Dr. Taylor Krick

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Dr. Taylor Krick

Dr. Taylor Krick, owner of Washington Wellness Center, practices Functional Medicine, which takes a root cause approach to any health concern.

Helping People Get Healthy. Functional Medicine Practitioner, Chiropractic Physician, host of The Autoimmune Doc Podcast

11/25/2025

Everybody’s brain is aging, but how do you know if it’s aging too fast?? Here are 3 early warning signs:
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Fatigue - the brain is LOADED with mitochondria, and when those mitochondria become impaired, we can’t produce energy as well as we used to, which leads to a brain that fatigues more rapidly or is more easily “triggered” by trivial stimuli, like lights, motion, or concentrating on something like reading.
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Depression - when the mitochondria and the brain’s energy production is impaired, the frequency of neuronal firing is impaired, and this can lead to symptoms like depression.
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Gut Changes - especially constipation - the signals are slower from the brain. A lot of the brains energy goes out to regulate digestive function, and vice versa, a lot of gut inflammation will lead to brain inflammation.

Do you struggle with any of these warning signs?

11/24/2025

You get these three things figured out and my guess is you will be feeling pretty good!

If you want help figuring out your health puzzle, I'm here to help! More info in my bio on appointment types.

11/22/2025

Neuroinflammation is all about microglial cells.
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Glia means glue in Greek because these cells help “glue” the brain together. Your brain has some 85-100 billion neurons, but glial cells outnumber neurons 10 to 1. When you experience an
“insult” to the brain - a concussion, a toxin, a virus, microglia can become “activated”, and lead to an inflammatory cascade that can continue long after.
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When microglia get activated, it can also lead to neurotransmitter imbalances, neuroexcitation and glutamate, oxidative stress, which can lead to mood changes and mood disorders, amongst other brain issues.
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Worst of all, glia have a memory, and once they have been activated, they are easily activated again.
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Think of this like a friend with a grudge, they might seem ok on the surface, but with the right triggers you may find they have not forgotten. That’s why the second head trauma is worse than the first, and so on…

11/21/2025

I see the things on this slide from show up clinically ALL THE TIME, and I use this graphic to show people what *could be* happening.
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Basically it’s showing that different things can raise IL-6, which is an inflammatory cytokine, including exercise, blood sugar drops, or inflammation/oxidative stress (many many causes), but this increased IL-6 activates the sympathetic nervous system, or “fight-or-flight”. This leads to increased adrenaline (epinephrine) and stress chemistry, which leads to more inflammation, and the cycle continues or gets worse.
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Listen to my podcast episode 63 to learn more about stress chemistry and what you can do to try to decrease it!

11/20/2025

💡In this video, I share the story of one of my clients—a woman with multiple autoimmune diagnoses including Sjögren’s, scleroderma, and primary biliary cholangitis-who has seen incredible progress through functional medicine.

💡When she first came to the clinic, she was struggling with severe stiffness, fatigue, brain fog, and inflammation. She’d been through the conventional medical system, had a rheumatologist, was on several medications, and still wasn’t feeling well.

💡A year later, at 70 years old, she’s feeling better than she has in decades. Her brain fog and stiffness are gone, she’s off multiple medications, her energy is up, her weight is down, and she’s genuinely thriving.

💡This video walks through what her journey looked like— from the initial evaluation and lab testing to the long-term strategies that helped her body heal from the inside out.

💡I try to explain how my clinic helps patients “chip away” at the layers of dysfunction, using data, strategy, and education to restore balance to the body.

🗣️🗣️🗣️There’s no one-size-fits-all protocol-just real people doing real work to feel better and get their lives back.

💡Comment “JOURNEY” and I’ll send a link to this exact YouTube video right to your inbox 📥

11/19/2025

Candida is.a yeast in the gut. It's often commensal, or "friendly" - all of us likely have some of it in our bodies, but with the right fuel and the right conditions, Candida can become overgrown, "pathogenic" and cause a lot of problems. There is a whole lot of science that can be learned about Candida and other fungal things, and it's one of the most common things I find on lab testing, and I've found that it can drive a lot of issues, including autoimmunity and many of the underlying mechanisms associated with autoimmune conditions - leaky gut and permeability, Th2/Th17 codominance, inflammation, histamine, and the associated symptoms like brain fog, fatigue, anxiety, gut issues, thyroid issues, etc. More importantly, by addressing yeast and other fungal issues clinically, I see people improve, often drastically. So - - how do you find it?

