Our age demands constant performance. We function — day after day. Between work, responsibility and digital availability around the clock. We measure, plan, optimise — even ourselves. In all of this, the fine sense of who we are is easily lost. Yet without that sense, we lose orientation. Health then becomes a task — instead of an experience. The Tannerhof is the setting in which to step back into that inner space and feel oneself again. A place where pressure and constant tension may fall away. Where one can re-enter a balanced dialogue with the body, and learn to set, consciously, the stimuli that strengthen and do good.
Care and Support
Just now, when the days grow shorter, the air cooler, and the body — with its immune system — is particularly put to the test, this sense of self becomes more important. Then it is time to turn towards the body, and to support it. Not with pills and powders, but with real stimuli. With cold, warmth, oxygen, abstinence — and with the body's wonderful capacity to respond to all of this with self-healing.
This is where the Tannerhof Immune Booster package comes in. It is based on the foundational principle of naturopathy: stimulus and response. A consciously set, low-dose stimulus brings the organism out of balance — only briefly — and prompts a response: it regulates, strengthens itself, trains its capacity to adapt. The Immune Booster combines three classic stimulus therapies: ozone autohaemotherapy, IHHT altitude training, and Kneipp contrast affusions.
Together they form a powerful system that activates immunity, metabolism and cellular health:
Ozone autohaemotherapy
Ozone is the energy-rich form of oxygen — three atoms whose biological effect is strong. In the major ozone autohaemotherapy, a small amount of blood is drawn from the body, enriched with a precisely dosed ozone-oxygen mix, and returned. This focused oxidative stimulus stimulates the immune system, improves oxygen utilisation and works at the same time as an anti-inflammatory. Ozone increases energy production in the mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses. The body's own antioxidants are activated, free radicals are caught, and the immune system becomes more capable. Vitamin infusions or alkaline procaine infusions can complement the detoxifying effect.
IHHT
Intermittent Hypoxic-Hyperoxic Therapy (IHHT) is a gentle but deeply effective stimulus therapy. It is based on alternating inhalation of low- and high-oxygen air. The body experiences brief phases of "oxygen scarcity," to which it responds with a cascade of adaptive reactions. In these phases the regeneration of mitochondria is stimulated. Old, weakened mitochondria are broken down; new ones arise. The result: more energy, improved stress resilience, a strengthened immune system.
Kneipp Contrast Affusions
Here water — the element that best transports warmth and cold — is used in a focused way to train circulation, vessels and immune defences. With the alternation of cold and warm streams, the vessels contract and dilate again — vasoconstriction and vasodilation. This small, everyday challenge schools the vascular response, encourages circulation and strengthens autonomic balance. The immune system responds with heightened activity of the white blood cells, and the metabolism is stimulated.
Kneipp's applications are simple but effective — especially in the months when cold is often experienced as a threat. Properly dosed, it becomes the immune system's best friend.
Nature is the best pharmacy
Alongside these three "stimulating" stimuli, the Immune Booster is framed by an initial medical examination and a final consultation. In the smaller package, two soothing treatments are added: a foot reflexology massage, which stimulates organs via reflex points and encourages circulation, and a breath therapy session that sharpens awareness of one's own breath flow. In the medium package, two further treatments extend the programme: a detox bath that, through warmth and salt, supports elimination and stimulates the metabolism, and a craniosacral treatment, which uses manual impulses at the skull and sacrum to release blockages and calm the nervous system.
And anyone who'd like to deepen the effect of the Immune Booster can pair it wonderfully with a fasting week. Fasting is perhaps the most original of all stimulus therapies. It is not deprivation, but a conscious, focused doing-without — a healing impulse that releases old patterns and activates new processes. During Buchinger therapeutic fasting the body throttles its energy use, switches over to fat and ketone metabolism, and activates autophagy — the body's natural cellular recycling process. Old, damaged cell components are broken down, new structures form. At the same time, the concentration of protective and repairing molecules rises. The immune system uses this phase of "inner tidying" to regenerate and renew itself. Studies show that fasting acts as an anti-inflammatory, has a positive effect on the microbiome, and balances the immune response.
At the Tannerhof, fasting is medically supervised — with broths, teas, movement, rest, and the trust that the body knows what to do.
Letting go of the superfluous creates the chance to feel what is essential.
In a time when sensory overload is gaining the upper hand, the Tannerhof relies on well-dosed bodily stimuli. The Immune Booster package isn't a cure in the classical sense, but an invitation to oneself: to expose oneself consciously to stimuli in order to come back into balance. Not in order to perform more — but in order to encounter oneself again. Because only those who feel themselves know what is good for them. It isn't about short-term defence, but about long-term resilience — and about trusting that our body, properly stimulated, is itself the best medicine.
