YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 4, 2025

Question 

“Hi Dr. E., a friend has unexplained joint pain. She’s only 60. It may be worse on one side. What may this be and what can she do?”  [0:05:28]

Answer

Well, that’s a very broad thing. She’s a female, she’s 60 and she has pain in the joint areas. Well, very often, the general trend is we don’t drink enough water and we become dehydrated. Cartilage is only fed by diffusion and joint usage. So, those of us, as we age and we drink less and less water, we become chronically dehydrated and it becomes easier and easier to break, fracture, and harm the cartilage, and then we wind up with joint pains. One of the reasons why we tend to drink less water is, that as our brain shrinks with aging, the thirst centers become impacted first. So, we don’t actually feel as thirsty as we age. So we have to use our maturity as adults to understand the need for this since we’re made largely of water. Water will then diffuse into these joints and lubricate them and help the cell nutrition and resuscitation. 

Another thing that helps cell regeneration is natural hormone replacement therapies, especially estradiol for women. We always balance it with progesterone though. We might consider testosterone therapy to help the joints have better muscles around the upper and the lower aspect of every joint to give them the turgor and strength, so that as you’re using your joints in the range of motion, you have enough muscle mass to perform that action. Also, enough muscle mass will help you have posture and that posture will help all the many little tiny muscles that hold your whole skeleton and your 206 bones together. You must do weight resistance training. Another thing that helps with pain would be systemic enzymes to help remove unregenerate cells, cells that are so damaged, that they just have to be broken down and refurbished into other things, and we use enzymes to do that. 

So, those are the beginning points. Of course, you would see your doctor, your functional doctor. But if the water and the enzymes and doing the resistance training three times a week are not resolving this, you have to see your doctor and have another lab test to look for inflammation markers, sed rate, and hs-CRP. Maybe some rheumatoid factors or other autoimmune screening can be done. Very often, a very low-carb diet will be very beneficial in preventing joint pain. Very often, if you fast for 24 to 48 hours, if you can tolerate a 48-hour fast, that will force you to drink a lot of water. That will disinflame you right away and make you feel better. So, I don’t know the person in general. If you’re underweight or if you are an insulin-dependent diabetic, then I wouldn’t have you fast like that. So, those are just some general themes, some general routes that we would think about especially. So, I’m so thankful to be where I am without any joint pain and to be doing what I need to do.

Question

“Why is having blood sugar fluctuations dangerous?”  [0:09:16]

Answer

Well, it depends on how big the fluctuation is. There should be a range in which your blood sugars have an operational functional value. In America, we’re also pampered and so spoiled with marketing and addictive food corruption in our food systems, that we overeat the starch, fruit sugar, and carbohydrate content, and the food and restaurant food is manipulated with high-fructose corn syrup, even in salad dressings and ketchup, for heaven’s sakes. And that makes us have the blood sugar go up quickly, then the insulin chases it to get it to go down and then you become hungry again and tired, then you chase more carbs with the insulin response that chases down the rising blood sugar. So that Americans in general are running their blood sugars. You’ll see most labs say anywhere from 75 to 110 is a typical blood range for fasting. And in my book, that’s an absolutely stupid, harmful range. 

When we did missionary work, when Talon, my oldest son, was 8 or 9 years old, we went to Ecuador. Blood sugar levels of the people up in the mountains there in the morning before they had breakfast was around 45 to 50, and that includes the old man 100 years old, and the boys, 12 to 13 years old. Then they would eat their kind of goat curds and stuff and their blood sugar would double. It would go from like 45, 50 to 100. Then they do their morning work on the mountains and their blood sugar would come down to 45, again 50 around lunch time. And then they would eat their little packed beef jerkies or goat jerky and cheese and their blood sugar would double again, go back up to 100. And then they’d work the rest of the afternoon, and their blood sugar would come down right again around 50 before dinner time. And they would eat dinner, a little bit more food. But then they wouldn’t work and they would sleep. And so, slowly throughout the 8 or 10 hours, their blood sugar would gradually come back down to 45 or 50. Well, these people had no doctors, no medicine, no drugstores, nothing, and they would die of trauma or open fracture, things like that because they couldn’t get medical aid, but they lived a long, wonderful life. This was back in the 1980’s, was it? Yeah, 1988-89 I think is when I went there. And it taught me a lesson. When I went home and back to work at Fort Knox Ireland Army Hospital, I was sickened by our blood levels and our sugared up, juicy, sticky, gooey lifestyles and our sticky, gooey blood ranges. And so, I made a decision back then that I would always eat a very low-carb diet, way long before all your YouTube people and YouTube little talking heads talked about fasting, intermittent fasting, the low-carb lifestyle, carnivore diet. So, I kept my blood sugars to follow those ranges. In fact, I just had a glucose continuous monitor put on. My nurse put it on for me about a couple of months ago. And the problem was the alarm kept going off because my blood sugars would so often fall below 55. I eventually had to take it off because the alarm went off. So, I would operate always between 45 and 100 basically. And I think this is what we should look for, is that kind of a range. 

