YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 13, 2026

Question
“Dear Dr. Ellithorpe, how long should one take omeprazole to treat a moderate hiatal hernia with esophagitis? Is surgery such as Nissen fundoplication a viable option?”  [0:02:28]

Answer
I would say the goal of H2 protein pump inhibitors is to stop the acid production in the stomach, and stopping that acid production is allegedly going to stop the irritation to the lining, and that irritation, hopefully, will then give you time to heal. Normally, gastrointestinal specialists suggest that this should be for a short term, anywhere from two weeks to six weeks. Unfortunately, most people get on H2 blockers and proton pump inhibitors to reduce stomach acidity, and they stay on them for months and even years. It's not the right thing to do. God didn't make your stomach not to have acid in it. Your stomach is designed to handle acid even down to a pH of 2. So, the question rather should be, why are you getting these symptoms and having to stop the acid production? Acid is designed to kill bacteria, worms, flukes, protozoa, fungi, and viruses. It's designed to help digest your food. The enzymes are supposed to help you break down fats, proteins, and carbohydrates. So, the whole tenant should not just give you an antacid, but really find out what your pattern for secretion of stomach digestive enzymes and acid is. And if you look throughout history, we find there are really two extremes. The O type blood person, O positive, O negative, is a group of people who tend to make way too much acid in general. They're very, very good at producing all their enzymes and acid. These are the ones that tend to get stomach ulcers. O-type people also tend to get a lot of rheumatoid arthritis and degenerative issues. The A type blood, on the other end of the spectrum of blood type, are the people who don't make enough digestive enzyme; they make too little. And if you don't make enough stomach acid, food stays in the stomach too long. And if you finish eating and then you bend over three, four hours later to tie your shoes and that liquid chyme, the fluid in your stomach, is still not released, because the stomach doesn't like to release the fluid digestive parts in your stomach called chyme until the pH drops to close to 2, and it's a feedback mechanism, a chemo sensor around the pylorus, which is the shut-off point from your stomach to the intestine, the small intestine. That pylorus muscle doesn't want to open up and release and empty the stomach until there's been enough acid achieved. So, if blood type A doesn't make enough acid anytime, their food tends to linger in their stomach. They get feedback all the time that they're full. A type of blood people tend to be, but not exclusively be of a more thin-type body habitus, petite people. And without good digestion, the absorption of essential fats/amino acids/proteins is diminished, and A-type blood tends to have trouble repairing cell membranes, and they get a lot of stomach issues, plus many other side effects of this. The O type blood that makes too much acid and enzymes can cause erosion just from its excess acid. Even though they dump it out quickly, over time, they can get ulcers from this. 

So, what do you do? You work with a doctor who knows you and can kind of put you on a scale, figuring out where you're at. What's your blood type? And emphasize, if you are a blood type A, you need to take a digestive enzyme that has betaine hydrochloric acid to help bring that acid level up and digestive enzymes chop the food up to help it get the pH and emptied out of the stomach, so it's not lingering there and refluxing, burping back up from the stomach into the esophagus and creating esophagitis and inflammation and irritation. For the O type blood, that person needs to work on eating foods that are complex, rich meats that slow the digestive burst down and use up adequate acid and enzymes so that there isn't an excess of acid. You have plenty of healthy, rich meat, fish, or eggs to digest. And they can use other things, like chewing beef jerky. They can have hard-boiled eggs, things like that, throughout the day to help absorb all these extra digestive juices they have throughout the day. The big thing is we all eat too late, both the A and the O, and even the B type blood, as we age. I'm B, and by the time I hit around my early 60s, about 12 years ago, I started having to use digestive enzymes. So, the older you get, we all make less stomach acid and less stomach enzymes, and we all become more and more like an A-type blood, and we need more supportive digestive enzymes with age. But what I want to tell you is that antacids and H2 blockers are meant to be a short-term, a couple of weeks, at most six weeks, and other things should be tried to help you and figure out what's going on. Find your blood type. Don't lie down after eating. Take a walk after every meal. If you're 60 years old, try to learn not to eat past 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. So, I have to get done with my work here, I have to get a decent protein meal into my stomach, and get it digested. In fact, I forgot to take my digestive enzymes. So I'm going to take my digestive enzymes right now. So, I use the Ortho Molecular Digestzyme, but they private-label it for me and just call it Digestive Enzymes, but it's the same, identical thing. And I'm still sitting here three hours from eating, and I'm having some, I can get the food to regurgitate up. Then of course I carried babies, and I had them, you know, working. I was full-time on active duty. So I know that I have a huge hiatal hernia. So, the only hope for me to sleep well every night is to stop eating around 3 or 4 o'clock and to be up and about and take a walk and do my exercise instead of looking at dinners at 5, 6, 7 o'clock. I could never do that. When I was younger, I could. I cannot do it now. 

