Dr. Eric Potter graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School and then went on to specialize in internal medicine (adult) and pediatric care, spending significant time and effort in growing his medical understanding while caring for patients from all walks of life.
As the toxicity of our world continues to weaken our immune systems and as the antibiotic resistance of bacteria grows, researchers looking outside the medical clinic are linking glyphosate to these dangerous bacteria. When infection causing bacteria gain the superpower to resist multiple antibiotics, their chance of causing serious illness and death goes up. Medicine…
“Enough” vs. “Optimal” with Protein The debate over nutritional needs seems ridiculous if you think that a simple measurement or experiment can tell you how much protein you should be eating daily. By changing the target of the experiment many are realizing that current recommendations may not be enough for active adults. Instead of aiming…
Plastics in Mom Gives Baby Anxiety We live in a plastic world that is increasingly swallowed by anxiety. Could there be link between plastic chemical exposures in pregnancy with anxious behaviors in children years later? This study suggests that possibility. Keep reading to see if you want to limit plastic exposure during childbearing years to…
Every parent knows the quiet anxiety of the late-night search engine spiral. You sit in the dark, typing your child’s symptoms into a search bar, looking for answers to chronic eczema flares, sudden behavioral shifts, or painful digestive issues. Too often, the traditional medical route offers a standard cycle of quick fixes: a stronger steroid…
More Insight into Autism Subtypes We all know that more than one type of autism is epidemic throughout our world, but connecting the patterns we see with objective measures in labs or radiology images has been challenging. This study claims to see two particular patterns of brain structure/function that account for about 25% of the…
Really Long COVID May Not Be Brain Inflammation Searching for the complete understanding of Long COVID is like hunting for the legendary gold buried in the deep jungle. The journey twists and turns as we try to unravel why so many struggle for years after COVID, while some others bounce back the following week. This…
Don’t let a conventional doctor dismiss your questions about B vitamins and your fatigue, not after reading this study from Japan. While there are literally hundreds of medical reasons for someone to feel tired, studies like this suggest that we should keep B12 and Folate in that list rather than just blame a stressful lifestyle…
The complexity and simplicity of influencing future generations’ autism and ADHD rates grow clearer with this study which demonstrates how genetics and gut bacteria interact to affect whether a child develops autism or ADHD. Chinese researchers identified links between the activity of different immune and neurologic genes with the presence of different bacteria in infant…
Mainstream medicine downplays and even ridicules the reality of mold toxicity from water damaged buildings, but they seem to have skipped reading articles like this and the citations within it. While the researchers did not do the studies themselves, they compiled the published studies to look at the problem from different angles. They looked at…
COVID Wakes Up Viruses and Bacteria We can agree with a microbiologist at Rutgers that “this is an aspect of long COVID that is not talked about a lot,” in reference to the coinfections that travel with COVID 19. This news comes as no surprise to functional medicine doctors who have been treating Lyme coinfections…