ABOUT
On a mission to change how the world understands health
Dr. Matt’s core belief is simple and a little inconvenient for an industry enriched by complexity: the nervous system holds the keys to nearly everything, and most of what we’ve been told is permanent, isn’t.
He came to that belief the hard way. At 27 he was diagnosed with an autoimmune condition called Graves’ Disease and told his only options were surgery, radioactive iodine, or medication for the rest of his life. He reversed it instead, without any of them, by changing the handful of inputs his body actually needed. Then he spent the next decade testing that same approach against thousands of patients and the conditions modern medicine tends to shrug at: chronic pain, hormone problems, gut issues, anxiety.
His own labs said he was fine. The standard panel came back normal while Graves’ Disease was slowly ruining his life, because his case didn’t fit the textbook presentation. That’s the flaw in how we test: narrow snapshots, a basic blood panel, an image, built to catch disease once it’s advanced and average enough to fit the pattern. The years of dysfunction that come first slip right through, and so does anything that doesn’t present the standard way. So people get told to wait until it’s worse. If you’ve ever been told everything looks normal while you knew something was wrong, you weren’t imagining it. The dysfunction was there. The test just wasn’t looking for it.
These are often the people caught in the specialist shuffle: handed a prescription and sent on their way, or sent home with a stack of supplements and health hacks, chasing down each symptom on its own. Like most chiropractors, he started out treating symptoms in the room. It worked, but only for a day or two, and then patients were back where they started.
That gap is what led him to build the TriChord Method™, a way to create change that actually lasted longer than a couple days. Then he paired it with the Core Four, the same lifestyle inputs that had reversed his own diagnosis. For years those two things had lived separately, his work in the clinic and the way he’d learned to live. Combining them is what changed everything, and it became his life’s work.
Plenty of people in health talk about root causes. Fewer actually work that way. Dr. Matt takes a true systems approach: instead of forever managing a dozen symptoms one at a time, he restores the system underneath them and lets the body do what it does best. It sounds obvious on paper. In practice, almost no one builds their care around it. That’s the difference, and it’s why the thing that hurts is rarely where he starts looking.
He’ll obsess over the sweet spot in an espresso shot the same way he obsesses over a nervous system, relentlessly and probably past the point of reason. Add a deep love of country music and a sweet tooth he’s still negotiating with, and you get someone whose expertise comes wrapped in a person you’d actually want to grab a coffee with.
He’s honest about being a work in progress, and he’ll tell you so himself. He spent his early years looking young in a room full of seasoned experts, fighting the imposter feeling that comes with it. He’s beaten a disease he was told was permanent and still catches himself over-scheduling, chasing his own ambition hard enough that it occasionally becomes the very thing he warns his patients about.
The more he learns, the more he sees how much is left to learn. He doesn’t present as the finished, perfectly optimized health guru. He presents as someone who learned that resilience is built, not granted, and who’s still building it.
At the center of everything he teaches is a simple idea. Health isn’t a place you arrive at and hold. It’s a direction. Every choice moves you a little closer to it or a little further away, and the body is always responding, always alive, more like a plant than a car. The magic was always inside you, and Dr. Matt has spent his career helping people remember it.