Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way. [Proverbs 19:2] The road to hell, they say, is paved with good intentions. It’s a dangerous thing to desire without knowing what we desire, a recipe for folly, destruction, and disaster. Yet we’re all too prone to the…
While few of us want to think about COVID again, this research suggests it may be stealing more from us than just energy and daily function. The Long COVID tendency may be due to it stealing from our immune defenses, creating openings for other new infections to break in or past latent infections to wake…
Throughout history new tools have often brought about unintended consequences in society and our new field of mRNA vaccines appear to fall into that category of possible ‘uh-oh.’ Multiple times, even in recent decades, initial excitement over drug discoveries has turned into dashed dreams and even scandals. With the COVID epidemic, mRNA technology, which had…
Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool. [Proverbs 19:1] Integrity is the quality of holding together under pressure, in all circumstances, as a whole. A building’s integrity lies in its ability to stay upright and undeformed through wind and storm and…
Many skeptics challenge functional MD’s like myself when we diagnose mold toxicity as the explanation for a chronic illness, whether in adults or in children. The refrain goes like this: “Mold is everywhere! How could that explain the symptoms?” We understand that patients or their parents want proof and certainty before they embark on a…
While the internet and its many medical practitioners have launched telemedicine from science fiction into everyday habit, the ability to see your provider from home does not always equate into being good enough for every type of medical visit. Though it is true that the foundation of a diagnosis rests on the patient’s story, there…
A man of many companions may come to ruin, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother. [Proverbs 18:24] In a world so rough and fractured as this we poor sons of Adam create, it is easy to despair of finding true relationship, to despise all search for it, to expect treachery…
Mold detox advocates have entrenched themselves around their particular ways to treat those who have been exposed to these natural toxins. Who, though, is right? One researcher looks solely to a pharmaceutical called cholestyramine. Another tries to a variety of binding agents. A third eschews any binder and just advocates anti-fungals. The outcome can be…
Some would say the world is a rat-race, but today we focus on a food race between old-fashioned whole foods delivered by nature and new-fangled ultra-processed foods delivered by Big Food and its technology. In a sense, striving for excellence, especially in producing food for growing populations, is not inherently a bad thing. Understanding food,…
The poor use entreaties, but the rich answer roughly. [Proverbs 18:23] Above all else, men desire to be rulers of themselves. This statement holds for the righteous and the wicked- except that these two understand rulership in very different ways. The righteous man would rule himself in stewardship, honoring and following God with all at…