YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, August 4, 2026

Question
“What are your thoughts/recommendations on school-required vaccinations? I know that in California the only way around it is through a medical exemption, and that seems difficult to get. My grandson is 4 years old and has undiagnosed ADHD. He has had all the shots that Western medicine suggests already (which are too many!). Thank you, Dr. E.”  [0:04:40]

Answer
Well, number one, I would read the book called Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries, a medical doctor. The book is called Dissolving Illusions. And she goes through the entire history of vaccinations since the late 1700s to the present. And she lays out the most detailed, footnoted documentary and a several hundred-page book with graphs and all on the actual fact that these are not scientifically documented with peer-reviewed research, with controlled studies. Not one study, nor did any of the studies follow the law from 1986 that President Reagan signed, called the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act. Now, remember, it's the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act because even the title of the law in 1986 says there's injury risk involved. This also set up the private court system for separate management of vaccine injuries, of which multiple billions of dollars have been paid out. So, in that law in 1986, the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986, the requirement for these companies to get indemnity from being sued, being liable for injuring human beings, is why they made the law, because so many injuries were occurring. I was alive in 1976 when the flu vaccine came out, and many, many people had neurological injuries, paralysis, and deaths. And I think there was something like, I don't know, 40 deaths, a small relative number, although every death is precious, compared to the tens of thousands that were reported in the first month on the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines that were put on their system. Nevertheless, these injuries created this law in 1986, which then required them to maintain that indemnification from being liable for injury to human beings through this prescription of vaccines. They had to conduct studies every two years and present publications on ongoing studies of these vaccinations and childhood vaccinations. And 1986 is over 40 years ago. Now, many of these studies do you think any of them were ever done that were required by law every two years? None of them. None. Zero. Zip. 

So, Aaron Siri, Esquire, a lawyer for the John F. Kennedy Jr. His group was called ChildrenHealthDefense.org, Bobby F. Kennedy, who is the HHS secretary right now. His lawyer, working with them, sued the federal government, the HHS, CDC, and demanded to see if any of the lawfully required 1986 requirements for these studies on vaccinations, if they could just show one, one study, not 20, 30 of them, one because they were supposed to do it every two years, and they could not. And so, Aaron Siri, Esquire, a lawyer for Children'sHealthDefense.org, they won the case. You would think that would make major news for a private organization that sued the federal government over vaccine misinformation. Mm-Mm, didn't get popular information at all. And this has been around now for about six years or so. 

Anyway. Long the short of it is, how would I approach it today if I was asked about recommending vaccinations for children as a licensed California physician? I would have to say, I am unable to give informed consent. And for the safety of my patient, due to the failure of the FDA and CDC to comply with federal law regarding the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1984 and their inability to comply, I cannot, with assurance, recommend these at all. So, that is exactly how I would say it, and that's how I would handle it. Hopefully that's a help to you. 

Question
“Hi Dr E. What are your thoughts on Perfect Amino supplement for someone who doesn’t get enough protein from diet and has GI issues with whey protein?”  [0:12:44]

Answer
Well, exactly, that I take them, and that's why we carry them. With our experience and our many years of working with hundreds and thousands of people, we have gone through so many companies and perturbations of the various fads and nutrients out there, and it turns out the physician-generated supplements tend to be very good, with clinicians doing this. So, we use Clinicians Preference Oils; Dr. Shallenberger and Dr. Minkoff generated Perfect Aminos. I take it every day of my life. I take five to 10 a day. And I use it in the tablet form because the powdered form just doesn't taste good to me. And so, I like to just swallow the tablet down. So, it is well-studied, well clinically researched with real doctors seeing real people of all kinds of walks in life, and we see real value in u health, muscle tendon tissue repair, longevity, lean mass increase. So, I am much in favor of Perfect Aminos, yes.

