YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 14, 2026

Question
“I had sharp shooting pains like an electrical shock in my inner thigh to the left of my right knee last week. I do a lot of squatting, kneeling, etc., with my yard, work, and helping with my 3-year-old granddaughter in my daily activities. I think it is a nerve and have been resting, heating, and icing it, and feeling much better. Should I be concerned?”  [0:02:47]

Answer
Well, certainly if this was persistent and worsening, you will surely have to go see an urgent care or your primary care doctor or an orthopedic if it is a pinched nerve sciatica, and look at your posture. Maybe an MRI of your spine would need to be done. But again, just having a pinched nerve like that, and as long as you work on your exercise, core strength, and your stretching, this should recover itself within days; If not, yes, you have to see someone. But you know, I'm going to the gym right afterwards, even though I'm tired here after a full week, because I don't want to allow my spine to lose its alignment. I don't want to, with age and my shrinking muscles, let the weight of my structure pull me out of alignment. So, I have to do my core exercises three times a week on the weights. So, I do that for that very purpose. I eat a high-protein diet, I drink my water, I stretch, and I don't eat late, so that my human growth hormone levels can surge in the evening time. If I eat, you know, much past 4:30, 5:00, then I'm going to be shutting off my human growth hormone, for which many people spend thousands of dollars on peptide therapies and injections. I get a 1300% increase in my IGF-1 level just by eating early in the day, doing regular exercise, and eating a high-protein diet. So, I get it for free. And then, in the morning, I have a pattern where I get up early, and I get outside with the sunshine, and I ground myself, and I take an early morning walk before I eat anything, and then I get another surge of growth hormone. So, it helps me repair all my little tiny interosseous muscles, as well as my major muscle groups. So, this is what helps us stay without pinching nerves. One thing sliding upon another, the slippage then generates a herniated disc and pinching of the nerve elements. And I drink plenty of water, taking my multi-minerals, and I take my systemic enzymes, so I don't get dehydrated and easily, you know, so to say, flaky, cracked up with it. So, those are the things that you need to be mindful of, and work with your u doctor, your orthopedic doctor on if it's persistent. You have to find out what's going on. But nevertheless, you're going to have to exercise and do all those things all the days of your life. Hopefully, that's a bit of help for you. 

Question
“My 56-year-old son had ablation surgery 3 months ago because of AFib beats. How likely is it that he can go off all medication, as long as he does not have a recurrence of AFib? The meds he is currently taking are metoprolol, flecainide, and Eliquis. His doctor thought he could go off the meds as long as there was no recurrence of AFib. He very much wants to.”  [0:06:28]

Answer
So, an electrophysiologist went into the heart to find the irritable site that might be causing misfiring of the heart at the atrium, the top half of the heart, not the bottom half. Well, I'm not a specialist. Certainly, that's the question he needs to ask his cardiologist. I'll tell you the things that we have done here. Well, he has to think about microcirculation and cell membrane repair. So, something irritated the unique electrochemical tissue that's in the heart for the innovation of the heart and it's a self, you know, perpetuating an electrical potential. These nodes are in tissue with cell membranes, just like any other tissue with a cell membrane. But what can damage it? Well, oxidative stress, a high carb diet, staying up too late, smoking, eating hydrogenated fat, seed oil rich foods, junk food, not drinking enough water, lack of exercise, and losing enzymes with aging. All these things, along with not eating enough healthy phospholipid-rich meats and fish and chicken, pork, eggs with the yolk in them, and foods like this, and eating too late at night. We are all degenerating slowly. We are all oxidizing and burning up. But some of us are burning up faster than others. That creates cell membrane damage, just like, you know, you can see in this picture over here that I have. I always show these pictures: one picture shows a hole in the cell membrane, and the other picture shows it's all repaired. And the only reason why some people age slowly and don't get as many problems is that we have to live a disciplined life, eat foods, and have a nighttime routine, a morning hygiene routine, and a dietary routine. routine. Some supplementation is necessary because of the pollution of the world and the corruption of the food, industrialized farming, which makes the nutrient density of the food insufficient compared to the 1950s. And so, people who stay well hydrated, people who probably use some natural hormones, people who do not eat late, and who exercise. All these things promote better repair, growth hormone, hormone cycling, sleep time, during which time you get deeper sleep, deeper REM sleep, and all these things promote healing. 

