YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, December 23, 2025

Question
“A friend of mine is experiencing bad gout in one foot. Can this be cured or at least made better? What causes this? Thank you so much.”  [0:03:47]

Answer
Gout is a uric acid crystal that accumulates, and you're not going to want to hear me say this, but it's usually due to stressing your liver with a high fructose or alcohol and fructose, high carbohydrate diet, and you move toward fatty liver. And we're seeing an explosive epidemic of fatty liver disease in our children, our teenagers. We're seeing some even damage to the point of the liver cells needing a liver transplant. Never heard before in teenagers. What happens is that the metabolic pathway for fructose, which is really a toxin, is on the same metabolic pathway as alcohol. It's different than glucose. So, fructose, when it's metabolized in the liver, goes through a different metabolic pathway that spits out uric acid as an end-product and high triglycerides. Now, we're seeing this all over the place. It's part of this whole chronic metabolic disease phenomenon of our corrupt standard American diet. It is a corrupt diet. It's not real food. It's a processed, highly rich fructose sweetened for addiction tendencies and dependencies, rich in carbohydrate, very refined carbohydrates. Not to mention all the sugar, even the molecule of sugar is one glucose and one fructose molecule. So, even white granular sugar is 50% fructose. We are consuming, ladies and gentlemen, deadly amounts. And there was a book written by Dr. Yudkin that was suppressed, just like they suppress us doctors. In January of 2020, February of 2020, they took my YouTube down, all about our discussion about this so-called COVID virus and pandemic. Dr. Yudkin warned everyone about sugar, and he had a book cover that was a pile of sugar being poured out, and it said Pure, White, and Deadly, Dr. Yudkin. His book was suppressed, just like they can control the media to make us think and look in another direction. Put a sparkly over here, and we look over there. So, they elevated Keys’ “theory of heart disease” through a saturated fat hypothesis for heart disease, and instead of also looking at the sugar carbohydrate that had exploded into the American diet since the 1920s. 

Now, we had better have an open discussion platform. We had better have doctors listen and be open to many concepts, and we should have better-informed doctors, not trained by the pharmaceutical control of our medical school educational training programs. And they control the American Dietetic Association through these big pharmaceutical-bought-off influencers. And so, you can't get a dietician or a nutritionist who will tell you these things properly. So, it's a real mess. So, we have to, by the grace of God, try and educate one another, start getting some of these old books, reading them, and start lifting up the old-time doctors, like Linus Pauling, Szent-Gyorgyi, who discovered and got the Nobel Prize also for vitamin C. Start looking at these kinds of doctors and get their information. Men who have done a great gift for healthcare, Dr. Klenner, who did the high dose vitamin C during the polio outbreak in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, with high dose vitamin C, had a 100% cure of all his polio patients. And what was the name of the doctor out here in California…It wasn't Klenner. It was McClellan, I think, something like that. But anyway, there were two doctors. Then there was Dr. Ray Evers, who got the right for doctors to prescribe off-label due to our superior licensing ability from our education, to prescribe medicines off-label, beyond what they were originally intended for. And I would say, you know, a good maybe 30-40% of all medications are used and prescribed off-label. But he had to go to Congress to secure this statement in giving doctors the right to give EDTA chelation therapy to cardiovascular patients and not be persecuted by the American Academy of Cardiology just because a general practitioner would also give chelation. The cardiologists felt they owned the patient, and no one could tell them or help with their management of the cardiovascular risk profile. 

So we have turf wars and pride and arrogance and money and godlessness in our professions. We need to get back to God. We need to get back to a love of the patient, as the compassion that should drive you to become a doctor or a nurse. It's just pure love of people. And that love, even if you aren't the most knowledgeable in any one field, you're supposed to be intelligent enough to get into medical school to be able to study out a topic. You should be intelligent enough to get into medical school to be able to pick up an area of concern and go to your magazines, publications, and books, and get educated on a topic to dive deeper into the care of your ne unique presentation of patients in your lifetime experience to become a better and better doctor.

