Welcome to Foundational Health! My name is Dr. Kevin Schultz, and this is my story. I am happy to share it with you with the hope of inspiring you to seek a foundation for sustainable health and wellness in your life, just like I have in mine.

Childhood

I grew up on a dairy farm in Eleva, WI with my parents, 3 brothers, and sister. I was blessed to grow up in a health-conscious family. We grew much of our own food from my dad’s garden, hunted for or raised our own meat and eggs, and drank our own fresh milk right from the farm. My parents were always naturally minded and sought natural approaches to health and healing through supplements, food, and natural treatments like chiropractic care for the entire family on a weekly basis.

College Years

Despite being raised by 2 healthy parents who instilled healthy habits in me, when I left for college, I went off the deep end with my health choices. After 4 years of undergrad and 4 years of chiropractic college, I had put on 90 pounds of pure fat and ballooned up to 225 pounds due to excessive amounts of alcohol and highly processed food, combined with little to no exercise.

With less than a year left of chiropractic school, I got very sick and ended up bedridden for close to 4 months. During this time I lost close to 70 pounds, with horrific symptoms ranging from coughing up blood for days and endless bouts of diarrhea and horrible digestive pain. There was plenty of time for reflection and I realized I needed to make some drastic lifestyle changes. I was about to become a doctor that was supposed to educate my patients on the proper lifestyle habits that allowed their body to heal the way I believed God intended, but I clearly wasn’t being congruent with that belief in my personal life.

After regaining some strength, I was able to resume school, and I also joined my school’s gym, began drinking smoothies, taking supplements, and eating more whole foods. I noticed very quickly how much better I looked and felt, and from there I was hooked! Health literally became my hobby and I knew there was no going back to my old lifestyle.

Chiropractic Practice

I graduated from chiropractic school in 2000 and have been in active practice ever since. I consider myself extremely blessed to have thousands of individuals and families that have placed their trust in me—many of whom I have been adjusting and coaching on lifestyle habits for 20+ years. Hearing the stories and struggles from these wonderful people is a huge part of my inspiration for creating Foundation Health.

Developing Foundational Health

Going through my own personal health challenge is also a huge part of what drives me to help others. It also helps me relate to what my patients and clients are going through. I STRONGLY believe health does not have to be difficult and, believe it or not, it can be fun! If you have the knowledge and the proper tools, you can do what I and so many of my patients have done and make health your hobby! That is why I created Foundational Health. If you have the knowledge and tools and start incorporating those tools into your life on a regular basis, you WILL find success. Success, after all, is nothing more than simple habits performed daily over time and that is exactly what Foundational Health is all about. 

Family Life

In 2012 I married the love of my life. I can’t imagine God giving me a better wife and mother to our children.  Sarah and I along with our 3 amazing children, Caprise, Avva and Tieo live on the farm where I was raised in Eleva, WI. We grow our own fruits and vegetables, and we are excited to raise our own animals and live off the land more and more each year.  It is amazing to watch the kids running around barefoot outside, helping in the garden, playing in the creek that runs right behind our house and going on regular “adventures”.  We feel very blessed and we believe the best is yet to come!

I am very fortunate to say that my journey towards holistic health and wellness started pretty early in my life. My family was introduced to Dr. Kevin over 15 years ago when my Dad threw out his back and was looking for a chiropractor.

Little did we know, this chance meeting would completely change the way we approached health and wellness for the rest of our lives.

Over the next few years of seeing Dr. Kevin, we learned and implemented many of his lifestyle practices to improve our nutrition, fitness, and overall health. I was 10 years old at the time. Talk about building a healthy foundation, right?

To say I was inspired by Dr. Kevin’s health message would be an understatement. I was introduced to the Foundational Health principles so young that they became a cornerstone that I built my life on. As a kid, I remember:

• Scoffing at the processed food being served in my elementary school cafeteria

• Bringing a salad to school for lunch every day in middle school

• Doing MaxT3 burst training workouts at home in high school because our football lifting program wasn’t ideal

• Dreaming of one day being a chiropractor like Dr. Kevin

Okay, maybe I was a little bit over the top, but at least this inspiration started me off heading in the right direction. And I never did end up becoming a chiropractor. But what I did do was pursue a degree and a career in marketing, business development, and video production. More on that in a second.

This story comes full circle in the winter of 2024 when Dr. Kevin approached me to produce the podcast he’d been dreaming of for many years. I was honored and extremely excited that he wanted me to be a part of this project. Then I had a thought: what if we could take this one step further? What if we could build an entire natural wellness brand around Dr. Kevin and his Foundational Health message?

This is how Foundational Health as a company, brand, and podcast was born.

And so, I may not have fulfilled my original childhood dream of becoming a chiropractor like Dr. Kevin. But I was given an incredible opportunity to use my marketing, business, and videography expertise to spread Dr. Kevin’s message. Through this, I hope to inspire others with the passion for health and wellness that I was fortunate enough to be blessed with as a child.

I grew up in a big military family—one of five kids—and we moved all over the place. From towns across the U.S. to a few years in Iceland, we were always on the go. Eventually we landed in Wisconsin, where I finished high school and later joined the Air Force myself.

Serving in the military was a huge part of my life, but it also brought challenges I never expected. I was diagnosed with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP) and trigeminal neuralgia—two neurological conditions that brought chronic pain, fatigue, and years of frustration. At one point, I was on seven medications and getting weekly infusions just to function.

It was actually my wife who first introduced me to a more natural approach to health. She had been exposed to this world through Dr. Kevin—who she worked for years ago as a nanny to his three kids. What started as small shifts in how we ate, moved, and lived ended up transforming everything. I slowly began to understand what it meant to actually support the body—not just manage symptoms.

What’s funny is that long before I ever met Dr. Kevin, I was unknowingly rebuilding my life using the same core ideas he would later share with me—what he calls the Five Pillars of Foundational Health. I didn’t create them, but they became the framework that helped me heal. And now, years later, I’m in business with the very man who inspired it all.

In 2017, I opened The Press Room, a fitness center focused on metabolic health, movement, and longevity. Since then, I’ve helped hundreds of people get stronger, feel better, and take control of their health from the inside out.

Today, my wife and I homeschool our four (almost five!) kids and continue building a life centered on faith, family, and foundational health. I’m passionate about teaching people how to understand their own genetics, metabolism, and biology—because when you know how your body works, you can finally learn how to heal it.

At the end of the day, I’m a man of God, a father, a husband, and someone who’s walked through the fire. My mission now is simple: help others find the way out.