YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, August 5, 2025

Question

“A sister in Christ is struggling with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and battles with daily fatigue. She exercises regularly and has a typical American diet, but lower in carbs. Any recommendations? She takes Centrum for Women Silver and occasionally HemeVite.”  [0:03:06]

Answer

She should be seen by a good functional doctor who is going to look at her nutritional state of being, her antioxidant levels, her microbiome with stool complete analysis, looking for heavy metal toxicities, digestive components, and would look at her metabolism, her sugar metabolism, and what her lifestyle is like. We would work with our health coach here and help her with dietary advice. But Centrum is, you know, just one of the poorest nutrients that you can use. We have been practicing medicine for decades, and One A Day vitamins, Silver Centrum has been out there, and the nutrient assays of people in America, with all the stress and pollution from high carbs that we had been eating, are very immunosuppressing. Therefore, we can see infections, diseases, cancers, abnormal growths pop up, and we have to work with them to help them, such as giving them high dose Vitamin C is certainly something I would give for (CLL) Chronic Le Lymphocytic Leukemia, maybe ultraviolet light irradiation of the blood as well, look at her parameters, and go from there. So, the direction would be to find a functional doctor. One of the ways you can do that is go to ACAM, the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, dot org, ACAM.org. Usually, doctors who are members of that have gone to these anti-aging chelation training, high-dose vitamin C training classes, and become certified. And then they're very experienced or they have a lot more experience and knowledge base and resources in general to help people, such as our dear sister who's having this problem. And hopefully that's the direction. Of course, I would worry about her vitamin D level, her sugar, insulin, triglyceride, and hemoglobin A1C. I would be looking at her metabolism, thyroid function, and thyroid antibodies. I'd be looking at other medications she may or may not be on. So, yes, that's what she needs to do. Hopefully, that's a help. 

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“Are you familiar with Dr. Brian Ardis and his opinion on nicotine and its benefits? Thank you. God bless.”  [0:06:51]

Answer

Yes, and I'm so aware of it that I have these little nicotine mini lozenges 4 mg to be able to take. So, it helps. I'm in my early 70s, so I have to do everything I can to stay well when I see all these people, young and old, with various illnesses, infections, and so forth. So, nicotinic receptors are all over our bodies. They have a function. It's part of our health. And yes, the people who went through the pandemic who were smokers and they always got nicotine through their cigarettes, it was a known fact that smokers did much, much better than the average person who was a non-smoker. 

Question

“Hi, Dr. E! Just out of curiosity, where does EDTA come from? Is it compounded by a compounding pharmacy? And other than being good for calcium deposits and heavy metal detox, what else is it good for?”  [0:08:03]

Answer

Yes, essentially. It is a mild antithrombolytic, meaning it helps platelets be less sticky. So it promotes a mild thinning of the blood and helps to prevent blood clots. It is also associated with nitric oxide production. It helps the nitric oxide synthase enzyme to help vasodilate or open up the blood flow, so it enhances microcirculation. So these are just a few of the extra benefits, besides which, of removing these heavy metals. Yeah. And it's been understood that the spike protein is a created molecule with its own sequence in the mRNA for the generation of being transcribed and produced as the spike protein. That series of codons is a net positive cation, whereas EDTA chelation is an anion, and then the chelation negative will attract the cation positive, and it helps to remove spike protein. That's my understanding. 

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“Dr. Ellithorpe, at 87, B positive blood type, good health and labs, I need to gain 10 pounds. How? God's blessing.”  [0:09:42]

Answer

I would do weightlifting. I would do resistance training, upper and lower bodies, three times a week, and I would eat extra protein with a digestive enzyme to help assimilate it. You can amplify the speed of doing that by taking Perfect Amino Acids. Dr. Minkoff developed this years ago. I think he's 94 or something like that. He's still practicing medicine, I believe, and he is still going to triathlons, and of course, he wins every year now because he's the only one in his age group. But yes, he is quite remarkable for generating this perfect amino acid balance, in which I think he also has the branch chain amino acids, which are very important in producing muscle. So, I would do that. There is nothing superior to weight resistance training with age for cognitive function, balance, strength, and immune health. There's a video I was just watching. The name of the video I just watched was Building Muscle in your 80s and 90s. What research reveals about aging and function with Professor Fiatarone and Dr. Tony Boutagy, PhD. So, this is all about the up-to-date studies and research for amplifying muscle building and weight gain. So hopefully that'll help you. It's a good video. It's worth your time. I wouldn't waste your time. It's worth watching. 

