Robert Baldinger, Chief Executive Officer of Bioforce AG (Switzerland)


Your top tip(s) for being healthy?
I think a “balanced” lifestyle is key to health:

• Manage your time between work and leisure
• Enjoy your work
• Eat healthy food, which is not processed and comes from local sources
• Avoid fast food and too much alcohol
• Do not smoke
• Try to exercise and perhaps take up a sport – travel to work by bike or simply ride for pleasure, use the staircase, take regular walks, the countryside.

Preventative therapy, as recommended by Alfred Vogel, is becoming more and more important in a world where the population is living longer with the potential for an increase in chronic illnesses.

Your top tip(s) for being happy?

• Take time to be with your family, to have a glass of wine with friends and to chat with your neighbours.
• Read a good book, visit the theatre, a museum or a concert
• Enable the people around you at work and your customers to be successful

Your favourite form of exercise?
I enjoy cycling, skiing and hiking in the beautiful countryside of Switzerland, particularly the Alps

Your favourite remedy?
I find it truly amazing that most of human illnesses can be treated with known natural remedies, and taking into account the many plants that have not yet been researched, we can anticipate that ‘nature’ has many as yet unknown solutions to maintain health and cure illness. Even if we look at the many conventional medicines, their active ingredients are very often synthesised substances based on plant materials which we have already seen in natural remedies.

I take Prostasan Saw Palmetto regularly to avoid prostate problems as I have reached 50 - and Echinaforce has helped me to be free of the flu for over 10 years and helps to restore my immune system after tiring sporting activities

Your favourite healthy food?
I like all kinds off fresh fruit - it’s how I start my day - and vegetables. Having grown up in a bakery, I have a taste for a good natural bread with some olive oil, and fresh pasta is also a favourite.

Do you have a favourite Recipe?
A plate of pasta with a tomato sauce, olive oil, onions, Herbamare, chilli and basil.

Which ingredient(s) wouldn't you be without in your cupboards?
Herbamare, olive oil and A.Vogel Muesli (a must before any kind of sporting activity).

Which bad habit have you successfully given up?
I’ve never actively given up a bad habit, but I have always tried to adapt my lifestyle to my age. When we were students we tended to have ‘more than one glass of wine’ with friends, we ate fast instead of fresh food and we enjoyed longer nights.

Who is your main role model?
My parents, who taught me ‘common sense’, to respect other opinions and to be proud of my work and my bosses, who have always treated me the way they wanted to be treated themselves.