With the growing epidemic of mental health diagnoses in our current world, much research is going into answering the how’s, why’s and what’s of stress. We not only want to understand how stress impacts our mental health, but what to do about it. In our clinic, we deal with the impact of stress on our…
The word “addiction” brings up images of crack pipes, alcohol bottles, lottery tickets and other sickly fascinations, but the bigger issue may be the number of people addicted to ultra-processed foods. Consider: while drugs, gambling, and other unsavory addictions definitely harm those trapped in them, this study estimates 21% of Generation X women have a…
Artificial intelligence is all the rage these days, but this article may cause some rage of its own. In this study, researchers tested a type of AI called a Large Language Model on different medical ethics cases. When tweaks were made to some of these cases, the AI defaulted to intuitive answers rather than taking…
With the growing epidemic of mental health diagnoses in our current world, much research is going into answering the how’s, why’s and what’s of stress. We not only want to understand how stress impacts our mental health, but what to do about it. In our clinic, we deal with the impact of stress on our…
In the world of functional medicine, we try to listen to all the evidence regardless of where it comes from, including the mainstream groups like the Endocrine Society- and now they assert that some artificial sweeteners contribute to early puberty. While we sometimes have to take such groups with a grain of sea salt, remembering…
For a variety of ‘reasons’, ADHD has become a hot topic not just in pediatrics but also in adult medical care. While the earlier debate about the causes and true frequency of ADHD in children continues, this study highlights some major flaws in the research on adult ADHD which should make us pause before overmedicating…
News You Can Use: Ultra-processed Foods Might Kill You Even with the fields of biohacking and longevity medicine fueling the level of conferences, podcasts, and supplement expenditures it does, the average American should start with the simple longevities therapies available in their grocery stores. So many will go to expensive ends to live a little…
Many of our patients have suffered for years from a variety of symptoms and diagnostic labels from other providers despite having a curable condition- just one ignored by conventional medicine. Thankfully, there are some news outlets which give suffering patients a voice after that curable condition is discovered and treated. These make for attractive news…
Do You Trust AI to Read Your Health Reports? While AI seems to be everywhere and do everything, you should not trust it to fully take over interpreting your lab results in place of an actual medical provider. AI serves ultimately only as a fast, very fancy tool. Tools make work faster and (hopefully) more…
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…