YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 23, 2024

Question 

“Hello, Dr. Ellithorpe, will you be able to speak to the activist group I help lead, Freedom Rising, on an upcoming second Saturday of the month, starting March 9th, especially about IV EDTA & vitamin C.” [0:03:36]

Answer

Well, I'd be honored to do that, but I work every Saturday. And I do this because when COVID hit, or the alleged COVID hit, we had so many doctors that shut their doors, and I had so many patients begging me to see them or their dear family member they were worried about. I added Saturdays and I've never stopped a single Saturday for the past three and a half years. And so, I am done about 1 o'clock on Saturday. Maybe 1:30 would be more practical. So, depending on how far I would have to drive, I'd be blessed to do that. If I have enough advanced time, but I'm usually booked out so far, I don't want to turn anyone down. So, the day of the week that would be better for me would be a Monday or a Friday. I do administrative work on Fridays. “You meet in a cafe in Santa Monica,” I see you're saying. So, that would be a long drive. So, I would have to drive up there. If you could plan it for a Saturday afternoon, say starting at 3:00 or later, you could do it on a Monday any time, or a Friday any time I could do that. But I'm honored that you would ask me to share that because I certainly am passionate about this. Having been around EDT and chelation since with knowledge, since I was 7 years old. That's 63 years ago. So anyway, it works. It's wonderful. It's needed by everyone. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita. I woke up with my fingers and nails a blotchy orange. I do eat a lot of veggies. Labs were normal. I also had a yeast infection the other day. What do you think? Thank you.” [0:05:46]

Answer

This is probably carotene deposits. So, if you eat a lot of red bell peppers, a lot of carrots, a lot of yams, you're going to get a lot of carotene deposit and that will deposit in your nailbeds. And it'll grow out and it's no risk or anything. Even in the palms of your hands, sometimes we can see people who eat a very high-carotene-based vegetable diet. So, I wouldn't worry about that at all.  

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“Hi Dr. Rita, do you have any tips for Parkinson's and the related sleep disorder? Thank you.” [0:06:30]

Answer

Well, Parkinson's is a neurodegenerative disease, and it's in the brainstem, and it's in a special area of the substantia nigra. This is a melanin-pigmented zone in your brainstem. And oxidative stress is certainly a causative feature, free radical oxygen species, and we live such an oxidative stressful life. One of the things that I would strongly suggest is, of course, you'd be managed by the appropriate neurologist. There is a YouTube video, I brought this up last week, by Dr. David Perlmutter, a medical doctor. If you put ‘Dr. David Perlmutter Parkinson's’ and the word ‘glutathione,’ that is where the infusion of the antioxidant glutathione is given by a vein, in through a vein. And you can see tremendous improvement when you give a bolus, you might say, of antioxidants. So, that stiff, fixed, short little step, walk is just loosened, and the flow dynamics of the neural impulses flow much better. So, an entirely functional approach, alongside your neurologist, to look at the diet, what's inflaming, anyone will be helpful to not only the Parkinson's disease itself but to the symptoms, such as sleeping. 

Now, one of the features of sleeping is that you would take a vitamin B5, which is pantothenic acid. I would take that in the form of a methylated B complex. We have TLC Methyl B Complex here. And I would take four to six tablets a day for sleeping to get your B5 level up. These are water-soluble, so you have to take them every day. It'll make your urine turn a little bright yellowish, and it'll have a pungent odor, your urine, when you take enough B vitamins, to the point that you're peeing them out, and that's what you want to do, along with vitamin D3 K2, and I would take the 10,000, international units a day with K2 90 micrograms. And we have all this available. That is probably the best thing, along with using probably a good multimineral Albion amino acid chelated multimineral. We have our TLC Multi Min. These things, along with drinking enough water and not eating or drinking alcohol late, or no, I don't recommend alcohol at all, but certainly don't drink alcohol late if you do use it, along with a low-carb diet and eating far richer, healthy fats and proteins in your diet, all these will help you to sleep better with it. If you can try and make an appointment with a good functional doctor, and hopefully that'll be a good start for you there.  

