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I'll be honest: I have not personally watched this movie. I did, however, listen to the entire review by the God Awful Movie team. I am also a science enthusiast who reads a lot of stories, both books (such as "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer") and blogs (such as "Science Based Medicine"), about medicine. Max Gerson is a crank who I wouldn't let treat a hangnail. This movie goes on and on about "chemicals" hurting people seemingly without any awareness that the carrots, coffee, and other foods the recommend are, wait for it, made of chemicals!

Did you know that Dihydrogen-Monoxide can kill you? Yet you consume vast quantities of it every day. Yes, that is a silly, gotcha, example since H2O is just water. Yet too much or too little can kill you. That's true for every other chemical and element (e.g., oxygen) your body needs to survive. Context and dose is important. There are thousands of chemicals and trace elements your body requires in minute quantities but too much can cause illness and death.

The only positive review as I write this is by @drakkar91 (8/10 stars) and their review headline uses the meaningless term "natural healing". Guess what? Cyanide is natural. Hemlock is natural. Arsenic is natural. But I wouldn't recommend ingesting any of those in an attempt to cure what ails you.

Beyond the medically dangerous propaganda espoused by this film it is simply awful in terms of its cinematic qualities: acting, directing, dialog, story, etc.

I, thankfully, did not watch this abomination. I did, however, listen to the review by the God Awful Movies team. Note that I employ a 1 to 5 scale when rating movies because I feel anything more fine grained is silly. So my two star rating really means one star. Nonetheless, I was sorely tempted to give this a single star as an indication that it has zero redeeming values. If Ken Del Vechio had been a film school student this, and every one of his other films, would have been graded as a failure. Even his previous film, "A Karate Christmas Miracle" was (marginally) better than this stillborn waste of celluloid.

If you think watching paint dry is exciting and emotionally engaging you might like this movie. This is a rare case where I would give a movie zero stars if that were possible. Bad acting. Bad dialog. Bad directing. Watching three old men walk slowly for three minutes is not my idea of an engaging scene.