Investigating common health advice in-depth drives us to better answers and equips us with better recommendations for our patients. In this case, knowing that so many people across the world believe that eating bread leads to weight gain, we ask two important questions. First, is it true? Second, why is it true? Before we tell…
The best NRF2 activator supplements are not necessarily the products with the longest ingredient lists or the strongest claims. A useful supplement should contain a well-studied ingredient in a form the body can use, disclose what is in each serving, and fit the individual’s health needs and medications. NRF2 is part of the body’s built-in…
When people search for the best toxin binders for humans, they often expect to find one product that works for everyone. In reality, no single binder is best for every person or every type of toxin. The right choice may depend on the suspected exposure, the substances a binder can hold, digestive health, medications, age,…
The exposome is the total load of chemicals good and bad that we are exposed to in daily life, and it continues to make headlines with a study showing that flares of rheumatoid arthritis joint inflammation may be triggered by increased levels of particulate matter in our air. Having found connections linking the development of…
What You Feed Your Baby Picking healthy foods for our babies in a grocery store can be a lot like finding something decent in a dumpster: full of ultra-processed foods. Our little ones depend on us to bring home foods with nutrients and without harmful substances. They can’t go out and shop for themselves. We,…
Mold v Kid’s Brains 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 desire proof and certainty before…
Despite the extensive research on how expecting mother’s nutritional choices affect their babies, current research barely scratches the surface on how mold harms pregnancies. The effects of tobacco use, inflammatory foods, and alcohol on a developing baby have received countless studies and articles. By contrast, few studies have adequately evaluated whether mold toxin exposure during…
How to Listen to That “I Don’t Feel Good” As we care for patients, we hear all kinds of stories, and it’s a rare time when somebody comes up with a symptom we’ve never heard of before. So often, on top of everything else, patients say, “I just don’t feel good.” It’s not pain, it’s…
Many parts of life leave us feeling trapped, and since 2020 that includes feeling stuck with getting this or that variant of COVID intermittently. Besides feeling annoyed that it keeps biting us with acute episodes, many also have to deal with the repeated waves of intensified Long COVID or Post COVID syndrome. This study offers…
Let’s talk about responding to pain. We all have pain, unless you’re one of those rare people in the world whose pain receptors did not develop, who go through life without pain (which is actually very dangerous). But all the rest of us end up having some amount of pain in our life, mediated by…