So go ahead, wriggle into that wetsuit, and pencil in an afternoon nap.Ĭonnect with Dr.Scotts Valley Medical Clinic (SCOTTS VALLEY MEDICAL CLINIC) is a Family Medicine Clinic in Santa Cruz, California. If you look at the cultures where people live longest, the so-called blue zones, they’re quite different in many ways, so the question to ask is what have they got in common? And one of the things that they're doing is that they're having downtime.” The mistake we make with ourselves, is that we try to squeeze in so much production… We are overstimulated as a civilization, and it’s starting to affect our longevity figures. They can also really mess things up if you take the wrong combinations or too much, she adds.īut the number one measure for optimal health that we perpetually overlook is simple. But what they can do is give the body a nudge in the right direction.” “Herbs, in general, are simply not strong enough to do that. “Pharmaceuticals hijack a natural process, they kind of grab the steering wheel and take control of the body,” she says. Motyka takes natural medicine seriously, but emphasizes a common misconception that they're natural pharmaceuticals. …When you become a doctor in a town it's kind of like getting married, and Santa Cruz has shaped me.”įrom mushrooms to potent Chinese herbs, Dr. I'd always had a bias thinking that there was probably good stuff there in the herbal world, but that gave me the push to study it formally. “I came to this town in 1991, and people started asking me questions about herbs, and about natural substances, and I realized I didn't know enough. Interestingly, she blames the evolution of her present-day practice not on years spent in medical school, but on Santa Cruz. Motyka integrates psychoneuroimmunology, acupuncture, natural medicine and even aesthetics-she’s as prepared to perform a pap smear or diagnose an autoimmune disease as she is to administer hypnosis or a Botox injection. Motyka, and of course, her cell phone number.įunctional medicine is a radically reframed “systems approach” to health, and Dr. To start, she is able to spend more than 15 minutes with each patient a monthly subscription provides unlimited time with Dr. in August, on the main artery of Mission Street-and it looks nothing like the primary care office she ran for two decades before that. Motyka in her office on the West side is like being in the presence of a virtual, up-to-date encyclopedia of medicine that happens to have long blonde hair and a propensity for Dragon's Breath green tea.ĭr. If she's uncertain about any aspect of an issue, she looks it up for the following week. Motyka methodically addresses a lottery of topics, which, during the course of one show, can span from the concern around heightened mercury levels in the body or the anti-inflammatory properties of curcumin to a mysterious bug bite filled with pus-complete with the caller's sound effects for how he popped it. Motyka opens the show up to her listeners-which, with the inception of the podcast, has expanded to include anyone with a smart phone or Internet access to NPR.ĭrawing on 22 years as a primary care physician and her insatiable research habits, Dr. Gabor Maté on the neurological effects of early childhood relationships to, most recently, Jane Wade on the certification processes and nutritional benefits of organic food.īut mostly, Dr. Motyka has interviewed a wide range of notable doctors and experts on her radio show, Ask Dr. Dawn Motyka chimes over the airwaves of KUSP's central coast public radio every Saturday morning at 9 o'clock-just as it has every week since 1993. Dawn Motyka's ‘Functional Medicine’ practice redefines the modern patient-doctor relationship.
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