Question
“What are your thoughts about a root canal versus an extraction or implant??”  [0:15:54]

Answer
It's very hard for me to endorse root canals. Now, I need to stay flexible. So, even though I'm in my 70s, I have to stay open to learning new things all the time, which means there are now articles being published in biological dentistry. So, some of the old people and organizations that I helped be involved with in their founding back in the 1970s and 60s, like Hal Huggins with Dr. Thomas Levy, popularized biological dentistry, and there was really no tolerance for any root canal. Now we're talking 50 years later, and with dentistry and some of these concerns, biological dentists today are saying maybe a large part of the reason why so many root canals in the past had become problematic is because those who were doing it were not as well-trained or equipped and we didn't have enough good science back then to understand the technique and so forth, much like in, it was around 196. See, by licensed to practice medicine, it says physician and surgeon. Well, yes, I can easily cut off little, you know, hanging toenails, and I can numb up the toe and take the toenail off, and I can do cuts and sutures and things like that, minor surgeries. But there was a time when general practitioners did everything, from gallbladder removals to delivering babies and repairing displaced bones and stuff, and there were enough problems with technique and quality of delivery without spending more time getting that general practitioner better trained in doing gallbladders or better trained in doing an appendectomy or be better trained in setting an open fracture, open reduction, internal fixation, and so forth, that specializations started. And I think the same thing with dentistry; now there are techniques with root canals, preparation work, getting high-dose vitamin C drips with chelation before and after, systemic enzymes, fasting, along with putting up dams for techniques so you don't get mercury or other pollutants absorbed. The technique today and the skills are better. So, we are seeing more successful non-post root canal cavitations than there used to be before, is what I see happening. 

So, I'm not going to say a patently overarching statement like you can't do a root canal. I'm going to say, you have to study who it is, is that all they do, and do they have the skill sets and the techniques and the 3D X-ray machines. So I am going to say, I think it depends on the skill of the dentist you're choosing to work with. So, yeah, I do have one tooth that is an implant, and that happened to me a year ago. So, I only have one year's worth of experience. I didn't want the root canal done. Subsequent to that, the second tooth that I had a problem with, they convinced me that they had such skill and my general teeth were in such a good state of being, and with my IV vitamin C, and so forth, they did the root canal, and I've had no problem. Also, I didn't take any antibiotics. I just did my high-dose vitamin C drips one or two beforehand. I went in absolutely fasting 36 hours ahead of time, and I fasted for 36 hours afterwards and did my high-dose vitamin C, and I had no trouble with that root canal whatsoever, but I did it in a specialty organization. One of my patients, her husband is an expert in doing root canals; she is a general dentist. I can't think of her name right now, but it seemed to have gone well. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., do you have any tips for airplane travel to continue all the daily supplements? It’s a lot of bottles to pack. Are there certain supplements to prioritize? Thank you!”  [0:23:00]

Answer
Yeah, I would say your vitamin D. I would double the dose the day before you go on an airplane trip and the day of the airplane trip, and then the day after the airplane trip. Then go back to your daily dose for as many days as you're out there. And then, again, the day before you get on the plane to come home, the day of the plane ride, and the day afterwards, double the dose, and then resume your routine doses. The other thing is, when I'm flying, I really don't eat. I recommend people not eat on airplane flights, and this then will help prevent blood clots. The older you get, the more likely it is that you'll have cardiovascular disease and clotting issues. The other thing I would say is stay well hydrated. Drink a lot of water. Don't drink soda drinks or diet drinks. Please just drink a lot of extra water while on plane rides. I would also take the Multiminerals for the zinc component of the immune support. I would take the B vitamin, methylated B’s for the stress component. I would recommend Juice Plus for the oxidative stress. For airplane flight, it’s like a chest X-ray, and the flight back home is like a chest X-ray. Every flight you take is about equivalent to one chest X-ray when you think of all the gamma radiation that gets through the aluminum walls of the airplane because, as you climb altitude to 30,000, 40,000 ft., the atmosphere blocks less and less because the air density gets lower and lower, and so more gamma radiation and radiation can get through and get to the airplane. That's why it's a risk, and the pilots that I have seen as patients and when I was a flight surgeon, neurological and Parkinson's diseases were an issue because they were getting so much oxidative stress. Therefore, Juice Plus is the most well-documented, with dozens upon dozens of peer-reviewed research and even studies on DNA damage reduction by using Juice Plus. So, that's the other thing. 

