Malynn Utzinger, MA, MD
Prior to opening her practice in New York, Dr. Malynn served as Director of Women’s Health at the Chopra Center for Wellbeing in Carlsbad, California.
Dr. Malynn completed an MD, residency (Family Medicine and an additional year of Physiatry), and fellowship (Preventive Oncology) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where is an honorary professor of Family Medicine. She also served as Co-Director of the nation's first HMO-based Complementary Medicine and Wellness Center and founder of LifeWorks Integral, a private center for holistic medicine and community outreach in Madison, WI. During her medical training, she worked as a researcher and program coordinator for heart health pioneer Dean Ornish, MD, of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, CA and as a contributor to Integral Medicine at the Integral Institute in Boulder, CO, led by philosopher Ken Wilber.
She is double board-certified in both Family Medicine and in Integrative and Holistic Medicine.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Utzinger completed a BA in English and Mass Communications, an MA in Linguistics, and post-graduate studies in Cultural Anthropology.
Source of Health--A Message from Dr. Malynn
As a medical doctor, I can give you tips and procedures for your health, and I can accompany you part way down that road. Along the way, you will find that your health comes primarily in the process of discovering what lies within you! YOU are the source. It is your passion for living, your body's own intelligence, the scintillating, vibrating aliveness at your very core that will do the essential work of healing. Call it DNA, call it the healing force of nature, call it the Qi running through the rivers of your body, call it your soul's curiosity, call it love. All these words and metaphors point to elements of healing.
What matters is that you were born with this life force and something to offer. And along with that gift comes a unique constitutional make-up that has vulnerabilities, quirks and strengths. This is your own blueprint, a map of your essence, and if you come to know it, and it will guide you through health and illness. No matter what physical patterns your body and mind have accumulated over the years, there is a way to appreciate greater health; there are many, many tools for recovering the map of your soul again. Some of those tools involve foods and botanicals. Some of them involve rewiring neural and hormonal circuits. All involve finding the golden thread of your life's story--your throughline. With experience, patience, and curiosity, your inner compass will begin to find its true north.
All of this can take some time, and people often wonder if the trials will be worth it. The answer is clear. If you don't begin, life will go by and there will simply be a little less of you, a little less of your fire, less of your passion, less of your vision, and less of your kindness...whatever makes you you and whatever you give to the world. Whatever benefits you reap, subtle or overt, all of it becomes part of the World Bank of Health because health begets health in the same way that joy and plain-speaking honesty are contagious. It is worth it for you to work on your health because we all benefit from your effort.
So, if you are even considering getting to work on your health, consider yourself courageous. Some days it will be dull and difficult; yet, on many days, you will find the work enjoyable and surprisingly interesting. In moments of flow, or "choiceless awareness," you will even come to feel your own path unfolding effortlessly. To know this for yourself will require your participation--something only you can decide to give.
If this sounds confusing, hardly do-able, yet terribly interesting...you are ready to begin. There is nothing you need to know except that you are curious to know yourself and life more fully. Beginner's mind will take you far.
I look forward to working with you!
Malynn Utzinger, MA, MD