YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, April 28, 2026

Question 
“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe, my 14-year-old daughter has had her period for over a year. She is not yet monthly regular. However, at least four times now, she has horrible symptoms at the start of her period. She gets extreme stomach pain, diarrhea, and excessively vomits for the first 24 hours or so. Do you have any advice for us?”  [0:04:25]

Answer
In general, we are in a dietary world system that promotes inflammation, pain, disease, and energy loss. Inflammation means fire. Inflammation means a burn or oxidative stress. Inflammation means the cell membranes are damaged. And the normal menstrual cycle is a time in the woman's monthly cycle where the lining of the uterus becomes older and needs to age and slough off and have a period, we call menstruation, for 7 to 9 days, and there are contractions of the uterus to facilitate this. But one of the greatest things is to have progesterone, the progestational hormone, that promotes this facilitation of cleaning of the lining of the uterus. And with a stressful world, a stressful diet, lack of drinking enough water, inactivity, sitting for hours at school on computers in the blue light, in the midst of electromagnetic fields, eating a high-carb processed food, refined carbohydrate diet that brings the blood sugars up, which promotes even more inflammation. The emotional stress of adolescence and the teen/tween years is significant, adding in chemtrails in the sky, the heavy metal, aluminum oxides, barium oxides, strontium oxides that they're putting, and God knows what else, into these fake cloud streams from the airplanes, along with glyphosate, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, genetic modifications, and along with all the junk that we buy, plastic clothes, polyesters, all the body goop and hair goop and make-up goop and nail acrylics. We are making our bodies toxic. We're eating too late. We're staying up too late. There's too much blue light getting at our eyes. We're not having enough outside sunshine. All this is being promoted by the social culture pressures that are being paid for by persons behind the scenes who don't see the human race as anything but chattel or cannon fodder for their wars and their manipulation of the stock markets and the price of oil and control of us as their cattle. They have a worldview that they are wealthy and powerful, and they have the right to rule us, versus that's kind of like the Aristotle and MacMillan historical viewpoints that man is only driven by pain or pleasure and is to be controlled like any other beast of burden. Then there's the biblical worldview that man is made by God and has purpose and value, each and every one, and that we are to – that would be like Plato, Dante, and our forefathers that established the unique constitutional individual human freedoms derived directly from God, not some royal chain of human beings that thinks they're better than us. All this then promotes the financing of these glyphosated drugs, these chemtrails, using us as guinea pigs, dumping stuff on us, and impacting us with all forms of stressors. Stressors inhibit the brain from ovulation, and cortisol is the mechanism. High cortisol means there's not going to be natural ovulation, which means progesterone will be low, which means there won't be a normal menstrual cycle, more irregular bleeding¸ all the high-carb diets from the junk food industries that they just make money off of the high-value taste of the fructose and the carbs refined in the diet of the school lunches. Now, fortunately, it's changing with this administration and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. All this inflammation is harming our girls with their ovulation, progesterone cycles, and their menstrual cycles. 

So, I have been recommending natural progesterone to all of my mothers of new menstruating girls, that they use the natural progesterone creams topically, they just rub it on their wrist between their wrist like that, and they do that from day 15 of their menstrual cycle to day 25 of their cycle. That will help a rhythmic, natural cycle of progesterone. It won't inhibit their own production, but the likelihood of a teenager having normal monthly progesterone ovulation is about zero with all this stress. Another thing is you have to clean that diet up and get them eating real food, not eating late, getting outside and active in the outdoors, outdoor sports, walking the dog, doing outdoor gardening, helping with grass cutting, raking the leaves. And then having some rules about phone time and TV, Tube time, that blue light and lights and electronics off to get some good sleep, and rules about up with the sunshine, getting out in the morning and let that infrared light get to your eyes and to the photo receptors in your eyes to help the circadian rhythm and that hypothalamic pituitary access that goes throughout our body for our hormones and all our circadian rhythm regulation. We have what is called Kokoro progesterone cream. We have it here. I've used it since the 1990s. That company has been very good. Kokoro is a natural progesterone cream. It comes as a pumper, and two pumps should probably be enough. Now, you know, rub it between the arms like that or the inside of the thighs from days 15 through 25 of the cycle. That'll help clean up the diet with those other measures, drinking enough water, and a normal, healthy lifestyle, evening and morning hygiene, and you should see improvement. 

