5. / 6. Juli 2025

21. Internationaler ÄGHE-Fastenkongress, Berlin

(vor Ort und online via zoom / Die Vorträge werden simultan auf Deutsch/Englisch übersetzt)

21st International Fasting Conference of the GERMAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION FOR FASTING AND NUTRITION in Berlin

(on-site and online via zoom / The presentations will be simultaneously translated into German/English)

Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus, Robert-Koch-Platz 7, 10115 Berlin

21. Internationaler Fastenkongress / International Fasting Conference 2025

Wir danken den Unterstützern unseres Kongresses:

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FRIDAY 4 July 25
16:00 – 18:00 PRECONGRESS: Microbiome live workshop – hands-on fermentation workshop with scientific depth in the Kaiserin-Friedrich-Haus (fully booked)
19:30 – 21:30 PRECONGRESS: “Movie and a Dinner” – Film screening of the new ARTE documentary on fasting (release 2025) followed by a look behind the scenes: Talk with the directors, insights into the making of the film as well as special takeouts and extras / with finger food buffet (event to be booked separately, places limited)

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SATURDAY – 5 July 25 – 09:00 Admission / online check-in via Zoom
10:00 Welcome by ÄGHE, Immanuel Hospital and Charité – Rainer Matejka, Andreas Michalsen, Georg Seifert
10:20 Fasting and nutrition today – Andreas Michalsen and Daniela Koppold
10:30 New insights into fasting metabolism – from polyamines and autophagy – Sebastian Hofer
11:00 Ramadan fasting and diabetes – Mohamed Hassanein
11:30 Coffee break
11:50 Active break (optional)
12:00 Fasting in immunotherapy – Claudio Vernieri
12:40 Intermittent fasting and diabetes – Harald Sourij
12:55 Active break
13:00 Lunch break – parallel satellite symposium
14:30 New DGE recommendations: Spotlight on alcohol – Eleonore Heil
15:10 News on fasting in short format: – Mechanisms to compensate for hypoglycaemia during dry fasting – Maria Papagiannopoulou
15:30 Fasting, exercise, metabolism and fitness – Michael Boschmann
15:45 The GENESIS study: MRI-based organ changes and deep phenotyping of blood and gut microbiota during prolonged fasting – Robin Mesnage
16:00 Break with optional yoga
16:30 Intermittent fasting and women’s health – Courtney Peterson
17:10 Experiences with therapeutic fasting in gynaecology – Dörte Czerner
17:30 Interactive case conference: musculoskeletal system / pain ‘Nutrition and fasting for osteoarthritis – quo vadis?’ – Tobias Winkler, Ursula Hackermeier, Lisa Pörtner
19:30 Social evening – networking in the Hafenküche on the Spree with a barbecue buffet and a potpourri of Brazilian dances (event to be booked separately, places limited, Restaurant Hafenküche, zur alten Flussbadeanstalt 5, 10317 Berlin)

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SUNDAY – 6 July 25 – 09:00 Admission / online check-in via Zoom
10:00 Fasting in the religions – a play (musical-spiritual impulse)
10:30 Psyche, gut and vagus: Interdisciplinary perspectives on gut-brain communication – Sabrina Leal Garcia
11:00 Fasting – help for afterwards. How the gut (with F.X. Mayr diagnostics) can guide us – Sepp Fegerl sen.
11:15 Active break
11:25 Phytotherapy and fasting – are they compatible? – Rainer Stange
12:00 Coffee break – parallel satellite symposium
12:40 Food intolerances? Answers from confocal laser endomicroscopy – Jost Langhorst
13:10 Outlook for fasting in diabetology – Peter Schwarz
13:40 Farewell incl. award ceremony for the congress quiz
approx. 14:00 End

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SPEAKERS

Courtney Peterson, PhD, assoc. Prof. | Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
Claudio Vernieri, MD, assoc. Prof. | Laboratory Metabolic Reprogramming in Solid Tumours, Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
Sabrina Leal Garcia, Prof. Dr. | Clinical Department of Medical Psychology, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Andreas Michalsen, Prof. MD | Board member of ÄGHE, Department of Naturopathy, University Outpatient Clinic / Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Carolin Breinlinger | Department of Naturopathy, University Outpatient Clinic / Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Dörte Czerner, MD | Gynecologist, Bergheim
Eleonore Heil, Dr. | Department for Nutritional ecology, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Daniela Koppold, MD | Board member of ÄGHE, Department of Naturopathy, University Outpatient Clinic / Immanuel Hospital Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Rainer Matejka, MD | 1st Chairman of ÄGHE, Überlingen
Georg Seifert, Prof. MD | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Charité Competence Center for Traditional and Integrative Medicine (CCCTIM)
Harald Sourij, Prof. MD | Clinical Department of Endocrinology and Diabetology, Medical University of Graz, Austria
Jost Langhorst, Prof. MD
| Clinic for Integrative Medicine and Naturopathy, Klinikum am Bruderwald, Sozialstiftung Bamberg
Maria Papagiannopoulou | General practitioner, Athens, Greece
Michael Boschmann, MD | Franz-Volhard Clinical Research Center, Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Mohamed Hassanein, MD| Department of Endocrinology, Dubai Academic Health Association and Dubai Hospital, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Peter Schwarz, Prof MD | Department of Prevention, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus at the Technical University of Dresden
Rainer Stange, MD | Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Immanuel Hospital Berlin
Robin Mesnage, Dr. | Clinical Research Centre Buchinger-Wilhelmi, Überlingen on Lake Constance
Sebastian Hofer, Dr. 
| Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Berlin
Sepp Fegerl senior, Dr med. | General practitioner, nutritional medicine, President of the International Society of Mayr Physicians, Salzburg, Austria

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Buchen Sie ihr Ticket /Book your ticket:

https://aerztegesellschaft-heilfasten.de/berlin-2025-ticketliste/

> Insides from the Fastingconference 2023:

Zusammenfassung mit Fachbeiträgen / Summary with expert contributions:

Fasting in Science and Clinics: A Report on Proceedings from the International Scientific Symposium and Conference on Fasting in Berlin (June 2023)
karger.com/cmr/article/doi/10.1159/000540668/911625/Fasting-in-Science-and-Clinics-A-Report-on

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