About
Meet Dr Maretha
GP. Cancer survivor. Your partner in personalised healthcare.
The Journey
I have spent more than seventeen years as a General Practitioner. I built and ran Rosmed Family Practice, sat across the desk from thousands of patients, and thought I understood what it meant to walk alongside someone through illness.
In 2024, that understanding changed. I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
“Diagnosis is one word. Everything that comes after it is a different life.”
I went through surgery, treatment, and recovery. And as I moved through it, I saw the gap that my patients had been telling me about for years — but I had never really felt. The clinical care was excellent. The rest of my life — what to eat, how to move, how to sleep, how to think, what to take, how to cope — was left largely to me to figure out.
I am fortunate. I am a doctor. I have colleagues to ask. Most people do not.
Elah Health grew out of that gap. It is a telemedicine practice focused on the lifestyle side of oncology and personalised healthcare — nutrition, movement, mental wellbeing, supplement guidance, DNA-informed care — for people living with a diagnosis and for people who want to age well on their own terms.
I am living this journey myself. I am on hormone blocker treatment for ten years. I have my own scans and my own emotional processing to do. That is not a weakness in what I offer — it is the point of it.
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Qualifications & Credentials
MBChB
[CONFIRM: University]
Lifestyle Oncology
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Integrative Medicine
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Health Coaching
[CONFIRM: Certification]
DNA Analysis
[CONFIRM: Course]
Clinical Experience
17+ years in practice
HPCSA Registration
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Practice Number
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Beyond the practice
I live in Stellenbosch with my family. I love time outdoors, quiet mornings, and the feeling of leaving a consultation knowing the person I spoke to feels seen and less alone. That is what Elah Health is for.
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