So, if you have your D, you have your zinc in your multimineral, your B complex for stress, and you have your systemic enzymes to prevent blood clots on an empty stomach, drinking all that water. And then, you know, I would probably take Argentyn silver. Argentyn silver is something that you could swish and swallow, squirt up your nose, so that you could get a silver anti-fungal, antibacterial, anti-viral rinse of your nasal and oral pharynx. So, those are the five things I would probably take with me if I ever travel. 

Question
“Have you seen any studies about Zeolite? What are your thoughts? Thank you, Dr. E.”  [0:26:51]

Answer
I'm going to say, yes, I have seen some many, many years ago. That's been around for many decades: zeolite to try and pull out heavy metals. Zeolite is a volcanic kind of mineral that has a hexagonal kind of structure; it's almost like a honeycomb. It's almost like the Fibonacci number, the cycle of life. And what it does is, by its orientation of those minerals that make up the volcanic ash, there is a polar attraction for cations, and all toxic metals are cation ions, positively charged, and it'll entrap them into these hexagonal volcanic ash groupings. But the problem is it doesn't pass through the blood-brain barrier or through the gut really. So, you're really just chelating what is in the gut. Now, not that that's wrong because we are getting exposure to many inferior products, exposure to toxins and heavy metals, and it lands from the dust of the air, on the ocean, gets in the fish, lands on the land, it grows up in your vegetables, the cows and chickens and pigs eat it, and we eat their flesh. So, we're getting all these toxic metals. And so, by having something in the gut, there's value to it. So, some of the studies I recall – now, we're talking 15, 20 years ago at least. I think they were still studies. And I did a study on EDTA suppositories that got me some notoriety. The National Institute of Health called me because I was able to show X-ray radiological evidence through ultrasound of the prostate on men with nocturia and prostatism, and most of them also had prostate-proven biopsy cancers of the prostate. They had a lot of calcifications in their prostate from the chronic inflammation that's usually seen before cancer will start up in any, especially glandular tissue. Well, when we gave the suppositories, which, when it goes up in your butt, it lies right over a man's prostate, we actually saw the decalcification of a lot of the prostate glandular tissue. Therefore, they were looking at ultrasound-directed mechanisms for treating benign prostatic hypertrophy to try and kind of send targeted ultrasound to heat up, damage, burn up, you might say, prostate glandular tissue. And when they learned of my work and what I was publishing, the researchers called me, and I shared all of our data- my many, many dozens and dozens of patients and our ultrasound reports. We had transrectal prostate ultrasound and blood flow evidence. Even the radiologist called and said he has never ever in his life seen tissue calcifications seem to improve undeniably. Well, I had seen this all my life because I've been doing chelation all my life, from cardiovascular arterial calcifications, mammographic microcalcifications, my own mammographic calcifications on my one mammogram I did in my lifetime. And so, we have seen this. So, it was quite impressive to them, and I was very happy to be a part of sharing and contributing something to the advancement of science in that facility. So, praise God, yes. So, I want to say, Zeolite is not going to have that effect. If it does, it's going to be such a distant thing because you're preventing that metal from being ionized and moved into the body through the tissues as a free radical mineral. 

So what are my thoughts on it? It's not going to harm you. But if you are already having macular degeneration, dementia, unstable angina or angina with exertion, if you have peripheral vascular disease, if you have polyneuropathies, if you have any of these neurovascular injuries and you need better microcirculation, you had better use the intravenous form of EDTA chelation with a multivitamin-mineral, vitamin C-rich format. But if you're wanting just to work against the oral contamination that the world has now, postindustrial contamination, I think Zeolite is reasonable. 

