Caring for children with chronic illnesses requires both knowledge and a special bedside manner. We long to see your children overcome the symptoms and conditions hindering their healthier more abundant life. Pediatrics at Sanctuary What Your Child Can Do With a Healthier Life PANS and PANDAS at Sanctuary Autism at Sanctuary from a Parent…
In treating the whole person, Sanctuary addresses a wide range of chronic and unexplained illness. We work with just about every condition except active cancer therapy. You can watch various videos about these conditions below. Mold care at Sanctuary (<3 minute video) Lyme (33 Minute Sanctuary Live – All Things Lyme) Autoimmunity (shorter) Mast…
We have come full circle again to needing discernment so this is a perfect time to reprint a blog article from 2020. My latest updated thoughts are included at the end. It takes guts to admit when you are wrong. I humbly admit that I finally agree with Dr. Fauci on something. Okay, if you…
Sanctuary Functional Medicine is seeking a ninja at marketing and optimizing courses on Kajabi, the online course platform. Sanctuary Functional Medicine has both synchronous and asynchronous courses available for sale on topics such as immunity, mold detox (in production), metabolic health (coming next), allergies, and more. In it’s initial offering, SFM sold over $6000 of…
Mast cells are immune cells which release histamine and dozens other chemical messengers in response to some trigger. The histamine and other chemicals serve a purpose under normal conditions, but when they build up in excess, they can cause hives, allergies, food intolerances, migraines, GI symptoms, and many other surprising symptoms. “The videos and blogs…
One might find it hard to imagine how a little gland sitting in their neck could cause so many problems when it fizzles, yet anyone with hypothyroid (low functioning) can attest to the multitude of symptoms it creates. The thyroid produces thyroid hormone which controls our metabolic rate like a gas pedal. We see hundreds…
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.
In real estate, its all about location, but for Long Hauler COVID, its all about the symptoms and then the time course. In the previous edition of this Long Hauler Summer Series, we discussed how medicine must identify the correct target in order to hit that target and hope for resolution of the disease or…
Hitting a target first requires seeing and aiming at the right target. Without that first critical step, we will never overcome the very important target known as Long Hauler COVID or Long COVID. Conventional medicine has named it PACS (Post Acute COVID Sequelae), but most online simply know it as Long Hauler. In functional medicine…
Chemicals which influence our hormonal balance literally fill our reality. From the air we breathe in water damaged buildings to the plastic- wrapped food we eat, we cannot escape them. While we treat many in our clinic with mold toxicity for hormonal imbalances, the threat posed by such toxins is magnified by the plethora of…