Why what you put in your body is what you get out of it

Nutrition is an essential pillar of all of the pro­grammes at Clinique La Prairie. It’s the number-one ingredient to longevity and the most powerful tool for boosting overall wellbeing. Our experts suggests that following a probiotic and prebiotic-rich diet by incorporating fermented foods, brightly coloured plants and plant-based proteins will help restore gut health naturally. Everything starts in the gut. It’s an excel­lent way to boost immunity, prevent inflammation and the ageing of cells. What we eat influences every other aspect of our daily lives, so food should also be used in a strategic manner to increase cognitive performance or promote relaxation, depending on the time of day.

A health-conscious life­style wouldn’t be complete without the right amount of quality sleep. That’s why our experts recommend tryptophan-rich foods for dinner (such as sesame seeds, spinach, mushrooms, cashew nuts, tofu or pumpkin seeds). This is fundamental for mood, sleep, cognition and memory. Setting an alarm to go to bed and winding down before­hand is also a must. After all, it’s during our sleep where most of the body’s healing and regeneration happens.

Daily meditation, work-out and yoga sessions can be great methods for learning to disconnect fully, while breathing exercises ensure that the body gets enough oxygen in stressful situa­tions. Another tip? Use blue-purple pigmented foods in your diet, such as blueberries, eggplant, dark grapes, figs, purple onion, purple cabbage, purple cauliflower, plums, black rice, to promote neuroprotection. And learn something new every day …. It will do wonders when it comes to brain health !

Building on over 90 years of expertise, at Clinique La Prairie, we know “living fuller for longer” is within our reach to push the boundaries of longevity. We acknowledge that this quest can only be fully reached if our bodies are in an optimum state of health, and without the burden of chronic disease and frailty that comes with the process of ageing.

Slowing down the ageing process requires a multidimensional protean approach that combines the continuous advances in medical technology with the best available evolving knowledge from all the major dimensions of health including evidence-based medicine, nutrition, exercise and wellbeing.

This multidimensional protean approach is what gave rise to the 4 principles of our CLP longevity concept: 

1. Ageing in the human organism is driven by two main processes: immunosenescence and senoinflammation, known together as inflammaging.

2. Age-related changes occur on three recognizable biological levels of the human organism, the molecular, the cellular, and the organ systems. Each of these levels represent distinct opportunities for the development and application of the tools of longevity medicine.

3. Genetic and epigenetic factors combine to create individual manifestations and experiences of health and disease states driven by the processes of ageing. For this reason, the effective application of the science of longevity is complete when it is guided by the most advanced and scientifically sound individualized programs.

4. Longevity science is most effective when its application is inspired by and respects the synergistic and interconnected nature of the biologic levels of the human organism. The 4 pillars of Clinique La Prairie represent a synergistic and comprehensive philosophy that governs the application of our longevity medicine.

Clinique La Prairie is staffed with more than 50 specialists who have at their direct disposal the most advanced diagnostic and treatment tools to help guests revitalize, and live longer, fuller, healthier lives.

Evidence-based Medicine, Nutrition, Movement and Wellbeing comprise the synergistic four pillars of the CLP Longevity Concept.

Our success is measured in the ability of our guests to achieve their personal health and wellbeing goals. We are committed in this relationship as a partnership where we equip you with the best of our knowledge and methods on longevity science, and we empower you to make incremental changes in the long-term with what you learn in the short time you spend with us.

It is this partnership that determines the success of our overall CLP Longevity Concept.

Clinique La Prairie’s work has always been based on science and, because a key part of disease prevention is diet, the emphasis has shifted towards nutritional science with nutrigenomic supplements.

As the most recent scientific research shows the importance of supplementation for a balanced living, the vision was to make a part of these nutritional technologies available to a larger number of clients, and so the «Clinique La Prairie Holistic Health» project was initiated, giving birth to high performance nutraceuticals.

Holistic Health is the industry’s most sophisticated supplement range based on years of research and innovation fully made in Switzerland.

Enhance your longevity routine according to your needs  

Since the 90's, Pink October is celebrated each october around the world to raise awareness about breast health and the importance of screening for the early diagnosis of breast cancer, which became the most commonly diagnosed cancer worldwide.

This year, one of our medical expert, Dr Karin Dubrit, Specialists in gynaecology-obstetrics & micronutrition at our Gynecology and Obstetrics Center, tells you more on the importance of prevention and self-assessment.