Question
“I started BHRT two months ago. And after 30 days, I spotted last month. My doctor does not agree with cycling progesterone, so I use it daily. How many days of spotting would you say is normal?”  [0:32:45]

Answer
Well, I have a menstrual cycle that you could say is spotting every month of every year and decade of my life. I have been on natural hormones with cycling progesterone for decades now, and that means I have a normal uterus. When I use my estradiol every day, that's continuous; it's going to not only help my hair, my skin, my strength, my bones, my muscles, everything, my immune system, my heart, but it's also going to thicken the lining of my uterus. And God gave us the progesterone every two weeks out of a month, so it could clean out the lining of the uterus when it drops off and get ready for a new lining to build up over the month. So, I take it every two weeks, the first two weeks of every month, so I'm on progesterone right now. But by about the 15th of the month, I'll stop, and I will always start spotting somewhere around the 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, you know, for 4, 5, 6, 7days because a normal period we were taught can be anywhere from 1 to 9 days. So, I don't call this abnormal. And I think this is the new future for slowing aging, promoting natural systems for healthcare, and advising your patients that if you're a woman with a uterus, it's going to work, and that's healthy. So, no, I don't rush to a gynecologist every month of every year for the past 10 decades. I mean, two decades at least, maybe three decades I've been on it. I'm 70, going to be 73. So, no, this is quite fine. And what'll happen is if you use continuous progesterone, which I don't call wrong either, you will likely have a breakthrough bleeding at some point in time within the next year or two or three. Okay. And your levels have to be monitored, and when it does do a breakthrough, and you weren't expecting it – see, I expect it every month, and it shows up 99% of the time. Maybe once in a while, one month I won't have enough estradiol on board to generate a period because I do forget putting my estradiol on sometimes. But when you're using continuous stuff, and you can't predict when your spotting will occur, then everyone gets, you know, their panties twisted and we've got to do an ultrasound. We’ve got to figure out now: are these the natural hormones? And today, I would say, post-menopausal bleeding is not likely to be cancer. Whereas when I went through training in the 1970s, every woman post-menopausally who had a bleeding was considered cancer until proven otherwise. But now that we have millions and millions of women on natural hormones, no, this is not cancer. This is a normal uterus responding to the normal, well-monitored, at least annually checked levels of the hormones and routine pap or pelvic or occasional ultrasounds as needed. So, that's my thought on that. And you just have to decide, you know, whether you want to bet that you're not going to have any bleeding for years and then, and it'll show up and frighten you, or you're going to have bleeding as you expect every month on time just like your periods used to be. But for me they're very light, and that's why I try to do for other women as well. 

Question
“Do you have experience with Diosmin for venous insufficiency? Pros and cons? Dosage?”  [0:37:20]

Answer
Oh, I can't give you a dosage idea on this. I would have to look it up. And I don't have a secondary computer here. But this is a plant extract polyphenol. These are the flavonoids/polyphenol antioxidant extracts from plants. And just like the many, many, many wonderful things we're learning about plants – and that's what's in Juice Plus. They have 30 different fruits, vegetables, and berries with the patented, privately owned process where they do this without heating it up and without leaving the sugar, fruit sugar, starchy sugars, and drying it without exposure to light. So, you're just getting the plant phytonutrients up into a powder without the sugars from berries and then fruits and then vegetables. And there are tens of thousands of plant phytochemicals that are very powerful, working to help put up an antioxidant shield, like if you're on an airplane. So, if you get hit with X-ray gamma radiation and it hurts the cell membrane, it'll hurt far less. The antioxidant shields will kind of self-absorb a lot of this impact damage, like a shield, like a golden dome for a missile coming in. So, that's what this Diosmin is. It's just one of those old, old, old time plant antioxidant chemicals that have been used to promote many benefits, antioxidant benefits, which tend to help stop inflammation, which helps the lining of blood vessels, and helps create a protective environment for the cell membrane wall, the endothelium, basement membranes to be better and have more turgor, so that your blood vessels vascular tone, you don't tend to make as many varicose veins and so forth. 

