(Some reminders are worth repeating so I am running this reminder about where mold hides in our lives.) Mold Detox Can Be Challenging Caring for patients with mold toxicity can be a challenging task, faced with not just body-problems but problems in their environments. In caring for their bodies and the symptoms they are experiencing,…
Many people spend years searching for answers to symptoms such as fatigue, brain fog, headaches, digestive issues, sinus congestion, and unexplained inflammation. While these symptoms are often treated individually, the underlying cause may never be fully identified. One factor that is frequently overlooked is mold exposure. At Sanctuary Functional Medicine, patients often seek care after…
Functional Medicine Doctor Nashville: Finding Answers to Mold Toxicity and Chronic Health Symptoms Many people spend years searching for answers to chronic fatigue, brain fog, digestive problems, headaches, joint pain, anxiety, and unexplained inflammation. Often, traditional healthcare focuses on managing symptoms rather than identifying the root cause. Working with a Functional Medicine Doctor Nashville residents…
Mold detox advocates have entrenched themselves around their particular ways to treat those who have been exposed to these natural toxins. Who, though, is right? One researcher looks solely to a pharmaceutical called cholestyramine. Another tries to a variety of binding agents. A third eschews any binder and just advocates anti-fungals. The outcome can be…
As mold toxicity becomes more and more recognized as a legitimate medical malady, more and more providers are trying to treat it- with some success. We are thankful for this recognition and the fact that more sufferers are being freed from their prison of an invisible diagnosis, but I have some words of wisdom for…
Caring for a patient requires caring for the whole person, a whole person who is a collection of parts. Some of these parts are more easily cared for by medicine than others. Some of these parts are better cared for by families, churches, and communities than by a health care system. This second class…
Daily in our office, we talk about one of my least favorite subjects, mold. Why would I daily spend time talking about or even thinking about something that caused so much harm to my own family? It primarily comes down to the simple fact that my hatred for mold makes me want to fight it…
Legal Case Connecting Mold Toxicity with Parkinson’s Disease While our clinic sees 100s of mold toxicity cases per year, sometimes it helps to hear something from others besides a slew of nameless reports (nameless due to privacy) and to hear from someone publicly describing their symptoms. In recent months, Steve Locke, once a head of…
Caring for patients with mold toxicity can be a challenging task as we have to not only care for their bodies, but their environment as well. In caring for their bodies and the symptoms they are experiencing, we have to turn down inflammation, remove toxins, restore function that has been lost and more. These steps…
Soapbox Rant Warning: I am beyond aggravated at the medical world which dismisses the reality of mold toxicity and maligns any provider who attempts to care for those outcast individuals suffering from mold toxicity. Without the details of recent experience, I will just say that the system is rigged against you (if you have mold…