About Alfred Vogel

“Finding the balance between nature, body and mind has been my endeavour and philosophy, a holistic approach.”

Alfred Vogel was a natural health pioneer. Starting in his native Switzerland, Vogel documented and promoted traditional approaches to health and lifestyle from all over the globe. Vogel was on a mission to help people attain a healthier body and mind. Alfred Vogel’s philosophy was holistic, maintaining that health is tied to living in harmony with nature, rather than against it. He advocated the balanced use of powerful natural foods to achieve optimum health.

Here at Vogel’s we are committed to continuing Alfred’s legacy of natural health. Taking wondrous elements of nature, we create delicious foods to help us all in our own missions to feel amazing everyday.  

The Life of Alfred Vogel

Growing up in Switzerland, Alfred Vogel was familiar with medicinal plants and their properties from a young age. By the time he was 21 Vogel was managing a herb and health store. He advocated the power of nature alongside balanced nutrition and lifestyle and began to prepare remedies himself, selling them to his customers.

Spreading his message of a holistic lifestyle in harmony with nature, Vogel was prolific as a lecturer and author. Among his publications, the monthly magazine Health News and his seminal work, The Nature Doctor, are the most notable.  

Throughout his life Alfred Vogel was a passionate traveller. Full of curiosity, all plants and herbs of the world were of interest to him. He took every opportunity to visit other countries and cultures and learn from them. Vogel’s special interest lay with societies that retained a close relationship with nature. For example, in the USA he spent time with the Native American Sioux who showed him the purple coneflower, a traditional medicine of theirs better known as Echinacea. Vogel took seeds back with him to Switzerland, commercially cultivated the plant and introduced the properties of Echinacea to the rest of the world.

Living well into his nineties, Vogel’s entire life was dedicated to sharing his knowledge with the rest of the world. A true natural health pioneer, his work and philosophy are still recognised as unique and important contributions to naturopathy and nutrition today.