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Complex Diagnosis & Care Plans

Dr. Getzelman's Unique Approach

Dr. Getzelman’s mission is to find the root cause of patients’ health challenges. She sees adults AND children who are interested in this approach. With functional medicine as the guiding principle, she takes the time to identify the underlying and often overlooked factors that impact health.

Dr. G achieves this level of granularity by taking a deep dive into a symptom timeline, birth and medical history, nutrition and lifestyle details, sleep quality, temperament, thought patterns, emotions and genetic polymorphisms. This allows her to get at the unique biology of every patient.

And this is just the jumping off point. She often needs to look further to determine food sensitivities or allergies, celiac disease or non celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), infections, mold exposure and susceptibility, body burden by metals or industrial chemicals, intestinal permeability, parasites, dysbiosis and other measures of gut health, etc. All of these factors contribute to inflammation in the body, which is the common upstream variable in all modern illness.

This is a comprehensive and collaborative process which affords the time, tools, and information she needs to create meaningful and personalized treatment plans that allow the body and brain to achieve vitality – without the primary use of medications.

Dr Julia Getzelman

And this is just the jumping-off point – we often need to look further to determine food sensitivities or allergies, celiac disease or non-celiac gluten sensitivity (NCGS), infections, mold exposure and susceptibility, body burden by metals or industrial chemicals, intestinal permeability, parasites, dysbiosis and other measures of gut health, etc. All of these factors contribute to inflammation in the body, which is the common upstream variable in all modern illness.

This is a comprehensive and collaborative process which affords the time, tools, and information she needs to create meaningful and personalized treatment plans that allow the body and brain to achieve vitality – without the primary use of medications.

We want to help our patients heal from the inside out.

By focusing on treating the whole person — not just an isolated set of symptoms — Dr. Getzelman is able to deliver non-pharmaceutical solutions to many common and chronic conditions such as ADHD, allergies, eczema, anxiety, autism, autoimmune disease, GI complaints, headaches/migraines, and many more.

“Let me begin my saying I’m not one to write reviews. It’s difficult to know what’s real and sincere vs an AI driven review nowadays.

Mom in a beige shirt in a field giving her daughter in a red hat a piggy back ride

I will make the exception for GetzWell Personalized Medicine. We will forever be grateful to Dr. Getzelman and her staff for saving our daughter. She began experiencing bizarre behavior soon after Kindergarten started. This included violent tantrums and sleep disturbances. At one point we were receiving daily phone calls from school regarding her behavioral issues. As to be expected, a Special Education referral was suggested. I knew that my daughter wouldn’t benefit from Special Education. Nor was she ADHD or autistic, as had been suggested by a variety of counselors. I didn’t know exactly what the issue was, but I suspected it was something wrong with her gut.

At this point we unenrolled our daughter from school and by divine intervention, discovered Dr. Getzelman’s practice. Her office was extremely helpful and accommodating during that difficult time (especially since we live halfway across the country). Our first appointment with Dr. Getzelman was a solid hour of telling our story and answering questions asked by Dr. Getzelman-there was absolutely no rush whatsoever by Dr. Getzelman to end the appointment until she was satisfied with the information that we provided. Dr. Getzelman was very comforting and provided us hope during a very challenging and confusing time.

After extensive lab studies revealed systemic yeast overgrowth, and having been on anti-fungal medications for a month now, our daughter is thriving. She’s back in school, and we have our girl back! I’m thankful everyday that our paths crossed with Dr. Getzelman and that she’s had the courage to branch outside of mainstream medicine. This practice is truly performing miracles. I tell anyone and everyone who will listen, our story and refer them to Dr. Getzelman. If this review resonates with you or someone you know, reach out to GetzWell Personalized Pediatrics!

Jenny Nelson

What our families are saying:

“Dr. Getzelman is exceptional and has transformed the health of our entire family. We came to her in search of a deeper understanding of our son’s medical issues and are thrilled to report that in the past year of the highly personal process with Dr. G, we have seen remarkable improvements in our son’s health. Not only that, since she now works with adults, my husband and I have taken advantage of her customized approach. She assessed our 23andMe genetic data and made meaningful recommendations that have benefited us greatly. Shortly after we started my husband said, ‘Even music sounds different now’.”

Samantha and Alex G.

“It’s unbelievable what we have accomplished with GetzWell’s unique approach to our son’s ADHD. Dr. Getzelman has helped him go from being wiggly, impulsive and challenged-to-focus in the classroom to a more calm and successful student in a competitive San Francisco academic setting in just a few short months. We had been preoccupied for years, going from one specialist to another, ultimately without a lot of confidence that a purely conventional approach would provide our highly intelligent kid the help he needed to fulfill what we believed was his full potential. We’re finally seeing that kid: focused, more motivated than ever, and with a growing self-esteem that makes us proud. We are just so amazed and grateful!”

Katya M.

“After 30 years of a constant looping, stomping, and crashing parade of worries and rumination, I self-consciously reached out to Dr. G for help after reading that she had been using genetic testing to uncover the root causes of patients’ mental and physical issues. Her compassion was overwhelming in the very best way. She took my complaints seriously and after analyzing my genetic test, she explained from a medical perspective why I felt so awful and trapped. More importantly, she developed a plan for me to get better. Today, I am so much better. I feel astonishingly good, and I’m so grateful.”

Kelly W.
“Dr. Getzelman is exceptional and has transformed the health of our entire family. We came to her in search of a deeper understanding of our son’s medical issues and are thrilled to report that in the past year of the highly personal process with Dr. G, we have seen remarkable improvements in our son’s health. Not only that, since she now works with adults, my husband and I have taken advantage of her customized approach. She assessed our 23andMe genetic data and made meaningful recommendations that have benefited us greatly. Shortly after we started my husband said, ‘Even music sounds different now’.”
Samantha and Alex G.
“It’s unbelievable what we have accomplished with GetzWell’s unique approach to our son’s ADHD. Dr. Getzelman has helped him go from being wiggly, impulsive and challenged-to-focus in the classroom to a more calm and successful student in a competitive San Francisco academic setting in just a few short months. We had been preoccupied for years, going from one specialist to another, ultimately without a lot of confidence that a purely conventional approach would provide our highly intelligent kid the help he needed to fulfill what we believed was his full potential. We’re finally seeing that kid: focused, more motivated than ever, and with a growing self-esteem that makes us proud. We are just so amazed and grateful!”
Katya M.
“After 30 years of a constant looping, stomping, and crashing parade of worries and rumination, I self-consciously reached out to Dr. G for help after reading that she had been using genetic testing to uncover the root causes of patients’ mental and physical issues. Her compassion was overwhelming in the very best way. She took my complaints seriously and after analyzing my genetic test, she explained from a medical perspective why I felt so awful and trapped. More importantly, she developed a plan for me to get better. Today, I am so much better. I feel astonishingly good, and I’m so grateful.”
Kelly W.

Read more of our success stories about a family in San Francisco, Kasey and her parents, and Olivia and Emma from San Francisco.

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