Dr. Eric Potter graduated from Vanderbilt Medical School and then went on to specialize in internal medicine (adult) and pediatric care, spending significant time and effort in growing his medical understanding while caring for patients from all walks of life.
For those not aware of our Mold Symptom Therapy Guide website, let this “Rewriting Mold” series serve as a reminder of both what we offer our patients and what we offer the general public in terms of understanding mold toxicity illness. Over the coming weeks, I will be reviewing and reposting sections of our Mold…
Multimillion dollar national programs have been run to reduce exposures to mind altering drugs, but when will we see the same effort towards limiting the amount of environmental toxins our children are exposed to? Researchers at the Institute for Glial Sciences at the School of Medicine provide startling proof that chemicals from daily consumer products…
Even before you bring your baby home the focus is mainly on wet diapers and bowel movements. Since they can’t talk to us, we need to watch them and monitor them in all ways and bowel movements are key component to that monitoring. So then $100,000 question is, ‘What is normal?’ Let’s talk about the…
(Although originally published over 1 year ago, in the midst of the 2024 summer, it is good to remember articles like these when ticks are crawling up your leg.) We live in an age where the news, including medical research reports, can be spun in so many different directions to hide the truth that we…
Functional Medicine aims to build on a firm foundation of root cause therapies so that our patients can look forward to long term recovery from chronic illness. When we see conventional medicine employing those same principles in research and potential clinical applications, we applaud their efforts. In this example of innovative utilizations of how our…
We live in an age where common sense does not appear to be so common. After the public health disaster of 2020 and the plethora of studies indicating a benefit for vitamin D3 in preventing or at least lowering the risk of COVID 19 severity, you would think that no one would dare argue against…
When you flush the commode, you normally don’t pause to inspect your stool under a microscope. Sure, you may think about the Bristol stool scale to sort out needed dietary changes like fiber intake, but few of you are thinking about the bacteria being flushed away. Those with Crohn’s disease start paying more attention, especially…
For those not aware of our Mold Symptom Therapy Guide website, let this “Rewriting Mold” series serve as a reminder of both what we offer our patients and what we offer the general public in terms of understanding mold toxicity illness. Over the coming weeks, I will be reviewing and reposting sections of our Mold…
While we live in a world where we usually want to kill two birds with one stone, our pharmaceutical industry seems to target single mechanisms of action for their new drugs. This may make for easier testing and development of new drugs, but having substances which act in a variety of beneficial ways is more…
One functional medicine saying that will never grow old or be overused is the reality that everything is somehow connected inside us. For this reason, we must always keep in mind a wholistic picture of the person we are treating for any given illness. While conventional medicine would agree with this as they try to…