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My Story
I graduated in 1987 as a medical doctor at the Semmelweis University in Budapest. After graduating, I worked as a general practitioner for a couple of years, and I became a board-certified family physician. During this period, I learned foot reflexology, using it with many of my patients. A couple of years later, I ended up working in a hospital at a nuclear medicine department. There I also learned the ins and outs of treating thyroid diseases, and also got board certified in nuclear medicine.
While I was working as a GP, I started to study Traditional Chinese Medicine. In the period when I was working at the hospital, I attended a one-year general complementary medicine course, where I got acquainted with homeopathy. So I started to delve into the mysteries of this awesome and extremely useful healing method. At the same time, I learned soft laser therapy.
In the second half of my hospital career, I started a private practice, using acupuncture, soft laser therapy and homeopathy to treat my patients. (In my country, only professionals with a medical degree are officially allowed to use these methods for therapeutic purposes.)
My Values & Beliefs
As a medical graduate, I sincerely appreciate all the achievements of academic medicine, which for diseases and conditions previously thought to be fatal are not only life-saving, but can also significantly improve quality of life. Among many others, the discovery and development of anti-tuberculosis drugs or antibiotics and the rapid progress of organ transplantation techniques are major achievements in modern healthcare and have contributed significantly to our increased longevity.
However, in the case of some milder conditions, especially if they are not associated with abnormalities detectable by laboratory tests, imaging studies, etc., practitioners of academic medicine usually cannot help. In such cases, they often consider symptoms to be of mental origin, leaving the ‘patient’ alone (prescribing at most symptomatic drugs, such as sedatives). Or they recommend synthetic drugs as a preventive measure, which unfortunately often make the situation worse.
Also, when I was at the beginning of my medical career, it was not laid great emphasis on the importance of lifestyle changes and their role in the prevention and management of diseases. However, particularly over the last decade more and more ‘academic’ doctors have been emphasizing their importance. I am also pleased to see that more and more physicians became aware of the role of psychological/mental factors as contributory factors in the development of the most diseases.
That is why at the very beginning of my career as a medical doctor, I already started looking for alternative ways to treat different symptoms, conditions and diseases. This is how I became acquainted with various complementary and alternative medicine methods, the basic principle of which is to cure the patient rather than the disease.
AND THEN A BIG SHIFT CAME IN MY CAREER
After a while, however, I felt that this “double life” was beyond my physical and mental capacity, so in 2001, after 10 years of working at a hospital, I decided to leave academic medicine behind and continue my professional work in a private practice, using acupuncture, soft laser therapy and homeopathy to treat my patients. It turned out that there was a huge demand for this “natural” healing approach, so that after a few years I had so many patients that I suddenly found myself working 12–14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, without taking the time to “maintain” my own physical and mental health, which unfortunately inevitably led to burnout. So, I increasingly felt that I had to make changes, otherwise my health would suffer irreversible damage. Therefore, I attended a three-year post-graduate health sciences translation training and in 2011, I started working full-time as a health sciences translator.
While during my work as a translator I remained more or less up to date with lot of novel knowledge in academic medicine, deep down I remained a ‘healer’ and continued to be concerned with the understanding of Humans as complex Beings, deepening my knowledge and experience of human’s triple (physical-mental-spiritual) quality.
I got acquainted with Vedic philosophy
At the beginning of 2014, I “accidentally” (I don’t believe in coincidences) started to attend a series of lectures called “Vedanta Workshop”, which was a great experience for me, and where I committed myself forever to the Vedic philosophy and life approach, embarking on a rather bumpy road of self-knowledge. I then completed a 3-year training course, during which I qualified as a Vedic philosopher and yoga teacher, and through my self-awareness work, I increasingly ‘put in place’ most of the mental and emotional issues that had been ‘hanging in the air’ and seemed insoluble. I have been following this path ever since, which has not only brought enormous mental and spiritual progress in my life, but has also led to significant lifestyle changes.
I FIRST became vegetarian and then vegan
Notably, I first became a vegetarian (mainly for philosophical reasons, but it has also been beneficial for my weight), and then, after watching a movie called “Cowspiracy”, around 2017, I committed to a fully vegan lifestyle. Alongside this, practicing yoga asanas, meditation, mantras, etc. became an essential part of my daily life.
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