Question

“Lifewave patches helped my friend's 78-year-old mom tremendously with Parkinson's. Her symptoms are 80% reduced.” [0:10:34]

Answer

That's wonderful. And Lifewave is a patch, and we have them, or I'm familiar with them, and these patches have crystals in them. These crystals vibrate to certain frequencies when the body heat of your body heats them up and it will make those crystals vibrate. Those crystals then resonate with certain tissues in your body, and that of the neurochemical pathway, to help the facilitation of the neurochemical messages. And so, this is based on real science. So, that's true. It's called Lifewave patches. We don't provide them here, but I can endorse the science and the background knowledge on that and how they work.

Question 

“I sent this email, but late. Which doctor at TLC would be recommended for hormone replacement therapy?” [0:11:35]

Answer

I would say any of us can do it. Some of us have more experience than others. But you see, we meet all the time. We're interacting all the time. We have our in-network flag messaging. We communicate all the time. It's like a little beehive here. And when we have a question on a patient or a dosing, or a methodology, or a scenario, we bring it up at our grand rounds monthly, or we just see each other in the lunch room, or we team message one another. And so, all of us here. I would say, if you want someone who is doing a lot of female pelvic exams, a urological background, Dr. Gonzales, PA Gonzales is new with us and she's excellent. Dr. Mitchell is still with us. She's a gynecologist. She does telehealth only because she lives up in San Francisco now. But you can still get your pelvic here, and she collaborates with Dr. Kaur, our naturopath, or PA Patel, our physician assistant who does a wonderful job with natural hormones. But PA Patel, Dr. Patel is going to have a baby soon, and she will be on maternity leave for a good while. So, then we have a new doctor, Amber Majid coming, and she's with us already, and she will probably start seeing patients in the next few weeks full time. And then, you have, Dr. Meric. She was a gynecologist, trained, and board-certified, but she does all kinds of general medicine now, not just GYN, and she can help you with that. So, if I miss someone, forgive me, but we have quite a few. So, I would say probably Dr. Kaur and Dr. Gonzales, PA Gonzales are a good early start, but those are the several there. Hopefully, that helps you. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita! I have taken levothyroxine for about 40 years for Hashimoto's. T3, T4, and TSH are all in “normal” ranges. My functional doctor is suggesting Iodoral too. Is that safe with levothyroxine?” [0:14:07]

Answer

Yes, it most definitely is because those are two different things. Levothyroxine is the precursor of mainly T4. Your body has to convert the T4 into T3 by deiodination. It takes one iodine off to make the functional hormone, thyroid hormone. And iodine is very different. It is the salt. And so, iodine is one thing, and the hormone is another. And most Americans, I would say, easily 96% - 97% of all Americans are iodine deficient. And there you have it. So, most definitely, yes, that would be a help.  

Question 

“Which patches specifically? The X39 or others?” [0:15:21]

Answer

Probably the X39. That is the one that is very valuable in the nerve energy, functional one. 

Question 

“I sent two emails in the last two months with the same request to office @TLCdoctors but got no reply. What is the best way to contact you to work out the details of a future meeting?” [0:15:48]

Answer

Oh, I'm so sorry that you sent us requests. Forgive me, I'll try and find an answer to your problem. So, the best way is to call our phone number, 714-544-1521, and identify that this isn't about a medical or patient issue and that you are trying to reach me to do a speech. And I would talk to my personal nurse who really works as my personal assistant as well. I call her mom. She comes in and keeps me on time and helps me with my day. So, her name is Teri. Teri is our registered nurse who is assigned to me, and she manages my life basically. So, ask for Teri, my nurse, and she'll connect with me about that. All right. I hope that helps you. Thank you again, and I apologize a second time. I don't know why you didn't get the information through.

Question 

“Are there any risks of chelation therapy? I've read a lot of side effects/dangers on the internet.” [0:17:12]