So, if you’re asking the question, why is having fluctuations dangerous, it’s because the fluctuations you’re talking about are probably most Americans have a fasting blood sugar of 90. And if you double it, it goes up to 180. That's a massive up and down with a huge insulin chasing and surge and drop. These extreme range changes like that and blood sugars damage the endothelial lining, the glycocalyx lining of your tiny blood vessels. This is what leads to oxidative damage to the blood vessels and eventual blood vessel damage and cardiovascular disease. So, you have to really relook at how you're going to live this life. Do you really deserve a break today? Do you really deserve that Coke? Do you really deserve that latte all sugared up? Do you really deserve that donut today? No, you don't. You've been marketed, to do this to yourself. Just walk away from it. Get a divorce from this manipulation of your mind and your fleshly tendencies. Just realize what they're doing to you, while they laugh at you making money off of you at the bank of the corrupt false healthcare system. Get angry. 

Question 

“Hi sis, thoughts on beef tallow Pemmican bars as a good snack for energy at work?”  [0:14:56]

Answer

I’ve never heard of Pemmican bars. Is that the kind of beef tallow, the Pemmican was an old-fashioned long-term survival food that the ancient, you know, 1700-1800 guys and women used to make this beef tallow rich salted bars, you might say. I would say if that's what you're talking about, that it is a good snack, and I would encourage it. 

Question 

“I'm having extreme burning between breasts and like tearing feeling. I have GERD. Could this be a hiatal hernia? I'm having a CT in a week or so.”  [0:16:38]

Answer

You know, I would say it's very likely that between your breasts and having that burning sensation, remember the esophagus from your mouth corners all the way down to your stomach, that tube, the esophagus itself, does not have any wrap around it. It doesn't have a sheathing like all your muscles and all your other organs do that has a sheath. So that you can get acid reflux burped into the lower third of your esophagus, and that acid can literally inflame the smooth muscles and striated muscles down there, and that inflammation can be literally felt somatically through the chest skin tissues and causes the burning. What would I do? I would say never ever ever eat past, say, 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon. Number two. I would get L-glutamine Glutagenics. These are amino acid powders. You can mix a heaping spoon in a little 2 to 3 ounces of water and drink that. Phospholipids and SBI Protect are very, very good powders and fats that make up that cell membrane of a double phospholipids bottom and top with the proteins. And you could take that powder with a little water multiple times a day. Don't eat past 4 or 5 o’clock and see if that would be enough.

Yes, you might have a hiatal hernia. I've never really seen surgeries to repair hiatal hernias make any big difference. I've seen complications with trouble with not being able to vomit after surgeries like that. So, I would rather learn to not eat late than to do surgical interventional things. Yes, you can take proton pump inhibitors, but there are harms to long-term use. Anything past two to six weeks of using an antacid like Nexium or the purple pill proton pump inhibitors to reduce stomach acid, that's just reducing a symptom. It's not a cure. And so if you have this Glutagenics Glutamine, GlutaShield powders that have the glutamine and the licorice and the aloe and all these stuff and you take a nice scoop of it in water, that's probably a very smart thing to do. Repairs with the Phospholipid and the SBI Protect. That's what I would do. 