So, I also have L-glutamine powder. L-glutamine is an amino acid that acts as a natural antacid. It's called GlutaShield by Ortho Molecular, and it's called Glutagenics powder by Metagenics. So, I have those powders here as well. These amino acid powders often will have zinc in them, and they'll have licorice in them, and aloe. They tend to have these other supplemental things in it. Then, if I'm really upset with my stomach, I will fast for a day or two, and I'll use my SBI Protect, which is the Serum-Bovine Immunoglobulin, SBI, and I'll mix it with my Phospholipids, which make up the fat. This is fat. This is basically protein. I put these together, a scoop, in some warm water, and I'll do that three or four times a day. It's like putting in a healthy healing band-aid, you might say, for the reconstruction of the injury of whatever is burning the lining of my stomach there. So, that's what I do. 

What else can people do? You can take a swig of olive oil. I have olive oil in my refrigerator. I have it in an opaque glass so it doesn't get any light/ultraviolet light to mix with the monounsaturated fat of olive oil and become oxidized. I can drink my water, my structured water, as an antacid all the time to help with heartburn. Those are various things that I would do, and I wouldn't be on it for a long time. 

And the Nissen fundoplication, I honestly think, use this as a lesson to train yourself not to eat late the rest of your life. Use this as a lesson to use a digestive enzyme after each meal, the older you get, especially if you're 60 years or older. And then elevate the head of your bed. I have an electric bed. So, every night I raise it at least to 15 degrees. All right, so if that's 90 degrees, that would be 45. So, I would say I raise my bed about 20 degrees. And I'm always sleeping with my stomach somewhat and chest elevated so the stomach won't rise up. I always put a little soft pillow under my chin, so I keep my mouth shut. Those are various things that I would do. But work with your doctor on that. You might need a specialist, an ear, nose, and throat specialist, and have them do an endoscopy and biopsy. And if they do see Barrett's esophagitis, chronic esophagitis there, then maybe more aggressive things like that surgery would need to be done. But you're still going to have to not eat late. You're still going to have to help yourself with digestive aids as you get older. So, why not do it now and try to avoid surgery? 

Question
“I wanted to know your opinion on nutritional yeast as a food source of vitamin B. Good source or not?”  [0:15:14]

Answer
I'm going to say, yes, it is. I have no way of validating that, though. We are in a pharmaceutical drug culture and natural forms, and companies are not as well researched or financed to have efficacy training samples on the amount of B vitamins in that particular yeast level of sourcing. So, I'm going to say it's probably good. I just can't check everything up on the planet. And so, I do take my methyl B complex. And in doing all my patients with all the variety of, I'm a general practitioner, I see all kinds of patients, I find that this one is tested clinically, and it works. So, I work and use it that way, but I'm not against nutritional yeast as a source. I hope it's a good product. 

Question
“What are some of the best ways to naturally keep moderate/severe eczema flare-ups under control?”  [0:16:28]

Answer
Find out your blood type. Most of these eczemas are often in the A-type blood. It's not that it can't occur in a B or an O or an AB. It's just, it's most often in A's because they don't digest well. And if you don't digest well, you won't make those fatty membrane phospholipids, and you have to get those essential fats. And that's why we choose a diet rich in healthy fats and both saturated and unsaturated fats. The two are linoleic and alpha linolenic acid. We have an oil that has been clinically tested called Clinician’s Preference. We'll get it as a liquid where you can put a drop, and you can rub it wherever the eczema might be on your body. And we have it as capsules. I take the capsules every day of my life. I take four of them because if you don't have a good cell membrane, I don't care how fancy your furniture is, or your paintings in your house, or your grand piano, or what kind of carpets you have. If you have a lousy roof and it storms, it's going to rain on it and fall in and damage whatever good things you have inside your cells. So, you have to live a life where you eat enough healthy fats and protein to reconstruct that double membrane of the cell membrane. So, the eczema is very often best treated if you go on a carnivore diet for two months, maybe three months. You'll get all that healthy fat from eating them, grass-fed preferably, and the yolks of eggs, but no plant food. And then if that doesn't clear it up with those oils, you know, and knowing your blood type, you might need a digestive enzyme if you're an A. Find a good functional doctor who can help you sort these things out. Maybe an Immuno Lab and a complete digestive stool analysis to see how much inflammation is in your gut or not. 

