Battle of the Binders You have mold toxicity and you want to feel better sooner rather than later. Which product of the many orderable from your favorite online stores actually the best option? Let’s answer this question in a ‘battle of the binders’ so that you don’t waste any more time. Will the victory trophy…
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The fear of the Lord leads to life, and whoever has it rests satisfied; he will not be visited by harm. [Proverbs 19:23] Now, if we ever thought that being Christians would make us safe from all harm or fear, the story of Job would dissuade us, as would the past half hour, with…
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While government agencies like the CDC have to admit that the cases of acute Lyme disease are increasing, we come across a lot of online debate over whether Post Treatment Lyme Disease (PTLD) is real or not. Many of those online opinions are dismissed as not credible for various reasons, but when the mainstream medical…
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Mycotoxins Exacerbating Autoimmunity While mold toxins, or mycotoxins, affect us in a variety of ways, their effects on the immune system seem to be a primary pathway. Though controversy exists over things like ‘toxic building syndrome,’ research clearly supports the immune-modulating effects of these toxins. Researchers in a November 2021 volume of the International Journal…
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What is desired in a man is steadfast love, and a poor man is better than a liar. [Proverbs 19:22] Fallen man hates God. As a result, he hates everything which reminds him of God: all goodness, all beauty, all truth. But fallen man is, by His mercy and His wrath (Luke 12:48), pervasively corrupt,…
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Moldy Sinks Caring for individuals with environmental toxicities always requires an investigation into the source of the person’s particular toxin. Many with mold toxicity have asked whether growth in their plumbing, particularly their sink drains, could be making them sick, even if remediators are usually dubious of the possibility. This study takes a step forward…
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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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Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. [Proverbs 19:21] Have you ever read a story? One of the basic rules of a story is that something will go wrong. It’ll go wrong for the hero, because that is what causes the…
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In conflicting ways, our contemporary world is obsessed with nutrition. On one hand, so many are trying to optimize nutrition, sometimes to the point of unhealthy habits. On the other, the food industry is obsessed with creating more artificial processed foods to get us addicted regardless of the effects on our health. Researchers from the…
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As the toxicity of our world continues to weaken our immune systems and as the antibiotic resistance of bacteria grows, researchers looking outside the medical clinic are linking glyphosate to these dangerous bacteria. When infection causing bacteria gain the superpower to resist multiple antibiotics, their chance of causing serious illness and death goes up. Medicine…
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Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. [Proverbs 19:20] Advice comes in all stripes. Some is good. Some is bad. Some is really, really bad. Good councilors can make a leader, and bad councilors can break him just as thoroughly, when he keeps and heeds them. Among…
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“Enough” vs. “Optimal” with Protein The debate over nutritional needs seems ridiculous if you think that a simple measurement or experiment can tell you how much protein you should be eating daily. By changing the target of the experiment many are realizing that current recommendations may not be enough for active adults. Instead of aiming…
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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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A man of great wrath will pay the penalty, for if you deliver him, you will only have to do it again. [Proverbs 19:19] Some people just refuse to be helped. A man who has given himself over to his own passions, to anger or to another, can be pulled from one morass, but…
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Every parent knows the quiet anxiety of the late-night search engine spiral. You sit in the dark, typing your child’s symptoms into a search bar, looking for answers to chronic eczema flares, sudden behavioral shifts, or painful digestive issues. Too often, the traditional medical route offers a standard cycle of quick fixes: a stronger steroid…
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More Insight into Autism Subtypes We all know that more than one type of autism is epidemic throughout our world, but connecting the patterns we see with objective measures in labs or radiology images has been challenging. This study claims to see two particular patterns of brain structure/function that account for about 25% of the…
