Ancient Health Podcast

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Discover ancient solutions for modern health challenges. Join Dr. Chris Motley, expert in Traditional Chinese Medicine, frequency medicine specialist, and dedicated healthcare practitioner, as he brea... more

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Number 1: Your Gut Is Recirculating Your Own Bad Estrogen
Why are so many young women experiencing painful periods, endometriosis, Hashimoto's and hormonal chaos? After falling ill with Graves Disease in medical school, functional endocrinologist Dr. Cassie Smith made it her life’s mission to chase these kinds of questions. In her new book Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones (https://a.co/d/0gbCrVD6) she tackles the real gut-hormone connection behind estrogen dominance, PCOS, thyroid dysfunction, and painful periods. Dr. Smith shares the answers she found, a roadmap for better health, better periods and common-sense steps to become the CEO of your own health. In this episode you will learn: Why younger women are struggling with their periods Why low progesterone is so common in women in their 20s How constipation and poor fiber intake worsen PMS, bloating, and breast tenderness The impact of long-term birth control use on hormone production Simple, affordable lab tests most OBs don't order but should Exactly how your gut affects your hormones, step by step, by way of your vagus nerve. How a young person could experience a cycle of stress, a bacteria or strep infection, then their antibiotics for treating the strep as well as birth control and acid-blockers can impair their guts affecting their cycle. How, if, as women, our estrogen leaves our body down the four-hydroxy pathway (the pathway that can lead to cancer), more often when we have increased visceral fat, excess stress or intense gut dysbiosis. How important our health is, and the value in taking responsibility for our good health. Self-value, seeing the sun enough in a day and movement all play a role in balancing our hormones. Not only can excess estrogen affect our moods, but it puts extra stress on our bodies revving up our cortisol and lowering progesterone (the calming hormone), throwing our mood and sleep out the window. Nutritional changes can make a difference. Avoid sugar in your food and drinks (read the labels!), and aim for thirty-five grams of fiber for regular, healthy bowel movements. Estrogen dominance from dysbiosis doesn’t necessarily mean you have enough of the estrogen you need. How having a Dutch test every few years is incredibly useful for locating early signs of hormonal imbalances. A roadmap to fix painful periods. Laser in on how much sugar you’re eating (and drinking!) Don’t eat wheat made in America if you have Hashimotos, because it may cause a high TPO antibody to attack your thyroid. How babies rely on their mother’s thyroid until 18 weeks in-utero, so if you want to get pregnant, optimizing your thyroid is a must. Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. ------ Follow Doctor Motley! Instagram TikTok Facebook Website Follow Dr. Cassie Smith: https://www.instagram.com/modernendocrine_/ Buy her book Fix Your Gut, Fix Your Hormones: https://a.co/d/0gbCrVD6 ------ *You can get cell support in gummy form: Mitopure now starts at $79, when you go to timeline.com/DRMOTLEY. *Join Doctor Motley’s newsletter for TCM insights and regular podcast updates https://www.doctormotley.com/ *Do you have a ton more in-depth questions for Doctor Motley? Check out his course on emotions and the body in his membership. You’ll find other courses full of his expertise and clinical wisdom, plus bring all your questions to his weekly lives! To try risk-free for 15 days click here https://www.doctormotley.com/15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 27, 20261h 4min
Number 2: Ask Your Doctor These 4 Words Before You Take a Statin with Dr. Philip Ovadia
After performing thousands of open-heart surgeries, Dr. Philip Ovadia recognized that the vast majority were preventable…if his patients had improved their metabolic health in the first place. In this episode, Dr. Chris Motley sat down with heart surgeon, author and podcaster Dr. Philip Ovadia to learn about the underrated relationship between insulin resistance and heart disease, and what you need to know to arm yourself at home and in the doctor’s office. Small correction from the intro: Dr. Ovadia is a board-certified cardiac surgeon, not a cardiologist. He has performed over 3,000 heart surgeries across 25-plus years If heart disease has been the number one killer for so long, isn’t it possible that we’re tackling it the wrong way? Dr. Ovadia’s belief is that our emphasis on cholesterol has done us a disservice when it comes to heart health. If you have a family history of heart issues, or a heart condition yourself, learn how Dr. Ovadia believes you can stay off his operating