Dr. med. Elena Müllner

Fall back in love with being alive.

Medical video consultations for women who did everything right and still feel exhausted. Hormones, sleep, stress and the nervous system, looked at together — by a physician who has been on your side of the desk.

45 minVideoEN / DEWorldwide
Portrait · warm light
Next available · Tue 2 Sep
Dr. med. · GermanyFormer trauma surgeonAuthor, I Know I Can (Rowohlt 2023)Consultations in English & German

You might recognise this

Everything looks fine on paper. You don’t feel fine.

This is the most common sentence I hear in a first hour. None of it is in your head. Most of it is in your stress physiology — cortisol, sleep, thyroid, iron, the nervous system’s ability to recover — and all of that can be measured and understood.

  • You sleep eight hours and wake up tired.
  • Your labs came back “normal”. You did not.
  • You have read everything and tried most of it.
  • You run a team, a household, or both — and nobody asks how you are.
  • Your body has been sending messages for a while. You have been too busy to answer.

How it works

One hour, then a plan you can hold in your hand.

01 · Before we meet

A short intake

Ten minutes, on your phone, starting with one question: which of the four areas brought you here. Then your history, your symptoms, your existing lab results. I read every intake and tell you whether the first hour is the right start — before you pay anything.

02 · The consultation

Your first hour

45 minutes on video. We go through what your body has been doing, not only what your labs say. You ask everything you never had time to ask.

03 · Within 48 hours

Your written plan

What to test, what to change, what to leave alone — in writing, shareable with your own doctors. Then 14 days of follow-up messages while you start.

Where to start

Four ways in. One first hour.

Elena works in four areas. They overlap — that is the point. Start where it hurts most; the first hour looks underneath.

Brain fog

You read the same sentence three times and the name you know will not come. Your brain is not failing — it is under-supplied.

fT3 · fT4FerritinB12SleepCortisol
Start here

Weight that won’t move

You eat less than everyone around you and the scale still moves the wrong way. This is physiology, not discipline.

Fasting insulinHbA1cTSHCortisolCycle
Start here

Chronic fatigue

Eight hours of sleep, three coffees, and you are still empty by two in the afternoon.

FerritinVitamin DTSHCortisol rhythmHRV
Start here

Everything at once

Fatigue plus fog plus skin plus cycle plus mood. Rarely five problems — usually two or three causes.

The full panelAll of the above
Start here
Portrait · at the desk

About Elena

I was the doctor who did not listen to her own body.

I trained as a trauma surgeon. I was good at it, and I was exhausted. After my daughter was born I did exactly what I now tell my patients not to do: I kept functioning until I could not. What came after — the reading, the testing, the slow rebuilding of my own nervous system — became the medicine I practise today. Women’s health taken as a whole: hormones, stress, sleep, skin, and the life around them.

  • Dr. med. · Licensed physician, Germany
  • Trauma surgery · Hospital practice before founding her own companies
  • Author · I Know I Can — Warum mutig besser als perfekt ist, Rowohlt 2023
  • Advisory · Scientific advisory board, women’s health & nutrition
  • Based in Miami · Consultations in English and German, worldwide
Courage over perfection. That was the book.
This is the practice.
Elena Müllner

What you take home

A plan you can actually follow.

Every first hour ends with a written plan within 48 hours. Three headings, always the same: what to test, what to change, what to leave alone. Short enough to act on, precise enough to hand to your own doctor.

The example on the right is anonymised.
Every plan is different; the format is not.
Written plan · examplePage 1 / 2

What to test

  • Ferritin — not only haemoglobin. Your tiredness and your hair both point here.
  • Full thyroid panel: TSH with fT3 and fT4, plus TPO antibodies once.
  • Morning cortisol, drawn within an hour of waking.

What to change

  • Protein at breakfast, before anything else. Caffeine after it, not instead of it.
  • Screens off 60 minutes before bed for 14 days. Then we look at what changed.