If your son works on these things, he should enjoy them. Now, we enjoy these healthy benefits of a very slow aging process if we do them. But what also helps is if we do EDTA chelation therapy, which improves the microcirculation all over, including the heart, and it removes oxidative stress. It is a bit of a natural anticoagulant. It provides many nutrients, B vitamins, minerals, vitamin C. Many will say that vitamin C works as a natural membrane to the endothelium of the lining of all blood vessels from becoming irritated and leaky, so to say, like scurvy produces the bleeding gums, easy bruising, and bleeding because the tissues can't heal well and red blood cells leak out through the dissolving gaps between the cells, and then that generates blood clots and abnormal membrane surfaces and irregular sequencing of deep polarization of these special nodal tissues in the heart and other parts of the area. So, a healthy lifestyle, the same thing we always teach, helps everything. So, maybe he can find a functional medicine doctor who does chelation therapy with vitamin C and clean up his diet, and take some systemic enzymes to replace the Eliquis. Now, there's not going to be any studies that compare really the anti-coagulant prevention, anti-inflammatory prevention of Vitalzym or systemic enzymes like our Vascuzyme or ProteoXyme, which we take on an empty stomach to disinflame the body, and it helps prevent clotting compared to the patented drug Eliquis, which has studies on it that will show some of these benefits. And it would be a bold and good cardiologist who would allow that transition if the patient with information realizes that with good informed choices, to choose whether or not they want to use systemic natural enzymes or continue drug therapy. I have stayed on natural enzymes all my life, so I have been on systemic enzymes probably since my late 40s, maybe. almost 30 years now, because I went on natural hormones, because if you're old enough to go on hormones, then it means your body's getting old enough to not make enough anti-inflammatory enzymes. So, I put all my women on hormone replacement therapy with systemic enzymes. Of course, I also tell them to eat a low-carb diet, drink plenty of water, exercise, and not eat late, and so on and so forth. But that's what I would do, and I see no reason why he couldn't try to come off these medications. 

And my clinical experience is, in the years that, remember, when warfarin or Coumadin was the anti- clotting medication for many, many years, and then they moved to other things like Eliquis, Xarelto, and others, these drugs, I was able to easily get my patients off of when they just showed me that they were going to live a healthy lifestyle. And I could do two or three consecutive labs proving their insulin stayed low, their hs-CRP inflammatory markers, sedimentation rate markers stayed low, and their blood sugar stayed low or in healthier ranges like in the 80s, and then the insulin stayed low, hemoglobin A1C, and triglycerides stayed low. Then I knew this person was living a lifestyle that would be preventative for disease and blood clotting, and then I was able to get them off these medications. And that's just something we've done with chelation therapy for decades here. So, yes, it's possible. I hope he's able to do it. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on bioenergetic scans, and what are they? Do you think blood work and then nutritional counseling is a good plan for a beginner?”  [0:14:53]

Answer
Well, remember, I did a doctorate in integrative medicine back in the 1990s, and in it, we were doing these bioenergetic assays, energy according to vibrational medicine, the body electric, all about the membrane potential, the nutrients needed for ion exchange, depolarization and repolarization of the membranes. The very great importance of the electronegative, electropositive, and zeta potential of every red blood cell. Now, that's been defined by Dr. Gerald Pollack and Dr. Lynn before him, as the exclusion zone that lines the blood vessels, which is an electrochemical state of negativity, I believe, and the surface membrane of the red blood cells is positive. So, there is an electrochemical pulling of blood through the body, as opposed to thinking that your heart pumps it all. So, all these wonderful electrochemical things are not taught enough. You would hope that your doctor would stay informed, educated, enjoy learning about his patients and his or her profession of medicine, helping the most fantastic creation on the planet, which is the human being made in the image of God. And yet, so many times I see doctors who scoff at this; whereas, in fact, indeed, bioenergetics is a valid area that needs research. Now, that's all the good things I'm going to say about it. 

