Practitioners want legal recognition, critics call it pseudoscience. Can osteopathy really heal? The problem is that evidence is not always consistent.
Author: Andrea Böhnke
Andrea Böhnke is a German journalist who works as an editor at Die Zeit’s health desk. She studied journalism at TU Dortmund University, completed a traineeship at a regional daily newspaper and then worked there as an editor. She then worked as a freelance author for various print and online media in Germany. Her children’s non-fiction book “Wenn wir schlafen” was published in 2023.
Robust winter babies? Allergic autumn infants? Researchers are finding increasing evidence that the month and season of birth can have an influence on our health. For Die Zeit, health editor Andrea Böhnke explores how light, weather, mother’s diet and other factors linked to the time of the year we are born shape us throughout our lives.