Dr. Jordan M. Maxwell, DACM, DC

I came to this medicine as a patient

I grew up in Liverpool, New York. By the time I was studying biochemistry at SUNY Oswego I was managing Crohn's disease, celiac disease, and ADHD the conventional way, and not getting better. The acupuncturist who first treated me was Dr. Bridget McCabe. She pointed me toward this path, and she has since passed. Acupuncture, herbal medicine, and breathwork brought me back to health. Functional medicine taught me to read the labs that explained why.

I went on to two doctorates, back to back: chiropractic at New York Chiropractic College, where I also earned a certification in whole food nutrition, and acupuncture and Chinese medicine at Pacific College of Health Sciences. Along the way I taught doctoral-level nutrition, biochemistry, and physiology, and did academic research. The science never left. It's the reason I trust this medicine: I've watched it work on the hardest patient I've ever had, which was me.

How I practice

I read the bloodwork and the pulse. I understand pharmacology and plant medicine. Two people with the same diagnosis may need entirely different treatment, and the oldest part of Chinese medicine, pattern diagnosis, is how I tell them apart. I treat the imbalance early, before it has a name, and I work alongside your doctors, never instead of them.

Most of my clinical work now runs through one door: stress and the nervous system. Pain, digestion, sleep, hormones, and the chronic conditions I see most all pass through it, and so does the spiritual side of health, which I take as seriously as the physical. I call the whole approach Grounded Mysticism. Every mystery deserves rigor, and every science deserves soul.