Kevin Trudeau

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 show more 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. show less

I remember coming across this guy back in the aughts when i saw a book of his. I went to his site but was hit with a paywall every time I attempted to do even a bit of digging beneath the surface. I forgot about him and moved on until I came across this book in a Little Free Library. Sometimes I come across fantastic items like classic novels... and then I come across garbage like this.

This hook is old and since its publication Trudeau was arrested for fraud and larceny among other things, show more his numerous claims remain unsubstantiated. Not only that, but he faced charges multiple times... in the 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, and continues to face legal troubles in the 2020s. Some people never learn eh?

This book was very similar to the other one I came across years ago (Natural Cures They Don't Want You to Know About) with him making the same claims over and over, but he offers nothing of substance for it, and pointing you to his site and newsletter which you have to pay for.

Sure, this is a pretty dated book as of the date of this review, but it was a bit of nostalgia for me and sort of fun to see what this con man is up to nowadays, he's still shilling, even though he continues to be beset by financial woes that are a direct consequence of said shilling. Hard to believe that his books were once best-sellers back in the aughts.

The Official Kevin Trudeau Fan Site (as of July 2023) https://theofficialkevintrudeaufanclub.com/

Other relevant links https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/refunds/trudeau-refunds

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Trudeau

https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2023/5/10/23719108/kevin-trudeau-fraud-pitchm....

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/pr/weight-loss-infomercial-pitch-man-kevin-tru.... show less

I bought this book hoping that it would help me with Migraines. Instead, it gave me one.

Kevin Trudeau is maddeningly repetitive. It's been a while since I read this one, but I recall the 1st quarter of the book sounding like this... I'm paraphrasing here:

"Did you know that there are natural cures for almost every ailment and illness you can think of? Oh yes, there are, but there are people who don't want you to know about them. These people want to keep you sick for their gain. But, let me show more assure you, there ARE natural cures that are available almost everywhere. AND, I know what these cures are! They are natural cures that can be found in nature, but they don't want you to know that."

...and so on.

He goes on and on about the benefits of the "health care" industry and government keeping people sick, which of course, he says is all for profit. He also makes it abundantly clear that the "they" who want to keep these natural cures under wraps also want to shut him up about them.

Finally, the last part of the book contains an index of illnesses that can be "cured" by the natural ingredients previously alluded to, but Trudeau then negates everything he just went on and on and on about by saying that these cures aren't actually guaranteed to cure anything.

I tend to agree with him on one point, which is that it does benefit pharmaceutical companies and HMOs etc to keep people sick and needing their help, but that is fairly self-evident. If they cure the sick, they lose money. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out.

Anyway, my advice is, if you want to read this one make a trip to the library and pick it up. Don't waste your money on the book. show less

"The lad(d)y doth protest too much, methinks." and for so long : "So long," is all that CAN be said....except --->

Repetitive, ranty, hollow hollering, repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating, repeating (like the acid-reflux he blames on enzyme-elimination from milk) the ideas of others with much (pseudo-call-to-arms) criticism of the immorality of c(r)apitalism, yet hypocritically high promotion of his **pay-to-view** subscription web site accompanied by added show more (additive/addiction) alarmism.

Alarmism so extreme that, dead-pan, (if not deep-pan) he tells you that tap-water is so dangerous that having a bath in it is analagous to ***entering a gas chamber***.

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"Don't do it," he says. He says that a lot. Other favourite phrases - churned out SCORES of times include (with or without DELIBERATE irony) :

BRAIN-WASHING
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY
THINK ABOUT IT
STILL NOT CONVINCED ?
HOW SAD

"How sad" that the above capitalisations are a full summary of the audiobook. How unsad that you can spare yourself the twelve hours or so required to learn this by reading and re-reading them here.

Mr. Trudeau's public text does NOT contain any cures or remedies. He advocates juicing organic fruit, drinking plenty of distilled water, trampolining, de-stressing when distressed, preparing food "lovingly" and wearing magnetic rings on your toes whilst sniffing houseplants on Saturdays because the start of the weekend is optimised by the "lunar cycle".

He comes across as a paranoid Tony Robbins impersonator (even giving the pH balance craze a nod) who has jumped on the "Fast Food Nation" bandwagon to stir a cynicism that *already exists*.

"They" are solely out to get you. NO product is safe to consume.......So where do "They" get THEIR secret supply of uncontaminated daily bread ? Are they better bre(a)d and organising organics with Prince Charles, (pesticide-free) (corn)(un)(i(l)(ly) wall-ed up, with the Duchy, in Cornwall ?

...and why do all conspiracy theorists ennunciate their "h"s as "y"s ? For "huge" he says : "yooge", and his "human" is (?). show less