Horst Lights
“I wasn’t taking care of myself”
“Horst Lichter: My heart, my engine”: Horst Lichter is doing a medical check-up in the clinic.
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TV star Horst Lichter survived a heart attack at the age of 28. Viewers can find out how he is doing today in his new medical documentary.
At the age of 26, the “Bares for Rares” star and former TV chef Horst Lichter (60) suffered a first stroke, and at 28 a second stroke with a heart attack, which he was lucky to survive. “Stress, too much work, worries and I didn’t pay attention to myself,” he summarizes the triggers. “I thought – like young people usually do – this body will last forever,” says Lichter.
The experiences woke him up. Since then, the popular TV star has lived more consciously, he has changed his life and, above all, his attitude to life. “You have to take care of your body. Just like things that you value very much or friendships, love and marriage. You just have to take the inspections, maintenance and care seriously,” Lichter draws a comparison to his beloved vintage cars, which also goes through draws his new documentary.
However, Horst Lichter has repeatedly put off the thorough examination of his heart. As part of the medical documentary “Horst Lichter: Mein Herz, mein Motor” (October 25th, 8:15 p.m., ZDF), he is now trustingly in the hands of heart specialists and is doing a check-up in the clinic. At the end of the investigation, he tells the viewer how he is doing today…
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“The heart is one of the most important organs we have. It’s all about our heart,” explains Lichter, why he even took part in this documentary. Since he had illnesses himself, it was “very irritating for him to see where medicine has arrived today, what can be done and how people are treated”. It’s a big passion of his.
And that’s also why the documentary is by no means just about the popular North Rhine-Westphalia. Experts have their say. In addition, Horst Lichter meets a young mother who is waiting for a donor heart, a man who has already had a transplant who gives courage, a man before and after his bypass operation and a young couple who are worried about their baby with heart disease.
“The positive thinking of the patients and the incredible trust they place in the doctors. That impressed me the most,” he enthuses about the shooting. He himself had “become more positive overall and was trying less to see the disadvantages”. Lichter’s motto is: “Where it is dark, there will be light again.”