Sanctuary Functional Medicine

07/29/2026

Proverbs 19:21 - Sanctuary Functional Medicine
Have you ever read a story? One of the basic rules of a story is that something will go wrong. It'll go wrong for the hero, because that is what causes the story to have conflict; it'll go wrong for the villain, because....
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Many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose of the Lord that will stand. [Proverbs 19:21] Have you ever read a story? One of the basic rules of a story is that something will go wrong. It’ll go wrong for the hero, because that is what causes the

07/29/2026

07/29/2026

When Good Nutrition Backfires - Sanctuary Functional Medicine
Our contemporary world is obsessed with nutrition to the point of self-contradiction.
On one hand, so many are trying to optimize nutrition, sometimes to the point of unhealthy habits.
On the other, the food industry is obsessed with creating more artificial processed foods to get us addicted regardless of the effects on our health.
Researchers from the University of Southern California threw us all a curve-ball, however, by reporting that eating more fruits, veggies, and whole grains could lead to more lung cancer in non-smokers.
Before you grab a candy bar and rub it in your mom's face for all those years of veggies, the solution is not cutting out these healthy foods but realizing that the real culprit is probably what is sprayed on those foods: pesticides.
If we as a society want people to eat healthier, we should at least not poison the healthy food.
Helping everyone pursue healthier, more abundant lives requires both individual treatment for present illness and public policy to limit the use of such pesticides.
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In conflicting ways, our contemporary world is obsessed with nutrition. On one hand, so many are trying to optimize nutrition, sometimes to the point of unhealthy habits. On the other, the food industry is obsessed with creating more artificial processed foods to get us addicted regardless of the ef...

07/28/2026

Microplastics are everywhere, but what does that actually mean for your health?

We're breaking down what microplastics are, where they're commonly found, and why reducing exposure can be a step to support your overall wellness.

Small, intentional changes can make a differnce long-term.

What's one change you've made? We'd love to hear from you!👇

07/28/2026

Linking Glyphosate to Drug-Resistant Bacteria - Sanctuary Functional Medicine
The news headlines keep talking about drug resistant bacteria and how they threaten humanity, while scientists keep searching for answers to why and how to save humanity.
Meanwhile doctors and their patients are told to stop overusing antibiotics in order to make sure they'll work when we need them
Then research like that I summarize on our website today suggests that all the glyphosate being sprayed across the globe could be pushing bacteria towards these genetic resistance patterns.
Is humanity once again creating its own problems for the sake of industrial progress and prosperity?
Read more on the website and contribute to the efforts to take seriously the effects of glyphosate on our health not only at the individual level discussed in prior blogs, but in a larger sense described here.

As the toxicity of our world continues to weaken our immune systems and as the antibiotic resistance of bacteria grows, researchers looking outside the medical clinic are linking glyphosate to these dangerous bacteria. When infection causing bacteria gain the superpower to resist multiple antibiotic...

07/25/2026

Wanted to share my prayer for today from my personal page....
For those with complex PTSD and limbic overdrive.

Father God,
Today, I pray for the wounded in spirit, who have the scars of life's flow rather than life's events. We can more easily recognize those who were scarred by an event such as a loss, an attack, an illness, a pain, or other occurrence which came and went in a short time. What we don't recognize, even when we ourselves experienced it, are the flows of our days which eroded us, leaving not cracks in our spirits, but wore away the shape of our beings including the deepening of the cracks of those visible events.
These scars can even be invisible in a sense to those who experience them, though they feel the pain. The pain does not affect their spirit in the same way however. Rather than a recognizable pain that is clearly connected to a present and/or past event, the pain of life's flow cannot be described or connected so easily. The present pain seems out of proportion to the present's events, yet the intensity is as undeniable as it is indescribable.
I pray that You would give sight into the darkness for those experience such scar of life's flow and for those who walk presently with them. I pray that with Your light, they could both see what is the real reason for present pain as well as discover security in You and in those around them. I pray that the present security in You and Your hands and feet of loved ones would press healing into the previously invisible wounds and scars so that they would overcome.
Lord, have mercy on those who are captive to these invisible yet painful scars.
In Christ's Name,
Amen.

07/24/2026

And double negatives are subtly different from single-positives.

07/22/2026

Proverbs 19:20 - Sanctuary Functional Medicine
Advice comes in all stripes. Some is good. Some is bad. Some is really, really bad.
Good councilors can make a leader, and bad councilors can break him just as thoroughly, when he keeps and heeds them.
Among wisdom's deepest foes is pride, the pride which refuses good advice and accepts bad advice. Pride is idolatry of the self, the choice to prefer my own temptations to God and His law and His counsel.
So we must learn to abhor it; we must learn the humility of taking advice—and the humility too of measuring its worth, no matter how tempting it may be, no matter how high, below God, the giver may stand in our eyes.
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Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future. [Proverbs 19:20] Advice comes in all stripes. Some is good. Some is bad. Some is really, really bad. Good councilors can make a leader, and bad councilors can break him just as thoroughly, when he keeps and heeds them.....