Sanctuary Functional Medicine

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

[Proverbs 19:13]

Familial discord is a problem as old as sin (what, you think Adam and Eve didn’t have some issues ove...

We all want answers, especially when it comes to our children’s health, but we need to be clear about whether something is the chicken or the egg.  Just because we find a correlation between a medicine and a disease, does not mean that we have a cause.  It just means that we are on to something and need to keep the hounds chasing it.   That is definitely t...

A king’s wrath is like the growling of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

[Proverbs 19:12]

Ill-favor and good favor are two sides of the same coin. On one side, the king dislikes you; his wrath bears heav...

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...

While the entire world feels older after COVID 19’s big entrance, in this study researchers found that women’s blood vessels of women post-COVID infection, regardless of infection, were measurably older.  Your next question should be, “What do you mean by older?” As we age, our blood vessels age by getting stiffer.  This stiffness correlates with increasing rates of...