Dr. Rollins Articles
The Hidden Power of Bone Stock
A Timeless Healing Food Returns We make lots of bone stock at our house. It's super easy and extends our food budget considerably. The usual go-to...
Harmonizing Your Brain – How Music May Be a Key to Cognitive Longevity
As someone who moves between the world of medicine and the world of music, I’ve long believed in the power of sound not just as something aesthetic,...
Influenza Vaccine Pros, Cons & Natural Treatments
If you are weighing the pros and cons of getting the flu shot this year then you are not alone. Recent studies have questioned how well the flu...
Cross-Reactive Antibodies and False-Positive Serology in Tick-Borne Disease Testing
Understanding Borrelia, Bartonella, and Babesia Beyond the Lab Report Serologic testing for tick-borne diseases is among the most challenging areas...
T Cells – The Immune System’s Traffic Cops
If you think of your immune system as a city, T cells are the skilled responders, the detectives, firefighters, and paramedics who rush in when...
Colorful Berries for the Heart
If you want to lower your risk of high blood pressure or heart disease then add more color to your diet. Vibrant colored fruits and vegetables are...
High Intensity Interval Training
If you don’t have time to exercise, then you had better make time to be sick, because so much of our health depends on getting the right amount and...
Are Food Allergies Making You Gain Weight?
If you struggle with losing weight despite eating well and exercising then consider investigating for delayed food allergies. Along with hormone...
Heavy Metals and Cardiovascular Health
When we think of cardiovascular risk factors, we typically focus on diet, exercise, and genetics. But lurking beneath the radar is a silent threat...
Why Am I So Tired – Could it be Adrenal Fatigue?
The body has a marvelous system for dealing with acute stress, allowing us to meet challenges and perform at a high level both physically and...
Managing Stress by Finding Your Nervous System’s Sweet Spot
Stress is rampant and it's creating many health problems. Each day in the office I'm talking to patients about "dialing down" their stress...
Bath vs Sauna: Which Heat Therapy Packs the Biggest Punch?
I love our hot tub. Our son loves his dry sauna. And many of my patients love their infra-red sauna. Last week I wrote about the benefits of heat...
Why Antibodies Can Rise After Lyme & Chronic Infection Treatment
One of the most confusing and anxiety-provoking findings after treatment for Lyme disease and other chronic infections is a rise in antibody levels on follow-up testing. Many patients are told—or fear—that this means treatment has failed or that a new infection has...
Hormones That Take Off the Pounds
The frustration of not losing weight despite eating right and exercising is often related to hormone imbalances. Last week I wrote about hormones that cause weight gain. Now let’s consider several hormones that take off the pounds! With weight loss, some of them...
Hormones that Pack on the Pounds
In the struggle to maintain a healthy weight many of us find there seems to be some hidden roadblock to our progress. Despite eating well and exercising regularly, sometimes weight loss seems impossible. Rest assured there are often underlying hormone issues that...
Iron Avidity
Iron avidity is a state where the body is desperately trying to capture and use iron, but circulating iron is unavailable, even though iron may be present somewhere in the system or has recently been given. It’s best thought of as functional iron starvation....
Dysmetabolic Iron Overload Syndrome (DIOS)
Dysmetabolic Iron Overload Syndrome (DIOS) is treated very differently from genetic hemochromatosis. The goal is fix the metabolic problem, not aggressively “bleed out” iron. Here’s the evidence-based, clinically practical approach. What DIOS actually is DIOS is...
Healthy Aging, Oral Bugs & Nitric Oxide – Why It Matters to N¹O¹ Users
A new study titled “Ageing modifies the oral microbiome, nitric oxide bioavailability and vascular responses to dietary nitrate supplementation” by Anni Vanhatalo et al. (2025) reveals how older adults (67–79 years) respond differently to nitrate-rich beetroot juice...
The Cholesterol Hypothesis, or Myth?
The idea that cholesterol is the primary cause of heart disease has come under increasing scrutiny in recent years. While high cholesterol levels, particularly LDL, have long been labeled a major risk factor, a growing body of research suggests that this relationship...
It’s Not Just a Dream: The Science and Psychology of Dreams
Dreams have long fascinated humanity, provoking curiosity, awe, and sometimes fear. Across history, cultures have attempted to understand and interpret dreams, attributing them to omens, divine messages, or strange byproducts of the mind. While the cultural...
Food Combination Diets, Magic or Myth?
