The Paleo Clinic was founded by Dr. Zapf in 2018 to reflect her evolutionary approach to medicine. She grew up in England and France. Her medical training was at University College London. After graduation she moved to Scotland where she worked as a psychiatrist. Her Family Medicine training was on the Isle of Skye in the Scottish Highlands.

In 2000 she began work with the British Armed Forces as a Civilian Medical Practitioner, serving for 16 years. She was posted to BATUS near Medicine Hat in 2011 and fell in love with Alberta. In 2016 she moved to Canada and completed her training in Functional Medicine with the Institute for Functional Medicine. During her last posting she met Prof Peter Andrews, formerly head of human origins at the Science Museum in London and one of the greats of paleontology. He introduced Dr. Zapf to human evolution and forever changed the way she views health.

Dr. Zapf left Canada in October 2021 and spent over three years working with the Irish Defence Force on the west coast of Ireland. She lived on a small dairy farm in County Galway. She returned to Alberta in 2025. At the Paleo Clinic we focus on root causes through diet, lifestyle, and daily habits. We work best with patients who take an active role in their own health and are committed to making meaningful changes.

"The field of medicine often appears naive about the full range of human biological experience, basing conclusions about human health - even about what is 'normal' - on the comparatively narrow experience of contemporary Western society". - Mark Nathan Cohen, Ph.D.