 She reported that a former president of the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians recommended that she not report Uzick to the authorities, which cemented her departure from the naturopathic profession.In 2016 Hermes studied for an MSc in biomedicine at the University of Kiel in Germany specialising in the mammalian microbiome., Hermes is a doctoral candidate at Kiel in evolutionary genomics, studying the signatures of co-adoptation between microbes that are living on us and our own genome.