Now, here are the bad things. It's an undisciplined field still. It is not defined enough, and it has a tremendous wild west kind of applications by questionable and maybe some very well-degreed certified practitioners, but not necessarily medical doctors. Very often, you'll have two poles to hold on to, and then the computer will sense the electronics of your hands. And if the person holds in one hand a vitamin, maybe magnesium, and then they look at the scanner, and they'll find, oh, there seems to be a graphic appearance that this is calming to your body; therefore, they'll say you need magnesium, and then they will sell you magnesium. Then they'll put another item in your hand, and they'll say, oh, here's some, you know, antioxidant, vitamin C, or resveratrol or polyphenol of some sort. And they'll say, look, you need more antioxidants. And on it goes, looking at these graphs. But who's validating the graphs? What are the control and authenticity ranges of these graphs? And I've seen this used for decades now, close to 50 years. I will say that we have, in general, nutritional deficiencies. I will say that there are sincere people using bioenergetics. And I will say that, when you sit with a person who is doing this and monitoring it with their computer and these pads or these handles you're holding, indeed, there certainly are very likely these deficiencies. And so, they are likely to make good choices. But is this a science, or is this just a prevalence of the breakdown of our farming and food industry, the pollution of our world, and we're just finding a general way to point this out to a patient, and you get the empathy of the person conducting it and their sincere care, and you buy these things, and you get some benefit. But it's not a reproducible science. Another thing is done by digital O-ring or applied kinesiology testing with the same mechanism in general. There are so many factors that can interfere with the energy of the tester or the testee, with the computer and the electrochemical energy waves going through the room. There are just so many factors; these are questions that are not controlled for. 

So, any of us who have been published, and by the grace of God, I've been allowed to do my own publishing many times, there are so many factors that can get out of accountability, lack of controls, you could say, where your results were skewed because you didn't control this factor or this factor. And so, the science needs to be studied more. I'm all for pursuing more research, but where are you going to get the money unless you can make a lot of money on it from patenting something? So, we just have to have different methodologies of financing research that isn't necessarily tied to multibillion, trillion-dollar companies that will make tons of money on any one issue. Everything has been almost entirely controlled by pharmaceutical companies and their control of the medical school training, and the bias, whether or not the doctor admits it, they come out of medical school with all these biases. So, we have to have physicians' sciences. Again, when I was a young doctor, almost every doctor had a lab in their office. I mean, I have a lab and a microscope, and we would do our own cultures. Now, doctors just order tests and read paperwork. We need physician scientists. So, we have to put a greater burden upon the training of physicians to get them sorted out to those who really want to publish and push forward the body of knowledge and research. And out of that, will pop out these things. So, I'm not going to put down bioenergetics, but I'm going to say it needs more supervision, more testing. And I think we'll get to a Star Trek kind of day in which you'll have a tricorder like Dr. Bones had on Star Trek, and he would go over your body, and it would do a little ‘dr-dr-dr’ all over you, and it'll give energetic feedback of the vibrational frequency of nutrients, clusters of nutrients, your morning reading, your afternoon reading. In fact, that's what all this aura stuff and these bands are doing. So, we're headed in that direction, and may, by the grace of God, we continue. But we can still do very well. We don't have to worry about it. We are all moving in a healthier direction, I believe. 

Question
“My sister, who is 80 years old and in general in good health, has been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis. What treatments are there for this, and what can she do to slow its progression?”  [0:23:13]

Answer
Well, pulmonary fibrosis could be autoimmune. For some reason, she's laying down collagen, fibrin, and elastin in the lung tissue, which is not a good place because you need these very delicate alveolar little sacks to make gaseous exchange with the oxygen. So, if you get scarring, you're going to diminish the flow and exchange through the membranes there. Now, what works as an anti-inflammatory, because usually inflammation generates these things from some sort, would be systemic enzymes and doing chelation therapy to improve microcirculation, enhancing the gas exchange and the plasticity of the lungs. So, definitely those are the two areas, systemic enzymes and EDTA chelation therapy, along with all the healthy lifestyle things I always bring up, and that's what I would ask your sister to find, a doctor who really understands this and can provide systemic enzymes and the chelation. 

Question
“Hello, Dr. E., my son just got his blood results, and his ferritin is 16 low. I'm assuming he has an iron deficiency. He is always tired, lethargic, sleepy, etc. What does he need to feel better? I'm not sure iron supplements will be the best for him due to constipation. Anything natural you can recommend?”  [0:24:35]

