https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news.atomTustin Longevity Center - News2024-03-28T12:21:42-07:00Tustin Longevity Centerhttps://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-march-26-20242024-03-28T12:21:42-07:002024-03-28T12:21:43-07:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, March 26, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“I've been on Iodoral, which is an iodine tablet, the salt iodine, 12.5 mg. for 9 months and feel that it is beneficial. A recent 24-hour urine cortisol test shows it continues to rise and is now at 197.7. Do you think the iodine could be the cause of the increase of cortisol? I suspect increased activity levels & stress on my body. What do I say to my endocrinologist when I see him? He advised me not to take iodine.” [0:02:36]
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I have never seen Iodine raise cortisol levels. I'm a general practitioner. I've been practicing this and using iodine for about 43 years. And in general, I would say that about 97 percent of all my patients are iodine deficient. We do a 24-hour urine iodine test where we ask you to take 50 milligrams and then we collect 24-hour urine. And then what we do is look at how much iodine you secrete in your urine in that 24 hours. And what I found is about 97 percent of Americans are deficient because iodine has been removed from the daily diet. Our breads used to have iodinated bread. Iodine salt used to be the only mainstay salt. Now, you have to look for iodine on your salt purchases to make sure you're getting iodine. Iodine is therefore deficient and associated with so many metabolic issues in our body.
Deficiency is significant if it's low.
So, what I would say is I'm not familiar with this 24-hour urine cortisol test that is 1 97. 7, and I would have to see that report. So, I would see your doctor and have them do an iodine test on you. If you're a patient here, we use the iodine tests through Doctor's Data, and in general, we're looking for a person who is sufficient in their iodine, would normally excrete about 90 percent of the iodine that they would take in on that challenge dose of 50 mg. If we see anything less than 90 percent in the urine, then we're saying your body is holding on to it and has a need for it. So, I don't think that it's related to the cortisol rise, and I would ask you to get a copy, send it to me so I could take a look at that, and/or if you're our patient or see your physician, and we'll look at the iodine testing here. We would want to, of course, know your whole background, your other, medical concerns, your age, your body composition, your medical history, and all these kinds of things all play into your general metabolism. And so, that's how I would recommend we go there.
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“Can you explain the benefits of EDTA Chelation Enhanced IV and the difference between piggyback and Chelation Enhanced? Should I be getting the piggyback if I'm trying to rid my body of heavy metals? Thank you.” [0:06:10]
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It is the exact same thing. The dose that is in the enhanced chelation as a single bag is the way we've been doing it for many, many years/decades. And the other is we're using an IV, let's say it's a vitamin C or an immune drip, and then we add in a little tiny bag the same calcium disodium EDTA chelation therapy next to it. So, the total dose and the effect of this is identical. So, they're basically the same thing.
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“What are your thoughts on the recent study suggesting that intermittent fasting may increase your risk of cardiovascular death? “8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91 percent higher risk of cardiovascular death.” [0:07:08]
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I personally think that this is science warfare. And what do I mean by that? I looked at the study. It's an abstract paper hosted at the American Heart Association Chicago meeting that was recently held, and I could post a poster of my findings here in the medical clinic. And this poster is an epidemiological study, I think, about 14,000 people from 2003 up to, I think, 2018. They were followed over eight years, they were given diet questionnaires and emailed. And basically, this is the lowest form of science next to an anecdotal clinical paper of a case presentation, it asks a question “What have you eaten? When do you eat it?” through emails or forms you fill out. And this is an epidemiological study. It was conducted by the Chinese and Harvard members, who put this report out as an abstract poster at their meeting. It was not peer-reviewed. It is just a poster. And when you're looking at the American Heart Association, which has for years been off and wrong about the cholesterol issue and finally had a silent retraction put in their paper and recommendations as of 2015, the name study omitted the fact that saturated fat is detrimental to your diet for heart disease, and the fact that the food industries have such embedded connection, even to the point where food industries would not benefit if you start telling your patients to eat less, to time restrict your eating. So, there's a financial interest in finding anyone who will publish anything that would associate.
Remember, this isn't science. It's an association, like saying every time there is an eclipse across the United States, people think the world is going to end, and that's an association that you'll see a lot of news articles about, worries about the world coming to an end. Well, the association here is as loosely tied, and what I think is cherry-picking science based on an eating questionnaire. And people really didn't do intermittent fasting back in 2003, although we here at Tuscan Longevity have, so I can happily report to you that the vast amount of science relates to the fact that Americans eat too much. We have an epidemic of obesity and cardiovascular disease, diabetes even now in children. Pediatric diabetes used to be something very foreign to a pediatrician. Now, it's very common. So, obesity, diabetes, eating processed foods. And speaking of processed foods, you could Google Tufts University on diet recommendations, and they'll put out recommendations that cereals, even Lucky Charms, are more nutrient-beneficial than, let's say eggs. I believe I've seen that on the list. It might have been meat, but I think it was eggs. And you can see that you can buy science and you can buy these outlandish statements. And then If you have influence in the media, you can get it published, and this throws a wrench and questioning into the system, where you have to have as grounded physicians who have been practicing for decades and decades.
And with that, then you find my patients are probably some of the longest-lived, according to the review that was done on our clinic with internal medicine family practice doctors who practice Medicare. They were looking for those clinics that had the longest-lived and least Medicare dollars used for chronic medical problems, and I was found to be in this clinic the healthiest, longest-lived people. And we've been practicing and recommending a low-carb diet indeed since 2003 because we opened up in 2002. So, I can tell you very much that we have the hard data of clinical outcomes and longevity, reduced weight, reduced blood pressure, reduced diabetes, reduced medication requirements, increased exercise performance, and all these things. And then there are lots of studies that talk about the actual clinical data tracked and published and peer-reviewed in journals regarding reduction in insulin sensitivity, reduction in hyperglycemia, blood sugar levels, reduction in body mass, and reduction in cardiovascular indicators, such as hs-CRP homocysteine.
So, all in all, that paper that was published, is a Chinese study that has some Harvard reviewed for an epidemiological abstract put up at an American Heart Association meeting in Chicago recently that is being pumped out as a scientific warfare, you might say, with, I believe, this is my opinion, the dollar interest of the food industry to get us away from eating healthy meats, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and organic vegetables, and instead using processed foods that they make money on. Plus, when you get the diabetes, the obesity, the heart disease, the dementia from it, because they say, Alzheimer's is really type three diabetes of the brain and blood vessel damage in the brain, they make money at the other end as physicians, drugging this through the pharmaceuticals. So, I think this is scientific warfare in my humble opinion. So, I disregard that paper. I looked at it, and epidemiological studies are the lowest value.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. How can I reverse the start of gluten intolerance and an auto disease?” [0:14:52]
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Well, many people who do not have celiac disease with the TGT transglutamine identifiers in the lab that we use to identify glutens and gluten gliadin antibodies. If you don't have those genetic problems, then you're probably eating foods and grains, and these grains have been glyphosated, and genetically modified, and that has created irritation along the lining of the cell membrane. This is a picture of the cell membrane and that's a picture of it there with it poked out with some damage. And so, if you eat some food with a food allergen, like a gluten lectin, or some other lectin, then you'll see an injury, and then things will leak through into your body and not stay in the tube of your gut. That will create gas and bloating, inflammation, and it'll create an autoimmune response if it's continuous. And so, these marketed hydrogenated, glyphosated, genetically modified foods, processed, packaged foods are inflaming your gut membrane there, as you see right here. And to heal it, you have to eat the proteins, the fats, the phospholipids that are available in the grass-fed area because even if you ate beef that is grass-fed and then pumped up for two to three weeks with grains, you can start getting some of that grain material reacting in your body.
So, a carnivore diet is probably the most immediate, complete elimination diet you could do, where you just eat a carnivore diet. And do that over three months, have your doctor check your gluten, and celiac disease screening and look for autoimmune markers, and you'll see that you feel better and that you have less gas and bloating. But the number one way is a carnivore diet for about three months. That's how I would approach that.
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“My husband is 42 and 6’4”, 185 lbs. There are bubbles when he urinates sometimes. Wondering if it's because he is tall or if there may be an issue. Thoughts?” [0:17:42]
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Well, usually that's associated with the question about some protein in the urine. I think it's more common than not common. All he has to do is go to his doctor and have a urine dipstick. He gets a clean catch urine, and they put a little stick in there that assesses for glucose in the blood, protein, and things like that, and get a urinalysis done. But really if he's drinking plenty of water, if he's 185 pounds, he should be drinking about 96 ounces. So that would be 16-ounce bottles of water. Don't do the urine testing right after a workout. Do it after a night of rest drink your water and then get a urine sample, but I don't think it's anything to worry about.
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“What is something to put on the skin for mosquito bites on kids? Thank you.” [0:18:56]
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I've always used natural progesterone cream. Remember, babies are born into a progesterone-rich woman, and she has tons of progesterone in her, and the little boy babies and the little girl babies are just floating in a high amount of progesterone. Progesterone is very, very safe. So I usually rub progesterone on these areas, and I have found it to be very good. So, that's my choice. We have an over-the-counter progesterone cream here called Balance progesterone cream. Its trade name is Kokoro cream. I've used it for about 30, maybe 35 years. It's very good, very safe. That's how I deal with it.
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“What is your recommendation for cluster headaches? My husband is two weeks into an episode, and they usually last eight weeks long.” [0:19:57]
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Again, we believe that the vasculature lining, the blood vessels on the brain meninges, so your brain is encapsulated in a wrap of fibrous material and the blood vessels are there, and when they dilate, it creates irritation, cytokines are being triggered to dilate that. And where do the cytokines come from? They usually come from a diet that is American standard injured, processed, hydrogenated, glyphosated, genetically modified foods that are high in starchy, sticky carbs that make the blood flow in a more sludgy, sticky manner with lots of reactive cytokine molecules. You can't see this here, but when you see this little damage here, you'll see little tiny particles in there. And when these particles are broken through in the damage of a membrane, they get picked up in the lymph and blood flow, and they send out signals of distress that the membrane has been injured and that starts a healing response, and an inflammatory response is a healing response. And when it gets out of hand, then you get general blood vessel rashes and migraines and all manner of autoimmune phenomena.
So, what would I do? I would put them on a two-day fast. Absolutely no food, as long as he doesn't have any chronic medical problems, insulin, or diabetes. But if he's a generally healthy man, then I would ask him to have a water fast. He could take his multimineral. He could take his B vitamins. He could take all his vitamins and be on a water fast during a time when he could have two days to just be less active and not do any heavy workouts and stuff. And that should immediately break the ramping up of the inflammation and start bringing it down. I would give him systemic enzymes. These are natural God-made systemic enzymes to be like little Pac-Man that go along and eat up these little damaged cell membranes here and just get rid of this injury spot, and then those little pieces go away and are reassigned and reincorporated in healthy tissue because we're always trying to repair.
So, a two-day fast for any kind of serious migraine, cluster headache, or anything like that. I used to have them until I learned this about 35-40 years ago. And so, I've never had any of my migraines since then. So, that's how I would do it. And then I would eat a diet, maybe a carnivore diet, like I told you in the other position there, be on a carnivore diet for three months. Just clean up your whole body. Remember, we're made of protein and fat. These are little protein blobs here and little phospholipids dangling down from both ends like that, and that comes from eating meat and egg yolks and fish and chicken and turkey and beef, all those kinds of things. So, you get your body all rejuvenated. Then you can incorporate back in a healthy diet of vegetables, simple salads, olive oil, and vinegar dressings, and then you start to live like that. And then when you do have a pizza more rarely or you do have a treat more rarely, then you've really got a healthier body to deal with that and you're restricting treats to a much more controlled scenario.
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“Would you please provide an update on Drs. Nutrition Bars? Are they almost ready to ship?” [0:24:09]
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Unfortunately, I didn't have enough money to be able to do it. I was $30,000 short, and I just couldn't get it to work. So, it was sad and I was unable to do it. So, wonderful thing that they are, but, you know, the costs and the shipping and the disruption of that lockdown just really wreaked havoc on us. So, I don't see how I can get it back up and running again. I'm so sorry.
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“For an elimination diet, which includes all the items that were on my immune blood test, how long do you recommend going off the foods on the list? Thank you.” [0:24:55
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If you follow the Immunofood, it comes out in red a list of all the foods that you had antibodies that you are reacting to that are leaking through this hole in the lining of your gut. And so, these foods are consumed often enough usually that it's leaking through and you made the antibodies to them. So, we recommend three months of avoiding those foods. Now, once again, I suggest to people, if you want a really powerful healing, just do a carnivore diet for three months, and that'll get rid of everything, and then you can start controlling what you bring back into your diet and keep it natural, normal foods, not anything processed.
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“I recently started using the Libre 3 CGM to see how my body reacts to different foods I eat. It wakes me up because my sugar levels drop as low as 53. Is this possible without feeling bad? I already struggle with getting enough sleep as it is. Please advise if you've ever heard of this happening before.” [0:26:04]
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Let me put it this way. My natural fasting blood sugar has been 52 to 62, and my triglycerides 27 to 40. And so, I operate in a very low-carb, largely carnivore type of lifestyle. And I can work out. In fact, I'm always in my workout clothes now for these videos on Tuesday evenings because after work and after this video, I work out at the gym, heavy lifting weights for about an hour. Tuesdays are one of my evenings to do this. And I'm saying that that is not a low blood sugar. That's artificially being told to be low because most Americans eat too many carbs, starches, fruit sugars, nuts and seeds, and God forbid, sugar drinks and candies and cakes and ice cream and so forth. So, what then happens is they're calling normal blood sugars anywhere from 75 to 115, and that's wrong. That is what's killing America. That's totally abnormal. Our range really should be between roughly 55 and 85. And that's what I talk all my patients into doing, is trying to pull back on that, so their fasting blood sugars are never over 85.
So, given that being said, are there foods that you eat that can create cortisol stress? Cortisol should be associated with raising your blood sugar, with gluconeogenesis, as opposed to dropping it. You know what I would need to know about someone like you if you saw your doctor or your functional doctor, is to find out your blood type and what other factors about you. Are you having a normal insulin? Is your insulin low? What is your hemoglobin A1c, your triglyceride levels, your fasting blood sugar? You're saying can…well, that's not a fasting blood sugar. So, there are so many other things that could be going on. Normally, a food reaction will create cortisol stress. Cortisol stress should stimulate and allow epinephrine to mobilize glucose for a fight-or-flight response. So, you would have to be seen to figure out this whole picture as well. Hopefully, that was helpful to you with your blood type.
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“This may not be an appropriate online question. Who should my husband see at TLC now that his 2nd appointment with Dr. Johnson has to be reassigned? It's taken me 8 years to get my husband to agree to be seen & his follow-up lab appointment is due. A mature doctor is the only person he will seriously regard. Respectfully submitted.” [0:29:29]
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Oh, you want someone to do a follow-up with your husband. And we'd be very, very happy to do that. And if you would call the front office (714) 544-1521 and we all would be happy. I'd be happy to see your husband on follow-up.
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“I just noticed that TLC's Proven Bone Health has 60 mcg of vitamin K2 (menaquinone-7). I also take K-Force which has 180 mcg of the K2. I thought 180 mcg was the top dose for K2. Would taking both results be too much? Thank you.” [0:29:54]
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The answer is no. Absolutely not. We have been usually long deficient in vitamin K2. And so, we've been giving this out for decades now at these levels, and it's quite safe and beneficial.
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“I appreciate all that you do for us out of the goodness of your heart. You will be rewarded by the King of Kings one day. I struggle with my constipation and my magnesium is above normal without me even taking a supplement. I have tried many things to no avail. I suspect my gut biome. What are the best tests to check my gut biome?” [0:30:31]
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I would start with getting a complete digestive stool analysis from Doctor's Data in St. Charles - Illinois, where they will look at undigested food fibers, vegetables, and meat fibers. They'll look at various flora growths that are beneficial. Some are just neutral and then some are dysbiotic, which could be problematic. They look at inflammatory markers. They look for fungi, protozoa, viral contaminants, and infectious invasions, along with inflammation markers, white blood cells, and red blood cells. I mean, it's a very complete digestive analysis, and that's where I would start, a complete digestive stool analysis by Doctor's Data.
The next thing is to find out your blood type, what is your age, and where are your hormones, your thyroid hormones in particular, a red blood cell mineral. So, you could have a serum magnesium that's good, but the intracellular membrane, what gets into the cell and through these membranes might be problematic, and too much is in the serum because it might be leaking out through the cell, through these damaged holes from food reactivity. So, an Immunofood IgG study of your reactivity to your foods. And iodine level. 97 percent of most of my patients are iodine deficient, which is important in metabolism and peristalsis, along with minerals, hydration, and exercise activity.
So, all these things would be a part of what I would want to do or what your functional doctor should start looking at, and whether you need probiotics or not in that mix.
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“I have what seems like a wonderful cocoa powder sleep formula called “Beam”. One of the ingredients is apigenin in addition to melatonin, Reishi, magnesium, and theanine. Do you know about this supplement? Especially apigenin, as I've never heard of it before.” [0:33:25]
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Yes, I looked up Apigenin from last week, and I'm trying to recall what it said regarding it. I know it's an amino acid, but beyond that, I'm not recalling what apigenin is. I've gone through a very stressful weekend since I looked that up. My sister passed four days ago. So, it's been very, very stressful with work and her passing. So, that has not stuck in my brain since I looked it up, but I did look it up, and there's the question again, and I don't have your answer. So, forgive me. I do recall it seemed very benign and it was not of concern to me being in these products. So, I will look at that again. I'm going to write myself another note, apigenin. And so, I will have that looked at again when I have more of my wits about me.
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“When I get out of a hot shower or come in from a walk in cold weather, the tips of my hands are iridescent white and numb. What's bizarre about this is my hands have been bright red 100 percent of the time.” [0:35:13]
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That sounds like a form of tiny microvasculature reactivity vasculitis. I wonder whether you have received any of the mRNA injections or any recent inoculations you've had. I would want to know your blood type and your age. This is Raynaud’s phenomena syndrome, and it just describes exactly what you're talking about, where the fingers can get white looking, and then normally during the day, you'll see very red fingers. And so, the autonomic response of closure and response for heat conservation and for blood flow gets dysregulated and usually this is caused by unknown. We believe it's related to the leaky gut syndrome and other inflammatory triggers that are in our food system today, heavy metal toxicities.
We're very happy to announce that we have very good results with EDTA chelation to enhance the circulation, making sure that the lining of this vessel right here, this would be like a cell membrane inside a blood vessel, and if it's damaged with any of these little fragments and little tiny particles here, whether they be viruses or items that might be contaminants in an mRNA injection, these things, plus viral illnesses, heavy metal accumulation, not drinking enough water, not exercising, having weak cell membranes with lots of holes in them because you haven't been eating enough phospholipids and protein in your diet, your blood type, all these things would be impactfully helped by seeing a functional doctor and discussing them, and trying chelation therapy along with anti-inflammatory natural systemic enzymes and the like. So, hopefully, that will be helpful to you.
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“I am hearing that berberine is being promoted as a natural alternative to Ozempic for weight loss. What are your thoughts?” [0:38:02]
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Well, it's very old data. I've been using natural berberine for 35-40 years. Ozempic is really a patented biochemical structure that has the appearance of, I think it's Gila monster venom. If you look at the venom of a Gila monster and you do a biochemical PCR count of the structure of its DNA and recreate the molecule, that is what really Ozempic appears to be. And so, I wouldn't touch that with a 10-ft pole. The black box reading on the labels is concerning about thyroid cancers' long-term use, attaching to the GLP-1 receptors in the duodenum, creating gastroparesis and vomiting, and GI disruptions. So, the Gila monster toxin is a toxin that paralyzes/damages things. And so, I wouldn't use it. Berberine is a natural herb that is associated with helping metabolize blood sugars and getting an overall improvement.
However, I want to say, that supplements aren't the key. You can't say, oh, I'll take my berberine. I just had a chocolate candy bar, I'll take berberine tonight. It doesn't work that way. You have to live a healthy lifestyle. You have to bring a personal responsibility into your life and what goes into your mouth and brought into your body intimately. We are marketed too to consume, feel sorry for ourselves, and use food as a replacement for healthy lifestyles. And so, consuming breads, starch, crackers, pasta, sugar, ice cream, cake, whatever it is, crackers, potato chips, Cheetos, these are all things that are pushed at us and it harms us and it disrupts our sugar metabolism, and we lose our muscle mass with age and our engine to build up what we had been able to burn off before it is diminished. So, yes, berberine is a help, but weight training is a help. Drinking water is a help. Not eating late is a help. Not having treats and processed foods is a help. So, in that context, you have to put it all together and assume your health care personal responsibility as well.
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“Any thoughts on what is going on? The purple/red coloring is concerning to me. Tips of my fingers. No vaccinations, blood type O, 47 years old.” [0:41:31]
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Oh, well, that was your Raynaud’s question. So yeah, I think, I answered that for you. Your blood type is O, 47 years old. Well, that is typically when we start seeing it. Now, we are seeing younger people with all kinds of diseases because these younger people who are in their 30s, and 35, these kids have been raised on so much processed junk food, and the American Dietetic Association is influenced by science that's purchased by food interest to get a scientific article that will claim the problem is saturated fat, so eat grains and cereals. And so, the industry has a bias to purchase and finance and give grants to universities for these studies. So, it's all been corrupted and polluted with this bad science by scientists who are bought off. And people have consumed these processed foods.
The education of teaching biochemistry, analytical, physical, chemistry is being limited, and we don't have the knowledge base as well anymore to remember even what the only two essential fatty acids are, linoleic and alpha-linoleic acid. And linoleic acid is an omega-6 and you've got to have it as full in these membranes, but it's not adulterated, it hasn't been hydrogenated. So, the hydrogenation process damages linoleic acid, omega 6. That's why it's so terrible. But it doesn't mean omega-6 is terrible. It means the process of hydrogenating food to make it have a long storage life is horrible. You see, they won't explain the whole truth. They'll just say omega-6 is bad. So when I talk about how wonderful omega-6 is and how it's needed in every membrane to have the physiology, the fluidity along with the cholesterol molecule, to have a great functioning system, you have to understand, that the science is bought off. And so, these kids are, coming up with adult diseases, children with diabetes, obesity in levels, and now even cancers, that wouldn't have been seen, but they have metabolically been pelted.
And they have damaged membranes. So, they might have a 60-year-old body full of, in the sense that their membranes have holes poked in them. On my desk, I keep my little hole, my wiffle ball here with all these holes poked in it so that you can see that these poor kids are not, they're not constructed well. So, the wind blows and their house falls down.
Those of us who have been eating the fish and the chicken with the skin on it, roasted, not deep fried, that hydrogenates the fat, our pork, our eggs, our beef, prairie-raised eggs, and so forth, we have been constructed and we have greater endurance and our muscle mass lasts longer. So yeah, that makes sense. And always are so traditionally, as a class practicing 43 years, O as a class of blood type is so much more sensitive to grains, cereals, pie crust, pizza crust, all these baked goods, and the dairy, which is, again, homogenized and pasteurized. So, dairy is not dairy anymore. When you shake everything up out of it and fracture it and you heat it up and you explode all these little proteins into fragments, it's no longer really dairy anymore. It's what I call white fire water or white fire bricks of cheese, and it's hardest on the O's. It's hard on B's, AB's, and A's, but O's as a class seem to react the worst. And what will happen? You’ll get this inflammation. This inflammation will gradually build up over time. And in you, it looks like it's working on your vasculature. So, find a good functional doctor to start looking at your hsCRP sedimentation rate, your blood sugar levels, and food immune-allergy screen for wheat, and gluten, you may not be celiac, but you might be gluten-sensitive, that kind of thing.
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“So sorry about your sister. Is she the one who sometimes posts on these calls?” [0:46:25]
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No. No, that's Debbie. Debbie and I are the last two youngest sisters, and Debbie is well, and she takes all her vitamins, she eats a low-carb diet, she doesn't eat late, she exercises, she drinks her water, and she takes her digestive enzymes, she's an A-type blood, and she does beautifully. But, of course, my older sister is, you know, it's hard. Even Jesus said, you know, a prophet is not known in their own country and intimate circles. So, my advice has always been more difficult to be taken by my older, older siblings, and now they're all past. And what a wonderful person. And I don't know if I was the older sister if I would have listened to my baby sister who did all the nasty things I did when I was a kid. I was a jerk. I did a lot of wrong things. And thanks be to God for his mercy and grace that I found, my savior, and could read his word and have his Holy Spirit move in and help transform me into a new creature. So, I am fortunately not that young jerky teenager I was in the 1960’s. So, thank God for that.
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“Thank you. I just read your book “Detox Outside The Box,” and EDTA chelation therapy is what I may need.” [0:48:03]
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Yes. Amen. And again, thank you for your sorry for my sister's loss. A wonderful lady. She was 76 years old. And we used to split logs together on the farm and get the long cords all set up for the fireplace and the potbelly stove. We didn't have any brothers. So, Sandy was the older sister and I was the youngest sister, and we did kind of like the hard work, whereas Linda and Debbie, Debbie's still alive, she's the next oldest to me, they did more of the girly kind of cooking and cleaning things. Sandy and I were always helping Dad with construction and building and carve repairs and sawing up these logs he got. There was a big elm disease plague in the Chicagoland area, and there were thousands of elm trees sadly lost. And so, our farm, my dad got so many of these things, and we had to vroom, vroom, you know, saw them up. And I tell you, I couldn't get a date in high school for nothing because I was so buff, and it was just funny. I'm amazed my husband never came to date me and marry me. So, what can I say? Life is funny, isn't it? Life is hard. Life is beautiful. My sisters were beautiful. So, my beautiful sister, older sister Sandy, who is 6 years older than me, has passed on. I hope she's laughing in heaven right now because she loved him so much as her savior too, and recalls all those fun things we did for our mom and dad to try and make it nicer for my mom on the farm because it was a hard life.
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“Hi, Doctor, my 18-year-old son and I (50 years old) have floaters in our vision. Do you recommend anything that could help get rid of them? I also have yellow growths on the white parts of my eyeballs. Anything you suggest to get rid of them? Thank you and God bless you.” [0:50:00]
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The white part of your eye, we get these like allergy areas. Find out what your blood type is. And if you're O, or you could be B. I'm a B. B's have the most allergies. But O's and B's, B's more than O's, have these pterygiums that get here and make this little tiny scarring on the white part of our eyes. That's usually scraped off by an ophthalmologist. But taking a natural antihistamine that won't make you sleepy is helpful. That's called quercetin. Quercetin also helps fight viral illnesses. It's all I really used throughout all the COVID to protect me, even though I had people coming in all the time and frightened. So, wrongfully frightened by the news media and poor bad advice from the CDC, the NIAID, and the NIH. So, I just use quercetin, a natural antihistamine and antiviral, with my zinc.
For the floaters, it's just showing the age phenomena. See, you're composed of less good cell membranes than I am. So normally floaters show up, I would say, more towards your late 60s and 70s, 80s. And I had one once life is stressful as a doctor, and this was in my left eye here, and it was humongous. I just woke up one morning and it had a huge line kind of floating, wiggling, if I looked right or left, it would float and drag, and I immediately went on a 5-day fast. I personally went on a 5-day water fast and took my supplements with more systemic enzymes, and proteolytic Pac-Man enzymes, and it just chewed that thing up, and I would say, it got maybe 70 percent better immediately that week. And then over the months and years, it just kind of faded away.
And so, hydration, drinking tons of water. I only drink water and I have black coffee. Period. I might have occasional red wine if we're going out on a very special occasion. But in other words, I'm well hydrated, I'm always taking my systemic enzymes, I am exercising to get the hydraulic blood flow, and I don't make the proteins in my blood get sticky with sticky sugars and fruit sugars. I do EDTA chelation therapy so that my microcirculation is improved and I pull out toxic heavy metals. So, these are the things that I do, and your 18-year-old son and you should get a heavy metal test, look at inflammation, your blood vessel inflammation. Look at your blood sugar, your insulin levels, how much water you drink, how active are you, and how late at night are you eating. That kind of stuff. Do you have food allergies, which add the antigen antibody-protein complexes in your body? All of these things need to be addressed.
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“Hello, Dr. E! I recently listened to an “Empowering Midlife Wellness” podcast by Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith who spoke on the “O-shot” for improving both clitoral health and improving bladder control. Are you familiar with this and do you recommend it?” [0:53:35]
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I have never heard of it, so I'm going to have to write this down with my apigenin one. And this is called The “O-shot” for bladder control. And then her name is Dr. Susan Hardwick-Smith. Alright, I'll look that up and see what I can find out about it. Hopefully, I won't have any more big shocks in my life that'll kind of override my brain data.
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“Hi, is anyone in your office, or specifically Dr. Meric, using the DUTCH test with dried urine?” [0:54:35]
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Dr. Kaur does it as well. So, you could see Dr. Kaur.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, I'm 64 and I have osteoporosis. My lumbar spine T-score is a -4. 3. Z-score -2.4 and my hip findings T-score -2.9, z-score -1.2. And was prescribed Miacalcin one spray nasally once a day. Not sure if I should start it after reading the side effects. I’m currently taking DHEA, vitamin D, multi-minerals, on bioidentical hormones.” [0:54:52]
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That’s osteoporosis, anything beyond that -2.5. This is something that you have to talk through with your doctor, and see if you're exercising, doing resistance training, stomping, how hydrated, how inflamed you are, what your hormone blood levels are, what your vitamin D blood levels are, are you on vitamin K2, what kind of multi-minerals you're taking, what your diet is like. So, we need to put that all together, but I have seen many women over these 43 years with these various things with vitamin K2, vitamin D normally around 10,000 a day, checking liver enzymes to reassure you that's a safe dose, with all these things we're doing, and we see the bone density within two years getting better and better, significant improvements every two years. So, see your functional doctor.
I like hormone levels to be somewhere, like a progesterone level to be in the level of over 4. And certainly, if you want to build bone, I would try and get it to 8. And then your estradiol levels 60 to 120 range, and the vitamin D levels are right around 100 mcg per deciliter. Very low sed rate and hs-CRP for inflammation, making sure you're not inflamed. Well hydrated. The vitamin D dosing is usually 10,000 IU with a K2 of 180 to 200 mcg a day. There you go.
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“I had LASIK a year ago. I was told that now I have pinguecula that can turn into a pterygium. Probably from getting a sunburn on my eye, even though I wear sunglasses all the time. I was also told that surgery to remove this lesion may be necessary to stop the spread and save my eyesight. I'm 37. Is there any alternative that would help me?” [0:57:07]
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I'm not an ophthalmologist, I'm a general practitioner, and eye health is very, very important, your ophthalmologist is certainly going to give you the standard of care treatment and advise them. But if you see a good functional doctor, and if this is very early on, and we make sure that you're not inflamed, because micro-damage – remember, that little pterygium is on your eyes, something irritating the lining of your eye that's creating this reactive healing tissue that can grow over the course of your eye. And so, naturally antihistamines, anti-inflammatory lifestyles, food allergies, gut health, what your age, hormones, low blood sugars, EDTA chelation, all these things, even high dose vitamin C would be very helpful. And I use a drop of Argentyn silver in my eyes. Every night, I spray it up my nose. I brush my teeth with a charcoal and a silver paste as well as with a bamboo camel hair brush to be gentle. So, I'm doing this all the time to try and take care of everything. So, my suggestion to you would be to see a good functional doctor and work with your ophthalmologist. Remember, we come alongside the specialists, and we try to work preventatively to build your health and your ability to resist these things.
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“My 9-year-old grandson coughs a lot. He keeps coughing, especially in the morning. I can tell he is not sleeping well. An initial allergy test was done, but the allergist said it was environmental and allergy to dogs (which he doesn't have at home). What do you recommend?” [0:59:18]
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I would have him see a good functional doctor, and I would do the food allergies. He's probably eating something. He might be nibbling on something at night, snacks and stuff in his room, that maybe Mom and Dad don't know about. He might be drinking sugar drinks all the time instead of water. Find out his blood type for his reactivity. B positive blood type, and B negative also, are very allergic-prone. And you could give him natural antihistamines every night, and find out what the blood sugars are. We’re seeing diabetes and metabolic syndrome in even 9-year-olds. That produces a lot of mucin and material that will create all this phlegm. So, see a good functional doctor, and work along with his pediatrician and allergist. There are many natural things we could do. A squirt of Argentyn up his nose every night may be helpful. He might be looking at the screen a lot too at night under the covers, and we have to start realizing, that these lights are damaging, late at night staying up, hidden snacks staying up, sugar drinks, and even orange juice are not good. And so, his immune system may be down from the high sugars. All these things have to be looked at, and I would go from there.
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“Regarding linolenic acid, what oil would you recommend for everyday use? Right now I use an evening primrose oil that has organic flaxseeds, soy isoflavones, and flaxseeds.” [1:01:05]
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I don’t use any oil for every day. I cook with lard and butter, sometimes coconut oil. Period. That’s all I use. Now, I eat meat, grass-fed, and finished. I eat chicken free-range, prairie-raised, with the skin on it only roasted. I eat egg yolks prairie-raised with the yolks. I usually over easy or lightly scrambled so I’m not cooking that oil in the heat of the pan. So, I’m very aggressive about getting my healthy proteins and fats and for every day. I cook with lard and butter, sometimes coconut oil. Period. That’s all I use. Now, I eat meat, grass-fed, and finished. I eat chicken free-range, prairie-raised, with the skin on it only roasted. I eat egg yolks prairie-raised with the yolks. I usually over easy or lightly scrambled so I’m not cooking that oil in the heat of the pan. So, I’m very aggressive about getting my healthy proteins and fats and for all my cell membranes from the tip of my head to my toenails. So, I don’t get toenail fungus and I don’t get wrinkles as bad, that kind of stuff.
Question “Ghee.” [1:02:05]
Answer Ghee, yeah. Ghee is fine too. You’re right. That’s the butter that has been cured to get some of the milk proteins out.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-march-19-20242024-03-21T12:26:23-07:002024-03-21T12:26:23-07:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, March 19, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“Blessings, Dr. E! I heard Dr. McCullough share that “Disease X is coming”. While I am not afraid of it since I'm under your care, I am wondering if you have heard of it and if there's anything additionally/specifically that you recommend to keep our immune systems well for this new “bio lab item.” Thanks as always for sharing your wisdom!” [0:03:20]
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Well, thank you. That question is a very interesting question, that must be providence, because one of the things that just came out on the 11th of March, I believe last Monday, a week ago, was the FOIA request from, I believe it was children's health defense, Dr. Siri, not Esquire Siri, the lawyer, who has won many FDA cases. He requested the CDC to release the information they have accumulated on the myocarditis from the injection of the MRNA material from the Pfizer and Moderna, AstraZeneca, Johnson and Johnson injections. And what he got back, finally they responded after being forced to by a court requirement, was this Freedom of Information Act response, and it was 149 pages, and the 149 pages is what came through on March 11th. This was all 100 percent redacted, meaning there wasn't any single useful word or item on any single page. It was white sheets of paper from the Center for Disease Control.
Now, then you have to ask the question, what can we do to prepare ourselves that I would recommend to keep our immune system healthy? First is knowledge, and knowledge of truth. And what is truth? Well, I forget what the motto of Harvard University is – Veritas, Liberté, and Veritas. Anyway, there's the motto for Harvard University, and it has the word Veritas in the motto. But they just fired Dr. Kulldorff, a world-renowned epidemiologist. And the reason, I believe, that he was just fired, and it isn't in the news, is because he was one of the integral people who helped write up the Barrington report, which was what we physicians wrote as individuals asking for knowledge to have discourse and discuss questions, so that we could answer our patients, your type of a question, what do I recommend to protect ourselves from this disease X. And disease X is just a placeholder. It is unknown. It could be any indeterminate type of pandemic outbreak. So, any item that you're concerned about, maybe another variant of SARS, maybe a form of the hemorrhagic viruses, Ebola, Marburg's disease, monkeypox, various viral illnesses. It's unknown, and it's called disease X, a placeholder.
Therefore, we ask the question, if the Centers for Disease Control is part of the constitution of the United States established federal government, which is to serve us, they're our servants, and if the Freedom of Information Act requested information on the CDC about myocarditis as a result of these injectable mRNA exposures, and all we get is a hundred percent redaction, then when you say what do I recommend to keep our immune systems well from this bio lab item, I have to say, you have to start with demanding truth from your local and your state and your federal representatives and, write them a letter, email, call them up. You can find out. Their phone number is (202) 224-3121 for your state congressional rep., you know, federal congressman. And then the (202) 225-3121 is for your federal senator. You can go online and find what your state representatives and senators are and call them. You'll usually get a hold of their staff, and you can express what you think of situations like this hampering your healthcare providers and your ability to make decisions about your own healthcare and that for your family.
So, this is the biggest immune thing that you can do for yourself and your family, your community, your schools, for your children, your community, workplace, wherever you're at, is now start calling and letting them know what you think. If you approve of this kind of behavior from your representative government, then endorse it and let them know. But if you're not in favor of it, then you need to let them know your thoughts and opinions on that. I certainly have.
I have been for the past nearly four years, since January of 2020, when I started talking about the alleged COVID outbreak. I was pointing to this very same problem of getting information. And so, fortunately, I had been given knowledge by my father and wonderful doctors who lived and trained me, who were brought up in medicine in the early 1900s, and so my mentors practiced medicine without this degree of control. And I had learned about nutrition and oriental Eastern medicine long before there was any such thing called complementary or alternative medicine. Fortunately, we now know that vitamin D is very essential to have at levels well above 60 international units per deciliter. I like to keep everyone 80 to 120 and do chemistries to check their liver enzymes once or twice a year. I like everyone and have always told everyone that the sugar stops your immune system, and to be low carb. I have always told everyone to drink enough water, and get away from these artificial marketing systems to drink this or eat that. I've been asking people to stop taking pictures of their food items and putting them up on pictures to trigger people to want to go eat and consume these foods that are high in carb. I've always recommended exercise to stimulate the immune system, a good sleep, and not eating late. All these things will help your immune system. I've always been telling people to take a good multivitamin-mineral such as the selenium that's in the TLC Multi Mineral or TLC Energy Core or Mitocore. These are our multi-mineral supplements for the most part that are rich in zinc. Zinc is very important in antiviral, anti-replication of the proteins produced from the virus transcriptions. So, zinc, vitamin D, low carb, not eating late, exercise, a good night's sleep.
I've been for decades telling people we don't have any vitamin C that we make, whereas, like the guinea pigs, we don't make any vitamin C. All other animals do. And they get sick far less than we do. Although dog food is becoming corrupted as well, and we're seeing lots of earlier animal and pet health problems. But in general, animals in the wild don't need to go and see a doctor. That's because they can take high-dose vitamin C anytime they get stressed. So, I've talked about high-dose vitamin C, infusions. We've also talked about natural herbs such as quercetin. Quercetin is what I primarily use in the form of seasonal relief, which is D-Hist relabeled for private sale here. Quercetin in D-Hist Ortho Molecular product is our natural antihistamine that acts like an ionophore that prevents viral infection passage through the cell membranes. Remember, your cell membranes here, they have these injuries, and viruses can pass right through, and these ionophores are part of helping stop that process. And we also have used very old decades and decades-old Nobel Prize-winning drugs that are prescribed to help prevent this as well. So, these are a few of the things that we would recommend.
But getting back to your statement “Disease X is coming,” you hear about that. It's not a disease. It's a placeholder for a proposed coming problem. And these people who do not give us information, who gave us all the wrong information, and you could argue have likely or allegedly lied to any small amount of accountability through some congressional investigations about the veracity of their statements that these mRNA injections would have prevented you from getting ill, prevented you from dying, prevented you from transmitting it, turned out to be false. The mask requirements were found to be unscientifically validated as effective. We all already knew it. All of us old and honest doctors knew it. The recommendation for distancing 6 feet apart was foolishness without scientific validation. These are some things that Dr. Kulldorff, the epidemiologist from Harvard, was very voiceful in proclaiming in the Barrington Declaration of the physicians around the world at the onset of some of these proposals, the restriction and lockdowns that he and Dr. Rich, and the Stanford epidemiologist, I keep on forgetting his name, it starts with an ‘I’. But anyway, all these notable learned epidemiologists said this was foolishness, these restriction lockdowns, distancing, masks, and so forth. Now, we hear The CDC representatives admit that it wouldn't and was not designed to stop transmission and so forth in a hearing subsequent. Now, we're asking for information on the side effects and we're getting blank pages 100 percent redacted and I'm infuriated.
So, your health begins with your own personal responsibility to become informed, seek the truth, and allow platforms for discussion. And one of the things that has happened is the World Health Organization, WHO, which is a division of the United Nations, is an organization headed by Tedros, who is not a doctor. The head of the World Health Organization is funded largely by stakeholders, like Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and, the Gavi Foundation, I believe. And we, our taxpayers, finance much of these activities. And the World Health Organization has decided to amplify the power and strength of the international health regulations by saying we need a pandemic preparedness treaty and they have diligently looked at this and developed a whole regulatory pandemic treaty, with now amendments in secrecy, in which I just got last week a proposed copy of this and made my notes on this treaty, and this is entitled “Proposed amendments to the international health regulations. This is regarding the pandemic preparedness treaty.” And to boil it down, there are 10 points that are very concerning. I'll just pick out a few of them. And that is, control of public discourse and demanding that all member nations have to sign this treaty, which would allow Tedros, the head of the World Health Organization, to, if he declares a health emergency or pandemic concern, it's not required or there are no standards to have to be met for him to make this statement. Now, that's quite absent in all this thick paperwork. – So, he could willy-nilly, or could he possibly be bribed? I don't know – to make that statement, which would then enact all the member nations to have to obey to institute regulations on travel, regulations on what medicines, if any, would be required, what communications would be allowed for social media discourse with potential regulatory punitive actions to member nations, healthcare personnel, that would be someone like myself, that wouldn't be able to function any more under their requirements. They would generate vaccine requirements, passport ID vaccination, authorization, disclosure of your personal data privacy would be lost, you'd be censored, member nations would basically be giving up their sovereignty under a, you could call it or describe it as a medical coup, where you lose your sovereignty.
So, this would be something that you should look up, World Health Organization, Pandemic Treaty, and they are, allegedly voting on this in May, and this would be something that you need to educate yourself on and let your congressmen, your local and state, and your senators, know how you feel about this. I'm not going to tell you how to talk to them or what to say, but I downloaded this off the internet. There are highlights on most of the documents that you can download, so you can look into this.
Now, I want you to understand that this question that’s brought up, again this must be providence. What do I recommend to keep our immune system up? Well, when our Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control come up with a product that is put into the market, that product is supposed to have, within 3 months or 90 days, a report available to the public on its impact, side effects, so we can have reporting on it for this, poison control, all kinds of things like this, and it's required in 90 days. But on December 10, 2020, when the authorization for injecting the mRNA products was released on December 10, 2020, within 90 days, there were about 1,223 deaths. I have never seen anything like that in my 43 years of practicing medicine. So, when I wanted to get information on this, I found blockage and censorship. Mr. Siri, the lawyer for the Children's Health Defense, demanded the release of these records that are required when a product is released, and the FDA protected the private corporations that produce these new products, mRNA injections and said, no, you cannot have it. So, Mr. Siri went to court and fortunately, the judge ruled in favor that they must release the documents regarding the mRNA injections.
The book that I have in my hand right now is, as you can see, Pfizer Documents Analysis And Reports. There's a new document out. This is from 2022 data. But when they were required to release it from Pfizer, they released it in, and 55,000 I think documents were released. Each of these documents was composed of some of them thousands of pages. So, we're talking about 450,000 pages of material. And of that material, many people in social media networks, healthcare networks, got together who had time, I'm one of them, who got involved in trying to look this data up and give our learned reports and ideas about what we're reading in this trove that's being dripped out by court order from the efforts of Children's Health Defense, Mr. Siri. And that's the name of the book, Pfizer Document Analysis Reports. There are 46 reports in the first book. Now there's a second book, and it's up to like 96, maybe 104, somewhere in that range. I don't have enough time to put into all this work, but it's doctors like myself, real people, who have, are retired lawyers, retired doctors, active lawyers/doctors like myself, active nurses, insurance, fraud experts, all this kind of stuff got involved in looking at this paperwork that they dripped out. And had Mr. Siri not succeeded in getting the report out through the court order, the vaccine producers would have had the privilege of holding all this knowledge for 75 years. 75 years, we all will be dead and gone. And so, the story will be lost.
So, amongst all the other work that I do every day here, working and a lot, because a lot of doctors lock themselves up and close their practices. So, I had to work six days a week. This then is some of the things that exhaust me. And the mere fact I've never been sick, I haven't missed work, and I'm here six days working, plus other things, is truly a testimony to healthy lifestyles. I take my D every day. And I forgot to mention my Juice Plus. That is an antioxidant, par none vegetable, fruit, and berry concentrate, that I have been using for about 23 years in my practice, at least, maybe 24 or 25. And I have never seen anything so safe, so powerful, in raising up the shields of your antioxidants, because remember, we're all roasting at 98.6 degrees. You're cooking right now in your seat, wherever you're listening to me from. And we're all 98.6 degrees. And if you don't drink enough water, and if you don't baste yourself with enough water, you'll cook faster than I will. And so, antioxidants like Juice Plus, one of my key elements foundational elements here, help reduce the fire and the oxidative burn of just life's metabolism.
So, that was an extremely long and the longest answer I've ever given but I thank God because I was going to bring some of this up anyway at the end if I had time, but God brought it up at the first. I guess he wanted it out. Praise his Holy name forever.
Okay. Because I'm on active duty and I used to be in the military as a major getting promoted to lieutenant colonel, but I chose not to receive the promotion to lieutenant colonel and leave the military and leave my pension because I couldn't stand the control over the practice of medicine in the military, and I chose freedom. So, I'm on active duty for my God and my commander-in-chief, Jesus Christ. And I am here to serve Him. I wake up and I say, here am I, Lord. I'm going to see your creation, your beautiful creation of humanity. Help me to do right by your name and bring glory to you. And that's how I am.
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“What is a good remedy to help with chronic bleeding hemorrhoids? I was diagnosed with Crohn's and I've been working on healing my symptoms with success but now I go regularly every day and the hemorrhoids that I had previously will not go away and are getting worse. I drink lots of water and eating fiber, will I need to have some kind of surgery?” [0:30:08]
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Possibly. This is a very complex scenario. We go through food allergies. We do a complete digestive stool analysis. We do immunoglobulin G testing and immunoglobulin E testing, and we're looking for all these ways to look at how you react to your food. Fiber really comes largely from the plant kingdom, and your blood type will matter, we would need to know that and design a diet that will help the lining. Remember, the lining of every cell in your colon is made up of this double bilipid phospholipid layer, and injuries like foods and their lectins can hurt it. So, this double layer is requiring a lot of phospholipids and meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, egg, yolks, and the like, and you would need to do that. We have supplements that support that.
And we have no direct means of healing you supplement-wise, like colonics and stuff. I don't recommend that. But your gastroenterologist might have suggestions for making those hemorrhoids sclerosed. I don't like sclerosing. I don't like them injecting those veins so they get inflamed and shrink up and scar, but that might be what you need to do. But you need to see a doctor who knows your age, your situation, if your stools today are hard to push out, constipated, how often, what your blood type is, what your inflammation in your bowel movements, and a study of that, what the good bacteria is, how your digestion is. All these things need to be looked at. So, please find a good functional doctor who can look at many of these aspects and more.
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“What do you suggest for weight gain?” [0:32:45]
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Well, that's a question also. We would need to know your age. We would need to know your blood type. We would need to know how well you're absorbing. Do you have malabsorption problems? What's your medical history? And what other medicines are you taking? What other medical problems you might have that would complicate your ability to maintain your weight? This is a very complex question. Very often, we will occasionally use a product called Megace. It's a liquid usually given two or three times, maybe up to four times, a day in the promotion, but only under the care of a good nutritional workup, and then we stop the Megace as soon as we can. Then I would look at, again, your stool, your food, your food allergies, immunoglobulins, and a complete hormone workup, everyone needs a hormone workup, including your iodine levels and thyroid function. So, you need to come in and be seen by a good functional doctor and have the workup that you deserve.
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“How can you advise what will help secondary Raynaud's syndrome in a mid-30s lady? Anything to prevent further damage? Supplements or exercises? Thanks. God bless.” [0:34:15]
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Very often, the tiny vasculature and the capillaries are damaged by cytokines. Cytokines are triggered by food allergies very often. So, this could be seasonal allergies, could be stress, could be chronic inflammation in your gut. So, we all need the same workup because we're all designed the same way.
I mean, we're flying all these wonderful aircrafts and jets and gliders and all of them, but they all have aerodynamic principles that are required on every single airplane flight craft there is. And so, the approach to studying, managing, and looking at the airworthiness of an aircraft when I was a flight surgeon and flew and learned how to fly a rotary and fixed-wing, I realized that with the maintenance crew chief and the pilots, that the workup of the problem solving to keep our pilots at the ready and ready health-wise and machine-wise to take off and defend our nation had a very similar pattern and checklist like a human body, because we're all designed with variations but we're all human, and we all have the same problem. So, when you talk about secondary Raynaud’s syndrome and how our body reacts in the healing inflammatory pathways through cell signaling cytokine information triggers that make that happen, it could be the cold that makes it happen, it could be the heat that makes it happen, it could be stress that makes it happen. But you need a good functional doctor who has this global approach to the magnanimous challenge of the human body, just like when I flew in an F-4 fighter jet so that I'd be able to understand what my fighter jet pilots were enduring with the physical stresses. I had to fly at Mach 1 or 2 so that I could feel what it's like to go through that tremendous impact. And I was thinking, oh, I hope the plane handles the G stress, and I was thinking, oh, I hope my body can handle the G stress, and just for fun and giggles, I threw up so many times in the fighter jet because you have these anti-gravity pressure suits on you. So that one, he's pulling an aileron or we were taking dives up and down, this suit I was wearing would squish up and so my blood wouldn't drain out of my brain and faint. But being a mother and having had two children, I had a hiatal hernia, and I would always have this food be squished up, chucked, and I would have to take my mask off and lift my lid up and I would have to grab the vomit bag, vomit, seal it up, then put my air mask and my shield while we were doing these flights.
So, a global view of all this and your capillaries is certainly going to require understanding the construction of the membrane of the capillary to the whole construction of your human body, and all the weather conditions, I'm thinking both as a pilot and as a general doctor, that will injure those, trigger those little capillaries and they are helped with EDTA chelation therapy. Hands down, I've seen it over and over again throughout my whole practice, that's the direction you need to work with a functional doctor who understands EDTA chelation therapy, a gut workup, and so forth, and natural hormones as well.
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“Recently watched a YouTube doctor recommend N-acetyl Carnosine drops for eye health. Have you heard of this and do you recommend any kind of eye drops for eye health? His claims for these drops were very impressive.” [0:38:21]
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Okay, let's break it up. N-acetylcysteine and carnosine are two different biochemical molecules. The carnosine is I think a dipeptide from your mammalian tissues, and the N-acetylcysteine is a powerful antioxidant. And the two together, if they're applied topically to the eye, would probably work to have some antioxidant and repair abilities to the phospholipid bi-lipid membrane of your cornea as it penetrates in. However, if you drink enough water because you know you're roasting 98.6 degrees every day, if you know to not clog up those capillaries with sugar, starch, and sticky fructose, and if you know to exercise to keep the hydraulic pumps pumping through, and if you know to take something like Juice Plus, which is an antioxidant par excellence far away and beyond one little N-acetylcysteine molecule, and if you do EDTA chelation to help the circulation, Juice Plus, low carb, exercise, good sleep, you shouldn't be developing cataracts or eye disease, corneal disease, and so forth.
So, might it work? Yes, it might. But, you see, if we live healthy, it would work out anyway.
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“Hi! What would you recommend for a hemorrhagic ovarian cyst? I think it began after I started thyroid med (Armour) and became very exacerbated when we did fertility hormones last summer (estradiol and progesterone).” [0:40:22]
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Hemorrhagic cysts/ovarian cysts are usually part of metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance, working in conjunction with natural hormone growth-promoting natural agents and repair molecules of the human body. So, an insulin level of 4 or less, a fasting blood sugar of 85 or less, a hemoglobin A1r of 5.2 or less percent, and triglycerides of around 50 or less, along with systemic enzymes is how we treat hemorrhagic and ovarian cysts and all these conditions with natural progesterone therapy. But again, we have to put your picture, your age, your background, your biometrics, your nutritional state of being, all this together to help you.
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“Do you have any treatment recommendations for a person suffering from severe POTS (Postural Orthostatic Syndrome)? My friend has been suffering for almost three years now and can hardly get out of bed.” [0:41:43]
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Well, that's an extremely difficult, multisystem, multicentric disease. We have many of these patients, they do well, and you have to have a doctor who is going to work with physical therapy, exercise, hydration, protein and GI gut absorption, anti-inflammatory, lifestyle training, and supplementation, improving microvasculature for blood flow and to work with trying to get the autonomic nervous system that invigorates, you might say, is involved in the lining all your of your blood vasculature that can tell when you're changing your body demands to stand up after sitting down and you have to have all this column of blood go from 3.5 feet of height to 6 feet of height, and your autonomic system has to learn to tighten up, and so forth. So, it's a multi-system thing. You have to see an excellent functional medicine doctor and work on a multi-planar level like that.
There isn't any best time. The best time is to get it anytime because if you miss it, that's worse. So, because it is a fat-soluble vitamin, some say it's good with food. I don't care. I'm too busy. I take mine on an empty stomach every morning, and that's the end of that story. And I take my supplements somewhat to serve my lifestyle. Any time is better than missing it.
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“Hello, do you have any recommendations for creams or treatments that would help reduce or remove the appearance of sunspots on hands and face? I am 59 and I’m noticing them more and more, assume it’ll just continue and perhaps get worse. Thank you.” [0:43:37]
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Sunspots are really lipofuscin. Lipofuscin is age spots. Age spot is oxidized, burnt fat molecules. And all these things I've been telling you - Juice Plus, water, chelation therapy, exercise, a good night's sleep, all these things along with many other anti-aging natural hormones and preventive medicine, would be very helpful for you.
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“My 85-year-old mother was diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. Only med she takes is for cholesterol and is under control. She gets uncontrollable coughing daily. How would you treat pulmonary fibrosis?” [0:44:17]
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Well, I think that's probably, you know, I don't like controlling cholesterol, especially in the elderly, because when your cholesterol is too low, it shortens your expected life. Google low cholesterol and longevity and you'll see the lower your cholesterol on the average, the shorter your lifespan. I mean, how does that work out? We're made of it. These membranes here have to have lots of cholesterol in them to have you react and your vasculature for the POTS syndrome lady before who asked or the other one with Raynaud's. Cholesterol is not something we just throw away. That is foolishness and comes from largely ignorant training of the physicians. If there's any value at all to statins, it's in very unique teeny-weenie subpopulation of cardiovascular disease and possibly some anti-inflammatory, benefits, but that's what I would say.
How would you treat pulmonary fibrosis? Well, you have to see a pulmonologist and be under their care because we're general practitioners, but we would augment that by looking at the whole person, her background, her blood type, her digestive abilities, because if she's going to rebuild lung tissue. And when I started medicine in the 1970s, we were taught nerves don't repair themselves. And I knew that was wrong even as a medical student in my 20s, early 20s.
And so, now we know that there's neuroplasticity and nerves grow, and we should also know that lung repair and growth can occur. And so, chelation therapy would be quite essential in pulmonary fibrosis. Systemic Enzymes would be quite valuable if I had a patient whom I would generally as a theme use that with both chelation and Systemic Enzymes. A low-carb diet so you don't plug up the little capillaries that go to the lung alveoli that are doing the oxygen exchange to enhance her functionality. And then the other thing would be wonderful antioxidants like Juice Plus, vitamin D to protect her from infection. And then there might be consideration of things as nebulized glutathione, and oral N-acetylcysteine. These are helping with the surfactant and production. But she's got to eat what your cells are made of, and those alveoli are made up of these little cell membranes that are fat and protein and cholesterol. So, all these things would go together, plus many other items. So, find a good functional doctor and start working on that.
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“Hello doctor! I have a friend that started this eating right for your blood type diet. Would like to know what your thoughts are on it. Thank you.” [0:47:28]
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You know, that's such an old, old, old book. D’Adamo wrote that. There is some general theme truth to it, such as A's don't digest fats and protein well because cause they don't make digestive enzymes as much, they don't make enough hydrochloric acid. So, eating meat and fatty foods and meat, chicken and fish and eggs are harder to digest. So, he would say avoid it and then become more of a carbohydrate eventual insulin-resistant metabolic diabetic, you know. Then always make too much acid and get the ulcers. And so, you know, he has these themes for the B positive. We have the chicken allergy and we have the, because I'm B positive, and I forget what AB is. And just the mere idea, he wrote a book that says, hey, your blood type matters as to how you interact with your immune system's reaction to things you eat and bring into your body so deeply. Yeah, it was valuable for the concept of as far as developing the whole industry, vitamins for A-type blood, vitamins for all type blood, vitamins for B-positive blood, vitamins for AB positive, and just sales, marketing, marketing, sales, sales, marketing turns me off, it doesn't make any sense, and it smells of marketing to me.
So, what do I think of eating right for your blood type? The concept that you have to eat right and blood type matters, that's as far as I endorse it. Find a good doctor who can help you with understanding your whole you. Remember, we're fearfully and wonderfully made. We're all similar. We have some uniqueness. Some are A's, some are O's, some are AB's, some are B's, some have a lot of melatonin in their skin and appear dark, some have very little in their skin and they get sunburn easily, but we're all the same race. We're exactly identical. We all have to follow the flight pattern of aerodynamics and airworthiness to the crew chief and construction of any flying vehicle. And it's the same for a human body. You have to have the bolts and nuts in your wings fixed with the right replacement material and not this junk process food.
That has to be ridiculous. Of course, I don't know the link. I'll look at it and you come back on next week and I will circle this. Let me circle this, so I don't forget it. So see, I put a big red circle on it so you can see I am going to check that out. Right off the bat, it's foolishness.
Now let's see. What have we obediently done in study after study since the 1960s? We've exercised more. We've eaten less butter and saturated fats. We've eaten much more fruits and vegetables and much more carbohydrate consumption, and heart disease has gone up. And you're telling me that by eating less and doing some fasting, we're going to harm something? It's illogical. The premise is illogical. But I will comment on it next time.
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“Dr. Ellithorpe, Can you recommend anything for someone who has possibly been exposed to mold for them to detox? Their symptoms are constant congestion and coughing. Thank you.” [0:51:31]
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Mold is a biological entity. It's just like viruses, bacteria, allergens, these triggers, and it's all manageable. And in a healthy person, even an older healthy person like myself, you can have extreme relief and tolerance when you get exposed to allergens, molds, and bacteria because you have a good immune system that tags the stuff to be identified by your lymphocyte innate and immune system that will facticize and chew it up. What creates the problem is having chronic high blood sugars, which almost all Americans have today because they're eating too much instead of intermittent fasting and their blood is so full of sugar and sludge. The white blood cells can't reach and move as fast as they could, if they were in a period of a person who has cleaner blood, more water, regular exercise, and so forth. So, the vitamin D levels, the systemic enzymes, checking their insulin, their fasting blood sugar, triglyceride, hemoglobin, A1c, their stopping eating early, not eat late at night, exercise, good night's sleep, taking the enzymes, these would be good base points. Have them see a good functional doctor.
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“Will you share your insights on recent mentions of cancer being abated with anti-parasitic medicine protocols (fenbendazole)? Why would COVID and cancer demonstrate curative benefits with anti-parasitics?” [0:53:14]
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Well, these are medicines that inhibit some of the structure of the cell membrane. See this wall here? It has a structure. It's supposed to do certain things in its airworthiness, and during the stresses of an air flight and G forces, you might say. Now, in a human being, that membrane has to be communicating, it has to be responding, it has to be repaired when injured, it has to be fluid, and cholesterol is a key part of that fluidity.
But another part of the whole structure of the cell are the intracellular activities that go on, for the nucleus, the Golgi apparatus, the ribosomes, the lysosome, and the whole contents of the cell. And it's like a city with inside, and it's got little tiny tubules, little poles, construction material, that help that to be a structure of a whole living network cell, living cell.
Now, what fenbendazole, ivermectin, quercetin, not so much quercetin, but fenbendazole and ivermectin, and I think hydroxychloroquine as well, they have some interfering abilities with these microtubules. And especially fast-growing cells in cancer have to have these microtubules, and it's a disordered rapid growth, and it stops it in that fashion. So, I think that's one of the bases why it works so well to help break up the cancer, it'll disarm its immune defense and disguise. As it crumbles up, it can be discovered by the immune system and attacked.
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“Are you familiar with Kevin Hennings abating cancer with a protocol of fenbendazole, Tagamet/cimetidine, AHCC, curcumin, and annatto? Details on Facebook group “Beating Cancer Today” moderate by Kevin.” [0:55:25]
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am not familiar with Kevin Hennings, but I'm pretty much familiar with every component of the fenbendazole, Tagamet/cimetidine, AHCC, curcumin, annatto, and all this data. So, yes, I am familiar with it. And you see, when we are not censored, when we have public open forums when we are discussing things as adults, assuming personal responsibility when I say this is for education, this isn't personal management or treatment whatsoever, then we can all move forward. A rising tide lifts all boats, you know. And God helped me also. I don't know everything. I am helped by you, looking at this, looking at articles on intermittent fasting to try and clarify, and look at, is there some data in that intermittent fasting of concern? I will look at it. I don't want to because I'm set in my ways, I'm old and opinionated, but I am a servant of God, and I will look when I feel the nudging saying humble yourself and look at something, I might teach you something. So, if we don't have this humility that we're teachable and have no censorship, then we have a good chance of coming to truth. So, thank you. I will look at that.
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“I first want to thank you. I hope I become a patient soon. I'm already buying supplements there that you've recommended on this forum. My husband has many lipomas. What do you recommend? Is there any research into what causes them that you know of or supplements he should take? He’s a first responder, has huge stress, lacks sleep, eats well, exercises.” [0:57:10]
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It's a high-carb lifestyle world system of eating, marketing, and social pressure. His fat cells are living under constant insulin stimulation and they're becoming hypertrophic. This isn't necessarily cancerous if they're lipomas, and only a low-carb diet can stop that or slow it down.
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“I'm using compounded face cream – contains 3 mg estriol (with retinoic acid). If I'm put on Dr. Chi's Myomin (aromatase inhibitor), will that minimize the amount of estriol helping my facial skin? If so, how many mgs. of estriol would I need? I’m 85 – using topical bio-identical estradiol – 3 mgs./estriol 3 mg. /testos 4, oral 200 mg progester.” [0:58:17]
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No, it won't. You just have to understand chemistry and analytical chemistry. You have to understand mass action, where it's applied, and understand that really estriol is such a teeny-weeny, itsy beany, yellow polka dot bikini kind of a female hormone. It may have some help to the face, but estradiol is what I use. So, no, it's not going to inhibit anything. I would go ahead and use it.
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“I'm researching and educating myself. I also wear the LifeWave patches and take several natural supplements and drink lots of water with electrolytes, 8 hours of sleep per night and exercise.” [0:59:18]
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That's great. Energy medicine is a huge component of anti-aging and the LifeWave system seems to have good research in it, and I think it's very safe.
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“I'm doing carnivore. I have lost some weight and feel really great. However, whenever I eat meat, my body gets inflamed. I feel the inflammation in my knees and heels after eating meat.” [0:59:42]
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You might be eating non-pure grass-fed and finished. You have to look for, sometimes they will grass feed the animal, but the last two weeks, they'll pump them full of grains to get extra poundage and money for that weight, and then you're reacting to the grains in the animal you're eating. So, you're eating what the animal ate. So, check that out and see if that's it.
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“What do you think about Lo estra aka Lolo for HRT instead of estradiol patch?” [1:00:27]
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I don’t know what Lo estra is. If it is an estradiol patch, and if it's bio-identical estradiol, then I don't see any problem with it. They've just privately labeled it. Maybe they changed the sticky tape or the adhesive to some degree and they own it and they're patenting it and they gave it the name Low estra.
I'll have to look that up. You guys have to keep me informed as the world turns. That used to be a 1950s/60s thing, my mom and I would watch. Lo estra patch. Okay. So, I’m going to check that out.
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“I also get puffy eyes and stuffy and I’m currently doing one meal a day. Any advice?” [1:01:23]
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You know, it could be seasonal, it could be the rain, it could be mold in the rain in California because we've had such an amount of it, and then the winds, it could be something you're currently eating you're not aware of. So, you have to see a doctor and kind of think this through. And I'm all in favor of this pretty much. What I do is one meal a day myself. But it needs more thought.
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“Which is the best part of the body to apply progesterone and estradiol?” [1:02:01]
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I don't think there is. I think we're all unique. That's the little variances. So, I can rub my progesterone here, and I absorb it very well. Some women don't absorb well through their skin, and they have to put it into their private parts, the vulva area there. And some have to swallow it. So, on the skin, it just really is a variable thing.
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“I’ve heard from Dr. Bryan Ardis that nicotine is good for us, for protecting us from future bioweapons (2-3 milligrams) for preventative. What do you think?” [1:02:36]
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Well, I see the science on that, and I'm very impressed, and I agree. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, we're all talking about NAD IVs, NAD for health and the energy pathway in our mitochondria. And so, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, we have nicotine receptors all over our human body, and it is something that does block the docking of the spike to the ace receptor. So, there you have it. I think it has great validity and needs to be researched. But how come all the money from Fauci and the CDC, NIH, and CDC seems to only go to these patents and not to natural things? I wonder why that is. Could it be that 57% of the income of the CDC is from patent ownership? Hmm…I don’t know. It seems like a reasonable conflict of interest to me. Let’s look into it. Oh I see, they can just not send us any information and send us only redacted 100 percent pages, you know. Give me a break. Let’s end this ridiculousness and let’s get some real doctors, real clinicians, and real scientists back on the job because they love humanity, not because they love a title and a position and fame and money. Am I angry? You bet I’m angry.
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I saw a commercial today for ARMRA Colostrum – can you speak on this? What is it and is it something to consider taking for immune health?” [1:04:50]
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No, I’ve never heard of it. Well, colostrum has a lot of immunoglobulins in it. And so, that’s why God gave it in mother’s breastmilk for babies. We have other ways to do this. So, you can’t take everything that’s out there in research or every vitamin. How about let’s fast and stimulate our immune system? How about we take something like healthy food, non-processed. Or Juice Plus has a ton of peer-reviewed research on boosting the immune system. That would be something easy, and then you can help a child get it free for four years.
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“So, is a low dose Lipitor ok?” [1:05:37]
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No. If you don’t need it and if cholesterol that is low is associated with death, why would we do that? I don’t believe in any Lipitor at all, unless you’re having a tiny tiny subfraction of cardiovascular disease, usually in
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“I am drinking over 1/2 by weight in ounces. I weigh 110 lbs. and drink four 20 oz bottles of water each day. I have a reverse osmosis water filter but I get leg cramps. Am I deficient in minerals? I’m 74 years old and in good health.” [0:03:17]
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Well, you're exceeding half your weight there. If you're 110 pounds and drinking 80 ounces of water, then you are likely drinking maybe too much water, and that is rinsing out your minerals. And I would get a good multi-mineral. We have the amino acid chelated Albion source for our multi-minerals, it’s called TLC Multi Min, three a day, and take them maybe with your dinner or after a dinner, and that should solve the problem for you.
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“My 24-year-old brother eats fast food, drinks multiple cans of soda, and vapes every day. I'm worried about his health. He is quite thin and becomes defensive when anyone tries to talk about his poor habits. How can I get through to him so he takes his health and his life seriously?” [0:04:18]
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Well, that's a challenging question. I would say the number one thing is to love him. Love on him, express love and compliments to wherever you can find good things about your brother. As you show that you're acknowledging the good things about him and the value he has, then it'll be more meaningful. When you then say to your brother, because of this value I see in you, because of your help or skills in these areas, whatever they may be, to make them available, and serve humanity longer, why wouldn't you consider eating more homemade meals or whatever the first step is. Or to encourage him to go on a walk with you and talk about these things that you might have. We all repel criticism. It's not something we like as human beings. There are things about each and every one of us, myself included. There are traits that we should improve on. “There's none righteous, no, not one,” the Bible says. So, it is you walking with them and seeing the value of your neighbor and trying to promote your neighbor's well-being and showing that love. Love covers a multitude of sins. That's how I would try to get through to him.
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“How do you feel about colonics?” [0:06:17]
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Colonics, I have done them in the past. For the most part, I'm neither a pro nor against them. I don't know that they have any routine value in doing them. When I did my doctorate in integrative medicine back in 1999 and 2000, there was an opportunity for me to do colonics. We listened to the hydro-colon therapist and discussed their results. They were encouraging. But again, the hydro-colon therapist is looking at one aspect of a human being, that is their colon and their bowel movements. I think in the hands of a functional doctor, if you drink enough water, if you are healthy in your mineral content, if you are exercising, if you're getting a good night's sleep, if you are taking a healthy diet that is not high in sugar, looking at food allergies and so many other things, then bowel movements will occur naturally and healthfully. Maybe in the elderly, in the latter years of our lives, colon therapy might have a greater value. Of course, it has a greater degree of potential harm because there's a pressure gradient with colon therapy, and you don't want to blow out some inflamed diverticula, and so forth. So, this is the concern I have. Someone who is elderly with diverticula likely will have some inflamed area and that could be irritated. And they're the ones that would probably benefit the most. So, I have mixed feelings about it, and that's still where I stand.
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“I have a strong tingling in my upper lip and in the gums of my front teeth. Two years ago, I had a root canal in one of these front teeth. What do you think would be causing tingling? Thank you so much.” [0:08:27]
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Well, I don't like root canals, and I would certainly ask you to go to a biological dentist, and have them evaluate that root canal. The potential for low-grade infection in that area, I don't know if you had a filling, or if there were toxic metals from amalgams involved. These are all concerns. Now, your front teeth, of course, are very cosmetically important to your smile. So, I would certainly ask you to go to the internet, type in “biological dentistry near me” and then call the office, maybe drop by, speak to the front office or the manager, and ask questions about how they would deal with root canals, test for symptoms, what kind of 3D imaging they do to look for cavitations, which would be like cysts full of infection, and how they would approach treating that. So, I do believe that this may in fact be something that needs to be repaired, and so we would support a biological dentist evaluation.
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“I was encouraged a week or two ago when I read you believe there is science behind the X39 patch from LifeWave. Can you please tell me if these would be safe for me for long-term use, given that I am a breast cancer and melanoma survivor? I don't understand the stem cell activation the company speaks of and how that relates to my cancer history.” [0:10:07]
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These products by LifeWave are talking about an electromagnetic energy, that the crystals that they use in these patches that your body heats up, and the heat of the vibration of that crystal, the frequency is then absorbed by your body, and the entire human being is an electrochemical composition. So, I'm just held together right now by bonds of negative and positive attractiveness and sharing these electrons and these molecules hold me together. We all dissolve and fall apart. Energy has to go in to maintain these bonds and electrochemical relationships between molecules, between the cell membranes, and your entire body. In the world of the immune system, there are T cells, the innate immune system that, are designed to go and surveillance your body, circulate through your body, and look for self-recognition. If these T cells see that there is a cell or a group of cells that look foreign, then the natural immune response is more T cells and other immune triggers occur to tag and identify that abnormal cell and get rid of it. There are those in the healthcare profession who believe that these T cells are actually identifying cancer cells, or cells that are misbehaving, becoming malignant and expressing abnormal DNA activity, and producing abnormal cell surface identifiers, and then these natural killer cells or T cells chew it up.
So, when you say you're taking electrochemical frequency in the form of a crystal, and they have seen this resonate with the activity of your T cell stem cells, this is encouraging the health of the population of that immune surveillance innate component of your body. This is one mechanism that should be maintained with adequate water, good sleep, exercise, low carbohydrate, a healthy, more organic, natural whole food, avoiding processed food diet, and that is another way to help that T cell non-killer (NK cell) work better.
So, I think these electrochemical frequencies that are very small, tiny, and supportive stimulate only the good, healthy stem cells. It doesn't stimulate cancer cell reactivity at all. That's not my understanding at all of how this works.
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“I believe I have a parasite. It looks like worms. They very well could be in my kidneys too because they took a CT scan and said I had kidney stones in both, but I only have a history of it being on my left. What can I take to get rid of it? I'm currently taking IntestinePro off Amazon.” [0:14:07]
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So, some over-the-counter supplements. Grapeseed extract, the uva-ursi, and black walnut, these are various herbs and seed oils that are associated with being toxic, usually just in the gastrointestinal system, against parasites. There are medicines that you could get. I would always begin, if you think you have parasites, getting a complete digestive stool analysis. It is a very thorough evaluation with both the visual screening under microscopic, under culture, and under PCR testing for the signature of DNA of any parasite. That's where I would go. Find a good functional integrative medicine doctor and have them do a complete digestive stool analysis on you, which is much more in-depth than just stool for ova and parasites, which traditionally is what is taught in allopathic medicine. Another item that is recommended in the alternative functional world for, this is grapeseed extract. That is another anti-parasitic herb. Grapeseed extract.
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“I am a TLC patient. My niece, 32, from Mesa, Arizona took the Pfizer vaccine, no boosters. Within one month, had random fast heartbeats, a tight chest, and difficulty breathing. She went to urgent care – and put her PDN. She went to a naturopath and did food allergy. She stopped eggs and alcohol. X-ray showed a 3-mm scar on her chest. What can you recommend? Have you seen this from vaccine?” [0:16:13]
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The answer is yes. I have never seen such chaotic health indices in such young people in all my 43 years of practicing medicine. I would suggest that a 3-mm scar on her chest on the x-ray is probably benign, you said she's 32, and there is valley fever, and that's from the particles and the dust and stuff. We can get scars on our chest just from that or prior colds and bronchitis. But hopefully, she's breathing better and not having chest tightness or fast heartbeats. I would see her local physician, and I would encourage her to drink half her weight in water and take systemic enzymes, such as Vitalzym or Vascuzyme. These systemic proteolytic enzymes chew up little, tiny proteinaceous waste material that could be creating tiny micro-clots. There may be spike protein involved, who knows? The continuation of production of the cell to generate spike protein is indeterminate. I think the longest they've seen it be produced subsequent to a vaccine with one of these MRA injections is 18 months, is one article that I recall.
But there is another whole study. If you look up on the Internet with nicotine, nicotine gum 2 mg, chewing that with plenty of water, systemic enzymes, possibly EDTA chelation therapy. Not possibly. I know EDTA chelation therapy will improve microcirculation, and enhance cardiovascular health and all health of the body because all the tiny capillaries are improved with perfusion.
But those are some of the pathways I would look for with that. And then, sometimes we give the anti-parasitical prescriptions on a preventive and a long-term basis for like three months and then see if this improves their symptomology as well.
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“Hi, Dr. E! Is it okay to put the bi-estrogen cream on my face? If so, is there any advantage to putting it there versus on other parts of the body? Thank you.” [0:19:53]
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Yes. Well, I've always put my Estradiol cream 90 percent of the time to my face. So, at 70, I do think that it has reduced my eye wrinkles and creases around my lips and stuff like that, because the natural estradiol, human female bioidentical estradiol, is associated with enhancing your collagen and elastin that kind of are the rebar that hold up your face. Now, I'm in my workout clothes because I go to do my heavy weightlifting right after Tuesday night sessions here. And so, I'm not made up or anything like that because I'm going to go work out right afterward. But, yeah, that's what I do and that's why I do it. I put it on my face for that reason.
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“Hello doctor! I have a nail fungus on my two big toes. I tried everything. I went to three different professionals, and they used laser, all three different laser treatments, and I still can't get rid of them. What else can I try? Thank you for all you do.” [0:21:03]
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Systemically your immune system is not fighting off the fungus that is on every one of our toes. Everyone watching this and all people have fungus and bacteria and viruses on our skin and nails. It's just the way life is, and you have far, far more in your gut biome as well. So, we are actually living in a symbiotic relationship with the life forms all around us on a microscopic level. So, it is the health of the immune system you want to address. You need to look, number one cause is that we eat a lousy standard American diet, which is pushed by a corrupt American dietetic association that largely is populated on the board of the ADA by food companies sponsoring these physicians who always vote and recommend things that favor their continued financial connections with these food industries, which are processed, high carb foods. They've corrupted our school lunch programs. Government school lunches are terribly promoted by this corrupt dietetic recommendations, and the medical board recommendation staff is getting financial kickbacks. They have corrupted the hospital system and the food industry there, the military food system. And this then has promoted the very high carbohydrate starch, and high fructose corn syrup. And we know all sugars suppress the immune system.
Therefore, I would go on an extremely low-carb diet for toenail fungus. If you could go carnivore, I would become a carnivore. It takes about a year to grow out toenails. So, I would do this, and try and do this for a year. I don't know your blood type. If you're a blood type A, you would probably need digestive enzymes. I would also use systemic enzymes in addition to digestive enzymes to help the tiny inflammation that's associated with the growth of the fungus. High-dose vitamin C and chelation therapy will enhance the oxygen and immune delivery of white blood cells to that area there, and exercise that will increase the hydraulic pressure and promoting of circulation. Adequate water, and a good night's sleep. All these things would be a benefit there.
I also would paint my toes with Argentyn silver, which is a nano silver solution, that is uniform distribution of the silver molecules as opposed to colloidal silver, which is cheaply available over the counter. But it's clumpy. It's good, but it is not as good as nanoparticulate silver in solution. Argentyn silver is only given by doctors. A half-strength product is called Sovereign Silver over the counter, and I would just put a few drops on your toenails every night, and that should work. But find a functional doctor that can help test your insulin, fasting blood sugar, triglycerides, and hemoglobin A1c, and hold you accountable to getting ideal values, which would be a triglyceride level, somewhere in the 50-60 range, certainly no higher than your HDL cholesterol. I don't care what the total or LDL cholesterol is. A fasting blood sugar, is always under 85, an insulin level that is always under 4, and a hemoglobin A1C of 5.2.
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“What are the different causes of urinary tract infections?” [0:25:47]
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Well, there are all kinds of causes, but very often this shows up in adulthood for women who have become sexually active, and that is very often because of the contamination of the urethral area because of that intimate exposure. And the recommendation would of course then to, wash or shower after intimacy and then to be very cautious during intimacy. Then, the other would be teaching appropriate hygiene of cleansing for particularly females after using the bathroom. And then, of course, you have to have a good healthy immune system. The higher the average blood sugars are climbing, obesity is climbing, diabetes is climbing, and so, sugar will promote inflammation and suppress the immune system so that it will promote more infections that way. Hopefully, that's helpful for you. But those are the most common.
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“My friend has been taking gabapentin and another pain reliever for years because of severe neuropathy in her feet stemming from an injury. She is experiencing bad side effects and really wants to get off the medications, but the pain is pretty severe. Do you know of an alternative to gabapentin? I've heard that Jamaican Dogwood is good.” [0:27:12]
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What I would say is neuropathies are on the increase, especially since the rollout of the mRNA injections, and irritation to the sheath of the nerves is being injured by high blood sugar and the inflammation damage that it occurs. Remember on these pictures here I have behind me of the healthy cell membrane over here, and then the injured damaged little membrane right here. There's a sheath that goes round and round about nerves and it's full of phospholipid fats and cholesterol to protect and insulate the nerve conduction, the electrochemical reaction. And if you are having high blood sugars, that will damage it. If you do trauma, that will damage it. But if you eat a healthy, low-carb diet, non-diabetic, and exercise, your microvasculature, the tiny, tiny, teeny-weenie little capillaries should be able to deliver to repair the injury if you eat enough healthy fats from eating meat or egg yolks and chicken with the skin on it and fish and pork and butter, and things like that. So, we would encourage a very low-carb diet and regular exercise. If she can't walk or run on her feet as well, then she can get on a stationary bicycle or something to get this rhythmic hydraulic going along, drinking her water, disinflame with the systemic enzymes, and don't use the recommended dose if a systemic enzyme will say take two or three on an empty stomach once a day or as directed by your physician. I have my patients with neuropathies do all these things and then I'll tell them to try and eat as close to a carnivore and to never eat late and to take 5 or 8, even 10 enzymes, twice a day to disinflame because inflammation is the fire of pain, and the treatment is an anti-inflammatory, which would be water, putting the fire out with water. So, drinking your water is very critical, taking enzymes to reduce the fire of inflammation, not eating late, eating a low-carb diet, taking things such as turmeric or curcumin, taking EDTA chelation therapy with vitamin C infusions weekly, and all those things together always help resolve the pain of neuropathy.
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“Since you don't think the suppositories work as well as they used to because of the cocoa butter, what do you suggest for ridding myself of heavy metals? If it is chelation IVs, how many do you suggest, and how often for it to work? They are quite expensive that is why I started with suppositories first. I have quite a lot of metals. Thanks!” [0:30:46]
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That would be IV chelation therapy. Well, we teach at the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, a standard Cockcroft calculation based on body mass and creatinine, kidney function, and a dose, and that generally is set at a top limit of 3 grams per IV to anyone. Our standard is 1.5 grams. And at the academy, we'll say 30 IVs, maybe 40, and re-assess with testing for a urinary challenge on the 1st and on the 30th IV. And so, that's what we recommend.
Come and call us at Tustin Longevity Center, and we're working out a way to help you to get this supportive therapy in other ways that may be covered. So, let's see if we can help you that way.
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“What do you think of red light therapy? If so, what do you think it's best used for? Thank you.” [0:32:20]
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Well, again, here is another example of electro-frequency medicine. The energy of the red light frequency is at a level and a depth that will penetrate your skin, and it will enhance the vibrational rate of all the molecules in its region of influence. So, if you're laying in a bed that has all this infrared light over you, you're going to have a massive amount of your body, the surface area of your skin, that will start being heated up, which will enhance circulation. It's the same as sitting in a sauna with heat. You will get hot, you will vasodilate, your heart will be faster to cool you down, and that heat transfer will enhance the vibrational frequency of all the cells. So, yes, I think it's a useful thing. Anything that will enhance circulation is helpful for all diseases.
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“God bless you, Dr. Rita. As you asked me, I watched Dr. Diamond's video on cholesterol and my blood work is on target! The video is so informative. How can calcium calcifications be removed from arteries? Thank you.” [0:33:31]
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In general, over 43 years as a practicing physician, I find that if you do all these healthy things that we're suggesting, and taking the vitamin K2 with your D and doing EDTA chelation, this tends to greatly improve the circulation and reduce the calcifications. Now, there are different kinds of calcifications. There are soft plaques in which the inflammation is relatively still new, and the calcifications are just beginning to deposit and have not hardened or become very firm. This is maybe some of the most easy areas to reduce the calcium. And there are calcifications that are largely solidified down, and the removal of these is not as easy over time. But they are not financing any kind of studies in natural medicine that we can look at this. So, you're just stuck with my experience of over 43 years in chelation. And I'm going to say, that would be the direction that I would aim for, for these calcifications. The vitamin K2, somewhere around 90 to 180 micrograms daily with vitamin D somewhere around 10,000 IU a day, EDTA chelation, and all the other healthy things we talk about.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Thanks so much for being there for all of us. Your knowledge and experience is invaluable.” [0:35:18]
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Well, thank you. I wouldn't be here without God, and I couldn't do it without all of my staff and other physicians. We just had another wonderful grand rounds today. We do it every month. We take time off and we meet with our doctors on the second Tuesday of every month, and we go over case studies and literature. I'd like to bring up one before I end tonight. But it is really great. It is a team effort. So, thank you for those compliments, but it really is God and many that went before me.
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“I'm a B-positive blood type and get spring allergies. Also, I deal periodically with bouts of vertigo. Any natural remedies? Thanks so much.” [0:35:58]
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The age-related vertigo typically is associated with the narrowing of the circulation, capillaries, and the loops of Henle that are on each side of our head that have fluid in them, endolymph, and crystals, so that when you turn your head one way, the fluids are going to roll in waves in the direction to keep level with gravity. And if you move it back, then your body has the fluid roll in another direction. If there is clogging or pinching there, not enough water, you're dehydrated, then this fluid dynamic response will not be immediate and unequal, and then you get feedback that says you're imbalanced.
And it's really the endolymph in your loops of Henle.
So, what improves it? All the healthy things I've told you. EDTA chelation, low-carb diet, regular exercise, weightlifting and aerobics, not eating late, systemic enzymes, and adequate hydration. Then you can add into this non-sleepy kind of natural antihistamines like, D-hist or Seasonal Relief, which is our private labeled form of D-hist, and these are made up largely of quercetin. Quercetin high dose typically helps. The systemic enzymes disinflame the water, rehydrate the EDTA, and improve microcirculation, and exercise. And then, of course, if these things are persistent or recurrent, you should see your doctor or Ear, Nose, & Throat specialist. They'll put you in a Barney chair and test you for your positions and see if it stimulates this imbalance, and there are exercises you can do to help this as well.
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“Hi Dr. Ellithorpe. I'm a 68-year-old, A-positive blood type patient at TLC and have heard an earful of horrible experiences from 50-plus-year-old people who came down with shingles. Do you recommend getting a Shingles vaccine at this point in life? I have had chicken pox as a youngster and life stressors are at a minimal level.” [0:38:16]
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It’s a matter of maintaining your immune system. We, who have had the chicken pox, I have as well, the virus will live in the dorsal horns of our spinal cord all the years of our life. As our immune system fails us with a high-carb diet, with an inactive lifestyle, with eating late at night, with stress, with lack of nutrients, and so forth, we will then often encourage the re-expression as our immune system doesn't keep it in check.
So, what do we do? We recommend high-dose vitamin C, a low-carb diet, a good functional doctor to look at how well your immune system is, and things like this to address it. I have become very concerned about the state of our vaccine industry and I am suspicious of them as they have no risk of being sued with vaccines for this.
So, another critical thing is your vitamin D level in all of this. The vitamin D level is so low in general. Getting your vitamin D level up to 80 micrograms per deciliter is very important to have a suppressive action on it. And of course, vitamin C is a natural response for treating viral illnesses. So, get your D levels checked, make sure they're above 80, and take vitamin C IV. And it also mitigates. Even if you have an early outbreak, the faster you can get a high dose of vitamin C, the quicker you're going to get relief.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. I am an 84-year-old woman, (Dr. Mitchell's patient for years) generally in good health. Follow-up MRI with contrast of liver as compared to 2016 MRI with contrast, few lesions on liver continue to be described as hemangiomas and several renal cysts as “simple” cysts. However, liver is enlarged – 20 cm. and grew 5 cm. since 2016.” [0:40:41]
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What I would ask is, you know, very often, a fatty liver will be, it'll get big and full with carbohydrates, sugars, and the fructose and alcohol will enlarge it. You need to have that looked at and worked with your gastroenterologist or hepatologist. Hemangiomas are considered benign, renal cysts are considered benign. But as to the variation between those two, and since I'm not a radiologist with the exact number in my head of the upper limits of a normal liver size, I would refer you back to seeing your specialists more about the state of the fat content of your liver, which could do this. And it's turned around with a low carbohydrate, no-fruit diet. So, I’ll look at those things, but do follow that up.
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“Regard the enlarged liver that grew 5 cm. since 2016 – what is the reason for the growth? Concerning? MY integrative MD is not. My blood work is good. I eat pretty “clean” – high protein, good fats, low carb, exercise, etc. Started taking milk thistle for liver detox. Any suggestions? Thanks, as always, for all you do!” [0:42:10]
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Again, alpha lipoic acid is probably the quintessential liver detox molecule. Alpha lipoic acid (ALA). Milk thistle is also valuable, but (ALA) alpha lipoic acid is even better. I can't speak to this. I would have to read the reading myself, and I would have to know you, your body size, your habits, and all those things a little bit more. So, do follow up.
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“Will the EDTA IV treatments remove lead?” [0:43:09]
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100 percent. 100 percent. That's what they were FDA-approved for and for children, in particular.
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“Hi, I am 60 years old. My hands tend to go numb at night when I'm sleeping. I do have some pain, mostly the thumb joint. I have not been able to get my wedding ring on for the last 4 months. Is there something that can be done about this? I do not eat processed foods or sugar. I do not seem to have inflammation anywhere else in my body.” [0:43:19]
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As we age, our muscles are shrinking. There are tiny muscles and there are larger muscle groups, but the whole thing holds us up instead of crouching down like we tend to do with age. So, I would recommend for tingling, of course, you see your local doctor if necessary to get an x-ray of your upper chest girdle, this area up here, to see how well your posture is. Because as you pull on your bones in various positions, it's going to be creating pinching. And as you lose your muscle mass and wasting with age, it's going to create this chronic pinching and tingling sensation. That could be one of them. There are many other causes, of course, but these are the most common. It's very common with people who are getting older to have what we call “paresthesias” tingling and positional and wake up with numb hands and stuff like that, and you have to change your position and better posturing in your bed. So, I would work with your doctor on looking at your physical therapy and doing heavy-weight training two or three times a week and see if that helps you. Of course, enzymes are anti-inflammatory. Water hydration would be very important along with many other things.
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“Hello! What is your feeling about taking creatine for a woman, 53, working hard to gain muscle? Is it beneficial?” [0:45:13]
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I'm going to say yes. I'm not going to suggest to you. I have a lot of experience with that. I have very few women who ever come to me wanting to build their muscles. I'm trying to get them to do it more and more. Creatine is helpful for this. But I recommend just eating the meat, the fish, the chicken, the turkey, the beef, the eggs, and try and get close to 100 grams of protein in, which will give you far more creatine in a more natural form.
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“What are the most important natural supplements/herbs to take when you have Hashimoto's? I'm taking selenium/vitamin D, along with levothyroxine 125 mcg. I still feel horrible daily.” [0:45:50]
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Well, there's a lot more we would need to know about you. Your functional doctor would have to look at your blood sugar, your insulin, your triglyceride, your hemoglobin A1c, your liver enzymes, the thyroid peroxidase antibodies, the thyroglobulin antibodies, your gut for your gut health and leaky gut creating an autoimmune thyroiditis, with a complete digestive stool analysis, looking for inflammation in your gut, from what you're eating, an immune food test for looking at what you're reacting to in your food, are you drinking enough water? So, these are things even before trying to take a supplement. So, there isn't a mystery supplement. What there is is mystery responsibility for individual health. Taking our own responsibility for every part of our health. And so, we encourage lifestyle medicine here, and we are cheerleaders and coaches most of the time.
Now, selenium is very valuable, and a lot of people are deficient in selenium. We do a red blood cell mineral analysis that helps us look at that or a spectra cell that looks at that. Vitamin D deficiency anti-inflammatory markers should be also screened as well. But there isn't a supplement for thyroiditis. There's a good healthy lifestyle and good adequate – you know, my core base is Juice Plus, the most researched nutraceutical antioxidant, whole fruit, vegetable, and berry concentrates in little capsules, two of each, fruit, vegetable and berry, daily as a tremendous antioxidant, anti-inflammatory impact that slows aging, protects from DNA damage, promotes healthy metabolism and waste removal of homocysteine levels. These have been proven in peer-reviewed research reported in such noble journals as cardiology, immunology, and the like. So, that's my, number one nutraceutical to take. Number two is D3 with K2. Number three would be iodine because I found the vast majority close to 100 percent of my patients are iodine deficient and very often associated with thyroiditis. And taking in a very good multi-mineral, TLC Multi-mineral and that's rich in selenium, and that is my core right there.
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“Is stevia bad for you? Bad for mitochondria/microbiome?” [0:49:01]
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There's all kinds of stuff out there on the internet. I could probably find as many people of noteworthy reputation that will say Stevie is good enough and safe enough, and then I'll find as many with a good reputation, saying it's not good. My question is, why do you always have to have a sweetness to eating something? And we have been made addicted to the taste of sweets. I liken this to pornography. We have been slow-cooked like a frog in a pot of water, slowly being cooked. We've been introduced to more and more vulgar stuff in our music and language, more and more vulgar stuff in the imagery and videos and TV and movies that are made to the point now that we don't react to the stimuli of a girl in a bikini compared to now a girl who is being very abused on the TV image and exposed. It's just getting worse and worse and worse.
So, the same thing with sugar and high fructose corn syrup. It has been introduced more and more and more, and we've lost the joy and the satisfaction of natural sweetness in our foods and in rare exposures on a true holiday to a sweet item. So, rather than worry about stevia, I would say work on learning to, have no sweetness and try and go a week without any sweetness and see that you can actually enjoy the sweetness in green beans. You can actually taste it.
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“Do you recommend pulsing progesterone (stopping after day 12 of the month) during the cycle on menopausal females to prevent spotting or overgrowth of uterine lining from Hormone Replacement Therapy? Been seeing both this method and the continued use nightly of progesterone along with estrogen.” [0:50:59]
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Yeah, it's six of one and half a dozen of another. It's an individual case. Women make progesterone naturally during their young years, and there is a surge of progesterone made. It's available about two weeks of every monthly cycle, the same two weeks roughly if you have a regular cycle. And if you pulse your progesterone, this is mimicking your youthful levels. By the time you get older in age, it becomes more profitable, you might say, for the woman, timewise and preventive-wise, sleep-wise, because sleep becomes an issue with aging usually, to take progesterone continuously. So, I would work that out with your hormone replacement doctor, and just find out what's best for you. I take it myself, pulsing. I only use it the first of the month to the 15th and it has been working for me, but other women feel better with it continuously.
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“Hi, current TLC patient, mast cells in the bladder, taking Zyrtec but want a natural approach. Would D-Hist help and how do I take it? How about d-mannose, anything else I can take? Zyrtec calmed the overactive bladder. Thank you.” [0:52:28]
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Then do quercetin which is in D-Hist. You’re right. Would D-Hist help? Absolutely yes. D-Hist has to be taken in a loading dose. Take eight on the first day, six maybe on day two, and then stay on four a day always until you feel much better. D-mannose lines the bladder so that bacteria have a more difficult time attaching to it. That is a non-absorbable sugar. Enough water would be valuable. For an overactive bladder, I would go to a Womanology and get some pelvic floor therapy. You could have some tiny muscle spasm on the plexus that comes off your spine at that point and is also agitated. See a urologist. PA - Gonzalez is a urologist specialty trained physician assistant we have here, and she talks about this often.
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“How might I be able to address knee pain with nutrition and other means so that I can avoid having surgery?” [0:53:49]
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A very low carb diet, high dose systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day, Vitalzym, I would use a five or eight on an empty stomach in the morning and at bedtime. And as you feel better, then you can cut back to seven and seven, six and six, five and five. And then half your weight in water, along with your low-carb diet. Never, never, never eat late. And I would do muscle training, exercise with a physical therapist, and regular weight training for your whole posture. And I would also consider turmeric/curcumin, which is anti-inflammatory. And then there's a whole new field of injectable platelet-rich plasma therapy, and then there is the peptide therapy injectable also into the joints with the cartilage regrowth. EDTA chelation therapy enhances the microcirculation because the cartilage is avascular, it only gets its nutrition by diffusion, so water content is extremely important every single day. And the EDTA chelation will improve the microcirculation to the tiny, tiny, teeny-weenie synovial artery that is the only source of nutrition for the repair of your knee. And see a good functional doctor on that.
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“Hi Dr. E., thanks for all you do. Just purchased a sleep product that has Apigenin in it (in addition to some other stuff like melatonin and L-Theanine). Are you familiar with Apigenin?” [0:55:46]
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Not by the name they're giving it. I'm going to have to write that down. I'll look that up. Apigenin. Wait for me next week, and then we'll see what I think of that.
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“Hi, Dr. E. I have been experiencing dizziness today. I have never had this before. No ear infection. Decreased energy, no nausea. Drinking a lot of water. Electrolytes? Low blood pressure? Thank you.” [0:56:25]
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This could be many things, and I don't know your age or your comorbidities or none. I don't know what your blood type is or your medical history. I don't take dizziness lightly. And so, if you're drinking adequate water and taking a good multi-mineral, electrolytes, salting your food, I would have your doctor take a look at you and check your blood pressure. But for right now, I would definitely be doing the water and the electrolytes and minerals, and then see your doctor if this persists or worsens.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. If we eat a lot of meat and drink coffee, will we make our bodies too acidic? Thank you very much.” [0:57:15]
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The answer is no, I've never seen that, and I've been doing this for decades. So, I have not come across a person. I suppose theoretically you could make arguments for the hydrolysis of proteins into amino acid chains and the acidity of the coffee, but that's more theory than practicality. So, I wouldn't worry about it. Just drink half your weight in water on an empty stomach every day and enjoy your coffee with your good protein diet.
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“Dr. Berg on YouTube is always saying how cod liver oil is good for you. Is that true or do we not need it? Thank you.” [0:57:59]
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Cod liver oil is rich in vitamin D, and probably vitamin A as well. But I don't like fish oil. I'm not a fish. I don't need all the other excess DHA and EPA high double bond chains that oxidize and make the stinky fish smell. I'm 98.6 degrees. Fish on average live in a 30 to 40-degree temperature. They need all these double bonds. We don't. God gave us alpha-linolenic and linoleic acid. So, that's what I take, which is in my Clinician's Preference Oil. This is what I take every day. Clinician's Preference Oil. And so, you can get your D by taking your vitamin D, getting out in the sun, and that's what I would say for that.
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“Hi doctor, is there a site to help our family members find a functional doctor similar to TLC in other states? It is so hard to know by Google search and websites if they are good. Any recommendations in Az?” [0:59:08]
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Yeah. And I hope it's useful. It's www.ACAM.org. The American College for the Advancement of Medicine. And then you’ll just find, you’ll see the “find a doctor near me” button and put in your mile range and that should help you as well.
I would call the office manager and I would even go to a doctor's office and just sit in the waiting room for 20 to 30 minutes and listen to the chatter there, and you can get a feel for the busyness and the responsiveness and the pleasantness of the people there. You can start seeing the doctors. But you have to do your investigation, you're right.
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“Tell the fungus lady to stop eating Frankenfood.” [1:00:19]
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Yes. Yes. Frankenfood, that's for sure. Yes.
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“Hi, Dr. E. What could cause a teenager to get acne on the back? Any tips on how to solve it?” [1:00:33]
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Yeah. Eat less Frankenfood, eat less processed food, He's probably getting into it when he's at his friends or certainly at the corrupt public school, a government school terrible diet. The sugars are insulin stimulators. Insulin stimulates weight gain and abnormal hormone use and suppresses the immune system, so the tiny hair follicles start getting clogged up. That's what I would do. I would spray Argentyn silver over acne and I would get them off this junk food and sugar.
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“How much protein do seniors need? I eat plant proteins. I work out with weights and swim. 69-year-old female.” [1:01:20]
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I would say if you're an average, say 150-pound, woman, I would recommend you eat about a 100 grams of protein a day.
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“My chiropractor said that the body will eventually shift itself out of ketosis after a long period (1 or 2 years). Is that true?” [1:01:39]
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I haven't shifted out. I mean, if you're saying, do I test my ketone levels all the time? No, I don't. do I check my insulin triglyceride, fasting blood sugar, hemoglobin A1c twice a year? Yes, I do. And as long as they're in those ranges, I don't really care what my ketones are. They have to be good because my triglycerides are in the 30 - 50 range, my blood sugar is usually in the 50 - 60 range, my hemoglobin A1c is always under 5.2, and the insulin is usually under 4. So, that's what I would focus on.
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“On my latest blood test, my vitamin D was 140. My doctor thought it was too high and to stop taking it for a month and get another blood test.” [1:02:36]
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I disagree. Were your liver enzymes elevated? So, if you had a complete comprehensive chemistry and you had AST/ALT, alkaline, and phosphine on your liver enzymes and they're normal, then we know that you're not too high in your vitamin D.
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“What is your opinion of the potential benefit of NAD?” [1:03:10]
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I think it’s a fad. I’ve been through so many fads in 43 years of healthcare being always involved even before medical school in health research. I even talked about Laetrile and vitamin B17 and taught it in lectures in my sophomore year of college after I read the book Laetrile Cancer Prevention by Edward Griffin. That came out in 1970, I think it was ’72. So, I’ve been around it, I’ve seen it all, I’m a dinosaur. I’m all for it, but taking a separate single molecule is never the answer. Lifestyle will always trump one molecule. Always lifestyle will help it more.
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“I take 4 grams/day of omega-3 oil (proportion: 3 DHA: 1 EPA). Is that an optimal dose?” [1:04:09]
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I don’t like EPA and DHA, so I would say no.
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“What do you recommend for ulcers? Should we use antacids?” [0:02:40]
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Well, In general, the question has to come, why are you having an ulcer and who has ulcers, and do you know for sure if you have an ulcer? You would see your doctor, and your doctor would try an antacid, assuming there's excess production of acid. And very often, it isn't the acid so much that's an excess. Very often it's a blood type A person who doesn't produce enough digestive enzymes or betaine hydrochloric acid. And then what turns out is the food stays undigested and in the stomach too long, and it’s easier to burp it up when you're bending over, tying your shoes and stuff rather than proceeding through your gastrointestinal symptoms. So, this can happen chronically, and you start getting this reflux into your esophagus and symptoms of heartburn. It can create erosive esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus, and you can get also some symptoms that would improve if you took antacid or over-the-counter Pepto Bismol. But O-type blood, people with O-type blood tend to have excess acid production. So, on one end of the spectrum is the A with too little and food staying in the stomach too long, and on the other end is the O-type blood that tends to make too much acid, and these are typically known for producing ulcers.
So, we recommend starting out with things like drinking enough water and stopping eating at 6 o'clock at night. Don't lay down for 3 or 4 hours before you go to bed, elevate the head of your bed, and to use L-Glutamine powder, Metagenics made Glutagenics, which was a very good glutamine powder to mix in water. L-glutamine is helpful in repairing the lining. We have Glutashield from Ortho Molecular. I have Phospholipids because, remember, the lining of the cell membrane here has that injured hole through the cell membrane, and you get a ton of these and you get an ulcer. And you have to have those phospholipids from eating meat, fish, chicken, turkey, egg yolks, and things like that to repair it. So, Phospholipids in a powder, we usually mix it with SBI Protect protein, which are immunoglobulin A, because you secrete a generalized antibody IgA, and this helps protect the body from invasion of pathogens that might be in our food. And so, this powder mixed with the Phospholipids is very helpful if you take a drink of this in warm water before you go to bed, maybe first thing in the morning, and then you could do it as often as you like. Then antacids would be the next step if it's not handled with some of these more common items. So hopefully, that works well for you.
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“What do you recommend to avoid stiff neck and back muscles? Epsom soaks, stretches, massage, creams, etc.” [0:06:09]
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The first thing is water. We tend to not drink enough water and our joints get water only through diffusion. Our tendons only get the water through diffusion. So, you don't have capillaries in your tendons or the cartilage of your nose and stuff, so that it doesn't get calcified so your nose can wiggle and your ears can be soft and wiggle. So, water is critical for stiffness in the joints.
The next thing is minerals, multi-mineral amino acid-chelated minerals. We made the Albion amino acid chelated multi-mineral, called TLC MultiMin. Taking 3 to 6 of those is very helpful if you have enough water. Of course, stretching. And then, as we age, our muscles dwindle away. They're absorbed. And then, if your structural muscle doesn't hold your cage and your shoulder girdle up and your hips in the right sense, you're going to start slumping and having fatigue of the muscle and poor posture, which will aggravate the tendons and stuff. So, weight training, upper and lower body twice a week, a minimum of 30 minutes. And that's why I'm in this outfit because immediately after this, I'm going to go work out for an hour, doing my weightlifting, which I do at least twice a week. So, that's the first direction I would go in.
Secondarily, you could take Systemic Enzymes, which are anti-inflammation. So, if you have injured cells like this over here, this little poked-out area, and that's what all disease, no matter what organ of your body. If that membrane is disrupted, those little fragments that are all coming out, they have to be cleared away without water, and then the enzymes like little Pac-Man have to eat that thing up and let a new cell membrane replace it. So, Systemic Enzymes taken on an empty stomach 5 twice a day are typically what will solve it here. We use the Vitalzym and then we use Vascuzyme systemic enzymes and that helps. And then also improving circulation with EDTA chelation therapy. That's another methodology.
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“How much daily fresh air would you suggest for adults and kids?” [0:08:49]
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Well, I think we should be outside getting a good half hour of fresh air and sunshine as a minimum, if possible. More is better, of course. But when you say fresh air today, we are dealing with confounding factors, such as chemtrails and these airplanes that make these fake lines in the skies are putting all kinds of pesticides or nanoparticulate metal oxides, like aluminum oxide, barium oxide, strontium oxides in them. And so, it's landing on the ground, it makes our forests have an aluminum coat. That's why they're so explosively incendiary, and we're having worse fires because we have a known pyrotechnic metal everywhere sprayed out of the planes called an aluminum oxide and they ignite on fire. So, it is a challenge. But the good Lord has given us EDTA chelation to pull this out.
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“If you personally (or your dear loved ones) had to be treated for an emergency medical condition in Southern California (and you had a choice of hospitals), which hospital would you feel safe with?” [0:10:10]
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I frankly would feel safe with none of them. So, I'm sorry. It's just a sad thing. I am not happy with the state of the medical profession, with medical people who are not putting ethics first. If they can so easily be blown over to push emergency authorized treatments that are likely not well-researched and they don't know how to investigate it, and they continue to support it, and it takes years to find out their damaging effects, then you have to ask yourself, how good are these doctors? And that crosses all the specialties and all the family practice, general medicine, internal medicine. So, I'm really disappointed. I don't feel safe in any of them. Sorry.
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“Is there enough data to feel safe with stem cell therapy? Do you think it's a positive layer of impact on the low carb/chelation/good water/exercise/sleep/low stress/hormone replacement therapy foundation?” [0:11:41]
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The answer is yes. I am taking some studies. I went to a conference last year on peptide therapy, platelet-rich plasma injections into the joint, which have the growth factors, the repair factors that our body secretes all the time and it's in our serum. So, if you spin down the blood and then the top layer, the floating buffy coat layer, then you take that, it has all these growth factors in it. On top of that, there are peptides, certain dipeptides, and short peptide amino acid chains that are known to stimulate growth and repair. So, I think the research is out there. It's being employed. I've seen clinical effects on patients with good results. I don't particularly do it at this time, but I know that it's starting to emerge in the area here, and so I am in favor of it in general.
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“What are your thoughts on using sunscreen on your face?” [0:13:06]
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I never use it. I only use progesterone on my face if I have any concerns about sunscreen. And so, I'm far more concerned about my vitamin D level than I am about some pharmaceutical-promoted product that can be associated with diminishing my vitamin D level. So, no. I think we have to understand that man has been in the sun for 6,000 years, so we need to address the fact that vitamin D is far more important than sunscreen, and we can use bonnets or sombreros or various things like that, and that should be sufficient, in my opinion. Progesterone has been used as a sunscreen for many years. Topical progesterone can be used by men and women and children.
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“God bless you, beautiful lady! What is the best way to clean out calcifications in the arteries not just in the heart but in the lower extremities? What do you recommend for extreme eye dryness which causes more frequent styes? Thank you.” [0:14:12]
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Well, I'm all for vitamin K2, the MK7 variety of vitamin K2, and I'm for plenty of vitamin D. I am for getting roughly at least 5,000 International Units of vitamin D with about at least 45 micrograms of vitamin K2, or higher, 10,000 vitamin D international units with 90 mcg of K2 and even higher. Up to now, I think I've been using 180 mcg of vitamin K2 with 5,000 D3. In the item that's called K-FORCE.
Now that helps take calcium out of soft tissues and place it in bones where it should be. But you don't want to have these areas that are injured. These little sites of injured cells create signals and inflammation, and it attracts calcium. And so, if you don't want to have calcifications, you also have to say you don't want inflammation. And that means you have to drink enough water, you have to try and be mobile and get good circulation. EDTA chelation is the most wonderful thing to do, in addition to your vitamin K2 and D3. And then Systemic Enzymes and eating a humble diet low in carbohydrates, drinking plenty of water. Just remember, we're all roasting at 98.6 degrees. So, if you're 150 lbs, you're on a 150-lb roast cooking. If you're a 200-lb man, you're roasting 200 pounds at 98.6 degrees every day. It makes you want to drink a lot more water to boast a base for yourself and take your enzymes. So, that's what I would do.
And then for the styes, the water, the enzymes, the chelation. But I also use Argentyn silver. Almost every night, I will take a drop of Argentyn silver and drop it in each of my eyes. It works as an antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral. So, it helps to keep the inflammation in my tiny little eyelash follicles clean and the puncta, the little holes that drain the tears open so that I don't get styes. That's what I would do.
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“Due to menopause and vaginal dryness, I am currently using a vaginal estrogen cream twice weekly. I would also like to include Revaree by Bonafide for vaginal atrophy, which is a vaginal hyaluronic acid moisturizer. Can these things be combined or is that overkill?” [0:17:14]
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I certainly don't think that that's an overkill. If Revaree by Bonafide is a vaginal hyaluronic acid moisturizer, then indeed you can use that probably daily, and then the Estrace (estradiol) vaginal cream twice a week, and it should not be any conflict.
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“What type of estrogen do you use on your face? Estradiol (same as vaginal estradiol) or bio-identical estrogen? I want to make sure I am putting the right hormone on my face.” [0:18:17]
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The answer is yes. Well, estradiol is bioidentical estrogen. Estrogen is like a general name referring to the category of female hormones, just like Toyota is the general name of a company that makes a Toyota Corona, and Toyota Lexus. So, these are different models of the Toyota car. So, estrogen is a group name for the specific estradiol, estrone, and estriol, and these are the only three human female bioidenticals. And I only use estradiol, I don't like estriol, biest and triest, because really the only active agent is estradiol, and that's what I put on my face.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! My husband has been having an itchy inner ear with some tingling. We have mold in the house and are getting it cleaned up. He didn't have this issue in a previous house before mold. He also sneezes often and has mucus in the sinuses all year long. What do you think? I experience anxiety attacks. Do you have any tips to help get rid of this? It started in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Thank you. What is good for adrenal health?” [0:19:33]
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Well, starting from the last question first, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is very good for adrenal health. It is the precursor. So, if you eat fat from a piece of meat or butter, that piece of cholesterol will be hydrolyzed and some of the two major parts of the hydrolysis will make pregnenolone and DHEA. The pregnenolone will go on to do certain things and the DHEA will go on to do certain things in the human body. So, DHEA is a precursor to the cortisol to help your adrenal glands do well. So, that's what I take every day of my life. I use 50 mg. Very often I start people on 25 mg. Some people can go as low as 5 mg or 10 milligrams, but I think 25 mg would be a good starting point once a day, and get your cortisol tested with your doctor.
So, I would start with DHEA for anxiety. I would exercise. Exercise weight training and high-intensity training, like taking a walk and every two minutes burst out into a jog or a very, very fast walk for 20, 30 seconds, then slow down to a brisk walk for two minutes, and then speed up and then slow down, speed up and slow down. Or do it more intensely. Exercise is a great anti-anxiety thing to do, and I would do that every day for half an hour. The other thing is weight training. It’s also known to be very good for mood and for anxiety. You also could use magnesium. We use the powdered magnesium chelate, called OptiMag Neuro. It's very relaxing. Ashwagandha is a very good herb that's in our TLC calm. You could take that also before nighttime with magnesium.
And regarding your husband's itchy ear and some of the tingling and the mold in the house, again, you have to get the mold taken out. That could be causing that with his sneezing all the time for sure. But I would put him on a carnivore diet. The most anti-allergy, anti-inflammation elimination food diet is a carnivore diet. And if he did that for a month, then he could definitely see an improvement. I would do that. The other thing I could take is a natural herbal quercetin. Quercetin acts as a natural antiviral, antihistamine without making you drowsy. You would have to load up first. We have D-Hist from Ortho Molecular or Seasonal Allergy as our private-labeled one here. And you take 8 capsules the first day, 6 the next, 4 the next, and then stay on 2 to 4 every day while you're on the carnivore diet. Drink plenty of water and work on the mold and have your doctor see how it's working or get with a functional doctor and get some food allergy testing, skin testing, those kinds of things. Hopefully, that helps you as well.
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“Good evening, Dr. Ellithorpe. What is your take on sauna? We have an infrared sauna which I set at 140 degrees, which is enough to really drip sweat. I find I'm craving it. I'm 64, healthy, no contraindication. Does it truly detox? God bless you and your caring concern for his Children.” [0:23:53]
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I like it. I have my own, infrared sauna. Does it truly detox? The answer is yes. Yes, the heat and the circulation will make your heart beat faster as if you were exercising. So, one of the features of the research with sauna, either the humidity-induced or the dry sauna with the lights, all of that heat makes the heart beat faster because your body is starting to heat up. When your heart beats faster, it's trying to cool you down, and that is like simulating aerobic exercise. Therefore, finished studies have shown that people who do sauna four times a week have a clear-cut extension in life longevity because of a better cardiovascular state of health. But of the side benefits, when they study the sweat and they look at these people in more depth, they do find that detoxing of volatile organic pesticides, herbicides, and things like that, is sweated out, as well as other toxins. So, yes, it's a very valuable thing to do, and I would recommend it four times a week.
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“What do you recommend for treatment of a cold? No fever, just tremendous congestion. I know to drink water and fast but do things like Sudafed or Claritin really help?” [0:25:43]
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Well, they act as decongestants to dry up the lining of the mucous membranes through adrenergic stimulation and antihistamines. So, yeah, it can be a help, but again, those are drugs.
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“My vitamin C has zinc in it, can I double the dose? Does Ivermectin help?” [0:26:14]
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Yes definitely, you could because you're not going to take this chronically. So, for two weeks or so, you could certainly double the dose. Zinc, I think the highest doses I've seen on a daily basis for a limited time is somewhere in the realm of 200 - 225 mg a day to really boost up the body's ability to fight off viruses. But if it's an allergen, that's not going to be that meaningful. Quercetin in the form of D-Hist seasonal allergy screen is quercetin. That's what we use here. It actually is the Ortho Molecular D-Hist private-labeled. But Quercetin in 600 to 800 mg a day is a very good anti-histamine, anti-allergy, anti-viral item as well. If you think it's viral, then I would definitely take the zinc. If you think it's just pure allergies, then I don't think I would worry about it. A daily maintenance of zinc should probably be in a multivitamin somewhere around 6 mg. Separate amino acid chelated zinc is often sold somewhere between 25-50 mg capsules, and you could definitely use a few of those daily for a week or two. If you take high zinc too long, you can offset your zinc-copper ratio on your body. So, short bursts should never be a problem. People have been doing this for thousands of years.
What else would I do? I would use Argentyn silver nasal spray multiple times a day, each nostril. Brush your teeth, have good oral hygiene, water, a low-carb diet, or a fast for 24 hours - 48 hours, and that should get you through anything for the most part. And then, of course, your vitamin D, especially if you think it's viral.
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“What causes toe and leg cramping in the day and night?” [0:28:37]
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Well, the older you get, we're slowly breaking down, and the cell membranes are not being repaired enough. So, you get little cell membranes with holes in them and it leaks out its contents and minerals. The leakage of material can create irritability in the nerve. That could be a nerve membrane right there, that could be any cell membrane from your nerve, the lining to a nerve to any cell in your body, the muscles, the blood vessels, and so forth, lymph, and this then can trigger a depolarization. When the potassium chloride ions and calcium ions spill out of a cell, it can create a destabilization of the electron membrane that is supposed to be balanced, and with a breach of the membrane, that pouring out of the material can create depolarization and cramping and stuff. So, we recommend that you eat a low-carb diet, drink your water, take your enzymes, exercise, don't eat late, take a multi-mineral, and eat foods that are rich in phospholipids, so you can repair that so that you get the healed membrane there. And that goes from your brain all the way down to your toes.
So, most of the damage begins where we traumatize it the most, our feet, our legs, our knees, our hips, and they get poorer circulation than your arm because you don't raise your legs up throughout the day and get some flow, so that the edema building up. Because when you have the edema, you're just leaking out in your cells and it's accumulating in your legs, and that's a sign of aging and that this is happening if it's bilateral, and it usually goes away in the morning. So, take good care of your health, eat the phospholipids in your meat, your fish, your chicken, your egg yolks, and things like that. Repair your cell membranes.
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“I was a patient of yours for many years before moving to El Paso, Texas. I used to get calcium disodium EDTA 1500 mg suppositories from a compounding pharmacy. through you. Then for a while, you sold them in your TLC store. I haven't been able to find any of these anywhere near where I live. Do you know where I can get more of them?” [0:30:55]
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It is a medicine. You have to get it prescribed by a physician. So, if you find a functional doctor and you go there, ask the doctor to make a compound suppository that has 1,500 mg of calcium disodium EDTA, and you can use it three times a week, and that'll probably do very well.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you prefer to give bioidentical hormone progesterone in capsule or together in cream with estradiol?” [0:31:02]
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I like them separate. I usually try and steer my patients away from a multi-dose pill. Why? Because I can't manage them individually then. So, if I put progesterone and estradiol in a capsule, and let's say the progesterone is too low, then I can't say take two capsules because then it might make the estradiol go too high. So, I like prescribing bioidentical hormone replacement as single, either capsule or cream topical forms and not use combinations. That's how I like it. Whether it's in a capsule or a cream, it doesn't matter so much. It depends on the woman. Our skin is not all the same from woman to woman. Some women, beautifully absorbed through the skin, other women, not so much, and they need the oral form.
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“My 86-year-old diabetic mother has developed open sores and an open abscess in her legs with us coming out constantly. She has a Serratia bacterial infection and has been taking antibiotics for three days now. Doctor gave her Cefdinir antibiotics 300 mg (2 twice a day). The pus is still oozing out. Can I spray colloidal silver or use c. silver soap?” [0:33:20]
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Yes, absolutely 100%. And that would be the thing that I would say. Get Argentyn silver spray or a liquid and put that in the gauze and try and help there. But make sure her homecare nurse and her doctor can see these ulcers, and you have to move her and try and get the pressure off of these ulcers or spots where they're developing, and keep her on a low-carb diet because she has diabetes, it looks like. No, she, you didn't say she had diabetes. But bacteria grows rich in a glucose-sugar environment area.
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“How long can you go without sleep before it starts to impair your cognition?” [0:34:47]
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Well, sleep deprivation is well-known to create oxidative stress, and oxidative stress then creates all those little damaged areas that are in your brain like that, which then creates difficulty in neuroelectrochemical reactions and so forth to generate your thoughts and nerve symphony in your brain. So, how long would I say? Definitely, at 48 hours there is a cognitive drop that is observable by the outsider person, the doctor, and the family. 24 hours is observed by the individuals themselves. They can tell subtle slow cognitive recall and things like that. But I would say 48 hours, and I don't think I would recommend that at all.
And why is that? Because it is during sleep that we do our healing. So, if you go to sleep, it is at that time on an empty stomach. And so, you should stop eating 4 hours or so before you lay down so that the body knows that this is a time when your body is going to shift to repair and development of certain biochemical actions that your body needs to resuscitate itself. Let's put it that way. And this only happens when you're asleep. So, if you're not sleeping, then you're just building up oxidative repair, dirty, dusty damage. It's like going into a blizzard. You’ve got to slow your car down. You can't drive in a blizzard. When it clears up, then you can drive at the normal speed and safety.
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“Dr Rita, how do you reduce high blood pressure naturally?” [0:37:07]
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Well, I would say, number one, is water. I would say the number one thing we don't address adequately is taking in enough water. So, if you weigh 150 lbs., then you need a minimum of 75 ounces of water daily. Exercise. Regular aerobic and some weight training exercise, aerobic activity, 30 minutes, 60 minutes brisk walking every day, doing weight training twice a week. And then if your blood pressure is still up, then I would start adding in items like magnesium, amino acid chelated magnesium-calcium supplementation at night. Then I would consider EDTA chelation therapy. Then I would consider seeing your doctor and having them look at you, get a cardiology consult, a stress treadmill, maybe an ultrasound of your carotid arteries, and an echocardiogram with a cardiology consult. And if all those are still good, I think the first direction I would go into for any medication would be something that is called a calcium channel blocker for blood pressure medicine. But naturally speaking, I would do all those things first.
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“What are your thoughts on Perfect Amino? Have you had favorable clinical outcomes?” [0:38:49]
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Yeah, my husband uses them. He takes five of the tablets twice a day. He's 76 and he works out with me. He'll be with me when I go to work out in a few minutes here and his muscle mass is remarkable for his age. And his performance in the gym, you know, doing pull-ups, and he hangs around his waist.
He'll hang a 25-lb weight and he can still do his pull-ups and stuff like that. So it's quiet. You know, I sit there and I watch in the gym while I'm doing my workout, once in a while, I can see him doing that. And I see the young men around noticing and I can see them saying, boy, I want to be strong like that when I get to his age because he's obviously older at 76. He's fully gray-haired and otherwise quite sculpted. And I do believe that the years of him using a low carb, meat carnivore-rich diet and his Perfect Aminos, and Dr. Minkoff who developed it is an older man himself. I think he's like 84. He's still working. He does the triathlon. He always wins because no one's there to compete with him anymore in his late 70s and early 80s. So, yes, he designed it specifically for building muscle mass in the older gentlemen, but it definitely will work with younger men. But I try and encourage people to eat the real food, the meat, the fish, the chicken, the turkey, the beef, the eggs, and if you're a blood type A, to use Digestive Enzymes with it. So, hopefully, that'll help you to get a grip on that. I'm very much in favor of the Perfect Aminos.
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”Dr. Rita, I am 52. I take progesterone every night and estrogen patches twice a week. I don't get my period anymore, but I heard the longer you get the period is better for longevity.” [0:40:58]
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Yes, but I think you shouldn't strive to have a period. What you should do is have a good functional doctor who will check your hormone levels, and look at many aspects of your health parameters besides your hormones as well, in addition to your hormones. And if he sees that you have a very good estradiol level, even if it isn't enough to generate a menstrual cycle, let's say your estradiol level is 70 pg/dl and you're not having hot flashes or night sweats and you feel sharp mentally, and you have a good progesterone level, say at a level of 4, 5, 6 or higher picograms per deciliter, then I think you're doing well, and you've achieved a very good womanly hormone milieu to help you stay younger and longer. But it isn't just hormones. it's exercise, it's water, it's a good sleep, it's a mental attitude of peace and service, which I believe comes I'm sure from my conviction of my faith in my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who I try, and serve every day. And so, I think mental peace, the exercise, the water, the low-carb, finding out your blood type, looking for any food allergies, trying not to get into marketing and situations. For instance, they're marketing all these green drinks, and their concoctions of a powder mixed into water, in which you're drinking a large volume of dehydrated spinach and kale and other items, and you're doing this day after day after day, and you're going to wind up, if you did a food IgG Immunolab, you're going to wind up seeing you're getting inflamed from the very thing you're trying to do to take to make you healthy.
Now, juxtapose that with Juice Plus. Juice Plus has the fruit, the vegetable, and the berry blends. So, there'd be a red fruit capsule, a green vegetable, and a purple-looking berry capsule. And if you take two of them each, you're getting a tiny little amount, and you're not getting this volume. And the research on Juice Plus is so compelling and established over almost 30 years, that I can assure you I've never seen the inflammatory impact of seeing such a small but well-designed antioxidant protection. But these drinks that you're marketed to, longevity drinks, it's a huge volume of antigen you're exposing yourself to. That's like taking 30 or 40 capsules. So, hopefully, that helps you to understand. I'm glad you're doing those things. But have a humble life, a peaceful life, a joy from serving others. And then somehow, you know, it's more blessed to give than to receive. And when you do that, there's such a peace that comes to you. And then when I'm trying to live from my faith, I am always asking in my prayer, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So, it's not my will, but thy will be done. And so, I'm taking my nerves off of me. I'm not looking at me so much anymore, and I'm trying to say, you gave me this body. How do you want me to take care of it? So, I see myself as a soldier of Jesus Christ and trying to serve him, and I'm not focusing on me. And it gives me peace at night. I sleep like a baby. I drink the water because I know God wants me to take good care. I exercise. You think I want to go and work out hard right now? I don't want to. But because I'm trying to serve my Lord and I'm trying to be a good example, a good teacher, I must discipline myself. So, that's why I think it's good to have a faith, a plan of discipline that motivates you, and that's how I motivate myself. And that will give you longevity. And then research shows. People who are married, people who have attendance to their faith with dedication, these are people who live longer. Yes.
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“Maybe the questions are slow coming in as it is voting Tuesday.” [0:46:19]
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Yes. Well, I'm very thankful that we have the ability to go vote. Hopefully, the vote is accurate and hopefully, people understand our Constitutional Republic. So, I'm going to be holding classes here three Saturdays in a row this month and three Saturdays in a row next month, starting this Saturday, the 9th, in which we're teaching the Constitution in six classes, two hours each, and that'll be right here at my little lunchroom. So, that's how I'm trying to help my, country.
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“Thank you. My estradiol is 45.” [0:47:16]
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45 is decent. Maybe it could be higher. But again, that's the interaction. That's what clinical medicine is. Some women are beautiful at 45 and live a long time. There are other women who need to be 90, you know, double that. So, just work with your doctor. Hopefully, you have a wonderful, good functional doctor that you can discuss these things, and you could try lifting it up to higher levels, increasing the dose or the concentration of your patch, and see if you don't feel better, think better. I believe my mental acuity in my 70s now is largely because of all these things, including my estradiol levels. I think mine was like 150 or 170. But I don't know how big you are. If you're more petite, I'm a pretty big woman, I probably need a little more.
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“Yes, I should get on Juice Plus again.” [0:48:22]
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Hopefully, you do. I take it all every day. I've been using it for close to 30 years now.
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“What about the concept of eating 5-8 servings of vegetables a day, mostly raw juice? I tried and was very gassy. Others say it caused other negative issues. Is that why Juice Plus is better?” [0:48:38]
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Well, I think there are way too many carbohydrates, starches, and fruit sugars in 5 to 8 servings of vegetables. This is jargon that has just shot out of the American Cancer Society for decades without any real science behind it. And only Juice Plus is the most researched nutraceutical, and they don't address that when you juice something, you exacerbate and make a massively available all the starch into little chopped-up sugars that suddenly shoot up your blood sugars, spike up your insulin. And so, you would take something that you would normally eat, maybe chewing slowly, and have less release of the sugar, carbohydrate, glucose, and fruit sugar components. But when you juice it and blend it, you blow it into your body. So, these are myths. And if we had any competence at the CDC or the NIH, there would have been massive research with our U.S. tax dollars investing in preventive medicine and getting concrete answers to this. Now, you're just stuck with old doctors, like me, who have trudged through 40, I've done 43 years of preventive medicine, and I've always taught the low-carb diet. I didn't need this fad to teach me that sugar and high insulin were wrong. I didn't need a fad to promote the carnivore diet. I didn't need a fad to teach me about phospholipid membranes. And so, I have seen it with my eyes and I have the healthiest, longest-lived population of patients, and Medicare and their research even validated that about me and our clinic here.
So, we give thanks to God, because I'm not that smart. It is the wisdom of seeking the truth with a humble heart, having teachers and people who have gone way before me, my father in food research, other researchers who said during this cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease back in the ’70s, the professors I had said that's foolishness, this emphasis. And we now know that it was never validated, that it's all marketing, it's all government tax dollars and media co-opted lobbyists, pharmaceutical persuading you and deceiving you. So, that's why you need a doctor that stays in place, one place, and not moving around and moving around, so that you can get to know that doctor, and get to see them, and they can see you over the years, and you can have conversations and you can try things. We have a corrupt system and it is unfortunate. However, the good Lord has provided enough people who will teach the truth and not work for money or fame but work for the joy of seeing this creation of His, His people, and His children. And I get joy out of seeing people with improved symptoms just by changing their lifestyles, without me giving them drugs, and trying to reduce even the supplements I give them. So, we are designed to heal.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-february-20-20242024-02-22T11:08:26-08:002024-02-22T11:10:48-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 20, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“Just had a mammogram and had a lot of cysts and calcium nodules. What causes this and how can I help it not happen? I already do everything you recommend for general health. Water, chelation, enzymes, fasting, vitamins, Juice Plus, etc.” [0:01:54]
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Breasts are glands and glands can become cystic. Well, that would be a question you could ask anywhere – why does arthritis occur with the bony calcium deposits around the joints? Why does calcium deposits show up in your coronary arteries? Why do we see calcium deposits in CT exams of the abdomen or chest in the cartilage area of the chest or fibroids or other parts of the intestine? And the answer is wherever inflammation is in the body, there will be micro damage. And remember we have this picture here. The picture of this cell membrane with that little damage to the cell membrane is right here. So, you'll see that hole right there. Wherever that's hurt, then the cell has to be repaired at night and fixed, so it looks like this. It's a double membrane, phospholipid layer with fat and protein, phospholipids are fats, and the receptors are protein. And if you don't eat the right materials to do that if you don't have enough water in your diet. If you don't have good capillaries to reach those sites of injuries throughout your whole body and you have, what they say, 50 trillion cells, then that area will become a constant site of irritation. And if the body doesn't see it fixed, it starts depositing calcifications to kind of seal it down or cement it off in a healing reaction, you might say.
So, calcifications in the breasts, the exact cause is not published definitively, but microtrauma. So, the breasts get bumped in sexual marital romantic encounters. There's a lot of micro damage to the breasts and these can create little tiny inflammatory damages. Sleeping on the breasts, too tight of a bra, running and creating shaking to the breasts, microtrauma. Various causes can do that from just those mechanical things.
The other thing would be the world has toxins in it. There are heavy metal toxins. There are organic chemicals like PCBs and volatile organic phosphorylated benzene rings. These things are toxins. Then the micro damage of average high blood sugars, I would say the vast majority of Americans are becoming diabetic and obese. We have an obesity problem. And instead of drinking water, we are going for sweetened flavored coffee, lattes and juices, and diet sodas that mimic the sugar response, through the neural vagal response to the pancreas with insulin secretion, even though you're taking a diet drink. All these sugar micro responses on the average that sugar create tiny micro damages to these cell membranes, like right here where that little hole is. So, you have to understand, this is basically just showing aging and micro trauma to the breasts.
Now, does this really show a high prevalence of risk for cancer? Well, trauma to the breast is a known correlation with cancer, but micro trauma, I'm not so sure. Fibrocystic breasts make it more difficult to see the breast tissue without hiding maybe a potential mass. So, they'll say fibrocystic breasts could be a risk for breast cancer, but not necessarily causative. So, we have to be honest. The Department of Oncology, the research in oncology, has failed miserably. Instead of helping reduce cancer and finance research and healthy lifestyles that will reduce inflammation. With natural cost-free things, like just telling you to eat less sugar and processed food and drink more water, get a good night's sleep, and healthy exercise. Instead of working on those things, our tax dollars are going into the vast majority of money being sent from national institutes of health and subdepartments, CDC. These research centers get their money keynoted down lines of research that are just basically one-minded to make a profit for a certain pharmaceutical industry with – it’s got to be some chemical they can patent and manage. And so, no one's going to send money off your tax dollars to do research on stopping things that cause inflammation. And we know chronic inflammation is associated with all cancers. For instance, the smokers would have that chronic inflammation in the lung, that chronic sites of irritation, and repeated stimulation for healing, which then leads to the response of a cell becoming undernourished, lack of removal of waste, and hypoxic. Then the cell energy mechanisms of the mitochondria break down and it diverts into an embryonic stage of life where it now goes back to the embryo, where it has to grow blood vessels to get its own blood vessels to get rid of waste and receive nutrients. And so, they're never going to look down those areas that are over a hundred years well known and yet are associated with the successes we see. When people eat a low-carb diet, a very lowkey keto diet, they have many of these miraculous cancer turnarounds. Well, that improves microcirculation. And if they're keto, or they do fasting, they tend to drink more water or do drink more water, they start exercising. everything that improves the circulation to restore the mitochondrial function back to the normal aerobic metabolism of energy production in every cell in the hundreds of thousands of mitochondria in a cell.
So, if you take the nucleus of a cancerous cell and you put it into the healthy identical cell of the tissue, that cell will remain fine. But if you take the mitochondria of a cancerous cell and you put it into a healthy cell, then the cell will become cancerous, and that is because cancer really isn't a nuclear DNA phenomenon. It's a metabolic energy production metabolism error. And that's from our sticky, gooey, clogged-up circulation. So, don't worry about, the microcalcifications.
What causes it? There may be you have to have more time doing more chelations, reducing heavy metals, maybe more high dose vitamin C to get rid of PCBs, and more water. I don't know what your fasting blood sugars are. When you see your doctor, please have a seat, and make sure that they are very healthy levels because a lot of us lie to ourselves thinking that, well, the range says this is the normal range and I'm in it, but the ranges on the labs are too tolerant for developing cardiovascular diabetic trends. Anyway, hopefully, that's a long-winded answer. And hopefully, when you see your doctor and you can discuss that further, that'll give you some idea about the why and what to do.
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“What would you recommend for dry eyes? I've heard of people using manuka honey.” [0:11:35]
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I haven't heard of that. Here's what I'm going to say. All of us get withered, wrinkled, and dehydrated with aging. Menopause is associated with getting a dry vaginal area, drier skin, thinner skin, thinning hair, and wrinkles. The membranes of our nose and vagina get thinner, and we get irritated vaginal areas, and the same happens with the cornea of the eyeball, and we make less fluid. So, if you don't work to drink enough water every day if you don't have a personal game that you play to get yourself to drink that, you will become chronically dehydrated, and these topical eye drops, Restasis, things like that, are merely just time gaps to give you a little momentary relief. Natural hormone replacement therapy using the estradiol helps a woman stay younger, longer, more voluptuous, you might say, in the sense that her tissues don't thin as quickly. That means the eyes don't dry out as much. And there's vaginal lubrication, and so it goes, hormones are designed to repair our bodies as general contractors. So, it does a lot to go on some natural hormone bioidenticals, drinks enough water, don't clog yourself up with the sticky inflammatory processed food, high carb diet, get a good night's sleep, things like that. So, that's the direction. I would move towards getting on natural hormones.
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“Hello Dr. Rita, what should I eat to get my good gut bacteria up? I am not sure how they multiply. I saw a video that probiotic supplements aren't good to take daily. Thank you.” [0:13:35]
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Well, a low-carb, number one. There's a lot of controversy because there's a lot of unknowns. And medical doctors, PhDs, we like to look like we know it all and that we have a great depth of knowledge, but the answer sadly is we don't, and the gut microbiome is only just now being, kind of like space is being explored. We are just now exploring really the gut microbiome because there are hundreds of thousands of families, species of bacteria, fungi, and aerobic, anaerobic items that are living with us in the gut. You might say that there are more individual genetic types in your gut and more DNA variants than in your own human body. And so, you are really carrying around an entire population in your gut. And on your skin and so forth. So, as they started discussing this, many gastroenterologists in the field of gastroenterology, family practice, and internal medicine, everyone kind of laughed at this and didn't pay much of any attention until functional medical doctors took care to look into this because ancient Chinese medicine spent a lot of time discussing bowel movements, the quality of them. They didn't understand the culturing and the growth of them, but they knew that the diet impacted their health, and you could tell a lot by looking at bowel movements. So, we are starting to see research on many of these aspects of the microbiome types of species fauna, flora, and whatever it is, that grows their bacteria and yeast. And we're getting a good idea about what probiotics are supportive and what probiotics may not be beneficial. I don't know that I've seen any that would be reported as harmful.
So, I would say you have to be cautious when you listen to YouTube. If they don't explain the very early nature of the research and the very limited background and training because there really isn't any training in medical school on this even still. it's just now beginning to open up to gastroenterologists regarding, for instance, fecal transplants. We're starting to see this is finally an accepted methodology of treating clostridium difficile by giving healthy bowel transplants to a person who has this terrible bacterial overgrowth and often deadly, and now it's about 90 percent turned around, and that's not with some chemical or antibiotic. It's with natural gut flora from healthy people. So, until we get much more money flowing in this direction, get it out of the international crime syndicate of the pharmaceuticals and that paid-off research departments in our universities, we're going to stay behind the times, and unfortunately a lot of people will be hurt. But we do know that a high carbohydrate prostate diet aggravates and is helpful to feed the bad guys, the bad bacteria and yeast, and the low-carb diets are beneficial to all the good probiotics. So, we can agree that other nutrients like vitamin D are minerals. Other vitamins are produced and supported by good bacteria. Our neurotransmitters are supported and produced in the gut as well. It's such a vast, vast field, just like this outer space. You have to understand what goes on in the gut is truly amazing. So, I can't agree that there's any one answer that this is not good to take a probiotic. And I've been working with probiotics and on functional medicine, I would say, close to 40 years now. So, I have never seen a problem with them.
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“Where is the best place to rub testosterone gel on men? Thank you.” [0:18:34]
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Well, there isn't anyone because we're all different. The thickness of men's skin is the closeness of the blood vessels to the skin surface so that it can be absorbed into the blood. I tell men to rub it on the thin scrotal sac. It is the best quickest, fastest way to absorb it, so they could put it on their actual scrotal sac, or I would have them put it on the insides of their wrists here where they don't have a lot of hair there and their blood vessels will be more on the surface. That's what I would recommend.
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“What would cause a diabetic person to get cholesterol in their leg veins even though they take cholesterol medicine?” [0:19:22]
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Well, that's because cholesterol-lowering medicine has never solved the problem of vascular, damage, and it is not the solution. There really is a poor, lousy research regarding any benefit, if it is, it's so marginal, that it's really a poor arguing point. There's this much bad reporting on the impact of cholesterol-lowering drugs as there is trying to push it. So, I think cholesterol medicine, to reduce it, is another sad story in the science of bought-off scientists, bought-off physicians, and the improper influence of pharmaceutical companies on medical school curriculum and training to think that a cholesterol-lowering drug is going to benefit anything. It has a margin, a tiny margin of benefit as an anti-inflammatory. I would watch the video called “High Cholesterol is Healthy” by Dr. Ken Berry and David Diamond, he's a PhD. One is a family doctor, and the other is a PhD. And they review most of the recent literature, retrospective meta-analysis, looking at multiple studies on statins and cardiovascular risk reduction, and it's a joke.
We all know that diabetics have higher average blood sugars, and the more that molecule of sugar is built up in your blood, the more tiny microdamage is being done to these cell membranes, right here on the cell membrane. So, microdamage all the time 24/7. So, you've got to understand the body is designed to try and repair that membrane, and that membrane must have cholesterol in it to repair it because cholesterol helps with the mobility and fluidity of the membrane, which is critical for its function. So, to try and lower cholesterol, thinking you're doing something good, it's like saying, you know, pouring glasses of water on a burning house is valuable. It's not. It would be absolutely ineffectual. So, cholesterol is not the problem, it's what's causing the inflammation, and diabetes is causing the cholesterol to try and repair those microdamage sites in the leg.
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“Is postprandial somnolence a normal physiologic response?” [0:22:27]
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Well, I can see your cake, your donut, and your ice cream cone there. For people who think that that is food rather than a toxic insult to the human body, the massive influx of sugar creates alarm bells in the body. Insulin shoots up to try and get that blood sugar out after eating all those carbs and starches, and the blood actually gets thicker like a blizzard. If you can imagine, you can't walk well if there's a blizzard going on. So, if there's a blizzard of sugar after you're eating these high-carb foods, like processed mashed potatoes and rice and beans and cereal, and all these kinds of things, that's going to create a blizzard impact. What that does then is this communication to all the body is diminished. So, you can't see to walk in a blizzard, you can't see signs as far ahead, and so communication and your visual sight are down, so too with your physiologic responses to stimuli diminished when you've just shot your blood volume full of sugar sticky particles, and then your brain starts to go into a state of sleepiness, fatigue, drowsiness, and sleep, hoping that if your body can put you to sleep, you'll stop putting stuff in your mouth to make it sugary and sweet. So, yes, is the answer. It's a normal physiological response, but it's very clear. Especially after Thanksgiving, everyone gets tired because we all tend to have our treats on that special holiday.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Asking for a mom and a daughter about your recommendations for migraines. Mom is very healthy, 55, low carb, good hydration. Daughter 22. Both have tried multiple different medications and Botox.” [0:24:27]
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There is some inflammatory trigger, probably most likely from their diet. They should find out their blood type. They should get a complete digestive stool analysis done by a functional doctor to look for inflammation, types of bacteria, and types of inflammatory markers, and they can get an immuno-food allergy test done to try and see how many IgG food antigen-antibody complexes are made. And we can usually find that if they will avoid those foods and then start taking nutrients to heal the gut and drink enough water, that the migraines will stop. It works always. I'm never going to say a percentage because it always works. It always helps relieve the migraines.
Now, another thing is menstruation is an inflammatory time in a woman's monthly cycle. And so, every month she has to face an inflammatory phase of a ruptured follicle egg production and the inflammation of that and the time of the shedding of the uterine lining. So, inflammation is a feature a woman has to deal with every month. That inflammation will trigger other low-grade inflammatory actions going on, typically through the gut. So, one other thing they could do is if they don't want to do the stool, or the immune, or find out their blood type, then I would have them go on a carnivore diet for eight weeks, eight full weeks, not one bite of anything outside of a pure carnivore diet, because that's the ultimate food elimination diet where they can see if they really feel better. Women often need progesterone, however, days 15 through 25 of their menstrual cycle. And so, progesterone is known to help stop and disinflame, as well as prevent migraines. Systemic enzymes help, exercise helps, adequate hydration helps, and of course, a low-carb diet because high carbs in the diet will create moments of high glucose of influx into the blood, triggering inflammation and vascular wall damage, and migraines are vascular wall damage response in general to the meninges or the membranes that creates the headache.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. What is the name of the hydrogen water that you use? Thank you.” [0:27:31]
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It's called Izumio. You can call 815-601-2480 and that's where you can get the Izumi water, questions answered, and material, and they can get it ordered for you. The company that produces Izumio water is Naturally Plus Molecular Hydrogenated Water. Okay, so hopefully that helps you.
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“If I have to drink alcohol, what is the best one and how much would be maximum per day/week?” [0:28:34]
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I'm not going to endorse that. I think alcohol is a toxin. So, no one has to drink alcohol and I wouldn't. What is the best one? There isn't any. How much would be the maximum? One drop. So, I'm sorry. I don't support taking in a toxin, and I think that's the argument I'm going to leave it at. If you want to say, what gets away from the fermentation and the hops and all the yeast and stuffed grain, food reactivity, and antigens, I would say It would be tequila. Tequila would be the least immunogenic one, although it's a toxic alcohol product. And if you put tequila, I think tequila goes into sugary drinks, I'm not sure. But anyway, then if you put tequila in a sugary drink, then you're taking a double whammy of damage to your body. So, sorry, I wouldn't use any.
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“I am drinking over half my weight in ounces. I weigh 110 pounds and drink four 20 oz bottles of water each day. I have a reverse osmosis water filter, but I get leg cramps. Am I deficient in minerals? I'm 74 years old and in good health.” [0:29:57]
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My water filter has a remineralization phase to the process, but I still take my TLC Multi Minerals so that I don't get leg cramps either. It could be you're drinking too much water. If you're drinking 80 ounces and you're not in a hot yoga or sauna where you're sweating profusely, then I think maybe you're also rinsing away too many of your minerals.
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“My 24-year-old brother eats fast food, drinks a lot of soda, and vapes every day. I am worried about his health. He's quite thin and becomes defensive when anyone tries to talk to him about his poor habits. How can I get through to him so he takes his health and life seriously?” [0:30:57]
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Pray for him, love him, and always talk about everything that's wonderful and good about him. When I'm with my patients, even if they had a bad lab, I am always going to tell them, this part of the lab, I recognize, and I praise you for the good outcome of this aspect, or I say, you have a good body or you have everything worth in your life to improve it, because depression is being manufactured through all this corruption of our world system, and true love and true support needs to be encouraged. Once your brother really knows that you're always loving on him, then it's easier to take some corrective advice. It's like with my faith. I think about Jesus Christ, my Lord, and Savior, dying for my sins. It says, while we were yet sinners, God sent his son to die for our sins. So, God commended his love for us in anticipation first. And so, I was so impressed with that verse, that I thought, wow, even before I was and before I sinned, he already paid for it. What love, what unconditional love. So, I'm going to say the first recipe is to give a really true supportive love message to him. Then maybe give him a YouTube to watch, and I would direct him toward “Sugar: the Bitter Truth” by Dr. Lustig. And the reason is Dr. Lustig is so angry about the processed junk food, that he took a sabbatical to get, I think, his law degree because he's trying to fight the lobbyists who control the food recommendations, the nutrient recommendations that go into our school, our military, our hospital and educational food systems that are killing us, foolishness like from Tufts University that puts out a chart that says, “lucky charms are more nutritious than, I think, eggs.” I mean, how stupid can our pinhead professors be to publish something like that? But you go to Tufts University's recent publications on nutritional recommendations, and you'll see this idiocy being published out there. So, you have to understand, Dr. Lustig, you know, he and I agree on things, and there are some things we disagree on. But one thing we do agree on is there is a planned financial destruction to destroy the health and future, the fertility, the mental acuity of, the people through these terrible habits. So, in Dr. Lustig's video “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” he wrote a few books. Just look up his books or give him a book and say with love or maybe pre-read the best chapter there or the whole book and then say, please read at least this chapter here, and your brother should receive your love.
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“How do you feel about colonics?” [0:34:59]
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I don't see them as useful. More importantly, is what you put down this hole than what you put up the other hole. And so, I don't want to take away any potential benefit. I've received colon hydrotherapy. I've had several. I wouldn't say it harmed me or anything. There's a potential for harm in anything. You could even drink too much water. But what I'm saying is to put your time and money into colonics or coffee enemas I think would far better be put into a learning to save your money. And fast, just don't eat anything and learn to train yourself to fast for 24 hours, and then eventually 48 hours in a row, and then up to 3 days in a row, and do that on a rotating basis. Like I'll do two 5-day fast a year. I'll do maybe two 3- day fast a year, and I often do a 1-day fast every week. So, that would be far more beneficial.
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“I have a strong tingling in my upper lip and in the gums of my front teeth. Two years ago, I had a root canal on one of these front teeth. What do you think would be causing this tingling? Thank you so much.” [0:36:11]
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Well, I think it's the metals that were in the root canal. And so, you have to go to a biological dentist. You can look that up on the internet - Biological dentist near me. These are dentists who have opened their minds and hearts scientifically to the research on heavy metal toxicity, mercury. Aluminum, arsenic, cadmium, and lead, and the value of EDTA chelation therapy, high-dose vitamin C therapy, getting rid of these root canals, and using safer non-metal based fillings and stuff like that. So, see a good biological dentist and get a good functional medical doctor who's familiar with chelation and those risks.
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“I was encouraged a week or two ago when I read you believe there is science behind the x39 patch from Lifewave. Can you please tell me if these would be safe for me for long-term use given that I am a breast cancer and melanoma survivor?” [0:37:15]
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These are crystals and crystals have their own structure atomically, and these atoms, with their unique structure, have a vibration that your own heat of your body can start magnifying that signal, then can be associated with benefits to the human body signaling. Everything in our body is electrochemical, absolutely everything. So, any good thing you're doing, you could also argue, is saying you are electrochemically vibrating better and having a better immune response to viruses, bacterial stress, all these things. So, everything is energy, and these patches shouldn't have any negative impact from that too, my best understanding of the science at this time.
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“I don't understand the stem cell activation the company speaks of and how that relates to my cancer history.” [0:38:31]
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Stem cells from the cancer line are something that we would try and starve out with a very low-carb diet, with enzymes, and with high-dose vitamin C intravenous therapy. But stem cells, in general, you have to have them all the time to help regenerate skin tissue, your bones, and your hair. Everything has a cell that is supportive of the repair and replacement. So, don't be afraid of the term stem cells. There's the argument that we're all making cancer stem cells every day of our lives. It's stopping the likelihood of it implanting in an area/organ that would be detrimental, that's one theory. I prefer the mitochondrial metabolic theory of cancer. And so, the high carb, lousy processed food, inactive, dehydrated lifestyle is going to promote degenerative energy metabolism and spontaneous regression to embryonic developmental states that would grow their own blood vessels in a tumor. So, I wouldn't worry about that.
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“I believe I have a parasite. It looks like worms. They very well could be in my kidneys too because they took a CT scan and said I had kidney stones in both, but I only have a history of it being on my left. What can I take to get rid of it? I'm currently taking Intestine-Pro off of Amazon. Thanks.” [0:40:00]
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I'm going to tell you to just get a stool for ova and parasites or see a functional doctor who will do a complete digestive stool analysis on you, and we'll find out if you do or you don't. Pinworms can spread around from various, mostly in children, the classrooms, it gets commonly spread around. If you have pets, it's very unlikely that you're going to get worms from them. But go ahead and see your urgent care and give them a stool sample for ova and parasites, or a functional doctor who will do a complete digestive stool analysis. I like the one from Doctors Data out of St. Charles, Illinois. It is the oldest, most reliable, and first developed complete digestive stool analysis 40 or 50 years ago. So, it has the best background and history of research.
What to take? Well, I don't believe in taking anything until we've proven something because I'm a standard doctor but do get advice from the local doctor there. Usually, these things are pinworms, and they usually come and go and are self-limiting often, but sometimes we do treat them with anti-parasitical antibiotics.
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“I'm a TLC patient. My niece, 32, from Mesa, Arizona, took the Pfizer vaccine, no boosters, and within one month had random fast heartbeats, tight chest, and difficulty breathing. She went to urgent care - and put her on PDN. She went to a naturopath and did food allergy. She stopped eggs and alcohol. X-ray showed a 3-mm scar on her chest. What can you recommend? Have you seen this from the vaccine?” [0:41:52]
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That’s way too vague for me to really make a statement about it. I am concerned also with you about the injections that she received. She needs to find a good functional doctor who would be able to tell her about some of the fascinating research on nicotine, and using ivermectin, and systemic enzyme, and chelation therapy, a low-carb diet. But it's amazing if you do a Google search or do a DuckDuckGo or Bing.com search on nicotine, which isn't a carcinogen, it isn't a toxin of itself. Nicotine grows in zucchini and butternut squash. So, nicotine is not bad of itself, but nicotine goes to those ACE receptors and blocks them from being irritated by spike protein. So, if the injection that she took is still producing waves of spike protein through the ribosomes in her own protein generation in her cells, and that is cycled on and off throughout her life, she can take, I think the research showed 3 mg of nicotine blocked the symptoms of what they called chronic COVID, long COVID symptoms. It's very interesting. If you look at the spike protein and the research on venom poisoning on the construct of the spike protein, snake venom structure is there. One of the treatments for that is the, you know, if you ever get a snake bite, you should pee on it, and nicotine is another thing. I don't know if you noticed this, but almost no smokers really had any significant COVID problems. So, anyway, I would look at that, but please have her find a time to see a good functional doctor who can school her on these things and look into her symptoms more deeply.
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“Hi, Dr. E. Is it okay to put bi-estrogen cream on my face? If so, is there any advantage putting there versus on other parts of the body?” [0:44:59]
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The answer is yes. Well, it absorbs better, so you can use a smaller amount and you’ve saved money and you don't need as much cream, and it lasts longer. That's the only advantage. I put mine on my face, and I don't use a lot of cream, but it certainly works nicely.
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“Hello, Doctor! I have a nail fungus on my two big toes. I tried everything. I went to three different professionals and they used laser, all three different laser treatments, and I still can't get rid of them.
What else can I try? Thank you for all you do.” [0:45:35]
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I would have to know what your insulin is. If it's not around 3 or less, if your fasting blood sugar isn't around 80 or less, if your triglycerides aren't 50 or less, and if your hemoglobin A1c glucose sticking to the protein hemoglobin under 5.2%, then you're always going to be feeding sugar to grow yeast in your toes. So, if you're going to change anything, you have to change that first. I would use Argentyn Silver and put that on your toes every night, and that's the first thing. But nothing's going to help you, no treatment unless you get your carbohydrate starts and you're living in a country that is promoting filthy stuff to be consumed. They call it food, but it's toxic, highly processed of carbs, fruit sugars, and filth to harm your immune system, so that you promote the growth of fungus and you destroy the protection of the white blood cell immune system. So, you have to deal with that fact and fight it.
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“What are the different causes of urinary tract infections?” [0:46:59]
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Well, usually the most common thing is, as we age, the lining of our urethra and vaginal canal gets thinner and thinner and thinner because we don't have estrogen anymore. and then the tissues can get hurt with trauma. If you still have sex, if you wipe accidentally indiscriminately backward to front, you might bring some fecal bacteria into that area and it'll have a much easier opportunity to climb up the short, short urethra of a woman's urinary tract system, and that is probably the number one thing.
What are other different causes of urinary tract infections? Well, you have to have your immune system checked. If you have an immune problem, and almost all people do, eating this lousy, promoted, marketed, and socially pressured to eat this junk, even in the church, it's so disgusting, then I would say that everyone is depressing their immune system by eating this way. Those are the main reasons.
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“My friend has been taking gabapentin and other pain relievers for years because of severe neuropathy in her feet stemming from an injury. She is experiencing bad side effects and really wants to get off the medication, but the pain is pretty severe. Do you know of any alternative to the gabapentin? I've heard that Jamaican Dogwood is good.” [0:48:23]
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I have not heard about that, but we are designed to heal from microtrauma. I would have to understand, is her actual nerves severed nerves? Is she a diabetic? Does she have high blood sugar? Is she pre-diabetic? Does she have a low mineral count? What is her heavy metal load? What is her microcirculation like? What is her vitamin D? What is her essential fatty acid, and essential fatty acid levels? All these things would matter. Systemic Enzymes is the first direction I would go with her. Get her to a functional doctor where she can get microcirculation support through calcium disodium EDTA chelation therapy, and we can usually see a nice improvement with that. Natural hormone replacement helps stimulate tissue thickness and a more moist, robust, voluptuous tissue domain that will be helpful too. So, hopefully, those are some ideas to help her with.
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“Since you don't think the suppositories work as well as they used to because of the cocoa butter, what do you suggest for ridding myself of heavy metals? If it's chelation IVs, how many do you suggest, and how often for it to work? They are quite expensive, that is why I started the suppositories first. I have quite a lot of metals. Thanks.” [0:50:02]
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Well, we have found a way to try and help you get that covered through your insurance. So, give us a call here because things have changed in that venue, and we’re happy to talk to you more about that.
But the IV chelation is the number one way. We'd want to get a challenge to kind of get a reference base point of how much you're dumping. We typically do about 30 IVs, and we repeat that challenge to see the reduction in areas and the other ones that are now releasing, and then you might need another set of 30. And then we do a maintenance of about 10 per year thereafter. So, that's kind of the approach we take.
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“What do you think of red light therapy? If so, what do you think it's best used for? Thank you.” [0:51:11]
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Well, it is Wave Light Therapy, kind of like the LifeWave that was spoken up before. Energy stimulates vasodilation. Vasodilation improves circulation on the microscopic level, which enhances cellular health, and extends life repair and longevity. So, the, wavelength of the red light penetrates a few centimeters, I believe, into the skin and is involved with improved vascularization, and that's the benefit of it.
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“God bless you, Dr. Rita. As you asked me, I watched Dr. Diamond's video on cholesterol and my blood work is on target! The video was so informative.”
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Thank you for watching it and then giving a report back, because I try not to waste my time or my patient's time, but giving you the down low and dirty down low and dirty of exactly what you need to do, and that takes personal responsibility for what goes in your mouth, how much water you're drinking, getting a good night's sleep, getting exercise, both weight training and aerobic, eating a healthy real food diet, avoiding that processed food, and eating in a time-restricted zone, and that pretty much solves all your medical bills.
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“How can calcium calcifications be removed from arteries? Thank you.” [0:52:42]
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Well, if there's soft plaque calciums, the vitamin D with K2 MK-7 like in K4, or our D-10,000 with K2 90 mcg, this is how I would do it, along with EDTA chelation and a low-carb diet, eating real food, all these healthy things to stop the micro-injury that you're doing to these cell membranes right here, so that your body, when it heals it to this healthy side with the fats and proteins you eat in real food, then it won't be damaged, but you’ve got to lower those sugar damage things. Do chelation and that will help you.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Thanks so much for being there for all of us. Your knowledge and experience is invaluable. I am B positive blood type and get spring allergies. Also, I deal periodically with bouts of vertigo. Any natural remedies. Thanks so much.” [0:54:05]
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You’ve got to live a healthy lifestyle. EDTA chelation improves the micro-circulation damage of aging. You have to be well hydrated, you have to take Systemic Enzymes, natural anti-histamines like quercetin, and our seasonal allergy or D-hist products, I take them all the time because I'm B positive blood too. So, I would encourage that.
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe, I'm a 68-year-old A positive blood type patient at TLC and have heard an earful of horrible experiences from 50-plus-year-old people who came down with shingles. Do you recommend getting the shingles vaccine at this point in life? I have had chicken pox as a youngster and life stressors are at a minimal level.” [0:54:50]
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Do you recommend getting the shingles vaccine at this point in life? No. Well, we have an immune system that is designed to keep viruses and things like this under check. High-dose vitamin C is very good for fighting off chicken pox varicella. So, at the first hint of any viral illness or anything like that, you can come in and do the 25-gram vitamin C drip with us. Stay on your vitamin D and keep the levels above 80. Be on a low-carb diet, so your immune system doesn't get depressed. Be well hydrated, get good sleep, don't eat late at night, so you optimize your healing window of time, and exercise regularly. Take a multivitamin with minerals. I use Juice Plus as well. I take iodine. I take Systemic Enzymes as an anti-inflammatory with my D, and I take quercetin all the time, an antiviral ionophore. So, that's what I would do. And then I have vitamin C drips if I need it.
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“Dr. Rita. I'm an 84-year-old woman, Dr. Mitchell's patient for years. Generally in good health. Follow-up MRI with contrast of the liver as compared to the 2016 MRI with contrast, a few lesions on the liver continue to be described as hemangiomas and several renal cysts as “simple” cysts. However, the liver is enlarged - 20 cm and has grown 5 cm since. 2016.” [00:56:29]
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Well, I'm going to suggest that that might be fatty liver. You need to look at your fasting blood sugar, triglyceride, fasting insulin, and hemoglobin A1c and see if there was any reference to non-alcoholic fatty liver in the report. Discuss it with your doctor. Systemic Enzymes would be valuable doing. Doing intermittent fasting, doing exercising, all these things will help improve all those sugar numbers. And stay away from all juicing and juice from fruits because high fructose and fructose itself, any source, will aggravate liver disease, and of course, no alcohol.
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“Regarding the liver that grew 5 cm. since 2016 – what is the reason for growth? My integrative M.D. is not concerned. My blood work is good. I eat pretty “clean” - high protein, good fats, low carb exercise. Started taking milk thistle for liver detox. Any suggestions? Thanks, as always, for all you do.” [0:57:47]
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I already mentioned it's likely the fructose. I'm not against milk thistle, but I think lipoic acid is the absolute number one liver detox supportive item. So, taking alpha lipoic acid (ALA) 500 milligrams twice a day, being very low carb, no fruit sugar at all, no alcohol, and exercise, and then just do an ultrasound of your liver to track that. So, you don't have to do the MRIs.
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“Will the EDTA IV treatments remove lead?” [0:58:44]
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Absolutely. That is what it received FDA approval for in the 1950s, and early 1960’s, for children for the removal of lead from lead accidental toxicity from chewing lead-based paint on cribs and windowsills and stuff. Yes.
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“Hi, I am 60 years old. My hands tend to go numb at night when I'm sleeping. I do have some pain, mostly the thumb joint. I have not been able to get my wedding ring on for the last 4 months. Is there something that can be done for this? I do not eat processed foods or sugar. I do not seem to have inflammation anywhere else in my body.” [0:59:09]
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We're all aging. We're all losing our muscle mass with aging. So, past the age of 40, our muscle tone diminishes. So, our structure of sitting and our tone for how we hold our shoulders up and everything, we're starting to slump forward like this with aging. And with that, these tiny little lumbar cordy muscles between our spine are diminished, so that even when we sleep at night, the angle of pinching can be exacerbated. Therefore, I would do muscle weight training twice a week minimum for about half an hour, upper and lower body. And then, unless your blood sugar is under 85, insulin under 3, triglycerides 50 or less, and hemoglobin A1c 5.2, those are the only lab levels that I consider truly healthy and anti-inflammatory. Then I would take Systemic Enzymes like Vitalzym time or Vascuzyme systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day, maybe 4 or 5. And then I would do EDTA chelation therapy to improve microcirculation. Do all that together and see your good functional doctor to help supervise and manage that for you, and that should be able to help you as well. And then we can do HSCRP and sed rate and get those labs.
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“What do you make of the recent news report that excess niacin can cause heart disease? And one article showed a refrigerator case full of meat under the headline.” [1:01:14]
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You know, I just think that this is fear-mongering. I've been in the business of medicine for over 43 years. I've been using nutraceuticals and what is typically regarded as higher dosing. So, while on these vitamins, I’ve never seen anything but benefits. If you get the niacin up to the level of, I think, 300 mg, yes, I think there are some side effects that are harmful. But in general, most people don’t, unless they are absolutely overdosing on niacin isolatedly.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-february-13-20242024-02-15T11:56:59-08:002024-02-15T11:56:59-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 13, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“Today, I went to two different specialists for follow-ups and they looked at my blood work, and both of them said your test results are excellent except your cholesterol is too high. My total cholesterol is 277, my triglyceride is 80, HDL 78, LDL is 186. They both said all your bad cholesterol is extremely high. What do you say, Dr. Rita? God bless you.” [0:02:48]
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Well, I don't believe there's any bad or good cholesterol. We have to have cholesterol. Now, what can harm it and burn it is a bad lifestyle. So, being a smoker, eating processed food, high carbs, not drinking enough water, not exercising, eating too late, eating too often throughout the day, not having an empty stomach to let your body digest and handle things and have a healing time. So, these lifestyle habits will generate more cellular damage. So, you can see here, this little, damage point on the cell membrane, and then here is where the cell membrane has to get healed. And every night you go to bed, you're trying to take your daily injuries to your cell membranes all throughout your body and at nighttime heal it. So, if you're eating late and burning the candle at both ends, staying up watching YouTube and videos, and exposure, you're going to have less healing time. So, good sleep is important. Good hydration is important. Now, the more and more you have these little injuries here like this, that damage, these little fragments you can see coming off of that damaged membrane, float through the body, and it talks to your liver and it says, we need cell membrane repair here, please make more cholesterol.
Now, the older we get as adults and senior citizens, we are necessarily going to have more cells that are aged, weaker, and injured. And eventually, the pile-up of trying to heal your injured cell is going to slowly increase over time. So, you'll have more injury eventually, and then one day he'll die because you'll have too many cells in the injured state, whether that's your heart or your lungs or your blood vessels or your brain. Therefore, since cholesterol has to be an integral part of every cell membrane from your head to your toe, every cell membrane, all these membranes here must have cholesterol in them. Cholesterol is therefore necessary in our diet and we have to eat it, and we have to repair ourselves with it.
So, that's why research shows that after you're 70 years old if your cholesterol is not above 200, the likelihood of you living a long life is diminished. So, cholesterol above 200 is a healthy thing. In fact, there's a YouTube called ‘High Cholesterol is Healthy’. That's one put out by the family practice doctor, Dr. Ken Berry, and he's interviewing a PhD doctor, called David Diamond. And they review the recent literature about the cholesterols and the very narrow realm of the probable value of using cholesterol-lowering drugs. So, my suggestion is I emphasize triglycerides and HDL. HDL typically will go up with exercise, triglycerides will come down when you lower the processed, starchy, carb, and fruit sugars so that HDL and triglycerides should roughly be equal, which yours are.
And so, I would say, finally, the research in science is catching up with our 43, my 43 years of experience vindicating me all these decades where I never pursued cholesterol-lowering. I pursued trying to inspire my patient to exercise, do weight training, reduce their starch carb, stop eating late, and drink more water, and this has turned out to keep me having the oldest, healthiest Medicare population in the United States. So, I think they're in error. So, watch that video and then tell me what you think of it next week type the little thing in saying ‘High Cholesterol is Healthy’ on YouTube with Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. David Diamond, and give me your feedback.
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“Is it okay to take my vitamin B at night before bed on an empty stomach instead of in the morning?” [0:07:57]
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Sure, yes. In general, these are used in a multitude of metabolic biochemical functions for your body's needs throughout the day, with hundreds and thousands of transactional biochemical pathways. And so, this helps with normal energy production. So, we usually give it for energy. There is kind of like a wives’ tale that says ‘Take your bees in the morning and it'll give you more energy to go throughout the day.’ But it doesn't necessarily mean it will interrupt your sleep if you take it at night. So I think it's just fine.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. What do you recommend for an excess of mucus? My husband works in construction, has sinus mucus and coughs, sneezes, et cetera.” [0:08:44]
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Well, he has to be well-hydrated. Number one, when my husband is in construction, he is an O-positive blood, and he has sneezing and congestion with all the dust and stuff. So, when appropriate, he should wear a mask if he's doing sanding or grinding things like that. But in general, you have to be well-hydrated. That way, you can blow your nose and the mucus will clear it out. Another way is to use Argentyn silver, the nasal spray you squirt up your nose. Argentyn silver is really given only to doctors of higher strength than it is. It's very safe and non-toxic, and the over-the-counter is I think called Sovereign Silver, but it's only half-strength, but it's still very good. So, I would go to work and squirt your nose, and maybe at lunch squirt your nose, and after work, squirt your nose before you go to bed, to make sure that you don't get a white blood cell reaction, thinking that the dust and particles are invading viruses or bacteria and build up this kind of crust and so forth that is very congesting.
The other thing is taking quercetin. Quercetin is a natural antihistamine that is very calming to help try and stop mass cell degranulation. Plus, it's also an antiviral. It acts as an ionophore, which helps zinc penetrate through that cell membrane so that inside of the cell, the zinc will help prevent the replication of viral particles and their bad material. So, hopefully, that'll help.
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“Good evening! How does one gain weight on a low-carb diet? Thanks.” [0:10:48]
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Well, the highest calorie density is in fat. So, if you choose the fat, more fat-filled meat products, so you want a lot of marbling in your meat. If you put butter on your steaks and on your chicken and on your salmon and fish and on your pork chops and on your eggs and so forth, dip your shrimp or crab or lobster in butter, that will substantially raise your calories. And being on a low-carb diet, I don't see a problem with taking vegetables, things like yam occasionally, or maybe some squash, things like that. That would probably be helpful to you. So, those are some suggestions I would give.
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“I found out my good bacteria is very low. I am battling bad E. coli and strep in my gut. What should I do to get my good bacteria up to normal? What foods are good? Drinks? Probiotics?” [0:11:58]
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Well, this is an emerging field of research and study. I think it's a compliment to the doctors who have forged the pathway for the past 40 - 50 years. We have been doing complete digestive stool analysis and all these predominance of flora and digestive parameters to help our patients that led gastroenterologists and some in research because almost everyone has a hurt bowel with the lousy processed foods that we have, full of too many carbs and high fructose corn syrup. And this science is now breaking into mainstream science, and we're thankful that these gastroenterologists are looking at this because they see our success and our success is based on working with a patient as their coach, their advocate, supportive, to help them reduce the carbs that would feed the bad bacteria. In general, these nasty bacteria for the most part thrive on a high carbohydrate, fruit-sugar diet. So, dietary reduction and carbs will help you.
Then, research in probiotics and the science of families, and there are hundreds and thousands of families and species of probiotics, but the research is starting to show some good results. Ortho Molecular is the company I work with. They have a probiotic called Ortho Spore Biotics and it has probiotics at research clinical references that are looking at stool outcomes. And so, that's what I use. And the studies suggest the gas produced like in SIBO, Small Bowel Infection Overgrowth, is being well managed with Ortho Spore Biotics. Ortho Molecular also has another product called just Probiotics at various, different bacterial concentrations and prepared in such a way that it will help to pass the digestive acids and then be released in the lower intestine. So, I would suggest that you work with a company that has good clinical testing and physicians that have years now, decades now of experience with it. So, Ortho Molecular Probiotics or Ortho Molecular Ortho Spore Biotics.
Then there is a largely E. coli, Enterococcal group called Dr. Ohhira’s Essential Probiotics, and I have used that for decades. So those are the ones I would use, and be on a low-carb diet. And then with testing, if we did a complete digestive stool analysis, usually these special tests will look at these families that are isolated that are either imbalanced or dysbiotic, damaging potentially. They'll culture them and see what antibiotics, or more importantly, what natural herbs or items will inhibit their growth, such as silver, in which I use the Argentyn silver or I use grapeseed extract or other herbs. And so, get a complete digestive stool analysis with those sensitivities and that will help as well. Plus, there are many other parameters. So, get a good functional doctor to help you do a complete digestive stool analysis. I like the one that's done by Genova of Doctors Data in St. Charles, Illinois. They have a long history of high-quality work.
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“Is it safe for me to use X39 patches long-term, given I am a breast cancer patient and melanoma survivor? Is the stem cell activation dangerous for me, given my cancer history?” [0:16:26]
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I don't have research on that. I can only speculate. What these things are associated with doing is having a crystal that will have an energy absorption and emit a frequency that is associated with this energy production for promoting stem cell growth for repair. And we have to have stem cells. We produce them all the time. So, the question isn't do stem cells cause cancer? The question is, what environment in the healthy repair of a human body goes wrong that would make that cell start behaving in an aggressive self-survival mode? And the answer is in the mitochondria or battery of the cell. For instance, if you have two cells, one is healthy and the other is a malignant cell. And let's say you take the nucleus out of the healthy cell and you put it into the malignant cell. Well, you'll see that the malignant cell will continue to be malignant and grow. Then you take another scenario where you have a healthy cell and a malignant cell, and you take the battery mitochondria out of the healthy cell and put that into the negative malignant cell with its nucleus, and it'll become healthy. So, the mitochondrial metabolic theory of cancer is probably the correct answer for what causes cancer. So, it is not a stem cell, it's not hormones, it's really not even genetics. These would be fringe isolates of data points, but the vast majority is our high-carb processed food, and high fructose corn syrup consumption, putting a dramatic strain on the engines in all of the cells to try and keep up with our high-carb usage to try and burn it up. When those engines are running, they spit out free reactive oxygen species, and they bust through the walls of the cell membrane, and they're constantly like bullets shooting through the mitochondrial membranes and the cell membranes. This is like a fire going on inside the cell. And eventually, it damages it to the point that the cell cannot get its energy requirements from the normal process of ATP, Krebs cycle production. Then it goes into a facultative anaerobic type of energy production, like fermentation, like beer or mold, yeast, and things like these that survive in a dark, acidic, low-oxygen environment. So, it is our lifestyle that is harming us. It is really, the environmental toxins that we've allowed industry to dump on us, and it really is a need for energy.
So, if I were a speculating person and we could get financing for research on this, but you can't because it's a good old buddies club at the CDC. And the NIH. They have a grip on all financing to support pharmaceutical research, and they get kickback royalties. In fact, the CDC, I think, owns maybe 50 patents or more, according to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s research, and other people’s study on the patents and royalty kickbacks that the NIH and the CDC people get. And so, they're not going to look for any natural way. They're not going to send us money for food research. And what food research is done, it's largely conducted by the industry itself. And do you think the industry is going to finance the study to really truly look at the damaging effect of fructose or sugar? No, they're going to finance a study and the people who get the grants at the universities. They're going to not look at the thing critically. They'll look the other way, and they'll give the nice report to the food industries so that they get another grant next year. That's their income.
And so, unfortunately, we pay for, we ask for the damages that are coming to us. Only here can we stand up like adults, adult men, and women, and start saying no to this criminal mafia-type system and try and live a healthy lifestyle by choice. Let's go on to that. So, I think X39 is probably a good thing.
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“I'm shooting for 150 grams of protein a day (1g/lb of body weight). To achieve this in a six-hour window, I supplement 25 50 g of unflavored whey protein isolate. Do you disagree with this supplementation?” [0:22:30]
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I don't know the quality or the producer of your whey isolate. And so, it really depends on the quality of the product. There's also an argument that taking food, such as whey, which is a dairy product, and taking it day after day after day after day may, through your gut, generate a gut-associated lymphoid tissue reaction to the dairy products as a whole, and you'll start getting inflammation and that inflammation will make more damage in your body and be a tearing down to you. So, I don't know what liver has, how many grams are in like 10 ounces, 12 ounces of liver, but I'm suspicious of these protein supplements.
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“is it okay for migraine sufferers to get IV rescue meds once a month or so? The concern is that the rescue injection or IV contains steroids.” [0:23:49]
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I think our experience with treating migraine patients is very successful here. There is something that is triggering a vascular constriction and then the vasodilation that creates the pain in the lining of the meninges, and the coverings of the brain, and that is triggered typically by food allergies. Probably some of the most dramatic turnarounds I see are in people who have regular migraine headaches and who go on a carnivore diet for maybe two months or three months. That means they eliminate all food lectins, and of course, we encourage the free-range organic sources. And so, am I for IV rescue and steroids in it? I think in the short term. But I think you should find a functional doctor who's going to work with you to find the solution. Most of us are under-hydrated and don't drink enough water. That in itself can dilute some of the autoimmune inflammatory reactive particles that would trigger a migraine, just the dilution effect of it. Taking anti-inflammatory Systemic Enzymes at a hefty dose, maybe five enzymes twice a day on an empty stomach often reduces it. Natural progesterone is associated with reducing it. So, I think there are other things you can do, and I hope you find a good functional doctor to try and help you sort through your blood type, your lifestyle, your diet, and your hydration status, as well as exercise. Exercise is also well associated with migraine reduction. So, hopefully, that would help you.
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“Thanks to your guidance, I am doing very well. If I hear you correctly, as long as I behave myself and continue with a healthy lifestyle, the X39 would not trigger another cancer in me. Is that correct? “ [0:26:07]
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That's my opinion. Absolutely. And I do favor the research in the patches that they have, and I have experience with them, myself. So yeah.
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“What is your opinion on wireless earbuds and smartwatches?” [0:26:43]
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Well, you're receiving electromagnetic energy waves to geolocate you and to get information, the more complex and sophisticated, the more exposure you're getting to these electromagnetic energy waves. On your wrist, I'm not so sure that that's of a concern. But in your ears, if you're just chronically using them, I think getting this electromagnetic energy near your ears and brain area has some concern to it, and I do not think it is being adequately studied. I have seen some reports and research that tend to alarm me. But these electromagnetic waves, I think the one thing that frightens me is the world's control of our movements and our activities. That is more concerning to me than any immediate cellular damage. But I think both need to be looked into. It's kind of funny, who am I that I should have a phone on me 24/7 data systems coming at me? I'm not that important a person, you know. If I can't do what I need to do when I'm at work here under safer conditions, I think this is kind of foolishness, and I tend to think it's more about our control of our bodies and our whereabouts for totalitarian control.
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“Do you know of any patients who have had a reaction to taking fruit and veggie capsule vitamins?” [0:28:36]
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Well, if you're talking about Juice Plus, because that's the one I use that has the most research, I am going to say it would be extremely rare, and this is based on their statements of taking the fruit or vegetable or berry capsules with maybe symptoms of nausea. I've never seen rash. I've never seen wheezing. I've never seen hives or welts. So, is it possible? It's so complex, it would be more like saying did you eat something new, what season of the year was it, what pollens were there, how much stress were you under, how well-hydrated were you, how good is your sleep? Then, do you have any comorbidities that would aggravate things or other illnesses? And so, I would say 99.99 percent of the time, if you're talking about Juice Plus, such a tiny capsule of fruit and vegetable and very concentrated exposure is so minimalistic. The phytonutrient extraction of these things without the sugar is certainly well researched to be valuable. So, no, I don't think there is any real reaction to taking it.
But now there are a lot of copycats because the research is so good on Juice Plus. I would say that these various brands, there are about 14 other brands, and these are powders that often are put into a drink and you drink them like this. Just the mere exposure to this room light and the sunlight is going to be degrading any nutritive and antioxidant value of that drink, plus the whole massiveness of that exposure down your gut is going to really increase your body's reactivity to seeing that constant exposure to so much volume of maybe the spinach powder or the kale powder in it or whatever thing is in it. So, I'm very negative about those other ones. I hope they turn out good. I hope that research emerges on them. I mean, I hope the best for them. But you have to remember, we aren't supported, as physicians, who are doing the hard work of trying to sort out, flying out to plants, looking at them, looking at their assay, their sampling sections, their logs, and archiving of their sample lots and everything. And so, what doctors do that? Well, I do. I go out there. I've gone to these plants where they make Juice Plus, where they do the orthomolecular or zymogen products and others, and it's a hard thing. So, if you want to say what we recommend here, we have put the research and the hard work into looking at it.
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“Once you are on thyroid medication (I've been on 15 mg Armour for a year), is it possible to get off of it, or is it typically for life? Also, if fasting, should I still take my thyroid pill in the morning? Thank you.” [0:31:40]
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Is it possible to get off of it? Yes. Is it typically used for life? Very often. Remember, doctors are trained with the shadow of pharmaceutical dominance in their medical school training. Even the medical schools and the grants and their boards are influenced by the filth of money to procure a theme understanding of the training of the medical students, and that is to prescribe things and to keep the pharmaceutical company growing and to have this consistent usage of drugs. So, it is not taught at medical school how to keep a person well. It is not taught how they physiologically work very well. It is not taught what nutritive parameters/biochemistry are enough to help that doctor have the confidence to think on a biochemical membrane level of damage and repair and lifestyle relationships. So, yeah, you can stop things. You have to see your doctor. I don't know your specific case. Also, if fasting, should I still take my thyroid pill in the morning? I do. Whenever I'm fasting, I take everything except my digestive enzymes because I'm not eating food. So, the answer is yes to that.
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“Dr. Rita, I've been taking 200 mg of Progesterone prescribed by my gynecologist for six months, twice a day for 10 days a month in my luteal phase for my polyglandular issue. A blood draw showed no significant change. The doctor has now doubled the dose and believes I have an absorption issue. Is there a vitamin that can help with absorption at TLC?” [0:33:14]
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Well, progesterone is very safe, so I feel it's very safe for you to double the dose. I would ask to find out what is your blood type. The most common person who has digestion and absorption issues is blood type A. Maybe find out what your blood type is and then help yourself with using, again, Ortho Molecular Digestive Enzymes and I have mine right here. In fact, I forgot to take it after my lunch brunch. So guess what? Even though it's 3.5 - 4 hours ago, I'm still going to take it, because at 70, I am just not digesting as fast as I used to. All right. Very good on that. So, thank you for the question to help me remind me to take my Digestive Enzyme. So. start with that.
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“I'm a marathon runner and occasionally get chelation therapy. The benefits are fantastic, but I do notice that I get muscle spasms and cramping in my calf muscles and hands after the therapy session.
I do eat bananas (for the potassium) to try to counteract it, but there is a higher sugar content, which spikes my triglyceride levels and I get consti…” [0:34:45]
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Find out what your blood type is. And if you're A, you definitely need to take a multi-mineral Albion chelated amino acid minerals. This is the highest quality of absorption of multi-minerals, the potassium, the magnesium, the calcium, the selenium, and the chromium and boron, etcetera. So, we use this from Ortho Molecular TLC Multi Mineral and I would take it every night no matter what, and that way, you're not eating bananas. Now, another very excellent source of minerals is eating meat, fish, liver, chicken, turkey, and eggs. They're very high in amino acid-chelated minerals. And try that first, okay?
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“Once a person going through menopause starts bioidentical hormones, do they need to stay on it for the rest of their life or are there natural ways to treat it, such as addressing issues around the APA axis/pre-hormone system?” [0:36:07]
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Adrenal Pituitary Access is probably what you're saying. Well, the answer is there are lifestyles, and diets that support serotonin production, dopamine production, and serotonin-rich foods, which if you take them will help you make more of that, which will tend to have you more pleasant and less irritable. Most women with menopause and lower estradiol have irritability and lower moods. There are herbs that act as estrogen mimickers, like Dong Quai, black cohosh, and others. There is the vitamin D that also is very helpful in the mood elevation. So, there are things that you can do. But I believe that God gave us hormones for a good reason. A man has his hormones all the way to his dying day. So, I take hormones. I've taken them ever since my late 30s. So, half my life, at least 35 years, maybe 33 years, I've been on hormone replacement therapy all my life. And I, again, joke that I want my husband to stick some in my casket when I die, just as a joke. And I don't see any harm in it at all. So, why worry about these things? I take the D because I want to be happy and immune protected and my bones healthy. I take the hormones, so I have better mental acuity and memory. I take the hormones to help with general contractor kind of reconstruction throughout my whole body, my skin thickness, my heart health, and my immune health. There are receptors all over the body. I had a patient come in today, and she had a hysterectomy. And so, her gynecologist she sees, well she had a hysterectomy because she had the very first stage 1A of endometrial cancer. So, they did an endometrial biopsy because she had some breakthrough bleeding on her hormone replacement therapy, and she had the hysterectomy. And her oncologist-gynecologist followed her up and said, you know, you don't need progesterone because you don't have a uterus anymore, and yet there are progesterone receptors in your brain and your breasts and along various aspects of your body throughout your body, and I found it most amusing that a specialist who is an oncologist-gynecologist didn't know that.
So, it's frustrating, folks. You get to a point in your life where you say, I've learned enough, I'm done, I'll practice with what I know my 30, 40 years. And you start fading away and you don't keep up with the literature. I need my hormones to keep up with the literature so I don't fade, and I keep on studying things. So, yes, you stay on it. But if you want to stop them, yeah, you can stop them, and there's no harm in stopping them, to my knowledge immediately. You can just cold turkey and stop it. I think it's probably better to taper off over the course of a month, but you can cold turkey stop it if you want to.
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“Hello, my daughter gets a migraine every time around her menstrual cycle. What is she lacking?” [0:40:02]
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All women who start their period are more inflamed. You have had an ovulation two weeks before hopefully, probably not in today's stress, and then that triggers the lining of the uterus to shed, and that's a breakdown cellular process. So, you're getting all these fragments again. This picture is so wonderful. You're getting tons of these fragments that are showing up that trigger inflammatory cascade. You know, you heard in the COVID-alleged pandemic that if you took that or got this thing, funny how the flu went away completely all that time. But let's pretend it was COVID. It triggers damage, and that damage triggers an inflammatory response, which they said was hyper-exaggerated, which created the severe lung and respiratory distress. Well, the same thing is happening on a very mild level with a menstrual cycle. Therefore, take anti-inflammatories, drink more water, and lower the carbs because the high-carb diet, junk food, and processed food is an inflammatory process promoting joint achy, headachy-producing phenomena. And so, drink 80 ounces of water as you get close to the start of your period. Take systemic enzymes like Vitalzym on an empty stomach twice a day, great for cramps. And I recommend all girls aged 13 and over to use natural progesterone on day 15 through 25. Just rub it on your skin, on your tummy, on your legs, natural over-the-counter human identical progesterone, to rapidly get that lining cleared off and supportive of the normal cycle. So, that's what I would do.
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“Our son has restless leg syndrome. I also have had it in the past. Do you know what could cause this?
Is there anything he could take that would help this condition?” [0:42:26]
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We don't know the cause of restless leg syndrome. There's some neuropathy. We believe – again, I'm going to use this picture. So, as you look at this little damage to a cell membrane right there, just that little damage right there, pretend that your legs at the end of the day have typically had so much exposure to all these little usage fragments, these little particles that come off of that damaged site, they are setting up inflammation. This general inflammation, especially if you're not repairing it at the rate by eating healthy phospholipids, eggs, egg yolks, meat, fish, chicken with the skin on it, fish and all these things, your repair rate is dropping, so your inflammation level is staying a little bit higher. So, this would be helped with more hydration, and it would be helped with more phospholipids. And also, the multi-minerals, most or all the restless leg syndromes I have seen, we have improved with taking, TLC Multi Minerals and using three of them, that's the standard dose on it. But often they'll take a double dose until they're all resolved. Get those inflammatory processed foods out of the diet, drink more water, and you'll see it improve. That's my suggestion there.
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“Hi, Doctor, I'm 64 and my DEXA scan shows I have osteoporosis. What can help me strengthen my bones? Thank you.” [0:44:12]
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Stomping. You know, women don't chase chickens anymore. We don't chase down the goose. We don't chase the food anymore to chop the head off. We're not hitting/chopping wood. We're not carrying heavy water, and we are wearing cushy rubberized, ooshy-gooshy soles on our shoes. When women all throughout the past had a hard old shoe, it was like the old grandma black shoe, and/or they’re wearing moccasins and they would hit the ground and the floor with their body weight, without cushioning. That piece of electric stimulus up the bone, when you jam it like that when you jam your two bones together like that, generate a shockwave and a little electrical potential, action potential along the periosteum lining on that bone that shakes it up and says, we're alive, we're alive. Osteoblasts do your work. Osteoclasts, watch that you don't tear down too much. So, I often tell my patients to get your ooshy-gooshy gym shoes off and put hard shoes on for your walks. If you're a runner and you're bounding like that and jumping, then you can wear those ooshy-gooshy shoes.
The other thing is to get a rubber hammer and hit something, hard, maybe 10 strikes, so you get that shake-up in your bones and your wrists. So like a little kid who is angry, throwing a tantrum, just stomping on the floor. Stomp for 10 seconds like that twice a day. Weight training, heavy weight training helps it. Eating healthy protein, because remember your bones aren't just made of calcium.
They have to have that collagen material to lay the minerals on it. So, you have to eat plenty of protein. You have to have plenty of water, microcirculation, and EDTA chelation would help. But then vitamin D3 with K2, I would take at least 5,000 IU a day. See your doctor. Check your level. Check your chemistry, with your liver enzymes in it. Make sure that you're getting in ranges above 80 on your vitamin D level. I go between 80 and 120 to really get the bones building. And then natural hormone replacement would be very valuable. Progesterone and estradiol are well-known to help stimulate bone growth. So, that's how I would approach it.
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“Can seizures (clonic) be caused by heavy metal accumulation or the body naturally detoxifying itself? Have you heard anything about Dr. Dan Pompa (Utah area) and his cellular detox program?” [0:47:06]
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No, I haven't, but I need to write that one down. His name is Dr. Dan Pompa, cellular detox program. You know, anything that damages these cell membranes, to your nerves and everything, and as you bioaccumulate heavy metals, they are inert, they're inorganic. We don't have any pathway to detox your body from it. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Therefore, using EDTA chelation is the broadest spectrum, universal, best tested, with 70 plus years of experience. I've had over 43 years of experience with it and have been around it since I was 7 years old with awareness and knowledge. So, I have 63 years of experience in chelation therapy. And I just find people who use it regularly live better, circulation lives, and live longer. So, yeah, I think you can trigger damage to the DNA, to the mitochondria, to the nerve membrane, and get all manner of damage from heavy metal bioaccumulation.
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“Have you heard of zeolite powder for helping remove heavy metals?” [0:48:57]
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Yes, I have. I don't find their data, their science, their accumulation. They don't have conferences. I'm unaware of any doctor out there, like I was the one who promoted developing with the team, our EDTA suppositories. I hit the road with my book, my publication, I was out there in front of physicians, I taught it, and I was hammering the road and beating it down. So, I had the science and the data on it. Where is zeolite? Where are the doctors with all their great results from zeolite? They're not out there. I just don't see them. So, I'm unimpressed with it. I do understand that it has an electrochemical association with ionic charge that attracts heavy metals to it. So, I understand the biochemistry, chemistry of it, physical chemistry of it, but I just do not see the clinical study, trials, or anyone really pushing it that is a physician out there who really saw it help their angina patients, their post-heart attack patients, their dementia patients, their cancer patients, their chronic lung disease patients. So, when I see that kind of science start developing, and if it's out there and I don't know about it, then bring it on. Bring it to me. Educate me. Keep me informed. But I don't see it with it.
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“I've been trying to remove heavy metals with calcium disodium EDTA suppositories and it's been slow-moving, so I'm trying zeolite. It seems to have a lot of great success with people. It's helped me so much already with my Crohn's. Any thoughts” [0:50:30]
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Well, I gave you my thoughts on it. The EDTA suppository that's out there today is not the EDTA suppository matrix that I was involved in studying it. They're mixing it with cocoa butter and that's just a standard suppository base that you put your drugs in to carry any trans-rectal suppository medication. We had a very special matrix developed that would enhance the dissolving and the delivery of it. We did all the pharmacokinetics. And so, I don't know if you're using a quality EDTA suppository product anymore.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. What maintenance dose of Ivermectin do you recommend? Liver and kidneys are both fine.” [0:51:24]
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I usually use 0.4 mg per kilogram. And so, depending on your weight in kilogram, for a man who's around 200 pounds, I would say somewhere in the realm of 20 mg twice a week. For women who are about 112 to 140 pounds, usually I recommend 12 mg. And then it's roughly 0.4 mg per kilogram as a total single capsule, compounded, used twice a week.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. I am a new TLC patient with Dr. Johnston. Regarding thyroid medication, I'm on 15 mg of Armour. When doing intermittent fasting, should I still take the thyroid first thing in the morning or wait until 30 minutes before I stop fasting? And once on thyroid medication, do you see patients come off this medicine, or is it safe for life?” [0:52:06]
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It’s safe for life, but I think 15 mg is so small. I think if you improve and clean up your lifestyle, you could probably get off of that, but it’s not going to be harmful lifelong.
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“Popular myth suggests that sugar causes hyperactivity. If we inject someone with sugar, will it make them “hyper”?” [0:53:07]
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The high sugar consumption of food, processed foods, rapidly absorbed, highly processed starches and fruit sugars, and high fructose corn syrup, is associated with an initial stimulation of the body trying to process this. That general mitochondria all over your cells producing free radical species is associated with the sense of alarm, epinephrine; and therefore, yes, there is hyperactivity with exposure to sugars when it's a large bolus. But then the side effect of the drop or the insulin response to try and get that sugar used up will create a crash, and that's what was traditionally called hypoglycemia.
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“Great. Thank you so much, Dr. E. God bless you. I'm thankful he led me to you.” [0:54:19]
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Well, I'm thankful to God for all. We have a job. I'm here to serve my Lord, my King, my Sovereign. I see God as My king because I want to go and be with him now but I am in His kingdom now. His kingdom is here right on earth. And if you do a study in the Bible every time it says the kingdom of heaven or kingdom of God, it’s here right now, and I'm in it, and I want to serve Him and I want to behave in a way every day that I'm bringing glory and honor to His name. So, I live under the authority of a King, and that is Jesus Christ and God, the Father, and His Holy Spirit. Yeah. So, I am just serving Him. Don't praise me. And you know, whenever you see in Revelations when you read that, you see here where John sees a fellow saint who is now passed on and in heaven, and he shows him something revelatory, and he bows down to him and it says in Revelations, “Don't bow to me. I am a man just like you.” And so please, I am doing my job here, and I'm thankful that God gave me this job. All right. Because you are His creation and I better take good care of you to the best of my ability.
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“I have a follow-up with Dr. Johnston in March. I will stop the whey protein isolate between now and then to see what my blood work shows. Thank you, Dr. E!” [0:55:49]
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I hope I'm right. You know, my 43 years of practice and my dad in food research, I'm glad that people like – oh, his name just slipped my…He’s talking about all the lectins. He's the guy from Loma Linda. Anyway, I'm glad these doctors, who have tons of money, which I think you don't want to know what I think about that. Anyway. They're coming now in their elder years when they can't be the hotshot surgeon anymore, and their eyes don't serve them as well. And then they have all these nutrient programs. Good for them because the food allergy exposure is a real thing. So, yeah, I think you're doing the right thing that way.
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“I heard that hydrogen water is helpful for migraines.” [0:56:56]
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Yes, it is. And we have seen that here clinically ourselves. We use the Izumi water, and we have research on it. My colleague, who helped me with the detoxamin suppository, Robert Settineri, helped write the book about water and hydrogen, and I wrote a foreword for him on it. Yeah. So, that extra positive hydrogen ion is very valuable to help quench free radical damage. So, remember I said how this is free radical damage. Let's see. Let's get to the point here. Yeah. So, the free radical damage is injured, creating inflammation. So, if you have a sink to receive radically damaged electrons, like a proton from the hydrogen water, you're going to get quieting of the situation.
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“Doesn't hormone replacement cause cancer?” [0:57:55]
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No. No. No. And so, I want to tell you. There's a book out there, called ‘Estrogen Matters’. I forgot the author's name, but the name of the book is ‘Estrogen Matters’. Now, if you took a biopsy of my breast right now, I would have estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors, and that means I have normal breast cells. Now, if you get a biopsy at a site where there's a lump, and that biopsy shows a tendency of that cell to appear angry and malignant, malignant in its presentation on the pathology microscope, but it has estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors, it is telling you that it is a normal breast cell that is undergoing irritation, which I'm calling mitochondrial metabolic stress. So, the mitochondria and those breast cells have been damaged chronically over the years, and it is now behaving metabolically in a different pattern. it hasn't become so damaged that it is a negative, HER2-negative, estrogen-negative, progesterone-negative. The triple-negative breast cancers are the most angry malignant ones, and they don't have a good prognosis, although ours have done well here, and are still doing wonderful, and they're back on their hormone replacement therapy. So, I'm here with real-life experience seeing these things, and I'm supposed to believe that estrogen causes cancer. No, that's a simple brain's interpretation, and it's an industry interpretation. I have just not seen this in clinical experience here.
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“How do you find out your blood type? When at Labcorp having a blood test, I asked them, and they said it’s not covered by insurance.” [1:00:07]
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You go to the lab and have a doctor request your blood type. Or go donate your blood and find out what it is. Yeah. So, you’ve got to pay for it. If you want something in this world that's really good, you’ve got to pay for it. Don't think the government loves you. Government is an evil that is necessary. So, you have to have – you know, our forefathers said, they feared most that our government would grow in size and reach, and it has, and it's become a beast, a monster, just like the pharmaceuticals. We better rein it in. Yeah. Pay for it yourself if you want it.
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe. I've been taking Juice Plus for 20 years per hour recommendation. Is there anything better out there?” [1:00:56]
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I have not seen it as the long-term, even DNA research, data on Juice Plus is showing in multiple studies. Again, it's not just one, that DNA damage is dramatically reduced by taking Juice Plus. Plus, remember how I'm saying it's reducing all these free radical damage points? Yeah, it actually reduces it too. So, I will never stop. Okay. I will never stop using my Juice Plus.
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“We’ve heard all these questions and answers previously. Is this a repeat program?” [1:01:37]
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No, it's just people need to hear it over and over again.
Yeah, that's right. Well, bless his heart. I'm so glad that he has all these financers for this. I better watch what I say. Maybe if we have a real live meeting and I have meetings out here, I can speak more honestly.
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“Is diverticulosis managed by fiber as the literature suggests? Fiber is not a friend of mine since I have slow transit. Any other suggestions?” [1:02:34]
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I tell you, I am for phospholipids because that will repair the membrane right there everywhere in your body, whether it’s your colon, your brain, migraine, or anything. So, going on a carnivore diet is probably the most un-inflaming, life-extending, anti-diabetic, anti-dementia, anti-heart attack, anti-joint pain, anti-diverticulosis diet I’ve ever seen, and it’s not a high fiber diet. So, no, fiber doesn’t have all the glory that we thought it had. And so, there’s good research suggesting that it could be more living it.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-february-6-20242024-02-08T10:08:31-08:002024-02-08T10:08:31-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 6, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“What is the difference between Juice Plus Fruits and Veggies and Balance of Nature Fruits and Veggies that is advertised on TV?” [0:01:24]
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Well, the answer is the degree of science and clinical research involved. There are over 42 peer-reviewed journals in healthcare that have done research on Juice Plus on varying topics, such as immune support, building up your lymphocytes, DNA damage reduction, obesity studies, and reduction in obesity in children. There are studies regarding cardiovascular disease prevention and homocysteine reductions with it, and it goes on and on. Antioxidant assays are very, very good peer-reviewed research in journals like the Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of Immunology, and so forth. So, very reputable universities and so forth. So, when I practice medicine, I have to use the highest degree of science to endorse or recommend a nutraceutical because we don't have a physician desk reference like we do for pharmaceutical drugs. So, I have to use research that is out there best endorsing a product, and Juice Plus is the most nutraceutical-researched nutrient in the world. And so, I will not back off on that. That is certainly one of the wisest things we can all do.
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“Do you see any benefit for NAD+ and infusions for people in their 70s?” [0:03:04]
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I'm going to say, no. I don't have the experience as I do with high-dose vitamin C, Myers’ cocktails, which is a vitamin C combination that's been around for a long, long time, EDTA chelation therapies. We have so much clinical research on these, and they are well established in their values supporting antioxidant impact. So, if I'm at 70 and going to take an antioxidant, I use Juice Plus. If I'm going to take anything to detoxify oxidative stress in my own body, I'm going to do calcium disodium EDTA chelation therapy. I am going to do the immune drip with the high-dose vitamin C with other methylated B vitamins. I’ll be on amino acid-chelated multi-minerals, trace minerals, and so forth. So, there is just hands down tremendous clinical research on the established old guard, you might say, and they haven't failed us yet. So, NAD is one of the nutrients/antioxidants that are in the Krebs cycle passing on electrons, and yes, you need that. But if you use your Digestive Enzymes and eat a low-carb diet, drink enough water, exercise, and take some of these basic good multi-nutrient digestive enzymes as you're aging, you should not have to work on one isolated nutrient in the Krebs cycle pathway support.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My friend has urea cycle disorder. She is taking L-ornithine while waiting for a specialist at UCI. Besides a low-protein diet, do you have other recommendations for her? Thank you. for what you do.” [0:05:02]
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Blood urea, nitrogen, and the urea cycle are very important. We will die without enough protein and healthy fats, and there is value in cleaning up the rest of the body's metabolism. And essentially, if you look at some of the work done by Dr. Lee, I believe, who is a nephrologist, on kidney function that helps to eliminate urea in the body, they use EDTA chelation. We can use a very low dose and gradually build it up, being on a very low-carb diet, richer in fat, more like 75 percent fat, maybe 20 percent protein and 10 percent carbs, and water, and Systemic Enzymes, eating in a time frame such as like a 6-hour window, and exercise as tolerated. We can do a lot to clear away the dust, you might say, of dirt that piles up in our bodies, and these urea cycles and the Krebs cycle, all of them improve. So, I don't think the concept that, well, if you eat protein, you will have nitrogen amino acids that will create a concern. That is very superficial. So, that would be the best advice, and I would have to look at her labs and her history background, all those kinds of things to give anything more specific. But that would be my best answer.
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“Can you diagnose electromagnetic sensitivity? Thank you.” [0:07:19]
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I don't think that there is any methodology that is considered a standard of care for electromagnetic sensitivity. Rather, what we have is controversy against the corporate industry that is using all these electromagnetic waves for cell phones, cell towers, and so forth. And so getting the medical industry involved in and finding ways to diagnose with some modality of instrument, lab, it is very difficult. But what we can do is we can help identify that when the patient is near high electromagnetic wave materials, like your microwave or where the entry of the electricity to your house and the circuitry there is a lot of electromagnetic energy and waves that come off of it, and if you get this measured, you can see the concentration amplitude of these waves, and then the person will have symptomology, maybe nausea, headaches, confusion, foggy brain, maybe twitching or muscle twitching, and so forth. These things can be documented, and they are valid as a basis for arguing that there is sensitivity in a higher concentration environment of electromagnetic waves. So, you can go on the internet and look at, say, measure my house for electronic magnetic waves. And then there are many people who have these meters and such, and they can give you an estimate of this in your home, and then you can see where the symptomology is.
You can look into Faraday cages and put these metallic (09:30) that kind of surround your bedding like a canopy, only it has to go under the bed as well and see if you sleep better to heal better because we heal when we're sleeping, and various other devices to help shield you. And all these things can be clinically documented with a doctor who is familiar with this.
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“What is your protocol to test for heart disease risk? CAC (Coronary Artery Calcium), blood work, Lp (a), lipoprotein particles, etc.” [0:09:54]
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Yeah, they're all employed here. We usually ask a cardiologist to do a stress treadmill. There are perfusion studies that can be done with treadmills to look at tagged radioactive materials that are put through that emit flow dynamics that are even more accurate. There is an echocardiogram. So, we'll get a cardiology consult for doing actual stress tests along with the other lists that you have there, like a Coronary Artery Calcium score, that's a CT of your chest, blood work of course. Now, on the blood work, one of the best ones is fasting insulin and looking at an insulin one or two hours after eating a meal to see how high your insulin shoots up. And if you have insulin resistance, that's a very high correlation with the risk of developing a coronary artery. Endothelial lining, the lining, the delicate lining of the vessels, would be injured with a high sugar carbohydrate diet, and that would be where most of the stress comes from.
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“What are your thoughts on methylene blue to treat Bartonella/Lyme and does it cause a Herx reaction?” [0:11:29]
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I don't do methylene blue. It is employed as a powerful antioxidant by some physicians in this area, and it is associated with detox phenomena, and we call it a Herxheimer reaction where you feel flu-like as you pass away damaged and debrided cells. So, I think there are physicians in the area that are using it. I don't. I don't have enough experience with it to go much beyond that to tell you about that. We've been very successful using our high-dose vitamin C, our low-carb diet, our fasting protocols, our Systemic Enzymes, and EDTA chelation to improve microcirculation with high-dose vitamin C, which acts as an antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and we get good results. So, that’s why I don't see that much more is needed. We do the ozone ultraviolet light treatments of the blood as well, and we've been very successful with those alone, which are more long-term tried and true modalities.
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“Can phantosmia arise when taking herbals for Bartonella/Lyme? And can it be caused by toxin overload?” [0:13:00]
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I'm not familiar with that phenomenon, so I'm going to have to look into that. Let me write a little note here to myself as my patients and the people always keep me on my toes…phantosmia, and that's for Lyme's. Okay, so I can't give you an answer on that. But, you know, you don't just run in and start these powerful antioxidant, high-dose vitamin C chelation protocols right off the street. You need to be seen by a doctor who has been working with functional medicine and chronic metabolic problems, and chronic medical disease profiles, and then see how healthy your patient is. And sometimes we need to build up the patient's health first before we start detoxing them with some of these powerful antioxidant IVs and so forth. And the same thing goes for the nutrient recommendations.
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“Good evening, Dr. Ellithorpe. I have type A blood and I started taking Digestive Enzymes before each meal. I'm experiencing a lot of gas, and I'm wondering if that's normal. I don't have all that gas otherwise. Thank you.” [0:14:37]
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It's probably, in general, the fact that you are reconstructing your bowel microbiome, and with better digestion with Digestive Enzymes, the nutrients are being digested more appropriately into their subunits, amino acids, fatty acids, and glucose molecules, and these then are being presented to a gut that has not had as much delivery of healthy digested macromolecules. Therefore, the biofilm, the bacteria, and the fungi that are in and beneficial are getting a boost. It could be also you're having too many carbs and you're feeding these bacteria. But, in general, we do see gas and bloating a little bit after starting this, but it should come to an end. You might decrease to one capsule or you might need to go up to four capsules. You know, I'll take four or five Digestive Enzymes after a big steak. But if I'm just eating a smaller meal, I might just take one or two. So, play with that and see your doctor about that.
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“Can you discuss the benefits of using compounds versus traditional regimes for bioidentical hormone therapy?” [0:16:15]
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Well, I like compounded bioidentical therapies, estradiol in a cream, progesterone in a cream or in a capsule, and testosterone in a cream. I like these because they're very simplistic. You're getting the molecular bioidentical item, and it's in a very simple base. It could be in olive oil, it could be in peanut oil, if you don't have peanut sensitivities, it can be in a Eucerin simple topical cream, and then we have a better understanding of how you're reacting to just that item. I don't like pre-formed materials. I have grown increasingly concerned and suspicious of the pharmaceutical industry, given the character of the government and state departments of recommendations over the past three to four years, and the pharmaceutical history of being charged with felonies paying off billions in fines, and no one ever is fired or sent to jail. So, there is a problem just with the mere fact that I have increasing suspicion about the nature and quality of pharmaceutical companies today and their excess of wealth, and they can pay off mistakes. That's not the right environment to look for getting high quality. And I'm here to try and recommend things that will be as healthy and natural and less invasive to my patients. So, that's the main reasons why I do it like that.
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“Can you discuss how we prevent and help memory loss? Supplements and foods to avoid/add to our diet.” [0:18:28]
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Fasting is probably one of the best brain natriuretic-derived factors that you can do. So, intermittent fasting, doing a 24-hour or 48-hour fast once or twice a month. You could do a 24-hour water fast once a week. You could do intermittent fasting and restrict your eating time as a lifestyle between noon and 6 PM or between 10 and 4 PM. You could eat a one-meal a day. I mean, any fasting will help the brain, but anything that is about 24 hours long will really boost brain development. So, a very low-carb diet is very important. Not eating late is very important. Staying hydrated by drinking half your weight in pounds as ounces of water. Natural hormone replacement, be it testosterone in males or estradiol in females balanced with progesterone because even if you don't have a uterus, we still know that the body has many other places where there are receptors for progesterone. So, natural hormone replacement, along with a low-carb diet, along with fasting, and then exercise is very, very good for brain development and repair. Getting a good night's sleep. Nutraceutically, I would say being on something like Juice Plus, which is a well-researched, antioxidant, low carb, there's no sugar or fruit sugar in it. And so you would be getting all the wonderful micronutrients in the fruit, vegetables, and berries. That would be one thing I would encourage.
And then the next thing is the Systemic Enzymes to stop inflammation. Inflammation will always be associated with mental fatigue and forgetfulness. So, you might look for food allergies. A carnivore diet is the ultimate elimination diet, meaning everything is eliminated except the natural meat, fish, chicken, or pork, or egg, and that then takes away anything that would inflame your gut inflammation in your body. Doing EDTA chelation therapy will improve the microcirculation throughout the brain and the rest of the body. So, those are some suggestions.
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“You suggested last week that I take Vitalzym, which I do take. Should I also be taking Digestive Enzymes with meals? Blood type A, on a keto diet. I'm a healthy 67-year-old woman with hiatal hernia and GERD symptoms” [0:21:21]
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Blood type A as a general rule don't digest as well. So digestive enzymes, like we've been talking about Ortho Biotic Digestive Enzymes from the company Ortho Molecular is a very high integrity, high-quality nutraceutical company that I monitor and have visited several times. That's for eating food and helping you to digest. And then you can play with how much is necessary. If you're eating a big steak, maybe more Digestive Enzymes. If you're eating a small amount, then maybe one Digestive Enzyme. You have to play with it yourself. It's very safe. You should not eat probably for a minimum, probably realistically the older we get, 6 hours before going to bed. So, if you go to bed at 10, you should really try and stop eating by about 4 or 5 in the evening. That's always helpful, especially if you have reflux or GERD. Systemic enzymes like Vitalzym, these are enzymes without the betaine hydrochloric acid in them for stomach digestion, and it doesn't have oxbile in them. So, there are things that are not in it because you're not using it to digest your food. These then would be taken on an empty stomach first thing in the morning at least an hour or two before eating or the last thing before bed, having stopped eating any food for four to six hours, so that it can work on the rest of the body systemically. And that is what we are encouraging.
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“The best diet program for weight loss? Healthy 67-year-old female struggling to lose 30 pounds that appeared out of nowhere. I don't eat sugar, flour, or fruit. I do the perfect workout 2x a week, plus hike and ride my horse. I have an appointment as a new patient next month at your office, btw. Thanks!” [0:23:24]
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As we get older, our muscles diminish in volume. So, you're losing about 1 percent or so every year of your life from age 40 on. It could be even sooner. Some articles and scientific reports are saying it starts now at age 35. So, you have a pattern of eating throughout your life. It could be good, healthy food. You could have some good vegetables, and good salads, and eat your protein with healthy fats, hopefully grass-fed, organically grown. But as you lose your muscle mass, your body's ability to burn that down is diminished because your muscles will help you burn the sugars in your body. Therefore, even if you're eating healthy, as we age, our ability to keep up with our standard pattern of eating, it falls behind our loss of muscle mass. That's why the perfect workout, I applaud you, is very important to keep your muscle mass. And right after I'm done here, of course, I'm going to the gym and I'll be doing heavy weightlifting for about an hour. So, I think that's probably the area of why older people, as we age, we get the love handles, we tend to gain weight, we tend to have higher and higher blood sugars and higher insulin levels because our engine is shrinking that would normally have been burning these down. So, reducing the carbohydrates and maybe going on a carnivore diet for three months, that is usually a way to break through these plateaus of weight loss goals. Hopefully, that will be of help to you.
I have to work out about three times a week to maintain my weight with heavy weightlifting. I used to do a perfect workout twice a week, then I went to three times a week. When I went to 3 times a week, I started seeing more benefits. So, that may be another thing.
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“When treating hypothyroidism, have you ever heard that taking levothyroxine on an empty stomach can cause weight gain due to the T4 interacting with the stomach lining? What are your thoughts on taking T3 in the morning with food and then taking T4 at night with food? Supposedly this can help with sleep too.” [0:26:04]
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I don't think any of that is good advice. I don't know who is telling you that but thyroid is usually taken in the morning all the way to maybe mid-afternoon; otherwise, it might interrupt your sleep and healing time. I've never ever heard it be associated with weight gain. So, that's my simple response to that.
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“Hi, Dr. E. My brother is 26. For the past month, he's been waking up around 2 a.m. and unable to get back to sleep. Where do you suggest we start investigating to help him? Thank you for all you do.” [0:27:06]
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I would make sure his vitamin D level is around 80 to 100. So, go on to your to your doctor and start with taking a vitamin D3 with K2 and he probably can take 10 to 20,000. I'd probably use 20,000 IU. That's what I often recommend for all men. And then I would put him on a Methyl B Complex, which would include vitamin B5 or what is called pyridoxine. Pyridoxine and vitamin D are very important in sleep. I would put him on a multimineral so that he's getting the magnesium, the potassium, and calcium, and I would use that as an after-dinner vitamin to take, or with his dinner. That is relaxing. And I would tell him to start exercising five days a week and drink half his weight in pounds as ounces of water. So, the brain gets irritable when you don't drink enough water. The brain gets irritable when you haven't used your body, and being 26, you need to use your body to help you dispense your potential energy use. So, water to hydrate, minerals, exercise, and then maybe get any electronics out of the room. A lot of men are sleeping in or around or near their gaming and that kind of stuff. All that electromagnetic wiring is a sink for electromagnetic energy that is irritating to the membrane surface. Remember, the membrane surfaces here of the cells in your brain can be irritated with signals through breaches. And then find out his blood type, see a good medical doctor that is functional, and we'll do his blood type. He could be a blood type A and just getting terribly low on his healthy fats and proteins and minerals, and it just makes them much more triggered, and get his testosterone level checked. Low testosterone is associated with insomnia also.
Now, what kind of exercise? I would say do weight training at least twice a week for 30 to 40 minutes and do aerobics three times a week, and that should help turn around. So, give us a heads-up if he goes on the D, on the methyl-B complex that includes all the B complex, including vitamin B5 pyridoxine, the multi-minerals, exercise, and more water. Let us know how it does.
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“Hi, Dr Rita. I have a lot going on. I tested positive for COVID today. I have a UTI and my stool tests had high amounts of enterohemorrhagic E. coli. What can I do? What should I take? Thank you.” [0:30:16]
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You have to see your medical doctor and address these symptoms and get the urinary tract infection managed. I don't know. I'm not familiar with enterohemorrhagic E. coli off the bat, but for some reason, they must have tested that on you. And so, I would encourage you to see your physician and get management on that. Right now, I would encourage you to take vitamin D, and anyone with a viral illness, be it COVID or anything else, is a generally important thing to do. And a multi-mineral that has zinc in it and that is somewhere around 20 mg, and vitamin D somewhere around 10,000 IU. But see your physician. Go to urgent care. If you're having abdominal pain, diarrhea, or bloody diarrhea, you have to be seen right away. The best thing with any kind of irritation of the bowel is usually resting the bowel with a clear liquid diet. We put them in chicken broth or beef broth, and we'll give them some maybe ginger ale because ginger helps to calm the stomach, but we mix it with water half and half. And resting the bowel for 24 to 48 hours is usually a general helpful thing. But your story is complex and you need to have a local physician manage you, or an urgent care, if you don't have one, to start the process and treat these things.
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“Hi, Dr. E. My friend, 67, suddenly lost her memory. No prior health issues. Brain scans were all negative. They saw a UTI and are treating her with antibiotics. Could it be some kind of a parasitic infection?” [0:32:25]
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Sudden memory loss is usually associated with trauma to the brain. She needs to of course be seen by a doctor to rule out any trauma. And could parasites be associated with urinary tract infections? It's an outlying possibility, but that's extremely rare. And in all the years of my practice, I don't see parasites as something that is really one of the forefront things. It's so, so rare. But with that, she has to see her doctor. She has to be followed and evaluated for her memory with a neurologist and continued care.
If she was seeing a functional doctor, they would do her EDTA chelation to improve the blood flow to the brain. They would encourage her to be on a low-carb diet so she doesn't clog up all the little capillaries with a lot of sticky carbohydrates, be on more like a carnivore diet for a month to get all that antibody/antigen complexes that also can clog these tiny capillaries to the brain and everywhere else in the body. Make sure she's well hydrated. If she can handle some hormone replacement therapy, that is very healthy to stimulate the brain and memory, and Systemic Enzymes to reduce inflammation.
So, there are many things that need to be looked at there, and I would ask you to have that checked on her with your doctor.
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“Are there tests you could recommend? We are at a loss and Western Doctors are not helping. I told her about TLC. Thank you!” [0:34:43]
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Well, she can come as a patient to Tustin Longevity Center. Our focus would be to try and get her own body to heal with improved microcirculation using EDTA chelation therapy, high dose vitamin C if there are any chronic viral or bacterial, or even parasitic and fungal issues, ozone treatment with UVB of the blood, Systemic Enzymes, those things I just suggested. But maybe you can find a functional doctor nearby where you're at, but we'd be happy to have her see her here. We have many fine doctors. Although I'm not taking new patients, I would have Dr. Amber Majid, Dr. Meric, physician assistant Patel, or Dr. Kaur, or Dr. Johnston. So, we have quite a few that could try and help look at her alongside her neurologist.
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“Hi, Dr. E. Looking for a healthy skin moisturizer. Currently using MCT oil and coconut oil. I don't use soap when I shower quickly. My morning cold plunge and Vegas weather though on the skin.” [0:35:56]
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So, you're doing cold plunges and your skin gets water on it regularly. All right. Well, the oils of the body are phospholipids and the linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids. You could take the Parent Essential Oil as a liquid. They come in capsules, but we also have them as liquid. But you would need a lot to rub on your body if you're concerned about that. So, I'm going to stick with things like olive oil, coconut oil, MCT oil. I think you're doing the right thing, and keeping soap off your body and trying to drink and stay well hydrated, of course, and eating healthy fats in your meat, fish, chicken, turkey, and beef. But as far as a topical, I don't have anything besides those suggestions. Maybe olive oil would be something that is affordable and you could use it in volume as well.
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“Thoughts on Ray Peat?” [0:37:23]
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Who is Ray Peat? Is that someone I should know? Ray Peat. I don't know who Ray Peat is, so I can't answer that question.
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“I'm having a hard time staying asleep. Pharmacists could compound progesterone with L-theanine and maybe magnesium. Is it okay to take progesterone without other hormones - a postmenopausal woman.” [0:37:42]
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I think it's safe to take without it, but why wouldn't you want to take the estradiol? That's very brain-calming. If you don't have breast cancer, and in general they don't want you on that, but I still give progesterone even if you’re progesterone positive. Now, another thing for sleep is being well hydrated. We don't drink enough water. The other thing is having enough magnesium multi-minerals. Another thing is getting the electronics around your sleeping area cleared out. Another thing is exercise helps to give you a good night's sleep. A regular four-day a week, doing a good workout every other day, aerobic and weightlifting. Another thing is vitamin D. Get your levels up to about 80 to 100, maybe 120 even, and on your blood samples. Another thing would be that for the B5 vitamins, taking a methylated B complex would be helpful. So, that's the direction I would go recommend for people who have trouble staying asleep. You'd be surprised how much water and exercise will do with a low-carb diet.
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“What do you do when you spend 10 hours a day in front of a computer for the EMF? I'm starting to lose a bit and need some guidance.” [0:39:23]
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Taking breaks, exercising, getting blue light lenses on your glasses. Even if you don't need reading glances, they do have lenses that have the blue light filters, taking timeouts from them. Maybe you can spread those 10 hours, like two in the morning, two in the late morning with an hour break in between, and then two in the early afternoon, and two in the late afternoon. That's eight with an hour break in between. And then have your blue lights on. But those are my suggestions. Hopefully, that would help you.
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“Hi, Dr Rita. Do you recommend ozone for the brain?” [0:41:12]
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No, not necessarily. In fact, if you take a high-dose vitamin C drip, that has some hydrogen peroxide extra oxygenation ozone in it itself. So, doing a high dose of vitamin C is brain-stimulating and healthy. The other thing is I just don't see that a single item is what we need. We need a lifestyle approach to all of our needs. So, when you ask that question about ozone for the brain, exercise will help stimulate circulation. EDTA chelation will help the deeper microcirculation penetration of the brain. High-dose vitamin C will help it. And so, when you take the vitamin C with EDTA chelation, that's a one-two punch. Natural hormones help. Exercise helps a lot though too.
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“Ray Peat was a doctor in the pro-metabolic diet community. He passed away recently.” [0:42:23]
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Alright. I don't know about him. I'll have to look him up. You guys keep me on top of stuff, don't you?
I'll look into that, and maybe next week I can give some thoughts on that.
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“Also, what do you think about DOTA chelation? Is it less safe or effective than EDTA?” [0:42:56]
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I'm not familiar with there being anything called DOTA chelation. And since I don't have a second-screen computer here to look it up, I can't give you an answer to that. But I've got three points already to come back and answer for next week. I didn't see any notes for this week, but I will look into that. Now, look, I've been around chelation for 63 years of my life, since I'm 70, and I was aware of chelation with my grandfather at age 7. So, I know this world of chelation, and I've never, ever, ever seen DOTA.
So if it's there, it's brand new, and I will look into that because I teach EDTA chelation at ACAM. If I get the question, I don't want to look like I don't know it but thank you for helping alert me so I can be upon it.
Thank you.
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“Due to a family history of breast cancer, it's been advised that due to the increased risk to have an annual MRI with contrast. I am concerned about the gadolinium and the risk. I've read it doesn't completely leave your body. Do you recommend getting an IV to flush this out after the scan? Same day as the scan. I am 54 years old.” [0:44:09]
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Yes, if you can get your MRI early in the day and come for an EDTA chelation to remove gadolinium, it works like a charm. Plus, it's going to benefit you in so many other ways.
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“How can functional/integrative medicine help a person with a BRCA gene? Some doctors recommend radical mastectomy and hysterectomy.” [0:44:46]
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I do not buy into the gene therapy of cancer. Over the 43 years of practicing hundreds and thousands, millions of people, I'm going to say genetic issues are, in my opinion, not a strong feature. But I'm not an oncologist and I'm not a breast surgeon. So, if there's some brand new finding on this, I am the one who would say the mitochondrial metabolic damage to the mitochondria, energy disturbance, is what really is the problem, microcirculation, oxidative stress, damaging the ability to handle and give energy to each cell. When that happens, it creates inside the cell an acidic environment, much like when the baby is first conceived and the sperm and egg meet. So, you've got like 48-72 hours for that glob of cellular human life with no heartbeat, no lungs, nothing, it's just depending on diffusion, and that strong oxidative stress triggers DNA to send out a vasculature to get oxygen, which eventually becomes the placenta. And by the time day 56 of the development of the child, the umbilical cord is getting the pancreatic enzymes that signal we're working fine and the feedback and that placenta aggressive growth is satisfied and you have a normal pregnancy then. So, I recommend functional/integrative medicine to give you the best metabolic health, mitochondrial energy production, detoxing, low carb, low insulin that stimulates tumors to grow because it's a growth-promoting hormone insulin, and getting exercise, and a good night's sleep, and getting your vitamin D levels up that acts to enhance your T cell killer cells that clear out stem cells and material that would tend to become cancerous, and so forth. So, that's how I would approach it.
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“Hello, I have recently been diagnosed with a kidney cyst, sub-centimeter liver cyst, and an ovarian cyst, as well as uterine fibroid.” [0:47:24]
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But before I read any more, I'm going to say the vast majority of women have all those four items – a kidney cyst, a liver cyst, an ovarian cyst, and uterine fibroids. And why do they have that? Because just like your age and your skin gets weak and jiggly here and under your arms and stuff, your elastin collagen is breaking down from oxidative stress. Remember, we're all cooking at 98.6 degrees all the time, and you need to drink this water to baste yourself and get enough in you. And so, there's your kidneys hanging and they're going to get some wiggly is their kidney area and it's going to tear and maybe have cells break apart and develop these little cysts. Same for your liver and ovaries. We are also seeing fibroids from the high carb stimulating generalized growth endometriosis, polycystic ovarian disease, and fibroids. So, the number one thing to be concerned about is exercising a low-carb diet, eating in a time window frame, and using Systemic Enzymes. See a good functional doctor. Look if you're a candidate for natural hormone progesterone cyclically, and you can do ultrasounds to monitor this.
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“I am under a tremendous amount of stress, and these have all come about in the last 6 to 12 months. I'm 42 and my lab work is normal. What is the most effective way to treat these? Thank you!” [0:49:14]
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Well, number one, don't worry. Number two, in a good functional medicine doctor's hand, we can look at these by ultrasound, and the lifestyle changes I listed would be the best way to approach it.
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“At what point do you feel it's appropriate to prescribe statin drugs for cholesterol?” [0:49:40]
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I think it's really only in males typically who had a recent heart attack, for their first heart attack.
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“Do you take into account if someone has slightly high cholesterol?” [0:49:55]
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I love cholesterol. I don't agree that cholesterol as a danger for heart disease. What is the danger is what they won't allow the doctors to learn or talk about, which is carbohydrates, starches, sugars, fruit sugars, processed food, sugary drinks, hidden sugars, inactivity, sedentary lifestyle, inadequate hydration, environmental toxins, and heavy metal stress accumulation, bioaccumulation. There's no enzyme or pathway in your body. to remove heavy metals, but there are liver detox pathways to conjugate sulfation, like glycation, methylation, and other pathways in your liver, but yeah. So, that's what you worry about.
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“But is it made up of high good cholesterol, normal bad cholesterol, and low triglycerides, on a keto diet? Would you try to lower the overall cholesterol? And if so, with what protocol?” [0:50:52]
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All you have to worry about is how much sugar, bread, pasta, grains, beans, oatmeal, rice, crackers, bagels, sodas, fruity/juicy, shakes, juicing things, how much you're taking in of starch and carbohydrates that are converted to simple fat triglycerides, and then you have to transport them around and you get these injuries, anoxia to the cell membrane. Remember, we're talking about this picture right here with these little injuries here to the cell membrane. So, if you clog up a capillary, that cell membrane is going to get sick and not repair, and you get more and more of that in your body. Your sed rate goes up, you become inflamed, and your body. will produce more cholesterol to try and help these fill in these holes here in the membrane. And so, it's a catch-22. There's a YouTube out there called High Cholesterol is Healthy by Ken Berry and David Diamond. They review the data, they talk about the rare and isolated potential value of a statin drug. But for the most part, they're talking about the current literature that says statins in general are over-prescribed and meaningless in the long-term prevention. But if you want something meaningful, go look up the tech trial, Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy, Dr. Tony Lamas, TACT Update 2019 Dr. Lamas. EDTA chelation reduced the post heart attack morbidity and mortality by nearly 50%. So, give me a break. Why isn't that in the news? Why? It's because they won't make any money on it because it's not patentable. So, you look that up. So, be low carb, exercise, don't eat late, see a good functional doctor, have your insulin checked, your triglycerides checked, your hemoglobin A1C, your fructosamine, fruit sugars sticking to things, and your fasting blood sugar. Track that always.
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“Hello again, Dr. Ellithorpe. Can you tell us the story of the development of NT Factor with Garth Nicholson? Also, do you know or are you familiar with Dr. Nachman Brautbar in LA? Thanks again for Story Time with Dr. E” [0:53:29]
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I'm going to tell you, I just don't have enough time, I have six minutes left. We should probably open up this on another channel, but again I am so, so, so busy, but I love doing this. I'd love to talk about it. If we have done this work and research with Garth Nicholson and others on membrane repair, my father was doing this back in the 50s and 60s, which helped stimulate data that Dr. Garth Nicholson got a hold of. And so, if you don't understand structure dictates function, you're not going to have good function if you have holes in your cells, okay, holes in them, and you have to eat phospholipids and the right fats. So, I will get to that, and we'll get to the more story time.
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“Good evening! I have a dear friend that has started reading the book “eating right for your blood type”. Any words of wisdom I can give her? Maybe it's okay, but I've never heard of this before. Thank you.” [0:54:41]
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I don't like the book by D'Adamo ‘Eat Right for Your Blood Type’. Why? Because it is just rubbing in the fact that A’s don't digest well. Therefore, it's harder for them to digest fats and protein. Therefore, they should avoid it and just stick with their high-carb, vegetable vegetarian diet because it's easier for them to digest carbohydrates than healthy fats and proteins. But they get sick. We're all made of protein and fat, and they can't get enough typically in a vegetarian or vegan diet. And then he comes out with these lines of vitamins for blood type. I just don't like that kind of marketing approach. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth. So, I don't recommend the book. And of anything, at least he brought to attention blood types matter, and I applaud him and honor him for that that he wrote a book about it. I guess, you know, there are so many doctors so darn busy seeing one human being after another every day, that I don't have time to write books on these things. So, pray for him and tell your friend, to get to a good functional doctor who knows A type of blood needs, to have Digestive Enzymes. B’s tend to have more allergies. And it's not true that B’s are sensitive to chicken like he says in his book and so forth.
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“Can you speak about EMF? How can I safeguard against electromagnetic transients? Are they harmful? Do you think cell phones can negatively affect our health? Thank you, Dr. E.” [0:56:21]
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Yes. So, I would go on YouTube and learn from them, I think his name is the EMF Doctor, Electromagnetic Frequency Doctor, and he has references there. And so, the Faraday cage, turning off all your electronics, some people literally shut their breaker off at night and their whole house goes dark. No electrical impulse can come in. So, yes, that's a starting point for you.
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“I'm perimenopausal and I have the MTHFR gene mutation and have been dealing with low mood and some anxiety. I do not want to take antidepressants, but I'm wondering if it would be helpful to take methyl folate. Is there another supplement that would be helpful?” [0:57:20]
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Well, absolutely. People with Methylenetetrahydrofolate have trouble in an enzyme pathway that helps with methylation and making serotonin, making norepinephrine, and epinephrine, all these neurotransmitters very much involve methylation, and these are some of our happy hormones. So, if you use a very good clinically tested Methyl B complex, I would use our TLC Methyl B Complex because it has all eight or nine B vitamins, including that wonderful B5 that's involved in helping you sleep. I would use vitamin D for your mood, and I would eat more meat, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, and eggs to get better healthy membranes in your brain, and I would exercise and I would get out in the sunshine for at least 20 minutes a day, and that would be my beginning point. And get away from all processed foods. I would also take a good multi-mineral, those kind of starting points would be my suggestion there.
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“Do you have any recommendations for Parkinson's patients?” [0:58:47]
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Yeah. Get to a functional doctor and start EDTA chelation therapy and maybe glutathione intravenous infusions with exercise and healthy diet and a workup. That would be a great beginning point.
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“What are your feelings regarding HRT in women whose mother has a history of estrogen-dependent breast cancer? I am 64 and healthy and was on HRT for about 10 years. When my mother developed breast cancer, I stopped. I get yearly thermography and do have some mild rusk features. Thank you. God bless.” [0:59:08]
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I believe in the metabolic mitochondrial disease. All breasts have estrogen and progesterone receptors, healthy breasts, and the more estrogen and progesterone receptors on tissue that they say is a breast cancer sample just merely reflects the fact that it isn't as bad a cancer, it isn't as grossly irritated and malignant. So, the worst kind of breast cancer is typically the triple negative, there's no receptor. So, that cell is totally devolved away from its original breast tissue. So, I, in no way, see a relative…My sister had breast cancer and she died of it, she wouldn't listen to me and follow my advice, and I still stay on my hormones. My other sister stays on her hormones, and we have an excellent lab, but we exercise, we eat low-carb, we drink our water, and we take certain nutraceuticals. So, I don't see any link with that to be a concern.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Other than the potential for heavy metals in fish oils, is there a difference between fish oil and Clinician Preference Oils at the physiological level? Thank you.” [1:00:44]
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Yes, yes, yes, yes. We have linoleic, and alpha-linolenic in our cell membranes, not EPA, and DHA, and we're not fish, and we don't need 6 double carbon bonds and 5 double carbon bonds EPA and DHA, respectively. We need the 2 and 3 double bonds that God wanted us to have for healthy cell membranes. I do not recommend fish oil at all.
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“Can HRT be used well into and after menopause? Or does it need to be stopped at some point? And how does that work if you have to stop?” [1:01:24]
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Well, I'm an example. Yeah. And I joke about putting some in my coffin when I die. Does that need to be stopped at some point? I see no reason why. I don’t recommend to stop. So, if you want to stop, I've had women just stop abruptly and there's no problem, but they might get hot flashes back.
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“Dear Dr. Ellithorpe, my friend had pericarditis in 2020, and a year ago had it again. Just last week, she started to feel the same symptoms, extreme fatigue and weakness. Her doctor advised colchicine, but she doesn't like taking pharmaceutical drugs. Could you suggest something for the inflammation that would be an alternative? Thank you.” [0:04:41]
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Well, all the healthy lifestyle. She has to eat real food and stay away from everything processed and ultra-refined food. So, a real piece of meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, a real piece of vegetable, and a real salad, and a real glass of water. Not eating past 6 o’clock in the evening, getting out and taking a walk as tolerated, or exercising with some resistance training, and being extremely low carb. And the systemic enzymes act as anti-inflammatories. We would use Vitalzym or Vascuzyme here, systemic enzymes, and taken on an empty stomach twice a day where there's no food to digest in your stomach, like first thing in the morning and the last thing before you go to bed. If you took five or six capsules, and then that anti-inflammatory, along with the correct amount of water, take about half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, that's a very good starting point to help with that. And find a doctor who is a functional doctor who will check fasting insulin, triglyceride, fasting blood sugar, and hemoglobin A1c, sedimentation rate, a D-dimer maybe. D-dimer is associated with the inflammation of sticky blood sugars, sticky carbs, and inflamed blood prone to clotting. So, a D-dimer Hs-CRP, things like that.
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“I got quadruple heart bypass surgery in September 2022. Docs tried several different statins – which cause muscle and joint problems. Now, they want to try some weekly or monthly injections of something else to minimize cholesterol. Can I use Detoxamin in conjunction with these meds? What other supplements should I use or other advice? Other advice?” [0:06:49]
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The answer is, yes. Well, you have to follow your doctor's advice, your cardiologist's advice. But I am not a fan of statins. The YouTube video that you might consider watching by Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. David Diamond is called High Cholesterol Is Good For You - because you have to remember, these cell membranes that have been injured in your heart or the lining of your blood vessels, these cell membranes have a tremendous need for cholesterol in them and the essential fatty acids, phospholipids, and that is only going to come to you if you're eating real food and stay away from packaged food. The inflammation that is associated with the cause of damage to the endothelial lining would be helped with adequate water. The inflammation from sticky sugar and food allergies would be helped with eating a one-menu day on a rotation so that you would assign day one to be maybe beef and broccoli for dinner, and then you make enough so you could have it pre-ready to warm up for your lunch the next day. Notice I said ‘no breakfast’ because we believe intermittent fasting is very helpful also to disinflame your body, to detoxify. So, eating only a two-meal day in a window of time, no further than six hours, depending on your unique situation. If you're an insulin-dependent diabetic, of course, your physician would have to help you with this, but it is possible to achieve. And adequate water, half your pounds of weight as ounces of water every day. Moving to a carnivore diet would probably frighten your cardiologist, but it will greatly disinflame your body, reducing your fasting sugar, which is associated with cardiovascular disease. All diabetics have high average blood sugars, and they're associated with the increased clear risk of having a vascular disease. It's one of the down-the-line side effects of being a diabetic. So, if you become a carnivore, that would be helpful.
And then, exercise, walking, motion, and then a good night's sleep, and never eating late. Eating late in and of itself is a multidimensional impact of harming the human body. Detoxamin is EDTA chelation therapy in a suppository form that I did research on and published on and found great value in association with reduced inflammation because it improves the microcirculation and improves nitric oxide production and vasodilation.
Those are things. Find a good functional doctor. Go to ACAM.org and put in your zip code or, a distance you're willing to travel. Maybe you could find a good, functional doctor. But do stay in touch with your local doctors here. But clearly, I would certainly recommend the systemic enzymes twice a day on an empty stomach. would recommend vitamin D with K2 every day, 5,000 I.U. of vitamin D3 with probably K2 somewhere between 90 and 180 units, and do that every day. That would be a starter.
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“Dr. E, my friend's daughter has endometriosis. She is 23. What is your advice to keep it under control?” [0:11:15]
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I'm telling you, everybody, we would do ourselves very, very well if we would eat in a fixed window of time, eat real food, not processed, and, keep low-carb, rich in the healthy phospholipids, protein, and fats that we need. Move our bodies on a regular basis. I will be going to, I've got my bag here to get my gym shoes and my workout clothes on right after we're done here. So, I do my weight training still, I do it twice a week now, and then I have my aerobics every day now, especially with having my dogs to walk and one is 77 pounds, the other is 52. So, they really are hard to walk. So, you have to move. You have to be low-carb. You have to drink your water. You have to have good sleep hygiene and, yeah not eat late, and that's how I would begin with that. And it's an unpleasant thing, but these junk foods are fake entertainment for the mouth and fake nutrient components. Not good for our bodies, and they are making us all sick. So, we have to get away from processed foods, sugar drinks, and, eat real food.
That's what I would tell her.
And then have a good doctor follow her insulin, and fasted, with her fasting blood sugar, her fasting triglycerides, and her hemoglobin A1c. And if she can get her triglycerides, somewhere around the 50s, her insulin to 4 or less, her hemoglobin A1c to 5. 2 percent or less, and her fasting blood sugar under 85, this endometriosis should dry up. Another thing is she should probably be on progesterone days 15 through 25 of her menstrual cycle. That's what we do for our patients.
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“Similar question to my past regarding whether to have a colonoscopy or not. Since my last submission of this question, I had gone to my old liberal doctor, and he had me do the Fecal Globin by immunochemistry test. Results on the InSure ™ FOBT test card: Specimen Quality: Adequate. Fecal Globin: Not detected. Q? Any other tests available?” [0:13:38]
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Well, if you did the Cologuard, you can learn about that. But I am biased, and my bias is regarding colonoscopies. When I was around 38, my brother-in-law, who was 45-ish roughly, married to my older sister, was working with my husband on carpentry when I was on active duty at Fort Knox. And he was in good shape. I say that, he was working on construction because obviously he was working very fine. After the job was done, we had a beautiful steak dinner, and a week later, my sister called me saying that David had both ankles swollen. That's very unusual for a 44 or 45-year-old man. I was surprised and he didn't want to go to the doctor. So, I told her, to put his feet up and give him a little fasting. And then, if he's not better within a week, let me know. She called me back in a week, and the edema didn't go away, swelling to both his ankles that went up to his knees, and that’s tremendously abnormal. I hospitalized him and got a CT on him, and he had colon cancer, metastatic stage four, already. He had no symptoms whatsoever, and he died three weeks later.
So, when you ask me about doing a colonoscopy – and this was in 1995 – I’m biased that everyone should have a colonoscopy. And they have lowered the age for doing it from, 50. Now it's down to 45. And of course, if you have a family history of colorectal cancer, which is not that uncommon, they're lowering it as much as to even age 35. So, colon screening for colorectal cancer, which is very manageable at an early age is what I recommend.
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“Hello doctor, my mother is 97 years old, and she has not been doing well in the last month. She does not eat very much, not even one full meal, and does not like to drink fluids. She has diverticulitis, which gives her loose stools, and seems like she has IBS. She has DVT, now being followed by a doctor. What do you recommend for her nutrition and IBS?” [0:16:22]
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In general, if that was my mother and my patient, I would want to know about any other medicines she's on, comorbidities, and so forth, but on the surface of this, using, a clear liquid broth for two days, plenty of, chicken broth, beef broth, and then, giving her the phospholipid powder in warm water, mixing the phospholipid powder in warm water, just like you would have warm water to make a baby bottle up for a baby. And if you use phospholipids, we use this so much, and it works so well for everything because this is what we're made of. So, if you're saying, what's in these cell membranes and any injured cell in your body, it is phospholipid protein. And here is the phospholipid fat, and the next middle jar is the SBI protect powder, and the Probiotics 225 is a powdered form of probiotics. So, so you can mix this all in warm water and give it to her first thing in the morning, and last thing in the evening. This will improve healing of the lining of all the cells in our gut to help heal it. The clear liquid broth diet will reduce the work of the digestion.
And then when I enter foods, I would give her things like salmon, slow roasted beef that falls apart, like cooking a chuck roast for 275 degrees for five hours for, you know, hour, roughly an hour per pound. It makes it almost fall apart, and you can mash it up. It's such a delicious and this low-heat cooking helps preserve the nutrient activities. The probiotics will help the bacteria, that inflammation that the colon would have, and, she probably, if she had diverticulitis, was on antibiotics, that would be my starting point on that. That would be my starting point on that. And I would certainly give her vitamin D as well, vitamin D3, about 10, 000 IIU a day. And then have her blood checked and see her doctor.
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“Good evening, Dr. Ellithorpe! I have been seeing a lot of information on parasite protocols. And some say it's good for everyone to do. What are your thoughts and what would you recommend (if you do a protocol)? Thank you.” [0:19:30]
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I don't do these parasite protocols, and I don't see it. I test and have been testing complete digestive stool analysis for the last 30 - 35 years using very sophisticated techniques with Great Smokies Medical Center, or Great Smokies stool kit by Dr. Levine since the early 90s, and now I'm using Genova with Doctor’s Data, and I just don't see these worms and parasites. And so, I think this is something that is burping up in the paraprofessional group, and I just don't see any value to it. Also, like drinking this olive oil drink to flush out gallstones, this has never been a value. What you see in the toilet, if you drink all that, is bile micelles. And when the green bile is squeezed out to help digest all that fat, that green bile will be seen in little clumps. And when you have a bowel movement, these people say it's a stone. Same with ear waxing. That is foolishness.
And I have looked into this sincerely, I did a doctorate in integrative medicine. And so, I want what works, and I understand the intention of people. And sometimes just a caring person is healing medicine in itself. So, I don't mean to put down any paraprofessional. I actually assume responsibility as a medical doctor that we, doctors, have been too unapproachable, too arrogant, too opinionated.
And the older I get, the more abrupt and opinionated I am because, you know, I'm not going to live forever. And so, I want to say it like it is and get the facts out there, but I hope to do it in a loving and tolerant way. I am not in favor of these parasite cleanses. I would far, far say you will do better if you will eat only real food, only eat in a window of time, drink half your weight as pounds as ounces every day, get a good night's sleep, don't have lights on, noise, and stuff like that, and get some movement and exercise and be extremely low carb, which would be a more carnivore-like diet, getting all these sugars and fruit sugars out of your diet. That would do far more to prevent a worm infestation by building up your immune system that way. I just haven't seen it. And so, when I do see the occasional Entamoeba histolytica or Entamoeba fragilis, various parasites, I do treat them. I do use natural things like grapeseed extract, colloidal silver, and some of these oils, but really it's not a thing. So, hopefully that helps you.
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“Is there a benefit to hormone replacement therapy to maintain good numbers for cholesterol, D3, and hemoglobin A1C post menopause?” Or is it better to be natural and let nature be? Age 53, not taking any medication, and no ailments. Slightly overweight and combined cholesterol of 201.” [0:23:17]
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I would say we are living in a different world with marketing. People are attached to their cell phones, hands, and computers. They are being marketed to, spoken to, and by the diet and drink industry. The alleged “health food industry” is putting out materials that I don't consider health food at all. And all these energy drinks and all these green drinks are so untested and such an immunologic daily exposure of a high volume of food, lectins, and signature proteins and structures that your immune system can develop reactions to them through the tiny entries that are in the cell membrane there. So, if you're taking down that green drink or that smoothie you make every day, you are just asking to develop food sensitivities. It would be better to eat real whole food. If you're going to have blueberries one day, eat a cup of it. If you're going to have spinach, eat a salad with spinach. I never do shakes, so I don't know, but it would be better to eat the real thing, and then the next day have a different vegetable, maybe arugula and strawberries, the next day have kale and blackberries or something, rather than these drinks that were blending up and releasing all the glucose, pre-digesting it, so we get a higher sugar spike, which means a higher insulin spike, which means it stimulates fat storage and thickening of the intima of the lining of the blood vessels, promoting heart disease and insulin resistance diabetes and suppressing the immune system with higher sugars, which reduces your ability to fight off viruses, which stresses your immune system that will not be able to fight off a tumor stem cell that may be normally your killer cells would have picked up. And so, it's just a lousy, marketing world we're living in, and we have to fight this off.
Now, given that, also we're going into menopause and hormone deprivation scenarios far sooner. We’re doing it foolishly through birth control usage that's given out like candy and denying women their normal developmental natural bioidentical hormones using these synthetics, and their bone density totals are failing them, by the time they get to menopause, they're already in a significant state of this. And we already have like 50 years of this abuse of women. Men have low T levels, testosterone levels. And so, fertility is declining. So, hormones are general contractors that help our skin, our hair, our mood, our strength, our muscle tone, our immune system, our bone health, and even our cardiovascular system, and we are pelting these with neuroendocrine disruptors. Even the receipts you get from your cash register have that BPA film on it for laser printing of the numbers, and you touch it, and you are absorbing that, which is an endocrine disruptor.
So, do I think hormones are important? Absolutely. Do I use them? I use them every day of my life. I joke with my husband that when I die and go in the casket, I want a supply of my hormones put in there with me. I just have normal bone density at 70. I have normal labs in general, and my muscle mass and all this is so very, very good. So, yeah, I am very much in favor of bioidentical hormones given by a doctor who has experience or is working under the supervision of a doctor helping to train, because I'm training other doctors doing this, and monitoring follow-up with pelvics. Like a lot of women will say, should I do a pelvic? If I'm married to the same man and we’re monogamous and I'm not having any problems, do I still have to do a pelvic after menopause? And my answer is, yes, because you're on hormones. When we have hormones, we want to treat you like you are a younger biological woman. And so, we do monitoring and management, and that's why we do so exceedingly well here. We thank the Lord so much for our healthy patients and the leadership the Holy Spirit has given us here.
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“I'm wondering if you could explain a little more about systemic enzymes. I have definitely benefited from them for my arthritis. I use Vascuzyme and it looks like many of the ingredients are the same as Ortho Digestzyme. Yet you have to take Vascuzyme on an empty stomach. I'm wondering how they're both for digestion and for other things. Thanks in advance!” [0:29:11]
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Well, God is a very great God, and He is very economical, and He uses enzymes and many other things, like B12 and magnesium, and hundreds and thousands of biochemical actions in our human body. Therefore, we say, there are similarities to the enzymes in Digestzyme, but one thing you won't see in systemic enzymes that are in Ortho Digestzyme is betaine HCl, which you need to help digest proteins and fats. The other thing is ox bile to help with fat digestion as well. So, they are different. Digestive enzyme needs to be when you're eating food. Systemic enzymes, which would be the protease, the lipase, and the amylase, this kind of things can be serrapeptase, bromelain, all these can be taken on an empty stomach, which then is absorbed systemically to disinflame your thumb, if you hit it with a hammer, your sinuses if they're congested with seasonal allergies. So that's the difference. If you go to our TLC Tustin Longevity Center YouTube, and you type in the search ‘joint’, you'll see my whole lecture on enzymes and so forth, as well as joint health and so forth.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, can hormone receptors at the cell level be triggered? What would the cause of blockage be? How can it be addressed? Would heavy metals be responsible? Thank you.” [0:31:41]
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Well, the membrane of all cells, or the eyes, ears, ears, nose, throat, and touch, for the cell, it’s a receptor for the communication in the interior of the cell of the machinery and magnificence inside the cell. So, yeah, there are receptors there.
What would cause blockage be? Well, there are hormone-mimicking agents and hormone-blocking herbs and chemicals out there. For instance, dong quai and black cohosh. These herbs are mimicking. They have similarities to the structure of estradiol. And so, they will have some docking and the ability to give a message that estradiol is present. There are some things that are blockers out there, natural hormone blockers and synthetics.
And what could cause blockage? I'm not sure I totally understand your question. How can it be addressed? Well, you have to see a medical doctor who's experienced in functional medicine, and integrative, and natural hormone therapy. And you have to be prepared and willing to be responsible for your choices and get off of the processed food train and the gimmicks on the internet.
How can it be addressed? Would heavy metals be responsible? Well, heavy metals are not organic. They are metals, and there is no digestive enzyme or anything that can detoxify toxic metals. We're breathing it in. If you see those horrible lines in the sky in the stratosphere, those geo-stratospheric engineering chemtrails, they have heavy metals, aluminum, arsenic, strontium, and boron. I'm not sure if arsenic is in them, but I wouldn't put it past them, and they've been doing this for close to a hundred years. And so, it is landing on our land, and we're eating it, and we're breathing it, and we're drinking it. So, these are oxidizing damage. They're like knives, metal knives cutting yourselves all the time. So, EDTA chelation is extremely smart. Get a measurement first with a challenge with urine collection so we can get a feel for the volume and the number that you have. But you need to see a good doctor on that. Hopefully, that gives you some guidance.
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“Do you have any information on the body that measures muscle? I may not have the correct name. From what I understand, BMI is outdated and gives inaccurate information. Thanks.” [0:34:49]
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Well, we have the bioimpedance system here, which is a big upgrade from those things that you stand on your scale at home. We can measure you that way. Well, if you're driven by numbers, you’ve got to work with a doctor who does a lot of gimmicks and testing. I find, over these years, 43 years, people need a caring healthcare provider who knows them, and who they feel comfortable in sharing. There are moments of binging and lack of exercise, so you can get truthful information. We all want to be seen in good eyes, but none of us are perfect, or very, very few are very perfect about their lifestyles. And so, BMI or body impedance measurements, all these things are just more gimmicks. Even a good old tape measure around the waist-to-hip ratio is very valuable. So, we need to get away from saying I'm waiting for that miracle machine or the miracle vitamin or the miracle exercise or the miracle shake out there. It doesn't exist. Do you know what the miracle is? Obedience. And that's why I love my Bible and read it every day. It helps me screw my head and my heart on right and realize it's discipline, self-control, and taking your body, the reins of it, and the darts of the devil coming at you with all these advertisements and smells and people walking by you in the office lunchroom with all these smelly, wonderful treats that you used to touch and you have to not touch them anymore. And you have to put them in a box and only allow yourself a special occasion, legitimate, on your birthday or anniversary or a true holiday. And it’s always great to get away from processed foods, drink your water, move your body, have good sleep hygiene, don't eat late, eat in a window of time, so your gut has more resting to do, and do some resistance training. Outside of that, that doesn't cost a thing. And if you write yourself a little diary and your weight and your hip-to-waist ratio and be honest with what you're eating, how much water you're drinking, when you're going to bed and getting up, things like that, you will see a miracle happen. And we always do see it here. So, hopefully, that's helped you.
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“What’s your take on the advice in the book: “The One-Minute Cure by Madison Cavanaugh” which advocates for the use of commercial-grade hydrogen peroxide in increasing doses for a. month-long period?” [0:37:59]
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I'm familiar with hydrogen peroxide used in the alternative world, and functional world, and as far as a one-minute cure, it is valuable for viral illness protection. So, I'm in favor of that. I have nothing negative to say about it. It's a 3% hydrogen peroxide solution, I believe, that you mix half and half with water. You swish and gargle and either spit it out. You can do a little nutty pot into your nose even. And that oxygen will in fact be very damaging to viral, bacterial, and fungal issues.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. What are natural remedies for the flu in kids? Headache, vomit, fever, muscle aches, etc. Trying to keep them hydrated with electrolytes. Thank you.” [0:39:09]
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Getting them off their junk food, cookies, doughnuts, potato chips, tortilla chips, crackers, beans, rice cereal, puddings, all that, juices, Coca-Cola, chocolate milk, all this foolishness, we're killing our children. The Pediatric and American Dietary Association is full of paid conflict-of-interest physicians who are working with food industries, and they are so foolish. They say 10% of a child's diet can be refined sugars. 10%. That's ridiculous. That's evil. And that is why we have so many sick kids. Sugar depresses the immune system. The best thing to do is get them on real food and just say, you know, there's all kinds of naughty things to do out there, and one of the naughty things is eating junk food.
Another thing to get them off of is their computers, and electronics, staying up too late, and helping them to get outside and play and let the sunshine, the ultraviolet light, and the vitamin D that comes from it, to help stimulate their immune system. Also, I believe in allowing a child to have a fever up to 103, because we know research shows that, at 102, that's when the body begins to make interferon. Interferon is very valuable in killing viruses off. So, they love to market to you, saying, oh, be a good mommy and put Tylenol into your baby and get rid of that nasty old fever. Well, that fever was given by God through your innate immune system to fight off viral-invading pathogens, and there's a volume of research showing you really shouldn't. As long as the child is alert, will drink their fluids, eye-to-eye contact, there's no purpose in treating a fever under, say 103. Just lots and lots of fluid and rest. And that's what you want them to do – is rest. So, don't suppress their immune system with sugar drinks and so forth, and Jell-O and stuff like that.
Vitamin D, I think most children should have. If they're 1 year old, they should probably have somewhere around 1000 IU of vitamin D3, and their toddlers to their age, you know, first grade, around 2000 IU of vitamin D3. And then a child, when they get to be about 40 pounds, can have 2.5 to 3000 units. See your pediatrician, do their blood level of their vitamin D, and you can get a gauge on what you're giving them and what their blood level is.
But if they're 85 pounds or higher, then we start calling them adult-like, and we start recommending 5,000 IU of D3 a day. Also zinc, I believe in giving a child a good zinc multimineral, as well as the Juice Plus series antioxidant has had volumes, literally the N number in the studies, we're talking millions of children have been studying on Juice Plus. So, find someone to help you get onto Juice Plus as the adult, and you can get your child on it free for four years. And you set the example by taking it and the child will follow through. When they see you drink the water, they will drink the water. When they see you eat healthier food, with less carbs, they'll do the same.
Then there's Argentyn silver, that's not nanoparticulate silver. The half-strength over-the-counter is sovereign silver. You can spray their face to decrease the viral load on their face and orifice, wash their hands, and keep them clean, helping them to learn to use Kleenex instead of going like that and then touching everything. The other thing would be vitamin C is in the Juice Plus. So, that's about it right there.
So, fluids and chicken broth and beef broth and the salts that are in them and the potassium in the multimineral. You could give them water for their headache. Treat a fever if it's 103. If the child seems not to have good eye contact or respond appropriately to an instruction or not be taking their fluids, then you have to treat that fever and have them seen.
“Trying to keep them hydrated with electrolytes.” Yeah, of course, use those electrolytes. It’s fine. Pedialyte is out there, but good old-fashioned chicken broth and beef broth are just as good.
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“The lack of sun here in the Midwest is hard.” [0:45:04]
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Yeah, but there's still light. And so, there's more than just vitamin D from the light. And so, get them out in the sunshine and playing on the seesaw and the swings, and whatever they're doing, get them out there and get their bodies moving.
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“There is so much out there now about cancer being a metabolic disease. What about blood cancers? Multiple myeloma in particular. I know you aren't prescribing and aren't an oncologist…low carb? No sugar?” [0:45:27]
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Well, I do believe that the blood cancers are all similarly treated with the low-carb diet. And the other thing is I really think there is a case for free radical damage in the bone marrow where heavy metals accumulate in slow turnover material, like the bones, and the marrow is injured by the accumulation, all of this, oxidative, stressful, toxic metals. And fortunately, we have the ability here to give you the vitamin C high dose and the EDTA chelation to help pull that stuff out, and we have seen tremendous improvements and stabilization with it. But again, you need your oncologist to have the diagnosis, get their management skills, and we come alongside your oncologist, and we support through these modalities, your own immune system, your nutritional status, and detoxing.
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“Are you familiar with Daved Rosensweet and “Menopause Method”? The hormones and it sounds.” [0:47:00]
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No, I'm not familiar with it.
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“Sorry, first time…I wanted to know if you are familiar with Daved Rosensweet, the Menopause Method, bioidentical hormones applied on the skin?” [0:47:23]
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Well, that's what I've been doing for 35 - 40 years. So, I'm glad that Daved has joined in to help people.
That's what I do, is the topical, primarily, hormones, although I have patches and although I do use oral as well. So, it's a wonderful thing to do.
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“Chemtrails! [0:48:02]
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Yeah, they're pushing all this heavy metal toxic damaging material, creating a metal dome, you might say, and this is then inhibiting some of the healthy sun rays that we need.
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“Chemtrails have been so bad in Southern California these past few days!!!” [0:48:21]
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Absolutely, they've been terribly bad all over the place. So, look up Dane Wigington for geoengineeringwatch.org. And not that I agree with everything Dane Wigington says, but he has a wonderful documentary on YouTube called “The Dimming” and that's the blocking out of the sun.
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“What is the best supplement for constipation? I know I need fiber, water consumption, and exercise. I eat a lot of red meat, but fruits and vegetables are sparse here. So, I'm looking for a supplement, please. Thank you.” [0:49:22]
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Super Aloe 450 by Ortho Molecular. You could try and find a doctor, or call our vitamin department, and try and get Super Aloe. That will really get you moving. It's not senna-based, I believe. Senokot is the most powerful irritant through herbs that stimulate the bowel movement. You might be hypothyroid. Hypothyroidism is associated with slow bowels. You might have mineral deficiencies, magnesium in particular. One of the things we do before we use Super Aloe 450 is we give Vitality C, the vitamin C powder. We mix it with OptiMag Neuro. This is a magnesium chelate powder. You put the two together. Vitamin C stimulates the bowels, magnesium stimulates the bowel. You take it as an 8 oz drink, once, twice, three, or four times a day, and you will have bowel movements. And then you go to your bowel tolerance where you start getting diarrhea, then you start backing off and seeing how much you can take. I don't necessarily think fiber is the answer either alone. And hormones, estradiol are very important in normal bowel movements. If you remember during your menstrual cycle, most women, when they're on their menstrual cycle, will have more bowel movements. And so, that's another feature of that.
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“I got a stye about three weeks ago. I used Argentyn silver on it regularly. It grew to the size of a small pea. My ophthalmologist took a look to confirm it was a stye and not some kind of growth. He said to use hot compresses until it drained. It never did drain and is still there but much smaller. Another one seems to be starting on the same eye.” [0:51:20]
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I would certainly work with trying to be very low carb. I would use the warm compresses. I would use the Argentyn. Beyond that, I think I would check with your doctor about your blood sugars. And systemic enzymes for the inflammation, and follow up with your ophthalmologist for management.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My dad has recently started losing a lot of weight, about 30 pounds in a month, has no appetite, and is getting red bruises on his arms and legs. His doctor has doubled his metformin. What would you suggest getting tested? He is 57, B-type blood. His doctor has really just shrugged this off and doesn't seem concerned. It's concerning to me. Thank you.” [0:52:17]
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Well, I don't know your situation, but when I see a story like that, I think of disease of the liver, infectious disease of the liver, damaging the production of making normal clotting proteins, and so forth, or cancer in the liver. So, I would have that worked up and have him see another doctor because that's not normal. So, have that checked out?
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“Do you treat patients for symptoms of electromagnetic sensitivity? Thank you.” [0:53:16]
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I do in the sense that, you know, I recommend you get someone on the internet that can go around your home or your apartment. Find out where the main power lines are, and where the electromagnetic amplitude of the flow of electrons is the highest. You don't want your head near the bed of that. And getting electronics out of your bedroom and getting a heavy metal test to see how much of an antenna you are for this by having all these metals in you, trying to detox them out of you, and figuring out your ability to heal, your blood type, digestion, that kind of thing. But beyond that, as far as getting things to hang on your neck that are electromagnetic dampeners or on your wrist, they make some of these power sinks, you might say, you could do that. You can look for those things. There are some people who specialize in measuring and have some of this material to wear. There are some clothes now that have the skull caps like beanies, very nice hats, baseball hat kind of things, or I don't know what you call them, head mittens, you know, like you would up in Chicago. I haven't been up there so long. I forget what it's called. But they have the metals and a very tiny metallic to stop these waves coming through like a Faraday cage cloth. They have clothes with it now, and it's becoming quite an industry because it is a real problem. So, that's the best we could offer you on that.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Why is it that I always feel sick (nausea, depression, fatigue) for about two hours after taking any kind of B vitamins (B complex, energy core)? I cannot take on an empty stomach. Thank you for all that you do.” [0:55:27]
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Well, it is a powerful thing to take B vitamins. It's a tremendous ringing up of metabolic functions since it's involved in 400 at least biochemical pathways, the various, 8 or 9 B complexes, especially if they're methylated high quality like we give you. Maybe you could spread it out and you wouldn't have that impact. And even the cells lining your gut will get the surge of energy and maybe excess production of digestive enzymes and acid from it because it tunes up all metabolism. So, spread it out and take it with food if possible.
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“Which doctor at TLC would be recommended for hormone replacement therapy? Thank you.” [0:56:35]
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Dr. Meric is an OBGYN. She practices mostly just general medicine now, but she's excellent. Dr. Mitchell is still seeing people through telehealth. Dr. Kaur is excellent. Dr. PA-Patel is excellent, but she's going on maternity leave. Dr. Amber Majid is excellent and starting up on this with a passion. Dr. Johnston…am I forgetting anyone? I think they’re all good. And we do our rounds every month, and we sit and we discuss difficult patients, hard questions. We review scientific articles. So, we do our monthly rounds, where we shut everything down and we just sit at our big conference table, and we go over these case studies and issues like this. I don't think there's anyone that I would prefer over another. And if there's a question, we can just ask your doctor to bring your case up on one of our second Tuesdays of every month that we do this. By the way, that's not a good time to come to the clinic because we're so all in conference mode from noon till around 2 o'clock. So, once a month, the second Tuesday of every month.
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“Is a woman ever supposed to stop taking hormones?” [0:58:03]
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Well, you see, as a Christian, my worldview is based on the Bible, and I believe it, and I believe this is a young earth. I believe everything in the Bible, and the word of God is without error. And so, I believe that God made Adam and Eve to live forever. That means Eve would have been 6,000, a couple hundred years old, and she probably still would have pregnancies because that would have been natural, which means she would have had her hormones. I don't think there's marriage in heaven after we die. So, I don't think we're going to have babies in that sense anymore. But in the meantime, our bodies were designed to depend on hormones for healing, repair, and general contractor work. And so, yes, I do think I'm going to take them, and I've been around women who have been on it with me for 30, 40 years now. And so, yeah, I think it's very good to use.
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“My ferritin on 12/23 was 10. Iron total 62, iron-binding 379, iron saturation 16. I eat animal protein, low carb diet. First-time blood donor O+ 10/31/23. Obviously holding off on another donation, but what can I do to raise ferritin besides beef? Or do I not even need to worry? Thank you, doctor.” [0:59:07]
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Let your doctor know so we can recheck your ferritin and your percent saturation. Your total iron binding of 379 just means your body is actively generating iron-binding proteins to try and increase the take of it. We do have the herbal HemeVite, and that is a very nice gentle way to do that, is to take two of those tablets twice a day or three times a day. Little herbal capsules. That would be a suggestion. But let your doctor know so we can remeasure your ferritin, and give you maybe a little bit of a boost. Also, you could eat liver once a week. I eat liver once a week. I love it with fried onions.
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“Greetings from Oklahoma and a former patient. Few functional medicine doctors here, so at a traditional medical clinic for a bone scan. I'm 71. Hip “mean T-score” is = -1.4. The diagnosis was osteopenia and prescribed RX alendronate (Fosamax 70 mg). I don’t take any prescription medicine and suspect and am suspicious of this drug. What say you? Gratitude and blessings for you.” [1:00:30]
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Well, are you on a natural hormone replacement progesterone? Are you on estradiol? Are you taking vitamin D at least 10,000 IU a day and with K2 90 mcg or more? Are you stomping? Are you doing weight resistance training for your bones? This is not bad. So, I would strongly encourage you to go to ACAM.org. Try and find a functional doctor, even if you could do telehealth, and then try and be on natural hormones, your vitamin D - K2, eating your low carb, rich protein diet. Take your digestive enzyme to help you stomp around like you're in a 15-second temper tantrum with your bare feet on cement, so you can get that shutter up your leg, and that'll help you.
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“Dr. Ellithorpe, God bless your sister. May I get your opinion? I'm a 35-year-old male, 6’2’’, blood type A+, 338 pounds. I had an appendicitis and fistula leakage from my sigmoid colon and had emergency surgery. It's been six months then and have a stoma now. I have to lose weight before the reversal surgery. Is it safe for a 21-day fast with a stoma?” [1:02:06]
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I don't know your case individually, but in general, it should be I hope you're not a diabetic. I hope you're not with any other comorbidity, heart disease, diabetes, hypertension. In general, you should be able to do that, but you need to be supervised. So, I don't know your state of health, but have a good doctor and have a good multivitamin-mineral, have a good electrolyte or salt your water, put a dash in at least two of your drinks, or have some chicken broth or beef broth. That won't give you any calories, it'll give you electrolytes. And let us know how you do. And may the Lord bless you and give you strength as He’s a mighty man of valor and a great ambassador for our great king and God and His only son, Jesus Christ, our savior. And stand in that strength and hopefully, that'll work out very well for you. But do get me oversight with that.
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“My thyroid makes lots of reverse T3. My free T3 is 3.6.” [1:04:06]
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I like your free T3 at 3.6. If you're triglycerides and your diet is good and you're exercising, I don't think I would worry about it. But I would have to look at your whole case and know you personally to say much more.
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“How do you find a doctor that does chelation therapy? I am now living in TN, but from SoCal. Can I get chelation at your office when I visit CA?” [1:04:29]
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You go to ACAM.org. and find a physician near you. “Can I get chelation at your office when I visit?” Sure, you can. Yeah, absolutely.
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“I have done everything in the book to get it down and as a result, my estradiol fluctuates like a roller coaster which makes life miserable why do I ask about cellular receptors.” [1:04:52]
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I think too much is made of reverse T3. I don’t even worry about it. I don’t even test it. I would stay steady as you go with what you’re doing and not worry about your reverse T3. I don’t know your case individually, but that’s my general take on reverse T3. It’s I think much to do about nothing. Yes, there’s biochemistry, there’s research, there’s data, but that’s my experience.
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“Daved Rosensweet recommends bio-identical hormones like Dr. E. but believes he specifies an organic basis for the creams.” [1:05:36]
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I think minor organic too. And good for him. I mean, I’m all for as natural as you can make it.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-january-23-20242024-01-25T10:21:28-08:002024-01-25T10:21:28-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 23, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“Hello, Dr. Ellithorpe, will you be able to speak to the activist group I help lead, Freedom Rising, on an upcoming second Saturday of the month, starting March 9th, especially about IV EDTA & vitamin C.” [0:03:36]
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Well, I'd be honored to do that, but I work every Saturday. And I do this because when COVID hit, or the alleged COVID hit, we had so many doctors that shut their doors, and I had so many patients begging me to see them or their dear family member they were worried about. I added Saturdays and I've never stopped a single Saturday for the past three and a half years. And so, I am done about 1 o'clock on Saturday. Maybe 1:30 would be more practical. So, depending on how far I would have to drive, I'd be blessed to do that. If I have enough advanced time, but I'm usually booked out so far, I don't want to turn anyone down. So, the day of the week that would be better for me would be a Monday or a Friday. I do administrative work on Fridays. “You meet in a cafe in Santa Monica,” I see you're saying. So, that would be a long drive. So, I would have to drive up there. If you could plan it for a Saturday afternoon, say starting at 3:00 or later, you could do it on a Monday any time, or a Friday any time I could do that. But I'm honored that you would ask me to share that because I certainly am passionate about this. Having been around EDT and chelation since with knowledge, since I was 7 years old. That's 63 years ago. So anyway, it works. It's wonderful. It's needed by everyone.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. I woke up with my fingers and nails a blotchy orange. I do eat a lot of veggies. Labs were normal. I also had a yeast infection the other day. What do you think? Thank you.” [0:05:46]
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This is probably carotene deposits. So, if you eat a lot of red bell peppers, a lot of carrots, a lot of yams, you're going to get a lot of carotene deposit and that will deposit in your nailbeds. And it'll grow out and it's no risk or anything. Even in the palms of your hands, sometimes we can see people who eat a very high-carotene-based vegetable diet. So, I wouldn't worry about that at all.
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“Hi Dr. Rita, do you have any tips for Parkinson's and the related sleep disorder? Thank you.” [0:06:30]
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Well, Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disease, and it's in the brainstem, and it's in a special area of the substantia nigra. This is a melanin-pigmented zone in your brainstem. And oxidative stress is certainly a causative feature, free radical oxygen species, and we live such an oxidative stressful life. One of the things that I would strongly suggest is, of course, you'd be managed by the appropriate neurologist. There is a YouTube video, I brought this up last week, by Dr. David Perlmutter, a medical doctor. If you put ‘Dr. David Perlmutter Parkinson's’ and the word ‘glutathione,’ that is where the infusion of the antioxidant glutathione is given by a vein, in through a vein. And you can see tremendous improvement when you give a bolus, you might say, of antioxidants. So, that stiff, fixed, short little step, walk is just loosened, and the flow dynamics of the neural impulses flow much better. So, an entirely functional approach, alongside your neurologist, to look at the diet, what's inflaming, anyone will be helpful to not only the Parkinson's disease itself but to the symptoms, such as sleeping.
Now, one of the features of sleeping is that you would take a vitamin B5, which is pantothenic acid. I would take that in the form of a methylated B complex. We have TLC Methyl B Complex here. And I would take four to six tablets a day for sleeping to get your B5 level up. These are water-soluble, so you have to take them every day. It'll make your urine turn a little bright yellowish, and it'll have a pungent odor, your urine, when you take enough B vitamins, to the point that you're peeing them out, and that's what you want to do, along with vitamin D3 K2, and I would take the 10,000, international units a day with K2 90 micrograms. And we have all this available. That is probably the best thing, along with using probably a good multimineral Albion amino acid chelated multimineral. We have our TLC Multi Min. These things, along with drinking enough water and not eating or drinking alcohol late, or no, I don't recommend alcohol at all, but certainly don't drink alcohol late if you do use it, along with a low-carb diet and eating far richer, healthy fats and proteins in your diet, all these will help you to sleep better with it. If you can try and make an appointment with a good functional doctor, and hopefully that'll be a good start for you there.
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“Lifewave patches helped my friend's 78-year-old mom tremendously with Parkinson's. Her symptoms are 80% reduced.” [0:10:34]
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That's wonderful. And Lifewave is a patch, and we have them, or I'm familiar with them, and these patches have crystals in them. These crystals vibrate to certain frequencies when the body heat of your body heats them up and it will make those crystals vibrate. Those crystals then resonate with certain tissues in your body, and that of the neurochemical pathway, to help the facilitation of the neurochemical messages. And so, this is based on real science. So, that's true. It's called Lifewave patches. We don't provide them here, but I can endorse the science and the background knowledge on that and how they work.
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“I sent this email, but late. Which doctor at TLC would be recommended for hormone replacement therapy?” [0:11:35]
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I would say any of us can do it. Some of us have more experience than others. But you see, we meet all the time. We're interacting all the time. We have our in-network flag messaging. We communicate all the time. It's like a little beehive here. And when we have a question on a patient or a dosing, or a methodology, or a scenario, we bring it up at our grand rounds monthly, or we just see each other in the lunch room, or we team message one another. And so, all of us here. I would say, if you want someone who is doing a lot of female pelvic exams, a urological background, Dr. Gonzales, PA Gonzales is new with us and she's excellent. Dr. Mitchell is still with us. She's a gynecologist. She does telehealth only because she lives up in San Francisco now. But you can still get your pelvic here, and she collaborates with Dr. Kaur, our naturopath, or PA Patel, our physician assistant who does a wonderful job with natural hormones. But PA Patel, Dr. Patel is going to have a baby soon, and she will be on maternity leave for a good while. So, then we have a new doctor, Amber Majid coming, and she's with us already, and she will probably start seeing patients in the next few weeks full time. And then, you have, Dr. Meric. She was a gynecologist, trained, and board-certified, but she does all kinds of general medicine now, not just GYN, and she can help you with that. So, if I miss someone, forgive me, but we have quite a few. So, I would say probably Dr. Kaur and Dr. Gonzales, PA Gonzales are a good early start, but those are the several there. Hopefully, that helps you.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! I have taken levothyroxine for about 40 years for Hashimoto's. T3, T4, and TSH are all in “normal” ranges. My functional doctor is suggesting Iodoral too. Is that safe with levothyroxine?” [0:14:07]
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Yes, it most definitely is because those are two different things. Levothyroxine is the precursor of mainly T4. Your body has to convert the T4 into T3 by deiodination. It takes one iodine off to make the functional hormone, thyroid hormone. And iodine is very different. It is the salt. And so, iodine is one thing, and the hormone is another. And most Americans, I would say, easily 96% - 97% of all Americans are iodine deficient. And there you have it. So, most definitely, yes, that would be a help.
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“Which patches specifically? The X39 or others?” [0:15:21]
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Probably the X39. That is the one that is very valuable in the nerve energy, functional one.
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“I sent two emails in the last two months with the same request to office @TLCdoctors but got no reply. What is the best way to contact you to work out the details of a future meeting?” [0:15:48]
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Oh, I'm so sorry that you sent us requests. Forgive me, I'll try and find an answer to your problem. So, the best way is to call our phone number, 714-544-1521, and identify that this isn't about a medical or patient issue and that you are trying to reach me to do a speech. And I would talk to my personal nurse who really works as my personal assistant as well. I call her mom. She comes in and keeps me on time and helps me with my day. So, her name is Teri. Teri is our registered nurse who is assigned to me, and she manages my life basically. So, ask for Teri, my nurse, and she'll connect with me about that. All right. I hope that helps you. Thank you again, and I apologize a second time. I don't know why you didn't get the information through.
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“Are there any risks of chelation therapy? I've read a lot of side effects/dangers on the internet.” [0:17:12]
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I have been around EDTA chelation therapy since I was aware of it being done when I was 7 years old, watching my grandfather, who was born in the late 1890s, and he had atherosclerotic coronary heart disease with unstable angina. That means he has such clogged ischemic heart disease, that even at rest, doing nothing, he would start getting chest pain. So, when you're unstable, that means just sitting there, you're suffering from not enough blood flow. My father, working at Armour Food Research, up in Chicago, learned of GLACAM, which was the Great Lakes Academy for the Advancement of Medicine. It was the very first assembly of good medical doctors and cardiologists who had picked up on EDTA chelation therapy for cardiovascular relief because back in the 1950s and 60s, there was no open-heart surgery until right in the beginning of 1960. And it was so rare and unique, and therefore, the only treatment was medical. And they would give nitroglycerin, and I would watch my grandfather scramble for his nitroglycerin pill, and he smoked cigars, and he ate poor junk food from Chicago, and it was just terrible. Anyway, Dad learned about chelation therapy and brought my grandfather to a doctor, who is a cardiologist from that area in Chicago, to get chelation. And he got, I don't know, something like 60 IVs, and he never had chest surgery or stent placed or anything. He got much better. And of course, that forward-thinking, functional cardiologist doctor that was doing chelation in the 1960s, because back then it was patented by Abbott, the pharmacy company Abbott, and they were getting reimbursements for it. So, if you happen to have insurance – but that was brand new back then too, not a lot had it. But he did very well, I was 7 years old. And he died after I got into medical school. So, he was probably 60 plus years old when I saw him because, yeah, he had them since he was born about 1898. And then, yeah, it was just when I was getting into medical school that he died. And so, there you have it. And I saw him walking upstairs from my apartment in my first little newlywed apartment in college with my husband. So, there you have it.
Now, that's my experience. And I have been around actively and I started receiving chelation myself since I was 16 years old at Dr. Ray Evers. Now, Dr. Ray Evers uses chelation therapy, along with other forward-thinking therapists. So, he was a functional doctor back in the 1960s. Around 1969 is when I became very ill. And then I was brought to his place after Mayo Clinic couldn't do anything for me. And there he gave me EDTA chelation therapy, and my heart did tremendously well. I had a pan-myocarditis, which is really back in the 1960s a deadly thing. Only maybe 10% of people survived it. I had some terrible, mono, horrible sore throat, huge, icky, pussy looking tonsils, high fever, and I was hospitalized, and they saw my heart EKG because our personal doctor happened to be a cardiologist, Dr. Barrocas (21:28), from Addison, Illinois at Elk Grove Village Hospital. And I actually was seen at Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove, Illinois. And there, my dad would bring me supplements to try and help me.
And then finally got me to Ray Evers. Ray Evers is the doctor who got before Congress of the United States, and he fought for the off-label use of medicines that are FDA-approved because the cardiologists were starting to rally around open-heart surgery, cardiac bypass, all that stuff, and they wanted to poo-poo the chelation therapies because it was becoming off patent, or it expired its patent privileges, and Abbott gave up any financial rights to the medicine EDTA. And then EDTA was not covered then by the medical pharmaceutical crime syndicate, is the way I put it. So, he fought the cardiologists in town. He was in Louisiana where his practice was, and that's where I was a patient with him. And then he got off-label use of Dr. Ray Evers. That poor man was hounded. But that's why organizations like GLACAM, Great Lakes Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, which turned into ACAM, the Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, where I teach chelation therapy. And, to make a long story short, which is too long, I apologize, but honey, I've been around chelation since a child. I have seen hundreds of thousands of infusions, probably even close to millions. And I have never seen harm done, only help.
Now, the experience of the chelator can make a difference. New chelation doctors, it's very safe. So, we encourage doctors to do it. This grabs the heavy metals through an electrochemical attraction. So, the molecule EDTA man-made amino acid is an anion negative. The toxic metals, like lead, or aluminum or mercury, they're positive. And so, it fits in nicely into this negative environment, and it takes that positive, and then you urinate it out. So, it's very benign. It has the ability to also attract certain nutritive minerals, like calcium. And so, what we do is we give calcium disodium EDTA. I always use it in that fashion, and I never have problems. But if a doctor uses disodium EDTA chelation, and if the patient reaches up and speeds up the drip because they want to get out of there, they have things to do, and the nurse didn't see him manipulate the dial, that can go in, and it can lower the calcium and you can get some calcium low drops with muscle spasms. Theoretically, this could be very dangerous. And so, that's why I never use anything other than calcium disodium EDTA. But I think there have been three or four deaths, to my knowledge, in the 70 years that they've been doing chelation worldwide. So, not only in the United States but all over the world. You have had doctors in other countries. It was decades before they ever had enough, even hospitals, let alone cardiac suites, to do any advanced invasive cardiac therapies, stents, or open-heart surgery. And so, they heavily relied on EDTA chelation. So, we're talking about hundreds of millions and millions and millions. It could be even a billion treatments since the 1960s. And in that venue, to only know of two or three deaths, and that was probably from doctors who were, I believe all the cases were young people, like children who, they gave them a disodium and is terribly unfortunate. But to have that happen was the doctor issue had nothing to do with the EDTA and that in the realm of hundreds of millions, there really is essentially no risk.
So, EDTA removes the oxidative damaged heavy toxic metal terrorists that live in your body because we have no detox pathways for these toxins. Metal is inorganic. It doesn't have any biological component. It's a mineral. So, your white blood cells can't chew it up. Your enzymes can't remove it or process it. So, our liver, which is our main detox organ, has four primary pathways. It is glucuronidation, glycation, sulfation, and methylation.
To detox, benzene rings, tetrahydrochloride for, you know, the exposure you get from dry-cleaning agents and volatile organic gases. And so, these are all managed through these organic biochemical detox pathways in your liver. And so, that's why I'm against alcohol or other types of poor diets because your liver has enough job today handling all these things. We get what we breathe in.
But on top of that, we have geo-stratospheric engineering where they make these lines in the skies that are not contrails and they're full of nanoparticulate metals, and these metals create that film in the stratosphere that they can bounce off these electromagnetic waves to create a high pressure or a low pressure in the stratosphere and kind of direct clouds and air rushes through the capsule around the Earth's globe. And this has been known, I think the first documented Military U. S. Department was in 1927. So, the weather can be managed. And if you don't pull out these heavy metals, mother’s core blood to the mother's serum, mothers detox into their babies. So, when we look at the placenta cord serum level of, let's say, lead or mercury, we find it higher, almost 50 percent higher than what's in the babies. So, each generation is dumping these toxic metals into our offspring, in our little children. And so, we are seeing, I see levels now in young people, really the equivalent of what I used to see in the 80s, on people who had already lived 50, 60, 70 years. So, we're biochemically being terribly challenged. We're being turned into antennas for electromagnetic waves, and God knows what else.
So, EDTA chelation is an absolutely tremendously safe therapy, and if taught and the person is certified. As a medical doctor, you have the congressional law-approved right to off-label prescribed EDTA chelation for heavy metal removal. Even though it was approved for children for lead removal, you can off-label use it for an adult, of course. And it happens to pull out other things besides just lead. And I disagree with what is taught as toxicology levels, that you can tolerate a serum lead level of 4 and not have any need for chelation. If it went above 4, then you could justify applying to your insurance that you have serious levels that require chelation therapy to remove it as an adult. But the thing is they don't think on the patient's behalf. You not only have a serum level of 1 or 2 or 3 of lead. You have an aluminum level. You have a cadmium level. You have a mercury level. You have a gadolinium level if you've had scans. You have a uranium level from Fukushima. I haven't seen anyone escape Fukushima contamination since 2011.
So, what is the research on doctors who have done science and published on the toxic effect of multiple toxic metals that are on the applied toxic materials list at the FDA? If you look at them, the top seven in the top seven most toxic elements that are listed by the FDA, mercury, lead, arsenic, aluminum and I think cadmium are in the top seven elements. So, don't tell me multiple moderate levels of heavy metals aren't just as bad as a toxic level of lead at 4.3. So, do you see the logic there? The sum and their interactions are just as bad as anyone that reaches their silly high threshold. There is no safe level. And if you watch the YouTube on ACAM with Dr. Dorothy Merritt from 2019 with Dr. Lamas, he was the head of cardiology. It’s the TACT Update 2019, Dr. Lamas. When you hit that up on the screen on YouTube, if you look down a few selections, you'll see an ACAM presentation, an hour long, with a picture of a nice lady with glasses on, called Dr. Dorothy Merritt, and she goes through the entire exposure of blood levels and testing.
So, I am very passionate about this. It is a toxin. It's like we're all smoking, but we're smoking by breathing the air, these toxic metals. And we're not taking it in at a higher rate through a cigarette. We're breathing it now, just as if we're all smoking cigarettes and getting cadmium, lead, aluminum, mercury, and so forth, what we breathe in the air.
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“X39 and glutathione patches.” [0:32:58]
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So, they do have a crystal patch that will link electromagnetically in frequency with the impact of the molecule glutathione. And so, you can put both of those patches on at the same time.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Are the new Doctor's Bars available yet?” [0:33:23]
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We have the pilot bars in. We can't sell them because this was the very first run. It actually is made to a higher quality and tastes more like I anticipated than they would originally, and they are done, and we have them here. I'm happy to give you a handful and a little questionnaire on what you think. And I want everyone to understand, that these Doctor's Bars are not meant to be fun bars, candy bars, protein bars that taste good. These bars are designed to be satiating medical food that repairs your cell membranes, where all these little holes are poked in with heavy metals or whatever, viruses, bacteria, stress, dehydration, trauma, and injury. And these phospholipids are the literal thing that is in the cell membrane here, and they make up for all the eggs you should have eaten, and steaks you should have eaten, and so forth. It has the highest protein content, 15 grams, the highest fiber content, 15 grams, and 4 net carbs, probiotics, soluble and insoluble fibers. It is absolutely fantastic. I think they taste acceptable. And I am so low carb that I can taste the sweetness that does exist in it.
But to those who have bastardized their mouth and taste with so much sugar, bread, pasta, candy, chocolates, treats, ice cream, whenever they want and feel they deserve it, yeah, you'll taste this bar and you'll say, boy, this is dull. Well, I don't care if it's dull. You should only be eating this bar when you're very hungry to prevent you from reaching out and buying something that is bad or junk food that you would have taken because you didn't prepare the day. So yeah, these pilots are available, and we have a handout you can fill out because I'd like some feedback on it. But we went ahead and gave them the go-ahead because this is the right kind of a bar. And I don't care. I don't want to compare with other fancy-name popular bars out there, and there are aisles worth of this garbage that they call food. It's not. It's another cover-up for a candy bar. So, I've got the real thing here. We've done the testing. We know the ingredients. It will not increase your blood sugar, and it will not increase your insulin. And so, we solved it. And it is decent tasting. There you go. So, I am biased.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! Could you please recommend an ENT physician in your area? I would like to visit one for a routine checkup. Thank you and God bless you.” [0:36:20]
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You know, I do not have. There are very few physicians in specialties that I recommend. If you're an Ear, Nose, and Throat, or you're a neurologist, or you're a hand surgeon, or a dermatologist, or a gastroenterologist, or a podiatrist, or ophthalmologist, or a brain surgeon, or a migraine specialist, you know, there are so many subspecialists now, I just don't get feedback on people from them. They don't have a relationship. They're like a service that you use and then you're done for the most part. I wish I knew them better, and they probably are excellent at their various skills. But to have it percolate up, saying, oh, I have the best ENT doctor, let me give you his name, I just don't have it and I'm so sorry.
But if this is for a routine checkup, I really think, unless you have some known ear, nose, or throat disease that needs specific disease management follow-up from a specialist, I would just see a very good functional doctor wherever you live and get their follow-up on that. But I apologize, I don't have a name to send you. I wish I did.
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“Can you please tell us more about Juice Plus, and its benefits? Do you drink it every day? Do you use it as a meal replacement? How can we purchase it? Also, can you explain once again how you eat on the days that you lift weights? “ [0:37:58]
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Well, you can see I'm in a sweatshirt right now. So, guess what I'm going to do right after we say goodbye in about 25 minutes. I have my workout. So, Juice Plus. Juice Plus is a proprietary blend of fruit in a capsule, another is vegetables in a capsule, and another are berries in a capsule. So, it originally started out as just fruits and vegetables. Later, the berry blend was added. They have this proprietary methodology of processing this in a way in which, and as analytical chemistry in my training, my understanding is they have small organic farms, and they don't use pesticides or herbicides and things like that. And they have their water for watering their fields, tested for pollutants as well. They use flowers and things like this to repel insects. And these small farms are all over the place that Juice Plus, the company and privately-owned business by Jay Martin, who is a school teacher, and he was concerned about the health of his children, and a naturopath came to him who had greatly helped his own father with cancer to improve, showed him this vegetable concentrate, and then it was a powder. It wasn't capsulized. And the initial studies on it, chemistries were so positive. I think there were one or two about its immune lymphocyte activity and maybe another on its ability to support smokers. And this was in North Carolina back in the 1980s, and early 90s, when tobacco was a big industry in those areas back at that time. So, they had a lot of people with tobacco injuries. But anyway, they saw the initial value, and they decided to keep this private and have scientists to process and develop this, so that these anthocyanidins, these resveratrol, Pycnogenols, various wonderful unique antioxidants that are in vegetables or fruits or berries they, when they're exposed to light or to oxygen, will become damaged, and their potency will be harmed. So, the processing, not only does it come from a healthy, clean farming, small family farms, they are fresh flash frozen when they are originally harvested, and they are sampled at that point for their first screen spectrophotometrically for toxins, like exposure to the pesticide, herbicide or fungicides.
And then when they're brought to the plant, they're quarantined, and they're marked in their batches, and then they're dehydrated. Now, when they're dehydrated, they are done in a fashion that is done in a dark and oxygen-reduced environment, so the nutritive value is preserved. And then they are justified and encapsulated. And at that process as well, they do more spectrophotometric screening and testing. So, this is way beyond the classification of organic. This is super organic. And then they keep samples of every batch they've made since the early 1990s for referencing, location, and identity, just like a pharmaceutical. And then, lastly, when they are finally packaged, they do their final testing on it.
So, four different areas. They go through a rigorous assessment. So, it's excellent, excellent accountability. We have about 40 plus, 42, and 44 different peer-reviewed, studies. Juice Plus will supply the research facility, the university, with the samples of the Juice Plus and the vegetable garden or the fruit and berry blends, and it will be then tested there independently. That’s the only thing that Juice Plus does, is supply the capsule, its product, but it doesn't influence or run the study. And so, we have all these wonderful studies even to the point that DNA damage research has been done, and it's incredible at preserving the DNA from damage.
So, how do I take it? I take it in a capsule form. I do not drink any protein drink. I don't drink any green drinks or shakes or anything. I believe in eating real food. The company does put out a protein shake, and I think they put out like a B vitamin drink and stuff like that. I don't fool around with those things. They are not as well validated with science as the Juice Plus original product. I think they're trying to ramp up some of that. But I stick to where the volume of the science and the clinical outcome comes from. I, too, have done some work on this and studied and published it in the American Nutraceutical Association's Journal, and that was in the spring issue of 2000 when it was published. And so, I was amazed at the antioxidant protection and improvement I could measure in patient after patient after patient of mine with all kinds of disease situations, from cancer to a pregnant woman. So, with that, with their free Juice Plus to children aged 4 through college age for 4 years, it really promotes a family healthy lifestyle.
And that is why I use Juice Plus.
And you also asked, “What do I eat on the days you lift weights?” I don't change anything. I'm eating the same thing. I'm having a rotational basic diet of protein and vegetables. My pair is beef and broccoli, chicken and green beans, salmon and asparagus, pork and brussels sprouts, eggs and spinach, and then I just rotate that. And I'm usually 24 hours once a week not eating anything. And then I do my aerobics with my dog walking now. And then my two dogs, I just went to the doctor, Dr. Kavanagh, across the street here at Saddleback Veterinary Hospital, and Dr Kavanagh is so great. He saw the two rescue dogs. Milo is 77 and Macy is 52. So, I'm holding on Milo and Macy who are rescue dogs and I'm trying to train them and they're pulling me miles and miles and miles, and so it's wearing me out, and I don't want to fall and trip with them. But I'm getting my aerobics with my weight training, and I eat the same. Thank you for your concern and asking.
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“I'm 44, female, 5’2’’ 110 lb. 9 years ago, I was tested for intrinsic factor antibodies at TLC. Positive. This means I cannot get B12 from food, so I take a weekly injection of B12. I have been taking them regularly for 9 years. I nearly passed out under emotional stress, and I don't know why. I need prayer and help. I'm now on progesterone 100 mg.” [0:46:05]
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Well, you certainly need it. If you're a TLC patient, ask your doctor, I don't know which one you're seeing. But bring your case up for our round, so we can address your case and see if we can look at various things there that could be checked. Your cortisol, your DHEA, your testosterone, your muscle mass, are you doing weight training, what is your water hydration status, are you on estradiol, are you on testosterone, what is your blood type, are you taking a digestive enzyme that will help with your absorption, what is your stool and digestive capacity like.
All those things need to be addressed. So, talk to your doctor and have your case brought up on the second Tuesday of every month at noon and we stop the whole clinic to look at our successes and our failures. We’re growing. We're always trying to evaluate ourselves. And if we didn't please someone, we want to ask the question of why and how can we improve it. So, hopefully that helps you.
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“Hello, Dr. E. I'm 58. The past few years I've been diagnosed with several basal cell carcinomas and keep having to have Mohs. Seems like every time I go to the derm, they find another. I don't like toxic sunscreen and like to get a little morning sun with my vitamin D, which is at 55.5. Do I really need to keep searching for and removing these cancers? Thank you. Blessings.” [0:47:51]
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Well, I am not a dermatologist, I'm not a specialist and I don't study the skin features, anything much beyond my original medical training and basic sciences and medical school and pathology and so forth. I will tell you, I never have a dermatologist ever look at me, ever. I'm not outside in the sun a lot because I'm a nerd and I stay in studying all the time, but I'm reasonably outside to do various things. I just have a question that maybe, could there be a financial drive to always find something? And of course, the pathologist has a financial drive to need his services. So, everyone's got a financial need to maybe upread the diagnoses and so forth. So, I can't deny that bias and risk of corruption in medicine exist. So, that has to be addressed, and I would talk with your dermatologist about it, and ask her or him for any scientific papers about the risk of not removing a basal cell or an area that…You know, basically what they're saying is they're going to tell you, “Well, I can't tell it's a basal cell until I biopsy it.” And so, I say catch-22. So, if you're with a good family doctor who has functional training, preventative, and antioxidants, I would use Juice Plus. You're a person I would certainly put on Juice Plus and check these things and be on a low-carb diet, checking your insulin, your triglyceride, your hemoglobin A1c, your fasting blood sugar, your exercise level, your sleep quality, your body mass index, your blood pressure, all these health parameters. And maybe do an antioxidant assay on you. And then, have your family doctor or functional doctor call and talk to your dermatologist. So, I call other patients’ doctors and try to get ahold of them to ask about the logic of why they're being asked to do certain things.
So, let's communicate, and that's the best way. I'm not saying she's doing wrong or he's doing wrong. And yes, you may have needed every single one of them. But I just can't in the wash see that, because I agree, most of my patients, they're coming in, I was at the dermatologist, punch, punch, punch, you know, and then three or six months later, I was at the dermatologist, punch, punch, punch biopsy. So, we have to ask, do we need to do all this testing? Is it giving a life-saving discovery of preventing death? And I don't think that exists to the level that we think it does. So, talk with your doctor, have him talk to your dermatologist, and let's get some answers. And then bring it here. And if I'm wrong, I'll bring that up.
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“My husband is 68 and healthy and on no prescription medicines except Prilosec. He had his gallbladder removed about 12 years ago. He is ramping off of it to completely get off it. Per your recommendation - He takes a scoop of Glutashield and Phospholipid Powder per day and also started taking three capsules of turmeric per day. Do you suggest anything else?” [0:51:45]
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Once again, I'm not treating over the YouTube. So, what I want to say is he should be under the care of his doctor. He should find out his blood type. If he's blood type A, it could be all these years, and with his gallbladder, because maybe his gallbladder was overworked because he doesn't make enough digestive enzyme to emulsify and help prepare fatty acid for the gallbladder secreting bile to emulsify it for transport in the gut. And so, everything's important. So, you need to have a good functional doctor who thinks about all these things. So, please see your doctor, please find the blood type, and please have him screened for did he have a colonoscopy, did he have an endoscopy, and where is he sitting in that situation. And make sure when he poops, it's formed, and the colonoscopy is up-to-date and there's no black tarry stools or blood in the stools. All those kinds of wonderful things that you have to make sure are fine. And then, you have to look at the diet and look at maybe food sensitivities. He may be eating some good foods that are irritating him and creating inflammation as well. There are so many things that have to go into it. Please see a good functional doctor or your doctor and address those other issues, and that's what I would suggest.
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“What are the tests that diagnose Parkinson's and are they accurate? My brother has a history of drinking, taking statins, high BP, and is 50 pounds overweight. 77 years old.” [0:53:54]
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There really aren't blood tests that diagnose it. Classically, it's a symptom complex the patient comes in with. And it's usually a certain age and they have rigidity. They have no facial expression, and they're stiff, and they walk with little shuffles, and it is a clinical diagnosis. So, no, there are no tests per se that clearly identify Parkinson's.
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“What supplements and lifestyle recommendations would you give a 67-year-old, generally healthy female, with some arthritis and stiffness but no other major situations?” [0:54:43]
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Water. You have to drink enough water for those joints because they only get their nutrients and waste removal from the cartilage and tendons through diffusion. And exercise, range of motion, stretching. Number two, is a low-carb diet, because if you eat a sticky high fruit and starch carbohydrate grain diet, then you are going to clog up the tiny microcapillaries. And thirdly, enzymes. Take systemic enzymes, which should be the first supplement I would try. Systemic enzymes on an empty stomach like Vascuzyme or systemic enzyme Vitalzym. Take five twice a day for a week. And if you dramatically feel better, which I would say 90 plus people do, 90 percent plus, you’re going to go bingo, that's it.
But what is causing it? Well, yes, aging. But find out your blood type, and I would get away from all dairy and grain for about two weeks and see if you don't feel much, much better just eating meat and vegetables, or go carnivore, pure carnivore. You could also start off with just fasting. So, that won't cost you any money, that'll save you money. And if you fast for two days and you feel much better, then you'll realize it's diet-related. So do those things and then hopefully find a doctor that can test these things for you.
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“Hi, Dr. E. What are your recommendations for a 32-year-old female looking to lose significant weight, triglycerides 44, A1c 5.6, fasting glucose 90, no fasting insulin done, BP consistently 130/90. Worried about hypertension.” [0:57:02]
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If she's otherwise healthy, I would have her go on a carnivore diet. That's probably the best way to go. And eat two meals a day, maybe 10:00 to 4:00, something like that, and that will definitely bring insulin down, even if she hasn't measured it. It'll bring the hemoglobin A1c down and the fasting blood sugar down. She has to eat enough protein. And if she's a blood type A, she might need some digestive enzyme to help her with that. That's how I would start with her though. But find a good doctor who will test those things and follow those labs maybe every 6 to 8 weeks, so she'll be inspired as she sees the numbers improve.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! I purchased your Argentyn drops. You did say you put drops in your eyes? Daily? Also, one teaspoon orally daily?” [0:58:22]
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And that is pretty much what I do. I take a drop and I put it right in the corner of the eye. I do it by using a Q-tip. When I take my bottle of Argentyn, I'll stick the Q-tip in it and get it wet, and then I'll touch the inside corner and blink my eye, and I can feel all the coolness go there. Then I flip the Q-tip, I dip in the other end, and I put it in my other eye. And I do this before I go to bed, so I'm moist and I don't dry up and my eyes heal and my cornea will stay more clear and youthful. And then I will brush my teeth and probably take a little sip and swish and then I swallow it. And that is what I do.
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“Injured lower back. Nerve pain and tightness. Increased the Vascuzyme to twice a day, staying hydrated and eating carnivore. Would you take ibuprofen to reduce inflammation? Any other recommendation?” [0:59:20]
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Yeah, I would initially include ibuprofen when you're eating your beef steak or eggs or stuff because ibuprofen should be taken with food. They come over-the-counter 200 mg. So, you could use up to four of them twice a day for pain, and that will bring great relief. But you have to stretch, and you have to do gradual metered exercises for muscle strengthening along your torso so that you build yourself up.
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“He is blood type B. Our current doctor thinks the Prilosec is fine – we do not. His colonoscopy was great. The two he has had - no polyps either time. His diet is good. We are considering food test.” [1:00:11]
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Yeah. The Immuno food test and maybe a complete digestive stool, but what about endoscopy to make sure there isn't a tiny ulcer there or something as well? But you could use the phospholipid twice a day to promote healing with the GlutaShield. That would be fine too. So, there would be some early thoughts there on the ideas of what to do.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-january-16-20242024-01-18T08:39:24-08:002024-01-18T08:39:24-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 16, 2024Wendy Lewis
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“What is your opinion on strontium for bone health?” [0:02:06]
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Strontium is a mineral. It's in the elemental chart just under calcium. So, strontium is another more rare mineral that is able to be treated like calcium and can be incorporated into our bones.
Have I seen it personally as something that is very valuable for bone health and bone building to avoid osteoporosis? No, I haven't.
Is it in our TLC bone health? Yes, it's in our bone health along with boron and some other trace minerals.
But I don't believe that strontium is a critical factor. I think far more important for bone health, especially for women, is lifestyle, and that somewhere around age 40 to get your first bone density done. So, we have a reference. Drink your water because the more acidic you are, for instance if you drink sodas and all that phosphoric acid, that promotes demineralization of your bones. So, you want to have a healthy diet. You have to understand your bones are made of as much protein as they are minerals.
So, for instance, the bone structure or the beams, you might say, in the bone that minerals lay down on and solidify are your collagen strands. And these collagen strands come from you eating protein. So, getting enough collagen in your diet and probably the best source is meat, and that meat that has a lot of marbling in it and cooking the meat slowly, like on a slow cooker will help you absorb it. The older you get, you need a digestive enzyme to help you absorb both the amino acids that are important in collagen formation for the bone and the protein amino acids. So, digestive enzymes should be taken, especially if you're a blood type A.
Secondly is exercise, and we're not talking about just taking walks or getting on a Peloton spin bike. We are talking about doing work that you are feeling the shutter of each step or run vibrate through your body. So, Nike shoes I think in the 1960s came out with their super cushioning. When I was in school, P.E. high school in the 1960s, there were no thick gym shoes. It was just a little white linen shoe with a tiny foam rubber base, and we would get a jar, a banging every time we jumped up and down, and landed on our heels, not our toes. And when you land on your heels, you feel the shudder going up your whole body, your spine, and so forth.
So, we're talking about exercise that is creating what we call a physio-metric shuddering to your bones.
It stimulates them. It's an electric chemical signal that you're alive and that the living material in the bone, because it's alive, it's not inert, the bone-building osteoblasts and the bone reabsorbing reformation cells, the osteoclasts, are being signaled. And so, you want to have your minerals available. You want to have your protein, amino acid, and collagen. You want to have enough water available. You do not want to be acidic, so you want to drink half your weight in ounces of water. And you want to shudder those bones. You know, like if you jar your two hands together, you can feel the vibration in your arms.
Another thing is if you have a rubber hammer, a mallet and you hit that and you shudder your arm. I do tell my patients to get a rubber mallet and hit a cement wall or brick or the cement floor or the ground, you know, 10 times with your right and 10 times with your left arm and do that every day. And then I would stomp with each heel into the ground like you're putting on a temper tantrum, like you were 3 years old again, stomping hard, and do that for 15 seconds and do that every single day. Now, of course, take your walk, of course, do your sit-ups and stretching, but you need to have that sudden deceleration in your bones. Now, the more petite you are as a woman, the less poundage you carry around, and the higher your risk is going to be for osteoporosis. So, it's not in the mystery of strontium versus boron supplements versus calcium supplements. It's your lifestyle.
Now, one of the problems is with industrialized big farming, mega farming, the soil is getting depleted and raped, you might say. Individual small farms that make up hundreds and thousands of families and support them and their communities are being bought out or forced out with the economic stress of the times, and big corporations are buying up these lands and they do this industrialized farming, and they don't put back into the ground what a local farmer with his 100 acres or 50 acres would do. So, we are seeing mineral depletion in the items that are grown in the fields today across America. So an apple today may have 50 percent of the mineral nutrients it had 50 years ago.
So, we do recommend a multimineral supplement. It will have a balanced amino acid chelate or citrate of this calcium, strontium, boron, and other trace minerals, and I think it's wise to take it, given that our food supply is becoming so adulterated with corporatism.
The other thing is weight training. I would do weight training to keep your bone mass up and your muscle tone up and strength, along with your aerobic walking, along with maybe doing a jump rope or getting that mallet and hitting with your arms, so you get that shudder up your arms. Now, you have to remember, the women of old, they used to walk on their bare feet without any cushioning, and they would have more total time of this piezometric jamming of the heel into the ground or the hardwood old grandma shoe heel. And they would chop the heads off the chickens, and they would chop wood. And so, they had many more episodes of this sudden deceleration of their bodies and stimulation for their bones, and then the mineral density was richer in their food. So, what do I think of strontium? Not much. I don't think it deserves a YouTube on its own. There have been products made foreign, I think products, strontium ranelate (0:10:25), something like that, and it turned out that the product sold as a drug was associated with blood clotting and heart ischemic events. Therefore, it was pulled off the drug market in Europe. Then the supplement was made, it was made differently. It was made of strontium citrate, I think, and that was not associated with those bad side effects. But again, I don't support or recommend a calcium prescription dose or strontium or boron even. I just think it's good as we get older because of our corrupted bureaucratic farming methodologies now that we use a good amino acid chelate of a multimineral, and we do a low-carb diet, a richer diet in protein for the collagen, for our bones with a digestive enzyme as we age. And that we do stomping or what we call this piezometric sudden deceleration, and drink plenty of water so we're not acidic, and stay away from phosphoric acid-based sodas and things like that. So, that's what I'm thinking there.
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“I was prescribed Prozac for depression in 1993. Since then, I have been given different antidepressants over the years. Currently, I take Venlafaxine. I tried twice by myself and once with a doctor's help to get off this drug. Every time I tried I had 24-hour anxiety and thoughts of suicide. How can I get off this drug?” [0:11:44]
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Well, again, I am a general practitioner. I'm not a therapist or a psychiatrist or a psychologist. But in my experience over 42 years in the midst of all this move to use serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, of which Prozac and Effexor are, there becomes a receptor problem signaling, you might say, because of these drugs in between the two neurons, the reuptake of norepinephrine or serotonin, to be taken up in the next nerve. When it's secreted by one end and taken up by the other, if there's a blockage on the uptake, it increases the amount in between the receptors to hopefully stimulate these associated mood-modulating effects of these neurotransmitters. But long-term use can change it. It does not mean you can't heal from it. It just means you have to understand, that you have to go through some time of controlled management of your symptoms until your body starts to rebuild new cell membrane surface receptors. Exercise is associated with rebuilding it. Fasting is associated with rebuilding it. And even neurons in the brain. Practicing some challenging new skills, like learning to play the piano, which I'm trying to do myself, I'm not doing too good of a job, but I am trying, always stimulating your brain. Having yourself surrounded as best as you can with supportive, encouraging people who know what you're trying to do, counselors, a doctor familiar with the prescription, and the neurochemical aspect of these drugs and how they are affecting you.
But then nutritively speaking, besides this exercise, which is a good antidepressant, fasting which is a good nerve membrane, brain-derived radical factor to stimulate brain growth and these receptors are a rich protein diet. The more carnivore you go, the better. If you're a blood type A, you're going to have to use a digestive enzyme, ortho digestive enzyme, to help you digest that. Depending on how old you are, if you are a blood type A, certainly use it. But if you are roughly more than 50-55, you probably need help with digesting the increased amino acids that are used in making up healthy neurotransmitters. And then essential fatty acids but use the right ones. So, one that is actually incorporated into every one of your cell membranes in your body of which, you know, I've heard estimates now up to 50 trillion cells, and that's alpha-linolenic and linoleic acid, and that is in our Clinician's Preference Oil, which is the omega-3 alpha-linolenic and the omega-6 linoleic acid. Critical, critical in the cell membrane, structure so it responds appropriately to signals, images, and thoughts, and your exercise, and so forth. So, a high dose of healthy fat in your diet is critical, even the butter and the cholesterol for making the new healthy brain membranes, cell membranes, and the receptors. And then taking enough vitamin D. Vitamin D is also very neuroprotective. It is a natural mood elevator. The methylated B-complex, taking a higher dose. Monitoring your D level, monitoring your methyl B12 levels. Getting in magnesium at nighttime and possibly some melatonin, so you get a better night's sleep after a good exercise routine.
Again, I've been up since 5:30 and pretty much going full-time all day, working all day. And now, after we're done here at 7, I will go out to my gym and do my heavy lifting weight training, and at least twice a week I'm doing that. Do I want to? No, I can think of a hundred things I'd rather do, but I know I need to do this for a thousand reasons, for my health. So, if you exercise, if you drink your water, if you avoid alcohol because that works as a depressant, it'll mess up your sleep, if you take the only two human essential oils, the omega-3 alpha-linolenic and the omega-6 linoleic acid. You take the D, the essential fats, the exercise, the melatonin at night, the Magnesium Glycinate or Magnesium Citrate. If you have good counseling, a good psychiatrist who is well-versed in what drugs and what dosing you're on, and a healthy water consumption, plenty of protein with healthy fats in your diet and butter, vegetables, phospholipids that are rich in meat and stuff, then this is the direction I would head you to be in.
There is Lithium Orotate. There are studies on that that have shown that lithium orotate, even 5 mg or 2.5 mg a day, is associated with non-suicidal ideation, and I have this in our multivitamin-mineral at the Energy Core here as well. I have the amino acid chelated magnesium and minerals in My Multi-Mineral. And we have, of course, the appropriate oil replacement called Clinician's Preference with the essential fats. We have the melatonin with natural herbs that are calming in good night, that is our sleep melatonin with herbs. We have CopaCalm, which is another herbal and mineral calming agent. But nothing beats exercise, learning something, being with people who are supportive, and a doctor who's familiar with supporting your management of your minerals. I mean, you're, serotonin reuptake inhibitors. And that is how I would begin.
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“What would you suggest for itchy skin (armpits and/or anal)? We have carefully watched our food choices, fragrance-free laundry detergent, as well as used anti-itch cream.” [0:19:39]
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Well, the older you get, the drier your skin gets. The older you get, you tend to drink less water. And the drier your skin and body, the more it cracks. The more the skin cracks on a microscopic level on your skin, the easier it is for the bacteria and materials that are on our skin, or that we're touching, to impregnate themselves between these cracks. And the more you wash with soap and water and warm or hot water, the easier it is for your skin to flake and dry and crack, which allows for this topical film of bacteria, the biofilm on your skin, and whatever you're touching to crack and dig its way into the little crevices and irritate you. Therefore, I am for only taking a 3-minute military shower with lukewarm water at best. I don't put soap on my skin. I just use soap on my pits and hair. I'm in and I'm out. And I dry off. You know, there isn't any germ on the extensor surfaces. The only germs are in your pits and your groin and your feet. So, just getting a little lukewarm tepid water on you and drying off is all you need.
And then you need to drink enough water, and you need to try and be in a cool, dry environment with sleep. And then you have to take that oil I was telling about for the anti-depressive effects of it, and that is what gets into the skin cells that help create that barrier so that this irritation doesn't come through. It sounds like you're aware of food allergies because you're trying to eat a food diet that has low immunogenicity, meaning you're trying to stay away from a wild variety of spices and food variations on any one day. The more variety, the more spices, the greater the chance of your immune system becoming inflamed and alarming.
The other thing is to use Argentyn Silver instead of prescription antiperspirants and things like that. Argentyn Silver, you can just spray it under your arm, you can spray it on acne on your face. I put it in my eyes. I put a drop in each eye every night before I go to bed to act as a natural antiviral/antibacterial/antifungal. And that's how I would begin for itchy skin. Eat a simple menu, a one-day menu. So, you know, maybe tonight you're going to cook up roasted chicken or you're going to buy a roasted free-range chicken at Sprouts or Trader Joe's. And then just have one vegetable with it, with healthy butter on it, salt and pepper. And then eat enough of that and be satisfied. Don't eat late at night. And then have enough of it so that you can have that for lunch tomorrow, skipping your breakfast, so that the immune system your body only sees, which is what was in the chicken with the skin on it and the green beans, butter, salt, and pepper, and that's very low inflaming, low immunogenic stimulating. And a one-menu day represents a protein and a vegetable. Make enough of it for dinner, so you can carry it over for lunch. Then change up at the next dinner. Maybe a meat and broccoli. Make enough so you have a leftover.
I was sad today because I had beef last night with broccoli, and I had it in little beef strips, and I put a little soy on it, and sesame seeds to make it kind of like a Mongolian beef with broccoli. And I made enough of it, and I also had a container on my kitchen countertop, and I keep my, bacon in there. And the bacon is in little pieces like a little crunchy pieces instead of chips. And today, I grabbed my whole bacon thing instead of my meat, so I didn't get to have that for my lunch today. But anyway. So, the concept is a one-menu day. Whatever you have for dinner is your lunch.
These are things that help stop bodily itching. I hope that helps you.
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“Blessings from North Carolina! My husband is healthy, active 68-year-old and is on no prescription medicines except Prilosec. Per your advice, he is taking a scoop of Glutashield and Phospholipids for the last month. Tried to go cold turkey off of Prilosec but having issues. How long before he notices relief from the two products you recommended? Thanks.” [0:24:57]
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That's an H2 blocker. By the way, antacids like that are very bad for your bone health. So, if you're on something like an antacid like that, Nexium, Prilosec, Omeprazole, you want to get a bone density.
You know, I would have to know if he had an esophagoscopy where they look for ulcers or Barrett’s esophagus or reflux. I would want to know if he's eating late at night. I would want to know if you're elevating the head of your bed. I would want to know if he's drinking coffee at night. I can drink coffee at night. I can have a whole 12 ounces of my coffee and go to bed like a baby. Some people can do that, but it can create potentially acidity in the stomach and reflux. So, taking that or alcohol would aggravate the stomach. If he has food allergies that he's eating, he would be re-injuring himself and prolonging the amount of time it would be needed on those Phospholipids and Glutashield to heal. Remember, the phospholipids are the materials that fix this membrane throughout every cell in your body, from your eyeball and brain to your stomach lining, to your skin, and everywhere in your human body muscle. It has to have a double layer of these phospholipids – phospholipids hanging this way and phospholipids this way – to create a bilipid sandwich layer. And so, if you injure it at the same rate as you're trying to heal it, then it'll take you longer. So, look at some of your daily habits that your husband might be doing and see if that's happening. If he can use the Prilosec, at least cut it back to once a day or every other day, or only three times a week, twice a week, and stay at that rate. That's far better than using it two times a day every day for years. And it was never designed to be used continuously.
So, look at all those things. I normally find people, if they're doing those things, that they can pretty much get off of the Prilosec or their H2-blocking prescription medicines or over-the-counter Nexium, and they can be done with it within a month. That's my experience.
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“How often do you recommend eating game meat a week? Lamb, bison, etc. I eat organic beef only 2-3 times a month. Limit pork.” [0:28:10]
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As often as you like. I like free-range material of wild-caught fish. And if I buy pork, it's from usually a farm that I get from ButcherBox and I call up and I put in an order and they are Prairie pasture-raised pork, and there's no limit, in my opinion. I have never seen anyone overeat healthy free-range beef, wild-caught fish, and other wild animals in game. I've never seen anyone ever, ever, ever in 42 years eat too much. I'd rather see people eat too little and use too much processed junk food.
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“To what would you attribute occasional blurred vision? Typically, my vision is very good. However, there are short times when it blurs, and I have to put on reading glasses. Doesn't seem like just a vision problem since it's only occasional.” [0:29:16]
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Well, things that generate some blurring of the vision are age. So, as we age, the muscles that hold our lens, our lens is like a glass ball but it's squishy, it can expand into more of a ball, or it can be pulled into more of a plate. Ball, plate, ball, plate. And so, these muscles on either side holding on to the lens are ciliary muscles in your eyes, and they can get weak, and you can lose muscle mass there. So, when you were younger, you could easily pull it out by changing your focus for distance versus expanding it for near vision. But as you age, those muscles weaken. So, in the morning, you would have better function of those muscles if you're not very old, let's say you're 40, 45, 50, 55. And as the day progresses on, you fatigue out earlier than you did when you were 20, 25, 15 years old. So, that's one reason.
Number two, the more dehydrated we get as we age, the harder it is for that lens to cooperate with the pull and the tug on the muscles that make the lens change. So, becoming dehydrated with aging, alcohol use, and lack of drinking enough water every day. Having poorer and poorer circulation will choke off, like pinching the tube on the hose and only a trickle of blood to keep the tissues and everything well hydrated, to bring repair and nutrients to fill in these broken holes of your cell membranes. That's why we eat egg yolks and eggs. That's why we eat meat and fish and chicken with the skin on it and pork and so forth. So, you have to have good circulation. So that would be another reason.
It could be a vascular microcirculation of aging. It could be tiny micro-clotting. I don't know if you received the spike protein injection which might create some blurring. Our eyes dry out with aging as our hormones diminish. That drying to our eyes will create some blurring intermittently. Often, there are just normal saline eye drops that help with vision and focus. I use Argentyn Silver to moisten my eyes. When I feel it's getting late in the day and I'm straining at my eyes but I still want to watch something or read something, I'll put a drop of Argentyn Silver in my eyes. So, these are the most common issues. Of course, diabetes. Blood sugar can create dehydration and blurred vision. So, you might be having variation fluctuations in your sugar levels better in the morning, and worse in the evening as your blood sugar builds up from your eating during the day. So there are many different things to check on that.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, I tend to eat organic string cheese as a snack. I found goat cheese at Trader Joe's. What are your thoughts on goat cheese? It is really good.” [0:32:52]
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Yes, it is good, isn't it? Yeah, if it's a raw product, you might check and make sure it isn't a processed homogenized, pasteurized dairy. If it is, it's inflammatory. But if it's truly raw and was not cooked and it wasn't shaken up with homogenization and the heating of pasteurization, I would say you could have that a couple times a week. But if it's processed, pasteurized, or homogenized, I wouldn't recommend it because that's turned the whole milk protein and milk fats into foreign molecules that are immunogenic and inflaming. That's what I would have to say on that.
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“Do statins help lower triglycerides?” [0:34:10]
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So, cholesterol-lowering drugs, coenzyme Q reductase that blocks the production of cholesterol, does that help lower triglycerides? And the answer is a big fat NO. Triglycerides are from eating all kinds of plant food starches, plant carbohydrates, plant fruit sugars, and starch. All these sugars are then reorganized into little, short-chain fatty acids, called triglycerides, to put into storage if you eat more than you're burning up with your daily use of your body. As your muscles wither away with aging, but you keep eating at the same rate, and you're doing less exercise, then the carbohydrates build up, your triglycerides build up, your insulin builds up, and you start becoming metabolically sick, endocrinologically more at risk for diabetes and Alzheimer's and cancer and all these horrible hypertensive cardiovascular diseases. Triglycerides are strictly the simplest fat that comes from our eating too many starches and carbohydrates.
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“What should my total testosterone should be? I'm a 64-year-old female on bioidentical estradiol and progesterone. Bloodwork shows my free testosterone is 1.4%. Free dialysis testosterone 0.9 and Total T = 16.” [0:35:41]
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Well, you have low testosterone. And women need testosterone. When you're younger, you have much more of it because you have much more DHEA, and you have much more muscle and much more energy, and much more of everything with that action and motion. So, the levels in a younger woman, let's say she's 20, I would say testosterone in a healthy young woman – because young women today are not healthy. Don't fool yourself. The diet is so bad, the electromagnetic radiation, the stuff that there's stratospheric engineering pouring out into the atmosphere, these nanoparticulate heavy metal toxins and materials, these and the microplastics and the processed hydrogenated fats and the sticky high-fructose corn syrup and the lack of drinking coffee, I mean lack of enough water and instead drinking all these sugar drinks, this is making your typical 20-year-old, 15-year-old now, even 12-year-old, pre-diabetic. And so, I don't compare myself with young people at all today anymore. Thank God I'm old and I know what a healthy young woman was like, and man, back in the 1970s in my early medical training, and that is testosterone for a woman in her 20s certainly should be closer to 80, 90 ng/dL. And most women today are way too low. You're 16, you're way too low. I just did my testosterone the past year and I was 170.
But the other thing is my Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is one of the first hydrolysis biochemical products. When you take butter in, let's say, or a piece of cholesterol in your diet from eating meat, the first hydrolysis cleavage will create pregnenolone and the other side is DHEA. And they have many biochemical cascades they go through in the body to help our body do many wonderful things. And DHEA can help make cholesterol to reduce stress in a woman and a man. DHEA can therefore help the white blood cell count in all people. DHEA can turn into testosterone for men and for women. So, when we're young people and our DHEA levels are 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, with our healthy eating of meat and fish and egg yolks and so forth, then our testosterone levels are far more robust, and our muscle and our endurance is much better. Today, we’re eating such sloppy processed foods, we don't even know where health is anymore, and I'm scrambling to teach the young doctors here the importance of what a healthy human being looked like from childhood on because we're feeding our children to become sick.
So, regarding testosterone, I'd like to see testosterone at least 50 - 75 range in all women. And so, I would get your DHEA level tested quickly, and I would get on DHEA sulfate 25 to 50 mg. I take 50 milligrams every day, and it helps me with my muscle mass and my endurance and strength and bone density and my adrenals, my immune system, my ability to handle stress, my white blood cell count.
So, please do that and get a much higher testosterone level.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My 83-year-old mother lives in Italy and she weighs only 80 pounds and hikes every week, so she's in pretty good shape. She has been on high blood pressure medicines for 18 years. And on occasion, she has spikes of blood pressure like 205/95. What would you attribute such spikes to? In my eyes, she doesn't drink enough water, and she eats too many carbs. Any thoughts?” [0:40:07]
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205 is very, very high. That would almost qualify for an emergency room visit to address. Well, the older we get, the less water we drink, and that is the number one medicine for all diseases for all people at all times, drinking enough water. Then getting minerals in that water, magnesium citrate, magnesium glycinate, and trace minerals. And if you get salt, Himalayan salt, I prefer that you try and get salt that is mined underground so that the stratospheric geoengineering lead, dust, and microplastics don't get into these salt beds that are outside. You want to get your salt mined out of the ground deep. But get a bit of trace minerals, magnesium in her, get the water in her. So, she needs 48 ounces of water every day. She needs to be seen by her local doctor and address that. Have a stress test and cardiac evaluation, echocardiogram. Look for calcium. Calcium can make the intima, the lining, the material of the wall of the arteries, stiffer so that a small stress – let’s say you become angry suddenly or you suddenly have pain, if the blood vessels aren't elastic, and they're in a stiffer pipe, so to say, then your capacity for this high number, systolic number to go up will go up very high. So, if she was on vitamin K2 MK-7, I would put her on K-Force one a day, the 5,000 vitamin D with 180 mcg of vitamin K2, along with magnesium glycinate, maybe 500 mg a day. And I would put a multimineral and trace mineral into her dietary pattern. But first, make sure she drinks 48 ounces of water every day and see her doctor there, and go from there. Hopefully, that will help.
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“Dr. Lee's book titled “Hormone Balance for Men” insists PSA measures are not accurate in assessing prostate cancer risk. How can I reduce PSA (25) without hormone treatments like Lupron, and Casodex?” [0:43:16]
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Well, there's a lot that goes into it. Number one, I think you should have a urologist who is following you, and you can ask your urologist and say, “Look, I would like to try as naturally as possible to bring this down. Will you watch me?” I would encourage you to get an ultrasound of your prostate or a pelvic MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) so that we can see if the capsule of your prostate is intact and if there are any lesions in the gland itself. Have you had a biopsy? I'm not saying you have to do it, but if there hasn't been any interruption against the capsule, that's a favorable finding. I would certainly start out with adequate water. I would do EDTA chelation and calcium disodium EDTA chelation with vitamin C. I would do that once a week because of the micro-calcifications and the blood flow oxygenation because cancer doesn't like to grow in oxygen, it's anaerobic, which helps it with high systemic enzymes, something like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme systemic enzymes, five twice a day, to disinflame it. I would consider going on a trial of something like ivermectin, maybe 15 mg to 20 mg three times a week, in case there are any chronic bacteria. There are those who, and I have used in the past, chronic once-a-week or bi-weekly tetracycline 500 mg for what has been thought to be these cell wall lists bacterial formations, like mycoplasma-type family, that creates inflammation in the prostate.
I would eat two tablespoons of non-roasted raw pumpkin seed. There seems to be a lot of good alpha reductase enzyme activity with that. I would take iodine, 12.5 mg Iodoral one tablet a day. And I would be very low-carb. I would fast at least 24 hours once a week, and I would only eat in a time-restricted zone, roughly let's say from noon to 6 PM. And I would have my insulin checked, my triglycerides, my fasting sugar, and my hemoglobin A1c, along with the PSA maybe once every 6 to 8 weeks to track how this is doing. I would check my estradiol level, along with my testosterone level, and quit all alcohol because that will stimulate estrogen to rise in you and swell your prostate, which will raise your PSA.
Those are some beginner things that I would recommend, but not without the addressing a urologist because I'm not a urologist, but these are the natural approaches that we've had a lot of success with here at our place.
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“I drink a lot of water per your suggestion, but as much as I add salt to my food and sodium supplements, but my sodium levels remain low. Any advice?” [0:47:16]
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Well, that means that there are too many holes in your cell membranes leaking out these ions of sodium potassium, and chloride. You need to eat a lot more phospholipids and essential fats and cholesterol to help accelerate healing. That's why you need microcirculation chelation therapy, but that's very important as well. So, any advice, I would eat a more carnivore-type diet, probably Digestive Enzyme. Find out your blood type.
We have a wonderful new doctor joining us who we're training. Dr. Amber is just fantastic. She's internal medicine and eager to learn. She's worked in the hospital and seen the end stages of the American dietary system, and she is sick and tired of just patching people up to send them out and then they come back in shortly. So, she is really motivated, and she'll be taking new patients. Of course, we continue to have our monthly rounds. We're doing a lot of work on getting up this program for gut health to be produced, our movie on that for training to physicians. And it's just a circus here with all the work that we're doing, but it needs to be done. And Lord willing, we'll be able to help His dear creation. But try and find a good functional doctor.
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“Hello! Any thoughts on Parkinson's? Managing symptoms, and support for someone rapidly going declining. Any thoughts and ideas?” [0:49:10]
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Well, I have tons of thoughts on that. You have to get EDTA chelation and circulation to your brain matter. You have to go carnivore because your brain is close to 70-75%, phospholipid fats with the cholesterol. You have to look at their hormone levels. You have to put them through intermittent fasting, which stimulates brain-derived natriuretic factors to help them to grow new brain membranes and brain health. Getting on a good antioxidant. I think the Juice Plus is the most researched nutraceutical as far as antioxidants to protect the membrane from getting a free radical oxidative hit. Stop any smoking, any alcohol. Get into exercise. If they can't exercise yet, get them into physical therapy. Get a stationary bike, so that they can do it, and be kind of strapped in so they won't fall out. They have to be well hydrated. So, all these many things need to be done as a bare minimum, and then, we see a great slowdown and some reversal in Parkinson's.
We also use IV glutathione. IV glutathione has the ability with the substantia nigra in the core stem of your brain and is associated with this motor function and fine motor function so that the stiffness of Parkinsonian and little walking steps like that can be released from oxidative stress with glutathione IVs. If you go on YouTube, on YouTube, look up Dr. David Pearlmutter, a neurologist, and medical doctor, and write in ‘Parkinson's’ and then write ‘glutathione’ and you're going to see a picture of this older man standing in a hallway or sitting at a chair, and he has a light shirt on and it's like a 4-minute video, and you'll see him walking down the hallway, little tiny, tiny steps, and then Dr. Pearlmutter asked him, “Please repeat after me. It is a sunshiny day today.” And when the man does it, he takes about a hundred steps for every foot, and he stutters, “Just a little b b b b b, sun, sun, sunny, sunny de-de-day today.” Then he gets an IV of 3 grams/3,000 mg of glutathione. And 30 minutes later, you see him walk that same hallway with Dr. Pearlmutter and he walks like a normal man with the actual smooth stride, and then he says, “Please say it's a sunshiny day today,” and he comes back, “It's a sunshiny day today.” So, that's Dr. David Pearlmutter, Parkinson's, and glutathione, and you'll see that there, it's just awesome to watch what these nutraceutical, wonderful nutrients can do. Hopefully, that'll be a help to you.
Or we have these doctors here and we are finding ways to help make affordable some of these protocols. So, please contact and see the new patients with Dr. Amber or Dr. Kaur or Dr. Meric, or Dr. Gonzalez, and so forth, as I'm not taking new patients, but we're doing a lot of teaching and training.
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“What enzymes do you recommend that are affordable for seniors to add to their supplement list? My mother needs them. I have purchased before the Vitalzym but at 186.00 it was not sustainable monthly.” [0:53:21]
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Yeah. So, that's why I work with Ortho Molecular – to create systemic enzymes, or what is known as Vascuzyme, but you can't buy from Ortho Molecular unless you're a physician like me. So, I created the off-label list, called Systemic Enzymes. It's a third of the price. It's very affordable. And I hope that's a blessing to you and to your family, your mother, and that helps her. Take it on an empty stomach.
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“What are other comparable alternatives?” [0:54:12]
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Well, there are all kinds of marketing things out there, but have they been clinically tested to really work? I can tell you, Systemic Enzymes, Vascuzyme has worked here, and they have this serrapeptase in them, that critical thing that helps remove spike protein, disinflame it, and chew it up, so to say.
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“Hi there! What do you think of those whole-body MRI scans as a screening tool?” [0:54:37]
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I don't like them at all. I don't like any of these little units that go out into the community in a trailer and they do leg ultrasounds and they do blood pressures and they do screening of various things. The reason why I don't like them is I find it a general marketing scam to get you to come to certain places or centers that will do further imaging. They seem to always find something of questionable source that causes you to become frightened. You have to go in, you have to see a doctor, you have to get more imaging, make the beast of medicine stronger and more financially consumption-wise, it's a trillion-dollar business, rather than sending out units or mobile units that tell you to be responsible for yourself, drink your water, exercise, don't eat late, be low carb, no processed boxed foods, make your own food, and to take certain items that our food systems are horrific like I think we all need vitamin D3 with K2, I think we all need some form of increased enzymes, systemic and digestive, I think we all need a good multimineral, and probably a very good antioxidant, which I think the Juice Plus series is worth the money, plus you can get a child on it free for four years.
So, I don't like it. I, myself, take responsibility for myself, and I don't do mammograms, I don't do bone densities, I don't do colonoscopies, and that is because I don't think I could live much cleaner at all than I am already today. Doing aerobic, brisk walking, doing my heavy weight training two or three times every week for years and years, drinking enough water, not drinking alcohol, keeping a rich protein diet and getting a good night's sleep, using natural hormones, taking those nutrients I've listed and a few more, doing chelation therapy and high-dose vitamin C. If that's not enough, then I am so ready to go see my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, when He calls me home, and I will have lived a life in His service, hopefully, because His creation of people, the human being made in the image of God, is the most, one of the highest privileges a doctor can ever see their self doing – is trying to care for God's creation here and restore them back to the peace and the humbleness of heart of letting Him be in control and reading His instruction book, the BIBLE. Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth (BIBLE). And so, I would say that's the best anti-depressant, that's the best energy pill, that's the best sleep aid there is – is to read your BIBLE every single day. And so, no, don't go out for MRIs and things like that, folks.
Now, if you have a specific problem or a continuous symptom that's bothering you, see a doctor and get an MRI if you need it. If you're concerned about your lifestyle, and how it's been, then do your mammogram, which is recommended in California to be done annually. Do your digital rectal prostate exam then so you can get your prostate checked out with a PSA with your urologist by age 50. Get your colonoscopy, baseline age 45. Get your bone density at around 40 – 45, so you have a reference point.
So, I did all these things as a one-time thing, and they were all perfect and normal. So, I'm going to leave it at that, and I am going to just stay busy, happy, and love serving my wonderful God and Savior and His beautiful, wonderful creation. And, you know, I see people, like Tiziana, she goes all over the Earth, and she has all these stories, and it's like I get to take a vacation and travel with her. I have other patients who go on a cruise, and they tell me about it, and I feel like I went on a little cruise. So, you people are the most exciting movies, you are the most exciting creation. It's just a privilege to take care of you and work for your best.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-january-9-20242024-01-11T09:34:16-08:002024-01-11T09:34:16-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 9, 2024Wendy Lewis
Question
“Are there some more natural remedies to help with shingles? A friend in her 70’s has been suffering for weeks. She has not had any COVID shots and is on some kind of medicines prescribed by our general practitioner, but they’re not helping.” [0:03:02]
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Well, shingles is an outbreak of a dormant varicella virus, that once you get chicken pox, it lives forever in the spinal column and the dorsal horns of your spine. And as we age, our immune system begins to decline. Our T-cells, white blood cells, and leukocytes start to act more slowly. If you're on a standard American diet, you're high carb, starchy, fruit sugar, sugary drinks, too many beans, rice, pasta, bagel, chips, nuts, seeds, too many of these things. Plant foods can become excessive carbohydrates, starches, and fruit sugars, and they all suppress your immune system. So, with so much marketing to eat these stuff and with aging, we lose our muscle mass, and with the muscle mass loss, our engines for burning down what we had been more typically consuming in the past, we start to lose the muscle engine to burn it and we're still eating the same amount of carbs and there's an offset. And then what happens then, your sugar starts to climb as your muscles recede and you become more inactive with aging. And that's one of the ways we see the elderly move toward diabetes as they age.
So, when I'm done with this program today, I will go immediately to the gym, and I'll be doing my heavy weightlifting workout with my husband and my aerobics. And I got my two new rescue dogs that I have to walk every day, and they're a big challenge for me to take out. One is a big 50-pound dog and the other is around a 25-pound dog. Beautiful animals. Still trying to train them. And so, you've got to stay active if you're going to help build your immune system. So, building your muscles, and being low-carb will help your immune system. So that's the number one thing.
Now, we all tend to not drink enough water as we age. And so, we always have our water. I use a straw because I drink more water with each gulp if I use a straw. It just makes it more interesting and it's a reminder to me. But you have to drink enough water because the capillaries are getting clogged up and the sugars and the antigen-antibody from food allergy leaky gut, and that clogs up our capillaries which then makes debris build-up, waste, which ruins and harms and wastes your immune system. So, having enough water also is important.
Then take anti-inflammatory systemic enzymes. This helps reduce the clogging and it'll be like little Pac-Man trying to get through those little blood vessels to help get white blood cells where they need to go. So, zinc. Taking zinc in the form of 25 to 50 mg and doing that daily will help your immune system with shingles. And then taking a high dose of vitamin C immune drip. You can come in here or find a hydration center that will help with your vitamin C, by taking it orally. Taking high doses of vitamin D, especially at the onset of any viral illness or outbreak, whether it's shingles or herpes outbreak or anything, a high dose of vitamin C helps because that helps your T-cell function immune system.
Another thing is quercetin, taking 800 mg a day, at least 600 mg. That helps as an ionophore which allows for the penetration of a healthy cell membrane. See, this is a cell membrane in the picture here. So, to get a healthy penetration so zinc can get into the cell, and then that will help suppress the ribosomal reproduction of viral particles and that helps as well.
Using Argentyn silver spray, which is a systemic silver nanoparticulate. So, it's much better than colloidal silver, although colloidal silver is still good. But Argentyn silver, I think over the counter it's called Sovereign Silver, but it's half strength. We, doctors, only get the Argentyn, which is the full strength.
But if you spray this on the areas that are the outbreak, it prevents a secondary inflammation from bacterial overgrowth in these sites.
And then fasting. Fasting stimulates the immune system. So, if you're coming down with a cold or an outbreak of shingles or herpes, any viral illness, like last week, my grandchild, I think, gave me a little bit of a viral exposure, and by Tuesday night of last week, one week ago, right after I finished – Tuesdays are hard days for me because I work a long full day. Like I've been up since 5:00 a.m. working at full speed, and then I see all my patients and then we have our video here. And so, I was run down a bit and I think I started getting that sick taste in your mouth, you know, when you get a cold. But I had started fasting because I fast the first week of every January, and that's a pattern. I try and not eat for 4 or 5 days, the beginning of January 1st through the 6th, and a Labor Day, Monday, whatever Labor Day is, 5 days later. And I do this to kind of cleanse from my exposure to more treats than I would have normally had. That fasting helped get me through without missing a day of work or skipping a beat in my life. I think I ate last Friday. I took a vitamin C drip, I took the D 50, 000 once a day, a high dose of vitamin D for 5 days, then I went back to my usual 15, 000 a day. I took extra TLC Multimineral. So, I got a little more zinc in every day. Instead of three, I took five, I think. I took my D-Hist, my quercetin, my Argentyn. And I was able to get through that achy, low back fatigue hitting you, the pasty taste and congestion, and I fasted and drank a lot of water, had the vitamin C drip, and then boom! The next day I was ready to go back to work.
So, that's a long answer, but it helps explain how we here at Tustin Longevity Center stay so healthy for so long and can work at our peak, even like me in my 70s.
Question
“For a menopausal or post-menopausal woman, what is the best way to supplement testosterone if the blood work has said that I am low? I chose vaginal cream from my doctor over pellets but didn't know if there was a better way.” [0:10:55]
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Well, I try not to put as much, I try and keep stuff out of the vaginal areas and let the normal physiology and discharge and cleansing of the vagina. So, I don't like putting anything in there. What I would recommend for DHEA is DHEA. I use it somewhere in the 25 to 50 mg range for women. And DHEA is the precursor for testosterone. for women, and also for men. It helps your adrenals and your stress. That's also a good thing to take if you're stressed and you have an outbreak of shingles or a viral illness. So, I take 50 mg myself every day. And that converts to testosterone in a woman. For me, it'll keep me from having a lower testosterone in the 20s. And I think the last time I checked it, my testosterone was 170, and that's very good for my muscle and my weight training. So, my suggestion is oral DHEA for testosterone supplementation. And yes, I know there are topical testosterone, but you can get so much more benefit if you take the precursor DHEA because it helps your adrenals, it helps your immune system, it helps your testosterone, and muscles. So, why would I use an end product testosterone when I can help a woman in many other ways just by giving her the oral DHEA?
Question
“Do you prescribe Lugol's Iodine in your practice often?” [0:12:53]
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Well, I use Iodora, it's a tablet form because the Lugols can spill and stain things. But Lugol's is the old traditional way that we use to give iodine supplementation. So, I'm in favor of Lugol's. It's just I haven't been doing it because it's so much more convenient to use a little tablet.
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“I am low on iodine, and my provider is being very conservative, and after starting a multivitamin with iodine, went even lower.” [0:13:21]
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Well, Lugol's…and see, I haven't prescribed it in so many years, I forget the milligram strength per drop. But I think the standard Lugol dosing was somewhere in the realm of 6 mg. And the tablet that we have is a 12. 5 mg. And I've been using that for 25 years at least, and I really like the tablet – simple, simple, simple. So, women in Japan, that have a natural dietary intake of a lot of seaweed and sea products, get anywhere between 12.5 to 50 mg of iodine a day. So, I don't think you have to be too worried and conservative. If your doctor is new in functional medicine, let them learn, let them grow, and develop. But you can ask and say, I would like a dose that's higher, but make sure that you're getting your free T3, your thyroid levels measured, and your thyroid stimulating hormone and your thyroid antibodies tested. And you can do a urine 24-hour collection, and we do a provocative test where we give 50 milligrams of iodine and then we collect urine for 24 hours. If your body, when you, do the testing on the urine, if most of the iodine you took of the 50 milligrams is peed out because it's water soluble, then your body does not need much supplemental iodine. That is extremely rare. I would say maybe four people in 20 years in my practice have had enough iodine in them already, that when they urinated, they had close to 90 or higher percent peed out of the iodine they took on a challenge. 99 percent of them had too little. So, Kimber, tell your doctor to be not afraid to let you try this and get a test. Do a 24-hour urine collection.
There's a book out there by David Brownstein from Michigan. He's a family practitioner, and he wrote the book called Iodine, and it explains it thoroughly there. So, get the book for your doctor and bring it over, read it yourself, and We'll go from there.
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My question is, if someone has to get a PET scan or MRI, how damaging is the contrast, which is the gadolinium contrast material they inject you with? What should be done after to help rid the body of the stuff?” [0:16:50]
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Absolutely, good question, Alisa. Do EDTA chelation because it'll pull the gadolinium right out, and we do that all the time here, and we tell our patients that have to use contrast dyes, the gadolinium dye, for these contrast scans to come in afterward the same day or the next day or as soon as they can get in and do a couple of chelation therapies to try and pull it out.
I have an article in my hallway here I hand out to people about the neurotoxicity of gadolinium and all these scans. Most of the doctors out there don't know about heavy metal toxicity, let alone gadolinium. And so, it is a growing knowledge span that you have to help your doctors learn about. So, you can put in your screen. I usually find this better on Bing.com. Put in ‘contrast scan gadolinium and neurotoxicity’ and you'll see all the articles on this.
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“Hello! If I take systemic enzymes, is it redundant to take glutathione and NAC and Juice Plus? Thank you for your input.” [0:19:09]
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No, because systemic enzymes are anti-inflammatory. They are proteolytic enzymes. And so, if you get plaque or mucus buildup in a sinus infection or you get an injury and you have a lot of scab and material bruising. I had really at the back of my hand, you can't even see it, but I hit the back of my hand real hard right about here. And I'm telling you, this was almost black with bruising, and that was last week on Tuesday or Wednesday. So, I took the systemic enzymes five twice a day, I drank my fluid, I was fasting, and immediately I healed up. So, enzymes break up all that junk that leaked out of my blood vessels, the little blood and the serum and proteins, immunoglobulins, and the enzymes chew it up like little Pac-Man right through the capillaries and around the tissues and disinflame the human body. So, that is totally different physiologically, in a sense, than if you take N-acetyl cysteine, which is a precursor to what makes up glutathione. And glutathione is an antioxidant. It's very important in your energy metabolism, TCA cycle, tricyclic, Krebs cycle, and N-acetyl cysteine itself is an antioxidant as well.
Juice Plus is a phytonutrient concentrate from vegetables, from fruit, and from berries. These phytonutrients can have many different classes in them. There can be anthocyanidins in there, pycnogenols in there, and things like ascorbic acid. So, these phytonutrients in Juice Plus are a boost to antioxidant nutrient requirements in our own physiology. So, Juice Plus is in a category of its own, slowing down cell membrane damage. Remember, when there's damage to the cell membrane, like right here, this is from a virus getting into it or trauma or a free radical oxygen species damaging it from hypoxia or poor combustion of the mitochondria inside, producing a lot of free radical species. So, there are many things that injure it. So, if you have a shield, and that shield is the phytonutrient protection that can take the hits of free radical species, and reactive oxygen species, and that's what Juice Plus does, you're going to have less injured cell membranes and be healthy like this and your skin and your eyes and your corneas and your blood vessel walls, the endothelium lining and many, many parts of your human body will live longer, last longer. So, I've used Juice Plus for close to 30 years. I take N-acetyl cysteine and glutathione, and I use systemic enzymes, and they're all valuable and they all have a job, just like the body has many parts. Is the head more important than the foot? Well, you can't get around without feet. And so, they're all important. So all these things are important. So hopefully that answers your question.
Question
“At my recent eye exam and after having the same prescription for years, I was told that my prescription had changed quite a bit and now I have cataracts. Is there a natural way to rid my eyes of these cataracts? Thank you for your help and God bless you and your day!” [0:23:30]
Answer
A cataract is a part of that lens, that glassy ball you might say, in front of your pupil that expands and then contracts depending on the ciliary muscles scrunching it up or pulling it out and thinning it out so that it'll change the light rays going through your eye for near or distant viewing. And when that lens gets burnt or oxidized, the proteins coagulate and stick together, and that is pretty much irreversible. I would certainly suggest that if it's not bad, I would get the sugar out of my life, I would really drink plenty of water to hydrate it, I would do chelation therapy, I would do vitamin C IVs, Juice Plus, systemic enzymes, the multi-minerals, walk, exercise regularly, and observe and see how you do. But once you've burnt or oxidized proteins, which are in the lens of your eyes, it's a scar, and that's what they call cataracts.
Now, the best thing to do is to try and prevent that. But everything is a grade. So, if it isn't that bad, I mean I just saw my optometrist, Dr. Grant, here in town, and he looked at my eyes and he was just surprised to see how clean my lenses were, or maybe he was being kind to me and didn't want to say anything, but he certainly didn't say anything was going on with my eyes. And I have to attribute this, and I praise God and the Lord for all these wonderful things that my father and very wise physicians and research scientists and PhDs have done before me to get me to be aware of cell membrane structure physiology. So, if you don't have a healthy cell membrane, you've got an injured cell, and that injured cell is going to crumple up and get sticky and die and create protein-oxidized, gooey, sticky scars. So, that's why the cheapest thing to do is drink enough water every day as much as you can, half your weight in pounds as ounces every day of your life. The older you get, we are making less enzymes. So, take supplemental enzymes on an empty stomach.
The most researched nutraceutical in the world is Juice Plus for DNA damage prevention. I've never ever seen a nutraceutical, to my knowledge, that has university-based, peer-reviewed literature showing less DNA damage within a month of using nutraceuticals and that's Juice Plus. So, you'll have less damage occurring, free-radical damage like here, and that's been proven on Juice Plus. A couple of studies on that. So, I do that. And I do chelation to get that circulation to every part of my body.
You see, everything matters. You can't say one thing is more important than another. And you have to have a decent gut membrane to absorb these things. So, you have to have a doctor that tries to do it all. Now, you have to eat the right structure to make the cell. So, you can have the cleanest blood, but if you don't have phospholipids and protein that you're eating that make up the materials to repair the breaches in the cell membrane, what good have you done, you know? So, you can have a beautiful inside of the house, but if all your windows are broken out and you're not getting any new glass replacement, your house is open to birds and rats and coyotes coming in.
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"Good morning, doctor. My mother is 97 years old. She has diverticulitis and is not eating well. She took antibiotics, doing better but doesn't want to eat or drink. What do you recommend?” [0:28:20]
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I would give her, or someone that has inflamed cell membranes in the gut. So, all diverticulitis is these little outpouchings in the tube of your colon. These little outpouchings collect debris and they can have bacterial overgrowth and create micro-damage and then leakiness, which creates fever and pain and swelling, and inflammation. So, the antibiotics help it. I would say you’ve got to replace what it's made of. And so, we came up with it, especially people who don't feel well enough to eat fish and eggs and egg yolks and chicken with the skin on it and meat and pork and lobster and crabs and salmon and fish and all these things. So, we took the phospholipids that make this up right here. You take a scoop of this in warm water because this is basically a bit of a fat. These are phospholipids fat. And they mix in water better if it's warm. So, that's the fat for the lining here. Now, if you take SBI SBI-protected powder, these are the natural immunoglobulins of the intestinal cavity. So, the cavity has in it, God has given us saliva that makes IgA immunoglobulins that fill the lining of your gut with immune defense soldiers. And that's what this is. Plus, it has some other nutrient-supportive material that is very helpful. So, I mix a scoop of each of these into warm water, not hot, and I put that in the patient to drink in a cup, two or three times a day, especially if they're having acute problems with diarrhea, diverticulitis, ulcerative colitis, Crohn's, or anything like that. I often, in the warm water, will add in a probiotic packet, a little packet like this, that's inside this. And so, I'll put that in there too. So, it is the best emergency resuscitative program for any and all gut problems. Ortho Molecular is making these products. So, it's just wonderful. Now, you have to get them through a doctor. Ortho Molecular only serves physicians, but we have privately labeled them so that we can get others who can pick it up. So, that's the first direction I would go.
And make sure you aren't trying to get junky carbs down here. If she can start taking solids, then I would give her scrambled eggs with butter and salt. And then I would give her the digestive enzymes to help her digest her food when she eats it. So, that's how we would treat diverticulitis, any inflammatory bowel disorder, and that's the first step that we do here.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. I saw a functional doctor and she suspects I have mold toxicity. Haven't tested it yet. What can I do to help clean myself out? Thank you.” [0:32:38]
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Fasting, a low-carb diet, getting your blood sugars, starches, fruit sugars, rice, beans, crackers. These gimmick food sales that say they're low-carb or keto are often very, you know, overall high. See, we trick ourselves by saying, I'm eating keto/low carb, but then we eat several different keto items, and it basically adds up to a higher-carb diet. Then I would take, as tolerated, supplements that are known to be beneficial, N-acetyl cysteine is, 500 mg twice a day, systemic enzymes, probably four or five on an empty stomach twice a day. And whenever you do eat, I would eat a one-menu day so that your immune system quiets down and can focus on any aspect of mold or candida overgrowth. Make sure you get your house remediated or wherever you're working or living so that whatever is the generation of those mold spores is being addressed. So, get in a dry, no carpets, no indoor plants, no curtains. And that's pretty much how I live. I have such bad allergies. I bought my home about six and a half/seven years ago and I still haven't put a curtain up. I mean people must think I'm crazy with no curtains, but I just can't handle all that allergen and stuff. So, I have to try and afford maybe shades or I don't know what you call those things. You call those things that are wood pieces with slats, whatever they are. I never worry about the appearance of things so much. So, that's how I would start there.
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“Dear, Dr. Ellithorpe, I had an ECG (electrocardiogram) which came back abnormal. The cardiologist said what do you expect with high cholesterol? Do you know a cardiologist who understands your labs and science?” [0:34:57]
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Yes. Dr. Kelly Tucker, that's one of them. I know there's another functional integrative cardiologist. I just don't have his name right now. But if you call Terry, my nurse, she will give you his referral number and location. If you are a patient here, please send me that ECG so I can take a look at it and follow up with you on that. Okay? That's what I would suggest.
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“Hi, Dr. E. What are your recommendations for a 32-year-old female with Hashimoto's hypothyroidism, partial thyroidectomy after cancer in remission, medications - levothyroxine, overweight, borderline hypertension, and diabetes.” [0:36:05]
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I would recommend a carnivore diet with digestive enzyme. Get her blood type. She might need to use digestive enzyme with even meals at her young age of 32. That will provide all the phospholipids to heal up the leaky gut that created the inflammatory autoimmune that attacked the thyroid, that inflamed it, that made it overactive and then underactive, and probably created the oxidative stress for the thyroid cancer. And so, you're going to eat a carnivore diet, so you repair the lining of your gut. And you don't eat late, you start exercising no less than five days a week with both weight training and aerobic training. And you should probably be on an amino acid multimineral, like our TLC Multi Min. You should be on a D, probably 10, 000, with K2, one a day. Then you should be on, I mentioned the enzymes, like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme, on an empty stomach twice a day to disinflame. Drink half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. Never eat past 6 o'clock. Take an iodine tablet, the Iodoral 12.5 mg a day. I would have someone like that. Also use Juice Plus for its phytonutrient, antioxidant, and DNA damage reduction, and it’s 42 plus peer-reviewed articles, including mine, published on that. That's how I would begin with someone like that.
And we are seeing more and more wonderful young doctors, and we have our brand-new doctor, Amber Majid here. She is just an extremely intelligent, well-trained, internal medicine physician coming on board who is at our clinicians’ meeting today. Very knowledgeable. She also was disillusioned with medicine today and how working as a hospitalist for years and years and seeing all these broken down dear wonderful people that have nowhere and no guidance. And not that I know everything or we know everything, but we have to, as doctors, start talking and becoming their patients, their best coach, their cheerleaders toward every step they take in the right direction is going to improve and help their body. Intermittent fasting for this lady with her problem. And then I would do a 24-hour fast once a week, where you don't have any food, just plenty of water and your supplements. Once a week fasting is very healing.
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“Did you receive your DRS bars?” [0:39:44]
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Yes, they came in, but they're the pilot ones. We cannot sell these, because when they run the pilot one, nothing's written in stone as far as their commitment to run the series for us, and then we finally get these done. And there could be a trace of nut in them or a trace of wheat or dairy. So, they will not certify them or label them or sell them. So, we got these bars in, and I haven't gotten mine first because I think they just came yesterday. And my intention is for all of you, dear souls, who have waited, and if you understand that there could be a trace of dairy or nut or wheat in it, you'll probably have to sign a little paper that says ‘I understand these are samples and it isn't the final certified product but I trust Dr. Ellithorpe and want to try one.’ So, we'll give you a bunch of them. And that'll be my plan as soon as they're physically here. One of the partners, Bob Suttonary, who has been the scientist whom I did the EDTA suppositories with on all the men's studies we did, and he's helped me with this and others on our team, wonderful people. And I'm waiting. Any day we should have a pile of them here, and we'll make a decision how we can lawfully and responsibly divvy these out, all the initial run. And then we need to do some taste testing, that kind of stuff. All right. Thank you for asking.
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe. I wanted to compliment you on PA Gonzalez. Saw her for the first time last month. She is very sweet and attentive. Also made a follow-up phone call last week to go over test results.” [0:42:03]
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Thank you so much. And I will tell PA Gonzalez. You know, I was in the military and all physician assistants were called doc/doctor. So, I call Dr. Gonzalez, Dr. Gonzalez, but technically she's a physician assistant with the extra training in urology. So, she's absolutely a blessing to me, just like Dr. Majid is. But Dr. Meric, Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Kaur, Dr. PA Patel, Dr. Johnston, all these people are God's creation, they're all very good. They're all people who want to serve and continue to learn. So, I'm so blessed to have them. Thank you for your compliment and I will pass it on.
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“Do you know anything about CofixRX Iodine nasal spray?” [0:43:16]
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I think yeah. I think that came up because the nasal iodine wash for this alleged COVID pandemic iodine was used. CofixRX iodine. My understanding, if I'm thinking of the right thing, is it's a very dilute iodine that you inhale in each nostril. I haven't done it. I use Argentyn because the same thing happens and protection happens with Argentyn silver.
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“I read that hops contain 8-prenylnaringenin and is one of the best estrogen boosters.” [0:44:01]
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I'm going to have to look that up. 8-prenylnaringenin estrogen booster. I'm going to have to check that. In the very distant remote brain cells of this old 70-year-old woman, that seems to be correct.
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“Is this true? Should I switch drinking wine and buy some beer instead?” [0:44:44]
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No. No, because I don't like any alcohol. Alcohol is a toxin. And I don't want to raise estradiol in a false way. So, I would not do that. Anyway, I have to look up 8-prenylnaringenin. I'm going to look that up and come back next week. I will not forget this one because this is the kind of stuff that makes me excited.
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“I have SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) and am taking Zifaxan. Simultaneously, I've been prescribed a medication for heart failure that has side effects to potentially cause urinary tract infections and yeast infections. My urologist and gynecologist have recommended a pre- and probiotic and D-Mannose. Am I correct that a prebiotic is not advisable to take when you have SIBO (Small Intestine Bowel Obstruction)?” [0:45:30]
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Well, many foods essentially become a prebiotic - artichoke, inulin. I'd have to look up the list myself. But you can't live life in fear of these healthy nutraceuticals, like pre- and probiotics with D-mannose.
That's a very small thing compared to the volume of food you're eating. I would be far more concerned about feeding Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth with too many carbs, starch, fruit sugars, and things like that, that create an imbalance of the bad bacteria. So, that's how I would look at that.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. I'm 69 years old and received the first and second Moderna COVID vaccines when they were being highly recommended for older people with underlying conditions. I have cardio and endocrine issues. I also received the COVID booster in early 2022 in order to travel abroad. Is there any way to detox these poisons I allowed to be put into my body?” [0:47:01]
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Yes. And we have, and I'm glad to see that doctors like Dr. McCullough (0:47:51), and the other one is Malone, and who else? Doctor…I haven't used his name in a long time, the one who promoted ivermectin. But anyway, I'm glad these doctors are starting to learn functional medicine. But right from the beginning, I was giving broadcasts in January of 2000, and where I'm telling you about the antiviral aspects of high dose vitamin C, the importance of microcirculation, adequate hydration, vitamin D, the mineral zinc, and, the anti-inflammatory effect of systemic enzymes. Now, EDTA chelation is able because it is an anion, and the spike protein happens to be a cation, positive, and all heavy metals that are toxic are cations, positive. So, EDTA chelation has improved the microcirculation to help prevent clotting. It helps platelets from being sticky. So, it's a calming modality/medical medicine, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, calcium disodium. These are all anti-coagulating nitric oxide, synthetase-enhancing for vascular vasodilation of the microcirculation. And the fluid, the vitamin C, the zinc and minerals we have in chelation, all these wonderful things help to reduce spike, build the immune system, so that the T-cell function that was harmed by these spike proteins can hopefully and apparently seem to improve, because all of our patients, even those who did take the mRNA injections, not one of them have we lost, not one of them have we had any serious long-term effect. And they do the EDTA chelation, they do the enzymes, they do the low carb, they drink the water, and they're walking and moving.
So, the good news is, yes, all these things can help to reduce it. Plus, I would stay on quercetin, 600 mg a day minimum, every day. You could take preventatively ivermectin twice a week so that no secondary viral illness can take over you with any potential weakening of your T-cell function that has been reported in several peer-reviewed literature pieces regarding the potential harm it may have brought.
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“My ureter is partially pinched, and my left kidney is always swollen. Is there a natural way to heal my ureter so it is fully opened?” [0:50:59]
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This is now structurally an issue. Usually, prostate swelling pinches the ureter and puts pressure on it. And so, you need to see a urologist. They can put a stent in there, which will enhance the urine flow. That's like a little soft plastic tubing pipe. But you have to see a specialist in that. You could come by if you're a patient here and see PA Gonzalez. She's excellent in the urological advice and training and has years of experience. But all the things that enhance every single cell function in your human body, dis-inflaming you, drinking healthy volumes of water, vasodilation to help move debris inflammatory protein waste breakdown products, stop the sticky sugar, and sticky complexes that clog up the capillaries, stop eating wild variety of food. Eat a simple one-menu day, so that the lining of your gut can help fix, with phospholipids and proteins, the healthy single membrane of your cells in your colon. All these things then work together. Plus, we know that EDTA chelation with nephrology research studies on chronic kidney disease improves creatinine and glomerular function. So, get a good functional doctor. If you're in the area, come see us. Come see PA Gonzalez, urologist PA, and get your specialist to potentially determine if you need any specialty support like a stent.
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“Recommendations to help improve a subclinical low thyroid with adrenal fatigue; menopause. Trying to improve energy levels and feel more alive. The thyroid labs are slightly off, and the adrenals have shown low cortisol, but I believe this is from prolonged stress over time. [0:52:56]
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Well, here's an area where you need DHEA 25 to 50 mg a day. I can turn around cortisol in a couple of months with DHEA supplementation.
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“I have taken thyroid and adrenal supports for some time but slow improvements.” [0:53:30]
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I don't know who you are, but almost all women and young women moving toward this, as they move toward menopause and aging and toward our day of death, this is something that everything I've told you applies. I just have to see who you are, where your fasting insulin, your triglycerides, your HDL, your hemoglobin A1c, and your insulin levels are. I need to get your body mass, your body makeup. I need to see your inflammatory markers. I need to get a feel for your blood type and your digestion and your exposure and age and life to damages and put all these things together and a pathway toward healing. See, God wrote the message in Psalm 139. He wrote about written in the book are my members as before they were even formed. And God's talking about the instruction book of his DNA writing, the intelligent language of the DNA, and that's why evolution has been proven wrong.
And so, in that DNA is the healing for every cell in every part of the human body. What we have to get out of the way is our bad habits, our lack of water, our inactive bodies, our poor sleep habits, our clogging up sugars and starches and fruit sugars, our late-night eating, our alcohol consumption, cigarette smoking, all this kind of things, we have to get ourselves out of the way. And so much like the gospel, die to yourself and live, you know. So, the world's marketing is to have some oral excitement every time you put something in your mouth. God never meant for this to be an excitement center. This was a method, to use our mouth to bring love and honor and instruction and encouragement to our family, friends, and neighbors, to all mankind. It was never meant to be some entertainment hole. And so, I would just say follow this. Get a good functional doctor. Try and work on this and see the best we can do for you.
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“My friend has alopecia. Her hair has grown back a few times, but then she loses it again. Her blood tests have shown no issues overall. Thoughts on how to help her grow her hair back again? She has tried supplements in the past for thyroid, liver, parasites, digestion, etc.” [0:55:57]
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Remember, hair is made of protein, and this is a non-essential part of our body, the protein here. But it is in our bones. And when there's stress, aging, breakdown, and as our capillaries to our scalp and stuff diminished, then your body is going to take what protein you do get in because they’re trying to tell you not to eat meat now. It used to be eggs and stuff. Now, they're down to saying meat is bad. We're living in an upside-down world. Anyway, we have to see how good her gut is because if she's not absorbing it and her body senses a lack of it, it’s not going to put it in her hair. So, whoever this is, we have to do a complete digestive stool, and we have to get her thyroid antibodies and her hormones and that kind of stuff and probably find out her heavy metals levels and that kind of stuff.
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“Is the Prevnar 20 vaccine safe and is it necessary and do you know of any long-term side effects? Want and asking for a friend who is healthy, active 70+ years. She had fatigue and muscle pain, but it lasted more than a month. She has her first appointment with TLC this month with Dr. Gonzalez.” [0:57:07]
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I'm not familiar with it. Well, she'll be blessed here. Let me write down the name of the vaccine. Prevnar 20 vaccine. All right. So that's new. You know, the way old doctors can stay current is to talk and talk with their patients and get questions like this, and then we can continue to learn as doctors and take all of our experience and mix it with the new, and hopefully the best results for our patients.
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“Dr. Robert McCullough.” [0:58:12]
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Yes, that was the one. Yeah. Thank you. He's one of the doctors who was talking about working away to deal with the toxicities. So, I'm glad he figured it out finally. So, praise the Lord, and I'm glad to see these doctors learning to grow and develop.
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“Hi Dr. Ellithorpe, I have lupus and recently diagnosed with Sjogren's.” [0:58:34]
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So, that's an autoimmune, it starts in your gut. You've got to have a complete digestive stool analysis.
We have to look at your sugar levels. We have to look at your blood type, your digestive capacity, your hormone levels.
That’s a good first step. I would go carnivore. Basically, eating meat, a carnivore diet, supplies a plenteous, massive repair system for the entire 40-foot tube so that it will quiet down the immune system inflammation, and all these autoimmune phenomena. I've seen it over and over and over and over again. That's my general first knee-jerk reaction. And that's why we use these things. This Phospholipids is what you get when you eat the meat, to plug these holes up again. The protein and the immunoglobulins are here and then the probiotics are up here. So that's how I would look at that.
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“I have left lower lung atelectasis. When I swim, I get winded. What can improve my lung function and increase nitric oxide? Thank you, doctor.” [0:59:49]
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Well, I would do EDTA chelation therapy, hands down. I would take systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day. I would drink half my weight in water. I would eat a robust, healthy, simple one-menu day rich in proteins and iodine and N-acetyl cysteine, and the antioxidant protection from Juice Plus. I would do all those things. Well, I don't know you. There might be something else. But long and short is atelectasis is just little sacs that kind of get stuck together from not expanding your lung enough, and they have these little clacking, it's like little popping sounds when I'm listening in on a…it's little crackled. And as I hear these little smacking sounds, I have the person take another deep breath, cough, or take a second deep breath, and then it opens it up. And sometimes I make the patient, most people are sitting kind of humped over like this, and then I say sit your chest up nice. That's why I want you to do weight training and that’s what I'm going to do here in a minute.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you see patients that live out of state? I have not had much luck finding knowledgeable naturopathic locally.” [0:06:48]
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Well, you see, we are ruled by a bunch of, laws. And so, service is trashed for lawfare. And one of the things is malpractice wants to define and corral me into a jurisdiction and that is for a practice in California, so I see California patients. I don't practice in the other 49 states. So, out of state, people who come here and physically see me once or twice a year, and this is a pleasant place to come to Southern California, Newport Beach. San Diego, Los Angeles, Long Beach. All these wonderful places are nice vacation spots, so it would maybe work for you to come out here. And then if you're in this area and seeing me physically, then I think my malpractice (0:07:58) will cover it. But you see, that's where the problem is. I would hope that you would work with someone in your area who is tried, and you could give them this YouTube, and they could certainly ask a question themselves. We do take doctors here, healthcare providers, to shadow us. We do rounds every month. We have a monthly round, where we shut down the practice for a couple of hours, eight or so. Healthcare providers bring up challenging cases or bring up scientific data to discuss. And currently, we have a new electronic medical record system that we're working very hard to employ right now. And so, it's very difficult to try and run it all together.
But try and work with someone that you can find or come out here. We are very happy to have those doctors come and shadow us, and they can try and do it on our monthly grand rounds. We do that on the 2nd Tuesday of every month. So next week, on the 9th of January, will be our grand rounds where all of us meet together and discuss things for this. So, hopefully, that's an encouragement to you. And you just keep on trying. But if you can come out here, that would be the best, and maybe have a nice little vacation.
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“Hi Dr. Rita, what is the cause for angular cheilitis in teens, and how to address it naturally? How long is it safe to use uva ursi tea or grapefruit seed oil capsules for detox?” [0:09:40]
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Well, I would use grapefruit seed oil capsules continuously. If you have a complete digestive stool analysis that shows that you have some overgrowth of a type of pathogen or bad bacteria, let's call it, and it is sensitive on the sensitivity to uva ursi or grapefruit seed extract, then I would use it for a couple of months and then retest and have that done and see if it's improved. Of course, there are lifestyle changes, probiotics, low-carb diet, exercise, good night's sleep, and other nutrient screening that needs to be done like vitamin D levels, but there really is no set length of time. But I get patients coming here that have boxes of supplements, and they throw their hands up, they don't know what they're doing. And it's true, most of the physicians and healthcare providers are not familiar with these products and they can't endorse them because there's no reference material on them for the most part. There are very few nutraceuticals that have good third-party peer-reviewed data on them. So, it becomes a challenge. Then you're left with doctors, such as myself, who have vast amounts of experience with certain products and their impact and these specialties testings. And this is what the doctors really need to learn and see.
Now, back to your angular cheilitis. This is where the corners of your mouth can get wet with your saliva and the cracks in here can break down, getting to the dermis there and creating inflammation. Often, we see this in teenagers, and this is usually aggravated by things, like fungus like candida from their high carbohydrate junk food lifestyles. It can just be the normal bacteria that live on our skin. Some of these are strap and staph-type bacteria. So, often kids who have braces or other mouth devices, adults who have to use CPAP, or are using certain nighttime mouth guards. And what happens is you're washing and washing your face and washing your body because you're marketed to think that you can scrub clean your body, and you can't. You have bacteria on your skin, it's a barrier, and you have hundreds of old dead cells that create the dermis, that kind of dry flaky layer, and you make your own natural oils that kind of create the mortar between these dead dying cells and it creates a beautiful seal. And it's this excessive marketing and cosmetics and working on the face or other body parts and the skin by showering too much, bathing too much, too much hot water, and that will swell the dried dead cells that create part of that packed layer. And then they swell, and they crack apart, so the bacteria can get in more easily.
So, this would be helpful if you would leave your face alone and get away from all these topicals and try and not lick the corners of your lip, it can be a tick or a habit that a child or an adult has, and be on a low-carb diet. And you might use Argentyn Silver Spray and just put that on at nighttime. And then you will have an antibacterial that's quite safe and will not harm your natural flora.
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“I wanted to ask what your suggestion might be for items needed for our daughter's new baby. If a need arises for sickness/fever reducer/vitamin D for babies, anything else?” [0:14:18]
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We've given my grandchildren the liquid vitamin D3 and it's 1000 IU per drop. And usually, they'll put in one drop every other day, something like that. That's what we did with our grandchildren. We also have given them the Juice Plus capsules. We open up one capsule of the fruit and vegetable into their food when they start eating. If they had a fever, remember God created a fever for good things. It helps produce heat shock proteins and raises up the immune system to attack viruses, bacteria, and pathogens. So, we don't race to lower a fever unless it's very high, and you watch the child/the infant. As long as they're taking their liquids, and they're alert, and they have eye contact and are acting appropriately, we'll let 101 fever 102. And then get a pediatrician locally. You can have them checked out. Make sure they don't have any ear infection or have them look at their lungs and stuff like that.
But liquid Tylenol is probably, they have it in dropper forms as well, and they have suggestions by the baby's weight how much to give. So, using vitamin D would be probably very good. So, that's what I’d suggest. And I'll talk to you on the phone about also the Pilot. I did look at the email and I'm happy that the Pilot Bars are going to be coming in now. So that's exciting, exciting news.
So, we are working on the Drs Nutrition Bar. We had to find, as you know, the new location, a whole new producer and resourcing for the ingredients to make these phospholipid-rich, protein-rich, very low-carb protein bars, because, remember, I always point to this picture, and if you talk about your skin, aging, your cells, your organs, inside your cell membranes, your nuclear membranes, structure determines function. You can't have a broken wheel on your car and drive it. So, if the structure of the wheel is flat, then you can't drive it. So, structure determines function. And this is one big area the healthcare system is totally messed up on. They don't understand the cell membrane and its absolute relationship to the inside functioning of the cell. And yes, you can be eating terrible things and toxins and a high-carb diet and not drinking enough water, and that will affect the cell membrane, but essentially, if you're not eating phospholipid fats and essential fats and cholesterol, you're not going to have a good cell membrane. So, I don't care how good your vitamin is, you're just not going to have good cell membranes. It'll be much easier to poke a hole through any membrane, be it your skin, your eyeball, your, blood vessel wall, your kidney, your brain cells, all these things will be damaged if you don't understand cell membrane repair and lifestyle diet. Hence, that's why we say, please eat your eggs, please eat your meat, eat your fish, eat the skin with your chicken on it, roasted, eat your pork, you have your butter, use the lard, beef tallow and things like that to cook with rather than these seed oils that are hydrogenating and generating fractured hydrogen bonds and trans fats and all that kind of stuff. And that's in all the junk food. And they do that to create a life extension of the food storage to make them money. It's all a game of marketing and we’re damaged because of it.
So, these phospholipids are critical and they're rich in meats, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, butter, things like that. And we were made to be frightened to take these things for fear of saturated fats and that's all been proven wrong. But of course, they don't put that in the news, and the poor doctors out there aren't taught that in medical school.
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“According to my functional neurologist, chronic sleep loss injures neurons. Is the injury reversible?” [0:19:24]
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Absolutely. Absolutely, it's reversible. But you have to eat what the cell membrane is made of, and that's not just the outside of the cell, and it's a double layer. It's like this all the way around. Okay. And these are the little phospholipids fats hanging down. Every inside organelle has it, the nuclear membrane. You've got to eat the meat, fish, chicken, turkey, pigs. And the butter, and you have to be low-carb, and I would do EDTA chelation therapy. And I would also try to use systemic enzymes. I would do the fasting intermittently. And you know, I'm on my prolonged fast right now, so I haven't eaten, I'm starting day two with no food. So, that’s one of the ways we can stimulate repair, get rid of the old, and build the new, and that includes the brain as well. So, absolutely, this is valuable. But don't forget the benefit of EDTA chelation to improve the microcirculation. So, you get the little pathways of the tiny little hair like, less than a hair, capillary to reach those brain cells to bring in the building blocks to repair the brain. And then of course you want to do all the brain exercises that you can, listening to classical music, doing like puzzles, learning a new language, exercise. These various things are also important.
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“After adjusting the Armour Thyroid dose, how long does it take for it to take effect?” [0:21:18]
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I would say within the week.
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“Hi Dr. Rita, I'm having a few issues. Left hand only yellowing nails, left arm possible eczema above the elbow. Right now, migraines and mild stomach nausea. What should I do? Thank you. God bless.” [0:21:28]
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Well, I would see the doctor. I would have you see your doctor and let them look at these areas and examine you because you're bringing up various areas. Indeed, gut inflammation can create a lot of skin issues and dermatitis. That also means the nail bed changes will show up in your nails. Eczema will do that as well. So, let your doctor see that. And of course, all those healthy lifestyle things that we always talk about, which is try and eat a more simplified menu. The world is marketing to each of us to try this exotic food or that exotic food, this spice, that spice, change it from breakfast, snack, to lunch, to snack, to dinner, to snack, and variety, variety, all kinds of sources of restaurants and things you can buy and eat, because eating is an entertainment, and it isn't. It's harming us. Plus, they put junk in this and other things that are quite damaging to us. And therefore, it will harm the wonderful system, the machinery of your gastrointestinal system. It will damage the cell membrane. Remember, the cell membrane in your gut is only one membrane thick that separates between you and the world out there. So, by doing intermittent fasting, eating in a restricted time, you know, 10 to 4, noon to 5 or 6, being low carb. We teach a one-menu day where we say this is your chicken night, you cook chicken tonight and green beans and butter and salt and pepper. Make enough so you can take it to lunch with you. So, your gut and the immune system are seeing a more calm, repetitive, so to say, they're tooled up for that menu. And then the next night, you can change it to meat and broccoli, and then make enough so you have some to warm up for lunch the next day. The third day could be salmon and asparagus. You've heard me say this over and over.
So, the more simplified, the more you control your food and cooking it rather than trusting some advertisement center. It just really breaks my heart. I see. I have some YouTube people that I watch, real-life situations, they're building a homestead or they have some kind of thing going on, and they are sponsored and they have marketed supplements and they're young and they're taking in these powdered green mixes into a whole drink day after day after day after day after day after day. And they don't have any idea about oxalates. And those greens, like kale and spinach, are full of oxalates. And God help you if you don't know how much stress it is biochemically on a high oxalate diet. And getting that in day after day is not normal. This is not what the human body would ever have had over, you know, the 6,000 years we've had this planet to live on.
So, I would certainly say we need doctors to get educated. We need to help our patients take responsibility. The logic of a simple one-menu day is consistent with our ancestral history. Nobody had this kind of variety to choose from before.
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“Copper supplements make me nauseous. Any advice on how to take them? My nutrient panel came back as a borderline deficiency in copper.” [0:25:51]
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I wouldn't pay attention to that. I would just stick with the standard multi-mineral vitamin that you're on and there's a little copper in there, and that should be sufficient rather than focusing on trying to, manipulate bars and graphs on studies. You can upset your zinc and copper balance by supplementing with supplemental copper or too much zinc. So, just stay with your multimineral vitamin. Healthy foods, meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, and eggs, are all very, very rich in these minerals.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, my shins have been hurting since July 1. I used to walk 3 miles a day and now I'm hurting with just a little walk. Getting worried? What to do? I have tried exercises.” [0:26:55]
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It sounds like you're getting shin splints. That's very common in people who do prolonged walking. One of the things that would be very important is your hydration, water, getting water with maybe some trace minerals in it, putting a dash of sea salt in it, and doing that to your water at least a dash twice a day. The other thing would be taking a multimineral magnesium citrate or magnesium glycinate and which has the potassium amino acid combinations and the calcium. The other thing is Pilates or something that will force you to stretch. To, you know, really bend, flex your foot forward, and then to extend it, and to rotate your feet. This typically should solve it, but if not, please, be seen, by your doctor.
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“You skipped my question at uva ursi.” [0:28:33]
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No, I didn't. Uva ursi and grapeseed shouldn't be continuously taken. You should have a reason for it guided by testing.
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“It has been over five years since I left Southern California, and I'm still searching for a doctor that I have confidence in. I miss TLC. Dr. Ellithorpe, I am blood type O and I know your preference for a carnivore diet. What is the difference between that and keto and paleo? Is it just the amount of animal meat eaten?” [0:28:52]
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Keto is just representing a reduction in the starch, fruit sugar, and carbohydrates. A keto diet would be probably a diet that is somewhere around a 20, 30-gram limit if you're not an athlete. And so, keto would represent a low carbohydrate diet that allows for vegetables and some salads, as long as you're checking it. And then, of course, any type of protein. But if you get protein from beans and legumes and these non-animal products, it's going to be very hard to be keto.
The paleo diet tries to suggest – I don’t believe in evolution. I think that's been thoroughly debunked by now. There are so many good scientists, Nobel laureates, that have easily put that baby to rest. But in the paleo, they're saying, you know, prehistorically and time and time back, man ran around chasing the saber-toothed tiger and eating a diet that had a lot of meat and fish and poultry and animal products in it and only seasonally ate berries and so forth in the fall and vegetables, root vegetables in the fall. That's what a paleo diet is. But I'd like to get rid of the paleo because I'm a Christian. I believe in the young Earth 6, 000-year history and just stick with the data which says we have the meat and poultry and fish, and we have vegetables, and we have the grains. So, a paleo diet would not include a diet that would have grains because there would have never have been allegedly agriculture back then. Although Noah, when he got off the ark, the first thing he did was make a vineyard to make his wine. Then he got drunk, unfortunately. But thank God, our God is a forgiving God.
So, getting to your statement there, I am mostly carnivore, I tell my patients that, but I will eat broccoli and green beans and asparagus, brussels sprouts, spinach. Spinach is a high oxalate food, and I've had kidney stones. So, I'm cautious with any green drinks. I like Juice Plus because it has the capsule of the vegetables in it, and I do take that every day, but it's a tiny capsule. It's not an entire drink that just absolutely soaks down the lining of my entire gut system. So, I would say that that’s probably not going to change for me. I'll be doing my fasting, my intermittent fasting, and my carnivore-like diet because I still cook for my family and they don't want to be carnivores. So, I want to cook healthy, and I want to make foods that please them but will also at the same time protect their health. So, that's how I’d say that.
And then regarding finding someone, maybe come on out here once a year or so. And then look to find a doctor, call the manager of that doctor's office, and say, “Look, is this doctor open to discussing lifestyle? Is this doctor open to doing some nutrient vitamin levels on me and natural hormones, things like this, insulin levels, inflammation markers like HSCRP?” And then, you'll find them. They're coming up. Have faith. Remember, in the Bible, it said, when Jesus returned, will he find faith on the earth?
So, let's have faith, and let's believe in these doctors, and help them to grow in their knowledge, and do everything we can to move them in that right direction. They can always come here in Seattle West.
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“Do cyst-type breast lumps appear suddenly large (the size of an almond)? It wasn't there at my well-woman check two months ago. How can I keep from getting them? I have a history of them. I do all of your health protocols. Thank you so much for being such a caring person and doctor. Happy New Year.” [0:33:53]
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Thank you. We would say fibrocystic breasts, I have a disagreement over the many, many years. And remember, if you can't make money on something, the business of medicine, the hospitals, the owned corporations of healthcare offices, the drugs, everything, if there isn't money to be made by the business side of this, they're not going to invest in it. But what I have found over 42 years is stress makes a woman stop ovulating, and that's a blessing because you don't want to, on top of your stress, have a baby. Without ovulation though, you're in estrogen dominance because you always do make estrogen. And estrogen is the breast development and the feminizing hormone of the female body. And that means the glands in your breast will develop. And if you are stressed, and are we not in this very stressful world right now? Then you will be estrogen dominant. And then if you're in a high carb, you'll have the insulin factor stimulating the development of fat and thickening of your blood vessels and tumors and excess growth response stimulated. And so, this is the environment we're living in in general.
So, I tell mothers to start their daughters on natural progesterone creams on days 15 through 25 of every month, no matter what. Even if you're in a peaceful home and you think you don't have stress, it's not going to hurt anything and it'll do a whole lot to get this balance with the estrogen there because we need the estrogen and I'm at 70 years old and I used my estrogen today and I used my progesterone today, and it helps me on my bones, my heart, my immune system, my brain, my memory, my sleep, so, these would be things.
And Dennis, by the way, another thing about sleep would be to get your hormones checked. We had talked with your functional neurologist. So, think about that too.
So, fibrocystic breasts often show, especially as we start getting perimenopausal, we become estrogen dominant, and these show up. So, it isn't that estrogen is wrong. Estrogen is extremely valuable, but it's in an environment where we would always have had progesterone cyclically there to balance it.
And especially if Adam and Eve didn't sin, we would never die and we would have the estrogen and ovulation every month. But seeing that we all have fallen short, but we thank God we do have natural progesterone, and we can start using that day 15 through 25. Then lower the carbs, and take enzymes. Fibrocystic breasts are an inflammation. It is the breast swelling in anticipation of getting pregnant. And then when the progesterone goes down, the inflammation of the menstrual cycle goes down, and that's what women have to go through. So, taking systemic enzymes would be very, very helpful. Taking enough water, lowering the carbs, exercising. And there's really no data on caffeine or green tea, whether that's involved or not. But that would be my response.
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“What kind of treatment do you recommend for rosacea? I'm in my late 50s and also have Hashimoto's. I began hormone replacement recently, and I think it may have, in part, triggered my rosacea.” [0:37:54]
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With rosacea, the cause of which is unknown. But we've had tons of cases of rosacea over the decades, and this usually is a skin manifestation, a lot like the angular cheilitis of the corners of the mouth. Our skin layers are a deposit for waste inflammation toxins. And so, gut health is really the source for healing rosacea, psoriasis, these skin disorders, and so forth. So, I would fast, if you have rosacea, a couple of days, try and go 48 hours, drink plenty of water, and take your vitamins. You don't need digestive enzymes if you're not a blood type A and you're not eating. Then, I would stay out of the showers and facial creams because you want your oil to move in the new layers of skin. And remember, it takes 3 to 4 months for a new layer of skin to grow out from the inside out. And so, you can scrub, you can buy cosmetics, you can put makeup on, you can put antibiotics, steroids on, you can do all this foolishness, but the cause is from within us. So, have patience. Try and eat a one-menu day, and be low carb. Start off with like a two-day fast. And if you do a two-day fast, if you're able to do that, you know, I don't know if you're a diabetic or something, but in general, fasting, you'll even see a decrease in the redness. And then of course, alcohol, you want to avoid, fermented foods, high histaminic foods like aged foods, sauerkraut, aged cheeses, alcohol, wine, the sulfates in them, and so forth. And I would spray Argentyn Silver on my face every night. Stay out of the shower and the bath. Let your face dry and seal up and eat a healthy diet, take some of the systemic enzymes, and that should solve it for you. And let us know how that goes.
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“I am a 53-year-old woman in perimenopause with very low DHEA (75) and was advised to supplement. My mother had estrogen-dominant breast cancer twice. Is DHEA supplement okay with that history and will it create masculine side effects? How would I best raise my DHEA? Thank you & Blessings!” [0:40:27]
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Yes, absolutely. Well, that's why you see a doctor who can check the level and see how you're doing. It will increase your testosterone modestly. But we need our muscle mass. We need that so that we can age and have functionality with aging. So, my DHEA level, I take 50 mg every day and I think it was 170 was the last time I checked it. So, you see, I'm of the opinion hormones don't cause cancer. I'm of the opinion that Dr. Otto Warburg, Dr. Thomas Seyfried, and even Dr. Brown, he was an embryologist. In 1909, he published The Trophoblastic Theory of Cancer. Anyway, all these men were looking at disturbed energy metabolism of the mitochondria, and that is from our environment and our high-carb diet and our clogged capillaries. That's why I love chelation so much. And we don't drink enough water, and we don't take enzymes, or we don't makeup, and then we have all this synthetic fat and trans-fat. You know, the package might say zero trans-fat, but you're being lied to. As long as a serving size doesn't have more than 0. 5 mg, then they can say it's no trans. But you're eating this stuff over and over and over and over and you're getting trans-fats.
So, you have to understand, that we're living in a gotcha environment. If we don't have God in our hearts being a chuck that you have to answer to, you'll sell anything and do anything to make a buck, I guess. And so, it is sad. But getting back to this thing about hormones and cancer and stuff, the mitochondrial metabolic disturbance of our diet is disrupting the cells, and it makes the cell misbehave, you might say, and it reverts to survival, much like when you were a single cell and you had your first 2 cells, 4 cells, 8 cells, 16, 32 cells. When you had no heart or lungs or anything, you were just a blob of cells, it became very difficult for you to get your oxygen and your nutrients, and you needed that blood of the placenta. And so, that low oxygen tension, which we believe is required for the blastula to come down into the uterus, see the uterine lining and attach to it, and then to make the blood vessels grow into the placenta, and then get the feedback once there's enough oxygen, and there's enough nutrients coming, then there's DNA signaling that comes back saying, we don't need to be aggressive anymore, we're getting our oxygen. But we're all living these lifestyles where we're eating so much junk. And so, the mitochondrial metabolic cause of cancer and the trophoblastic theory of cancer, and Otto Warburg's Nobel Prize for the respiratory cycle oxidative stress are right on. And that's why one of the longest-lived glioblastoma multiforme, because he went carnivore, and he beat the odds. So, we can do this, folks.
So, don't worry about DHEA. It's a precursor to help your testosterone. It's a precursor to help your immune system. It's a precursor to help your adrenals and your cortisol, your muscle mass. So, why on earth are we saying hormones cause cancer? They don't. And the fact that a breast cell that was diagnosed with breast cancer has estrogen receptors and progesterone receptors is a good sign. It means that the cell itself isn't so angry, and the type of the cancer isn't so bad.
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“Re-asking my question from last week to provide more clarity. I sort through information I receive from doctors and a lot of cross-referencing on the internet, then give it all to God for His answer. His answer is to simplify my food, and diet, keep exercising and stretching, socialize, keep praying/praising, and don't take any or little supplements. Healthy and 70.” [0:45:48]
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Well, that's a good way to live. We are in a world where the plant kingdom is not producing as much nutrient density in an apple today than it did 50 years ago. We are having our skies pumped full of geo-stratospheric nanoparticulate material to stop the ultraviolet light coming in that would have made our vitamin D. So, we're dealing with some unique problems. But that is indeed taking responsibility. I compliment you.
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“I was recently diagnosed with hormone-positive breast cancer. I had a double mastectomy and now I'm focused on keeping the cancer away. I will not be doing any hormone therapy (like Tamoxifen) but I'm wondering if you have any suggestions on how to naturally reduce estrogen. Any foods or supplements that help aside from diet and exercise? Thanks.” [0:46:56]
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That’s a good sign. You know, it's interesting, in 42 years, and I've known this, I don't know what time I didn't know it, because in 1978 or 1976, somewhere around there, is when I read the textbook by John Beard, his Trophoblastic Theory of Cancer. So, I don't think hormones cause cancer.
Now, let me give you an aside here. I'm a general practitioner, I'm not an oncologist. But in all these decades, I see women being given tamoxifen or anastrozole and other estrogen-blocking materials.
But then I asked the patient, did your oncologist check your estradiol level? And they say, “What? Huh? What? Huh?” And so, here they're giving a medicine and they're not even checking the outcome of the estrogen. And I am biased on this, I admit, because my sister died from breast cancer, my oldest sister, and she was given things like that. And her oncologist didn't check the estradiol or tell her what will raise the estradiol, if you buy into the cause of cancer is from these hormones. Well, so she died of a recurrence of her breast cancer, but my wonderful sister Linda worked so hard as a single mother raising five children, and teaching in the high school Spanish at Lutheran High School. Wonderful, wonderful woman, but she would drink wine at night. Wine will raise your estradiol immensely, any alcohol – beer, wine, mixed drinks, spirits. Why don't the oncologists ever tell you that? Especially if they're going to give you tamoxifen or anastrozole to block it. So, very interesting.
Same for men. If they take all that stuff, the estradiol will stimulate their prostate. I am amazed that these poor doctors don't know these things. And so, we have to love them and help them and share this information because there's plenty of information out there. I mean, I'm 70 now, and so, what was I? 22 when I was in Dr. Harris's biology at Austin Peay State University. Yeah. So, that's 48 years I've known this. It's amazing.
So, you can avoid alcohol if you want to keep your estrogen low. Avoid a high-carb diet because if you eat a lot of starch and grains and oats and stuff in that moist, warm, oxygen-less gut of yours, you will ferment some and make alcohol. That's why God makes, in the liver, alcohol dehydrogenase to help break down the normal dietary exposure we're going to get from some of these greens. Then avoid alcohol, and be on a low-carb diet. And do intermittent fasting, exercise, and check your estradiol levels at least every six months. And I always gave all my breast cancer patients progesterone. I told them to tell their oncologist because progesterone is the natural blocker. for estradiol. So why don't they use that? Oh, that's right. You don't make money on natural things. There you go.
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“Blessings to you, Dr. E.! I use electrolyte powders mixed with water when I sauna, and sometimes when I fast to keep from having leg cramps when I sleep at night. A friend suggested “Snake Juice”. It has 100 mg of magnesium citrate, 1,045 mg of pink Himalayan salt, 1,300 mg of potassium chloride, and 3 mg of boron citrate. Would you recommend it or something else?” [0:51:14]
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Well, you see here, I can't recommend something I don't know. Who knows who's making it, who knows what kind of testing? And they'll never be, unless we get government and bribes and lobbyists out of the scientific, and you know, Centers for Disease Control. I mean, jeez, I don't think they've done very well. Their record is so poor. National Health Services, and Human Health Services, I don't think they've done very well. But I know the individuals who run those, head of the departments of, they always do very well. They get great promotions to, let's see, pharmaceutical company boards and, useless consultant positions in the pinnacle of Harvard or other laudable places. You know, I am very frustrated that we work so hard here to keep our patients healthy. No one passed, from my knowledge here, at all the years from this flu virus that went through the past three years. I kept all my patients well. The obese, the hypertensive, the diabetic, the chronic disease patients. And that is because we do what we do, like what we're doing here.
So, can I endorse “Snake Juice”? I like the name, but I can't endorse it. But the contents, if they're real, are fine. It seems like having that much once a day should be great. But you see, I use Our TLC multimineral that has that in it, and I advise my patients to use a salt that is more natural as a little shake into your water every day.
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“How long is hand, mouth, and foot disease contagious? My granddaughter has it, and she wants to see our new granddaughter’s 2-month-old baby but not sure how long I should wait. Thank you.” [0:54:12]
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Well, that's a virus that’s caused by virus enterococcal virus, I know Coxsackievirus, and you'll get the skin rash usually on the palms, hand, foot, and mouth. Inside the mouth, you'll see these little ulcers and sometimes it's sore and painful on the little child, usually, it's 5 and under, and they won't want to suck their bottle or drink their fluids because it's sore, and they might get a low-grade fever. And as long as the fever is resolved and they're back to drinking and acting normal, 2 to 3 days, they should be fine. So, before you get the fever and the sores, you are contagious. And so, there are people going out there right now, they don't know, and children, because adults can get this too, and they don't know that tomorrow they're going to have the rash and a low-grade temperature. So, that's the catarrhal phase where you're shedding the virus.
But look, I've seen patients for 42 years. You don't think people have been shedding viruses left and right every week of my life on me? And I stay well because I exercise, weight train, drink my water, take my vitamin D, use my systemic enzymes, get a good night's sleep, take my Juice Plus for my vitamin C’s and nutrients. So, typically when the child feels well enough to be drinking their water and there's no fever and they're behaving normally, except they still have the rash, the rash might take a week or two to resolve, they can go out and be around and socialize. That's what I would say there.
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“Hello, Dr. Rita. There are multiple types of magnesium. Which would give the best advantage?” [0:56:20]
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Well, I like amino acid-chelated minerals. So, it would be the Albion. They're the major producer of Nutraceuticals both for my IV department and for our supplements. So, you take an amino acid, like calcium gluconate, calcium citrate, magnesium citrate, magnesium gluconate, and you put it on these molecules like this, instead of salts like magnesium chloride or magnesium oxide – these are not absorbed very well at all. So, that's what I would say there.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! If you get sick with the flu, what can you do other than fast to speed up the recovery? I heard taking L tyrosine and spirulina should help shorten the course. Any thoughts?” [0:06:57]
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You know, we could make an argument that a case for, let's put it, any biochemical entity involved in the cell membrane, the intracellular functions, the respiratory pathway, Krebs cycle. We can make an argument that if you take that supplement, you will enhance your healing. And it would be true, but would it be practical? So, what we're trying to do here is what's practical. So, I've been doing this for 42 years. I'm going to say fasting, rest, and enough sleep will devote all of your circulation and body to working on whatever area you have an illness on.
Now, how long is the fast? You know, 24 hours, maybe at the most 48. If you have to have something, have chicken broth or beef broth. If you feel that you must absolutely have something to eat or you get hungry, a tablespoon of olive oil or cod liver oil because that's rich in vitamin D to help you get through a 24 or 48-hour fast. I'm going to say the most powerful immune supplementations that we've put in our cold pack, every year we have kind of like a discount on a group of three or four items that I use, is vitamin D 50,000 International Units, vitamin D3 50,000 one a day for five days, then a zinc, anywhere between, 20 and 50-milligram tablet daily.
And then taking quercetin. We have it in the form of D-Hist or Seasonal Allergy, and it did come back in, folks. Ortho Molecular had some trouble getting supplies, and now that's back in. Quercetin is an ionophore, and it helps to make an entrance that is a natural entrance through the bilipid cell membrane, okay. The cell membrane, this would be injury from the virus hurting the cell. This would create a natural entrance into the cell membrane to allow the zinc to get through and nutrients to work on the ribosome to stop the viral replication. So, quercetin, like hydroxychloroquine, like ivermectin, these antiviral anti-parasite prescription medicines are used and very safe and effective.
I've had them around ever since my military time on active duty in the 1970s and 80s and 90s. And so, quercetin is a natural ionophore like those. So, we said D, zinc, quercetin. And then I would probably take vitamin C. I would use anywhere from, 1 to 4 grams a day. We do the high-dose vitamin C drip that has this in it, the zinc multimineral in it, and the B vitamins for the stress of the illness. So,vitamin C immune drip is what we call it, 25 grams of vitamin C.
The other thing is I would suggest that by fasting you're avoiding the sugars because sugar depresses the immune system. So, if you're going to eat anything, I would probably eat a roasted chicken or a roasted piece of meat or eggs over easy. That would be my suggestion.
So, Spirulina, I just have never seen in all the years any really good clinical efficacy as it is making the same impact that what I mentioned. Okay, I hope that helps.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Happy Holidays. My husband is sick. Headache, body ache, tired, irritable, clavicle area is sore, neck is sore, maybe the lymph nodes are swollen, sore throat. What can he do?” [0:11:41]
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Well, do all the things I just mentioned. Vitamin D up to 50,000 units a day for five days. Zinc 20-25 mg to 50 mg daily, quercetin, and how much quercetin, the capsules from Seasonal Allergy or D-Hist from Ortho Molecular, they have 200 mg in it. And what research I've seen is about 600 mg is what you need when you're sick. So, I would take three capsules of D-Hist for Seasonal Allergies.
Then you could getArgentyn Silver. Argentyn is a liquid nano-particular, not colloidal, it's more finer, these little tiny silver molecules. They're diffused much more uniformly, 23 parts per billion. And I would take a teaspoon of that, gargle, and swallow it. And I do that four times a day. I would take vitamin C, a gram, 1,000 mg, four times a day. Too much vitamin C could give you some loose stools if you're not used to it. People who are accustomed can take 10-20 grams, but you have to build up to that. And then I would put him on a chicken broth and beef broth fast for a day or two and have him rest. And if of course, he's not doing better, I would have you see the urgent care or the ER or his primary care doctor. Those are the directions that would probably help anybody and that we would suggest.
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“I take levothyroxine and liothyronine in the mornings for hypothyroid. I've been advised by my doctor to take iodine, as I live near Lake Superior. When is the best time to take Iodine? Should I take it in the morning with my meds, or in the evening?” [0:14:02]
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Well, that’s good. See, here's that thing where the doctors are starting to open up and beyond their medical training start to do some homework and get into these other things, Iodine. And I take mine every day.
Well, I would take it in the morning just to make sure you're consistent, you have a pattern. I need a routine every day. I think most people need routine. So, my routine is I take the bulk of my vitamins in a little dish in the morning, and I set out my quart of water that I filter through a Berkey filter. And then I have my cup of coffee. And I don't allow myself to have my coffee until I finish my vitamins. Now, I won't necessarily finish all 64 ounces of water. Then I have my exercise to do. Then I have my Bible reading to do. And then I get dressed and come to work. I don't think I forgot anything. Then I always take it in the morning. It is water soluble, so you can take it that way. You don't have to have food with it. There are a few vitamins that are fat-soluble and are probably better to take with a meal. But I don't have the time to be that organized and spread out. So, I take my vitamin D fat-soluble, my vitamin K2 fat-soluble, my vitamin E, and my vitamin A. All these fat-soluble vitamins, I still take on an empty stomach, and that's just the way it is for me. And better it would be if I took them with food, but it doesn't fit my routine. I don't think it makes that much of a difference.
So, don't add stress to your life. Add routines that work for you. And then your doctor can help work out maybe with some micronutrient testing. I use the SpectraCell. There are others. And they can check levels if you want to see if your routine is serving you well.
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“If I have had to go off hormones because of breast cancer, how do I handle hormone blood tests and the pill that suppresses estrogen?” [0:16:38]
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Alright. So, you had to go off your hormones. I presume you're postmenopausal, and you were on replacement hormones due to breast cancer, and they probably were estrogen and progesterone positive on the pathology workup. So that's a good thing because estrogen-positive and progesterone-positive show that whatever the change in the cell type, it wasn't so angry or morphing into an aggressive cancer that it lost its healthy, normal surface membrane receptors. Okay, it didn't get into this angry cell. So, you'll be off of that. And following your oncologist management, they probably gave you either tamoxifen or anastrozole for blocking that, there are others, and you'll be on that probably about five years.
“How do I handle blood tests?” Well, on the blood tests, I do the blood tests even on my breast cancer patients, which are rare in the history of a general clinic like this. And the reason why I do it on them is because drinking wine and a high-carb diet can make the estrogen go up in a woman. So, here, she's been told to block the estrogen effect, and her oncologist, I don't know of any oncologist yet who has learned or done their homework to see that wine, which is often what women are depressed to lose a breast or have breast cancer diagnosed, and they'll go to drinking wine. And wine is a toxin, alcohol is a toxin, and it will make your estradiol go up. My own dear sister, who is my eldest sister, and remember, the younger sister can never teach the older sister anything. And so, she heard me tell her what to do and then she had her wonderful hardworking, service life, she was a beautiful, wonderful woman, but she was a widow. Tremendous work. She was a teacher at a Lutheran High School, and she worked very hard for those children, but she was depressed, I think, and she drank wine and her cancer came back and her estradiol, without any hormone replacement at her mid-60s, was 179 ng/dL.
That's because she was drinking wine. Because when she came here, when she was first diagnosed, we got her all fixed up and got her to lose weight and exercise, no alcohol, good nutrients, and she was given a hormone blocker by her oncologist, then she had no as measurable estradiol. And I've proven this over decades and decades. So, I do these hormone tests to make sure your lifestyle or what you're eating doesn't have a hidden hormone effect on your body.
So, let them do your estradiol level to make sure that they're checking the estrogen levels that they're trying to suppress. I just don't understand why my oncological colleagues try to suppress something and then they never measure it.
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“Taking Estradiol 0.025 mg patch and blood work is 73 pg/ml and 100 mg progesterone is 3.4 ng/ml. Was told to double progesterone to 200 mg.” [0:20:57]
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That's reasonable because I do like progesterone higher than 4, and you're not far from it. So that's very reasonable.
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“…and blood work went down to 1.5? Thoughts on decline?” [0:21:27]
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Oh, I see. So, you did go up. I don't have an answer for that. Were you using the progesterone as a cream or as a capsule? I presume it's a capsule. You know, we are metabolically all unique, and you need to repeat these tests is what I would say. I would go and stay on the 200 mg and I would recheck it. And we'll probably never know, because I see this happen from time to time, and I never seem to find out why that's happening. I don't know that there's any competitive food item or supplement that blocks the progesterone impact. I just don't have that answer for you. So, just stay the course, see your doctor, and retest it. And if it stays low like that, then maybe you have to change a different format in which you're using it. Maybe we'd go to the cream or a vaginal suppository, something like that.
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“Hello. My rheumatologist is wanting me to change my rheumatoid arthritis medicines from methotrexate (been working well for 20 years) to Enbrel – what are your thoughts and on biologics or a better/safer RA treatment?” [0:22:41]
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I think you had that question here. Yeah, so I see it here on the email. I was diagnosed I tried to stay off meds and, finally had to go on low-dose methotrexate, held for years, and then, you had tendons transplanted, you had some very bad implant, you know, rheumatoid damage on two fingers, okay.
So your doctor insists that you go on Enbrel. Can you share what you know regarding the safe options?
What would I say…I have had many, many patients who have rheumatoid arthritis, and they have come and with working with them over time, and how much time, within 12 months, we have been able to get them off, or taper down over time, their methotrexate, and we never see their sedimentation rate, their other inflammatory markers go up. Enbrel is a TNF alpha, blocker. TNF alpha is a very important cytokine. God didn't put it in us to harm us; God put it there to be on alert like a soldier, a special soldier, in a time of damage. So, if you have cell membrane damage here in your membranes, let's say in your gut, and you're eating something over and over and over, maybe it's a yogurt or maybe it's cookies or it could be anything from good to bad, and you're eating this food, and you don't even know that you're having a low-grade immunological IgG allergy made to that food. Now, I think the doctors are starting to wake up now because we've had so many patients with rheumatoid or other chronic metabolic diseases come off their medicines and do very well.
So, what are my thoughts on Enbrel? I would follow your rheumatologist's advice. I would find a good, functional, medical doctor who will do the complete digestive stool analysis from Doctor's Data in St. Charles, Illinois - Doctor's Data because I have, I don't know, 40-plus years of history with that company.
They know what they're doing. They are the old guard, mature, they've been doing this kind of studies for functional medicine for many decades, and they do a very good job of doing a complete look for inflammation markers in your stool, how good your digestion is, is their inflammation, and, and so forth, and they do genetic testing that's very excellent.
The other thing I would do is an Immuno food allergy test, again by a company that I've been working with for 40 plus years in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, called Immuno Food Panel or Immuno Food, but that's what I call it. I know it's Immuno. I don't know if they have another name. But they're in Fort Lauderdale in Florida. They have been doing this for close to 50 years now, or I think this is their 50th anniversary. They are excellent at looking at things that will inflame your body, and inflame your joints, and you could get anything from these gut scenarios to psychiatric problems, to arthritic problems, to dermatological skin problems, to the autoimmune attack of the thyroid, pancreatic inflammation, glomerular nephritis, kidney problems, on and on. And so, these are good, good companies.
So, find a good functional doctor alongside your rheumatological doctor and have them work together. That's what we call integrative medicine. Doctors like us with a boatload of experience working with our colleagues with their specialties for you, the patient, for the best outcome. That is our total goal. And so, I'm not going to say not to use Enbrel because I don't know you and I am a general practitioner, not a specialist. But I have done this 40-plus years and I have countless numbers of patients who have been able to come off of this. So, I don't know where you live, but you need to find a good one. If you go to ACAM.org. ACAM.org means the American College for the Advancement of Medicine. It is the original blueprint doctor organization that got together in the Great Lakes area. They were originally called the Great Lakes Academy for the Advancement of Medicine (GLACAM). And then they were founded in 1972. And then changed because they grew, because there were so many doctors, like myself, young doctors, saying we're just being taught drugs, imaging, and surgery. We're not learning nutrition. And so, we doctors got together, ACAM, the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, and offshoots of them was a4m, the American Academy for the advancement of medicine, and then what's another offshoot. There were many offshoots, but the founding one was ACAM, GLACAM. ACAM.org, you type that in and then wherever your address zip code is, and you can say a 50-mile, 20-mile, 5-mile radius, fine, see if there's a doctor who has gone there and gotten training, or is in that group of mindset that they're willing to learn because we’re teaching doctors. I have doctors coming here all the time and we're showing them, our doors are open, why they slow me down, but I want to teach I want to share. You know, one day I'll be dead and then what I know will be lost if I don't share it and teach these doctors. So, have them call us and we'll try and get back to them. So, hopefully that helps you.
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“I am using the capsule. I'm asking to redo labs because I thought there was maybe an error?” [0:30:00]
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Yes, that's always a possibility. I run my own lab because I do my research, I do my own publications here, and peer-reviewed journals, and yes, I run my own lab, and I would repeat that for you. Yes.
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“Thank you – I made an appointment with Dr. Johnson here today.” [0:30:24]
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Okay. Praise the Lord. And again, we're all learning. One day, I was like Dr. Johnson, and frankly, to be honest, there was no YouTube, and there was no community thought towards this. I started formally as a doctor practicing this way when I got off of active duty from the military. I came here in 1996, maybe it was, and I started working at Whitaker Wellness Institute, which has now collapsed. I think they haven't been open for about three or four years. And I was like the first few doctors that Julian Whitaker was with, bless his heart, Allan Sosin, Dr. Weissman was there. We three carried most of the work while Julian was doing more teaching and kind of flying around the world trying to get people more interested in this. So, bless his heart. And you have to understand we are all growing. So, every new doctor doing this, compliments them that they're trying. We have our grand rounds here at Tustin Longevity Center every month. All of us doctors get in a big room with a video screen. We have the current patient that we ask, “How would you do this?” And we all put in an input on a patient. Or we'll bring up a scientific article, and each of us brings it in. So, we're all working to raise all of our eight or nine doctors/healthcare providers here. So, if they don't know the answer immediately, give them a month to get their studying done, present your case to the grand rounds we do here, and then be a part of it. I have doctors coming now to our grand rounds just to be a part of it and learn how to do this in a general practice. I'm not a university. I'm not getting money from anyone. I shut everything down. All our income stops. We stop, and on my staff, everything, they do their staff learning, we teach the staff of their front office. If they're phlebotomists, if they're the supply room, we're teaching them separately for their growth while we, doctors, have our grand rounds because we don't put money first here. We put the growth of the patient because medical care, as it should be, because life matters, and where care happens, health happens. That's Tustin Longevity Center.
So, go Dr. Johnson and go, Dr. Patel, PA Patel, and Dr. Gonzalez, PA Gonzalez, and Dr. Kaur, and Dr. Meric, and Dr. Mitchell, and now Dr. Maida and me. I don't know how many that is, or maybe I missed a doctor, but you see, we're all learning.
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“Do you recommend methylene blue to boost mental performance?” [0:34:31]
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That's a good question. There's a lot of literature coming out on methylene blue. And see, that would be a situation where it would go to our grand rounds, and we should bring that up and look for articles on it. Maybe I can do that. We meet on the second Tuesday of every month from noon until 2. So, the second Tuesday of every month is not a good time to come between 12 and 2 because we're all busy trying to improve our game here. Methylene blue. Yeah, there's a lot going on in natural research about the impact. So, I can't speak to that specifically, but I've heard about it, and I'm very interested. So, I will look into that.
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“Amazing! The world needs you and doctors like you!” [0:35:33]
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Well, they're out there. And we're going to find them, and we're going to support them, and we're going to support our patients, and we're all going to do better as we do here. You know, TLC, we thank the Lord, I have so many people hitting 100 years now, and they're 90s, and they're 80s, and they're still working out and playing pickleball, and what a joy it is for me. So that's my pay, that, you know, of course, I need to pay the bills here, especially for a big operation like this. But I tell you, I have so many patients who come in saying successful things. Or this is better, that's better. I can't even remember them individually right at the moment here, nor should I disclose by description because somebody might know someone, and I don't want to identify them. But it is such a joy to come here. It's like family.
Oh, you know, I'm going to also bring this up. For Christmas, we just try and get stuff for the little grandchildren, but I got something for myself. And I got to rescue dogs from Orange County Rescue Center. You know, they'll put them down if somebody doesn't take them. So, I got Milo and Macy. And Macy is maybe a 20-pounder, 25-pounder little Australian sheepdog mix. She is so smart. And then I got a bigger German Shepherd/Labrador combination, who is – you know, there's some cartoon, where there's a smart cat and a dopey dog. The smart cat is always getting the dog in trouble. I remember that when I was a little kid. But anyway, they remind me of that.
So, I have this little kind of garden area all fenced in right next to my office, and I think I'm going to bring my dogs, and they'll be in there and I can have a little bed there in their water bowl, and so they can always be with me. And so, that's what I think. So maybe you'll start seeing Milo and Macy. So, there you go.
You know, remember last year, right around Christmas, Snoopy died, my other dog. I don't know if you remember that picture of my dog Snoopy, and he was so afraid of water. We had to put him in a boat to get him anywhere near water. But we had to put him down. I asked God to keep him alive through Christmas last year. And he made it for two more days after Christmas. So, once I healed from that and my sons, and the husband after that, oh I have the vet right on the other side of the clinic here, and that is Dr. Kavanagh with Saddleback Veterinary Clinic. And, you know, we brought old Snoopy there for he was 16 years old as a Pitbull mix. And he was so amazed at how healthy and long-lived he was. So, all, my whole family went there. You know, adult men, my adult son, Brighton, my adult son, Talon, my husband, myself, all four of us were in there with Little Snoopy, and Dr. Kavanagh saw us all crying, and Dr. Kavanagh got choked up. And the next day, Dr. Kavanagh had his wife or someone, they brought a little thing of flowers to our house in remembrance of little Snoopy. I mean, it's just a dog, one of God's creations. You know, I can tell you how important life is because life matters, especially human beings. We’re made in the image of God. That drives me. That drives me.
So, now, everyone, what I'm saying is I'm trying to re-establish the community doctor who never moves, they stay in the same place, and they're always going to be there. You know them. You know their family, you know their pets, you know whether they go to church or not or you know their moral background, and that's what I want to encourage in life, is to know your doctor and the doctor should know their patients. All right.
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“What are your thoughts on the balance of listening to the Holy Spirit within us speaking to health decisions in combo with contrary medical advice?” [0:40:31]
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Well, I am a Christian and I believe every word of my King James Bible. And I have to say that because I am a Christian, and I think everyone knows I always have my Bible here, so I don't make it a show, but I want people to know me and where my heart is, I have to go with my decisions based on the word of God for everything I do. But I do think God, you know, he talks about Luke, the beloved physician in the Bible, and remember that part about the woman. Oh, let me show you this. I got this picture here from 1 of my patients, and this is the woman with the issue of blood for 12 years, the menopausal/perimenopausal woman, and she's touching the hem of Jesus, and she was healed of her issue of blood. And it says she suffered under physicians and spent all her income without any help and just got worse. And so, someone gave me this picture. It is actually, Mark 5:25-34, catacombs of the Marcellinus and Peter, 4th century A.D. So, there are some tombs where people drew pictures, and biblical stories to remind them, teach their children and heritage. And this is a copy of that picture of the catacombs.
See, what a joy it is to, have my patients know me and it's a blessing to me. So, yes, you have to be who you are. And I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ for it is the power of salvation unto God to all men, both Jew and Greek. And so, that's who I am. I think everyone knows it and I'm not ashamed of it. And that way, people know me, and I live my life, and I love everyone, because God so loved the world, you know, and so I have to love the world, and value life.
So yeah, get your medical advice, share with others, get good counsel, because there's a lot of, you know, cults, and there's a lot of misinformation. And I could go on for hours with 42 years of experience and so forth, but I can tell you, I counted and called on the Holy Spirit when I was a young training medical student, and I almost got kicked out of medical school for taking my stand in a medical situation that would have ended the life of an unborn, and I just wouldn't participate. And so, I was threatened, and that's a hard feeling, but I stood my ground and I said, “God, if you want me to stay and be a doctor, you're going to have to protect me.” And he protected me. So, get good advice from someone who reads their Bible cover to cover, cover to cover. Don't take it from someone who's just studying commentaries. I try to read this just like my medical texts because God is the ultimate healer in my world, and I do believe in the power of prayer and hope, faith, and love. So, that's a hard question. I pray that you get good counsel and someone who is sober and has read cover to cover multiple times their Bible before you take their advice.
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“Christmas Blessings, Dr. Rita! When I apply my estradiol cream (6 mg), I usually put one click on my groin area and another click on my face. Is it okay to put both clicks on my face and neck (instead of my groin area)?” [0:45:15]
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The answer is yes. The absorption is probably higher in the face. So, when you do your every 6-month lab or so, I'll be able to look at where your level is. And then if too much is being absorbed on your face, then I'll have you cut back the dosing on that or something. But yeah, there isn't anything special other than I like it for the collagen/elastin. Now that I'm in my 70s, I've never had any cosmetic surgery. I don't even go to hairdressers. I have so many wonderful patients who are hairstylists, and they're always telling me what to do with myself. And I just let it grow and roll it up. But I do know that estradiol helps avoid with wrinkles. And I had such a long, long history of being a smoker because everyone smoked in the 1960s and 70s when I was in college and high school, and even medical school. And I just thank God I got pregnant finally after 11 years of marriage. I never used birth control. And then I had Talon and that's when I quit. And praise God for that. But yeah, it should be fine if you want to use both on your face. But make sure you keep your appointment and lab and so we can check the levels.
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“Is it okay to fast more than 12 hours prior to a blood draw?” [0:47:01]
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Absolutely! In fact, remember, I always fast, I try to do a 5-day fast from the first of January to the 6th of January, and that's after our New Year's dinner. And so, on the 6th I will try and get a blood test. So, yeah, absolutely you can. If you can handle it, I think that's wonderful. Let your doctor know how long you've been fasting.
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“How can I boost my immune system? I had a baby this past year, and I've been sick multiple times this year.” [0:47:33]
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I would say look at some of the transcripts. We transcribe these. Go back to some of the YouTube videos and go on ourwww.TLCDoctors.com and you can see some of our articles on boosting the immune system. But I'm telling you, we're living in sugars, fruit sugar, drink your sugars in your latte, frothy, smoothies. We're drinking too much sugar, we're getting too much starch, we're getting too many carbohydrates. And sugars always depress the immune system. That's probably the number one thing. And you've got to look really hard in your lifestyle where it's at and where it's sneaking in.
It's not okay, and we don't deserve treats all the time. And I have to tell that to myself too. So, I'm not saying that you are, I'm just saying it's hard to live in America without being pushed by social pressures. Even at church, I'm so sick of going to church Sunday after Sunday and seeing these terrible doughnuts and terrible sugar drinks, orange juice. Oh my goodness, it's terrible. So that's the number one thing I would do.
Now, the other thing is the most nutraceutically researched supplement out there is the Juice Plus. So, for you and for your children, if you take Juice Plus, the fruit and vegetable, you can get it free for a child for 4 years. So, that would be my next suggestion other than lowering the carb, fruit sugar, and starch in your diet and for the children. And remember, all this quick fast pre-made junk food for the kids has all these hidden processed chemicals and starch and fruit sugars. Don't do it.
And then I would certainly make sure that they're getting their vitamin D. Even the infant, a 1-year-old, we start giving vitamin D with a little eyedropper, and you can talk with your pediatrician about the recommended amount of vitamin D by their age and weight as they go but do that. So that'll cover your questions.
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“Is it true that doctors get bonuses from insurance companies for every vaccination they inject? I heard that they did along with things like mammograms, etc., the recommended AMA (American Medical Association) guidelines. Thank you.”
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Unfortunately, medicine has been captured through the lobbyists of the pharmaceutical and the government funding of education in this country. And so, yes, we have been captured. And yes, these financial incentives are corrupting many decisions and recommendations, in my opinion. We have to get paid for what we do. And if you are getting a mammogram, the machine, the time, the space, the rent, the heat, and the electricity all have to be paid for. But as far as vaccinations, I do know that they are and were paid, for the more you vaccinate, the more your remuneration is.
And so, that is why I believe a healthcare provider needs to believe in God. Now, I can't tell anyone who to believe in or what to believe, but if you don't believe, you're going to be held accountable by a superior being than yourself, who is recording every word that proceeds out of your mouth, how you'll be judged by and how you treated people, and how things that were done in the dark will be broadcast from the housetops eventually, that we have accountability. Then I think that person can be persuaded that life is not as valuable and justify taking care of themselves and their own goals rather than, living to serve God and His creation. So, yeah, that happens, and, that's why I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Therefore, it's the power of God unto salvation to all men. So, yeah, that's why I let people know who I am.
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“God's blessing to you, Dr. E! Your former patient (before she moved!) and my daughter is pregnant with her first baby. What do you know about/can you recommend umbilical cord encapsulation?” [0:52:36]
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Yeah, that's a common practice. In fact, the best placentas out there that really are coveted, it's kind of like a cultural thing amongst midwives and some OBGYNs who are nutrition health-minded, they know that the women who take Juice Plus during their pregnancy, their placenta is so healthy, pink, oxygenated and just in a good state of development. That after the placenta is delivered, they box it up and they dry it, dehydrate it, and then they dustify it, and put it into capsules. And so, that's what many of my patients and I would have done had I known about it. You know, all the animal kingdom consumes the placenta as part of nutrition and so forth. So yeah, I'm in favor of that, and I would certainly have her on vitamin D and iodine and Juice Plus and a good multimineral/multivitamin. Not these pharmaceutical prenatal junk things that are called vitamins. Anyway.
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“What do you think a good score should be for testosterone for women in their 50’s, minus 10 ng/dL and free testosterone 1.6 pg/mL? I don't take anything except DHEA which is 302 because I take 10 mg.” [0:54:10]
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I have been doing this for decades. And then when I go back to my memory of doing hormones back in the 80s and 90s, as soon as I got off of active duty, I had more leeway to order more testing. But I even did some testing on active duty. Women and men, your testosterones are falling. Men used to have 1,600, 1,400, and 1,200 on their testosterone levels. Usually, the peak for a man is around October- November. Women have a monthly cycle variation; men have a biannual. But on women, the testosterone levels years and years ago were, oh I would say anywhere between 80 and 150, somewhere in that range, maybe even up to 200. My last testosterone was 170, and I've been on DHEA since I can't, I must have been in the 1990s. Anyway. So, take 50 mg. My DHEA level was somewhere around 800. My testosterone was 170. It helps me with my muscle mass of aging and my weight lifting, and it helps me have all this energy, and it's my engine for burning sugars. So, I think you need more DHEA. I wouldn't be afraid of a DHEA serum level. You know, 5, 6, 7, 800, 900, I wouldn't worry about it.
Now, what are some of the side effects? Acne, I've seen from time to time, rarely, rarely. But I would tell the women to lower their carbs and useArgentyn spray to the face and try and not wash the face so much with soap and get cracks in the face of the skin. So, that's what I would say.
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“Stevia and monk fruit – are these safe?” [0:56:51]
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Yeah. In general, those, along with allulose, monk fruit, and stevia, I think I'm forgetting one. Yeah, I think they're fine. What I tend to say is if you have to follow that sweet tooth, be careful. If you're searching what are safe sweet tasting things, that can be a problem, because there's the psychological part of, even thinking your pre-eating brain can start secreting insulin and digestive enzymes just in anticipation of a meal, and that insulin spike is what we don't want to see, and a high carbohydrate diet does that. So even if you're not doing the carbs but you're always doing sweet-tasting things, you're going to push your pancreas through a psychological/neurological vagus nerve pathway to secrete insulin. And that's where a lot of people have higher insulins than they should probably because of them taking these sugar imitators like that.
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“So you take testosterone as well as DHEA?” [0:58:23]
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No, no I don't. I just take DHEA. And my DHEA gets my testosterone up to the 100 - 170 range all the time. Now, maybe it took some time. I haven't really studied it in that sense. I know there are times when my testosterone was only 40 or 50. But now, after many years on it, yeah, it's in that 170 range.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/natural-remedies-for-sad2023-12-27T07:20:40-08:002023-12-27T07:20:41-08:00Natural Remedies For SADWendy Lewis
If you or someone you know suffers from seasonal affective disorder (SAD), also known as seasonal depression, you may be considering the different treatment options. While there are many treatments available for SAD, including anti-depressant medications and psychotherapy, some may wish to take a more natural approach.
If you are experiencing minor symptoms of SAD, some natural remedies may be able to help. However, if you are experiencing severe symptoms, be sure to contact your doctor or psychiatrist immediately to discuss the best options for you.
In some cases, these remedies may be combined with traditional treatment methods to better improve your symptoms of SAD.
Light therapy is a natural and highly effective, non-invasive treatment for SAD that includes various light temperatures and times of administration. In research, a combination of morning and evening exposure offers the best results. Other natural remedies for SAD include vitamin D, L-tryptophan, St. John’s wort, and melatonin supplementation [1,2].
A deficiency in vitamin D levels is linked with an increased risk of developing depression. Vitamin D levels can be depleted during seasons of decreased daylight hours, such as wintertime. Eating a diet rich in Vitamin D, or supplementing with vitamin D in those who are deficient may help to treat or reduce SAD symptoms [3].
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While it has yet to be proven, many researchers believe SAD may be caused by alterations in certain hormones including melatonin and serotonin. L-tryptophan is an essential precursor to serotonin and some studies have found promise in supplementing L-tryptophan to help with depression symptoms [4].
Additionally, melatonin supplementation may be beneficial to those suffering from SAD, particularly those with winter-pattern seasonal depression due to the alterations in circadian rhythm from changes in daylight hours. While some studies show promise for this, continued research is needed [5,6].
Lastly, St. John’s wort has been tested as a natural remedy for SAD symptoms and may be helpful in boosting mood. However, many of the studies available on this are done with small sample sizes, and further research using larger populations is warranted [7].
If you are considering a natural remedy to help you manage your SAD symptoms, be sure to discuss it with your physician before making any changes. Some supplements may interfere with other medications.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-december-19-20232023-12-21T06:36:59-08:002023-12-21T06:36:59-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, December 19, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“The allergy skin prick test, are they accurate?” [0:02:18]
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Well, we do them here and we consider them accurate. It’s as accurate as the solution is that is given to hold the correct antigen that is just put into the dermis of the skin to see if your body reacts to it in an immediate IgE (not IgG but IgE). Immediate reactions, allergies, and responses are what the skin prick test goes over. Whereas I often use the food immune allergy IgG, which represents Immunoglobulin G, antibodies in your body to foods that have leaked through this membrane of the cell membrane. It’s only one cell membrane thick and then you poke a hole in it, and that's lining your gut. And if you eat the same food over and over and over again, you increase the likelihood of that food antigen leaking through these injuries here, which will make the hole bigger and bigger and bigger, and then you'll get more immune reactions, more gut bloating, more gas, more, abdominal discomfort and side effects, loose stools, constipated stools, all those kind of things.
Now, does the skin allergy prick test work and are they accurate? So, the answer would be yes. And we would say that it all depends on everyone doing their good job. So, if we get good antigens, and there are hundreds of antigens that could be tested when you think of all the pollens, all the weeds, all the leaves of trees, all the food allergies, all the animal hair, dust, dander, fungus. All these things are put in tiny, tiny solution capsules that we are using to create a very little tiny dermal stick and see if you react to it. So, the answer is yes, and it all depends on everyone doing their job and creating the right antigen-antibody responses. And so, I would, I would trust the test for the most part, yes.
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“Dr. Berg (a YouTube doctor. He's a chiropractor) talks about taking 4 grams of Quercetin daily for allergies. Is that too much?” [0:04:54]
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Yes. And 4 grams is 4000 milligrams, and I think that's a large amount. The research studies that I have looked to on Quercetin and why Quercetin, Quercetin acts in a sense like the ivermectin and the hydroxychloroquine. These are in a class of what are called ionophores. Ionophores help make a bridge that is natural and repairable through a membrane to allow zinc from the outside of the cell to go into the cell. And when it's in the cell, where it normally isn't in any high concentration, it inhibits the ribosomes from replicating viral copies. And therefore, if you have a cold, a viral cold, and you're very low on zinc, you'll have a bad time with your cold because you are nutrient-deficient in zinc. So, even if you took the Quercetin and you don't have the zinc, you may have the ability to go through the membrane there to help inhibit that. But if you don't have enough zinc, it's not going to work.
So, what are the readings that I have gone by and have seen clinically actually work? I would say anywhere from 400 milligrams, or a half of a gram, up to 1 gram. So, I typically, when I'm on D-Hist or it's called our seasonal allergies, that's an Ortho Molecular product and I, value the quality and service and reliability of Ortho Molecular for my patients and myself. There are 200 milligrams in each D-Hist capsule, and I take two minimum every day because I'm seeing patients every day. And now that I've hit my 70s, I'm in an older and weaker state of being, and I need to make sure that I don't succumb to their sneezes or coughs or germs. So that's what I do, I take 400 mg, and it has served me throughout the entire time of what was alleged to be a pandemic of this COVID. I personally think it was the flu that was manipulated, but that's my opinion from all the science and stuff because it didn't have any effect on my thousands of patients here other than a flu season that we get every year and that I've gone through for 43 to 45 years of my clinical experience. All right. So, that is my suggestion, and I think 4 grams is too much.
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“Any advice for binge eating issues?” [0:08:06]
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Well, binge eating is driven very much from a biochemical point of view by carbohydrate impact on the pancreas producing a lot of insulin. And so, that insulin is a drive to bring down any sugar. And then that drop in sugar then creates a drop in your energy and mood. And so, you physiologically eat more carbs, which will make you shoot out more insulin to bring down the carbohydrates. So, the actual mechanics is a Catch-22, the more you eat, especially the starch, carbs, or fruit sugars, the more you'll make the insulin. The more you make the insulin, the more it'll try to bring down the sugars, which will drop your sugar until it's not doing it so well, and then you start building up sugar, and then you get more depressed. And then there's the emotional component to it. There's the dopaminergic response in your brain, so that when you get this taste, and even the psychological aspect of anticipating eating something, this will stimulate your brain dopaminergic cells in anticipation, and there will be this gratification and high, and this can become an addicting behavior. So, binge eating is usually limited because of the volume of your stomach. So, if you're an early binge eater, your stomach will only be about the size of a fist. If you work and work and work it, you can really expand your stomach so that you can eat larger and larger engorgements, and you'll binge more often and longer and more seriously.
So, what can we do about this? Any advice for binge eating issues? And that is fat. Fat will satiate a person. If you took some extra virgin olive oil and you took a tablespoon of it, even a teaspoon, that will turn down your drive and hunger. So, fat is satiating, and it becomes repulsive to eat if you have fat in your diet, and then the feedback will be, I'm full, I can't eat anymore. So, I would have a tablespoon of olive oil, or you could even carry around a small bottle in your purse. So, if you're going to go out to eat or to a party, have a big tablespoon of olive oil half an hour before, and you will certainly have fewer cravings. So that would be my simple answer for that.
And then reading your Bible and realizing we're not here to please ourselves. We were created to be of service to others and to serve our Lord. If you put these things around and you put them around you like a guard, there's actual, is it a Proverb or a Psalm that says put a guard at my mouth, that I don't sin against You. Because if you're a Christian like me, one of our beliefs is that our body is the location for the Holy Spirit to work with and through indwelling us. And so, our body is a temple for God. I take these things for myself, literally. I will never say I'm perfect because we're all imperfect and have fallen short, and we will make mistakes over and over. But in general, I try and stay in the Word of God and remind myself, that I'm not here to please myself, and I am here to bring him pleasure and to help his wonderful creation.
So, those are the ways I deal with it.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! What can cause a wet sensation on the sole of the foot? Also the glutes, hamstring, and calf sore. Could it be the sciatic nerve?” [0:13:00]
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Well, yes, it sounds like you're having what we call paresthesias. This is an altered nerve sensation. So, whenever there's an impinged nerve or damage to the sheath lining the nerve, then it could be a pinched sciatic nerve and very early signs could be these funny, tingling, warm feeling, cold feeling sensations for you, you're describing a wet sensation. So, I would see your doctor and address that, but yes, that can be nerve sheath damage and irritation to it.
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“I am 58. I had a colonoscopy at 50 and 55 and both times they found benign polyps. The doctor advised me more fiber in my diet. What do you recommend as I am eating low carb.” [0:14:08]
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Well, that's a basic knee-jerk response that had been a part of the old doctor training for decades and decades and decades. The science and arguments that fiber is the solution is not the solution. Something is irritating the lining of your colon, such that it is trying to heal itself, and when it tries to bring in new cells and heal itself at irritated areas, it develops into a polyp. So, this is chronic inflammation. And what you want to do is you want to have a lining of the cell membrane. This is a picture of a cell membrane here, and it's a double layer like this of phospholipids, and this is just the layer of one side of the cell. The cell would go all the way around like that. And you're made of 50 or 100 trillion cells. So, in order to make the cells lining your colon healthier, they need to have the construction materials to repair them, just like you have to have shingles for your roof and paint for your house, so it doesn't warp in the sun. That constant irritation of the ultraviolet light of the sun is irritating and drying up and curling up your shingles. So, you have to replace the shingle with a shingle, the paint on the house with paint. Well, what you replace in a human body for the lining of any cell membrane are fats and proteins, phospholipids. And that's why we say eating a lot of healthy – when I talk about these things, I'm always trying to talk about organic free-range, wild-caught prairie-raised animals, beef, poultry, wild-caught fish, prairie-raised pork. You know, all this kind of stuff is rich in phospholipids that repair the damage in any cell membrane. So that those who eat a richer healthy protein, fat, cholesterol-rich diet that has the essential fats linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid, the only two that are not EPA and DHA. You have to understand you're being deceived by EPA and DHA. They are not essential. Again, they are not essential because if you have linoleic and alpha-linoleic acid, the only two essential fatty acids that have to go into this membrane to keep it intact, then they can make all the EPA and DHA you need.
Now, for the colon, if you're eating meats or on a carnivore diet, plenty of chicken with the skin on it, roasted, and not this deep-fried, junk processed food. I'm talking about a healthy roasted chicken, a healthy roasted chuck roast, a healthy roasted piece of salmon, or whatever you're going to be making, then your body can assimilate it and it can repair all these things, so you don't grow a polyp there. Because the body is going to try and try and repair injuries to the cell membrane. But if you're not eating this stuff or you're eating junk food, you're going to be in a state. And not even purposely just junk food. Just not eating enough healthy proteins and fats will disallow you from healing well.
So, we make the phospholipid powder. And then I have somewhat exciting news. Now, you don't count your chickens before they're hatched, or your eggs, or I don't know how that proverb goes. But our Doctor's Great Bars are now finally done and our first, our very first run, our pilot run, for about 1,600 bars was finished this week, or about last week. And so, we should get a certificate of analysis, getting that certificate of analysis, and then we'll get them and taste them and make sure they taste the way we had expected. They're made of these rich phospholipids that make this stuff up. That's why we created the bar because a lot of people just will not eat enough healthy fish, turkey, chicken, beef, eggs, and egg yolks. Now, they're made largely, these bars, from the phospholipids that are in this item here.
These are the same thing (BioPC Pro and Phospholipids). This is my private label (Phospholipids) and this is the commercial label Ortho Molecular (BioPC Pro). They're identical. And this has the phospholipids in it. You take a scoop of this and then you put it in some warm water, just like you're going to make a baby bottle for a baby to drink. And I usually add Ortho Molecular's SBI Protect because it has some extra immunoglobulins to protect the immune system inside your gut from harming these areas as well. And then I had mentioned about linoleic and alpha-linoleic acid, the only two essential fats. That's usually what I take. And then we always give our probiotic of some sort.
So, again and again, I have my patients come back, and I don't want to ever say all in medicine, but I have never seen such healing in my life with – if you're not going to eat the meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef and eggs, then take a drink of this mixture, putting them all together, the probiotic with the SBI with the phospholipid powder and some warm water and drink it once or twice a day and you'll watch, and they have their gas, their bloating, their diarrhea, their Crohn's, their ulcerative colitis all calm down. It's just fabulous and I'm so thankful to our Lord for showing this to us, so we could create these bars and these powders to help humanity. All right. Hopefully, that will help you.
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“Struggling with histamine intolerance, don't consume any alcohol or sweets, aged foods. Even bone broth gives me pressure in my ears. Not sure what diet to follow.” [0:21:13]
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Well, then just be a carnivore. That is the purest thing to do. Do it for 3 to 6 months until the entire system cools down and see how you do it that way.
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“I am 56 and just had my yearly checkup and my creatinine was 1.10 mg/dL and my estimated GFR was 59. What can I do to improve these numbers? My blood type is AB-positive. Doctor wants me to retest these two in January.” [0:21:41]
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Well, number one, they wouldn't concern me. I've been doing this for so long. When I was a young doctor in the late 1970s, the creatinines on our lab references that were in the normal ranges had a creatinine up to 1. 6 or 1. 7, so I am not worried about a 1. 1. Now, if you were my patient and I knew you personally, every time you saw me, I'm asking you how much water you drink every day. I'm asking if you're keeping your carbohydrates down because hyperglycemia damages the glomeruli in the kidneys. These delicate membranes are damaged by higher blood sugars. And then I tell people to do EDTA chelation. Dr. Lee is a scientist who has published on end-stage kidney failure, stage 4, 3, 2, and 1, and he was able to show, the stopping of the progression of kidney breakdown and failure with Calcium Disodium EDTA chelation IVs. So, that's what I would do and live a healthy life.
Anyway, I don't live in the confines of reference ranges. I use my 42 years of experience, the personal patient-doctor relationship who you uniquely are, I work on your lifestyle, I do EDTA chelation, and there isn't a single time that I haven't seen these things keep people healthier longer. I've had people with creatinine 5. 7 and they've improved. I've gotten them down to a 2 with EDTA chelation and these healthy lifestyles.
Remember, your kidney is made up, every cell in your body is made up of this. That's why I bring it up all the time, healthy fats, healthy proteins.
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“Hi sister, Here is the joke for Tuesday: How does the receptionist in a urology department answer the phone? Urology office, can you hold?” [0:24:12]
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“Urology office, can you hold?” Very good. So, if you have bladder problems and you're going to your urologist, and you can't hold your pee, especially if you're getting older, if you laugh and joke and you leak a little, and then you go call your urologist, they say, urology, can you hold? Alright. Thank you.
What was last week's joke? That was even funnier. I thought that was really cute. Put up last week's joke if you can remember it.
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“How does “refeeding syndrome” develop?” [0:25:14]
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I'm not sure I know what that means. I don't have another computer, I only have this one, so I can't check that. I don't know. Got me on that one.
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“What would be upper daily limit for copper supplement?” [0:25:43]
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I think 1 milligram.
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“Hello, doctor. Do you recommend taking progesterone for the full month with no breaks? Sorry if you have already answered these questions in previous sessions.” [0:25:53]
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That's fine. I personally, at 70, use my progesterone half a month. It's the first through the 15th of the month for me. And I use my estradiol every single day. I use it in the cream form, one click a day, and I apply it to my face. So, it helps with the elastin collagen, so I don't wrinkle as much. And the progesterone I use also as a cream, and I rub that on the insides of my wrists where my blood vessels are close, and I use two clicks to four clicks every day, the first through the 15th. And that way, somewhere around the 15th, 16th, or 17th of every month, if I'm going to menstruate, it'll be a very light day pad and very light, and that way I know I'm normal and my uterus is responding normally.
Now, is it wrong to use progesterone every single day? No, it's not. If a woman does not want to have any menstrual cycle, that's what she'll choose to do, which is to be on it continuously. But if she's a normal woman with a normal uterus, eventually that uterus may build up a little bit to have some breakthrough at a time to shed what little buildup of the lining has accumulated. And then everyone gets worried because she's postmenopausal with an unexpected vaginal bleed, and then she has to go through an endometrial biopsy and pelvic ultrasound with a gynecologist to make sure that that is not a cancerous type of bleed. Therefore, I never worry about it because as long as it's regular and it shows up at the end of my progesterone typically, then I know I created it, it's a normal uterus, and it's responding typically. But either way is fine.
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“Have you looked into peptide therapy to regulate the immune system regarding autoimmune disease and inflammation? You had mentioned it was something that was of interest.” [0:27:57]
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Yes. The answer is I am actively involved in peptide therapy. It is a growing field. These peptides, which are very short strands of amino acids, and there are many combinations of them, you have 22 amino acids, and 9 of them are essential. And so, the arrangement of them and the length of the chain, they work as like signaling and helping to stimulate stem cells, that's our understanding. So, I'm all in favor of it and I'm continuing to try and get more and more involved.
But once again, the person who stays away from a high-carb diet, who exercises regularly, both strength and aerobic, who drinks enough water, takes basic healthy nutrients, vitamin D, a good multimineral, a methylated B complex, maybe iodine, and the essential fats, linoleic and alpha-linoleic acid, these are the people who, if they eat a rich, healthy protein diet or are more carnivore like and do not eat late and do intermittent fasting, these are the ones that are going to have a lot of amino acids available from the meat, the fish, the chicken, the turkey, the beef, the eggs and the eggs’ yolks to do stimulation and building up of their muscles or their skin or repair nerve tissue, all these wonderful things. So, just by default, God doesn't expect us to have to study every single thing as an individual. He just gave us wonderful, healthy foods, not these processed fake foods. So, if you're humble in your diet and eating those things, you should have enough.
Now, I would say if you're a blood type A, you would need an ortho digestive enzyme. And if you're over 55, you probably need ortho digestive enzyme, which I just took before I came on tonight because I had finished my dinner. And so, sometimes I pause because I feel like I don't want to burp on live YouTube town. But that's an important field of interest, but it just is confirming that we should be eating the healthy protein diets, rich in the healthy natural fats.
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“Is it likely an IV vitamin C infusion could help me recover faster from a cold or just increase my oral intake? I take 1 gram daily and I need to increase Quercetin also. It's a 30-minute drive for me.” [0:30:55]
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Indeed, I would say a high dose of vitamin C. There's no way you could build up your vitamin C level, it’s antiviral, it’s antioxidant, it’s a toxin-removing impact with 1 gram versus getting right into your blood with 25 grams. So, hands down. Yes, it's much, much better.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you know of any good natural oil or moisturizer for the face that works well with oily skin and does not cause breakouts? Thank you for all your great help!” [0:31:41]
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Well, you may not be happy with my answer because I'm going to say I prefer for oily skin on the face to do nothing – meaning, I wouldn't shower a lot, I wouldn't get soap on my face. God made natural oils in our skin to seal and create a beautiful keratin layer over us, to defend us, and to keep our moisture in. Now, that oil can be excessive if we have internal stressors in our body, higher carbs, not enough water, and not enough exercise. If there are a lot of irritants on our skin, the body tends to secrete out to try and displace them away from us. The only thing I would use is just to try and stay out of a soapy shower as much as you can and just spongebash your armpits and groin and feet. And there's the Argentyn silver spray that you can spray to keep any bacterial count down. There is no one oil that I consider a good moisturizer other than the one that is designed for the human body and that's linoleic alpha-linolenic acid, which is the liquid form. It's the oil form of this (Clinician’s Preference Oils). And if I moisturize with it, I use that personally, if I have an itchy area on my skin. And then the winter, we all get itchier and drier and everything. And so, I try and use only the oils and the natural things we are made of. So, hopefully, that's some help.
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“Refeeding syndrome is when the sudden increase in nutrients causes an electrolyte imbalance in the body, leading to cardiac arrest.” [0:34:05]
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Well, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, and indeed, taking in nutrients means taking in potassium and sodium and chloride and magnesium and so forth. And the delicate response from outside to inside a cell membrane is regulated by receptors very aggressively within the cell membrane, so there isn't a rush of sodium or calcium out either way. For if that rush occurs, it will depolarize or shut the electricity off, and the cell will die. It'll stop having electrochemical impulses. But I don't know the background of refeeding syndrome (when a sudden increase in nutrients causes an electrolyte imbalance).
Well, one of the things, what we do in our nutrient IV is we do osmolality and we're very precise in the nutrients that we give and the rate at which we give them so that the nutrients that go in on an intravenous feed are very stabilized and monitored. That's why we have us as doctors and our nurses there. Extremely safe. I've been around this for, I think I was 7 years old when I saw my grandfather get chelated, and I'm 70 now. So, 63 years. So, in 63 years, with millions of them being done every year and all these rehydration rooms, it's very safe with the nutrients we give. But there has to be some abnormal situation in reef feeding syndrome. I am going to have to make a note to myself because you've tweaked my inquisitive brain on refeeding syndrome and cardiac arrest. Well, hopefully, I'll be more informed next time about exactly what you're talking about.
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“After a prolonged fast.” [00:36:39]
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Oh, after a prolonged fast. I see. So, he's saying in the situation after a prolonged fast. Now, some people would say a prolonged fast is they can't make it 18 hours without eating. I think what you're talking about is something hypothetical and extremely unlikely that someone would go 7 days or 2 weeks or 21 or 30 days without eating, without being monitored. Absolutely. So, that is why when you see on the YouTube some of these stories about people who don't eat for a month and they just take vitamins and minerals and they're monitored by the doctor, that's exactly why they are avoiding this refeeding syndrome, when you start to re-eat after a very prolonged fast or a very stressful period of fasting so that you just don't feed them ice cream cone and a steak after 3 weeks of no eating.
Yeah, and that's true, and that can happen. It's extremely rare though, but the doctor would be able to monitor the patient and their comorbidities, and any risk that they have. Yeah.
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“Are the optimal ranges for vitamin D the same for an 87-year-old woman? (80-120) Or are they lower? My mom takes 5,000 IU of vitamin D daily. Her vitamin D is at 80 ng/ml. Her physician is very alarmed about her having vitamin D toxicity and told her to stop taking the vitamin D daily and go down to 2,000 IU once a week. What do you think? Thank you.” [0:38:04]
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Well, I think 80 is a wonderful level and I aim to get all my patients at it, including my 100-year-olds, my, 90-year-olds, my 80-year-olds, my 70-year-olds, including myself. We have ranged anywhere from, you know, I saw 14 today on a gentleman, his vitamin D, and I saw 150 yesterday, and they were all well managed by the patient. What you have to do is ask the question, what is vitamin D toxicity? What is vitamin D toxicity? Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin. And if there is too much, you start seeing liver enzymes go up, the liver enzymes start to climb. And if you do a routine comprehensive chemistry for the AST, the ALT, the LDH, SGOT, and SGPT are the former names for that, GGTP, these all are indicators of something irritating the liver. It could be the D, it may not be, but that's what you look for.
And so that's why I do a comprehensive chemistry every 6 months on my patients, because I have all my patients, including myself, anywhere between 5000 to 20,000 IU a day. I've been doing this for, at least at this location, 23 years. And so, we have not seen this vitamin D toxicity. I've only seen one case in my life of 43 years and the patient was taking other items and doing other personal healthcare, things that I think aggravated this. But I've seen it once in my lifetime. I've been using this on my patients for 23 years here. 40-plus years as a doctor, I've never seen it.
Now, liver enzymes will go up. Calcium levels are also found in that comprehensive chemistry. And if I see calcium levels that are elevated, because that's what it will do, very elevated, I mean minor elevations can be just normal physiological shiftings and you just follow through. So, a good doctor will just do a comprehensive chemistry to check your calcium, your liver enzymes, and watch your vitamin D level, and find out if that's a good dose for you because it'll help her bones, it'll help her immune system, it'll help her mood. And so, I think 80 is wonderful. But I don't know your mother, and she may have some other unique comorbidities I don't know about, but just have her comprehensive chemistry checked for sure, and do that to see…If it's normal, then maybe wait 2 to 3 months and do it one more time. And if it's stable over 2 to 3 months on her 5,000 units a day, then don't worry about it. Just check it every six months. That's how I would handle a situation like that.
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“What is the reasoning for choosing NP Thyroid versus levothyroxine? Are these medications a lifetime commitment?” [0:41:52]
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They're not necessarily a lifetime commitment. Sometimes we get into some low-grade thyroiditis, inflammation of the thyroid gland, from viral illnesses. More often we get it from food intolerances and gut inflammation that is associated with irritating our body inflammation and our thyroid. And then when it is irritated, typically you get hyperactive. And then when that comes down, sometimes it over-corrects and you get hypothyroid. So, it might be helpful to use some natural thyroid.
Now, levothyroxine is essentially a free T4. And free T4 is a precursor. Your body has to take a T4 and convert it into the active form of the free T3. And usually, this is done in an okay fashion. But there are enough people out there that have difficulty with fatigue, constipation, and hair loss and dry skin, and so forth. So, giving them an NP Thyroid whole glandular that has T3, T4, and T2 in it, these makes it easier for their body to absorb and get the benefits. And that's the main reason why I use a whole glandular rather than an extract of just T4. And it depends on the patient, their situation, their diet, and their lifestyle, as to whether it's going to be lifetime use or not. I would say more than often people tend to stay on it, but I often will try coming off of it with my patients. So, there you go.
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“Which is more effective at getting vitamin C to the tissues? A 50-mg vitamin C IV after EDTA chelation or a 100-mg vitamin C IV?” [0:43:48]
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Well, I'm going to say the 100 just by mass action. I mean the number of ascorbic acid molecules by mass action will penetrate much deeper. And I see, you're informed by understanding EDTA, will open up the micro-circulation so that the C can dive in and penetrate better. But yeah, the 100 mg is better.
Now, the question is, do you need it? So, where do we get the money for doing research on whether it's a 50 or 100 or 75-gram or any individuation in between? So, you just wind up being stuck with old clinicians, like myself, who have seen this for decades and decades and decades and just tend to see that there's a range of safe and effective areas and that's usually how we come up with it. Now, it'd be wonderful to get financing for doing studies like this. We have thousands of patients. We could come out with studies left and right all the time if someone would help us, but we can't finance these studies ourselves. And that's the best answer I can give you, but I have seen tremendous, decades and decades and decades and decades worth of tremendous health benefits from the 50-gram vitamin C.
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“Doctor E, I'm 60 years old, in good health with type AB+ blood. Is it safe to donate plasma blood? How often can I donate, and will it affect my immune system? How fast would I regenerate my plasma cells back? Thank you for doing this all for us. I listen to you every week and have learned so much. Merry Christmas. God bless.” [0:45:24]
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Thank you. I'm not an expert on plasma donations, but what I remember is mostly from my military years, where we had all these military men, and The Red Cross would come by for drives and get the blood types and fill up the banks and plasma. So, I'm dealing from memory mostly with healthy young men. I don't know that they're so healthy today, we're talking 40 years ago, but those men at that time were giving plasma about every 4 to 6 weeks, and it seemed to not affect their performance or anything. So, that's my recollection, and that's perfectly what I think is probably in the realm of a doable situation. Of course, you have to drink your water, eat a good, rich, healthy protein diet, exercise, get a good night's sleep, those kind of things, and not have any bad, illness that would be consuming your protein up, but that would be my best suggestion.
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“I have heard a lot about Brown's Gas for lung health. I have COPD. Are you able to comment on it? Thanks.” [0:46:52]
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I think Brown's Gas, that is I think where you take oxygen and use electrodes to separate the hydrogen and you get separate hydrogen ions and oxygen. And that then being inhaled, the hydrogen is a proton. Protons are usually very beneficial. Whereas electrons tend to need to be discharged. You've heard of grounding, where you go step on the wet grass or go to the ocean, salty water, and you put your feet in the water for grounding, and you discharge your negative electrons there. Positive ions are even harder to get. And so, hydrogen ion is a good general thing. It's an electron stabilizer, you might say. And so, I believe Brown's Gas is just this form of electrode production. People do this in their homes, I think, I don't recommend that though, where they use these electrodes to separate the water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Now, do I recommend it? I don't use it. I don't recommend it. Have I studied it enough to make that a definitive statement? No, I haven't. There are other things, lots of things you can do with COPD outside of trying to do some exotic exogenous inhalation of gases, whether it be these oxygen generators or hydrogen generators. But see a good functional medicine and they can tell you about all the various things we can do.
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“What do you recommend for fibromyalgia? I watch my diet and avoid dairy and gluten and items on my food sensitivity test. The flare-ups can get really bad at times. Is there anything to at least help with severe pain, when there are really bad flare-ups? Thank you.” [0:49:02]
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I believe if you're doing all those good things, drinking your water, keeping your carbs low, taking systemic enzymes as anti-inflammatory. I would do EDTA chelation therapy to improve microcirculation because I believe fibromyalgia is basically short of…let's see, will I say it? I'll go ahead and say it. I think fibromyalgia is like a pre-cancerous situation in the sense that it's a mitochondrial disease. The mitochondria are not working efficiently to produce the energy for the cells, and so then the cells ache all over. The barometric pressure can change this, pollens can change it, your mood, your family situation, travel, not getting enough sleep, having some food contaminant, and various things can upset the mitochondria. Therefore, if you do EDTA chelation and then follow it with the vitamin C 25 or 50 grams, or do oxygen therapy, ozone oxygenation, so we're killing off viruses as if they're killing off probable parasites, fungi, and that’s the direction I would aim for that. That's what I would tell you to do.
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“I am an A+ blood type and internet says I should avoid meat.” [0:50:59]
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Number one recommendation. Don't get your information from the internet, and that includes me too. Find a doctor that is you've looked to see what kind of volume of functional medicine knowledge they have because just you have to have someone personally committed to telling you the right thing and do a follow-up to see if these are working and they're safe. Just being on the internet and telling, spitting things out, you can do that all day long, but I'm sitting here 43 years doing this now, every day seeing patients.
And what am I finding? I'm finding that A-type blood people, all they need is digestive enzymes and then they can enjoy their meat, their fish, their chicken, their turkey, their beef, all these wonderful things.
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“I take digestive enzymes and feel I digest organic beef and lamb better than salmon and chicken. Friends also tell me eating meat is highly acidic. Your thoughts please.” [0:51:57]
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This is all mythology. So, it’s mythological to say eating this healthy stuff that we're made of is going to kill you being acidic. No. Maldigestion is what creates the problem. High carbohydrates, they are proven to be acidic. There's too much bias, there's too much politics in medicine. And so, I think the people who are anti-beef, they're going to claim it's acidic, don't do it; and the people who are, you know, there's just corruption everywhere. There are people saying go carnivore, and maybe they're just doing it for click and bait and make money on the internet. I don't make any money on this. I just do this as a service. But I'm telling you, you're made of meat, and you're made of protein and fat, and you need these things. So, please work with someone who can talk with you personally, know your situation, do some unique tests of your body, and give you personal advice.
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“We are thinking about buying an electric car, but I'm concerned about the (EMF) Electromagnetic Frequency radiation. Can you advise? Thank you.” [0:53:25]
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Basically, I am not for electric cars because I'm aware of all the coal and oil that's needed for producing the batteries, and there's no net carbon saving with an electric car. It's a new technology. And then you think of all the children and slave countries that hide the slavery they do to these kids, picking out these rare earth molecules. It's a slave situation. The poor kids are abused. I don't like it.
Now, as far as medically, I would not want my grandchildren sitting in the backseat of a car that has a big battery right behind them. No way. And then accidents with electric cars, there seem to be these massive explosions of these batteries, so that, you know, yes, you could have a gasoline explosion, but to some degree, if they can use the fire extinguisher and the truck to get there, and for the most part, I think I'm just speaking in general, as any common person might notice, you don't see cars explode when they're hit because they work very hard to keep the gas and the impact and explosion separated. When we were flying on helicopters, when I was a flight surgeon, there were all kinds of science and research about where the gasoline was for the helicopter and the tubing and how to really decrease the explosion of air-fuel on impact. And so, no, that is far less than what we're starting to see with these accidents. I'm not talking about a little fender bender. I'm talking about a big rear-end or a big front-end collision with these electric cars in there. These explosions are absolutely incredible. And God help you if you were unconscious, you know, and then you were stuck in this incinerating car.
So, that's my thoughts on the electromagnetic frequency radiation. No bueno. It's not good,
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Can you tell us what are the effects of short-term use of prednisone and what we should do afterward to repair our system? Thank you.” [0:55:56]
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I don't think there's any big harm to a short-term use of prednisone. There's a prednisone pack, usually, you see these little 4-mg capsules and you take them in this pack over a 4 or 5-day period of time. I just don't think there's enough concern about damage. Yes, they're immunosuppressive. And so, if you have a weak immune system, you'd be at some kind of a risk, depending on your clinical situation. But for the average American, average adult, anyone, not just Americans, but most people in general who don't have any serious medical problems, I don't think it is a problem. And if you just get a good night's sleep and exercise and eat your protein and healthy fats and avoid the sugars, you will help, you could take DHEA, which is a precursor for your own cortisol to help your adrenal glands with the stress of a steroid supplement like prednisone. Yeah, but I think it's a small thing for the short burst of exposure.
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“Hi, Dr. E. I'm Dr. Mitchell's patient. Last week someone asked about relief for body rashes. I would like to share my positive experience with a homeopathic product by Boericke & Travel called Florasome Cream. I've used this when necessary over the past 20 years. It relieves discomfort from itching, eczema, inflammation, and rashes. Hope it helps!” [0:57:21]
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Well, I'm not familiar with that. I hope it does. I don't know what's in the homeopathics, but I did a second doctorate in integrative medicine and was taught about homeopathy for a few years, and I had all the books on it, and I was impressed with the results of it. So, I'm in favor of homeopathy. I don't know this particular product by & Travel called Florasome Cream, but it's interesting. And the whole world is interesting to me, and so I'll just enjoy being alive and studying until the day I die, I guess, and we'll try and look that up a little bit. Thank you for the suggestion.
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“Good evening, Dr. Ellithorpe. What are your thoughts on hydrogen water? I've been seeing a lot of the benefits of it. What are your thoughts? Thank you and Merry Christmas.” [0:58:37]
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Well, yes, I'm in favor of hydrogen water. In fact, one of my colleagues, Robert Settineri, who is one of our science officers who helped us develop the Doctor's Bar, wrote a book, and it’s How Healthier, Better, and Longer. Discover the Health and Giving Wonders of Hydrogen by Bob Settineri, Masters of Science. And so, we have this book here. We have a bunch of them right here. Yes, and I helped review the book. It's very good. So, that’s hydrogen water.
Now, the one I use is Izumio. That's a product that is promoted. I think it has the most credible research on it. Izumio. Yes, I'm very much in favor of it. That extra proton is wonderful.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My mom is on dialysis right now for stage 5 kidney failure. Is there a better diet for her to be able to reverse it?” [1:00:32]
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She needs to be under the care of her specialist and discuss it because stage 5 is very serious. You need to find a good functional doctor, read what has been done, and look for the cause. And then work with a nephrologist together about maybe using EDTA chelation therapy, a very low dose at first, over a progression. Get some of the research on Dr. Lee. I can't get the article. I know what paper it’s in, but you would have to call the front office here at (714) 544-1521. Ask for my nurse, Terry, and say you were on the YouTube, and what is the name and the paper publications. He's done many studies on chelation and end-stage kidney failure right now, even on dialysis patients. And so, maybe we can get that paper to you.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! I'm a veterinarian, and in our field, we see “refeeding syndrome” often when starved/emaciated dogs and cats that are fed calories too rapidly upon intake, to the shelter/hospitals. They are often emaciated/starved to predispose them. We take precautions and start to provide calories at extremely small portions and build them up to the desired daily intake over several days.” [1:01:44]
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Absolutely. Yes. Thank you. And you know, it's always impressed me, that you have so many animals to study. I've always been under the impression, it's much harder to get into a veterinarian school than it is medical school. So, good for you. Kudos to you on “refeeding syndrome”. Yes. But once again, I think this doesn't, you know, the concept of that is for the severe, nearly pre-death stage. So, it almost throws them into such a physiologic shutdown, that to coax them away from the door of death, you have to be very careful.
So, I think regarding that person's question about “refeeding syndrome”, this would frighten most people from ever doing any healthy intermittent fasting or prolonged fasting. And when we say prolonged here, we typically are talking about 48-72 hours. I do a 5-day fast, but it took me years to build up to that. So, that's how we do it. And I'm coming up to my next 5-day fast pretty soon because I do it from January 1st to the 5th to kind of clean up after any holiday treats I’ve had.
Thank you, Dr Wilson. Glad to see you here. Welcome.
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“Hi, Dr Rita. How would you treat psoriasis?” [1:03:42]
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Oh, that's a long, long answer. Basically, we believe it's a gut-related damage scenario that creates an autoimmune response that manifests in the skin. So, I would see a good, healthy, functional medicine doctor who will start working on gut health and food elimination.
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“Not sure what happened to my question…asking for a male friend. His total testosterone is a low 250. Is having cognitive processing issues. Would bio-identical testosterone and EDTA help him?” [1:04:14]
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Absolutely. Now, I don't know him, there could be many other co-factors going on, but in general, most of our older men here, my husband including, are doing chelation on their testosterone. And he's in his mid, going to his later 70s, and still working fabulously, and he works out all the time. He's in great shape. You know, this whole place, this whole system, is a team. It's not me. It's a team. And we do what we do because we all do our part. And every part is important. God is no respecter of persons. Everyone's helpful here. And there you have it. Yeah, it's a great idea.
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“When do you see it necessary to use statins to lower cholesterol and what is the best way to lower triglycerides?” [1:05:11]
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Lower triglycerides by fasting and a low-carb diet and exercise. The right time for a statin, if there is a right time, is typically in the post-myocardial infarction situation. So, there are certain heart attacks that do show indication, but that's a long conversation.
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“Do you recommend drinking hydrogenated water? Hydrogen shots of water?” [1:05:43]
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Yes, I do.
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“What do you know about Kagen Water? Is it good for you? Someone wants to meet with me and discuss it.” [1:06:03]
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Yes, I had it. And I do believe in it. It's just mine is…I let it go by the wayside. I have to bring it up to Torrance to get it fixed. Yeah. So, I'm all in favor of it.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/10-facts-about-sad2023-12-18T05:38:34-08:002023-12-18T05:38:36-08:0010 Facts About SADWendy Lewis
Our Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Month newsletter series is focused on raising awareness about seasonal depression. The series will consist of four articles, which will be released once a week throughout the month of December. Each article will cover different aspects of SAD, offering helpful tips and information to encourage readers to maintain positive mental health during SAD season.
If you or someone you know suffers from seasonal affective disorder, also known as SAD or seasonal depression, it can feel lonely. Even though it is estimated that millions of Americans suffer from SAD each year, it’s not talked about as much as you would think. Whether you are newly diagnosed or have suffered from SAD for many years, below are some facts you may not have known [1].
SAD is a type of depression. While this may be implied in the term “seasonal depression” SAD cannot be present without underlying depression. This means someone without depression cannot develop SAD.
While it’s labeled seasonal affective disorder, most people consider SAD to be associated with wintertime, aka the “winter blues.” However, people can experience SAD during the summer months, also known as summer-pattern SAD.
The symptoms you experience with SAD vary based on the type you have. For example, those with winter-pattern depression may experience oversleeping, over-eating, and withdrawing from social activities while those with summer-pattern depression may experience difficulty sleeping, poor appetite, and anxiety.
Those with winter-pattern SAD are more likely to gain weight due to a decrease in serotonin production which makes you crave sweets.
If you have a family history of SAD or a history of depression or bipolar disorder you are more at risk of developing this condition than others.
It’s believed the symptoms of SAD are caused by alterations in melatonin levels. For example, those with winter-pattern SAD produce too much melatonin which is why one of the classic symptoms of this pattern includes oversleeping. Meanwhile, those with summer-pattern SAD develop too little melatonin.
SAD is likely caused by changes in daylight as this is an essential part of your circadian rhythm which influences your melatonin production.
Light therapy is a common treatment used for SAD, particularly with winter-pattern, which includes exposure to light that mimics natural daylight for 30-60 minutes each day.
If you struggle with SAD, you can plan ahead. Since symptoms occur annually around the same time as the season changes, you can seek treatment or change your environment ahead of time to cope with or reduce symptoms.
Regular exercise is an easy way to boost mood and reduce SAD symptoms.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-december-12-20232023-12-14T07:48:44-08:002023-12-14T07:48:44-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, December 12, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“Hi, Dr. E. My 18-year-old daughter had septoplasty and tonsillectomy. Can I give her Vascuzyme after the surgery to disinflame instead of steroids? Or would steroids be necessary? Thank you so much.” [0:04:07]
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Well, indeed, you should follow the advice of her surgeon, and ear, nose, and throat specialist. But indeed, the systemic enzymes can certainly be given. I'm not saying to put them in place of his order for steroids, but if you want to, you can easily give the Systemic Enzymes four or five twice a day, and try and have her fast and be on clear liquids only, because that helps the body to disinflame very, very quickly. You can spray the mouth with the Argentyn Silver. You can do the nasal spray with your Argentyn Silver. These are all good, safe, and supportive things to do. I hope your daughter does very well. So, yes, you can use it. You'd have to talk with your ear, nose, and throat doctor to see if it would be okay to use it in replacement of that.
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe. Juice Plus sent me a sample of their complete protein. Do you recommend it?” [0:05:28]
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I don't recommend protein shakes in general from anyone. I respect the company of Juice Plus. They have very good quality control, organic sourcing, local and small farmers and their places and their water irrigation and testing sampling is very, very thorough. Now, anytime you take a protein shake in and you use it frequently, you're doing something like I think they have a pea protein base, or maybe the new Juice Plus protein has a rice protein base. I'm not sure which it is. There are pea bases and rice bases. There are dairy casein-based ones. So, when you take the same protein in over and over and over, you amplify the intimate contact with that protein. And if it is seen frequently enough, and it gets to these damaged spots here on the lining of your gut, so this is a single cell membrane and you have hundreds of, you know, trillions of cells, and it can easily get through there and trigger your immune system because of the frequency of seeing it to make antibodies against pea protein or antibodies against whey or casein proteins from dairy or antibodies against the rice type. So, if you do use it, I would encourage you to just use it periodically once or twice a week but not as a habit.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My dad drinks alcohol and becomes a different person. Almost possessed. Very mean. What is happening in the brain to cause this?” [0:07:33]
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My heart goes out to you and to your father. The body and the membranes have receptors, and these receptors in the brain can be excited or they can be depressed. Some people react to the toxin of alcohol and these excitotoxins that are irritated can make a person agitated. So, instead of alcohol being a depressant, it can agitate. I would ask you to walk in love and to try and help your dad to get some supportive help with counseling. Maybe you have a church or a pastor. Maybe he has some brothers, your uncles or maybe your grandfather could get involved, the men can help talk with him and express our care and love for him. And our pure understanding that we are in a stressful world. Many people feel isolated, lonely, angry, hurt, disenfranchised. And so, the only comfort they're getting is from using addicting type substances.
This is also aggravated by a poor diet. There are usually B vitamins that are deficient in people who drink alcohol frequently and heavily. These can create syndromes in the brain, irritability, and even seizures. So, we would encourage you to try and get him to be on vitamin D, which lifts up the mood, to give him a multimineral that helps calm the membranes of the nerves, magnesium multimineral amino acid chelate, like our TLC Multiminerals. And I would give him the methylated B complex. Methylated is calming to the brain and the membranes. And try and give him eggs with the yolk. Try and give him meat, fish, turkey, and chicken, trying to build his immune system and vitamin D, which is a natural antidepressant. Also, If you have the alpha-linoleic and linoleic essential fatty acids, that would be in the Clinician's Preference Oil. Plus, butter things up because to repair the brain, you need a lot of these phospholipids, these double membrane phospholipids which make the bottom and the top half of the membrane of the brain. These are injured with inflammation, and these excitotoxins can irritate and damage it.
So, I certainly want the best for you. And God loves everybody, and He gave His life for everyone. So, your dad matters. Everyone matters. And I pray that you can get help. Support him nutritively. Support him emotionally, if you can, with all the love you can get him. Try and get him into counseling and intervention and with specialists who can help him. Hopefully, that helps you. My heart goes out to you.
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“By the way, two weekends in a row – fasted 24 hours. That’s a big move for me – feeling good.” [0:11:33]
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Good for you. Good for you. There you go, because fasting stimulates growth repair factors in our body doing everyday intermittent fasting. Like only eating in a 6 or 4-hour window is very healing for the body. So I'm so proud of you.
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“Hi, doctor, can diabetics taking oral or insulin fast 18 to 20 hours and what do they do with their meds during fasting? Thank you. [0:12:02]
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You need to be under the care of your physician and express to your doctor what you would hope to do. There are many things that are very beneficial, fasting is one of them. But I don't know you personally, and I would want to know you to guide you through this. There is a doctor, by the name of Jason Fung. He is a nephrologist, and kidney specialist, in I think Montreal, Canada. Anyway, he's on the YouTube, and he's a very famous doctor talking about repairing diabetes, even insulin-dependent diabetes. And yes, it does involve the intermittent fasting, and yes, under the care of a physician who knows you and walks you through this. So, please go to Jason Fung on YouTube and diabetes and fasting. And you'll see many, many, many, YouTubes on this. F-U-N-G is his last name. And so, he's written a book and that'll help you greatly. But you see your doctor, and yes, you can do it but you need to be under a physician's management.
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“Thank you so much! Blessings!” [0:13:42]
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Amen, Christina. And, you know, the holidays are a time, when expectations rise. And we put demands out, either without knowing it subtly or by request, saying, well, this is Christmas, at least this one day you should do this. Or this is Thanksgiving, at least this one day you should behave like this. You know, we can't make another person do a thing. If I have learned anything at 41 - 42 plus years of practicing medicine, you cannot make anybody do a thing. You can express your care and your concern, and you can express to them your support. You don't have to be a pushover. You don't have to endorse their bad behavior or their addiction. But we do have to reach out to them and be available and not withhold our love. Withholding love is probably never, ever right. So, these are hard times. A lot of people are having less income and more stress. And so, if there's anything you can do, it's show some love, hold a hand, pat a back, stare into their eyes, and say, I'm here. I don't know necessarily what to do, I'm not a professional necessarily, I'm not a psychiatrist or a counselor, but I care. And can I take a walk with you, or can I have a cup of coffee with you, or can I get you anything or help you out? God bless you.
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe, I so appreciate these chats. Would you recommend someone who has been on Iodoral 12.5 milligrams twice a day for 12 years to continue with that amount? Thanks for all you do.” [0:15:29]
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Thank you. I have usually prescribed it as 12. 5 milligrams once a day, and I have found that my patients have done very very well on 12.5 mg a day. Now, the reference point on that is from Dr. David Brownstein. He's up in, I think, Lansing, Michigan. He's a family practice doctor. And his father had prostate issues, and that drove him into looking into the care of the prostate, which led him to iodine research and breast health because breasts also are very helped with iodine. And what he found is the research was, in Japan, the natural diet of the women there for centuries up until recently has been rich in iodine-rich foods and they’re fishing and seaweed and so forth. So that even a woman in
Japan would have had up to 50 milligrams of iodine in her diet daily, 50. So certainly 12.5 milligrams is, very safe. We find, the intelligence, the IQs go up when there's enough iodine. Thyroid function improves. Metabolism improves. Memory improves. The immune system improves. So, it's very, very good for pregnancy and for the developing child.
So, I think if you stuck with at least one a day for the rest of your life, at least that's what I'm planning on doing. And we can't spend all our money on testing. I wish we had an uncorrupt government that doesn't follow the bias of a particular click influenced by pharmaceuticals. That way, maybe we could finally get some financial support for nutritional research for doctors like myself, where we could do 500 patients. I certainly have thousands. But I have published, but it keeps me broke, and in my 2006 Saturn SUV and in my humble lifestyle of living, because I do try and spend money on the clinic, my patients, and research, but I am not wealthy at all. I'm just pure middle class if anything. And it would be nice to have income to do a study long term with hundreds, maybe even a thousand, patients. And I know my patients are the best, and they would love to help me, and they would easily do a 24-hour urine. But it takes money to run the test. It takes money to have staffing, to track and follow and educate the patients on the protocol. It takes about a year to get at minimum this kind of thing back to see if one 12.5 milligram is adequate.
So, pray for a decentralization of government and that we can all grow and prosper, and that each of us can donate into private research all over the place. So, there are lots of competing things looking for the best for all of us, rather than thinking three or four Ivy Tower universities have all the wisdom in the world. No, they don't. In fact, we find most of the corruption is there now.
Anyway, hopefully, that's a long-winded way of saying, I think it's probably safe for you to do two a day for many, many years, but you probably don't need that much. And a 24-hour urine iodine challenge test by David Brownstein in his book called Iodine is available for more information on that if you want it.
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“Good evening doctor. I'm considering donating a kidney to a friend. I would love your thoughts on it. And perhaps any concerns for my future post-donation, and if I do, what do you recommend for preparing my body? Thank you so much. God bless you for taking time each week to answer questions.” [0:20:12]
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Well, how generously of you to be willing to share a kidney. I am very much in favor of a low-carb lifestyle, intermittent fasting, eating between noon and 6 P.M. the latest. Exercising in spurts, so like a 20-minute brisk fast walk, like you're in a time constraint to get somewhere, and then every two and a half minutes, take 30 seconds to break out in a run or go faster. And then after that little spurt there, then resume your brisk walk for another two and a half minutes. So, this would be a little bit of high-intensity interval. So, exercise, and doing muscle training to build up your musculature helps build up your immune system, and helps reduce sugar that would depress your immune system. It'll improve microcirculation. Of course, drink half your weight in ounces. So, if you're 150 pounds, you want 75 ounces of water every day. So, exercise, hydration, a low-carb diet that does intermittent fasting with regular daily exercise, with little spurts of intervals to recreate stress, all stimulates a body to be very healthy and immunologically in an ideal position.
If you're able to get with a physician who provides EDTA chelation therapy, the research by Dr. Lindt is very much established. We have his references here, and many of his publications. He is a kidney nephrologist. And he found using EDTA chelation really extended the longevity of the kidneys. He also noted that in animal studies, those animals that had EDTA chelation before surgery, like the morning of or the day before, they had far better outcome survivals, if there was any stress or damage to them compared to the ones that didn't have any EDTA chelation therapy, which improves your microcirculation throughout your whole body. That's why it's an anti-aging protocol. That's why we do it here. And it reduces heavy metals and stimulates nitric oxide for a better vision, better brain function, and better erectile function for men, various things like this. The way we do it is we mix this with some vitamin C intravenously because vitamin C is very beneficial preoperatively because the stress of surgery is an immune stress to the body and vitamin C is well able to help you manage that better.
After the surgery, I would continue the same lifestyle program. I would try not to eat the first day or two after surgery, and I would be on a clear liquid diet with lots of systemic enzymes, like Vitalzyme Xe, using five twice a day on an empty stomach to disinflame your body immediately. That would be very, very beneficial. So I would start enzymes right after surgery. And I would go from there. Hopefully, you can find someone who might be able to do chelation for you.
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“Family came back from Arizona with light cold symptoms with lasting fatigue and intermittent fever for 3 weeks. 2 weeks for hubby, 1 week for me. COVID - something new under the sun?” [0:24:21]
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Well, we're always going to be around viruses. We're always going to be around fungi and allergens. And they're messing with the food. We don't know what they're genetically modifying. What kind of intercalated pesticides, and fungicides are being put into the food? So, you can have febrile malaise from many, many different things, not just a viral cold. I would make sure you're seen by your doctor to be screened because lasting 2-3 weeks is a bit long. I would want to know what your temperature ranges are. I would not treat a fever unless the fever is debilitating. The fevers are designed to kill viruses. So, the heat shock proteins help to invigorate the immune system and to kill off invaders. So, unless your fever is like 102 or something, I don't think I would be treating it with Tylenol or anything like that.
I would take high-dose vitamin D for five days, five days only, and that on top of your normal daily dose. We have the 50,000 International Unit, one capsule a day for 5 days to really boost the vitamin D level. And then you could always, if you're in the area, try and find a functional integrative doctor, like ourselves, who can give you a vitamin C drip, vitamin C 25 grams or so for a couple of days in a row. That usually helps get you over the hump. And doing fasting. If you can do pure fasting with just chicken broth or beef broth for 24 hours, that's a nice way to jumpstart or kick the immune system in the butt, so to say, and wake it up as well, but a very low-carb diet. So, those are some of the suggestions I would say.
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“Thanks for always answering these questions and for your guidance. Do you have suggestions for a supplement to help sharpen focus and minimize brain fog? My diet is low in carbs, higher in protein, and no dairy. I eat from 11:00 to 6:00. Also, every afternoon between 3:00 ash 4:30, I become extremely tired, sleeping.” [0:27:02]
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Well, the question then is how old are you? Are you on hormone replacement therapy? What is your fasting blood sugar? What is your insulin? What is your triglyceride? What is your hemoglobin A1c? And then, aging has an impact even with very good numbers. Some people do need a 20-minute power nap in the afternoons as you get older.
The other thing is, are you exercising? Are there other things that you notice that you eat and then you suddenly become tired after eating because there's a lot of blood rushing to your stomach to address the new income of food and all these antigenic signatures? Therefore, the blood flow rushing to the stomach may be something challenging. So, you need to see your doctor. You need to check your sugar levels. You need to let us know your age, your hormone status, whether you're using it or not. See if there are any other comorbid factors or diseases.
And then, there is a supplement that we carry that has vinpocetin. Vinpocetin is used as a neurotransmitter enhancer to help neuroplasticity, and Membrin is what we use, and it has helped. So, those are the various things. But I think the most exciting thing is a fast. A 24-hour water fast stimulates the brain like nothing else, with some brisk walk or exercise. So, I don't know your general state of health. If you're able to do that, that's another stimulating factor for the brain as well.
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“Hello, Dr. Rita. My sister is concerned about her health. In less than three months, she gained 20 pounds. She began to have swollen hands. She had never had thyroid show up in her blood work. She's 26 years old, 5'2, 174 pounds. She saw an endocrinologist. All they did was inject her. Today, they injected her with Mounjaro. She is not diabetic. Any thoughts?” [0:29:45]
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Mounjaro is a medication that is a GLUT2 blocker in the duodenum to try and suppress the appetite.
There are problems. These are new medications. I don't think it's been well-studied enough. I have a general principle. I will not recommend any medication because I don't trust the pharmaceuticals anymore with all the confusion and deception that has been clearly been going on. So, I can't give informed consent anymore on the vast majority of things because of the cavalier nature of pharmaceuticals pushing drugs for their income with less than robust studying and transparency. So, this concerns me.
So using these diabetic drugs designed for diabetics which, themselves, Mounjaro is new and marginal, and then transferring it into a treatment for weight loss in otherwise young that should be healthy women, rather than setting them down to the reality check of looking at her fasting blood sugar, looking at her fasting insulin, her fasting hemoglobin A1c, which is the sugar sticking to protein hemoglobin in her body. The higher the percentage, the more you have ruined your proteins in your body from them doing their work. And looking at the triglycerides, blood sugar insulin, and hemoglobin A1c, get a grip on having to do some exercise and intermittent fasting, and a low-carb diet, and she should do well.
When you have a doctor who is sitting in that office year after year, decade after decade, like we do here, you get to know the people, the families. You get to care about them like your relatives. And then you get some endorsement, you might say, from the referrals, the family, the people who have seen that doctor, and they start saying that doctor is, a regular, faithful, they're not going to do anything wild or experimental or testing new on you. They're going to tell you like it is. They're going to work with you and get to know you. And so, that's the kind of doctor you want to go to. You don't want to go to some doctor who sees you one day and you're gone and that's the end of it. A good doctor is going to be a doctor who is, we need many, many more family practice doctors, many more general practitioners, many more internal medicine, generalists who will see you for anything, and will have a global complete knowledge of you, and will protect you and try and not abuse using the specialist, but rather try and take time with you to inspire you and teach you and educate you and treat you with respect, believing you that you can do these good things, you can move toward exercise, you can move toward intermittent fasting, you can drink more water, and just look at patients with, yes, the possibilities are good.
Now, that's what I think your sister needs. She sounds like a typical young lady who has fallen into the pit of social pressure, marketing, and pharmaceutical advertisement, that is sounding like a prince on a white horse reining in and there's some drug out there that solves everything. And this is not the case, ladies and gentlemen. What we have are white and shiny armored horse-riding friends and family and spouses and children and pastors, and your local, friends, pharmacists, your checkout lady, people who care about you and have that smile – I care, I'm glad to see you here again today. This is what motivates us to take care of ourselves. So, your sister needs a lot of love and a lot of stimulation about how high fructose corn syrup is hidden in all this junk food and frothies and lattes and coffee drinks and eating and eating and eating all these marketed junk Christmas treats. Please help her to say she's far better than that.
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“Does your office do genetic testing?” [0:35:27]
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It depends. I'm in agreement with Dr. Thomas Seyfried. He is the book ‘Cancer as a Mitochondrial Metabolic Mitochondrial Disease’. And so, all this high fructose corn syrup and glucose, the starches, the late-night eating, the snacking, the polyunsaturated fats, the trans fats, the mislabeling, the deceit, all of this is harming our cell membranes. And that's why I do so much research and have published on it, we are eating junk, we're not eating food. We're harming ourselves. And genetically the epigenetic or the way you live influences the gene reading. So, if the environment is bathed in high sugar, acidic, inflammatory lifestyle fluids, and foods, and I hate to call it food because it isn't food, then the genes are going to sense that stress and you can flip on a gene or flip off another gene. And so, to that extent, I'll say genetics are useful, but it is too complex. I think most learned geneticists, learned microbiologists, and biochemists have to now agree that cancer is not a genetic disease. Cancer is really, massively a lifestyle epigenetic stress, the way we're living, and that's how we should more properly look at it. So, there are some testings that we do, but it's very specific.
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“Have you reviewed Dr. Vik Veer's work on YouTube on sleep apnea?” [0:37:49]
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You know, I didn't get to it. With this new EMR, we have been just overwhelmed and my work is like going through molasses. And I had huge work, six days a week of work. Dr. Vik Veer's sleep apnea…No, honey. So, I didn't get to it. But I have a note on it, I have many stickies here, and as soon as things calm down a little bit with our new EMR, I will look at this. Thank you for asking. My patients help educate me and keep me tuned in, so to say.
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“Dr. Berg on YouTube mentioned B1 deficiency may influence dysfunction in brainstem operations.” [0:38:43]
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Well, yes, it will of course. I mean, these are so critical as a class. That's why they're essential, okay? And we have essential vitamins and minerals and amino acids and fatty acids. So, yes, that's rather superficial to say that. And so, vitamin B1 would be important.
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“Would taking a tablespoon of nutritional yeast be an inexpensive way to help?” [0:39:19]
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You know, we have so many food allergies that are showing up yeast sensitive. So, taking brewer's yeast is not the way to go just because of what I've seen in all the immune-food, food allergies, yeast, yeast, yeast everywhere. Now, is that because we're so highly sugared up that we have promoted Candida and other fungi in our body and that's what's showing up? You see, we need money to do this research and to help people. But there is one wonderful solution, and that's exercise and a low-carb diet. plenty of water and systemic enzymes. That's why I test. Our items here, our methylated B complex, have all that wonderful stuff in it to help the brain function and the energy, and a bazillion other needed biochemical functions and mitochondrial functions in the human body. So, I wouldn't recommend that you use a tablespoon of yeast every day. No, I wouldn't do that. I'd go to the methylated B complex.
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“What are the most important tests and levels to boost hair growth in perimenopause?” [0:40:43]
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Well, your hair is made of protein. That protein shaft has its root in your skin. And that skin has to have all these little capillaries, okay? And if you eat a bowl of cereal, donuts, bagels, croissants, sugar latte, frothies, then you think you can afford to eat a piece of fudge or a candy bar or have ice cream or a piece of pie or a cake, and mashed potatoes and rice and beans and tortillas, you are clogging up those little capillaries big time. So, you’ve got to get a grip and understand that low-carb intermittent fasting cleanses the body. You need the hydrolysis of the water pumping through. You need good microcirculation to the root of all your hair. And EDTA chelation therapy is very, very valuable, plus all the many anti-aging, organ-preserving, micro-circulatory enhancing functions of it throughout the entire body, not to mention, prostate and breast and cancer is the circulation and oxygenation and delivery of enzymes to break down tumors and mass and deliver in high dose Vitamin C better is just wonderful with chelation therapy.
Now, biotin in the B vitamins, eating a high protein diet, try and get 1 mg per kilogram. So, if you're, 80 kilograms, 70 kilograms, 60 kilograms, a woman, if she's 150 pounds, is probably 65-70 kilograms, and that would be 70 grams of protein she needs every day. Well, that's hard to do. But what did I have for lunch? I had a slab of liver with onions. What did I have for dinner before this? I'm trying not to burp because I rushed it down before starting this 6 o'clock program. I had salmon and broccoli. So, the salmon probably gave me 20-25 grams of protein. The liver probably gave me 40 grams of protein. And so, I've had probably 70 grams of protein today. I eat a lot of protein. I eat a rich protein-based meat, fish, chicken, and organ meat. All the time I eat in a restricted window, I exercise, and I do chelation. Enzymes act like little Pacman to help clear out the microcirculation. So, that the roots of your hair have the protein they need to grow, the B vitamins they need to grow, the microcirculation to deliver all that stuff to them, and get a good night's sleep because stress will stop it. So, that would be the direction I would go.
And, of course, check your thyroid. You can do an iodine test, a 24-hour urine iodine. I do take Iodoral. So, that does help my metabolism. But that's the direction I would head. You can look at dihydrotestosterone. You could eat pumpkin seeds to try and stop aromatase activity. That would be a beginning point.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita! I am just starting to learn and read about chelation therapy. Do you happen to know the protocol of Andy Cutler? He feels that it should never be IV, but round-the-clock oral agents.” [0:45:08]
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No. Well, I disagree totally, and I've been around it for 63 years. So, I think I know something. I've got to look up this Andy Cutler. Look, in general, I don't know this Andy. Maybe he's a wonderful God-fearing man. But I tell you, I think the alternative world has become as corrupt almost as the standard medical, allopathic, pharmaceutical, imaging, and surgical intervention, because you have to pimp, so to say, the only solution is a drug or the only solution is surgery, the only solution is imaging. Anything to make that big mega complex of the hospital more and more money. Well, guess what? The only way you can really chelate is effectively, and under a controlled, managed situation, is intravenously because the oral chelation, the molecule is so large, its ability to pass through that membrane is almost nil, maybe 5-7 percent of what you would take orally. So, I'm not saying you can't do oral chelators. A high dose of vitamin C is an oral chelator. Cilantro is an oral chelator. Chlorella is an oral chelator. So, these oral processes, the oral methodology, usually will try and capture what is in the oral cavity, and the gastrointestinal system and chelate out heavy metals there. And that has benefits, I won't deny that. But I do medicine with people with heart attacks, and angina, and hypertension, and heart failure. I manage these things with a cardiologist, with a specialist, as needed. And nothing orally is ever going to come a fraction of a millimeter to helping these people. They need intravenous chelation. So, I'm going to have to look up this Andy Cutler. And I hope that he's not just saying this on the internet just so that he can push a sale on the internet of an oral product. That would be disheartening.
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“My GGT has been in the low teens, but my last GGT was 40. I don't drink and at ideal weight and eat low carb. Do you have any idea why GGT went up so much?” [0:48:54]
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Well, it is a very, very sensitive liver enzyme and it could have been just something that you ate within, you know, hours, 24 hours that irritated your liver. So, I would just wait and repeat it and take a look at it. Yes, GGT is a very, very good sensitive liver test, but sometimes it's too sensitive. So, just repeat it.
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“Can a typhoid infection cause leaky gut syndrome?” [0:49:44]
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Well, any infectious problem has multiple impacts throughout the body. So, if that's an infectious disease, then it will impact the lining of the gut just on many, many different levels. So, the answer in general is yes. I would encourage you to see your physician and find out what your history is and what your symptoms are and go look at that.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. How many grams of protein for men per pound?” [0:50:20]
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There's, I think, 2.5 kilograms per pound. So, if a man is 200 pounds, then he would be roughly 125. So, I would say close to 100 protein, you should get about 100 grams in a day.
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“What do you recommend, approach, books, doctors (what to look for in one, questions to ask)…when working with kids with ADD/ADHD. Hoping to find a non-medication route that works/helps enough. Thank you.” [0:51:37]
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Alright. So, she wants to know what I recommend, what my approach is, what books, and what doctors. There are quite a few. I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to say everything I've said for the adults here applies to ADHD, to the children. You’ve got to get this processed food totally out of their diet.
You have to get the electromagnetic wave energies out of the house and their rooms. You have to control mobile phones and not have them in the position of the children. You have to look and see if your energy box, wherever the transformer for the energy, the electricity to your house is, and not have your bed or head near those transformers. You have to be on a low-carb diet. The kids need to play. They need to exercise outdoors and not have this closed and locked-in syndrome. They need plenty of water, not juice, not soda, not fizzy drinks. They need water. They need and they're growing, and they're made of protein and fat. So, these kids have to get away from TV commercials, the influence of Instagram, TikTok, and all these things that are making them think. Well, my little experience, at 11 years old, "I don’t think my family entertains me enough or shows me enough of the world because look...this kid is this and that and that." This is so corrupting. And so, getting them to eat healthy food means getting them away from the social influencers that are going to promote the cereals and the drinks and the pop culture foods and stuff like that. They need eggs, fish, chicken, and beef. They need vegetables. They need butter. They need water. They need exercise. They need a lights-out time, darkness, and quiet, so they can sleep at night. They don’t need to eat late in the day because that will stimulate their activity and thinking. And then they need to be, probably Juice Plus is a very good antioxidant. They need to be on vitamin D, probably 1000 to 2000 IU from toddlerhood on, a day. They need the Clinician's Oils linoleic, alpha-linolenic half teaspoon a day. You can mix that in a little cold unsweetened apple sauce and have them take it down.
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“Two questions: (1) Is there a way to cure SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth) without taking antibiotics? (2) Taking Farxiga for heart failure has a side effect of UTIs due to altered pH in the urine. Is there a way to prevent this altered pH? And does a UTI always need to be treated with antibiotics?” [0:55:14]
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These are questions that we need to see you for. I have to see what your symptomology is. It could be that you’re just getting older and you’re getting a lot of vaginal atrophy and that vaginal atrophy is thinning the lining and the entrance to the urethra, to the bladder, and it’s easier for trauma and irritation and bacteria to climb up a thin frail mucosa of a younger woman. That alone could solve that problem.
Is it possible to cure SIBO? SIBO is newly defined. I think all of us who have been in integrative medicine for decades and decades and decades have finally driven all this research to look at the biofilm flora. And with that biofilm flora and it getting into the small intestine, because really most of this bacteria should be not going past the cecum up into the small intestine. And this kind of reflux in all this excessive appendicitis and the valvular problem and ascension of this bacteria is promoted by the high carb diet, the lack of water, the lack of exercise, the inactivity, and the lack of good mineral nutrients, our minerals are being depleted in our industrialized farming. So, if you work with a good functional medicine doctor who will do a complete digestive stool analysis on you, do a food allergy immune for the IgG, food allergens, slow-reacting, who will put you on a simple menu, what we call one-menu a day where if you eat chicken and green beans for dinner tonight, you would have made enough so that you would have it ready for you to start eating at lunch, the same chicken and green beans. So, you have a one-menu simple. You made it at dinner and you made enough to be ready for lunch the next day, so your whole immune system is destressed, and simplified. The wild spices and entertainment push of food is retracted and your immune system can calm down, then you can look at repairing the gut lining with phospholipids, rich in fish, turkey, chicken, beef, eggs, and then maybe phospholipids, support of probiotics, and then we can go from that position. But you’ve got to work with a good, experienced, functional doctor. So I would say, yes, you can cure SIBO without taking antibiotics.
And to look at what is causing urinary tract infections, for the pH, we can change it with alkalized water. We can change it with minerals to use, hormone replacement therapy, and lots of things to do. So, see your doctor for that that’s a good functional experienced doctor.
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“My husband recently went to the doctor and was told he has high blood pressure and high cholesterol. I don’t want him to go on meds as the doctor suggested. He is 71. Are there supplements and/or lifestyle changes you would suggest?” [0:58:48]
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Well, tons of them. So, if he would do intermittent fasting seriously, not playing it as a game. I mean we’re talking maybe going carnivore immediately, using digestive enzyme, and just having that, taking a brisk walk, doing some weight training twice a week, walking briskly every day, no less than 30 minutes, drinking half his weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, getting a good night sleep, doing Magnesium Citrate or Magnesium Glycinate, try and get in about 500 mg a day, 300 mg twice a day, something like that. A good TLC Multimineral is very valuable. So, the water, the exercise, the minerals, the low-carb diet, the intermittent fasting, that will go a long, long way. Now, you’ve got to work with a doctor who will watch. I don’t know how high your husband’s blood pressure was where it was terribly high, then he should start something with a goal of slowly getting off of it as he does things like this. So, find a good functional doctor who can work with your husband, who will inspire him and encourage him in these ways, because it’s hard to change against all this social pressure and marketing and friends, family, and church all pushing on you to eat this junk food and lifestyle.
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“Trying to learn about 5-HTP and its many benefits. Apparently, it doesn’t work if you have the methylenetetrahydrofolate (MTHFR) gene. Does it need other things to work…Enzymes, B vitamins? Very confusing to me. Thank you.” [1:00:32]
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It isn’t exclusive with methylenetetrahydrofolate. If you take a methylated B complex, we have the TLC methylated B complex, and you take 5-HTP at night, yes, it helps with mood, it helps with sleep, and it helps with neurotransmitter production. So, yes, that is what I would suggest.
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“Hi Aunt Rita, I am 30 weeks pregnant currently, due in February. I am taking the topical progesterone every night plus all my supplements (Juice Plus, Systemic Enzymes, Digestive Enzymes, preferential oils, Energy Core, vit D, iodine, probiotic). Is there anything else I should do before/after giving birth with my supplement schedule or in general?” [1:01:10]
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No, I think you’ll do very well. I’ll call you on the phone. I know I sound very busy, and I am. I think if there’s anything I’ve really done wrong in my whole life is I’ve always put my family really second. I’ve said to my boys, Mommy’s got to go to work or Mommy has a patient on the phone or all this kind of stuff, and I repent that I’ve been like that. I just see such a great need. And so, my dear family, my dear own children, my dear husband has always kind of understood I’m trying to serve people, but I didn’t serve them. So, I should acknowledge that and apologize to them. And so, honey, if I sound abrupt, please understand. It’s just Aunt Rita. I’m never not working, and I guess that’s wrong. So, call me on the phone and we’ll talk about it. And I need to talk with you and your daughter. And so, we’re going to do a three-way talk and this weekend would be a good time.
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“Do you have concerns about CPAP machines having cleanliness risks or causing lung infections through misuse? Can continuous humidity promote problems if humidity settings aren’t accurate?” [1:02:49]
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The answer is yes, yes, and yes. So, the goal is to try and lose weight, exercise, do all these things that will enhance the airway function here, and weight training to build up your muscle strength. Even there are vocal trainings that you can do to build up your tongue strength and all these many muscles in here. I would work with not a specialist in CPAP. I have not seen many attributed infections due to it. But if you use the Argentyn Silver spray on parts, that will go a long way to get rid of fungi, bacteria, and viruses.
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“What remedy do you recommend for resolving/eliminating neuropathy – joint pain in the feet, hands, and fingers?” [1:03:51]
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Everything that I’ve said. You’ve got to be low-carb. You’ve got to try and get you at ideal weight. You have to have a good night's sleep. You have to have muscle strength, so you hold your posture up, so you don’t slump over and pinch your nerves. You’ve got to drink your water, take Systemic Enzymes to disinflame you, do intermittent fasting, do EDTA chelation therapy, and do the multi-minerals. All the healthy proteins that are in meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and the yolk and things like that are very valuable in helping to re-wrap up the insulation along the nerves. EDTA chelation will help the microcirculation to these very delicate areas, and over time they usually all do better.
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“I’m hearing about more people who never took the CV that are also getting sick with brain aneurysm or bacterial pneumonia because some spike proteins are sleeping from the vaccine to the unvaccinated. Please feel free to rephrase my question on video. What can we do to protect ourselves?” [1:04:44]
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Well, this is why I’m just working so hard and many days I don’t get time to pre-read anything. What can we do to protect ourselves? Well we know that the Systemic Enzymes are very valuable as an anti-inflammatory and help to chew up, these proteolytic enzymes chew up the spike proteins. Drinking enough water, the low carb. But EDTA chelation also has an electrochemical reaction that helps pull out spike proteins because the spike electromagnetically is a cation positive and EDTA is electrochemically an anion negative, so the two attract and it can help extract it. So, in a person who’s drinking their water, exercising, taking Systemic Enzymes, and doing chelation therapy is going to do fine.
Now, look at me, I’m starting my 70’s. I’m working my butt off, folks, six days in a week. And so, my questionable doctor colleagues shut their doors and hid behind screens when I had my patients begging me to see their father, their sister, their brother, their uncle, their cousin, niece, nephew, all these things, and so on. I increase my days, never shut down, and I have been going like a mad woman for over three years. And so, why aren’t I getting sick? And I’m touching all these vaccinated people and I’m walking through their air expression. So, when I listen to their chest out and take a deep breath and they breathe out, then I walk to the other side and listen, I’m walking through people’s breath all the time. Why don’t I get sick? Because I’m doing all these things that for decades and decades have proven and long before McCalla, long before all this, you know, (01:06:53) pure Corey and bless their heart for all their work, but I’ve been doing this stuff. The enzymes, all these things we’re talking about, the vitamin D, the zinc, we were doing it all, and all these people in my practice, if you can be allowed to teach practical healthcare and stop this idea of self-glory and money and wealth and junk, just be a doctor, settle yourself down, put your feet down in one planted area, raise up your little family, take care of the people in your environment, be loved by them and love them. And that’s what being a doctor is. Not some fancy dancy person going to conferences and buga buga activity on a boat under the fake title that you’re at a medical conference. Give me a break. I have never been so disgusted with my profession. So, look, all these things protect you. I take Quercetin every day in the form of seasonal allergies or D-Hist.
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“Is there anything to do to help my female friend, age 73, who has been diagnosed with dementia? She has no short-term memory. She uses Kaiser for her care. She can't/won't change her diet. Will Chelation Therapy make a difference? What would you do to help a friend in this situation?” [1:08:01]
Answer
It will. Well, chelation will help her and hormones will help them and enzymes will help them, and not eating late and exercising will help them. So, if you take them on a walk every day, take them to the gym and have them do a little bit of weightlifting, get them chelated every week, get some natural hormones into their body, get some enzymes in their body and vitamin D, watch the wonderful difference there.
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“What do you suggest for muscle pain?” [1:08:40]
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Stretching, a lot of water, TLC Multimineral, good magnesium, potassium, calcium, and then always chelation, always doing aerobic exercise and Systemic Enzymes. You can take 5 to 6 two to three times a day on an empty stomach.
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“Do people with total hip replacement have certain restrictions for life? What are they? How does it affect the quality of life?” [1:09:03]
Answer
Well, yes, but I’m not an orthopedic specialist. I’ve seen people with hip replacements walk and behave almost to the level that you would never know they had it. So, I’m not a specialist in this but you can regain massive quality of life, and return of function, if you do all these wonderful things, like do chelation before your hip replacement, then take chelation with vitamin C afterwards as soon as possible, and do some fasting afterwards.
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“Is it okay to eat farmed salmon?” [1:09:47]
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Well, look, farmed salmon is fed genetically modified corn. So, I don’t think it’s good. Now, if it’s that compared to eating tofu, yeah, I guess I would eat the farmed salmon. But look, I’m so busy, I'm doing my best to live right now. My husband just brought me before this meeting salmon from the black marlin. Then he asked is this farmed, Atlantic, or is this wild-caught? You know what, I don’t have the time. And so, we have to start just serving others, doing the best we can. We know darn well when we’re eating junk food. Let’s stop it. Let’s stop this Instagram, social media junk food. Everything in our mouth is an oral gratification. Stop it. And these grocery stores are pornography stores for the mouth. These grocery stores are pornography stores for the mouth. So, love everyone. Be strong. Be vigilant. Resist the devil and he will flee from you, even the bad food.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/who-is-most-at-risk-for-sad2023-12-11T06:27:09-08:002023-12-11T06:27:10-08:00Who is Most at Risk for SADWendy Lewis
Our Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Month newsletter series is focused on raising awareness about seasonal depression. The series will consist of four articles, which will be released once a week throughout the month of December. Each article will cover different aspects of SAD, offering helpful tips and information to encourage readers to maintain positive mental health during SAD season.
Seasonal affective disorder, also known as SAD, affects millions of people worldwide. SAD is a form of depression that occurs during certain times of the year, often referred to as seasonal depression.
SAD is commonly known to affect those during the fall and winter months when there is decreased daylight, also known as winter-pattern depression but it can also affect those in the summer when daylight is extended. This is known as summer-pattern depression [1].
While seasonal depression tends to resolve once the season changes, this doesn’t mean you should wait it out if you are experiencing symptoms of SAD. There are many treatments available including antidepressant medications, psychotherapy, light therapy, and vitamin D therapy [1].
While it can be difficult to predict who may develop seasonal depression, some are more at risk than others. Learning about the risk factors of developing SAD can help you determine if you or a loved one is at risk and when to get help.
Those who are more likely to develop SAD are those who have a family history or those who already suffer from depression or bipolar disorder. If you currently suffer from depression, you may notice worsened symptoms seasonally and this can be an indicator that you are suffering from SAD. If you notice these changes, reach out to your doctor immediately to adjust treatment [2].
Additionally, you may be more likely to develop SAD if you live far from the equator. Those who live far north or south of the equator experience either decreased sunlight or prolonged sunlight for extended periods during certain times of the year.
It’s believed that a change in daylight patterns can affect your circadian rhythm which may result in the onset of SAD symptoms. If you live in an area with reduced daylight hours you may also experience a drop in serotonin levels which may trigger depression.
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Serotonin is an important neurotransmitter that affects our mood. If you have low vitamin D levels, you may also be at a higher risk for developing SAD due to its effects on serotonin.
We get the best source of vitamin D through sunlight and when we live in an area that experiences reduced daylight patterns for a significant time during the year, we can develop low vitamin D which is an essential nutrient for boosting serotonin levels [2].
If you have any of these risk factors and find yourself experiencing depression symptoms during certain seasons, be sure to talk with your doctor about potential treatment options. SAD can be well-managed if treatment begins before the onset of symptoms.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-december-5-20232023-12-07T06:48:13-08:002023-12-07T06:48:38-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, December 5, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe, what do you recommend to control histamine intolerance? Which foods are high in histamine? Is there a test for it?” [0:03:38]
Answer
There are foods that trigger a histaminic response, which is your immune system's defense system. It's not abnormal, it's already built into you. But you can get into a pattern of eating or a dietary pattern, environmental, that is repetitiously triggering the histaminic response, and that would be with alcohol, beer, and wine, in particular, is a big trigger to the immune system. A lot of people will get a headache after a glass of wine. They say it's the sulfates but actually, it's probably the histaminic reaction to the substance of the wine or the beer and other alcohol’s spirits.
The other thing is there are some aged foods and fermented foods, and if you habitually get addicted to consuming them, you'll trigger this. So, if you go on the internet, you'll see commonly listed aged cheeses, figs, some dried fruits, alcoholic beverages, old nuts, aged nuts, and things like this. So, very often in the holiday seasons, these packaged dried foods and the alcohol consumed really becomes a trigger for histaminic reactions, and that's you can get hives, you can get itchy red eyes, itchy skin, you can get headaches, you can get flushed, you can get bloated, even arthralgias, myalgias. So, the allergic response. And so, you have to look at that yourself and look it up on the Internet those foods. And try and do, what we teach here is to try and eat simplistically, to rotate your diet, and try and get repetitious food patterns out of your diet. If you eat multiple times with a great variety during the time, you're just increasing your average exposure to varieties of food lectins, and food signatures. So, if you eat a more simplistic diet, we teach a one-menu day, such that you've heard me say you would have a beef and broccoli day and you'd make enough of it at dinner. So that would become your lunch the following day. Then the next dinner you would prepare, let's say, chicken and green beans, and you'd make enough of it, so it's leftover for your lunch. So, it's limited in the variety and it's rotating day to day. So, a meat-themed vegetable day, for 24 hours, then a chicken-themed vegetable day for 24 hours, then a fish-themed day for 24 hours. Then a pork-themed day vegetable for 24 hours. Then maybe an omelet vegetable day for 24 hours. And notice we want you to eat in a 6-hour window or eat in a smaller window of time so that the rest of your gut has more time to heal. So that's what I would suggest for that.
Is there a test for it? There are food allergy tests for reactivity to general foods, that's the Immunofood. But specifically for histamine, we can look for this in the blood. It's very specialized. I'm sure it's not covered or it's likely to be not covered, and I would have to call the lab to find out what the name for it would be. So, I really never order it. I just find that if people get out of packaged foods and all the additives, and eat more simplistically, these things go away.
There's an item, what is it called, HistDAO, and that is the name you can look up put out by Xymogen, and it is Diamine Oxidase. It is the enzyme that helps to digest and break down histamine in your body. And you can actually take this and maybe use it, especially in the holiday seasons when you eat your foods, if you're getting into some of these types of aged foods. So, it's called HistDAO. You can try that out. We have it here as well. So you can call the vitamin department, and they know what HistDAO is. I would use that in addition to your Digestive Enzymes, so you could take one Digestive Enzyme and one HistDAO.
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“Hi, Dr. E. A friend's 10-year-old daughter has occasional sudden stabbing head pain on the side of her head. It lasts 10 to 30 seconds. Mainstream medical tests are being done. Does TLC treat children?” [0:09:13]
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Yes, we see children. And so, I think a wonderful person to start with would be Dr. Kaur and that would be a good starter point. I'm really full, so I'm not taking new patients, but we discuss challenging cases that are monthly rounds, and if that's a question, she can bring it up. So, thank you for that. It's probably dietary. It's probably a vasospasm of like the temporal artery. And because the brain itself doesn't have any feeling, so that's probably where it's coming from, is in the food that she's consuming.
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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe, what do you suggest for high blood pressure? You told me years ago the keto/low carb, lots of water, use OptiMag Neuro. Anything else? I'm 44, female, and 3 days into those suggestions. I've brought my blood pressure down from 155/105 to 145/85.” [0:10:26]
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Well, that's wonderful. You're almost getting into the normal range. So, you need to have your labs done. We need to look at inflammation markers. We need to see how much water, you may be drinking more water, but really we need to know your weight divided in half in pounds, and that's how many ounces every single day you have to do. Exercise, doing a walk briskly for 30 minutes every day. And we like to do little spurts, so that if you're walking at a pace for 2 minutes, then for 30 seconds, pick up the pace just short of breaking into a run for 20 seconds, 30 seconds to spike it up a bit, spurts we call it, and then resume back for another 2 minutes at your regular, just brisk pace, purposeful pace. And then at the 2-minute mark, again, spurt/sprint for 20 seconds. And do that throughout the course of your walk. So, exercise, drink water, take the magnesium, and make sure that you're having a good sleep. You might need hormones if you're 44 now. You might be getting into perimenopause. Calming can come from estradiol, progesterone, getting a good night's sleep, and checking your insulin level. Insulin makes the thickness of the blood vessels thicker and stiffer. And so, you want to check your fasting blood sugar, insulin level, hemoglobin A1C, those kind of things. So, please see your doctor or please come back and be seen here.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, what hormones should a 32-year-old A-positive blood type woman get checked if they are feeling not as good and losing hair?” [0:12:55]
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Well, I would try around day 20 of your menstrual cycle, so day 1 would be the first day of your menstrual cycle. And 20 days later, you could do 19, 20, 21. And get your blood drawn to see if you're ovulating your progesterone level. Get your estradiol level. Get the testosterone. Get your DHEA. Get the cortisol. Get your free T3 and free T4. Get your TSH (Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone). Get your thyroid peroxidase antibodies and your thyroglobulin antibodies. There are two kinds of antibodies to the thyroid for thinning hair. And then I would get a general chemistry to look at your protein and content, your blood urea nitrogen, your fasting blood sugar, and an insulin hormone level fasting. And I would do the hemoglobin A1c, and I would get a lipid profile to look at your triglycerides as well. And I would put all that together and get your vitamin D level. I would get a B12 because A's notoriously don't make enough acid in their stomach to digest their food, so they don't make enough intrinsic factors, and they don't make enough of their B vitamins, B12. And therefore, they start getting tired, worn out, and so forth, not feeling good. So that's where I would start.
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“My last blood test, my estradiol jumped from 15 up to 49, and my SHBG was 107. I haven't changed my diet. Do you know why these numbers suddenly jumped? How would you get them back down?” [0:15:02]
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Estradiol in a man has a purpose. So, men do make some estradiol, and women make some testosterone. In men, the estradiol is involved in fertility and sperm motility. And so, a man needs to make some of it. But as we drink alcohol, the liver alcohol dehydrogenase is an enzyme God gave us to help break down alcohol because, as we eat any carbohydrates, starches, bread, or grains, it sits in our warm stomach and our gut for hours and hours and hours through our intestine and it ferments. And so, God made enough alcohol dehydrogenase to help get processed out of our body, the alcohol. But if you actually drink alcohol, then you're overwhelming the design of God and you'll wind up using up all your alcohol dehydrogenase on all the exogenous alcoholic drinks you're consuming, and that can drive up the estradiol because estradiol is a part of the alcohol family and it's broken down by alcohol dehydrogenase. So, that's one way.
You could have eaten more carbs, more starch, more rice, more beans, and more fruit. So, increased carbohydrates, lack of exercise, more alcohol, all these things make a man's estradiol go up, and it can do that in a period of weeks to months between two lab tests. So that's what I would do. I wouldn't worry about it, but I would just use it as a reminder to work on getting your carbs always under control.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Recently I developed itchy skin followed by small bumps/rashes. A doctor told me it could be a histamine issue and wants me to take antihistamines. She also said it looks like scabies. Ideas?” [0:17:27]
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Well, rashes really need to be seen. If you're young, these typically are from something you're eating or the clothes you're wearing, or lotions you're applying, or you're showering too much. I would not shower more than, at the worst, once a week. I would use sponge bathing and hit the pits under your arms, your groin, and feet. And that's how I would handle it. And let your skin grow up with its natural oils to bring in a healthy fresh layer. It takes four months for a new skin layer to rise up to the top. So, you have to be disciplined for four months to take care of your skin that way. You have to drink enough water. You have to eat healthy fats and protein. The Parent Essential Oil Clinician's Preference here is what we recommend, and that's how I would begin to approach it. The older you get, then your skin dries out even worse, and showering excessively is even worse.
And so, all these things come into play. But you would have to be seen. We'd have to talk about your history, your work situation or not, your family, your home situation, pets, whatever, and then take a look at it that way. But I suspect most American women over-shower and bathe, overapply bathing products and these go through the skin and create irritants, and then you scratch at them and it could have the appearance of scabies, and usually it is not scabies.
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“I have a histamine intolerance and use an app for the diet.” [0:19:42]
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I'm not familiar with the app for the diet. If you go on the computer and you see all the foods listed that are histamine-rich promoters, mostly the fermented and aged foods, then you'll see, and alcoholic beverages are a part of it. Just by eliminating those, that will be a help.
Taking the HistDAO and using enzymes like the Vascuzyme with bromelain is usually helpful, or Vitalzym. These systemic enzymes help with drinking enough water. Exercise helps it. And then taking quercetin specifically in the form of, we have D-Hist by Ortho Molecular here, and we have Seasonal Allergies, which is the quercetin, same thing. I think Ortho Molecular is out of some critical products, so we are out right at this moment of D-Hist or Seasonal Allergies for quercetin, I use it every day. So, I've put myself on a diet of at least one less, so hopefully I can get through December and maybe they'll have it by January. But if you go over the counter, look for quercetin, to have an antihistamine effect, you probably need no less than 600 milligrams a day. So that's what I would say there.
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“Lab results: T4: 1.25, TSH: 1.9, T3 2.8, Thyroglobulin Antibody 36.2 IU/mL. I am currently trying to conceive, and my doc is suggesting very low-dose thyroid replacement meds and low-dose naltrexone to help with the high antibody counts. Do you think that’s necessary? 32 female, TTC now for over 6 months.” [0:21:40]
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She had a lab result where her T4 1.2, TSH, 1.9, T3, I don't know if that's free T3 or total T3, but she just said T3 2.8. These are all in the normal ranges, maybe a little on the low side. Thyroglobulin antibody was elevated at 36. So, she has some auto-antibody issues with her thyroid. She's trying to conceive, and her doctor is suggesting a low dose of thyroid replacement. I would do that, yeah. And low dose naltrexone. I haven't used low-dose naltrexone for thyroid autoimmune phenomena. So, I'm in favor of the thyroid. I don't know about low-dose naltrexone to help with the antibody counts. Do you think that's necessary? Yes, for the thyroid. I would also get on iodine, Iodoral 12.5 mg a day. You’ll have a more intelligent baby with a better IQ. You also need vitamin D to have a better IQ and immune system. You also need to eat a rich diet and healthy proteins and healthy fats. So, that's what I would suggest. So that's what I would say. Congratulations and I hope that You conceive soon and I suggest the thyroid will be a very important part of it.
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“Dr. Rita, I had my annual eye exam, and my optometrist advised me that I had some cataracts. They were very little but not unusual for my age. I will be 72 in February, so right around my age. On bioidentical hormones, you take your supplements, you drink your water, you exercise 5 days a week with weights, and a (23:52) Dr. Mitchell patient. O negative blood. What can I do to help reverse this?” [0:23:26]
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I would use the, number one, intravenous vitamin C and chelation, and we've put it together as a single enhanced chelation IV. That's the first direction I would go. And that would be the most powerful thing to stop the oxidation, the burning, so to say, oxidizing of the lens in your eye. And it's not reversible really, per se. I've never really seen reversal. Because once you burn a protein in your cornea and get cataracts rather in your lens, it's scarred, it's like scar tissue, and you can't really heal a scar tissue. But you can stop more from forming.
So, you can see your doctor if they can do an antioxidant assay. We use SpectraCell for this here. We use the microcirculation and better oxygenation, nutrient, and waste removal that's provided by EDTA chelation IVs. We use a low-carb diet. We use Systemic Enzymes on an empty stomach. We use Digestive Enzymes when you're over 65 with every meal. We certainly drink our weight in ounces as half our weight in pounds as ounces every day. Exercise. Trying to get a good night's sleep. Natural hormone replacement. And then using a good antioxidant supplement would be the Juice Plus+ series. This probably has the most research on its antioxidant and DNA damage-protecting properties. It's got 42, at least, publications, peer-reviewed, journaled in the noteworthy colleges, and universities. So that is the number one nutrient and that's why I use it. And I'm so thankful, now at 70, I don't have any cataracts. I just had my eye exam, and it does not look like I'm developing any. And you’ve got to do those things. So that's the direction I would go. Primarily Juice Plus+ every day and the IVs with those good lifestyles, and it looks like you're doing most of them.
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“What are the best food sources for calcium citrate and potassium citrate?” [0:26:23]
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Well, calcium citrate will be rich in grapefruit and lemons and orange and pineapple, the raw form. I wouldn't buy store-bought juices, that's a hyper-sugar concentrate. But just eating grapefruit and stuff. The potassium citrate is in nuts and seeds and it's very rich in meat and fish and and shellfish and sardines, and things like that. So, to get calcium citrate and potassium citrate, those are the sources I would go to. I'm sure you could Google it and find references for it. But there seems to be a bias in Google on meat because meat is a powerful universal, it even has vitamin C. Liver has vitamin C. And so, all the screening on what foods are best, it's like the last thing they bring up is beef. And this is conscious. I can't imagine that this is an accident because I've been doing this for 42 years, and it always came up as the number one source and the most nutrient-dense for human health and repair. So, meat wins my answer every day.
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“I am a PX female, 63, been taking levothyroxine for many years, currently 150 micrograms, that was increased from 100 about a year ago. Labeling states one is not to take supplements until 4 hours after taking the meds. Does this also apply to the Vitalzym I currently take? Also, since I lost 20 pounds, do I need to have my thyroid indicators measured?” [0:28:00]
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Well, yeah, you should see your doctor because you're on a prescription medication. Levothyroxine 150 micrograms, that's not a big high dose. But we would want you to have your TSH, your free T3, and your thyroid antibodies checked and look at you and find out if this 20 pounds you wanted to lose, was it excess weight, or was it weight you did not want to lose, that would need to be looked at by your doctor?
As far as taking things, everyone has an opinion and everyone's an expert and everyone's saying that on the Internet. So, it must be horrific for all of you to try and look at anything on the Internet and look it up and see all these so-called professionals on it saying two different things about the same thing. We're in a challenging world. All I can offer you is my 42 years of experience. And the only thing I would say about when to take your thyroid medicine on an empty stomach in the morning, I take all my vitamins altogether, all at one time in the morning, I get it done, because if I don't, I will forget. And so, it's better, and maybe a little less optimal, if I were to eat it with food, certain ones, or without food, other ones, but at least I get them all in every day first thing in the morning, the whole pile of it.
Now, I don't take my thyroid until at least an hour or two later. And that's the only discipline I hold on myself, is to take my thyroid about an hour or so after I take my vitamins because I don't want the calcium that's in my TLC multimineral to kind of be absorbed by my thyroid and have it be less effective. Nevertheless, even if I took my thyroid with it and it was a little less effective, but I was consistent, then you and your doctor, when you do your labs, if you do everything consistently, then you can make predictions out of it. So, there isn't a holy grail here. There is what should be a pattern, and with the pattern that serves your life, then we can work with it as clinicians.
Yeah, to be a nitpicker, hyper-religious, strict over it, yeah, you shouldn't take it with food. You shouldn't take your thyroid with food. I take my ortho digestive enzyme after I eat. That's another distinction. And I take my Vitalzym all in the morning on an empty stomach with all my other enzymes, and that's the best I can do. So, don't stress yourself out because you'll need more vitamins to deal with the stress damage. That's what I would say there. So, see your doctor, and that's how I would take my thyroid.
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“My 73-year-old husband has been on statins for 25 years. First Lipitor and then Crestor. 25 years ago, his cholesterol was around 300. 5 years ago, he started walking 4 to 5 days a week and lost 65 pounds along with changes in his diet. 6 months ago, he went off the statins and his lab work last week showed a cholesterol of 249.” [0:31:50]
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It’s wonderful. I love cholesterol. Cholesterol is critically essential for the health of every cell in your body and your brain especially.
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“His HDL was 45 and LDL 179, and triglycerides were 135. Does the increase in cholesterol of 249 suggest he should go back on the statins? His last BP was 118. He has never had a stroke or heart issue. His weight is good, and he continues to walk. [0:32:47]
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Hey, it sounds like he's healthy and doing the right thing and he lost 65 pounds. So, why would we need a medicine here? I want you to watch a YouTube, called High Cholesterol is Healthy, and that's by Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. David Diamond, Ph.D. They review all the most recent retrospective meta-analyses on cholesterol studies and the prescription of statins. And they come up with a resounding summary statement that you don't need it, especially if you haven't had a heart attack or something like that.
So, the only thing I would criticize is his triglyceride levels at 135. The world's doctors, the common lab say it's normal to have a triglyceride under 150. We're more strict here. We demand that our triglycerides should equal the HDL. So, if the HDL was 45, his triglycerides should come down to 45. And triglycerides come from carbs, starch fruit, any carbohydrate, any plant food. So, there's room to reduce the amount of plants in his diet and increase the amount of meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, and eggs that he eats. So that would be the direction I would go. So, find a good functional doctor. Watch that YouTube video, called High Cholesterol is Healthy, and let us know what you think about it the next time we're on here.
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“We'd like to visit relatives at Christmas, but our 6-year-old niece has MRSA and has had it ever since she was adopted from China as an infant. She seems to have an outbreak once a year. Should we skip our visit with them?” [0:34:52]
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Well, I don't know who you are or how healthy you are, and what kind of contact you have with her, or if she has any open lesions on her skin, or her eczema, or runny nose. But if she's 6 years old, she should have some personal hygiene developed and not be a risk. But what I would take is Argentyn. Argentyn is that nanoparticulate silver, 23 parts per billion. It's a spray, okay? And so, if you want to spray your face, spray your hands, and then take a little swig of it, swish, and swallow, you can squirt it up your nose to protect yourself. You can give it to the child and she can squirt her nose and take a little sip after she brushes her teeth before bed. Swish and swallow. You can spray it on her hands. And make sure mom is giving her vitamin D and maybe in the realm of 2, 500 IU a day in a liquid dropper or a capsule form, but a dropper is probably easier. And on zinc, a children's multi-mineral that has at least 2.5 mg of zinc every day in it. Zinc, vitamin D, and Argentyn, and a low-carb diet should solve her MRSA problem.
So, should you skip your visit? Bring the Argentyn with you and bring your vitamin D and be taking it and you’ll be healthy. And if you're healthy, I don't see why you should worry about it.
You know, I'm 70, and I have people coming and seeing me all the time, and they're children. I don't pre-screen, saying, I won't see you if you've got MRSA. I won't see you if you've got herpes. You know, God has designed us to be healthy and strong. So, there you go.
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“Dr. Rita…I was biting the skin around my nail bed, and I also filed it, and dirt must have gotten in there, and now it's all infected and sensitive. What is the best natural ointment to soak to heal this? Thank you kindly for all your help.” [0:37:30]
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Well, I can't see how bad it is. Some of these things are so bad, they have to be incised and drained, and put on oral antibiotics because you don't want your tendons infected and stuff. But if it is really very much just limited right to the peri-cuticle rim of your finger on the top part, just right at the rim there, and it's a little bit red in one tiny spot, I would have Argentyn Silver, and I would put that on it 5 times a day. Spray it or put a dropper on it. Get a Q-tip and wet it with Argentyn Silver, and roll it on there. And for goodness sake, don't bite your nails. If it isn't better to do that in 24 to 48 hours, then you have to have it seen by a doctor and make sure you don't need antibiotics.
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“I know so many people who are still afraid to eat eggs, and especially the yolks. Can you please explain why they are not the cholesterol bad guy, and are so good for you?” [0:38:43]
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How can I explain it…They have been propagandized for the promotion of selling drugs to grow a pharmaceutical international crime syndicate. And they own the media advertising. Only two countries, the United States and Zealand, allow pharmaceuticals to propagandize and stimulate their patients to hear drug commercials. And then go and they bring it up to their doctor and they sell more and more and more, and it's a marketing ploy.
So. If it was left to the physicians, it probably wouldn't have ever gotten to that level. The same with the food industry and the international crime syndicate in food and the grains and the cereals and the starches. And that attack on cholesterol was financed and promoted by them, and they suppressed the wonderful exonerating evidence about cholesterol. It was so ridiculous to even hypothesize that the science was bad. It was flawed. What was the name of the guy…K-rations were named after him. Anyway, the guy who brought this up, I can't think of it. It'll come to me later. But he wrote the seven-nation study in 1961, and this study revealed just by epidemiology and poorly done at that. And you don't make decisions based really just on epidemiology. And he cherry-picked it because there were really 21 nations sampled. So, he cherry-picked it to say those nations that ate the most fat and animal products, saturated fat, have the heart disease. So, he condemned cholesterol and that brought on a government commission and McGowan had it shoved down our throats on the TV in 1978. And he was sympathetic to the Seventh-day Adventist Church that was very much against eating so many animal products, and they were financing a lot of this pro-cereal, pro-grain, and healthy lifestyle that are more plant-based. So, there's so much politics in it, and it's nauseating. And there is so much massive influence of that cereal corporations. Kellogg was a Seventh-day Adventist. And so, there's this intertwining with a spiritual philosophy and diet, and now it's weaponized by the government, thrown down to us, and in the form of edicts and the cholesterol education. And then it's taught in all the medical schools, and you're almost laughed at if you even ask the question about it. So, censorship is very real. So, please watch the video, High Cholesterol is Healthy, and there are all kinds of studies on people eating eggs only for a whole month, which is very nutritious. And it really doesn't make a difference in their blood cholesterol. It actually makes their cardiovascular health better.
You're constructed out of cholesterol. Don't tell me it's bad for you. Egg yolks have the phospholipids and cholesterol in it. We have to have it. We need tons of it in our brain and every cell membrane that we have. So, it's absolutely wonderful.
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“With it being cold and flu season, what are the differences between a cold, flu, COVID, RSV? Thank you.” [0:43:09]
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Nothing. There's no difference. What you have to do is understand we're living in a world teeming with viruses and bacteria and fungi, and God gave us a tremendous immune system to identify, sort out, and react to these things. When we're dosed heavily, we might have congestion, a cough, or achiness as our immune system kicks in, and we start making cytokines that make our temperature go up and we get tired from it. God wants you to rest and lay down. Depresses your appetite. So, your whole body is focused on working on cleaning up your mucous membranes, your sinuses, and your throat. And so, these are all very natural. So, these various respiratory syncytial, the cold virus, adenovirus, rhinoviruses, there's many of them. COVID has never been cultured out of a single human being. It's a concocted genome sequence that is encoded and then screened for with an antibody on an alleged test for a virus that produces it. But I have never seen a single paper on anyone, not one soul being cultured for a virus that was found positive for SARS-COV- 2. So, go figure that. Try and figure that one out.
So, these colds, flu, COVID, RSV, we don't worry about them. We haven't for thousands of years. What we do worry about is now everyone is so polluted and eating such a high carb, immune-depressing diet and such highly processed foods, and are not eating zinc-rich foods that are in shellfish and fish and meat and cheese and eggs and things like this, vitamin D-rich sources or exposure to the healthy sun, now with pollution, blocking out some of the ultraviolet rays.
So, supplement with vitamin D, 5 to 10,000 International Units is the range we aim for, and get yourself tested on the level, and get your liver enzymes tested to make sure that's a nice range for you. Take zinc in the form of a zinc supplement. If you have any concerns, we have TLC Multi Mineral would be excellent to take. That's what I use. And then I use the quercetin course, which is the D-Hist or the seasonal allergies supplement. So, it acts like ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. They’re all ionophores. Ionophores are molecules that help penetrate the cell membranes to allow zinc to pass into the cell, where it'll stop the RNA replication on the ribosomes of viral coding and production of the virus.
So, get your D in there, get your zinc in there, be low carb, get enough vitamin A, take your Juice Plus+, or take a good multivitamin that's got vitamin A. By the way, this new alleged silly scare they have about the ‘White Lung’ in children, mycoplasma has been around forever. We treat it with Erythromycin, Z-Pak, or other things. And it usually is more susceptible in children because it's susceptible in people who are vitamin A-deficient. So, that's why Juice Plus+ is so valuable, it's rich in vitamin A, and that's why all the children's studies showed fewer sick days, fewer doctor visits, fewer medications used, less allergies, because the alveoli in your lungs, that cell membrane has to have the vitamin A to have a good resiliency against breakage and breakdown. You have to eat enough protein and fat to repair the cell membrane, including cholesterol.
So, get your children on Juice Plus+. You take it and the child can get sponsored, I believe, for 4 years for free with one parent. So, if you have two children, both parents can get on Juice Plus+ and can get their children on it for free up all the way through high school. If they're in college, I think they can get on it still. If they have a college-working email, and then they can even have it free in college.
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“What do you recommend for pregnant women to be taking/doing/avoiding for the best development and growth of the precious miracles in their wombs?” [0:48:27]
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What we have used for years and have had the most intelligent, best Apgar score babies, the least C-section babies and the best birth weights are children who take our TLC Energy Core, and moms who take our multivitamin-mineral. And then they take Vitamin D, and they take Iodoral, the iodine, and Juice Plus+. So, Juice Plus+, iodine, Vitamin D, and TLC Energy Core, and we’ve had the absolute best babies born. So, that's what we do.
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“I'm wondering if you have specific suggestions regarding clear broth (i.e. brands) for use during colonoscopy prep? The chicken broth I purchased at Trader Joe's doesn't seem “clear”. [0:49:18]
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Well, no, it won't be clear. Yeah. So, that's fine.
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“Also, any other clear liquids in addition to water. They suggest Jell-O, but as someone who follows your protocol, that's got a lot of sugar in it.” [0:49:37]
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No, I think the Trader Joe's chicken broth is probably fine. So, chicken broth will not be clear is fine, and not to worry about that.
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“Hello, doctor, my history 10 years ago. MIA. 99% percent blockage of the LAD (Left Anterior Descending). One stent. Now 59. Stopped statins. Now, total 356, LDL 260, triglycerides 141, HDL 67. Considering history, start statins again? You're the best.” [0:50:11]
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Yeah, there is some argument to be made that if you've had a heart attack, that there may be some value in statins. I would use the Crestor. That's the closest thing I would get to it. But really you've got to be low carb. I would really consider doing some EDTA chelation therapy. Go on the internet and type in on YouTube for a YouTube video called ‘TACT update 2019 Dr. Lamas’. And there, you'll see his 15-minute, he’s the head of cardiology at Cedars-Sinai, and he was on the trial to assess chelation therapy with the NIH. The results were fantastic. Again, they suppressed it. Then just below him, a picture or two, you'll see Dorothy Merritt with ACAM. Dorothy Merrit and I teach chelation therapy to the world's doctors every year, around March. We'll be doing it again. And so, she has a wonderful summary of why that's so valuable.
Be low carb, get on your enzymes, get a good functional doctor, and be followed up. Please do chelation.
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“According to my family doctor, autism is a neurodegenerative disorder. Is that true?” [0:52:11]
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Well, it is neurodegenerative in the sense that if you damage the neurons and you don't do anything to stop the ongoing damage or you further it, it will continue to degenerate. Of course, you must know there's a tremendous amount of information and data that is put out by the ICAN (Informed Consent Action Network). And the lawyer called Siri through ICAN, the Informed Consent Action Network, which works with Del Bigtree on the Highwire, Del Bigtree - The Highwire on Rumble.com. ICAN is a legal consortium of many wonderful lawyers, and there actually are wonderful lawyers out there, who are valiantly looking through the data, and they have won their case. I think they won something like 20-24 cases in the past 3 years, especially against the lawsuits trying to force certain vaccinations. And their main argument is asking for data to establish adequate studies ever, ever, ever having been performed on vaccines and children, and they can't produce these. They can't produce them. Can you believe that? Since 1980 to our soul when they really started pushing for all these.
You have to understand that you have to work with a doctor who works with a tremendous amount of gut health repair for a child with autism, a very powerful antioxidant, research nutraceuticals to give them, an extremely low-carb diet, finding out their blood type to help them digest, especially if they're blood type A children, water, absolutely no juice, absolutely no juice, no sugary junk food or sodas or juices, and no fruit, really. And working with that with vitamin D and methylated B complexes, we're seeing tremendous trends toward improvement.
So, that's a loaded question. And so, hopefully, that gave you some beginning points to start your search.
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“Is there anything natural to relieve itchy skin?” [0:55:35]
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Yeah. In general, don't shower or swim or bathe. Just sponge bath, and let your own skin start growing in your own oils start to soak through the layers of the dead keratin skin cells. And stay cool and dry.
Don't let yourself get heated and don't excessively work out and stress and stay dry. Do sponge bathing. Eat a diet rich with Clinician Preference Oils with the linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid, omega 3 and 6, the only two essentials a human needs. And then drink tons of water, half your weight in pounds as ounces every single day. And if that isn't starting to show some relief, be seen by your doctor. You might have some aggravating issues and so forth, get your blood type, that kind of stuff. And that's where I would start.
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“Where can we get Juice Plus+?” [0:57:02]
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If you call the office here at (714) 544-1521, you can ask for my nurse, Teri. She'll help get you the answer and the information, and she can mail things to you and answer all your questions on that. And so, we'd be happy to help you with that.
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“Cardiac arrest.” [0:57:32]
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Yes. So, Crestor probably would be the only one I use. And I would go on Coenzyme Q10, if you go on a cholesterol-lowering medication, 300 mg one a day.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/what-is-sad-and-how-to-manage-it2023-12-04T08:23:34-08:002023-12-11T06:27:41-08:00What Is SAD and How to Manage It?Wendy Lewis
Our Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) Month newsletter series is focused on raising awareness about seasonal depression. The series will consist of four articles, which will be released once a week throughout the month of December. Each article will cover different aspects of SAD, offering helpful tips and information to encourage readers to maintain positive mental health during SAD season.
Do the impending fall or winter months bring you sadness and you don’t know why? You may have seasonal affective disorder.
Seasonal Affective Disorder, also known as seasonal depression or SAD, is a form of depression that can occur in individuals during certain times of the year. SAD typically affects individuals in the winter of fall months due to less daylight exposure during these times of the year.
However, there are some individuals who may suffer from summer-pattern depression. In this case it’s believed the symptoms may be a result of a decrease in melatonin production from extended daylight and increased temperatures that can impact sleep.
Those who suffer from SAD typically experience symptoms repeatedly during specific times of the year and these symptoms can last 4-5 months at a time, or until the seasons change. Some common symptoms of SAD include persistent anxiety or feeling down, irritable, frustrated, hopeless, loss of interest in usual hobbies, decreased energy, over sleeping, overeating and many more [1].
Most symptoms of SAD are typical of depression, and someone may experience one or multiple symptoms at a time. While SAD is believed to affect millions of individuals each year, many may not even know that they suffer from it.
If you think you may be experiencing SAD, reach out to your healthcare provider to receive a proper diagnosis and learn about treatment options. Your provider can help you determine what the best options would be to help you treat and manage your symptoms.
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There are treatments available for SAD that include antidepressant medication, light therapy, psychotherapy, and in some cases, vitamin D therapy. Light therapy and vitamin D are typically used to treat those who suffer specifically from winter-pattern SAD.
While SAD is not known to be preventable, those who know they suffer from it may be able to start treatment before symptoms arise. Certain lifestyle factors may also be able to help reduce symptoms, such as eating a balanced diet, getting consistent exercise, getting outside often, and prioritizing adequate sleep [2].
Exercise has been specifically linked with reducing SAD symptoms for those who suffer from winter-pattern SAD. If you aren’t already practicing these lifestyle habits, now is a great time to start. While these lifestyle changes may not be able to help you avoid SAD, they may help you better manage your symptoms and enjoy these times of the year more [3].
Please reach out to our office if you're experiencing symptoms of seasonal affective disorder; we're here to support you in getting the assistance you need.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-november-28-20232023-11-30T09:50:41-08:002023-11-30T10:01:25-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 28, 2023Wendy Lewis
Question
“Hi Dr. E! Together with Dr. Tucker in Orange, I convinced my husband to get off statins. His total cholesterol is 359. His LDL is 263. His triglycerides were 141, HDL 67. Should he go back on statin right the way?” [0:04:05]
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Well, I’m not going to give you personal advice for your husband. But in general, a healthy man who has never had a heart attack, who has these readings, the only concerning number there are the triglycerides at 141. Your triglycerides should never be higher than the HDL. And His HDL was 67, his triglycerides were 141, so he has doubled the amount of his HDL. Since triglycerides only come from eating starch and carbohydrates and sugars and fruit sugars, nut seeds, rice, beans, pasta, crackers, bagels, cereal, all these things, plus sugary treats, cakes and ice cream, so when you take in this much energy in the form of these carbohydrates, and you’re not burning it up immediately, then what happens is the body will take those sugars and start converting them into triglycerides which is the simplest form of fat. This floats in your blood and is intended, hopefully, that you would burn it off. If you don’t burn it off, it starts to accumulate and get bigger and your liver can start getting fatty liver. Then it can start to be associated with, along with the high starch carbohydrate towards diabetes.
So, he has to learn to take personal control of himself and cut down on these starchy fruit sugar carbohydrates. And he may not think that he doesn’t have to because he exercises, but that’s the fallacy of aging. All of us with age become diabetics or move towards diabetes, and the reason is our muscle mass starts to shrink and go away 1 percent every year after the age of 40 for sure. So by the time you’re 60, you can possibly lose 20 percent of your muscle. And your muscle mass is the engine, part of the engine, that is helping to use up the energy that comes with the carbohydrates, starch, and fruit sugars. And we tend to eat the same habit of eating these things, even though we’re aging and losing our engine to burn them. Therefore, you start building up the sugars and move toward diabetes and hypertriglyceridemia, and all the other related chronic metabolic diseases, metabolic syndrome, high blood pressure, cancers, diabetes, strokes, all those kinds of things.
So, the only area of concern would be the triglycerides. He should do some serious reduction in the volume of the fruits, vegetables, nut seeds, and stuff, and increase the amount of fish and chicken and beef and pork and eggs and so forth that he will eat. And embrace some fasting times, to eat in a window of time maybe between 10 A.M. and 4 P.M., a 6-hour window, and to not eat late ever, and to maybe incorporate a 24-hour fast once a week. So he would go from dinner to late afternoon of one day, not eat until dinner to late afternoon of the following day. These are the things that I would do to lower my triglyceride and get it to be equal to the HDL or lower than the HDL, and that’s where the magic happens. So, that’s my suggestion.
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“He’s been eating pretty clean, but not perfect. Would a better diet help?” [0:08:30]
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Most definitely. So, hopefully, that gives you some good advice there.
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“My husband is 68 and is healthy, and his PSA is 4.8. It was 4.1. at the first of the year. He has been taking 1 Prostatrol Forte daily for the past year or so. Should he take 2 per day to help lower it?” [0:08:42]
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Yeah, that has the items in it that are associated with reducing the alpha-reductase and conversion of testosterone into estradiol. Estradiol builds up, and testosterone can convert to estradiol in a man, especially if he drinks the alcohol and he’s on a high-carb diet. So then guys who drink a lot of beer and alcohol and eat pizza and tortilla chips and Cheetos, they get these beer bellies. And the pappy breasts and that’s all from, of course, the sugar and starches, but it’s also the estrogen effect from their diet and their testosterone drops off and so forth.
So, I would certainly have him really reduce his starch and carbs. We’re in a country that is marketing to you to be a repeat eater, have habitual patterns, have triggers, and the marketing and psychology of getting you to eat things, the way they want to sell it. And they market the food, genetically modified with glyphosates and BT toxins, and then they have the clouds, chemtrails, and the heavy metal nanoparticulate toxic metals, and we don’t drink enough water, we drink entertaining drinks. We are marketed to be consumers so that everything that touches our mouth has to be an entertainment and tantalizing, and this is killing us all. So, you have to embrace self-control, you have to incorporate exercise, fastings, time-restricted eating, and lower the carbs because we are in an absolute carbohydrate sea of eating, eating, eating. And they market it through, especially this time of the year, and all I do January through March is trying to fix all the damage of all this marketing and eating. Enjoy water.
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“Merry Christmas Dr. E! Since I stopped eating all dairy, my urine calcium was lower. What do you think of calcium citrate supplements?” [0:11:16]
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Well, I would say you’ll get all the needed calcium usually in a healthy diet where you’re getting fish and meat and chicken and eggs and pork and that should be a fantastic source of dietary amino acid chelated supply of calcium. I don’t like extraneous sources of calcium unless there’s some extreme condition with it, a medical condition. You should be able to get this from your diet. If you’re older or have a blood type A, A’s don’t digest meat, fish, chicken, beef, and eggs as well, so they need the digestive enzyme to help extract all this out of their protein and help them with the fatty digestion as well. But definitely, I tend to avoid calcium supplements. So, unless you have some unique medical condition, they’re very rare, I don’t think it’s necessary at all for your bones or anything to use it.
I’ve been practicing for 42 years. I have never prescribed calcium supplementation, and yet I have probably the highest amount of women who are in their 80s,70s, and 60s with the best to normal bond density. So, I’m not a supporter of calcium supplementation.
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“Have you ever used potassium citrate to help dissolve kidney stones? All tests are normal.” [0:13:05]
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No. They don’t know the exact cause of kidney stones. Usually, they’re calcium oxalate, the majority of them. And water is probably the best thing you need. There isn’t a miracle stone dissolver. It is instead usually chronic dehydration and the metabolic syndrome from this high-carb eating. And sugar is acidic. Diabetes is acidic. So, that would be my better choice there. I don’t think we need to find an element to chase after any one particular item. For instance, vitamin D is almost universally deficient in the vast, vast majority, I would say 85 percent at least of all Americans. So, yes, that probably should be taken.
Number two, the #1 mineral usually low in America by the vast 90 percent/80 percent is magnesium. Zinc, we’re finding, is typically low. And if you would eat enough meat, fish, chicken, and eggs, and things like that, you would probably resolve the magnesium and the zinc deficiency. So, we’re not eating enough healthy natural proteins. We’re not drinking enough water. We’re gumming it up with all the sugary carbs. Right on, their marketing propaganda ploy to get you to be a repeat eater.
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“Part 2 – My husband does not drink, but he does eat too many sweets. He is a baseball coach and is very active but needs to tame his sweet tooth for sure. We both need to lower our triglycerides.” [0:14:57]
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Absolutely. We’re living in a lie. I’m just going to say the example I give my patients in my office visits is that people will come to me and they say, “But I’m busy and I’m doing work and I’m coaching and I’m a construction worker and I’m working hard, building and I’m using my muscles every day. I can work this off, or I do competitive sports, and I can burn it off.” But the sad reality is really the vast majority of us are eating too many carbs. And I liken it to – let’s say someone is addicted to going out, they’re married and committing adultery and seeing prostitutes for hire, and they know it’s wrong and they can't stop it and they quit seeing the prostitutes and they fix up their marriage, everything is better, but then when they are asked how did they solve their problem, they say, “Well I switched to just watching porn.” So, it isn’t really solving the problem in the true sense.
So, just because you add an exercise doesn’t mean you’re going to catch up with your triglycerides. We need to clean that bad stuff out of our life and get these silly treats that are marketed to us and put them back into the lock and key of true celebration moments and stop using this hole as an entertainment hole and look at grocery stores as pornography stores for the mouth. Grocery stores are pornography stores for the mouth – because I have to look hard at grocery stores today to find food instead of packaged processed foods and so forth.
So, please, please see how serious this is. It is linked with your cancer. It is linked with your cardiovascular diseases. It’s linked with diabetes. It’s linked with neurodegenerative diseases. It’s linked with musculoskeletal damage. All these carbohydrate and fruit sugars, fruit, fruit, fruit sugars, juicing, all this kind of stuff, our bodies were never meant to have that high hit of calorically high calories like that.
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“Is fasting before a reversal surgery for a stoma safe? Like 10 days or more?” [0:17:44]
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The person who does a prolonged fast has to be trained or seasoned in and/or well-understood and known by their doctor. I’ve done a 5- to 7-day fast, just water. But pretty much beyond that, unless we know the person and they’ve trained themselves to be able to do that, that gets to be pretty dangerous. So, I would speak to fasting as a healthy intervention for healthy lifestyles and longevity. But as a single entity just for this reversing the stoma, I’m going to say you’ll probably do just as well if you live the low carbohydrate lifestyle, do intermittent fasting, never eat late, exercise, drink plenty of water, take vitamin D and magnesium for sure, and go on a 3-day water fast prior to surgery, and if you’re familiar with how to fast, that should be quite adequate. Most surgeons don’t want you to fast that long. They’ll typically say a 12-hour fast before surgery. I often tell all my patients that 24 hours is what I recommend.
So, unless I knew you personally, I would say don’t do anything drastic if you’re not familiar with prolonged fasting, and I think a 3-day fast is just fine and very promotional of growth repair. See, when you fast, you’re stimulating, remodeling, and healing growth hormone, so that there is less inflammation and there’s better adhesion and repair when you fast. So even after the surgery, eating a diet that maybe a day after the fast, just like chicken broth with water to get your electrolytes, you might use an electrolyte. I put salt. I take my sea salt here and I put it in my water, a dash. So, when I’m on a fast, I take my vitamins while I do it, so I keep my minerals up.
So, you need to see your doctor and you need to discuss this for your particular needs because whatever caused you to have the stoma in the first place may have created some scenario in your life where you’re already depleted. So please seek medical advice.
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“I use monk fruit and stevia to sweeten my coffee and tea. Are those natural sugar substitutes OK to use in moderation? Thanks, Dr. E. May God bless you, John, and family.” [0:20:38]
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Thank you for the blessing. Again, see, you’re trying to preserve the sweet taste. Can you learn to just enjoy coffee as black? Again, when you get away from being with a prostitute but then we go to just paper pornography, you know, images, you’re still satisfying, so to say, “an itch”. So, I’m not against monk fruit or stevia or xylitol, but I’m saying, why do you need the sweetness? You’ve been trained to need that sweetness. We can literally actually get ourselves off of these hooks and have a healthier life.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, any suggestions on what can I take after colonoscopy regarding the anesthesia and the PLENVU powder I have to drink before the procedure.” [0:21:46]
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That must be the purging stuff they’re giving it or that might, I don’t know what PLENVU stands for. In general, we like people to do the vitamin C with EDTA chelation to offset the downtime and the anesthesia for surgery. Colonoscopy is usually brief, and usually, you’re just put into a light sleep and it isn’t very powerful. So, that’s not as critical as major surgery where you can be hours under, and definitely, they give you antibiotics and stuff like that. But in general, an Immune Drip or a chelation with vitamin C, we call it enhanced chelation, is what we would do.
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“Any concerns for taking mannitol to ease Parkinson’s symptoms?” [0:23:04]
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That has been coming up in the research of recent. Mannitol is a sugar alcohol, and it is really not absorbed and it doesn’t create a glucose spike like other sugars do. And what happens then is they found that taking up to, I think it’s like 15 to 18 grams of mannitol a day is associated with decreasing some of the Parkinsonium plaque between the neurons that creates some of this interference with the motor activities in a Parkinson’s patient. So, I don’t think there’s – mannitol has been around for so long, and since it has been found to help dissolve some of these proteins – I forget the name of them. I can’t think of the name. But there is a special name for the protein neurotransmitter where these Lewy bodies and things like these are stuck in. And if mannitol helps dissolve it, it seems to be something else to help with Parkinson's, for which there is no known cure.
Now, of course, we would recommend improved microcirculation with EDTA chelation and the vitamin C, Systemic Enzymes, exercise, a very low-carb diet, so the capillaries don’t get sticky and all gummed up, plenty of water, and those kind of things as well. But I don’t think there are any concerns.
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“How can I start a fast for the first time?” [0:24:53]
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Well, in general, if you’re healthy, we usually have people start with intermittent fasting where we put them on a time restriction of eating. So, we’ll say start learning, just skip breakfasts all the time. Or conversely, have breakfast and lunch but skip your dinners all the time. And then if you can get away without eating for 16 hours and you’re allowing this 8-hour eating window, then you try and narrow that window down to a 6-hour eating window. And then you can try and narrow it down to a 20-hour window. And you could then go from dinner on one day to dinner the next day. And that’s how you start to train your body to be much more sensitive to the amount of carbohydrates, and your machinery for burning fats becomes upregulated so that you can handle a long distance of time without eating up too many, many days and train your body to do that for health, for weight loss, for mental clarity, to detox, many wonderful things. But that’s how I would start.
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“What do you think of a holistic dentist’s requirement for all new patients to get a CT in his office? My husband has sensitivity in one tooth, no root canals, but isn’t happy with the dentist he has been going to for many years because of rough cleanings with new hygienists, questionable advice, and I just noticed fluoride treatment on his past bills.” [0:26:18]
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So, the dentist has been giving fluoride treatment through a hygienist. Okay. Well, they do. In fact, I would say, at least for 10 or 12 years, dentists have been doing an in-office CT scan. It’s a device that kind of goes around the head, it’s like a halo, and the radiation comes in here and the receptor side is here. You put your head on a chin and then you bite onto a tab to hold yourself still, and then this thing would do a scan like that. It will scan and take the pictures. Now, why do they want that? Well, they get much better bony and teeth imaging. They will be able to pick up cavitations, and pockets that shouldn’t be there, and they get better measurements on CAT scans.
Now, the radiation exposure with the CT/CATs in the dental office, even if you put a lead collar to protect your thyroid and you can put on lead glasses to protect your eye and stuff like that, some even put on a lead cap, these, I would say, Sieverts/millisieverts are given. I don’t know the number, but I know it’s anywhere from 10 to 100 times more radiation exposure than your standard two-dimensional X-rays. So yeah, you’re getting exponentially more radiation. But depending on the situation, if you have infected bones from all the root canals and you’re getting a necrotic hole in your bone of your jaw and mandible or maxilla up here, then that’s probably something that needs to be done. So that’s what I would say about that.
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“My husband and I are considering hormone replacement therapy. We both have issues with our thyroid. We live in Oregon and discovered that there is a place nearby that provides bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. What sort of questions and concerns should we have when searching for a provider/treatment?” [0:28:52]
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Well, how many years have they been doing it? And there was a time when I just started too, and people used me, and so, everyone starts somewhere. But the more time, you know, I feel the more comfortable.
The other thing is I would not use pellets. I don’t like pellets implanted in the skin that seep out hormones over a long, like a 3-month period of time. That is foreign to the body’s natural way of receiving things. The inert matrix is not so inert. What if your body rejects it? What if the dosing isn’t good enough? What if it’s too high? Once you put an implant, then you’re stuck with that thing. So, don’t take any pellets. In my experience over many decades, I’ve never seen pellets to work well. Now, it makes a lot of money, it looks fancy dancy, and you gown up and you sterilize the area, and you have the lights on, and then you take the big needle and numb it up, and then you cut and put your little insertion in there and so forth. But it makes money for the doctor, and there are too many side effects, in my opinion. So, how long have they been doing it? Don’t use pellets.
I think the topical creams are probably the first and best way to start natural hormone therapy. We have the testosterone as a cream, and we have the estradiol for the girls as a cream and the progesterone as a cream. So, this is my stuff right here. We also have the testosterone and progesterone for men. And this way, you can dial on the bottom, and it clicks a little squirt on the top, and then you take it, and I like to rub it right over the blood vessels right here or put it on my face, so I don’t get as many wrinkles with aging. Estradiol helps with elastin/collagen and to keep the skin taut and healthy over time. So, that’s manageable. You can use more clicks or less clicks. You can use them any time of the day, twice a day, evenings only. I mean there’s so much personalization you can do with topical creams. And if they bark at that, it means they want to just write a script and give you a patch or some commercial product, and these commercial products have other inert ingredients I don’t like. I just like basic Eucerin cream, very very simple. So, I really had no topical allergies for 23 years here now. So that’s what I would ask.
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"Hi, Dr. Rita. I’m 56 years old with an AB-positive blood type. What are some ways I can reduce my triglyceride level? It is currently 126. Total cholesterol 204. HDL is 56. I also take 4 TLC metabolic capsules per day and have done so the last 1 1/2 years.” [0:32:14]
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Yeah, that’s too high. So, you want to get your triglycerides to be equal to your high-density lipoprotein 56. So, you’re double that. You need to start fasting and exercising more. Don’t ever eat late at night. Look at fruit and juicing and too many nuts and seeds. And good food becomes bad food when you eat too much food. The older you are, even if you take on exercise, weightlifting, or running, you really can’t outrun what you put in your mouth for the most part. We’re losing our muscle mass and the engine capacity to burn it off is diminishing. So, you have to face self-discipline, fasting, exercise, time-restricted eating, lots of water, that kind of stuff.
You also take 4 TLC metabolic capsules per day and you’ve done that a year and a half. Yes, TLC Metabolic Formula assists in the processing to burn up the sugars, but you can outeat any vitamin supplementation, you can outeat any exercise program you’ve designed to lower your blood sugar with and triglyceride levels and insulin you want to bring down to.
So, again, I want your triglycerides to be equal to or lower than your high-density HDLs, roughly that’s around 50. I want your insulin to be at least 4 or less on a fasting basis. I want your fasting blood sugar to be 85 or less, and I want your hemoglobin A1c to be 5.2 or less.
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“My husband has recently received blood work results indicating a high red blood cell count. Additional testing including an ultrasound was found that he had non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, which shows early stages of cirrhosis. What supplements and treatment plan would you recommend?” [0:34:26]
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is implying that the doctor screened him for alcohol consumption. So, he’s not getting scarring of the liver by abusing it with the toxin alcohol, which is inflaming and damaging and creates scarring over time, so that’s good. But a high carbohydrate fruit sugar diet does just the same. So he has to do what you’ve just heard me say on the program here. He has to start doing intermittent fasting, not eating late, exercising, being on an extremely low-carb diet, or moving to carnivore to completely turn this around for three months and learn to train himself to get disengaged from the propaganda/social pressures to eat these damning foods that are processed, full of high-fructose corn syrup that is so addicting. Drink more water. Take Systemic Enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day to kind of soften the scarring and fibrotic and be an anti-inflammatory. And get his insulin, triglyceride, fasting blood sugar, and hemoglobin A1c in those ranges I just listed.
And if he has a high red blood cell count, my question would be, is he on testosterone replacement hormone therapy? Because men, if they use too much testosterone, they can stimulate the production in their bone marrow of too many red blood cells, and you would want to have that checked out. That’s why if I prescribe testosterone, I demand that the patient sees me every six months with a complete blood count, so I can track for that. But that’s what I would do there.
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“Will you share general recommendations for a response to head trauma during teen sports? I’m guessing: increase Systemic Enzymes to 3 times per day, high dose vitamin C IV therapy, lots of water hydration? Anything else?” [0:36:44]
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Well, the low-carb diet, because eating meat, fish, chicken, turkey, eggs, and butter is the cholesterol that repairs the microdamage in a head concussive trauma. To repair it, you have to have the protein, cholesterol, and fats to do that with. And so, a low-carb diet and a diet rich in proteins, eggs, cholesterol, and butter would be very, very supportive, along with the enzymes.
And then of course protecting your child from reinjury. The reinjury can be more damaging. Too often, concussions are allowed to go back into play too soon. And so, what is the ideal time? Everyone argues over that. I think he should be off sports for at least a week and be observed for headaches, nausea, vomiting, vision complaints, irritability, forgetfulness, mood drops, and depression. These things are typical in post-concussive syndromes. And if that is happening, there are those that say, if you get a concussion 3 times, you’re out for that sport for the season. So, these are some of the recommendations I would give. But to get the information, see your doctor and have the child evaluated for that.
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“My friend has a 5-year-old twin with a brain tumor. Do you recommend him to be on a low-carb diet?” [0:38:45]
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Well, yes, I do. And remember, babies are on a low-carb diet for a year or year and a half if they breastfeed, if they’re on mother’s milk. Yeah, there’s some lactose in the milk products, but basically, a protein and high-fat diet is what all children are on that are breastfed for months or a year or a year and a half. Yeah. So, I would go on a high protein fat diet, very low carb, very, very low carb.
Now, just interestingly, bring it up to her, and ask the oncologist/pediatrician about Fenbendazole and Mebendazole. These have been shown they’re antiparasitic, like Ivermectin, as well as Ivermectin. These are antiparasitic medications that have been found to be associated with some tremendous tumor reduction and inhibition of metastasis and growth of brain tumors, and the worst of which is Glioblastoma Multiforme, and it has worked on those. So, do some research on that. Discuss with your oncologist and pediatrician. And yes, definitely be on that. Make sure the child has good vitamin D levels, at least 60 to 80 mcg per deciliter, and is on a low-carb diet.
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“Does TLC offer homeopathic remedies as a means for treating diseases and injuries? I’ve been using it with great success for my seasonal allergies and arnica cream works wonders for me when I fell twice last year, and it prevented bruising. I’d like to be able to use it more as a means of healing but need guidance.” [0:40:54]
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Yeah, I did a second doctorate in natural medicine/holistic medicine in 1999 to the early 2000s at Capitol University of Washington D.C. The place is closed up now after about 10 years. So much pressure was put on it. They couldn’t raise enough money and on and on all the stories go. But when it started out in the mid-90s, by the time I got involved in the late 90s, there was a very good training program. We had training in homeopathy and back remedies, flower essence, essential oils, energy medicine, and all these wonderful teachings. And homeopathic was valuable. However, I have not found, since I learned all that, that I need it really; Not to say it doesn’t work, it’s just I seem to be able to get away with getting everything solved here decades after my training without having to do the homeopathy. But I’m not against it, and I did see improvements in my training, and certainly with arnica that was helpful with the trauma.
So, I would say, Dr. Johnston, our naturopathic, and Dr. Core, our naturopathic doctor, they have more background and referrals for homeopathic. So, they’ll give you concentrations to go find at the stores and they have these big supplies where you have all these various herbal and tinctures and strengths that they can refer to.
So, yes, we do in a limited way.
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“Is there any benefit to taking a collagen supplement, and if so, what?” [0:43:16]
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My suggestion is that I would eat meat and I would eat all the collagen that’s in your meat, I would eat fish and chicken and turkey. These things are rich in collagen. And if they’re in your daily diet, they will supply and should supply all your needs. If you get off these junk foods and toxins, that will be important as well.
Now, to get a quality collagen supplement, remember there are different and many different kinds of collagen, and the dimensions of the Dalton, the lengths of these collagen molecules, are variable and they’re big. And so, it’s hard to get them absorbed. Even if you take them, you might be taking some product and not get a benefit from them.
So, I have a somewhat sour attitude toward supplementation with collagen. Unless there’s some serious issue and the person just refuses to eat meat or something, then maybe that would be the case for it.
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“My friend has had great success with her 77-year-old mom who has Parkinson’s with the LifeWave phototherapy patches. She is now 80% symptom-free. Such a blessing!” [0:44:49]
Answer
Yeah. LifeWave, there are these little round patches, and they have crystals in them, that when you put them on your skin, and usually you’ll put them on the back of your neck or between your shoulder blades or the small of your back, these various areas, your body electrochemistry reacts with the electrochemical frequency of the crystal and a synergy develops. So that synergy is talking to communicate with the energy flows that are occurring through your nerve conductions throughout your body, that you have energy flowing all the time. How do you know it? Just do an EKG where you pull up sensors for the electrochemical flow dynamic of the tissue on your heart. The electrochemical flow is called an electrocardiogram. And so, yeah, we’re energy beings, we’re biochemical energy beings. So, these energy LifeWave pads are useful, and they are growing in popularity and starting to get some clinical studies.
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“Hello dear Dr. Rita, which indicators on a thyroid panel do you consider more important, free T3, free T4, or TSH? Also, what is your medication of choice to treat hypothyroidism?” [0:46:31]
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Free T3, yes. Free T4, no. TSH, yes, and I usually do TSH mostly because if I don’t do it, the patient comes back and says their loved one or their other doctor wanted to get it done. So, I’m tired of reordering or attaching it to it, so I usually order it. Because if you’re on thyroid replacement therapy, the need for the signal of the thyroid stimulating hormone to talk to the thyroid gland to make the hormone, you don’t need that signal anymore because you’re bypassing it by taking the thyroid hormone. So, why do I need the signal anymore? If I give a healthy dose of natural thyroid and I do the blood levels to measure the hormone level, then the signal in the brain will go down. And historically, doctors don’t like it to be any less than 0.4. But I symptomatically treat my individual patients on a one-on-one basis. And if they are still tired or constipated or losing hair, dry skin, or foggy thinking, I am going to increase their thyroid to save parameters, checking other lab and physical exam things, so that they feel good and they can have a more robust immune metabolic body. I don’t go by a rate-limiting number. All these years/decades, I’ve used it where the TSH is 0.00 and their free T3 is fine and their heart rate and their energy, all the other things, are just doing fine. So, I don’t like the TSH necessarily.
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“Also, what is your medication of choice to treat hypothyroidism?” [0:48:34]
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Well, that too depends on the patient, but I don’t like Tirosint or Synthroid or Levothyroxine largely because they are primarily T4. T4 is a precursor, and your body has to turn it into the real thyroid hormone. So, if you’re not good at converting T4 into T3, you’re pushing up the dose of the Levothyroxine, Synthroid, and Tirosint higher and higher until it finally pushes out enough T3. And very often then they’ll give you a Liothyronine, which is T3, and you wind up getting two doses, more money when I can give a whole glandular single item that usually does it at lower doses and is, I think, safer.
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“My husband gets foggy “woosy” sometimes and our primary care doctor thinks it could be caused from the off-brand Prilosec he takes daily. He had his gallbladder out 10 years ago. What can he take instead?” [0:49:30]
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I would need to know the age and other medical conditions. But very often, blood sugars and triglyceride elevations are making people foggy-thinking and it’s not necessarily the Prilosec, although that can be a side effect. I would say don’t eat late, lower the carbs, use a Digestive Enzyme when you eat food, 1 or 2 with every meal, and take a walk after dinner especially. Make sure you don’t eat after 6 o’clock so your stomach can empty out. And then if you’re having any sense of heartburn, GlutaShield would be a very valuable item. Take a scoop of that in water and drink it before bedtime, and you could do that multiple times a day for any heartburn.
The other thing is our Phospholipid powder. Phospholipid powders help the lining of the stomach. And the other thing would be L-carnosine, that’s zinc carnosine. That’s a natural antacid. So, there are many other safe things you can try.
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“Is it OK to support my thyroid by taking one GTA II Forte capsule/day? My most recent TSH was a 1.8.” [0:51:12]
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I think that’s fine, yeah, because the TSH is still in a reasonable range. So, GTA II Forte, I think, is a somewhat glandular thyroid over-the-counter product. I’m not sure what that is for sure, but that’s what I believe it is. But it sounds fine. But of course, I don’t know what GTA is, so I have to look it up. But I think it is a glandular thyroid kind of product – GT, that’s what it means.
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“What do you think about eating canned tuna that is wild-caught and tested for mercury to a limit of 0.1 parts per million? We are thankful to God for you and for TLC, Dr. Ellithorpe. I hope that you have a blessed holiday with your family!” [0:52:06]
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Thank you and the same to all of you. I covet your prayers and intercession for our work here, for our doctors to do the right thing, to do their studying and to stay up on things, and to be protected from intrusive rules and regulations from above.
What do I think of it? I think it’s fine, especially because we are being exposed to mercury in so many ways. For instance, China puts up maybe two coal powerplants every week or two and they’re going up and up and up, and the heck with this climate change concern, and they’re puffing out all the smoke with no EPA controls because it’s cheap and they don’t care about their people getting toxically damaged by it, and the mercury is released. So, it’s in the atmosphere. It’s landing on the ground. It’s getting in the fish. And I would say that’s why I thank the Lord for providing us with chelation therapy. You could do that once a month or 10 times a year. Or any IV chelation you can do, you’re going to reduce your burden of lead, arsenic, aluminum, cadmium, mercury, and all these things.
So yeah, I think it’s fine. If you say compared to an organic-labeled Dorito chips, yeah, I’d go for the wild-caught tuna any day to get away from that processed food crap that makes you think it’s natural and it’s not. And then do a chelation on and off.
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“I have been reading your transcripts for a couple of months and know that you talk about how important it is to eat protein, primarily meats and seafood. What do you think about something called mTOR (Mammalian Target of Rapamycin) and how eating too much protein makes mTOR too high (which can be detrimental to humans by promoting aging)?” [0:54:26]
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You’re technically correct, but it’s practically a useless argument. Leucine is a branched-chain amino acid that is one of the essential (I think there are three branched-chain amino acids) and it’s very valuable in promoting muscle growth, especially in the elderly eating foods that are rich in leucine. And you can look up a list on that, I don’t recall off hand. Meat is a good source but not one of the highest sources necessarily. And they’re helping these elderly patients put back on muscle with exercise programs. And the studies that I’ve seen on that have proven even in the elderly that up to 2.3 grams of protein per – was it pounds or kilograms, I don’t remember. But if you cross-reference on the internet, leucine and sarcopenia of the elderly, I’m sure you’ll see the NIH studies on this regarding restoring muscle mass and building it up.
Now, most people eat well under 0.8 grams of protein per kilogram of a human body. So, even the Americans who can afford to buy meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and cheeses, they don’t even get to 0.8 grams. If you’re a carnivore, you are probably getting closer to 1.5 grams and that’s even not enough to really be of concern.
So, the answer is, yes, mTOR is stimulated by excessive protein. Leucine is probably the one item. But your steak is not made of totally leucine. It’s got all the other 22 or 23 amino acids in it, plus other things. So, I think you’re getting worried, straining at a net and letting a camel pass through the eye of a needle. So, we need to research this, we need to think about it, but we have so much need for protein and not for carbs and fruit sugars, and the healthy fats we need.
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“I am an out-of-state listener and love your podcast. Is there any way to order your products through your website? (I was told that only patients can buy them.). If not, can you recommend another company you like? I’m interested in the Phospholipid powder, Systemic Enzymes, and the SBI Protect Powder.” [0:57:58]
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If you call (714) 544-1521, you can get in the Vitamin Department, talk to Kelly or Alex or John (my husband), and ask those questions because you should be able to get them. Now, we carry some products, like from Ortho Molecular, that are exclusively only for doctors. However, I have private labeled some of these things with their permission so that other patients can buy them. So, please call (714) 544-1521, and then you can try them out. Thank you for asking.
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“Hello Dr. Ellithorpe, I am on progesterone for increased PMS anxiety. Though progesterone has helped me tremendously, can being on it long-term be harmful?” [0:59:14]
Answer
Absolutely not. I’ve been using progesterone since, I don’t know, 37. I’m 70. So how many years is that? 33? Yeah. No, there’s no problem with progesterone.
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“Hr. Dr. Rita! I recently had a CAT scan with contrast, and about 8 years ago I had an MRI with contrast. How dangerous is gadolinium?” [0:59:43]
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It is neurotoxic like all heavy metals are neurotoxic and other things.
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“From what I read on the internet, many people are dealing with gadolinium toxicity.” [0:59:58]
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True. And the good news is EDT chelation pulls it right out. I’m doing that. I usually tell all my cancer patients after a scan to come in later that day or the next day and get a chelation for sure to pull that out.
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“And how many times should I do chelation? Thank you for taking the time to answer my question.” [1:00:18]
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Well, we don’t get money from the NIH that the gang of Fauci et al sit on the fat money for research for their personal profiteering and royalties. But if we could get that money, I could give you the answer. All I can tell you is my clinical experience is chelation removes it clearly.
Number two, how often do you need it? Well, I would say, certainly after every exposure to a dye for a CT scan, you should get it. But for the buildup that you have, I would say at least 10 chelations is probably reasonable, and we can do a challenging pre and post to look at the reductions on it and then you’ll see the improvement.
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“Hello Dr. E! In the event of a nuclear radiation emergency, I have heard that taking potassium iodide before or shortly after exposure to radioactive iodine can be helpful to protect the thyroid. Can you give your opinion on this please, and where we might tablets if you agree? Praise God, He holds us in the palm of His hands.” [1:01:11]
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That’s indeed true. Yes, it’s absolutely established that iodine supplementation is protective against radioactive exposure that you would get from radiation in any form. And so, a 12.5 mg tablet taken once a day is what I do. When I was in the military, I was trained in radiological, biological, chemical, decontamination, and treatment as a medical doctor and flight surgeon, iodine was given to all of us, and we had these potassium iodine tablets, the 12.5 mg. Just call the office here at (714) 544-1521 and ask for the vitamin shot and they’ll send you the Iodoral or the i-Throid. They are both iodine that we use here, and you can take one a day for sure, and I would certainly encourage you in that.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/the-true-cost-of-diabetes2023-11-27T08:03:27-08:002023-11-27T08:03:29-08:00The True Cost of DiabetesWendy Lewis
Our Diabetes Awareness Month newsletter series is focused on raising awareness of diabetes. The series will consist of four articles, which will be released once a week throughout the month of November. Each article will cover different aspects of diabetes, offering information and resources aimed at reducing the stigma associated with diabetes, encouraging early diagnosis, and promoting healthy lifestyle choices to prevent and manage diabetes effectively.
Diabetes is a common disease with significant costs beyond the financial burden, including the physical and emotional tolls. As diabetes is a chronic condition that must be addressed daily, it will affect patients’ activities of daily living, mental health, and finances. It is essential to consider all of these aspects to care for a patient with diabetes properly.
It has been shown that patients with diabetes are much more likely to have physical limitations than those without diabetes. This effect can be seen across all age groups, with the greatest impact on younger patients. In particular, physical tasks involving leg function may be most impaired in patients with diabetes. Furthermore, patients with diabetes can have decreased health-related quality of life compared to those without diabetes, which was shown to be primarily driven by a decrease in physical functioning.
In addition to the physical burdens, patients with diabetes also experience significant emotional burdens. Diabetes can severely impact a patient’s social life and mental well-being due to the need for constant self-management and medication adherence. The combination of all the additional stress on patients with diabetes can lead to diabetes distress, which can present through anger, denial, frustration, and loneliness. Diabetes distress over time can lead to burnout, causing patients to ignore blood sugar checks, appointments, and medication adherence. This lack of management can lead to severe complications such as loss of vision, amputations, and nerve damage.
Diabetes is also a very costly disease because it is a chronic condition. In the US in 2022, the total cost of diabetes was $412.9 billion. The average cost of medical care for each patient with diabetes is approximately $16,750 per year, 2.3 times higher than for patients without diabetes. Patients with diabetes also have increased indirect costs through decreased productivity at work or an inability to work because of disease-related disability. The cost of diabetes is projected to increase significantly to $835 billion by 2030 in the US alone.
The true cost of diabetes goes well beyond the financial burden placed on patients. It is crucial to consider the physical and emotional burdens so that patients can experience comprehensive care to improve their daily lives and mental health and reduce the monetary costs of diabetes. The combined burdens and projected increase in costs of diabetes care show that it is imperative to find innovative and multi-faceted approaches to care for these patients.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-november-21-20232023-11-23T10:12:50-08:002023-11-23T10:12:50-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 21, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“Hi, Dr. Rita, have you seen issues after ear wax removal via irrigation causing hyperacusis? Is it typically recommended to remove earwax with irrigation method?” [0:01:54]
Answer
I haven’t found that to be a common at all problem reported. And practicing medicine for 42 years, I would say usually we would have some warm water. We’d often put in some hydrogen peroxide in it. And we would use a small, soft plastic catheter, and we would gently pulse the warm water into the ear canal, and it would soften and dissolve the wax, and then it would flow into the receiver container, and that would be it. I think if you’re too aggressive or you use anything other than someone’s experienced hand and understanding the pressure of the squirt, it might create some micro-trauma. Hyperacusis is having a sensitivity to sounds that would normally not have been a problem. So, no, I don’t find that a common thing. And no, I’m not against irrigation for earwax removal.
Now, I want to just explain, the inside of the canal of the ear has hairs, okay, hairs inside the canal. And if you stick something into the canal, like a Q-tip, you’re going to wind up wiggling that hair. Why does God have hair in the canal? So, if a bug or something is trying to crawl into your ear, the wiggling of it, that hair in the canal is a secretion signal for the wax to prevent any bug to survive. And so, it’s for your protection. So, wax is a benefit. And therefore, don’t stick anything in your ear. Zero. Nothing. Nada. Never. Okay. I would say the more you try and clean it out yourself, the more you move, without intention, those hair follicles – and it’s a catch-22, the more you try and clean, the more it’ll secrete the wax. So, please don’t do it.
There are earwax softening over-the-counter medications, and your nose and throat specialist has special solutions, but I have found that just good old-fashioned hydrogen peroxide mixed 50/50 percent with very warm water, and when you add in the hydrogen peroxide, it makes it just tepid warm, is an excellent way to remove it. And have a doctor do it, who knows what they’re doing? And that’s the best I can suggest. No, I haven’t seen that as a common problem. No, I’m not against irrigation for clearing out wax.
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“Hi Dr. Rita, what can I do to get rid of and prevent varicose veins and spider veins on the legs?” [0:05:15]
Answer
The veins have valves in them, so that as you’re pumping your muscles, it pushes the blood upwards back towards the heart, and it will not allow the backflow of that column of blood going up. Trauma to those valves makes them less functional, and it leaks the blood back so that that vein gets more pressure on the walls.
Now, if you have a poor standard American diet, you eat the standard hospital food, standard military chow, and standard school lunches that are all corrupted now with genetically modified grains, pesticides, heavy metal toxicities, high-fructose corn syrup, very low in quality protein and mineral density, then you will structurally have tissues, collagen, and elastin that would make up any tissue, whether it’s your face and wrinkles or wherever. But in the column of your blood vessels, there are collagen and elastin which need many things, certain amino acids, certain branched-chain amino acids, vitamin C, and so forth, to create these connections. And you need these minerals tack as templates for them to lock and load and stay tight and taut. But if you don’t have the protein to make it, and you don’t have the minerals to do it, then you get these weak web-like structures and you get wrinkles all throughout your body, and your cell membranes develop these rips or holes in them. So, this is really a nutritional slow breakdown deficiency. So, I would make sure I have enough vitamin C. I’d be on a very good amino acid-chelated multi-mineral supplement. I would take a rich protein diet. I’d try and get in, let’s say you weigh 150 pounds, and let’s say that that’s about 65 kilograms, let’s just say 75 kilograms for fun to make it easy, I would want you to take about 75 grams of protein, minimum in every day to repair, replace and replenish your body.
If your postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy is valuable to enhance, and repair, if you’re a blood type A, you’ll have to take it with Digestive Enzymes. You have to get away from eating a high-carb diet, the high-fructose corn syrup, the juices, the sugared-up coffee drinks, and stop yourselves from being propagandized by the corrupt media into junk fooding it.
From now, all the way to the first of January, all I do in January, February, and March is try and repair all the damage from this lousy pimping propaganda, commercials, and social pressure to eat junk food for the next two and a half months. It’s ridiculous. These veins are poorly constructed, so the engineering of them is defaulting, the valves are breaking down, and we need you to get away from any processed foods. That’s your food industry, that’s your hospital food, that’s your military food, that’s your old folks’ home foods. They’re all destructive nutria-defense and full of pesticides heavy metals and toxins that are beyond your wildest dreams of how bad it is. And you’ve got to cook your own food, folks, and you have to not eat late at night, and you have to exercise and drink your water and take some enzymes. All right. So, that’s what handles it.
Now, the spider veins pretty much are, as you’re aging, the skin is thinning as well. So, we all have these capillaries all over our bodies. And as the skin recedes and we get more thin skin, these become more visualized and to the surface. There’s also a secondary valve and backflow problem as well, but nutrition is idyllic. I’ve had more than one patient have blood clots after sclerosing from these plastic surgeons and dermatologists who are making money trying to zap these things or sclerose them, inject them, and I wind up seeing my patients getting blood clots, total inflammation, and irritation from them. So stop this cosmetic Tom Foolery and get with exercising, doing some weight training, aerobic training, and living the healthier diet. Eat at home.
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“Can you take systemic enzymes together with alpha-lipoic acid?” [0:10:54]
Answer
Yes, you can.
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“Hi Dr. Rita, will you be accepting new patients in 2024?” [0:11:01]
Answer
That’s to be determined. I want to tell you, I have a wonderful team of doctors. We are involved in growing and doing our rounds every month and doing patient presentations and presenting articles and doing extracurricular training in alternative and standard medicine practices. So, I have a wonderful team. So be happy with whoever you’re assigned to. If it’s difficult, ask the physician you’re seeing to share their case at the grand rounds we do every month, and we’ll all put our eight minds together and see if there is something we can all add to it. We do our best. There is no spectacular training for functional medicine. I don’t like the ones I’ve seen over the past 20, or 30 years. They’re just not good programs. I haven’t seen one yet. I think it’s hands-on and you have to get back to local control, local accountability, mentorship where a doctor trains a doctor, and you pick up these skills and you do a good job and you become the word of mouth referral, and that’s the best way to grow any practice, and that’s how we did it here. We didn’t do a thread advertisement at all. We just over the past quarter century here at this place, just one person saying they’re happy, they’re getting good results, and they pass the word on. That’s the way to train doctors and that’s the way to grow great practice on that.
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"I had a breast exam done. Here are the results. The four-quadrant ultrasound. It looks like a retro-areola. So, under the nipple and axillary bristles, an ultrasound was performed in both breasts. There was a cyst measuring 7 millimeters. So, not even one full centimeter in the right breast at 10 o’clock, located 8 centimeters from the nipple. Do you advise on how I shrink or get rid of the cyst?" [0:13:11]
Answer
So she wants my advice on how to reduce fiber cystic breasts. Well, if you’re perimenopausal, getting towards your late 40s, 50s, you know, you’re starting to get into age-related clear-cut findings. Just like I was explaining about the varicose veins and the collagen/elastin infrastructure that holds things up, your breasts are glands, they’re meant to produce milk if you have a baby and do that over and over again. And the glands themselves are tissues that have all this collagen and elastin as well. And there are certain things like caffeine, iodine deficiency, lack of enough protein, minerals, zinc in particular, magnesium is, you know, everything’s important. But these tissues, with aging, they can kind of break apart and we get cysts. These cysts can be seen in our liver. Your liver is hanging all the time from under your diaphragm and it too is having the force of gravity, pull on it, pull on it, and little tiny cellular materials can break apart and you can get liver cysts that are benign. Your breasts are always reverberating up and down if you have any size of a breast, and that’s creating micro-trauma. And so, these cysts develop. But they’re aggravated with caffeine and lack of iodine, a poor diet low in protein, mineral deficient, and then a lack of micro-circulation and too high of a sugar, starch, carbohydrate, fruit sugar, juicing, diet, and it clogs up the capillaries for repair and structure support, no matter where it is in your body.
Therefore, we would say to you, that taking Systemic Enzymes is an anti-inflammatory, being low carb, and that allows, whatever cell or debris is there, the enzymes can chew it up. The low carb will help the capillary blood flow bring repair and necessary amino acid structural to repair the tissues. And get on iodine I would say at about 12.5 mg once a day to have a good iodine support because remember your breasts are looking for iodine. The glands are looking to incorporate iodine. And if you’re on a very low iodine, which 96.7 percent of all my patients are low iodine, so your thyroid will grow to find iodine, and your breasts will grow to find iodine. So use the iodine, cut back maybe on the caffeine, be low carb, and use good breast support, so you’re not jiggling and traumatizing it on a structural basis, and that would be the best thing I would say.
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“I just read about several studies done on the effect of thyroid medicine and link in cancer, such as brain, breasts, and others. Since people with Hashi need thyroid medicine, is it best to take a desiccated form and it would be wise to keep the TSA at the high end of normal?” [0:17:13]
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I think she’s thinking the TSH which, according to a study of healthy people, is no more than 1.89. Studies on the effect of thyroid medicines and the link in cancer. Well, in general, your metabolism is promoted by healthy thyroid function, which means healthy energy metabolism in each of the battery’s mitochondria. So, if you have poor thyroid function, then in general your energy production and mitochondria in all your cells start to not function optimally with failure of energy, and oxygen production into ATP, it moves toward the oxygen deprivation and lower energy production, low metabolism, which is always associated with acidosis and the epigenetic challenge to the cell. And the cell wants to survive and it has in its DNA coding the capacity to try and survive in a low oxygen tension environment and grow its own blood vessels. Just like when you were a two-cell newborn conceived baby, you didn’t have any harder lungs, but you needed that oxygen. And as you were turning into a clump of cells, as soon as you got near the uterine bloody lining, you triggered the growth of blood vessels to create your placenta. So you could get the nutrients to develop into the full baby and then infant, and then that you are today.
Now, this is written in our DNA. And if you create this kind of stress with a poor metabolism, thyroid optimal function helps prevent that from occurring. So, that would be the biochemistry in general in a short one-minute stint. And so, yes, I like glandular thyroid because it’s much more available for T1, T2, T3, T4, and I think it’s more gentle on the body as opposed to Synthroid or Tirosint which is just basically T4, and you have to hope it converts into T3, which will be the hormone that you want for metabolism, not the T4.
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“What kind of multivitamin could you recommend for elderly male and female who have a very limited access of food? [0:20:32]
Answer
I am biased because I have about 23 years of history using my own TLC Energy Core. And since I have such a high population of elderly patients who I put them all on it, and now I’ve been found by Medicare to be one of the very few doctors in the United States who have high Medicare number of patients with the least amount of need for medications and hospitalizations and live the longest, and I think I found the right nutrients that have been clinically tested, so I would use our TLC Energy Core.
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“Some people decide to take turkey dinner to a football game. They left the turkey in the aisle. Another person was walking by and didn’t see the turkey…It tryptophan.” [0:21:32]
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That’s so cute. We love you. Happy Thanksgiving. So I have one for you and that is why is the cat small? Why is the little kitty cat small? Because it only drank condensed milk. So that’s what one of my patients brought me today.
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“What do you think about HRT pellets?” [0:22:17]
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I don’t think about them because I don’t like them. I did try them in the 1990s, and I had a lousy tolerance from it. The patients that were displeased with it or didn’t like the dosing or didn’t have enough, they were stuck with that plug for three/four months. So, it was too hard to operate levels. It is an invasive thing. It’s just unnatural.
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“I have a girlfriend using this and she shared that her hair is falling out. Could this be excessive testosterone? She is in Arizona, do you support clients out of state?” [0:22:51]
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It could be. If they come here physically, and I have a lot of Arizona patients who drive out here once or twice a year. So, yes, we do see them.
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“Hi Dr. E., do you have a recommendation for homemade toothpaste? Currently using coconut oil, baking soda, and xylitol. I’ve heard commercial toothpaste isn’t healthy.” [0:23:18]
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Well of course we’re against the fluoride in it. And I have always heard that baking soda was very good. And I use Argentyn for everything. I put drops of it in my eyes when I wake up in the morning and when I come home. I was so glad, last Wednesday, almost a week ago, I saw my eye doctor, and he did my eye exam, and he basically didn’t see any cataracts or any aging phenomena. So it is nice at 70 to have that. So, I use Argentyn and I just use it wet. But I brush twice a day and the Argentyn keeps the bacteria down. I drink lots of water throughout the day. So I keep my pH from being acidic. I drink a good deal of coffee, which is probably acidic, but I’m sure I balance it with far more water. That’s what I do. So that’s my only thing. And I don’t need soap sides. I just need to use a soft brush. I gently brush Argentyn, sometimes with baking soda. That’s about it.
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“Dr. Rita, how can I order the vitamins you recommend?” [0:24:52]
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Call 714-544-1521 and ask them for the vitamin store, and they’ll put you over there, and they’ll tell you how to get a hold of them. And this would be a good time because I’m sure we’re going to do a big Thanksgiving sale and then we’ll have a Christmas sale, I’m sure, maybe even a New Year sale, because we want healthy people.
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“My mother still insists that eggs cause high cholesterol. She won’t eat yolks. Please give an explanation I can share with her about why eggs and yolks are good.” [0:25:36]
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I would ask her to watch a video, called High Cholesterol is Healthy! Two doctors are on there. One is a PhD in research, his name is Dr. David Diamond. And then Dr. Kelly. But it’s called High Cholesterol is Healthy! Then go on Google and put the word in there ‘cholesterol and longevity’. So if you Google ‘cholesterol and longevity,’ Google is a corrupt organization. Maybe you should go on being a DuckDuckGo. But there’s tremendous research showing that if you’re over 70 years old and your cholesterol is not above 200, you’re not going to live too long. It’s more your mortality risk is higher, the lower your cholesterol is in general. So that’s what I would do, is I’ll show that to her that way.
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“Can you recommend a good liver cleanse product?” [0:27:01]
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No, because I don’t believe in cleanses. I believe in fasting. I believe in a one-menu simplistic diet, low in carbs. I believe in lifestyle, not doing cleanses. Because I think that is kind of like cheating, saying, oh well, I’ll cheat here or I’ll have some alcohol or junk food, and then I will do a cleanse. And instead, what I would say is let’s stop, stop doing the cheating, the constant consumption of these high-fructose corn syrup laid in condiments, your ketchup, your dips from the fast foods, the dips that you put your shrimp in, dips for your salmon. If I go out and I order salmon, I never use their dip because I know they’ve got junky high-fructose corn syrup in it.
So, let’s just start eating to be alive and serve God, and our friends, and our family, and our work. And then let’s have a fun time and have that wonderful treat on Thanksgiving Day. And then Christmas day, I’m going to make a birthday cake for Jesus. And I make what we call a mutta cake, it is like a yellow cake, and I cut it in half so that I put a layer of buttercream frosting. But I first put on a thin layer of apricot preserves jam, and then I put a few sprinkles of apricot brandy, and then I put the buttercream on it. Then I put the next layer and I put the apricot jam, the apricot brandy sprinkles, and then the buttercream for the four layers. And then on the outside, I make chocolate frosting with coffee, a little flavoring of coffee. And then on the top, I make little dollops of the buttercream, that’s the light color, and I put a cherry in each of them, and then I put Happy Birthday Dear Jesus, and we sing happy birthday, and for our Christmas dinner, and then we open up our packages late on Christmas day.
And so, that’s a birthday party for me, is Christmas at my house. And if I made that cake, it is so filthy full of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup. It’s ridiculous. So, I cut them in flat slices, not wedges, you know, little slices. So I cut it in half and then I chop it down in slices on its side. I take the other half of the cake and I save it for New Year’s dinner treat. So, I’m trying to keep those wonderful specialties just rare, so I look forward to it and it becomes a fun full day. I’ll enjoy having my family and my daughter-in-law and sharing how I make it because it always is a hit and my grandkids love it. So, I’ll be known for the mutta cake.
My sons, when I was in the military, across our house was a U.S. retired, he was a Korean vet. And he was retired, and I needed help with babysitting the boys, and they took the boys. And she was from Austria, during World War II he met her in the (31:00). And so, they became like grandma and grandpa on a military situation for the years we were there at Fort Knox, and she helped me with my children. And her name was Mutta, and her husband was Fatta, which is the Austrian-German name for a mother and father. It was so cute, all the German things, and it’s just great memories for me. I can’t wait to meet her in heaven when I get there too.
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“Can you explain about spinal stenosis because that’s what I’ve been diagnosed with and I have been recommended it, final steroid injections every 4 to 6 months. What do you suggest for this condition?” [0:31:36]
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Spinal stenosis is the narrowing of the spinal canal. You’re supposed to be fluid in there and things are transported through there. And as we age, we get dried out, we shrink, we wrinkle. So, what would I suggest for you, I would say make sure that you fall in love with half your weight as pounds as ounces of water every day. Then I would say never eat late at night. Then I would say eat a humble menu where you’re just going to have a one-menu day, your protein base, and one or two vegetables that are low carb, and keep your condiments to things like salt, pepper, maybe garlic. Try and eat simplistically very low carb. Try and learn to do intermittent fasting where 18 hours a day you don’t need anything and you’re eating in a 6-hour window but never late. Exercise. Stretch. If you’re already having trouble, maybe do Pilates once a week or twice a week. And do some weight training to build up your support muscles, so you’re not sinking in on yourself with age and crumbling up. Build your muscles to hold up your spinal canal so that you drain properly. Stretching helps the motility and the fluid going in and out of the discs. And then try and do a brisk walk, maybe 15 minutes on the alternate days that you’re not doing weight training. Weight training twice a week. Brisk walks three times a week. And when you’re on that walk, try and maybe walk 2 minutes and for 20 seconds almost break into a run for 20 seconds if you can tolerate it to get some intensity up there. And then recover, and then walk for 2 minutes, and then spurt for 20 seconds, a 2-minute walk. I do that about 15 minutes every other day.
And you will see some transformation taking place if you’re eating a healthy protein diet. If you’re over 55, you probably need some digestive enzymes. You need the vitamin D. You need all the wonderful oils that are in meat, fish, turkey, chicken with the skin on it, pork, eggs with yolks And then take Systemic Enzymes, high dose, like 4 or 5 twice a day on an empty stomach, first thing in the morning, lasting at night. All this helps with spinal stenosis and puts off the need for surgery and steroids, at least that’s what my patients do.
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“I take 4 Vitalzyme in the morning and night, but I’m diluting the effectiveness of it or other products taken within 15 minutes. How much time to allow in the morning between Vitalzyme and SBO Protect in the PM? How much time between Vitalzyme and oral progesterone, 5-HTP, magnesium, and other supplements to get the most benefit.” [0:34:58]
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Well, there are no studies done. All you have is my 40-plus years of clinical experience. I take all my vitamins together in the morning. I take my Vitalzyme, my vitamin D, my iodine, my TLC Energy Core, my B complex, my D, my K-Force, I take my Juice Plus+, I take my multi-minerals. And I take them all in the morning. And then about an hour later, I’ll take my thyroid in the morning because the thyroid combines calcium, so I do separate that out. If I take the phospholipid powders, if I have an upset stomach, or L-glutamine powder for the stomach, I do try and wait about an hour. So that’s what I do there.
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“I’m a 60-year-old female diagnosed last year with MGUS. It was an incidental finding as I was having symptoms, which we now know were due to statins. My doctor knows I’m legit and tested many things, all coming up negative except this. So now I have to see a hematologist yearly. Everything is fine now. Your thoughts on this?” [0:36:23]
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MGUS, I just don’t know what that stands for anachronism. But I can speak to statins – are a great mimicker of many bodily problems, because if cholesterol is structurally part of every cell membrane, any symptom in your body, any cell performance of an organ, can be harmed by a statin. So it can be very confusing and very often doctors will blow it off and say that can’t be due to your statin when actually many neurological problems because a huge amount of cholesterol is necessary in the myelin sheath complex, plus the membranes here are full of cholesterol to have structural fluidity, membrane fluidities, and receptor performance enhancement because of the fluidity and softness of the cell membrane. Therefore, almost any organ system can manifest a symptom.
So I’m going to have to take a note down on what that stands for. You can see I don’t read these in advance because I don’t get them. MGUS statin symptom. That’ll be fun next week. So I’m always learning. The older I get, the more I learn. The older I get, the more I learn.
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“Does data from annual blood work labs clearly identify if someone had Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults? Or does that diagnosis require special testing? [0:38:40]
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I think that’s much to do about nothing. Latent Autoimmune Diabetes in Adults. We are being attacked by our food, by the electromagnetic energy, by the chemtrails in the sky falling down with heavy metal toxins onto our land. The nutrients through industrialized farming are being raped out of our vegetables and plant foods. The animals are eating, it gets incorporated into them, and we are being contaminated with genetically modified glyphosate pesticide, stressed out, and this then causes a breakdown in the lining of the cell membrane with little blowout spots in each little colonic cell and intestinal cell, and these create autoimmune because your gut-associated lymphoid tissue about 70 percent/80 percent lines your gut. So, it can inflame or do molecular mimicry against your thyroid or against your cartilage or against your myelin sheets, and you can get the various problems. But it can also do that against your islets of Langerhans, your beta cells in your pancreas. And then you get an attack. And this can happen very early on in childhood, adult type 1 autoimmune diabetes, where it just destroys the pancreas. So, who cares that we put some strange label on some end-stage manifestation of something we should be cleaning up, calling our local schools, getting out the commercial fast foods that are populating all the junk they’re feeding our kids with all the glyphosate grains and all the high-fructose syrup and all the heavy metals and pesticides and herbicides.
I was just listening to The Highwire with Del Bigtree, and he was interviewing moms for America or something like that about the diet the kids are getting in school. One of the interesting things was a book was brought up, a researcher, a mother. I don’t recall her name off the top, but it is a book where she looked at all the pesticides, herbicides, and heavy metal toxins in the food systems, and then she looked at the weak program, cheap junk food, and she found that it wasn’t race, it wasn’t socioeconomic status. It was the more the kid ate the junk food, the more depressed and violent the kid became.
And one of the things she quoted in that book was the study of a man in, I think it was in Ireland, who had a field and he started seeing less and less mice or rodents in his field, and he was wondering why that was so. Well, they were using these pesticides and it was glyphosate, and the mother rats were exposed to all these toxins. And in the investigation, they found that the mother rodents were eating their baby litters because they were vitamin D deficient and their irritability and crankiness and desperateness, and brain irritation were satisfied by consuming the pops and that’s why there was a such a drop-off in the rodents in this man’s field.
So, they found in the students, when they gave them all organic food and healthy vitamins, the fat-soluble D, A, E. K2, K1, that the behavior of the children improved dramatically, the focus, and so forth.
So, let’s get rid of this junk out of our lives. Let’s call up our schools. Get them into the homegrown. There are a ton of women who would love to work in the kitchens. My sister worked in the kitchens in Wisconsin for her children. A wonderful service to humanity. No less important than my job here. And they cooked their food. Of course, she worked for I think a parochial school, a Lutheran school, and they made their own homemade food. But they had higher performance students, better placement in colleges, better SAT scores, and so forth. I’m sure it was related to the healthier diet.
So, my thoughts on MGUS and statins and Adult Autoimmune Latent Diabetes is it would never have happened most likely if we would just clean up the gut and do fasting, exercise, water, eat organic, and not eat late, all the things I say.
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“A person with COPD, can they benefit from inhalations with aromatherapy, steaming, and vaporizers or does this cause more fluid in the lungs? What do you recommend?” [0:44:37]
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My thought on that is I don’t trust these machines, especially if you already have some chronic lung disease. The likelihood of fungus growing in these warm vaporized containers can be devastating. Some of the cleaners and plasticizers can become toxic. In the early, I think in 2002 to 2012, there were a lot of deaths in Japan. And in Japan, they have all kinds of little supportive devices and they were using a cleaning agent on their vaporizers because almost everyone in Japan has a vaporizer, and these kids were getting lung disease, and the adults were getting lung disease. There are many thousands of deaths. And finally, they found it was due to a cleaning agent.
So, I don’t like those things. And I don’t like and trust, who knows what’s in that aromatherapy. So, I can’t support it. I’m just not going to support that. There’s too much deceit. There’s too much marketing and lust for money and make a sale, make a sale. I’d rather see a person do some fasting and eat a high-protein diet simplistically, exercise, and see how that helps the lungs. EDTA chelation, vitamin C helps the elastin/collagen microcirculation, that kind of stuff. Then all these vitamins and herbs.
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“I have insulin resistance despite fasting and eating low carb. My estradiol levels elevate to 90 when I use testosterone cream. My general practitioner is against using Anastrozole even if estradiol gets elevated. Without testosterone supplementation, my estradiol is between 15 and 30. Why does it elevate and how do you deal with it?” [0:46:51]
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I would use Anastrozole. Find a doctor who would give it to you. 1.5 mg, half of a single mg tablet twice a week is nothing. I’ve been doing this for decades. It’s safe. It’s effective. It keeps the estrogen down. It helps you maintain all that wonderful testosterone, and that builds your muscles which helps you burn down the starch carbohydrates. And all of us move toward diabetes as we age because the machine of our muscle engines decline, and if we don’t cut what we’re putting in our mouth for consumption of the starchy carbs and fruit sugar and hidden condiments with all the stuff in it and sugared up coffee drinks and juices and so forth, our blood sugars will rise.
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“They put in, ‘MGUS, Monoclonal Gammopathy of Unknown Significance.’” [0:48:20]
Yeah. Well, of course. So you’re getting, here is another finding where an autoimmune phenomenon is occurring from massive cell membrane damage and fragmentation of the cell wall when trying to repair it and put in the protein and fat and phospholipid cholesterol. And because it doesn’t hit one stinking single organ and they can’t put a name on it, then they call it these names. Obviously, the body is trying to fight anything it can do to help protect the constant damage that the statin was doing that was leaving your cells with holes in them, so you wound up with gammopathy. That will quiet down. Things will improve as you restore your cholesterol and you eat the simple one menu day.
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“Where’s a good place to have liver?” [0:49:32]
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Well, you know, I go right across the street. I didn’t do it today, I went home and I had ham. But very often I go to Spires Family Restaurant for the liver there, and it is so dense, and all the nutrients, all the minerals, even vitamin C, I like having it once a week minimum. And I wish I knew something more than that. Pretty much liver is liver and wherever you go, it’s probably best to buy it from a place like ButcherBox and tell them you want the grass-fed animal and have the liver as well. That would be the ideal one. But like if I’m busy here, the next best thing I’ll do is my liver over there.
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“What is your reasoning for adding hormone replacement testosterone for women? Do we need it?” [0:50:32]
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You need muscles. You need to get out there and exercise and stomp and stand and lift things, so your bone density doesn’t diminish. So the answer is yes.
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“Can DHEA satisfy?” [0:50:57]
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Yes. Oftentimes, DHEA can satisfy, but not a low dose like 5 mg. 50 mg would be probably more satisfactory, but at least 25 mg.
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“What should the optimum level be for women post-menopausal?” [0:51:20]
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You see, we’re so used to the term ‘what’s optimum’. We treat everyone individually here and we’re for individual liberty and individual healthcare and individual doctor-patient relationships and individual private ownership. So, I think you and your doctor have to find out and they should do some digging. When I was practicing 40 years ago, 35 years ago, testosterone in men was 1600, 1500; women was like 150. So, right now, they have at women, depending on the range of your age, it will go down to 3 to 25, you know if you’re in your 80s. And I have so many women in the 80s and 90s and some getting 100 now, and I have them all with DHEA levels where I want their DHEA levels to be like 3, 4, 500 and their testosterone then is like 75 to 150. Good testosterone and, a good immune system. So hopefully that answers it for you.
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“Back pain is killing in the morning and disappears by night.” [0:52:51]
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You know, I’m wondering what you’re sleeping on. I’ve been thinking of that fairy tale, the princess on the P in the bed, the little pearl and she could feel it. But you know, look at your bed, what you’re sleeping on. And it might be too soft. You might have not enough pillows, too many pillows. But you have to exercise. I have to exercise. I’m lifting legs up of heavy men and moving them all around. I’m helping people stand up and everything. I have to exercise. I’m lifting up my grandchildren. So, I pay a trainer three times a week to do heavy-weight training. And then I have a Pilates instructor once or twice a week, and the other days I do my brisk, spurts, walking. So you just got to get their tummy crunching for your back, your intersecting little tiny muscles that go all along your spine there that kind of hold you up like this. Those little finger thick muscles are very very important, so you need it. Use the enzymes too. Don’t eat late at night. Drink a lot of water and hopefully, your back will get better.
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“Does chelation help reverse negative effects on general anesthesia?” [0:53:52]
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Absolutely, it does. Absolutely, it does.
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“How young can children start on Juice Plus+?” [0:54:04]
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Well, you know, Dr. Sears and his son, who is also a pediatrician, started them around 6 months. And they use like one capsule and they mix it into their food because often people start some food solids at 6 months. If you’re going to start food, then yeah, you can start them then. I tend to prefer all breastfeeding for at least the first year of life though exclusively.
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“Have you seen the hardening of stool with the transition from strict carnivore to lower carb with fiber? What do you recommend to soften the stool?” [0:54:49]
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I don’t necessarily say that I’ve seen that. It gets hard when you probably added some carbohydrates that are starches and the starches are impacting. So, things like spaghetti, pasta, rice, and potatoes, these are all compacting types of carbohydrates and constipating. I think minerals. So I would use TLC Multi-Mineral and I would use double-dose with plenty of water, and that should solve it no matter what the situation. I really find magnesium, zinc, and potassium in the TLC amino acid chelated do a great job. Let me know if that helps you.
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“What kind of test do you do for hormones? Just moved here and my doctor won’t test. I use estradiol patch and natural progesterone.” [0:56:05]
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I like serum levels. I’ve used serum levels. I was involved in research back in the early 1990s on the saliva test. But if you’re old enough for hormones, your teeth tend to have more gum line breakdown. And when you suck out to try and spit and these things, you suck out some red blood cells all the time, and it gets to be a mixed saliva blood serum. Even one red blood cell can put in a huge amount of estradiol and mess up a spit test. So, I like blood testing and that’s how I do it.
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“I am having a colonoscopy next Friday. I take Thyrotain, bone health, D3, B complex. Is it okay to miss taking the day of? Anything I can take after the procedure?” [0:57:04]
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Yeah, of course, you can take a day off or two of all your vitamins. And sometimes it might be wise to take a holiday for two to three days and then see how you feel and then take them back. So I appreciate, sometimes if I’m off on my, due to either forgetting them. If I go to a conference and I’d missed something or I can only take so much in a bag, yeah, I think it’s totally fine. So don’t worry over that.
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“I have been on Estradiol patch 0.025 for less than two months. My provider wrote me for 0.05 but I haven’t tried the high dose yet.” [0:58:00]
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Well, that’s not a high dose.
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“I’m 61 and I have high cholesterol and triglycerides.” [0:58:17]
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I love high cholesterol. Watch the video ‘High Cholesterol is Healthy!’. But she’s saying, “I have high triglyceride,” that means you eat too many carbs.
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“And mild atherosclerosis in my right carotid and abdomen.” [0:58:30]
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Well, what is mild? Everyone might have a mild amount of streaking on any kind of an imaging. It depends on the actual writing of the radiologist.
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Is this dose safe for heart and health?” [0:58:45]
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It absolutely is, and it’s when you lose your estradiol that we see more women have heart attacks. So, women who have used, they have their hormones, they feel alive, they feel mentally focused, they plan things, they do things, they’re more exercising, they’re into their whole life versus losing it, shutting down, just trying to sit and eat while watching computer or TV, this is the death march of aging. So, hormones don’t cause cancer and heart disease. Read the book ‘Estrogen Matters’ and watch the video at Tustin Longevity Center YouTube, hormone replacement therapy, two gynecologists. And you’ll hear from our gynecologists, Dr. Meric and Dr. Mitchell, who discussed that.
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“Would you accept an out-of-state patient for telemedicine appointments?” [01:00:00]
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The practice requires that I see the patient. So, I can’t start up a relationship that way. Sorry.
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“I have a question regarding my daughter. Now that she is 7 months pregnant, she is experiencing some pelvic groin pain. Think this might be the baby getting bigger, etc…your comments?” [1:00:15]
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Absolutely. It’s very common. And that’s when the symphysis pubis, you start having the impact of the third trimester softening the fusion with the symphysis pubis. So that’s all that is really.
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“My husband’s Adam apple is starting to stick out and very point and bony. Should he be concerned?” [01:00:56]
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Well, we have to see it. As we age, all of our skin thins. And as we age, we tend to not exercise them, we start to get into this Kyphotic sitting, and that makes the men’s voice box stick out. So that’s probably what it is, but have a doctor check it out.
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“I have recently lost 14 pounds and I’m feeling better with even the lower dose, but I think I’d feel better with a higher dose.” [1:01:28]
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Yeah, I think the 0.05 is the right way to go. But you’ve got to be with a doctor who’s going to test it, sit with you, how do you feel. That’s what practicing medicine is all about. You’re unique, we take something, we see you, how do you feel, we look you over, and so forth.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/strategies-for-type-2-diabetes-prevention2023-11-19T18:12:13-08:002023-11-19T18:12:14-08:00Strategies for Type 2 Diabetes PreventionWendy Lewis
Our Diabetes Awareness Month newsletter series is focused on raising awareness of diabetes. The series will consist of four articles, which will be released once a week throughout the month of November. Each article will cover different aspects of diabetes, offering information and resources aimed at reducing the stigma associated with diabetes, encouraging early diagnosis, and promoting healthy lifestyle choices to prevent and manage diabetes effectively.
Diabetes is a widespread disease throughout the world, affecting approximately 573 million adults in 2023. Rates of diabetes are estimated to reach 783 million by 2045. Type 2 diabetes accounts for most cases and is projected to significantly increase over time. Type 2 diabetes can affect patients' daily lives through physical limitations and significant financial burdens. Fortunately, there are ways to help prevent Type 2 diabetes.
One of the first ways to prevent Type 2 diabetes is to set a weight loss goal if you are overweight. Overweight and obesity is one of the most well-known risk factors for Type 2 diabetes. In patients with pre-diabetes, losing 5% of body weight may be enough to reverse pre-diabetes.
Another closely related prevention strategy is to follow a healthier eating plan. This can be through a structured nutrition plan or by simply making different food choices. The most important thing when starting a new eating style is the ability to remain consistent. Some foods to avoid include processed foods, foods with trans fats, sugary drinks, and alcohol. The healthier food options are things like non-starchy vegetables, fruit, lean meat, whole grains, and unsweetened beverages.
TLC Metabolic Formula, is one of the key players in reducing triglycerides and helping to improve carbohydrate metabolism. Constructed with Vitamin C, biotin, chromium, and other several compounds this unique formula has the ability to lower blood sugar levels, decrease cholesterol, as well as giving your immunity a boost. TLC Metabolic formula is ideal for diabetic patients, or patients that have high cholesterol and irregular blood sugar levels making it the go to supplement for carbohydrate and fat metabolism.
Lowers cholesterol and improve carbohydrate metabolism
Boosts immune system
Promotes healthy blood sugar levels
Exercise is another crucial way to prevent Type 2 diabetes. The recommended amount of activity is at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity activity per week. However, any activity is always better than nothing. Aiming for lower amounts of activity, such as 60 minutes per week when starting out, and gradually increasing to 150 minutes over time may be more realistic. Physical activity can be anything that increases breathing and heart rate, for example, a brisk walk or another hobby such as playing a sport or dancing.
Type 2 diabetes is a serious, chronic condition affecting numerous patients worldwide; however, there are some easy ways to prevent it. A combination of weight loss for those who are overweight, making healthier food choices, and regular exercise will minimize the risk of developing Type 2 diabetes. It is important to focus on consistency with these changes rather than following these guidelines perfectly. Preventing Type 2 diabetes must be able to work for the long term.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-november-14-20232023-11-15T16:07:53-08:002023-11-15T16:09:54-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 14, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“What are your thoughts on eating gluten? I feel so much worse when I eat bread, noodles, etc. Have never been tested for the allergy though.” [0:02:58]
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Well, there’s a lot of confusion about gluten. Gluten is a protein that’s produced by grains like wheat. It’s found in wheat, barley, rye, brewer’s yeast even has it in it, and these products produce this protein as part of its cellular identifiable structure. These are called lectins, you might say.
Now, there’s a disease called celiac disease in which a person is truly genetically at risk to or reacts poorly, they have a true allergy to gluten, and then, they will become ill with gas, bloating, diarrhea, fatigue, and various generalized symptoms. These are celiac disease. These are the gluten-true allergy people. People who have celiac disease can develop this autoimmune phenomenon where their own cell membranes along the lining of their gut, and there’s only a one-cell membrane thick lining there to the cells lining your gut between you and the outside world, and if the immune system on a celiac patient attacks them through autoimmune attack, that lining in the gut becomes very thin, flattened out, and they’re absorption diminishes. They can become very ill and even die from this.
Now, a lot of people can be what we call gluten-sensitive, not in the true sense of having celiac, and this is something that probably a large majority of us have where we’re not a celiac’s genetically predisposed to have the disease and damage, but we can become fatigued, gassy, bloating, having the discomfort in our abdomen and even have some loose stools. And so, that is something that’s going to teach you if you eat wheat, barley, rye, brewer’s yeast, things like that, that you should learn to avoid it. Do you have to get tested? And the answer is no. If you find a food you react to, just avoid it because a very small percentage of people actually have celiac disease with gluten allergies that we can test in the blood serum.
Again, I start my day with my workouts every morning, and then I’m here at work working full time with barely a break, and I’m talking all day long. So, on Tuesdays, sometimes it’s hard for me, my throat gets dry, especially in this dryer weather. So, I might cough a little bit because I’m so dry.
Now, the other thing is, so don’t go looking for gluten testing necessarily. I would say 99 percent of all the people I’ve tested over 40 years of practicing medicine are not true celiac or gluten-sensitive people, in the sense of a true allergy. And therefore, just avoid it. Besides, the carbs are so high in breads, pasta, crackers, bagels, and cereals. You should be eating far more protein. Remember, this is a bilipid layer made of fat and protein, cholesterol, and this is what we’re composed of. So, that’s what you need to focus on eating.
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“I usually don’t suffer from allergies, but this fall they got me. My blood type is O positive and you know me. And I practice intermittent fasting and a low-carb diet. Is there a supplement I could take to help?” [0:07:26]
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Most definitely. And it helps avoid viruses as well. And that would be quercetin. I use it in a tried and true product called D-Hist put out by orthomolecular. D-Hist has quercetin in it. It’s standardized. And it takes about 600 mg, maybe 800 mg, and you do a loading dose. So, the first day or two, if there’s 200 mg in a capsule, I would take four or five, maybe even six, to load all of your histaminic receptors. Then the next day, taper by one or two capsules, but always stay on at least two or three a day. I have to take two or three a day and that’s why I just have such bad allergies. Sometimes I have to succumb to taking over-the-counter Zyrtec or over-the-counter Allegra. This is loratadine or cetirizine (08:57), and these two items are over-the-counter but chemicals made by the pharmaceuticals for over-the-counter antihistamines that will not make you drowsy, but they work as antihistamines. So, I’m not sure that you would have to use that, but certainly, the quercetin does a great job. Hopefully, that helps you.
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“Today, I dropped off at your office. My question, on behalf of my sister on strict keto. She’s worried about her blood results. I would appreciate hearing your thoughts. Stay the course? “ [0:09:26]
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Well, I don’t know if I got any hand-off of a question today, but I would say, Margot, is the older we get, the more muscle mass we lose. And the more muscle mass we lose, the engines for burning up energy source molecules like sugar diminish. And therefore, it’s very easy for us with aging to become diabetics. So, it becomes even more imperative for older adults and aging people to eat more and more protein healthy fat-rich diets compared to the vegetable and starch ones. That way, we will live longer, and have more resources.
As we age, sometimes people have the gut lining where they’re not absorbing possibly or they’re not consuming in their diet adequate nutrition, or they have metabolism, hypothyroid disorders, and they start having muscle wasting and they lose weight along with their muscle loss and they start to become very thin with aging. And they have to very aggressively do weight training and weightlifting, resistance training, to help build up their muscles to talk to that environment, epigenetically talking to the DNA in ourselves to say we’re alive, we’re alive, we’re using our muscles. Repair and rebuild. Repair and rebuild.
So, if someone is doing intermittent fasting to control their blood sugar but they’re too thin and they’re losing their muscle mass, the answer is they have to work out. They have to do weight training. And I would do a two times minimum a week, both upper and lower body, exercising for at least about a half an hour, 20 minutes. I do it three times a week and then aerobics on the other days. But hopefully, that answers your question.
So, by building muscle mass, then their blood sugars will improve because they can’t do much more fasting because they’re already losing their body weight and their lean body mass. So, the only way to reverse that is to do weight training and to eat a higher, richer protein/fat diet and use digestive enzymes, and probably probiotics to help do that. Maybe using the phospholipid product. This is the Phospholipid Powder and the SBI Protect Powder. Mixing those in water twice a day will help jumpstart any gut repair and gut sensitivity, any gut injury, colitis diarrhea, diverticulitis, or anything that is stressing the gut.
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“I meant to stay strict carnivore.” [0:13:22]
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Alright. Well, I’m glad she’s a strict carnivore to try and build it up, if I’m getting it right because I don’t know the question exactly from her, but still, everything I said I think is valuable.
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“I think my question from last week got lost. I learned to drink Perfect Aminos while fasting in the morning after I worked out. Someone said that the Perfect Aminos will take me out of fasting.” [0:13:41]
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Well, they will because they are food. The amino acids are just in the sense pre-digestive proteins. Now, will they do a significant amount? And I’m going to say no. I don’t think they’ll do a significant amount, so I wouldn’t worry about it.
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“Thank you for your excellent work. What is the ideal way to take Digestive Enzymes? What times a day? How many times with meals?” [0:14:24]
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It all depends, Holly. I try, as I get older, now I’m starting my 70s, to take Ortho Digestive Enzyme with every meal I take. Digestive enzymes or this is Ortho Molecular. Again, we use sources that are well studied and reliable and of high integrity, good general manufacturing, using resources that are well tested and surveyed in their labs and chemistries and quarantine. All these wonderful things. And so, Ortho Digestive Enzyme has done very well, especially for people getting older. This is supposed to be taken with every meal.
Now, should you take it right before your meal, in between bites in the middle of your meal, or after your meal? That’s a matter of what works for you. What works for me is to always take it after I – because I live such a busy stressful life, sometimes I can get called away from eating. And if I take my digestive enzyme before I eat, I might get pulled away from eating that I have that digestive enzyme with the betaine hydrochloric acid sitting in there without any food. So, it really is up to you.
Now, as to how many to take, it’s the size of the meal and how you feel. Sometimes I’ll just take one or two after a meal. And then maybe two to three hours later, I still feel that the food isn’t moving, and as you age peristalsis and digestion diminishes, it just doesn’t seem like it’s moving, and I’ll take an additional one or two more. If it’s a Thanksgiving dinner, I’ll probably take four right after I eat my Thanksgiving dinner, maybe even six. So, it’s kind of what works for you. If you take too many, you’ll wind up getting a little heartburn from the excess hydrochloric acid and then you can just take another bite of food to buffer it right away. So, that’s kind of how I would work with that.
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“My brother was diagnosed with chronic hives. No known reason for onset. What would be your recommendations on how to treat it? He does not want to go on the monthly injectable meds the immunologist has prescribed.” [0:16:51]
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Well, you know, I don’t know his background history. The immunologist may have a very good reason for these allergy-managing immunosuppressant treatments. But in general, I would want to know whether he had received an injectable of the mRNA for the virus in the past two years. That can create that. I’ve seen that emerging more and more.
And then the other thing is I would tell him to go pure carnivore for three months. That would give his whole body a chance to get away from all the corruption of the food and processing. Of course, I would want him to eat grass-fed, wild-caught sources. And if it is in his diet, he’ll eliminate that and he can enjoy steaks, lobster, shrimp, and crab, and fish, and pork, and eggs, and chicken with a skin on it. So, totally eliminate all causes, and that will dis-inflame him.
The other thing is drinking half his weight in water every day as ounces. So, if he is 200 pounds, he would have to have 100 ounces of water. And then I would have him use natural quercetin, which also works as an antiviral, especially in the flu season. So get some D-Hist. And I would take two twice a day and just stay on it with the carnivore diet. I would probably take it first thing in the morning and last thing at night.
And then I would take Systemic Enzymes. The enzymes dis-inflame the whole body and calm down the entire pathways of inflammation and that’s how I would begin to do it. But of course, that’s a general idea, without knowing anything about him. You have to always follow up with the doctor who knows the person individually and their rationale. But as a general thing, that’s how I would approach any chronic hives situation that’s new in an adult as well.
Then, of course, he has to screen his medicines, his exposures, and his world travel. Make sure there aren’t any hidden parasites, and so forth. But assuming all that has been done, that’s how I would lifestyle approach him.
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“What is your opinion about SBO Probiotics? And when is the best time to take it?” [0:19:47]
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I don’t know that there’s any proof scientifically in clinical trials because we get so very little money to look at these things. The corrupt international crime syndicate running the pharmaceuticals and the training in the medical schools really has a stronghold on all the money that goes out for research and grants, and they’ve trained all the institutions too if you want to be anybody in research medicine in any of the high-powered institutions, you just toe the line and you just shut up, take your grant money. You do a study, and boy, you sure as heck make sure that it comes out to make those donors and the grant provider is happy with your outcome.
So, given that being said, SBO Probiotics, when is the best time to take it? My thought would be from all my experience decades and decades is that it’s probably best taken in the evenings. One, the gut has the least amount of challenges from you eating other things and taking away from the benefit of those probiotics. There’s a good book out there. What is her name? I forget her name, but I know the title of her book. Let’s Talk SH!T. So, Let’s Talk SH!T. That’s the title of her book. And in it, she’s a gastroenterologist. Sabine is her last name and she’s from California, I think in the Ventura area. So, she even did a lot of work with COVID and found that the probiotic Bifidobacteria is injured very much with illnesses, and when you heal, Bifidobacteria comes back.
So, I like having probiotics that are very rich in Bifidobacteria, but there are hundreds of thousands of these things. We need so much income to do studies on these things. And there are so many genetic strains and so forth and hundreds and thousands of strains of bad bacteria, good bacteria, commensal, or what we call imbalance bacteria. This is the most difficult thing to study, poop and digestion. But her book and her experiences on when to take probiotics seem to also indicate that families have similar trends in their bacterial counts, and if they make a change in their probiotic exposures, the entire family will be exposed and improve as well.
So, very often, people have a pattern of taking their probiotics in the morning as a group or in the evenings, and that’s about the best I can hit there for you on the SBO Probiotics.
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“I had been suggested to take Probiotic 123 Powder from PURE every morning before any food. Is that correct?” [0:23:39]
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Well, it’s on an empty stomach, but then you start eating shortly thereafter. I tend to think taking it at night time might be a better choice. But again, this is just my clinical gut feeling of experience. And after reading thousands of stool studies over the decades, I’m going to say an evening time is probably better on an empty stomach.
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“Have you ever heard of the Nutrition Detective here on YouTube? He talks a lot about vitamin toxicity.” [0:24:18]
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You know, I have been in and around vitamin usage and conversation since I was a child. That would be easily since I was 4 or 5 years old. So, you’re talking 65 years. And yes, vitamin D is fat-soluble, vitamin E is fat-soluble, vitamin K fat-soluble, and vitamin A fat-soluble. Theoretically, it would be possible to take too much of these fat vitamins and create a toxicity. But I just have never seen it in all the decades, and I have practiced significant vitamin replacement therapies for close to half a century. So, where is this toxicity concern? You know, there’s high B6 in neuropathies, high dose oral vitamin C, and diarrhea. Yeah, you can bring all these things up, but I’m going to have to look that up. What’s his name…he’s called Nutrition Detective. Okay, I’ll look him up on vitamin toxicities and see what I can find on that.
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“If you have lots of cartilage injury, does it help to take collagen? Anything that helps heal torn joints?” [0:26:13]
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If we ate enough meat and fish and chicken and pork and lobster and crab, and even egg yolks with the whites in eggs, we’re going to get plenty of collagen. And we’re turning into this science-based technology people and I just think it’s foolishness. We are made of fat and protein, and we are mobile, so we are not meant to be a hard tree that is stuck in the ground and stiff. We’re not meant to be a hard melon that you can knock on it and hear an echo. We are mobile. We’re made of fat and protein. We are not made of fruits and vegetables. So, if we would eat enough meat, fish, chicken, turkey, and things like this, we’re going to get all the wonderful collagen that we need for the repair that we need.
Now, are there some good products? Yes, the answer is yes. I use Ortho Molecular because I know the moral character of the owners of the place and their representatives, and I know that they look for hard science and clinical studies. And therefore, if we have anything, it’s from Ortho Molecular and that’s called CollaGEN and Chondro-Flx, which are our collagen products. There are different kinds of collagen. So, there are different Daltons, weights, or the bigness of the chain of the amino acid protein chains that make up collagen. And their absorption is difficult if it’s too big. So, there has to be the right size.
And I think there are a lot of corruption issues in the alternative world as well. So, I can understand why Luwa said, you know, what about the detective on Nutrition Detective? Yeah, I think there’s scamming going on. And so, you know, who can know the heart, it’s utterly wicked. The Bible teaches about our hearts. We are always fearful about having enough shelter, and food and protecting our own self-interest. It’s a difficult challenge to always try and never lie, never cheat, never steal, and trust the good Lord to prosper us and give us. In Proverbs, there’s one that says, Lord, give me only so much so that I am not overly wealthy and forget who you are and don’t give me so little that I blaspheme your name in anger. So, God has certainly kept me in that spot. Anyway, praise the Lord. So, that’s what I would have to say to you about collagen.
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“Hi Dr. Ellithorpe, my brother had surgery on his arm where they had to reconstruct his bone and put metal plates in it so that it heals better. He thinks he needs to take calcium. I think you said once it’s not necessary.” [0:29:46]
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I think I answered this already. I don’t believe that extra supplemental calcium, you can get it from all the meat, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, and eggs, and use a digestive enzyme if your brother is older. If he’s a blood type A, make sure he uses Digestive Enzymes. But I don’t believe in extras, supplemental calcium, and the reason is because of the type of calcium and there are so many scams and over the past 40 or so years, I have seen them recommend 250 mg of calcium a day for osteoporosis to build bones and then they went to 500, then they went to 800, then they went to 1000, 1200, 1500.
Calcium supplementation doesn’t work, folks. It’s using the body and the muscles and being low carb and eating a healthy rich diet because your bones have a protein matrix and there are proteins and fats that go into the process of laying down new bone and cartilage, and you’re always reforming and rebuilding. And so, eat the meat, eat the fish, and so forth.
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“Is taking NAD beneficial for everyone? What about collagen?” [0:31:28]
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Well, I answered that on collagen. Nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide. See, everyone’s getting caught up and catchy of the vitamin a day, the breakthrough I learned about NAD and I’m going to have super DNA and I’m going to have super mitochondrial electron transfer and I’m going to have super energy. Well, you know what, everything matters. So, NAD to me is like having JP-4 jet fuel in a fighter jet F-35, okay? So, NAD is helpful in the energy transfer in a human being, just like the JP-4 jet fuel is needed in an F-35 gasoline tank. But if the seal on the tank and the engine and the valves and the construction of that F-35, that NAD, that JP-4 jet fuel means nothing if the structure and the absolute environment in which that explosion is to take place is not in a controlled environment.
So, what’s more important? The phospholipid lining that makes up every cell and all the cristae of your mitochondria and the lining of your nucleus and the lining of your Golgi apparatus and the lining of your ribosomes and on and on and on and the lining sheaths of your nerves? Or is it the super duper coenzyme Q10 Ubiquinol? Or the super duper NAD, Nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide (33:19)? And on and on and on, we can go around bantering fancy terms.
No. You know what it is? You know what’s really exciting? When we take control of our own life and we say no to that candy at the checkout, when we say no to that donut in the workroom, when we say no to that donut at church, when we say no to giving our children these junk food things, that is the most exciting vitamin. That’s the most exciting anti-aging thing. Don’t belittle it. So, let’s not lift up NAD to any special thing. It’s in the healthy foods, liver, chicken, turkey, fish, beef, and eggs. It’s all there. Eat the good food. Exercise. Weight train. Drink your water. Get a good night’s sleep. Whatsoever is lovely, beautiful, good report. Think about these things. Happy thoughts. And now let’s not fuss over little special things.
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“I’m a patient of Dr. Cindy and take estradiol patch and progesterone pill. I was asked to double the dose of my progesterone and felt really dizzy and experienced itching around my groin and butt area. So, I’m using the compound progesterone to supplement. The symptoms went away. Have any of your patients experienced these side effects from the pill form?” [0:34:35]
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I see. So you’re comparing oral progesterone with the topical cream progesterone. You know, the thing is progesterone is a hypnagogue – meaning it’s designed to help you sleep and rest. Some women are much more sensitive than others; whereas a 1 mg dose will make another woman lethargic the next day. It will not phase another woman at all. Just like caffeine. I can drink a full mug of this before I go to bed tonight, and if my husband even came near even a teaspoon of this, it would ruin his sleep for the night. We are so interestingly and fearfully and wonderfully made in such beautiful variety in the human structure. I don’t have the answer nor does anyone have the answer to that, I believe. So, I’m going to just say probably the cream puts it through a slower phase of absorption and circulation. And so, in a sense, it spreads out the dosing, whereas a pill probably has more of a spike. If you like the pill form, you could get an extended-release form. Ask Dr. Cindy about that or your doctor.
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“Does overuse of essential oils show up in liver function panels? I use them to avoid perfumes and chemicals and laundry soaps but wonder if I’m exchanging one toxin for another. How do I use them beneficially and protect my liver?” [0:36:21]
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Well, you have to ask the question, are you really using essential oils? There are so many scams out there and there are so many corrupt sourcings. Just like bottled water, you think you’re getting this from spraying or you think something fantastic about your type of water, and then someone spends some money to do some good testing on it from a third independent party, and they find out you’re spending money on stuff that really has no difference or has contaminants in it. We’re in a mess of a world with character from the individual to the organizational network, and it’s getting so hard to find trustworthy situations.
Therefore, yeah, I understand and I did a second doctorate at Capital University in Washington, DC in the late 90s to early 2000 where I studied back remedies, essential oils energy, and all this kind of stuff. And I do believe that these, what they call essential oils, should change their names to non-essential oils because the only two essential oils out there for human is alpha-linolenic and linoleic acids. So, the omega-6 linoleic and alpha-linolenic, the omega-3 fatty acids. So, these essential oils should be changed as far as their name. They’re not essential. But they could be called aromatic oils, medicinal oils, and things like that. And yes, you could all reuse them and it can create some inflammatory responses in your liver because it’s the detox organ.
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“Can switching to a long-term keto meal plan trigger oxalate dumping?” [0:38:45]
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The answer should be yes in principle, but no, I haven’t seen it, unless you’re doing something crazy wild, like taking this green powder. Everyone is doing, not everyone, but too many of my patients are being sucked into these internet infomercials about these powdered greens, powdered greens of all kinds and sorts. And the vegetables, I don’t know if I can name them off my head. I know spinach and kale and other greens have a lot of oxalic acid in them. These plant antinutrients are the template for creating the problem with all these oxalate stones. So, what you might think is detoxing, you’re accidentally taking some green drink and you’re starting to feel sick, and you’re thinking, oh, I’m doing intermittent fasting and I’m detoxing. No. You’re buying some product that doesn’t have any true clinical testing or reference data in a so full of hyper-concentrated pre-volumetrically pounds of greens to create the dust powder, that you’re getting a massive, massive, hundreds of thousands of milligrams of dried spinach powdered and you’re getting a massive dose of oxalic acid. Scary, isn’t it? It should be scary. No, I don’t believe in eating anything but real food.
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“How do you avoid or buffer these conditions?” [0:40:36]
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I would not be eating any powdered anything. I don’t even like protein shakes. I don’t even promote. As much as I like Juice Plus+ in the little tiny capsules, too little capsules of the fruit, vegetable, and berry concentrate, they have their protein shakes and other products, I won’t promote them because I want to promote healthy food eating at a dinner table around your loved ones, okay? And if you don’t have any loved ones, you can invite God to sit down with you and eat and talk to Him, because there are too many times I’ve had to do that myself alone.
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“You’ve been exercising early in the morning when you fast. Afterward, the rest of the morning, I sip on water with Perfect Aminos in the powdered form until I break.” [0:41:21]
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I think you asked this question already. Yeah, it will break your fast but it’s such a minor dose that I think it’s kind of straining out on that, and I would worry about it.
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“I used to exercise using the virtual head Google. I don’t remember what it’s called. My shoulder began bothering after a couple of months ago and my shoulder is still bothering me, with soreness and stiffness in the morning. My question is as the cause of the soreness.” [0:41:47]
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Well I don’t know what using the virtual head Google is, so I don’t know what maneuver or methodology of exercise you were doing nor do I know how old you are, which would put you in certain categories of likelihood of injuries. But I will tell you, any musculoskeletal tenderness or cartilaginous soreness is pictured in all diseases in the damage through the cell membrane here. See. Through that phospholipid bilipid membrane. That’s the cell membrane. And every cell on the human body, your muscle, your tendons, your brain, everything is made of this phospholipid bilipid membrane. And you better know how to fix it. And the way to fix it is by eating phospholipids and proteins and the fats, and that’s in meat, fish, chicken, turkey, eggs, and the egg yolks and crabs and lobster and shellfish and all that kind of stuff which they’re frightening you away from.
So, if you want to heal well, you have to eat the stuff that you heal yourself with. You have to stop eating at a certain point so that your stomach empties when you go to bed at night and hopefully you sleep well that you will be healing up. And so, you have to have a window of eating time instead of perpetual snacking. And then you have to understand this concept of the bilipid membrane and so forth. So, there you have it. The cause of this is, you know, you traumatically or you weren’t drinking enough water or you exceeded. You know, you can overdo certain minerals under. I mean there are all kinds of ways to damage ourselves. There could have been a virus going on. So, even if you’re in good shape but you’re fighting off a virus, your body’s ability to recover diminishes. So, learn about cell membrane repair, and that will help you hopefully.
We have some new questions in the live area here.
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“I tried the carnivore diet but I noticed my eyebags got worse and my skin got some kind of a rash reaction. What could be the reason?” [0:44:30]
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Well, a carnivore diet is not the cause of bags under your eyes and a rash. Maybe there was some product fed to that animal. If they’re not grass-fed, they could have been given pesticides or antibiotics, growth hormones, and other GMO grains that you’re reacting to. So, you are what you eat/ate. So, whatever you’re eating/eating is what you can also become. So, it could have been something, yes, in a carnivore diet that you weren’t getting grass-fed or from a corrupt organization and the toxins that they gave. And the same with vegetables or fruit. They’re putting wax on them, genetically modifying them. They’re putting insecticide, and Bt toxins in them. And so, the entire plant and animal and fish kingdom were all being hurt by chemtrails and these nanoparticulate heavy metals, and you better be doing some chelation therapy. If you expect to maintain your health, you’ve got to pull these toxins out slowly but surely and have a steady pace, like doing weight training and building muscle. You also have to have a pace at which you’re detoxing from the exposures of these chemtrails and all the foolishness of these nanoparticulate metals they’re dumping on you.
So that’s what I think happened, Karla.
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“Are vitamin and mineral supplements necessary if we eat strictly carnivore consisting of primarily high-fat red meat from ruminant animals, no carb or sugar, water, and coffee?” [0:46:27]
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I would say no. I don’t think you necessarily need a multivitamin-mineral because, especially if you’re eating organ meat, these animals should be so well a source of cell repair, nutrient, and mineral replenishment. But now if you’re a plant-based person, there are so many known mineral and vitamin deficiencies. It’s a sad sad thing. So yeah, really a carnivore person should not have to take that amount of vitamin-mineral replacement.
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“Sometimes at night I get woken up and my heart starts beating harder and faster for a minute. Other times, I feel weird, like my body is vibrating. Any ideas why this is happening?” [0:47:26]
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Usually, I see this in A-type blood people who are, they can be in their late 20s and onward. And what they’re sensing is a mineral imbalance because A-type people don’t digest as well, therefore, they don’t get the minerals. They don’t repair their fats and bilipid phospholipid membranes well. They have more holes in their cell. So, if this is a cell and they get holes in it, and so the cell functions are starting to not work as well, and you’re perceptive in your body and you start getting a tremulous feeling. So, I would go to a good healthcare provider. I would get your red blood cell mineral assessment. I would get your blood type confirmed. I would get in the phospholipids and proteins. I would take a good amino acid chelated multimineral and go from there. And that’s how I would begin doing it. Of course, it would be really smart if you did this combination of the protein/fat, especially for all my vegetarian patients who can’t stand eating an animal. The phospholipid and the protein are in these two things. And then you would have to take the amino acid chelate, that’s called TLC multi-minerals. And that would be a good start. But again, it will take months to plug in all these holes.
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“I had been a long-time user of Velaqua countertop water dispenser for which parts are no longer available. What do you recommend as a replacement?” [0:49:32]
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The countertop water dispenser. I don’t have a name of mine. I know the Kangen system is excellent. Kangen, K-A-N-G-E-N. Kangen Water. And they have their factory in Torrance, California. And you can go there. So, you can have parts repaired and they do the water filter, and you can get super filters, and you can get the fluorine component filter, then they have technicians that can come out. Kangen Water, that’s where I would go, and the plant is in Torrance.
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“What do you recommend I do to clear up brain fogginess? After I experienced post-partum depression after my first pregnancy, I feel as though my overall awareness and memory have been negatively affected, but very slowly regaining. What can I take to enhance my body for particular symptoms?” [0:50:38]
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I could tell you about supplements out there that are marketed to give you focus and to help your thinking. But really, exercise, drinking water, getting a good night's sleep, and if you just had a baby, then you probably should have a doctor who will look at your thyroid, thyroid antibody, and your estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, cortisol, and DHEA levels and work with you on that. But remember, we’re fearfully and wonderfully made and it’s written in our DNA how to repair, but we’ve got to supply the good shop to repair – meaning we have to take in the parts that fix our brain and our membranes that help us. We have to drink enough water to create the blood flow through our brain for our alertness. We have to get the sticky sugars out that clog and choke out the brain and make it hypoxic. We have to filter our water to get the heavy metals out. We could do chelation therapy to improve the circulation for sure. We could take, most or all of us are iodine-deficient, and after having a baby, that’s probably aggravated. So, I would certainly consider taking iodine at least 12.5 mg a day, DHEA is a cortisol stress management. DHEA helps. Iodine helps. Chelation helps. Sometimes I give hormones to postpartum women to help them kind of stabilize out after their pregnancies. Find out if your blood type A. This is usually in the blood type A most dramatically noted. Either rich protein/fat diet. Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. And by the way, if I didn’t mention it, exercise. And then finally I would say things like Vinpocetine, caffeine stimulants, ECGC, and green tea. I don’t think I would use those stimulants. I would first work with getting these other things done first. And I didn’t mention, vitamin D is important also. Try that. See a good doctor who has a good grip on the hormones and brain function.
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“My husband had an episode last week that landed him in the emergency room. The ENT surgical specialist gave him two alternatives to treat his paralyzed vocal chords -surgery to sever one cord or tracheostomy. Do you know of any natural means?” [0:53:51]
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I think this was already asked on a prior entity. This is too complex of a question to try and even approach, and there are so many issues that have to be asked about how did this become paralyzed, and what’s the cause, that I don’t want to go into that here, Denise. I’m sorry.
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“My triglycerides tend to be around 20 to 40. Can this cause health issues?” [0:54:35]
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No. No, it cannot.
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“My 59-year-old brother has tremors in his hands. He saw a neurologist and he told him there’s nothing to worry about. It sounds like benign familial tremors. This just happens when you get older. No treatment for it. He’s not happy with the lack of interest in his condition that the doctor showed. Can you suggest a course of treatment that he can try?” [0:54:45]
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Well, whereas it was working once and it’s not working as well is an age-related phenomenon. So, what’s during the aging? These free-radical heavy metals damage his nerves, the membranes surrounding the insulation of his nerves. He’s got to get the sugar stickiness out so that capillaries can bring the phospholipids and fats to repair that hole there and make the membranes good, so they’re not getting messed up on the electron transfer of the signals. He has to exercise and use and re-signal and repurpose and re-use to gain balance and confidence. The tremulousness often leads to less and less physical activity, muscle wasting and then aggravation of everything. He probably should find out his blood type and use his digestive enzymes so he can digest the proteins and fats, so he can repair his minerals. He should do chelation therapy to improve the little capillary microcirculation that brings to the cell membrane, all those nutrients that are needed. And he should probably take parent essential oils. Because my patients with Parkinson’s and all kinds of neurodegenerative diseases, MS, post-stroke, post-MI, all these people, they do better. Even the ones who had the mRNA injections who you were told were safe and effective, these people who had the subsequent strokes and injuries, after we give them the enzymes and the chelation and the low carb diet and the rich phospholipids and fat in protein meat and stuff, not eating late, eating late, exercising as much as possible, drinking enough water, they all did great. Every single one of them did great, along with systemic enzymes. So hopefully that’s the direction I would go. So find a doctor who can do something like that for your brother, Joanna.
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“My father has just been diagnosed with congestive heart failure and atrial fibrillation. The hospital advised to restrict his fluids. So, would it be advisable for him not to continue with chelation therapy?” [0:57:19]
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Well, we can reduce the volume of fluids that he’s in. So, if he’s getting chelation therapy, his doctor should be made known of his Afib and congestive heart failure. And then we can put this in a small little 100 cc, you know, 2 to 3-ounce volume of fluid. So yeah, he can still get chelation therapy. Talk to his doctor about that.
