I began my journey as a Registered Nurse, working primarily with an aging population. Day after day, I cared for patients facing complex chronic conditions—heart failure, multiple comorbidities, long medication lists—and the heartbreaking reality that, despite accessing recommended treatments, their health continued to deteriorate. I became deeply curious about how people transition from living seemingly healthy lives to developing chronic disease and disability. What I discovered is that disease does not simply appear in old age—it is the result of years of underlying dysfunction that often goes unnoticed, unmanaged, and unaddressed.

Driven by my desire to make a broader impact, I pursued my Master’s Degree as a Family Nurse Practitioner, believing that primary care would allow me to help people prevent disease rather than fight it. Through education, early diagnostics, and lifestyle‐based interventions, I could help patients understand and influence their own health trajectory. Yet, I still saw a gap: conventional medicine could identify disease, but rarely explored the deeper, interconnected systems that drive it. By the time symptoms appeared, the dysfunction had often been present for years.