YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, April 7, 2026

Question
“Do you recommend starting hormone replacement therapy with estrogen and cycle 2 weeks on 2 weeks off with progesterone? Is the progesterone in pill form? Then would you add testosterone if needed later on, added to the estrogen?”  [0:07:28]

Answer
That's what I personally do. I'm on continuous estradiol, and I cycle the first two weeks of the month on with my progesterone cream, and then I have two weeks off. What I do is I start with (DHEA) Dehydroepiandrosterone, and I'll give it to the patient, and then I'll ask them to do a lab, because we always check the lab within two to three months after starting something or adjusting something, to see what the new lab level is. With that, then as the DHEA level goes up, and remember your lab sheets are going to look at your age and your sex, and they're going to estimate the average American population, which is the sickest chronically metabolically diseased population in the world. You guys are being compared as a group. But when you are individually trying to lift yourself out of that, your lab numbers are going to be on the reference scale compared with all the sick people. So, all the DHEA readings will be reported on labs as high. And that's not right. If they did a DHEA level on a teenager back in the 1970s, and I go back to the 70s because that's when they were healthier, they didn't have as much junk food, drugs, radiation, heavy metal pollution, all that glyphosate modified foods, these teenagers would have a DHEA level of 500 to 800 range as 18 to 24, 25. And so, that's the optimal building level for DHEA. So, I try to keep my DHEA levels between 500 and 700 all the time. Now, it is a precursor for testosterone. So, I have the ability, if I take DHEA, I have the enzymes to help me convert it into testosterone. So my testosterone level can go up – you know, the last time I checked it, it was 150, to help with my muscle mass. And I do work out three times a week. Physical exercise with resistance with heavy weights on the machines at the gym will really significantly stimulate your muscles, which will produce myosins, these are little fragments from exercise, and that will stimulate growth hormone, repair, and testosterone production, especially in men. So, I don't add testosterone until I first look at your DHEA level. Then I'll add the DHEA. Then I'll wait and see what its impact is in a few months. And if you're a non-converter, and I'll say maybe 20%-30% of my patients, females, don't convert their DHEA into testosterone, that's when I'll then add the testosterone in addition topically as a cream. And so, that's how I do it. 

Question
“I have 3 thick, fungus toenails. Tried everything, and I can't get rid of it. Does this mean I have fungus/mold in my body? Thank you.”  [0:11:03]

Answer
Well, we have fungus, every one of us. There isn't a human being on the planet who doesn't have fungus on their skin. Our skin is one of our largest organs, including our toenails, scalp, and nails, and this fungus is there all the time. What happens with time and age is that our tiny capillary circulation starts to get clogged up on the outer parts of the periphery and into our toes. into our legs. And that capillary bed gets clogged, the hair on your legs starts to not show up. You'll see young men, typically the healthy men of the past, who used to have nice, hairy legs. And then as the man would age, he would start losing the hair on his legs, and it would get smoother like a woman's. Why does that happen? Because the capillaries diminish, the circulation diminishes. And what we say then is that the circulation is feeding the follicles of the hair. So, if you look on your toes, you'll actually see some hair on your big toe on the skin portion before you get to the nail bed, and sometimes you'll see it on the other four longer toes. But at least you'll see a hair or two on your big toe, especially in men. And when we don't see that, we know that there is circulation, gradual compromise from the tiniest little capillaries, the one cell diameter thick passage. What that means is that the fungus that's always there, if you get some microscopic drying, scratch, or irritation, then the immune system can't heal it as well. If you eat a high-carb diet, which we typically all do, the blood sugars go up, and the yeast, mold, and fungus levels rise, and they feed off of this higher carb diet and the dead cells of skin and keratin, and it piles up. So, it's an aging phenomenon. So, unless you work on getting rid of aging, then we're going to say, what we want to ask is you to eat a low carb diet, to do weightlifting to use your big muscle mass to help burn down your blood sugar, probably do IV EDTA chelation therapy, probably make sure your toes, especially here in California, are open-toed shoes and that you don't sleep with socks or anything on. Try to get your sunshine on your feet every day. The ultraviolet light will be very good. And then do some EDTA chelation IVs to improve the microcirculation. Take systemic enzymes to make sure your hs-CRP and your sedimentation rate are down. Check your fasting insulin. Check your fasting blood sugar, your hemoglobin A1C, and your triglyceride levels. And they should be low. Your fasting blood sugar, we aim for 85 or less on your blood sugar glucose. The insulin, we aim for 4 to 3 on your fasting insulin. The hemoglobin A1C, we ask you to try and get it down to the sticky blood sugar to the hemoglobin protein, 5.3, 5.2, or lower. And we ask for the triglycerides to be near 50 or lower. Then the fungal growth in your body greatly diminishes. You know, it takes about a year to grow out a toenail. And so if you do that, one of the topical things that we like to do is put Argentyn silver, a drop of it, on this toenail at night, every night, and a drop of rubbing alcohol, typical rubbing alcohol, to get the water desiccated and dry it out. And then over the course of a year, that should handle it if you get your doctor to check your blood sugar, insulin, triglyceride, hemoglobin A1C, and look at these levels. Now, there are antifungal, more serious treatments that you can take that have a higher risk for liver damage and so forth, but I would live a healthier lifestyle and get all the other health benefits, including the gradual healing of toenails that tends to happen. So, that's what I would say. 

