hello there, I'm Kristin

From Searching for Answers to Finding Them

My journey into functional health did not begin with a career plan. It began in 2012, when my son was born and experienced several health concerns that did not come with simple explanations. I quickly learned that I would have to ask questions, pay close attention, and keep searching when the answers we received did not fully make sense.

Not long afterward, my husband suddenly began experiencing anaphylaxis. Once again, I found myself researching symptoms, studying potential triggers, reading ingredient labels, and trying to connect pieces that initially seemed unrelated. Then, when our daughter was born in 2015, she faced a wide range of health challenges of her own. Helping her required me to become what I often jokingly called "Sherlock Health" — investigating every detail, looking for patterns, and digging beneath the surface to understand what was really happening.

Before I knew it, researching health had become part of my everyday life. I spent countless hours reading books, listening to medical lectures and podcasts, studying the human body, and learning how its many systems work together. I became highly skilled at reading labels, evaluating ingredients, researching supplements, and recognizing connections that could easily be overlooked when symptoms were viewed in isolation.

My desire to understand health on a deeper level grew even stronger after watching my grandfather pass away from esophageal cancer in 2016. Around that same time, I began struggling with health concerns of my own. As a mother of three, I often placed my needs at the bottom of the list, but eventually I knew I had to begin investigating my own body with the same determination I had used for my family.

It was during that season that I was introduced to functional medicine and functional nutrition. I dove into epigenetics, nutritional deficiencies, laboratory testing, supplementation, gut health, and the interconnected nature of the body. I was fascinated by the idea that symptoms are not simply inconveniences to silence; they are clues that can help us understand where the body may need support.

Over time, I became the person friends and family contacted when they had an unusual symptom, needed help understanding a supplement, or wanted another set of eyes on an ingredient label. After years of independent study and helping those around me, I realized it was time to pursue formal training so I could serve people more effectively and on a much larger scale.

I have always been an equal blend of creativity and analysis. I love art, design, and making things beautiful, but I also have an engineering mindset that wants to understand how something works, why it is not functioning as it should, and what can be done to improve it. I have been a lifelong fan of Sherlock Holmes, so bringing investigation, pattern recognition, and problem-solving into my work feels completely natural.

Today, I help others gather the clues their bodies are providing, understand the connections between their symptoms, and develop personalized strategies designed to support the whole person — not just one isolated concern.

Outside of Investigative Health, I am a follower of Christ, a wife, a mother of three, a soccer coach, a youth group leader, a local artisan, and an enthusiastic dance mom. Each of these roles has shaped the way I serve others — with curiosity, compassion, creativity, faith, and the belief that people deserve to feel heard as they search for answers.