This is a very complex process, which takes several years to develop. It is characterised by 3 phases: an attacked cell will be initiated, followed by tumour promotion and tumour progression. The initiation of cancer certainly involves genetic vulnerabilities but also and necessarily involves the processes of nitrosative oxidative stress and dysmethylation, with in summary a very poor management of oxidative stress. Several DNA mutations will be necessary. Then tumour progression will occur only if the tumour finds food (glucose and oxygen). It comes down to a balance between aggression and cellular protection. When the balance is broken, a whole process starts.

Cancer is vicious in nature. It is usually asymptomatic and often does not show symptoms until it is too late.  A mass discovered in the breast by palpation, sometimes pain or even a late skin ulcer.

Without a doubt, lifestyle, healthy diet, micronutrition, physical exercise, Chinese medicine, reduction of stress phenomena are for me the basis of the prevention of any cancer. We now know that we can influence our genetics. This is epigenetics.

It is possible to support these treatments by various and varied alternative medicines, such as oncological micronutrition, which is one of my specialities, by Chinese medicine that Dr Frobert practises, and by many others.

Self-assessment is important. It does not replace screening but contributes to it. It makes it possible to find an unusual mass or deformation in the breast, for example, and to lead to a diagnosis of the disease perhaps earlier than if the patient had waited for her screening mammogram or her check-up with her gynaecologist.

Currently, European and international gynaecological societies are discussing whether self-examination remains really useful, in the sense that it could induce a situation of anxiety in women. It could lead to additional health care costs, because women would more easily go to consult without ending up with an increase in the number of breast cancers. I think that everything remains a question of individual medicine vs. societal medicine, towards which we are unfortunately evolving.

The practice of regular physical activity, a healthy lifestyle with, among other things, the reduction of stress and anxiety, and healthy eating remain at the heart of primary prevention.

With a rate of just 1%, breast cancer can also affect men. It is therefore also important for men to perform chest palpation. However, it affects men at a later age compared to women.

Two weeks to aim for an optimal weight in a healthy, progressive and balanced way, under strict medical and nutritional supervision, taking into account body, metabolism and mind.

To rediscover vitality and the pleasure of living at an optimal weight, we have developed an approach that focuses on your genetic profile, restoring your physical and mental fitness, and stabilizing your metabolism, with lasting results adapted to your personal profile.

Being overweight is often due to a problem of multifactorial origin. All the involved physiological, biological, genetic and psychological factors must be addressed. Our experts adjust the program to your personal profile. As a result, even more marked effects at the end of the stay and a pleasure to eat that remains intact, without the feeling of deprivation.

The multidisciplinary approach makes it possible to treat the underlying and sometimes indirect causes of overweight. For example, it is not uncommon to find subacute systemic inflammation, disruption of the microbiota or desynchronization of the biological clock, with irregular and/or insufficient sleep.

Sometimes it will be a question of combating oxidative stress by treating excess cortisol.

Specific therapies or a targeted intake of certain micronutrients may prove necessary and will be advised by Clinique La Prairie's specialist doctors.

Stress and aging lead to inflammation, energy imbalance, oxidative damage caused by free radicals and neural degeneration. This is why it is essential to promote the ability to cope with physical and emotional stress, to strengthen the metabolism and to affect longevity mechanisms in many ways by taking advantage of the body’s main adaptation systems (nervous, endocrine and immune).

Psychological aspects, such as self-confidence and feeling good about yourself, are naturally integrated into the program, through daily support by our teams of specialists and sessions of relaxation and breathing techniques.

Analysis of the quality of sleep, psychological therapies, breathing coaching to boost metabolism, energy-boosting treatments are part of the program.

Your coaching and dietary plan are tailored to your medical results for optimization of beneficial effects on inflammatory states, cardio-metabolic functions, stress, sleep and the health of your intestines.

Our nutritional approach teaches you how to establish long-term habits and, during your stay, is focused on:

• An anti-inflammatory diet
• Intermittent fasting to actively boost your metabolism
• Precisely calculated calorie restriction, to promote fat oxidation while preventing the loss of muscle mass
• Private nutrition workshops as well as daily nutritional coaching to support you, guide you and advise you in your choices also in the long term
• A cure of probiotics
• Exclusive CLP herbal teas made to promote weight loss and body drainage, with unique recipes that draw on the long Swiss tradition in herbalism.