A Food Combination Diet The basic idea of a food combination diet is that certain foods do not digest optimally if eaten together, while others mix well. It's true, some foods require a more acidic environment and take longer to digest, while others need less acid...
Wine Tasting Training Guide
Learning Wine Through Chemistry (Not Guesswork) Core principle You are not tasting “wine.”You are detecting small families of molecules interacting with your sensory memory. This guide trains recognition in layers, the same way the brain actually learns smells. Wine...
Classic Wine Grapes & the Chemistry Behind Their Aromas
A practical guide to why wines smell the way they do Wine aromas are not poetic accidents. They are produced by specific chemical compounds that come from the grape itself, fermentation, and aging. Different grape varieties tend to emphasize different compounds, which...
Perioral (Peri-Oral) Facial Dermatitis
A patient guide to understanding, treating, and preventing flares What is perioral dermatitis? Perioral dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin condition that causes small red bumps, irritation, and sometimes burning or tightness around the mouth. Despite the name,...
Ozonated Glycerin Protocols
Ozonated glycerin is glycerin (glycerol) that has been infused with ozone (O₃ gas) through a controlled bubbling process. The ozone reacts with the fatty alcohol structure of glycerin to form more stable ozonides and peroxides. Nebulization: Begin with a 5%...
Natural & Nutritional Approaches for H Pylori
Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is a spiral-shaped bacterium that lives in the stomach lining and is one of the most common chronic infections worldwide. It can survive stomach acid by producing enzymes that protect it, and over time it may cause inflammation of the...
Fibromyalgia No Longer a Mystery
Imagine being so tired that you can’t function. I’m not talking about being pooped at the end of a long day at work or exhausted after a big hike. I mean the kind of tired that prevents working a normal job or the kind of tired that only allows doing a few hours of...
Desiccated Thyroid Hormone, A Practical Guide for Patients & Clinicians
What is desiccated thyroid? Desiccated thyroid hormone (also called Natural Desiccated Thyroid, NDT or DTE) is derived from porcine (pig) thyroid gland and provides a full spectrum of thyroid hormones, not just T4. Each standard “grain” (~60–65 mg) contains...
Oncotrace CTC Markers and Treatment Mapping
Taken together, these markers form a biologic fingerprint of tumor behavior rather than a simple diagnostic label. They describe how a cancer grows, how it feeds itself, how it communicates, how it evades immune surveillance, and how likely it is to spread or return....
Drug Resistance and Cancer Treatment
Multidrug Resistance Multidrug Resistance (MDR) refers to the ability of cancer cells to resist multiple chemotherapy drugs. This resistance is often caused by mutations or overexpression of genes such as ABCB1 (P-glycoprotein, also called MDR1), ABCC1 (MRP1), and...
N1O1 and The Miracle of Nitric Oxide
Nitric oxide (NO) is truly a miraculous compound that you need to know about since it plays a huge role in human health. I routinely recommend a product that increases NO, called N1O1 for help with blood pressure, artery health, and healthy aging in general - read on...
The main collagen types (what they do & where they live)
Collagen is a protein, which made up of strings of amino acids called peptides. It’s the body’s main structural rope - triple-helix fibers that give tissues tensile strength and a scaffold to build on. There are many types (I, II, III, etc.). Cartilage is a tissue....
Tumor Markers, Oncotrace
In cancer biology, certain tumor cells behave much like stem cells - they can self-renew, resist therapy, and drive relapse or metastasis. These so-called circulating tumor cells (CTCs) or cancer stem cells (CSCs) are identified not by classic serum tumor markers...
Fenbendazole Resources Cancer
Fenbendazole Dosing Oct.3, 2023 - FENBENDAZOLE and CANCER - at least 12 Anti-Cancer mechanisms of action. Not approved by FDA. Cheap. Safe. Kills aggressive cancers. Why no Clinical Trials? Nine research papers reviewed. Recent Studies (2024 Apr, Rodrigues et al) -...
Ivermectin Resources Cancer
Ivermectin Dosing for Cancer Treatment June 10, 2024 - "15 minutes with Dr.Makis" - Episode 018: High Dose IVERMECTIN and CANCER 2024 - NEW STUDIES 2024 Baghli et al - Targeting the Mitochondrial-Stem Cell Connection in Cancer Treatment: A Hybrid Orthomolecular...
Exploring the Parallel Universe of Functional Medicine
There are two worlds of medicine today, the conventional disease-centered model and the patient-centered model that treats each person as a unique entity with diverse systems of genetic, biologic, social and environmental inputs. As a board certified, teaching...