Answer
Well, I don't know how old your son is, but very often young men, and men in general, since they don't menstruate, normally have very good ferritin and iron levels, and if anything, they tend to have a risk for higher amounts. So, there's a whole body of science to ask the question in men, why are their iron levels or ferritin levels low? There are many things that could happen. They could be taking aspirin or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, Motrin, ibuprofen, Advil, which are caustic to the gut lining, and they create chronic blood loss in the gut lining. There could be a colon malabsorption from Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis, or bowel disorders of absorption. They could be blood type A. People with blood type A normally don't digest well. They don't make enough stomach enzymes and acid; Therefore, they cannot break up their food and extract the iron, zinc, and other wonderful minerals that they normally would get from their foods. They could be on medications that inhibit absorption of minerals, such as chronic antacid therapies, Prozac, and the purple pill, Nexium. They could be buying this over-the-counter stuff and just really messing up their stomach digestion and the natural acid that's needed for healthy mineral absorption. So, all these things have to be ruled out with a colonoscopy, a complete digestive stool analysis, or an endoscopy to look for stomach ulcers and bleeding, stool occult blood tests, inflammation markers in their blood, CBCs to look for chronic anemia, and to find out their blood type. These are the things that need to be looked at. And so, have your son discuss that with his doctor. Hopefully that helps. That'll really get him started well.

Question
“A 48-year-old female, 122 lbs. (with PCOS), still menstruating regularly. low ferritin for years, but despite supplementing with 25 mg of Thorne Bisglycinate daily, my levels have lowered to 10. Zinc is at 7.2, even though I supplement 25 mg a day +2500 µg of copper. My protein is at 6 - I eat 100 grams a day. Calcium is 8.2. Everything else is normal. Advice?”  [0:27:24]

Answer
Polycystic ovarian syndrome is always generated by exposure to too many carbs and fruit sugars throughout the lifetime. Polycystic ovarian syndrome is an insulin-resistant disease, and our young children are getting it because of the junk food, the donuts, the juices, the crackers, Goldfish, the junk we're feeding these kids all the time instead of healthy proteins. It's much more common for a young lady and an early 40-year-old woman to have low ferritin because of their menstrual cycles. So, she's using a bisglycinate amino acid chelated iron. She still has low levels, and her zinc is low, and she also uses 25 mg a day of copper. And she said her serum protein is 6, which is low, and yet she eats 100 grams a day. Her calcium is 8.2; that's low normal. Everything else is normal. 

Well, just like that young man with the low ferritin, all those things apply to you. You have to know your blood type. You have to get a colonoscopy and an endoscopy. You have to look for any of these chronic antacid usage, aspirin, Motrin, or ibuprofen. You have to look for proton-pump inhibitors, like Nexium, and you have to work with a doctor who's going to help you with these issues to try and resolve them. You might need an iron infusion, and you might need to do some nutrient IVs to help you build your health up. You might also be chronically subclinically vitamin C-deficient. So, I would get a micronutrient assay, like a SpectraCell, but I would do those things and see your doctor. 

Question
“What are your thoughts about RYZE mushroom coffee? So many people say it really works well, especially for gut health.”  [0:29:58]

Answer
Well, I'm not familiar with that product, but I'm familiar with mushroom coffees. I'm going to say there are various kinds of good mushroom combinations. Lion's Mane, Cordyceps, Reishi, and Shiitake have various nutritive components that benefit our health when taken, from developing a healthier nervous system to a healthier immune system, promoting healing of the lining of the gut. It creates some support for pre-fiber activity for the good bacteria in the gut. And it also reduces the caffeine. Most of these coffees have a reduced caffeine dose when they have all the mushrooms in them. So you don't get all that caffeinated jitteriness from it, and you get that nice warm aroma, some of that coffee bean smell. So, I'm going to say I'm in favor of it, and yes, it does have value. So, I'm going to support that. 

Question
“Does the introduction of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) ever cause joint pain?”  [0:31:40]

Answer
Well, you learn one thing in medicine, as you humbly stand before the Almighty and His wonderful creation of the human being, you never say never. So, I'm going to say I would have to claim I have never seen it, or if I did, I didn't identify it because it is so extremely rare. Normally, estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone do all kinds of general, so to say, repair contracting for the body that it helps build the tissue, build the muscle, which improves circulation and movement of the human being and reduces the inflammation of joint pain. Very typically, with the onset of menopause, joints get stiff and achy. As soon as we give estradiol back again, the joint pains go away. And I have to say, at 73, almost next month, I have just no pain, and I'm so grateful, and I don't really want to try letting my hormone levels drop because I don't want to feel stiff, okay. So, I'm going to say if it happens, it's extremely rare, and I have not seen it. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., I am a 57-year-old woman, and I am feeling fatigue, brain fog, and slow recovery time after exercise. Would you have any suggestions to increase my energy, optimize healthy aging, and support heart health? Also, my blood work indicated iron saturation was low at 18, but the doctor said not to worry because Transferrin is normal at 268. Thank you so much!”  [0:33:13]