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Really Long COVID May Not Be Brain Inflammation Searching for the complete understanding of Long COVID is like hunting for the legendary gold buried in the deep jungle. The journey twists and turns as we try to unravel why so many struggle for years after COVID, while some others bounce back the following week. This…
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Discipline your son, for there is hope; do not set your heart on putting him to death. [Proverbs 19:18] Discipline is a hard thing, for the disciplined; that’s definitional. Discipline which does not hurt is hardly even admonition. Discipline seems even cruel, to strike the errant when he is down. Certainly a thing can masquerade…
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Don’t let a conventional doctor dismiss your questions about B vitamins and your fatigue, not after reading this study from Japan. While there are literally hundreds of medical reasons for someone to feel tired, studies like this suggest that we should keep B12 and Folate in that list rather than just blame a stressful lifestyle…
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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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Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will repay him for his deed. [Proverbs 19:17] The Christian people, whether through the medium of the church or elsewhere, has been the single greatest source of charity in history, albeit with the aid of Christianity’s unrivaled long-term productivity. So have many pagans…
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Mainstream medicine downplays and even ridicules the reality of mold toxicity from water damaged buildings, but they seem to have skipped reading articles like this and the citations within it. While the researchers did not do the studies themselves, they compiled the published studies to look at the problem from different angles. They looked at…
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COVID Wakes Up Viruses and Bacteria We can agree with a microbiologist at Rutgers that “this is an aspect of long COVID that is not talked about a lot,” in reference to the coinfections that travel with COVID 19. This news comes as no surprise to functional medicine doctors who have been treating Lyme coinfections…
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Whoever keeps the commandment keeps his life; he who despises his ways will die. [Proverbs 19:16] The law of God sets a heavy burden upon mankind in his natural state, a burden unregenerate man refuses to live up to (Ps. 53:1-3). The Christian has a little easier time; he recognizes that the law was to…
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Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more… offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
The verdict is final on UPFs (ultra-processed foods), and it should get more news attention than the UFO hype we put up with. Even if a UFO never lands on the White House lawn, every day millions of Americans are consuming cardiovascular poisons and loving it. These UPFs have been clearly shown to increase a…
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If you have already heard how vitamin D can optimize your immunity but are taking the wrong form of this multi-function vitamin, you may not be seeing the benefits promised on the bottle. Not everything that claims to optimize actually does, as D2 shows. Research out of England strongly suggests that the D2 form of…
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Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger. [Proverbs 19:15] He that does not work, they say, shall not eat. Welfare programs intercede in this process, with much more waste and much less virtue than Christian charity, for it seems a cruel dictum. But such peripheral interventions conceals a more…
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Sometimes, revisiting important insights from the past is needed, as we can forget important lessons. This Oldie but Goodie is one of those worthwhile reminders. So many struggling lives enter our doors searching for answers to chronic mental health problems after having been told it was just all in their heads. Many other providers had…
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Apparently, various endurance exercise habits train not only your muscles and cardio but also your immune system’s natural killer cells. Who would have thought that pushing through a few miles on the trails or on the bike would help train immune cells to keep balance in the later years? Earlier studies often indicated that after…
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Many people spend years searching for answers to symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, headaches, digestive issues, sinus congestion, and unexplained inflammation. While these symptoms are often treated individually, the underlying cause may never be fully identified. One factor that is frequently overlooked is mold exposure. At Sanctuary Functional Medicine, patients often seek care after…
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House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the Lord. [Proverbs 19:14] The family is the central institution of Scripture. The church institution has a high billing, by sharing its name with the body of the saved; civil government predominates much human thought, being the prime concentration of worldly power.…