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“I have heard that as we get older, especially, a diet heavy in animal products is particularly hard on the liver. Can you comment?” [0:58:04]
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Yes, it’s not particularly hard on the liver. They just want us to pass on and not collect our Social Security checks, in my opinion. No, we need more fat and protein as we age. If you don’t digest it well because you don’t make digestive enzymes, then you get gut issues. And then if you eat a piece of meat or chicken or fish or eggs, it’s harder to digest and you get more gut issues, then you say, “Oh, when I eat fat proteins, I get an upset stomach. But yummy, yummy! When I eat that pudding and the tapioca and stuff, oh I’m fine.” Well, guess what, you’re mismatching cause and effect. It’s like firemen showing up at a fire. Whenever you eat the thing you need, you don’t have enough enzymes, so you get an upset stomach. So get the enzymes in there and then you can get the fats and protein so you can repair yourself in that age as quickly.
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“What is your view of chiropractic adjustments in general? Have you ever considered any of the Standard Process supplements? God bless you and your team.” [0:59:16]
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The answer is yes and yes. I believe in chiropractic. I believe it was a criminal thing that the (59:34) report did and making chiropractic colleges and training and schooling, challenged and limited, and negatively looked down to as an inferior health science. No, I am for alignment and not impinging on the nerves. It’s absolutely a legitimate field, and yes, I think we should be working on our posture, our alignment, and exercising and getting those adjustments. Also, Standard Process has this place, the kind of patients I see tend to be so complex that I need more dynamic higher concentration and nutrients and stuff. I know there is the training that less is more where you can take a tiny dose of something and it can have an effect in parts per billion light-years. So, a tiny poison anecdotally can cure a reaction during a poison exposure. I forgot the name of that. It’s a form of homeopathy. But I just don’t use Standard Process for various reasons over the many decades that I have known their products and gone to various meetings and seen them being used, and they’re just not potent enough for me.
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“My mother has been dealing with Irritable Bowel Diarrhea for a month now. She has been trying to get an appointment with her primary doctor. Do you have any advice on foods that she should or should not be eating and any other gut advice?” [0:61:06]
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Yeah, I would have her get on the Phospholipid with the SBI Protect Powder twice a day mixed in warm water. And I would have her eat primarily roasted chicken with the skin on it, roasted salmon, simple things like that that are easy to digest and that are rich in protein and fat, and chicken broth and beef broth. So, I would eat chicken broth as a soup and have soft, well-roasted, slow-roasted chicken with the skin on it, and I would have like prime rib or roasted salmon, broiled salmon, and beef broth, and have that and do that exclusively for at least three days, and watch her diarrhea fade away. It usually works 99 percent of the time for me. But have her see your doctor and go from there.
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“Are vitamin and mineral supplements necessary? Strictly carnivore.” [0:62:46]
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We talked about that. Yeah.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/recognizing-the-signs-and-symptoms-of-diabetes2023-11-13T07:02:26-08:002023-11-13T07:02:27-08:00Recognizing the Signs and Symptoms of DiabetesWendy Lewis
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Promotes healthy blood sugar levels
Type 1 diabetes can be diagnosed at any time, and Type 2 diabetes is most often diagnosed in patients older than 40. Of note, the rate of type 2 diabetes in children is increasing.
Recognizing the signs and symptoms listed above is vital to be able to see a medical provider as soon as possible. With appropriate care, diabetes is a manageable disease that may not lead to any additional complications.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-november-7-20232023-11-10T14:27:52-08:002023-11-10T14:27:52-08:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 7, 2023Wendy Lewis
Question
“Shingles, I am a TLC patient, A type blood.” [03:22]
Answer
But Joyce, what is your question? So maybe something you thought was typed in and didn't get typed in. A lot of people will be experiencing, as the Fall and the darkness and the lack of the ultraviolet light from the sun that we usually get between 10 am and 2 pm, that will hit the skin and help convert our cholesterol through them - the renal area - and then generate our vitamin D, which is really a hormone that helps boost our immune cells, our white blood cell functions, and vitamin D should be used, but Vitamin C is a water-soluble, whereas vitamin D is fat-soluble.
So the water-soluble vitamin C has been shown and there are studies, even NIH studies, that are valuable in alleviating the shingles pain of an outbreak, which is the varicella virus kind of coming out along a dermatome. So we have nerves and these nerves have a one-sided effect - a right side and a left side. And if you get stressed or your immune system drops off because you're not getting enough vitamin D, you're not drinking enough water, you're not exercising, you're not getting a good night's sleep, you're eating too much sugar, starch, bread, pasta, cracker, mashed potatoes, french fries, whatever you're eating hydrogenated fats. If you are suppressing your immune system with all the sugar, and during the season, the marketing and the propaganda put out to get you to buy and eat, buy, and eat and consume and celebrate over food everywhere you go with everyone you know, take a picture of it, brag to your friends so you eat more and eat more. And then they fill it full of high fructose corn syrup. And that is some of the most addicting, driving, but never satisfying so you eat more and more. And this suppresses the immune system, and you can get the shingles.
Now, these processed foods are lousy foods, I wouldn't even honor them with the name of calling them food. And so we have taught for decades, our patients here, that the foods we should be eating are the healthy fats and proteins. We are composed of fat and protein. We're not composed of fruits and vegetables, we don't have any essential requirements for carbohydrates. So Vitamin C is even in organ meat…like you know, this is Tuesday, I had my liver and onions and that's my one meal today. I had a huge, you know, big, big piece of liver and onions. And that's all I'm going to have today. And so that thing is full of all kinds of wonderful things: collagen and minerals and vitamin C. Yes, vitamin C. So you don't see any of the Intuit Indians, or Eskimos getting vitamin C scurvy issues. So yes, by eating the liver of whales and fish, you can get your Vitamin C. And we do have data that is shown in NIH that is linked with alleviating the pain of the post-herpetic neuralgia of shingles where the virus crawls out along one of the nerves in the dermatomes that go down your spine where the nerves come out on each side.
Hydros vitamin C intravenously is a great way to do that taking oral vitamin C, one or two grams, maybe up to four. Some people can take more usually beyond four grams, you'll get diarrhea. Vitamin C is associated with helping stimulate the immune system and enhancing your level of protection. It is associated with some antiviral activity, and it's associated with having inhibitory effects on some stems, or at least to my knowledge, all the stem cell studies on cancer stem cells have been inhibited by this. So we have here the high-dose vitamin C immune booster IV; you can have it in an hour with all the wonderful minerals with zinc and magnesium in it, and it has the methylated B in it, and B 12. And it has a high dose of vitamin C. It's a great way if you sense you're getting shingles or a cold to call up the office at our clinic Tustin Longevity Center - 714-544-1521. As for the IV department and scheduling a vitamin C drip. If you're not a patient here, we do take walk-ins, and the nurse will do an assessment. We doctors are here and if she has any questions or not, whether you can take it, she'll contact us or he'll contact us. We don't give as high a dose to the walk-ins as we do to those who are patients here because we do have your labs and we can push the limit. You do have to have a G six PD which is an enzyme that is known to help with the metabolism of vitamin C. And so yeah, you can get vitamin C as a walk-in, and you can get EDTA chelation therapy as a walk-in, but they are at a lowered dose range. But yes, Joyce if that's what you're asking if shingles would be helped with vitamin C…of course, it's helped with a low-carb diet, good night's sleep, exercise, not eating late, and intermittent fasting.
Intermittent fasting promotes sugar control and so that will help prevent these viral challenges. Eating rich protein and healthy fats, getting away from processed foods. And so even if you get to stressful times, you can fly through them, like our clinic here over the alleged COVID pandemic. We really had no serious patient illnesses at all. Because all the things you hear me advise right now on it, we're in fact attenuated. We all are low carb, we all have the vitamin C drips, we're all on vitamin D, or we take a multivitamin with zinc in it. And we are trying to all exercise, get a good night's sleep, drink plenty of water, those kinds of things. So hopefully your question, Joyce, on shingles was what I covered. You put here that you're an A- blood type, A’s again, as a class of people, Joyce, don't tend to digest food as well. And if you don't digest food as well, you don't reconstruct and repair yourself as well and get minerals extracted from the foods you eat. So when I now, hitting 70 years old, when I ate my liver today, I took my ortho digestive enzymes. That would be something I would have anyone over the age of 55-60 to do. Or certainly, all blood type A people even into childhood, but talk with your doctor. Children tend to have decent digestion, but some kids who are A type blood have a lot of tummy aches, and they can be helped with a little bit of digestive enzyme support also.
Question
“What is an integrative approach to acid reflux?” [11:50]
Answer
Well, the integrative approach to acid reflux is to stop it. And you do that by not eating late. Normally, the stomach will tend to empty itself out from the stomach into the duodenal and small intestines after about three or four hours. If you're a diabetic, you start getting gastroparesis slowing down of the movement and emptying. And it can take many, many hours. The older you get, the less digestive enzymes you have, the longer it sits in your stomach and can be six to eight hours if you're just older. And then you go eat dinner at seven o'clock and you try to lay down at ten. And you're constantly getting some of this partial stomach fluid, burping up into your lower esophagus giving you heartburn and reflux and irritation. And the sphincter there, the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach sack is also, you might say, stretched out, especially in women, when they're pregnant, that puts tension on their stomach when they're eating and the pressure there. So all these things are an issue.
So being overweight, eating too late, being older, and having blood type A, that would be a big setup for reflux. So we tell people to try and change their lifestyle so that depending on your age – I try and stop eating by four or five o'clock. I do take my digestive enzymes, but I am a B type blood, B+, but because I'm older, and I'm always working under stress, decade after decade after decade…stress, cortisol will also slow down digestion because when you're stressed the signal is to work on fight or flight issues and blood flow to my body and my brain. Cortisol will inhibit the digestion as well. So there are many factors that go into reflux, so don't eat late. Number one, don't eat late don't even drink sugary fluids and stuff because that will slow your stomach digestion down. If you're an A-type blood, take digestive enzymes. If you can take up a nice little 20-minute brisk walk or half-hour walk after all your dinners, if you do eat dinner.
The other thing besides enzymes and a walk and not eating late would be to, let's see what else, elevate the head of your bed and then for repair to stop the reflux, elevate the head of your bed. And what do you repair with? If you have injured materials in the esophagus, and at the junction between your esophagus and your stomach, these injured membranes are one cell membrane thick, and they're composed of phospholipids and proteins. So what you should be eating are phospholipids and protein. So that's why we make the phospholipid powder and the SBI protect powder.
Now this top one here, the probiotic powder is not really, absolutely necessary. But at least these two, this is the phospholipid of this repair. So the whole damage in a membrane here can be fixed to this nice smooth double by a lipid membrane. So this is the fat phospholipids and this is the protein and you take a scoop of each and put it in water, take it before… and I would make the water warm, I put it in warm water before you go to bed at night. I always find it works. And my patients, I have mine on my little kitchen counter here in my office, because, with my stress, I can…I used to joke about taking 75 supplements a day. And that's because I take 25 and I burp it up two or more times and I have to swallow it again. And so the total re-swallowing of them makes it 75 that I have to swallow. And I noticed that because of the stress in my life and after having children, that really put a huge stress on my body. But hopefully, that'll help you understand what we would do for acid reflux.
Question
“If someone has low testosterone would it be okay to be on testosterone replacement therapy?” [16:56]
Answer
I would say so Michael, unless you have some serious prostate cancer, where you should talk with your prostate urologist or your oncologist. Although more and more papers are being written that testosterone really is not being believed to be as linked with a negative impact on the prostate. But anyway, if you're on a prostate blocker hormone suppression treatment for prostate cancer, then you shouldn't take testosterone.
Yeah, so if you're just low and you don't have prostate cancer, I would definitely use it. But why not try an exercise? Exercise will build it up, have your zinc levels checked, or forget the zinc level and just go ahead and take, you know, 25, 50 milligrams of amino acid-culated zinc because low zinc levels are associated with that. And I find this very common in my adult men.
Also, the time of the year that you test your testosterone… So right now testosterone should be about its highest is going to be in the fall. So that all the male animals and all, you know, human men are on a biannual testosterone phase. So testosterone rises up in the fall and then after about, you know, January starting, it starts to decline all the way until about May. And in May, then it starts building up again. And why is that? Most of the animal kingdom will carry their pregnancies through and have them born in the spring and God did not want the male adult animals to eat the pups. So God lowers the testosterone throughout the animal kingdom and you'll find that you the time you get your blood tested - so if you test your blood you know in February, March, April you're gonna see the lowest level and then you might want to exercise and take zinc and eat, you know, a healthy protein, healthy low-carb, natural fats, and then re-tested in the fall in September, October, November, and maybe it will be good enough there, Michael.
Question
"My husband was diagnosed with paralyzed vocal cords. Are any alternative treatments available besides surgery (tracheotomy or cutting part of a vocal chord)? The throat is dry & restricted, and pain if he tries to speak." [19:45]
Answer
Well, Denise, this is too complex for me to jump into with any statement about what you should or should not do. But if someone came to me, and they were diagnosed with paralyzed vocal cords, we would want to find out why did that happen. And so with your otolaryngologist watching over you, because we don't know the cause, that's not common, and it usually isn't bilateral because there are two sides of the innervation. Very often what we would tell our patients to come alongside nutritionally and immunological support to the specialists - the ear, nose, and throat surgeon - and the internists, I would do some fasting. If you would go on a 48-hour fast and just have nothing. Very often this will prevent reflux, which could irritate things, and it will improve the immune system. If there's a viral illness, taking a high dose of vitamin C drug would be helpful. Taking vitamin D is helpful. And I would do this protein, for a quick powerful support - the phospholipid and the SBI protect protein with the immunoglobulins, so that all the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, that’s about 70-80% of your immune system lines, this area here, whatever is causing the paralysis, you're going to boost your immune system immediately.
So start with a 24 to 48-hour fast, just a water fast, unless he's an insulin-dependent diabetic, of course, because they would have to be under the close management and discussion of any fasting with their doctor. But that's how I would tend to begin to support there.
The fat helps the sheath lining the nerve…is a cholesterol-rich, phospholipid-rich lining around the nerves. So it makes all the sense in the world to have the phospholipid in there, and then after the two-day fast, you know, I would eat organ meat, prime rib, roasted free-range chicken, I would eat salmon buttered up. And I would try and stay away from plant foods. The reason being, there's such a huge need to stimulate the healing of the nerve. What you need is the cholesterol and the phospholipids and the proteins to promote the healing of the sheath. So that's a beginning thing there and then find a good functional doctor and work on that and get on some vitamin D. And that's that's the beginning where we would start anyway.
Question
“Do you recommend Juice Plus Omega Capsules? Or will eating healthy animal fats suffice?” [23:25]
Answer
I have not been using the Juice Plus mega capsules because I'm driven by the science. And I think one science paper has come out on the omegas the fatty acid capsules in the Juice Plus series and I respect all the science and Juice Plus. The paper was you know, interesting. It was favorable. And so I'm not against it. And I am for clearly the science that I do know; I happen to use Clinician’s Preference Oil which is the Omega three and six of the only two essential fatty acids linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid and that's what I use. Eating healthy fats and animal, yeah if you eat the egg yolks and you eat some meat and fish and chicken and you're gonna have nuts and seeds, like flax seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, pecans. That would be useful too.
Question
“I am suddenly experiencing muscle pain over the past few weeks. I eat low-carb, drink water, take enzymes, and do intermittent fasting. What is causing this? I will be doing a 5 day fast soon. I first saw you back in 2008 and I have been taking Juice Plus Red, Green, and Purple since then continuously. Taking it that long, what benefits do you think it has had on me?” [24:51]
Answer
Well, I think it's protecting your DNA damage. And I'll just tell you, there is no one study that says… let's see, I've been on Juice Plus since 1999. So how long is that? 99, 2009, 2019. And so about 25 years. And I feel wonderful and thankful in my seventies now, to have this enduring energy. I will tell you that the owner of Juice Plus, I think is about 90. And he's still working, and he's still all together. And, of course, he tries to eat a healthy lifestyle. I think he avoids alcohol for the most part. But in general, I am surprised at all the people that, when I joined, let's see, I was about 48, maybe 49 when I joined. And 25 years later, the people who were in their late 60s, they're all still alive. I don't really know but one or two have passed on. And, that one of them was by an accident.
So I have to tell you, I am totally impressed with the longevity of people who use Juice Plus, and who use it continuously over the years. We have more than 42 studies now. It prevents DNA damage. We have several studies on how it boosts the immune system. The childhood research involves now millions of children over more than 10 years, less missed school, less medicines prescribed by their doctors, less allergies, better academic performance, better athletic performance, less cravings, or a better diet in general. We have cardiovascular benefits from it. We have just so many studies on Juice Plus; it's the most researched new nutraceutical. So that's why I stay with it, Robert. Now regarding your muscle pain all over, you know, you have to see a doctor, Robert, and you have to have someone look at you, look at maybe some CPK enzymes, these are muscle damaging enzymes, ask about any vaccinations you may or may not have had recently, any viral illnesses you may or may not have had recently. And, you know, look at general autoimmune screens and look at it that way.
So please go see your doctor and let us take a look at you. And hopefully, you find a good functional doctor that can do that, Robert, because you bring us so many good jokes. We want to take care of you and have your blessing, presence, joy, and wisdom as well.
Question
“What would you recommend to do a week before surgery, to prepare the body as much as possible, for a quick recovery? What would help after surgery?” [28:46]
Answer
Well, I would say, I see this question was one of two I apparently didn't get to from October 31. You probably had your surgery already. But in general, for surgery, I tell people to go off onto an extremely low-carb diet and eat rich free-range beef, roasted chicken, salmon, and have lobster, crab, and sardines and if you're going to have vegetables, I would have the cooked broccoli, brussel sprouts, green beans, asparagus, things like that. Only buttered with salt to taste.
I would never eat past five or six o'clock and I would start eating around noon. So there's a six-hour window because that'll stimulate your body to heal and build itself up and get all the Protein-building blocks. See, when you're cut in surgery, you need a ton of protein to repair all that damaged tissue. Most Americans don't eat enough protein in general. So eating a rich, free-range, wild-caught protein diet is very important preoperatively.
And then the other thing we would say is the day before surgery, they often tell you not to eat for 12 hours before surgery, I asked my patients not to eat for 24 hours before surgery. And most of my patients can do that because they've been seeing me for decades. So they're already used to a 24-48, 72-hour fast. Why? Because this stimulates human growth repair hormones. So you get a jumpstart on all the somatic statins that will promote healing after you have the surgery done. The other thing I tell my patients if they're on the systemic enzymes like Vitalzym, or Vascuzyme to stop at four or five days before surgery because that will thin their blood and prevent blood clots. And that's the streptokinase, nattokinase, those kinds of enzymes that are anti-inflammatory. And we stop it not because it's going to really be harmful. It's just for the surgeon, I have seen patients who were on enzymes, and there's tiny, tiny little oozing of capillaries, and he has to cauterize those little spots. And so to be nice on the surgeon to have less bruising, you should stop those systemic enzymes about four or five days before surgery.
But the next day, the very next day, you should double it. So if you were on four or five a day, I would take five, twice a day. And I would do that for two weeks to clean up the post-traumatic insult injury of inflammation from the surgical incision site. And then that helps with the being fasted. And I wouldn't eat the day after surgery, I would just have chicken broth, beef broth, not bone broth, chicken and beef broth like the bouillon cube thing. And because if you can make it the next day, and just rest and sleep a lot and just sip on these broths, that will be another stimulus for more growth and repair. So whatever surgery you have, these are the best ways we recommend approaching it.
And you can have your multivitamin, your mineral, your digestive enzyme, you can have your vitamin D, you can take your vitamin C, your B complex, all of these are very fine. And very often they have a swath world where they'll say the surgeon will say don't take any supplements, you know before surgery for a week. Well, that’s foolishness, okay, that's ignorance. So, yeah, don't take fish oils, because that's a known blood thinner and the only thing that you have to be careful with are the systemic enzymes, Vascuzyme, Vitalzym, ProteXyme that has those things like nattokinase, streptokinase, and stop it about four days before but double it the next day. And then stay low-carb as long as you can.
Question
“How long can one fast before muscle wasting begins?” [33:51]
Answer
I would say it depends on the individual and how much muscle mass they have to start with, what age they are, and what comorbidities they might have. So it's a very difficult question Dennis, in and of itself alone. I would rather say I think it's very safe to go on up to a three-day fast for most all situations, all people with all kinds of illnesses. Unless you know, and there are various kinds of fasting… we're talking about a pure water fast right now. So if you're an insulin-dependent diabetic, that's a separate category that needs to be managed with your doctor, and certain people with heart failure, congestive heart failure, and things like that, we would want to have them all be followed by their doctor if they're going to do a prolonged fast, which is really anything past 24 hours for food. But after about 72 hours, then you can start seeing some potential for muscle breakdown. But it's minimal. We're talking about serious muscle breakdown that could start for the average healthy person as much as five days and seven days. I've seen literature on that but again, it's it's mostly academic. Ultimately, you know, we have seen people go on these fasts for three months and then that's where they're such fasting that they passed away from muscle wasting, but it'll begin at about maybe the earliest three days. We can certainly see some academic evidence at five to seven days and clearly thereafter so yeah, it depends on the person and the situation.
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“Put castor oil w heat on liver, broke out v itchy bumpy red raised skin on cheeks. I put Argentyn 23 spray 3 times/day, take quercetin 1500mg, C 1500mg, Zinc, D 10K IU, turmeric, low carb diet, bone broth all day, tea tree oil, shea butter, Eucrisa What are your suggestions? What happened to my body? Is it toxic unloading? Allergic reaction?” [35:59]
Answer
Castor Oil is, in general, it's used mostly as a laxative if it's used for anything, and that's the oral consumption. It’s made from Castor seeds. And ricinoleic acid I believe is what is squeezed out to make the castor oil and process. But you know the deadly poison ricin I think comes from the seeds that produce castor oil. So that's taken out in the processing. I've never heard of any serious toxic risks with castor oil. Although its seed is the resin deadly poison. I don't think it's useful. I'm going to say I would rather you fast for 24 hours, you'll get a lot more known research on detoxing, body cleansing if you would go on a fast for 24 hours, and drink plenty of water, and take your multi-mineral, amino acid, chelates, and take systemic enzymes and take a walk. These kinds of things. Castor oil, I don't think it's anything really that exciting. And usually, if you're going to get a rash it'll be at the site of the application of the castor oil pack. So it would have been on your liver there. To have something show up on your cheeks I think is totally different. So don't know what's going on there, Lilly. But I don't endorse the time and effort of castor oil packs. I know the culture of many well-meaning naturalists of say it's beneficial and there's a long history. I'm not sure that you can justify that with research, although the NIH has done some research on this a lot of course for the resin poison from it. But regarding its benefit, it's really only a laxative and otherwise has a very low risk for allergy.
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“Following a 4-day drive from CA to Houston, TX I ended up in the ER fearing I had a DVT. After an ultrasound, I was diagnosed with "Cellulitis," and prescribed Clindamycin HCL 300 MG x 40 cap. every six hours. I have finished this RX. --What do you recommend I take to complete my healing, as I still have swelling, pain, and redness?” [39:00]
Answer
Well, you've got to see the doctor and that could be serious. But I would fast, you know, your body knows what to do when it's fasting. If you would drink a lot more water. We drink a lot more water when we fast and take systemic enzymes of four or five twice a day, three times a day on an empty stomach. If you do a 24 or 48-hour fast, elevate your leg. You know how a cat will kind of pump with his feet - like that - if you raise your legs and you pump your legs to promote circulation, and you take the enzymes with the water, you'll see a dramatic improvement of the pain even within 5-10 minutes. And you'll know that what I'm telling you is right.
Fasting promotes the communication between the cells to stimulate healing, the water helps as a transport medium to remove toxins. The enzymes are your PacMan that clean up the junk. I would make sure you're on vitamin D. And I would make sure you're on a probiotic. Because antibiotics impact your gut, good flora. Clindamycin shouldn't have any detrimental effects on muscle and stuff. But if you're still sore, and you finished your antibiotics, and if there's redness there, I would have the doctor check it again. Get your CVC a white blood cell count and check it.
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“I’ve been experiencing a burning feeling in my upper stomach area after my stomach empties. I wake up in the middle of the night with an empty burning feeling. I’m AB+. And this has been going on for about a week. Just curious what your remedy would be.” [41:07]
Answer
Kim, it could be so many things. It could be something you ate. Or you might think it's a good food but you're getting a delayed IgG immuno food allergy reaction, it could take a day 2,3,4 days to show up. So a food could be doing this in the slow allergic response. That's why doctors tear their hair out with gut complaints because it's so hard to help people with gut complaints because a food you ate 1-3, up to four days ago can create stomach pain that’s delayed.
Secondly, eating too late, besides the food allergies, which will delay the peristalsis and it can make your stomach empty slowly. And that would make your reflux more likely. Not drinking enough water, taking medications or drinks that are acidic like, you know, coffee, caffeine, these could do it. The other thing is having a… whatever your age is, have you had children, you know the reflux. So what would I do I would have you use this powder (phospholipid powder and the SBI protect powder) mixed in warm water one scoop of each. And I would drink that and I would do it first thing in the morning when I woke up, last thing before I go to bed, and anytime during the day, You could do that, you know, several times a day. It's natural, it's food. And that should help stop this, but then I would make sure I eat a diet that is a one-menu day and have a plan. So my plan is Tuesdays are liver and onions. You know, Wednesdays for me would be like steak and broccoli. Thursday would be roast chicken and green beans. Friday would be salmon and brussels sprouts. Saturday is often a fasting 24-hour fasting day. Sunday, I usually will eat something leftover if, there are leftovers from any of that. And then Monday would probably be just my eggs, buttered. Lightly scrambled, butter, eggs and bacon. So that's kind of how I live my life. I eat like that. I try and eat mostly a one-menu day. I try and eat between two and five o'clock. And that's how we do it.
So why am I saying that? So if you eat a one-menu day and let's say you're going to have two meals a day, I would make enough liver and onions so that I would have it for my lunch tomorrow to heat up. Or I would make enough beef and broccoli so that you could heat it up for lunch the next day. I would make enough chicken and green beans to heat up the next day. I would have enough salmon and asparagus to heat up the next lunch. You see what I'm saying? That way if you started doing an elimination diet, you could say, all right, I'm going to eat a one-menu day, that decreases the exposure of spices and all kinds of things I can get into my diet. And then I'm going to chew it real well and take my digestive enzyme and my phospholipids and not eat late, raise the head of my bed, and then you should be able to work it out that way without having to see a doctor. But if that doesn't help you within, you know, a few days, then see a good functional doctor.
Question
“I started a pro-metabolic diet in July after 3+ years of IF (minus pregnancy + postpartum in 2022). It worked for years but in postpartum I felt depleted and had poor skin + chronic diarrhea. The PM diet cleared my symptoms at first but now I’m worse off than when I started. Which diet is best for healing hormones? I'm 35 w/ Hashi’s, SIBO, and a TLC patient.” [45:12]
Answer
Well, many women are getting pregnant today, not healthy enough, we haven't eaten enough healthy protein fish meat to have all these wonderful membranes here so that we can not only repair ourselves but build all the membranes in a baby. So we're eating all this junk food and it puts us really behind the eight ball plus, so much of the junk stuff they call food is mineral and nutrient depleted. With industrialized farming glyphosate and hydrogenated high fructose corn syrup, just a horrible situation. And we lose our essential fat-soluble, k2 and k1and vitamin D and vitamin E and vitamin A and so we're having lots of trouble. And then postpartum depression is often associated with not only then do you have that, but then you're probably breastfeeding. So we need our doctors to get a crash course, not crash, learner, learn nutrition, and they should all get the Corinne T. Netzer Encyclopedia of Food Values. Every doctor, if they're a doctor, should have a food value.
So, you asked, you know, is there enough calcium in my body, what foods would be great, and you look at meat versus bean, you're gonna go for the meat all the time. But if you look on the internet, there is a political correctness where you're not supposed to say meat is the end all be all to everything you need, or liver, and so it won't really bring that up much, but it's fabulous. So how did I get there? We were talking about your pro-metabolic diet. So I would say you know, about half of all people with Hashimoto have, or half of the people with small intestine bacterial overgrowth, have Hashimoto. So you have to understand, what you eat, what we eat! If doctors don't understand what you eat matters, okay, and not only on top of what you eat matters. You have to have organic, free-range, wild-caught, and you'd be amazed at how satisfying a free-range piece of steak every, you know, few days for me. Eggs, salmon, my liver day, my roasted chicken day. It is so satiating and that's how I can have fasting blood sugars in the 50s and 60s and low hemoglobin and see low insulin and low triglycerides. It is so satisfying. And I'm just like you, I can become binged on carbohydrates…Thank the Lord I didn't have any Halloween candy. You know, I did get, my son went out and got some almond something, coconut almonds, little mini things for the kids. I don't support Halloween at all, but we do open the door and we give them little Bible tracks and give them a little something. And I did not touch this up, but I'm like you, I would binge it away. You know I would binge it away.
So you have these instinctual limbic guttural survival drives that override for sex, for defense, you know, fight or flight for salt, the taste of salt, sweet, and butter fat. These guttural drives in us are what these New York advertisement companies capitalize on hyping up to, you know, billions of dollars for marketing to us getting psychological profiles, how to image color reactions, all of this to get you to consume their stuff. And it's not satisfying, you had better, you had better getting angry, and you had better start developing a healthy image about how you're going to defend yourself. So if I go to a place that you call a grocery store, I call it a pornography store for your mouth. I call the grocery store a pornography store for your mouth. And that is killing our children and our young men and messing up their hormones, and they're never satisfied. They're all driven through Instagram and marketing.
How did I get on that? Pro-metabolic diet…But anyway, so you have to, I would really get away from any packaged food, breads, crackers, all that stuff, not to mention, you know, candy and soda pop. And I would eat real food, learn what eating real food, regularly, and how satisfying it is. And see how good - you are a TLC patient - okay, well, why don't you talk with your doctor. And if you're not satisfied, have your doctor here at TLC bring your case up at our grand rounds. We do that once a month, and we bring up cases and this video thing, and what we're doing is helping us doctors so much to get a wide variety and we’re measuring the amount of hits on topics. So we know where we need to drive our training. So we're working on this in the background, I'm coming out with a teaching for physicians, and we're starting to focus on areas of greatest interest. We have to teach you that you're responsible for your health. And we have to teach you how remarkably well your body will heal itself if you can get it off the Bronco of food bouncing you around, you know, and turn. You know every time I go out the checkout, I feel like I'm going into a, you know, pornographic aisle, not just the magazines, but all the candies like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are screaming to jump into my mouth. And I have to think very evil thoughts about it. And how evil that is to do to me every time I need to get a simple piece of good food. That's so wrong. That's so evil to do to me. And everyone and I feel so sorry for my patients. All right, I went on a rant, I should be answering questions.
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“I have a friend who has a 1.8 cm. liver lesion on the left extrarenal pelvis. What is this? I have a friend who has had 2 pulmonary embolisms. One while she was on an airplane and another one just recently. How do these develop? I know the doctor said her blood was very thick - she takes nattokinese. but was thinking about changing to Lumbrokinase but doctors tell her to take Eliquis.” [53:15]
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What is this, Linda, that’s too little information and that's too important to miss. So you need to bring that up to your doctor. Now that's very often to see cysts in the liver, especially as we get older, just like we sag, you know, and wrinkle, and our skin wiggles, your livers hanging there right under your right lung and it's sagging too and it can, you know, pop, smack, and a little cell opens up in the tissues tear about and you get some cysts, okay. And that's benign, but it could be so many other things. This isn't enough information for me to go beyond that. But hopefully, it's just the most common little cysts.
And then Linda says you have a friend who has had two pulmonary embolisms one while she was on an airplane and another just recently How did these develop? Well, it's not enough water because we're made mostly of water. Pray everyone that I can get a glycol check which is a machine that will help me to demonstrate to you how important EDTA chelation therapy is. This is like a hook on our device with a camera on the tip and you hang it on your mouth like that and it takes a picture of your veins and arteries right in the mucous on the floor of your mouth, just like you get a hand identification when you go to Disneyland. And some of people have that as they take an infrared picture, and it's a very unique identifier of your veins.
Well, I can take a picture under your tongue with a glycol check. And I can see living flowing blood cells through a capillary, teeny weeny capillary. And I can calculate the flow dynamic of that one red cell trying to squeeze through and feed all the cells in its domain and take up all the garbage, it's a lot of work for that little capillary to do. And if the membranes are injured or broken, or you're not drinking enough water, or you're eating sticky, gooey carbohydrates, starches, pasta, beans, rice, too much fruit, sugar in your latte, fratte, frappe, whatever those drinks are called. And, and that's going to make it sticky for that little thing to pass through. And they'll clump up, you can actually see this so pray that I can make enough profit here that I can get this machine that I can do it so I can do it on all my patients to reinforce and come back at that marketing and come back at that terrible place called the grocery store this really a pornography store for your mouth. And I can show you live flowing, what water would do, chelation therapy, enzymes, a low carb diet, I need to be profitable. But I will trust the Lord he has provided for me well.
All right. All right. And so how do you get these pulmonary embolisms? Well, a lot from just inactivity, the blood flow is sluggish, and you're not exercising, you're not drinking your water. You don't make the enzymes as you're aging, and you're gumming it up with so many sticky sugars. And you have antigen-antibody sticky complexes from food allergies, it's a recipe for a blood clot or an embolism or something. So our patients I never would see that until we saw something come out in December of 2020. This something that came out that you would poke into your body, and then all hell broke loose and I've seen nutty crazy things from children to adults, not my patients really so much, not one of my patients really suffered, especially if they do chelation, drink their water taken on some low carb diet. So yeah, sticky blood like that.
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“I recently heard about the connection between SIBO and thyroid medication (specifically, Synthroid). I potentially have SIBO and am taking Levothyroxine for hypothyroidism. I don't have an issue with motility, so am wondering if this even pertains to my situation.” [57:59]
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Well here, it's not the Synthroid. It's the condition of why are you hypothyroid and hypothyroid people tend to have a slow motility and bacterial overgrowth, and too many bad bacteria, not enough good bacteria, lack of water, too much sugar, feeding all the bad guys to grow and be popular. And so you get this overgrowth and people who have that have damage to this wall of the intestine. Then you get breakthrough, an irritation of the gut-associated lymphoid tissue that creates immunologic mimicry of molecules that cross-react with your thyroid, hypothyroid attack, cross-react with the joints, and you get arthritis, cross-react with your nerves and you get MS.
So look, it isn't that we don't need our specialists. But if we had far more good doctors trained who could help teach these patients we'd have far healthier people, far less need for all these specialists. And we need to get these specialists trained to help their patients eat right so their specialty skills and - I want a specialist if I need it and I refer to them. But there are maybe a million doctors in the United States licensed to practice medicine. Out of that million only about 200,000 of us are general practitioners, the 800,000 are all specialists. This is wrong, folks. This is wrong. This is a recipe to just say “Come on, let everyone get sick. And we'll make money as you come by with your illnesses.” No, we need 800,000 good doctors who will enjoy the love and lifetime of supporting a community of people. And then these people will love and the doctor will love them. And they may not have a Mercedes or they may not be able to fly to Cancun, fine. But they'll be the happiest doctors in the world. And they'll sleep like a baby at night and they'll look forward to seeing you most of the time. And hopefully, we'll be in a good mood most of the time because I know I can be crabby too.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/the-difference-between-types-1-and-2-diabetes2023-11-06T07:39:32-08:002023-11-06T07:39:33-08:00The Difference Between Types 1 and 2 DiabetesWendy Lewis
Our Diabetes Awareness Month newsletter series is focused on raising awareness of diabetes. The series will consist of four articles, which will be released once a week throughout the month of November. Each article will cover different aspects of diabetes, offering information and resources aimed at reducing the stigma associated with diabetes, encouraging early diagnosis, and promoting healthy lifestyle choices to prevent and manage diabetes effectively.
Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes may have very similar names, but there are significant differences in what causes each disease and how to treat it. However, they both have some common symptoms and implications for patients. Both diseases significantly impact how the body breaks down food and controls blood sugar.
First, it is important to understand what diabetes is before establishing the differences between Type 1 and Type 2. In patients with diabetes, the body cannot produce enough insulin or use insulin as well as it should, which leads to an inability to control blood sugar. Insulin is the molecule that allows the body to move sugar out of the blood and into the cells to be used for energy. When blood sugar remains high, it can lead to serious complications like vision loss and kidney injuries.
The major differences between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes are related to why the body cannot control blood sugar.
Type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune condition (the body attacks itself) in which the body attacks and destroys the cells in the pancreas that produce insulin. Thus, the body cannot produce enough insulin to move the sugar in the blood into the cells. The exact cause of Type 1 diabetes is unknown but is likely caused by genetic factors. Type 1 diabetes is managed by using insulin injections to lower blood sugar after eating. Essentially, the insulin injections replace the insulin that the pancreas would release in a patient without Type 1 diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is much more common than Type 1 and has different causes. Type 2 diabetes stems from the body’s inability to use insulin effectively, also known as decreased insulin sensitivity. This means that the same amount of insulin does not lower the blood sugar as much as it would in a patient without Type 2 diabetes. Over time, the body cannot produce enough insulin to lower the blood sugar to normal levels. Unlike Type 1 diabetes, Type 2 diabetes often correlates to how much carbohydrates and sugar one is eating, the absence of physical activity, and in some cases being overweight, in addition to some genetic components. Treatments for Type 2 diabetes can consist of many different types of medications combined with diet and exercise changes. At TLC, as part of our comprehensive approach, we also encourage the carnivore diet and a specialized supplement called Metabolic Formula to effectively lower cholesterol levels.
TLC Metabolic Formula, is one of the key players in reducing triglycerides and helping to improve carbohydrate metabolism. Constructed with Vitamin C , biotin, chromium, and other several compounds this unique formula has the ability to lower blood sugar levels, decrease cholesterol, as well as giving your immunity a boost. TLC Metabolic formula is ideal for diabetic patients, or patients that have high cholesterol and irregular blood sugar levels making it the go to supplement for carbohydrate and fat metabolism.
Lowers cholesterol and improve carbohydrate metabolism
Boosts immune system
Promotes healthy blood sugar levels
Overall, Type 1 diabetes and Type 2 diabetes have significant differences, leading to differences in how they are treated. Type 1 diabetes is caused by the body’s inability to produce insulin, and Type 2 diabetes is more related to a lack of insulin sensitivity. Management of Type 1 diabetes is relatively simple as it only consists of insulin injections, while Type 2 diabetes management can consist of many medications combined with proper diet and exercise.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-october-31-2023-12023-11-02T10:38:25-07:002023-11-02T10:50:40-07:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, October 31, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“I am pregnant. Trying to do a carnivore diet. I’m battling nausea and strong meat aversions, mostly eggs and beef. Do you have any helpful tips or information that can help?” [0:02:50]
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Well, you might start, I don’t know what your blood type is. If you are blood type A, you would use digestive enzymes when you do eat meat, eggs, or any high-protein item. We generally recommend that for blood type A. And nausea is usually mitigated or it’s reduced when you have a richer protein diet. So, if you are having nausea or difficulty digesting it, maybe you can find a good protein drink. Ortho Molecular has Opti Cleanse GHI. That is a very good broad-spectrum multivitamin protein drink. You might try that as well. But we are made of protein and fat, so the baby needs lots of protein and fat. So, you have to work through that. Try some digestive enzymes. That is what we would recommend to our pregnant patients. Hopefully, that works out well for you.
You can, of course, ask your OBGYN if they have any treats up their sleeve. When I was a young doctor, we would hard boil eggs and give them to all the women in the lower income area. They couldn’t afford much of a protein diet. We really reduced the nausea of pregnancy with eggs. So, soft, scrambled, or poached eggs were the best there for helping them. You need protein and fat. That will help suppress the nausea.
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“I was born with an Omphalocele and without my gallbladder, can this or the condition I was born with cause my breast milk when breastfeeding my babies to lack healthy fat and nutrition or cause it to not be nourishing enough for my baby? Twice now with both my babies no matter what I did and how long I breastfeed something was wrong.” [0:04:55]
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Well, you have to eat enough protein and fat to make the milk. So, it’s all about if your blood type is A, you should use your digestive enzymes with your richer protein diet. Fish is very easily digested. Chicken with the skin on it. Poached eggs. Things like that. Use your digestive enzymes and drink plenty of water.
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“I had labs done last week. Today I was told that my cholesterol is 230. I’m 39. I weigh 144 pounds. I eat mostly garden veggies, meat, eggs, and butter. I’m confused on this. Everything else is fine.” [0:05:55]
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Well here is news, your 230 is fine also. A cholesterol of 230 is nothing to be worried about. I would direct you to go on YouTube and look up the title, High Cholesterol is Healthy. It was put out about two months ago by Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. David Diamond, Ph.D. One is a family practice doctor and the other is a PhD. They review the literature on cholesterol, the most recent scientific surveys, and retrospective meta-analysis. The data was inconclusive. You are bamboozled if you are worried about cholesterol. We are made of cholesterol. These membranes, every cell in our body, has cholesterol all throughout the membrane in various parts. You need plenty of cholesterol. Go watch the YouTube. That should help you. You can follow up with your doctor and share that video with them too.
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“NAD, I've heard that it has cognitive benefits as well as building muscle and helps against aging skin. If all are true, which brand do you recommend and what dosage?” [0:08:25]
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I don’t use individualized NAD. I never have and probably will never do so. I just use a methylated B complex. This assists in the whole pathway that is involved in hundreds and hundreds of reactions that build and repair all cells throughout your body. To pick one item out is to take like a Boeing 747 and it probably has two million individual bullets, parts, cogs, and whatnot. To say that one is critically more important, I’m sure there are some that are critical and others that are less so. But in terms of actually flying, they are all important.
We go through these fads. NAD, Resveratrol, Anthocyanin, coenzyme Q10, and Ubiquinone are other names for it. All of these nutrients that they learn in energy production inside the mitochondria would think that we discovered the source of life. It is actually the balance. Water, without enough water with all this happening, nothing is quite useful.
Getting enough water, getting exercise, getting a good sleep cycle, and not clogging it up with a high-processed carb diet, these are the things. Taking a good multivitamin once a day is probably adequate for the average patient and not to be sucked into these fads.
NAD is technically valuable in all these things that are mentioned. But are there good human studies that it will enhance vision, cognitive function, etc? They do rat studies, and biochemical studies on this, and they do not exist. I would spend more time thinking about, do I get into weight training or aerobic exercise, or did I drink half my weight as pounds as ounces, every day of water. Did I eliminate some sugar, starch, and processed food? Did I take the time to plan a good healthy menu that is as organic as I can? That is where you should put your time and effort. There is no vitamin that pulls all of this.
The closest thing that I would say is the best vitamin would be, the most researched, the greatest amount of human studies on is the Juice Plus Series. That is the most researched in the world and associated with DNA damage, diminishment, immune function enhancement, and children’s studies with weight loss. It just goes on and on. If you want one thing to take, that would have the most science and human studies behind it, as far as a name brand that I would recommend. The second item is vitamin D3 with K2. And let’s see, that is two items. The third would be a multi-mineral that is chelated to amino acids. Minerals that have amino acid chelates. Because minerals are the templates. It’s like God’s cooking pans, pots, and pans, for making new tissue and repair.
That is pretty much the basis that I would say is critical.
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“Can someone be obese, yet metabolically healthy with normal blood pressure, cholesterol, and blood sugar?” [0:13:36]
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The answer is yes. There are studies that there are just some people who will genetically just carry an extra 30 pounds with them and it will put them in an obese category. Somewhere with a BMI under 39 or 35 to 39. These people have excellent blood sugar, triglyceride, insulin, hemoglobin A1C, and fasting blood sugars, and I’m probably one of those. My blood sugar typically is in the 50s and 60s. My triglycerides are typically 30 to 40, that kind of range. So, the answer is yes.
Some of the studies have said that these types of people live the longest overall. So, more studies need to be done. There is a doctor by the name of Dr. Lustig. He is a pediatric endocrinologist and he's famous for the book, or the video called, Sugar, The Bitter Truth. And in it, he brought out about 15 years of the fractures and glucose excess and processed foods, and the damage to the children. The fatty liver that is developing and more studies are into the uric acid aspect of this. He became extremely upset with the food systems, the school food eating, you know, all the food recommendations of the American Diet Association, and all the high percentage of contributors to the American Dietetic Association's recommendations, all these lettered individuals, or the vast majority are linked with the process food companies. So, it's like they're bought off to just rubber stamp, saying that Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are better than a hamburger. It’s kind of sad.
He is the one that points out, Dr. Lustig, and metabolically obese healthy. I think if you put those terms together and Google it, you'll see some of the scientific papers and where he gives the longevity data on that.
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“I'm predisposed to getting preeclampsia as I have had severe preeclampsia with my first baby, my doctor told me to take baby aspirin to prevent pre-eclampsia they said it's safe, but I need to know for sure if is it actually safe while pregnant?” [0:16:42]
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This must be the same as the beginning. If you are pregnant and under the care of an OBGYN you should follow their instructions. It is commonly done. I don’t practice deliveries anymore, that was many years ago for me, we didn’t use aspirin then. We wouldn’t give a pregnant person any immunization shots let alone aspirin.
But nowadays, there is work that shows that low dose baby aspirin, 81 milligrams, once or twice a day is associated with blocking certain prostaglandin, cyclooxygenase enzyme activity that will promote micro clotting thromboxane I think is a pathway there. Anyway so it's associated with a tiny micro clotting and it prevents that. So, follow your OBGYN. I am aware now that they are recommending it.
If I had a daughter of my own or a granddaughter and she asked me, I would probably personally advise my family to use stomach enzymes and drink half your weight as pounds as ounces. If you are 150 pounds, you would drink 75 ounces of water every single day. Take a walk. Avoid the processed foods and sugars. And use the enzymes with a multi-mineral. We recommend Juice Plus. That is what our recommendations are.
But follow your OBGYN.
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“I have some supplements from a company called Premier Research Labs. One is vitamin D3 & K2 that lists D3 as Vitashine 5000 IU and vitamin K2 as Menaquinone 180mcg. Is this fine?” [0:19:20]
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Never heard of that. I think that’s a trade name for a source of Vitamin D. I will have to write that down and look into it. Yeah, that has to be a trade name for the D3. I think it’s probably good. But I don’t know this product. I will try to have for next week more information. There is no such thing as Vitashine in biochemistry. That has to be a trade name for their Vitamin D3.
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“Do you know of the best Christian counselor? Is there a way to reduce or eliminate several policy? What is the best lotion and body wash to use for severe dry and itchy skin?” [0:20:46]
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I don’t quite understand this second sentence.
I guess there are three questions here. We have a counselor here called Andrea Owens. She’s not here on Wednesdays. So, that would be who I recommend if you are in the area. Outside of that, I don’t know anyone. Hopefully, you are in the area here.
Second question, I don’t understand and I can’t answer that.
Third question, well, I would not shower every day. Most Americans shower too often and they dry out their skin. I think taking a shower as cool as you can with as little soap as you can once a week and then to sponge bathing in your armpits and grime and your feet separately. Your skin makes the oils, you can use parent essential oil. You should be eating enough of the natural sources of fat and protein to make healthy skin that preserves your natural oils and such.
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“Put castor oil w heat on liver, broke out v itchy bumpy red raised skin on cheeks. I put Argentyn 23 spray 3 times/day, take quercetin 1500mg, C 1500mg, Zinc, D 10K IU, turmeric, low carb diet, bone broth all day, tea tree oil, shea butter, Eucrisa What are your suggestions? What happened to my body? Is it toxic unloading? Allergic reaction?” [0:22:22]
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You apparently put caster oil with heat on your liver and then broke out with this. I get it now. And you probably were detoxing. Outside of that, I don’t have an answer, to which products you are using, or what fillers you use. But if you have a rash and itching like that you should see your doctor or urgent care. I don’t know how long it has been going. But it sounds like, a herx reach where you are detoxing too quickly. But your age makes a difference. Any medical issues you may be having. The amount of water you drink, what is in your diet, what is your blood type? What are your bowel movement patterns like? All of this comes into play. It is not just about taking supplements, it is about trying to eat as simple of a diet with natural organic, drinking your water, exercising, and getting a good night's sleep, not eating late. You can see your doctor to see through these things instead of taking all types of supplements.
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“I have an 11-year-old son who eats a Whole Foods standard American diet. He has recently developed asthma and allergies since we relocated to the state of Georgia. What can I do about healing this naturally?” [0:24:37]
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People with blood type A, children are at higher risk, that I have seen. This is my clinical experience. As don’t digest as well. They are not making the B12. B12 is very important in exercise and asthma, so many other factors as well. I would find out your son’s blood type. Find a good doctor locally to find this out. I would give him a good methylated B complex. And if your son weighs 80 pounds as an 11-year-old, we can treat him with an adult dose. That is my rule of thumb, 80 to 85 pounds is adult dosing.
Finding out his blood type, when you say Whole Foods, I would tell your son that he has to stay away from chips, bags, and packaged foods. He should be eating fish, vegetables, chicken with the skin, beef, etc. Bread and toast, pancakes, and waffles, those kinds of things, all the packaged stuff I would not do. There is a website that you can go to, ACAM.org. It is probably the oldest organization and has a physician locator. Type in your zip code and you will find that there is an integrative or functional doctor that can look at that. Finding the blood type, if he is A, give him a digestive enzyme. That will help with his digestion. And a good multi-mineral that has magnesium in it and zinc would be very helpful. Have his blood levels checked. That should go a long way to help him.
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“My friend has Rheumatoid lung disease with arthritic lesion in his lungs. Can you explain that disease and maybe some helpful hints for him?” [0:27:39]
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Rheumatoid lung disease, so rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune joint disease and I don't know if you're meaning arthritic lung lesions in his lungs for the chest x-ray is there you can see the spine and there are some spinal and rib connections that can be associated. There are really no lung tissue rheumatoid lesions that I'm aware of.
I would have your friend stop all processed food, especially grains and dairy, just 100%. If that person could go 100% on a carnivore diet, that's the number one elimination diet, if you went and just all fish, turkey, chicken, beef, eggs, bacon, meat, that kind of stuff. And get all plant food because there are anti-nutrients in plants. And he's probably having some or that friend of yours is probably having some difficulty with processing the plant kingdom foods. Try that for about three months. Find out his blood type. And if the blood type is A, definitely get him on digestive enzymes. Find a doctor who has this. I think this is only available by physicians.
Now, the other thing is if a person has a different blood type, but older, 50 years or older, then they probably need the enzyme because they are getting old and not digesting well. Then I would give them enzymes. These are systemic enzymes that you take on an empty stomach to help with inflammation of the joints and inflammation of the body. Now remember, if you get all the plant foods out, you become a carnivore to heal with for three months, you'll know within weeks, say a month that you're feeling better. And you might even see the difference in three, or four days if you're a pure carnivore. Because you're getting all these other biochemical signals out of your body. Then you can talk with your healthcare provider about slowly adding back a rotation of other things if you really want to be an omnivore and kind of get some plant things back in. Do some allergy testing for foods. And sensitivities and complete digestive stool analysis. I presume you've got a doctor or he has a doctor and they've done the rheumatoid factors and they've done other autoimmune studies.
But enzymes, blood type, carnivore, and digestive enzymes would be the start. That's how I would begin.
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“Is ham and bacon okay to eat? I think they are considered processed meats, high in sodium?” [0:31:12]
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Yes, they are. Well, we would encourage you to get the uncured kind that doesn’t have nitrates and stuff in it. But bacon and ham are fine. I buy it from the Butcher Box. They are free-range pigs. And so, they are not getting any feedlot grains like that. They are free and out in the wild. They are getting throwaways from the farmer's tables and things like that. But yeah, it’s fine to have ham and bacon. I would not use excessive salt. But some salt is used in curing but it’s not nitrated. That’s what I feel about that.
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“What is your favorite meat, veggie, and fruit?” [0:33:21]
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Well, I never eat fruit, never ever. No sodas. No fruit. No berries. No nothing. I use Juice Plus.
My favorite meat is a chuck roast, slowly cooked. That is my favorite meat. Veggie, favorite veggie, I don’t eat a lot of veggies either. I would have to say, broccoli, buttered with salt and pepper. That’s where I live.
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“When is it time for testosterone? DHEA may not be working any longer?” [0:33:57]
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You can add in testosterone cream, or topical cream topically even though you are taking DHEA. If your testosterone level is 200 or 300, I believe that is reasonable for a woman because men should be like 800 to 1600. That will help with muscle tension, mass, and strength, and endurance, and health. So, yeah, if your testosterone is not at least 70, and you are taking DHEA, you may want to add in some topical there.
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“What would you recommend to do a week before surgery, to prepare the body as much as possible, for a quick recovery? What would help after surgery?” [0:34:59]
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Fasting. This is the most human growth hormone, repair, atrophy promoting, growth hormone thing to do. So, if they say, fast 12 hours, I would say to fast 24 hours beforehand. I tell my patients to stop the systemic enzymes four or five days before surgery. They are anti-inflammatory. They help prevent blood clotting to a time mild degree. You don’t want to have an ooze. The surgery doesn’t want a tiny little capillary oozing. So, stop the enzymes at least four days before surgery. The day after, double them up. I take five once a day, every day, I would stop it for days ahead of time, but the day after surgery, I would take five twice a day for two weeks. Now after surgery, you know, they're gonna just mindlessly say eat, eat, eat. But I would fast, if you could another 24 to 36 hours after surgery. You will get better cleaning of the wound, bruising, less scarring, a better scar formation will form. If you can get in EDTA chelation with Vitamin C the day before surgery, that will be beneficial. Studies with EDTA on animals show that it helps preserve the microcirculation. The profusion is sluggish. People will get the chelation before surgery and they tend to do much, much better. As soon as you can after surgery, I would do the EDTA with Vitamin C too. I would eat a rich carnivore diet all the way up to the 24 hours before surgery because it takes all that protein and healthy fat to repair all the membranes here and the cutting they have to do. Make sure to take Vitamin D, multi-mineral, B complex, those types of things.
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“Should a 50-year-old female cycling every 28 days on estradiol & progesterone bioidentical creams be concerned with monthly migraine symptoms? Shouldn't HRT buffer hormone fluctuations that influence migraines - assuming low carb, proper exercise/water/sleep/stress mgmt/supplementation? (BP is usually 120/80, so migraines aren't BP related)” [0:37:45]
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Typically we believe that systemic inflammation from your diet is something triggering. You might find some cravings during a menstrual cycle and you tend to eat. You would have to see your doctor about that.
I would use systematic enzymes and use four or five twice a day on an empty stomach, especially coming up to the menstrual time. Ovulation is an egg ovulating out of a corpus luteum and that's inflammation and it calls for an inflammatory response in the body. And that is often associated with triggering migraines as well. So, see your doctor. Make sure it isn't a food. Make sure you're hydrated enough. Make sure you take the enzymes as you start to ramp up towards your menstrual cycle and see if that will stop it. Because the hormones if they're well balanced should not be doing it. And then of course see your doctor.
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“I’m 65 years young and never had a colonoscopy. But my liberal family doctor is constantly recommending vaccines and the colonoscopy. I am obtaining a stool sample test to see if there is anything to be concerned about. What are your thoughts? [0:39:33]
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Well, I am bias. When I was around 39 or 38, and practicing on active duty, my brother-in-law, David was only 45. My sister is six years older than me. Her husband, the same age. He and my husband were working on construction. My husband is a wonderful carpenter, master carpenter. So, was my father-in-law. They were doing this big job. Everything was great. We had a steak dinner. Then a week later my sister called and said, my husband’s ankles are swollen. I thought, that’s odd for a man of 45 and should be healthy. I said, it should go away, have him put his feet up, and then it should go away in the morning. And about a week later, she called me back and said, the swelling is now up to his knees. I was shocked. And I said, please come to the hospital because I was working in the hospital then. And we got a CAT scan on him, on his abdomen, and he had colon cancer, metastasized everywhere. And he died three weeks later.
Now, what I’m telling you is, I’m biased. You know he was only 45. The recommendation was just starting to have everyone do it at age 50. And there was no real family history either. So colon cancer is a silent cancer, and our diet is so inflaming and corruptible. It's a challenge. Therefore, I am for getting a colonoscopy done, I would get one in my life for sure. And then they do the Cologuard. It's not a replacement, but depending on what they find, I would get your first and hopefully that would be you know, very normal, and go from there. But please don't push this away. And we see colon cancers are on the rise. So please take it seriously. And don't put it off.
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“Are tingles in the hands and extremities commonly associated with migraines or low magnesium if blood pressure is normal and CAC score is zero in a non-diabetic?” [0:42:16]
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There are many things that can cause paraesthesia, tingling in the extremities in the hands and feet. It could be the minerals, magnesium is the number one mineral that is deficient. Could be potassium. Could be even nerve plexus coming out of our neck and our pelvis into our legs. Could be you know, if you said your blood sugars are good, I would see your doctor and get a good metabolic screen and look for inflammation. And I would take an amino acid chelated, good multi-mineral. Get that checked with your doctor, magnesium, potassium, and calcium. Make sure they are in optimal ranges. I think normal is 1.6 to 2.2. I would like my magnesium to be 2 or higher. I would be stretching. I would do pilates, something like that. I would make sure the microcirculation and water consumption are good. And then you have to get tested for heavy metal. You might be bio-accumulating aluminum, lead, mercury, cadmium, or arsenic. So, see a good functional doctor and start working up and looking down those pathways.
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“Can you give the name of the holistic dentist in Irvine you mentioned before?” [0:44:01]
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I think he is in Newport Beach. His name is Dr. Son, he’s right by the airport there. That’s the one that I use.
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“I’m lactose intolerant, with type A blood. Are dairy milk substitutes like oat, almond, or soy milk okay to consume? I don’t notice any gut issues but not sure if the manner in which they are processed makes it better to avoid.” [0:44:28]
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We're not meant to consume nut milk and things like that. That's not typical. We are getting a high exposure to all the lectins that are in these almonds and stuff, oxalates, and other anti-nutrients that can suck up your zinc levels, and minerals, and could disrupt these things. I am not in favor of these drinks. I am in favor of the way God set it up, water and herbal teas or coffee, black coffee. And that's just the way it is. And trying to find these things are marketable, it's entertaining to the mouth. And it's killing us, trying to, you know, feed this monster of making every time we open our mouth and entertainment. The thought is, what would I like? You know, rather than I will eat, you know, to maintain health. They've worked very hard on brainwashing us and making us addicted to high fructose corn syrup and such so we have to fight back.
So, I'm not in favor of oat, almond, or soy milk products. Now, a little bit occasionally, what's occasional, once a week. You know, but this concept of making our smoothies and using them all the time No, I'm not in favor of it. I've just seen too many years, too many decades of people having trouble with it.
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“My 17-year-old daughter has been having sudden weakness in her arms and hands (both sides). It will happen about twice a day and will last about 1 hour each time, and says it feels dead. Her bloodwork included an ANA test which came back normal. She had a spine and brain MRI and it didn’t show anything that would explain it. Do you have any guidance?” [0:46:40]
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So many things to ask. What is her weight? What is her blood type? What is her fasting insulin? What is her blood sugar? If this is twice a day, I'm gonna bet that this might be married up with something she's eating. And there is a gut reaction, inflammation, microcirculation constriction, and hypoxia, and poor circulation. That's the direction I would go.
If I were seeing her I would probably do a heavy metal challenge and see what or aluminum her mercury from all the vaccination injections, they've had that kind of stuff. And then I would want to know if she received any of the mRNA injections. But please find a good functional doctor. Find out what our heavy metal load is. Please give food allergies a complete digestive stool analysis. Get systemic enzymes, you know put her on a carnivore diet for two months, and see if this all goes away.
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“I sent the question regarding Dihexa, noopept, etc. Curious on your thoughts on AquaLaurin (water-soluble version of monolaurin (WS-GML)), as well. Same patient has high toxins, trouble detoxing. Did series of 30 chelation, no help. In great health physically and blood work-wise, besides the toxins and Alz, which we feel are related.” [0:48:40]
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These are trade names. When we discussed this last week, this is a peptide. Which I thought they were to enhance cognitive function. There are no human studies on this stuff. Same with the PRL-8-53 and Noopept. These are supplements based on polypeptides which act like neuropeptide messengers. I would say, exercise, and eat a high protein, turkey, chicken, and beef with digestive enzymes. Do chelation therapy. Do a good night's sleep. Drink your water. Get on natural hormones, if that is possible. Either the testosterone for males or estradiol progesterone for females, get on systemic enzymes, low carb diet. And that's how I treat all my Alzheimer's patients and they always get better.
So, why take things that are marketed, have really no human studies, only mouse studies, and those only were helped with injured mice? So, it's really traumatic as opposed to a developmental lifestyle, cognitive Alzheimer's, and dementia dysfunction. So, it has been to seen.
All these things are not established. They are sold over the counter because they are not a prescription drug, they are peptides. And in rat studies, there seems to be some value at least mild, but nothing jaw-dropping. So, I’m not convinced on that. I would continue chelation. I would continue systematic enzymes. I would exercise, and push the water. And I would be very low-carb. I would eat a very rich, protein-healthy fat, organic diet with digestive enzymes. Get on the hormones. Find a good functional medical doctor and go from that.
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https://www.tlcdoctors.com/blogs/news/youtube-livestream-q-a-transcript-october-24-20242023-10-26T07:20:29-07:002023-10-26T07:20:29-07:00YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, October 24, 2023Wendy Lewis
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“My husband was just diagnosed with Ankylosing Spondylitis. Do you recommend anything aside from anti-inflammatory drugs which of course have long-term side effects?” [0:02:36]
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Of course, yes. Ankylosing Spondylitis is an autoimmune disorder. The blood type matters, the digestion and the chronic lining of the gut here, you know, here's a healthy lining. Here's where you have holes poked through. Food lectins, viruses, chemical assailants, high glucose, excess sugars in the body, all these things inflame the gut lining and within inflammation there on the cell membrane, you're going to have this chronic inflammation leaking through the gut, elevating the alert level of your gut-associated lymphoid tissue. And then, you can get some molecular mimicry where some of the inflammatory molecules will see the cartilage or bone and material that creates the Ankylosing Spondylitis.
So, working with your specialists, if you would have your husband see a good functional doctor, get a complete digestive stool analysis. And then, have him get food allergies done, the immunoglobulin G, not the E, which is the immediate hive-producing anaphylaxis type but the chronic slow allergy reaction, the IgG.
In the meantime, I would try and put him on a very simplistic diet, a one-menu day. Protein-rich with only cooked vegetables. And those vegetables would be low-carb, fiber-rich ones. And the only condiments that I would use would be salt and pepper. Then I would completely get away from all the grains and anything that is called dairy. Remember what you call dairy, I call white fire liquid. And what you call cheese dairy, I call white firebricks. Because homogenization and pasteurization turn the natural milk and natural cheeses into a fragmented, inflamed combobulation of molecules that are abnormal. So, all grains and dairy should be out of the diet completely.
Then I would go on the systemic enzymes like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme. I would use five twice a day on an empty stomach. I would heal the lining of the gut with the phospholipid powders and a good probiotic. I would use a good multi-mineral and a good B vitamin with vitamin D, that has K2 in it. That would be the core approach that I would bring. Now, there's curcumin, there are many other things that can be talked about with your functional medicine doctor, even EDTA chelation will quickly enhance the microcirculation and dis-inflame the body by better circulation. And that goes without saying, his water use has to be half his weight in pounds as ounces every day. He should never eat late.
That is how I would begin. And it works every time. What damage is there can be mitigated and maybe eventually you will be able to discontinue the anti-inflammatory drugs that they may be giving him or reduce them.
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“I’m having body pains again after recovering from a virus 2 weeks ago. Anyone else experiencing these issues?” [0:06:44]
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There could be all kinds of items going on here. What are your other general state of health issues? Are you a normally very healthy person? What is your weight? What is your age? What is your work environment? What is your blood type? What is your background, as far as allergies? Seasonal allergies? The allergies that we are in, it’s the season of pollens and harvesting. The other thing, what is your zinc level, and vitamin D level? These all have to be addressed by a good functional medicine doctor to kind of put this together. So, it could be allergies after you had a weakened state from the virus you had two weeks ago. It could be just from your age or your general health or other health issues. So, all those things have to be brought into mind. And so yes, as a doctor, we do see patients who will have a viral illness start to get better, and then they can have some myelogenous, aching muscles and fatigue. And we can usually sort that out. But do see your doctor.
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“I have a girlfriend that has shingles. What do you recommend she does for the itching and pain? How long does it usually take before it heals? Do you only get it once or could it come back?” [0:08:21]
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Shingles is the old chicken pox virus that is a dorsal ganglion of your spine, it lives there. As long as we take care of our health, and keep our immune system functioning, the suppression of those old viruses will not crawl out along a dermatome. And normally, we give high-dose vitamin C intravenous vitamin C, which acts as an antiviral, we spray the surface of where the lesions are along that one side of the body where the track is for the dermatome comes out with Argentyn Silver to prevent secondary bacterial infection. We use high-dose systemic enzymes to reduce the inflammation and the pain associated with it. We make sure that the patient stays cool and dry. We make sure their vitamin D level is up, have them get it checked, and then have them use 50,000 international units of vitamin D3 for five days. And then drop back to 10,000 a day thereafter. We would give them supplemental zinc in the form of TLC Multi Min. We would have them take three a day because zinc works as an anti-viral. And we would give them a high dose of Quercetin to help the itchiness and reduce the viral expression. Quercetin works like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. These help the cell membrane to be crossed, to get over that cell membrane, and allow the zinc to get in. And then the zinc will suppress viral replication. We like to do the high-dose vitamin C, maybe once every three days or every other day at the onset for a week or two, just pounding at it with natural vitamin C, which shortens the time span.
Now the lesions that show up on the skin are just like any scratch or tear, or bruise or burn, it is going to take weeks to heal until a new layer grows out. But to prevent this in the future, you have to take and work with a good functional doctor, checking your D levels once or twice a year, whether or not your insurance covers the payment, I think it is valuable and should be covered. But nevertheless, those of us who care about our health, we want to take that and make sure that D is in the 80 to 100 range. And we want to make sure that we're on good zinc. And we're on low-carb because the carbs lower the immune system and allow viruses and stuff to attack us. But that's hopefully answering your questions.
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“Are you familiar with thymosin alpha 1 peptide treatment used for autoimmune disease like rheumatoid arthritis? Is there any downside to peptide therapy? It would be administered under the guidance of a functional medical doctor.” [0:11:59]
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Yes, there is a whole field of peptide therapies emerging. I just came from a course on this two weekends ago. And we are exploring the use of it here as well. So, this peptide therapy has merit. But I don't have personal experience with this yet. But there's great excitement over the things that signal our DNA, that signal fellow cells to behave, stem cells to revive and become active to repair skin, to repair bone, to repair muscle, to repair brain and nerve tissue. Everything is spoken to through the cell membrane. That's why I have done publications on the cell membrane. And these receptors, which are the proteins embedded and floating in this membrane, are of signal to buy peptides. These are small amino acid chains of various configurations that dock with these receptors on the cell membrane and tell the cell how to behave or a message that it wants sent to the nucleus.
And so peptide therapy is one of the new exciting areas in functional medicine. And yes, I'm aware of it. And yes, it looks exciting. But I have to do more studies on it. Now, is it safe? My understanding is it is very safe because you are dealing with natural things. But I am saying that conditionally because I have more reading to do, like I need another hole in my head. I’m involved in so much.
Functional doctors have to read and study, study and read, read and study. We are not paid for this. We love our patients, we want to benefit them and of course, we want to help our families and ourselves. But this is such an exciting new area and we're trying to stay on top of it. We're trying to do things like this to teach our patients and to make things available, keep you updated, and let you know that we are staying updated. So, I would say that we are excited about this. It looks like a very promising and safe therapy.
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“Just learned that my Iron Saturation is elevated. Fe 184mcg & % saturation 77% - I tested negative for hemochromatosis and do not take supplements. Is there anything I can do to resolve this naturally?” [0:15:02]
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Are you are menstruating woman? Are you postmenopausal? Do you ever donate blood once or twice a year and give a pint of blood? Are you inflamed? Has anyone checked your mineral status? Are you eating out of our iron cookware? Is your glassware glazed with iron? These are various things I would be asking.
Fortunately, an iron level of 184, although elevated, I think 150 is the upper limit of normal. And 50 is the upper limit of percent saturation. So, this is not out of control. And work with your doctor. Look at your environment to see where the iron might be coming from. And our multivitamin, TLC Energy Core does not contain iron. We ask our patients to eat enough red meat. Normally we will get the iron we need from that. But work with your doctor. Those are some suggestions and frameworks that I would suggest to you.
But go donate your blood. And it would be very beneficial.
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“We are considering solar panels on our roof (directly above our bedrooms). What health research or advice do you have that may impact health with a mini power station on our roof?” [0:16:37]
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I don't think that there's any issue with the solar panels. It has a power-emitting radio frequency that I think is of concern. Biocollection of light photons into the cells on the solar panel is just an electron transfer, not a signal. I don’t think that’s a problem at all.
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“What can help with both fibromyalgia and losing weight?” [0:17:34]
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Well, all kinds of things. Again, you should see a good functional doctor. Look at the degree of inflammation in your body. Look at the degree of cell membrane capacity to repair in your body. Remember if you are in America and they have been frightening you from eating meat, fish, egg yolks, butter, and chicken with the skin on it, these are all rich sources to have a healthy, phospholipid bilayer lipid membrane and protein for your receptors. We get injuries by using our body every day, even your mitochondria, the batteries inside the cell are working and they have the same membrane. And so does the nucleus have is the same membrane construction. And if you have 50 trillion cells, and each cell has maybe another 5,000, or 10,000 of intracellular organelles, with membranes just like that, do you have any idea how much healthy fats and essential fats that you need to consume? And so I think all this processed hydrogenated fats have destroyed America's actual structural building of your cell membranes. And I attribute, you know, some of the slowness of my aging and my endurance to the fact that my dad had us eating Armor Food research meat all the time. He would never let my mother use seed oils. We had butter. He would never go for margarine. And so, I think I have the cell membranes that represent more of a person who would have been born in, you know, the late 1880s, early 1900s, who only was eating these healthy fats for a healthy cell membrane.
Remember, if I couldn't do this video with you, if I didn't have a good roof? If I didn't have good windows to block the sound. And if it started to rain or a bird flew in here, we would lose our connection. You would be distracted. You would maybe see the water hitting the computer and it blowing a fuse. So, the structure of the room I’m in is as important as having knowledge and sharing it with you. So, please understand, you have to have a structure to your human body. Your cell membranes are a sensory device, like your eyes, ears, nose, mouth, touch. All this sensation is communicated through the little proteins that are floating in the membrane. This picture over here, the glob, is a membrane. That is a protein being held in place by triglyceride, you know, lipids. This is the alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid through the double bonds there. And we are not eating this and you're being fooled into taking EPA and DHA all the time. And what you really need is linolenic, alpha-linolenic, and the cholesterol to have healthy cell membranes and structure. So, you are going to be more easily damaged.
And if you have fibromyalgia that is a syndrome complex of symptomology without any one known, cause. You know, they speculate is this chronic low-grade lyme? Is it a chronic low-grade viral illness? And so, when they ruin the food and do industrialized farming, the zinc levels, magnesium levels, the vitamin D levels are blocked by all the chemtrails, and then nanoparticulate heavy metal toxins that diffuse into the stratosphere to bounce away, the very lightwaves that you want to hit your skin to help you convert your cholesterol into vitamin D. So, you have all these things going against you. That's why you need doctors who are functional medicine, and who are looking at many other aspects of your situation.
So, with fibromyalgia, if you're inflamed, and it's a chronic virus, it is toxins, too much sugar, too much-hydrogenated fat, not enough phospholipid repair, too many holes in the membrane, you have to work towards and with your functional doctor to help improve that. Possibly you would need to resupply natural hormones. Possibly the high dose vitamin C intravenous therapy, certainly the enhanced circulation for delivery and removal of these toxins with EDTA chelation therapy would be a very valuable thing to do. Taking anti-inflammatory enzymes and not eating late. Starting to exercise. All these things matter. And a doctor who will look at your fasting insulin, look at your hemoglobin A1C, look at your triglyceride level, and look at your fasting blood sugar, and hold you to a higher standard than the reference ranges because they're too liberal and they keep everyone sick, fat and happy. So, that's what I would say.
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“In a recent YouTube, you had mentioned how blood type A had some exceptions than the other blood types. Could you speak more about why and/or what are some of the other exceptions with it be food, supplements, tests, etc.” [0:23:39]
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In general, we're all fearfully and wonderfully made by our Lord. There are certain liabilities that we have found. In the blood type A, that liability happens to be in the fact that A-type blood as a class of people is found to make less digestive enzymes. If you are eating food, let’s say a steak or an egg with the yolk or butter on something, your ability to have enough enzymes to chop up and break up the protein in the steak, protein in the egg, the fats in them and the butter, is hampered. Therefore, you will not feel well when you are eating these very rich, nutrient-based foods. And you will learn not to eat them. You will move toward becoming a vegetarian, or vegan, because it’s easier. Much more simple to digest carbohydrates.
Therefore, you will wind up having higher blood sugars and insulin, and hemoglobin A1C, and fasting blood sugar, and triglycerides, all of these kinds of things. So, we tell blood type A please just take a digestive enzyme. I use Ortho Molecular products. We have it here for anyone that wants it on our private label. They will only sell to physicians. If you take it after you eat, it will probably solve all your problems. And it's my understanding that if you look at all the gold medalists throughout the years, if you find out what their blood types are, the greatest performance of athletes, Olympiads are blood type A. That’s all I am saying.
I’m a B-type blood. B has its liabilities. ABs have a mixture of both an A and the B. Os have their liabilities. We all have a cross to bear. You have to find a doctor who is sensitive and open to learning about these things. And to use the simple measures along with understanding the blood type of their patient.
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“Is D-Hist supplement better absorbed on an empty stomach? Or should we take it with food?” [0:26:36]
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I don’t think it matters. I have used D-Hist for over 35 years, close to four decades. I think it was the very first product that Ortho Molecular ever came out with. It is a wonderful quercetin-rich, natural, antihistamine. And very good for allergies and things like that and preventing viruses and succumbing to them. And I have never seen a difference whether I take it with food or an empty stomach. I personally take it on an empty stomach. Hope that answers your question.
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“I hurt my right foot recently. The top tendons and the bottom under the big toe. What can I do to help them?” [0:27:20]
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Well, it depends on you know how bad the injury is. If it's just something you've banged it with and you bruise it should totally heal. But I mean, if you had a sharp blunt item, you may have some micro-tears or even a bone x-ray is needed for your foot. And recently, how long is recent? Some people would say that three months ago was recent, or a week ago is recent, or yesterday is recent. So, you need to have a doctor look at this. But in general, we are designed to heal. Written in the DNA and sensed by all the cells. When there is an injury, the fragments of that injury are sent out in the area and picked up throughout the whole body. And that generates messages to send repair material, more blood, more blood flow, and white blood cells to protect against infection. And that redness and pain is just a signal from the fragmentation there.
So, water helps, fasting, not eating anything for a day or two, and then your whole body will focus on the source of where the injury is. Taking systemic enzymes, five or six twice a day will reduce the inflammation. I can’t examine it and if it is serious and lasting, you should have a doctor x-ray or look at it yourself. But that’s what I would suggest.
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“What causes cataracts (besides aging)? Is there anything that I can do to prevent them from becoming worse - or even better, reversing them?” [0:29:19]
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The reason that I have this picture, this is what happens at every place in sight of your human body that is hurting. Whether it is a gunshot wound, you get a big amount, or just a little virus penetrates through the cell membrane. Cell injury is all the same. Your lens is this jelly-filled ball right behind the pupil of your eye that dilates. And what it is, this clear gel film has the little muscles on it, on each side to squish it together, which helps you with your near vision, or thin it out, which helps you with your distant vision. And so, this is going on without thinking autonomically all the time. If you look far and you look near, the little muscles can get worn out. Just like the muscles in your arm. If you have a lot of sugar in your diet, food allergies in your diet, lack of water in your diet, if you have a low-grade chronic infection in your diet. If you are not getting enough of the phospholipids to repair, then this gel ball will get kinks in it. The little structural proteins in it will start to oxidize, and burn you might say. Combine and link up even sugar will glycate and create these little dark spots. Plus that’s what causes floaters.
So, antioxidant assay, taking powerful antioxidants and I use the Juice Plus series for this. I'll take the fruit, vegetable, and berry. I have had it for closing on 30 years on it. And I take enough water. I’m always working to drink half my weight in pounds as ounces every day. I do aerobic workout. I do my weightlifting. I take my systemic enzymes to disinflation. I do chelation to improve the microcirculation. I try never to eat late at night. I try and eat very low carb. And then I take the vitamin A-rich supplements both in the Juice Plus and other antioxidants. All of these are in the Juice Plus as well. Making this is a lifestyle of doing all these things. Lower the sticky, gummy, clogging-up sugars. Try to eat a simple diet. Drink enough water. Take enzymes. I think that’s why at 70 I don’t have cataracts. Hopefully, that helps you. You have to do it all.
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“Part 1 - I have been taking your TLC Metabolic formula for over a year now. My last A1C was 6.2. I am working through food choices and exercise to get it in the normal range. I do intermittent fasting from 8 pm until 1 pm the next day several days/ week. I have been taking 4 of the TLC capsules with my first meal- fasting bl. sugar # has been 100-149.
Should I still take the 4 TLC metabolic formula capsules at the same time when I have my first meal of the day? My fasting blood sugar number avg. is too high and I want to get it closer to 100. It’s anywhere from 100 -149 some days. What changes can I make to get it lower? I will not take Pharma. meds for this.” [0:33:13]
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Well, you need to exercise. You need to do some weight training because your muscles have the units to help burn down sugar. I would do weight training twice a week, a bare minimum of 20 minutes. Also, I would do brisk walking for 20 minutes on the other days. So, five days a week. I would walk as fast as I reasonably could walk and still have a conversation. But every two minutes, three minutes, I would split that walk for about 20 seconds as fast as I could. And then, come back down to my good pace and recover my breath for two minutes. And then 20 seconds cycle up almost breaking out in a run. So, this is walking with spurts, walking with spurts, every about two to three minutes you do as fast a short of running as you can for just 20 seconds. This is called high-intensity training. And this is very valuable. And it stimulates your mitochondria, which will help you burn your sugar. And you have to do the pull against weights to build the containers of your muscle to burn up the sugar.
Along with your good intermittent fasting, I would take one day a week where I would go from dinner to dinner. I would skip that eating at one o'clock and make it till dinner at six p.m. I don’t think I would eat until eight o’clock. I would honestly shift this to eating from noon to six p.m. The later you eat, the harder it is to lower your blood sugar. But that’s what I would do.
Let us know how your numbers are in a month or two. Share with your local doctor. Keep an eye on this. And make sure you are being monitored. It sounds like you are because you had a hemoglobin A1C. We would like to see that get to 5.2. It will if you do those things.
Do a 24-hour fast and do an earlier cut-off on eating. Do the exercise with the brisk walking, if you can tolerate it. I don’t know your personal situation or age. But these are the things that I would say in general to my patients who are able to do these things. And don’t have some other mitigating factors.
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“I have had a retinal detachment and two retinal tears in the other eye. How do I help my eyes and get rid of floaters? Also, what is the best natural cure for Anxiety? I have severe anxiety.” [0:36:55]
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Well, exercise really is one of the best natural cures for anxiety, with weight training. So, the very same thing I told you above with weight training twice a week with heavy weights. Not to the point you are straining, popping your eyes out. But having reasonable hard resistance in a real formal situation, not some five-pound weight or ten-pound weight. Someone is going to help train you. I use the Perfect Workout. That’s where I go three times a week. And that’s where I will be tomorrow morning at six or seven in the morning.
The other thing I would do for that, is you have to have enough water. You have to have enough water to help the eye pressure and flow of fluids, in and out. If the eye and your whole body are getting old and dry and wrinkled, that’s how it can shrink away and get the detachments and so forth. Plus you have to work on your membranes. You have to have your structural repair with the actual fat and protein we are made of in your eyeballs, retina, and cell membrane back there. We are made of that. To make them resilient and supple, you have to be eating these things. Fruits and vegetables are not what you are made of. I would take systemic enzymes to disinflame your body. The other thing is, when I had a big floater one time, about a year and a half, two years ago now. I just woke up with it one morning. I forget the time of year. I am under stress all the time. So, stress can precipitate this. And can push you into some poor habits. I tend to think this was in a January timeframe, a Christmas season where I was doing too many treats in a holiday season. Anyway, I went on a five-day fast. I can do it, I worked up to it. I don’t know where you are. But when I saw that, I immediately stopped eating for five days. I just had water and black coffee. I tell you it dissolved tremendously. The inflammation in my body tremendously dropped. I took all my vitamins. I took extra enzymes. I pushed my water to the limits. I walked and walked. I kept my work out. Kept my weight training and pilates up. And that sucker just dissolved way down to, I don’t know if I can see it right now. I would say that it is 95% gone. And that’s how you have to live your life. You have to do it and these things especially as we age. But see your ophthalmologist and have those managed also appropriately.
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“I have had bad breath for years and it's affecting my social life. I brush, floss, and have no cavities. I've noticed when I'm nervous my breath seems sour. Could do have anything to do with stomach acids?” [0:40:29]
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The acidity in your mouth and saliva is very much associated with the type of flora and the bacteria that are in your mouth. There is a product out there called Brite Power. I think that it is called Brite Power. It’s a tooth gum, you use one a day. And it has calcium carbonate. It has lysozyme. It has mint. It has six items in it. But anyway, this dental gum mint helps change the pH of your saliva, helps your enamel, and the dentition, helps even prevent cavities. But it changes the Flora Fauna in your mouth and usually the breath is also cleared up. That's what I would try.
Another thing you can do is take Argentyn Silver. We have Argentyn 23 of nanoparticles. It is very uniform. Not colloidal clumpy. Although Colloidal Silver is helpful. I like the nanoparticles. That works very well. You can take a teaspoon at night, swish, and swallow. But I have heard good things and have some people and dentists talk about Brite Power.
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“I have seen some recent research that indicates there is a distinction between carbs in processed food as opposed to naturally occurring in foods, which indicates that the carbs that naturally occur can enhance fiber intake and other benefits. I also wonder if the naturally occurring sugar in fruits and other foods shouldn't be distinguished from” [0:43:31]
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There is good science on this. The thing, yeah, there is a lot of naturally occurring starch in a potato. There is a lot of naturally occurring starch in a carrot, in a pea, in a corn, in a bean. The thing is, they are genetically modifying so much of this. And even the apples today are not like the smaller apples that were tarter 50 to 60 years ago. They are messing with everything. We already have hurt ourselves with two high carbohydrate exposures. So, being as aggressive as you can, we are not made of fruits and vegetables. We want to get our cells and eyeballs and our lens and our retina and our brain and all our tissues much better covered with the phospholipids. But yeah, the naturally occurring scratches, fruit sugars, carbs, unprocessed fruits and vegetables, nuts, and seeds are far better than any processed foods by 1000%. I totally agree.
But if your fasting blood sugar, after not eating 12 hours is already 95, well that’s too high. Every carb matters. If your triglycerides are over 100, then that's too high. And every carb matters. If you're fasting insulin after 12 hours of nothing is over four, then that’s too high. And every carb you eat matters. If every hemoglobin A1C is above 5.2, then there is a lot of sticky sugar in your body, and adding more carbs doesn’t make sense.
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“What does the comment "Partially visualized 1.4 cm right lung vaguely defined ground glass abnormality" mean? This was a comment at the bottom of a CT scan of a lung. Is that something to be concerned about?” [0:45:56]
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It means you have to go to your doctor, who is going to look at that and decide, knowing all about you and who you are and what your symptoms are, should that be biopsied or just reimagined in a period of time, months or so. That’s all that means. That means the radiologist really can’t tell you what is going on. They are not your doctor. They don’t know you. They want to cue in your doctor that although they see something vague, 1.4 cm, less than an inch, vague. You just have to follow it up and work with your doctor and see what symptoms led you to get the original imaging study in the first place.
Well talk with your doctor who knows you and your background and why the original CT was done and then you have to decide then. So in general, it can't be said anything more. I know you want an answer, but you have to work with your doctor on that.
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“What are the things that reverse arthritis? What are the symptoms?” [0:47:26]
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Well, you know, it's joint pain, joint erosion, lipping. So, wherever there's chronic inflammation in a joint, then the micro-injuries are occurring. And then it's recurring or recurring and very often, calcium deposits will recur to try and cement it down, try to plug the holes. That is why we are very much against allowing chronic inflammation to go on like inflaming your liver with alcohol every day or smoking cigarettes. Or not walking to get your hydraulic pump, rinsing out your blood so to say with a daily walk. Any inflammation will call for repair. When that repair is not done, then it is going to get the body an attempt to repair it, and eventually, calcium will lay down. Therefore, you want to eat a low-carb diet. You want to have good water in your body, and good enzymes because we lose them with aging. You want to walk regularly. You don’t want to clog up the capillaries with food allergens and a lot of sticky sugar. And so, all these things work to make it better. But you see how this picture applies to every disease in the human body. And this is what they need to teach the doctors out there. This is what they need to teach.
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“I have been seeing your doctors at the Center. I am on Progesterone and Estradiol patch. Do you believe in bio, identical, hormones made from compounding pharmacies? What's the difference between these drugs?” [0:49:05]
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Well, Estradiol is Estradiol. That is biochemistry, the three-dimensional configuration of hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen. That molecule in a special form is called Estradiol. That is the only kind that a human woman makes. And that’s what we give.
Pharmacies package this and stick this to a patch that you can apply to yourself and you can absorb it at a certain rate. They can put it in a pill and you can absorb it. You can put it in a cream and absorb it. These are the most common ways. They are bioidentical. We can measure it. I am in favor of it.
I’m not in favor of synthetics that are copycats and have similar behaviors as the Estradiol and could be too much. For instance, Permarin was from equine sources, horses. And so, the structure of the estrogen in a horse is different than a woman. We believe here to only use natural hormone therapies, human, bioidentical. You will have to talk with your doctor. Progesterone, there is only one molecule. Biochemical, stereotypic arrangement. That can be sold to you as Prometrium, that’s the trade name that the pharmacy uses. Compound pharmacies often mix it in peanut oil or olive oil. And they will call it progesterone capsules. They will mix with a cream and make it progesterone topical cream. But it’s all wonderful, natural, bioidentical. So, yes.
We certainly need the prayers. Lots of things are going on. We just need the protection for our patients. I take the TLC Metabolic formula in the morning, all at once. I don’t think it makes a difference. I believe in making life simple.
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“Is there any way to have a long-distance consultant with you?” [0:52:27]
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I would call the office and tell them about your situation. The reason why there are is difficulties, malpractice is putting perimeters on who I can see, what state, and what not state. That is what is going on. And I am trying to raise up doctors here. It looks like we will be taking on another wonderful doctor with some good experience already. Tremendous internal medicine lady doctor. I am very impressed with her. She’s really eager to continue to grow and learn. She comes with great skills already. But you know, we are not the only ones.
If you go to ACAM.org, look it up, and find a doctor there. Call the office. Find a little bit about the doctor and how long they have been practicing what they call functional integrative medicine. Ask them if they do chelation therapy IV to remove heavy metals. Ask if they do high-dose vitamin C therapy. If they say yes to that and bioidentical hormones. And familiar with special food allergy testing, and complete stool analysis. If that is yes, yes, yes, we do all this. That sounds like a good place to start. I’m not the only one. I’m still learning. I love to learn. I love being a student. And my patients teach me so, so much as well.
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“Is there a natural way to get rid of UTI infections?” [0:54:23]
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Well, the answer is no. If you have bacterial cystitis, you have to use an antibiotic. And I don't like fooling around with infections where they ought not to be in the body. Now we use, Uratrac– One is De Mannose, which is a sugar you can take orally that is not absorbed in your body for energy, and it stays in the, it's absorbed and goes through the kidneys and into the bladder, where it helps make the environment very unlikely for bacteria to attach to the lining of the bladder and urethra. So, that’s De Mannose.
And then we have cranberry extract. And cranberry extract is helpful also in inhibiting bacterial overgrowth. But drinking enough water, keeping it low carb, and having good hygiene around and after sexual intercourse, these are all very important things. So, that's what I would suggest.
But if you think you have a bladder infection, I would do a nice clean catch, make sure you wash well, and really hold the lips apart so the urine is shooting right out the urethra and not flapping between the lips and the hair. So, we get a true clean catch and a good true facts about what your bladder urine is looking like, not what the skin and hair look like on your lips because it's then a contaminated sample.
And I've seen too many people get on antibiotics because the front office girls will not, they are embarrassed to talk about these things I guess about the lips and the hair and holding them apart. But you've got to do it otherwise you get lousy samples and lazy doctors will just treat any white blood cells. And your skin is full of white blood cells. The hairs are full of white blood cells. You can culture off of any part of the skin.
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“What are your thoughts on using Dihexa, PRL-8-53, or Noopept alone or synergistically for Alzheimer's patients?” [0:56:48]
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I am not familiar with those, Dihexa, PRL-8-53. And Noopept, I’m not familiar with this. These are new things. And they may be take-offs on the new peptide theory craze that is being taught around. I know these other doctors are starting to look into the alternative functional integrative world and peptide therapy is where it is at. But it will be far better if the patient gets on hormones. If they can, they get EDTA chelation to improve the circulation and the low-carb diet and enzymes and exercise and those kind of things. I will have to look into that. Let me make a note on that. My patients are always helping me to grow.