Question

“My friend was diagnosed with Valley Fever in November of 2024 and is still struggling to fully recover. Any recommendations for her? Thanks and God bless.”  [0:12:10]

Answer

Well, I'm sure she's getting the standard of care and has seen a pulmonologist and has had her CAT scans and her pulmonary functions done and her O2 saturations. But if she came to a functional medical doctor, one of the things that we would probably recommend for her, along with high-dose vitamin C, is ozone irradiation of the blood, ultraviolet light. So, we take ultraviolet light A, B, and C wavelengths, we take her blood, we put ozone in it to hyper-oxygenate it, so to say, then we reinfuse that, passing by the ultraviolet light back into her body. And this is powerful in killing multiple pathogens, viruses, bacteria, fungi, and so forth, which she would have to do a series of these. It takes about a month to get 10 treatments done. I would also do the chelation on a separate day, the chelation with high-dose vitamin C. I would take systemic enzymes. I would get her vitamin D level up into the 100 range. I would instruct her to be a carnivore immediately, at least for two to three months, to reduce sugars, insulin, and triglycerides, because all that sugar and material is immunosuppressive, and I would have her exercise, doing weight training, because weight training improves lung performance. And so, those are the things, plus it is important to be well hydrated and so forth. So those are the areas I would suggest. 

Question

“Hi, Dr. Rita. You mentioned Albion Aminos last week, but these are not in TLC. And what are your thoughts on glutathione? Dr. Barkey likes the ProImmune brand, powder.”  [0:14:07]

Answer

It is in the amino acids. In other words, the company Albion makes minerals that are chelated or connected biochemically to amino acids, which amplifies their absorption very significantly, so those Albion chelates are to help mineral absorption improve. 

She goes on to say, “And what are your thoughts on glutathione? Dr. Barkey likes the ProImmune brand, powder?” Yeah, I think it's the flavor of the month, in the sense that, you know, we're right now going through another wave of antioxidant excitement with methylene blue. That's been around for decades, and I've been through the waves before. The same thing for glutathione. The same thing for resveratrol. If you're on Juice Plus, if you're on a low carb diet, if you do a high dose vitamin C drip cyclically, if you try an exercise, drink your water and you do not eat late, and you're taking the good multimineral and a good protein diet, then this should be enough, and we don't have to chase exotic items. I'm not anti-glutathione. It is hard to absorb. It's such a large molecule. Usually, you need to use the precursor, which is N-acetyl cysteine. N-acetyl cysteine is then smaller and more easily absorbed. I would make a better argument for that, which is much cheaper, 500 mg twice a day; it's probably a good baseline, but even then, I don't think you need it. So, if you do the SpectraCell antioxidant survey of your body's natural immune system, they look at N-acetyl and other parameters that are some of the most important for the Krebs cycle. And usually I don't see glutathione. I would say it's maybe only 3% to 5% of the deficiencies I see. Yeah, that's why I don't have it in the TLC shop because, again, I am not here to be a marketer or go with the waves of influence and be carried along with every drift of popular YouTube or TV conversation. I'm going where the science is, and it's hard enough to have enough money to meet our daily needs. And so, I am not going to promote something unless there's a well-established individual need for it and it's being absorbed. So, that's why we don't carry all these methylene blue and glutathione separate items in general. 

Question

“I'm 73 and wondering if I need to have a mammogram every year, given I have had no negative results of all the mammograms I have had all my life. I had a biopsy done 38 years ago, and the results were benign.” [0:17:19]

Answer

The older we get, the closer we are to the day we're going to exit this earth. So, we're all going to die. The Lord says, “It's appointed unto men once to die, then the judgment.” So, what we die from is then the question. None of us wants to die a cancerous, withering death. So, the standard of care in the State of California for the Board of Medicine for the doctors who are licensed here is to recommend an annual mammogram. And so, I comply with that, telling women and educating them, so they have informed consent, that this is the standard of care that I'm expected to promote. However, I don't do it, and I do share my personal stories with those women who ask me. I haven't had but one mammogram in my 72 years. This month, I'll be 72 years old. So, I do my own breast exam once a month. I eat a very low-carb diet. I work out three times a week. I lift heavy weights. I don't play around with it. I'm very serious about my pounds and pushing myself. And I am good with my water, and I don't eat really past 3 o'clock anymore, and I take nutrients, vitamin D, systemic enzymes, and iodine, so that will inhibit my breasts from having cystic breasts or activity that is concerning for growth. And then I live my life. I have decided that I am not going to present my body to the big medical profession business and ask every year if cancer has come yet, because research indicates that all men and women around 85 years old on autopsy are found to have some prostate cancer in males and some breast cancer in women by age 85 to some degree. The general rule is that it takes 8 or 10 years for an activity to grow wherever the cancer is going to be; if it's a solid tumor, that activity was being developed 8 to 10 years ago. So, that's how I feel about it, but the standard is to do a mammogram annually in the State of California, according to the medical boards, and that's our recommendation.

Question

“Hi, Dr. Rita. How many nicotine lozenges do you take a day? Does it matter what brand of nicotine you buy?”  [0:20:13]

Answer

I take one of Dr. Ardis's, and some of the research articles suggest that 6 mg is what is needed. You know, I'm not going to stress out whether I had one or two of those. There are patches that you can buy over the counter up to 14 and 21 mg, I think, for quitting smoking. I used to be a smoker when I was younger. Everyone was in their 60s and 70s, especially in the military and in the ER. Everyone smoked, so I did too. And then, I stopped that when I got pregnant with my children. And then I got stressed when I opened this place up, and I went back to it for a few years. And finally, the e-cigarette came out. I went vaping. And then after vaping, I was able to quit that eventually, and I got nicotine through all of that. Now, I've had extraordinary health and didn't come down with colds or anything, and I've been off now for some time, and I still don't get it. So, I think it's my lifestyle and not the nicotine, but I still will take the science seriously enough to use a lozenge once a day. 

What is the brand of the nicotine that I buy? I just got a Walgreens nicotine mini lozenges, and this is about $50, but there are all kinds of, you know, there's bunches and bunches and bunches of these little things in here. There's 1, 2, 3, 4, this would be five, and each one of these has, how many is in each one…Well, I don't want to waste my time doing that. I would say there's probably 30 in each little one of these. Okay. All right. 

Question

“The Albion Aminos is not in the TLC shop under that name. What is the name so I can order it?”  [0:22:43]

Answer

So the Albion Aminos, just remember, they are minerals that are chelated to amino acids, they're not Albion Aminos alone, okay. When I talk about Perfect Aminos, I'm talking about just the amino acids that were put together by Dr. Minkoff. And so, we have the amino acids in a bottle or powder called Perfect Aminos, and then we have the Albion amino acid chelated minerals in TLC Multiminerals. Okay. And anytime I use a mineral, I use its source. 

Question

“Are you familiar with the NutrEval lab that checks all the nutrients? Mine has shown that I'm low on glutathione in every category. Would that be cause to take it?”  [0:23:32]

Answer

I've heard of NutrEval. I am worried for my patients, my family, and friends that these marketers will do anything to make money, and they're not God-fearing, fearing of the Lord, and they just want money. Now, maybe this company is a wonderful company, but I have just seen too much abuse over the 44 years, and it's exploding right now. I've never seen such disgusting infomercials that are disgusting and making it through AI sound like professionals are talking to you when their images are being constructed to give some canned speech. So, my suggestion would be to see a doctor who is going to look at your antioxidant assay. The one I use for glutathione is the SpectraCell micronutrient assay. I've used them for 35 years. They've been really consistent. I'm not saying they're the only ones. I'm just not convinced that all these are popping up all over places are good. And even with SpectraCell, if the blood is over 48 hours in transit to their place, they won't do the test, even though they want the money, because the cells are too old in the tube to get an accurate response. And I tell you, glutathione is very sensitive. So, is it a good lab? I don't know. Have I heard of it? Yes, I have. And so, I'm just concerned that NutrEval is not necessarily someone I would trust. 

Question

“Are mammograms unhealthy?”  [0:25:47]

Answer

Well, mammograms have two features in them that are associated with known carcinogenic activity. One is the trauma of squeezing, crushing your breast cells, and number two, the ionizing radiation. So, doing it every year, is that smart? Has 40-plus years of mammography significantly reduced the breast cancer deaths or incidents of breast cancer? I would say I have not seen anything compelling at this time. And I'm always studying. 

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“Dr. Rita. I read a book, The Thyroid Reset, and it says that our diets have a lot of iodine.”  [0:26:31]

Answer

Well, you read a bad book, and somebody wanted to sell something and market something. So you've read a bad book. I've done testing, iodine challenge tests, for close to 30, 35 years now, and I would say 96 percent or higher percent of every patient I've ever measured with a proper challenge test for iodine is deficient. And so, I take iodine every day. 

Question

“Why do you take nicotine? And should we all?”  [0:27:09]

Answer

Well, it helps to occupy the ACE receptor. ACE receptors are involved in many aspects of our cellular communications, including the membrane of the cells, for blood pressure, and very often we'll use ACE inhibitors for blood pressure, like lisinopril, and these enzymes, angiotensin-converting enzyme receptors. And so, yes, it has many cardiovascular, as well as probably immune, which also includes the tiny vasculature in your lungs. And so, nicotine kind of protects this from being antagonized by certain viruses like this man-made SARS-CoV-2 virus that was unleashed upon us. And yes, there's a good argument that taking nicotine as a lozenge, somewhere in the range of 4 to 6 mg a day, has preventive protection, maybe especially during the flu season. There are side effects. It does have a cardiovascular effect. You could get some flushing, you could get some racing heartbeats, that kind of stuff. So, there are always risks when you take something in addition to what you're ever, you know, eating. You know, nicotine is everywhere. Nicotine is in all your nightshade foods, in your potatoes, and maybe part of the reason why people like potatoes is that there's nicotine in them. So, yeah, it's everywhere. So it's not some foreign substance. 

