Nutrition and healthy lifestyle Ladies and gentlemen, dear friends, I am very pleased to welcome you all here today in/for/on my presentation and I’m happy that I have the opportunity to participate in this series of lectures. We've heard a lot of incredibly interesting talks and I don‘t know if I can continue or even build on all these outstanding speakers, but I'll give it a try. My talk should be rather general, it is about nutrition and a healthy lifestyle. First, I would like to tell you something about myself / about my own story. I used to be fixated on nutrition, sports and everything that is healthy or supposed to be healthy. The paradox is: It is actually a good thing to deal with this topic, to make sure that you eat healthy, move a lot and do sports/work out. But I myself have done it so excessively that it has become an addiction. I used to go to the gym every day, paying close attention to my diet. All this has stressed me so much that it ultimately did not help me to achieve more well-being, health and satisfaction, but the opposite was the case. I can still remember exactly one incident that became a turning point in my life. That was in January last year, I was at the gym for training that day and I was already at a point where it was physically too much for me. I suddenly collapsed during training and was taken to the hospital with the rescue service. I had to be treated there for a few days. I had deficiency symptoms and joint inflammation, finally it became necessary to perform an operation. I could not get up for a while. That's why I was lying in bed for days, looking out the window and thinking about my life. And then also my surgeon, the head of the department, told me that it cannot continue like this. In that moment I realized: I have to change something in my life. After this hospitalization, I immediately started to change my own behaviour and find a new approach because I could not wait any longer for that. I started to relax more in general and just do less exercise to regain my strength. After that, I also changed my dietary habits. I took a step back, sort of. Of course, I continue to eat healthily, but I do not put myself under such pressure anymore. This means that occasionally I allow myself things that are considered unhealthy, but without a bad conscience at all.