Answer
Well, I'm going to say everything I've said before. You've got to put in exercise, kind of like you have to pour water into a pump very often in the old days to prime the pump to start getting water pumped out of the earth; you have to get in the gym and do weight resistance training. That action of using your muscle masses generates little tiny muscle breakdown and tears, and those little fragments called myosins circulate through the body, and they signal for brain and nerve repair; they signal for muscle repair. They signal your body to get rest at night and have a deeper sleep. So, you have to do resistance training three times a week. I would recommend natural hormone support with your doctor. I would recommend a rich, high-protein diet, at least 1 gram per pound of ideal weight. Let's say you want to ideally weigh 120 pounds, and then you should have 120 grams of protein every day. If your blood type is A or you're much older, over 55, then I would probably say start taking digestive enzymes to extract all you can from the protein you're eating. I would say stop eating around 4:00 at night, the latest, so your stomach gets empty by 9:00. With good sleep hygiene, you go to bed with a little bit of your head elevated, well hydrated. And take systemic enzymes, use the methylated B complex for mitochondrial function and NAD production, take coenzyme Q10 at least 200 – 300 mg, and take the multi-mineral for all the co-factors in the electron transport chain. And stay away from the sugars and the carbohydrates and the starchy foods. And if necessary, get a complete stool analysis and digestive analysis to look for any food allergies, bacterial imbalances, inflammation, and get that fixed. And maybe look at food allergies. Maybe a trial of being a carnivore for a couple of months would help disinflame the whole body. And get outside in the sunshine, grounded, and get your vitamin D levels up above 80 on your blood testing levels. And get your hormone levels. Estradiol, I would like it, you know, 75 to 150 at least. Your progesterone, 4 to 16 at least. Testosterone 75 to 150 also. DHEA 300, 400, 500 range. These are the areas that I think you need. And then get social, get friends, get a purpose. Serve your community, your church, or whatever, your family, and the homeless. Get involved in purpose and value, and whatever is lovely and beautiful, think on these good things, and that tends to help our brain and our energy.

Question
“Hi Dr. Ellithorpe, I am a 63-year-old patient of yours. I am in good health. I wanted to get your thoughts on nuts. Are there optimal nuts you would recommend eating, and are there any to avoid? Thank you!”  [0:37:19]

Answer
Yeah, briefly, probably the best nut and the one I eat the most often is walnuts, and I'll eat, you know, a 1-oz or a 2-oz serving every day. The second nut I would eat is pecans, and these are not roasted or salted. Brazil nuts with the selenium in them are good. good. Macadamia nuts, with their saturated fats, are good. Seeds, non-roasted sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds. Outside of that, I really don't take any nuts. I especially avoid cashews, and I avoid pistachios mostly. That's all I can think of off the top of my head. So, walnuts number one, pecans, Brazil, macadamia. 

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“Hi Dr. Rita, thank you for all you do! Can you please explain the benefits of systemic enzymes? Thank you and God bless.”  [0:38:47]

Answer
Well, enzymes are God's. They're proteolytic, meaning they break up protein gummy sticky complexes. Sometimes, like for instance, if you eat some sugar and it gets a piece of glucose stuck to it, that's your hemoglobin A1C. Those proteins are damaged now forever, and they become a waste on the sides of the roads of the highways of your body, those proteins with sticky sugar on them. And so, proteolytic enzymes come along and start chopping it up to try to recycle it. Intermittent fasting. You know, the older you get, I don't think I would go much over a 3-day fast. Maybe once a month or every three months. I used to do a 5-day fast when I was younger. I saw my muscle mass decline, I think, too much. So, I decided to limit myself, especially now that I'm in my 70s, to a 3-day water fast. So, systemic enzymes are proteolytic. They chop up this waste material, mucus, congestion, pockets of pus, break down tissues, injured tissues, postsurgical injured tissues, and it's just tremendous to use these as like God's little soap suds that clean up and disinflame your body, especially if you drink enough water. So, hopefully that helps you understand what they do. Whereas digestive enzymes do the same thing, chopping up proteins that you eat, and they also help with this, and the acid helps to digest fats. So, the digestive enzymes we use here are called Digestzyme or SpectraZyme, and we use that with a load of stomach food; whereas systemic enzymes are taken on an empty stomach. I like the capsule of the Vitalzym Xe, and then that gets it past the stomach acid into my small intestine, where it can really get absorbed and go throughout all my body and help like little soap suds to clean my body up of debris. That way, when I'm sleeping at night, I get more healing, reconstruction, and repair done, so I age more slowly. 