Question
“When I take my Ortho Molecular Digestive Enzymes after eating, it feels as if it’s stuck going down my esophagus for a while.”  [0:18:42]

Answer
Well, praise the Lord. Drink a little more water. You know, my 72-year-old pipes can get a little sticky, too. We dehydrate with age. So, just keep on working with that, and just please use your digestive enzyme after your meals.

Question
“My 13-year-old German Shepherd passed away in her sleep on Sunday. She was never really sick a day in her life. I feel so broken up, lonely. Do u have any words of wisdom?”  [0:19:26]

Answer
You know, God tells us there's no better friend than to be able to give your life for a friend. You know, God gave us these animals and their lives to us for our benefit, and we are to – it talks about in the Proverbs how the cruel man is even hard on his beasts, his animals. And there is like an infrared frequency that the animal, the dogs in particular, have this infrared heat that they emit. They sense the infrared that we generate, and they can sense our moods, and they can behave empathetically with us. When God created the heavens and the earth, He made all things good, and all the animals were good. They weren't supposed to die. They were to live forever because death wasn't a part of God's creation. And we, because of our sin, and I just listened to this excellent lecture – I can’t recall. I study certain trends of things, and it's about defining forgiveness in a different way. You know, we're to unconditionally forgive; we're to forgive everyone. And this preacher has written a book, two of them, about forgiveness, and he's actually said God will forgive and has forgiveness available to everyone, but you have to ask to be forgiven to receive forgiveness. And so, for those people who apparently carry hurt feelings from abuse, if that person has never asked for forgiveness, you're not evil or being bad. They've never asked for your forgiveness. You certainly should give it if you're asked to forgive it. But you need to understand, you don't have to put yourself through a gymnastic ‘I have to forgive everybody no matter what they did to me’. I thought that was a different perspective. I have to study it more to see how I feel about it because I came up with a Christian upbringing that you just forgive. You forgive everyone, no matter what, no matter how terrible they did something to you. And every time in the study of forgiveness, you had to repent, you had to acknowledge your action that hurt the other person or God, and you had to make a change or offer a sacrifice in the Old Testament. 

So, animals are a gift to us, and I do believe the new heaven and the new earth are going to be so fantastic with wonderful animals because God made the world and called it good with animals. So, I'm not surprised if we'll see them again. Of course, everyone can bring up a dream. I did have a dream of my dog, Skipper. When I first married John 54 years ago, we got Skipper, the little sheep dog, and he trained us to be responsible and parents in a way. And little Skipper died after, I don't know, 16 years, very old. And I had a dream of him in heaven. And I saw little Skipper jumping up and down with his little black and white curly tail. He was so happy, and there were flowers everywhere. And I said, "Skipper, don't jump and hurt the flowers. You're going to hurt them.” But then I realized the flowers bounced right back, and I heard this music. It was a sound. I couldn't call it music, but it was heavenly, and the flowers were singing. It was a frequency or something. And my husband was right behind me, I knew it. And so, I do believe, you know, that animals are going to be there, and I think God gave me that dream as he has given me other dreams, praise His holy name, and helped me through my hard times. So hopefully that helps you. 

Question
“How can someone get relief from this disease? CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome). The older term is RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy). I know a young man suffering, and he can’t find help. So sad.”  [0:24:13] 

Answer
You have to find a good functional doctor who's going to start working and using modalities, such as lifestyle changes, do essential fatty acid and organic acid studies, digestive studies of the stool, mineral content, antioxidant levels, and heavy metal levels. And then acupuncture, acupressure to re-establish. I found, when I did that doctorate in integrative medicine in the late 1990s, people with RDS had these messed-up autonomic pathways. There's a sympathetic, and there's parasympathetic. We were retraining them with these needle treatments with the metabolic and dietary and supplement and detoxing IVs, chelation, and high-dose vitamin C. Sometimes, we gave them glutathione, exercise, hydration, making sure their electrolytes were good, and looking at their stool. And then we started doing what that therapy… if I can remember it. What is the name of prolo? Not prolotherapy. What was it? Oh my goodness. Well, we would take procaine, and we would put it at meridian levels to kind of disrupt the abnormal parasympathetic and sympathetic pathways. And I forget what the name of that therapy was, where we would use procaine injections, and that seemed to be a great help. So, if he can find a functional doctor with an acupuncturist who might do procaine therapy injections, needle therapy that will reset certain nerve plexus pathways, and then we saw some very nice turnarounds, so maybe that could be a help. 

Question
“I’m having a Native Sling Cystocele and Rectocele in 2 weeks. What supplements can I take to get my body ready for surgery? I’m Dr. Mitchell’s patient, take bioidentical hormones, D3, and Vascuzyme.”  [0:27:09]

Answer
Now, the Vascuzyme is a systemic enzyme, and you should stop that four days before surgery because that disinflames, and when you have surgery in order to heal, you'll get inflammation and you want that in the first 12 hours to get a lot of good healing and the tiny capillaries clotted, but you don't want them to not have that reaction. So, four days before surgery, we tell all our surgery patients to stop systemic enzymes like Vascuzyme, Vitalzym, or ProteoXyme, or serrapeptase, nattokinase systemic enzymes on an empty stomach. Stop it four days before. But the day after surgery, then double it up on an empty stomach so you'll get better healing, and do that for at least two weeks. You'll get much less pain. I would go into any surgery fasted, longer than they typically ask. A 12-hour fast before surgery, I would fast 24 hours, and the reason is that I do it all the time. So, I'm acclimated to that. I can fast for three days easily without having any food, just water, and my body can flip to fat burning. If you're not acclimated, if you haven't practiced that, you can't do that as easily. But most people could fast, you know, 18, almost 24 hours before surgery. And why? Because that stimulates growth hormone, so that your repair will be bigger, better, faster. After surgery, typically, people don't want to eat much, and you shouldn't. That's a normal response because all the work of your body needs to go where the surgery is in your body. So, I also say don't eat after surgery for another 24 hours. So, if you can do it almost 24 hours before and almost 24 hours afterwards, you're going to get more natural growth hormone somatostatin release and much better healing. And then double up your systemic enzymes the day after surgery, from morning to evening. I would also do a high-dose vitamin C drip before and after surgery because that's stressful, and stress requires a lot of vitamin C. Humans make no vitamin C. And all my patients with knee replacement, heart surgery, whatever kind of surgery they have, have done fabulously better when they take a high-dose vitamin C and very often better even still with the chelation with it, both a day or two before surgery and a day or two after surgery, three days after surgery. So, yeah, those are some key things I would do.

Question
“I take all my supplements, drink my water, and work out with weights. I’m almost 74, 130 pounds, and type O negative blood.”  [0:30:31]

Answer
Okay. So, yeah, that's what I would do, and you'll get a much, much better response. I'm so glad that you're on the natural hormones, too. You'll heal better. I wonder if you're on testosterone. Ask Dr. Mitchell if you can't use some testosterone as well. 

Question
“Should I do chelation after surgery?”  [0:31:15]

Answer
Yes, definitely with the vitamin C in it. And then she says she is on testosterone. Well, good. You're all set. You're under great care with Dr. Mitchell. And we just celebrated her. We have our once-a-month meeting where we shut down patients, and we don't see people. We go over our staff, our nurses, our doctors, our providers. We do some teaching, and we review all our protocols once a month. We shut down patients for a few hours just so we can make sure we're doing the best thing. And Dr. Mitchell was on our shoutout list for being with us. She hit her 18th anniversary here with us at Tustin Longevity Center. So, we shout out to Dr. Cindy Mitchell. Her patients love her. She's such a good doctor to them. 

Question
“Each time I follow a reduced-calorie diet, I get uncomfortably low blood pressure, for example, 60/40. I even got POTS syndrome with the last attempt, but I was able to heal that through supplements. I really need to lose weight, but fear the low blood pressure. My BP now is 100/60 with a daily teaspoon of French gray sea salt in water. Any advice?”  [0:32:09]

Answer
Wow, that's low. So, POTS, Postural Orthostatic Syndrome, is a dysfunction of the autonomic system. Yeah. Use much more salt if you go on a low-carb diet because sugars attract water molecules. When you stop eating so much sugar, that water – like, let's say, the first three or four days of a low-carb diet or a fast, you tend to lose 3 or 4 pounds, most people. Not everyone. I'm one of the ones that's not everyone, but most people do because water is attracted to all these carbohydrates, starches, and fruit sugars. And when that water is released, it takes with it a significant amount of electrolytes, sodium, potassium, and chloride. So, the big thing you have to do is keep up your weightlifting and do the salt. Probably try to get in 5,000 mg, 5 grams a day of salt, and maybe 2.5 grams twice a day. Double the normal recommended amount and work with that. Notify your doctor. I don't know if you're a patient here. Says you are a patient. So, call your doctor here, if it's me, so I can pull up your chart and see if there's anything else, but this is 90% an electrolyte and water problem. 