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“If a 69-year-old woman is unable to lift heavy weights because of neck and shoulder pain, is it okay to use resistance bands for training? Also does yoga 5-7 days a week and pool exercises.” 0:29:05]

Answer

The answer is yes, but I think we baby ourselves too much. I really do. I think we always have a reason we cannot do something. And in fact, God has fearfully and wonderfully made us, and for the most part, with good supervision and gradual training, build yourself up to be able to do that. Have someone you're accountable to, maybe if you can afford a personal trainer, go to physical therapy, look at your posture, and work your whole lifestyle choices into weightlifting, upper and lower body in general. But yes, bands have good value, and the band formulations and studies are getting better. I'm not an expert on physical therapy, but weight resistance training is a must for aging people. 

Is it okay to use resistance bands for strength training? Yes. Motion is important. But if you say, of all the types of exercise and your busy lives, you have only time to incorporate one, it's hands down weightlifting, hands down it's resistance training, and you will get some cardiovascular benefit with it. So, I'm happy for pool, walking, yoga, and Pilates, but weight resistance training is now quintessentially established as the anti-aging exercise for anyone over 40. 

Question

“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you know how I can detox from Roundup? My child had a test, and it showed up. Not sure how to detox him. He’s 5. Thank you.”  [0:31:00]

Answer

Okay. So Roundup is a weed killer. And my understanding is that those benzene rings, polycyclic carbons, are removed if you do high-dose vitamin C and systemic enzymes, and I would see your functional doctor. I would look at your whole body, get up. I mean, ultimately, you could do a fat biopsy and see how much benzene ring deposits are in there from Roundup because that's fat soluble, but that's only in very special cases, and that's with a specialist, a doctor specialized in toxicities. But for the most part, and for me, I would recommend IV high-dose vitamin C, systemic enzymes, and the same drill: low-carb diet, plenty of water, exercise, good night's sleep, grounding, vitamin D, and good multiminerals and probiotics. 

Question

“He also has mold and fungus. Possible lung fluke.”  [0:32:13]

Answer

Then I would definitely get him into a functional doctor and I would put him on the routine I always talk about, you know, a carnivore diet, stop eating at 3:00, exercise as much as possible in his current situation, and do the high dose vitamin C with chelation, and then do a series of 10 ozone UVB. That would be the direction I would take anybody with those set of symptoms. Whether it's appropriate for you, I'd have to see you if you were my patient. I really don't know of any significant contraindication for that, and there's such a benefit with the enzymes and the vitamin C and the oxygen and ultraviolet light irradiation of the blood. It's just tremendously beneficial in so many different disease disorders. So, look down that route. If there are flukes or any parasites, discuss with your healthcare provider. Ivermectin is used at 12 to 24 mg, depending on his weight, three days on, four days off.

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“Dr. Rita, thank you so much for being available to all of us weekly to answer all our questions. We are blest. What to do about cystic breasts. Thank you.”  [0:33:27]

Answer

Well, cystic breasts are a reflection in general of iodine deficiencies and benign prostatic hypertrophy. See, your breasts are very metabolically active, especially when you're breastfeeding, but otherwise, it's still the glandular structure and metabolically active, and it wants iodine to do that. And the prostate is metabolically active, and it wants iodine. And so, iodine deficiencies are associated with cystic pathologies. And fibrocystic breasts and prostate hypertrophy, this is all the fibrosis and so forth. It's stimulated by high sugar. The insulin hormone stimulates growth and hypertrophy. So we teach the low-carb diet, adequate hydration, and so forth. Alcohol is very bad for fibrocystic breasts. Systemic enzymes are wonderful and anti-inflammatory for it. 

Question

“Hello, Dr. E. I’ve been on a carnivore diet for 4 months. I’m seeing slight improvement with anxiety, energy, sleep, and tinnitus, but not much! But I have had a huge improvement in my headaches/migraines. How long does it take to have a significant change in my health?”  [0:34:49]

Answer

I think your huge improvement in headaches and migraines is your first payback for your four months on the carnivore diet, if you've truly been 100% pure carnivore. There is no scale on that. Everything you do that's beneficial is going to help you. If you have little cheats here and there, that's going to slow things down. It's an anti-inflammatory lifestyle. It's a healing of the gut lining. It’s an improvement of your energy metabolism and each of your cells in your body. I would say it's one of the most regenerative healthy lifestyles you can do.

