YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, April 23, 2024
April 25, 2024
Question
“Do you recommend eating simple sugars to fuel the brain before mentally demanding tasks like writing an exam?” [0:04:27]
Answer
I don't. I actually feel that the brain does very well with mental clarity when it is burning fatty acids. So, fasting, prolonged fasting, intermittent fasting, all of these are known to stimulate brain natriuretic drive factor and that helps with recall even if the person is suffering from dementia, Alzheimer's. So, we find that the ketogenic-type lifestyle and fasting and exercise and many other things are very valuable in that. So no, I don't. And I guess that answers that. I don't recommend it.
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“Dr. E, I recently got some systemic enzymes on your recommendations for some inflammation that I am having in my hands. It says to take two to three times a day and in between meals. How do you suggest I take them if I'm only eating once a day around 4 o'clock? Also, what about if I eat twice a day 10 & 4? Do I take them right after I eat or wait a bit? Thank you.” [0:05:37]
Answer
So, you're on OMAD (One Meal A Day). Systemic enzymes are meant to be taken on an empty stomach. So, you're typically with an empty stomach first thing in the morning. And I take mine in the morning first thing when I get up. And then I take a second dose. I've been lately taking a second dose. I guess I've pretty much all healed up. Two weeks ago, I had terrible rips in my hand from a bad dog bite, but even in my 70s, I'm healed up tremendously. You can hardly see any evidence of damage to my hands in my 70’s. But you could see my fat pads on this cut right here, right down there, and I could have gone and gotten it stitched, but I knew how to tape it shut. I also had soreness and black and blue marks on my hand. It's all gone by now. Typically in your 70s, within two weeks, you still have the bruising, and the older you get, the longer it lasts. We’re all on an empty stomach waking up in the morning, and that's why we break our fast called breakfast. That's a very good time to take it. I would not eat for a couple of hours if possible after taking systemic enzymes.
So anytime your stomach is within, I would say three hours since eating if you're younger. If you're older, I would say four, five, even six hours. I've found that with my aging, it takes me maybe up to six hours because after I've had children, I can easily regurgitate food in my stomach. I ate around 2 o'clock today until 4, so I could easily regurgitate from my stomach what's still in it right now. So, it's been two hours since I ate. And I plan to take my next dose of enzymes around 10 o'clock.
So, if you take it first thing in the morning, last thing before bed, because if you end eating by 6 P.M. and you go to bed at 9 or 10, and you take your Systemic Enzymes then, then it's a good time. The longer you can have from your last meal, the better. So if you take it at 10, if you eat at 10, so if you took it first thing in the morning, that would be several hours before your 10 o'clock eating. And if you took it at bedtime, I think that would be a great time. So hopefully that helps.
Now, there are Digestive Enzymes. These are enzymes that help you for the food you just took into your body. So, when I ate today, I took four of my Ortho Digestive Enzymes. It recommends two, but I need four. I guess my digestion is just more limited. And if I didn't take more than the recommended dose, the food would linger in my stomach longer. Another thing. If you're on Ozempic or Wegovy, those are SGL1 inhibitors and semaglutide inhibitors, and that can cause gastroparesis. So, I would avoid that drug, to be honest, and you would have food sitting in your stomach long time. So, I don't recommend that at all. But just as an aside to help you digest your food and move it through your track of your body, I take my Digestive Enzymes now in my old age.
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“Hi there! I'm confused. Some doctors say oral progesterone is more protective than progesterone cream and other doctors completely think the opposite, that creams are far more protective than orals.
What are your thoughts?” [0:10:01]
Answer
If you're a good doctor, you'll learn, after many years of doing this, that everyone is different and everyone's skin is variable. Some people have thicker skin. Some people have more acidic skin. Some people have more oily skin. Some people have dry skin. And so, it makes a difference, in the skin's integrity and texture, and composition. So, you have to be a doctor that is commanding knowledge and experience in both the oral and the topical application of progesterone and all-natural hormones. So, I work with my patients. I try to start with the creams first, and the reason why I do is it gives me more control and the patient more control. Then, after a month or two, we do lab and meet again. And then I can ask them about the clinical impact, and how they're feeling. And then I have a lab value where I can correlate where they put it. I asked them what time they do it. And typically people who put progesterone cream on or take it orally, use it at night because it also helps with sleep. But not necessarily always. So, some of my patients do take it in the morning and they do fine. Some people get a very sleep-enhancing drowsy effect from progesterone, others don't.
So, once you've practiced medicine for years, you become very humble and you realize how amazing the human body is and how variable it is from patient to patient. So, both answers are correct, and a good doctor will tell that to you.