Now, that's not what people want to hear. You have to work harder the older you get as a physician. Where's all the money? Where are all the vacations? Where's all the gooby diamonds and nail painting and hair plating and goobers of junk like that? You know what? There's room for a space like this. But in general, we're supposed to be here for service and to provide help. It's not about us and our entertainment profile, and you'd better start raising doctors and institutions that look for the mission of service to humanity in your healthcare providers in their training programs, instead of some pompous IQ pinheaded professor selection program that's bought out by industries to come up with research that suits their industry commercials. All right, so much for that. But anyway, gout is something that is generated by lifestyle. So, if this person wants to “cure themself,” they need to forswear sugar and fructose fruit sugar, and they should be eating protein and vegetables, salt and pepper, butter, and not eat past say 5 o’clock, 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and there should be an immediate reduction in the production of uric acid. Be well hydrated to improve the microcirculation and bring down the inflammation of the joint. And then take systemic enzymes to reduce the inflammation of the whole body, along with a good functional medicine doctor looking at all the other aspects, their blood type, how late they eat, what their stressors are, and these kinds of things. But in general, that's the route I would go. 

Question
“Hi, Dr. E. To heal a fungal toenail, can you soak it in Argentyn? How about Epsom salt? What works best?”  [0:12:34]

Answer
Yes, you can. My experience is Argentyn. But I'll tell you, the fungus is in the keratin of the nail and in the dead skin cells, and it's quite deep, and it takes quite a long and quite dedicated patient to do this consistently. Typically, what I do is I will soak the toenail in Argentyn. And then after it's been thoroughly soaked with that, then I will put alcohol, rubbing alcohol, to dry out all the water to make the toe drier, and I'll use my hair dryer to dry the toe and not go to bed with any footwear on or socks to get that, and try and have the person get as much natural sunlight on the feet as possible. Epsom salts, I have not seen do such a thing. I'm not going to recommend that at all. There are those who use certain essential oils, but I've never seen anything work as well as either acetic acid and Argentyn silver, or acetic acid, like apple cider vinegar, and Argentyn, and drying, rubbing alcohol to get the water out of the foot, and drying it up nicely. And then of course you have to eat a very low-carb diet. Then you can make the argument to take enzymes, and then you can make the argument to do EDTA chelation for microcirculation to get the immune system and better tiny capillaries to the nail bed. 

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“Hi, Dr. E. My 86-year-old mother is on statins for high cholesterol. How do you prevent plaque build-up without taking statins? I’m trying to get her off of them. Thank you for your wealth of knowledge.”  [0:14:40]

Answer
How sad. I don't understand the logic behind that. I would talk to your cardiologists, and I would first watch the YouTube video called High Cholesterol is Healthy. Anyone over 70 years old who does not have a total cholesterol level of over 200 is not going to have a healthier long life. Watch that YouTube, High Cholesterol Is Healthy, and that's by Dr. Berry and Dr. Diamond, and they go after study, study, study, study, and they discuss this. It was put out almost a year ago. And then, after you've watched it two to three times, you insist that the cardiologist watch it and explain the justification for why cholesterol would do that because it will interrupt the mitochondria and confusion in the brain, it will be associated with fatigue, muscle wasting risks, and the extension of life or any minuscule anti-inflammatory effect they might even bring up is so limited that really the studies basically show it is largely attributed for maybe extending life by one week in all the retrospective meta-analysis. So why on earth would you do that? Put her on a low-carb diet. So, watch that video. 

How do you prevent plaque? You reduce inflammation. What causes the greatest amount of inflammation? A high-carb diet in America, full of fructose sugar, eating too late, lack of exercise, and lack of water. 

“I'm trying to get her off of them.” Good girl. You can just stop them. You know, you don't have to taper off of them, but discuss it with her doctor, watch those videos, and then have an educated conversation over this. And again, I should say, when I talk about these things, this isn't meant to be individual advice medically on any one patient over YouTube. This is meant to be how I look at these problems that are presented to me, like gout or toenail fungal infections, all this. This is educational, and I hope that you just take these educational recommendations. Study them up yourself and discuss them with your local healthcare provider or specialist. 