table. Timestamps [00:00:00] Cold open: 95% of heart patients had this, and it was not high cholesterol [00:00:56] Every 40 seconds: the killer that has held first place for a hundred years [00:02:41] "The patient is never as good after they have the surgery" [00:04:26] From five years old to 3,000 open hearts, and what the first one is like [00:08:47] The cholesterol answer a heart surgeon is not supposed to give [00:12:26] Insulin resistance, sugar, and the linkage he says is far stronger [00:14:56] The five markers of metabolic disease, and the one your doctor watches instead [00:17:33] Statins: how "high" fell from 140 to 70, and what the 33% really means [00:21:37] "What are we saving?" Mitochondria, muscle aches, and the diabetes signal [00:24:07] Four words to ask at your next appointment [00:27:49] The signs your body gives years early: the belly, the face, skin tags, low energy [00:31:18] The $10 test that comes years before symptoms, and the number to look for [00:32:49] Real food, vitamin K2, CoQ10, and a heart surgeon defending red meat [00:37:44] Build muscle first, because muscle is where the sugar goes [00:40:57] Valves, strep, and the heart disease insulin does not explain [00:44:18] Genetics load the gun. Your habits pull the trigger. [00:46:17] Optimism, stress, and the family in the waiting room: what a surgeon looks for [00:48:36] The elimination diet, the meat reset, and the permission slip [00:55:23] Where to find Dr. Ovadia, and why his own team tells him to stop In this episode you will learn: Why cholesterol and LDLs are not the real enemy of the heart and how sugar is the real culprit when it comes to heart disease. Why 70 years of cholesterol-focused medicine hasn't reduced heart disease — and what the data actually shows about LDL's role in cardiac events The Kraft Test: Ovadia is referring to the work of Dr. Joseph R. Kraft, a pathologist who ran insulin assays on 14,384 patients and concluded that "those with cardiovascular disease not identified with diabetes are simply undiagnosed." The peer-reviewed analysis of his database (Crofts et al., 2016) found that more than half of patients with entirely normal glucose tolerance were nonetheless hyperinsulinaemic. Why your fasting insulin level is the most important number most doctors never order — and how to get it tested for around $10 What exactly to ask your doctor about insulin resistance, and signs and symptoms for it: waist circumference, blood pressure, fasting glucose, HDL cholesterol and triglycerides. How stress plays a role in heart conditions, and how emotional support can make a difference in patients’ outcomes. Why statin drugs can be problematic, in that they hide the symptom rather than attacking the root of the problem. The single question to ask your doctor that will immediately reveal whether they understand metabolic heart disease: "Am I insulin resistant?" Why skin tags, belly fat, rounded face, low energy and high blood pressure are early warning signs of insulin resistance — years before chest pain or shortness of breath appear Dr. Ovadia’s recommendations for diet and lifestyle changes to keep you off the operating table: processed food needs to go, and we must move more. If you have a desk-job, try a standing desk or simply get up and move around once an hour. Meat is medicine. Dr. Ovadia advocates for the nutritional density of meat, yes, even red meat, and suggests that a low-fat diet has not prevented heart disease as promised. Vitamin K2 and CoQ10 feed the mitochondria our hearts need for energy. The effects of common viruses like strep on the heart valves. What role genetics plays in heart disease versus habits. Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. ------ Follow Doctor Motley! Instagram Facebook Website Follow Dr. Philip Ovadia https://www.instagram.com/ifixhearts/ https://ifixhearts.com/team/ https://www.youtube.com/@IFixHearts Buy his books: https://ovadiahearthealth.com/books/ ------ * Liposomal supplementation has been proven deeply effective and LivOn Labs got there first. Get 10% off LivOn Labs entire store of liposomal supplements with code MOTLEY at https://www.livonlabs.com/ and enter code DRMOTLEY for 20% off your mineral replenishment order. *Join Doctor Motley’s newsletter for TCM insights and regular podcast updates https://www.doctormotley.com/ *Do you have a ton more in-depth questions for Doctor Motley? Check out his course on emotions and the body in his membership. You’ll find other courses full of his expertise and clinical wisdom, plus bring all your questions to his weekly lives! To try risk-free for 15 days click here https://www.doctormotley.com/15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 24, 20261h 2min
Number 3: The 2 PM Brain Fog Clue: How to Tell If Your Brain Isn't Detoxing While You Sleep