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While advancing computer technology brings us opportunities to improve medical care both for research and for individual patients, it also presents new choices to make about how we deliver health care. This technology crosses new horizons, allowing us to process vast amounts of medical data, for both large groups of people and individuals. This data…
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The pesticide on your fruit or from your neighbor’s yard may leave long lasting changes on your immune system, possibly on your yet-to-be-born children’s immune system. We live in a toxic fishbowl of our own making, especially when we choose to participate in the self-delusion. Yet, we keep asking ourselves, our neighbors, and our medical…
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Functional Medicine Doctor Nashville: Finding Answers to Mold Toxicity and Chronic Health Symptoms Many people spend years searching for answers to chronic fatigue, brain fog, digestive problems, headaches, joint pain, anxiety, and unexplained inflammation. Often, traditional healthcare focuses on managing symptoms rather than identifying the root cause. Working with a Functional Medicine Doctor Nashville residents…
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A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain. [Proverbs 19:13] Familial discord is a problem as old as sin (what, you think Adam and Eve didn’t have some issues over the events of Genesis 3?), and it has the power to hurt like few other…
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We all want answers, especially when it comes to our children’s health, but we need to be clear about whether something is the chicken or the egg. Just because we find a correlation between a medicine and a disease, does not mean that we have a cause. It just means that we are on to…
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A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass. [Proverbs 19:12] Ill-favor and good favor are two sides of the same coin. On one side, the king dislikes you; his wrath bears heavy. On the other side, the king likes you, and his pleasure…
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We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.” While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could have an even greater individual and…
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COVID 19 Ages Women’s Blood Vessels While the entire world feels older after COVID 19’s big entrance, in this study researchers found that women’s blood vessels of women post-COVID infection, regardless of infection, were measurably older. Your next question should be, “What do you mean by older?” As we age, our blood vessels age by…
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We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.” While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could have an even greater individual and…
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Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense. [Proverbs 19:11] Anger is motivation. Anger is not integrally sinful; anger is often righteous. But anger is dangerous, and anger is tempting, and anger is easily perverted. It is a primal motivation, and so our evil natures, dead or…
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In caring for so many patients with mold toxicity, we have learned over the years that there is more to restoring health than simply draining the toxic junk out of their bodies. The detox takes months, and we want to protect the body from ongoing harm during that waiting period. The article in focus today…
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COVID Effects on the Gut-Brain Axis COVID has left diagnosable lingering effects on our guts beyond the “gut feeling” that we are sick and tired of hearing about COVID. A recent study looking across the globe reveals that a specific type of GI diagnoses have increased from pre-COVID to the present, leading researchers to dig…
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Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more… offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more… offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
As the conventional medical world still turns up its nose at the concept of myotoxicity and using binder therapy to remove such toxins from humans, the veterinary world is hard at work to mitigate the effects of various toxins on their business productivity. In this paper, the authors compared a variety of inorganic and organic…
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It is not fitting for a fool to live in luxury, much less for a slave to rule over princes. [Proverbs 19:10] Two narratives pop up in human thought throughout history: the victim narrative (prominent now) and the success narrative (prominent in Christ’s day, as well as now). On the one hand, men derive righteousness…
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Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more… offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness.
