Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Reznikov

In­ter­view with Prof. Reznikov, fol­low­ing his lec­ture at the Medi­cal Fac­ulty of the Uni­ver­sity of Hei­del­berg:

The ap­pli­ca­tion of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® for in-pa­tient and out-pa­tient treat­ment

As long as two and a half thou­sand years ago, the learned phy­si­cian, mathe­ma­ti­cian and mu­si­colo­gist Pythagoras dis­cov­ered that the laws of har­mony of mu­sic are the same as those in all liv­ing be­ings. Can then mu­sic which strictly fol­lows these natu­ral laws of har­mony help the hu­man body? Could it not be a real form of ther­apy? Mu­sic was used in such a way by the old high civi­li­za­tions, and the Bi­ble also de­scribes how David used mu­sic to heal King Saul.

In re­cent times, the clas­si­cal com­poser Peter Hübner, in par­ticu­lar, has stud­ied the natu­ral laws of har­mony of mu­sic and, urged by lead­ing medi­cal pro­fes­sors, has be­gun to tap the po­ten­tial of natu­rally struc­tured mu­sic for heal­ing pur­poses. In the course of his work, he has de­vel­oped Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®, mu­sic which orients it­self on the natu­ral laws of har­mony of the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic and which is com­posed in such a way that it is able to strengthen peo­ple’s in­ner health-pro­mot­ing pow­ers.

One of the health pro­fes­sion­als cur­rently study­ing the heal­ing ef­fects this mu­sic has on peo­ple is Pro­fes­sor Dr. Alexander Reznikov from the Re­search In­sti­tute for En­do­cri­nol­ogy and Me­tabo­lism at the Acad­emy of Sci­ences in Kiev.

Ques­tion: What prompted you to start look­ing into the ef­fects mu­sic has on peo­ple?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: It was a co­in­ci­dence really – when, about three years ago, I met the com­poser Peter Hübner at a sci­en­tific event at the Uni­ver­sity of Tue­bin­gen. He gave a very in­ter­est­ing lec­ture to re­search­ers from all over the world about the ef­fects Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® has on peo­ple in re­spect of physio­logi­cal pa­rame­ters: mu­sic for the fo­cused har­moni­za­tion of the proc­esses within the hu­man body. For me and many of my col­leagues, this was a very re­mark­able thesis. The idea of treat­ing ill­nesses natu­rally with mu­sic, that is us­ing an uncon­ven­tional method, was also very ex­cit­ing and ap­peal­ing. There­fore, I started my stud­ies, above all to enable me to form an ob­jec­tive opin­ion about the ef­fects of mu­sic.

Ques­tion: What kind of stud­ies are these?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: We are look­ing at dif­fer­ent cri­te­ria of vari­ous physio­logi­cal func­tions. This par­ticu­larly con­cerns the se­cre­tion of sev­eral of the body’s own hor­mones, above all the stress hor­mones in the broadest sense. As well as this, we are look­ing at vari­ous forms of elec­tri­cal ac­tiv­ity and other spe­cial pa­rame­ters. We also ask our pa­tients about their sub­jec­tive feel­ings.

Ques­tion: What type of mu­sic have you been work­ing with so far?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: In the course of our stud­ies, we have been look­ing af­ter three groups of pa­tients. One group lis­tened to Peter Hübner’s Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®, the sec­ond to rest­ful mu­sic by Mozart and the third group heard no mu­sic at all.

One must also be aware that Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® by the com­poser Peter Hübner is the first and, to date, the only mu­sic that has been spe­cially com­posed for medi­cal pur­poses and which fol­lows in its com­po­si­tion the natu­ral laws of har­mony of the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic.

Ques­tion: Was it also pos­si­ble to take ac­count of in­di­vid­ual pref­er­ences in terms of mu­si­cal taste?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: No, as this is not the ques­tion. The mu­sic should ac­ti­vate physio­logi­cal ef­fects and health-pro­mot­ing proc­esses in the body. There­fore, we use mu­sic with which there has been proven and repeatable suc­cess. Even if some­one is able to relax – sub­jec­tively – by lis­ten­ing to his fa­vor­ite mu­sic: ob­jec­tively these ef­fects are still a long way off oc­cur­ring.
And in­ter­est­ingly, with Peter Hübner’s Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® the re­sult was not de­pen­dent on the mu­si­cal taste of the ex­peri­men­tal sub­jects con­cerned. Even when they were not keen on the mu­sic, the meas­ur­able physi­cal re­ac­tions were nev­er­the­less posi­tive – which con­firms the reso­nance re­in­force­ment of peo­ple’s in­ner health-pro­mot­ing pow­ers brought about by this mu­sic.