Friends and Neighbors: Dr. Kim Matteo

Naturopathy is her calling, but at one time Dr. Kim Matteo had chosen a much more traditional healing path, that of a surgeon.

Matteo began researching natural healing with the birth of her second son, who had suffered a stroke in utero. Doctors told her to continue school and put him in a facility for the short amount of time he would have.

"I chose to be his mom, instead. It was for the quest for my son's health, that I started the journey into natural healing, and it started with nutrition," she said.

As western medicine began to fail her son, she looked beyond nutrition and into herbs,...