Matthias Rath, M.D. is an internationally respected physician, researcher, author, and humanitarian. Dr. Rath’s scientific discoveries in the areas of cardiovascular disease and cancer are reshaping medicine and threatening the largest industry in the world - the pharmaceutical industry.

Dr. Rath is the founder of Cellular Medicine™, a groundbreaking concept that identifies nutritional deficiencies at the cellular level as the root cause of many chronic diseases. His research has been presented at scientific meetings around the world and his findings published in prestigious medical journals. (More details can be found in the Learning Sessions.)

Dr. Rath established the Dr. Rath Research Institute in Cellular Medicine to further conduct innovative research based on his scientific discoveries in cardiovascular disease and cancer. Scientists at the Institute utilize the principle of nutrient synergy and investigate the role of nutrients in preventing and treating a host of chronic diseases.

Dr. Rath is internationally known for his advocacy in the battle for worldwide vitamin freedom and his efforts have been successful to date in thwarting the U.N.’s Codex Alimentarius initiative, which, if passed, could lead to a global ban on the dissemination of information about the benefits of natural health therapies and access to them.

Dr. Rath is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the American Heart Association and other scientific organizations. His popular health books Why Animals Don’t Get Heart Attacks…But People Do! and Cancer have sold millions of copies and have been translated into ten languages.