Answer

I have been around EDTA chelation therapy since I was aware of it being done when I was 7 years old, watching my grandfather, who was born in the late 1890s, and he had atherosclerotic coronary heart disease with unstable angina. That means he has such clogged ischemic heart disease, that even at rest, doing nothing, he would start getting chest pain. So, when you're unstable, that means just sitting there, you're suffering from not enough blood flow. My father, working at Armour Food Research, up in Chicago, learned of GLACAM, which was the Great Lakes Academy for the Advancement of Medicine. It was the very first assembly of good medical doctors and cardiologists who had picked up on EDTA chelation therapy for cardiovascular relief because back in the 1950s and 60s, there was no open-heart surgery until right in the beginning of 1960. And it was so rare and unique, and therefore, the only treatment was medical. And they would give nitroglycerin, and I would watch my grandfather scramble for his nitroglycerin pill, and he smoked cigars, and he ate poor junk food from Chicago, and it was just terrible. Anyway, Dad learned about chelation therapy and brought my grandfather to a doctor, who is a cardiologist from that area in Chicago, to get chelation. And he got, I don't know, something like 60 IVs, and he never had chest surgery or stent placed or anything. He got much better. And of course, that forward-thinking, functional cardiologist doctor that was doing chelation in the 1960s, because back then it was patented by Abbott, the pharmacy company Abbott, and they were getting reimbursements for it. So, if you happen to have insurance – but that was brand new back then too, not a lot had it. But he did very well, I was 7 years old. And he died after I got into medical school. So, he was probably 60 plus years old when I saw him because, yeah, he had them since he was born about 1898. And then, yeah, it was just when I was getting into medical school that he died. And so, there you have it. And I saw him walking upstairs from my apartment in my first little newlywed apartment in college with my husband. So, there you have it. 

Now, that's my experience. And I have been around actively and I started receiving chelation myself since I was 16 years old at Dr. Ray Evers. Now, Dr. Ray Evers uses chelation therapy, along with other forward-thinking therapists. So, he was a functional doctor back in the 1960s. Around 1969 is when I became very ill. And then I was brought to his place after Mayo Clinic couldn't do anything for me. And there he gave me EDTA chelation therapy, and my heart did tremendously well. I had a pan-myocarditis, which is really back in the 1960s a deadly thing. Only maybe 10% of people survived it. I had some terrible, mono, horrible sore throat, huge, icky, pussy looking tonsils, high fever, and I was hospitalized, and they saw my heart EKG because our personal doctor happened to be a cardiologist, Dr. Barrocas (21:28), from Addison, Illinois at Elk Grove Village Hospital. And I actually was seen at Alexian Brothers Hospital in Elk Grove, Illinois. And there, my dad would bring me supplements to try and help me. 

And then finally got me to Ray Evers. Ray Evers is the doctor who got before Congress of the United States, and he fought for the off-label use of medicines that are FDA-approved because the cardiologists were starting to rally around open-heart surgery, cardiac bypass, all that stuff, and they wanted to poo-poo the chelation therapies because it was becoming off patent, or it expired its patent privileges, and Abbott gave up any financial rights to the medicine EDTA. And then EDTA was not covered then by the medical pharmaceutical crime syndicate, is the way I put it. So, he fought the cardiologists in town. He was in Louisiana where his practice was, and that's where I was a patient with him. And then he got off-label use of Dr. Ray Evers. That poor man was hounded. But that's why organizations like GLACAM, Great Lakes Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, which turned into ACAM, the Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, where I teach chelation therapy. And, to make a long story short, which is too long, I apologize, but honey, I've been around chelation since a child. I have seen hundreds of thousands of infusions, probably even close to millions. And I have never seen harm done, only help. 

Now, the experience of the chelator can make a difference. New chelation doctors, it's very safe. So, we encourage doctors to do it. This grabs the heavy metals through an electrochemical attraction. So, the molecule EDTA man-made amino acid is an anion negative. The toxic metals, like lead, or aluminum or mercury, they're positive. And so, it fits in nicely into this negative environment, and it takes that positive, and then you urinate it out. So, it's very benign. It has the ability to also attract certain nutritive minerals, like calcium. And so, what we do is we give calcium disodium EDTA. I always use it in that fashion, and I never have problems. But if a doctor uses disodium EDTA chelation, and if the patient reaches up and speeds up the drip because they want to get out of there, they have things to do, and the nurse didn't see him manipulate the dial, that can go in, and it can lower the calcium and you can get some calcium low drops with muscle spasms. Theoretically, this could be very dangerous. And so, that's why I never use anything other than calcium disodium EDTA. But I think there have been three or four deaths, to my knowledge, in the 70 years that they've been doing chelation worldwide. So, not only in the United States but all over the world. You have had doctors in other countries. It was decades before they ever had enough, even hospitals, let alone cardiac suites, to do any advanced invasive cardiac therapies, stents, or open-heart surgery. And so, they heavily relied on EDTA chelation. So, we're talking about hundreds of millions and millions and millions. It could be even a billion treatments since the 1960s. And in that venue, to only know of two or three deaths, and that was probably from doctors who were, I believe all the cases were young people, like children who, they gave them a disodium and is terribly unfortunate. But to have that happen was the doctor issue had nothing to do with the EDTA and that in the realm of hundreds of millions, there really is essentially no risk. 

