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.
Searching for the root causes of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease requires a researcher to keep an open mind, including the possibility that a virus could be behind such disabling diseases. Researchers suspect from recent studies that head trauma could be waking up viruses like herpes simplex type 1 and varicella zoster (chickenpox…
Therapies and Conditions We Treat Our Franklin, TN, based team led by Dr. Eric Potter, Functional MD, has a successful record in restoring health back to patients suffering Chronic Illness. This functional medicine whole person approach is also available to patients nationwide through secure telemedicine following an initial visit in our Nashville area office. Sanctuary’s Intensive Program (formerly the…
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.
Babesiosis rates are rising about 9% per year according to the fringe university called Penn State, and once again a mainline university points out what we already know. This parasite travels inside ticks along with other diseases like Lyme, ehrlichia, anaplasma, and others, ultimately infecting red blood cells after a tick bite. Most of the…
The liver is one of the most important organs responsible for detoxifying the blood, metabolizing nutrients, and producing essential proteins. In functional medicine, supporting liver health is essential for overall wellness, especially since most of our patients come to us needing to detox from harmful chemicals, environmental pollutants, mold, Lyme, you name it! Supplements and…
Why Are More People Getting Sick from Mold? People wonder why mold toxicity has become increasingly frequent. Many have proposed explanations, but it is likely a combination of factors which underlies this growing epidemic. First, as noted before, the number of toxins in the environment often overloads the body’s detoxification ability. Second, buildings, both new…
Not Surprising COVID and Mold With the reality of COVID since 2020, this coronavirus and its often-persisting Long Covid syndrome adds another complicating exposome factor. Early in the pandemic we discovered that the virus was triggering strong biotoxin reactions. Wile any viral infection will temporarily elevate TGF beta 1, we found that our patients who…
Working in a functional medicine clinic caring for mold toxic patients will quickly convince you that mold toxins affect our immune systems. On a daily basis we see patients suffering from yeast overgrowth, repeated viral infections, Lyme or other tick born infections who underneath it all have mold toxicity. Seeing this hundreds of times leaves…
As mentioned in the prior article discussing dysfunctional metabolic pathways leading to autism, autism is becoming alarmingly prevalent, and the list of potential triggers to investigate is just getting longer. In today’s article, connections between other immune disorders and autism take us away from the metabolic pathways to look at how immune disruption in allergic…