How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Body and What to Do After Exposure
What’s actually in wildfire smoke? Beyond ash and burnt vegetation, modern wildfires release ultrafine particles, toxic metals, microplastics, and chemicals from burned homes and buildings, all small enough to enter the bloodstream and reach organs like the brain and heart.
Cause is Not Cure: The Questions We Aren’t Asking About Chronic Illness
“Root cause” has become a buzz phrase. But unfortunately, in this day and age, it isn’t what gets people with complex chronic illness back to full health. Forty years of practice have taught me it’s understanding and addressing root compensations that does. When the body has been compensating long enough, treating the original insult is no longer sufficient.
Gordon Medical Summer Reading List
Whether you’re looking to better understand the body, explore new ideas, or just enjoy a great read, we thought we’d share a few books from our bookshelf. Some are longtime favorites, while others are next on our own reading lists. We hope you’ll find one that sparks your curiosity and gives you a fresh perspective on health and healing.
AI, Social Media, and the Rise of the Instant Health Expert
As AI and social media fuel a new wave of self-proclaimed health experts, the gap between sounding knowledgeable and actually practicing medicine has never mattered more to patients with complex chronic illness.
The Biology of Being Stuck: Sensitivity, The Cell Danger Response, and Microdosing Safety
Chronic illness and trauma share a deeper biological connection than most people realize. Nervous system shutdown, cellular danger signals, and constitutional sensitivity can combine to keep the body stuck in a survival state that makes healing feel impossible, until the pattern is understood and carefully addressed.
Understanding POTS: A Condition That’s More Complex Than It Looks
POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) is a complex condition with multiple subtypes that is frequently misunderstood and misdiagnosed. Dr. Eric Gordon and Dr. Jamie Kunkel recently hosted a FORUM Ask Us Anything: POTS & Dysautonomia, breaking down the key subtypes, diagnostic testing approaches, and emerging immune-targeted treatments, including IVIG and plasmapheresis, that are showing promise for select patient populations.
Your Health is Keeping Your Mitochondria Hostage
People think of mitochondria as just ATP producers, but they are organs that sense the environment. They speak to the immune system. They speak to the endocrine system. They’re not just blindly pumping out energy.
A New Lyme Disease Vaccine Is on the Horizon: What You Need to Know
After more than two decades without an approved human Lyme disease vaccine, a new candidate is moving through the final stages of clinical development. For our patients, many of whom are navigating the complex terrain of chronic Lyme and tick-borne illness, this is news worth paying close attention to. Here, we break down what is known, what remains uncertain, and what those with existing immune challenges should keep in mind.
Ozone Therapy: What It Is and How It Works
Ozone therapy is a clinically used treatment that works by introducing a controlled oxidative signal into the body, prompting its own repair and antioxidant systems to activate. Backed by more than 4,300 peer-reviewed studies and over 130 years of clinical use, this article explores how ozone supports circulation, mitochondrial function, and long-term resilience through a process known as hormesis.
Why Your Family History May Be Making You Sick: The Hidden Role of Family Constellations in Chronic Illness
For patients living with chronic Lyme disease, ME/CFS, Long COVID, and fibromyalgia, biology alone doesn’t always tell the whole story. Beneath the infections and inflammation, there is often a deeper layer, inherited family patterns and unresolved wounds that may be quietly shaping your health.