YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, April 21, 2026

Question
“Hi Dr. Rita, would a 135-lb female be safe to drink 150 oz of water in an 8-hour time? Sodium intake was about at the daily limit. Thanks.”  [0:03:55]

Answer
Typically, they tell you to have 2 to 2.5 g of salt a day. We don't put restrictions on salt for our patients. We say salt your food to taste, and we say drink half your weight in pounds. So, you're drinking your weight plus in pounds as ounces of water, and that is too much, in my opinion. I think you're going to wind up with some electrolyte imbalances. Unless you're a hardcore athlete training for the Olympics or marathons, I think that you are undertaking your salt and you're overdrinking your water. And even though you do it over an 8-hour period, that still is a huge load. Typically, they say half your weight in ounces. So, if you weigh 135 pounds, that would be about 70 ounces of water a day. And then if you're active, with exercising 10 to 15%, so 10% more would be 7 ounces, 15 would be about 10 ounces. So, you would say about 80 ounces, maybe at a max of 96. So, I think you would be wiser to cut back on your water volume and talk to your healthcare provider. If you feel that you need this amount, we would want to know why you're so thirsty. We would want to rule out diabetes and other causes that would make you want to drink so much water. So, see your doctor about that. Or otherwise, if you're just doing it because you think this is healthy, please cut back to 80 to 90 ounces at most a day. And use salt to taste. Don't worry about your salt. I would recommend the salt be Celtic salt or Himalayan salt. I tend to rotate them. That way, I get trace minerals from various mining scenarios, and that's usually beneficial. 

Question
“Is it ok to have a cup of coffee first thing in the morning, or should I wait a while?”  [0:06:32]

Answer
In general, what does coffee do? Coffee is a stimulant, and that stimulant would be added to your morning cortisol, which is a stimulant as well. That is usually not much of a trigger for insulin, but the thought is that the better scenario, biochemically speaking, would be to let your cortisol surge come and go down to the peak that it should be, and then after about 90 minutes from the moment you open your eyes and you say I'm awake, that's when the time starts. So, 90 minutes after that, you get up, and you start your day. There are certain things that you should really do, and that is drink water, you know, a good 8 to 16 ounces of water. And try to get the first morning sunlight outside without your glasses on and let that come to you for a few minutes, preferably standing in wet grass in the morning. If you take coffee, however, that's going to prolong the stress your body's perceiving, and that cortisol will be longer lasting. 

Cortisol is necessary. We have to have that to mobilize the glycogen out of our livers to help us have something to give us energy in the morning. But I would suggest the research indicates that you blunt that cortisol effect, and it would be better to postpone the cup of coffee until after you get up, and you drink your water. You get about 90 minutes from awakening before you have your first cup of coffee, which allows the spike to stay up and down of the cortisol, and that's what the research is really starting to show. You can have coffee, and there are longevity benefits, anti- Alzheimer's, even some claims to anti-cardiovascular benefits, but the early research is now looking at our very stressful society and the many functions of morning cortisol and the things that prolong it and blanch it and make that cortisol a breakdown hormone, and you want that to arouse you, make sugar available, and go away. And now the research is showing that if the first thing you're doing is getting coffee, you're prolonging that catabolic impact and accelerating aging, especially if you're over 55 or 60. 

Question
“Have you heard of HerScan as an alternative to a mammogram?”  [0:09:43]

Answer
Yes, I have. Now, HerScan is an ultrasonic type of soundwave where they use a sound wave to go around each breast in a scheduled manner or a calculated methodology. But I'm going to tell you, every time I see a HerScan report, it is typically coming back with a very cookie-cutter stamp remark, basically saying there might be a little fibroid or nodular or thickening here or there. See your doctor. In other words, I believe that we should take responsibility for our lifestyles. We should take responsibility for our health and preventive health. And then we should do our own breast exam. We should have a doctor who is truly a doctor, who has preventive medicine, biochemical wisdom, and experience. And rather than doing the radiation trauma compression as much as may be recommended by the standard of care as an annual mammogram, maybe the two of you could communicate, you and your doctor, and say, given your very healthy record, your low insulin, your nice and low fasting blood sugar, your nice and low triglyceride levels, your nice and low hemoglobin A1C, your low inflammation markers of sedimentation rate, hs-CRP, the knowledge of your routine exercise multiple times a week, your good sleep and morning hygiene routine, your good hydration techniques. Given all these healthy lifestyles, maybe you and I can agree that we would do a mammogram, radiation, and the trauma of squeezing your breast that hard, maybe every other year, or come to an agreement, and do a bilateral ultrasound and track that, and have that done at the same place at the hospital where you would have gotten your mammogram. Just tell the text your doctor is managing your care, and once in a while, you're going to skip a mammogram and just do the full bilateral breast ultrasound. 

