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The mountains in the Bavarian foothills of the Alps rise into the sky like shadows when Michael Koch steps outside the clinic door early in the morning. It’s a cold March day, birdsong fills the air. “I had a good night,” he says. “I only woke up four times and slept for two and a half hours – I haven’t been able to do that in a long time.”

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