Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo (born 1953 in

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) is a

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and researcher for

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. She is the founder of the Medical Association for Fasting and Nutrition (ÄGHE) and

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of the family-owned company Buchinger Wilhelmi, established by

Otto Buchinger Otto Buchinger (February 16, 1878 at Darmstadt – April 16, 1966 at Überlingen) was a German physician, credited with being the first to systematically document the beneficial effects of fasting on a number of diseases. Buchinger studied medi ...

in 1953.

Life

Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo graduated from medical school in

in 1982 and continued her education in

. She earned her

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Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

. The title of her dissertation was “Methodical Problems in Assessing the Vitamin Balance in Fasting.” In 2012 she completed her education with an Executive Master for Family Entrepreneurship M.A. from

Zeppelin University Zeppelin University (German: ''Zeppelin Universität'', ZU) is a small and highly selective private research university on the shores of Lake Constance in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The university is accredited by the Ministry of Science, Researc ...

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. She fasted for the first time when she was 17 years old. From then on, she devoted herself to the method and continued to contribute actively to the development of fasting therapy and so-called “integrative medicine” today. In 1982 she married Raimund Wilhelmi, the grandson of

, they have two sons. Since then she started to play an active role in managing the family business. This comprises Buchinger Wilhelmi private clinics in

Überlingen Überlingen is a German city on the northern shore of Lake Constance (Bodensee) in Baden-Württemberg near the border with Switzerland. After the city of Friedrichshafen, it is the second largest city in the Bodenseekreis (district), and a cent ...

(founded in 1953) and in

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(founded in 1973). As Scientific Director of Buchinger Wilhelmi in Überlingen and Marbella, Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo is responsible for the medical program and the scientific documentation of fasting. She co-founded the Medical Association for Fasting and Nutrition
Ärztegesellschaft für Heilfasten und Ernährung, ÄGHE e.V
) in 1986, and published guidelines for

therapy in 2003. In 2011 she founded the Maria Buchinger Foundation with the aim of supporting research in the field of therapeutic fasting. She continues to chair this foundation today. In addition, she was

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of the

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Club in

from 2016 to 2018.

Publications

*El ayuno terapéutico Buchinger: Una experiencia para el cuerpo y el espíritu. 2003, *Lebensreform Gestern - zukunftsfähige Lebensweise heute und morgen. In: 40 Jahre Eden Stiftung - Zur Förderung naturnaher Lebenshaltung und Gesundheitspflege. Bad Soden 2004, S. 46–53. *Leitfaden Ernährungsmedizin. Heilfasten. 2005, *Fastentherapie. Lehrbuch Naturheilverfahren. 2009, *Médecines et alimentation du futur. La médecine intégrative et le jeûne thérapeutique. 2009, *Ernährung und Fasten als Therapie. 2010, *Buchinger Heilfasten: Die Original-Methode. 2010, • Therapeutic Fasting: The Buchinger Amplius Method. 2011, *L’art de jeûner: manuel du jeûne thérapeutique. 2015,

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