For 30 years, Dr. Rhys Preston has been a chiropractor with an ongoing passion to learn and help people heal. He has helped thousands of people find relief from back and neck pain, nerve impingements, athletic injuries, headaches and digestion issues. 

(His journey has been one he walks alongside his patients.) The healing journey of his patients has been one that Dr. Preston has also walked. (The healing journey of his patients is a familiar one for Dr. Preston.) 

Preston faced chronic migraines since the age of nine. At 23, he experienced his first chiropractic adjustment and some immediate relief from the migraines. Because of this experience, he transferred out of a graduate program in Molecular Biology to attend chiropractic school.  

His knowledge, skill and business increased over the years, but so did a dependency on alcohol (to help manage anxiety, depression and insecurity about fitting in). He sought treatment in 1996.  

Sobriety stuck, but Rhys traded his addiction to alcohol for an addiction to sugar. A blood test also revealed he had a gluten allergy. He struggled to clean up his diet. 

And then in 2005, Rhys chatted with a friend who was writing a thesis on gender studies. After long conversations and reading several books, Rhys (at the time still in a female body) realized he was transgender. 

He began hormone therapy in 2006 and underwent many transitional surgeries. While each step of his transition proved successful, the long and ongoing process left Rhys depressed and suicidal as he dealt with body dysphoria, shame, self-hatred, anger and fear of being out in the world. He didn’t realize until years later how the impact of sugar and gluten enhanced his depression, caused inflammation, slowed healing, prevented him from building muscle, and increased his feelings of anger, irritability and reactivity.  

Rhys sought therapy and continued his journey to wellness. He kicked his sugar addiction, cleared his diet of gluten and began a regular practice of meditation and exercise.   

Rhys maintains a unique perspective as a doctor who has traveled the path to wellness (as a transgender individual?). He has generously shared his knowledge with the transgender community for many years. Rhys has taught functional medicine at transgender health conferences. His chiropractic clinic was the first (in MN?) to host weekly testosterone shot clinics and to start a weekly transgender Narcotics Anonymous meeting. He has provided free chiropractic, nutritional care, and mentorship to transgender youth and has helped many transgender individuals recover from surgery in his house.  

Rhys strongly believes that the journey to wellness for transgender individuals needs to be more accessible. His knowledge comes from studying, integrating and mastering what he studies. Rhys has struggled on his path so that others don’t have to. His focus in on helping you transition without (cacylbactures?? I can’t read your writing), helping you optimize testosterone, and helping you avoid obstacles(complications?) when taking testosterone and having surgeries.  

Rhys’ unique and necessary perspective is the key (foundation?) to help you on your journey to wellness.