So, I happen to not be in favor of her skin after these many, many years, just in the same way I've lost favor with thermography. There is just too much of a sin nature I think in all of us, including myself, where we will look at moneymaking scenarios over and against the real data that's telling us that they're coming out as cookie cutter reports, here's a thermogram heat signature, 3 + 3 minus 3, 4 plus or whatever, 2 plus 2, whatever these numbers are they do on the thermogram, and they're always the same with the same statement, saying we find some areas that reflect inflammation, please see your doctor. It's always sending you back to your doctor anyway, so why spend the money on this? Why spend the money on it? When you get an ultrasound from a radiologist, that medical doctor has to put their name, their career on the line, saying, "I find no reason for concern for malignancy or otherwise and repeat in a year or follow up as needed. So, I'm looking for someone whose buck stops with them. I need that report, what they really think of it, not a wishy-washy statement from a money-making scenario that says, "We find this and possible that and this could or may not be. So, go follow up with your doctor for any possible further imaging that may be required." And I'm sick of it. I'm just sick of these little parasites that I see a shark going along with all the little trailing sharks that are parasites along the route of a shark, just waiting for the shark to get a bite, and then the little parasites can eat along with it. That's what I think of it. 

Question 
“What supplement helps prevent memory decline or memory fog?”  [0:14:45]

Answer
Well, we could talk about that, and certainly, this whole concept of everyone is putting out a YouTube, an Instagram, or a TikTok. Now, everyone from your neighbor who takes, you know, a 6-month course in health coaching, not that I'm against health coaching, but people, everyone thinks they're an expert. And I am still learning, and I've been doing this for 45 years, I did a second doctorate in this whole field, and I was raised by a father in food research. So, since I was 4, I've been in the labs, and I am just aghast at the lack of practicality of people in their statements. They're hyperbolic, saying here is the supplement that will fix this, or here is the red light therapy that'll fix this, or here is the super concoction mixture, or here is a super special proprietary blend of anything. You know, I have been doing this for 45 years, trying to keep all my patients in the same place, healthy for half a century now. And I tell you, there's no one supplement, there is no one supplement. I tell you what there is, there is a lifestyle, and that lifestyle would primarily have that personal responsibility for your own preventative healthcare. You take responsibility for getting up on time, and the best time is with sunrise, and the best time is to get out first thing in the morning with the rising light and let that infrared get to you. Drink your water. Set up what supplements, I'll talk about a few that may be helpful. And then talk with a good doctor who is familiar with natural hormone replacement therapy that always helps mental acuity, a good functional doctor that understands the importance of iodine restoration to the body, because almost all my patients are chronically low in iodine. And then exercise. The first morning thing to do is not have your coffee, have your water. I personally do, because my worldview is as a Christian, I do my Bible study in the morning with my water and my vitamins, and then as I see the sun rise, I go out, and I haven't eaten anything, haven't had my coffee yet. And then I take my dog on a mile or so walk in the early infrared light without my glasses on. And at the end of the walk, after 20 brisk minutes of purposeful walking, I put her back in the house. Then I stand on my grass and the wet grass and for about five minutes at least and let that infrared light come and penetrate through my skin, my skull, through all of my body, and do that for about five minutes. Then I come inside, and I enjoy my coffee, I start checking my schedule for the day, do any preparations for my patients, look up any special medical issues, and things I need to be prepared for their visit. Then I get dressed, and then I go to work. And that all takes me from the moment I get out of bed to going to work about two and a half to three hours. And then I have a wonderful day at work because I love what I do. I thank the Lord for that and all the people, my staff, who help me here. And then I come home, and I try to eat between roughly 11:00 and 3:00, 11:00 to 2:00, somewhere in that range. I try to break my fast with a high-protein first choice of eating before I let any starchy carbohydrate enter my dietary plan. So, I'm very high on the protein. And what kind of starchy carbohydrate would it be? I never take fruit, but I will take some walnuts. I'll take some pecans. I'll take pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds. I might use a piece of Ezekiel bread with my cheese on it and grill it in butter. With my meat, I'll always have the cheese with a hot dog. So, I'm very high protein per that one slice of Ezekiel bread. Or without the bread, I'll just have the cheese wrapped around my piece of meat. Or I'll have some leftover roast that I did, stove top, slow-cooked, or leftover chicken. And when I do that, I cook some cooked vegetables with it. And then I get done eating by 2:30 to 3:00 typically, and that's it. 

So, what helps me keep my mind healthy is the exercise that I do, which is weightlifting three times a week. Exercise is well known for weightlifting to enhance memory, focus, and brain recall. Natural hormone therapy is well established to help your brain focus, memory, and vitality. Iodine supplementation: I take 12.5 mg every day, minimum. Some doctors recommend starting with 50 mg a day for a month, then taper to 25 mg for a month or two and stay at 25 or 12.5. I've just stayed at 12.5 mg for decades. And so, with the exercise, with the iodine, with my hormones, these are well known. Now, creatine is another thing I also add to my protein. I'll mix it into my yogurt or my cottage cheese. I'll use from 5 to 10 grams a day. That helps memory and focus. I eat rich protein with cholesterol and the yolks of the eggs that are all rich in sulfa to help my brain neurotransmitters. I try to eat a very low-carb diet, so my gut is clean. They say your second brain is in your gut, so eating this very healthy lifestyle in a window like that, because your greatest insulin utility time and sensitivity for digesting and handling any starch or carbohydrate or fruit sugar is from morning until about 2 in the afternoon. And if you eat the same meal, the same number of calories at 8;00, 9:00, 10:00, 11 o'clock compared to 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7 o'clock, it is going to take twice the amount of insulin, twice the amount of shock to your body to try and metabolize it. And then as you get older, it's even worse. So, these are the things you have to do. So it isn't any one thing. 

I have a supplement here that I call Membrin, and it has vinpocetine in it. It is an herbal concentrate that is well known, and I have clinically found that product from the good Christian company Ortho Molecular to work and help with mental focus. So, those are some of the things, along with a rich protein diet. Remember, having a healthy gut helps you make good neurotransmitters as well. So, hopefully that answered your question. 

Question
“I’m a 69-year-old female and have suddenly been getting purple spots on arms, just a few here and there, but it’s something new.”  [0:23:14]

Answer
What this usually represents is hemangiomas. They're tiny little bundles of blood vessels, little blood vessels, and in general, they've always been there in general. It's just that the thickness of your skin gets thinner with age. And the thinner it gets as we lose our hormones, we lose our digestive ability to bring protein and collagen and elastin, and our vitamin status, the vitamin C levels, our minerals diminish. Then our skin thins out, thins out, thins out, and these little bundles that were hidden before then become more notable. And these are hemangiomas, typically hemangiomas. That's what it sounds like on YouTube to me, but of course, I can't see. So, you need to have your local doctor take a look at this and see if these are, in fact, little blood vessels that are age-related and showing up, but have your local doctor take a look at that. 

Question
“Your thoughts on starting hormone replacement therapy with 200 mg progesterone daily? Is this a good starting dose? The estradiol cream is 0.625mg with 1 mg testosterone.”  [0:25:38]

Answer
Well, that sounds suspicious to me like a Premarin concoction. If they wrote the word “this is estradiol,” I'm not sure what you're taking because the old Premarin used to be a 0.625. So, I would check that out. If I ever saw you, you would have to bring that in and the packaging to see what it really is. The testosterone orally, 1 mg, sounds fine. But no, if that's truly estradiol, 0.625 mg with 1 mg testosterone, if that truly is natural estradiol, then I'm going to say it seems fine. And have your local doctor then, within a couple of months, do your serum level for estradiol and testosterone, and progesterone, and see what the levels are. I like the progesterone to be over 4, higher than 4. And then I like the estradiol levels to be somewhere between 50 and 75 to 150 range, and of course, a little lower can be okay, a little higher can be okay, and everything can be variable, but those are general themes. I like the testosterone to mimic the estradiol range. So, somewhere 75 to 150, even on the testosterone, I like. And usually, the stupid reference ranges that just sample sick American population averages, they'll say, "Oh, your testosterone is too high if you're a 70-year-old." And they'll say, "Oh, you're too high if your estradiol level is 100," because they don't know that you're on hormones, and they think everyone who's over 55 should have no estradiol in their body, you know. And the same with progesterone. So, you know, the whole thing is messed up because we've allowed corrupt people to take charge. 

Question
“I watched the migraine summit, which interviews respected neurologists. They said microdosing of GLP-1 may help migraines. Any thoughts? Haven’t found any other help.”  [0:28:10]

Answer
Well, of course, it will help because they don't want to tell you how to save money and improve your whole body. They want to just sell you something. And our body has all kinds of peptides. Everyone knows, and I've taught everyone for decades and decades and decades here, that if you eat a high-protein, very low-carb, low-carb keto, really keto, or a carnivore diet, your blood sugars come down, and that's what the GLP drugs do. They just override and force you to feel nauseous and full, and you don't eat, which brings your blood sugars down, which makes your body produce ketones, and ketones have always improved a general plethora of problems with the brain, from irretractable seizures in childhood, chronic seizure disorders, to migraines, to glioblastoma multiforme. So, of course, that's the way. And if those learned, respected neurologists didn't tell you it's the wonderful science of self-discipline, preventive medicine of the ketone production from a very low-carb diet, because we are bathed in this country with the social pressure to buy and eat, buy and eat. Satisfy every bodily desire. Use this hole for entertainment, not for a mechanism to restore this wonderful body God gave us and created. And all this high-carb eating from our childhood on now, the teenagers and kids I see, they're so metabolically prematurely old that I feel like I'm a teenager compared to the teens I see today. I'm 73, almost, and my lab way outshines teenagers today. I hope they brought it up if they love their patients, but again, my thesis is that they don't love you. They love your money. They love your money. And one more time, they love your money. And don't ask them any questions outside of their narrow specialty. Don't be a general practitioner that has to know everything, some depth about everything. 

