Beth Motley MD, FACLM

Beth Motley MD, FACLM Family Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine MD
Plant-based diets & deprescribing
Longevity & chronic disease prevention
Wife & mother of 5 Health & Wellness Website

Kids plates tonight 👧🏼👦🏽👦🏼👧🏼👧🏽Quinoa 🌾Red beans 🫘 Cucumbers 🥒 Blueberries and raspberries 🫐 For some reason, quinoa fell...
02/23/2026

Kids plates tonight 👧🏼👦🏽👦🏼👧🏼👧🏽

Quinoa 🌾

Red beans 🫘

Cucumbers 🥒

Blueberries and raspberries 🫐

For some reason, quinoa fell off the rotation for a while and kids have been vetoing it lately. So trying to get it back in our regular cycle to get the kids used to it again!

They’ll come around I know! 😉

Pumpkin bread 😋 We’re getting ready to put our house on the market, which means… eating through the cabinets 😄. That inc...
02/20/2026

Pumpkin bread 😋

We’re getting ready to put our house on the market, which means… eating through the cabinets 😄. That includes the random cans of pumpkin.

Mix the dry:
• 2 c flour
• ½ c sugar (I like to throw in 1-2 ripe bananas instead)
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 tbsp pumpkin pie spice
• pinch salt

Add the wet:
• 1 can pumpkin purée
• ½ c applesauce (we keep the snack size little containers on hand)
• ¼ c plant milk
• 1-2 tsp vanilla

Stir just to combine.
Bake 350°F for 55–60 min.

Optional: walnuts, pepitas, or oats on top.

Kids don’t about what flavors are in season. These quick breads are always devoured within 24 hours!

Recipe from Simple Veganista.

Watching my kids soccer practice in an awkward spot behind a fence. A coach from another team walked behind me, and hand...
02/18/2026

Watching my kids soccer practice in an awkward spot behind a fence. A coach from another team walked behind me, and handed me this apple. He said it was his one leftover snack and he had to give it away.

Refreshing to see a coach handing out real food to fuel our children. As you know, this is not often the case!

I probably should have taken the photo before I started snacking, but hey, I was hungry!

Almond Joy Bars 🌴🥥🍫If you don’t have a large food processor, you may want to halve this recipe 😉Step 1 – Blend the dry i...
02/17/2026

Almond Joy Bars 🌴🥥🍫

If you don’t have a large food processor, you may want to halve this recipe 😉

Step 1 – Blend the dry ingredients:
• 3 cups almonds
• 2 cups shredded coconut
• 2 cups old-fashioned oats
• 1 cup cocoa powder

Step 2 – Add the dried fruit:
• 2 cups dates (more if you like it sweeter)

Step 3 – Now the liquid:
• 2 tsp vanilla in ~½ cup water
Add just enough liquid until it sticks together.

Press into a pan → chill → slice.

These have been a HUGE hit at our house.

- 100% whole-food ingredients
- Fiber-rich
- Kid-approved 👧🏼👦🏽👦🏼👧🏼👧🏽

For my weight-loss patients:
These are a wholesome treat, but they are calorie-dense, so enjoy intentionally 💚

Twenty years in the system. More and more medications added. Migraines still a pressing issue.Today this individual came...
02/16/2026

Twenty years in the system. More and more medications added. Migraines still a pressing issue.

Today this individual came in as a new patient for a fresh set of eyes.

Age >65 with chronic migraines. A medication list that kept growing because this is how our system is designed: new symptom >>> new prescription.

So today we deprescribed. The entire list above is off the medication list.

For now, she remains on just five prescription medications while we stabilize the foundation. The new treatment plan is not another pill. It’s lifestyle as first-line therapy.

She’s been referred to our Exercise is Medicine program, which will benefit her in several ways. Regular movement improves sleep efficiency. It increases slow-wave (deep) sleep. It reduces sleep latency & helps regulate the circadian rhythm.

And better sleep is one of the most powerful migraine therapies we have! 🧠

We still have some work to do. This is not a 1-visit fix.

For now we’re working upstream on a nutrient-dense, anti-inflammatory eating pattern, structured exercise, and sleep optimization

Because when you improve insulin sensitivity, vascular function, inflammation, and sleep quality, migraines often improve as a downstream effect.

This is the part of medicine we don’t talk about enough. It is typical to treat problems by adding more. Far fewer conversations happen about the downsides of polypharmacy, like drug–drug interactions, side effects that look like new diagnoses… Falls, brain fog, fatigue and the list goes on.

Sometimes the most powerful intervention is not what you start… It’s what you safely stop. And then you rebuild health from the foundation. 💪🏽

Easy Plant-Based Banana Bread 🍌A favorite from Keeping the Peas. We made a 4x batch but sharing the 1x recipe here. 🧑‍🍳 ...
02/13/2026

Easy Plant-Based Banana Bread 🍌

A favorite from Keeping the Peas. We made a 4x batch but sharing the 1x recipe here. 🧑‍🍳

What you need
• 3 ripe bananas
• ⅓ cup applesauce
• ¼ cup almond milk or water
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1¾ cups whole wheat flour
• ⅓ cup coconut sugar (optional)
• 2 tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp baking soda
• ¼ tsp salt
• ⅓ cup chopped nuts (optional)

What to do
1️⃣ Preheat oven to 350°F
2️⃣ Mash bananas → stir in applesauce, almond milk, vanilla
3️⃣ Add dry ingredients → mix until just combined (don’t overmix)
4️⃣ Stir in nuts (optional)
5️⃣ Pour into lined 9-inch loaf pan
6️⃣ Bake 50–55 min
7️⃣ Cool for 10 min, slice & enjoy

Simple, whole food ingredients, and always kid approved. This will be gone in 12 hours. ⏰

The best way to celebrate Valentine’s Day 💌 tomorrow is with beet smoothies today. BeetsCarrotsMangoGinger ♥️🧡🩷
02/13/2026

The best way to celebrate Valentine’s Day 💌 tomorrow is with beet smoothies today.

