Doctor Motley

I Left the VA With a Piggly Wiggly Bag of Meds

577 views · 16h ago · 1:20:13

When the VA asked Zach Bell how he felt, he told them the truth: anxiety, a bad back, no sleep. He went home with hydrocodone, Ambien, Valium and Prozac in a grocery bag. His wife looked at it and asked, "What did you tell them?"

Topics: Meet Zach Bell, the Veteran With A Sign · A trailer off a dirt road outside Memphis · Two proofs of concept · Why boot camp was easy · Drink water, take Motrin, change your socks · Leaving two days after his daughter was born

The Surprising Cause of Your Fall Cough

845 views · 3d ago · 42:09

Emotional Detox and Drainage Lung/Large Intestine Meridian Opener Respiratory Plus Dr. Motley's typical use: 5 to 10 drops twice a day. Herbs (Supreme Nutrition) Elderberry Echinacea Scutellaria (Chinese skullcap) - If you have liver disease, ask your provider first

Topics: A cough that comes back every fall · Grief, sadness and fall symptoms: coincidence? · Why my voice sounds like this · Bronchitis every September as a teenager · The grief I thought I'd powered through · The infections hiding behind fall lung trouble

The Real Reason You Can't Feel Anything

1.3K views · 1w ago · 56:54

Numbed out, checked out, scrolling through your day? At 19, Nashville family therapist Dr. Stacy Jagger hit a wall that landed her in a psychiatric hospital. She shares what pulled her back and why your childhood voids become your adult values. Plus: the “turn off, turn in, turn up” questions she uses with families, and the one free step anyone can take if therapy isn’t affordable.

Topics: Numbed out and don't know it · Raising Sassy: the book that starts in a hospital · Hitting a wall at 19 · Three small moments that saved her · Numbed out or revved up: the signs · Seven to nine hours of screens

Why do you wake up congested?

1.3K views · 1w ago · 1:03:19

Why do allergies get worse indoors? JASPR founder Mike Feldstein, a former wildfire and mold remediation pro, explains what HEPA labels leave out and why airflow (CADR) matters more than filter efficiency. He also shares what household dust reveals about microplastics, and why he calls air fresheners the new secondhand smoke.

Topics: Why your allergies follow you inside · From wildfire and mold jobs to clean air · The smoke-damaged home that re-contaminated in a week · Why big-box purifiers couldn't keep up · COVID, dentists, and the nine-minute room · "HEPA is kind of..." what the label really means

Your Spouse Could Be Reinfecting You

1.2K views · 2w ago · 24:18

Guest: Drs. Michael

Treated the infection and it came back? Look at your spouse and your house. Dr. Chris Motley talks with Drs. Michael and Noah Lebowitz about how fast mold grows after a leak, why humidity alone is enough, and why to replace your pillow. They also cover the questions to ask about when you got sick, Typhoid Mary and the carrier who feels fine, Leviticus on mold and a week of isolation, and Lyme in a 5,300-year-old mummy.

Topics: Spouse or house · Welcome and disclosure · Can an emotion make you sick? · Light, color and a case from 30 years ago · Leviticus, tzaraat and a week alone · Mold after a water leak

Why Your Parasite Cleanse Backfired

3.2K views · 2w ago · 32:33

Guest: Drs. Michael

A 15-herb cleanse gives you only about 30 to 50 mg of each herb, and a lot of people feel worse on it. Dr. Chris Motley sits down with Drs. Michael and Noah Lebowitz to talk about total load, why chasing one infection misses the rest, the milk thistle mycotoxin problem, and what “other ingredients” on a label really means. They also cover what’s on your organic produce, including a 2026 Texas settlement with Sprouts. Sources are in the show notes.

Topics: Why a cleanse can make you feel worse · Welcome · Symptoms the labs can't explain · What is total load? · Your body is a soup · Metals first? Parasites first? Why they don't prioritize

Your Vertigo Might Not Be Ménière's

1.2K views · 3w ago · 33:53

Spinning attacks, a full ear, a roar you can’t shut off: that’s the classic Ménière’s picture. But a migraine that never causes a headache can mimic it almost exactly. Dr. Chris Motley explains the one test that tells them apart (the audiogram), why every Ménière’s treatment seems to work (in the biggest drug trial, the placebo group got better too), what Chinese medicine wrote about the spinning room 1,800 years ago, and four steps to take before anyone treats your ear.

