YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 6, 2026

Question
“Hello, Dr. E. If a person thinks they may have mast cell activation syndrome, where would they start for a diagnosis?”  [0:23:05]

Answer
I would suppose you would work with either a rheumatologist, they should know how to do that, or an infectious disease specialist. Internal medicine family practice also is also beneficial. Mast cells, we have mast cells, we have immune cells all over us. The greatest amount is lining our gastrointestinal pathway, our GI system. And so, food and chronic leaky gut, plant anti-nutrients like oxalates and phytates and tannins and lignans, and all these plant chemicals are caustic and poison to tiny little bugs and fungi. There are irritations to us chronically, and over time, they injure us along the one-cell lining of our gut. And then we start getting leaky gut, which amplifies the immune system, which amplifies molecular mimicry and cross-referencing our own tissues, and our immune system overreacts, and they call that mast cell activation syndrome.

So, if you were my patient, I would say start with a carnivore diet. Find out your blood type. Start working on eating only in a certain window of time, like breakfast to 3 PM, stay well-hydrated, and do weight training and aerobic exercises three times a week for each of those activities. And get a food allergy. Get a complete digestive stool analysis. Try to find a functional doctor who understands what the complete digestive stool analysis is. It'll do the lactoferrin, calprotectin, and lysozyme, and it'll do secretory IgA, the flora microbiome. It'll look at digestive enzymes, short-chain fatty acids, protozoans and viruses, and screening. So it's a complete stool analysis. And then by your age, you know, whether or not you need hormones, looking at your sugar metabolism, so you don't grow yeast and fungi. So all those things need to be looked at. But we really believe mast cell syndrome starts from eating plants, processed foods that have lectins in it that are irritants to the lining of the gut that create these holes, that create the food transfer into the lymph system of our body which alarms our immune system, and we do it day after day thousands and thousands of times, decade after decade, and then the immune system just finally goes nuts and flips the switch and just overreacts all the time. So that's how I would begin to look for a diagnosis. 

Question
“Hi, Dr. Rita! How would you explain the science behind women using progesterone cream for the 2nd half of their cycle? For my sister, age 45. Thank you!”  [0:28:46]

Answer
Well, by the time a woman today is 45, she's typically entering into menopausal irregularities and not ovulating. Stress is so high that the cortisol from our stress is suppressing the pituitary hypothalamic axis, so that luteinizing follicle-stimulating hormones are blocked by high cortisol from stress. So even teenage girls and 20 and 30-year-olds are not ovulating as much. Our whole fertility is dropping, plus many other factors, like heavy metals, mineral deficiencies, zinc deficiencies, D deficiencies, good fatty acid deficiencies, sticky, clogging insulin, stressful, high-carb diet. And that lack of healthy foods is creating metabolic stress, and therefore, girls aren't ovulating. And so, we're going into menopause much earlier. Again, when I was in my early practice of medicine on active duty in the late 70s, I saw women as late as age 61 just wrapping up their menstrual cycle in menopause. 58, 59, 60, 61. I think 61 was the oldest woman I saw naturally ovulate. Although I have one woman currently in my practice still, and she is, I don't know, 88, 89 years old, somewhere there, and she still makes her own estradiol. Can you believe that? All I have to give her is progesterone. 

So, progesterone is produced by ovulation. One egg is developed every month in one ovary, then the other ovary. And that empty sack that the egg was in then becomes called a corpus luteum, and it generates progesterone for approximately 10 to 14 days. That progesterone then builds up in the woman, and it'll clean out the uterine cycle. It'll help stimulate the uterine contractions and cleansing of the estrogen buildup of the lining of the uterus, and this should happen every month. So, if you're getting into menopause, ovulation is not happening. So you're only getting these irregular and heavier or absent missed cycles, and you're not ovulating, and there's no control, no balance, no protection of progesterone every month, so that estradiol becomes dominant, estrogen dominant, and you get fibroids and irregular bleeding and heavy bleeding, and you get cramping and so forth and so on. So, we tend to tell women by the age of 45, it's not really easy for a doctor or a gynecologist or a family doctor to manage a woman because maybe sometimes she'll try to ovulate, maybe sometimes she won't. So, I just tend to tell a woman to use progesterone either the first two weeks of every month or progesterone the last two weeks of every month, and I take the lead then, and the progesterone would then provide the balance and the protection and the sleep and the bone building and the immune health and metabolism support that progesterone would give. So, that's what I would tell her. Hopefully that helps. 

