Take Back Your Health

About Take Back Your Health

Are you struggling to understand why health is so hard to achieve? Don’t know where to begin or have enough understanding to know what to do?This podcast, Take Back Your Health, is a great place to start that journey. We discuss the real issues and try to uncover the reasons why most people struggle when it comes to living healthy. Health isn’t always easy, it is a daily battle, but it doesn’t have to be complicated. Dr. Matt Kirkland, owner of New Directions Chiropractic, is a board-licensed and certified chiropractor and certified chiropractic extremity practitioner. Listen to his talks as well as some of his guests as they try to help you take back your health!

Publisher

the MESH

Category

health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Aug 2024

Latest episode

13 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

12 of 26 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Quality Care, Not Conveyer Belts

   Dr. Matt Kirkland interviews Dr. Anne Gonzalez about how direct primary care offers personalized, patient-focused healthcare over traditional insurance-driven models.

2. 

   20 Feb 2026TRANSCRIPT

   I Don’t Bend That Way

   Is yoga just stretching — or is it one of the most powerful tools for total-body health? Listen as Dr. Matt and Deanna Glover with Root and Rise Yoga breaks down the science behind the flow and explain how breath, balance, and intentional movement rewire your nervous system, improve posture, boost heart health, and build real strength. You’ll discover why yoga isn’t just a workout — it’s a strategy for resilience, recovery, and long-term performance. Whether you’re a beginner or seasoned on the mat, this conversation will change the way you think about yoga.

3. 

   31 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Take A Stab At It

   Are you struggling with stress and chronic pain but nothing you have tried seems to touch it? Acupuncture may be the answer your searching for. While not only a way to improve sleep and overall wellness, acupuncture offers a natural way to help the body heal itself. Listen as Dr. Matt and Callie Pierce with Pierce Acupuncture discuss how those tiny needles can make a big difference in your health.

Inside a recent episode

Quality Care, Not Conveyer Belts

Published 13 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, so obviously primary care services, so chronic care management, acute care, so cold, sinus infections, urine infections, respiratory infections, you know, those kinds of things. We do, sometimes I'll have some laceration repairs, it just kind of depends on what it is. We don't do, like, broken bones in the office, or the urgent care, or the quick care kind of things. We will take off skin tags, moles, we'll send them for pathology. We do well -woman care, we do pap smears, we do a lot of hormone therapy, hormone replacement therapy. We do weight management. We also do cardiometabolic risk evaluations, so for people whose family members maybe were 45 and had a heart attack, and you know, they're wondering what's my risk for having that happen. […]

Who has been a guest on Take Back Your Health

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Matt Gonzalez
• Dr Anne Gonzalez
• Sean
• Blakely DuBose
• Jacob Shepherd

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 18 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

24

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

27

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