Question
“My biochemistry professor said that niacin deficiency can cause schizophrenia (along with skin rashes). Have you heard of this before?”  [0:16:06]

Answer
Absolutely. That's old, old, old data. You know, part of the B vitamins, of which niacin is one of them, the pellagra, they used to think that they were mentally diseased, but they had dementia, they had a skin rash, and diarrhea. The three Ds - Dementia, Diarrhea, and Dermatitis. And it was solved by giving them a B complex. And this is not taught to medical doctors. Now, you know, I haven't been through medical school since the 1970s, late 70s, and hopefully now they are starting to see this problem, and the glass ceiling has broken. And we, doctors, who have been looking at lifestyle, nutrition, IV hydration with vitamin C boosts and EDTA chelation to enhance microcirculation and pull out heavy metals, detoxing, now we are no longer considered fringe or quacks. Instead, we're now considered forward-thinking marvels, I guess. But we aren't marvels. We're just blessed. I'm standing on the shoulders of my father in food research. Of course, my God, who is the creator of our bodies. But you know, I was raised in the nutrient world, and I saw the lack in my medical school training. So, I was able to easily report back to my dad, who used to work at Armour Food Research, about how dismal the education program was. So, I had to do my own reading. There were wonderful doctors. Dr. Abram, who is the psychiatrist who came up with… I can't think of the name. This was back in the 70s. Well, back then, it was called alternative medicine, complementary medicine, but this was a term for metabolic mental health management. Anyway, you can read his book, Abrams on schizophrenia, and things like that, and you'll see he had great success. But he was marginalized. But I read his book, and then I did another doctorate in integrative medicine in the 1990s after I got off of active duty serving, and then worked with Whitaker Wellness, and then some of the great men, Omera on energy from Japan, and Klinghardt from Germany, on a lot of the wonderful German foundational energy medicine. So, I've been taught by so many wonderful men. It's just a blessing to have seen all these wonderful things. 

So, yes, keep on studying, keep on doing what is right, and God will bless your efforts. Don't look for YouTube fame. Don't look for wealth. Look for success with your patients, and try to be wealthy and healthy. That should be your goal, and that's reward enough in itself. I can't tell you how many of my colleagues might be dead by now, and/or they're all retiring, they're so fed up with medicine, they see the sellout and how they compromise just to take home a higher paycheck than their neighbor. Whereas, those doctors who hung in there and did the natural integrative chelation, some of it was dangerous, in the sense that you were always worried that you were odd and that you didn't want to do anything that your local medical board would consider fringe. Sometimes you had to move to a different state where they would allow EDTA chelation therapy, vitamin C therapy, these things. You had to learn how to identify the codes and what would be considered a lawful reason to help people with these nutritive boosts, and then document their improvement, and also document their longevity. So, please stay in the field, keep on pursuing it, and have that joy in your heart when you go to bed at night that you're making a difference. Each person is valuable. Yeah. So use it. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., on keto/carnivore, would you eat the fat on a ribeye steak? Also, any advice to gain weight on keto/carnivore? I find that I lost weight, and I’m already thin. Thank you!”  [0:21:18]