Question 

“Thank you, Dr. Ellithorpe. Do you think that there may be better research funding for integrative medicine with the new administration?”  [0:19:57]

Answer

May the Lord make that happen. I pray that we can expose the corruption and the love of money, and how it makes even medical doctors PhD research scientists, and lab techs lie and cheat. We're all sinners, we've all fallen short of the glory of God, and we all are at risk of being tempted. And this unfortunately has happened. And what is this? Something like the CDC owns 56 patents and makes all this money, hundreds of thousands of royalty dollars, to the select researchers. It's a revolving door to work your way up and then go in and get put on the board of some pharmaceutical or research. This is such a sick, twisted, unconstitutional, not following the rule of law. This is so sad. So, may the Lord give wisdom to John F. Kennedy Jr. May we have the guts to open our eyes, and may we have the humility to accept the correction that's needed and move forward because these poor children don't deserve the lousy help that we have bequeathed to them and the lousy, filthy food that is subsidized in the hospitals and the school systems and the nursing homes and all these facilities that are bought off by the granaries and all the demanded list of endless injections they're given. No, we have the worst health. So, I pray, I pray for this. 

Question

“What supplements should you take to prevent a recurrence of breast cancer?”  [0:21:55]

Answer

What supplement? Well, there's a lot of good research coming out. Most of it is anecdotal. And this is why we need an open source. If we're going to allow a federal central government funding source for any research, it had better be equitable and not just go to big pharmacies and big universities. I have spent my money living in poverty trying to do things for cardiovascular/nutrition research out of my own dollar because I love God and I love my patients. So yeah, fenbendazole, mebendazole. Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and others need to be looked at. There's so much very good preventative pulse therapy. But also the very low-carb lifestyle. We are just absolutely destroyed by marketing and our lusts have been tickled by all this high-fructose corn syrup and entertainment junk food. So, sugar stimulates the cancer tumor growth, insulin stimulates growth, and the anaerobic pathways, I've been teaching this long before Seyfried ever taught this, and I'm glad he's done it. And good for him. But I was a part of the anti-glucose sugar stimulation out of Warburg for many, many decades. And so, I thank God for the trophoblastic theory of cancer by Professor John Beard, it said the hypoxic milieu that we develop from our original fertilized egg into the 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, you know, 64, 128 cells, there's no lungs or blood vessels there. It's a hypoxic lifestyle. We're all developed in hypoxia. And if your mother doesn't have good oxygenation and if she doesn't have a healthy uterine bloody lining for that to trigger that embedding of the developing baby and the trigger to have blood vessel attachment, later called a placenta, if you don't understand how very mimicking that is to cancer and the magnificent creation of our Lord to stop the invasion of that placenta beyond roughly day 56, it's just a miracle, and the triggers for that. So, I've been studying that since the 1980s, Professor John Beard, the trophoblastic theory of cancer, and Otto Warburg.

So, we're thankful for Thomas Seyfried, we're thankful for his boldness in publishing it, but there are many people who have been talking about this for decades. I don't know anything special. I am standing on the shoulders of so many people who went before me. Even Whitaker Wellness. When I worked out here in the early 1990s, Whittaker Wellness had a wealth of knowledge and was an inspiration to me after I got off active duty. And then all the ancients out there that helped develop me in the Doctorate of Integrative Medicine that I did in the late 1990s. Look at it, we have nothing to boast of. The only thing I boast about is my Lord and Savior, my King, Jesus Christ, that's what I boast about, and He has the answers, and He will lead us into all truth. 

So, what's the best supplement for breast cancer? Exercise, weightlifting, a low-carb diet. And I am going to say, look into something about fenbendazole, mebendazole, ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine. Look down those lines. I would be on a systemic enzyme, I would be on a digestive enzyme when I eat food, I would be on high-dose vitamin D, I would be on iodine, I would take an amino acid chelated multi-mineral that's rich in zinc and selenium, plus the other good multi-minerals, I would take Juice Plus, the most researched nutraceutical that shows more than 1,600 genes that are improved, including turning off cancer genes with Juice Plus There is no better supplements than those. Even just that much right there is fabulous. 