Another thing for pain and inflammation is the enzymes. Try to find out your daughter's blood type, if she's a blood type A, AB, B, or O, because A's suffer worse than, I would say, AB's, then lastly B's, and then O's. Why? Because A's don't make enough enzymes, which means their inflammation builds up worse, quicker, and faster. So, systemic enzymes given to a girl with this problem will help prevent the monthly pain and all these side effects. I would say something like Vascuzyme, three capsules once a day on an empty stomach. Or maybe during the time right at the onset of the menstrual cycle, if you use three right at awakening in the morning on an empty stomach and right at bedtime. That's better than aspirin. It's like it's God's pain-reliever. It cleans up inflammation like little Pac-Man cleaning the body¸and I I've taken it all my life. So, that's what I would say.

Now, when I say these things, I want to just point out, I'm not trying to medically treat over YouTube. This is for educational purposes. So, this is generalized advice that I'm giving to everyone. And of course, you should consult your local primary care doctor or pediatrician if there might be other issues at hand. I did at age 18 develop such a big cyst from the stress in my life and lack of ovulation that I got a cyst on my right ovary, and I had a bleed within my cyst, and it popped, and it bled into my abdominal cavity, and I had to have surgery. Of course, I was married at the time, and they thought maybe I had an ectopic pregnancy, but there are other things that can be going on. So, once again, the most common things are these lifestyle issues from these very unhealthy lobbyists that promote junk food, promote bad evening usage of our social media contacts and light exposure, and this inactive lifestyle, poor diet. So, if you can eliminate those things and use some natural progesterone. Kokoro cream is what we use here over the counter. It's a low-dose progesterone, but very, very helpful and effective from day 15 through 25. But work with your pediatrician or doctor. And make sure if you're not improving with these things, that indeed someone is taking a look at your daughter. 

Question
“My sister had a CT scan with contrast and now has possible signs of porphyria + hyperthyroidism. Sometimes they are false positives, so they are doing some more tests, like endoscopy and colonoscopy, due to her stomach pains. What do you know about porphyria, and what can be done to relieve it or fix it? Thank you, Dr. E.”  [0:15:03]

Answer
Porphyria is part of the group, the heme groups, that make up the four corners of the hemoglobin and porphyria center molecule that carries the iron, which attracts oxygen to bring oxygen around our body. And we make in our liver the protein units that come together to make the porphyrins and amino acids to make the globulin, and then the iron is put in it to make hemoglobin, or the porphyrin outer ring of it. So these proteins and amino acids, in combination with the iron, form hemoglobin. If you don't have the enzyme for making the porphyria, the porphyrin part of the structure of the hemoglobin, you know, it almost looks like four parts, four structures to come together, then you get a build-up of all the little parts. And this is usually a genetic disease, autosomal dominant, meaning that if one parent carries the disease or gene and it's passed on to the next child, or it isn't. So, when two come together, either that offspring will get the autosomal dominant, and it can be expressed, or it isn't passed on and ends there, and will of course never be expressed, which would be an enzyme deficiency of making the porphyrin for the hemoglobin. 

Now, just being an autosomal carrier dominant of the porphyria, lack of the enzyme, doesn't mean you're going to have the manifestation of it, which can be stomach aches, or there can be skin rashes. There can be a time when your urine turns kind of reddish purple, and some people get psychotic/emotional with this. But the triggers usually are infections, like hepatitis, or an extreme starvation diet. So, girls who tend to go on a bulimic kind of extremely starvation body, abnormal self-image diets that starve themselves, these stressors can trigger the expression of the autosomal dominant gene, and you can get intermittent porphyria, abdominal pains, skin lesions, mood disorders, change in the color of your urine, and high estrogen levels can do this. So, often you'll see this first expressed after having your menstrual cycle start. Alcohol will always make this happen because alcohol promotes high estrogen in men and in women, because the breakdown of estradiol is not as good when you drink alcohol, because your liver, which makes alcohol dehydrogenase to break down alcohol, is busy trying to break down estrogen, the name of which is estradiol, which functions as an alcohol. Therefore, your body is going to see estradiol build up versus alcohol, and your alcohol dehydrogenase will work on the alcohol toxin. It was designed to handle the limited amounts of estradiol you would probably have with a normal lifestyle. But since men drink a lot of beer, alcohol, and eat a high-carb diet, which is easily turned into alcohol type of waste products, their estrogen levels go up, and then they get porphyria intermittently as well. 

So, what to do about it? Well, live a healthy lifestyle. No crazy diets. No seriously low ketogenic, low carnivore-like diets, no high-carb diets. Modest exercise, no 26-mile marathons, because the extremes that would stress your immune system and allow you to know a mono to break out, mononucleosis or hepatitis, or other stressor infections can all trigger this kind of phenomenon. And you know, I would take systemic enzymes. I would take adequate water. Nobody tends to drink enough water these days, filtered water. And then see your doctor locally, and find out your blood type. And if you're an A, use digestive enzymes in addition with every meal that you eat to help you break it down naturally, so your liver isn't so stressed, even if it has that enzyme deficiency of making the different parts of the hemoglobin molecule. And take systemic enzymes, the other kind of enzymes, on an empty stomach, not with food, so it can get around your whole system like little Pac-Man and disinflame your body and keep you from these stressors. But of course, follow up with your local doctor. Find out your blood type. 

Question
“Hi Dr E., my friend is dealing with infected leg lymphedema each month, accompanied by fever and chills. She must take antibiotics to get relief. She has an O-negative blood type. What triggers the infection, and any idea how to approach it holistically? She has been dealing with this for 20+ years. She is 53 years old.”  [0:21:42]

Answer
I don't know. There are all kinds of things that come to mind. Is she overweight? Is she a diabetic? Has she been a former drug user and used injected veins in her leg to get drugs in the past? Does she have eczema or psoriasis? Because our body is full of bacteria on the outside. We are a living outside and inside carrier mechanism petri dish. We are growing all these bacteria on our skin and in our intestines all the way through. So, we're living in a secondary world of all kinds of fungus, bacteria, and viruses all around us all the time. But God made us mighty and strong and gave us healthy skin. So, if you overly wash your skin and you're rinsing it every day with hot water and you're rinsing off the healthy essential fats that God put into your skin layer, then you're making it dry and cracked, so those bacteria can get into those cracks and inflame you. Very often, lymphedema is associated with high blood sugars, excess weight, and high triglycerides, which eventually leads to diabetes, creating a growth culture that's easier for these things to grow in. 