If you have swollen lymph nodes, this episode will teach you how your mighty glymphatic system drains toxins from your brain to what in Chinese Medicine is called your stomach 12 point. In this episode, Doctor Chris Motley explains the ins and outs of caring for your lymphatic system and how to promote lymphatic drainage through the activation of your triple warmer in Chinese Medicine. He also shares how to look after your body's lymph flow while taking a GLP-1, and the right way to do lymphatic massage on yourself. Key Points from this episode: The recently discovered glymphatic system drains toxins from your brain into your stomach 12 point in Chinese Medicine. This system is powered by sleep: good sleep is essential (wear a sleep monitor to ensure you're getting the deep level of sleep needed for your glymphatic system!). How to know when you're not reaching the cleansing layer of sleep needed for your glymphatic system to operate fully: The tell is when your brain fog won't clear until 2 in the afternoon! Dr. Motley's Best Lymphatic Recommendations: 1) Lymphatic massage or ELT (electrolymphatic therapy) or self-massage and dry brushing (work your way UP, not down). 2) Herbs: Hemoguard helps support blood flow, which is an essential link to lymph flow: https://tinyurl.com/yvzbs8au Manjistha Supreme promotes good lymph flow: https://tinyurl.com/mu9u5yx7 How caring for your liver and spleen are important to the lymphatic system. Doctor Motley explains that in Chinese Medicine the spleen is in charge of moving your fluids from your food and drink through your body. How to know if your spleen is weak through a Chinese Medicine lens: Doctor Motley recalls a patient who suffered from spleen fatigue, and the tell-tale sign was a ring around the lips (chapped lips is a sign as well!). How to strengthen the spleen and liver to promote lymphatic health: Grass-fed sheep thymus: https://tinyurl.com/3kduh2n6 Grass-fed beef spleen https://amzn.to/3QS265f or a PMG supplement from standard process are Doctor Motley's recommendations for optimizing the spleen. Flush the liver with Dandelion root and Schisandra: https://tinyurl.com/a24kyuzz How to be mindful of proper lymph flow when taking a GLP-1. This is not an anti-GLP-1 episode (in fact Doctor Motley's own patients use them now and then), but it's advice for helping the medication work properly. If you're losing muscle, be on the lookout for fluid buildup. Take proteins that work for you, flush your liver, strengthen your spleen and get some moderate exercise to help protect your lymph flow while on GLP-1s. The emotions connected to your spleen in Chinese Medicine that could be affecting lymphatic drainage: worry, overthinking (or, in Chinese Medicine terms "too much mind."), obsessing over outcomes. If you're a chronic worrier, this could affect your immune function. To tend to these emotions well, Doctor Motley recommends emotion work like EMDR. Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Follow Doctor Motley! Instagram TikTok Facebook Website *You can get cell support in gummy form: Mitopure now starts at $79, when you go to timeline.com/DRMOTLEY. *Join Doctor Motley’s newsletter for TCM insights and regular podcast updates: https://www.doctormotley.com/ *Do you have a ton more in-depth questions for Doctor Motley? Check out his course on emotions and the body in his membership. You’ll find other courses full of his expertise and clinical wisdom, plus bring all your questions to his weekly lives! To try risk-free for 15 days click here: https://www.doctormotley.com/15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
September 04, 202643min
Number 4: The Hidden Infection Behind Your Post-Nasal Drip
Fall doesn't always cause your sinus congestion. It just knows how to find whatever was already sitting there. In this episode, Dr. Chris Motley walks through the Traditional Chinese Medicine map that connects the exact location of a headache or a patch of sinus pressure to a specific internal organ, and why that map keeps showing up in his practice. Key Takeaways Your headache location is diagnostic, not random.A two-week case of post-nasal drip traced back to a bladder infection: Dr. Motley's patient cleared her sinus congestion only after he treated her bladder and kidney meridian points, a connection her prior doctor visits hadn't made. Fall triggers stored trauma, not just cold weather. Because the body encodes every sense during a traumatic event, seasonal cues like cooler air and shorter days can resurface them as physical congestion. Dr. Motley argues sinuses, kidney nephrons, gallbladder bile ducts, and the brain all develop from the same cell line, which is why infections jump between them. Standard embryology backs the sinus and brain half (both are ectoderm) but not the kidney (mesoderm) or gallbladder (endoderm) half. 00:00:00 Opening: why fall seems to trigger sinus headaches, post-nasal drip, and migraines 00:01:19 Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast 00:01:33 The core rule: where your headache sits tells