Question

“We are seeing a lot of Chem Trails and have heard good/bad/ugly about them. Is there something that we can be doing besides our regular TLC daily activities to protect ourselves from whatever this is?”  [0:26:52]

Answer

Yeah, when I was a flight surgeon and that's in the 1980s, late 80s, early 90s, yeah, they were dumping this crap on us back then. There's no doubt they would have barium oxides, strontium oxide, and aluminum oxides. And when that aluminum particulate stuff lands on the ground, aluminum is a fire accelerant, and that's why fires have become more and more bombastic as well as jumping. No, we have a lot of exposure to corruption. Then you have to ask, why are they doing this? Well, it's for many things about power and ruling and subduing other nations. They can create an atmospheric film of heavy metal microspheres. They can pulse it with energetic, magnetic waves that can pump up the atmospheric head or pressure and create lows of pressure and they can shift the weather. It's just very evil. So, knowledge of these things can be used for good or for evil. So I suggest we raise up God-fearing people, teach them the power of the human being and how precious humanity is, and how we should never use our position or power to overlord someone or harm another, if at all possible. Anyway. So, that's the stuff with the heavy metals in there. 

There's www.geoengineeringwatch.org. That's Dane Wigington. He's the oldest one promoting this information out there. And he had a documentary called THeDimming.com. If you watch The Dimming, it's a whole summary of all this. And he even has pictures of President Lyndon B. Johnson talking about controlling the weather back in the 1960s. Yeah. So, this is nothing new. It's very harmful. It's very bad. What can we do? Do EDTA chelation. Get in here and get an IV once a month at least 10 times a year, all the years of your life, because you can't protect your organic stuff from this. It lands on the water. It lands on your organic fields. You eat it, the animals eat it, even if you're doing organic grass-fed foods. So the only way you can really get it out as a broad spectrum, anti-heavy metal of all kinds is EDTA chelation is the best kind. That's why they try and hide it from you diminish its value, and try to black market or smear it. They've been trying to smear EDTA chelation for decades. 

Question

“Hello, doctor. My doctor wants me to do a mammogram and take the herpes vaccine. What is your opinion?”  [0:30:21]

Answer

Well, the companies that have been giving these vaccines have indemnification. They will not be sued if you have any side effects or harm from it. So, I will never use products from companies nor recommend them if the company doesn't assume personal liability and responsibility for every product they make. So, there's your answer there. And number two, mammograms are the standard of care. Getting a mammogram is an annual recommended thing, looking for abnormalities in the architecture of the breast. If you have fibrocystic breasts, it makes it extremely difficult and less valuable. The good old-fashioned self-breast exam, the low-carb diet, taking iodine, not eating late, exercising regularly to include weight training, and drinking plenty of water, are the things that are very valuable, taking vitamin D to help with preventing breast cancer. 

The image and radiation the pressure of trauma and the radiation from a mammogram are known carcinogens. Radiation is a known carcinogen. Trauma to the breast is a known precursor to cancer. So, you have to make your decisions about that yourself. It is the standard of care for the doctor in the state of California to recommend this to maintain their licensure. I don't do mammograms, but I take personal responsibility for myself. But I tell my patients what the standard of care is. 

Question

“Is breast tenderness normal when beginning bioidentical HRT? 1 mg/ml estradiol twice a day and 100 mg progesterone once a day.”  [0:32:16]

Answer

Yes. Yeah, it's very normal when you start, because when you're a young little girl and you just have breast buds, the nipple is starting to just slightly get enlarged, and your estrogen level is beginning to emerge. Eventually, the glands under the nipples start to develop and get enlarged. You become sensitive, but they're so small, it's difficult to have any real significant breast issues, although some young girls have it. But if you're starting to replace your hormones after you've been off of hormones post-menopausally for a few years, then you have these mature feminine breasts and you start reintroducing the hormones. Yes, you will have the breast tissue recognized because all healthy breasts, all healthy tissue throughout the body, and progesterone receptors from the brain to the toes, will have receptors for estrogen and progesterone. Your bones, your brain, your lymphatics, your lungs, all these areas have natural hormone receptors. And you will feel that probably for a couple of three months. That's why I tell women to be low carb, drink a lot of water, and take a lot of systemic enzymes because young girls and young women are full of systemic enzymes to are anti-inflammatory. Good microcirculation. Older women are starting to get clogged up and congested, you know, that when you lose your hormones, your risk for heart disease greatly increases. So, we lose these enzymes, we lose the microcirculation, and we become higher at risk for our impending death one day. So, hypoxia, tissue areas that are not well oxygenated, generate that trophoblastic theory of cancer activity. And so, we get concerned about breast cancer, and prostate cancer developing in these spots. But if you are drinking plenty of water, taking enzymes, and certainly doing chelation, taking vitamin D, iodine, and systemic enzymes, the likelihood of this happening just is so infinitesimally low. I've been taking my hormones since my 40s, and I'm in my 70s, and I never do a mammogram. So, I've been doing great. Praise the Lord. However, the standard of care is to get an annual mammogram. 