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“Dr. E, I've been on estradiol patch for approximately 9 years, since hot flashes started. Progesterone cream was switched to a pill 3 1/2 years ago. I think I've heard you say that you use Estrogen cream. Is that the TriEst? My next appointment there isn't until September. Is it possible to switch to the cream? I'm reading it's a more balanced form.”  [0:35:48]

Answer

I'd rather personally see you as a patient and discuss it, so I can put the whole story together, rather than using this as a forum to practice medicine. So, I'm going to ask you to wait to see me. In general, I like estradiol as a cream because we control it so much better than a patch with all the plastics that are involved in that patch on your body, and we are very limited in adjusting the dose with patches or pills. Certainly, no pellets under the skin with its fillers. It's a foreign body, it's an immune stimulator, we don’t want to do that. But please understand, I don't want to say yey or nay to anything over the internet like this. I am not in favor of TriEst or BiEst in general, and that's a whole other story to go over. 

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“Any strategies on combating Strep B? I think I have had this for many years and was misdiagnosed as bacterial vaginosis, but cultures say Strep B. I have done boric acid suppositories with success, but it comes back. Thank you.”  [0:37:14]

Answer

Strep B is naturally occurring in our intestine and our genital flora, as a general rule. It's not necessarily considered a sexually-transmitted flora, although there is some oral strep B, and yes, it can be transmitted if that type of sexist practice. But in general, strep B, in addition to finding, unless it's a significant symptomatic, I just don't treat it. As a woman gets older, the lining of her vagina gets more frail and thinner. That means the cell-to-cell connection membrane can break more easily, and that way, anything, any toxin, any. Dryness, any mechanical trauma from intercourse, any virus/bacteria can invade between the cells more easily as the membrane barrier gets thinner and more frail. Therefore, that's why we like natural hormone replacement therapy because it helps bulk up the thickness of the vaginal lining and all the vaginal skin and mucus membranes throughout your whole body. It helps with elastin and collagen, and helps support avoiding wrinkles and all that kind of good stuff. So, I try and get women to get an estradiol cream or a vaginal application of estradiol, and I ask them to have good hygiene, meaning, you know, I'm going to be quite honest on the YouTube, nothing foreign, other than what God intended to be using that area for, should be introduced into that area. And I don't think excess bathing, and you know, Epstein salt baths, these are unnecessary exposures. Maybe even going in the ocean, getting older can aggravate this because we can have materials go up into the vaginal canal because that's open. 

Therefore, as much as you can, you know, I'm in favor of sponge bathing and letting your skin stay more oil and intact, preserving the oil of your skin so it stays more intact, rather than showering, showering and bathing and soap on your skin and rinsing all the healthy oils off. It'll help you stay younger and have a better complexion and all your membrane surfaces. The same goes for the vaginal canal. The more it's used exclusively just for whatever intimate relationship you have with your spouse, and let it be at that, but excess bathing and material, no. Use the estradiol. And be sure that you're not engendering overgrowth of bacteria with blood sugars that the foolish doctors of the world say, you know, a 93, a 99, a 100 is still normal. No, it's not normal. That's immunosuppressive. Especially as we get older, you need your blood sugars fasted in the 80s or lower. And then take good probiotics orally, so that whatever your urogenital flora is in your microbiome, you're having the healthy kind, rich in lactobacillus and especially bifidobacteria. That's what I would say. 

Question

“I’m 90 years old, anemic, my body doesn’t assimilate iron, and iron infusions are no longer improving my hemoglobin/iron/red blood cells. 20+ years ago, I had a gastrectomy. Almost 3 years ago, I had an aortic dissection and emergency open-heart surgery. I’ve had a Fib for more than 3 years. My iron has actually dropped since my last infusions. What can I do?”  [0:41:23]

Answer

All right. So that's part of the reason why you're having nutrient deficiencies and absorption capacities, because you can't digest as well. You would have to be on a digestive enzyme with betaine hydrochloric acid every time you eat. Again, I don't know you, but there is an argument to be made that a lot of these heart attacks and aortic dissection, but there's also in women IIR, Infarct-Related aneurysm, where the lining of the blood vessels, the coronary arteries can show that there's been some tear or wear with like an invagination along the lining of the whole vessel. I'm going to make the argument that this is undiagnosed, subclinical scurvy, vitamin C deficiency. I really think none of us gets enough vitamin C. And I'm not inviting people to eat fruit with all the sugar because we're already sugar-poisoned in this country with our standard American diet. Instead, I recommend using vitamin C, Buffered Vitamin C capsules, 500, 750, 1000 mg, let's say twice a day minimum. And then I would use the digestive enzyme with betaine hydrochloric acid in this general case, as explained. And then I would do that with a very rich protein diet. I would start exercising, and I would do a complete stool digestive analysis to look at the capabilities of the stool. I would get a SpectraCell for antioxidant shield. I would do a red blood cell mineral, and I would do an iodine test, and see if we can improve you. Certainly, we can give you many of these nutrients through an IV, a nutrient IV, high-dose vitamin C with chelation. And then, find out your blood type, A, B, O. But the older you get, it almost becomes less important what your blood type is because all of us with age do not digest as well and we need the digestive enzymes with betaine hydrochloric acid, and I bet then your iron infusions will start working better for you. And you need to exercise. Even if you're bedridden, you can exercise in bed. So, find a good functional doctor, start doing some of those things, and I would work in that direction.

