STOP Heart Disease Through Meditative Martial Arts

Boris Bigalke

Professor Boris Bigalke, MD, MBA (Oxford, UK), LL.M. is known for his numerous media appearances on Welt TV, Deutschlandfunk Kulturradio, Die Zeit panel discussion, Die Bild news-paper articles, Die Welt newspaper columns on nutrition and longevity, and Stern TV on RTL. He works as a senior physician and head of the DGK Cardiac MRI training center at the German Heart Center Charité (DHZC), Benjamin Franklin Campus, Clinic for Cardiology, Angiology, and Intensive Care Medi-cine. Professor Bigalke is a specialist in internal medicine and has additional qualifications in cardiology, acupuncture, nutritional medicine DAEM/DGEM®, and specialized magnetic resonance imaging. He is also trained in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Traditional Tibetan Medicine (TTM), yoga and has been been involved with Buddhist philosophy, archery and Shotokan karate for several decades, with a special focus on katas (set movements), which he practices regularly and passionately. Professor Bigalke is associate editor of the journal ESC Heart Failure, reviewer for various medical journals, and author of more than 130 peer-reviewed scientific publications as well as the non-fiction books "Eating Immortally: Groundbreaking Insights for eternal youth, explosive energy, and a life at full throttle!" and "Gesundes Herz, langes Leben - Brücke zwischen West und Fernost (Healthy Heart, Long Life - Bridge between West and Far East)". Professor Bigalke was voted Germany's top physician in FOCUS-Gesundheit 2021 in the category of cardiological sports medicine and in 2023-2026 in the categories of hypertension and nutritional medicine.