If my breasts are ever tender, I'll take more enzymes. But if it's persistent, then you should see your doctor, and let them examine your breasts. They can do an ultrasound. You can do your own self-breast exam monthly when you bathe yourself. And just work with your doctor about any persisting symptoms that don't go away after a few months. 

Question 

“Thank you for your precious time. What are your thoughts on Epsom salt baths?”  [0:35:33]

Answer

Well, it makes a very hypertonic solution, rich in magnesium, and your skin is one of your largest organs, and it will absorb that magnesium, which is relaxing. So, there's value in that. But I don't think it's necessarily something I would take a lot of time to do. Of course, I stay out of water. I don't want to get dried up and wrinkled. So, I stay out of water. I'll only shower once or twice a month. 

Question

“Dr. Rita, I was suffering with dry floaters and eye pain three months ago. I started using castor oil on my lids and taking B vitamins, and my ophthalmologist was shocked to see my improvement.”  [0:35:33]

Answer

Well, hopefully, you drank a lot more water, used a very low-carb diet, maybe even actually did intermittent fasting or a day or two of fasting, and took your systemic enzymes, because these floaters are just coagulated proteins that are in the vitreous humor of the volume of your eye, and these proteins coagulate. That's usually because we get dehydrated with aging, and we get sticky, gummy, gooey with all the sugar, starch, or fruit sugars, and we lose our moisturizing ability because we lose our hormones, we don't drink enough water, and we don't have enough enzymes to be like Pac-Man to eat this stuff up. 

I can't speak to the castor oil other than it probably helped with moisturizing, and the B vitamins help with metabolism, but those would not have been my first go-to’s, although I have all my patients on a very good methylated B complex, but the thing I do is be low carb and drink plenty of water. Half your weight in pounds as ounces every day. Don't eat late. The older you get, the more you should just be eating breakfasts and lunches, become more like a carnivore, and do weight training, weightlifting three times a week. Alright. So, I'm glad that you're doing better with your eyes.

Question

“A friend's mom stopped taking a Parkinson's drug and is having brain/short-term memory issues. What would help?”  [0:38:01]

Answer

Well, you know, we take good care of quite a few people with Parkinson's disease, and I am not against using Levodopa/Carbidopa prescription medications from their neurologist. But what we do is we put them on a very healthy nutrient, hydrating chelation IV, and natural hormone replacement with exercise and systemic enzymes. So, the very things the human body needs to repair and heal, and a diet that's very humble and limited to mostly repairing the myelin sheath that lines all the nerves. If you're eating rich meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, shrimp, crab, lobster-type diet, butter, and a very low-carb diet, you take your natural hormones, you take your enzymes to disinflame, these things will help with the memory, and the exercise will help with memory. It's fun to exercise and that's the direction I would aim for, but I wouldn't necessarily say not to use your neurologist's Levodopa or Carbidopa combination medications.

Question 

“I put some Argentyn silver in a tiny nose spray bottle, but I noticed the liquid changed color and the bottom of the pump is black. Could that be mold?”  [0:40:20]

Answer

I doubt it. But if it's a plastic bottle, God only knows what they made in that plastic with it. I would only use the glass. I would just use those glass bottles. I use my nose spray here all the time so that I use it to moisturize before I go to bed and to prevent the fungal, bacterial, and viral junk that's in the environment, especially now with it being so dry. Get the Argentyn Silver in its own glass spray bottle. That's what I would do.

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you know what would cause white mucus gunk in the corner of the eyes during the day? My husband has been getting this daily. He works in construction, is 42 years old, and overall healthy.”  [0:41:09]

Answer

Yeah. It's drier right now and we are blinking all the time to rinse, like windshield wiper blades on our eyes. And then when there's dust and material in the air, it is sending white blood cells to help protect the cornea, the covering of your eyeball in actual into the tears, and those white blood cells that accumulate near where the tear ducts are, where it will be drained down through the sinuses and it shows up as these white little globs there. So, that's all that's happening. Make sure he drinks a lot of water. And I use the Argentyn silver. Here's a nasal spray one, but there's another attachment on a different bottle, and then you can just spray your eyes and get all that nice water and 23 parts per million, which is extremely safe.

