While advancing computer technology brings us opportunities to improve medical care both for research and for individual patients, it also presents new choices to make about how we deliver health care. This technology crosses new horizons, allowing us to process vast amounts of medical data, for both large groups of people and individuals. This data…
The pesticide on your fruit or from your neighbor’s yard may leave long lasting changes on your immune system, possibly on your yet-to-be-born children’s immune system. We live in a toxic fishbowl of our own making, especially when we choose to participate in the self-delusion. Yet, we keep asking ourselves, our neighbors, and our medical…
Functional Medicine Doctor Nashville: Finding Answers to Mold Toxicity and Chronic Health Symptoms Many people spend years searching for answers to chronic fatigue, brain fog, digestive problems, headaches, joint pain, anxiety, and unexplained inflammation. Often, traditional healthcare focuses on managing symptoms rather than identifying the root cause. Working with a Functional Medicine Doctor Nashville residents…
We all want answers, especially when it comes to our children’s health, but we need to be clear about whether something is the chicken or the egg. Just because we find a correlation between a medicine and a disease, does not mean that we have a cause. It just means that we are on to…
We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.” While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could have an even greater individual and…
While the entire world feels older after COVID 19’s big entrance, in this study researchers found that women’s blood vessels of women post-COVID infection, regardless of infection, were measurably older. Your next question should be, “What do you mean by older?” As we age, our blood vessels age by getting stiffer. This stiffness correlates with…
We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.” While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could have an even greater individual and…
In caring for so many patients with mold toxicity, we have learned over the years that there is more to restoring health than simply draining the toxic junk out of their bodies. The detox takes months, and we want to protect the body from ongoing harm during that waiting period. The article in focus today…
COVID has left diagnosable lingering effects on our guts beyond the “gut feeling” that we are sick and tired of hearing about COVID. A recent study looking across the globe reveals that a specific type of GI diagnoses have increased from pre-COVID to the present, leading researchers to dig further into the gut-brain interactions we…
Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and beyond. We frequently treat patients from Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, Ohio, Indiana, and more… offering the hope of healthier more abundant lives to those with chronic illness. Eric PotterDr. Eric Potter graduated from Vanderbilt…