We are learning more and more about the connection between our gut microbiome and our health, and so this study about the intake of emulsifiers by mouse moms and its influence on their baby mice’s future health should be no surprise. These additives to processed foods are seemingly everywhere. They can be found in baked…
For many years now, both medical professionals and parents of children diagnosed with ADHD have assumed that the primary mechanism of action for most ADHD medications are its effects in the brain areas responsible for attention. Now a study suggests that the medications work in other parts of the brain, those involved with reward and…
Proving the impact of mold and its mycotoxins on human health to conventional medicine requires a lot of patience as well as lots of patient data which is why I am reviewing a series of articles that investigated how mold changes human health. From caring for over 1000 mold-affected patients and seeing them recover after…
Though many in the conventional medical world repeat the mantra that no study proves that mold toxins cause human illness, repetitive claims do not make imagination into reality. Ehsanifar and colleagues review a number of studies which support the reality we see in patients, the reality that mold and its toxins do cause neurocognitive and…
Science is never settled, especially with COVID and the immune system. Stanford researchers uncovered some of the mechanisms by which mRNA vaccines contribute to myocarditis (heart inflammation). With social media chatter and news channel headlines highlighting how many young COVID vaccine recipients have fallen dead or suffer some heart injury, those with their eyes open…
In medicine, whether we’re researchers or clinicians, discoverers or the people applying discoveries, we all prefer clear mechanisms to mere correlations and connections, especially with novel issues like the COVID spike protein. As this article notes, mast cell activity (a part of the immune system) has been correlated with a wide variety of immune processes…
News headlines are intentionally designed to get attention, and the fact that the Centers for Disease Control just quietly, yet openly, acknowledged the existence of chronic Lyme and other chronic conditions should get your attention. My first reaction upon seeing the Facebook headline was to doubt the article’s truth- at least until I saw the…
The well-worn cliché that children are not little adults reminds us in medicine that we must think rather differently about our little patients. At the very least, this means adjusting the dosing of both medications and supplements to decrease the chance of overdosing. Besides this obvious difference, we must also consider different illnesses in some…
See HERE for Part 1 Aloe vera is a blend of various chemicals derived from the plant and provides numerous benefits to the GI tract (Mills 2005), helping produce bowel regularity and deal with various inflammatory conditions (Brawn & Cohen 2015; ,Bone & Mills 2013). It is considered safe in pregnancy and breastfeeding. Adding aloe…
Given our drive to always improve, Sanctuary’s clinical team recently altered a key ingredient in our mold detox program by replacing one core binder product with Binder PlusTM from Nutramedix. Our patients deserve to know the reason for our change and so this article will review some ingredients in our prior binder and then explain why…