Hans Alfred Nieper | |
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| Born | 23 May 1928 |
| Died | 21 October 1998 (aged 70) |
| Citizenship | German |
| Education | Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg,University of Hamburg |
| Occupation | Physician |
| Known for | Alternative medicine |
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| Profession | Doctor |
| Field | Alternative medicine |
| Institutions | Silbersee Hospital |
Hans Alfred Herbert Eugen Nieper (23 May 1928 – 21 October 1998) was a controversial Germanalternative medicine practitioner who devised "Nieper Therapy".[1][2] He claimed "Nieper Therapy" could treatcancer,multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases. His therapy has been discredited as ineffective and unsafe.[2]
Hans Nieper was born in Hanover, Germany, on 23 May 1928.
Hans Nieper developed an interest in science and medicine early in life, influenced by his family's medical background; he later pursued a medical career.[3]
Nieper's father was the grandson of Ferdinand Wahrendorff, founder of the Wahrendorff Psychiatric Hospitals, and son of Herbert Nieper, the chief surgeon at a Goslar hospital named for him. Nieper's parents were both doctors and married in 1925. Shortly after marriage, they both began to work at the Wahrendorff Psychiatric Hospital.[3]
Born in Germany in 1928, Nieper studied atJohann Gutenberg University and theUniversity of Freiburg before earning amedical degree at theUniversity of Hamburg. During his career, Nieper was director of the Department of Medicine atSilbersee Hospital inHanover and for the German Society for Medical Tumour Treatment. Nieper was also a president of the German Society of Oncology, which promotedalternative medicine.[4]
Nieper experimented withlithium orotate in the 1970s, proposing it as a superior means of using lithium to treatpsychological disorders. At the end of the decade research into this topic stalled because of concern overkidney damage, and as of 2021[update] research validating such a clinical application did not exist.[5]
With Franz Kohler, he patentedcalcium 2-aminoethylphosphate (calcium AEP), which he believed could treat such diseases asjuvenile diabetes,gastritis,ulcer,thyroiditis,myocarditis andHodgkin's disease.[1][6] Noclinical trials support these treatments.[7][8] Nieper believed that cancer is rarer amongsharks than otherfish and theorized that the lower blood-sodium level of sharks may be an inhibitor; his approach attempted to reduce sodium in cancer patients.[9][10]
With associatesDean Burk andErnst T. Krebs, Nieper opposedfluoridation.[11]
Nieper died at the age of 70 from astroke.[12]
Hans Nieper is a controversial German alternative cancer therapist who receives mixed reviews from American cancer patients who visit him.
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