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…
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…
While the internet and its vast array of resources has empowered a veritable army of those who can better care for their health and their family’s health, there lurks a risk in playing doctor for yourself. Even as a doctor myself, it has been very challenging caring for my own family as we navigated mold…
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…
Will it always be this difficult to enjoy the holidays? Moldy realities that you need to know. Whether we are talking about the holidays or life in general, moldy patients ask if it will always be this difficult. Chronic illness usually requires lifelong changes. Moldy toxicities is no different, but will it get any easier.…
Thinking through when relatives deny that their house could make you sick. Moldy Realities That You Need To Know The extended family and in-laws are putting up with our new life of avoiding mold, but they don’t believe that could get in the way of holiday celebrations. ‘Our house can’t be moldy’ is repeated over and…
With the holidays coming very soon, have a plan for visiting or not visiting moldy, relative’s homes. Moldy Realities That You Need To Know Besides helping our patients work through getting mold toxins out of their bodies and their homes, we help them make decisions about living a recovered life, which means helping them get…