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Kurt Oster Kurt Oster (* 20th April 1909 in Cologne, † 1988 in the US) was a German physician who left Germany for Sweden in protest of National Socialist policies and eventually emigrated to the United States where he worked as a cardiologist and pharmacologist. His essays on the harmfulness of homogenized milk continue to arouse interest.

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Life and Work [ Edit | Edit source ] In Germany [ Edit | Edit source ] Oster attended a secular school (Oberrealschule Frankstraße) and studied medicine after the Abitur (Easter 1928) at the University of Cologne. After passing the first state exam he moved to Berlin in 1932. In Cologne, he finished his medical studies and received his the doctorate degree and successfully defended his doctoral thesis on the topic: The simultaneous determination of iodine and bromine by the polarograph (November 29, 1934). Due to National Socialist policies, an academic career in Germany had become impossible. In 1935 Kurt Oster emigrated to Sweden.

In the United States [ Edit | Edit source ] In 1938, he moved to the USA and had to accept an internship at the Fairview Park Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio for one year. In September 1940 Oster was offered a position at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, one of the oldest and most prestigious hospitals in the United States.

His first scholarship ( George Blumenthal Jr. Fellowship ) was extended several times and ended in a position as Research Assistant in Chemistry with Dr. Harry Sobotka. At the end of July 1943, Oster left his position at Mount Sinai. In 1949 he took the position of Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Chief, Section of Cardiology, at the Park City Hospital of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

From about 1944, Kurt Oster had again joined a compulsory scientific career and published a variety of medical essays on biochemistry topics. He now published under the 'Americanized' name Kurt A. Oster. He published individual texts together with his son JG Oster (eg, The specificity of sex hormones on the aldehyde shift in the rat kidney and fuchsin sulfurous acid reagent on aldehydes ).

Oster undertook further studies on vitamin intake, the role of eggs in preventing diabetes. In reaction to a heart attack at the age of 46, he turned his academic attentions in 1970 to the causes of arterial calcification. Together with Donald J. Ross, a professor of biochemistry, and since 1960 Chairman of the Department of Biology at Fairfield University (Connecticut), the cardiologist has published papers from 1973 on the consequences of homogenization of fats in dairy. In contrast to the prevailing cholesterol theory, Oster distrusted the enzyme xanthine oxidase, which he had found in homogenized milk and which was caused by the formation of antibodies, became more important for the disease.

Oster caused a sensation the monograph submitted to the 1983, The XO Factor: and How It Can Destroy Your Arteries, Your Heart, Your Life! Oster and Ross (also Dr. John Zikakis of the University of Delaware was temporarily involved in the project) showed that homogenized milk causes an increased risk of myocardial infarction and demonstrates the increased risk of arteriosclerosis by numbers (Oster hypothesis). Oster was referring to this, a. to the Giessen biochemist Robert Feulgen, who had researched the plasmologist in the 1930s. The results of the long-term experiments were violently attacked by the US dairy industry, but Oster succeeded in obtaining good healing rates in the patients of his clinic, whom he had prescribed a diet based on his research. Although his theories have been repeatedly attacked, current recent research confirms his findings, such as by PhD Mark McCarty. [1]

In 1974 Oster was granted emeritus. He had a son and a daughter.