So what would you do? Well, you have to clean up this lifestyle. You have to eat a very low-carb diet. I would try to start out more as a carnivore. And you know, porphyria is such a rare genetic disease. I've maybe seen, in 45 years of practicing medicine, two people. I would say it's very unlikely that it's porphyria for that lady, and the other question. So, when I recommend a low-carb diet or a carnivore diet, the ultra ultra vast majority of people should be able to do this, and that will keep the blood sugars down. A very low-carb ketogenic diet or a carnivore-like diet. Intermittent fasting, try to eat in only a window of time and never late into the evening. The amount of insulin your body will shoot out to help you digest and absorb, and utilize the energy of a meal, is going to be twice as high and harder for dinner than it would be for breakfast or lunch. So, you'll use and squirt out 50% more insulin, and insulin puts the lock on releasing fat out of your fat cells all over your body. So, the higher your insulins go, the more and more you'll become insulin resistant, have higher blood sugars, and be unable to lose weight with aging. So, you have to understand, the more fat, the more lymphedema, the more you aggravate problems like this. So, lifestyle window of eating, I try to make my window of eating roughly between 11:00 and 4:00 p.m. or noon and 3:00. So, anywhere from a 3 or 5-hour window every day of my life. I try to eat a very high-protein, extremely low-carb diet. I try to eat under 50 grams of carbohydrates every day while doing weight training. Exercise is probably with weights on the machines at the gym. Three times a week for half an hour is probably the number one way to rapidly lower the insulin, make your muscles start bringing in the energy to burn it up so the insulin doesn't have to hang around long, and you start to control your eating time so that you never eat dinners or late at night. Your body starts getting into a better tolerance, variable, flexible handling of fat burning for energy, and handling any carb burning that does come in from healthy carbohydrate complexes, carbohydrates. And then you won't have so much of this excess growth of media from sugars and stuff that would feed the bacteria. Then she has to take high-dose systemic enzymes to create a Pac-Man, kind of eating up the debris of the irritated cells. She could spray Argentyn silver on these areas of her skin that tend to get irritated and inflamed. Find a functional doctor locally and then get high-dose vitamin C weekly or bi-weekly. And, in addition, I would do a series of 10 ozone treatments, ultraviolet light, the radiation of the blood with ozone, to just really do a cleansing of the blood. Drink a good amount of water. Half her weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. With the exercise, with getting sunlight in the morning, with the rising sun, and going to bed by 9:00 and lights out, that kind of stuff. She should see improvement with enzymes, take vitamin D, and try to get her blood level of vitamin D up to the 80 to 100 range. And then probably take a good multi-mineral with zinc in it, and take a good B vitamin because that helps with metabolism, and we should be able to see that clear up. So, we've had many chronic low-grade infected lymphedemas clear up by doing just that. 

Question
“What would you suggest for an index finger with possible arthritis in the joint? Also, how could I self-treat a stye on the lower lid of the eye?”  [0:28:30]

Answer
And again, all of these things, you know, I don't know who or how bad you look with these things. If it looks minor and I had a stye on my eye, I would, of course, be low-carb. I would probably fast for 24 hours. I would try to get a high-dose vitamin C drip or at least take extra vitamin C orally, and then I would put Argentyn eye drops. These are the nano silver water solutions; nano silver is so uniformly dispersed. Silver is a universal antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral for warm compresses. But of course, if it isn't responding with systemic enzymes, a 24-hour fast, extra vitamin D, extra vitamin C, zinc in your TLC multimineral, and warm compresses with the Argentyn silver, then if that's not getting better within a day, then you have to see your local doctor. Now, regarding the arthritis in the finger. What is your blood type? If your blood type is A, you need at least both kinds of systemic and digestive enzymes on an empty stomach. Twice a day, I would use it five times a day for at least a week because that should really loosen up the index finger. If you're a blood type A, you need the digestive enzyme with each of your meals, one or two. And then I would not eat for entertainment, I would eat for nourishment, because from my worldview as a Christian doctor, I would see the human body as what God has given us to house our spirits in and his spirit that's indwelling us and use this body to serve his creation, his kingdom and help all the dear souls, no matter what their faith or politics or their, you know, sex is. You just help people because you're a child of Christ saved from sin yourself, and you're just out there to be his ambassador and try to help people. 

So, eat a diet that is to nourish this body, not to entertain our bodily lusts. So, by that, I mean if you have any illness or any medical problem, you have to decide to eat a very simplistic menu for one day. So, have a beef and broccoli day and have that for your breakfast and lunch, and don't eat late. And when I cook up a roast like that, that'll last me a couple of days. So, all I have is beef and broccoli for two days. Maybe the next roast I'll make is of chicken and green beans, and that'll last for a couple of days. And then I'll make a pork tenderloin with u Brussels sprouts and onions, and that'll last for two days. So you see, I'm eating a narrow window of things coming at my mouth that could inflame my gut. So, my immune system lining of the whole gastrointestinal system is very quietly and gently presented the invasion of every meal in a narrow window of time and very modest whole food, not processed or touched by anything other than God's earth, and maybe the contaminants from the chemtrails. So, I try to suggest you do that. Keep it low carb, drink plenty of water, and then take the systemic enzymes twice a day on an empty stomach for a week, and then drop it to once a day, four or five. And you should see that finger loosen up in the first two days. Not infrequently. I'll tell a patient fast for 24 hours and just let their whole body calm down from the invasion of the world and its food, chemicals, and toxins with the enzymes, and that will really speed up any joint pain resolution using the systemic enzymes. So, that's what I would do there. 