So, EDTA removes the oxidative damaged heavy toxic metal terrorists that live in your body because we have no detox pathways for these toxins. Metal is inorganic. It doesn't have any biological component. It's a mineral. So, your white blood cells can't chew it up. Your enzymes can't remove it or process it. So, our liver, which is our main detox organ, has four primary pathways. It is glucuronidation, glycation, sulfation, and methylation. 

To detox, benzene rings, tetrahydrochloride for, you know, the exposure you get from dry-cleaning agents and volatile organic gases. And so, these are all managed through these organic biochemical detox pathways in your liver. And so, that's why I'm against alcohol or other types of poor diets because your liver has enough job today handling all these things. We get what we breathe in. 

But on top of that, we have geo-stratospheric engineering where they make these lines in the skies that are not contrails and they're full of nanoparticulate metals, and these metals create that film in the stratosphere that they can bounce off these electromagnetic waves to create a high pressure or a low pressure in the stratosphere and kind of direct clouds and air rushes through the capsule around the Earth's globe. And this has been known, I think the first documented Military U. S. Department was in 1927. So, the weather can be managed. And if you don't pull out these heavy metals, mother’s core blood to the mother's serum, mothers detox into their babies. So, when we look at the placenta cord serum level of, let's say, lead or mercury, we find it higher, almost 50 percent higher than what's in the babies. So, each generation is dumping these toxic metals into our offspring, in our little children. And so, we are seeing, I see levels now in young people, really the equivalent of what I used to see in the 80s, on people who had already lived 50, 60, 70 years. So, we're biochemically being terribly challenged. We're being turned into antennas for electromagnetic waves, and God knows what else.  

So, EDTA chelation is an absolutely tremendously safe therapy, and if taught and the person is certified. As a medical doctor, you have the congressional law-approved right to off-label prescribed EDTA chelation for heavy metal removal. Even though it was approved for children for lead removal, you can off-label use it for an adult, of course. And it happens to pull out other things besides just lead. And I disagree with what is taught as toxicology levels, that you can tolerate a serum lead level of 4 and not have any need for chelation. If it went above 4, then you could justify applying to your insurance that you have serious levels that require chelation therapy to remove it as an adult. But the thing is they don't think on the patient's behalf. You not only have a serum level of 1 or 2 or 3 of lead. You have an aluminum level. You have a cadmium level. You have a mercury level. You have a gadolinium level if you've had scans. You have a uranium level from Fukushima. I haven't seen anyone escape Fukushima contamination since 2011. 

So, what is the research on doctors who have done science and published on the toxic effect of multiple toxic metals that are on the applied toxic materials list at the FDA? If you look at them, the top seven in the top seven most toxic elements that are listed by the FDA, mercury, lead, arsenic, aluminum and I think cadmium are in the top seven elements. So, don't tell me multiple moderate levels of heavy metals aren't just as bad as a toxic level of lead at 4.3. So, do you see the logic there? The sum and their interactions are just as bad as anyone that reaches their silly high threshold. There is no safe level. And if you watch the YouTube on ACAM with Dr. Dorothy Merritt from 2019 with Dr. Lamas, he was the head of cardiology. It’s the TACT Update 2019, Dr. Lamas. When you hit that up on the screen on YouTube, if you look down a few selections, you'll see an ACAM presentation, an hour long, with a picture of a nice lady with glasses on, called Dr. Dorothy Merritt, and she goes through the entire exposure of blood levels and testing. 

So, I am very passionate about this. It is a toxin. It's like we're all smoking, but we're smoking by breathing the air, these toxic metals. And we're not taking it in at a higher rate through a cigarette. We're breathing it now, just as if we're all smoking cigarettes and getting cadmium, lead, aluminum, mercury, and so forth, what we breathe in the air. 

