Meet Your Doctor

Niki Davis, MD

Licensed to see all patients in: AL, AZ, CA, CO, FL, LA, ND, OR, SD, TX, UT, and WA

“Eating healthy doesn’t have to be rocket science. Lifestyle-related chronic disease can be prevented, treated, and even reversed by eating delicious plant foods in their natural whole form.”

Overview: Dr. Niki Davis is a board-certified family medicine and lifestyle medicine physician. Earlier in her career, she worked as an engineer on the space shuttle program. However, after finding her passion for using food as medicine to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease, she left her job as a “rocket scientist” and transitioned into medicine. While in training, she had the opportunity to intern with Dr. John McDougall, Dr. Anthony Lim, Dr. Alan Goldhamer, and Dr. Michael Klaper. She is a regular guest on Chef AJ Live! and speaks at events around the country. She lives in Salt Lake City, Utah with her husband and young son.

Training Institutions: Dr. Davis attended medical school at the University of Utah School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Montana Family Medicine Residency, American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is certified in the Starch Solution and has a Plant-based Nutrition Certificate from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies through eCornell.

Clinical Expertise: Dr. Davis specializes in chronic disease prevention, treatment, and reversal. This includes (but is not limited to) diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease, obesity/overweight, thyroid health, and inflammatory arthritis. Her focus is helping people navigate the transition to a plant-based lifestyle and how to maintain it, deprescribing medications as needed.

My Philosophy: It’s the food!

Interests: Dr. Davis enjoys spending time with family, spending time outdoors (forest bathing, hiking, camping, snowboarding, river rafting), cooking, watching her son play baseball, and traveling the world.

Languages: English

My Perspectives

Free Air Living

Free Air Living

By Dr. Niki Davis As the warmer weather is upon us, with birds chirping and spring in the air, I can’t help but feel a little lighter, a little more pep in my step, a little more excited about the days to come. During the colder months, I do my best to get outside...

A Plant Based Thanksgiving

A Plant Based Thanksgiving

By Dr. Niki Davis Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. My husband and son love to tease me by saying that it IS my favorite holiday... and maybe they are right. There are many reasons to love Thanksgiving - spending time with loved ones, eating delicious food,...

A New Era in Medicine

A New Era in Medicine

By Dr. Niki Davis Hippocrates once said, “The greatest medicine of all is teaching people how not to need it.” If you are reading this, you know that most medical providers nowadays have lost sight of this. We are so fixated on treating an ailment with a pill or with...

My Webinar Replays

Q&A with Plant Based Nutrition Support Group

Q&A with Plant Based Nutrition Support Group

Special guests Paul Chatlin & Lisa Smith discuss how their organization Plant Based Nutrition Support Group offers communities to anyone looking to use a plant-based diet to treat their chronic diseases. Questions Answered (00:33) - Introducing the Plant Based...

Lifestyle Medicine Doctors Q&A | Dementia, Iron, Osteoporosis

Lifestyle Medicine Doctors Q&A | Dementia, Iron, Osteoporosis

The PBTH doctors discuss how a plant-based diet affects iron levels, dementia, osteoporosis, and much more! Questions Answered (00:04) - Do you know a dietician that is wholefood plant-based and knowledgeable of hemochromatosis? (02:44) - I have been on a wholefood...

Essentials for Plant-Based Diet with Guest Dr. Michael Greger

Essentials for Plant-Based Diet with Guest Dr. Michael Greger

  In this video our plant-based doctors answer your questions about suppliments, olive oil, and kidney disease, with quest speaker Dr. Michael Greger. Questions Answered (00:47) - Dr. Michael Greger, do you have any new projects that you like to share with us or...