The other thing is that's what Juice Plus does as well. So, I've been on Juice Plus about 30 years now, and I'm going to say part of why I don't think my hair is graying and my skin is wrinkling as much and my legs have bulging veins, varicosities, is all because I have been doing these things, and people can start it at any time in their life. I am going to say, usually when you see Diosmin and hesperidin, they're coupled together because they have both been looked at. Out of the tens of thousands of phytochemicals, some chemists start somewhere, some biochemists start somewhere, and they start looking at these things from anthocyanidins to lutein, luteolin, resveratrol, methylene blue. We're looking at all these chemicals, many of which are from the plants, and they're doing very interesting, usually physiologic benefits to living mammals and human beings. Well, Juice Plus has it all in it, and they have more than 30 years with 45, close to 50 peer-reviewed publications worldwide, with millions of people involved in the studies. So, I'm not going to spend my money on two isolated little ping pings, Diosmin and hesperidin, or whatever you're going to bring up. I'm going to use the one that has 30 different fruits, vegetables, and berries, and I'm going to stay with that selection that is the most researched nutraceutical in the world. So, that’s what I think of Diosmin. 

Cons - you know, there are those you can make general statements about. It tends to thin the blood a little bit, and so, they're going to say don't take it with blood thinners. I doubt that that would be a risk, but that's one of the risks they put out there. What would be another risk – Potential allergic reactions. I would say that's extremely, extremely rare. But mostly there are better-studied things, and that to me is my Juice Plus or our Juice Plus. 

Question
“Hello Dr. E.! I have a question regarding iron and Total Iron-Binding Capacity (TIBC) test. My iron was elevated to 167; iron saturation was 56, elevated. I am 55 years old, taking progesterone pills 200 mg on days 15-28 and estradiol cream 1 click a day. I still get some spotting in some months, and in May it was longer, like a regular period. What causes high iron, and what is the next step?”  [0:42:39]

Answer
Slightly elevated at 167, whereas most lab reports – now, they're not all identical; they're population averages, and the upper limit for iron is somewhere around the 155, 160 range, and you are 167, and the iron saturation, she states, was 56. And again, various labs will go anywhere from 44 to 55 on the iron saturation. So, I'm going to say this is minutiae, and I would not worry about it. 

I'm not going to say you have high iron, and we are going to re-test that because I know who you are, and we are going to recheck it. It's such a minor thing. Please don't focus on it. And here is where I should say, again, this channel is not meant to be for management over the YouTube. I do happen to know who you are, and I do recall our exact visit just recently, and I want to reassure you this is so minor and so easily just redone to check any trends. So, just make sure you're not eating out of iron cookware and that you're not taking any supplements or over-the-counter products, online products, because very often they have multivitamins and contamination in these things with iron in them, and we don't want that. So, it should be just fine, and we'll check that out. 

Question
“A fertility doctor said that taking the average six tablets of spirulina per day is healthy for fertility. However, another general doctor said that spirulina on the market has caused numerous issues, particularly causing liver stress or toxicity, or containing toxic algae, and should not be taken. Which advice is correct?”  [0:44:46]

Answer
I'm going to say both are correct. And here it is – This is where, you know, my major was in chemistry, analytical and biochemical emphasis in my undergraduate years as a chemist, and I've learned what proper analysis of samples is and how you test for this. So, I can understand when I make a visit out to some of these vitamin plants like Juice Plus, Ortho Molecular, and others. We went to… what is that place? Not Metagenics. The other one was a vitamin place. Can't remember all the names of them, but I actually go there, and I look at their processing and their log tables for their purity and who they get from and what their assays for contaminants are. The world out there is a jungle, and unfortunately, sin is a problem we all fight, and the temptation to just make money and look the other way while you can get a cheaper product from an inferior organization, especially items from China. You know, they have no or essentially no environmental protection, air control on their coal-powered plants, and they're building these two a month over their vast nation area. They have hundreds of these, and they're dumping out heavy metals on the land and on the growing fields, and the children eat it, and there is a serious cover-up of the lead contamination and the IQ loss and truancy behavior of these poor Chinese babies that are eating this industrial output dumping. And then the jet stream brings it here to the United States. Plus, there are about 4 cm all over the earth now with industrialization where you can sample down and start finding reproducible elements of toxins and organic 6-membered benzene rings and aromatics, and you can see this all over the planet. Now, these toxins are attracted to algae, and spirulina, I should have said, is basically an algae, and the algae is designed to take these toxins in. One of the reasons why I don't use chlorophyll, as an example, for chelating out heavy metal toxins is that that's one of the things chlorophyll does: it captures mercury in the water, and I have never seen. In the 80s and 90s, I was involved in work with, I think this was in Spokane, Washington, with Dr. Klinghardt, who was a German advanced integrative medicine, energy medicine doctor, and they were trying to grow algae, chlorophyll sources, that would be pure and could be taken so it would chelate out heavy metals, much like Zeolite. And the problem was they could never isolate it because there was enough particulate in the air everywhere that the chlorophyll would grab these toxins, and they couldn't produce this. So, when you say spirulina and algae, they're going to have heavy metals and toxins in them. 

