Traditional Chinese Medicine Saved This Doctor. Now He Wants to Pay it Forward. | Dr. Anis Khalaf

Ancient Health Podcast

Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Dr. Anis Khalaf’s life was saved by TCM and he doesn’t want this to be a rare experience. That’s why Dr. Khalaf, a practitioner with a background in both Western Medicine and Chinese Medicine, is on a mission to share as many different holistic health options as he can with families in his local community. So the Williamson County WellFest was born! Come see the Ancient Health Podcast LIVE, for a day’s worth of interviews about physical, mental and spiritual health, this Saturday May 16, 2026 at Will Co WellFest in Franklin, TN. Get your tickets here: https://shorturl.at/dAHaA ------ Want more of The Ancient Health Podcast? Subscribe to the YouTube channel. Follow Dr. Motley! Instagram Twitter Facebook Tik-Tok Website Follow Dr. Anis! https://www.tiktok.com/@acupuncturefit https://www.youtube.com/@AcupunctureFit See the Podcast (and Dr. Motley) LIVE: https://shorturl.at/dAHaA ------ * You can get cell support in gummy form: Mitopure now starts at $79, when you go to timeline.com/DRMOTLEY. *Join Doctor Motley’s newsletter for TCM insights and regular podcast updates: https://www.doctormotley.com/ *If you want to hear more on how Chinese Medicine connects the physical and emotional, check out Doctor Motley’s membership, complete with courses, a whole library of video-based resources and the chance to pick his brain on weekly live Q+A’s. You can try it free for 15 days here: https://www.doctormotley.com/15

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0:00.0	Traditional Chinese medicine saved my life.
0:03.0	I found myself sitting on a very cold doctor's office table, paper thin gown,
0:10.0	totally like a number, and a very, very grim diagnosis of potential pre-cancerous polyps in my colon at the age of 22.
0:19.0	And I was having some profuse bleeding. And, you know,
0:24.8	you're just graduating college and you think you have your whole life ahead of you. And then you
0:30.7	get this. And my whole world was turned upside down that day. Welcome to the ancient health
0:36.2	podcast, where East meets West in the World of Medicine.
0:39.8	I'm Dr. Chris Motley.
0:41.2	Let's bridge the gap between ancient practices and cutting edge medicine.
0:45.3	Let's get started.
0:46.8	Hello, friends.
0:47.5	Welcome to the Ancient Health Podcast.
0:49.0	I'm your host, Dr. Chris Motley.
0:50.1	Today, I have one of my closest friends, Dr. Anise Collop, and he is here talking about the Williamson County, the Wilco Wellfest at 2026, and it is going to be on May 16th here in Franklin, Tennessee.
1:05.0	And Anise is one of my closest friends.
1:07.5	And we talk all the Chinese medicine.
1:09.9	He has a huge following on TikTok and
1:13.0	Instagram and he is a wealth of knowledge. And we're going to talk more probably at a later
1:18.2	time about more about him. But we want to talk about this festival that is coming up and it's
1:23.4	going to have, well, I'm going to let him describe it, but from what we're seeing is going to
1:27.3	have a huge amount of awesome vendors, individuals, and companies that are
1:32.7	going to be out there talking about all things, health, and many aspects.
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