Question
“It’s lonely being the only one in my extended family that eats healthy. Wish I had someone to share this lifestyle with because I have rheumatoid arthritis and migraines. They at least respect my diet and lifestyle.”  [0:17:58]

Answer
Well, praise the Lord. We each are here for a reason, and our lives have an impact on those that God has put in our lives. You have no idea. Maybe there's someone who is listening to you. God forbid they develop a chronic medical disease problem, but the likelihood is, what, about 90% plus of all Americans are having chronic metabolic diseases, and we have an obesity epidemic, and we have all this epidemiological explosion of diabetes in the teenagers and young people, and the explosion of obese newborn babies. Let's give ourselves a break here. We need to hold the line, walk in faith, hope, and love, and reach out to our families, and say, I am for having fun on your Christmas dinner, whatever day you're going to celebrate that on, but not Christmas dinner two, Christmas dinner three, Christmas dinner four, and then leftovers. Okay. So, good for you. God bless you. 

Question
“I had a 3-minute CT scan for a possible cranial cerebrospinal fluid leak. Do I need to worry about radiation exposure, or do anything post scan? No contrast.”  [0:19:22]

Answer
Well, that's good, it wasn't any contrast because that has gadolinium in it, which is a heavy metal dye that helps demarcate the tissues with a little bit more articulation. However, vitamin C is the universal antitoxin. I don't care what disease, what poison you're talking about. In general, high-dose vitamin C is designed to reduce oxidative stress in all-cause situations. So, I would take oral as much as you can tolerate. Most people can only tolerate about 4 to 6 grams before they start getting diarrhea. A high-dose vitamin C immune drip, we have 25, 50, 75, and 100 grams. That would be a wonderful thing to do. And stay very well-hydrated, and take the systemic enzymes on an empty stomach so that you can stay disinflamed, but that would be my recommendation. 

Question
“Can lack of REM sleep really cause psychological problems?”  [0:21:00]

Answer
REM sleep, that's the deep phase of sleep. The answer is absolutely yes. One of the things that is newer in research coming out lately is that the amino acid glycine taken as 2 to 3 grams, usually you can get this over the counter at a health food store, glycine, taken about a half an hour, an hour before bedtime, really helps sleep, along with magnesium and that would be magnesium glycinate, and the two together help dip people into a longer and healthier prolonged sleep. There is Dr. Matthew Reid, PhD, MD. He’s about 87 years old, 86-88 years old, and he is one of the most knowledgeable professors, doctors, and clinicians on high-dose melatonin. And I'm talking 100 grams is what this gentleman takes. For almost 30 years, he's been using it as an anti-aging phenomenon. Of course, he sleeps beautifully. So, if you look at some YouTubes on Dr. Reid, or you know, I'm having senile brain, maybe it's Reiter. But one of those two names on YouTube, look for melatonin, Dr. Reid or Reiter, and you can see his lectures on it, and that helps with deep REM sleep and repair. 

Question
“Any tips on how to judge one of those IV vitamin D drip places to see if the quality is good? I have a friend in another county, and she wants to do that.”  [0:22:52]

Answer
You know, I don't know. I am for free enterprise, I am for the availability and choice. There was a philosophy to the libertarian, to the capitalists, the free enterprise, the constitutional liberty and freedoms we have, and the statement is ‘Buyer Beware,’ and that's why you're asking me, do I have any knowledge on this? I think these IV hydration centers have a doctor who is kind of a sidekick, in my experience over the many decades seeing these kind of things, where they're just making money to put their MD name while some nurse or physician assistant or paramedic emergency technician is out there doing IVs and pulling up nutrients in sterile access resourced vitamin bottles, vitamin C, magnesium, zinc, B vitamins hopefully. A lot of this vitamin C they get is from China. China. And God bless the people of China. We love them, but they live under a communist oppressive society. And so, I'm against the government corruption there that steals their wealth and keeps them in this poverty and lack of ability to improve and mobility, and they're under constant surveillance. God help them. If they were to ever say anything such as what I'm saying, they would lose their ability to buy food or rent an apartment. This is evil, what their government does. But the corn that is the source for most of the vitamin C in these cheap IV centers is from China. And I don't believe in supporting a totalitarian government oppressing its people. I believe in freedom, and I love the Chinese people. So, that's why I don't like these IV centers, these hydration centers, because it's just money. If these people really cared about you, they would open up an office as I have, and I take responsibility for everyone coming in and for everything that I say and do. And that's the right thing, to have personal accountability. So, I suppose, yes, you could go to these urgent cares, but they put in lower doses, or they call every IV, you know, the sexual IV, the migraine IV, the joint pain IV, or the digestion enhancement or the relaxation muscle IV, and basically these are all really the same IVs with different names on them. It's such a ripoff in general. I wish the best for people, and I wish the accessibility was there, but I'm sorry, you have to go to the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine and get trained on chelation therapy, high-dose vitamin C, ozone therapy, and get real training in this and experience. And then you'll be so proud of it, you'll want to set your little picture out there and name, and you want to settle down and help a dear group of people and just be dedicated to them, not to money, not to the income potentials, but to a dedicated amount of people that you can help. All right, that's what we're missing, folks. People are dedicated to money, and those IV centers, bank money. All right. 

