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The week includes a blood laboratory check with hormone status, an oxidative stress test, urinalysis, a stool test, spirometry, a physiotherapeutic assessment, abdominal, vascular, thyroid and heart ultrasound, and resting and exercise ECG.","Around the examinations sit the basic services included in every programme: daily Kneipp treatments, a personal Modern Mayr Cuisine diet plan, group exercise, relaxation and mental coaching, lectures, and use of the pool, saunas and panoramic gym. Five 50-minute full body massages are included, and further examinations can be added on request.","On its blog the property says the gut sits at the heart of the check, and that the result is meant as a personal plan for preventive health rather than a medical report alone. Its guest magazine ParkZeit describes annual check-ups as playing a key role for longevity. 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Its medical department is closed from 12 noon on Saturday until 7.30 am on Monday, so a Saturday arrival means the first doctor’s consultation is on Monday morning at the earliest.",{"q":471,"a":472},"Do I need to book in advance?","Yes. The property says the Detox Medical Check is only available when booked in advance.",{"q":474,"a":475},"How long does the property recommend staying?","Its FAQ recommends at least 10 to 14 days with a week of follow-up at home; elsewhere it recommends at least two weeks, ideally three, and says even one week brings a noticeable improvement. The Detox Medical Check itself is priced for one week, and the programme page invites requests for an individual length of stay.",{"q":477,"a":478},"Will health insurance pay?","The property says private health insurers normally cover at least part of the cost, depending on the policy. It recommends bringing a prescription from your family doctor, and issues an invoice for the stay to submit to your insurer.",{"q":480,"a":481},"Which medical documents should I bring?","The property says guests are welcome to bring records from previous examinations or surgeries.",{"q":483,"a":484},"Can a companion come without taking part?","Yes. The property recommends a companion who does not join the therapy programme books the basic services only, at €133 per day per person on top of the room rate.",{"q":486,"a":487},"Is food included?","Breakfast is in the room rate; lunch and dinner on Modern Mayr Cuisine are part of the basic services included in every programme. The property says its kitchen caters for intolerances, allergies and special diets.",{"q":489,"a":490},"Can the check help with weight loss?","The property’s blog says the check can be an entry point into sustainable weight loss through metabolic regulation, digestive relief and tailored nutrition. 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The property runs guided walks and hikes for all fitness levels, and its Explore Tyrol page describes a 7 km walk to Heiligwasser chapel and back, with 370 m of ascent.","The house lists 51 rooms and suites. Its history page says the building went up as a sanatorium from 1905 and has had a medical focus since 1993.","Modern Mayr Medicine built on doctor-led examinations and an eight-stage diet, with laboratory diagnostics in some programmes; most programmes are priced by the week.","10–14 days or more advised; a 4-night option",[530,531,532,533,534,535],"The Times, The World’s 50 Best Spas 2025: 'Best Detox Spa' (per the property’s awards page)","Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence 2026: 'Best Wellness Programme' (per the property’s awards page)","SPA Star Awards 2026: winner, 'Medical Spa Concept' category (per the property’s awards page)","Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence 2025: Best Destination Spa in Europe (per the property’s awards page)","Connoisseur Circle 2025: winner, 'Top Medical Spa' (per the property’s awards page)","Condé Nast Traveller Readers' Choice Awards 2024: Best Destination Spa Europe (per the property’s awards page)","The FAQ says the medical department is closed from Saturday noon to 7.30 a.m. Monday, so a Saturday arrival sees a doctor on Monday at the earliest. 