The book of health

Swiss physician Dr. Maximilian Bircher-Benner, the founder of Wendepunkt, was one of the most important figures in medicine. Dr. Bircher-Benner recognized the importance of food quality for health. The vast majority of our diseases are the result of our civilizational diet. His treatment consisted of a raw diet for the sick, while he recommended a full-fledged diet for the healthy. Dr. Bircher-Benner cured with natural methods, with nutrition, light, water, air, and achieved healing successes that modern medicine still only dreams of and will continue to dream of until it changes its approach. Dr. Bircher-Benner is credited with one of the most fashionable foods of our time: muesli. The word muesli means porridge in Swiss German, which was coined by dr. Bircher-Benner served his patients as medicinal food. The most important feature of his muesli, which fundamentally distinguishes it from today's muesli, is that all its ingredients were always fresh. The flakes were freshly flaked and the fruit was fresh. Dr. Bircher-Benner's admirers included such celebrities as Mahatma Gandhi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann.