Dr. Eric Dorninger

Dr. Dorninger practises in Boulder, Colorado at Roots and Branches Integrative Health Care, the clinic he founded in 2005. The work there is diagnostic before it is anything else: patients arrive with concerns nobody has resolved, and the practice is built on finding the underlying cause rather than managing what is visible.

He came to it by an unusual route. A kinesiology degree from the University of Colorado Boulder in 1997, then EMT training and emergency work, volunteering at Porter Care Hospice in Denver and serving on the Cranford First Aid Squad in New Jersey, before a naturopathic doctorate and a master's in acupuncture from Bastyr University in 2003, and a two-year residency in naturopathic primary care back in Boulder.

At Blue Sky, he serves as Director of Research and Development, overseeing the science behind every formula. His work with patients navigating CIRS, along with his involvement with the CIRSx Foundation, has made evidence, precision, and careful interpretation of research central to that work. What is written here about cannabinoids, what they have been studied for, and where the evidence begins and ends comes from the same person responsible for deciding what goes into the bottle, and from someone accustomed to working with patients who have learned to question claims that do not hold up under scrutiny.