There are a lot of ways to detect Candida on lab testing, and it kind of depends on what you are looking for......

Are you measuring Organic Acids that are often produced by Candida and other yeasts? This is actually my personal favorite.... #3 (Oxoglutaric) and #7 (Arabinose) on Mosaic's OAT test are yeast markers, and there are others on that test as well!

Or, are you looking for Candida in the gut using a stool sample? I like GI Map the best, but there are other methodologies that can detect it differently....

Or - are you measuring immune reactivity? If so, is it IgG, IgE, IgM, or IgA?

Is that in the blood, or is it in the saliva to measure the mucosal response (secretory IgA)?

The point is - sometimes you have to look in a different way or in a different place to find what is driving your symptoms. The best test is the one that shows us the right levers we need to pull! It takes YEARS to learn the science and the art of lab testing and to learn from experience, trust me, I know - but DO YOU (or your practitioner!) know which tests to run, what they are showing you, how to interpret the results, how to address them, and what that means to YOU and YOUR health puzzle?

11/18/2025

🧠9 THINGS YOUR HEALTHY BRAIN NEEDS:

1-Appropriate Neurotransmitter
2-Abundant Oxygen
3-Steady Fuel Source
4-Adequate Methylation
5-Proper Lipid Morphology
6-Healthy Stimulation
7-Hormone Balance
8-Gut/Brain Connection
9-Sunlight/Healthy Circadian Rhythms

11/16/2025

Amino acids are the building blocks of proteins. They are in your foods and make up every tissue of your body, but individual amino acids are also very popular as supplements.
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These are some Popular Amino Acid Supplements and What They Are Used For:

💡Arginine - dilate blood vessels and increase blood flow

💡Taurine - thin sludgy bile from the gallbladder

💡Carnitine - improve mitochondrial fat oxidation

💡Cysteine - boost glutathione and support detox

💡Tyrosine - boost dopamine for focus, mood

💡Tryptophan (5HTP) - boost serotonin and melatonin

💡Glycine - support conjugation and detoxification

Have you taken any amino acid supplements? What’s your experience?
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Comment below!

11/15/2025

I love these graphics that are presented in the literature (this one is remade from Vodjani, et al.) that show exactly how it works - foods and other exposome factors contribute to autoimmunity, and (one of) the solutions(s) is to avoid toxins and food antigens as best as you can.
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All the science is in the papers to support and explain them in great detail, but good graphics make it so simple for anyone to understand how environmental triggers (largely foods in this graphic) can lead to loss of tolerance, immune reactivity, and autoimmune disease.
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Tag someone who needs to see this graphic!

11/14/2025

I see a lot of elevated oxalates on lab testing, and oxalates are very relevant to mold/mast cell issues that so many people struggle with.
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Oxalates are crystals that can cause all sorts of issues - general muscle and joint pain, stiffness, fibromyalgia symptoms, kidney stones, mast cell activation/histamine intolerance, they are even associated with autism. Oxalates can really be problematic for people and lowering oxalate levels can sometimes be a game-changer!
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Oxalates come from foods like spinach, nuts, soy and berries. Levels can be higher if you have insufficient bile flow (a lot of us), and oxalates can affect the absorption of many minerals, especially calcium. Besides being present in many foods, oxalates can also come from fungal overgrowth, including Candida, Penicillium, and Aspergillus.
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Often it’s some combination of anti-fungal therapy, gut healing and microbiome support, and dietary restriction that can get someone’s oxalate levels down and reduce their symptoms, but it all starts with good labs to know exactly what you are aiming at!

11/13/2025

Glutathione is necessary for cellular detox, and toxins like metals, mycotoxins and pesticides deplete your glutathione. The longer and more you are exposed, the more your glutathione gets used up. When it’s depleted it’s all downhill from there, your immune system will react to more insults (allergens, foods, chemicals - you lose tolerance to your environment), and it can allow iNOS to turn on tissue-damaging autoimmune inflammation.
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You can take pill or liposomal glutathione, you can support glutathione precursors like NAC, you can support glutathione recycling. I definitely have my favorites. There are also labs that can be helpful. Work with someone who understands glutathione!
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Dr. Kharrazian is a global leader in functional medicine and autoimmunity. Although I have taken several HUNDRED hours of his courses, this is from one of my first lectures and it’s maybe the most important foundational gem of them all!

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