Beets
Carrots
Mango
Ginger

♥️🧡🩷

Kids lunches packed! 😋 Tofu, air friedGreen peas 🫛 Oranges 🍊 Pickles 🥒 (awkwardly fit in on the diagonal)Mixed nuts & d...
02/11/2026

Kids lunches packed! 😋

Tofu, air fried

Green peas 🫛

Oranges 🍊

Pickles 🥒 (awkwardly fit in on the diagonal)

Mixed nuts & dried fruit 🥜

Almond joy bars (almonds, oats, coconut) 🥥

A dash of their favorite hot sauce 🌶️

They will be well fueled for an afternoon of learning and sports! 📚 ⚽️

My friend Rip Esselstyn is offering a limited number of scholarships for the upcoming PlantStrong Retreat (April 19–24, ...
02/10/2026

My friend Rip Esselstyn is offering a limited number of scholarships for the upcoming PlantStrong Retreat (April 19–24, 2026 in Black Mountain, NC) for individuals who feel called to attend but may need financial support to make it possible.

This is a rare opportunity to spend six transformative days immersed in evidence-based nutrition, restorative movement, medical guidance, and meaningful human connection in a beautiful mountain setting.

If this is up your alley, or if you know someone who could truly benefit, consider applying or sharing. Sometimes the right environment, at the right moment, can change everything.

Scholarship application:
https://forms.gle/nNPtgqBEv9VmR56P8

Retreat details:
https://plantstrong.com/pages/black-mountain-retreat-2026

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Taking a break from eating kids leftovers to make a meal for myself! Chopped salad with Asian ginger peanut dressing 🌱🥬...
02/07/2026

Taking a break from eating kids leftovers to make a meal for myself!

Chopped salad with Asian ginger peanut dressing 🌱🥬

I used one of those pre-chopped grocery store salad mixes (convenient!), then tossed it with this peanut ginger dressing made in the Vitamix. Restaurant-level flavor with about 5 minutes of effort.

🥜 Peanut Ginger Dressing
1 cup dry roasted peanuts
2–4 tbsp fresh ginger
2 cloves garlic
¼ cup lime juice or rice vinegar
2 tbsp soy sauce
2–4 tsp maple or date syrup (optional)
A splash of sriracha
1–1½ cups warm water (depending on desired consistency)

Blend in Vitamix. Massage into greens and let sit 5–10 minutes

Delicious salad. 😋 Would also be great atop roasted tofu or an Asian grain bowl. Or with summer rolls if you’ve got some time to spare!

What’s your favorite way to make greens actually taste amazing?

Happy Saturday everyone! 💚
02/07/2026

Happy Saturday everyone! 💚

Accidentally ordered way more carrots than anticipated. 12 lbs! What’s your favorite recipe that uses a lot of carrots?O...
02/06/2026

Accidentally ordered way more carrots than anticipated. 12 lbs!

What’s your favorite recipe that uses a lot of carrots?

On the bright side, this will be good for my skin complexion, which could probably use some help in February! ☀️ 🥕

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ABOUT

I am a Family Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine physician with Greenville Health System in Greenville, SC. Originally from Acton, MA, I was a figure skater growing up, and became interested in nutrition as a means of optimizing performance. I then moved on to study biomedical engineering at University of Virginia. It wasn’t until my medical training that I made nutrition my main focus, and dedicated my elective time to working with various Lifestyle Medicine doctors around the U.S., including John McDougall MD, Neal Barnard MD, Ron Weiss MD, and Caldwell Esselstyn MD. After these experiences, I had no doubt that Lifestyle Medicine is the key to addressing our chronic disease. I thought I was giving up engineering when I switched to medicine, but in fact, Lifestyle Medicine is engineering. We are reframing the question. Rather than asking “how do we treat the symptoms?”, we must ask why the disease state developed in the first place, our root cause analysis. I am a clinical assistant professor at USC School of Medicine Greenville, a leader of the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative, and an active member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

WHAT IS LIFESTYLE MEDICINE? Lifestyle Medicine is the medical subspecialty focused on using lifestyle modalities to prevent and reverse chronic disease. Why, today, is healthcare so focused on "controlling" disease and treating symptoms, rather than addressing the root cause of disease, and reversing the process entirely? Heart disease, diabetes, and cancer are all prime examples. Lifestyle changes - in particular, a move to a more plant-based diet - are far more powerful than any pharmacotherapy for managing chronic disease and ensuring long term health. We don't "need more research"; we need to start applying what we already know to our communities.

WHAT IS A WHOLE FOODS PLANT-BASED DIET? “Whole foods” means unprocessed or minimally processed foods, as they exist in nature, i.e. single-ingredient foods. Strict individuals will avoid added salt, sugar, and oil as well.

“Plant-based” in its broadest interpretation means >95% of calories coming from plant-based foods: fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes. However, most individuals who follow a plant-based diet aim for 100% in order to maximize potential health benefits.