Proverbs 14:7 ESV Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+14%3A7&version=ESV] As is appropriate for a doctor’s website, today’s proverb is about an infection. This infection, however, is of the spirit, not the body. Being around fools, particularly when you listen to them, is bad for…
Much debate exists over the effects of mold toxins or mycotoxins on the health of humans in water damaged buildings. Despite the plethora of animal research and the multitudes of patients with clear cases of mold toxicity, the wider medical world has its doubts. They must admit the more unusual cases of third world food…
If the commercial for kid’s lip gloss and face glitter included a warning that these products might cause cancer, few parents would feel compelled to give into their child’s begging. Obviously, life is never that easy or that simple. Since no producer of these products would ever willingly profess such abuse of trust, we must…
Proverbs 14:6 ESV A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+14%3A6&version=ESV] Any parent who has tried to teach math or grammar or colors or table manners to their kid can tell you one thing with certainty: the student’s attitude matters a lot. A kid that wants…
Only someone with mold toxicity illness will completely understand this, although many other chronic unexplained illness sufferers will share many of these emotions. 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 a…
If you have seen one child with autism, you have seen one child with autism. This statement rises from the reality that we are still struggling to wrap our heads around the multiple causes of autism. This disease affecting now millions of children appears to vary not only in severity but in what appears to…
Proverbs 14:5 ESV A faithful witness does not lie, but a false witness breathes out lies. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+14%3A5&version=ESV] This proverb seems like a set of two truisms everybody already understood, but it highlights an important truth: people, even in the most important circumstances (especially in those circumstances), lie. Sometimes this lying seems inconsequential, like whether…
In functional medicine, we apply both the best of natural and the best of conventional medicine to bear upon the root and the fruit of whole person dysfunction. This means understanding the therapies we use in terms of their mechanisms and targets and applying them in a personalized fashion to each patient. In order to…
Much of our time in providing functional medicine care is spent in establishing balance in a patient’s body. Too little or too much of just about anything can be bad for the person sitting across from us. Take salt for example. It has gotten such bad press relating to blood pressure and heart disease that…
Proverbs 14:4 ESV Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean, but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+14%3A4&version=ESV] No food means no people, so we have to get food. The process of getting that food, however, has some icky bits. For ancient Israel, it was the ox, with its…