Curtis Takemoto-Gentile, MD

The receptionists were fine except for Chris who is new… He made about 5 mistakes on my prescriptions and my appointments and did not want to put me through to talk to my doctor. Then he was defensive when I pointed the huge errors he made (people who make lots of mistakes and don’t admit them are Always very defensive). He was rude, condescending, interruptive, load, controlling etc.
When I call and get hi on the phone, I will either hang up or ask to talk to a different person. I almost complained to Dr Wilson who is an amazing doctor, but he has other things to do and to listen to… HOPEFULLY THE OFFICE READS THESE REVIEWS!!!

If you can just deal with Dr. Wilson then going here makes sense and you’ll likely have a good experience. But the office staff, along with Dr. Takemoto-Gentile’s wife, are extremely condescending, rude, and unhelpful. So when you call, make sure to ask for Dr. Wilson, then be prepared to deal with an office staff more aimed at their own convenience than yours. One example is that they mandated I switch pharmacies to Mina Pharmacy downtown somewhere, instead of using my regular pharmacy one mile from my house that I pass two times a day. They claimed that Mina was «faster.» When I debated the point with them, they finally admitted that Mina does a lot of their paperwork for them so they don’t have to, so the «faster» part was to benefit them, the office staff, and not the patient.
I’ve gotten to the point where I’m going to find out if my regular general physician can prescribe what I need, so I won’t have to go back here anymore. I would give Dr. Wilson five stars, and the rest of the crew down there negative twenty or something.

The quality of care I have received from Dr. Curtis Takemoto-​Gentile and his staff has been and continues to be outstanding! I am always greeted by his friendly and efficient staff who seem to know the «magic» of scheduling because the wait time is minimal. Dr. Takemoto-​Gentile is warm, gentle, knowledgeable and more importantly, I feel that he truly CARES about me and makes an effort to know me as a whole person and not just a patient with a health challenge. I so appreciate his naturopathic approach to achieve and/​or maintain optimal health and his sharing of the value of the mind-​body-​spirit connection. I am very impressed with his book, «Optimal Health Naturally What Your Doctor Didn’t Tell You and Your Mother Didn’t Know,» that I bought and shared his book (AND recommended him) to all of my family and friends! He has made a positive difference in my life and this is why I am rating him with 5 stars!

My Doctor is Dr. Wilson in Takemoto office. Since I have been going to them, I feel really good, my blood result is in top shape! I used to take whole bunch of over the counter meds, now I only take natural supplement and it’s doing be all the great things no side effect.

My mother and sister went to this doctor, and got recommendations on vitamin supplements and cutting out a whole list of foods that were possibly causing an allergic reaction in my sister, including gluten, dairy and sugar. Since my mom puts great trust in nutrition as an approach to health and healing, she trusted what he said, and my sister did lose weight and seemed healthier overall. So, I went to him. In retrospect, the diet change that was inspired by his suggestions included far more fresh foods, vegetables, and far fewer processed and junk foods, so of course she benefited.
The first time, I went to him for some haole rot on my skin and he gave me some standard advice on skin yeast infections and told me to cut out sugar. I also asked him about back problems I was having and he looked at me and said that my eyes were uneven on my face, that’s how unbalanced my body was. And then he tapped me a few times on the back with some sort of space ship tool and when I stood up, he said «look, now your eyes are even!» This is nonsense. Everyone’s eyes are slightly asymmetrical, and that tool did absolutely nothing to help with back pain.
The second time I went in, I told him I wanted advice on how to lose weight in a healthy way, no crash diets. He said that they offer a hormone treatment which is placed under your tongue and re-​trains your brain to not want sugar. Supposedly, many people lose 30 lbs within a few weeks. Meantime, you’re supposed to eat less than 1,000 calories per day. He said he had tried it himself. I also asked him about my recurring skin condition, and he said I had to seriously seriously cut out sugar. Not even fruits.
I am by no means a doctor, but I am very very wary of anybody who says anything along the lines of «this product is a magic bullet» and losing 30 lbs in a matter of weeks is the definition of a crash diet, which I know to be unhealthy in many ways. I leave these experiences up for other people’s judgment, but I have no trust in this physician and have not been to him since or ever again and I would not recommend my friends to him.