Question
“Assuming olive oil is beneficial, do you think flax oil is equally valuable?”  [0:34:09]

Answer
Well, olive oil is okay. It's a monounsaturated fat. It is not an essential fat. But flaxseed oil has many polyunsaturated fats in it and omega-3s. Therefore, it is much more oxidizable. It can burn and get rancid even faster than olive oil. So, flaxseed oil is something that you've got to consume immediately. Keep in the refrigerator. Only on cool, cold foods because light and heat will burn them, and you'll be taking in bad stuff. So, I don't use it. I don't use flaxseed or olive oil at all. I just cook with saturated fat, so I never have to deal with rancid oxidized fat in me, and that is associated with anti-inflammation. 

Question
“Do you ever test Vitamin K2 levels?”  [0:35:17]

Answer
No. Really, to get vitamin K2 and vitamin K1, K1 is involved in clotting, and the way they test that indirectly is by doing a protamine and Partial Thromboplastin Time, bleeding time, and if that's normal, then you know you have enough K1. But to get K2, that would actually, indirectly, I suppose, if you did oxy-calcitonin and reduced oxy-calcitonin, that would be the pre- and post-impact of K2's effect on bone building. But again, it's not a direct measurement. You would have to go to spectrographic analysis. These are analytical chemistry methodologies where we can actually get the makeup of the molecule through spectrometry and paper chromatography, things like that. And that's unrealistic. You can't get it as a patient with your regular doctor. So, I would suggest that you just take your supplement that has the vitamin K2 and eat your green vegetables cooked. 

Question
“I'm 81 years old and seldom get a cold or virus. Could that be because, during all those years, I had already been exposed to many of the possible rhinoviruses and had built immunity to them?”  [0:37:00]

Answer
Absolutely, yes. But also, if you're a patient of ours, and it says “yes, you are," then you've been taking your vitamin D, you've been trying to be low carb, you've been exercising, you've been eating healthier proteins and fats. All those things add up. I think you were also on Juice Plus. 

Question
“I'm 59 years old, exercise 5 to 6 days a week. In the last several months, I've increased my estrogen dose to 0.1 due to hot flashes. Also taking 200 mg progesterone orally, but since then, horrible irritability, sadness, and weight gain. Can increased estrogen cause my negative symptoms? Is cream or sublingual progesterone better absorbed than oral?”  [0:37:38]

Answer
I'm going to say, no, but you can find all kinds of internet clickbait material and uninformed, or certainly people with not the decades and decades of experience that I have, who will say estrogen can do that. It is so complex. Your doctor has to know you. Your doctor has to know what type of blood you are, what your mineral electrolytes are, what your insulin level is, your triglyceride level, what your hemoglobin A1C, hs-CRP, and inflammatory markers are. This is the season of affective disorders, where mood and depression, the light is much more limited. So, there are so many other things that go on. Just because you had an adjustment in your hormones and are using a little more does not mean that’s the guilty culprit. So, I'm going to say no to that. 

"Is the cream or sublingual progesterone better absorbed than oral?" – Again, with my 40-plus years of experience using natural hormones, I am going to say it is a doctor and patient finding. There are some women who do very well with topical progesterone, and there are others who just don't absorb it well at all, and the oral is the only way they can really go about it. So, this is a one-on-one thing you have to work out with your doctor. It's kind of interesting. And there is a percentage, maybe 3% or 4% of all women, who seem to have a mood intolerance with progesterone for some reason. We don't quite understand why. But bring it up to your doctor. If you are a patient here, please talk that out with your doctor. Have a phone consult or a visit.

