The thyroid uses a hormone as its foot on our metabolic gas pedal. The thyroid is a gland, or collection of tissue sharing one function, which secretes this hormone into our blood stream. The hormone travels throughout the body and interacts with receptors on cells. These cells respond by changing the rate of their cellular…
Long Haulers COVID patients need more help than just functional medicine. For some, they need help with long term care insurance benefits or disability benefits as they cannot go back to work. Our goals are always to return our post viral syndrome patients back to a healthier more abundant life, but that often requires some…
Mouth Revelations One may appear wise and strong till the opening of their mouth belittles others and slanders, revealing their lack of sense. Often silence expresses more wisdom and understanding and demonstrates more trustworthiness. Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services to Nashville, Middle Tennessee and…
Many parents have become quite alarmed by Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), also known as “pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS)”. The media alerted us early in the epidemic to the small number of children who developed a hyperinflammatory state from the viral infection. While the vast majority of children suffered…
While the other systems discussed over the previous weeks stood out as more disruptive of life, the GI tract and the skin are thankfully affected in lesser degrees. Interestingly, the virus can be found in stool samples an average of 28 days after disease onset despite the GI symptoms being milder than with diarrhea acutely.…
Two Reasons to Rejoice Both the blessing of the righteous and the fall of the wicked brings rejoicing to a city. May we have more rejoicing in these works of God as well as His deliverance of the wicked from their wickedness, making them into the righteous who brings blessing. Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the…
While COVID 19 touches many body systems, sometimes for months, the nervous system ranks high in both the variety of symptoms and in the prevalence among the Long Hauler COVID crowd. Like other post viral syndromes, sufferers report ongoing fatigue, malaise, mood disruption, and sleep problems. Also frequent among the Long Hauler crowd are headaches…
While my recent post addressed the lungs and the blood clotting systems, today we turn our attention to a vital organ, the heart, and how COVID leaves behind nagging problems. For many, after COVID palpitations and chest pains disrupt life up to 6 months beyond the acute illness’s end, according to a Chinese study (1). …
Overcoming Strong Mouths Godless men seek to destroy everything nearby. Even their neighbors must take care of the wicked man’s mouth seeking to destroy. God uses knowledge and truth to deliver His righteous from the mouth of the wicked. Sanctuary Functional Medicine, under the direction of Dr Eric Potter, IFMCP MD, provides functional medicine services…
Besides the lung focused symptoms which Long Hauler COVID patients experience, COVID patients fear the less common danger of blood clotting given its potential for devastating effects. While the rate of diagnosed blood clots up to 1 month after the acute infection lingers below 5% in most studies, the real chances are low. But, those…