Topics: The spinning room: is it really Ménière's? · Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast · What a definite Ménière's diagnosis requires · Vestibular migraine: the condition that mimics it · The one test that tells them apart: the audiogram · Why the right label matters before treating the ear

Tight Jaw, Tight Hips? Where Your Body Holds Stress

7.2K views · 3w ago · 53:26

Tight jaw, shoulders up by your ears, waking at 3 a.m.? Somatic movement teacher Liz Tenuto, author of When the Body Speaks, joins Dr. Chris Motley to explore where the body holds stress, why she favors tiny, lazy movements over force, why animals shake it off, and how to recognize when you’re still bracing. Dr. Motley adds the Chinese Medicine perspective on the jaw and waking at 3 a.m.

Topics: Welcome: Liz Tenuto, somatic movement teacher · Ten years without sleep, and everything she tried · "People rolling around on the floor in their pajamas" · Inside a somatic class: the laziest movements possible · From workhorse to gentle, and what surfaced · A dancer, disconnected from her emotional body

Tired and Losing Hair? Check Your Ferritin

3.7K views · 4w ago · 43:02

Tired, losing hair, and told your labs are “normal”? Endocrinologist Dr. Cassie Smith explains the new 2026 American Society of Hematology ferritin thresholds, why your thyroid needs iron, the pregnancy thyroid rule every woman on thyroid medication should know, the gut signs you may be ignoring, and her honest take on GLP-1 drugs. With Dr. Chris Motley.

Topics: Dr. Cassie Smith is back · Graves' disease in med school, at 130 beats a minute · "Normal" labs, and the fertility questions you sent in · Why fertility starts in the gut, and PCOS gets a new name · What birth control does to your gut bacteria · Thyroid, nutrients, and early miscarriage

Is Your House Making You Sick? (It’s Not Just Food)

1.9K views · 1mo ago · 31:54

The viral fungus numbers are real: about 7,300 deaths and 130,000 hospitalizations a year, per the CDC. But those figures count fungal infections, not the mold behind your shower. Dr. Chris Motley explains what damp buildings probably do to health (asthma, wheeze, cough, respiratory infections), why a urine mycotoxin test can't tell you if your home is making you sick, how Chinese Medicine describes "dampness," and the step that matters most: find the water.

Could Your Anxiety Be Lyme in the Brain?

1.1K views · 1mo ago · 58:20

Dr. Eboni Cornish, MD, of Amen Clinics and ILADS, returns for a third conversation, live in Nashville. She and Dr. Chris Motley talk about Lyme and other tick-borne infections in the brain: anxiety and depression, kids labeled ADHD, puberty flares, mold and memory, and why she calms the brain before treating anything. Plus her best question: when did your symptoms start, and where were you?

Topics: Depression, anxiety, and a Lyme test · Welcome: Dr. Eboni Cornish, live in Nashville · From bored family doctor to Lyme practice · How Lyme gets into the brain · What a Lyme brain looks like on a SPECT scan · The limbic loop: calm the brain

The Hidden Drivers of Heart Disease: Light, Stress, Blood Flow & More

1.5K views · 1mo ago · 59:37

At 34, Dr. Stephen Hussey had a zero calcium score and a heart attack six months later. Dr. Chris Motley talks with him about what his tests missed, infrared light, structured water, and his case that the heart is more than a pump. Sources in the show notes. Remember: chest pain means call 911. Educational only, not medical advice.

Topics: Zero calcium score, heart attack at 34 · Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast · Meet Dr. Stephen Hussey 01:38 Hives, asthma, and type 1 diabetes at nine · Fit, healthy, perfect labs, then a heart attack · Alone in the hospital with 11 prescriptions · A blocked leg artery after the heart cath