Question
“What would be your recommendation for a male in their 60's, who is in relatively good health, to treat moderate hypertension naturally? What are your views on treating with TMG (Trimethylglycine)? Thank you.”  [0:40:11]

Answer
Trimethylglycine is associated. It's basically three methyl groups on a molecule that donate methyl groups to a multitude of reactions in the human body, some of which are cardiovascular processes, like homocysteine, turning it back into methionine. And so, trimethylglycine is very helpful cardiovascularly. Has it been associated or known to be associated with a drop in blood pressure? Yes. Is that an established protocol? I don't think I would call it established and constantly observed, though I have seen it in some patients. I would say far better would be work with your doctor. Make sure you're well hydrated, not eating late, and you're doing weightlifting exercises. And do a wall squat. If you know what a wall squat is, you stand against the wall, and you slide down as if you're a chair, leaning against the back of the chair on the wall, and you have to stay braced like that in a fixed chair position. It's called wall squats. And there has been research on this, well-documented, that doing one minute or two minutes of a sustained wall squat twice a day at least four times a week is associated with a 10 drop in the systolic and a 6 drop in the diastolic, and that's well established, and that's because this isometric kind of constant retraction of the muscle generates a hypoxic scenario to the tissues, and when you release that after a sustained minute or so, then there's such a flush and vasodilation, it's associated with lower blood pressures consistently. So, weightlifting, wall squats, adequate hydration, of course, low carb, not eating late at night, magnesium, systemic enzymes, all these things would be very helpful. And try that out and work with your doctor on that and see if that helps you. You can look up on YouTube ‘wall squats high blood pressure,’ and you'll see a ton of research on it. That's what I do. And I'm 72, and I have a blood pressure of – like when they were pulling my tooth a year ago, they had to pull a tooth out here. And so, they had me on a heart monitor and blood pressure for some reason, I guess because of my age, or I don't know, the oral surgeon wanted that. I didn't want the pain stuff in my IV, so I just had them do it locally. And the dental oral surgeon was watching my blood pressure, it took about 45 minutes or whatever, start to end, and she was blown away with my blood pressure being always around 116 systolic over around 60 to 70 diastolic through this course of an extraction. And I was amazed too. But I really think it's my water and my magnesium and my supplements and my weightlifting that I've been doing for many, many, many years. 

Question
“Have you heard of any new treatments for desmoid tumors /aggressive fibromatosis? I have been battling this disease for 13 years with three recurrences and a new tumor. Any help or insight is appreciated.”  [0:43:55]

Answer
I covered that one about new treatments for desmoid tumors on the last time before last, but briefly on desmoid tumors, these are tumors that typically it could grow in a man's testicle, it could grow in the woman's ovaries, in these germative tissues in a human being, and it can be there lifelong and you'll never know it, that you could have had some growth of hair in a tooth in a sack, and it can more easily be discovered in a man, although it's rarer in men. And these don't really become cancerous as a general rule. We recommend that you be low-carb and use systemic enzymes and stay away from the sugary spikes in your life because that insulin surge will stimulate fat growth, and it will stimulate tumors, or these kinds of dermoid tissues to grow. So, a history of soda pops and eating treats and chips and junk like that will spike your insulin up, and it'll make a dermoid show up. So, probably we all have dermoid tissues, but it just won't show up in those of us who don't spike as much carbohydrate/fruit sugars in our diet. That's our thought. And take systemic enzymes. And then have your doctor do your ultrasounds and test your insulin fasting, your triglyceride, your fasting blood sugar, and your hemoglobin A1C. And if your blood sugar is above 85 and your insulin is above 4, then you are insulin resistant, and you're pushing the limit to grow a tumor. 

Question
“What does glutathione do for the body? Is it good to take this with the Core Restore Cleanse? And if so, what is the reason?”  [0:46:04]

Answer
It's an antioxidant. It's a universal antioxidant, a very important antioxidant which is trying to sop up the exhaust of free radicals generated from the mitochondria and other metabolic functions intracellularly and extracellularly, but mostly in the mitochondrial area. It's made up of glutamate, glycine, and cysteine, and there are enzymatic reactions that put all three of those amino acids together to become glutathione, and then it's oxidized, and electrons are ripped off from it, and it becomes oxidized. And then it needs to have electron donors, which are typically vitamin C. Most Americans don't take enough vitamin C, and so we become glutathione-deficient. We wrinkle, we age, we gray in our hair too quickly. And so, I think you have to be very good about taking vitamin E, vitamin C in particular, a good u multivitamin mineral every day to keep your glutathione up to snuff. 

