YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 15, 2025

Question

“What are your thoughts on screenings like colonoscopy and mammograms? I usually refuse mammograms and do breast ultrasound instead, but my New Woman’s Health doctor was suggesting a colonoscopy for routine screening. Is this necessary or recommended? Are plant-based omegas safe, or should we stick with fish-source omegas? Thankful for you.” [0:01:51]

Answer

Let's start with the imaging things. We'll start with a colonoscopy. We're all healthcare providers, are human beings ourselves, and we're trying to take care of ourselves, our families, our friends, as well as our patients, and our lives impact our judgments. I am biased in this area. My brother-in-law, David, was working construction with my husband. He was 45, and I think I was 38 or so, somewhere around that. I was on active duty and we had them living near us, and David was healthy and strong and fit and doing his hard construction work, but a week after my husband and he finished a job, my sister Sandy called me and said David's ankles were both swollen, which is very unusual for a man at 45, and he was not a drinker, or if he had an occasional beer, it was very rare, and he had no medical problems that I was aware of and looked great. So I said, That's unusual, you know, put his legs up and let me know how he is in a few days. So she called me a week later, and she told me the swelling was up to the knees, and I said, My Lord, please bring him in. So, I was an ER doctor, I think, at that time. I had him come to the emergency room, and we did a CAT scan, and he had colon cancer that had metastasized quite prolifically throughout his body and abdominal cavity, and this is what was creating blockage and scarring inside. So, my threshold for colon cancer screening is very low, meaning it's a cancer that really can have no symptoms until potentially being very far advanced and fatal. 

So, I am in favor of colorectal screening. I do believe in having the recommended colonoscopy has been dropped down to age 45 now; it used to be age 50. And our food system is so poor, high in insulin-stimulating foods. We eat carbohydrates, starches, fruit sugars, and sugary drinks. That insulin promotes the growth of tumors, polyps, constipation¸, and it hurts the immune system. So, the American diet is a terrible diet for chronic medical problems, cancer being one of them. So I do recommend colonoscopies starting at 45. And then, depending on what the gastroenterologist sees. If it looks clear and you can do it in 10 years, I would do it at least a second time, which will prove that your lifestyle, the way you're eating, is very healthy and clean. And if you get a second normal colonoscopy, it speaks to doing very, very well with your lifestyle, and maybe you don't need to be so aggressive. Maybe you can get away with doing a stool kit test called a Cologuard, although it does not replace a colonoscopy. And then, of course, you can do a stool for Hemoccult or hidden blood testing once or twice a year. If you have a family history, of course, I would be more aggressive in your screening. That would be people in your immediate family, siblings, parents, grandparents, and immediate first-order grandparents. So yeah, I'm in favor of colonoscopies.

Now, the standard of care to practice in California is to recommend mammography annually. And so, that's what we do with our patients: we tell them, like adults, this is what the recommendation is. But I personally do not do mammograms. I only did one in my life, and I do a self-breast exam once a month, and beyond that, I don't do anything else. And the reason behind that is I'll do my labs to look at my blood sugar, my insulin, my triglycerides, my inflammation markers, and hemoglobin A1C. And all these markers, if they're excellent, I mean really good, with a blood sugar hemoglobin A1C of 5.2, 5.3, with fasting blood sugars in the 70’s, 80’s, with a triglyceride in the 50’s range, 50’s, and insulin in the 5 range or less. It's very unlikely that you would be consuming enough sugar and sugar spice spikes in your diet that would promote high insulin, continuous spurts in your body to promote fat and tumor growth. So, I put my effort and my concerns into healthy life choices, to exercise regularly, I'm in my exercise size clothes today, weightlifting, aerobic walking a couple 2 to 3 miles a day, and not eating late, low carb diet, water half your weight in pounds as ounces every day, getting a good night's sleep, taking certain nutraceuticals, the vitamin D, the multimineral with zinc and selenium in it. I use quercetin in the form of Seasonal Shield. Quercetin is well understood to have anti-tumor effects, as well as a natural antihistamine, so it's a win-win since I have bad allergies. I take high-dose vitamin C infusions with chelations. I try to get that in every month. So, what I do is I worked to live a healthy lifestyle, and I don't want to present myself to a doctor once or twice a year, saying is the cancer here yet, you know, do the mammogram, which itself is traumatic, and ionizing radiation, both of which are known to be associated with causing cancer. So, I'm not going to present myself to say, has the cancer arrived? Has the cancer arrived? Has the cancer arrived? I am going to say every day, how can I live well and healthy and at peace and not live in fear? So, I have a good immune system, good white blood cell count, good micronutrients because the American diet is so poor, our industrialized farming has raped the nutrient density of all our foods almost 50% less, and in many cases, more than what it used to be in the 1950s when we had smaller farms and private care and love for the land by individual owners. So, less processed foods were back then. 