Answer
Absolutely, I would. Yes, I most definitely would. I also eat some of the gristle because I want that collagen, the extra collagen, then I take my digestive enzyme. Remember, each gram of fat is 9 kilocalories or 9 calories per gram. Each gram of carbohydrate is 4 grams, and each gram of protein is 4. So, the thing you need to do is up the load of fat in your diet. You'll see, we went to a restaurant for Easter Sunday breakfast, and I went to Denny's, and I had the steak and eggs. I didn't take the hash fries or the toast, but I let them give me for the treat on Easter Sunday the two side buttermilk pancakes. And then I asked the waitress to give me extra, extra, extra butter, which means three butters. And she brought them, and I buttered my scrambled eggs, and I buttered my steak, and I super-duper buttered those two little pancakes, which I called a holiday treat. And I ate the steak first, then the eggs. So the order in which you eat. So I primed my body with this fat messaging, so my gallbladder would secrete the bile and the enzymes signaling pathways. And then when I finally ate some of the little side of the two buttermilk pancakes with all that butter on it, then I didn't have as much of a spike in the sugar from it. And of course, I went on a long walk, miles of walking, and I did my heavy lifting, and I heavy lifted Monday as well, yesterday, and walked today. So, I walk miles every week and my heavy workout with weights at the gym, an hour three times a week. And I don't eat past 3 o’clock or 4;00 the latest, and I stick with my primary eating in a 4-hour window, between noon, 11:00, and 3 to 4 PM, and that's how I'm able to keep my blood sugars and all those things in the ranges I told you about. So, that is what I do to tell you to hold on to weight by getting the higher caloric fat in your diet whenever you can. So, yeah, eat the fat whenever you can. 

What else can you do? Take creatine, creatine powder. We have creatine here that is a vetted Ortho Molecular product, and I'll use 5 to 10 grams a day, a scoop in my water. And I usually put a scoop in my yogurt. So that helps with muscle mass and volume. And you get more extracted from eating earlier in the day than you do late in the day. So, if you would not eat late in the day, if you would really try, if you're over 60, not to eat really past mid-afternoon, that helps. Make sure you're not over-exercising. I do the heavy lifting three times a week, which builds and maintains my muscle mass. I eat a very high-protein diet. And that's what I would suggest. Now, I'm not against taking a walk after you take a carb. Let's say you have some yams, or let's say once in a while you're having cauliflower, or you're having fruits in the form of berries with maybe some heavy whipping cream on it. Those are very good ways to keep your calories up with whole foods, but I would try to buy organic grass-fed and raw dairy. Hopefully, that will help you. 

Question
“My doctor said I missed the cut-off for starting hormone replacement therapy, which she said is 60. I’m 65. Is it too late for me to start now?”  [0:25:48]

Answer
No. No. No, that's just a bunch of talk. That's another fad going through. I have started women on hormones in their 80s on it easily. I started caring for my mother when she moved in with me after having her stroke. I think she was like 84, 85. Yeah. And when I did that, some of her connectiveness and her awareness were improved. Yeah. So, no, this is foolishness. Now, part of the reason I think they say that is that it becomes hard to distinguish the impact of hormones from the normal expected life expectancy of a woman, which is now dropping since that so-called COVID crisis they created in 2000 and so forth, and their so-called vaccine. We've had an increased explosion in the actuarial calculations of the life insurance claims for so many deaths. So high, since 2021 through 2025, it’s been up so high. It's a once in like more than a 200-year event experience. Now, you don't say that any other thing changed then, you know, the activity of making that injection available. And the life expectancy, therefore, cumulatively with all of that, mostly the deaths were between the ages of 20 and 64, the most productive years, we saw this boost of deaths actuarially on the life expectancy insurance companies. And that brought down the life expectancy average for men and women. I think women used to be almost close to 84. Now, I think it's down to 80 or 79, and men have dropped to 76 or something like that. 

And then what are you going to say if you start natural hormone therapy and you're already 70, and then you find out you have a cancer of the colon or you have lung cancer found or a lymphoma, and then you started hormones three years before that, and you're now 76 or 78? Nobody wants to talk about it. But I'll tell you, I'd rather have quality of life up to my last day of living. Therefore, there isn't a good, clean study as there are so many confounding factors in their statements and research. There's a wonderful YouTube video, if you go on YouTube and type in FDA Expert Witness On Hormone Replacement Therapy. Now, you'll hear them bashing the old dogma that hormones are dangerous, and you shouldn't give hormones, and yes, they do, and thank God, the glass ceiling has broken. But even those people are not bold enough to say, if you're older, you have to realize there is an end for all of us, and the age has dropped for the expected life expectancy ranges. So, who wants to start something, and then maybe the family member will say, if you had not started hormones, my mother would be alive another year or so with her cancer. Well, there's no data to support that argument. I would rather have a calmer, happier, less bone density fractures, better sleep, better immune system, better memory, better socializing, better immune system with hormones, better cardiovascular with hormones in my mother, and that's what my mom was able to have, and it was a blessing to see her revive a bit before she passed. So, no, I start women past 65 all the time. 

