Daniela Themmer

Dr. med. Daniela Themmer is a physician for general medicine and nutritional medicine at JUVENIS Medical Center in central Vienna. Her practice is built around prevention: comprehensive health check-ups, nutritional medicine, and the investigation of food intolerances. She has been a doctor for over 35 years.

Education and training Dr. Themmer received her doctorate in medicine from the Medical University of Vienna in 1989. She completed her clinical rotations with the City of Vienna between 1995 and 2001 and qualified as a physician for general medicine in 2001. In 2002 she obtained the Diploma in Nutritional Medicine from AKH Vienna, Austria's largest hospital.

Career From 2004 to 2014 Dr. Themmer practised as a general physician in a group practice in Vienna's Josefstadt district. She has been a cooperating physician at JUVENIS since April 2014.

Clinical focus

• Preventive medicine — the extended health examination, a comprehensive check-up
• Nutritional counselling
• Food intolerances, investigated with the hydrogen (H2) breath test
• Metabolic Balance — metabolic regulation and weight reduction
• Body fat measurement by bioimpedance analysis (BIA)
• Vaccinations
• Pre-operative clearance — confirming a patient is medically fit for surgery

What an extended health check-up actually involves A preventive examination is not one test but a structured look at where a person's health currently stands — cardiovascular risk, metabolism, weight and body composition, nutrition, and the things worth catching before they cause symptoms. Its value lies in being interpreted as a whole by one doctor who then says what, if anything, needs acting on. For patients travelling to Vienna, it condenses into a short visit what would otherwise be several separate appointments.

Nutrition as medicine Food intolerances are commonly suspected and rarely tested properly. A hydrogen breath test gives an objective answer on intolerances such as lactose and fructose, rather than leaving a patient to eliminate foods by guesswork. Combined with bioimpedance measurement, which shows how much of a person's weight is fat, muscle and water rather than just a number on a scale, it turns dietary advice into something specific.

Languages Dr. Themmer treats patients in German and English.

Her approach In her own words, the path to outward beauty runs through physical health and wellbeing: regular prevention, exercise and good mental hygiene let us go through life upright. Mens sana in corpore sano — a healthy mind in a healthy body.