PRAISE FOR THE ALKALINE APPROACH
By simply eating a more alkaline dietveggies, greens, fresh organic green juices and smoothies, sprouts, wheatgrass juice, certain grains, and other fabulous plant foodsyou will explode with vibrant energy and well-being.
Kris Carr, author of Crazy Sexy Diet
Ihave had countless numbers of patients with painful osteoarthritis on many different medications for arthritis.Many have been pain free within a couple of months after adjusting their urine pH to 7.0 to 7.5 by consuming adequate amounts of alkaline water and alkaline foods.
Dr. Colbert, author of 7Pillars of Health
[The Alkaline Cure] is a small, simple set of lifestyle choices, which compound to produce a massive difference when you keep doing them.
Andrew Bridgewater, UK Chartered Psychologist
Victoria [Beckham] is on the alkaline diet and she swears by it for healthy eating and weight loss...I feel amazing!...Ithought I knew what I was doing nutrition wise but Im amazed what a difference alkalizing makes.
Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice), in Hello magazine
As long as we do not increase our bodys alkalinity, we will never solve the cancer riddle... It is the excess acid in our body that cultivates cancer...
Sang Whang, author of The Cancer Riddle
[Mark Ruffalo] switched to a largely plant-based alkaline diet after working with me during The Avengers.He lost weight and told me, I feel so great I never want to go back.
Kimberly Snyder, nutritionist, Vogue magazine
PRAISE FOR THE ORIGINAL F.X. MAYR HEALTH CENTER
Fellow guests included a Seventies rock star, amanager of a premier league football club, alady peer, aCEO and a literary agent... Mayr had turned around the way I think about myself and my health... Oh, and I lost sixteen pounds in twelve days.
Robin Derrick, Vogue magazine
Blissful...excellent...if this is the promised cure to longevity then bring it on.
Emma Soames, Daily Telegraph
Ihave not felt so good, so fast...
Uma Thurman, Red magazine
The Mayr clinic has given me my life backor maybe just shown me my life.Thank you all.
Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, Daily Telegraph
Delivers results fast...after six days...I have lost five pounds and my skin is clear.
Carolyn Asome, The Times
If its your lifes ambition to be thin, hotfoot it to the original Mayr clinic where it all began...
Tatler magazine
Reader...take my word for it, Mayr & More can stand by its well-deserved reputation.
Finchs Quarterly Review
Ifelt amazinglighter, fresher and more energetic than I had in ages... And the great news is that the good feelings just kept getting better.By the end of the week, Ihad lost four pounds...and more came off in the weeks after I got back.
Good Housekeeping
Ive been given a new lease on life;energy at fifty that I didnt have at forty.
Angela trainer, Healthy Living magazine
Without trivializing the methodology, which works, it seems like common sense.Most of us eat too fast, too much and too late.
Jay Yeo, Financial Times
CONTENTS
Dr. Stephan Domenig, Medical Director,
The Original F.X. Mayr Health Center
What Is the Alkaline Cure?
The pH Science Behind the Cure
What Causes Excess Acid in the Body?
How the Alkaline Cure Can Help You
Balance Equals Beauty
Habits of a Western Lifestyle
From the Inside Out
When Your System Doesnt Run Smoothly
Eat Well, Live Well, Age Well
Guiding Principles Of the Alkaline Cure
Be Mindful
How to Eat
What to Eat
When to Eat
How Much to Eat
Stay Hydrated
Exercise Regularly
Cleanse Your System
Enrich Your Surroundings
Find Your Rhythm
An Alkaline Way of Life
Acid Food Groups
Alkaline Food Groups
20 Alkaline Superfoods
The Alkaline Kitchen
Getting Started
Daily Activities
Week One
Building on Your Cure
Week Two
After the Cure
Teas and Infusions
Soups
Spreads
Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Oils, Sauces and Dressings
INTRODUCTION
I first studied medicine over twenty-one years ago. I was interested in peoplewhy they behave the way they do, how they function and how and why they might be healthy or not. That last question was really the most difficult. Medical school told me everything I wanted to know about diseases and illnesses from a genetic or biochemical standpoint but there was nothing about what it means to be healthy. Everything was focused on illness. I wanted to know what makes us feel good but that was just not on the curriculum. The medicine I was taught was a downhill ski run all the way until you died. There was no going back.
Food was not mentioned. Neither was exercise. No one seemed interested in discovering the soul of an illness. I was fascinated by the more holistic approachesthe beauty of the whole bodyand I was inspired by ancient health promoting techniques like Qi Gong and yoga. Medicine, for me, had to be more than just cutting up bodies and tying up bandages.
When I worked in geriatrics it was all about prolonging life, not the quality of that life. If someone reached one-hundred years old it was celebrated as a big success, never mind that they might not have gotten out of bed in fifteen years.
Then, over in the metabolical diseases (internal medicine) department there were a few pills and machines that could alleviate patients suffering in the short term, but those methods were not what I would call medicine. There were very few attempts at understanding or trying anything different.
My first escape from this came with an inspiring course in chiropractics. There, I could use my hands to feel and touch the diseasesrealign the spine, improve joint movements. This was fine at the time but I was still not treating the whole body. Then a friend gave me a book written in 1921 called Fundamentals of the Diagnosis of Digestive Illnesses by Dr. Franz Xaver Mayr.
Mayr explained very elegantly the complete physiology of digestion, its central role for well-being and the connection between tissue tone and function, inner health and posture as one way to evaluate health. It was the first explanation that seemed right in principlein medicine. I trained to become a Mayr-doctor. I have now worked and treated thousands of patients. We combine old knowledge with a modern understanding of the bodys biochemistry, its needs for certain nutrients and how what we eat and the way that we eat fundamentally influence our health.