Question
“As an osteopath, what kind of mattress do you recommend for good spinal alignment (i.e., memory foam, latex, hybrid, etc.)?”  [0:30:45]

Answer
I currently have a hybrid form, and I have the kind of bed that raises up automatically, the head or both the legs can raise, and the back can raise up, because I always make myself sleep at a 15- to 20-degree head elevation angle. I try to sleep on my back rather than be a side sleeper, either left or right. And I try to think, should I wake up or stir? I try to recall something wonderful to think about, something to praise, and then I just keep on thinking every different way some wonderful thing happened, like I think about the day my child was born, each son, or something joyous to your heart, and those happy thoughts help me get my brain waves into a level and a calmness of my parasympathetic system, so I can fall back into sleep. And that's what I use. And then, yeah, you thought I was an osteopath. No, I was trained as a standard allopathic medical physician, but you know, who cares about labels? Let's care about outcomes and let's care about availability and reproducibility. If you're always having doctors coming and going from these big Kaiser, Hogue, Providence Medical, St. Joe's scenarios, it’s so saddening. You know, I was just thinking today as I was doing all my labs today, I would see a name, and then I would pause, and that patient's image would come into my mind, and I could see their face. I would say the vast majority of my patients, when I see the name, I can see their face. And so, it's like thinking of your cousin or your aunt or your sister – well, not your sister. You should know the face of your sister, but you should be able to, like family, recall their face. And so, it just helps you so much better when you're thinking, "Oh, I know them." And that helps you understand what they're doing, and they're like, and most of what they're suffering, or their limitations, or their advantages are. And when you look at their lab, you put it in that context, as opposed to someone who doesn't know you, you are just a name, just an age, just a weight, just a blood pressure reading, and they go da-da-da-da-da-da, and that's who you are. Instead, I get to see all these people being here now, a quarter century here in this place, and well, I'm 45 years working as a doctor. But I'm about close to a half-century of clinical medical care with patients if you include the start of medical school. So, there you go. Yes, I do not care what a title is for – osteopath, medical doctor, naturopath. I do think you should have proof that you've been lawfully tested and have gone through some basic training. But the good doctors are the ones who stay students all their lives, and they always stay accessible to their patients in one area most of the time. Now, there are some doctors that have to do research and they have to fly or travel around like some of those doctors did when I did my second doctorate, and I was so grateful they took time from China and from Japan and from Germany and other locations of Africa to teach us doctors in Washington, DC about the world's ancient ways and alternative methodologies. 

Question
“Hi Dr Rita, my kids and I are sick. Vomiting, diarrhea, nauseous. What can I do to help? Thank you.”  [0:35:13]

Answer
I would stop eating anything, not eat anything at all for 24 hours. I would use chicken broth, just the pure liquid, no noodles in it or rice. And I would use the chicken broth, beef broth, and I would take ginger ale, the real ginger ale that has sugar in it, and mix it half and half with water, and that way you'll be getting your salt, and you'll be getting the glucose in the ginger ale. Plus, the ginger itself is an herb that is calming to the stomach. Give your gut one day, 24 hours, of rest. And then the next day, when you add in some food, the food that I would add in would be applesauce and probably a banana. And then, if that was tolerated and there was no diarrhea in eight hours, then I would go to a regular diet. But that's how I would do it. But if that doesn't help or if there's high fevers, I would go to your local doctor or your urgent care and have someone see you. But in general, whenever I get sick, or someone starts getting nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and they don't have high fevers, and they're not delirious or acting silly, they're well hydrated, then I just give their gut a rest with the broth and with the glucose and ginger ale mixed with water for 24 hours. Then I'll use applesauce and bananas for their first meal, and then I'll advance it to a regular diet, if they can handle that. 

Question
“How can I find an EDTA Chelation therapy doctor in Arizona? Thank you!”  [0:37:37]

Answer
Yeah. Well, that's where my parents lived, in Tucson, Arizona. And so, there are many doctors who do that. If you go to ACAM, that's the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, ACAM.org, and there, it'll have a find a physician locator. I used to be on the board for ACAM, and we taught the doctors how to get certified and learn that EDTA chelation is quite safe. We used it to save the lives of children. When I was in Chicago in medical school, we still had lead-based paint; it hadn't been banned, and the children chewed on it, and they would get lead intoxicated and die as toddlers. And we saved their lives by giving them an IV of EDTA chelation. So, it's very safe. I've never had a problem. I saw my grandfather chelated when I was 7 years old. So, that would be I have 65 years, I have 65 years of experience around people with EDTA chelation. It's very, very, very safe and very life-giving and very detoxing and very circulation-promoting. So, go to ACAM.org and then put in your zip code in Arizona, and you'll find one. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., I thought I’d share this paper that I came across that shows higher meat consumption benefits cognitive health. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2846712. Thank you!”  [0:39:18]

Answer
Yes, that's true. ‘Meat consumption and cognitive health by APOE Genotype’. And this was by Jakob Norgren, PhD, Adrian Carballo-Casla, PhD, Giulia Grande, MD, PhD, et al. He gave the link, so I copied it out. I got the paper right here. And so I went through the paper. I didn't read it in detail because I got it in the last half hour. And essentially, what the study was, it was done; they recruited their patients in Sweden roughly 2004-2005. They got around 2100, 2200 patients in it. I would say 60 percent were women. The other were men, and some of them had the APOE4, APOE3 allele. You know, you get one from your dad, one from your mom, of the two gene types. If you get both APOE4, that's the worst prognostically for having dementia. If you get APOE3 and 4, it's less associated with the expression of dementia. And then if you get the APOE2 allele, then it usually is mitigating and not as predictive of it. But if you have both APOE4, you have anywhere from 10 to 15 times higher risk. But everything is higher risk. If you drive with thin tires, how many of you measure the thickness of your tire age and rims for the grooves in it, your risk for getting a blow-out or an accident, or so forth, and you still go on the highway? So, life is a risk here on planet Earth. And I'm not trying to downplay research and finding APOE as a problem, but in fact, the results of this study, trying to answer for lifestyle, other confounding factors, their P factor for statistical significance was 0.04, which puts them well into a statistically significant study. For those in this group, they followed, and those who ate more meat had less expression in their managing equal to equal APOE4 to APOE4, whether they were non-high meat eaters versus meat eaters compared to the APOE3, APOE4, APOE2, APOE3, all the subgroups. You can get six different subgroups of the APOE3, APOE2, and APOE4 expressions genetically. So when they looked at all of them, and they handled confounding mitigating factors as best they could, they watched this over many years, I think it was 10 years they followed them, could be 15, those who went on to develop Alzheimer's were, in fact, those who ate the least amount of meat and meat-like animal products. 

And that makes sense because our brain is fat. Our cell membranes are fat. You know how I always show you that picture? Let me show you this picture here, and you can see these two layers here. If you have an injured spot, a hole in it, and then you have to fix it at night, this double layer, this is the protein, these are the phospholipid chains up and down here. This fatty layer comes from the fat you eat, which you find largely in the egg yolk, in meat and fish, and roasted chicken and the skin of the chicken, not deep fried, Kentucky Fried Chicken like, but roasted with the skin on it, in your pork, in your items like that. Your hard cheeses, your unpasteurized, unhomogenized raw dairy, are the right way to get it. The other is destroyed and all inflammatory. The brain disease called dementia/Alzheimer's is a neuroinflammatory disease. So, if you have an injury in your brain like I showed you that blown out hole in the cell membrane, and you're not eating the components that make up putting healing back into your cell to reproduce your cell structure all the way into your brain and everywhere through your body, the lining of your blood vessels so that it gets smooth, if you don't eat those fats and proteins, and instead you're just eating fiber-rich carbohydrate lectin plant sources with limited amino acid proteins. In it, harder to digest, limited in certain nutrients, certainly the vitamin B12 and many others, you are going to wind up with an inability to repair yourself the longer you live, and those areas then are going to stay holes that aren't repaired at night. You're going to wrinkle and age, your hair will start turning white, and your bones and cartilage will dry up and crack, and you'll get stiff joints and everything. And you have to eat a richer amount of meat. 