Question 

“X39 and glutathione patches.” [0:32:58]

Answer

So, they do have a crystal patch that will link electromagnetically in frequency with the impact of the molecule glutathione. And so, you can put both of those patches on at the same time.  

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita. Are the new Doctor's Bars available yet?” [0:33:23] 

Answer

We have the pilot bars in. We can't sell them because this was the very first run. It actually is made to a higher quality and tastes more like I anticipated than they would originally, and they are done, and we have them here. I'm happy to give you a handful and a little questionnaire on what you think. And I want everyone to understand, that these Doctor's Bars are not meant to be fun bars, candy bars, protein bars that taste good. These bars are designed to be satiating medical food that repairs your cell membranes, where all these little holes are poked in with heavy metals or whatever, viruses, bacteria, stress, dehydration, trauma, and injury. And these phospholipids are the literal thing that is in the cell membrane here, and they make up for all the eggs you should have eaten, and steaks you should have eaten, and so forth. It has the highest protein content, 15 grams, the highest fiber content, 15 grams, and 4 net carbs, probiotics, soluble and insoluble fibers. It is absolutely fantastic. I think they taste acceptable. And I am so low carb that I can taste the sweetness that does exist in it.

But to those who have bastardized their mouth and taste with so much sugar, bread, pasta, candy, chocolates, treats, ice cream, whenever they want and feel they deserve it, yeah, you'll taste this bar and you'll say, boy, this is dull. Well, I don't care if it's dull. You should only be eating this bar when you're very hungry to prevent you from reaching out and buying something that is bad or junk food that you would have taken because you didn't prepare the day. So yeah, these pilots are available, and we have a handout you can fill out because I'd like some feedback on it. But we went ahead and gave them the go-ahead because this is the right kind of a bar. And I don't care. I don't want to compare with other fancy-name popular bars out there, and there are aisles worth of this garbage that they call food. It's not. It's another cover-up for a candy bar. So, I've got the real thing here. We've done the testing. We know the ingredients. It will not increase your blood sugar, and it will not increase your insulin. And so, we solved it. And it is decent tasting. There you go. So, I am biased. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita! Could you please recommend an ENT physician in your area? I would like to visit one for a routine checkup. Thank you and God bless you.” [0:36:20]

Answer

You know, I do not have. There are very few physicians in specialties that I recommend. If you're an Ear, Nose, and Throat, or you're a neurologist, or you're a hand surgeon, or a dermatologist, or a gastroenterologist, or a podiatrist, or ophthalmologist, or a brain surgeon, or a migraine specialist, you know, there are so many subspecialists now, I just don't get feedback on people from them. They don't have a relationship. They're like a service that you use and then you're done for the most part. I wish I knew them better, and they probably are excellent at their various skills. But to have it percolate up, saying, oh, I have the best ENT doctor, let me give you his name, I just don't have it and I'm so sorry. 

But if this is for a routine checkup, I really think, unless you have some known ear, nose, or throat disease that needs specific disease management follow-up from a specialist, I would just see a very good functional doctor wherever you live and get their follow-up on that. But I apologize, I don't have a name to send you. I wish I did.  

Question 

“Can you please tell us more about Juice Plus, and its benefits? Do you drink it every day? Do you use it as a meal replacement? How can we purchase it? Also, can you explain once again how you eat on the days that you lift weights? “ [0:37:58]

Answer

Well, you can see I'm in a sweatshirt right now. So, guess what I'm going to do right after we say goodbye in about 25 minutes. I have my workout. So, Juice Plus. Juice Plus is a proprietary blend of fruit in a capsule, another is vegetables in a capsule, and another are berries in a capsule. So, it originally started out as just fruits and vegetables. Later, the berry blend was added. They have this proprietary methodology of processing this in a way in which, and as analytical chemistry in my training, my understanding is they have small organic farms, and they don't use pesticides or herbicides and things like that. And they have their water for watering their fields, tested for pollutants as well. They use flowers and things like this to repel insects. And these small farms are all over the place that Juice Plus, the company and privately-owned business by Jay Martin, who is a school teacher, and he was concerned about the health of his children, and a naturopath came to him who had greatly helped his own father with cancer to improve, showed him this vegetable concentrate, and then it was a powder. It wasn't capsulized. And the initial studies on it, chemistries were so positive. I think there were one or two about its immune lymphocyte activity and maybe another on its ability to support smokers. And this was in North Carolina back in the 1980s, and early 90s, when tobacco was a big industry in those areas back at that time. So, they had a lot of people with tobacco injuries. But anyway, they saw the initial value, and they decided to keep this private and have scientists to process and develop this, so that these anthocyanidins, these resveratrol, Pycnogenols, various wonderful unique antioxidants that are in vegetables or fruits or berries they, when they're exposed to light or to oxygen, will become damaged, and their potency will be harmed. So, the processing, not only does it come from a healthy, clean farming, small family farms, they are fresh flash frozen when they are originally harvested, and they are sampled at that point for their first screen spectrophotometrically for toxins, like exposure to the pesticide, herbicide or fungicides.  

