Galina Shatalova

Galina Sergejewna Schatalowa (Russian Галина Сергеевна Шаталова; born October 13, 1916 in Ashgabat, † 14 December 2011) was a Russian neurosurgeon.

Life

Schatalowa and her family moved to Rostov- on-Don. From 1932 to 1938 she studied at the Rostov State Medical University. In 1938 she was awarded a place there for a clinical internship in the surgical clinic of the State Medical University Rostov. In 1939, she was drafted as an army doctor in the context of the Soviet attack on Finland on the Karelian Isthmus.

After the end of World War II she worked at the Soviet Academy of Sciences of the Central Institute of Neurosurgery. In 1951, she received her doctorate and the Nikolai Nilowitsch Burdenko award. In the 1960s, she was Head of the Department for the selection and training of cosmonauts at the Institute for Space Research. Since the 1970s, she worked as an independent doctor. Their first release appeared in 1979 in the monthly scientific journal " Наука и Жизнь " ( " Science and Life "), issue 12, 1979.

From 1983 to 1990, she made ​​a series of experiments to determine the nutritional requirements during exercise In 1983, a 500 - km - Super Marathon in a period of seven days at a recording of 800 to 1200 calories daily. The participants were as food juices, honey, vegetables, salad and herbs, unleavened bread from rye flour, cooked beans and nuts available. In 1983, a four-day hike from Akademgorodok to Barnaul and 1984 a super marathon of 450 km in five days. A 23 -day hike from Nalchik after Pizunda at a daily food ration of 50 g buckwheat and 100 g of dried fruits and four walks in the Central Asian desert at a dietary intake of no more than 600 calories per day, at about 50 kilometers per day on loose sand in the continental desert climate followed.

She developed a concept for natural healing, which she substantiated by experiments and wrote books which were partially published in German language. With conviction she spoke out against the assumption that the human body needs 1200 to 1700 calories daily. She went out on a natural diet, with non-denatured foods, from a calorie requirement of around 250 to 400 calories. Schatalowa lived in Moscow.

Criticism

Food hypothesis Schatalowas ignored denaturation of all proteins in the pH of the gastric acid in the course of the digestion process. Also their shape caloric restriction works only for short time without generating deficiency diseases.

Works

• Philosophy of health. ISBN 978-3442218608
• We eat to death: The revolutionary concept of a Russian doctor for a long life and optimal health. ISBN 978-3442142224
• Medicated Diet: An energetic food and medicinal herbalism for true health. ISBN 978-3442217458