Now, I grew up as an Armour hot dog daughter. My father insisted to my mother that there was no corn oil, no shortening, no Crisco used in our family, in our house. My dad and mother yelled a lot over this. Pans were even flying through the house. Dishes broke over my dad stepping into the world of cooking and telling my mother how to cook. Oh, that was fun. But anyway, I had wonderful parents, and my dad was really ahead of his time. Dr. Hopkins, Dr. Enig, I think she's not with us anymore. None of them is. If I'm in my early 70s, then they are certainly all gone now. And they were all against this cholesterol myth that it's the cause of heart disease. And they tried to fight the McGowan Conference from 1978 to 1982 on the cause of heart disease, and they rigged it so that it would favor their lobbyists, the food industry, for the plant foods. And Dr. Enig, I think she was at Princeton University, she lost her grants because she felt that saturated fat was not the cause of heart disease. And guess what, today, now we know it's not the cause of heart disease, and the American Heart Association published it in The American Heart Association's Journal in 2015 very quietly, but they destroyed poor Dr. Enig’s grant in history. Yeah, these evil people wearing titles of nobility, that's why I don't care about MD, DO, ND, whatever you call yourself. Your patients are going to give you your title. And just when I prayed, I got my acceptance to medical school, I cried, and I cried, and I just said, I want to be a good doctor, God. I want to be a good doctor for you, take care of your people. And so, I get my degree, awarded every day when a patient comes in and says, "Thank you, Dr. Ellithorpe. I'm going to work on that, and we're going to work together on that." Then I feel like I'm doing a good thing. 

Okay. So, back to this paper, it then said, those who eat the meat, remember that's what your brain is made of, mostly fat, that's the value of it. And then there are other studies. There's a wonderful… There is a YouTube guy. He is an MD, PhD. His name is Nick Norwitz, MD, PhD. He's on YouTube. If you type in ‘APOE’, click on that into his question search engine, he has two or three updates on this about the neurodegenerative/neuroinflammatory because he's a neurosurgical specialist in his PhD. And this guy has two APOE4. So, you know, he is absolutely, as a neuro-specialist, trying to prevent his own predictive future of becoming demented with Alzheimer's. And so, this young man, what, he might be a whole 27 years old, and fortunately, the volume and data on YouTube are all available. When I was in my 20s, I was working and trying to take care of newborns and on active duty, and all I could do was read books and study and try to look up PubMed, NIH stuff, and I got a lot done. I got well into the truth. And so, the Lord said he would lead you into truth, and even medical truth for us healthcare providers, God will get you into the right pathways. So, give them the glory. But Nick Norwitz is vetted as a PhD MD to solve his own problem of having the double APOE alleles from each of his parents, and he is not worried at all. And guess what, the research shows, guess what we've been teaching all these decades here. You have to exercise, weight training, and aerobic. You have to eat a low-carb diet, the keto-carnivore type lifestyle. You have to not eat late. You have to take antioxidants, especially if you're over 60 years old. We've been on the Juice Plus primarily, and that has been the most researched and nutraceutically studied. There are other good antioxidants out there, but nothing has more research than Juice Plus, so I covered that in. And then hormones help with cognitive function. He didn't list that, but we already know that works. Why? Because they're very much part of signaling repair and reconstruction. And then the other thing would be taking something like things that's – you know, there's this fad right now about Nicotinamide Adenosine Diphosphate (NAD), and Nicotinamide Monohydrate (NMM), and there's another one out there, Nicotinamide Riboside (NR). These are precursors of (NAD) Nicotinamide Adenosine Dinucleotide, which is very important in your Krebs cycle, respiratory cycle, tricarboxylic cycle, biochemistry, organic chemistry, and for producing energy. And if you don't get enough NAD, what will help you not get enough NAD? Well, if you don't repair your cell membranes that are growing as a kid and you're just raised on junk food and carbs and sweets and treats and pizzas, if you're eating a lousy lifestyle and drinking and staying up late and getting blue light, if you don't exercise, if you drink alcohol, if you do drugs, if you have an off-cycle circadian rhythm and no sunlight. So, you know, grandma was right. You should go to bed on time, get up on time, live a routine, get that morning sunshine, drink your water, stay hydrated, eat a healthy real whole food diet, hopefully as organic and free grass, wild-caught, prairie-raised that you can, get healthy fats and meats from animal and poultry and fish and dairy, seasonal fruits, nuts and berries, and don't eat late. All these things have been translated into dropping the inflammation of your brain, so you don't get neurofibrillary tangles, tau proteins made, and irritate your brain microglial cells. The microglial cells that are embedded in your brain are the immune cells of the brain. And if they get inflamed with heavy metal toxins with a leaky blood-brain barrier from pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, heavy metals, glyphosates, high sugar, hyperinsulinemia, poor blood flow, hypoxia, these microglia get inflamed and angry, inflammatory molecules are produced, the membrane permeability that's supposed to protect your brain gets broken down, and the pollution gets more inflamed, and then you start making these tau proteins, neuro-fibrillatory tangles, and you get dementia associated. 

