About

Dr. Bradley G. Martin, DAOM, L.Ac.

I am a licensed Acupuncturist and Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine whose work brings together traditional Chinese Medicine, functional systems thinking, longevity, and the physiological foundations of creativity and sustained performance.

I work with creatives, founders, executives, athletes, and others building ambitious lives. Their health must support more than the demands of daily life it must also support attention, relationships, meaningful work, recovery, and long-term vitality.

My approach begins with the understanding that health does not exist in isolated parts. Sleep affects metabolism, digestion influences energy and cognition, and stress changes hormonal signaling, inflammation, immune function, and recovery. Environment, relationships, daily rhythm, and meaning all shape how the body adapts.

Traditional Chinese medicine trained me to recognize these relationships through pattern, movement, and the changing dynamics of the whole person. Functional medicine expanded the tools available for investigating physiology, lifestyle, environment, and contributing factors. My doctoral studies focused on longevity and integrative medicine, with research interests in healthy aging, ethnomedicine, epigenetics, and the relationship between traditional healing systems and emerging science.

My background in music, film, cultural production, and Deep Listening also shapes how I understand health. Creativity is physiological: when sleep, digestion, energy, and nervous-system regulation are disrupted, meaningful work becomes increasingly difficult to sustain.

Today, my work is rooted at the intersection of clinical observation, systems thinking, culture, and lived experience.

Functional medicine shaped my instruments. Chinese medicine shaped my perception.

CREATIVITY IS PHYSIOLOGICAL

Creativity is often discussed as though it exists only in the mind.

In practice, the ability to imagine, focus, communicate, improvise, and sustain meaningful work is deeply influenced by physiology.

Sleep shapes cognition. Digestion influences energy and mood. Stress physiology affects perception, patience, and adaptability. Recovery determines whether output can continue without gradually exhausting the person producing it.

Before entering medicine, I studied and worked across music, experimental film, cultural production, and creative strategy. I have worked alongside artists, producers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and Grammy Award-winning creative teams.

That background remains central to my clinical perspective.

I understand health not only as a medical concern, but as the biological foundation from which relationships, creativity, leadership, and meaningful work emerge.

CLINICAL EXPERIENCE

My clinical education included work in community, integrative, and collaborative healthcare environments serving people across a wide range of ages, backgrounds, and health concerns.

Selected clinical training included:

Venice Family Clinic

Integrative-care experience within a collaborative community-health setting connected with UCLA.

WISE & Healthy Aging

Clinical work focused on healthy aging, senior wellness, functional capacity, and integrative support for older adults.

The Wellness Center Los Angeles County–USC Medical Center

Collaborative community-health experience in Boyle Heights.

Yo San Blount Community Fertility Clinic

Completed an externship through the Integrative Reproductive Medicine & Fertility Center, gaining experience in holistic fertility and reproductive care that combined traditional East Asian medicine with reproductive wellness support.

RELATIONSHIP IS THE UNIT OF UNDERSTANDING

A symptom can rarely be understood fully in isolation. The same complaint may arise from very different patterns in different people. Fatigue, for example, may involve sleep, digestion, metabolic instability, chronic stress, hormonal changes, inflammation, emotional strain, or several of these factors at once.

Chinese medicine taught me to understand health through relationships: between rest and activity, nourishment and expenditure, structure and function, and the individual and their environment. Functional medicine adds tools for examining physiology, laboratory data, lifestyle, and environmental influences.

The aim is not to force every concern into a single theory. It is to build a clearer map of how the system is moving, identify the relationships that matter most, and determine the most useful place to begin.

Dr. Bradley Martin