you which organ is involved 00:03:05 Case study: the E.coli bladder infection hiding behind a patient's post-nasal drip 00:04:19 Why fall specifically resurfaces old emotional trauma as physical congestion 00:06:34 EMDR, neurofeedback, and tapping: clearing the trauma before it becomes sinus pain 00:11:54 The organ map: bladder, gallbladder, stomach, triple warmer, small intestine, and more 00:14:13 Get checked: the hidden UTI, kidney, and gallbladder infections behind your headache 00:16:30 Beam Minerals and why mineral depletion undercuts everything else on this list 00:17:53 The biofilm problem: how old strep and mono build a fortress in your gut 00:24:29 The embryology answer: why sinuses, kidneys, gallbladder, and brain get infected together 00:28:25 The protocol: sprays, acupressure points, and the antimicrobial herbs he actually uses 00:33:56 Homeopathy, lab testing, and how to decide where to start Dr. Motley's go-to herbal recommendations: Cat’s Claw Supreme: https://tinyurl.com/yu8ntvu7 Japanese Knotweed: https://tinyurl.com/296dkaby Alchornea Supreme: https://shorturl.at/3HSJ Elderberry Supreme: https://tinyurl.com/kxvnrtep Echinacea Supreme: https://tinyurl.com/ms9ectd4 Usnea Supreme: https://tinyurl.com/ye5ks88c DesBio Headache: https://dbscript.com/product/headache/, Dr. Motley’s practitioner code is f9367150 *Most of us are mineral deficient and we don’t even know it! Want to get your minerals in? BEAM Minerals is a simple shot of minerals each morning. Try BEAM Minerals at beamminerals.com/DRMOTLEY and use code DRMOTLEY for 20% off your first order. *Do you have a ton more in-depth questions for Doctor Motley? Check out his course on emotions and the body in his membership. You’ll find other courses full of his expertise and clinical wisdom, plus bring all your questions to his weekly lives! To try risk-free for 15 days click here: https://www.doctormotley.com/15 Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Follow Doctor Motley! Instagram TikTok Facebook Website Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
August 31, 202639min
Number 5: Grounding: the honest truth about barefoot healing (is the $200 version worth it?)
Most subjects of a recent study who slept on pads connected to the ground, as part of an earthing protocol, gained significant relief from arthritis, asthma, PMS, sleep apnea and hypertension. We're a generation that's uniquely separated from the Earth. We spend much of our lives in cars, we live in high-rises, and spend the majority of our days working indoors. Why does this matter? Because we're electric beings who actually need the negative ions from standing in the ground, the ocean and even on rocks to support our health outcomes. In this episode Doctor Chris Motley explains why we need negative ions from the ground, the dirt and the sea to help our bodies ward off illness, why this health trend is actually an ancient (and free!) form of medicine, and the two most important things to keep in mind if you’re shopping grounding mats. Whether you're a skeptic or a true believer, try sinking your bare feet in the ground at some point during your week. It's easy, free and it can't hurt to get the benefits of spending time outdoors. In this episode you'll learn: You don't need to buy anything to practice grounding. This is a free and easy protocol that every human being has access to. How our bodies follow electrical patterns (even as embryos!) which is why we need negatively charged ions from the earth that support our health. Negative ions in the body help energize our mitochondria and detoxify our bodies. What the research on grounding has found and what it hasn't. The benefits of grounding and earthing for your nervous system. How PEMF mats support your blood flow. How the earth has proven frequencies like the Schumann Resonance that lower blood pressure and encourage parasympathetic tone. How to avoid parasites while sinking your feet into the dirt. If grounding pads and mats are worth it and two of the most important things to keep an eye out for when shopping for them. How the modern idea of grounding actually taps into the ancient Chinese Medicine tradition of rooting in Qigong. The kidney points responsible for pulling those electric charges up through your body. For further reading, check out https://www.earthing.com/ ------ Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Follow Doctor Motley Instagram Facebook Website ------ *You can get cell support in gummy form: Mitopure now starts at $79, when you go to timeline.com/DRMOTLEY. *Do you have a ton more in-depth questions for Doctor Motley? Check out his course on emotions and the body in his membership. You’ll find other courses full of his expertise and clinical wisdom, plus bring all your questions to his weekly lives! To try risk-free for 15 days click here: https://www.doctormotley.com/15 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
July 28, 202634min