With more than 5 million Instagram followers, global recognition, patents spanning wellness, supplements, environmental technologies, skincare, and protective textiles, and companies operating in more than 90 countries, Dr. Christina Rahm has become one of the most recognizable faces in the modern wellness space.
But sitting across from Christina in Arizona, what becomes immediately clear is that she does not see herself as an influencer.
She sees herself as a scientist, a mother, a survivor, and a woman who has spent much of her life trying to understand why people get sick in the first place and how to help them before it’s too late.
“I’m really talking to moms about how we can have better lifestyles,” Christina says. “We need people who are honest and not trying to hype things.”
The Valley has quietly become one of the places where she feels most grounded. Christina frequently visits Arizona for speaking engagements, partnerships, events, and meetings, and several products from her wellness and fashion lines are now available inside the boutique at Sanctuary Camelback Mountain.
“I love it here and plan on establishing a strong presence in Arizona.”
Based in Tennessee, Christina now travels the world speaking about health, innovation, environmental wellness, and personal empowerment. But she wasn’t born a world traveler.
“I grew up in the small town of Dexter, Missouri. I was a tomboy and voted class clown.”
Her parents, who are still married after meeting as teenagers, remain foundational to how she views life.
“The biggest thing they taught me was forgiveness. Love and forgiveness.”
That philosophy would eventually become essential because long before the patents, companies, and followers, Christina found herself fighting for her own life.
At 19 years old, she contracted Lyme disease during a time when little was publicly understood about the illness.
“I literally couldn’t remember my parents’ names. I couldn’t remember two plus three. My biggest fear was losing my memory.”
She felt broken mentally and emotionally, unsure if she would ever regain the cognitive sharpness she once had. But her father refused to let her surrender to it.
“My dad told me, ‘You’re going to get up and you’re going to do just as good or better than you did before.’”
Looking back, Christina believes Lyme disease fundamentally altered the trajectory of her life.
“I think if that wouldn’t have happened, I would just do a standard thinking process and a standard life.”
Instead, she became consumed by questions. Why do people get sick? What role do toxins, stress, food, inflammation, and environment play in health? Why are people often only given one version of treatment options?
Those questions would ultimately shape the rest of her career.
Years later, another life-changing challenge arrived when her son, Crider, was diagnosed with cancer at just two years old.
“I crumbled.”
As a mother and healthcare professional, Christina found herself asking difficult questions and exploring every possible avenue of support for her child.
The experience reinforced her belief that families deserve access to information, open conversations, and the ability to make informed decisions alongside their healthcare providers.
She ultimately pursued a treatment path that combined surgery with naturopathic support, an experience that would deeply shape her broader philosophy surrounding wellness, research, and advocacy.
“I realized I wanted to open the conversation around choice because every family deserves access to information, options, and the ability to make the decisions that feel right for them.”
With compassion, transparency, and authenticity, Christina approaches every topic through the lens of education and informed decision-making. Whether discussing pharmaceuticals, supplements, environmental exposures, skincare, detoxification, or emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, she consistently returns to the belief that individuals and families should feel informed, empowered, and confident advocating for themselves.
“I really believe mothers have discernment. You know your children better than everyone else.”
Today, Christina oversees an expansive portfolio of companies spanning supplements, nutraceuticals, environmental technologies, skincare, animal wellness, protective technologies, and fashion innovation. Yet the businesses themselves rarely feel disconnected from her personal experiences.
After later being diagnosed with a pituitary tumor, Christina became intensely focused on detoxification, chlorophyll, spirulina, and understanding how environmental stressors affect the body because she feared surgery could worsen her memory loss.
“I wanted to live for my kids,” she says.
What started as survival instincts eventually evolved into formulations, patents, research, and companies.
The ROOT Brands, which Christina co-founded with her husband Clayton Thomas, launched globally during COVID, something she initially believed might fail entirely.
“I told my husband there’s no way this is going to work,” she laughs.
Instead, the company exploded internationally.
One of the concepts Christina speaks most passionately about is environmental toxicity and how modern life impacts the body in ways many people underestimate.
“How do we clean the inside of our bodies?” she asks.
That same thinking eventually expanded into one of her most unexpected ventures: fashion technology.
Her company Merci Dupré Clothiers, named after her children, merges fashion with protective textile innovation designed to help reduce exposure to mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, pollution, and environmental contaminants.
The idea partially stemmed from Christina’s own Lyme disease experience and ongoing conversations with hospitals overseas.
“I don’t even want the mosquitoes landing on the clothing,” she says seriously while discussing the science and testing process behind the fabrics.
And somehow, hearing Christina passionately explain mosquito landing percentages while also discussing motherhood, spirituality, and healing actually makes perfect sense.
Because unlike many entrepreneurs who build businesses strictly around market opportunities, Christina’s businesses feel deeply personal. Almost every innovation she discusses can be traced back to fear, survival, illness, motherhood, or a problem she personally experienced and became determined to solve.
“I’m really for human beings,” she says. “People should be given both good and bad about every drug, every nutraceutical or supplement. We should always tell the truth. I’ll always stand for mothers making personal choices.”
What makes Christina compelling is not simply the scale of her businesses or the size of her audience. It’s the emotional complexity underneath everything she has built.
She talks candidly about investing millions into projects that never worked and navigating the emotional weight that comes with leadership and visibility.
“There’s zero reason for me to ever be arrogant,” she said.
Even now, after building companies across multiple industries and becoming a recognizable global figure, Christina says she is still trying to reconnect with joy and simplicity.
“I’m trying to go back to really enjoying life,” she admits.
Christina speaks like someone who has lived through difficult things, questioned everything, rebuilt herself repeatedly, and turned those experiences into purpose.
Underneath the science, businesses, patents, and global recognition is a woman still motivated by the same thing that shaped her journey in the first place: helping people feel less helpless when life becomes frightening.
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“I wanted to open the conversation around choice because every family deserves access to information, options, and the ability to make the decisions that feel right for them.”
“My dad told me, ‘You're going to get up and you're going to do just as good or better than you did before.’”