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“A doctor I worked for said the oral passes through the gut, where much of it is destroyed. Not sure what to think.” [0:12:08]
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Well, indeed, there is a digestive and processing going on through the oral and that is a fact. But, if your skin is a poor absorber, then thank goodness we have the oral route, which is very safe. I've been on progesterone for decades now since my late 30s and I'm in my 70s now, almost 40 years. And I would say that there is no added long-term burden from the oral. So, that's just experience, and it's quite, quite safe, and I've been using it for a long time. So, it depends on the patient. Both methods are good. Yes, the oral digestion will have some losses, but some people just cannot get it through the skin well enough and therefore we have to go to oral. Hopefully, that helps you. Medicine is something that we call the practice of medicine, and that's why there's a special relationship between doctor and patient, and that doctor working with you and respecting who you are and how you're doing with the things you both agree on to try.
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“What causes TSH levels to drop to 0.01 and high testosterone 54. I told my doctor maybe I had PCOS, but when I got the results for my labs, I was referred to an endocrinologist, and she had me get more labs. The TSH level, it went back up to 5.32 and went down to 0.09, when I asked what would cause it or why I'm so fatigued, she dismissed it and told me to exercise.” [0:13:41]
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There are many things that could be going on here. Number one, I want to tell you, that a testosterone level of 54 is not high, and the ranges are just population averages. I'm in my 70s now, and my last testosterone level was 170. Now, I'm in my workout clothes. Again, I don't have my office dress and stuff and white coat on because immediately after this I go to the gym and I lift heavy weights three times a week with my husband. And my testosterone at 170 is not because I take testosterone. It’s because I take DHEA. Younger women have higher DHEA levels, and as it drops off, dehydroepiandrosterone, which is a precursor to your cortisol level, is a precursor to your testosterone. It helps girls have enough muscle hormone to maintain their muscle mass. I now in my 70s have to work to maintain my muscle mass for my enduring energy and stamina. But younger women have more. So, that testosterone, the averages of the population are going down from our lousy American lifestyles, both in men and women. So, in no way do I call the testosterone high at 54.
The TSH, the signal is always going up and down from your brain. If the output of the thyroid hormone here is starting to drop off, then the signal will squirt, and maybe they captured your lab at the time when you were having a thyroid-stimulating hormone squirt. And so, it was the lower number of 0.01, and again later a 0.09. Then at another time, the number was 5.32 and maybe it caught it after a decent squirt.
So, I am just saying, you have to follow the patient. I cannot call you polycystic ovarian syndrome unless you have insulin resistance. Did he do a fasting insulin? What was your estradiol level? What was your progesterone level? What age are you? What is your blood type? What is your fasting blood sugar? What is your hemoglobin A1c? What is your triglyceride level? And what is your exercise, lifestyle, stress, your cortisol level? All these things go together. And what is your menstrual cycle, if you still have them? Have you had a pelvic ultrasound? All these things go into that diagnosis.
Now, many women are moving toward polycystic ovarian syndrome, and that is because they're getting insulin resistance from the high carbohydrate, processed junk food that they think is food. That drives up the insulin, which messes up the hormonal milieu and information, both the high sugars and the varying insulin waves throughout the day, and the cell membranes becoming resistant to the signal of the insulin. Therefore, higher amounts are being squirted out. And the buildup of sugar rises. The lipids cholesterol rises. The menstrual cycle and ovulation get interdicted or interfered with by the high-stress hormone cortisol because it's biochemically stressful, the high sugars are biochemically stressful, the inflammation it makes is stressful, and there's no ovulation. Then you become hormone-imbalanced. You have to be sitting with a doctor who can handle this. I would like to think that your endocrinologist would have done that.
But if you find a good functional doctor, sit with that doctor, and let them get your weight, your insulin, triglyceride, hemoglobin A1c, fasting blood sugar, your hormone levels, and your thyroid levels all in one panel with a vitamin D, a DHEA along with a chemistry blood count, thyroid antibodies. One of the things that a doctor will look at when the TSH is low is the overactive output of the thyroid, which is inflammation of the thyroid, usually from autoimmune phenomena, and that will make a spurt of the thyroid hormone triiodothyronine. The T3 produced, which is the active hormone, will then suppress the signal in your brain and suppress it way down. So, they would have to rule out hyperthyroid, high-acting, over-acting thyroid. But that only lasts for so long typically and then it slows down, if it's autoimmune, to a hypothyroid state. So, you once were what they call Hashimoto's thyroiditis and inflammation of the gland from the autoimmune attack, now you become hypothyroid. Graves disease is different and is associated with this ongoing activity of hyperthyroidism, and you can get that eye feature, the exophthalmos, the bulging eyes, potentially.
So, find a good functional doctor and get all these correct answers. But in the meantime, try and cut your carbs down and exercise, do weight training, and see a good functional doctor.
