Helmond health coach Anne Eißfeller would advise cancer patients to eat cottage cheese with linseed oil instead of undergoing chemotherapy. This is evident from an episode of BOOS. It is not the first Brabander to be discredited with questionable health advice. For example, an anesthesiologist claims to be able to cure autism with umbilical cord blood and an alternative healer claimed to cure AIDS and cancer with a drink.
Anesthetist Jens Fischer from Veldhoven claims to be able to cure autism or cerebral palsy by administering umbilical cord blood. This became apparent in November 2025 from a report by the Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate. Fischer administered the blood to almost two hundred children in hotel rooms. The inspectorate intervened because the anesthetist did not have the correct permits. He is also prohibited from continuing the treatments.
Gwendolyn van Gorkom, hematologist and expert in the field of blood treatments, called the treatments ‘pure quackery’ in conversation with Omroep Brabant. According to Van Gorkom, the treatment is not reliable and hardly effective.
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Unproven cancer therapies
Alternative healer Michael van Gils from Waalre offers cancer patients who have completed treatment expensive, unproven therapies. This became apparent in December last year from research by Follow The Money (FTM). During an undercover consultation, Van Gils offered a cancer patient treatment with vitamin C. “Vitamin C is actually a chemotherapy without side effects,” he said.
The Healthcare and Youth Inspectorate (IGJ) already wrote a critical report about the clinic at the end of 2024. Inspectors saw serious shortcomings, such as inadequate infection prevention and the provision of risky therapies. Van Gils closed the clinic shortly after the inspection visit, but opened a new practice two months later: Feel Good Care.
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‘Virtual’ gastric band
Anyone who is not interested in an operation to lose tens of kilos is eligible for a virtual gastric band treatment. This so-called virtual gastric band is ‘placed’ under hypnosis, while in reality there is no gastric band.
Striking: the Tilburg health insurer CZ reimburses the treatment. A bad thing according to Catherine de Jong, anesthesiologist and secretary of the Association against Quackery. The treatment may not be physically harmful, but according to De Jong, ‘practitioners’ do sell false hope with it. “As far as I am concerned, hypnotherapy is nothing more than a fairground trick. It is mutual occupational therapy, but not a treatment that belongs in healthcare,” she told Omroep Brabant last year.
Arno van den Munckhof, founder of the Hypnoworld training institute, was also concerned about these treatments. According to him, half of the hypnotherapists who perform this treatment just do whatever. “Unfortunately, money sometimes plays a leading role in this. Then the client still loses weight, but mainly in his wallet.”
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Cancer and AIDS patients misled
In 2013, the Healthcare Inspectorate (IGZ) started an investigation into the activities of Naturopathic Center Energy Healing in Veldhoven. The inspection did this after an episode of the SBS6 program Undercover in the Netherlands. Healer Jacob could heal cancer and AIDS patients with special drinks. Jacob allegedly told an undercover journalist that chemotherapy would actually cause cancer instead of curing it. Yet the IGZ and the Public Prosecution Service have not been able to prosecute the naturopathic center.
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‘Cottage better than chemo’
The Helmond health coach Anne Eißfeller claims according to BOOS that ‘no disease is incurable and experience proves it right’. She would advise cancer patients, among other things, to eat cottage cheese with linseed oil instead of chemotherapy. At the last municipal elections, Eißfeller was still number 20 on the electoral list for the Helmond branch of Forum for Democracy.
