Viktor Yuzichinsky, full member of the Mayer International Society of Physicians (Austria), Deputy Director for Medical Affairs of the sanatorium "Puscha Ozernaya"

Taking care of your body allows you to prolong youth

This postulate has long been neither surprising nor doubtful of its truth. Many doctors emphasize that an attractive appearance is largely ensured by the cleansing and efficient functioning of the whole organism.

Among the most well-known healing methods today, they mention the system of the Austrian doctor and researcher Franz Xavier Mayer, who at the beginning of the 20th century developed and implemented the therapeutic concept of healing the body.

Dr. Mayer's Natural Aesthetic Medicine

Dr. Mayer worked in various sanatoriums, including in Karlovy Vary, where people with diseases of the gastrointestinal tract were treated. Every day taking part in the examination and treatment of patients, he asked himself the question: what exactly is the purpose of treatment and where can one draw the line that distinguishes health from illness?

It was important for Mayer to get an answer to the following questions:

1. How do we define good health in general and a healthy digestive system in particular?

2. What size, shape, softness and other qualities should a healthy belly have?

3. What signs can be used to determine when the intestines are already unhealthy?

Answers to these questions Dr. Meyer devoted his entire life. As a result of long-term observation and treatment of thousands of patients, he came to the following conclusions.

1. Even an apparently healthy digestive system is not completely healthy, and in fact some are already suffering damage to it.

2. Cleansing the digestive system and returning it to a healthy state can reduce the patient's complaints or even save him from many problems from the pulmonary, cardiovascular, digestive, musculoskeletal systems. 

Many doctors in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Holland, Spain today use Dr. Mayer's technique in their practice.

Dr. Mayer's technique cannot be used: 

• suffering from oncological, infectious (tuberculosis, AIDS) diseases;
• underweight persons;
• subject to hyperthyroidism, mental disorders.

Treatment can be applied with success:

• for digestive disorders (constipation, dyspepsia, gastritis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, colitis);
• in metabolic diseases (metabolic syndrome, etc.).

The close relationship between attractive appearance and good bowel function has long been a mystery to no one, and therefore Mayer's treatment can also be used as beauty therapy, or natural aesthetic medicine.

Obese people usually lose excess weight and finish treatment with a good ratio between adipose tissue and muscle tissue, underweight people gain weight as a result of treatment, primarily due to a decrease in intoxication and better absorption of food. Mayer's treatment is a natural preventive and restorative therapy for body and soul.   

Features of the treatment method: relaxation outside the city 

Meyer Therapy according to Mayer requires the obligatory fulfillment of several requirements:

1. Treatment is carried out only by certified doctors who are members of the Mayer Society of Physicians, certified by the Austrian Chamber of Physicians (Austria, Innsbruck).

2. Treatment is carried out in a health complex, preferably outside the city. The outpatient treatment option, based on the experience of the doctors of the Mayer Society, is less effective and is not currently promoted.

3. Treatment is carried out after a thorough examination of the patient, and, if necessary, an additional examination is prescribed using modern instrumental methods.

The entire previous stage of life is analyzed: previous diseases, examinations, in case of any chronic diseases, the received medical preparations are obligatory coordinated with the patient's personal (family) doctor.

4. Treatment is carried out with daily medical supervision. The scheme of treatment and nutrition is individual, adjusted depending on the patient's condition.

5. Nutrition, eating technique, sufficient water regime, taking drugs that alkalize the internal environment of the body, and procedures that promote detoxification and relaxation processes (including abdominal massage according to the author's Mayer-Rauch technique) – this is the basis of the Mayer system of healing.

Nutrition skills acquired during treatment, the habit of sufficient water regime, it is desirable to maintain in later life. It should be noted that in the future there are no strict restrictions on food. Those who have undergone Mayer's treatment retain the habit of eating healthy food, the ability not to overeat, and adhere to a diet. It becomes a natural human need.

After the treatment, as a result of cleansing, a person understands and "hears" his body better. The natural ability to distinguish what food is suitable for a person and what food becomes "poison" for him is restored. The result of therapy is a decrease in the degree of intoxication of the body, a decrease in dosages or the complete abolition of those drugs that a person was previously forced to take constantly. 

Treatment courses are repeated no more than once every 8-12 months. There are no age restrictions for the application of the purification technique. But in pediatric practice, Mayer therapy in its classic form - with the use of alkalizing agents and forced bile secretion - is not carried out. By changing the technique of nutrition and diet in children, you can achieve amazing success in improving their metabolic processes. 