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“What are your thoughts about taking creatine and how much? Also, what are your thoughts about taking nattokinase and how much? Thank you!”  [0:44:21]

Answer

I'm all in favor of creatine, and in a few more months, I'm probably going to have my own creatine product available as I grow and become more aware of the power of weightlifting and the importance of creatine in our diet. But in general, there should be enough in eating meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, these kinds of things anyway, with your digestive enzymes as you're getting older. But yes, I'm in favor of it. The range is from 5 g to 20 g. Many people say we load first with 20 g and then use at least 5 to 10 g of creatine every day. Nattokinase. We have the Vitalzym that has streptokinase, which is a Bradykinin enzyme, a proteolytic enzyme that helps prevent clotting and so forth. So, I'm going to say it's six and one and a half dozen of the other. I have used Vitalzym. I know it's a pharmaceutical in Japan. It's under prescription control. Here in the United States, I can prescribe it without a doctor's order, Vitalzym, but I know its quality. This is, you see, I'm always pursuing reproducible quality and accountability for the product, unlike our former FDA and HSS, which make all these vaccines that do not have liability for accountability of their safety measures. So please, excuse me. I am so ashamed of my profession at this time. So, I use Vitalzym because I can get accountability and reproducibility. I don't have a nattokinase product. How much in general? 100 mg is about 2000 Fibrinolytic units, IU/FU; you'll see it written either way. So, around that much once or twice a day on an empty stomach. I'm in favor of it, especially if you're on hormones postmenopausally. 

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“We were wondering if ultraviolet blood irradiation would be beneficial to our current health regimen?”  [0:46:47

Answer

Well, I just talked about it. Look earlier up in the transcript how wonderful I think it is, especially to people with any form of chronic autoimmune, chronic infectious disease plaguing them. And yes, I'm all in favor of it. 

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“44-year-old with history of heavy menstruation, endometriosis, ovarian cysts. Menstruation is accompanied by mostly clotting and flooding. No meds, but progesterone cream and 600 mg of Ibuprofen every six hours. Recently diagnosed with IRA (Hemoglobin 10.9, Ferritin 7), and my primary doctor suggests iron supplementation and a colonoscopy. Any additional recommendations?”  [0:47:14]

Answer

That's generally only developed in people who have been exposed to high-carb, high-fructose corn syrup diets and stimulates ovarian cysts from it. So, this is a dietary cause, hands down. So menstruation is accompanied by mostly clotting and flooding. Yeah, because this inhibits ovulation. At 44, ovulation is probably occurring less and less. You need to be in the good hands of a functional doctor who will put you on cyclical progesterone. She says she's on no meds but progesterone cream. Okay. And 600 mg of ibuprofen. Don't do the ibuprofen. My goodness. That is a bad over-the-counter drug associated with many side effects, not to mention bleeding, kidney damage, and so forth. Stop that. Flip to systemic enzymes like the streptokinase Vitalzym, Vascuzyme systemic enzymes. Be on an extremely low-carb diet, exercise, and take your progesterone at a hefty dose and get your levels measured, a dose between 1 to 2, maybe up to 400 mg per day, 15 through 25 of your menstrual cycle. 

She was recently diagnosed with IRA. Oh, Infarct-Related Artery. So that's what I was trying to think of before. An IRA is an Infarct-Related Artery. She has a hemoglobin of 10:9. That's not unusual for a heavy menstruating woman. And a low ferritin. So your iron is low. Find out your blood type. If your blood type is A, take your digestive enzyme with betaine hydrochloric acid. 

The doctor is recommending iron supplementation and a colonoscopy. Yeah, that's because of age 45. Everyone nowadays, since we're seeing so much colon cancer, they lowered the age to 45. So, I'm in favor of that. But it's unlikely that you have a bleed unless the ibuprofen now is also creating micro-damage to the lining of your gut. So, indeed, that's a reasonable thing. But let's see. You know, if you were with a functional doctor, we would try to get you off the ibuprofen right away, and then give you hemoccult cards to check for blood in the stool, bring them back the next week, and then look at your blood type and look at your diet. Get you on a good, rich, healthy, iron-rich diet, but not the spinach necessarily, because of all the oxalates in it. And most people resolve this and get through it if you have a good doctor.

