The doctor Manuel Sanchez He has spent many years in media anonymity, until the chores of the emeritus king have put him in the spotlight. Not in vain, between the years 2017 and 2018, Juan Carlos paid him the generous sum of 95,365.75 euros for the touch-ups and anti-aging aesthetic treatments that he had undergone in his clinic. Money that, as has transpired in recent days, he did not pay directly (an intimate friend, the Mexican businessman Allen Sanginés-Krause) nor declared to the Treasury, although this crime has finally been filed by the prosecution as it is considered prescribed or not prosecutable.
Juan Carlos and Dr. Manuel Sánchez met in the early 2000s, when the then king became a regular at the Planas Clinic in Barcelona. Something that we journalists who at that time followed the comings and goings of the infanta Cristina (who lived just opposite), seeing him enter numerous times. He always did it to put himself in the hands of Manuel Sánchez, head of the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition, and to undergo ‘antiaging’ treatments. His professionalism and his exquisite discretion soon won him his trust and friendship.
“The doctor has traveled numerous times to Abu Dhabi to treat Juan Carlos”
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In 2017, this man from Granada, who graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the university in his hometown, opened his own center, willing to carry out his professional project, applying his method and philosophy in Proactive Health and Wellness Medicine. He did it in “the doctor’s house”, as he likes his center to be known, the DeSánchez Clinic, located in the Casa Alemany, a modernist mansion in the upper area of Barcelona. And without a doubt, “family doctor friend” – as Sánchez likes to be called – has been a title that Juan Carlos granted him unconditionally, to the point of becoming his family doctor and a reference for the rest of the family. In his office hangs a dedicated photo of the king emeritus, today exiled in Abu Dhabi, to where Dr. Sánchez has traveled numerous times to attend to his majestic patient.
Dr. Sánchez’s treatments are focused on working for a long and healthy life, according to the description of his clinic. And along these lines, his role as a dietitian has also led him to publish a book together with chefs Carme Ruscalleda and Raül Bolam: ‘Antiaging’ recipes, gastronomy and science. From his hand, Juan Carlos fights against osteoarthritis and aging based on daily exercise routines and healthy eating. All added to a regular control by Dr. Sánchez, in whose expensive trips to Abu Dhabi no expense has been spared. Quite a luxury only within the reach of privileged pockets, although he says that his is not an elite clinic.