It should be noted that if the adults themselves change the dietary pattern in the family, then their children grow up healthier, less prone to various diseases.

Modern Austrian name Meyer–therapy – "Course of health prevention and individual general healing intensive regeneration".

Three O's Method: Rest, Purify, Learn

Meyer's recovery, or Mayer's course of treatment, should be understood as a natural method of treatment, built on the principles of diagnosis proposed by him. All true paths to health are individualized. The method of treatment according to the Mayer method is no exception, which is also strictly individual.

The three principles of Dr. Mayer's treatment are referred to as the three O's and are called:

• rest – gentle mode, protection, recovery;
• cleansing – detoxification (removal of toxins, neutralization – reduction of acid content, removal of toxins from the body);
• training – training (hardening, strengthening functions, for example, salivary glands).

At present, when the negative impact of the unfavorable environment and excessive oxidation of the body has increased significantly, the listed principles of treatment should be supplemented with one more: the principle of substitution – which should be understood as a supplement, elimination of deficiency and stimulation of the intake of missing substances into the body.

The principle of treatment with a sparing regimen is borrowed from nature itself and serves for the natural regeneration of the body. A diseased animal living in the wild arranges a sparing regime for itself in order to direct all the forces of its body to fight the disease. It lies down in a sheltered place to rest and instinctively does not eat at all or eats only certain foods until it is completely cured.

Dr. Mayer recommended resting the digestive organs, for which he ordered his patients to fast or follow an optimal unloading diet for them. 

Mayer treatments:

• healing "tea fast";
• milk-sugar diet;
• extended milk diet;
• moderate draining diet according to the method of E. Rauch and P. Mayer, built in accordance with the individual characteristics of each patient.

At the same time, directly during the course of treatment, you can easily change the severity of the diet and its form.

"Tea fasting", a milk-sugar diet can be carried out only with a limited number of extraneous influences on treatment, that is, in a hospital, resort, sanatorium. 

The course of treatment according to the method of Dr. Mayer begins with the education of proper eating habits.  The patient learns to calmly chew food and moisten the food bolus well with saliva, and trains in this skill. Patients who make every effort to do this will be able to master the art of eating to such an extent that in later life it will not be so easy to wean them from the acquired eating habits. 

Cleansing during treatment according to the method of Dr. Mayer is achieved by additional intake of Karlovy Vary salt solution or bitter salt solution (magnesium sulfate). Salt should be taken every day on an empty stomach in the morning as early as possible, that is, immediately after getting out of bed. Only in advanced cases can it be recommended to repeat the intake of bitter salt an hour before lunch or prescribe an enema. The excretion of intestinal toxins together with a solution of bitter salt occurs from one to three times a day in the form of feces, having a consistency from liquid to mushy. 

An essential component of the therapeutic effect of cleansing is the neutralization (decrease in level) of acids. This is especially important for modern man: after all, he experiences a much stronger load of acids than previous generations. Nowadays, people are eating incomparably more oxidizing foods, consuming more animal proteins, sugar, baked goods and processed foods.

Many nutritional authorities erroneously claim that eating raw, high-fibre foods is beneficial. They do not understand that any excess consumption, that is, the consumption of any amount of food that exceeds the capacity of digestion, inevitably leads to its decomposition with the release of excess acids. Natural coffee, alcohol, nicotine plus stress, haste, fears, disappointments in life, physical inactivity, and last but not least, acid rain, artificial fertilizers and other environmental toxins increase the acid load on the body of modern man. 

Based on this, at present, the goal of the course of treatment according to the Mayer method is to enhance the excretion of acids from the body (their neutralization) with the help of minerals, which are a source of alkali. To accomplish this task, an alkalizing powder is used, consisting of several ingredients. In the process of treatment according to the method of Dr. Mayer, another remedy is used to treat the abdomen - – manual massage.

Manual massage of the abdomen increases and decreases the pressure inside the abdomen in a rhythmic sequence and thus has a beneficial effect on various functions of the whole organism. 

The beneficial effects of manual massage

1. Leads to an increase in the specific (own) activity of the intestine.
2. Improves blood circulation in the abdominal organs.
3. Gives digestive iron a rest.
4. Produces blood purification due to intensive removal of toxins.
5. Improves breathing.

Applying in everyday life the listed approaches to nutrition and choosing a certain combination of products, not forgetting the careful processing of food in the cavity and some other principles of Mayer's philosophy, you have every chance of becoming a long-liver. After all, Dr. Mayer himself lived for 90 years and did not work only for the last year and a half due to a cataract that was not removed in time. I wish you health, happiness, active longevity!