Our BrandauVital Team
Our team of qualified professionals is here to support you on your journey to better health and well-being. With years of experience in therapy, prevention, and holistic health promotion, we possess the necessary knowledge and empathy to understand your individual needs and provide you with the best possible support.
Elisabeth Brandau
Naturopathic Practitioner & CEO
Elisabeth Brandau is the founder of BrandauVital and Vitalperform. In her work as a naturopathic practitioner, she combines many years of experience in elite sports with in-depth knowledge of naturopathy. With BrandauVital, she has created a platform that unites holistic health promotion and preventative therapy approaches to sustainably support people on their path to greater vitality.
Harriet Rücknagel
Trainer & alternative practitioner
Harriet Rücknagel is an expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), acupuncture, and energy healing. After completing her secondary education in economics and enjoying a successful career in international cycling competitions, she followed her passion for naturopathy and now offers a variety of approaches to health promotion and recovery. Her love of travel took her to Asia for several months for her training.
More about Elisabeth Brandau
Elisabeth Brandau has been intensively involved in performance improvement since her youth because she had high goals as a top athlete.
Her scientific interest allowed her to translate her own struggles with issues like eating disorders, fertility, overtraining, and the resulting depressive episodes and demotivation into a successful career, including 18 German championship titles in cycling and an Olympic appearance in MTB XCO. This demonstrates that her knowledge is also applicable in practice.
Despite being a trained refrigeration systems engineer and building energy consultant, her heart has always been in health and performance enhancement. This allows her to share her practical experience in environmental technology and her down-to-earth approach with her patients, supported by countless continuing education courses. Her passion for combining technology and medicine as a naturopathic practitioner stems from the fact that, due to dropping out of high school in the 11th grade, she didn't obtain the Abitur (university entrance qualification) required to enroll in medical school. However, she now sees this as her strength, as it allows her to act neutrally and comprehensively, and she has also come to understand how the situation arose that led to her dropping out of school in the first place.
With three children and as an entrepreneur, she continues to give her full passion to health and to her clients.