Mold toxicity receives little attention from conventional medicine whether you’re going through medical school, visiting a primary care provider, or running to a specialist. As a result, not only is this common condition ignored, but many myths have grown up around it. Such myths are propagated because no one takes the time to read the…
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As anyone caring for children with autism would tell you, there are many forms and triggers for this distressingly common condition. Today’s focus article used computer modeling creatively in order to tease out four main subtypes of autism which might allow researchers to better identify both predisposing factors (like genetics) and external contributors to the…
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Only someone with mold toxicity illness will completely understand the experience, though many others have shared it in part. You are told by conventional doctors that it is all in your head. You find out that your house or your workspace is making you sick. You have to throw away so many possessions that turn…
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A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will perish. [Proverbs 19:9] Proverbs has a habit of repeating itself. Just as Psalm 14:1-3 and Psalm 53:1-3 are nearly identical, so Proverbs will on occasion repeat verses. By the rules of common sense, we can guess that these repetitions are important.…
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Caring for patients with mold toxicity can be a challenging task as we have to not only care for their bodies but their environment as well. In caring for their bodies and the symptoms they are experiencing, we have to turn down inflammation, remove toxins, restore function that has been lost and more. These steps…
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Early life chemical exposures play a critical role in the healthy life of our children, sometimes altering courses of health that cannot be undone. In our world today, we see more disorganized eating than ever before as obesity (with all its complications) skyrockets alongside undernutrition, leading not just to classic underweight conditions but also to…
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Mast Cells Getting Nasty in Long Hauler COVID (The main portion of this article was posted in 2021, but further research citations at the end support what the original article asserted. Mast Cells play a significant role in acute and long COVID symptoms. While the final cited study goes against the grain, most studies indicate…
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Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good. [Proverbs 19:8] In an age of anti-intellectual emotionalism and anti-emotional intellectualism, Scripture provides the sanity which both sides recoil from (Ps. 10:4). The balance is difficult and not merely quantitative. Sinful man abhors it, in part because it resists making excuses…
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Vitamin D stands out among the most critical and most researched nutrients. The list below only scratches the surface of known and suspected benefits of maintaining adequate vitamin D. It is actually more of a hormone than a vitamin in its mechanisms of action and in being produced from cholesterol metabolism. While nearly all recognize…
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Wisdom encourages a careful evaluation of both the cost of care and the cost of not caring. The first is so obvious mentioning it seems frivolous. Read more and you will be surprised. The second goes easily forgotten, but the losses of inaction deserve more attention than they receive. The Cost of Caring for…
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While the conventional world of medicine continue to deny the effects of mold toxins on our human health, articles like today’s remind us that conventional medicine is not always reading the research. Obafemi et al lays out the details of what we know about fumonisin B1 neurotoxicity with references to multiple studies and explanations of…
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All a poor man’s brothers hate him; how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but does not have them. [Proverbs 19:7] When we read a verse in Scripture, our common instinct is to set ourselves in the righteous man’s place. In this case, that means casting ourselves…
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Far more people are recognizing the toxic soup that we are swimming in daily, but could this Exposome Moonshot project be hope for the future, or should we hesitate in the face of hype? Apparently someone in the science world caught wind of the problems we are facing and decided to gather government leaders, scientists,…
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For millennia, man has asked what makes us do what we do, reaching a multitude of answers, some on target and some not. Ultimately, we are driven both by physical and spiritual factors. This particular study indicates that inflammation is one of the physical factors contributing to compulsions. Sidestepping those who want to pigeonhole our…
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Phthalates not only plasticize countless everyday products but also the brains of babies born to moms using these products. Phthalates are added to so many different cosmetics and personal care products from daily life. These included detergents, shampoos, soaps, besides various plastic wrappings. This study looked at whether such phthalates exposures could affect a baby’s…
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Many seek the favor of a generous man, and everyone is a friend to a man who gives gifts. [Proverbs 19:6] Money can’t buy love, they say, but that’s manifestly false. People ‘buy’ friendship and love all the time. The grossest forms of this, of course, are sex slavery, prostitution, and pseudo-prostitution. We live in…
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Living in a world of information flooding requires the proper navigation equipment. Imagine you’re riding a surging river over cataracts, eddies, and waterfalls. If you don’t have means and methods of sorting through the excessive propaganda, separating it from the truth, you will get sucked under the swirls and get bashed against the rocks. Starting…
