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…
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…
The verdict is final on UPFs (ultra-processed foods), and it should get more news attention than the UFO hype we put up with. Even if a UFO never lands on the White House lawn, every day millions of Americans are consuming cardiovascular poisons and loving it. These UPFs have been clearly shown to increase a…
If you have already heard how vitamin D can optimize your immunity but are taking the wrong form of this multi-function vitamin, you may not be seeing the benefits promised on the bottle. Not everything that claims to optimize actually does, as D2 shows. Research out of England strongly suggests that the D2 form of…
Sometimes, revisiting important insights from the past is needed, as we can forget important lessons. This Oldie but Goodie is one of those worthwhile reminders. So many struggling lives enter our doors searching for answers to chronic mental health problems after having been told it was just all in their heads. Many other providers had…