Question
“Do you think that oregano oil is valuable to ward off illness?”  [0:27:45]

Answer
Yes, it is an oil that has antiviral/antiparasitic capabilities. No doubt oregano oil has this. And when oregano oil is made, it's taking in some of the polyphenols from the oregano plant, which has powerful plant phytochemicals in it, and these are working as antiviral/antibacterial/antifungal/antiparasitic. But do you really need it? Now, again, I have worked in medicine for 45 years, my heart and mind are open to parasites, okay, and I've looked at this, and I've done tens of thousands of the best first studies in complete digestive stool analysis for all this flora and parasites, etc. And I just don't see the parasites that everyone thinks are there. And I did a second doctorate in integrative medicine, even studying the Enderlein Theory of the pleomorphic stages of argument, or the theory that microorganisms can exist in different forms, one a parasite sometimes, a virus sometimes. All right. So, I was open to it, I just have not seen it, and I have been working every day for 45 years without a vacation, essentially. Never any time off. Yes. If there was a funeral, I went to a funeral for one day. I put my patients’ needs first in general. And I just don't see that. 

So, why do we need oregano oil? Why don't we eat a low-carb diet and eat real food, and try to stay away from these pharmaceuticals and pesticides/herbicides, and then occasionally chelate and live as healthy a life as we can? Find a good functional doctor who will know how to do some checkups on things like this to make sure you have a good, complete digestive stool analysis, if needed, and good vitamin D, a good immune system. Find out your blood type. Don't eat late at night. Exercise regularly. Stay well hydrated. Use natural hormones as you age. And be followed by a good functional doctor. And that's what I think we need, not oregano oil, per se. 

Question
“Heard that the FDA may be banning mushroom tinctures because they aren’t proven.”  [0:30:23]

Answer
You know, Maitake, Reishi mushroom extracts, they have inositol 6-phosphate, they have beta 6-glucans. Again, these are plant extracts from the mushroom family that are powerful stimulators of the immune system, in particular those T-cells that are killer cells in the human immune system that try to seek out cancer or abnormal cells and attack them and kill them. And they're always working. We're probably always killing precancerous or early cancerous tumor cell lines throughout our whole lives. So, you can buy mushrooms at the Farmers Market, and you can eat them. So, even if they ban it, you know, we can still do these good things. 

Question
“Hi, Dr. E. Is it true that all tea is toxic because the soil is rich in fluoride?”  [0:31:26]

Answer
Well, we can get paranoid. We can start seeing, you know, I remember the McCarthy days when I was a very little girl, and they would yell at Senator McCarthy and say he sees a communist under every bush. And it turns out he was right. It turned out the conspiracy theory was correct. What Senator Joe McCarthy was pointing out turned out to be true. But we could get ourselves all worked up in a tizzy because there are toxins everywhere. They're putting out the chemtrails. During the government shutdown, did you notice how clean the skies were for those 43 days? Anyway. So, we're getting heavy metals dumped on us. They're still using pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. They're still doing industrialized farming, and they are not doing local farming, which involves rotating the nutrients and replenishing the soil, letting the soil rest in sequences. So, it's difficult, not to mention all the stupid stuff they market to you to buy to put on your body. A paste for this, a makeup for that, a goop for this, a perfume for that, a deodorant for this, a foot massage for that, an acrylic nail for this. My god, we are putting in so much goop on our bodies. Thank the Lord I never did a day of any of that kind of junky stuff. And maybe I'm as healthy as I am in my 70s because I refuse to buy chemicals at the drugstore or at the lady beauty shop, or whatever these places are, because I never go there. I don't buy their stuff. I accept what God has given me, and I just keep it clean. I don't overbathe. And we're going to be exposed to these toxins all our lives until we get on the phone (202) 224-3121, and you call your congressman, and you say, "Please stop the chemtrails.” Look up geoengineeringwatch.org and get more informed on that. Or talk to them about the pesticide/herbicide/fungicide. Call them and say, " Tell them to stop it. Talk about the corruption of the healthcare system. The Affordable Care Act that Obama pushed on us in 2014 has absolutely 129% increased the cost of premiums. I had to give up my own health insurance for my family as a doctor. I couldn't afford it. It was up to $1,400 a month for just one person in my family. Give me a break, Affordable Care Act. Give me a break. God bless, you know, the death of McCain when he went like that and laughed, and he promoted and didn't let them stop the Obama Care Act, the Affordable Care Act. So, we have these horrific mafia-run insurance programs, making all the money, and we poor people, even we doctors, really can't afford it. No, the system is corrupt. So, you get on the phone (202) 224-3121. And whatever item is of your concern, maybe you love Obamacare, and you have all the money in the world. You know, I'm not telling you what to say. I can't afford it, and I'm a doctor. I drive a 2006 Saturn SUV. The same little rumpity dumpity little old car that I had a few years after I opened this place decades ago. I have the same car. I really can't afford another car. So, don't tell me we make and go after money here. We don't. At least not me. 