So, I'm going to say that's a no-go. I would, in general, not use it. We don't have control over this yet. What we do have control over, thanks be to God, is we can do chelation therapy and reduce our burden because the longer you live, the more you're going to just bioaccumulate, and that's a gift from God that we can do that. 

Question
“DMSO used for any specific use. Right now trying it with some wrist pain. Thanks.”  [0:49:45]

Answer
So, what are we going to say about dimethyl sulfoxide? It is an industrial solvent made, I don't know, more than 100 years ago, maybe even the late 1800s, and it was mostly in the wood pulp paper industry. And it literally can solubilize polar and non-polar elements. So, non-polar elements- you know, polar elements repel one another, so it's hard to dissolve them. Non-polar elements are easier to dissolve. So, this was a wonderful solvent. The problem with DMSO is it smells horrible. It's like smelling heavy, heavy, heavy garlic. And it used to be given in some of the original IV chelation IVs to enhance the, so to say, uptake and penetration in the body into tissues for it to grab onto heavy metals. And maybe I would say it did even help and it was even a better chelation experience, but the smell was so noxious, and we got to the same endpoint without it doing a little longer chelation period of time, that the use of it just didn't seem worth the smell because it just penetrated the whole building. So, we stopped it. The other problem is, if you have dirty skin on your hands or you touch something and it has a toxin on it, and then you rub it in, DMSO is never used with 100% purity. You have to cut it 50%, 75%. You have to dilute it with distilled water or something because it would be too, let's say, cell membrane irritating at 100% of its strength topically. So, you would be mixing it, cutting it in half or by 3/4. Plus, you could also transfer some of that onto your hand as you rub it in. Or if you use latex gloves, it's going to dissolve some of the toxins of the latex glove into your body, plastics. So, it has pluses and minuses. 

Question
“Daughter with PCOS newly diagnosed - thinking about peptides and other solutions and tips.”  [0:53:02]

Answer
Well, what causes polycystic ovarian syndrome? Finally and recently, but we have known for decades- 30 years, 40 years- polycystic ovarian syndrome is usually in the woman who has been eating a high fructose corn syrup, starchy carbohydrate plant food, heavy snacking all the time, insulin-generating as a response, and that stimulates the growth and the stimulation of the ovarian follicles. So, it really is a hyperinsulinemia problem based on a high Western diet, high starch, processed food rich in carbohydrates and corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup diets, soda pops, smoothies, sweet drinks. Even diet drinks that have a sweet, heavy taste will psychologically stimulate the pancreas to produce insulin. And so, you know, I wouldn't play around. You already have one abnormal hormonal chemical activity, and that activity therefore is associated with the insulin excess creating a medical problem. When you're trying to use hormones or peptides to use mass action out of the normal sequencing to impact and suppress hunger to generate fewer calories taken, to reduce those calories, hopefully they'd be carbohydrate, but even small amounts of carbohydrates can stimulate insulin resistance and a rise in the insulin response. So, I am not in favor at this time of the peptide therapies. I'm for the good old-fashioned understanding of the disease and getting rid of the problem, not covering up symptoms or using your daughter with these unclinically established peptides that are hormone receptor enhancers and blockers without great skill and knowledge on the part of the producers. Plus, we have a problem with a gray area in production resourcing sources for these alleged peptides and where they are coming from, and these compounding pharmacies all over. Again, scruples- who is going to have high integrity will be the holy grail, and they'll look the other way and say, yeah, this is pure retatrutide or semaglutide peptides from a gray source that is really of an unreputable background. So, be careful, please. Be an exerciser, weightlifter three times a week. If she's young, don't eat past 5:00 in the evening. If she's older, you know, stop around 3:30, 4:00. But I did, I actually ate at 4:00, forgive me, but I ate a little bit later. I try to finish around 3:00 every day, do my workouts, and that's the best way to get insulin under control and the polycystic ovarian syndrome. 