And then when they're brought to the plant, they're quarantined, and they're marked in their batches, and then they're dehydrated. Now, when they're dehydrated, they are done in a fashion that is done in a dark and oxygen-reduced environment, so the nutritive value is preserved. And then they are justified and encapsulated. And at that process as well, they do more spectrophotometric screening and testing. So, this is way beyond the classification of organic. This is super organic. And then they keep samples of every batch they've made since the early 1990s for referencing, location, and identity, just like a pharmaceutical. And then, lastly, when they are finally packaged, they do their final testing on it. 

So, four different areas. They go through a rigorous assessment. So, it's excellent, excellent accountability. We have about 40 plus, 42, and 44 different peer-reviewed, studies. Juice Plus will supply the research facility, the university, with the samples of the Juice Plus and the vegetable garden or the fruit and berry blends, and it will be then tested there independently. That’s the only thing that Juice Plus does, is supply the capsule, its product, but it doesn't influence or run the study. And so, we have all these wonderful studies even to the point that DNA damage research has been done, and it's incredible at preserving the DNA from damage.

So, how do I take it? I take it in a capsule form. I do not drink any protein drink. I don't drink any green drinks or shakes or anything. I believe in eating real food. The company does put out a protein shake, and I think they put out like a B vitamin drink and stuff like that. I don't fool around with those things. They are not as well validated with science as the Juice Plus original product. I think they're trying to ramp up some of that. But I stick to where the volume of the science and the clinical outcome comes from. I, too, have done some work on this and studied and published it in the American Nutraceutical Association's Journal, and that was in the spring issue of 2000 when it was published. And so, I was amazed at the antioxidant protection and improvement I could measure in patient after patient after patient of mine with all kinds of disease situations, from cancer to a pregnant woman. So, with that, with their free Juice Plus to children aged 4 through college age for 4 years, it really promotes a family healthy lifestyle.  

And that is why I use Juice Plus.  

And you also asked, “What do I eat on the days you lift weights?” I don't change anything. I'm eating the same thing. I'm having a rotational basic diet of protein and vegetables. My pair is beef and broccoli, chicken and green beans, salmon and asparagus, pork and brussels sprouts, eggs and spinach, and then I just rotate that. And I'm usually 24 hours once a week not eating anything. And then I do my aerobics with my dog walking now. And then my two dogs, I just went to the doctor, Dr. Kavanagh, across the street here at Saddleback Veterinary Hospital, and Dr Kavanagh is so great. He saw the two rescue dogs. Milo is 77 and Macy is 52. So, I'm holding on Milo and Macy who are rescue dogs and I'm trying to train them and they're pulling me miles and miles and miles, and so it's wearing me out, and I don't want to fall and trip with them. But I'm getting my aerobics with my weight training, and I eat the same. Thank you for your concern and asking. 

Question 

“I'm 44, female, 5’2’’ 110 lb. 9 years ago, I was tested for intrinsic factor antibodies at TLC. Positive. This means I cannot get B12 from food, so I take a weekly injection of B12. I have been taking them regularly for 9 years. I nearly passed out under emotional stress, and I don't know why. I need prayer and help. I'm now on progesterone 100 mg.” [0:46:05]

Answer

Well, you certainly need it. If you're a TLC patient, ask your doctor, I don't know which one you're seeing. But bring your case up for our round, so we can address your case and see if we can look at various things there that could be checked. Your cortisol, your DHEA, your testosterone, your muscle mass, are you doing weight training, what is your water hydration status, are you on estradiol, are you on testosterone, what is your blood type, are you taking a digestive enzyme that will help with your absorption, what is your stool and digestive capacity like.  