Now, when I don't know something, I have to get the support of a specialist. But I have to admit to you, I am biased now. At almost 50 years of practicing medicine, I am biased now, and I have to be careful with this bias. I have lost all respect for the specialties and my colleagues who are so narrow-minded, so limited in their knowledge base, so incapable, as a general rule, of not seeing and being able to figure things out. If there isn't a protocol for it, they drop-kick the ball to another specialist. That's not how you practice medicine. You're supposed to take care of people and solve problems for people, and you're supposed to be able to call up a colleague. And I'll tell you, I can't tell you how many times I've tried to call a doctor up about a patient, and I don't know exactly about the referral, and they shut me off. Can you believe that? I don't know who Dr. Ellithorpe is, a general practitioner. I don't want to talk to her about anything. Evil. Very sad. Very, very sad. 

Question
“Would you recommend supplemental salt or even an urgent care saline IV? I was trying to flush nicotine to help with the quitting withdrawals.”  [0:32:33]

Answer
You were on nicotine, or you were using the vape, or you were smoking cigarettes? You know, I am not against nicotine. God made receptors, nicotinic receptors, all over our bodies. What I would do is, if you were a former smoker, a former vapor, and I was one myself, you have to get to a point where you take responsibility for your health, your preventative health, and you do the best you can with starting with these healthy lifestyle schemata that I started with when we opened up this evening's YouTube and do that. And again, my worldview as a Christian, my Bible study is my strength. So, I don't worship functional medicine, I worship the God who made us because we don't have all the answers. We do not. I don't have all the answers. But what I do have is a knowledge range to help make sure my patients don't make harmful choices and admit when I don't know something and use a referral, know what things are emergent, and then in the meantime, keep on studying, keep on learning from my patients and work things out and work out plans with my patients and watch over them once a year, twice a year, sometimes more frequently. Very often, you know, these young ladies today in their early 40s are starting to go through hormonal changes too early, and I have to see them more often. And it's just so sad because when I was a very young doctor in the late 70s, women were doing well until they hit around their early 50s and started going into menopausal symptoms, and then would end late 50s, early 60s. 

So, I would just say, regarding that talk with God, whatever your faith is, and exercise and use that protocol I gave in the beginning, and not be afraid of nicotine. I used to have a little nicotine bottle here because it is in almost all your food. I mean, the nightshades are full of nicotine. Many of your vegetables have nicotine in them. So, nicotine isn't bad. You don't need to flesh it out. So, don't worry about that. 

Question
“Hi, I’m a 57-year-old woman, wanting to do what I can for longevity, and have heard of taking glutathione and NAD+. Would you recommend something to keep arteries clear from plaque build-up? Thank you.”  [0:35:43]

Answer
Well, everything I just said. If you had a healthy lifestyle, a morning discipline of getting up with the earth and planetary electromagnetic energy, things that all the animals obey, and they get up and they get the infrared light and they get their circadian rhythm right, we should do the same thing in the morning. We should get ourselves grounded. We should not go for our stimulants right away. We should try to put coffee off and get that cortisol and our circadian rhythm about the first 90 minutes of the day, from when you awaken. Then you can have your cup of coffee. I'm not against coffee after that. And then try to eat between an hour and a half after awakening until midafternoon, especially if you're over 60 years old, because you have less and less capacity to digest the older you get. And if your blood type is A, A's don't digest as well as a generalized rule compared to the B's, AB’s, and O's. But all of us, I'm a B-positive, and I would say around my late 50s, I had to start using digestive enzyme support. And then I take a brisk walk, exercise every morning with my dog. Having a dog or a pet is always associated with longevity. Being married is associated with longevity. Practicing your faith is always associated with longevity. Having a purpose-driven life, so to speak. You're here to help your mom. You're here to help your brothers and sisters. You're here to help your community. You're here to help the homeless. Whatever it is, you have to have purpose. And with your morning healthy routine and exercise, and your efficiency of insulin utilization for all your blood sugar, fat breakdown, visceral fat versus subcutaneous fat management, all these things work better with a morning feeding window until early afternoon, especially if you're older. And then, we have been propagandized by a corrupt medical system and made afraid of saturated fats, which they now apologize for. at the American Heart Association, but their whole inception and creation as an organization, starting out first as the American Heart and Pulmonary Association back around 1940, or somewhere around there, was all corrupted for management of the cardiovascular and prescriptive role imposed upon people who would get it. 