Question
“Hi Dr. Rita, my 65-year-old husband’s recent bloodwork showed Testosterone normal, 792, but free testosterone low at 5.4, and SHBG was high at 91.3. Is this concerning? Thank you.”  [0:33:04]

Answer
And that's a good reading for a spring reading, because remember, men have a biannual level of testosterone production. So in the spring, God brings animals and all human men, their testosterone gets low. But then by summer it starts to build up all the way into the fall, and October, November is the peak because God wants all the boy animals to get all the girl animals pregnant. So by the time winter comes, that little baby is growing to be born in the spring, but then God doesn't want high testosterone and roid rage. So, he brings all the male animal testosterone down in the spring. So, when all the puppies are born, they don't eat the puppies. So that's a good level for testosterone. But free testosterone is low at 5.4. Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin was high at 91. I don't worry about those. I've never worried about those two readings in all the 45 years I've practiced medicine. I just wouldn't worry about them. He has a great testosterone level. And the Sex Hormone Binding Globulin goes up in most of us with age, because the older that we get, the less hormones we make, the more the body is trying to make hormones to attract and carry and find hormones for transport around the body. So, I don't think those are bad numbers at all. Let's see. 

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“Blessings, Dr. Rita! If you have your Bible handy, can you read Proverbs 23:1-3? Then, explain the King's dainties, and why we should put a knife to our throats if we're given to appetite?”  [0:34:52]

Answer
That's right. I used to read this many years ago. “When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee: And put a knife to thy throat. If thou be a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meats.” Proverbs 23:1-3. Yeah, they have really used food to trick us with our bodily lusts. And yeah, I used to read that to my patients. I've been here for a quarter of a century. So, I used to read that much more often. Thank you for reminding me of that wonderful, and I'm going to leave my Bible open to that level over there. So, thank you. That is a wonderful reading to do. Yeah. 

“Then explain the King's dainties and why we should put a knife to our throats if we're going to…”- Oh, well, of course. Who could afford to have a baker? Remember when Daniel was thrown into the jail in Potiphar's house after his brothers sold him into slavery. Then he was taken to Egypt, and he got into the household of Potiphar, the captain of the pharaoh of Egypt, and he served his household so well that he had great blessings. And God blessed Daniel, and wherever he worked, whatever he laid his hands to. But then, of course, the captain's wife tried to seduce him, and Daniel ran, and she claimed he tried to rape her. So, he was thrown in jail. Then he blessed the jail there. Well, anyway, the point was that eating healthy and so forth was very, very important. And one of the jail compadres had was the baker of the Egyptian king and he said in three days after he interpreted his dream, he said the pharaoh's going to bring you back and be his cup bearer or something like that, but the baker rather, yeah, the baker had a dream and then he interpreted and he said, boy, for you in three days, he's going to cut your head off. And that happened. And so, that eventually brought Daniel to the foot of the Egyptian king when he had a bad dream, and he interpreted the ears of corn and the cows consuming each other for the drought and famine that was coming. But only a king could have a baker and a cupbearer for the wine, a bartender, because they're wealthy, and all they do is sit and run other people's lives. And I don't think Pharaoh's out there making anything. He's making laws and thinking about how to rule people. So, all that cakes and treats and stuff, you know, when you look at old history kings and queens, I'm sure, or at least you know maybe today's kids, they don't know this, but when I was in school in the 1950s and 1960s for high school, I saw pictures of the king and queen, like a king would have his foot on a foot stool and his toe would be big and sore, and that was representation of gout in the toe, and that's from a lousy bad bakery rich carbohydrate diet and so forth. So, the (intelligible) was a stroke, and Agrippa had a heart attack. All these things that were lifestyle diseases they thought were unique to the royalty because they only had them because they didn't have to work and walk and hop in bed with the sun down and hop up with the sunlight and scratch the ground and to make it grow food to survive and people were trim and healthy and active and lived a healthy um, hygiene of day and night cycles and so forth. Yeah, I remember that. Thank you for reminding me of that. God bless you. 