So, let your thoughts be known to your congressmen, to your township, your city council, your local state government representatives. Otherwise, you'll get the government they want to give you. All right? Hopefully, let's not worry about all the corruption out there. Let's just start with what we can. Try to purposely get rid of fluoride. Don't use mouthwash. Don't use the fluoride toothpaste. Filter your water if you can. There are filters that help get the fluoride out of your water in your home. Don't bathe in it. And that's a good starting point.

Question
“This question is urgent. In reference to my 87-year-old Aunt Deanne Smith, a former patient of yours in North Carolina. She thought she had occipital neuralgia, but a doctor today thinks she may have giant cell arteritis and wants her to have a biopsy of her temporal artery in the morning. We prefer an MRI or ultrasound. She has had two days of steroids. What is your advice? Appreciate prayers.”  [0:36:30]

Answer
I'm not there as the doctor. I'm going to have to defer to whoever is in charge of her care there. Now, in general, with giant cell arteritis, or temporal arteritis, is another old name they gave her that disease; the cause is unknown. Of course, it's unknown because it's generated by the lifestyle of the standard American diet. It's an inflammatory diet. So, if she went on a fast for 24, 48, 72 hours, if she took the steroids, then she became a carnivore, which will calm the gut, one of the major sources of introducing inflammation into your body, if a person with temporal arteritis would take the systemic enzymes on an empty stomach 5, like Vitalzym, twice a day, if they would take their vitamin D, now all that natural carnivore food would give the phospholipids and proteins to repair all of these areas that show the injury to the endothelial lining of the artery there that creates this inflammation. And if she could find a local doctor there who would give her chelation therapy with high-dose vitamin C, this would tremendously reduce inflammation. It takes weeks to disinflame, disinflame, disinflame. And if she would only eat until 3 o’clock in the morning. And I don't remember what her blood type was, but at her age, she should probably also be using digestive enzymes, her vitamin D, her multivitamins, her methylated B complex. She should probably be taking Iodoral iodine 12.5 mg. These are the standard things we give with vitamin D 10,000 K2, and drink half her weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. So, eat only up until 3:00 PM, and eat a carnivore-like diet. Try to find a local ACAM.org chelation provider that'll give the vitamin C with chelation to improve the circulation, and then the carnivore diet will reduce outside sources from the food that are inflaming, and that is the direction I would handle my patients with temporal arteritis or giant cell arteritis. But it is a serious disorder, and I can't see her. I don't know what her situation is. So, she's a B-type blend. Okay. So, I would stick with digestive enzymes, the limited eating, the carnivore diet, the systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day, four or five, and the digestive enzyme with every protein meal she eats. Move, move, move, exercise, walk, walk, walk, and get those chelations and take those nutrients, and see if this doesn't improve. Remember, the microcirculation will help the vestibular neuritis, it'll help this issue, it'll help the vast, anything central, all over the human body, it will help everything. These are diets that just really reduce the body to a very healthy healing state. And that's what I would recommend.