Question
“I have been getting leg cramps at night. Sometimes it’s my outside leg and sometimes my inside leg. Legs change intermittently. Very random areas of the leg. I don’t know if it’s muscles or tendons or ligaments, but they’re painful. It feels like something is stretching me like a rubber band. They usually go away in a couple minutes with stretching.”  [0:56:56]

Answer
In general, what I would do is make sure you're well hydrated. And I would take the TLC Multi Min to get the potassium, magnesium, and calcium and other essential minerals. We are in a mineral-depleted state. In general, the vast majority of Americans have mineral deficiencies. Check your blood type. People with type O blood have more mineral deficiencies than other blood types. TLC Multi-Mineral is a high-quality amino acid chelate from Ortho Molecular. Three is the basic dose a day. Sometimes I'll need as much as three twice a day. If I wake up at night with a cramp, I'll take a pinch of salt in water, and I'll take three more of my TLC Multi-Minerals.

Question
“Hello Dr. Ellithorpe! On July 10th, I started using estrogen and then later the progesterone as prescribed by you. I felt fine on the estrogen, but after a few days on the progesterone, I felt bloated, with tender breasts and a tender uterus. Is there a way around this? It was not a comfortable feeling.”  [0:58:09]

Answer
Yes. Number one, time and systemic enzymes, exercising, low-carb diet, staying well hydrated. I always say that the breasts may get a little tender when you start your hormones up again. It takes about three cycles, three months of this being on systemic enzymes, to bring the inflammation down and the body into the new milieu and regularity. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on eating Organic Ezekiel Sprouted Bread with Grass-Fed Pastured Butter?”  [0:58:58]

Answer
I am not in favor of it. In fact, there was an analytical publication on the glyphosate that is in these grains of these multigrains. I know Ezekiel; I love the book in the Bible and its wonderful teaching, but it was full of glyphosate. It was one of the higher breads in there that had glyphosate. So, no, I wouldn't use it. 

Question
“My 32-year-old daughter's blood test showed she is low in iron. Do you recommend an iron supplement?”  [0:59:33]

Answer
Well, many things go into it. What's her blood type? Is she A? A's have trouble digesting. They tend to move toward a plant-based diet, which is low in iron. And so, it depends on the patient. She should be seen to figure out her blood type and her iron levels with her CBC, and the size of her red blood cells. And if she's showing the impact in the blood count that she's becoming anemic and her iron levels are low, and it's only mild, maybe dietary- eating more red meat, organ meats, liver would be enough with a digestive enzyme with hydrochloric acid. The other option would be to take an herbal iron supplementation. We here use HemeVite. We use it twice or three times a day. It works pretty well because it's hard to chelate and put iron in something that is tolerated, reasonably absorbed, and doesn't make you constipated. But she has to be seen to figure out what her blood type is and what's going on there. But I only give an iron supplement if they will not eat, you know, red meat, or if they're blood type A and they're not digesting well; I have to give them a digestive enzyme to help them absorb their iron. 

Question
“Do you recommend a daily vitamin for my growing 13-year-old son? As a kid, he had been taking the SuperNutes. He is now 6 feet tall and 135 pounds, so I'm thinking it’s time to move on to an adult vitamin or something else? Would love any recommendations.”  [1:01:21]

Answer
I would use Energy Core. The risk is that too often these multivitamins are junk sources, and there are iron filings in there and they're contaminated. So, I would use, again, high-quality companies like Ortho Molecular. We have Energy Core here. That's what I put all my junior high kids on. Anyone over 85 pounds, I put them on the adult form of our multivitamin mineral, high quality, called Energy Core. That's what I would use.