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“Praise God! Praise Jesus! Thank you for your opinions. My colostomy reversal went as I prayed for. Praise Jesus! All glory to God. I will stay tuned. Amen. I will read the transcripts my sister in Christ.” [0:20:58]
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Thank you. We are fearfully and wonderfully made. And if we would get all this junk processed stuff out, drink enough water, do these exercises, weight training included, not eat late at night, and try and eat more simplistically, that is a recipe for healing. Find a good functional doctor and a supportive family and community. And let's try and get all those silly donuts out of church. Let's do that for sure.
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“What is the best diet for a woman who is going through perimenopause to help improve severe chronic fatigue, muscle weakness, mood swings, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, and night sweats? What types of exercises are also recommended? Thank you.” [0:22:12]
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I'm so glad you asked. You need to see a good old-fashioned, functional, dedicated doctor who's going to be there for you and not moving up the ladder or trying to be some super-duper famous doctor. They'll stay put and they can work you through this.
The perimenopausal time is very hard on a woman because it's hard enough having hormone swings every single month whereas a man is bi-annual, only through the year does he have low testosterone, which is in the spring, and then it gradually rises to its fullness in the fall and early winter, and then it comes down in the late winter and through the spring. But women have this monthly, that's one thing. Then when you get all this junk food and you get stressed, and the electromagnetic energy, and lack of water, all these sugar drinks, and you're sitting, a lot usually with our work today on computers, lack of exercise, lack of weight training, lack of aerobic pumping the hydraulics of our body, aging means you're losing your hormones, you're not ovulating anymore, so you're getting estrogen dominant, but you're not fully into menopause. So, you might make a little estrogen one month and you might start doing better things and you'll make a little more the next month. But then if you don't eat well and exercise and sleep well, then you'll crash and have no estrogen. So, you're all over the place. And you need to work with a doctor who understands this, who will work with you through it and hold you responsible for understanding this is the hardest time for a doctor to help you and you to help yourself because you have to see the doctor more often, there has to be a blood sample of where your hormones are, because I don't want to just slap on a bunch of hormones on you immediately. I want to gently come in and support you, just like you gently support a child as they start walking. You're not trying to walk for them or hold their hand all the time, but you're there for them.
This is a time when you definitely also need a good functional medicine doctor and understand that everything matters, how much water you drink will matter. If you start good morning habits, like when you wake up with the sunrise, go outside, try and get your feet and toes in wet, do grass, and ground yourself. So, negative electrons pass into the earth and you discharge some of these negative ions, and you become more alkaline. Drink the water, and use salt every day. You know, I like natural salt, Himalayan or Celtic salts, things like that. Exercise on a routine basis at least twice a week. Weightlifting, I tell all my perimenopausal people, I tell anyone over the age of 40, weight training twice a week for about half an hour. Aerobic activity at least three times a week. So, five days a week, you're doing something. I tell patients not to eat late, and no processed foods. Try and eat a simple one-menu day, where you're eating meat and vegetables, preferably cooked. That'll get a lot of the lectins and phytates, tannins, and oxalates out of it or deactivate them. And then butter it, salt it, and have a protein, either a meat, a fish, a chicken, poultry, pork, or eggs, and match a vegetable to it. So, I have beef - broccoli, chicken - green beans, asparagus – salmon, and brussels sprouts with my pork, and I have spinach with an omelet, and that's usually the time I'll have cheese with my omelet, and then I come back to my meat and broccoli day. And I'm pretty much eating a one-menu day. So, see how simple my life is. My grocery bills and my shopping are very easy. My planning is very simple because I don't live to make eating stressful for me. I live to serve my Lord on active duty every day to serve my king and savior, Jesus Christ. And so, I don't worry so much about food as an entertainment.
Now, the other thing is getting on progesterone perimenopausally. So when a period does come, two weeks afterward, or about 14-15 days, I would rub on progesterone cream and a good starter is Kokoro progesterone cream, or see a functional doctor and get prescribed progesterone. Likely, you might need a stronger form, but progesterone is safe. I think Kokoro says two to three pumps. I would use four to six pumps. I mean, it's so safe, that you could use it as a moisturizer. Sometimes I use it even as a sunscreen for myself and children and men because progesterone is safe for all human beings. And use that from day 15 to 25 of your cycle. Then your body will at least get that natural progesterone monthly appearance, so that you're not in estrogen dominance. And then the sugars will be kept low with a healthy, simple menu I described. Try and fast and restrict your eating to a 6-hour window. Don't eat late. And then try and get yourself in bed and tucked in and off electronics or get a blue lens filter for your glasses or on your computer so you don't get that wavelength that stimulates your brain, so that when you close your eyes you can truly be at rest.
And that is the beginning of how you handle all of this. The progesterone will help you sleep. The water and the salts will help your headaches, magnesium of course could be, but I don't want to add on more supplements. Do the exercise, the water, the healthy eating, the morning routine of grounding yourself, your feet on the moist grass, and let that morning sunshine get you, which has no bad ultraviolet rays in the morning up until about 10. So, you want to stay out of the sun between 10 and 2 P.M. That should get you a good start, and see a good, good functional doctor.