What to leave alone

  • Your training plan. It is not the problem.
  • The supplements you already take — except two we discussed.
Elena MüllnerDr. med.

Consultations

Start with one hour.

Everyone starts with the first hour: 45 minutes on video, a written plan within 48 hours, and 14 days of messages while you start.

Whether you need more is something we decide together at the end of that hour, not something you buy in advance. If you do, it looks like this:

  • Follow-up25 minutes on video · plan updated in writing · 7 days of messages
  • Twelve weeks, guidedFirst hour + two follow-ups · messages throughout · one lab re-check · one track: brain fog, fatigue or metabolic — chosen together at the end of your first hour
  • The Whole Picture · six monthsFor everything at once: first hour + four follow-ups · messages throughout · two lab re-checks

You receive the complete fee overview in writing, together with my reply to your intake — before anything is booked or paid. Payment happens at booking, never before.

Private pay, not billed to insurance; a receipt for reimbursement is provided on request. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before.

I take on a limited number of new patients each month

First hour · new patients

45 minon video
  • Written plan within 48 hours
  • 14 days of follow-up messages
  • Review of your existing lab results
  • Fee overview with the reply to your intake

Step one is a ten-minute intake. I read every one and tell you honestly whether the first hour is the right start — before you pay anything.

Not one-to-one

Being Alive. Six weeks, live, in a group of fifty.

The four areas — and the systems underneath them — taught in six live sessions, with the questions everyone has and nobody gets to ask. For women who want to understand their body before, or instead of, a private consultation.

This is teaching, not treatment: no individual diagnosis or therapy in the group. When a question needs your labs and your history, the answer is the first hour.

Oct 2026next

Cohort of 50 · fee comes with the invitation

  1. Wk 1
    Chronic fatigue & the energy systemsFerritin, thyroid, mitochondria — why eight hours can still not be enough.
  2. Wk 2
    Brain fog & focusWhat supplies a brain: iron, B12, sleep depth, thyroid conversion.
  3. Wk 3
    Weight & metabolismInsulin, cortisol and the physiology behind a scale that will not move.
  4. Wk 4
    Hormones & the cyclePerimenopause, the pill and after — what labs can and cannot tell you.
  5. Wk 5
    Sleep & stress physiologyCortisol rhythm, HRV, and how a nervous system actually recovers.
  6. Wk 6
    The whole picturePutting it together — and knowing when it is time for a first hour.

Questions

Before you book.

When do I learn the fees?

In writing, together with my reply to your intake — a complete overview of every format, before anything is booked or paid. Fees are fixed per format and reviewed once a year; there are no surprises, and nothing is charged until you confirm a time. For consultations under German law, the fee is agreed in a written fee agreement before the appointment.

Which of the four areas is mine?

The intake asks — brain fog, weight, fatigue, or all of it. If you would tick more than two, you are probably The Whole Picture, and that is the most common answer. You do not have to decide correctly; that is my job in the first hour.

Should I start with the group programme or the first hour?

If you want to understand what is going on in a woman’s body in general, start with the group. If you want to know what is going on in yours, start with the first hour. Many women do the group first and book the hour afterwards with better questions.

Does this replace my GP or gynaecologist?

No. I work alongside them. You get a written plan you can share with your own doctors, and I tell you clearly when something needs to be seen in person.

Do you prescribe medication?

That depends on where you are. Prescriptions follow the rules of the country you are in; in many cases I coordinate with your local physician rather than prescribing directly.

I already have lab results. Can you look at them?

Yes — upload them in the intake. Results from the last six months are the most useful and often mean you do not need to test again.

Which languages do you consult in?

English and German. The written plan comes in the language of the consultation.

What if I am in crisis?

Teleconsultation is not emergency care. If you are in acute distress, contact your local emergency number or a crisis line first. We can talk afterwards.

Can I cancel or move an appointment?

Up to 24 hours before, free of charge, from the confirmation email.

Your first hour

The hour where you finally get asked the right questions.

Next available · Tue 2 Sep · 45 min · video · EN / DE