Jean-Pierre Willem, born 24 May 1938 at

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, is a doctor and founder of Médecins Aux Pieds Nus. He led numerous humanitarian missions to help victims of catastrophes and conflicts. Willem also was a doctor of medicine and president of Organic Union International.

Biography

In 1959, Jean-Pierre Willem coorganised the departure of 93 medical students to help local population during the Algerian War. In 1964, Dr Jean-Pierre Willem was missioned six months with Doctor

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) and then in Rwanda. In 1977, he worked with Bernard Kouchner for

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF; pronounced ), also known as Doctors Without Borders, is a humanitarian medical non-governmental organisation (NGO) or charity of French origin known for its projects in conflict zones and in countries affected by endemic diseases. ...

and went to Laos during 7 months. In 1986, he created the ''Faculté Libre de Médecine Naturelle et d'Ethnomédecine'' (nicknamed FLMNE), a free faculty of

natural medicine Naturopathy, or naturopathic medicine, is a form of alternative medicine. A wide array of pseudoscientific practices branded as "natural", "non-invasive", or promoting "self-healing" are employed by its practitioners, who are known as naturop ...

. In 1987, he founded a non-profit organisation called '' Médecins Aux Pieds Nus'', translatable as ''

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s''. Willem met several humanitarian people during his life, such as

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, Sœur Emmanuelle,

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and

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. Willem co-founded the phyto-

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s selling company Aromalia. He collaborated with

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as President of Organic Union International in 2007.

Hypothesis

Nutrition Nutrition is the biochemical and physiological process by which an organism uses food to support its life. It provides organisms with nutrients, which can be metabolized to create energy and chemical structures. Failure to obtain sufficient ...

and

aromatherapy Aromatherapy is based on the usage of aromatic materials including essential oils and other aroma compounds, with claims for improving psychological and physical well-being. It is offered as a complementary therapy or as a form of alternative ...

are preventive against

degenerative disease Degenerative disease is the result of a continuous process based on degenerative cell changes, affecting tissues or organs, which will increasingly deteriorate over time. In neurodegenerative diseases, cells of the central nervous system stop wo ...

. * Médecins Aux Pieds Nus is a concept of proximity, prevention and humility: ''being

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, motivated and

empathic Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, that is, the capacity to place oneself in another's position. Definitions of empathy encompass a broad range of social, cog ...

are qualities required to be a humanitarian doctor''Proximité, prévention et humilité'' from Jean-Pierre Willem, founder of Médecins Aux Pieds Nus, cover of '' Directsoir'', n°544, p.6-7, Tuesday 5 May 2009.

Experiments

Experiment An experiment is a procedure carried out to support or refute a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy or likelihood of something previously untried. Experiments provide insight into Causality, cause-and-effect by demonstrating what outcome oc ...

s on rats or rabbits shows : * 93% of

cancer Cancer is a group of diseases involving abnormal cell growth with the potential to invade or spread to other parts of the body. These contrast with benign tumors, which do not spread. Possible signs and symptoms include a lump, abnormal b ...

decrease with

Acidosis Acidosis is a process causing increased acidity in the blood and other body tissues (i.e., an increase in hydrogen ion concentration). If not further qualified, it usually refers to acidity of the blood plasma. The term ''acidemia'' describes ...

protocol,

fasting Fasting is the abstention from eating and sometimes drinking. From a purely physiological context, "fasting" may refer to the metabolic status of a person who has not eaten overnight (see " Breakfast"), or to the metabolic state achieved after ...

and nutriments. * 50% of cancer decrease with an annual fasting: one month of abstaining from the third of the food ration when the spring begins.

Bibliography

Here is a non-exhaustive list of the books published by Doctor Jean-Pierre Willem: * Prévenir et vaincre le Cancer,

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, 2004, * Le Secret des Peuples Sans Cancer, Le Dauphin, réédition 2005, * Les Secrets du Régime Crétois, Le Dauphin 1999, * Les Huiles Essentielles, médecine d'avenir, Le Dauphin 2002, * Les Antibiotiques Naturels, Sully 2003, * Au Diable Arthrose et Arthrite, Robert Jauze 2003, * Aroma-minceur,

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- 2004, * Aroma-stress,

– 2005, * Aroma-famille,

– 2005, * Aroma-allergies,

– 2005, * Ensemble, sauvons notre planète (ouvrage collectif)

2005, * L’Ethnomédecine, une alliance entre science et tradition, Jouvence & Biocontact - 2006, * 100 maladies du XXIè siècle Solutions Naturelles, éditions Testez – 2008, * Mémoires d'un médecin aux pieds nus, édition

- 2009, .

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