Who is Kim Pellegri?
Kim Pellegri, FNTP, ACFMHC
Kim Pellegri, FNTP, ACFMHC is the founder of Kim Pellegri Precision Wellness — a virtual functional medicine practice built for people who are done guessing and ready for real answers.
With over 30 years in health and wellness — beginning with her formal training in herbal medicine at the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in 1992 — Kim brings a rare depth of clinical knowledge to every client she works with. Her credentials span the Nutritional Therapy Institute, the Kharrazian Institute, the Institute for Restorative Health, Apeiron Academy, and she is a CellCore trained practitioner. She has also completed extensive training in Dr. Dayan Goodenowe's groundbreaking plasmalogen and longevity science through Prodrome Sciences.
Kim works with driven, health-conscious people navigating complex, chronic issues who want a practitioner that will actually dig — into their labs, their genetics, their history, and their life — to build a personalized roadmap that works. Her approach is bio-individualized, deeply evidence-based, and grounded in one core belief: your body is always working for you, and it will always need support. The work is simply learning how to give it what it needs.
When she's not in a seminar or deep in a client case, you'll find Kim outside — at the beach, with her dogs, in the sunshine. She loves scuba diving and she loves learning. Both require you to trust the process, pay attention, and go deep. So does this work.
My Story
I never wanted to end up like the people I grew up around.
That sounds blunt — but it is the truth and it is where everything I do begins. I grew up watching family members suffer. Cancer, Heart attacks, Chronic illness that was just accepted as normal, as inevitable, as simply the way things go. Nobody questioned it. Nobody looked for a different way. From a very young age I made a quiet decision: that was not going to be my story.
I was always a little different that way. While my friends were focused on other things I was drawn to nature, plants, food, and the question of why people get sick and whether it really has to be that way. That curiosity led me to the Rocky Mountain Center for Botanical Studies in Colorado in 1992 where I formally studied herbal medicine — learning to identify, harvest, and work with medicinal plants from some of the most respected herbalists in the country. It felt like coming home.
I also grew up around farms and became genuinely confused early on by what we were being told about food. Real food grown from the earth was suddenly dangerous. Processed alternatives were being pushed as healthy. And don't even get me started on butter — in the 80s they told us it was killing us so my mother switched to the fake stuff loaded with inflammatory oils and we all thought we were doing the right thing. Meanwhile the actual food that had sustained humans for thousands of years was being replaced with products made in a laboratory. None of it made sense to me. That skepticism — that refusal to just accept what I was told — has served me and my clients well ever since.
In my 20s I started not feeling well. Nothing dramatic at first — just that slow accumulation of signals that something was not quite right. I found my way to some exceptional chiropractors and alternative practitioners who cracked open a door I never looked back from. After my first child my hormones became increasingly dysregulated. After my second I ultimately had a hysterectomy. In the years that followed I was diagnosed with skin cancer, Hemochromatosis and Lyme disease.And through all of it — not one conventional doctor connected the dots for me. I was tested, told my results were normal, and sent home.
I refused to accept that.
Everything I uncovered I found myself. Lyme disease that went undiagnosed for years. Hidden viruses. Chronic inflammation. Hormonal patterns that finally made sense once I understood how I actually metabolize estrogen. Genetic variants. Enzyme deficiencies. Epigenetic patterns that when I finally saw them clearly illuminated not just my own health picture but my entire family history — including why my son's behavioral issues disappeared completely the moment we removed gluten from his diet. The doctors dismissed it. I had seen enough by then to know exactly what I was looking at. Suddenly so much of what I had watched people suffer through made sense. And here is what tied it all together for me — diet, lifestyle, and nutrition are what set the stage for how your genes express themselves. Your genetics load the gun but how you live pulls the trigger. Understanding that connection was a turning point that changed everything about how I approach health — for myself and for every client I work with.
There is never just one thing.
I had spent years looking for the single answer. The one diagnosis. The one fix. What I discovered is that the body does not work that way. Your health is the sum of everything — your genetics, your environment, your nutrition, your stress, your history, your exposures. Every layer you uncover reveals another. And that is not discouraging. That is the most empowering thing I have ever learned — because it means there is always something you can do.
I feel for conventionally trained physicians — they went to school thinking they would learn how to make people well. What they got instead was a sick care system driven by pharmaceutical companies that never taught them how to read biochemistry, address root causes, or actually restore health. The system was not designed to get people healthy. And until that changes the gap they leave behind is exactly where I work.
Every area I work in with clients I have lived personally. I have done the testing. I have done the work. I know what it feels like to finally get an answer after years of searching. That is not something you learn from a textbook. That is something you live.
This is a sole practitioner practice. When you work with me you work with me — start to finish. No handoffs, no assistants, no one else interpreting your results or building your protocol. Just you and me doing the work together.
I built this practice so that nobody has to spend decades figuring it out alone. And if you are reading this — whether you are exhausted from searching for answers or simply ready to take your health to the next level — I want you to know that what you are looking for exists. I find it every single day for people just like you.
That is what precision wellness looks like. And it starts with one conversation.
Disclaimer: Kim Pellegri is not a licensed medical doctor. The information on this website is educational and informational in nature and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. It does not replace the care of a qualified healthcare provider. Always consult your physician or licensed medical professional before making changes to your health regimen.