Question

“Hi, Dr. E. My friend has idiopathic intracranial hypertension. The doctor already put a stent in an artery in her brain, but she is still suffering from dizziness and headaches. Do you know the cause of (IIH) and what a person can do to get better? Thank you.”  [0:50:05]

Answer

Now, the cause of IIH is unknown. If you do a study on it, unless something recently came up, there is no known cause for IIH. However, of the treatments, other than the surgical stent placement, are lifestyle changes. And why would that be? Hmm. Maybe, maybe the person took a certain injection into their arm in 2021 that is associated with vasculitis and inflammation and crosses the brain meninges. And if that's the case, then they would have to get with a good functional doctor and get a chelation therapy, low carb diet, adequate hydration, start building up their exercise tolerance, get up in the morning with sunrise, stand in the ground barefoot to get grounded for two minutes, get about 20 minutes of good morning infrared light and maybe get some even the irradiated ozonation of the blood to disinflame. It's an inflammatory likely cause from lifestyle. Look for antibodies to your thyroid and an antibody screen, and a very, very low-carb diet. And find out her blood type, take systemic enzymes, and move in that direction with a good functional doctor is what I would suggest. 

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“Hi Dr. Rita, you have convinced my husband to go outside at night and stand in the grass and ground himself before heading to bed. For a man who always seems to have trouble sleeping through the night, he is amazed at how well he is sleeping. Thank you for this. My question is also for him. Is there a good GI cleanse that you can recommend?”  [0:51:52]

Answer

Praise the Lord. See how good God is. None of this is my information. I don't own it. I am passing on what I've been taught. I pray the Lord keeps me open-eyed and teachable. But I do have an attitude at age 72 about my colleagues and how long it has taken them to begin to open their eyes, and for the past 45 years, calling people like me quacks and a cellar of vitamins to make expensive urine. So, we endured all that persecution. And now, our microbiome, my probiotic data, our systemic enzymes data, our chelation data, our exercise data, and on and on it goes, has been vindicated. So, we give all the glory to God because he's the one who's kept me standing all this time through all this low pay for the hard work we do. And I'm paid in stories like this. This makes me feel like I just got, you know, a $5,000 bonus just by hearing this from these wonderful natural ways of healing this. So, praise the Lord. If he wants me to do this work, I will be here, and I will trust Him for my provision. So, praise the Lord on that. Okay. 

Then she had another question. Is there a good GI cleanse that you can recommend? Really, it's the low-carb, really carnivore diet for three months, and take a probiotic. We have Ortho Molecular’s Probiotic. And I usually typically give either the Ortho Biotic Spore IG, which is kind of the spore form of the good bacteria, or I'll use Ohhira’s Essential Probiotic. Two kinds. And then a low-carb diet. 

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“If someone has a 2.8 fasting insulin level, would you expect his fasting glucose level to be below 95 or so?”  [0:54:02]

Answer

Not necessarily, in the sense that fasting blood sugar has many more variables than insulin. If the insulin is 2.8, that means you've had a lifestyle of probably exercise, healthy eating that has paid off with your metabolic machinery and all your cells that run that tricarboxylic acid cycle, Krebs cycle for engine ATP production in a more efficient way. So, your insulin is only needed in little bits for the carbs you do consume, and this is a good statement. The fasting blood sugar at 95 could just be, if you're getting older, the muscles are shrinking in volume, and so they're not burning down as much as they used to in total. So, you might cut back on some of the carbs and increase your protein, but this is totally acceptable to see. 

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“My hairstylist recently suggested putting castor oil in my hair overnight and on my face about once per week for multiple benefits. Do you have any wisdom/experience with this? Thank you!”  [0:55:24]

Answer

Basically, it's the ricinoleic acid that's in castor oil. It's like a type of oil. And if you put it in your hair, it's not that your hair is thicker; it just has more volume per shaft, just because the oil is on it. Maybe some of the reason why people like and say I have such nice, thick hair is that I only wash my hair maybe once every four to six weeks, and I always keep it up, so I'm not touching it all the time. And so I have better oil on my hair. That could be the reason. The other reason is if you put it on your face, it's going to add an oil layer that's going to keep bacteria and the world coming at you from trying to get into your pores, you know, your follicles of your tiny little hairs all over your face. But it's not going to make your hair grow. And you know, I'm just going to say, a low-carb diet, systemic enzymes, a good night's sleep, general good hygiene, and keep soap off your face, if at all possible. I would use Argentyn silver. Essentially, I never wash my makeup off ever. You know, it's such an amazing thing. The only thing I do is put makeup on. I never wash my face. The only time is if I hop in the pool or I take my once every 6 to 8-week shower. In the meantime, I just do my sponge bathing. And my skin doesn't touch water. So maybe that's some of the reasons why it looks decent. 

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“Since vitamin B12 is water-soluble, it is supposedly excreted from the body relatively readily through the urine. So if I abstained from dietary and supplementary vit B-12 for a few days before a blood draw, shouldn't the test show a near-zero score for vit B-12?”  [0:57:16]

Answer

Yeah. Yeah, it should. Depending on whether you're eating rich meats, liver, things like that, that's rich in the B vitamins, animal products are. So that could be a source that you're getting it from. 

