your good gut HOLIDAY

IT’S SAID THE ROUTE OF good health begins in the gut. This was certainly the philosophy of Dr Franz Xaver Mayr, who more than a century ago founded the first centre for modern Mayr medicine in Austria. He was clearly ahead of his time, as his unique health system focused – as it continues to do today – on the cause of illness not the symptoms.

One of the crucial elements of Dr Mayr’s system is gut health and the gut’s ability to effectively absorb and process nutrients. His six key principles for improving health and wellbeing are: cleansing and detoxification, rest, education, substitution (supplementation of diet), self-discovery, and exercise.

There are now two Mayr