Question
“The doctor is calling my high creatinine 1.02 lab a stage 3 chronic kidney disease. The trend coincides with the high-intensity muscle-building class I'm taking for osteoporosis, as well as recommended protein.”  [0:39:55]

Answer
God help us. In my humble opinion, I have to tell you, just to let you know, when everyone was far healthier, in the 1970s, and I took care of people on active duty in the 1970s. And in the 1970s, when I started in the military and medicine and healthcare, you know, there wasn't a McDonald's and Wendy's and IHOP, In-N-Out, and then all these places, you know, they just didn't exist. The gas stations didn't have food. Maybe, maybe they had a soda pop. But there were no fast foods in the schools. Everyone brought brown bag lunches. And so, when I did the labs on these healthy men and young men, because I was taking care of from generals all the way down to the private, their creatinine was called normal at 1.7. So, were we stupid, dumb doctors back then? Were we stupid, dumb doctors? No. No. We had the healthiest people with the lowest chronic metabolic diseases. No, our diet today and our lousy medical system are lowering the thresholds, and they just need more referrals to the urologists and nephrologists. This 1.02 is ridiculous. 

Stage 3, I think you had your question in here also, that's for a glomerular filtration rate of 59 to 30, 30 to 59 on the glomerular filtration rate of urine produced per hour. And again, these are estimations. So, if there's any serious disease concern, you should have a 24-hour urine collection and creatine count on that, total proteins, and then look at it that way. But I'm going to tell you, I wouldn't waste your time on that because a creatinine of 1.02 is fine. I don't know how old you are, I don't know what other medical conditions you have, if you have high blood pressure, and a history of high blood pressure can promote kidney disease, but based on the creatinine alone, you're fine. So, I wouldn't worry about it. Get a second opinion. And stage 3 is basically mild to moderate kidney age-related, because all of us will eventually die. One of the common things we start seeing is the little capillaries and the glomeruli in the kidney. Those little blood flow areas become aged and broken down. Usually, chelation therapy, in fact, Dr. Lynn has published a nephrologist’s use of EDTA chelation therapy on chronic kidney disease and has just stopped the continued loss of kidney function because EDTA chelation therapy improves microcirculation all over the body, including the kidney, and has taken many patients with chronic kidney disease and has just saved their lives. And he published that over and over again with human studies in the New England Journal of Medicine. So, you have to go look those up, but YouTube on that, if you type in on YouTube ‘Chelation Therapy Data Review and Development, Dr. Merritt, and you look around, well, watch the whole thing. You'll see she spends many minutes on chronic kidney disease and how EDTA chelation therapy improves the circulation, just like it improves it to the heart or to a leg where you're going to lose your toe or your foot from gangrene, it improves the circulation. So, don't worry about your 1.02 creatinine. Get a second opinion, and let us know how that goes. Get a good functional doctor to watch that with you. 

And then she said, “The trend coincides with the high-intensity muscle-building class I'm taking for osteoporosis, as well as recommended protein.”  - I don't think it's related at all, but you know, I'm not seeing you. But all I can say is, I will never call a creatinine of 1.02 high at all. 

Question
“Hi Dr E., I am still recovering from interarticular distal radius. I have minimal swelling in my right hand and do physical therapy 2x a week. The hand is still stiff in the mornings after 3 months. I take Vascuzyme. Can I do the labs if I am still healing? Will inflammation be elevated?”  [0:46:48]

Answer
Yes, absolutely, because we need to see u the degree of inflammation, and we need to look at alkaline phosphatase, the bone enzyme, to make sure it's all normal by now. Well, that's why we need to do the lab. So, get the lab done fasting, using your enzymes, plenty of water, low carb, and avoiding wheat and grains. Yeah. 