So, my plan for myself, my advice to myself, is I'm going to take any fear I have and amplify that into healthy choices. I will tell my patients, since I'm licensed to practice medicine here, that the recommendation is an annual mammogram. And then I’ll leave it with informed consent to the patient whether they will do it or not. I do tell them I'm biased about the colorectal cancer screening, and then I do encourage my patients to do a breast self-exam. I haven't seen mammography turn around the breast cancer incidence and death rate to any impressive degree. And so, my experience here over the decades at this particular site almost 25 years now, we would say that our incidence of onset breast cancers is way under the prevalence of the general public and practice of family practice, general practice physicians here, because we're always training up our patients to use certain, well-researched, nutraceuticals, dietary, and lifestyle activities that help to prevent the development of growth stimulation that's abnormal in the body. Well, that was a long answer, but it was certainly a good answer for that type of question on colonoscopy and mammograms. 

Then you talked about whether eating fish is a good enough source of omegas. As long as you're eating wild-caught fish, I'm in favor of it, and of the smaller varieties. The bigger the fish, like tuna and shark, the higher the concentration of pollutants like mercury. Smaller fish, salmon and tilapia, things like that, are smaller and they will not have as much mercury in them. But we fortunately can do EDTA chelation and pull that out. But I am in favor of using the fat that you get in your meats, things like the skin on your chicken, the meat, what other kind of pork…bacon that we have. We don't need omega-5 and omega-6 fatty acids. EPA, I think, has the 6 double bonds. DHA has 5 double bonds. God put all those double bonds in a fatty acid chain to make it more kinked, so to speak, so it'd be harder for it to get frozen in cold waters. So a fish that's going through 30 to 40-degree water will not get stiff and can keep on moving. We, however, live at 98.6 degrees, and we are taking the essential fatty acids. Only found in human beings are the Omega-3 alpha linolenic acid and the Omega-6 linoleic acid. So, these two fatty acids, ALA, have 3 double bonds. Linoleic, which is the more predominant and the more life-threatening if we don't have it, has two fatty acids in it, which are critical for our life. We don't have any deficiency diseases from omega-6 or omega-3 from the EPA/DHA family. The EPA and DHA are not associated with any human deficiency syndromes or diseases. So, I don't recommend replacing it because I think it gets rancid by the time it ever gets to your table. I do use the cold-pressed seed that gives you linoleic acid in the flaxseed in our Clinician Preference Oils, which are tested. So, that is what I take every day of my life, along with a largely carnivorous-type diet, and that's what I would recommend. 

Question

“I’m 60 years old, a TLC patient with PA Gonzalez. I’m dairy intolerant. Could I tolerate raw milk or any raw cheese in small amounts? I’m fine with raw kefir and the kefir spread called Labneh. If yes, should I add any extra supplements like a few more digestive enzymes than usual  when I have raw milk ?”  [0:14:56]

Answer

I don't know you in particular, but there's a world of difference between homogenized pasteurized dairy versus raw dairy. Raw dairy has not been heated up or shaken so much that the natural fats and proteins have broken up. When that happens like that, it is no longer the real dairy anymore. It's a foreign substance that tastes like dairy. The cream cannot float to the top. The molecular structure is so different. So don't call it dairy. Our English language for homogenized pasteurized “dairy” is the wrong terminology. It's a whole new product. So, the other thing I would say, though, is I would not take dairy if you've been dairy intolerant already. I would not take it frequently if it's raw. So let's say you take some raw dairy, I use Organic Pastures, and let's say you use that every fourth day, then see if you can tolerate that, and that should probably be reasonable. 

So, should I take extra supplements, like a few more digestive enzymes? And my answer would be yes. It's probably reasonable to use an extra digestive enzyme if you do that. 