So, we have to tell you, you have to exercise in the morning, eat low-carb, real food, not packaged food. I prefer cooked vegetables because we've had so much exposure to fructose. I don't eat any fruit, but in a world where we didn't have all this pollution of propaganda, to eat this filthy, high fructose corn syrup-laden, even our coffee shop squirted into our coffee for heaven’s sake. That's why I say don't eat fruit in general. So, eat a low-carb diet. Remember, the sugar molecule is a dimer of glucose and fructose. So, you're going to wind up with fruit sugar anyway. So, being very low carb, eating real vegetables and real food will have these lectins in it. So, if you eat cooked vegetables, you diminish the impact of those lectins in general. So, I generally only eat cooked onions, cooked broccoli, cooked garlic, cooked asparagus, cooked green beans, cooked spinach, cooked brussels sprouts, and more fibrous vegetables like that. Maybe some cooked squash, cooked sauerkraut, things like that, as opposed to so many potatoes, yams, rice, or beans. That's way too many carbs, especially at my age. And then with that lifestyle and not eating late and having my stomach empty for about 18 hours before I break my fast, for me, that's around 11:00, and I eat with a high protein piece of something, whatever it's going to be, before I'll eat any carbohydrate, maybe 20 minutes later or half an hour later. I eat between 11:00 and 2:00, 11:00 and 3:00. In general. Then I can have such very little insulin spikes in my life which would generate a very low carb lifestyle which would keep the lining of my blood vessels smooth because these spikes of insulin and the spikes of sugar are well known to be damaging to the lining of the blood vessels and harm them which is felt to be associated with attracting the inflammatory injury response that generates these micro clots and then the calcifications and so forth. And then a healthy exercise protocol, including weightlifting, along with aerobics. So, I get my aerobic in seven days a week, walking my dog briskly, and I get my one hour of hard exercise in at the gym on the machines. And then I take systemic enzymes on an empty stomach at least once a day. So, any age-related inflammation in my diet or my life or my allergies, whatever is trying to inflame or injure me, I'm keeping that down with the enzymatic Pacman cleaning up any old, injured cells. Then I take vitamin C because there are those who argue that aging of the lining of your blood vessels is really localized scurvy, meaning we Americans have such a lousy diet with industrialized farming, an indoor lifestyle, and not enough sunshine, and antisocial behaviors. We have a scurvy level almost on our vitamin C because we make none. So, there are certain vitamins that I do strongly recommend, like Juice Plus antioxidant, vitamin C, vitamin D, iodine, the multiminerals, and the essential fatty acids that I have in the Physician Clinician’s Preference Oils, and that's pretty much the foundation, vitamin D 10,000 with K2. But you have to have the lifestyles with these things. So, we also do the IV chelations, the EDTA chelation, because we have these chemtrails dropping aluminum oxides, barium oxides, strontium oxides upon us on the land. The aluminum dusts are making hyper-combustible fires terrible for the firemen, and no one's talking enough about this and the problem that it is, and they're seeing explosions in the fires like they never had. My son went through fire training around the early 2000s, and it was just incredible to see the discussion of these explosive fires we have today. Well, that's the aluminum dust from these chemtrails. That's an accelerant.

So, EDTA chelation is well known to help that and improve microcirculation. We put the vitamin C, the co-actor minerals, and the B vitamins in there, and that all helps the lining, and then it creates nitric oxide, which dilates everything, which helps pull out these toxic heavy metals and the aluminum and lead. And it's just well-known to preserve perfusion. We save the diabetic foot, the gangrenous toe. I've had so many patients who had perfusion tests of their heart, nuclear heart stress tests, where it shows a lack of perfusion of part of the heart. And then they do these things, they do the chelation, and then they do another nuclear heart perfusion study, and then the area is re-perfused. And then what the doctor will say is, oh well, it was my blood pressure medicine or the statin I gave them. Well, I've had so many people who didn't do the chelation, even though I recommend it for the blood pressure and the statin, and it never changes anything. Only when they do these lifestyle changes and chelation. So, those are some of the ideas that I would do. 

