Kristine Gedroic MD

Kristine Profeta, M.D., formerly known as Kristine Gedroic, is the author of A Nation of Unwell and the Founder and Medical Director of Profeta Medical Institute in Morristown, New Jersey.

Dr. Profeta is recognized for her work with patients facing complex, chronic, and often unresolved medical conditions. Throughout her career, she has helped individuals with autoimmune diseases, neurological disorders, chronic fatigue syndrome, gastrointestinal conditions, ADHD, depression, chronic pain, severe allergies, and other persistent health challenges.

Her approach is grounded in the belief that symptoms are often the body’s way of communicating that something deeper requires attention. Rather than focusing solely on managing a diagnosis, Dr. Profeta works to identify the underlying factors affecting each patient’s health and to develop an individualized roadmap toward recovery.

Dr. Profeta graduated from Harvard University with a degree in biochemical sciences and earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University Medical School. She is also a graduate of Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, GMP32.

She is a Fellow of the American Board of Family Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Medicine and serves as a Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.

Dr. Profeta lives in New Jersey with her family.

DR. PROFETA'S OWN STORY

Dr. Gedroic is passionate about helping others recover their health because she lived through her own health crisis at age 28. Here's how she explains it in her book, A Nation of Unwell:

"At age twenty-eight, having just graduated from medical school with a spot in a coveted plastic surgery residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City, my health started deteriorating after only the first year. I was working more than a hundred hours a week, and I chalked up the frequent, debilitating migraines I was getting to simply being stressed and having a lot on my plate. I also chalked up my newly diagnosed gastric ulcer to the same cause. After all, I had just run a marathon, so I was in “excellent” health. ...

I thought nothing of taking prescription migraine pills and acid blockers, which, in hindsight, were merely stifling my body’s cries for help. What began as medication to treat the occasional migraine, though, soon became daily pills that stopped getting results. I began to rotate from one medication to the next. Nothing seemed to work because I wasn’t addressing the underlying causes, only I didn’t realize this at the time.

It’s important to mention here that during this period, none of the doctors I consulted asked me about my diet. I was living on diet soda made with the chemical sweetener aspartame to stay awake, along with whole wheat bagels that I stashed in my white doctor’s coat and nibbled on all day long for energy. Years later, when I finally discovered my triggers for migraines (which ironically turned out to be gluten, dairy, and aspartame), I realized that removing these foods from my diet would have made my life, and my health, infinitely better back then. These same foods were also affecting my stomach and were part of what needed to change in order for my stomach to heal. But incredibly, not one single doctor ever asked what I was eating. By continuing to eat and live the way I was, along with taking prescription medicines, I was ignoring what my body really needed.

Soon my body’s cries for help got louder and, not surprisingly, my medical condition got worse, eventually spiraling out of control.

One of the medications I was taking had a severe, almost fatal, side effect. Along with a series of ensuing serious complications, I found myself, the marathon-running surgical resident in “perfect health”, in the ICU.

That’s when I realized how wrong my reality was. ... it wasn’t until my mother took me to see a nearby integrative physician that my health started to turn around.

This integrative doctor examined my diet, my daily routines, and my life and determined that changing these things, as well as taking some critical supplements, would transform my health. And it did, dramatically. Within only a few days, I was feeling stronger and healthier and had more energy. My migraines and stomach problems slowly stopped. Today I can eat gluten and even certain forms of dairy, but only for a few days at a time. When the old symptoms start to return, I am reminded of how beautiful our bodies are at letting us know when enough is enough. ...

Today, my clinic is called the Profeta (formerly Gedroic) Medical Institute, and we see and recover some of the most complex medical issues people face. The work can be extremely challenging, but each case teaches me even more about the beauty of the human body and how gracefully it can recover if given the proper tools. The cases we see are truly transformative. Children with severe allergies, behavioral disorders, and chronic gastrointestinal complaints become well without medication. Young women and men with autoimmune diseases, chronic fatigue, and neurological disorders have their conditions reversed. They never have to take medication again, and they go on to have healthy lives. Adults with chronic pain, fatigue, and depression recover and are once again able to enjoy life to the fullest. Over the years, these patients have been the consummate teachers. I have had to study each case and develop individualized roadmaps to recovery, but each recovery started with listening to what they and their bodies were telling me. Everything I’ve learned with each and every patient, I’ve used with subsequent patients. It has truly been a yellow brick road of learning with a goal of wellness for all as the driving force. To be able to assist my patients on their journey to wellness is a gift I never could have imagined."