
Naomi ran the overnight emergency department at Northwestern Memorial for eleven years before a serious autoimmune diagnosis sent her to Scottsdale. She came for the climate. She stayed because of the medicine, not in spite of her skepticism about the longevity world but because of it. She writes about wellness protocols the way she evaluated clinical trials: what does the evidence actually say, who paid for the study, and what does this cost over two years, not two sessions. She earned the right to be curious about unconventional medicine by knowing conventional medicine cold.