Expert tips
The expert tips are clear articles on common questions in cardiology and internal medicine — for example atrial fibrillation, heart failure, high blood pressure or drug side effects. They are meant to orient you: what a finding can mean, when assessment is worthwhile, and how an appointment in this practice is typically prepared.
The texts do not replace an examination, a diagnosis or an individual treatment decision. Service pages on check-ups, tests and treatments remain the primary offers; the articles here are informational and link to the matching page where useful. New texts appear in the list and in the navigation once they have editorial approval.
Burnout syndrome
Do you feel chronically tired, low, exhausted? Is everything becoming too much? Do frequent inf...
Atrial fibrillation
Heart flutter is often associated with the positive feeling of being newly in love. If the heart is actually fibrillating, then...
Heart failure
Heart failure is the term for this condition: the heart can no longer meet its demands, and those affected become short of br...
Advice on bypass surgery
If the coronary arteries are blocked, bypass surgery bridges the narrowing so that the he...
Quitting smoking
Every second adolescent smokes. In older age only 15 percent still do. The others have, over the years, with he...
Medicationside effects
What do you think of when you hear medication side effects? Tiredness, dizziness, nausea, weight gai...
Checking high blood pressure
A single reading says little. How to measure at home, when assessment is worthwhile, and which laboratory values are reviewed in hypertension.
Skipped beats / heart rhythm disorders
When skipped beats or a racing heart should be assessed, which ECGs I use, and why cellular and energy metabolism are checked as well.
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- Exhaustion, Brain Fog & Burnout Exhaustion, brain fog and burnout are almost part of everyday life today, and yet many affected people find no real recovery despite sleep, holidays and withdrawal.
- Using omega-3 properly “Inflammation is often not an enemy, but an expression of disturbed membranes.”
- The most important nutrient is always the one that is missing “The most important nutrient is always the one that is missing.”
- Why your body does not repair despite protein Amino acids are the smallest building blocks of protein, and it is from these that the body makes repair, regeneration and regulation.
- B vitamins: the missing fuel Exhaustion often feels like “too little energy”, yet in this interview Dr Alexander Hierl turns the perspective: often it is not willpower that is missing, but cofactors.
- Zinc & selenium for your enzymes Trace elements are tiny, and yet they help decide whether your metabolism gets going at all.
- Mitochondrial protection systems Our cells produce energy, but in doing so they also create something that can slow us down over the long term: oxidative stress.
- Vitamin D is NOT a vitamin Vitamin D is often dismissed as “just a vitamin”, yet in truth it is a hormone with remarkable reach.