Healthy Skin Inside and Out
Skin is the largest organ in the body and has considerable influence on our well being both from a medical as well as psychological standpoint. The good news is that it is now well within reach of anyone to improve the health and appearance of their skin. A...
Turn Back the Hands of Time with Fractional Laser
We can’t slow time, but we can turn back the hands a little with laser skin therapy. Take years off your skin age, reduce sun damage, smooth wrinkles and fine lines, and tighten and tone sagging lax skin. The latest generation of lasers for skin therapy is bringing...
A Joyful Heart is Good Medicine
How delightful to learn that laughter really is the best medicine and will perhaps add as many good years to your life as other familiar health tips. Could it be so simple that a positive attitude reduces heart disease and stress-related hormones, improves the immune...
Adventure Medical Kits
What if your routine cross-country ski jaunt turned emergent and you were stranded - would you be able to spend a night out in the mountains? Or how about an incapacitating sprained ankle or illness during the backpacking trip – how would you deal with that? Having...
Enkiri-Enmusubi, Changing Bad to Good
"Enkiri-enmusubi" (縁切り縁結び) refers to the Japanese cultural concept of cutting off bad ties or connections (enkiri) and forming or strengthening good ones (enmusubi). This practice is often associated with specific shrines in Japan where people seek divine intervention...
Regenerative Injections
We offer a variety of injection therapies designed to support the body’s natural healing processes. Many patients with arthritis or soft tissue injuries have reported reductions in pain and improvements in mobility following these treatments. Injection therapies may...
Kaizen, Change for the Better
The term "Kaizen" (改善) is a Japanese term meaning "change for the better". It embodies the philosophy of continuous, incremental improvement, focusing on making small, ongoing changes to processes to enhance efficiency, quality, and productivity. This can apply to...
Adrenal Anti-Aging Powerhouses
Would you like to increase muscle mass, lose weight, build stronger bones, lower your risk for heart disease and diabetes, improve your immune system and preserve memory? Two adrenal hormones are able to do all of this, but with normal aging the production of these...
How To Choose a Supplement: Part 3, Picking the Right Product
Picking the Right Product Now we are down to picking a specific product. In this series we reviewed how to check labels for reputable products, what mineral forms to avoid, and a few general points about the type of vitamin ingredients. We also focused on the role...
How to Choose a Supplement: Part 2, Control of Oxidation and Inflammation
Control of Oxidation Because we live on planet earth we oxidize. Much like a piece of rusting metal the process of oxidation slowly damages our DNA and cellular functions. Oxidation is arguably the driving force behind the degenerative diseases of aging including...
How to Choose a Supplement: Part 1, Do We Need Supplements?
Do we need Supplements? On June 19, 2002, the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) contained a scientific review article titled "Vitamins for Chronic Disease Prevention in Adults", which addressed the debate regarding the use of vitamin supplements and...
The Miracle of Medicinal Mushrooms
The humble fungi, with its visible fruit called the mushroom, holds some of nature’s most potent weapons. Used by the plant to protect it from invaders these natural compounds have been used for thousands of years to help fight cancer, boost the immune system, support...
Go Organic by Avoiding the Dirty Dozen
The “USDA Organic” label is familiar to most shoppers, yet there is confusion about the definition of organic. And while many people purchase organic foods, others feel they can’t afford it. Still others think it doesn’t matter and is not worth the extra cost. While I...
Keys to Great Health
"Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick." —Hippocrates Health, like so many things, does not rely on a secret key that suddenly unlocks the pathway to success. We can’t have instant success, instant loyalty or trust,...
The Hidden Epidemic of Celiac Disease
What disease can destroy the lining of the gut without you even knowing? What disease is present in about 1 in 133 people, yet only diagnosed in about 3% of those who have it? Celiac disease… What is Celiac Disease? Wheat and other grains are made up mostly of...
Control Your Genetic Destiny with Epigenetics
Blame it on our genes — the blueprint for life that we inherit without having any say in the matter. We have been led to believe that you can’t change your genes, and thus we are destined to inherit certain traits. It turns out this is not entirely true. We can’t...
Staying in Balance & Avoiding Burnout
Burnout is a special kind of stress, best defined as being exhausted and just losing interest in what you do. The physical and mental effects may lead to cynicism, depression, and fatigue that can affect one’s health and happiness, as well as relationships and job...