All those things need to be addressed. So, talk to your doctor and have your case brought up on the second Tuesday of every month at noon and we stop the whole clinic to look at our successes and our failures. We’re growing. We're always trying to evaluate ourselves. And if we didn't please someone, we want to ask the question of why and how can we improve it. So, hopefully that helps you. 

Question 

“Hello, Dr. E. I'm 58. The past few years I've been diagnosed with several basal cell carcinomas and keep having to have Mohs. Seems like every time I go to the derm, they find another. I don't like toxic sunscreen and like to get a little morning sun with my vitamin D, which is at 55.5. Do I really need to keep searching for and removing these cancers? Thank you. Blessings.” [0:47:51]

Answer

Well, I am not a dermatologist, I'm not a specialist and I don't study the skin features, anything much beyond my original medical training and basic sciences and medical school and pathology and so forth. I will tell you, I never have a dermatologist ever look at me, ever. I'm not outside in the sun a lot because I'm a nerd and I stay in studying all the time, but I'm reasonably outside to do various things. I just have a question that maybe, could there be a financial drive to always find something? And of course, the pathologist has a financial drive to need his services. So, everyone's got a financial need to maybe upread the diagnoses and so forth. So, I can't deny that bias and risk of corruption in medicine exist. So, that has to be addressed, and I would talk with your dermatologist about it, and ask her or him for any scientific papers about the risk of not removing a basal cell or an area that…You know, basically what they're saying is they're going to tell you, “Well, I can't tell it's a basal cell until I biopsy it.” And so, I say catch-22. So, if you're with a good family doctor who has functional training, preventative, and antioxidants, I would use Juice Plus. You're a person I would certainly put on Juice Plus and check these things and be on a low-carb diet, checking your insulin, your triglyceride, your hemoglobin A1c, your fasting blood sugar, your exercise level, your sleep quality, your body mass index, your blood pressure, all these health parameters. And maybe do an antioxidant assay on you. And then, have your family doctor or functional doctor call and talk to your dermatologist. So, I call other patients’ doctors and try to get ahold of them to ask about the logic of why they're being asked to do certain things.  

So, let's communicate, and that's the best way. I'm not saying she's doing wrong or he's doing wrong. And yes, you may have needed every single one of them. But I just can't in the wash see that, because I agree, most of my patients, they're coming in, I was at the dermatologist, punch, punch, punch, you know, and then three or six months later, I was at the dermatologist, punch, punch, punch biopsy. So, we have to ask, do we need to do all this testing? Is it giving a life-saving discovery of preventing death? And I don't think that exists to the level that we think it does. So, talk with your doctor, have him talk to your dermatologist, and let's get some answers. And then bring it here. And if I'm wrong, I'll bring that up. 

Question 

“My husband is 68 and healthy and on no prescription medicines except Prilosec. He had his gallbladder removed about 12 years ago. He is ramping off of it to completely get off it. Per your recommendation - He takes a scoop of Glutashield and Phospholipid Powder per day and also started taking three capsules of turmeric per day. Do you suggest anything else?” [0:51:45]

Answer

Once again, I'm not treating over the YouTube. So, what I want to say is he should be under the care of his doctor. He should find out his blood type. If he's blood type A, it could be all these years, and with his gallbladder, because maybe his gallbladder was overworked because he doesn't make enough digestive enzyme to emulsify and help prepare fatty acid for the gallbladder secreting bile to emulsify it for transport in the gut. And so, everything's important. So, you need to have a good functional doctor who thinks about all these things. So, please see your doctor, please find the blood type, and please have him screened for did he have a colonoscopy, did he have an endoscopy, and where is he sitting in that situation. And make sure when he poops, it's formed, and the colonoscopy is up-to-date and there's no black tarry stools or blood in the stools. All those kinds of wonderful things that you have to make sure are fine. And then, you have to look at the diet and look at maybe food sensitivities. He may be eating some good foods that are irritating him and creating inflammation as well. There are so many things that have to go into it. Please see a good functional doctor or your doctor and address those other issues, and that's what I would suggest. 

