Proverbs 15:23 ESV To make an apt answer is a joy to a man, and a word in season, how good it is!. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+15%3A23&version=ESV]   The right word at the right time means a lot. In a story, it’s the proverbial lightning. When you’re in trouble, when you’ve got a problem that’s really not working out, when you cannot for the life of you figure out what to do next, that right word becomes water in a desert. As it is a pleasure to the receiver, so too it is for the giver, if his heart is right, and all around things get better. Then problems s ..read more

Well-known is the saying, “Let food be thy medicine”.  Commonly known is the fact that any medicine can be good or bad for a given person.  Together, these statements add up to the fact that foods can also have positive or negative effects on a person’s health.  Hopefully, you already realize that the highly processed diet for the average American is killing us slowly (not always slowly) and that eating a healthy, whole foods diet goes a long way in promoting a longer and higher quality life.  However, in some cases, what is good for one person may be bad for another.  ..read more

As more and more research sheds light into the darkness of our colons with their billions of bacterial residents living there, we learn more and more how those bacteria interact with our immune system leading to inflammatory bowel diseases like Crohn’s Disease.  We need these little critters inside our GI tract to provide a number of functions between digestion, vitamin production, and immune system stimulation.  Having a good mix of these bacteria combined with an appropriate immune response keeps both our GI tract and our immune system in good working order.  It appears that d ..read more

Proverbs 15:22 ESV Without counsel plans fail,but with many advisers they succeed. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+15%3A22&version=ESV]   Men throughout history have recognized the value of wise council. “These were hard times, heartbreaking for the prince of the Shieldings, and powerful counselors… would lend advice,” states the poem Beowulf (1). As much as we like to think that we can do-it-ourselves, an essential part of maturity is recognizing that we often need help. Other people may not know better, but they do know different, and the fresh perspective may ..read more

For those not aware of our Mold Symptom Therapy Guide website, let this “Rewriting Mold” series serve as a reminder of both what we offer our patients and what we offer the general public in terms of understanding mold toxicity illness.  Over the coming weeks, I will be reviewing and reposting sections of our Mold Symptoms Therapy website one or two at a time.  It has been over 3 years since I first wrote this 30 plus page guide and posted it online.  A few things have changed since 2020 (yes, an understatement), but the basic principles emphasized in 2020 continue with minimal ..read more

Written by Stacie DeLucia If you have been looking for a new way to eat healthier, support your local community, or get your kids involved in the kitchen, try eating seasonally! If you are local to middle Tennessee, you know there are so many wonderful farms and farmers markets to explore all year round. If not, I still encourage you to investigate what options might be out there for buying local produce. Here are some reasons why it’s a good idea for you and your family:   Local produce has more nutrients! Once a piece of produce is picked, it starts to lose nutrients, and therefore, t ..read more

Proverbs 15:21 ESV Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+15%3A21&version=ESV]   Doing stupid stuff can be a blast. Sometimes this ‘stupid stuff’ is innocent, a matter of taste, thrill-seeking balanced with the rest of life. Sometimes, though, we place our own pleasure before wisdom. A life dictated by pleasures is scheduled to be a very foolish life. Folly brings ‘joy’ to the fool, but it is a false joy, limited to this life if not a shorter span, toxic to body and soul. The wise m ..read more

We live in a fallen world, a stressful world, and too many walk through such intense stress that they develop a condition called Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. For these individuals, life changes from one with sporadic stresses to one in which nearly everything becomes a source of stress. Not only do those with PTSD find that much more of life becomes stressful, but the intensity and duration of those stresses amplify, synergize, and thus interfere with life. The random sounds and interruptions of life can themselves become traumatic, speeding their pulse, raising blood pressure, and causing ..read more

While many bemoan the fact that science seems to be always changing, we can be thankful for the constant advancements which overturn incorrect scientific dogma. The need for such change becomes very evident in the case of COVID, a word we all hate but can’t escape. So many ‘truths’ of COVID which were promoted both in the media and by the medical establishment during 2020 and 2021 have been disproven, and they deserve correction so that the world knows how to respond appropriately. The reality that the SARS CoV-2 virus can remain present at low levels in our bodies for at least 2 years definit ..read more

Proverbs 15:20 ESV A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man despises his mother. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+15%3A20&version=ESV]   Modernity as a whole despises its ancestors. Progress is the creed of liberal and conservative alike, and we look at the past with something like contempt. Even when we honor it, we honor the past for breaking with its own past. We remember the American War for Independence for its discontinuity, not its continuity. To an extent, this attitude of remembering conflicts, not peacetime, is only natural, but we lose mu ..read more