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Sarah, is there any, let's say, woo-woo, hippie health thing that you believe in, but is maybe a little dubious?

You know what? I'm just not that kind of person. At all? I like medicine. I want hard drugs to cure me. You know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I believe in doctors and Advil and medicine,

but I also feel like tumor it can probably fix it. Like whatever's wrong with you, just take some

tumor. See what happens. I don't think that's really woo-woo, though. It's a little woo-woo.

I consider woo-woo to be like, leave it outside so it absorbs a moon's energy.

Right.

You know, this is a healthy thing that I'll have some of, and if it works, it works.

Okay, okay, good balance.

Well, I'm asking because today we're going to tackle a mainstay of alternative

wellness culture, apple, cider, vinegar, and the outrageous family that made it a household

staple.

It's October 1997 in Santa Barbara, California, and a girl is celebrating her 13th birthday.

Her name is Catherine Elizabeth Hudson, but when she grows up, she'll be known as Katie Perry.

And this is a big day for young Katie.

She's receiving her very first guitar.

Big presents are not the norm in Katie's home. Her parents are

Pentecostal pastors struggling to make ends meet, but they recently made a very generous family

friend. Katie's mom was reading a book called The Miracle of Fasting. It claims that fasting

flushes deadly poisons from the body, fights acid crystals, and removes mucus.

The health theories really struck a chord with Katie's mom.

So she reached out to its author, a woman named Patricia Bragg.

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