 On his trip around the world, he visited the Bircher-Benner Hospital and Clinic in Zurich, which influenced his ideas about nutrition and the role of fasting in healing.Evarts also visited Max Bircher, the son of the founder of the famous Bircher-Benner institution.There, at the Landhaus Murpfli, he discovered a model for Meadowlark and expanded his concept of whole-person therapy.