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“My 11-year-old daughter has had chronic ear infections. Now, she has a hole in her eardrum 1/3 the size that won’t close. Her health has been very poor for the past 9 months (after multiple antibiotics to treat her ear infections), with elevated ANA markers and other poor labs. She is having surgery to close the hole. Can she avoid IV antibiotics?”  [0:47:48]

Answer
Those are non-specific and often come up with just inflammation and some other poor labs. I wouldn't stick my nose into that. If she's having that much trouble, she has to have the surgeon and the Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist manage her, but she needs, in the meantime, to have high-dose probiotics. I would buy Ortho Molecular’s Probiotic 225 powder. These are little packets. You can mix it into some yogurt, cottage cheese, or applesauce and have her take one a day when they start those high-dose antibiotics. That'll last for two weeks, you know, a day before the surgery and two weeks afterwards. Then you'll be finished with one box. Then I would get the Ortho Molecular Probiotic capsules and take one a day. There are 60 in a jar. So, that would last for two months. And I would probably then go to the regular Probiotic. So, you're tapering from the high 225-billion down to the 100-billion capsule, down to the regular maintenance Ortho Biotic Probiotic, and I would take that every day. 

In the meantime, I would find a functional doctor and have her complete a digestive stool done, so we can look at the type of flora there, how much damage was done, and how much inflammation. And of course, put her on a good lifestyle diet, which is low carb, and explain to her that everything she eats is going to affect her immune system to her ear. And you have to model it too. So, you have to get anything that is commercial out of the house and just eat real food, real cooked meat, fish, chicken, pork, and cooked vegetables. I wouldn't even eat any fruit. That's such a high fructose issue, a strain on the immune system. Remember, sugar, carbohydrates, and glucose suppress the immune system. Get her insulin level, get her glucose level, get her hemoglobin A1C, sticky sugar to protein level, and get her triglyceride on a lipid profile. And if you multiply her fasting blood sugar glucose times her fasting insulin, and divide that by 405, if that number is higher than 1, your daughter is already insulin-resistant and having metabolic disease start, ruining her immune system. So, you have to get a good pediatrician, find a good functional doctor who will do that, and check that out. I would make sure she's taking a high vitamin multi-mineral zinc. She's 11 years old. She could easily take the TLC Multi Min, very safe, clinically proven. Three a day to get her zinc levels up. Then I would have her take the vitamin D 5,000 once a day. And then I would have her take the systemic enzymes for inflammation and pain, so that'll go down, keep her out of the water, and water out of her hair. Don't wash her hair or let her get her head under water. And probably, I don't know if you live near a doctor who could do IV vitamin C that'll boost her immune system up, or at least take oral vitamin C every day with plenty of healthy proteins. Don't eat late at night. Exercise. Get sunshine. Try to find a good functional doctor. But no, you'll have to follow the surgeon and the Ear, Nose, and Throat for the treatment and the surgery and the antibiotics, but at least you have a pathway to get yourself through it, plus a complete digestive stool analysis to check the bowel where she's at right now. And then we can check it next year and see if she healed throughout all this. 

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“I am 73. Blood pressure is fine.”  [0:52:39]

Answer
So, on the creatinine. Okay, good. So, find a good functional doctor who will help you on that and not frighten you. And watch that video and pay special attention to the chelation. And there are two slides she spends about 10 minutes, maybe five minutes talking about chronic kidney disease and how chelation therapy really, really, really helps that. 

