Can we cure cancer with vegetable juice? And would a cold bath be enough to get rid of the Covid? Here are the health tips from Thierry Casasnovas. Except that the famous youtubeur has just been indicted for the illegal practice of medicine. With Oh My Fake, we come back to the excesses of this naturopath, who provides dangerous advice.
Thierry Casasnovas is a naturopath videographer and lecturer. On YouTube, his channel has more than 590,000 subscribers, and tens of millions of views! He is 48 years old, he lives in a small village in the South-West, and he is a specialist in alternative medicine, and more precisely in raw food. It comes from the word “raw” and it’s the idea that diseases don’t exist, and to be in good health, it is enough to eat exclusively raw vegetables, and to do drastic fasts. So at first glance, these tips do not look very dangerous, they look like grandmother’s recipes. But if we look more specifically at the content of his videos, we can come across some very problematic passages.
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