Pg. 22 2026-27 Health & Wellness Magazine Lincoln Daily News A Holistic Approach to Health With chronic illness on the rise, such as autoimmune disorders, chronic fatigue, metabolic syndrome, and persistent inflammation, more people are beginning to take a step back and look at the bigger picture of their health. While conventional medicine remains a necessity for acute trauma, surgery, or crisis management, people are looking for a more simplistic approach to their health. Holistic and integrative practitioners take a different approach from conventional doctors. They spend more time exploring a patient’s history, lifestyle, and habits to find the root cause of illness and help heal it naturally. Kimberly Martin had 13 years of nursing experience, including 7 years as a nurse practitioner. She has experience working in small, critical access hospitals and Level 1 trauma emergency rooms. She found her true path, though a difficult one, after her son Mikah was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Now, as a Christian nurse practitioner, she operates MTM Wellness, where she educates, empowers, and helps heal her patients with a holistic approach to healthcare. Through her practice of helping on their journey to healing, she honors the memory of her son. Martin’s approach centers on addressing the root cause of illness rather than managing symptoms. Martin says that symptoms are often the body’s way of saying that
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