The people behind medpro - who they are and what moves them

How did Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Pfeifer come to integrative medicine?

Prof. Dr. Dr. Ben Pfeifer's sister died of metastatic ovarian cancer at the age of just 46. Even as a doctor at one of the most renowned clinics in the USA, Prof. Pfeifer was unable to help her. This event was decisive for him to look for new approaches that would do more for people than the previously propagated methods. Driven by this stroke of fate, he began to search for integrative forms of therapy, especially for tumor patients.

"Integrative medicine requires a great deal of experience, great passion and thinking outside the box," says Prof. Pfeifer.

Trying out new, alternative methods at university in the USA and establishing them alongside conventional medicine with its timetables and guidelines proved to be extremely difficult. Envy and resentment also played a role when, for example, it was recognized that a preparation to support the fight against prostate cancer was working very well. Finally, Prof. Dr. Dr. Ben Pfeifer resigned and successfully went his own way internationally with phytotherapy.

Why did Prof. Dr. Dr. Pfeifer trust phytotherapy?

Scientists from Taiwan and China influenced him along the way. They did things for cancer patients that were not possible with Western medicine. Prof. Dr. Dr. Ben Pfeifer finally tried to unite both worlds, which worked brilliantly. The protocols he developed, which set out precise dosages and individual therapies for cancer patients with phytotherapy, were decisive for this. He often treated patients with intestinal or brain tumors and similarly poor prognoses. The protocols were refined more and more over the decades until the desired results were finally achieved.

In 2010, Pfeifer went to the Middle East to establish his company medpro. The protocols also accompanied him during this phase, where they were further developed with new, specialized scientists and doctors.

In Asia, Pfeifer also discovered that patients respond differently to different forms of therapy. "I saw that acupuncture was used to suppress pain during open heart surgery, which made a deep impression on me." Homeopathy, which Pfeifer was not convinced of before, also took on a new significance for him: "I saw that with the right medication, homeopathy could be used to combat cancer pain and nausea."

What unites integrative medicine and phytotherapy?

How did Alisa Vaid and Patrick Göser come to medpro?

Alisa Vaid and Patrick Göser are the two dedicated masterminds behind medpro. They and the innovative company based in Holland show how important phytotherapy is today. Patrick Göser is the Managing Director of medpro Holland. He feels a bit like the "girl for everything" here and joined the company more or less by chance in 2013. Until then, he was head of the IT department of a company. He was asked by the head of the research and development department to manage medpro on an interim basis because the managing director at the time had left the company. At the time, he had no idea that after a two-year training period, this would become his main job.

While working for a large corporation, Alisa Vaid quickly realized that sense sometimes falls by the wayside. She went to Bali to set up her own business and met Prof. Dr. Pfeifer, the medical developer of medpro products, by chance. In discussions, she finally found the purpose of these products and was convinced of medpro's philosophy and treatment concepts. "With the experience that I myself have gained over the years in the healthcare sector, I finally wanted to get involved," says Alisa Vaid. Alisa was already fascinated by the power of phytotherapy. In her teenage years, she herself had chronic health problems for which she initially relied on conventional medicine. After some time, she finally realized that conventional medicine had reached its limits and that other solutions were needed.

"I started doing my own research and came to integrative medicine in various ways," she says. "Eventually, I was able to replace the monthly antibiotics I was dependent on with herbal medicine." Her success proved her right. Today, she advises people to listen to their bodies and to consider what is good for them and what is not.

What are the obstacles to phytotherapy?

medpro has been on the market for over twenty years now. However, Alisa Vaid and Patrick Göser also encountered stumbling blocks and obstacles. "Due to the many European standards and regulations that also apply to pharmaceutical products, it is not always easy to produce complex modern phytopreparations," says Patrick Göser. However, this means that medpro products meet even the highest demands.

"It's not exactly easy for us to explain what our phytopreparations can do, namely improve quality of life and influence medical challenges," says Patrick Göser. Our success proves us right, as Prof. Dr. Pfeifer has already been able to successfully support countless patients with medpro phytopreparations. "It's great to see that patients who were considered medically untreatable have regained a good quality of life," explains the medpro team unanimously.

The challenge for us as an independent company was always that hospitals and doctors wanted to see studies," says Alisa Vaid. In the meantime, medpro refers to the experiences and successes of patient stories that have often accompanied them for 20 years. Treatment protocols are needed to be able to demonstrate these successes. They show and document the combination of different active ingredients and products aimed at achieving a specific treatment success. These are put together individually for each patient. The results can often be seen after just a few weeks, for example in the blood tests. "We often also connect doctors with other colleagues who use our products successfully."

"As we operate independently, we know exactly where the ingredients in our products come from. We have the highest standards for the quality of the active ingredients and can trace supply chains back to their origin," says Patrick Göser. The proximity to the manufacturers has created a certain basis of trust.