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“What recommendations do you have for gut healing for individuals diagnosed with IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) or ulcerative colitis?” [0:29:40]
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Actually, a carnivore diet. Find out your blood type and how old you are. A's have trouble digesting food as a class of people. Some are better than others, but most all A's don't digest very well, even from childhood. And they're the colicky babies, and they are the children with tummy issues, nonspecific, all their life, either from constipation or loose. And then they have malabsorption, mineral malabsorption. They tend to bioaccumulate heavy toxic metals higher at a faster rate because they need minerals, and even if they're bad ones, they take on toxic metals, which are in the air and in the food. And I would use a betaine hydrochloric acid digestive enzyme. I use the Ortho Molecular, which is by Ortho Molecular and Ortho Digestive Enzyme. I've used this, I don't know, nearing 35, close to 40 years. It's an excellent product. And I would definitely take two, three, or four, or even five if you need to with eating meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, and eggs if you go carnivore.
Why carnivore? Because remember, in this picture right here, you have holes, and ulcerative colitis, irritable bowel. You have holes in the lining of your gut membrane, and they're busting out with these little molecules that inflame your gut, and then stuff passes through it, and you get food sensitivities, and you get inflamed. It's a vicious circle. And the gut cell membrane, every cell in your body is made of a double layer of phospholipids and protein receptors, and you have to eat enough fish, turkey, chicken, beef, and eggs, and shrimp, and lobster, and crab, and so forth to repair this throughout your body. You have trillions of cells, you need to eat a lot of them.
That's how I would start with that. If you saw a functional doctor, they would do a complete digestive stool analysis. They would do immuno IgG food allergies. I like Fort Lauderdale, called the immuno food allergy test. But if you went carnivore, you'd immediately start solving the problem and taking a digestive enzyme. That would go a long, long way to get it started. Now, we could add in probiotics. We could add in many other things. But that's the base ground that you would want to do.
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“My husband had Tonsil and throat cancer. He had radiation. They killed off most of his taste buds.
Is there any advice you can give me to help with this?” [0:32:30]
Answer
Just the very same thing I said for the irritable bowel syndrome and ulcerative colitis. Every cell in our body, whether it's our eyeball cell, our brain cell, our tongue cell, or the lining of our gut, it's all a double lipid membrane. Like you can see, this is upper and lower. They're identical and they're fast like this. The inside won't let water in. The outside is water-loving with the phosphate ion on it. And that's how it makes these missiles and balls called cells, and then the intricate dynamics of the cell are just magnificent.
Think complex. So, healing begins with a diet that provides the 2 x 4 and nails and cement and electrical and plaster and window and everything you need to build and reconstruct these cells in your body. And in the 1970s, when I started medical school, we were taught brain cells don't grow back and nerve cells don't grow back. Now, the rage is all about stem cell therapy and neuroplasticity. They do grow back. So, I don't sit with the statement ‘we cannot heal’ because as a Christian evangelical doctor, I believe all things are possible through our Lord, even miracles. And I believe you can reclaim taste buds that are still able to come forth. So, I would be on that one menu or carnivore diet, very low carb, do the exercise, that stimulates growth hormone, fasting, intermittent fasting, and then a prolonged fast for 24 to 48 hours every couple of weeks. That stimulates growth repair hormones, healthy cells with minerals, going to bed early, because going to bed at 9 o'clock, when the sun is moving, the electromagnetic energy is signaling all the animals and ourselves, our own pineal gland, that we want to secrete growth repair hormones. But if we're watching YouTube or the TV or doing stuff, it will not secrete it, so you lose every night a bit of juice for healing and staying younger longer.
So, I would suggest you follow this same advice and you'll see me. I'm just repeating the same thing over and over and over again because this is what heals us. This is the designer's plan. So, I'm going over the same architect's plans for the repair and management, and maintenance of the incredible human body. Hopefully, that helps you.