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The page says it is bookable only with a programme.",[568,569,570,571,572,573,574,575,576],"A medical department offering blood laboratory checks, ultrasound, ECG and microbiome analysis","Heated indoor pool, Finnish and organic saunas, steam room, infrared cabin and Kneipp water therapy","Physiotherapy and sports therapy, and a panoramic gym","A nature park with a putting green, an outdoor Kneipp water therapy area and a herb garden","A lounge the property describes as having a fireplace, library and games","A cosmetics studio, the Head & Soul hairdressing salon, and an F.X. Mayr shop and boutique","Free electric-car charging in the underground garage and free e-bike hire in summer","Air conditioning and a balcony in every room, and two wheelchair-accessible rooms","A Day Spa for ages 16 and over, from €50 (After Work Spa) to €200 (Day Spa Deluxe) a day",[578,581],{"name":579,"note":580},"Restaurant (Modern Mayr Cuisine)","Breakfast is in the room rate; lunch and dinner are in every programme. The doctor sets and reviews an eight-stage diet, and the property says it uses regional, organic produce and caters for allergies and intolerances.",{"name":582,"note":583},"Tea bar","Serves the alkaline vegetable broth from 10:00 to 13:00.",[585,586,587,588,589,590,591],"Guided walks and hikes for all ages and fitness levels","The walk to Heiligwasser chapel, 7 km there and back with 370 m of ascent","Aqua gymnastics, aqua fit, Feldenkrais®, qi gong and kybun® classes","E-bike handling workshops and short rides","Evening medical lectures, and film or music evenings","Excursions including city tours, cultural visits and shopping trips","The Patscherkofelbahn cable car in Igls",{"airport":593,"code":117,"transfer":594},"Innsbruck","About 15–20 minutes by car. Room rates include a free airport or station transfer, or underground parking instead.",{"amount":297,"currency":17},{"slug":111,"name":112,"place":597,"country":94,"countryCode":598,"cluster":81,"fame":42,"modalities":599,"hook":600,"caseFor":601,"hardFacts":606,"caveat":612,"season":613,"seasonNote":614,"practical":615,"figures":628,"faqs":641,"image":494,"imageAlt":648,"gallery":649,"coords":660,"gateway":663,"tempC":684,"climateNote":690,"leisure":691,"extensions":715,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":33,"fromPrice":729,"minNights":431,"maxNights":730},"Lans, Igls and the Inn valley above Innsbruck","AT",[114,83],"Where the Mayr cure became a medical category — and where “going to Austria for your gut” came from.",[602,603,604,605],"This is the birthplace of the modern F. X. Mayr cure as an international product. Lanserhof opened at Lans in 1984 and turned a nineteenth-century digestive cure into a rigorous, doctor-led programme with diagnostics attached.","The tone is genuinely clinical rather than resort. A Mayr house runs a medical intake, blood work, manual abdominal treatment and a graded diet — and the well-known Austrian houses are unusually candid that the first three days are unpleasant.","It sits at altitude above Innsbruck with graded walking on the doorstep, which the doctors prescribe rather than suggest, and it is two hours from most of Europe.","The competition between the Tyrolean houses is real and useful: Lanserhof, Park Igls and the VIVAMAYR group have pushed each other on diagnostics for four decades, and the least resort-like of them is usually also the best value.",[607,608,609,610,611],"Lanserhof Lans opened in 1984 — the original house of the group that made Modern Mayr Medicine an international category.","The cure derives from Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965), an Austrian physician whose diagnostic and dietary system underpins every house here.","Lanserhof Tegernsee (2014) and Lanserhof Sylt (2022) are the group’s later flagships, in Germany.","Park Igls sits above Innsbruck at roughly 900 m and is consistently the most clinically-toned and least expensive of the famous Austrian Mayr houses.","A standard Mayr course is 7 to 14 nights; the houses themselves recommend 14 for a first cure.","The Mayr cure is not a spa week and the first seventy-two hours are genuinely miserable — headache, fatigue and hunger while caffeine and sugar come out. The evidence base is also thinner than the clinical presentation suggests: supervised caloric restriction, chewing training and a strict eating rhythm plausibly explain most of the benefit, and the more elaborate diagnostic claims made for abdominal palpation are not well supported. Go for the structure and the supervision, not for the theory.",[42,42,42,42,33,33,33,33,33,42,43,42],"May to September is the window, because the graded walking that the doctors prescribe needs open paths and long light. November is the Alpine Zwischensaison and much of the valley closes. Winter courses run and work perfectly well — you simply do the walking on cleared paths in the cold.",[616,619,622,625],{"label":617,"value":618},"Getting there","Innsbruck (INN) is twenty minutes away; Munich is two hours by road or rail and often better connected.",{"label":620,"value":621},"The first days","Expect headache and fatigue on days two and three. Taper caffeine at home for a fortnight beforehand and it is markedly easier.",{"label":623,"value":624},"Insurance","Austrian and German insurers occasionally contribute where a medical indication is documented. Ask before travelling; it is never