Question
“Is it a good idea to take omega-3 supplements, and why? Also, what are your thoughts on taking organ meat supplements?”  [0:45:15]

Answer
Well, organ meat supplements, if they're grass-fed, hopefully for high quality, you're going to get a nice, and if they dehydrate them at a low temperature, then you're going to get a good concentrate of viable enzymes, nutrients, and amino acids, and so forth. So, the answer is yes to that. Now, what about these omega-3s? Remember, I am not a fish oil girl. Again, my father was a fatty acid specialist, the whole lab was there at Armour Food Research in Chicago, and then later they moved to Scottsdale, Arizona, their plant. They were all fatty acid specialists because they were hydrogenating everything so it wouldn't rot, and their TV dinners would last longer. So, all this concern about omega-6 is really misconstruing the fact that almost everything you guys have been eating since I was 4 years old, that was about 69 years ago, 68 years ago, all this has been hydrogenated. You've been eating omega-6s that are processed for long shelf life, and you've been eating this damnable omega-6 that has been hydrogenated, and they salt it up, and they make it tasty with these fake butter types and cheesy-type tasting things, salting it up. And you go for it, and you chew it down by the pounds and pounds throughout the years. over the decades, and you're taking in all this harmful, hurtful omega-6 linoleic acid, which is an essential human, one of the two essential human fatty acids. And then I think that's one of the main reasons why the cell membranes and the heart are injured. 

Now, if you would stop all that junk food and if you would use the natural foods that are rich in this, eat your egg yolks that are rich in linoleic acid and your meats and fish and the skin on your chicken and your chicken, and some nuts and seeds, you'll be rich in all the natural forms of linoleic acid, the lining of your blood vessels, and your skin and your hair and your body parts will be healthier and have plumper cell membranes, more resilient, but you have to stay away from the junk food hydrogenated fats. So, that is why I don't say buy fish oil because we're not fish. EPA has five double bonds in it, and DHA has six double bonds in it, and they combine with oxygen and get oxidized. That's why fish oil stinks because there's so much oxygen in the world. And so, you're told that this is super important. We can make EPA and DHA through our natural enzymatic process, delta desaturases, and we can make DHEA, and they want you to believe we can't make much. Well, you tell me how much you have to make. The research I saw before science was as corrupted as that we only need about 1 mg a day of DHEA for our brain. Now they want you to think you need dozens and hundreds of milligrams. 

So, who's telling the truth? Well, how about us who finally got there – there is the article. So, this is one of these articles. You can see right up here. This was done in 2013. It was the differential effects of adulterated versus unadulterated forms of linoleic acid on cardiovascular health. And so, this whole thing is going to say, almost every scientific study published does not clarify whether they were using hydrogenated fats for their omega-6 studies or truly nature-generated linoleic acids that were not hydrogenated. So, it blows out of the water all the conclusions because they didn't control for that confounding factor. And if you're going to use omega-6-rich foods that have been adulterated with hydrogenation, then yes, you're going to get disease, damage, of course, yes. Also, tell you that. So, that's why I'm so fed up with science and my colleagues. 

So the name of ours is, and I worked very hard to make sure we have a linoleic and alpha linolenic that is not hydrogenated. It's in a dark bottle. You’ve got to keep it cool or room temperature and use it up. It's called Clinician Preference Oils. 

Question
“Hi, Dr. E. What treatments are available for a large nodule on one side of the thyroid? All thyroid markers are normal. The concern is that the nodule increases in size. My endocrinologist wants to do a fine needle aspiration. I’m 77, weightlifting 3 days a week, walking, eating, and drinking water as you recommend. Are there any other suggestions to try?”  [0:51:02]

Answer
Well, number one, I don't know who you are, and I don't know how many centimeters or less your nodule is. So, you have to follow what your doctor says there and let your endocrinologist do the fine-needle biopsy because the bigger the thing or the more it grows, the higher the probability that it can become cancerous. But if we really get our insulin down and the spiking time, this constant nibbling and eating and narrow our window of eating to six hours consistently, the same time always, we're going to have far less stimulation for the growth of any nodule, tumor, fat, or polyp. So, in general, I would use systemic enzymes on a very low-carb diet and track it with your endocrinologist. Now, how many enzymes? I would use it five times a day for six months, and then watch with an ultrasound and see if the size stayed the same or a little smaller. Then you have hope that maybe the enzymes are like little Pac-Man, chewing it up. I'm also in favor of EDTA chelation with vitamin C because that'll improve the microcirculation of all the little capillaries there, and it'll get the enzymes there and everywhere throughout your body so it can chew up any debris cells more easily. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on the supplement called Longevity by Sunny Within, ingredients below: Vitamin E 50 mg, Vitamin B12 2000 mcg 333% 83,333% (as methyl cobalamin), MCT (C8 & C10) 600 mg, Glutathione 100 mg, CoQ10 (as Kaneka Ubiquinol ™) 100 mg, Lactoferrin (as Effera™) 50 mg.  T NAD+ 15 mg, Liposomal Micelle Matrix 5000 mg, Phosphatidylcholine 10 mg.”  [0:52:58]

