Birchermüesli: from cure to cult (SWI swissinfo.ch, 2025)

Article from the Swiss public international broadcaster's news service on Bircher-Benner, his sanatorium, and the afterlife of Birchermüesli. Byline and date copied from the page on 2026-06-05: Patrizia Rennis (RSI), additional reporting Christian Raaflaub, published 8 November 2025. Used (in paraphrase) to ground three points reported by the article: that the sanatorium drew an affluent clientele from the German-speaking regions of Switzerland and hosted internationally prominent guests, the examples it names being the King of Siam, the Tsars of Russia, and the authors Hermann Hesse and Thomas Mann; that Bircher-Benner's nutritional theories were not recognised by official medicine in his time; and that the dietary practice (Birchermüesli, raw food) survived and, especially since the 1980s, came to be regarded as an emblem of healthy, natural eating. The famous-patient names are recorded here as the outlet's own examples; in the case body the clientele is described as affluent and international and any famous-name example is attributed to this source rather than asserted as an independent identification.