automatic.",{"label":626,"value":627},"What to bring","Walking shoes. The prescription includes the hill, and the houses check that you are using it.",[629,632,635,638],{"value":630,"label":631},"1984","Lanserhof Lans opens",{"value":633,"label":634},"900 m","Park Igls altitude",{"value":636,"label":637},"7–14","Nights, standard course",{"value":639,"label":640},"3 days","Before it gets easier",[642,645],{"q":643,"a":644},"What actually is a Mayr cure?","A medically supervised digestive rest: a graded, deliberately dull diet, trained slow chewing, manual abdominal treatment, magnesium, and a strict eating rhythm with nothing after early evening. Diagnostics and blood work sit around it. It is dull by design and that is most of why it works.",{"q":646,"a":647},"Which house should I take?","Park Igls if you want the most clinical tone and the best value; Lanserhof if you want the diagnostics and the architecture and do not mind paying for both. We will tell you plainly which one your answers point at.","An Alpine meadow above the Inn valley",[650,653,655,657],{"src":651,"alt":652},"photo-1501785888041-af3ef285b470","An Alpine lake below mountains",{"src":494,"alt":654},"The valley from the ridge above it",{"src":539,"alt":656},"A mountain lake in the high Alps",{"src":658,"alt":659},"photo-1476231682828-37e571bc172f","Alpine forest from above",{"lat":661,"lng":662},47.23,11.41,{"airport":593,"code":117,"city":664,"routings":665,"transfer":682,"flightNote":683},"Innsbruck — the clinics are in the hills immediately above it",[666,670,674,678],{"from":667,"how":668,"time":669},"London & the UK","Direct to Innsbruck, heavily weighted to the ski season; Munich is the year-round alternative, two hours by road.","2 hours",{"from":671,"how":672,"time":673},"Continental Europe","Direct to Innsbruck or Munich, or the rail network through Munich and Zurich.","2–4 hours",{"from":675,"how":676,"time":677},"The Gulf & India","Direct to Munich or Vienna, then rail or road.","6–8 hours flying",{"from":679,"how":680,"time":681},"North America","One stop through Munich, Frankfurt, Vienna or Zurich.","10–12 hours","20 to 30 minutes up the hill from Innsbruck airport to Lans, Igls and the Hungerburg. Two hours from Munich.","The Innsbruck approach is a valley one and winter weather diverts it to Munich or Salzburg more often than any other alpine airport — the airline buses you on, but it adds three hours. If your programme starts the next morning, fly the day before.",[23,250,685,419,686,687,688,689,686,419,13,14],11,20,23,25,24,"A sheltered alpine valley at 600 m, with the clinics 300 m above it. Föhn winds make spring changeable; September and October are the settled months.",[692,698,703,706,710],{"name":693,"kind":694,"duration":695,"note":696,"when":697},"The Nordkette by cable car","nature","Half day","From the middle of Innsbruck to 2,300 m in twenty minutes on a Zaha Hadid funicular and two cable cars. The city is directly below your feet at the top.","any",{"name":699,"kind":700,"duration":669,"note":701,"when":702},"The Goldenes Dachl and the old town","culture","Maximilian’s golden roof of 1500, the Hofburg and the Hofkirche with its twenty-eight bronze mourners — the finest Renaissance monument north of the Alps.","rest-day",{"name":704,"kind":700,"duration":695,"note":705,"when":702},"Swarovski Kristallwelten","Twenty minutes east at Wattens. Divisive, spectacular, and the André Heller chambers are far stranger than the shop suggests.",{"name":707,"kind":694,"duration":708,"note":709,"when":697},"The Zillertal and the Achensee","Full day","A steam railway up the Ziller valley, or the lake steamer on the Achensee. Tyrol at its most postcard, an hour away.",{"name":711,"kind":712,"duration":695,"note":713,"when":714},"A mountain hut lunch","food","Fifty minutes up on foot to a Jausenstation for Kaiserschmarrn and a view. On a modified-fasting programme this is a genuinely bad idea and we will say so — take it after.","after",[716,721,725],{"name":717,"nights":718,"note":719,"side":720},"Salzburg","2 nights","Two hours by rail, and the natural pairing with an Innsbruck stay.","either",{"name":722,"nights":723,"note":724,"side":714},"The Dolomites","3 nights","Over the Brenner into Alto Adige — Alpe di Siusi, Ortisei and the best mountain food in Europe.",{"name":726,"nights":718,"note":727,"side":728},"Munich","Two hours north, and often the gateway anyway. The Pinakotheken and the Englischer Garten.","before",{"amount":116,"currency":17},14,{"slug":114,"name":416,"tagline":417,"origin":732,"regulated":392,"regulationNote":733,"indications":734,"cautions":740,"whatHappens":745,"minimumNights":431,"recommendedNights":730,"image":651,"imageAlt":746,"originPlace":94,"body":747,"hardFacts":751,"evidence":758,"treatments":781,"glossary":805,"confusedWith":827,"figures":830,"faqs":842,"destinationCount":42,"resortCount":33,"programmeCount":33},"Austria. Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965) built the diagnostic and dietary system that carries his name.","Delivered by licensed physicians in Austrian and German clinics under ordinary medical regulation — a Mayr house is a medical practice with a hotel attached rather than a spa with a doctor visiting. The method itself is not separately accredited; what is regulated is the doctor.",[735,736,737,738,739],"Bloating, reflux and functional digestive complaints that have been investigated and found structurally normal","Metabolic reset — insulin resistance, visceral fat, stubborn weight","Breaking an eating rhythm that has drifted into late nights and grazing","Fatigue with no identified cause, where a fortnight of structure is worth trying","Recovery from a long stretch of travel, alcohol and restaurant food",[741,742,743,744],"Any history of an eating disorder — the restriction and the weighing are inappropriate and good houses decline","Pregnancy and breastfeeding","Type 1 diabetes, and type 2 on insulin or sulfonylureas, without your own doctor’s written plan","Anyone underweight, or over seventy without a cardiology review","A medical intake with bloods on arrival, then a graded and deliberately dull diet — often beginning 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. Diagnostics and daily walking sit around it. Days two and three are unpleasant for almost everybody.","An alpine lake below the peaks, with a single boat",[748,749,750],"Modern Mayr medicine is the most rigorous of the European cure traditions and the least pleasant to undergo, and those two facts are related. It rests on a specific, testable proposition: that a large amount of general unwellness is digestive in origin, and that resting, cleansing and retraining the digestive tract changes it. Franz Xaver Mayr, an Austrian physician, developed the diagnostic approach in the early twentieth century; the modern form has added laboratory medicine and dropped much of the original severity.","What makes it medicine rather than a diet is the examination. A Mayr physician performs a structured abdominal assessment — palpation, posture, tongue, a defined set of findings — and the diet is prescribed from it and revised through the stay. There is no menu. What arrives at the table is a clinical decision, and it is often very little.","The technique guests find hardest is the simplest: chewing. Each mouthful is chewed to liquid, thirty or forty times, in silence, at a table where everyone else is doing the same. It sounds absurd. It is central, it is measurable in how you feel by day four, and it is the single habit most people take home.",[752,753,754,755,756,757],"Franz Xaver Mayr (1875–1965) was an Austrian physician; the diagnostic and dietary system carries his name.","Modern Mayr medicine is practised under physician supervision with laboratory diagnostics, and is taught through professional associations in Austria and Germany.","The classical cure length is fourteen days; the method is written around that duration.","The Tyrolean cure houses sit at roughly 900 m on the plateaux above Innsbruck, and graded walking is part of the prescription.","Manual abdominal treatment by a physician or trained therapist is a defining component, not an optional extra.","The historical \"milk and stale roll\" diet has largely been replaced by staged modern protocols.",[759,763,767,770,774,777],{"claim":760,"status":761,"note":762},"Caloric restriction and fasting produce metabolic improvements","good","Short-term improvements in weight, blood pressure, lipids and glycaemic markers under supervised fasting and severe restriction are well documented. The open question is durability after you go home, which is what the departure protocol exists for.",{"claim":764,"status":765,"note":766},"Supervised fasting improves symptoms in metabolic syndrome and hypertension","mixed","A reasonable observational and small-trial literature, much of it from German fasting clinics. Encouraging, not definitive, and heavily dependent on what happens in the following months.",{"claim":768,"status":765,"note":769},"Thorough chewing and slow eating reduce intake and improve digestive symptoms","Slower eating and increased chewing are associated with lower intake and improved satiety signalling in several studies. Modest effects; free; and the one thing every guest leaves with.",{"claim":771,"status":772,"note":773},"Manual abdominal treatment relieves functional digestive symptoms","traditional","A century of clinical practice, a coherent rationale, and very little controlled evidence. Guests are consistently positive about it.",{"claim":775,"status":765,"note":776},"The gut is the origin of most systemic disease","The foundational claim, and it has