“If anyone returns evil for good, evil will not depart from his house.” [Proverbs 17:13] The most disgusting characters in fiction, I find, are the traitors. Adulterers, turncoats, false friends, they induce a concentrated hatred and revulsion; they have in them something which mere murder, mere villainy, cannot match. Whether they are parents who…
Food Dye Sleuths Nutrition, Pediatrics, Neurological Health Did you know that over 40% of foods marketed toward children in the U.S. contain artificial food dyes? Alarmingly, 94% of people over 2 years old consume Red 40 (De Oliveira, ZB, et. al, 2024). Multiple research studies have shown the harmful effects of artificial food dyes…
Mother’s Gut Bacteria Influence Baby’s Brain Development Everyone wants to know how to optimize a baby’s brain health, but who would have thought that giving mom a probiotic was the answer? Researchers have searched through countless avenues of optimizing baby’s brains, having realized that the critical window of pregnancy and the first year or two…
Let a man meet a she-bear robbed of her cubs rather than a fool in his folly. [Proverbs 17:12] How pleasant is it to taunt an angry mama bear? 10 out of 10 corpses say: “Not very.” It’s definitively a Bad Idea. Yet the author of the proverb considers it the smaller risk, smaller…
An evil man seeks only rebellion, and a cruel messenger will be sent against him. [Proverbs 17:11] We sometimes wonder at the persistent evil of other men. We watch men act in ways that seem deliberately foolish, deliberately self-destructive, deliberately and causelessly malicious. We find ourselves wondering at the sheer impertinence of the wicked,…
While the internet and its vast array of resources has empowered a veritable army of those who can better care for their health and their family’s health, there lurks a risk in playing doctor for yourself. Even as a doctor myself, it has been very challenging caring for my own family as we navigated mold…
Are Processed Foods Stealing Years from Your Life? Even with the fields of biohacking and longevity medicine fueling the level of conferences, podcasts, and supplement expenditures it does, the average American should start with the simple longevities therapies available in their grocery stores. So many will go to expensive ends to live a little longer…
Is Food Triggering your Seasonal Allergies? This time of year, especially in the Nashville area, many of us suffer from seasonal allergies. Did you know that there are certain foods that correlate with certain pollens in the area? You may actually be eating foods that are making your allergies worse! We are here to help!…
“A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.” [Proverbs 17:10] Learning from reproof is a skill not natural to any of us. Sure, we, by the grace of God, have a habit of listening to certain people with at least some consideration- parent, sibling, spouse, friend-…
Many of our patients have suffered for years from a variety of symptoms and diagnostic labels from other providers despite having a curable condition- just one ignored by conventional medicine. Thankfully, there are some news outlets which give suffering patients a voice after that curable condition is discovered and treated. These make for attractive news…