15 concerns, each answered with what helps, what a fortnight can and cannot do, and where the evidence stops.
All concerns →Every destination, the season each one is genuinely best in, and the months we would talk you out of.
Open the atlas →The properties the world has actually heard of — and which of them we can book for you.
See them all →Medically supervised digestive rest at the house that invented the category — and the first three days are genuinely miserable.
Per person. Sole occupancy is not half a double, and we would rather you saw both now.
What this actually is
A medical intake with blood work on arrival, then a graded and deliberately dull diet — beginning for most guests with broth and a stale roll you are taught to chew thirty times — with manual abdominal treatment, magnesium, and nothing to eat after early evening.
The point is a digestive rest with a doctor watching. Days two and three are unpleasant for almost everybody as caffeine and sugar come out, and the house says so before you book rather than after.
Read this part twice
Read the right-hand column as carefully as the left. It is the half that decides whether this is a good fortnight or a wasted one, and it is published before the price for that reason.
The shape of it
Days shift according to how you respond — that is the point of a daily review. This is the structure, not a timetable.
Days 1–3
Physician examination, bloods, body composition and a diet assigned. Then the hard part: caffeine and sugar come out and most guests have a headache by the second evening.
Days 4–11
Manual abdominal treatment daily, a graded diet that widens slowly, magnesium, and prescribed graded walking on the hill outside.
Days 12–14
Food is reintroduced on a schedule, with a written eating protocol for the three months that follow and a repeat blood panel.
A day, hour by hour
Three hours are fixed, and the walking is prescribed rather than offered. The rest of the day is quiet by design.
Where you stay
The mother house of the Lanserhof group — the property that turned the F. X. Mayr gut cure into a luxury medical category.
The first seventy-two hours are genuinely miserable — headache, fatigue and hunger while caffeine and sugar come out — and the houses are candid about it. The evidence base is also thinner than the clinical presentation implies: supervised caloric restriction, chewing training and a strict eating rhythm plausibly explain most of the benefit, while the diagnostic claims made for abdominal palpation are not well supported.
The full profile →Who looks after you
You will not find a physician's name on this site. Staff move, and a page that names one is a page that quietly goes out of date — worse, it invites you to book a person no house can promise will be on shift. Assignment is made on arrival, from your examination, at every serious property here.
Counted, so you can compare
Most of this industry publishes inclusions as a bulleted list, which cannot be compared between two programmes at two prices. These can.
In stages, decided at the medical examination and revised through the cure. There is no menu and nothing to choose.
Including diagnostics and laboratory work on site, at the start, through and at the end.
Abdominal treatment is the core Mayr technique and it is a physician's or therapist's hands, not a machine.
On the Lans plateau above Innsbruck, with walking from the door — which is prescribed rather than offered.
The money
Both occupancies in every band, before you enquire rather than after. Sole occupancy is not half a double and never has been — publishing only the sharing rate quotes the minority of this market and surprises the rest.
The length modern Mayr medicine is written around, and the one the physicians will recommend.
| Season | Sharing | Single |
|---|---|---|
| Low seasonNovember to February | US$9,370 | US$11,340 |
| ShoulderMarch and April | US$10,680 | US$12,860 |
| High seasonMay to October | US$12,430 | US$14,930 |
What the price is. Per person for fourteen nights, including the room, the prescribed Mayr diet at every stage, the medical examinations and diagnostics listed below, manual abdominal treatment, the movement programme and use of the thermal area. Transfers from Innsbruck and flights are quoted separately.
Illustrative, and held for seven days once we have quoted you in writing. Nothing on this site costs more for booking it through us.
The detail
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