Sanctuary Functional Medicine

We need more research like today’s focus article, which considers the effects of parental occupational chemical exposure on autistic children’s future co-occurring “behaviors or cognitive and adaptive skills.”  While much money and effort keeps pouring into genetics and pharmaceuticals, finding preventative opportunities, such as with prenatal chemical exposures, could h...

Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

[Proverbs 19:11]

Anger is motivation. Anger is not integrally sinful; anger is often righteous. But anger is dangerous, and anger is...

In caring for so many patients with mold toxicity, we have learned over the years that there is more to restoring health than simply draining the toxic junk out of their bodies. The detox takes months, and we want to protect the body from ongoing harm during that waiting period. The article in focus today highlights the role of resveratrol in preventing zearalenone related da...

COVID has left diagnosable lingering effects on our guts beyond the “gut feeling” that we are sick and tired of hearing about COVID.  A recent study looking across the globe reveals that a specific type of GI diagnoses have increased from pre-COVID to the present, leading researchers to dig further into the gut-brain interactions we are seeing in other conditions.  ...

Everyone has a reason to drink coffee these days, from the caffeine to the taste to the habit to the status symbol of your favorite coffee bar. This study on habitual coffee intake, the gut microbiom...