A natural, simple diet to treat:

• Arthritis
• Autoimmune conditions
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular disease
• Diabetes
• Digestive disorders
• Hormone imbalance
• Infertility
• liver disease
• Lung disease
• Mental illness

The Budwig Diet: Flax Oil-Cottage Cheese Diet for the UK

The Budwig diet was developed in Germany, and the original books were written in German. Most translations and English language websites are aimed at the North American market, which can make them confusing for UK readers. This site has been created specifically to help people in the UK follow the Budwig diet correctly and confidently.

When followed properly, and as close as possible to Dr Johanna Budwig’s original instructions, the diet is enjoyable, satisfying, and widely respected for its potential to support health.

A complete UK guide to this complementary alternative treatment

The Budwig diet was created by the leading German scientist Dr Johanna Budwig. It is often called the Budwig Protocol because it combines nutrition with lifestyle practices. Although widely translated into English, much of the available guidance reflects North American food terminology and habits. This guide is designed to make the protocol clear, practical, and accessible in the UK.

The Budwig protocol was developed by Dr Johanna Budwig in Germany in 1940/50’s.  It is used both by people wanting to avoid drugs and as

support whilst undergoing other treatments. It has continued to be used as a complementary treatment in Germany.  It is becoming increasingly followed throughout the rest of the world as people appreciate the impact modern foods can have on their health.

Popular lifestyle and diet protocol

This popular protocol is designed to treat many conditions and illnesses naturally with diet and lifestyle. These include autoimmune diseases, age-related, degenerative, metabolic and inflammatory conditions.  There is a worldwide community of people following the diet. The essential components of the diet are inexpensive and easily available in the UK.

Pleasant tasting and easy to follow

The Budwig diet which includes a blend of cottage cheese (in the original work by Johanna Budwig this is “quark”, a fresh strained curd that is common in Germany) and flaxseed (aka cold-pressed linseed ) oil may sound a little strange but don’t worry, as you get used to preparing the meals you will adapt them to your own palate and find the diet is delicious.  Btw, good-quality strained Greek-style fat-free yoghurt with 10% or more protein is an acceptable alternative to quark or cottage cheese. The basic Budwig flaxseed oil cream with ground linseed, fruit, honey, nuts, and berries tastes so good that if you can serve it to dinner party guests, they will love it too.

A typical day on the Budwig Diet

For detailed instructions to follow the diet, see the page “the full diet” and check out all the recipes too.

Morning:

• Glass of sauerkraut juice 
• Green or herbal tea
• 
• Budwig “Muesli”: it’s rather like a delicious version of Eton Mess desert; a cream of cold-pressed flaxseed oil and quark cottage cheese (or Greek-style yoghurt), ground flaxseed, fruit, honey, sweet spices optional) nuts and berries.  See recipe.
• Raw veggies, cheese and bread (optional)
• Glass of freshly pressed juice

Midday

• Glass champagne & ground linseed
• Raw salad with cold-pressed linseed oil dressing
• Optional meat-free course of vegetables, potatoes and rice or similar.
• Budwig cream in similar dessert to the Budwig muesli  eaten for breakfast
• Cup of green tea

Mid Afternoon

• A glass of red wine, champagne or freshly squeezed juice with honey (optional) and ground linseed.

Evening meal

• Low protein wholegrains with cooked vegetables and soya flakes, seasoned with oleolux (a savoury blend of flax oil, coconut oil onions and garlic) and yeast flakes. Try homemade dishes like risotto, veggie chilli, veggie curry  or baked potato.

Before bed

• A glass of red wine

In addition

• Throughout the day glasses of fresh juices, with some freshly ground linseed added to each glass, green tea or even the occasional cup of black tea (but without milk and sugar).
• Take gentle exercise out doors in sunlight, sleep well, practice relaxation and meditation.  There is a bit more, including enemas but this is a good start,  See the Budwig Yahoo group and international forum for the diet,

Scientific

The Budwig Protocol has it its heart a diet with its roots in a scientific phenomenon known as the “Warburg Effect” discovered by 1931 Nobel Prize winner, medical doctor and biochemist, Otto Heinrich Warburg.  Through his work on respiration he discovered that, in the absence of oxygen, cancer cells would metabolise sugar which enabled them to multiply.  In the same era, Dr Johanna Budwig, another eminent German biochemist, found that highly unsaturated cold-pressed linseed oil would carry oxygen into the cells to fight cancer.  Increasingly modern scientific research supports the benefits to health of the diet.  Read about recent discoveries and science behind the Budwig Diet.

Holistic:

Dr Johanna Budwig developed this into the natural, holistic, diet-based Budwig Protocol also called  the Budwig Diet it was scientifically way ahead of its time.

Modern Health Discoveries:

The protocol incorporates what we think of today as leading edge health/diet discoveries; the Budwig protocol addresses:  sunshine and vitamin D; gut health and its flora of “good” bacteria; acid-alkali balance; “superfoods” including green tea  and improved levels of all nutrients; hormone balancing phyto-nutrients; ketogenic diet; exercise and sleep;  the importance of the spiritual and emotional side of healing.   The Budwig protocol can be of benefit in many areas of health from the digestion to fertility as well as being used to treat many serious conditions including arthritis, cancer, diabetes and heart disease.

Simple diet with flax oil cottage cheese

The cornerstone of the Budwig diet is Budwig Muesli, the recipe blends linseed (also known as faxseed) oil with  quark cottage cheese eaten at breakfast and lunch. The rest of the diet is vegetarian and packed with natural nutrients.

The Budwig Diet, known in North America as FO/CC diet, is one of the most widely-followed alternative remedy for cancer and diabetes. The cornerstone of the diet is cold-pressed linseed (flaxseed) oil, rich in omega-3, blended with fat-free cottage cheese to make it more soluble. This gets the oxygen-carrying omega-3 into the cells where it is needed.  Flax Farm has created this website to help people in the UK follow the diet the way Dr Johanna Budwig intended.

The Budwig Diet: Flax Oil-Cottage Cheese Diet for the UK

The Budwig diet was created in Germany and the books originally written in German. The translations and most English websites are written for the North American market which can make them confusing in the UK, this site has been written specifically to help people get the best from following the Budwig diet.

Correctly followed, as close as possible to Johanna Budwig’s original it tastes good and has a great reputation for improving health..