Not only was I impressed with the service I received from Doc, but was hopeful when my visit ended. He is very well versed in my specific conditions and has made me feel acknowledged and hopeful for my future, where other doctors have given me the «it’s in your head» speech. I highly suggest anyone to see him from infant to geriatric as he treats all ages. From beginning to end I guarantee you will learn something that could save your life or somebody you know.

First time patient here and I felt very at ease with the whole experience from start to finish. The gentleman on the phone was informative and eager to help with my last minute request to come in. Then, the doctor was excellent. He was very thorough, cared about my needs immensely, wanted the best for me (not for his pocketbook), and was very patient. Most importantly I felt that doctor was knowledgeable. I had an unusual situation, but he knew exactly how to treat me and gave me my options. It was probably the best experience I have had visiting the doctor. I felt so good upon walking away from this place. Thank you for all you do for us.

Six months ago I came to Dr. Takemoto-​Gentile and found a compassionate, thorough, wise, well credentialed, and insightful practitioner who took the time to listen to me and work with me to vastly improve my health. Due to his care I was able to get off heart medications, am asthma free for the first time in 23 years, and have lost 73 pounds. I not only feel healthy and hopeful, I look years younger. He has given me and my family excellent care in a warm and friendly practice. We only regret not finding him 23 years ago.

I have one word for this office… DON’T. or RUN… Also, if I could give zero stars that’s all this is worth. I am mostly writing so others can be spared what I’ve gone through by going to this quack.
Firstly, he is not qualified to be inserting those hormone replacement pellets that he and his wife Janice are really pushing. After I didn’t get the ‘desired’ effects, they continued to insert one pellet after another. I went to this nut job for over a year, when I realized he was seriously close to killing me by over medication. Then they told me I should see a head shrink because it must be me and not them that the medication wasn’t working.
I could go on forever, but I seriously believe he’s done soooooo much damage to me and in my life, I fear I may never come back from it. It’s taken over a year and a half to detox what he did out of my system.
In addition, look him up on google. He was accused and convicted of over billing, which is exactly what they also did to me. What a scam, what a farce. what a f-​ing joke his office is. He may be good for something, but we never uncovered what that was.
Save your money, save your self. Don’t go here.

when I went to Dr. Takemoto-​Gentile, I couldn’t believe it!!! – if I could give 0 stars, I would — -all I did was ask for an iron test, and he said, «we don’t give them” — and I said, I’ve had it before, it’s listed under «serum ferritin». His mouth fell open and from then on, he went ballistic. He took my blood pressure with my arm hanging down and put the cuff on so loose, it almost fell off. When I questioned him, he gave me all crazy answers. He said it was o. k that my arm was hanging down. Then he gives me a high potency vitamin B bottle of pills, and when I questioned him what it was for, he said for my homosysteine levels. I told him my h levels were even better than good (the arrows were going in the good direction), and he said «it’s so it won’t get worse!!!” — Then I said, «my white blood cell count is low” — and he sarcastically said, «that’s ok!!!»
When I left the office, I looked at the expiration date on the vitamin Bs which was in 2 weeks!!! —he also gave me all the wrong answers for everything I asked — HELP!!!
I told him that I had a very high mullti vitamin pill with extra high levels of vitamin Bs. he said «oh, you could take a tub full of bs and the excess will go right through you.
At that point, I didn’t want to say anything else, BUT — over 100 mg. of B6 CAN cause neurological damage as can NIACIN – which is a B vitamin. SCARY!!! — I can’t believe the experience I had with him.

Dr. Takemoto-​Gentile is both a naturopathic and medical doctor. So when I came to him with high cholesterol he put me on Red Yeast Rice instead of the statins my previous physician had recommended. My numbers came way down without any side effects. I’ve started bio-​identical hormone treatments with him and he’s helping me feel better than ever before. I’ve seen doctors on a regular basis my whole life and Takemoto-​Gentile is the best.