Answer
What I would suggest is that we are made of an innumerable amount of peptides, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, polyphenols; they're all out there in the world, and we don't know them all. We're learning. The glass ceiling has been broken. I'm so thankful to see more research and discussion about astaxanthin, resveratrol, and methylene blue, and Nicotinamide Adenosine Dinucleotide or Mononucleotide, and amino acids support and all these things. But we only know a tiny fraction. We're looking through a cloudy glass, but when we're in Heaven, we'll see clearly. But all these guys are late-comers to this, and they put out YouTubes as if they're super knowledgeable. And you know, you can have your PhD, and you can have your MD, and you can have your MD, PhD, and you can have your Master’s in science and do good jobs tracking down a pathway and discussing it. And there are many good YouTubes out there, but there's a vast majority of people with very limited training who are putting out data that is confounding. And so, you can create a concoction. So they picked out one 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 - nine elements, and they call it The Sunny Within. And I'm not going to say there's anything wrong with it if they really do it. I would doubt sometimes these places claim it's on the label, and it really isn't in that much. And we don't have regulatory and assay companies, nor do we have trained enough kids to go to college and choose to be a chemist like I did when I went through college, and have the brain skills and training skills to do analytical chemistry and validate whether this supplement put out by Yahoo or whoever actually has these ingredients, and they're actually quality ingredients. So, there's so much junk coming out of China and other sourcing contaminated areas. I have to narrow my sources because I fly out to them periodically to let them know I'm still alive after all these decades and that I'm still checking up on their quality control and looking at their samplings and their sourcings, and they just know I'm trained in this, I know how to look at it, and their biochemists are PhDs at these plants, are amazed. 

And so, I'm going to say, fine. Do you really need all these things? I don't know. I don't know that you do. Find a good functional doctor who can do a good nutritional assessment on you and see if you're low. And first, have all your ducks in order about what you can control in your lifestyle. You're eating real food. You're eating in a fixed window. You're using per age digestive enzymes, all these things I've already mentioned. And then see how you feel and come to your functional doctor. Get a nutrient. I use SpectraCell. And then look and see what those deficiencies might be. 

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“How do you respond to the consensus of many nutritionists who label red meat as inflammatory?”  [0:57:21]

Answer
Well, if that red meat is indeed these stockyard-raised, poorly-treated animals, fed high grains, and the grains were contaminated and raised with genetic modification and glyphosate and dehydrated before harvest with the final glyphosate spraying, and they live in a stockyard and they're full of antibiotics and they're terrorized and they're high cortisol sick cows fattened up who are inflamed themselves, I would say, yes, I agree. But I never recommend that to my patients over all these decades. I have always said get grass-fed and grass-finished meat, get prairie-raised, free-range chickens and pork, and wild-caught fish. So, I would agree with them. But I want to say, you know, look at the same people who said take the mRNA Pfizer from Moderna, and it will stop you from transmitting COVID and from getting ill and having serious disease or dying. How honest and open were they? They were not. And what about the same people who said that saturated fat is the cause of heart disease? They lied, and they covered up the science, and now the American Heart Association had to put out in 2015 the retraction that saturated fat is not the cause of heart disease. They lied. And what about Marcia Angell, who is the New England Journal of Medicine editor from, I don't know, something like 1995 to 2006. And when she wrote a book called The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About it (0:59:37) by Marcia Angell, physician, Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine. Of course, at the end of her time working there, she informs us that the vast majority of the science published in the New England Journal of Medicine is driven by capital interests and not true science. 

What about the surgeon general who said when I was a little girl in the 1950s, smoke camels, filterless. Doctors prefer cigarettes that are without filters because they help with anxiety. The surgeon general said that. And on and on you can go with examples of people who have authorities, stethoscopes around their neck, titled people. Your title doesn't matter, folks. It's the fruit you produce. How healthy is your population of patients? How long-lived are they? How good are you looking as a doctor with your patient group? Do you do what you tell your patients? How variable are you? Or are you just a narrow money-making little specialist, and anything outside your little protocol world you refer out? I mean, I don't know if you can listen to these narrow areas like this. And certainly, they don't have the experience level. And you have to have the world view, I'm going to just say it, you have to have the Christ-oriented world view where you die to yourself, and you serve others, and you don't work for money. You trust God Almighty for a decent income, because I tell you, a lot of people are in medicine who just went into it for the image and the money-making prestige, and so forth. So, that's how I respond to the manipulation trained by the financial interests. And I'll tell you, General Mills, Kellogg, and all these industries are multi-billion-dollar industries worldwide that can buy science and buy the training programs for medical schools. And you don't think they're training the little nutritionists on what to think, and they quote these epidemiology books that are not truly scientific, with too many confounders. And the kids didn't get enough chemistry and biochemistry to really understand statistical studies and assaying a good scientific article, and they've never published a thing. My goodness. They don't have enough wisdom and experience. I thank God Almighty that I have been raised by a father in food research, chemistry, majored in chemistry, biochemistry, and minored in biology, and then went on to publish myself, and I published over and over. 

