Common Sense Labs
Co-authored the updated and expanded edition with Dr. Ken Berry, a board-certified family physician and creator of the Proper Human Diet.
Read the BookAbout Kim
I am not the expert who never struggled. I am the person who did.
I am a certified health coach, author, and speaker. I live in Berkeley, California with my partner Eric. And I spent most of my adult life chronically ill, exhausted, and convinced my body was the problem.
Chapter One
The conditions I lived with.
Polycystic Ovarian ConditionBinge Eating DisorderMajor Depressive DisorderHypothyroidismLevel 3 ObesityMetabolic DysfunctionGastritisIBSAutoimmune Disease
I had all of it, often at the same time, for most of my life. I saw plenty of doctors. Some of them were kind. Almost none of them were helpful. My labs were usually within the reference range, so nothing was technically wrong.
I was told to eat less and move more, to manage stress, to try a new medication, to come back in six months. I did what I was told, and I kept getting sicker.
Chapter Two
The turn.
Not “what is wrong with me,” but “what would it actually take to become a healthy human?”
As forty started to loom, I finally asked a different question. I did not find a single answer. I found a project. Over the next several years I read, experimented, tracked, failed, and tried again. I learned how to read my own blood work. I changed what I ate. I stopped outsourcing my body to people who barely knew me.
The conditions did not vanish overnight. Some of them took years to unwind. But one by one, they loosened their grip, and the person I became in the process is someone I genuinely like.
Chapter Three
Why I coach.
When I came out the other side, the only thing that felt urgent was sharing what I had learned with the people who had been where I was.
I do not teach perfection. I do not sell a transformation. I teach the skill of self-advocacy, the habit of self-improvement, and the quiet stubbornness it takes to refuse a diagnosis of “fine” when you know you are not.
My Tenets
What I believe.
Five truths I come back to every time I sit down with a new client.
- 01
Most chronic illness is metabolic before it is anything else.
- 02
Your labs are a tool. You are allowed to read them.
- 03
Self-advocacy is not arrogance. It is the baseline requirement of adult healthcare.
- 04
The best version of you is almost never the smallest or fastest version of you.
- 05
No one is coming to save you. That is actually good news, because it means you have more power than you have been told.
Credentials & Partnerships
The people and programs I teach with.
I am a Certified Health Coach. I do not teach alone, and I do not think you should learn from anyone who does.
PHD Health Coach Academy
I teach the business and operations track alongside Dr. Berry and Alyssa Rogers. The only coach certification built entirely around the Proper Human Diet.
Visit the AcademyThe Podcast
Ongoing long-form conversations with Dr. Berry and other practitioners I trust. Nuance, not sound bites.
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The free guide that changes the most for the fewest people doing it.
Electrolytes are the most common reason people feel worse on a metabolic diet. This is the guide I wish someone had given me on day one.
Start with electrolytes.
The free guide I wish someone had handed me. Sodium, potassium, magnesium, and why most people on keto feel awful without them.