“Is it good to take this with Core Restore Cleanse? And if so, what is the reason?” - Well, you could make an argument to sell a product for anyone to detox periodically, and you could make that argument for glutathione. It's a big molecule. It's not absorbed orally very well. So, I really rarely, if ever, recommend glutathione orally. Maybe liposomal glutathione would have a better chance of being absorbed. But it's a huge molecule. And just like oral EDTA chelation, it's a huge molecule, and it's not going to get absorbed well. So, if you don't put it into a liposomal fat encapsulation, like we did when we did the suppositories and the research on that, it's pretty much maybe not so helpful. A low-carb diet rich in protein, taking the amino acids, Perfect Aminos, and taking extra vitamin C every day, would be far better. Doing a fast for 24 to 48 hours, I think, would be better than any Core Restore could ever do for you if you have some good multimineral vitamins, like our Energy Core, to take with it. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E, what are your thoughts on the 10x health genetic methylation test for COMT, AHCY, MTRR, MTR, and MTHFR, and then recommending supplements based on results? The test is $599. Also, Dr. Axe does something similar and then recommends supplements, and a test is $99. Thank you!”  [0:48:48]

Answer
Well, I have too much experience, and I'm not impressed with it. Why spend $600? If you are inadvertently coming down with a cold and you don't know it, and two days from now you're going to be achy and have some chills and a low-grade temperature, but you did this test the day before, well, you're going to be sucking up all your antioxidants. Unbeknownst to you, you're starting to ramp up your immune system to fight a virus, so you don't get very ill. So, there are so many factors that go into the date, the timing, and the situation of your sampling of this blood work. The time of the year, the stressful times of the year, will suck up more oxidative stress. Usually, in the fall, this time of year is a bad time to do it. The summers are probably the best time to see what your optimal levels are. But genes will not misbehave unless you stress them. So, even if you have the APOE4 gene and methyltetrahydrofolate, you're having trouble generating that so you don't get high homocysteine and heart disease and Alzheimer's, if you don't eat a crazy diet of junk food and live a wild nightlife life, you're not going to generate as much free radicals that would generate higher higher needs for methylation products. But if you do live like that, then you will need a lot of antioxidants. And fortunately, most people, about, you know, 35% of people have that snip for APOE4 and methyltetrahydrofolate genes, and we give them a methylated B complex, all the B vitamins that are methylated, and that solves that problem. It just solves the problem. So, why spend $600 on that for a one-time test that doesn't speak to everything when your lifestyle means far more than any one-time test? So, I'm not in favor of these things. 

I used to do a lot of SpectraCell. I'd usually do it maybe once in a while, especially with a new patient, just to get a feel for what their level of antioxidant protection is, but you would have to repeat it, repeat it, repeat it, repeat it. And this should be available to anybody, but no. The corrupt healthcare mafia system makes it difficult to get health tests and preventive tests. So, no, I'm not in favor of these things. I'm in favor of working with a good functional doctor who will give you tried and true clinically tested base antioxidants, cycled, vitamin D, enzymes, natural hormones, maybe thyroid, good diet, not eating late, weight resistance training, water, good sleep, sunshine exposure, grounding, and then that's the best you're probably going to get. 

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“What is your opinion on the RGCC liquid biopsy test? Some nodules were discovered on my thyroid back in 2021. I have continued with NP Thyroid and annual ultrasounds. Nodules are not larger. The new functional doctor I just saw wants me to go off of Bi-est and do the RGCC to look for possible cancer. Expensive, but is it worth it to do this if I can?”  [0:52:26]

Answer
I'm going to say the same thing. I did the RGCC liquid biopsy test like I used to do the methyltetrahydrofolate test on everybody until I realized, you know, a third to a quarter of the people of the United States have these snips and methylation problems. So I just make sure everyone gets methylated B complex. RGCC is a thing that's been around for 25, 30 years, and the Greek doctor who developed it, an oncologist, bless his heart, this is really designed for someone who already has a known cancer, been diagnosed. RGCC is looking for circulating tumor cells, and it's about 87% to 83% accurate in isolating circulating tumor cells and then testing them against chemotherapeutic drugs and natural supplements that inhibit or kill these circulating tumor cells. But it's not meant to be a screening test, and it's extremely, we're talking, you know, thousands of dollars for testing on this. So, if a doctor who's offering this, and you have not already been diagnosed with cancer, then that is not what you should be doing, in my opinion. 

