Health holiday in Bavaria: a hotel with its own medical practice

Key points at a glance

• Backed by evidence: according to a BZT study, 68 percent of respondents care about proven results from health offerings.
• Real medicine: a serious health holiday differs from wellness through fixed medical diagnostics and on-site care.
• Three specialist doctors on site: the in-house private practice secures close medical care for every guest at the Tannerhof.
• Structured programs: from Body Detox Heilfasten to the Longevity Program, diagnostics and therapy fit together seamlessly.

Health holiday or wellness holiday: the fine but decisive difference

According to a representative survey by the Bavarian Centre for Tourism, 48 percent of respondents take a health holiday to mean a trip that generally serves physical and mental wellbeing. This is exactly where the line to classic wellness blurs. A sauna session or a soothing massage feel good in the moment but rarely change deeper patterns of exhaustion. A real health-focused stay starts deeper than that.

For us at the Naturhotel Tannerhof, health is not a fleeting sense of comfort but a grounded, medically supervised reset. Where a pure wellness holiday usually follows a loose plan of treatments, a real health holiday rests on precise medical diagnostics and continuous care. We don't leave your recovery to chance; we give it a scientific and therapeutic basis.

• Medical diagnostics, not cosmetics: a serious health holiday begins with a thorough medical assessment, including lab values and consultations with a doctor.
• Structured programs, not loose building blocks: medically supervised concepts like the Longevity Program or a targeted fasting cure guide and structure the whole stay.
• Specialist presence on site: an in-house private medical practice allows continuous care and immediate adjustment of every therapeutic measure.

The real health hotel: how to recognise sound medical care

A restful stay on the mountainside often stirs the wish to give your own health a new impulse. But how do you recognise a health hotel that earns the name? The decisive difference lies in medical substance. Where many houses simply arrange feel-good treatments, deep physiological change calls for a continuous specialist presence in the house. Medical guidelines require qualified diagnostics and reliable medical care for therapeutic processes, going well beyond a consulting doctor who visits once a week.

• A permanently present, in-house private practice for uninterrupted care.
• Specialist doctors with recognised additional qualifications in naturopathy and nutritional medicine.
• Systematic programs built on sound medical diagnostics and scientific guidelines.
• A focus on long-term physiological regeneration rather than short-term effects.

At the Naturhotel Tannerhof we live and work by these high principles. The Tannerhof medical team is made up of three resident specialists for general medicine, internal medicine and gynaecology, who accompany you personally along the way. Burgi von Mengershausen, who runs the house, also brings her expertise directly into our programs through her active work in the Ärztegesellschaft Heilfasten und Ernährung (ÄGHE). This combination of scientific standard and family care creates the ideal basis for a deeply effective, medically supervised fasting cure in the calming setting of the Bavarian Alps.

The Tannerhof's six health programs at a glance

At the Naturhotel Tannerhof, the medical and therapeutic care rests on six modular concepts that bridge traditional naturopathy and modern diagnostics. First among them is the medically supervised Heilfasten following the Buchinger method, practised in our house for over 70 years. As a proven alternative, the Schlanke Tanne Low Carb, our own low-carb diet, is vegetable- and protein-focused, regional and largely organic.

• Body Detox Heilfasten: the program for a conscious cleanse combines the classic Buchinger fasting cure with close medical care and activating treatments.
• Longevity Program: this concept pairs detoxifying fasting with precise diagnostics. A minimum stay of seven nights is required for the noticeable physiological reset and renewal.
• Immune Booster Program: a medically led package that strengthens the immune defences lastingly along the three principles of activating, regulating and stabilising.
• Mental Resilience Program: designed for deep recovery from chronic stress, this program runs by default on the enjoyable 3/4-takt diet and is not based on low carb.
• Schlanke Tanne Low Carb & Nutrition: this program for a targeted dietary change combines our own diet with individual advice to regulate your metabolism lastingly.
• Aesthetics: a holistic program that works without invasive procedures, focusing instead on regenerating skin and connective tissue and on the gut-skin axis.

Each of these programs is closely supervised by the accompanying doctors, so medical safety and individual adjustments go hand in hand. The clear focus helps you find a new, healthy balance on holiday, one that reaches well beyond the plain recovery of a classic wellness week.

Holistic diagnostics on holiday: from the lab to the bioimpedance analysis

A deep recovery process starts with us not through some arbitrary treatment plan but with clarity grounded in science. The Tannerhof medical team takes time for a precise assessment right after your arrival. This sound medical diagnostics is what separates a real, medically supervised health holiday from ordinary wellness offerings, because we capture your body's physiological baseline exactly before setting any therapeutic impulses.

• The medical intake consultation for a thorough case history and personal goals.
• The detailed analysis of relevant lab values to detect metabolic and inflammatory markers.
• The precise bioimpedance analysis, a scientifically validated method for determining body composition from fat, muscle mass and water content.

This diagnostics forms the firm foundation for the rest of your care. On it we tune targeted treatments, such as the regenerative IHHT altitude training within our Immune Booster Program, which strengthens the body along the three principles of activating, regulating and stabilising. The individual mental sessions in the Mental Resilience Program, which runs by default on our nourishing 3/4-takt diet, also draw on this basis. Our coherent concept is aimed at exhausted professionals looking for new vitality. Please note, though, that these offerings serve prevention and are not suitable for people with acute psychiatric crises, severe depression or advanced pre-existing conditions.