NEUROSCIENTIST · CHIROPRACTOR · EDUCATOR
Twenty years spent making the nervous system make sense.
Dr. Monique Andrews — known to nearly everyone as Dr. Mo — is a chiropractor and neuroscientist who teaches the biology of being human.
To clinicians who want to understand what they're actually doing.
And to anyone living in a body that's been trying to tell them something.
Dr. Monique Andrews spent her first career studying the brain from the outside, publishing peer-reviewed research in psychoneuroimmunology and the neurobiology of stress. She could tell you exactly what cortisol does to a hippocampus. What she couldn't tell you yet was what any of it felt like from inside a body under load. So she became a chiropractor, and brought the lab bench into the adjusting room with her.
That decision put her at odds with a lot of what she'd been taught in both fields. Chiropractic has spent a hundred years explaining itself through bones and joints, as if pain and dysfunction were purely mechanical problems waiting for a mechanical fix. Neuroscience, meanwhile, often stays in the lab, publishing findings that never make it anywhere near a patient. Dr. Mo works the seam between them. Her focus is the autonomic nervous system: how it reads threat, how it holds onto old input long after the original danger has passed, and how a body that's been stuck in defense for years starts to interpret ordinary sensation as danger too. That's not a character flaw or a postural failure. It's a nervous system doing exactly what it was built to do, just aimed at the wrong target.
Two decades of teaching sit behind that reframe now.
Through Dr Mo Knows, she runs applied neuroscience training for chiropractors worldwide, including a monthly Research Review that keeps working practitioners current without drowning them in citations.
Clinicians who train with her come out adjusting with more precision, and just as important, able to explain to a patient in plain language why the nervous system responds the way it does. That second skill changes outcomes as much as the first.
The rest of her audience never set foot in chiropractic school and doesn't need to. They're the people whose bodies have been trying to tell them something for a while now, through pain that won't resolve, a startle response that never quite settles, a chest that stays tight for no obvious reason. Dr. Mo calls them curious humans, and the work for them is the same science translated for daily life: what your nervous system is actually doing, and how to work with it instead of overriding it.
Dr. Mo's stated vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity. Underneath that, the daily version is smaller and more concrete: teach one nervous system to understand itself a little better, then the next one, then the next. That's the whole method. It just happens to add up.
Master's degree in Neuroscience
Doctor of Natural Medicine
Doctor of Chiropractic
20+ years teaching clinicians and the public
Published researcher — psychoneuroimmunology, neurobiology of stress and reward
International
award-winning
speaker
