Ancient Health Podcast

Marine veteran Zach Bell (Veteran With A Sign) told the VA how he felt and came home with a grocery bag of pills. He tells Dr. Motley why veterans say "I'm fine," how a cardboard sign became his mission, and his ibogaine story from a clinic in Mexico, checked against the research. Includes discussion of drug use, addiction and suicide.

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Does a cough, tight chest, bronchitis or sinus flare show up at the same time every fall? Dr. Chris Motley knows the pattern well. As a teenager he had bronchitis every October, during his parents’ separation, and this fall his voice gave out again. In this solo episode he shares that story and explains why Chinese medicine connects the lungs with both grief and autumn. He describes how crying helps reset your nervous system, then shows three lung acupressure points and the routine he uses to support his lungs each fall. Sources are in the show notes. Educational only, not medical advice. Contains affiliate links.

Chapters

00:00 A cough that comes back every fall

00:24 Grief, sadness and fall symptoms: coincidence?

01:29 Why my voice sounds like this

02:02 Bronchitis every September as a teenager

03:08 The grief I thought I'd powered through

04:21 The infections hiding behind fall lung trouble

05:32 Why Chinese medicine puts grief in the lungs

06:44 Three lung points you can press right now

08:51 A remedy for boundaries, and what it stirred up

11:08 The night the old grief came back

14:16 Check yourself: the lung and grief questions

16:46 Why fall is the lungs' season

19:04 What falling leaves teach about slowing down

22:08 Overwork, cortisol and fight-or-flight lungs

25:43 How grief turns into tears

28:44 What happens when you never let yourself cry

31:07 The fall lung protocol: homeopathy, herbs, glandulars

35:30 The S-bar and acupressure routine

37:35 Testing for infections, and the recap

40:01 Send this to someone who is grieving

40:50 Disclaimer and close

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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.

Includes discussion of suicide and abuse; if you're struggling call 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: call or text 988. RAINN: 800-656-4673.

Chapters:

00:00 Numbed out and don't know it

00:35 Intro: Dr. Stacy Jagger, round two

03:12 Raising Sassy: the book that starts in a hospital

05:06 Hitting a wall at 19

07:19 Three small moments that saved her

09:41 Numbed out or revved up: the signs

14:20 Seven to nine hours of screens

16:03 Turn off, turn in, turn up

20:32 Your nervous system in plain English, and the window of SASS

24:15 Your childhood voids became your highest values

25:58 The feelings ball (Dr. Motley goes first)

29:02 Club Potty: dancing at 5 a.m.

30:59 Trauma as residue, and ketamine-assisted therapy

36:34 What are you going to do with your broken heart?

40:52 You are nature turned inside out

44:40 Can't afford therapy? One trusted friend

49:31 The hard way is the shortcut

52:42 Catalytic Family Therapy and where to find her

55:35 Disclaimer

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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. Sponsored by JASPR. Use code MOTLEY.

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JASPR'S LAB STUDIES (third-party testing by LMS Labs, commissioned by JASPR) Microplastic-sized particle test (latex beads), March 2025: removed about 98.7% of particles 0.016–10 microns in 60 minutes in a 4,000 cu ft chamber. CADR: 276 CFM.

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Extra reading:

Do I Need to Worry About Airborne Microplastics? (TIME)

You’re Breathing Microplastics: Here’s What You Can Do About It (JASPR)

Chapters:

0:00 Why your allergies follow you inside

0:34 Sponsor note and intro: Mike Feldstein of JASPR

2:22 From wildfire and mold jobs to clean air

4:35 The smoke-damaged home that re-contaminated in a week

7:08 Why big-box purifiers couldn't keep up

8:55 COVID, dentists, and the nine-minute room

12:28 "HEPA is kind of..." what the label really means

14:59 Why HEPA catches the tiniest particles best

15:58 99% of $1 or 95% of $5: why airflow wins

17:08 The new filter, and the trees behind the carbon

23:40 What your air-quality light can't see

24:55 Microplastics: what your dust is telling you

31:30 Snoring, sleep divorce, and seasonal allergies

37:20 The 80/20: air, water, light

39:19 Your air freshener is the new secondhand smoke

42:14 Smell your food before you eat

45:33 A school built around clean air

55:54 The MOTLEY code and the 30-day guarantee

59:25 Lung chi and the wrap

1:02:02 Disclaimer

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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.

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00:00 Spouse or house

00:09 Welcome and disclosure

00:53 Can an emotion make you sick?

02:11 Light, color and a case from 30 years ago

04:42 Leviticus, tzaraat and a week alone

05:58 Mold after a water leak

06:48 Mold with no leak at all

07:42 Air tests, mold plates and ERMI

09:05 Spouse or house

09:38 Typhoid Mary and the carrier who feels fine

09:55 The 30-minute history

10:48 Your pillow and your mattress

12:43 Acne after the wedding

13:45 Red flags for Lyme

14:47 Lyme in a 5,300-year-old mummy

16:17 Salmon, tomatoes and a stiff hip

17:47 Lecturing in Korea

19:34 The bunk bed and the mattress

20:07 Where to find Drs. Lebowitz

23:01 Disclaimer

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