Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo


Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo is a physician and fasting expert. She is the founder of the Medical Association for Fasting and Nutrition and Managing Director of the family-owned company Buchinger Wilhelmi, established by Otto Buchinger in 1953.

Life

Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo graduated from medical school in Geneva in 1982 and continued her education in Switzerland. She earned her doctoral degree in Basel. 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 in Friedrichshafen, Germany.
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 Otto Buchinger, they have two sons. Since then she started to play an active role in managing the family business. This comprises Buchinger Wilhelmi clinics in Überlingen, Germany and in Marbella, Spain with a medical and therapeutic infrastructure set in a hotel-like environment.
As Scientific Director of Buchinger Wilhelmi in Überlingen and Marbella, Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo is responsible for the medical programme and the scientific documentation of fasting in collaboration with various universities as well as the Institute for Longevity at the University of Southern California. She co-founded the Medical Association for Fasting and Nutrition in 1986, and published guidelines for fasting therapy based on an expert consensus 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 President of the Soroptimist Club in Überlingen from 2016 to 2018.
in 2019 Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo published the world's largest study about the impacts and effects of Buchinger therapeutic fasting, in collaboration with the Charité Berlin.

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