Many younger patients come to our office with a life-disruptive mix of random symptoms that have lasted years, sometimes with a prior diagnosis of POTS, or Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome, and they want answers. These patients primarily complain of dizziness, palpitations, passing out, difficulty exercising, and other cardiovascular symptoms. Most also complain of seemingly vague…
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 Comprehensive Program) provides a deep…
In our final summer series edition, we return to the medicine kitchen to discuss POTS and Long COVID. POTS, or postural orthostatic syndrome, took a while to gain acceptance in mainstream medicine; they have only recently begun to understand it as a probable autoimmune condition. This dysfunctional condition of the autonomic nervous system results in…
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…
While I do my best to refrain from hasty generalizations by dialoguing with someone before taking their words in the wrong direction, with this article, I have to state my annoyance. The attitude hinted at in this article deserves a momentary spotlight and response. Maybe we can chalk it up to their being French, but…
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…
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…