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“What supplements do you recommend for migraines? Specifically, ones caused by sinus and weather changes?” [0:35:50]
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That used to be me as well. I have terrible allergies. B-type blood has lousy, lousy allergies, we’re the allergic people in general. And quercetin. Quercetin is the herb that I have taken now for almost 40 straight years to control my mast cell degranulation, which if a pollen or some typical allergen, what is that bush that smells so sweet, honeysuckle or something, that grows wild, a whiff of that just drives me nuts. Flowers drive me nuts. I can only have an orchid. I just can't be around flowers. I will immediately tear up. So, my cells out there are looking to protect me immunologically. But if a pollen dings that cell, it explodes and all these little particles start coming out, the little particles you see busting out from that poke in the hole of the cell wall, and it creates this inflammatory congestion and vasodilation to vasoconstriction, and then my brain lining, the dura, starts to vasoconstrictor and vasodilate, and I get the migraines. I started taking quercetin 600 mg a day. And slowly over the course of weeks, I started to notice that, along with I drink half my weight in pounds as ounces of water. So, if I was 180, I drank 90 ounces of water. And then I always use salt. Salt, salt, salt. And I would use Celtic or Himalayan, pink Himalayan, try and get a high-quality salt with all the trace minerals in it. Because this is an electrochemical, I mean, this whole thing, this whole miracle of this membrane structure determines function folks. Physics and medicine, physiology, you've got to know it all. You have to understand your chemistry and biochemistry. Medical students, you need to be a chemist before you can be a doctor. I'm sorry. You need to major in chemistry, biochem, analytical, physical chemistry, or one of those. And then you really need to major in physiology to understand cell physiology, if you're going to even really begin to understand this massive creation of the cell membrane. So, that's an electrochemical potential. If something dings the outside, an impulse will go to the inside layer, and then a reaction, a message, occurs.
So, if you are getting salt-depleted and dehydrated, you are just creating a bed for havoc, you might say, in your body. So drink half your weight in water every single day, without a doubt. Get up in the morning, get your feet in the wet grass, ground yourself, get that morning sunshine in your face for just a few minutes, and give thanks for all the good things that are there. And help your cortisol get under control. Get on some quercetin, start with that, and then see if that's enough to help you. Many times women have this with their menstrual cycle as well. And so, progesterone would be something else I would add with magnesium. So, those are early suggestions I would say.
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“I just got off a 16-day cruise and now have COVID for the first time. My primary offered Paxlovid which I declined after hearing the horrible side effects. I’m drinking tons of water and eating light. What else do you recommend because I hate being sick.” [0:39:42]
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I don’t know that you have COVID. I don't trust the tests at all. Zero. Nada. Nothing. I don't trust those COVID tests over the counter. Smart woman. The very intelligent person you are. Well go and get some quality vitamin D with K2. I would get a high dose of vitamin D 50,000, and I would take one a day for five days, 50,000, 50,000, 50,000, 50,000, 50,000. Then, lay that down and get the other one, which would be like a 10,000 with K2 in it. Get zinc 25 mg, 50 mg. Get reacted zinc, meaning that it has an amino acid connected to every zinc molecule. So an amino acid chelate zinc, 25 to 50 mg, takes one or two a day. Drink plenty of water and fast for 24 hours. That stimulates healing. If you can find a functional doctor who has high-dose vitamin C, we take walk-ins here for vitamin C drips. High-dose vitamin C is an antiviral. Take quercetin. Quercetin also acts not only to help allergies and stabilization, but it helps to stop viral replication, whatever virus is the cause of it. And if you're not, of course, better, you should see your doctor. If you get a fever or you start having a cough or a productive cough, be seen by your primary care doctor. But that's what I would suggest.
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“Hello, doctor. Thoughts on Detoxamin vs IV VS Liposomal EDTA?” [0:41:41]
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If you can't get intravenous calcium disodium EDTA, I'm going to say I'm more familiar with Detoxamin than I am with liposomal EDTA, and that's because I did the studies and worked with the help of the research that showed the biphasic absorption using Detoxamin in the enterohepatic circulation. When you shove it up the butt right at the anus there and the early part, the rectum, and the distal sigmoid, there are all kinds of water reabsorption, so you don't have diarrhea all the time. So, your blood vessels want to absorb that fluid. The Detoxamin has this configured in a way that it helps the calcium disodium EDTA, which is a charged molecule, be attracted to the water migration out of the stool and into the system. And when it's absorbed, it goes through the liver and then it gets recirculated. So, I'm going to say I have actually seen and worked and helped publish on the biphasic pharmacokinetics of Detoxamin. I have not with the liposomal EDTA, although in theory, it should have a similar effect. But nothing, nothing, nothing comes close to replacing the intravenous calcium disodium EDTA.
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“Also, is heavy metal detox before doing a parasite cleanse or okay to do both at the same time?” [0:43:28]
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I am not in favor of these parasite cleanses. I just see them as a waste of money. I've been doing this for 43 years every day. I don't take vacations. I don't go anywhere. I do nothing other than church on Sundays with my family and clean the house or cook and make meal preps and come to work here and exercise. That's it. I never shop. I never do anything, and all I do is study, work, and research. If I felt a parasite cleanse was justified, I'd find the parasite. And yes, I know the Endomorph theory of pleomorphic manifestation of the virus to bacteria to the parasite. I did a second doctorate in this, and I'm all ears to this. And I'm not saying exosomes aren't the same thing as a virus. particle. What I'm saying is over 43 years working all the time and seeing what matters, where to put your money for all of us who need to save our money, it's in fasting, it's in exercise, weight training, aerobics. It's in a good night's sleep. It's in a healthy morning ritual where you get up, you set out your vitamins, you get your water ready, you get your heart right with meditation or your prayer time or Bible reading, or all three. You get outside with the first rise of the sun and your little feet and toes in the moist dew. Get yourself grounded and you look into that wonderful first sunshine, blue light, and that helps calm your hypothalamic access. And then you have your busy day. You serve others and you help your dear brothers and then you get done what you need to do and eat a low-carb diet, a simple menu. You don't make this an entertainment hole. Low carb, out with processed food, simplistic meal. And then you go to bed and you repeat the same thing.