Very, very safe to fight viruses, bacteria, and stuff like that. 

Question 

“What do you think of GLP-1? What do you think of these powdered weight loss supplements?”  [0:42:37]

Answer

I don't think much of them. They have dangers with them. And largely, you know, it comes out with a black box warning. The black box warning is medullary thyroid cancer. I mean, to start coming out with a new drug that already has a black box warning of cancer risk in a year or two, I think it was shown up. We don't have long-term studies. Plus, the gastroparesis, getting a gut system that is so turned off and turned down that you don't have hunger. And the big thing is the muscle loss. No. No. No, I am not in favor of these things at all. 

Now, look, if you are 300 pounds and you have your life to live still and you are a diabetic now and you're getting heart disease from it and other complications, blood clots, then we have to do everything we possibly can to help you lose weight and pull yourself away from these secondary risk factors of obesity.

But one of the things we have to get in is a government that stops subsidizing these lousy, filthy school systems and junk foods in the schools and the hospitals and in the military meals and so forth. And we have to get it out of all this pharmaceutical pressure. They even want these GLP-1 drugs to be given to adolescents who have bad body image. No. If you're morbidly obese, if your BMI is over 40 if you are having these secondary health risk issues, then you see that endocrinologist and you work with them. But you have to be on a low-carb diet, you have to exercise, you have to drink water, etc. And then you have to be on a plan to reduce it and get off of it over time. That's what I think of it. And I just don't like seeing my nieces and nephews get on this junk. 

Question 

“I've heard you say that you use Selsun Blue, and I also heard that it contains known carcinogens. Is it safe?”  [0:44:54]

Answer

I'm unfamiliar that Selsun Blue has carcinogens in it. So, I'm going for the selenium, which is an anti-cancer shampoo. But you know what? We have to walk this world by faith. I also get in a car every day and I could be hit by a truck at any time. I also have to use an airplane occasionally and I could unfortunately get harmed in that. So, there are many things we do in this life. Let's try and get aviation standards to their highest merit performance get food to its highest quality of natural provision and get government out of lobbyists, paying off corrupt politicians to favor their corrupt businesses here and abroad. That's how it happens. 

Question 

“Dr. Berg says to drink a glass of water first thing in the morning and then only drink when thirsty, otherwise you are diluting nutrients. Your thoughts?”  [0:46:03]

Answer

I don't like Dr. Berg. So I don't care what Dr. Berg says. I just don't like the man, I don't like his worldview, sorry. Well, I just don't like his worldview, and I don't understand how goodness can come out of a twisted worldview. So that's what I think of Dr Berg and his advice. That's why I tell my patients who I am. I have a Christian worldview. I believe the world was created in six days. I believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God and He lived a sinless life and died for my sins and the sins of the world that we could never pay for He rose again on the third day, and I believe that He is sitting on the right hand of God, the Father, right now, ever making intercession for us, once and for all, a completed sacrifice, never to be repeated. So, He is my king, and He is my Lord and Savior. And He is the reason why I get up every day. I try and behave, but I fail Him from time to time. Every day I make some mess up or statement or something. But that is who I am, and I want my patients to know who I am and that I feel that I am accountable to Him for how I treat them, my husband, and my family. And I do mess up. So there you go. And you go ask him for his worldview and see if he'll be as open. And then I'll let my patients decide if they want to see my way and worldview of how I hold myself accountable. 

But water, give me a break. Give me a break. 99 percent of our molecules are water. The water molecule is so teeny weeny, weeny, weeny, weeny, weeny tiny. And a cholesterol molecule is like a big skyscraper. And so, if you say, how many molecules are you made of? 99 percent of your molecules, or very close to that, are water molecules. One percent is the structure that all that water is contained in the cell membrane. And you're going to tell me one glass of water and then as you need. No. Excuse me. Get a brain. 

