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Feb 17

Fasting, no water with meals and chewing your food 40 times: the Mayr Method explained – Evening Standard

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ts been impossible to miss the photos of a glowing, slimmed down Rebel Wilson splashed over news websites and indeed her own Instagram lately. One of her last posts at the Superbowl racked up over one million likes.

While we were all busy quaffing quarantinis and chowing down on home bakes, for the Australian actress and comedian, 2020 was her year of health. She shed over four stone (60lbs) last year after embarking on a holistic wellbeing journey which, she says, left her going into 2021 with a healthy body and mind... and boosted immune system.

Her secret weapon? The Mayr Method. She checked in to the exclusive Austrian wellness resort of Vivamayr, a renowned medi spa which sits at the foot of the Alps overlooking the pristine waters of Lake Altaussee, where the likes of Karlie Kloss, Kate Moss and Liz Hurley go to detox and reboot.

After an initial visit in 2019, Wilson returned last November, when she reached her goal weight of 75 kilos a month early. Though she noted: The goal was never to be skinny. It was never to fit into a certain dress size. I put in a goal weight in there because I needed some tangible thing.

At Vivamayr, guests follow an extreme detox programme rooted in the principles of Mayr medicine which was developed over 100 years ago by Dr F.X. Mayr. He took a holistic approach to health and believed that optimum digestion and healthy gut functioning, achieved through regular fasting, is the key to overall wellbeing.

Guests typically undertake a strict routine for one or two weeks to cleanse. Each programme is highly personalised and tailored to a persons individual needs by a doctor who takes them through a series of initial assessments. It involves following a restricted diet - sometimes as low as 600 calories a day, though Wilson reportedly stuck to a more reasonable 1,500. They endure regular colonics, abdominal massage, muscle testing - to check for food intolerances - vitamin-infused IV drips, daily supplementation and swap coffee, booze and sugar for water charged with epsom salts.

The Mayr diet believes in regulating the acid/alkaline balance in the body through nutrition, and typically focuses on high alkaline foods - but we should add that some health experts dispute the idea that its possible to alter the bodys pH balance with food. Each individuals diet is likely to be highly tailored to them, according to the results of intolerance tests, for example. Wilson told People her diet is high protein, with plenty of fish, salmon, and chicken breast.

In practice, the Mayr Method is as much about the way you consume food as much as the what. Proponents of the diet advise chewing food forty times before swallowing and a glass of water with your meal? A big no-no.

Dr Sepp Fegerl, of Vivamayr Altaussee, explains the thought process behind some of these principles: With the first swallowed bite of a meal, the digestion glands start producing tailor-suited digestion liquids, acids and enzymes, according to the sensations our tongue senses as we chew.

If you drink a glass of water with or directly after the meals, these digestion liquids get diluted. That delays hugely the process of digestion and makes it less effective. The less effective the digestion processes, the less nourishing the meal is no matter what it contains. That leaves us unsatisfied and makes us eat more.

The golden rules at Vivamayr are therefore to chew the bite until it is smooth enough to be swallowed easily this guarantees that the bite mixes underneath the stomach acid. He recommends you instead drinking plenty of water in between meals, that will allow the body to produce digestion liquids the moment they are needed.

This is all combined with daily yoga, breathing in lungfuls of Alpine mountain air on daily hikes and enjoying swims in the lake, alongside a number of spa treatments, such as kneipp therapy (alternating between hot and cold showers), detoxifying body scrubs, wraps and massages, and nasal reflexology, to promote ultimate emotional wellbeing.

Sound good? It all comes at a hefty cost, of course, a weeks worth of the programme starts from 3,240 euros.

Intrigued? Below are seven relatively simple takeaways from The Vivamayr Diet book written by clinic director Dr Harald Stossier.

1. Eat really slowly, the slower the better. Remember the 40 chew rule? Phones are also banned at mealtimes, to promote an element of mindfulness.

2. Stop eating as soon as you start to feel full. And never eat on the go.

3. Only drink water between meals, never when youre eating.

4. Eat lots at breakfast, less at lunch and least at dinner, and never, ever skip breakfast, if you must forgo one due to a busy schedule, let it be dinner.

5. Always have dinner before 7pm.

6. Dont eat raw food after 3pm, anything later should be cooked.

7. Got a feeling it doesnt agree with you? Dont eat it! The clinic recommends muscle testing to work out where your intolerances lie.

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