Because people are worth it. I tell you, I have so much fun at work. I love my patients. They're just so interesting, every one of them. And I have good days, I have bad days because mostly it's my fault. You know, if I have an attitude or something, or I hair up my butt. My problem is resolved when I give myself away to people to serve them, and I think that's what my faith says to do. So, there's a complete digestive stool analysis done by Doctor’s Data at St. Charles, Illinois. And I value them very much. I know Dr. David Quig out there, a Ph.D. I trust their work and that's what I would go after.
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“I've noticed a lot of my friends that go on vacation tours with 20-30 people come home with COVID. It happened when I went to Europe, one on tour ended up in a hospital. Is group travel a bad idea?” [0:46:43]
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No, they don't. They get tricked that the COVID test is true. You know, everyone shares and is grouped together and you get new viral experiences, and yes, your immune system reacts to it. And by the time, two to three weeks go away, you've had a week of processing their viruses and their environmental exposure, and then you get it yourself. Yeah, that's all it is. So, get your D up, get your zinc up, get your sugars down, get your water up, your salt, healthy mineralized salt up, your exercise, you get your sleep in, and everything should go well. So traveling, so prevent it. When going on a trip, I tell my patients to take the D-50,000 the day before they get on the airplane or the day after they arrive there. Stay on, then drop down to 10,000 or 20,000 a day for all the days they’re there. Keep their zinc 25 to 50 mg up. Yes, have some treats, but try and exercise and try not to eat late. And the zinc, the vitamin D, the quercetin 600 mg a day should keep you well. And I have 43 years of experience. I have 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds going on trips, and some even 100-year-olds, and they're the ones who stay well. Why? Because they're low carb and they take these things. It's not rocket science everyone. It's just how our designer made us to be. And oh, by the way, evolution has been disproved.
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“Do you offer ozone therapy at your clinic? Thoughts on ozone?” [0:48:39]
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Yes, we do. And I'm very much in favor of all the forms of oxygen therapy, and we do them. I don't have a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. If I had the money and the room to do it, I would. But yes, it's quite quite valuable. We do the major hemolytic ozonation where we take your blood, we infuse it with ozone, your own blood with ozone, makes it nice and pink red. We pass it by the triple ultraviolet light for viral killing and then we pass it back into the body. and we do that, and it’s very, very, very good. There’s EBOO, there's a hyperbaric chamber, there's insufflation where you can put it up your butt or put it in your vaginal area, and so forth. Those are also possible. Things that you can do with it. But yes, we do ozone here.
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“Oh, wonderful. I'd love to get your prices.” [0:49:50]
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Call (714) 544-1521 and hopefully you'll get a nice quick prompt polite response.
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“Is NAD product helpful to take for brain and fog?” [0:50:05]
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No, it's not if you don't change your lifestyle. There's no miracle supplement out there. Trust me, 43 years of doing this. What you have to do is be low-carb and you have to drink your water, and you have to exercise, and you have to start fasting intermittently. So you've got to exercise, you’ve got to get a good night's sleep, you have to be well hydrated, you have to use your multi-minerals and you have to get your trace mineral salts in, Celtic salt, and probably hormone replacement therapy. I mean, when I started losing my hormones, it was like I forgot my medicine, and I was only like 40 when I went through menopause. And so, I got on hormones, and zap, my sharp connections came right back. So, I even still this day menstruate in my 70s on a regular schedule because I'm on hormone cycling. And I can stay sharp and have recall because I exercise, because I do all these things and take my hormones.
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“My sister was diagnosed with idiopathic intracranial hypertension and is to see a neurologist next month. Any advice on things to ask the neurologist or help her currently? She is 58.” [0:51:21]
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She’s the kind of patient we would love to see. Any functional doctor that's worth their wait is going to love a patient like this because fasting and dis-inflaming the body with intermittent fasting, some prolonged fasting, systemic enzymes, and then when they eat, they only go on a carnivore diet. And then, we look for food allergies, anything causing inflammation that would create some of this flow dynamic of the cerebrospinal fluid production in the brain. Something is creating that and something is gumming it up. So, you get the sugars down, you get the enzymes up, you get the water up to wash it up. The enzymes are like Little Soap Man, Pac-Man chewing up inflammation. The exercise helps with the hydraulics, the hormones help with the repair, and the all-carnivore diet helps with the repair of all the brain's fatty membranes. It's just a miracle. And then iodine helps. But we would like to do the complete digestive stool, the heavy metal test, and microcirculation. EDTA chelation would help greatly with this. So, try and find a good functional doctor who will do those things.