Question
“For tiny tears in a rotator cuff, the orthopedic surgeon suggested cortisone shots, PRP, or surgery. Will using Infrared light therapy and OT repair in lieu of the above? I realize it depends on the size of the tears; I just wondered if it was a possibility?”  [0:41:33]

Answer
Well, yes. Plasma-rich platelets, that's what it stands for. Plasma-rich platelet therapy. They take your own blood, they spin it down, and they top coat this little tube of blood- here's the plasma, here's your packed red cells, and the top of it, the buffy coat, has these little platelets and growth factors in it. They suck that off with a little needle, and they can inject that into your joint here. It's your own immune system, so it really should have no problems. That helps try to focus growth hormone signaling there. But what good will it be if you just eat a junky diet? What good will it do you if you don't drink enough water? What good will it be if you don't go to sleep on time with an empty stomach to let your own growth hormone repair be there to help you? What good will it do if you don't eat a rich protein diet? I mean, what good will it do if you don't exercise? So, there aren't one-pill solutions. I know we've been brought up by the paradigm of the propaganda of the pharmaceuticals that take a pill for this, a pill for an illness, and we are multi-dynamic people, and our systems are multi- variant inputs. So, yes, all those things will help you, but you have to do all the healthy lifestyle things at the same time. So, yes, I would say I would do that - Infrared light, healthy morning hygiene, wake-up time, healthy evening bedtime hygiene. Just keeping up with these parameters and hydration, low sticky carbs, chelation therapy, enough vitamin C. You have to have vitamin C to help create the collagen/elastin locking of the collagen in there that makes these tissues. 

Question
“I’ve heard you discuss the role of animal protein and fat derived from animals being the primary source of our nutrients. I listened to a podcast from a food scientist covering studies that show prioritizing plant proteins reduces the risk of diabetes and heart disease. What is your take on this? If you have Instagram, you can see the snippet.”  [0:44:19]

Answer
The China study was a book about this. Dean Ornish is the one who promoted this vegan, heart-healthy, plant-based diet. There are so many nutrient deficiency risks that you have with that, and very often, the patients doing this will succumb to high insulin spikes, which tend to make the blood vessels thick and insulin-resistant. The general statement is, if you control this very closely, and Dean had published some studies where he did show reduced blood sugars and cardiovascular health, I'm going to say, you'd have to spend most of your time just studying what you're eating. And I'm too busy a person helping other people, family, grandkids, life. I can't live on my computer and log in to everything that goes into my mouth. So, if I'm going to, like, when I came home from work today, I had the other half of my omelette I made this morning. I had a cheese omelette with bacon. So, I had half of it, two eggs. It was a four-egg omelette, so I ate the other half when I came home. And I had my Perfect Aminos. I had some walnuts, and I had a yogurt, and I had three slices of Swiss cheese. I think that's all I have. And so, I've had somewhere in the neighborhood of maybe only 80 grams of protein, and I need at least 120 grams. So, I'm going to have to take some more Perfect Aminos when I go home after my workout today. But the long and the short of it, ladies and gentlemen, is outside of eating hamburgers and chicken and broiled salmon and roasted beef and steaks and maybe some canned tuna and eating some shrimp and crab dipped in butter that I can heat up from frozen real quickly, I am just not going to stress over weighing my fruits and vegetables and worry about that. We are constructed and full of rich nutrients from animal sources that are not in the plant kingdom. So, you'd have to supplement a lot more. So, that's my thought on that. 

