t even try to provide a semi-objective overview of his advice (really, you suggest 15 colonics in 30 days and don’t even mention there are concerns surrounding the procedure).

Please don’t buy the book. And if you do pick it up second-hand, just read it for a laugh and forget about it. But please don’t join the site or get 15 colonics in one month or bounce on a mini-trampoline everyday. Anyone who does needs more help than Trudeau could ever offer.

3.5 actually...This book is what I would call a good catalyst or starter. It really opens up your eyes to the bigger picture, but it fails to walk you through the door.

It's a must read, but you can't stop there once you do. Afterwards, you should check out "The Sunfood Diet Success System" or "Living on Live Food" or anything by Jewel Pookrum, David Wolfe, Gabriel Cousens, basically stuff that will fill the void that this book will create in you if you haven't heard these concepts and truths before.

I'm very glad that he wrote it, because it's necessary, and as R&W said below, he is the man for the job. A alike, B alike...takes one to know one...and since he was a 'fraudster' it seems that helps him to call out all of bullshit very very well.

As far as the style..yeah, the editing is awful, and the actual list of "cures" wasn't really as pervasive as the book leads you to believe, but that's mainly because the entire BOOK is a cure. Because all change begins in the mind first, and once you see that the government and big business and pharm companies are not looking out for your best interest, it places that responsibility squarely on you. A lot of people can't handle that or feel lost...that's also why I suggest reading more positive and fulfilling books as follow-ups.

- Project Mayhem