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“My husband has pseudomonas in his lungs. It is colonized in his lungs. According to Mayo Clinic, a sinus doctor and infectious disease doctor, there is nothing he can do about it, and he cannot get rid of it. Is there anything that you can suggest he do?”  [0:57:54]

Answer

I think that we saw that one already from back before. Well, we talked about the low-carb diet, carnivore, stop eating at 3:00, exercise, systemic enzymes, getting your vitamin D up to the 100 level, getting high-dose vitamin C IVs with chelation to improve microcirculation, and then ozonation of the blood with ultraviolet light and ozone treatments. So, at least 10, as often as you can do at a 1-month to 5-week period. Try to get 10. 

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“I recently stopped taking Metagenics SpectraZyme on your recommendation and started Ortho Digestzyme (Ortho Molecular Products) or Digestive Enzymes, depending on what gets sent to me. There are additional items in these products, including OX Bile. What are the benefits and any concerns for taking Ox Bile? Thank you and God bless you.”  [0:58:44]

Answer

I don't know of any risks to taking Ox Bile. Remember, you have to have an emulsifier to help your fat get absorbed from what you're eating, and that's what Ox Bile does. So, I only know of the benefits. 

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“How helpful can colonics be?”  [0:59:25]

Answer

I am not a big fan of colonics. I think I'm not anti-colonics, but I have just never seen them make a big difference. Now, when I did the doctorate in 1999, and we went through the colonic treatments and stuff, I have just gone through, you know, the past 30, 40 years without seeing much of an impact. So, I've done them. You know, I'm trying to learn throughout all the years. Maybe my better hair and skin are from those original colonics, I don't know, but I'm not against them. They just have to be in good hands because that's pressurized up your colon, and you don't want to have any perforation from too much pressure. So, be careful. 

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“I have Graves’ disease, 5 years, taking methimazole with a growing goiter, and recently noticed some skin thickening on my shins and toes. Could this be related to thyroid dermopathy? What treatment options are there for shrinking goiter or skin symptoms? What are the causes? My WBC is lower than normal. Should I try herbs like bugleweed, lemon balm, motherwort?”  [1:00:20]

Answer

I have not seen those things. When I did that doctorate, we did herbs, we did the essential oils, we did ayurvedic therapy. I'm not saying there isn't some benefit to supportive behavior for thyroid function, but in this situation, if you have Graves’, I don't know if you have the exophthalmic changes, your eyes bulging out, or anything like that, but you have to be with your endocrinologist on the methimazole typically for Graves’. But we can do all these metabolic things to de-inflame your body. It's an autoimmune inflammatory thing. So, if we disinflame you, detox you, remove heavy metal toxins, pathogens, viruses, then you'll do very fine. 

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“My sister, 69 years old, had a tumor removed from her left breast, stage 1. After removal, all resected margins were negative for invasive and ductal carcinoma. The tumor stained 95% estrogen and 60% progesterone, and was HER2 negative. Ki-67 Tumor stained 13%. Protocol moving forward, 50 gram vitamin C, chelation, fenbendazole, ivermectin…?”  [1:01:34]

Answer

Well, you know, I'm not an oncologist. She should be under the care of an oncologist. If she comes to people like us, we are here to help with her nutrition, build up her immune system, detox toxins/heavy metals, improve microcirculation and oxygenation, improve metabolic glucose metabolism, and guide her in these things. So, the answer is, I think that's a wonderful thing to do. Remember, if you biopsied my breasts right now, they would be estrogen positive and estrogen receptor positive because I'm normal, I'm a normal woman, and I am on progesterone and estradiol, so I will have these receptors. It's natural. That doesn't mean it's causative. That is not the cause of cancer. It's just a handle upon which they use to inhibit all the breast cells from growth or manage the cancer with. It doesn't mean it's causative. 

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“What natural supplements or foods would you recommend and/or not recommend to an Alzheimer's patient? Thank you.”  [1:02:59]

Answer

Dr. Breden wrote a book, and it summarizes all the things we’ve been doing long before his book was written, and I’m glad he did it. He’s a neurologist, so he can claim that area of expertise. But basically, it’s the carnivore diet, which is the diet you need to be on. So, the foods you have to stay away from are all the plant foods, carbohydrates, starchy grains, fruits, and all those things. Number two, you have to be on what we find is natural hormone replacement therapy to help the brain, exercise to help the brain, adequate hydration, good sleep and waking cycles, and grounding yourself in the morning. These are the beginnings. And vitamin D, get that vitamin D level up to that 100 range. So, find a good functional doctor and do those, and we would cover several other things, along with natural hormone replacement therapy. 

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“What is the best form of vitamin C? Isn’t ascorbic acid the synthetic form?”  [1:04:12]

Answer

No, it’s not synthetic at all. Vitamin C is the natural vitamin C. Ascorbic acid was found by Szent-Gyorgyi in 1957. It’s all natural. But we don’t get it from China. We do the bit source. We pay higher prices to give our patients the reproducible, accountable sourcing of our material.