Dr. Rath Health Foundation

Responsibility for a healthy world

Gustav Ringhofer, Heart Patient from Austria

This speech was given at the demonstration on November 26, 2001 outside the BgVV (Federal Consumer Health Protection Agency) building at Diedersdorfer Weg 1 in Berlin-Marienfelde.

Well, good morning. You'll hear from my accent that I'm from abroad. I come from Graz. I want to say a few quick words about my medical history.


Gustav Ringhofer

Last year in April I suffered a severe posterior myocardial infarction. Conventional medicine told me, or rather didn't tell me but ordered me in an almost military tone of voice to have a quadruple bypass, both leg arteries new, both carotid arteries new. And I quite simply refused to spend the rest of my life going round as a spare parts repository for garden hoses! My consultant told me that if I didn't have these operations - and as I said that was in April last year - my life expectancy would be three months.

That makes me all the more pleased to be able to be here today to tell you what saved me from these operations and - I feel this is right, not that I know - that I will almost certainly not end up in hospital because of a heart attack, stroke or similar. And I have Dr. Matthias Rath to thank for that.

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I do know one thing: if these people today (Codex Alimentarius) force through their resolutions, then I will probably become the biggest lawbreaker in Austria with three court cases a week. I don't give a damn. I will ... spread this message far and wide and if I end up in prison, then I'll also find people to listen to me there.

So thank you all for listening to me. I wish you all the best and the best of health. And the truth is on our side and it will not allow anything to stand in its way. Ciao. Goodbye.