| Hans Alfred Nieper | |
| Birth Date: | 23 May 1928 |
| Birth Place: | Hanover, Germany |
| Death Date: | 21 October 1998 (aged 70) |
| Nationality: | German |
| Citizenship: | German |
| Education: | Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, University of Hamburg |
| Occupation: | Physician |
| Known For: | Alternative medicine |
| Profession: | Doctor |
| Field: | Alternative medicine |
| Work 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] He claimed "Nieper Therapy" could to treat cancer, 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 Dr. Ferdinand Wahrendorff, founder of the Wahrendorff Psychiatric Hospitals, and son of Dr. 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.
Born in Germany in 1928, Nieper studied at Johann Gutenberg University and the University of Freiburg before earning his 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 private club German Society of Oncology, which conducted research of alternative medicine in oncology.[4]
Nieper was among the first researchers to work with lithium orotate.[1] Nieper also 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.[5] However, there is no evidence from reputable clinical trials for the success of the "Nieper Regime" for treating multiple sclerosis utilizing Calcium AEP.[6] The "Nieper Therapy" approach to cancer also uses Calcium AEP, along with selenium.[7] It is based in part around Nieper's belief that cancer is rarer among sharks than other fish and his theory that the lower blood-sodium level of sharks may be the reason; it places among its primary goals the reduction of that sodium in cancer patients.[8] [9] Like his friends Dean Burk and Ernst T. Krebs jr., Nieper was an outspoken opponent of fluoridation.[10]
Nieper died at the age of 70 from a stroke.[11]