A clinician who teaches like a neighbor.

I'm Matthew Moody—a family nurse practitioner and the founder of Living & Wellness by Design. I built this work because I know what it feels like to be exhausted, overextended, and still trying to become healthier. After years inside healthcare systems, I saw how often people are rushed, shamed, or treated like a diagnosis instead of a whole person.

Living & Wellness by Design brings together clinical experience, functional wellness, metabolic health, and nervous system recovery—reframed as practical education that helps people move from burnout and overwhelm into a healthier daily rhythm.

Because “that's just aging” isn't an answer.

In conventional settings I watched person after person told their exhaustion, weight changes, and lost drive were simply part of getting older. Sometimes a prescription is right—but often, people first need understanding. Teaching is how I close that gap: hormones, metabolism, sleep, and stress explained clearly enough to act on.

A note on relationships: the education on this site is general information, not medical care. Reading, subscribing, or enrolling here does not create a provider–patient relationship, and it never replaces guidance from your own clinician.

Clinical, classroom, community

Clinical practice. Years inside conventional medicine—emergency rooms, primary care, pain management, and behavioral health—treating people, not just diagnoses.

Teaching. From classrooms to the bedside, Matthew's throughline is education: translating complex physiology into decisions people can actually make.

Community. Living & Wellness by Design grew out of a simple observation—that people do best when their health is taken seriously, without judgment or shame.

The person behind the teaching

Cooking: a kitchen-first belief that food is the original wellness practice. Outdoors: trail time in red rock country—movement as meditation. Strength: training for the long game. Reflection: reading, writing, and the quiet habits that sharpen teaching. Service: education in service of others—at the bedside and beyond.