Question
“Hi, Dr. E. My husband is 66 and has a swollen prostate and is making it difficult to urinate, which sometimes causes UTIs. He is taking the medication Flonase (Tamsulosin). It doesn’t seem to be working well. Is there a supplement that will help, or is surgery the best option? Thank you.”  [0:40:31]

Answer
Well, what I would suggest is the very thing I said for Jenna's mother. In other words, we all – and like when I had my bad cold these past two weeks, and I had the laryngitis, I was able to stay well enough to go to work every day and not, you know, just heal faster by staying home four or five days and just shutting out a week's worth of patients. I couldn't see because I know you people so dearly, I didn't want to miss any of you. So, what I did was I just went on a fast for a couple of days. I did the high-dose vitamin C drip. I did my enzymes. I did all these things I'm telling you. And so, it applies to every virus, every injury, every disease out there, and that includes the prostate. So, a two-day fast, taking the systemic enzymes on an empty stomach, taking things like saw palmetto or those plant chemicals that are associated with Serenoa repens, which is saw palmetto pumpkin seeds. If he ate two tablespoons of raw pumpkin seeds every day, that's so rich in prostate-relieving plant phytochemicals that support its health, along with the systemic enzymes, along with an extremely low carbohydrate diet, along with not eating past 3 o'clock past the age of 60 years old, so try and don't eat late, regular exercise and the enzymes, vitamin D, iodine. These are things that I would do. 

Question
“I had my thyroid removed. I have been getting the medication adjusted for the last two years. Levothyroxine 150 mcg and liothyronine 10 mcg. TSH low, T4 High, diabetes on roller coaster. Any tips to help? They also want me to take Farxiga, but I am scared to take that weight loss drug to help with diabetes.”  [0:42:49]

Answer
Fine. It should be. If you're on thyroid replacement medicine, we don't need the TSH, okay. What I need to know, or what your doctor should want to know, is what your free T3 is. Not your total T3. What is your free T3? And then we'll know if you're getting enough active real thyroid hormone out of the levothyroxine and out of the liothyronine. So, the T4 is high because you're taking T4 in the form of levothyroxine 150 mcg. You're taking all the precursors, levothyroxine 150 mcg. You have to convert it into T3. Apparently, you're not doing so well, and so your doctor gave you liothyronine 10 mcg. And so, you should have your free T3 managed. And we love free T3, as long as it doesn't give you a rapid resting heart rate, tremulousness, or diarrhea. So, if you have a level, we call it normal up to about 6, sometimes 8 or even 10, and with the doctor examining you on these doses. If you've just taken it and you peak up to a 10, but then you're going to come down all day, and you don't have these symptoms, then that's still a safe level for you. 

“Diabetes on roller coaster. Any tips to help?” Well, everything I've been saying about exercise, don't eat late, low carb, get away from fructose, find out your blood type, and get digestive enzymes to help the food be more effective when you do eat it. Try to find a functional local doctor who understands these principles. Drink your water, don't eat late, and be on foundational iodine and foundational vitamin D3 with K2 and systemic enzymes on an empty stomach, digestive enzymes. When you eat your food, if you're over 60, methylated B complex, mineral chelates, you know, a good multimineral chelate, and then a very good, healthy, rich protein and healthy fat diet, not eating late. That's what I would do. 

And she goes on to say, "They also want me to take Farxiga. I am scared to take that.” I'm going to have to write that down because I don't know what that name is. I might know the generic name, but the trade name I'm not familiar with. I'm a general practitioner, not an endocrinologist. Farxiga. All right. I have to find out what Farxiga is. All right. So, that's all I can say on that. 

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“What can be done to get this “higher”: CREATININE 0.46 L Reference Range: 0.50-1.05 mg/dL, and What can be done to get this “lower”: BUN/CREATININE RATIO 26 H Reference Range: 6-22 (calc).”  [0:46:17]

