Dr budwig biography
Johanna Budwig ( – ) was a German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and writer....
Johanna Budwig
German biochemist
Johanna Budwig (1908 – 2003) was a German biochemist, alternative cancer treatment advocate and writer.[1] Budwig was a pharmacist and held doctorate degrees in physics and chemistry.[2] Based on her research on fatty acids she developed a lacto-vegetarian diet that she believed was useful in the treatment of cancer.
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There is no clinical evidence that the Budwig diet is effective, and it may cause adverse effects.[3][4]
Biography
Budwig was born in Essen and at the age of 16 joined the Kaiserswerth Deaconess Institute.[1] She studied pharmacy in Königsberg and Münster where she met her mentor Prof.
Hans Kaufmann the founder of the German Institute for Fat Research. She worked under Kaufmann as a research assistant and completed her doctorate in 1939.[1]
While working as a researcher at the German Federal Health Office she noted many cancer drugs being evaluated in the 1950s contai