Reviewing and Summarizing the recent Toxic Mold Summit Session by Dr. Amy Myers. Part 3 of 3 (Read this blog series’ introduction at end if you are catching up) As my family works through building a “mold-safe home”, I empathize with Dr. Myers as her family is looking for a safe home and safe…
Reviewing and Summarizing the recent Toxic Mold Summit Session by Dr. Amy Myers. Part 2 of 3 (Read this blog series’ introduction at end if you are catching up) From the discussion of leaky gut, Dr. Myers bridges into how mold toxicity contributes to autoimmunity through multiple possible mechanisms. Like other toxins, mycotoxins likely…
Reviewing and Summarizing the recent Toxic Mold Summit Session by Dr. Amy Myers. Part 1 of 3 (Read this blog series’ introduction at very end if you are catching up. Look for “SERIES INTRODUCTION”) Autoimmune diseases bear many names like Lupus, Hashimoto’s, Sjogren’s, vitiligo and more. Despites the variety of fancy names, they share…
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) attacks many patients relentlessly while others experience intermittent attacks interspersed with periods of quiet. In looking for answers to why some progress to these relentless attacks and how to treat them, scientists may have found a key to unlocking answers and therapies. As evidenced by the series of logical steps they followed,…
In functional medicine, we see a myriad of patients who have been dismissed by conventional medicine as psychosomatic, meaning “its just in their head”. Many children, teens, and occasionally young adults enter our clinic with the oddest of mental and emotional symptoms. The common factor lies in the symptoms having begun suddenly soon after…
A Functional MD like myself has to remember a plethora of acronyms. We must keep in mind how they fit together in carrying out healthy biological functions and how they dysfunction and produce illness. To stay sane, we sometimes piece together some rather corny riddles like this article title. Despite my weak attempt at humor,…
Functional MD’s tell some odd punch lines, like this one. They talk about their bacterial neighbors of course. Okay, not expecting any belly laughter on this one, but there is truth in this corny joke. My staff at Sanctuary Functional Medicine are used to my bad jokes though. Researchers constantly find new interactions between our…
Have you ever run across an article that blows your mind by filling in connections that you were sure existed but could never put your finger on? This is one of those articles. Daily we at Sanctuary Functional see patients with autoimmune and metabolic diseases, either of which can lead to inflammation. From studying past…
No, I am not writing a veterinary piece this week on zoo animals. I am referring to Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders related to Streptococal infections. PANDAS is a well-known acronym in the medical world for several decades, yet a still mysterious constellation of symptoms with even more mysterious mechanism by which it wrecks havoc in…
Shingles are a real pain in the neck… or butt.. or face… or wherever they pop up. Anyone who has experienced an outbreak of this chickenpox virus years after the initial infection never forget it. It burns. It stings. Sometimes for years. This ongoing nerve pain is called Post Herpetic Neuralgia. We throw a variety…