Compassionate Pediatric Care Rooted in Functional Medicine


Mold Toxicity

Mold toxicity in children looks different than adult toxicity. Mold detox also looks different, but our experience in detoxing other children will guide you through. We are here to restore health in your little ones.

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LYME & Tick-Borne Infections

Children are not immune to tick bites nor the diseases they carry. Catching the chronic condition early allows for easier therapy and avoids future relapses.  Therapy tailored to their needs is our speciality.

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Autoimmune Conditions

While less often than in adults, children have their own set of autoimmune conditions. Finding the trigger early is critical to prevent ongoing and future harm whether in Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis or Crohn’s Disease.

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PANS and PANDAS

Everything changed over a short period, maybe a night, maybe over a week, but your child morphed into another personality. Your child’s health can be restored to a life of childhood joys unhindered by brain inflammation and unpredictable behaviors. Learn more

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Fatigue

Many kids come to us with bodies that just don’t want to get up and go…. With our care, they can get back to life.  They have more energy to have fun. Parents see their children playing and enjoying life again.

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Autism and ADHD

As a parent, you know something changed about your child, something that you may not be able to pinpoint exactly, but you just know is there… By working to remove the triggers for brain inflammation and augmenting the body’s ability to heal, new changes emerge…. Your child can see a better future ahead interacting, learning, and playing. Learn more

Immune Health and Inflammation

Our children’s health depends on the proper function of their immune defenses on a daily basis. They need your help and our help to optimize it to handle all the threats coming at them.  Learn more

Metals and Synthetic Toxins

Our Children are growing up in a far more toxic world than we did and it will likely get worse as medicine and industry expose them to more and more toxins.  Knowing when to test our children and how to detox them is critical for their present and future health.

 

GI and Food Sensitivities

Our children are struggling with upset stomachs, constipation, food sensitivities, chronic diarrhea and many other GI symptoms like the adult population does.  While many diagnoses and therapies overlap, children need a specialized approach.

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Meet Dr. Eric Potter

Credentials and Training

Dr. Eric Potter graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School and then went on to specialize in internal medicine (adult) and pediatric care, spending significant time and effort in growing his medical understanding while caring for patients from all walks of life.

How Mold Disrupts Pregnancies

Despite the extensive research on how expecting mother’s nutritional choices affect their babies, current research barely scratches the surface on how mold harms pregnancies. The effects of tobacco use, inflammatory foods, and alcohol on a developing baby have received countless studies and articles. By contrast, few studies have adequately evaluated whether mold toxin exposure during…

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Mold Toxins Hurt Children

Mold Toxins Hurt Children For some reason, so many, especially in our supposedly advanced nation, can ignore what much of the world already realizes. The world’s most advanced medical system focuses so much attention on heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and others but cannot grasp the mold toxins’ impact on our health. In this study, a…

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Plastics in Mom Gives Baby Anxiety

Plastics in Mom Gives Baby Anxiety We live in a plastic world that is increasingly swallowed by anxiety. Could there be link between plastic chemical exposures in pregnancy with anxious behaviors in children years later? This study suggests that possibility. Keep reading to see if you want to limit plastic exposure during childbearing years to…

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Mom’s Bacteria, Methylation, Autism, & ADHD

The complexity and simplicity of influencing future generations’ autism and ADHD rates grow clearer with this study which demonstrates how genetics and gut bacteria interact to affect whether a child develops autism or ADHD. Chinese researchers identified links between the activity of different immune and neurologic genes with the presence of different bacteria in infant…

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Emma W’s Story

Emma W’s Story I will never be able to repay Sanctuary for what they have done for my daughter. When we first came to them last September, we didn’t even realize just how exhausted we were or how much our little girl had been struggling. My daughter unknowingly had PANS. She was dealing with tics,…
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Lofton’s Mom

  A story and thanks from TS Finding Dr. Potter and his team at Sanctuary has been a literal Godsend! For 2 years prior, my daughter was very sick. Despite numerous medical appointments, including ER visits, no one could figure out the root of her symptoms, which included sudden OCD, intermittent and unexplained vomiting, skin…
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Mom of MF

A story and thanks from MF’s Mom “In the midst of some intense health struggles, it can be hard to see exactly how far one has come. So when I zoom out and consider what my son is no longer struggling with, I’m amazed. My son is no longer scratching his body bloody. He no…
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