Now, I'm not doing this, patting myself on the shoulder. I'm just saying, you have to look at the fruits of someone, and you have to look at their perspective. Are these people that experienced? Are they published? Do they have a healthy skepticism? Are they correctable? I mean, in the beginning, I was against Juice Plus, but now it's the most researched nutraceutical in the world. And when I was doing my second doctorate in integrative medicine in the 90s, Juice Plus had come out around ’94, and I just couldn't believe the data I was hearing from the people on it on their health journeys. And so, I said, I’ve got to prove this crazy thing wrong. And so, I did a publication on this, the American Nutraceutical Journal for the spring issue of 2001, which came out. It was done quarterly back then, 25 years ago, a quarter century ago. And my own research proved me wrong. That's humbling, you know. That's humbling. And so, I became a user of Juice Plus. So, there you have it. 

Question
“Hi. I was prescribed Premarin cream as an HRT therapy mainly to help with recurring UTIs. I don’t have any of the usual symptoms of menopause. I never really have had any symptoms (though I’m in my late 50s). I was told I don’t need to take progesterone because it’s a vaginal cream. Is this correct? And do I cycle this cream vs using it every day?”  [1:03:57]

Answer
You have to follow the prescribing doctor. I don't know who you are, I don't know what your situation is, or what you look like on the pelvic exam, but estradiol helps thicken the lining of the skin of the vaginal and entrance of the skin there around the – we call it the introitus, where the urethra is, and helps get it thicker, so it isn't patulent and just hanging open. The extra estradiol helps it get more taut and firm and thicker, so you can stop your pee easier when you constrict your muscles down there. Testosterone helps it. A low-carb diet does. A high-protein diet helps this. So, I'm not against this. Premarin is really horse estradiol, equine estrogen. I don't know that I would ever give that I would give real estradiol. But any estradiol should never be unopposed with cyclical progesterone. I don't care who the doctor is. God is the creator and ran the design engineering here, and He created the estradiol and the balance of progesterone, if not continuous, at least cycling, two weeks on the same two weeks every month. So, that's what I would say about that. But you've got to work with your doctor and follow up on that.

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“Hi Dr. Rita, I recently had a Mohs surgery on my nose and 3 weeks later had a skin graft. Would taking Vitalzym help or hinder the healing of the skin graft?”  [1:05:50]

Answer
It would definitely help because there are a lot of injured cells there, and it works as a natural anti-inflammatory. Plus, if you could come in and get some EDTA chelation with vitamin C, that'll help. Eat a high-protein diet. Don't eat late. The highest growth hormone peaks after you've been fasting for around 16 to 18 hours. So, if you had a window of eating of 4 to 6 hours and the same 4 to 6 hours every day, and by the time you get to hour 18, your growth hormone for healing and repair is so high, and especially if you did a little exercise before you broke your fast, like a brisk walk for 20 minutes, your growth hormone will go up a thousand percent.

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“I currently take Azor 5/40 (one tablet daily) and recently heard that Super Beets can lower one’s blood pressure. I would like to lower my blood pressure naturally. Can Super Beets help?”  [1:06:49]

Answer
Well, Super Beets are mostly carbohydrates. I mean, I think 85% of a cup of beets is carbohydrate. So, I would throw it out just for that reason alone. The reason they're marketing it is that they can make money on it. And money on this one, a little nutritious fact, it is a rich source of nitrogen for making nitrogen oxide that helps vasodilate. But exercise helps with that. Doing wall squats helps with that. So, I would never, I think there's what, there's six times more sugar than protein in a beet. So, if a beet has, let's say, 3 grams of protein, it has 18 grams of sugar. You see. That's a sick ratio to try to think you're going to get anything really great. out of. So, no, I don't support Super Beets. I support exercise, weightlifting, wall squats, isometrics, not eating late, and a low-carb diet rich in protein. 

Question
“When is the best time of the day to take the Perfect Aminos?”  [1:08:23]

Answer
Your best digestive hours and moments are in the morning until around 2 in the afternoon. 

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“Hi, Dr Rita. What do you recommend for stiff back and joint pain? I'm 42. Eat keto. Am active. Thank you.”  [1:08:37]

Answer
Well, have your enzymes. Get systemic enzymes. We have here Vitalzym, and we have Systemic Enzymes or Vascuzyme. I would take it on an empty stomach and not eat anything for at least two to three hours afterwards. I would take five in the morning. And in the back, I would do stretching, and some gradual progressive weight training on the machines only.