JOURNEY TO GOOD HEALTH
BORN IN 1875 IN AUSTRIA, Dr Franz Xaver Mayr came up with a revolutionary cure that revolved around gut health. He believed that a healthy digestive system was the key to a person’s good health, longevity, and beauty. Paramount to his cure was a system of fasting, a holiday if you will, for the gut. Reducing the intake of calories, Mayr believed, was a great way of re-invigorating digestion, and thus his or her overall health. The success that Mayr’s principles have found over the decades led to a boom in health spas and clinics across Europe, each one practising its own unique take on Mayr’s philosophy and building upon it for its 21 -century clientele. With two facilities in Austria (Altaussee and