Question
“My sister is currently on testosterone, but her doctor said no progesterone until menopause.”  [0:32:31]

Answer
Well, I even give progesterone to teenage girls. I tell the teenage girls to use it from day 15 through 25 of their cycle 15 through 25 of their cycle, to keep them getting some progesterone every cycle for at least 10 days. I disagree with what her doctor is saying completely. There's a book out there called Estrogen Matters by Bluming. Dr. Lee is long dead, though; he started in the 1970s when I first became a practicing physician. I was involved in, you know, vitamin shops and home healthcare alternative medicine with my dad, chelation therapy. Blah blah blah, I had all that. And I started learning about natural hormones in the 1970s. So that's more than 50 years of experience. And Dr. Lee, I forgot his first name, and progesterone, you'll see his book on progesterone and all the natural and female menstrual cycle problems he solved. PMS, irregular bleeding, amenorrhea, acne problems, sleep problems, anxiety, all these things were helped with it. So, Dr. Lee, maybe it was John Lee, if I remember, or look at the book Estrogen Matters. 

Question
“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you have any tips for a kid with a dry cough likely due to a nasal drip and mucus in the throat? We live in the Midwest, where it's cold and dry. No sun. Thank you.”  [0:34:15]

Answer
Yeah. Do you have cats and dogs that are living in the house? Do you have carpeting? Do you have plants in the house? All these things are immune stimulants that can grow mold in the plants and in the soil. The animals can have their hair and dander. Very often the animals hop on the couches and the beds, and every time you sit, you'll get a plume on your chair of all this cat and dander. Find out the blood type of the child. In general, A-type blood has a lot of problems with immune health because they don't make enough digestive enzymes and stomach acid. So, their immune system can't keep up with providing good extraction of zinc from their food, and many other aspects of their diet are not well absorbed. And they tend to get more post-nasal drip. The humidity drops, and then the lining of the sinuses worsens. They often become mouth-breathers, and they get dry mouth. You try to get them to tape their mouth. We're giving them drinks full of milk, which has been processed with pasteurized/homogenized dairy, which is very allergy-inducing. Cheeses and dairy are all pasteurized/homogenized. And these kids are eating it. The cheese on their hamburgers, on these junk food things. The wheat, if they're an O in particular, O-type blood kids are especially drippy, nasal congested with grains, all grains, whether it's wheat, rye, barley, amaranth, oats. And so, there are so many problems with today's environment. 

So, I grew up in the Midwest. I'm B-type blood, and B-type blood has the worst allergies. Fortunately, my dad did all the right things. You know, I had a bowl full of vitamins from the age of, I don't know, 3, 2, I don't know. But I've had vitamins every day of my life. And then I had chelation therapy since my teenage years to the present. So, I have been a vitamin-processing machine. As the food system got corrupted and the toxins increased, I just became a vitamin machine to help get rid of them. And I drink only water and black coffee. I'll have an occasional alcoholic beverage. But my dad had, you know, water. He would soak towels and just hang them on the back of a chair in the room and change them every night. We grew up in a one-room home, and we only had a fireplace and a pot-belly stove. Later on, as I got older, he did get a gas heater in the house, but we never had a toilet until I got married to my husband, John, at 17. So, there you go. Life is funny. So, those are some of the things. 

Now, what could you use? I would have them take vitamin C, which is a natural antihistamine. Vitamin C, orally. I would take 1 or 2 grams twice a day orally. I would take quercetin. I would take a 200-mg capsule, three times a day. You need 600 mg of quercetin. And we have both the Buffered C. Buffered C is probably the best way to take it. I open up the capsules. I just take this. I have it here all the time. So, I talk every day of my life. Every day of my 72 years, I'm just talking, talking, talking, and I'll take my vitamin C, my buffered capsule, and I'll just unscrew the bottom of it and take the cap out. Now, there's no vitamin C in it. It's all in my mouth. I do that several times a day. I take quercetin 600 mg a day, minimum. I drink my water all the time every day, and do my exercise every day. And I did my fast. I'm only on a carnivore diet 100%. And so, I just do what I can to stay well. There you go. So, that's what I would suggest for the child, and then see your local doctor, and find out their blood type. Try to give them these nutrients. I would also give them vitamin D at least 1,000 to 2,000 units, depending on how big they are. If they're 80 pounds or more, I treat them like an adult. 

