In Brief

• The Facts:

  The 'Medical Medium,' has kickstarted a global celery juice movement that’s healing people of their chronic disease symptoms. It has even garnered attention from Hollywood, placing the green vegetable under scrutiny from critics and skeptics alike.

• Reflect On:

  Any new health trend deserves some scrutiny and analysis, but shouldn't the only real question be: Does it work? In the case of celery juice, the proof falls in the thousands of people who are healing themselves with the protocol.

By now you’ve likely heard of the celery juice phenomenon that is sweeping the globe.

It’s being touted as the next ‘miracle elixir’ by many, with nearly 90,000 #celeryjuice hashtags on Instagram at the time of writing this article. The man behind the movement is Anthony William, better known as the “Medical Medium,” a Los Angeles-based health expert with a unique gift. Since childhood, William has communicated with ‘the spirit of compassion,’ a voice which has gifted him powerful (and sometimes controversial) information regarding health, nutrition and disease.

Looking at the Google Trends data chart, it’s clear that search terms for both “celery juice” and “medical medium” have seen monumental increases over the last year, particularly in the last few months.

Today Anthony William has written four New York Times best-selling books on the aforementioned subjects, debunking popular theories around chronic disease and providing simple healing protocols for millions of people around the globe. But one of his protocols has especially caught fire, a shockingly simple and unsuspecting one–drinking straight celery juice on an empty stomach.

As William explains in his books and his blog, celery juice holds so many incredible benefits for the body. It’s teeming with anti-inflammatory properties, it’s a natural antiseptic that starves and flushes pathogens out of the body, it improves hydrochloric acid levels and digestion, it balances the electrical circuitry of the nervous system, it detoxifies the liver, kidneys, and blood, and so much more.

William has been recommending celery juice to his clients for decades, but only over the last year has its popularity grown to a ‘movement’ scale. Today, a quick search of celery juice on social media will present one with an endless stream of bright-eyed advocates holding the green elixir in hand, boasting how the simple juice helped to cure their chronic disease and symptoms such as Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme disease, migraines, vertigo, celiac disease, irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), diabetes, psoriasis, eczema, acne, bloating, intestinal cramping, acid reflux, vertigo, constipation, restless leg syndrome, tingles, numbness, and the list goes on.

The Power of mineral salts

What exactly is it about celery juice that gives it its powerful healing abilities? The answer lies in what William calls mineral salts, something he says medical research has yet to discover.

Mineral salts act together as an antiseptic, breaking down the membrane structures of viruses such as Epstein-Barr, HHV-6, and shingles, bacteria such as Streptococcus, and other pathogens—troublemakers responsible for chronic illness—eventually killing and destroying them. Celery’s mineral salts also help stabilize blood pressure, bringing it down when it’s too high and up when it’s too low. Further, they won’t dehydrate your organs—instead, they cling to toxic, dangerous salts from poor-quality foods and help draw them out of your body while replacing them with undiscovered cluster salts.

Mineral salts are critical for our bodies to function optimally. They keep your kidneys and adrenals functioning and raise your gut’s hydrochloric acid so your body can break down and assimilate what you eat—while they balance your pH as well as cleanse and repair your stomach, the rest of your digestive tract, and, most importantly, your liver. They also allow information to travel throughout your body so it can keep itself in balance no matter what’s occurring.

The mineral salts specifically in celery are instrumental in the electricity that governs the body—they’re building blocks for neurotransmitter chemicals, they ignite electrical impulse activity, and they support neuron function. The electrolytes in celery hydrate on a deep cellular level, lessening your chances of suffering from migraines, anxiety, panic attacks, and more. Celery also stabilizes and supports the adrenal glands, offers stress assistance, and repairs damaged cells inside the liver.

For more information about the healing abilities of celery juice, read more HERE.

Celery juice takes root in Hollywood—backlash erupts

Even Hollywood has its eyes on celery juice, with celebrities such as Robert De Niro, Pharrell Williams, Debra Messing, and Gwyneth Paltrow endorsing its wide range of healing benefits. But while penetrating the commercial facade of Hollywood is an incredible feat, doing so has set the medium in the line of fire. Mainstream spotlight is a magnet for skeptics, especially in William’s case, a man with no formal education in the health realm who channels his information directly from ‘spirit.’

Anthony William’s protocol has spread into Hollywood; in the picture above William is interviewed by the mainstream entertainment program ‘Extra’.

Already his tagline is rubbing health specialists the wrong way, as seen in article headlines such as “2019’s hot new health trend: Juice suggested by a ghost,” “The man who made celery juice a wellness craze says a voice told him to do it,” or “Experts are rolling their eyes at the celery juice diet craze.”

Abby Langer, a registered dietitian based in Toronto, told The Post, “there’s nothing remarkable about celery juice,” going on to say that it is high in vitamin K but nothing else worth getting hyped about. Shonali Soans, a registered dietitian, also told the post that the “celery juice craze” is nothing more than a testament to our desire for quick fixes. Granted, any new health trend deserves some level of scrutiny and analysis, as we’ve seen many health crazes come and go over the decades past, but shouldn’t the only real question be: Does it work?

Luckily in William’s case, celery juice does work. “The bottom line is people really are healing,” he said in an interview with Quartzy.

It should be noted that those who’ve shared about their healing journeys through the Medical Medium protocol are not only drinking celery juice every morning, but they are adopting a whole new lifestyle of eating fresh, whole foods, while cutting out dietary triggers such as corn, gluten, dairy, soy and processed meat. However, straight celery juice remains the foundation of how they are healing their body.

“When you hear a naysayer, which I’ve seen in some of these articles—which is unbelievable to me—say ‘no one is healing because science didn’t say so,’ what’s happening is that they’re basically spitting in the face of the chronically ill,” William told Quartzy.

And spitting in the face of the ill has been the name of the game for the medical establishment for decades. Mystery illness is pandemic, and for every disease label floating around today there are a myriad of incomplete theories that try to explain their cause, many of which still have an “incurable” prognosis attached. And let’s just be frank —people are tired of being sick and tired. We don’t want expensive treatments that hold us over until we croak, we want full-bodied healing, we want the truest form of vitality possible. As Anthony William has shown, sometimes that takes a different approach, albeit an approach that is painstakingly simple, one that reminds us to take our health back into our own hands, and that fruit, vegetables, and herbs are here to help us, so eat more of them.