In the early 1980's, when Dr. Wolf Funfack
was writing up his doctorate at the Free
University of Berlin, the medical world was
in transition. Dr. Christiaan Barnard had
just become internationally recognised for
performing the world's first heart
transplant. At the time, although slightly
less fashionable, Dr. Funfack was working on
the more down-to-earth and practical
dissertation topic: „Obesity in Infancy and
Early Childhood“. Instead of posing the
question 'How can I treat disease or replace
diseased organs?' Dr. Wolf Funfack committed
his whole life with the notion of how to
stay in good health.
After working for ten years in the cardiology
unit at Moabit hospital in Berlin, he took
his family to Isen in the foothills of the
Alps. Here he set up his own Medical
practice. Dr. Wolf Funfack began to notice
how a number of his patients were gaining
weight. At the same time he observed a
deterioration in both the patient's blood
values and their quality of life alongside
an increase in disease. He treated all his
patients with the most advanced treatment
methods available worldwide in nutritional
medicine. These methods, however, seemed
only to work in the short-term. He also
began to notice that he too was gaining
weight and that his blood values were
worsening.
At that time, his wife Birgit Funfack was
training to become a naturopath. She gave
Dr. Funfack new insights, such as the theory
that all physical processes should be seen
as individual processes that are influenced
by a multitude of factors. They began
exchanging information and experimenting to
see how small changes in their own habits
could have an impact on their health and
wellbeing. In developing their new theories,
they brought in another expert, Birgit
Funfack's sister, Silvia Bürkle. As a food
technologist, she viewed foods and their
effects from a different perspective, which
immensely enhanced their discussions.
These events marked the beginning of
Metabolic Balance®. Silvia Bürkle
classified all foods by their individual
components. The three founders discussed and
revised their evaluations and finally
checked the accuracy of their methods by
testing their nutritional plans on
themselves. Their success was nothing short
of impressive and word soon got around. Soon
everyone wanted to take part in this
successful nutrition programme and Metabolic
Balance
® became well-known in and around
Isen. Within a short time, the workload
become so much to handle, that the founders
developed a programme to allow them to
create the individual nutrition plans on a
larger scale. The couple befriended doctors
and naturopaths to help them supervise their
growing list of clients. With this Metabolic
Balance® was born.
The software programme is based on the German
national food database. Centred around the
the findings of numerous medical research
studies, personal research and experience,
the principles of Metabolic Balance® were
developed. This complex programme is
continually refined and adjusted to reflect
current research.
Today Metabolic Balance® is
widespread. It is well known throughout the
whole of Germany and has already gained
worldwide interest. The basic concept of
individuality has not changed since its
original creation. This individuality covers
the nutrition plans, the personal
supervision and the joy you experience when
the success of Metabolic Balance® begins to
work on you.