Dr Andreas Michalsen was a successful young cardiologist at one of Berlin’s busiest hospitals. He specialised in emergency and critical care medicine, publishing respected papers on heart failure, and a glittering career lay ahead, but he was already growing disillusioned.
Michalsen felt the world was entering a “crisis in medicine”, fuelled by stress, poor diets and sedentary lifestyles, which his profession was ultimately treating with a sticking plaster: “I was doing a lot of expensive and painful interventions, which the data told me would not lead, in the end, to a real, significant improvement in health,” he recalls.
To the derision of his colleagues, he decided to train in natural medicine….