Now, that's not 100%. We have people who have moved into this area, and they can see these neurofibrillatory tangles, and they then start changing their lifestyle. And I've had a man who owned a company and his wife, and he was told he has Alzheimer's. He was put on the Aricept drug. He was told to shut down his company and/or give it to family, because he couldn't do it anymore. He came to me. We did all these things. He went on a ketogenic carnivore diet, he exercised, he became a super hiker, and he hydrated. I made sure his male hormone testosterone was up there. We put him on Juice Plus. We put him on vitamin D. We put him on a B complex methylated so he could get that niacin to help him make and have adequate B vitamin production, tryptophan-rich to make his NAD, tyrosine-rich in his high protein diet. Anyway, those are the things. Then we gave him systemic enzymes to bring his inflammation down. And he was able to get off his Aricept, didn't have to quit his company. His neurologist eventually stopped seeing him, and the neurologist never called me. Now, this is like 23 years ago. And back then, we hadn't broken the glass ceiling yet in natural ways to help people in any area. So, we, old general practitioners, see everything and start to try to mend everything. Now, if we can't do something, or we see improvement, or we don't know something, we have to refer to a specialist. But if we have more general practitioners who are better trained, we can help the vast majority. And better than that, we can help prevent the next generation from ever getting into the problem as much, and the need for specialists will greatly diminish. And I tell you, most of my colleagues have gone into specialization because they can't handle the work and research it takes to just stay informed on all the areas of health. So, they pick a tiny area to stay responsible for, and they just don't want to hear about any of your other complaints. Go see this, or go see someone else, is basically what they'll say. 

So, there are many things you can do for that. One of the interesting things is that just as much as you want to make Nicotinamide Adenosine Dinucleotide (NAD), NMN helps you with that. That's a supplement you could buy, 500 to 600 mg a day. We know it does help you make more NAD, which will help your cognitive function. But you’ve got to do it with all these lifestyle things – Low carbs, exercise, good and day-night sleep cycles, don't eat late, some good antioxidant nutrients. But the other thing is blocking the enzyme that chews up NAD, and one of the things that does that is quercetin. And I've been taking quercetin all my life. So, red onions are rich in quercetin. Capers, if you like capers as seasons, that's rich. But just lots of red onions, they're good for you in a thousand ways. And then just take quercetin 500 mg a day. So, by rote, by the glory of God, by His grace, God has led me 40-45 years prior into a lifestyle that has helped me not to have to dye my hair, get joint replacements, need anything for pain because I have no pain anywhere. I could work out. I can lift my grandchildren. I can do all these wonderful things. I believe I really have, at 72, 73 years old, easily another 20 years that I can work full-time as a doctor. And that is all God, that is his glory. 

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“My friend’s son had inoperable, metastatic, aggressive brain cancer at 4 years old. He went through multiple rounds of heavy chemo, three stem cell transplants, and full brain and spine proton radiation. Now, 16 years later, the damaging long-term side effects continue - most recently, he is making almost no adult growth hormones and was diagnosed with osteoporosis. We are looking for ways to help him gain back bone density, increase growth hormones, improve brain functioning, and strengthen his immune system.”  [0:58:18]

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Well, I would ask you to find a functional doctor who can take them on. We’ll certainly help with our long decades of experience. I'm very familiar with managing alongside the oncologist with brain cancer patients. We've had great success. So, you can give us a call if they live nearby or have him find a good functional medicine doctor where he’s at, alongside his routine doctor and his oncologists, endocrinologists. But yeah, we can give him some immune support, nutritive support, detoxing support. 

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“My daughter ended up having a C-section, and she has endometriosis. Is it safe for her to start taking Vitalzym if she is nursing? And if so, how much, and any other advice on what to do to keep that endometriosis monster away because she’d like to have another baby as soon as it’s safe to, after her baby was born with a hemangioma that is being treated.”  [0:59:37]

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Is it safe for her to start taking Vitalzym? Yes. You know, the standard amount, I would take three Vitalzym on an empty stomach once a day. 