Question
“Thanks, first of all, for all the valuable information you share here. People tell me all the time I should be on Fosamax, which I know is not a safe drug. Other than weight-bearing exercises, what supplements do you suggest instead? Thank you for your response.”  [0:47:54]

Answer
So, I'm going to say, hormone replacement therapy, testosterone levels, vitamin D levels above 80, and really hard weight resistance training. A lot of what people think is weight resistance is not hard enough. Sudden deceleration isometrics with tens and tens of pounds of resistance weight, not a 5-, 8-pound, 3-pound weight, and really bands, unless you're working with some monumental bands, it's not going to be enough to really get the training you need. That's why I say go into the gym where you can see yourself stack up, you know, 40, 60, 80, 120 pounds of resistance on what you're pushing, pulling, and racking up. 240 on the leg press is what I do. So, you have to do some pretty serious resistance training three times a week. Get your vitamin D level up. Get your estradiol up to 75, 150, progesterone up to anywhere from 4 to 16 at least, testosterone the same, 75 to 150. And then take your water and stay uninflamed, don't eat late so you get your growth hormone, good morning and evening hygiene habits, so you get your circadian rhythm right. And then have your doctor repeat your bone density within a couple of years or three and track it with all these things you're doing because Fosamax is a bisphosphate drug, alendronate is the name of it, and it's associated with jawbone deformities, it's associated with ulcers and bleeding disorders, and then the gut. It's just a dangerous drug, too often in my experience. So, I don't like those drugs when you can do these other things. 

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“My dad just spent 4 days in the hospital. He had a temperature of 102 degrees. Many tests were done. Liver levels 200. Has had a dry cough for a month, fatigue. They gave him 4 types of antibiotics intravenously, lots of docs, no answers. Home now. Any advice on lowering liver levels? Detox antibiotics? He does not drink alcohol. He eats a lot of bread, though. Thank you.”  [0:50:33]

Answer
Well, glyphosate is in all this wheat and grain and pasta and breads and crackers and cereals, and that is very liver toxic and associated with cancer. So, I would take Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA), and I would take 500 mg or 600 mg twice a day. I would also take systemic enzymes and a very low-carb diet. And I would take the Probiotic 225 powder once a day for two weeks. And then after you're done with that, that's the high-dose probiotic after all those antibiotics. Then I would put my patients on the Probiotic 100, so a step down, one a day for another month or two. And then step down finally to the maintenance standard, just general Probiotics by Ortho Molecular. Take vitamin D at least 5,000 IU a day, and measure the level. And then recheck the enzymes of the liver within two weeks of starting Alpha Lipoic Acid. High-dose vitamin C is always good if you can find a functional doctor to get a high dose of vitamin C. Check his G6PD first. Find out his blood type; he might need digestive enzymes. And eat, if he could, a very simple one-menu day, some roasted protein and a cooked vegetable, just butter and salt and pepper, and keep the food allergies very limited by having the same roast and vegetable for both the breakfast and the lunch, and get out there and walk and drink the water. Take systemic enzymes on an empty stomach and track that, and find a good functional doctor to help him review that with them. I hope it helps. 

Question
“Regarding my dad’s hospital stay and being pumped with antibiotics for 4 days, they stopped the antibiotics on Monday. When is it safe for him to get Vit C IV and other supplements to boost his immune system?”  [0:53:26]

Answer
Well, anytime, even with antibiotics. Yeah. So, he can be on that now. So, try to find a good functional doctor. Let your hepatologist and his primary doctor know what you're trying to do. Alpha lipoic acid can be given IV, it can be taken orally, and it has worked as a tremendous, tremendous liver detox supplement that I've seen in my life. So, that's what I would recommend. 

Question 
“Hi, Dr. E. I suspect my wife has plantar fasciitis. It's been four months. Rolling a tennis ball helps. Is there a way to confirm? How is it treated? Thank you.”  [0:54:23]

Answer
You have to do all the lifestyle things I'm telling you with the enzymes. You have to stop eating by around 4 o'clock. And she's got to stretch that plantar fascia every day. Very often, you get a 2x4, and you put your toe bridge on it and your heels on the ground, and you kind of lean into it or just go up against the wall and put your foot there and stretch into it. You have to stretch it out. It should be able to see improvement with the systemic enzymes, enough water, a low-carb diet, and not eating late. It should be able to note improvement within days if you do that. 

Question
“Dr. Rita, a 71-year-old friend at church, has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s! Is there any protocol that would be helpful?”  [0:55:19]

Answer
Well, yeah, all these things. The EDTA chelation therapy, the natural hormones, the exercise, the rich protein diet, ketones that are generated from a carnivore diet, and you could take medium-chain triglycerides, coconut oil, all these things mixed into warm tea or coffee, help with the exercise, with a low-carb diet, and not eating late. That's definitely what I would do. 

