A woman who participated with “pH Miracle” book series author Robert Young in the unlicensed medical treatment of an elderly woman suffering from liver and thyroid disease was sentenced Friday to four years and four months in state prison.

A Vista jury convicted Galina Migalko, 61, and Young, 73, of practicing without a medical license and theft from an elder for their treatment of the 79-year-old victim. Young, who was also convicted of willful abuse of an elder, was sentenced last week to five years and eight months behind bars.

Young’s books and treatments argue that serious illnesses, including cancer, can be treated through controversial methods like injections of baking soda and an all-vegetable smoothie diet.

Prosecutors say Migalko and Young steered the victim, Jane Clayson, awa

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