Julie Martin, ND, FABNO – Naturopathic Clinician
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As practitioner of naturopathic medicine, Julie Martin provides safe, evidence-based recommendations for natural therapies (e.g., vitamins, minerals, herbal medicines) to help improve our patients’ quality of life during and after conventional treatment for cancer. She’s been a member of many of our patients’ care teams at Cancer Treatment Centers of America (CTCA) at Midwestern Regional Medical Center since 2001.
Prior to joining CTCA, Martin ran a busy private, naturopathic medicine practice in Lake Forest, Illinois. She also served as a naturopath at an integrated medicine clinic for American WholeHealth in Evanston, Illinois. She gained experience in the field of clinical research at Washington University’s School of Medicine, as well.
Martin earned a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine degree from the National College of Natural Medicine in Portland. In addition, she trained at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine. She completed a bachelor’s of science degree at Saint Mary's College.
Something Martin regularly helps her patients with is cancer-related fatigue, a common side effect of traditional treatment (e.g., chemotherapy, surgery, radiation). There are a number of naturopathic therapies she can suggest to help re-establish her patients’ sleep cycles and alleviate their symptoms, including muscular weakness, shortness of breath, depression, and difficulty concentrating. However, Martin emphasizes that the recommendations she makes are unique to each patient. A Fellow of the American Board of Naturopathic Oncology, she considers many factors to ensure that the natural remedies and supplements she advises do not interfere with the conventional treatments her patients are receiving.
In addition to the clinical care Martin provides, she offers enduring compassion and support.
“I provide my patients with a deep sense of spiritual empathy and help them understand that we are all in this together,” she says. “Cancer can be an opportunity for us all to feel humanly connected at a time of suffering.”
Martin is a member of several professional associations, including the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the Society for Integrative Oncology, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and the Illinois Association of Naturopathic Physicians, where she has served on the Board of Directors. She has also been published in the journal Integrative Cancer Therapies.
Martin cherishes her time with family. She’s been married for 25 years to a Unitarian Universalist minister and has two grown children.