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Our children carry the effects of our stress into their bodies as we prepare them for the world. A Yale study suggests that better stress management can lower our children’s risk of obesity and its poor health outcomes. As parents, we strive for our children to have a better life than we have lived, whether…
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Mast cells remind me of the world’s best photo-bombers, showing in so many basic functions of our immune system and in so many disease processes. Every time I turn around to read some science news, it seems mast cells have found their way into the picture again. In this article headline, mast cells, a part…
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A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape. [Proverbs 19:5] I might, as I have probably done in other parts of this series, focus on the ways in which God has woven this into the earth, and to some extent, those mechanisms will appear here. But today…
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While the onslaught (literally) of super-hero movies battles for our attention, we should instead consider real-life heroes in the world of natural therapies. Movie screen superheroes get the adrenaline going for a day or so, but natural heroes like resveratrol can offer far more benefits to our health. Resveratrol could stand out in a variety…
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After years of denial and disgust, Drs. George, Uri, and Newton unanimously pledged to leave their joyless specialty medical practices behind and journey into the jungle in search of renewed purpose in medicine. Dr. George knew there had to be more to medicine than hurried visits and decreasing reimbursement for procedures, but he couldn’t bear…
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Wealth brings many new friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend. [Proverbs 19:4] No man has more friends than when his star is in ascendance, when his hand is on the scepter, when his paycheck is freshly cashed. A ‘fair-weather friend’ is a common sight. The halls of power flock with them.…
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While many have given up on Big Medicine’s view of mold toxicity, we can smile for a moment (only for a moment) when we read the NIH’s updated page regarding mold’s effects on our health. I recently posted on social media a link to the new page with a short summary of how they added…
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With many studies showing up to 1 in 5 teenagers suffer from a mental health disorder, Bournemouth University researchers looked for potential dietary explanations—and high sugar drinks topped the list. No one is surprised by other research showing dietary connections with obesity and metabolic diseases, but this research raises further questions about both mechanisms and…
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When a man’s folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the Lord. [Proverbs 19:3] When we hit our rock bottom, we will do anything except admit that we’re to blame. This talent we inherited from Adam, and this talent we pass along to our children. Everybody can be to blame, except myself.…
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Could Immunity Theft be Behind Long COVID? While few of us want to think about COVID again, this research suggests it may be stealing more from us than just energy and daily function. The Long COVID tendency may be due to it stealing from our immune defenses, creating openings for other new infections to break…
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Throughout history new tools have often brought about unintended consequences in society and our new field of mRNA vaccines appear to fall into that category of possible ‘uh-oh.’ Multiple times, even in recent decades, initial excitement over drug discoveries has turned into dashed dreams and even scandals. With the COVID epidemic, mRNA technology, which had…
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Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. [Proverbs 19:2] The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. It’s a dangerous thing to desire without knowing what we desire, a recipe for folly, destruction, and disaster. Yet we’re all too prone to the…
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Many skeptics challenge functional MD’s like myself when we diagnose mold toxicity as the explanation for a chronic illness, whether in adults or in children. The refrain goes like this: “Mold is everywhere! How could that explain the symptoms?” We understand that patients or their parents want proof and certainty before they embark on a…
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While the internet and its many medical practitioners have launched telemedicine from science fiction into everyday habit, the ability to see your provider from home does not always equate into being good enough for every type of medical visit. Though it is true that the foundation of a diagnosis rests on the patient’s story, there…
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Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. [Proverbs 19:1] Integrity is the quality of holding together under pressure, in all circumstances, as a whole. A building’s integrity lies in its ability to stay upright and undeformed through wind and storm and…
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Mold detox advocates have entrenched themselves around their particular ways to treat those who have been exposed to these natural toxins. Who, though, is right? One researcher looks solely to a pharmaceutical called cholestyramine. Another tries to a variety of binding agents. A third eschews any binder and just advocates anti-fungals. The outcome can be…
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Some would say the world is a rat-race, but today we focus on a food race between old-fashioned whole foods delivered by nature and new-fangled ultra-processed foods delivered by Big Food and its technology. In a sense, striving for excellence, especially in producing food for growing populations, is not inherently a bad thing. Understanding food,…