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“I'm an active senior in my 70s. I'm trying to figure out what type of exercise is best to look for...Pilates, yoga, trainer, etc. I hate exercise and I can feel my strength beginning to wain now that I retired after 45 years of a physically active job. What should I look for? Thank you.” [0:53:02]
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You and me, sister, I hate exercise but I do it out of discipline. I don’t own this body or this planet or anyone. God owns it. And He wants me to take care of what He’s given me a lease to use and to serve Him. I grew up on a farm and there were no brothers. We had to split the logs for the fireplace, and the potbelly stove, and I know that's why no boys would ever date me because I was probably more of, you know, a ‘humonga’ kind of a girl at high school, and my calluses on my hands were huge from the axe and the wedges we used to split it with. And I just hated that experience because that was the time when Barbie and Ken and the Beatles, everybody had their princess phones and their little princess bedrooms, and we lived in a one-room house with no toilet. So give me a break. I didn't like carrying heavy buckets out to the back 50, you know, and dumping it and putting lye on it. I just, I loved it and I hated it.
But then when I went into the military ROTC to get a military scholarship for medical school in the early 70s, it was brand new, nobody, there were no girls doing this, and it was called the Women's Army Corps, and they didn't know what to do with me. They didn't even have a uniform for me because I was in the very first entrance class for women in ROTC. And so, I put a red beret on, a blazer, a white turtleneck dickie kind of thing here like that, and then I had blue pants on, and I think black shoes, and I was an oddity. But on the exercise, and you know, the good, wonderful men in the military from the Korean and World War II, oh, they didn't like women and they didn't know I was a Christian. I was married since I was 17 to John, we’re married 52 years now. I wasn't looking for a husband. I was against the Equal Rights Amendment. I felt the constitution had everything we ever needed in it. And as a Christian, I believe in the role of womanhood, and I got permission to be a doctor for my husband.
So, I had to do all that hard work, and then the drill sergeants were like, give me more! You can do it! Knock it out! And I couldn't do anything that a man could do. And I was a hard farm girl. So, I hate, I hate exercise.
So, what do I do? I hired a personal trainer. And on the personal trainer, when I give money out, my hard-earned money, I say to myself, I paid, so I will wake up and I will go before the sun rises. And that's the only reason why I fell back in love with exercise and weight training.
So, trust a trainer. Accountability. I am little Rita inside of this aging old body. Even though I'm called Dr. Rita Ellithorpe, I am still the little girl Rita. And mom and Dad aren't here, and nobody's around to make me do what's right. Only God, the Holy Spirit, is in here. And so, hiring a trainer three times, four times a week is what it took me, and putting that money out is what got me going, and I feel wonderful now. Plus, the water, plus the Celtic salt, plus the minerals, the Juice Plus, the quercetin, the systemic enzymes, having rules about going to sleep, rules about getting up, and a little morning routine.
God bless, my sister, and may you find that thing that helps you fall back in love with the wonderful body God gave you.
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“Hi, Dr. E, can you give some guidance on when to take the systemic enzymes that you've recommended? They say to take 2 to 3 times a day between meals. How long after the meal? When should I take it if I only eat 1 meal a day? Or 2 meals 11 & 5? Thank you.” [0:57:20]
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Systemic enzymes are to be absorbed into the body to work all through us. It’ll be little Pac-Man, cleaning up the debris of a broken hole in the membrane in our body, from our brain to our toe. So, first thing in the morning, last thing before you go to bed. That means you should stop eating by 5 or 6, and that means I think it's best not to eat breakfast right away. Do intermittent fasting and put your breakfast off, if you can, to 10, 11, or noon, and only eat between 11 and 5 or noon and 6 and leave it like that.
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“Hello Dr. Rita, I've seen numerous med spa facilities offering pellet implants, which last for several months for hormone replacement therapy. Can you share your thoughts on this product and whether it's as effective as the compounding creams? Thank you so much. I continue to enjoy learning from you and your infinite wisdom.” [0:58:08]
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I hate pellets. I tried them once in the 1990s. I will never touch it again. So many problems. You’ve got to mix it into a foreign carrier medium and shove it under the skin. How nauseating is that? How unnatural is that to say? I give you natural hormones and yet I mix it in some foolish carrier garbage, shove it under your skin in a foreign way? No way. Don't do pellet therapy, in my humble opinion.
