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…
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 for decades, and was appreciated early…
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…
Apparently, various endurance exercise habits train not only your muscles and cardio but also your immune system’s natural killer cells. Who would have thought that pushing through a few miles on the trails or on the bike would help train immune cells to keep balance in the later years? Earlier studies often indicated that after…
While advancing computer technology brings us opportunities to improve medical care both for research and for individual patients, it also presents new choices to make about how we deliver health care. This technology crosses new horizons, allowing us to process vast amounts of medical data, for both large groups of people and individuals. This data…
The pesticide on your fruit or from your neighbor’s yard may leave long lasting changes on your immune system, possibly on your yet-to-be-born children’s immune system. We live in a toxic fishbowl of our own making, especially when we choose to participate in the self-delusion. Yet, we keep asking ourselves, our neighbors, and our medical…
Vitamin D stands out among the most critical and most researched nutrients. The list below only scratches the surface of known and suspected benefits of maintaining adequate vitamin D. It is actually more of a hormone than a vitamin in its mechanisms of action and in being produced from cholesterol metabolism. While nearly all recognize…
While the internet and its many medical practitioners have launched telemedicine from science fiction into everyday habit, the ability to see your provider from home does not always equate into being good enough for every type of medical visit. Though it is true that the foundation of a diagnosis rests on the patient’s story, there…
Sometimes, revisiting important points from the past is needed as we can forget important lessons. This “Oldie but Goodie” is one of those good reminders. “Don’t Look for Superheroes to Save Your Health.” Let’s step back from individual therapies that a functional medicine provider might recommend for our patients and consider the bigger picture of…
While we may not turn back the overall wave of AI (Artificial Intelligence) impact on our lives, awareness of its dark side of its use by teens can save lives. Teens have easy access to AI interfaces and are subject to an increasing mental health crisis. The result has already taken the lives of a…