Answer
That's not low. That's just a report on a printed-out computer page, and your doctor should understand that that's not of concern. Reference range is 0.5, you're a 0.46. Give me a break. That's within normal variation of humans, and how much water you drank right before the lab was done. And what can be done to get this lower? Don't worry about it. Find your doctor and have this followed through. We are variable, how much water we take at the time right before the lab. There's nothing wrong with a 0.46 for creatine. And then this theoretical blood urea nitrogen - creatinine ratio is 26, high, again, ignore that. You're only off by a couple of points. This is another way that the corrupt medical system can do a kind of study on kidney function. When you have a low creatinine, but you're eating enough protein, let's say 22, and you divide 0.46 into whatever your creatinine is, 15 or 12, you'll get this higher number. It's meaningless. What you would have to do if there was a serious concern about kidney function is a 24-hour urine collection for proteins, creatine, and things like that. So, this is silly stuff to make money, and another visit to make doctors more money. I have seen this for 45 years, and they say the upper limit of normal for the creatinine is 1.0? Give me a break. When I was an active duty captain in the United States Army, majoring up for lieutenant colonel, taking care of pilots, it was normal to have a creatinine of 1.7 in the lab back then in the 70s, of a 1.7. So, don't give me the stuff that a creatinine of 1.05 is normal. They just need more patience, and/or people are eating themselves into disease with a lousy diet, harming their kidneys with their high blood pressure, and with their bad lifestyle. We, here in this community of patients that we take so good care of, all have wonderful kidneys. My 86-year-olds, my 91-year-olds, my 100-year-olds are doing beautifully. Praise be to God Almighty. Yeah. So, don't worry about that. They're nitpicking on that. 

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“My B12 serum panel showed 439 with a reference range of 200-1100 pg/mL, and my doctor thinks I need to raise the 439 because it is low (recommending supplementation of 1000 mcg daily). What are your thoughts on this?”  [0:48:42]

Answer
Again, the stupid braindead doctor range where they can't think or do any personal studying, they say 200 to 1100. Okay, well, gee, doctor, is the 200 the healthier side or the 1100 the healthier side? Well, news flash, doctor. Actually, the 1100 and higher, over 2,000, is a very wonderful thing. Why? Because B vitamins are water-soluble, you pee them out every day. The older you get, the more you need. So, yeah, if you tell me yours is 439, yeah, you need methylated B more in your body. 

Question
“Can perfect Aminos heal a torn hamstring tendon?"  [0:49:22]

Answer
They are part of the healing process, but a healthy, rich protein diet and healthy fats are part of it too. Iodine is a part of it. A good amount of water is a healthy part of it. Taking collagen in the form of your protein or supplements is a good part of it. Sunlight is part of it. A good night's sleep is part of it. So yeah, Perfect Aminos can be helpful. 

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“I had my DEXA today, and it shows further bone loss. For two years, I've been on hormone replacement therapy, and I've followed all your recommendations as your patient. I also strength train and do OsteoStrong. What should I do? More calcium?”  [0:50:10]

Answer
Not calcium. No, don't do the calcium. You should make an appointment with me. If you're my patient, please make an appointment with me so we can review these results, and I can put the whole picture together, including what your hormone levels are. If your estradiol level is 40, 50, or 60, and you're not having hot flashes and sleeping okay, but I see your bone density is not climbing or losing a little bit, then maybe we need to push your estradiol level to the 120-150 range. So, there are many nuances to it. What is your vitamin D level? If your vitamin D is 60, maybe we need to get your vitamin D level up to 120. Okay? So, there are many nuances to that. So, let's make sure we have an appointment on that and discuss it. 

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“What should you do to get better at something that requires a skill you're not confident in?"  [0:51:15]

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Practice, repetition over and over again. I am still trying to learn how to bring out my old little 9-year-old piano lessons and trying to learn the piano again, and you just have to get better at this by repetition, repetition. Please keep it up. Please just repeat. 

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“Do teenagers need B vitamins if they have the MTFHR gene? Should I test their homocysteine first?”  [0:51:48]

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Absolutely, they do. Well, about 40% of all Americans have gene snips anywhere from, you know, a complete homozygote to heterozygous and variations of the APOE gene snips. The ones that have all four missing will definitely need methylated B vitamins, which will be quite adequate and wonderful to support them. The vast majority, I would say 50-70% of them that do have one or two genes missing, they're just going to need a modest daily commitment to methylated B vitamins. Yes. So that should be all handled. 

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“Should I put my kids on iodine 6.25 mg or more? They are 20, 19, and 16. All tested deficient.”  [0:52:38]

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I'm all in favor of it. We don't have enough in our American diet. The Japanese who are high performers on the SIT score, intelligence tests, complex problem solving, violinists, you know, the big performers in industry and academia, their average consumption is 12.5 mg a day up to 50 mg a day. So, yeah. “They're 20-year-old, 19-year-old, and 16. All tested deficient.” Absolutely. I'd put them on 12.5 mg Iodoral once a day. 