Question
“What is the venous and lymphatic system?”  [0:39:52]

Answer
We have arteries that pump the blood from the heart to the body, which is oxygenated, then it goes to its endpoint, and into a capillary bed. And then after the oxygen is used up, that turns into the venous system that brings the blood back to the lungs to get aerated and then dumped into the heart on the left side to get squirted out again for another cycle of oxygenated blood. The lymphatic system is another parallel system. It doesn't have, per se, any pump. It works on the structured water concept that there's a structured water lining every cell membrane in a human body, and the material in the lymph, the kind of like a, you might say a sewage system, immune sewage system, throughout the body, drains the tissue, the interstitial tissue, and it's dropped back into the body's system for processing and is just a fluid-cleansing system, cleansing system, cleansing cycle. So, all of these depend on not eating a high sugar processed food diet, drinking enough water, motion and exercise, and good sleep at night, and enough sunshine that stimulates the water molecules to turn into structured water, lining all the cells and lining of all the vessel pathways. So, whether it's the oxygenated blood, the de-oxygenated blood in the vein, or the kind of waste interstitial drainage, so to say, sewer system of the lymphatics that are sent back for cleansing and reactivation into the bloodstream, these are our ways to stay healthy. Hopefully, that helps you. 

Question
“How often do you recommend the chelation IV?"  [0:42:14]

Answer
In general, I think everyone – well, I don't think. I know every human being, since I was age 16 and got my first chelations, we all are exposed to heavy metal toxins, they're everywhere, and they're absolutely immune-destroying, cell-damaging linked with carcinogenesis, cancers, heart disease, dementia, and they're only brought out with chelating or heavy metal grabbing capacity molecules and EDTA chelation (Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid) is a man-made amino acid that attracts these cations. All toxins are cations. They have a charge, a double positive charge. And EDTA is negative. So, it'll grab onto it. That's the Latin word. ‘Chela’ in Latin means a claw. And if this is the nasty metal, it'll grab onto it and pull it out of the body through the urinary system. It's extremely safe and lifesaving, and we all should do it. So, I recommend everyone get about 40 IVs through the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, ACAM.org. And then you'll get a gentle cleansing. We can't do it fast, once a week or twice a week at the most, under special conditions. I've done it up to three times a week. And then after you've done the 40, then I would drop to doing maybe six a year or four a year the rest of your life because you're always eating, breathing, and drinking in heavy metal toxins. So, that would be how often. I just had mine today with my high-dose vitamin C. 

Question
“Can a person take digestive enzymes by opening the capsule and taking it into the mouth directly, and follow up by drinking water after ( or mixing in water) if a person has severe trouble swallowing capsules?”  [0:44:22]

Answer
Yes. Yeah, you can do it that way. Yeah, they can do it. But just make sure you ate something. Remember, digestive enzymes are supposed to be for digesting your food. So, you could open it up and maybe put it, instead of right into your mouth, why don't you put that into some unsweetened, natural applesauce, or a natural yogurt? Just open up the whole capsule or two and then finish eating your food. That's why I do it for people who have trouble with that. But, you know, I'm so proud of my grandson, August, who's fighting off the leukemia. He has so many vitamins to take. He has a morning and an evening bag, and I would say there are 10 or 11 capsules and chewables in each bag. And I see that little 5-year-old, who just turned 5, take that little tablet. He puts it in his mouth, he sips his electrically structured water by Dr. Pollack, and he swallows it down. And he just, he understood I have to tell my mind to swallow that, and I'm just so proud of him. So, there you go. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E, is it better to take the Probiotic 225, Phospholipids, and SBI protect with or without food? Thank you!”  [0:47:34]