Question 

“Dr. E., What do you think about lactulose for slow transit?”  [0:48:51]

Answer

Lactulose. There are sugars that just don't get absorbed through the gut, and there are permeability studies for gut health and behavior. That lactulose then is associated with promoting bowel transit and material. So, it's an abnormal thing to do. I am more in favor of adequate hydration, regular strength training, exercise three times a week with heavy weights at the gym, eating healthy, phospholipid-rich protein, and fats, and taking amino acid-chelated minerals, magnesium, manganese, boron, selenium, and the like with zinc and probiotics, taking prebiotics, and then watching the patient and looking at how they're doing. Even hormones might need testosterone to enhance the muscle that enwraps the bowel wall. That's what I would do. 

Question

“Hi, Dr. Rita. What is the best DIY/home remedy for a yeast infection treatment?”  [0:50:22]

Answer

Fasting. Stop eating. If you can do 48, 72 hours. That's the number one thing to do. The yeast will die without their sugar, starch, and fruit sugar. Now, you could go to the drugstore and get some Monistat, that's over-the-counter now. But we eat to feed our diseases, and that's the sad, ugly truth of it. Now, God forbid that you have insulin diabetes from your youth where you injured your pancreas because of the corrupt genetically modified foods and glyphosates and so forth and the high carb diet. Those poor children just are suffering from our lack of holding these people in government. So, that’s what I would do. 

Question 

“My nonverbal daughter has Down syndrome and I'm concerned about constipation. What can I do to keep her regular? Trying to keep her low carb as much as possible.”  [0:51:52]

Answer

Well, I have Down syndrome patients. Juice Plus is what I've kept them on. And the parent keeps them low carb and exercising. The parent uses water that has magnesium in it. We have OptiMag Neuro Water, and she puts vitamin C in it. That will stimulate bowel movements. Plus, if you open up into the water a multi-mineral capsule, the magnesium and stuff like that, or the Opti-Magnesium and stuff, but you need many minerals, will help that. Don't let them eat snacks or eat late. That's what I would do. And get them on Juice Plus. Check their thyroid. They might need…I've had this child. He's, I think, 20. He's 20 now, and I've watched him since he was, I think, 5. So, he's been on Juice Plus ever since I met him. And this man is in college now, and he is a weightlifter. He's doing very, very well for himself. But I gave him a thyroid. Even as a child, he was 5 years old and I put them on a 30 mg thyroid. And I put him on selenium. I put them on enzymes. Superoxide dismutase is usually very low in trisomy Down syndrome. The 21 chromosome has the code, I believe, for superoxide dismutase (SOD). So, taking Juice Plus provides a wonderful antioxidant. Iodine, I put him on iodine to stimulate his brain development and his intellectual acuity. He was on that. Vitamin D, kept him on a high dose to keep his levels at 80. So, that's what he did, and he's doing absolutely wonderfully fine now. 

Question 

“How would you treat a 17-year-old girl with intracranial hypertension?  She has terrible headaches, nausea, vomiting, and dizziness. Too sick to go to school.”  [0:54:30]

Answer

Budd-Chiari Syndrome is often a ventricular outlet function where there's too much water pressure in the ventricular, just enough to create problems. She, of course, has to be seen by a neurosurgeon and neurologist. But what I would do is I would put her on a very low-carb diet, and get her blood type, ABO blood type. Put her on systemic enzymes that reduce inflammation. Have a strict rule. No eating past 5 o'clock, or even just eating breakfasts and lunches. So, enzymes. Use vitamin D, the antioxidant Juice Plus series, and the…Iodine, D, Juice Plus, enzymes, and the multi minerals for relaxation, the magnesium, and the TLC Multiminerals. And drink half her weight in water as ounces every day. Exercise. Exercise. Exercise. Must have a routine with that. That should go a long way to help the physiologic microcirculation. She could also do chelation therapy. That improves microcirculation. Nitric oxide synthase production. Nitrous oxide helps dilate and relax things. So, find a good functional doctor. But that's what I do with my patients that have increased intracranial pressure, idiopathic Budd-Chiari Syndrome, and that's what I've done for years, and they've done all great. All of them have done great. Even my brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme, they just don't die. Isn't that an amazing thing? We give glory to God. They just don't die. Praise God. So, may we all be humble and open up and share with one another what we can share to help each individual, Dear child, dear friend, family, and patient member. That's the way to practice medicine. So, to love everyone.