Fasting for more vitality
The right way to fast is with Modern Mayr Medicine! Modern Mayr Medicine ensures your fast is a source of health and wellbeing. Detoxing and healthy living during a medical spa retreat at Park Igls in Tyrol where fasting translates into energy!
Mayr fasting & Modern Mayr Medicine
En Vogue
There are many reasons for fasting – for a detox, to boost immune system, to lose weight, for healthy living, to clear the mind, for a reboot… ‘We are seeing a general, upward trend in fasting and in Modern Mayr Medicine in particular,’ notes Dr Peter Gartner, Medical Director at Park Igls. ‘When we overload our body’s ‘waste collection system’ with unhealthy habits, by eating too quickly and too late, the body stores residual toxins in the connective and fatty tissue.
Drinking large quantities of water under medical supervision together with the ingestion of certain bitter compounds can get rid of these surplus substances via the kidneys, liver and intestines. To avoid producing new ‘garbage’ during the process, we seriously reduce food intake during detoxification by fasting,’ explains Dr Gartner. Preferably with Mayr fasting.
The benefits of Mayr fasting
The right way to detoxify
‘One of the special features of therapeutic fasting with Modern Mayr Medicine is that it’s so easy to understand: we explain how detoxification functions so our guests don’t have to ‘have the faith’ to make it work – it just does,’ says Gartner. ‘At the heart of the Modern Mayr method is that it teaches people how to eat, chew, insalivate properly and thereby predigest their food. The condition of the digestive tract is reflected in a person’s state of health.
No other detoxification method teaches so much for everyday life!’ After all, it was Austrian physician Franz Xaver Mayr who early in the 20th century recognised that the causes of many classic lifestyle diseases lie in the digestive system.
Detoxify body and spirit on a medical spa retreat
FX Mayr famously advocated a diet of bread rolls and milk, but Modern Mayr Medicine has come a very long way since then. At the Park Igls Mayr clinic we have developed Modern Mayr cuisine, a gourmet concept with an eight-step plan of diet-friendly and utterly delicious meals.
Special attention is paid to their acid-base composition and the use of organic and regional products. But Mayr fasting is as much about emotional wellbeing as it is about physical health. ‘Therapeutic fasting can also be an impetus for emotional healing. A medical spa retreat can also lead to self-discovery within the scope of consultations with our physicians or with the help of specialist psychologists’, adds Dr Gartner.
Correct fasting with Mayr
Dr Peter Gartner enlightens us on the principles of healthy fasting
‘A week before embarking on your Mayr fast, cut down on your intake of acidic foods and beverages: avoid sugar, meat, alcohol and coffee as well as raw and fatty, hard-to-digest foods. This small change is enough to improve your quality of life and will make the treatment programme to come all the more welcome!’
‘Ideally, we recommend repeating a treatment programme after six months, but an annual therapeutic fasting programme lasting two or three weeks is more realistic for most people.’
‘The gentler the diet prescribed by the Mayr physician, the less rigid the contraindications: caution is advised in untreated cases of thyroid disease and cancer as well as in cases of mental illness such as schizophrenia, psychosis, dementia, debility or severe autoaggressive behaviour.’
‘Drinking plenty of fluids is extremely important during a Mayr fast and detox, and you should have around 3 litres of fluids over the course of each day. Chronic acidification is the root cause of many lifestyle diseases, which is why the chief purpose of a Mayr fast is to restore the body’s acid-base balance.’
‘We absolutely advise against unsupervised fasting. On the other hand, we do recommend fasting as an in-patient or at home but under the supervision of a Mayr physician. He or she is able to favourably affect the course of therapy by means of two or three checks each week that also include the manual abdominal treatment, an indispensable part of any Modern Mayr Medicine therapy.’
Moderne Mayr-Medizin
Best for:
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Anyone who values top-level medical expertise combined with a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic options.
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Anyone suffering from metabolic disorders, issues affecting digestion, allergies, food intolerances, burnout, insomnia, discomfort in joints and musculoskeletal system, heart and circulation problems, high blood pressure, obesity and many other conditions.
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Food lovers – after all, this is gourmet fasting!
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Fitness fans who appreciate the well-designed exercise programme.
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And anyone with an interest in being – and staying – healthy.
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About the author
Dr. med. Peter R. Gartner
After studying medicine in Innsbruck and training as a general practitioner, Dr Gartner specialised in holistic medicine, nutritional medicine, acupuncture and hypnotherapy and has been practising diagnostics and therapy according to Dr F. X. Mayr with great success ever since. He is also a sought-after speaker at specialist conferences and has been sharing his knowledge on the Park Igls blog for many years.
