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The people that come to see me only have one wish: They want to stay or rather get healthy, and want to increase their performance and vigor up until old age. To me, it is important to research, recognize and find the main causes of the diseases. When we know what causes illness, we ultimately find the best cure. This makes the concept of therapy relatively simple: Avoid main causes of illnesses – and people should also be aware of the factors that mainly benefit their health.

The conventional established opinions on things that cause and cure diseases in humans often completely deviate from what practically, in real life, shows the best and safest results. This sounds provocative, but it is possible to, through the aid of few and cheap measures, significantly reduce the majority of today’s disease burden in the world. As this is not happening up to date, the question arises, whether it would be beneficial to certain interest groups to have many sick people for as long as possible. A trenchant answer was given in the Journal of the German Medical Association. In the Deutsches Ärzteblatt – the most popular medical journal in Germany – Prof. Dr. Klaus Dörner (psychiatrist and author²) criticized the following tendency:

“Competition urges the development of new markets. The aim has to be the conversion of all healthy people to sick people. Sick people being people that in order to “live healthy” believe to require therapeutic, rehabilitating and preventive manipulation in a chemical-physical as well as psychiatric manner by experts, for as long as they live. In the area of physical illnesses this is already working relatively well but even better in the area of mental diseases, especially as there is no lack of theories according to which almost all humans are unhealthy.”³

This was put with a little more humor by the author Eugen Roth (1895–1976):

“What robs the doctor of his wealth? a) Death, b) health.

Hence the doctor keeps us to remain in a state in between those two, so he can gain.”

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For decades, people have spent several quadrillions of dollars in order to prevent or cure diseases. And in fact, this partially resulted in very significant successes: in hygiene, acute infectious diseases, with emergencies, accidents and injuries. Many more lives can today be saved and preserved through intensive care medicine. And certain acute illnesses that used to be more common have become less frequent. However, medicine remains to be mostly powerless against chronic diseases. The absolute number of diseases in the world is getting bigger and bigger. By now, chronic diseases constitute to more than 80 % of all registered diseases. These include the so-called “widespread diseases.” In addition, many acute illnesses (such as heart attack, pulmonary embolism or stroke) normally occur in the course of chronic diseases (such as hypertension or arteriosclerosis).

I have already described the eight most important causes of diseases in my books that have been published so far (see bibliography, no. 49) You will find here the top important cause of diseases in this book as well as a very effective “prescription” for your health.

Presenting the backgrounds in the most commonly understandable way is very important to me. However, for the sake of scientific foundation, it is unavoidable that the text will also include a number of medical terms. The most important terminology is explained in the appendix. You will, however, be able to understand the basic statements of the book even if you are not familiar with every single term.