Well, congratulations. And I bet you the baby's going to be fine. I don't know, somewhere in the realm of, I don't know, 2 to 12% of babies have hemangiomas. It's very common. And usually they're manageable. There are all kinds of ways. As we get older, we might see our skin. When you look at your skin as an older person, you'll start seeing these red moles; they'll just pop up. That's a little cherry angioma, and that's a little cluster of blood vessels. When you're born with it, I've even seen treatment – remember, blood vessels have receptors we use for high blood pressure, beta-blockers, alpha-blockers, calcium channel blockers, and propranolol has been used successfully and has made these hemangiomas go away over like six months to a year naturally on the face. They can laser them, or they can surgically remove them. So, it's really not that bad. 

Now, regarding endometriosis, a ketogenic carnivore diet is the key to this, and using natural progesterone, and checking her insulin, fasting blood sugar, triglycerides, hemoglobin, and A1C. Do weight training, exercise, don't eat late, and clean herself up metabolically. Those are the directions I would go for her. And get on progesterone checking or use the progesterone when her period comes back. If she's breastfeeding, her menstrual cycle will be suppressed, and she won't be ovulating. I would encourage her to use, two weeks out of the month, some progesterone cream because that blocks the estradiol-dominant effect. Now, when her menstrual cycle starts, I would use the progesterone from day 15 of her cycle to day 25. So, 10 days out of each month, when she has a menstrual cycle, starting on day 15 for the first day of our menstrual cycle. 15 days later, you rub on some progesterone cream, 100 mg per click or so, and then rub that on your inner wrist like that for 10 nights in a row, and that will make sure that the estrogen is blocked from growing it, the insulin, with a low carb diet, will stop the stimulation to grow the endometriosis and so forth. So, that should help. 

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“Is that why there are studies showing people with higher cholesterol live longer?”  [1:03:14]

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Absolutely. You're thinking with a critical mind. You're not just a high IQ given data. You study it, memorize it, and you spit it back to the person who is controlled by the medical training. You are someone who is taking data, packaging and weighing, and doing critical analysis of it. Yeah, high cholesterol was always associated with health. 

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“I bought some EDTA for a detox, but I need to know how much to take and when, plus, should it be taken with my other usual supplements. Thank you.”  [1:03:48]

Answer
Well, oral EDTA is very poorly sorbed. So I'm not going to say it's probably going to harm you, I'm just going to say it's probably not going to be a big help. So, whatever food or things you're eating, the heavy metals and the chemtrails are landing on the sea and the land and the animals eat it and the fish get it and then it's a heavy metal toxic in our whole world because of those silly chemtrails with aluminum oxide, barium oxide, strontium oxides, and they're landing, it's making the forest hyper-burnable because those are accelerants, and we eat them and in the food. So, if you take it orally, it's going to help chelate what's in your food, but with what you already have in you, it's not really going to touch. So, there really is no guideline on the oral dosing. Well, I really don't know what the range is. It's been so long because I never recommend it. Find a doctor who will give you EDTA chelation intravenously, which makes the difference. Or find a doctor who has a compounding pharmacist where he can get it as a suppository with at least 1,500 mg in the suppository and put that up your butt three times a week, and it's absorbed through the rectal area, where water is absorbed before you're pooping out, so it dries up into a sausage so it doesn't leak out. The gut has the water sucked out in the last part of your sigmoid and rectal area. So, EDTA is water-soluble, so it's absorbed in a suppository, far, far more useful in the enterohepatic cycle that way, and will be more effective than oral. But you could do the oral at the same time, but I know suppositories at least are better than oral, and the best is IV. 

Question
“Have you heard if there is graphene oxide in the Novocaine dental numbing shots? Or it might have the mRNA in it also... If so, is there anything to nullify its bad impact?”  [1:05:50]

Answer
Oh, I don't know about that. I'll have to ask. Let me write myself the question. You guys keep me on my toes. Graphene oxide in the dental. Well, you come next week at 6 to 7, and I'll hopefully have the answer for you. 

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“A friend has ALS and took 3 mRNA shots too. Any advice for him? The friend’s ALS was due to Agent Orange in the Vietnam War.”  [1:06:37]

Answer
Yeah, he needs to get chelated, and he needs to see a functional doctor as soon as possible.