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“Dr E., I just started taking Juice Plus. Do I still need to take a separate vitamin C and methylated B complex, or does Juice Plus contain all of it? Could you share what other multivitamins are needed in addition to Juice Plus? Thank you, and God's beautiful blessing is prayed for you.”  [0:53:24]

Answer
It does, and it depends on how deficient and stressed out you are and the age of your life. So I have some people with higher homocysteine, so I start them on Juice Plus, and their homocysteine levels come down. And that's with research. Juice Plus has independent university-based peer-reviewed clinical studies that prove helping reduce cardiovascular disease risk and homocysteine. And because we know these are plant sources, their vitamin C is definitely part of the phytochemical profile in the 30 different fruits, vegetables, or berries that are in them. So, it can be adequate. But you should see a doctor to check what your needs are and who you are in particular, your age and your needs, because I do have, I take Juice Plus still today, and I'm 72, but I also now take vitamin C in addition to that, plus a few other supplements, quite a few other supplements. 

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“Is L. reuteri yogurt good for you? I've been hearing a lot about it.”  [0:54:29]

Answer
Well, you know, again, YouTube is full of clickbait. And I know Dr. Davis, I think it's the cardiologist who is promoting L. reuteri and his books on it, and yada yada yada. Bless his heart. The data is true and has significant merit in research that is growing. Thanks to us who have been doing the 45, 50, plus more years of opening up functional medicine. I'm glad and so thankful that Dr. Davis, as a cardiologist and all the prestige and money he made on that, is now finally putting out YouTube and data and writing books with his vast wealth that he has in his narrow field of cardiology to expand into this whole world of gut health and his total impact on total body health, including heart health. God bless him. Praise him for this. But you know, there were people out there, like Dr. Levine in the 1970s and ‘60s, who started the first complete digestive stool analysis report that was done at Great Smokies Medical Center and put out there, and had the first study of the gut biome. It was a huge task, but that wonderful doctor sat down and started doing it. How about we glorify Dr. Levine and get a doctor, what is her name, another wonderful gastroenterologist up in Ventura? Dr. Hazan. She wrote the book called Oh Sh!t. Dr. Hazanis is now doing wonderful research on this. God bless her. God promoted her. May she get research money for it? 

But let's not forget all these doctors who lived on low income and did the hard work because they love their patients and they had a dream and a knowledge that they needed to study the poop, some of these, what, silly things. Okay. And how about the microcirculation of the whole body? And how about the inflammation as the argument for all cardiovascular disease? That's long before all these fancy-dancy cardiologists who are talking on YouTube today. Long before them, decades ago, when they were little boys before they ever got to medical school or high school, we had been working on the anti-inflammatory approach. So, let's give these wonderful God-fearing people honor for what they've done to help promote the field. But I never hear them give these guys glory, like Dr. Ray Evers or Dr. Julian Whitaker, even Dr. Privitera. So, anyway, praise their research. 

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“It's too bad there's no IV chelation to combat microplastics.”  [0:57:50]

Answer
Well, you know what? Microplastics, if you take a rich fermented diet of sauerkraut, kimchi, if you take probiotics, if you take chelation therapy, the antioxidants to help shield from the damaging effect of plastics, if you take a low carb diet, if you take systemic enzymes, see how these same things, and adequate hydration and exercise and mobility, sunlight, all these things are part of minimizing the damaging effect of microplastics. So, yeah, there are lots of reasons to take EDTA chelation with high-dose vitamin C and so forth. 

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“Are Copper bottles any good to help with the quality of water? Any health benefits?”  [0:58:40]

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We are, as a people, low in copper as well. Just like there's iodine phobia, there is copper phobia, and that's because medical doctors are physiologically and organically chemically inferiorly trained. Now, they can teach themselves. Remember, they were brought into medical school. Allegedly, if their SAT scores were valid, they had an IQ that should help them to be able to do research and study with these basic tools to study these things out. But they're lazy, and they don't love their patients, or maybe God. And if they did that, they'd be able to do these things and help you to understand the value of copper in iron metabolism, and so many poor women are anemic because they're copper-deficient. We're almost all copper-deficient. So, the story goes on and on and on.