Now, let me tell you what my experience was. After I did, I did consultations and spoke to the people in Greece and their American doctor here in Texas, I would do consults with over the findings and all the snips of all the metabolic pathways that were known at the time, and basically the same thing came up over and over again – That high dose vitamin C, chelation, a ketogenic diet, vitamin D, glutathione, certain antioxidants, lutein, zeaxanthins that are available in Juice Plus, researched proven, chelation we do, vitamin C we do, vitamin D we do, and various things like this, certain enzymes, it didn't matter, no matter what the cancer. So, why are we spending thousands on this when this healthy lifestyle and these clinically tried therapies that have served us through the decades, I'm talking, you know, almost a hundred years now, this research has been here. So, no, I'm not in favor of these costs. I'm glad they're doing the research, but I'm trying to prevent my patients from getting cancer. And that's why I'm dead serious about telling them to do weightlifting and some aerobic, stop eating late, and be low-carb and eat a simplistic diet. Get enough protein, natural hormones, plenty of water, structured water, sunlight, grounding, enzymes, vitamin D, certain antioxidants like Juice Plus, the multimineral with selenium in it, anti-cancer, the methylated products, and the methyl B complex. These are core, with iodine. Yeah, I take them every day of my life, and maybe, by the grace of God, he'll keep me healthy and alive to serve His creation longer. 

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“Hi Dr. E., I have 3 questions. What are your thoughts on using L-glutamine to help heal leaky gut? What are good snacks when eating carnivore? Lastly, are there any good restaurants for the carnivore diet? Thank you!”  [0:56:16]

Answer
Yes, that's been used for decades. We've been using L-glutamine powder with licorice, aloe, and zinc for decades. Yeah. So, I'm all for it. 

“What are good snacks when eating carnivore?” – I would snack on anything up until 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. I would snack on a hard-boiled egg, pre-baked up bacon strips, and little pieces of hamburger. You know, you can make them into like little Swiss meatballs. Sardines. Open up a can of tuna in oil. These are the things because there's nothing manufactured that is good to eat as a snack. 

“Lastly, are there any good restaurants for the carnivore diet?” – Yeah. Every restaurant that serves a steak, or a Salisbury steak, or a chicken breast, or a slab of salmon, pork chops, or lamb chops, you don't have to eat any of the vegetables with it. So, we can do a carnivore diet, and we can all be successful. It's just we are trying to have our cake and eat it too, and we can't do that. 

Question
“Are there natural ways to eliminate H. pylori?”  [0:57:48]

Answer
Well, there's a tree sap called mastic gum. That tends to kill H. pylori. Garlic, broccoli, and Brussels sprouts have sulforaphane in them that kills it. Argentyn silver is an antibacterial. H. pylori is a bacterium. A low-carb diet. Avoiding alcohol and eating late. Green tea. ECGC is the chemical antioxidant in green tea. There are many things like that. But if you have it, you have to work with your doctor and find out, make sure you don't have ulcers because H. pylori is an infection, and it can stay in your stomach, and it can erode the lining and give you an ulcer. So, if you've been treated, you can avoid it by doing the natural things we suggest here. 

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“My husband has had a recurring problem with his lips, mouth, and surrounding skin, feeling like it’s burning, causing the skin to peel and the lips to be very painful. So far, no doctor has been able to diagnose the problem. How does one ascertain what the underlying problem could be? What in his system could be fighting against his own body? Thanks.”  [0:58:55]

Answer
I would have him stop eating after 3:00 in the afternoon, elevate the head of his bed, and drink half his pound weight as ounces of water. So, if he's a 200-pound man, he needs 100 ounces of water every day. He's got to stay away from coffee and alcohol, soda pops, and diet sodas. He should be taking natural things to calm the stomach, as I showed you. I would use the SBI Protect, and I would use the Phospholipid powder. I would mix them together in warm water and take a shot morning and evening. You could get the Glutagenics and have it with you all the time, mix it in water anytime, and do that a hundred times a day. This is very often a gastritis, a silent reflux that occurs. It is often a nerve irritation, a B vitamin deficiency, all the B vitamins, all eight or nine B vitamins. I would take a methylated B complex. I would take a high dose, the full dose, four capsules, of our methylated TLC B complex. I would take zinc. I would take it in the form of our TLC Multimineral because God didn't just make one mineral; He made many minerals. So, I'm trying to stop a multitude of problems by having you do, you know, many minerals. But the selenium, the zinc, and the copper are all very good for killing off bacteria. The Argentyn silver kills it off. But it could be iron. His iron levels have to be studied. His copper level should be checked, and his vitamin C level should be checked. So, that's what I would do. I think this is probably a vitamin deficiency. 

Question
“How can an older man get rid of the stubborn fat around the belly? He is doing all the things you recommend already, but the fat little results. He lost weight, but not much on the belly.”  [1:01:48]

Answer 
I would probably do a prolonged fast, a two or three-day fast, and then just stay carnivore for a while, maybe a month.