Scott J. Banks

Dr. Scott J. Banks has been in clinical practice for more than 30 years. In 2013, Banks joined an elite group Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioners. He is uniquely trained in the Functional Medicine model to identify and treat the root causes of illness, disease, and chronic disorders.

Articles & Books From Scott J. Banks

Article / Updated 06-05-2023
A natural cures approach to life doesn’t mean you should never take treatment for ailments. Antibiotics are necessary for treating severe bacterial infections, but they’re often overused and frequently cause more harm than good: Antibiotics don’t just target the bad bacteria. They also wipe out many of the beneficial bacteria that improve digestion and produce nutrients, such as B vitamins, that your body needs to survive.
Article / Updated 04-06-2023
Eating junk foods isn’t simply a matter of “garbage in, garbage out.” The natural cures approach encourages you to think about the effect this food has on your body. Junk food is bad for your body and your health because of the long-term and possibly irreversible damage it can do to your body as it passes through your system.
Article / Updated 12-13-2021
Vitamins are organic compounds or groups of organic compounds that your body needs but either can’t make or may not make in sufficient quantities. So, you need to consume them. The table below presents the essential vitamins, along with a couple other key compounds, that play a role similar to that of vitamins.
Article / Updated 08-18-2021
Homeopathy is based on the law of familiars or treating like with like — using a substance that causes certain symptoms in a healthy person to alleviate those same symptoms in someone who’s ill. For example, coffee keeps most people awake, but for some people who have trouble sleeping, a homeopathic preparation of coffee helps them sleep.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 03-27-2016
The natural cures approach to healing and wellness relies primarily on nutrition, nutritional supplements, and herbs to give the body what it needs to achieve optimal health and to prevent and fight illness. This cheat sheet brings you up to speed on the fundamentals of natural medicine, recommends which foods to eliminate and add to your diet, and provides protocols you can follow to maintain healthy digestion, prevent or cure leaky gut syndrome, and fight off infection.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Natural cures can help with lots of different ailments. Leaky gut syndrome is a condition in which the small intestine becomes more porous and permeable than normal, allowing irritants, such as toxins, undigested food particles, waste products, and microbes, to leak into surrounding areas where these substances shouldn’t be.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Natural cures can help fight infections. Conventional treatments for the common cold and other infections target symptoms and tend to impair the body’s own defense mechanisms. These mechanisms are designed to purge the viruses or bacteria from the body. Although you may need to alleviate symptoms to make it through the day at work or school, you can speed your recovery by giving your immune system a boost.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The term natural cures includes many different approaches to health and wellness — everything from aromatherapy and homeopathy to massage and nutritional medicine — but all the methodologies that fall under the natural cures umbrella reflect the following seven core principles: Treat the cause, not the symptoms.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Most diets recommend some form of calorie counting, the natural cures approach included, but foods are more than merely energy that your body either burns or stores as fat. Food also provides the building blocks for every cell in your body and conveys crucial information that your DNA uses to help your body adapt to the environment in which it lives.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
Today’s food supply is often deficient in nutrients, and environmental factors frequently disrupt the body’s natural balance, so sometimes you need natural cures to supplement your diet to correct nutritional deficiencies, boost the immune system, or give your body something extra that has been proven to help it recover from a specific illness.