Question
“What treatments can be done to deal with cellulitis? I know of staying active, antibiotics, compression socks, and Argentyn 23 topically. Is there anything else that can help clear it up completely?”  [0:56:05]

Answer
Well, yeah. A carnivore diet, stop eating at 3:00 in the afternoon, take systemic enzymes. Do chelation therapy with high-dose vitamin C. Get your vitamin D level up to over 80. 

Question
“Do you recommend systemic enzymes daily, morning and evening? Will this help with heart health? My CAC score was 125; I’m 58, 125 lbs., and try to follow many of your lifestyle suggestions.”  [0:56:34]

Answer
I have done it every day of my life for decades now. Morning and evening? Yes, if I'm hurting. If, like, I go to the gym right now in a few minutes and work out for an hour and then I hurt something or strain something, you better believe I'll probably not eat for a day or two, and I'll double up or triple up my systemic enzymes and stretch until I feel better. Yeah. Well, repeat that coronary artery calcium score in a year, because in one year, if it's still going up, you need to be working with a good functional doctor and your cardiologists and EDTA chelation and natural hormones, systemic enzymes, all these things. And we should be able to not only not see it increase because, usually, if you're in a progressive increase of the coronary artery calcium number, but it increases by 25% of your last reading. So, what's 25% of 125? Maybe 30? So, if it went up on the next one to 155 - 160, then you know you're still increasing. I don't think that will happen if you're doing those things that should not happen, but have them repeated, and do chelation therapy. 

Question
“Hi, Dr E. What would you recommend to keep hair strong and less prone to receding as one grows older?”  [0:58:07]

Answer
Well, all these things. You know, your hair is made of protein. A good stress-controlled discipline. You're calming. I have my Bible reading in the morning, my prayer time. I have my walk with my dog in nature in this infrared light of the morning at sunrise. I ground. I take my deep breath in and I let it out, you know, for two, three minutes, so that I'm getting my cortisol down in the morning first thing when I wake up and after I empty my bladder, I'm outside on my front lawn just getting ready to start the day talking to our Father in heaven and just saying, help me with the day and with your wonderful creation. And then I eat a high-protein diet. I do chelation therapy, which improves the microcirculation and keeps the cortisol down. I keep my vitamin D level up to above 80, and you know, a rich amount of sulforaphane-rich items, the brocco group, like Brussels sprouts, broccoli And there are those who even say taking onions, and red onions I think it is in particular, and then blending them and putting them through a cheesecloth and taking that sulforaphane-rich and then putting it over your scalp, that's used partly in the making of the hair. You could use minoxidil. You could use topical minoxidil. But you know, if you put a blended onion through a cheesecloth and just put that on your head and let that sit there for a few minutes and soak in, then you can wash it off in the shower once a day. These are some new things that are coming up. 

I think these anti-aging lifestyle behaviors help prevent hair loss. The chelation improves the microcirculation of the skin in which the hair follicle is growing. The rich protein diet provides protein. The cortisol-suppressing good morning and evening hygiene keeps cortisol down. So, that's what I recommend. But just stay married to someone who loves you, no matter what you look like. If you've gained 50 pounds or you've lost your hair, you need the love of your partner and your Lord and your family and just have that joy and peace about it because we can't all be perfect. Okay. 

Question
“Do you know anything about medical-grade manuka honey eye drops for dry eyes?”  [1:00:55]

Answer
I know that I wouldn't put anything over-the-counter called honey in my eye. I just would not do that. I would take natural hormone replacement therapy. I would get a cheap blindfold to put over my eyes at night to force me to keep my eyes shut and the room dark. I would have good sleep hygiene, natural hormones, work on hydration and exercise, and that will help keep your eyes from being so dry. Hormones. Get a good functional doctor to help you with that. 

Question
“Dr. E., I want to take HRT, but my doc won't order it. How can I get HRT? It's so frustrating. I'm 72, in good health, and lift weights.”  []

Answer
I don't have the answer for you. If you came here, you could see me or one of my physicians or physician assistants. You know, I think there are some of these telehealth doctors, like The Wellness Doctor, I don't know. Dr. Pierre Kory from the COVID debacle and Dr. McCullough from the COVID debacle came up with their own telehealth series, and you can talk to a telehealth doctor, and maybe they'll do it for you. But you’ve got to find a local doctor who will monitor your estradiol and progesterone levels and try to get some guidance that way.