Diet, Nutrition and the Healing & Prevention of Cancer & Other Diseases
(XXVI)
 

Dr. F.X. Mayr’s research into the link between nutrition, dietary habits, intestinal health and overall health & beauty

by Ulla, designer of Healing Cancer Naturally © 2006

This section devoted to the link between diet, nutrition and health would be incomplete without at least sketching an overview of the important research done by Austrian natural health researcher Dr. F.X. Mayr, M.D. While (only seemingly) unrelated to cancer, his work centering on the link between digestion, intestinal health and overall health certainly has a great bearing on disease prevention (as well as physical beauty), and to my knowledge is unequalled in its detailed and in-depth attention to these matters anywhere.

The intimate connection between intestinal & digestive health
and overall health

Dr. F.X. Mayr (1875 - 1965) succinctly posits: the intestines are to man what the roots are to the plant. Only when these roots are kept in an optimal condition of nourishment and cleanliness, can the plant (man) itself thrive and remain healthy.

Thus Dr. Mayr counts among the few medically-trained nutrition experts who acknowledge that the human body is never built on what it ingests but solely on what it digests and absorbs. In fact, Dr. F.X. Mayr made it a lifelong study to investigate and map in intricate detail the intimate relationship between intestinal health and cleanliness and overall health as well as beauty, and here particularly the beauty and smoothness of the skin. He found an intimate connection between health of digestion/digestive tract and dermal beauty, making the appearance of the skin and complexion a clear barometer or gauge indicating the overall health and cleanliness of the body. The more toxin-laden the digestive tract (and consequently other parts of the body), the more health is endangered and the more the skin will show signs of what is commonly (but erroneously) attributed to aging such as sagging and formation of wrinkles.

Damaging food choices

What damages health and skin according to Dr. F.X. Mayr’s research results are for instance the following factors, all related to wrong food choices and dietary habits:

Each of the above can or will lead to intestinal and consequently/eventually bodily toxicity (i.e. stored toxin overload).

It follows from the foregoing that there is little use in eating “tons” of “healthy” things when all the nutrients contained therein might just be destroyed in a polluted, overburdened digestive tract unable to digest them. What happens instead is that any such undigested food items will fall prey to alcoholic fermentation (starches and sugars) and putrefaction (proteins) respectively, with toxic by-products of these processes flooding the body via various internal pathways. Hence the primordial interest to optimise digestion. (Compare On supplements, intestinal flora, cancer and immune system: It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb.)

Intestinal health & physical beauty: the Mayr diagnostics

Apart from the above-mentioned wrinkling and otherwise skin-damaging effect of unhealthy dietary habits and digestion, bodily posture is also a strong indicator of intestinal and hence overall health. In fact, Dr. Mayr established his own detailed diagnostic system based on bodily signs readable from the state of the facial skin as well as the physical posture. To illustrate, here are two pictures showing the various common forms in which chronic indigestion will posturally express itself according to Dr. F.X. Mayr.

While figure 1 and 2 show the bodily profile and erect posture of a man and woman in perfect intestinal health (note the absence of a protruding belly), figures 3 to 10 show the outlines of persons displaying varying degrees of serious intestinal unhealth and toxicity.

The “Mayr cure”: intestinal cleansing, rest and regeneration

Dr. F.X. Mayr developed an intensive but gentle detoxification and “intestinal rest” cure named after him. Spanning seven days to several weeks, the Mayr cure, designed to help cleanse the digestive tract while simultaneously reeducating the taste buds and acquiring healthy eating habits, is very popular in German-speaking countries where many take advantage of it to both take preventative health action, heal various illnesses and improve their looks and appearance.

Mastication = pre-digestion

A major part of the Mayr cure consists in teaching people to properly masticate, i.e. pre-digest their food by thorough chewing (even including drinks such as milk) in order to facilitate and optimise digestion by relieving the digestive tract of part of its burden. People are instructed to only take small servings into their mouths at a time, to thoroughly masticate and swallow only after complete liquefaction of the food has been attained, and then to wait a moment before the next small serving is taken, and so on.

Careful chewing as above described allows starches to be predigested via the ptyalin secreted in one’s saliva as well as each serving to receive maximum contact with the mouth and esophagus, saving the stomach part of the digestive burden as nature intended (in fact, fractions of the food thus solubilised may even be partly absorbed through the buccal/esophageal mucosa). Incidentally, such very thorough mastication of small servings was earlier popularized in the US by Horace Fletcher, father of "Fletcherism", who healed himself of a serious “terminal” illness of the kidneys using this method.

Internal cleansing

The Mayr cure is combined with the intake of a gentle laxative (Epsom salts), stomach massages etc. and thus helps release pockets of old fecal matter and similar intestinal impurities while draining the body overall of stored toxins.
As an interesting side note, Dr. Mayr found that a perfectly healthy digestion and internal milieu, once re-established, can also be seen by the absence of a need for toilet paper.

Mastication, proper food choices and meal times

The successful Mayr cure is followed up and its health benefits maintained at home by observing individually determined proper food choices and meal times. This includes avoidance of all items hard on or interfering with digestion or deleterious to the intestinal tract and body such as sugar, cabbage, legumes, too much whole-grains and raw food, alcohol, eating late at night etc. It also includes psychological factors such as avoiding distractions while eating, taking meals in a relaxed atmosphere and so on. The primordial importance of thorough chewing (no gulping) always needs to be kept in mind.

More details on Dr. F.X. Mayr’s research into healing and prevention via digestive optimisation (and a picture which shows him on his 80th birthday with a wrinkle-free skin) can be found at fxmayr.com/en.
 

Compare On supplements, intestinal flora, cancer and immune system: It’s not what you ingest, but what you usefully absorb, Effects of Overeating and the Need for a Cleansing Diet & Detoxification to Achieve Health Recovery and Optimum Health and Stored protein disases.

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