Hans Alfred Nieper

Hans Alfred Nieper
Hans Alfred Nieper
Born	23 May 1928; Hanover, Germany
Died	21 October 1998 (aged 70)
Nationality	German
Citizenship	German
Education	Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, University of Hamburg
Occupation	Physician
Known for	Alternative medicine
	Medical career
Profession	Doctor
Field	Alternative medicine
Institutions	Silbersee Hospital

Hans Alfred Herbert Eugen Nieper (23 May 1928 – 21 October 1998) was a controversial German alternative medicine practitioner who devised "Nieper Therapy".^[1]^[2] He claimed "Nieper Therapy" could to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, and other serious diseases. His therapy has been discredited as ineffective and unsafe.^[2]

Early life

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]

Biography

Born in Germany in 1928, Nieper studied at Johann Gutenberg University and the University of Freiburg before earning a medical degree at the University of Hamburg. During his career, Nieper was director of the Department of Medicine at Silbersee Hospital in Hanover and for the German Society for Medical Tumour Treatment. Nieper was also a president of the German Society of Oncology, which promoted alternative medicine.^[4]

Nieper experimented with lithium orotate and patented, along with Franz Kohler, calcium 2-aminoethylphosphate (calcium AEP), which he believed could treat such diseases as juvenile diabetes, gastritis, ulcer, thyroiditis, myocarditis and Hodgkin's disease.^[1]^[5] No clinical trials support these treatments.^[6]^[7] Nieper believed that cancer is rarer among sharks than other fish and theorized that the lower blood-sodium level of sharks may be an inhibitor; his approach attempted to reduce sodium in cancer patients.^[8]^[9]

With associates Dean Burk and Ernst T. Krebs, Nieper opposed fluoridation.^[10]

Nieper died at the age of 70 from a stroke.^[11]

References

^ ^a ^b Lerner, Michael (1996). Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer. MIT Press. p. 600. ISBN 0-262-62104-5. Hans Nieper is a controversial German alternative cancer therapist who receives mixed reviews from American cancer patients who visit him.
^ ^a ^b FDA Press Office (15 August 1986). "Alert Issued on Nieper Therapies". Quackwatch. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
^ ^a ^b Nieper, H., & Alexander, A. (1999). The curious man: The life and works of Dr. Hans Nieper. Garden City Park, N.Y.: Avery.
^ Emeka, Mauris L. (2002). Fear Cancer No More: Preventive and Healing Information Everyone Should Know. Health Research Books. p. 94. ISBN 0-9640125-6-1.
^ Zerden, Sheldon; Richard Passwater; Abram Hoffer (2004). The Best of Health: The 100 Best Health Books. Warren H. Green Inc. p. 179. ISBN 0-87527-537-0.
^ Bowling, Allen C. (2006). Complementary and Alternative Medicine and Multiple Sclerosis (2nd ed.). Demos Medical Publishing, LLC. p. 231. ISBN 1-932603-54-9.
^ Division of the Federal Register, United States (2006). Code of Federal Regulations. Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration. p. 141.
^ Hoffman, Edward Jack (1999). Cancer and the search for selective biochemical inhibitors. CRC Press. p. 278. ISBN 0-8493-9118-0.
^ Hoffman, Edward J. (2007). Cancer and the Search for Selective Biochemical Inhibitors (2nd, revised ed.). CRC Press. p. 199. ISBN 978-1-4200-4593-2.
^ s. P.Meiers: Zur Toxizität von Fluorverbindungen mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Onkogenese. Verlag für Medizin. Heidelberg, 1984
^ "Great Losses To Our Field (Hans Nieper and Ben Iverson)". www.padrak.com. Retrieved 4 September 2019.

External links

Hans Nieper In: OTA Report: Pharmacologic and Biologic Treatments, Quackwatch, 3 August 1998
Stephen Barrett: Be Wary of Nieper Therapy, Quackwatch, 25 June 2006