Our History

Establishment

The "Pythagoreios Academy of Sciences and Values - International Centre for the Science of Stress and Health Promotion" (P.A.) was founded in 2023. It is based in Karlovassi on the island of Samos, the birthplace of the great philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras.

Years of hard work and continuing efforts has culminated in the creation of a model center striving to promote science and to advocate for the cultivation of values consistent with medicine and the promotion of health for all.

 

The Academy was the vision of its Chairwoman and founder, Professor Christina Darviri in collaboration with the Vice Chairman , Professor George Chrousso and was implemented with the generous and valuable contribution of the Municipality of Western Samos and the development agency Pythagoras. .

*18 years professors and founders of the Postgraduate Study Program "The Science of Stress and Health Promotion" of the School of Medicine of the University of Athens. 

Presidents (Darviri C. President and Chrousos G. Honorary President), of the Scientific Society for Stress Control and Health Promotion www.stresssociety.gr

Scientific managers of the distance education program  . National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA)  http://elearn.elke.uoa.gr/news.php

3)Scientifically responsible for the Health promotion program Of Hypertension

-Without drugs with scientific methods of stress management 1200 people  ypertasicontrol.med.uoa.gr(ESPA FUNDING 1,000,000)

Our program is more relevant than ever, since it focuses on stress (family, work, social) and lifestyle, factors that burden - biological age - non-communicable diseases - obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular, visceral fat , i.e. the diseases that the coronavirus prefers.It strengthens the immune system resulting in better prevention of viruses (which according to the WHO will be the diseases of the 21st century) including the coronavirus.

 

History of creation of the technique.

As scientifically responsible professors of the Master's Study Program , since 2008 when the Master's study program began, in the first 4 years we studied together with our students all the that exist around the world and to our great surprise we found that most of them had elements from ancient Greek philosophy (e.g. CBT (cognitive behavioral therapy) which includes the

 

 With this reflection, we observe Pythagoras (the great Greek philosopher, mathematician and physician) teaching his students in the most modern scientific way. That is - his students had to do specific things morning and night (included in the technique we teach) which had all the characteristics of modern scientific methods of stress management.

  With our international, academic, scientific and research experience, we enriched this technique with modern medicine, that is, we married ancient Greek philosophy with modern medicine and applied it to various population groups in healthy, apparently healthy, work stress groups with any disease, mild cognitive impairment, multiple sclerosis, (all kinds of addictions to cigarettes, food, alcohol, substances, depressed obese, etc.) and we published the results, in international scientific journals, we have about 30 publications using the technique, ( see some posted on our site).As a medical school we must always adhere to evidence based medicine)

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 So we created a holistic program with modern lifestyle medicine and cognitive reconstruction with values required for which is constantly enriched with modern scientific data published from time to time by the world's authoritative scientific authorities.

 

 At the same time, we put it in the schools under the brand name and after it was approved by the competent department of the Ministry of Education and implemented in a kindergarten, the first second Wednesday of elementary school and teenagers for 7 years, we saw that it works effective at all ages with excellent results in reducing bullying, reducing internet addiction and much more.. (see publications..).

 

The Pythagorean Academy was created to promote all this scientific achievement, (which was recently inaugurated by the current health minister of the country Adonis Georgiadis) to the whole world the academic international community and the residents of Greece and all foreign countries to benefit the their health and well-being.

 

 

What we do

 

A.Education

Pythagorean Academia educates students, medica l doctors, health-care professionals and educators, accomplishes its educational objectives by:

• The provision of modern scientific information on stress and the psychoneuroendocrinology of stress, stress management, health promotion and mind-body medicine.
• Addressing scientific queries at an individual level.
• Organizing meetings presenting evidence-based research by Pythagorean Academia or other scientists or scientific societies in the field.

B.Research

Pythagorean Academia considers research as a Basic tool of its mission and a strong prerequisite for the continuity of its function. Pythagorean Academia accomplishes its research objectives by:

• Designing research protocols for stress and reversing biological age, interventions based on internationally accepted quality standards for research methodology.
• Documenting the benefits of its programs by implementing rigorous scientific measurements.
• Furthering the understanding of stress management, health promotion and mind-body medicine by applying scientific data in the everyday life and mainstream clinical practice.

C. Health Programs

Delivering health promotion services to the public is a pivotal aspect of Pythagorean Academia’s mission. Pythagorean Academia accomplishes this objective by:

           Reversing biological age

• Providing structured, evidence based, health-related programs that have strong evidence for benefitting mental and/or social and/or physical health.
• Designing stress management and health promotion programs to address workplace stress, thus promoting workplace wellbeing.
• Supporting newly introduced scientific innovative programs which have a beneficial role in mind-body medicine.
• Enabling every person regardless of age, gender, color, religion, ethnicity or socioeconomic status to participate.
• Advocating collaboration with other institutions, organizations, scientific teams or organizations, health-care providers, communities etc, in the USA or worldwide.