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“Wanted to know how many eggs I can eat a week? I don't eat much red meat due to the financial constraints but can afford chicken and eggs. I've heard different information concerning eggs and wanted to see what you had to say.” [0:58:58]
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As much as you want. I understand the financial thing, and large farming industrial chicken houses and their manufacture of huge egg manufacturers tend to have the poultry that is housed and fed these garbage grains that have arsenic in them and other antibiotics, maybe even hormones. So, if you can at all, try and find a farmer's market and find someone who sells grass-fed prairie-raised sources, if at all possible. Now, that's still better than eating processed food, junk food, eating late, high carbohydrate, sugar drinks, and so forth. So, everything is on a scale and there's nothing wrong with eating chicken and eggs to your heart's content. It's all the other things you're adding in. Is there a food allergy? Could it irritate your leaky gut? Could you develop a problem from eating too much of it? Theoretically, yes, but we have to start somewhere. So, in a dirty house, you pick out one area to attack, and then you start with that, and then you start bleeding over it and messing that cleaned-up area as you attack other areas. But the net effect is over time, you start incorporating the whole house and you get a clean house, even though you started with one small area here and got it clean, and then you start over here by dumping a little bit here, but then you got one area and another area all cleaned up. So, do the best you can. Don't worry about eggs like that.
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“Thank you, Dr. E, you are a blessing to me and so many others. I have become extremely intolerant to heat, even high 70s can affect me. I get face flush, nausea, etc. I don't sweat and can't cool down without applying cold. I have been on natural estradiol and compounded progesterone since perimenopause, for about 7 years now. What could be the root cause?” [1:00:56]
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I don't know if you got injected with that stuff. That could create an autonomic trouble with your natural peripheral vasodilation. I would start there, with EDTA chelation, systemic enzyme. I mean, we're fearfully and wonderfully made. Your DNA is your better doctor than I'll ever be or any other doctor, but that would be my first thought. Hopefully, you didn't get one of those injections. And even if you did, we can help greatly with quercetin, EDTA chelation, systemic enzymes, a low-carb diet, and minerals, see a good functional doctor and have them work with you on that. But that would be my first thought.
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“My husband has been diagnosed with hypothyroidism. This has been a problem for more than 10 years, and he has taken Synthroid as the medication prescribed for him. He is refusing to take it any longer because he feels poorly. What natural treatments could he use?” [1:02:13]
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Well, iodine. I would get a 24-hour iodine test, the salt iodine. We're all deficient in iodine and Synthroid will never answer that problem. You need a good functional doctor who will do a 24-hour urine challenge test with the iodine load of 50 mg and collect 24-hour urine and see how much he pees out. If he holds most of the iodine, that means his body is deficient, and then the Synthroid will be helpful to him, but many other things need to be checked into.
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“Greetings! I was diagnosed with Demodex Blepharitis by my eye doctor. I've been having swelling and tenderness in my eyelids since March 30, first in the left eye and now in the right. Demodex are small mites that live on our skin, in our hair follicles and eyelashes. I have a buildup. Doctors suggest antibiotics. What do you suggest for treatment?” [1:03:05]
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I'd go on a fast. If you can, depending on your medical and comorbidities, I would try and get the blood sugar down. And then I would get Argentyn silver. Argentyn is only from medical doctors, but over-the-counter half strength, I don't know if it would be as good, but half strength is Sovereign Silver. And put it on a Q-tip and rub your eyelashes with that morning and evening, morning and evening. I do this anyway. And then I get it into my eye and it comes down my nasal teardrops and I squirt it up my nose. You could put a drop of it in your eyes every night and do it in the morning, and that is an antibacterial, anti-fungus, anti-viral, and that will certainly help clean. And then take the enzymes to clean up all the damaged cellular debris. And if he has an antibiotic for mites in his ophthalmologist, take it but then maintain your health with that and try and work from that point forward.
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“Why do natural hormones cause freckles and moles on my skin? How can this stop?” [1:04:41]
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I don’t know what they call freckles and moles. There’s a thought that there are certain people with a hormonal metabolism that creates a chloasma, just like when you’re pregnant, a woman will get a brown line on her stomach and maybe a brown kind of rash on her face. We don’t really know the answer to that. But as far as freckles are concerned, I would say that’s not due to your hormone replacement therapy, in my humble opinion, but ask your dermatologist.
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“Have you had a chance to explore peptide therapy for autoimmune disease and other maladies, inflammation, any further?” [1:05:29]
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I am looking into it. I don’t think I’ve done anything since last week looking into it. But I know the sky is the limit on peptide therapy. But you know, we do peptide therapy by fasting, getting our growth factors in our stem cells and autophagy cleared up, well hydrated, enzymes are clear where the debris and then when we go carnivore, we get all those peptides in that fashion. So, if you can afford peptide therapy, notice how all these things keep us young and healthy longer. So, we give thanks.
