Category: Functional Medicine

Researchers were already asking questions about Long Hauler Covid back in December of 2020. They hypothesized that either ongoing viral infection after an inadequate immune response or a dysfunctional immune response were responsible for this chronic post viral malady affecting millions. Research continues into the …

On one hand, I appreciate the recognition that besides several million Americans having passed through acute COVID, we are now facing a few million Post COVID sufferers seeking answers. On the other hand, this article offers mental health support to help them cope with their …

In using advanced stool testing, we explain to patients how some bacteria in their colons can increase or decrease their risks of certain diseases.   This does not mean they will 100% get the disease but just have a greater chance than others of developing the …

Cancer therapy has long required chemotherapy, also known as targeted poisons, in order to overcome the death sentences of cancer.  Chemotherapy is meant to kill the faster growing tumor cells before it causes too much harm to the patient.  In recent years, much excitement has …

When looking at tumor inside a person’s body, far more is occurring under the surface than is easily seen by the untrained eye, even at the cellular level.  While the prior blog considered how T cells are hindered by oxidized fats in the tumor, this …

Were it not for our immune system surveillance, we would all succumb to cancer at a young age.  Our immune system not only patrols for invaders from without, but for rogue cells from within that could go cancerous.  Our immune system must recognize and destroy …

Researchers from Radboud University Medical Center intensive care (IC) department compared  the concentration of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha) and interleukins 6 and 8 (IL-6, IL-8) between COVID 19 patients and those with ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) and septic shock.  COVID 19 patients did …

Scientists consider whether anti-cytokine therapies tocilizumab and anakinra might alleviate disease severity in COVID 19.   Tocilizumab (an IL-6 blocker) has been tested with possible benefit.  These results have been mixed.   Anakinra (an anti-IL-1 medication) as also tested with mixed results.  These drugs have been used for …

Science always tries to build on prior knowledge. Understanding how COIVID 19 creates such inflammation means evaluating whether this coronavirus mimics cytokine storm diseases which we already know, or stirs up different immune winds of its own.  We have some experience and some therapies for …

Every therapy, natural or pharmaceutical, has the potential for side effects and unintended consequences.  Some of the most promising therapies turn out to be duds or even disasters when the secondary effects completely outweigh the primarily intended benefits.  Before adding CBD to your COVID 19 …