Dr. Kim Sheuer's Journey to Plant-Based Medicine

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In this interview, I had the honor of speaking to Dr. Kim Scheuer M.D. about her journey to plant-based medicine.

Kim Scheuer, MD, began her career as a traditional Family Practice physician. Despite eating healthier than most Americans and thinking she was fit, she struggled with weight issues until 47. While searching for a way to decrease her family history of cancer risk, Kim read The China Study. What she learned started a long and “fruitful” journey of discovering how to use a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet and Lifestyle Medicine to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease’s root causes. For the first time in her career, she could genuinely help herself and her patients heal rather than merely treat the symptoms of illnesses. One of her favorite parts of her new way of practicing medicine is to de-prescribe medications and help her patients become “younger every year” by adopting healthier lifestyle choices.

On her journey, Dr. Scheuer has transitioned from the traditional medical group she ran and worked in for twenty years in Aspen, Colorado, to her lifestyle medicine practice DOKS Lifestyle Medicine: https://dokslifestylemedicine.com/. With her partner Derek Olsen, RN, who has also benefited from Lifestyle Medicine and a Whole Food Plant-Based diet, she has facilitated several Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) courses. CHIP has improved her participants’ health and lives and many thousands of people worldwide over more than 30 years. Kim now lives and benefits from the lifestyle she recommends for her patients.

Dr. Kim Scheuer is board certified in both Family Practice and Lifestyle Medicine. She also has a Master’s in Education as she feels that to be a good physician, one should be an educator first. She is conversant in Spanish and American Sign Language, which she uses to bring her knowledge to multiple communities.