Root Causes Medicine

Root Causes Medicine Health begins by identifying the causes of your health concerns, not just medicating symptoms.

Root Causes Medical Clinic is a functional medicine practice devoted to exposing the underlying causes of chronic and complex illnesses. Our mission is to be an instrument of personal healing by effectively treating the underlying causes of disease.

09/05/2026

Finding the root cause is only half the job. DNA damage, mitochondrial dysfunction, toxin load—once those are identified, the how matters just as much as the what. Poorly managed detox can recirculate toxins and undo progress.

09/04/2026

Happy Labor Day! We will resume normal hours of operation on Tuesday the 8th.

09/03/2026
09/01/2026

A Doctor Spent His Life Asking “Why?” This Is Where It Led Him.

Behind thousands of diagnoses, he found the same two forces showing up again and again.

When Dr. Derek Guillory was a teenager, he kept asking his doctors one question. Why.

Why the cramping that sent him running from the table. Why the small seizures. Why years of tests ended the same way every time, with a new name for his suffering and a new prescription, and never an actual reason. At one point a doctor told him he had diarrhea because he had irritable bowel syndrome. And what caused the irritable bowel syndrome? The diarrhea. Round and round it went, a diagnosis that labeled the problem without ever explaining it.

He never forgot how that felt. Years later, after medical school and a full career seeing patients, he put the answer he had spent his life chasing into a single idea. It became the title of his book, and it sounds almost too bold to be real: The Two Causes of All Disease.

The whole framework fits in two lines.
    •    Deficiency: everything your body needs and does not have.
    •    Toxicity: everything your body has and does not need.

That is the list. Not a hundred diseases with a hundred separate origins. Two forces, showing up in a thousand different disguises.

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08/31/2026

Health doesn’t have to be complicated.
In this short video, a physician explains why all disease comes down to two forces—deficiency and toxicity—and how you already have the power to restore health for yourself and the people you love.

08/26/2026

There is a particular silence that follows the word “cancer.” Most people can tell you exactly where they were sitting when they heard it. The room seems to narrow, someone is still talking, but you have stopped hearing them, because a single story has already taken over: that this word is the end of the story.

This is not a promise that everything will be fine. No honest person can promise that. It is something better: a wider, truer picture of where you actually stand.

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08/26/2026

If you’re reading this, something hard has probably just happened. Maybe the word cancer is still ringing in your ears. Maybe it was said weeks ago and you still haven’t found the bottom of it. Either way, you know the feeling this article is written for: the one that shows up at 3 a.m. and asks, quietly, why did this happen to me, and what am I supposed to do now?

We want you to know something before you read another line. That feeling is not weakness, and it is not the end of the story. It’s the beginning of a different set of questions, and there are good answers to them.

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08/26/2026

There is a question that tends to arrive late, after the appointments end and the house goes quiet. Not the loud question everyone expects, the one about survival. A smaller and more stubborn one. What do I actually do now? Not what am I waiting for. What can I do, with my own two hands, starting this week?

If that question is yours, or it belongs to someone you love and you are the one doing the reading at midnight, this article was written for you. It is the specific, honest answer to it.

For a hundred years we have been taught to picture cancer as a war and the body as a battlefield. It is a powerful image, and there is a place for it. But it is not the whole truth, and for the person living inside that body, it can be a lonely one. So here is another way to see it. Your body is not a battlefield. It is a garden. And a tumor, like anything else, grows in soil.

Cancer does not grow in a vacuum. It grows in a terrain: low oxygen here, quiet inflammation there, an immune system that has been talked out of its job, a metabolism rewired to feed the wrong thing. You cannot always choose what took root in you. But you are never powerless over the ground it grows in.

The six therapies at the heart of SEED are six ways of tending that ground. Below is what each one does, in plain language, and exactly where the science is strong and where it is still young. We will not oversell any of it. You have earned the truth, and the truth turns out to be hopeful enough on its own. And if you are also in conventional treatment, none of this competes with it. Good gardening never fights the sun. It works with everything that helps you live.

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08/26/2026

A major trial proved that something within your reach, something that belongs entirely to you, changes the odds.

There is a number you were probably never told, and it deserves to be the headline.

In June of 2025, a rigorous clinical trial did something no new drug did all year. It lowered the risk of dying from cancer by 37 percent. It was not a medication. It was not a machine. It was not administered by anyone in a white coat. It was something that costs nothing, waits for no prescription, and belongs entirely to you.

Now hold onto a feeling that arrives with a diagnosis and rarely gets named out loud. It is not only fear. It is the feeling of being carried along by a current you never chose. The water has you, decisions are made about you, appointments carry you from one week to the next, and no matter how hard you look there seems to be nothing solid to take hold of. This is the study that speaks to that feeling directly. Not with comfort, but with evidence. The current may not be yours to command, but you were never set adrift without an oar. And for the first time, we can measure what that oar is worth.

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