Is it just me or is this juicing thing seem to become like a cult.

I was talking to this old guy at the gym and he was under the impression he had found the fountain of youth - telling me you could "cure" cancer by just drinking the juice of a pound of carrots a day but he recommended 5 lbs just to kick it's ass and if you did it properly you would never get sick. He lived by it too his palms were bright orange from drinking so many freakin carrots. He has been saving for almost a year to buy this $2,500 juicer that will allow him to save juice for a week at at time because of it's "superior juicing ability". I've met some of these people before and they all think there is the level of Utopian health you can achieve with the perfect "live", "raw" diet.

It was sad to see this man saving for almost a year to buy some damn juicer and spending his twilight years obsessing over a bunch of B.S.

...or am I wrong is it all it claims to be?