Answer
Well, essentially, the SBI Protect and the Phospholipids should be taken without eating. Okay? So, it's literally helping to line and heal the cell membrane as you swallow it down because it's a single-cell membrane all along the tube. The Probiotics are going to be anytime it's fine to use. Now, you'll benefit from the Phospholipid and SBI Protect powder no matter what. Very often they're prescribed twice a day, the phospholipid fats which help structure the lining of the cell membrane, and the SBI Protect has the protein and the immunoglobulin A to help the immune system and healing of the gut. So, technically, it would be better without food twice a day. The Probiotic 225, anytime, with or without food, but you only need it once a day, and it's sold in a box of I think 15 servings, once a day for two weeks. That's generally what they say if you ever have an antibiotic, please take this to try and help heal and restore your gut.

Question
“Hello Dr. E., my 16-year-old had blurred vision and was lightheaded after a dental filling. About one hour after the procedure, she was back to normal. The dentist said to test her for methemoglobinemia. This was my daughter’s first dental work, and she was really scared. What are your thoughts?”  [0:48:53]

Answer
Well, the procaine local anesthesia that they numb you with is associated with having problems with the delivery of oxygen and physiology, and this can be associated with dizziness, blurred vision, and feeling imbalanced. And it's metabolized quickly, typically in the human body, so within the hour, it's gone, but this probably is a reaction to procaine and local anesthesia. You have her see the local doctor there, the pediatrician, and check for methemoglobinemia and see if she has a lot of that, because that is something also that has a potential genetic basis. Unlikely, I mean, I've seen people with this, and they didn't have methemoglobinemia. But yeah, have the pediatrician check her blood, but that's from procaine. 

Question
“How do you recommend treating vulvodynia?”  [0:50:23]

Answer
Vulvodynia is pain in the female skin, lips, vulva, and vaginal area. Just pain in general down there. The cause is unknown and not generally understood. Inflammation to the nerves, our lousy diet, our lousy premature aging, loss of hormones, too early menopause, lack of hormones, and thinning of the skin. It's always moist and somewhat acidic there, so you can get pain there. Most women don't drink enough water. Most women over-bathe and soap and wash themselves there, as the skin is getting thinner and thinner, and lack of hormones, and then all the chemicals in their polyester clothes, their underwear. So, using cotton, only natural good aeration, getting rid of all these perfumes and polyester clothes, getting on natural hormone replacement therapy with a good functional doctor. Getting hydrated, eating rich phospholipid, healthy fats, linoleic, and alpha-linolenic acid, the only two human essential fatty acids that we have in the Clinician's Preference Oil or capsules. And then, exercise. You can get pelvic floor physical therapy from an experienced pelvic floor specialist, and the muscles of the pelvic floor. We need to know your blood type and your age. We need to know your general insulin, metabolic, and blood sugar metabolism. Very often, the high-carb diet has generated a generalized acidic body, which amplifies pain, clogs off capillaries, and starves oxygen for tissues, amplifying lactic acid production and pain. So, it's a vicious cycle, and you have to go through lifestyle changes to improve it. 

And then systemic enzymes for vulvodynia. Once we clean away anything inflamed like that, I would use chelation therapy for microcirculation, high-dose vitamin C to quiet things down, restore the hormones, a rich, healthy fats and protein diet, very limited carbs, exercise, with your hormone, systemic enzymes, and then follow up with a good functional doctor. 

Question
“Why does Western medicine, with regard to testosterone levels, reflect such low numbers for men today? How do we manage to get the correct levels as the system gives us limited avenues with side effects in the process?”  [0:53:04]