aged better than most such claims — gut–systemic links in inflammation and metabolism are a serious research field. That is a long way from the strong version the tradition asserts.",{"claim":778,"status":779,"note":780},"A cure \"detoxifies\" the body","none","The word appears on menus and should not. What is demonstrably happening is caloric restriction, dietary simplification, removal of alcohol and caffeine, sleep repair and daily walking under supervision — which is quite enough to explain the result.",[782,786,790,794,798,802],{"name":783,"duration":784,"body":785},"Mayr diagnostic examination","45–60 minutes, on arrival","Structured abdominal palpation, posture, tongue and history. The diet is written from this and from nothing else. Repeated through the stay.",{"name":787,"duration":788,"body":789},"The staged diet","The whole cure","Prescribed in stages from very restricted upward, revised as you respond. Plain, small, and eaten slowly. You will be hungry, particularly on days two and three, and that is expected rather than a sign of a mistake.",{"name":791,"duration":792,"body":793},"Manual abdominal treatment","20–30 minutes, most days","Hands-on work over the abdomen by a physician or trained therapist. The core technique of the method and, for most guests, the most surprising part of it.",{"name":795,"duration":796,"body":797},"Laboratory diagnostics","Start and end","Bloods at both ends so the result is measured rather than felt. A cure house that does not repeat the panel has left the most useful part out.",{"name":799,"duration":800,"body":801},"Graded walking","Daily","Prescribed, at altitude, at an intensity set to your state — usually far gentler than guests expect in week one. The alpine plateau is not decoration; it is part of the protocol.",{"name":803,"duration":800,"body":804},"Base powders and supplementation","Alkaline mineral supplementation and magnesium are standard within the method. Ask what each is for; a good physician answers precisely.",[806,809,812,815,818,821,824],{"term":807,"meaning":808},"Mayr cure","The full physician-led course: examination, staged diet, manual treatment, movement.",{"term":810,"meaning":811},"Modern Mayr medicine","The contemporary form, with laboratory diagnostics and without the original severity.",{"term":813,"meaning":814},"Kauen","Chewing — to liquid, thirty or forty times, in silence. The technique.",{"term":816,"meaning":817},"Bauchbehandlung","Manual abdominal treatment.",{"term":819,"meaning":820},"Basenpulver","Alkaline mineral powder used within the protocol.",{"term":822,"meaning":823},"Schonkost","The gentle, restricted diet stage.",{"term":825,"meaning":826},"Entlastungstag","A relief day — a deliberately reduced day within the cure.",{"name":828,"difference":829},"A juice-fast detox retreat","A juice fast is a product you order. A Mayr cure is a diagnosis followed by a prescription, with laboratory work at both ends and a physician who can stop it. The subjective experience of hunger is similar; everything around it — the assessment, the staging, the supervision, the measurement — is not.",[831,834,836,839],{"value":832,"label":833},"14","Days in a classical cure",{"value":633,"label":835},"Altitude of the Tyrolean houses",{"value":837,"label":838},"2","Laboratory panels: start and end",{"value":840,"label":841},"40","Chews per mouthful",[843,846,849,852],{"q":844,"a":845},"How hungry will I actually be?","Genuinely hungry, and worst on days two and three. It settles, and most guests report a strange clarity by the end of the first week. If that sounds intolerable rather than interesting, this is the wrong discipline and we will say so.",{"q":847,"a":848},"Is a week enough?","Seven nights is the shortest cure the houses take and it is enough to be uncomfortable, rarely enough to be changed. Fourteen is the length the method is written around and what the physicians will recommend. Ten is a workable compromise if the laboratory work is repeated.",{"q":850,"a":851},"Who should not do this?","Fasting programmes require clinical pre-screening and are generally unsuitable with a history of an eating disorder, during pregnancy or breastfeeding, with type 1 diabetes, significant underweight, or active treatment for serious illness. They can interact with several medicines, so discuss the programme with your own doctor and provide the property’s qualified team with a complete medication list.",{"q":853,"a":854},"Will I put the weight straight back on?","Some of it, and quickly — a meaningful part of what comes off in week one is water. What the cure is actually for is the metabolic picture, the digestive symptoms and the habits, and the eight weeks after you leave decide whether any of it lasts. That is what the departure protocol is for, and it is the part to take seriously.",[],1789312814603]