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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My dad is 67. Liver and kidney disease. What do you recommend to help? He's going downhill fast. Thank you.”  [0:53:17]

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Well, I don't know what he looks like, his weight, or what his background is. He has to have a good doctor functionally to come alongside his regular internist or family doctor to see if things like EDTA chelation therapy will improve his circulation right away, improve kidney function. You have to put him on this healthy diet, which is eating in a 4 to 6-hour window, preferably between 7:00 or 8:00 and 1:00, 8:00 and 2:00, something like that. And then high protein, use digestive enzymes, systemic enzymes. I would take vitamin D. And whenever you start this vitamin D, and on the 11-year-old as well, I would recommend getting blood testing to see what these levels are, inflammation levels like sed rate, hs-CRP within, you know, two to three months later to see what they're looking like and what levels we achieved with vitamin D. We like vitamin D levels at around the 80-mark. But that's the direction you would have to go with your dad, and he would have to start exercising, going to the gym, and sitting on some of the machines and pushing the weight away from his chest and pulling the hand straps for his back muscles, pulling down, pushing the leg away, pulling the leg back, leg extension, flexion, maybe some leg presses. You’ve got to get him moving, and you’ve got to get them on a stationary bike or walking, and you have to give him digestive enzymes when he eats, and never eat past 3:00. Find a good functional doctor and work alongside your internist and your family doctor, whatever he's doing. The best I can suggest. 

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“What are your thoughts on oral oil pulling with MCT/coconut oil?”  [0:55:16]

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I don't think we need to do that. I don't think we need to take these medium-chain triglycerides or coconut oil products. I've never recommended them. I've never pushed them. There was a big craze about this called bulletproof coffee and adding medium-chain triglycerides to it, and I just don't think we need this. I think a healthy lifestyle is with real food and these exotic isolated types of fats that are not endemic to where we live. God didn't mean for you to have to rely on something that you could never have gotten 150 years ago. Who could have gotten coconut oil 150 years ago? Just couldn't happen. So, no, I don't think you need it. 

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“Hi, Dr. E. What are your thoughts regarding the use of any statin for someone who has had a previous non-STEMI heart attack? I know you're not in favor generally of using them (We do all the other things you recommend and are just wondering about the use of a low-dose statin for someone with a previous + cardiac history). Thank you!”  [0:56:24]

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I will have to say, there is an exception for the use of statins in men who have had their first heart attack because statins have another side effect, and that's an anti-inflammatory effect. Now, do you need a statin that can create CoQ10 deficiency from the Lipitor, atorvastatin, the original types to create harm on the pathway, trying to inhibit the production of cholesterol, then you wind up not having other end products down that pathway that are important for heart health, like co-enzyme Q10. I don't think you need that pathway. I don't think there is any convincing data today that stands up for its use. However, the anti-inflammatory effect has been documented, and that anti-inflammatory effect is probably one of the reasons why there's a benefit. And we can get anti-inflammatory benefits by drinking water, motion, exercise, not eating light, eating a low-carb diet, throwing away the glyphosated, genetically modified grains and high-fructose corn syrup and soda pop and alcohol, things like that, getting a good night's sleep. So, why would I take a drug when I have other things I could do, and I could use systemic enzymes, which are far safer and have greater benefit and lower inflammation? 

Now, there is a new treatment medication for lowering cholesterol. It's ezetimibe, Zetia is the trade name for it, and it works on a different pathway than messing up the co-enzyme reductase pathway for making cholesterol, and this is blocking receptors for this. So, that is associated with fewer bad side effects, ezetimibe, and a very good reduction of the LDL total cholesterol levels. So, even ezetimibe would probably be the better choice. And yes, there is a very small fraction where there may be a benefit in men who have had their first heart attack with a cholesterol drug. But there's a very good YouTube video called ‘High Cholesterol is Healthy’ by Dr. Ken Berry and David Diamond, PhD. Watch that. 

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“Does estradiol help to facilitate healthier cholesterol levels? Also, Ortho Molecular has several recommended products to address high cholesterol. Do you recommend taking them all at once (assuming no negative reactions) or applying a strategy for adding them one at a time over a course of months?”  [1:00:05]

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The answer is that estradiol has been associated with heart health because the loss of estradiol is associated with the rapid onset of the same heart disease, ischemic heart attack risk in men. Once a woman goes into menopause and loses the estradiol, is this actually through a cholesterol-lowering effect? I don't think so, but that's what has been suggested. 

Ortho Molecular has several products to address high cholesterol. Do you recommend taking them?” – No, none of them. I don't recommend any of them.