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Ana Maria Lajusticia

BIOGRAPHY

PRESCRIBER OF A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

Ana María Lajusticia Bergasa was born in Bilbao on July 26, 1924, daughter of Jesús Lajusticia Alonso and Delfina Bergasa Goyenechea. Among her childhood memories, those related to traditional food and the use of both animal and vegetable ingredients that have been disappearing from current gastronomy stand out. The old way of growing vegetables, the recovery of collagen from the joints of meats and the long cooking processes were everyday elements that she later wanted to recover in a unique way.

Ana María Lajusticia describes a happy childhood that was cut short by the vicissitudes of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939).

After the death of her father in 1937, she began to feel nocturnal tachycardia related to the need to be a good student and thus be able to contribute to the family economy, which was then taken over by a maternal uncle. At the age of 15, she moved with her family to Madrid. She studied high school and in the academic year 1941-1942, influenced by her grandmother Felicidad Goyenechea Artaza, she joined a career in biochemistry.

In 1947 she appears as one of the few women who managed not only to finish her degree but to do it brilliantly. She attributes success to consistency, discipline, and curiosity. In 1948 she went to live in the province of Girona since there she found work in the Osor Mines. In that same year, she married Manuel Feliu de Cendra, a farm owner, in Angles, and they had six children: four girls and two boys. She currently has four grandchildren.

As she has told on more than one occasion: «I have been 21 years with a corset of rods; I know what it is to be sick, I know what it is to be well ». She refers to the medical prescription that was made in 1955 and that she followed closely until 1973. At the age of 43, she was diagnosed with type II diabetes that did not augur the extraordinary longevity that she exhibits today. Thanks to her training as a chemist, she investigated until she found the problem: her diet was very deficient. She lacked protein and vitamin C intake, she overindulged in carbohydrates, and the vegetables she ate were poor in magnesium.

Through a change in diet and a significant increase in magnesium intake, her life changed. At the age of 52, she stopped wearing a corset and had to face the consequences of the muscular atony that this artificial scaffold had caused on her back. Her own healing, the discovery in her own skin of how much and good a corrected and adjusted diet can do, turned the Basque woman into a champion of the cause of magnesium and other elements that do so much good for our health.