Answer
Well, call your congressmen. (202) 224-3121, that's the switchboard at the Capitol, and it'll answer. The lady will say, “Capitol Switchboard, how can I help you?” And you just say, I want my congressman, or the HHS Kennedy, or the office of the president, or vice president, or your senators, congressmen. And then you can do it for your California or whatever state you're listening from. And then you tell them you want to get rid of this industrial farming, the chemtrails, the fluoride, and the chlorine in the water. You want to get rid of all this processed food subsidies to the crappy Kellogg’s and General Mills and Nestle mega corporations raping us and the dyes and the oxidative stress, get rid of the fluorescent lights and get back to the natural condescend light with infrared, and get back to doctors not having this pressure on them to specialize but to become local family community doctors loved and cherished by thousands of patients in their community. I can't think of a better goal in life than to be a doctor in one spot, loved by hundreds and thousands of people. I feel it. And God help me, I would never want to make a mistake or harm anyone. But this excess of laws and rules requires well-educated IQ intelligence, verified chemistry/biochemistry, and more in the training of all the doctors to understand the sophisticated physiology and science that they need today. You have to understand energy medicine, acid-based material. You have to understand the light and the value of sunshine, the photosynthesis of plants. You have to understand how stress and the hypothalamic axis and the gut and the whole body synchronize. We have to have doctors who are willing to humble themselves and either get back in school, study it themselves, or use medicine as a last choice, and have many more follow-ups. I mean, we've tried some lifestyle changes, and within a month, follow up. Two months, three months, follow up. How are you? Did it help? That's the kind of medicine we need. 

And that's what happened to the testosterone levels. All these pollutions, dioxins, pesticides, glyphosate, genetic modification of food, high-carb clogging, processed, hydrogenated fats, stress, energy, EMG waves, all this has oxidized and burnt off and injured the energy production of the cells. So the testosterone production drops off, and this is just horrific, where the level of testosterone in men today is 200, 250. When my father died just 10 years or so ago, he was 86 or 87 years old. And even without testosterone, his testosterone level was 7800. No, he grew up healthy. He took vitamins. He was chelated too. But only a rare man today, a rare man in my practice, is in the 800s, 900s, a thousand. So, yeah, without testosterone. 

Question 
“Do they listen? Do something about it? I listened to a podcast of Gary Brecka and the new head of the FDA, Dr. Makary, and I’m hopeful.”  [0:57:28]

Answer
Yes, they will. And yes, it is changing. Your call makes a difference. I make that call over and over and over again. And so, call (202) 224-3121. The Switchboard answers, “Who do you want?” You say, I would like to speak to someone from the office of so and so. You leave the message, and then you call them again in a week. These people are tracking your votes. It's like being on X and leaving a statement, but you're going right to the heart of the leadership. If they know that you know, see, they want you to think, oh, you're just dumb, you're just a little slave. You'll eat anything we give you. No, you let them know you're holding them accountable. And yes, it does make a difference. Believe me. Yeah, I'm talking about the congressmen. Yeah, 

“I listen to the podcast of Gary Brecka and the new head of FDA, Dr. Makary, and I'm hopeful.” -  Yes, absolutely. And then what you can do is call that number and say, "I want the FDA, Dr. Makary,” and leave him an encouraging statement. 

Question
“I have read that liposomal vitamin C is better than just taking regular vitamin C. Is this true?”  [0:59:15]

Answer
I would say the answer is yes, liposomal vitamin C. But the only proven company that I know of, maybe there are others that have, because I don't know everything, but LivOn. Dr. Thomas Levy, MD, is a doctor of jurisprudence, a lawyer. He’s both a doctor and a lawyer, and he has all these YouTubes, ‘Dr. Thomas Levy Liposomal Vitamin C, and he's on the board of LivOn, and he has done testing with it, so is the Riordan Clinic in Wichita, Kansas, and Dr. Honeycutt. Lots of data on that. So, I would say, yes, it is better. 

Question
“What exactly does Vitalzym do?”  [1:00:07]

Answer
These are systemic enzymes that are able to chew up bad, misfolded enzymes, proteins, polypeptides, debris, and broken down cell material. These systemic enzymes can break up an aging, dead cell, so a new one can come in its place. We need this in every part of our body. And guess what we don't make with age? We lose our hormones. We lose our enzymes. We can't digest as well. And so, we break it down faster, quicker, and then we die. So, those of us who take our digestive enzymes with age, those who take our systemic enzymes with an empty stomach, those who take your hormones, those who do some chelation, those who take, my favorite antioxidant protection is Juice Plus, the most researched nutraceutical, those who take vitamin D, those who take the u TLC Albion-chelated, these are amino acid chelated minerals like manganese and molybdenum and copper and magnesium, and so forth, these are people who are going to live a very long time. Hopefully. Did you hear that, Jesus? All right. So, praise the Lord.