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A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. [Proverbs 18:24] In a world so rough and fractured as this we poor sons of Adam create, it is easy to despair of finding true relationship, to despise all search for it, to expect treachery…
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The world of conventional medicine seems to continue its doubt of natural therapies at every turn- at least until its own methods prove a natural therapy works. Then conventional medicine hijacks it for a medication. Once again, researchers have found omega 3’s, in this case the EPA form, to have significant benefit for patients with…
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Shocker News that Long COVID Has No Approved Therapies With a reported 65 million people worldwide dealing with Long COVID at some point, we have enough research (about time) that indicates that a variety of mechanisms contribute to Long COVID including micro-clots in blood vessels and ongoing inflammation. However, despite a few years under our…
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The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly. [Proverbs 18:23] Above all else, men desire to be rulers of themselves. This statement holds for the righteous and the wicked- except that these two understand rulership in very different ways. The righteous man would rule himself in stewardship, honoring and following God with all at…
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He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord. [Proverbs 18:22] The two great passions of mankind are marriage and death. In ‘marriage’ is gathered not merely itself but family, sex, and all relationship with our fellow man, all authority and cooperation, the smallest thing which society is…
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God created an immune defense which, compared to how often we face microbial threats, only occasionally needs backup. Despite practically non-stop assault, our immune system handles most issues without needing anything more than the basic supplies we have discussed in past articles. However, threats to our immune defenses intermittently arise which require some extra assistance,…
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Everyone wants big news from Autism research, but this was not the biggest news of the year that we might hope for. In fact, for those of us in functional and natural medicine, it was quite disappointing that some natural therapies got a negative report. So how do I, functional medicine doctor who has seen…
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Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits. [Proverbs 18:21] James 2 is the standard passage for pressing home the power and danger of the tongue, but God didn’t wait till the New Testament’s latter half to give us that knowledge. In the Garden,…
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The wrong thing in the wrong place at the wrong time has bad results- including bad mouth bacteria moving into your gut, triggering brain inflammation that looks like Parkinson’s disease. In assessing gut brain interactions, we must remember two things. First, our guts start at the mouth. Second, different sections of the gut should have…
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Biohacking may not help those with complex chronic illness. Like many other areas of life, Medicine is divided into camps or approaches with different names and different camps work better for different issues. That makes some sense for why you should see a GI for gut problems versus a neurologist for brain issues, but it…
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From the fruit of a man’s mouth his stomach is satisfied; he is satisfied by the yield of his lips. [Proverbs 18:20] Modernity is the domain of the expert. In the eyes of many, white lab coats ought to rule the world, deciding policy in government and running the church and regulating precisely how…
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We are learning more and more about the connection between our gut microbiome and our health, and so this study about the intake of emulsifiers by mouse moms and its influence on their baby mice’s future health should be no surprise. These additives to processed foods are seemingly everywhere. They can be found in baked…
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For many years now, both medical professionals and parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have assumed that the primary mechanism of action for most ADHD medications are its effects in the brain areas responsible for attention. Now a study suggests that the medications work in other parts of the brain, those involved with reward and…
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A brother offended is more unyielding than a strong city, and quarreling is like the bars of a castle. [Proverbs 18:19] Strong relationships hold strong, and when they break, they break like a thigh bone forced into a Z-shape: badly, brutally, and apparently irreparably. Few relationships are as strong, at their base and in their…
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Proving the impact of mold and its mycotoxins on human health to conventional medicine requires a lot of patience as well as lots of patient data which is why I am reviewing a series of articles that investigated how mold changes human health. From caring for over 1000 mold-affected patients and seeing them recover after…
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Though many in the conventional medical world repeat the mantra that no study proves that mold toxins cause human illness, repetitive claims do not make imagination into reality. Ehsanifar and colleagues review a number of studies which support the reality we see in patients, the reality that mold and its toxins do cause neurocognitive and…
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Science is never settled, especially with COVID and the immune system. Stanford researchers uncovered some of the mechanisms by which mRNA vaccines contribute to myocarditis (heart inflammation). With social media chatter and news channel headlines highlighting how many young COVID vaccine recipients have fallen dead or suffer some heart injury, those with their eyes open…
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