About

Meet Dr. Katie Good, MD.

Hello, I’m Dr. Katie Good, MD. I’m a board-certified pediatrician, graduate of Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, and mom of seven.

For more than two decades, I’ve cared for children and helped families navigate growth, nutrition, sleep, illness, and the everyday questions that come with raising kids.

Earlier in my career, I worked in a high-volume pediatric setting where some days meant seeing as many as 75 patients. Over time, I wanted more room to listen, explain, think, and spend meaningful time with families. That led me to start my own direct-care pediatric practice in Orlando, Florida, where I continue to care for children today.

My approach is practical and balanced: look at the whole child, use evidence without chasing trends, and help parents understand the “why” behind the choices they make.

Raising seven children has given me a deeper understanding of the challenges parents face every day. It's why I believe good pediatric guidance should be thoughtful, practical, and realistic for family life.

Why I Changed My Mind

I did not start out as a vitamin enthusiast. For years, I was the pediatrician telling parents that most kids probably didn’t need one.

What changed my mind wasn’t marketing. It was data. In my direct-care practice, I finally have time to look closely and test thoroughly, and I kept finding gaps in children whose parents were doing everything right. When I tested my own family, almost everyone was low.

Around the same time, my husband looked in our kitchen cabinet and counted the premium supplements I’d bought, tried, and stopped using, and the five different brands we were juggling for our kids. Nothing fit together.

So I set out to make the products I actually wanted to give my own children.

Why I Created Dr. Good's Essentials

I wanted to build the kind of products I would feel good giving my own children: meaningful nutrition, thoughtfully selected ingredient forms, practical formats, and a taste families can actually live with.

That does not mean more is always better. It means looking at each nutrient individually—what kids need, what they may already get from food, where upper limits matter, and where a supplement can reasonably help fill a gap.

Food comes first. Supplements should support a healthy diet, not replace one. That is how I think about nutrition in practice, and it is the philosophy behind this brand.

Browse Essentials

OUR PROMISE

Evidence-based. Practical. Balanced.

I believe parents deserve clear information without fear, fads, or exaggeration. We explain what the science supports, where the evidence is less certain, and why we make the choices we do.

How Dr. Good formulates

CLINICALLY GUIDED

Built from pediatric practice, not trends

Dr. Good's Essentials is informed by years of real pediatric care and the realities of feeding and raising children. We focus on meaningful nutrition, sensible dosing, transparent labels, cGMP-certified manufacturing, third-party testing, and products practical enough to become part of everyday family life.

What guides every Dr. Good's formula?

Evidence-Based

Formulated with a board-certified pediatrician’s perspective and grounded in nutrition science—not wellness trends.

Meaningful Nutrition

We care about the actual amounts and forms of nutrients—not simply how impressive the front of a label looks.

Transparency

Clear labels and third-party testing help parents see what is in the product and why it is there.

Thoughtful Dosing

More is not automatically better. We consider age, diet, overlapping nutrients, nutrient forms, and established safety limits.

Parent Education

Parents deserve to understand what they’re giving their child, why it’s included, and what the evidence actually supports.

Made for Real Family Life

A strong formula still has to work in the real world. Taste, format, routine, and consistency matter too.

How Dr. Katie Good Thinks About Formulation

How do you decide what belongs in a formula?

I start with the child and the nutritional goal—not with what will look impressive on the front of a package. I look at the nutrient, the amount, the form, the age group, what children may already get from food or other supplements, and where established upper limits matter.

Food comes first. A supplement should have a clear purpose and fit into the bigger nutritional picture.

Why do you use powders, chews, gummies, liquids, and drops?

I do not believe one delivery format is automatically better than another. Powders, chews, gummies, liquids, and drops can all make sense when they are used appropriately.

I start with the formula first, then ask which format lets us deliver it responsibly in something a child will actually take. A comprehensive multivitamin may work best as a powder, an omega-3 may make more sense as a chew, and vitamin D may be ideal as a concentrated drop.

We let the nutritional goal determine the format—not the other way around.

How do you think about taste, sweeteners, and supporting ingredients?

A strong formula still has to work in real life. I care about taste, texture, serving size, and whether a child will actually take a product consistently.

I look at supporting ingredients the same way I look at active ingredients: what purpose do they serve, and how much is being used? For example, our Healthy Brain Chews use a small amount of xylitol, a sugar alcohol, as part of creating a chewable omega-3 that children can realistically take.

I do not think ingredients should be judged by a buzzword alone. Purpose, amount, and the complete formula matter.

Why are transparency and third-party testing part of the brand?

Parents should not have to rely only on marketing language. Clear Supplement Facts, understandable ingredient choices, and independent testing give families more information about what they are buying.

Where we have current finished-product testing available, our goal is to make those results easy to review rather than simply asking parents to trust a badge on the package.

Why don’t you make more benefit claims?

Because we want to be careful about what we promise. Supplements are often marketed with long lists of benefits that go well beyond what the evidence can reasonably support.

If every supplement benefit claim worked exactly as advertised, the results would be remarkable. We prefer to be more precise.

We would rather explain what a nutrient is, why it is included, the amount we use, and what the evidence supports—without turning every ingredient into a miracle.