500: What The Media Got Wrong: The Netflix Narrative, Censorship, and Standing Up for Alternative Medicine (Gurus Who Grift Part 2)
Food Heals
Allison Melody
4.8 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In this fiery follow-up to Part 1, Allison Melody is back with more truth bombs about the Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar and the real-world consequences of media narratives that equate wellness fraudsters with wellness itself. Belle Gibson lied about curing cancer with Gerson Therapy, but that doesn’t mean Gerson Therapy is a lie.
Allison breaks down what Apple Cider Vinegar got so wrong about alternative medicine, shares her personal censorship story (yes, YouTube is at it again), and reads some of the shocking and heartbreaking responses she received after posting her thoughts online.
From personal loss to purpose-driven passion, this episode is a call to protect the integrity of healing modalities that have helped so many. It’s a reminder that just because something is healing doesn’t mean the person teaching it is a healer.
Topics Covered
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What the Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar gets wrong about Gerson Therapy
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The difference between a scammer and a healing modality
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Censorship in the wellness space and Allison’s personal battle with YouTube
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The dark side of speaking your truth online: internet trolls and death threats
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Why the suppression of alternative medicine threatens our right to informed health choices
Quotes We Love:
"The scammer isn’t the science."
"Just because something is healing doesn’t mean the person teaching it is a healer."
"Belle Gibson lied. That doesn’t make Gerson Therapy a lie."
"Our health is in our hands, and we deserve all the information to make the right decisions."
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(Probably not on YouTube due to ongoing censorship)
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Food Heels podcast. |
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| 0:28.8 | All right, welcome, Food Heels Nation. Thanks for joining me. I'm Allison Melody. Still in Toulomb, podcasting with Lily over here. She says hi. I'm still having an incredible time. |
| 0:39.3 | So much has happened since the last time I recorded. So I have so much to update you on. |
| 0:44.2 | But first, I owe you part two from the last episode. So I'm going to get into that today. |
| 0:50.6 | But just a couple of things to share with you. Ella Major's, sexy fit vegan, just arrived |
| 0:55.4 | here in Tulum. So we'll be going to do all the healthy, holistic things like Muay, yoga, green |
| 1:01.2 | shoes, and of course, eat all the vegan things. I'm excited to take her to my plant-based restaurants |
| 1:07.1 | and find some new ones. And maybe, just maybe, I'll get her to drink a little tequila |
| 1:11.9 | with me because according to my functional medicine doctor, Dr. Stephen Cabral, tequila is the |
| 1:17.9 | healthiest alcohol. So if you're going to drink, at least drink the healthy one, right? |
| 1:21.6 | Unless it's wine in Italy, but we could debate that at a later date. But let's get into part |
| 1:26.5 | two. On the last episode, I covered Apple Cider Vinegar, the Netflix show, and Breath of Fire from HBO. |
| 1:35.2 | And we talked about scams and grifters and why I think what was reported on those documentaries |
| 1:42.2 | versus the truth? |
| 1:43.5 | I think the truth is somewhere in |
| 1:45.0 | between. I shared my personal experience with Kundalini Yoga in L.A. where the documentary |
| 1:50.3 | Breath of Fire is based and how there has been a lot of media portrayals about alternative |
| 1:56.7 | modalities of healing lately, being portrayed as bad, as scams, and as dangerous. And I shared with |
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