Question 

“What are the tests that diagnose Parkinson's and are they accurate? My brother has a history of drinking, taking statins, high BP, and is 50 pounds overweight. 77 years old.” [0:53:54]

Answer

There really aren't blood tests that diagnose it. Classically, it's a symptom complex the patient comes in with. And it's usually a certain age and they have rigidity. They have no facial expression, and they're stiff, and they walk with little shuffles, and it is a clinical diagnosis. So, no, there are no tests per se that clearly identify Parkinson's. 

Question 

“What supplements and lifestyle recommendations would you give a 67-year-old, generally healthy female, with some arthritis and stiffness but no other major situations?” [0:54:43]

Answer

Water. You have to drink enough water for those joints because they only get their nutrients and waste removal from the cartilage and tendons through diffusion. And exercise, range of motion, stretching. Number two, is a low-carb diet, because if you eat a sticky high fruit and starch carbohydrate grain diet, then you are going to clog up the tiny microcapillaries. And thirdly, enzymes. Take systemic enzymes, which should be the first supplement I would try.  Systemic enzymes on an empty stomach like Vascuzyme or systemic enzyme Vitalzym. Take five twice a day for a week. And if you dramatically feel better, which I would say 90 plus people do, 90 percent plus, you’re going to go bingo, that's it.

But what is causing it? Well, yes, aging. But find out your blood type, and I would get away from all dairy and grain for about two weeks and see if you don't feel much, much better just eating meat and vegetables, or go carnivore, pure carnivore. You could also start off with just fasting. So, that won't cost you any money, that'll save you money. And if you fast for two days and you feel much better, then you'll realize it's diet-related. So do those things and then hopefully find a doctor that can test these things for you. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. What are your recommendations for a 32-year-old female looking to lose significant weight, triglycerides 44, A1c 5.6, fasting glucose 90, no fasting insulin done, BP consistently 130/90. Worried about hypertension.” [0:57:02]

Answer 

If she's otherwise healthy, I would have her go on a carnivore diet. That's probably the best way to go. And eat two meals a day, maybe 10:00 to 4:00, something like that, and that will definitely bring insulin down, even if she hasn't measured it. It'll bring the hemoglobin A1c down and the fasting blood sugar down. She has to eat enough protein. And if she's a blood type A, she might need some digestive enzyme to help her with that. That's how I would start with her though. But find a good doctor who will test those things and follow those labs maybe every 6 to 8 weeks, so she'll be inspired as she sees the numbers improve.  

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita! I purchased your Argentyn drops. You did say you put drops in your eyes? Daily? Also, one teaspoon orally daily?” [0:58:22]

Answer

And that is pretty much what I do. I take a drop and I put it right in the corner of the eye. I do it by using a Q-tip. When I take my bottle of Argentyn, I'll stick the Q-tip in it and get it wet, and then I'll touch the inside corner and blink my eye, and I can feel all the coolness go there. Then I flip the Q-tip, I dip in the other end, and I put it in my other eye. And I do this before I go to bed, so I'm moist and I don't dry up and my eyes heal and my cornea will stay more clear and youthful. And then I will brush my teeth and probably take a little sip and swish and then I swallow it. And that is what I do. 

Question 

“Injured lower back. Nerve pain and tightness. Increased the Vascuzyme to twice a day, staying hydrated and eating carnivore. Would you take ibuprofen to reduce inflammation? Any other recommendation?” [0:59:20]

Answer

Yeah, I would initially include ibuprofen when you're eating your beef steak or eggs or stuff because ibuprofen should be taken with food. They come over-the-counter 200 mg. So, you could use up to four of them twice a day for pain, and that will bring great relief. But you have to stretch, and you have to do gradual metered exercises for muscle strengthening along your torso so that you build yourself up.  

Question 

“He is blood type B. Our current doctor thinks the Prilosec is fine – we do not. His colonoscopy was great. The two he has had - no polyps either time. His diet is good. We are considering food test.” [1:00:11]

Answer

Yeah. The Immuno food test and maybe a complete digestive stool, but what about endoscopy to make sure there isn't a tiny ulcer there or something as well? But you could use the phospholipid twice a day to promote healing with the GlutaShield. That would be fine too. So, there would be some early thoughts there on the ideas of what to do.