Conditions We Treat

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…

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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.

Kids and COVID-19, Why Do Some Get It Bad?

COVID 19 has relatively spared children from the most severe complications and death but a very tiny number get a severe complication called multi-system inflammatory response (MIS-C). For these children, they experience the hyper inflammation with life threatening complications. Sometimes 4 to 6 weeks after an otherwise mild infection, these children start with fever, abdominal…

Curcumin Review

Curcumin stands as a giant among supplements because both the breadth and the strength of the mechanisms by which it alters health for the better seem staggering.  In its repertoire, it boasts anti-oxidant benefit, pain control benefits, general anti-inflammatory benefits, detoxification capabilities, brain protection capabilities, and even anti-Lyme benefits. Anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory:  With greater than…

SFM Video Library

Sharing Our Insights with the World Welcome.  Sanctuary Functional Medicine under Dr. Eric Potter‘s leadership strives to help chronically ill individuals return to a healthier more abundant life.  Throughout the process of restoring health, educating patients on what is dysfunctional in their health and how they can repair it is critical.  We work hard in…