Question 

“What was the cold-pressed seed that you take again, Dr. E?”  [0:16:50]

Answer

It’s a flaxseed. I don’t know if I have it here right now. I do not. But at our office, in our supplement area, I've worked for many, many years with a gentleman…what is his name…It's called Clinician's Preference and Peskin, yeah. His name is Dr. Peskin and he is the author of developing this, and he did this for his wife who was very ill because the rancidity, the bad oil, oxidized, damaged omega-6 and omega-3 that are in the fish oil that come, you know, they could be six months out have easily become oxidized with the oxygen and rancidified by the time you take it in, and that's harmful. 

Question

“What is your opinion on Meloxicam? Heart ablation seems like it isn’t addressing the root cause. Is it?”  [0:18:06]

Answer

Meloxicam is a prescription medicine that's a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory, and like Motrin and that group of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, they can be harmful to the lining of your gastrointestinal system. If you're using it routinely for chronic pain in the knee or shoulder or some chronic pain syndrome, then chronic use of meloxicam will, in general, be putting you at risk for gut wall, stomach wall injuries, ulcers, and things like that. So, only in an extremely rare situation, and that with food, would I take something like meloxicam, the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory. 

Question

“For those of us who have not fully committed to a carnivore diet, what do you think of TVP, which is Textured Vegetable Protein?”  [0:19:01]

Answer

Yeah, Textured Vegetable Protein. And the answer is I don't think much of it at all. It is largely made from soy. Soy is almost completely 90 percent genetically modified. So you're highly processing it, which amplifies the potential damage and processing of just using a processed food, plus its genetic alterations will be amplified. Plus, it doesn't have the absorption as a protein that is as available in animal proteins. It doesn't have, I think, all the branch-chain amino acids that we need, and especially like leucine, rich in leucine to help build muscle, and it's very much lower, like it won't be your source of iron or B12 and things like that you get from animals. So, it's a very poor selection. That's what I think of it. 

Question 

“What is chlorine dioxide best for? In the form of CDS (A. Kalcker).”  [0:20:23]

Answer

Chlorine dioxide, two oxygen atoms with the halide chlorine, is a disinfectant cleaner. It's used in hospitals for cleaning and disinfecting things. What else does he say, in the form of CDS A. Kalcker? Yeah, A. Kalcker is a healthcare provider from, I think, another country who uses this in very tiny parts per million or per billion amounts in solutions. I think there's also a nutraceutical company that uses it to try to call it an antioxidant, a powerful antiviral antioxidant. What's the name of it…MMS, Miracle Mineral Supplement. I'm not sure. But they have been, I think, closed by the FDA already. It's been around for decades. So, I'm not in favor of it. I think a healthy lifestyle is what we need. Not looking for quick gimmicks for the correction of certain isolated problems. So, I'm for lifestyle changes, I try to coach my patients and support them in making the right choices, and encourage them with lab follow-up that shows improvement with every step of improvement that they take. Now, no one's perfect, I'm not perfect, but when we have our goal as lifestyle, hydration, movement, exercise, strength training, certain nutrients, certain food avoidances, amplifying protein as much as we can, helping our digestion as we age, when we do things like this our body is already wired to heal and repair itself. And so, these are the things we emphasize. Looking for a hot shot, here one day, gone for years, and then like MSN, methylene blue, is what I'm talking about. Methylene blue has been around for decades, and it had its glory days, you know, back in the 80s when it blew through the alternative complementary functional medicine doctor world, and now it's blowing through again. So, you know, we don't need to look for these exciting rides. What we need to do is say, locally, what kind of wonderful antioxidant, polyphenols are in our environment to consume that are natural and not genetically modified, and try to be as much pesticide-free as possible because the pesticides, you know, and the spraying and the heavy metals from chemtrails are finally now being recognized. And so, that's my thought on chlorine dioxide. I am not a recommender of it. 

Question

“Hi Dr. E., I know we should be wary of cotton and ditching the nylon, polyester, rayon, etc. But how important is it to buy organic cotton vs regular cotton? Once we wash regular cotton, aren’t the pesticides eliminated just like our food? Many thanks!”  [0:23:50]

Answer

Right off the bat, I think it's what you can afford, and how clean can you break free from the synthetic world that we live in? I'm not going to split hairs with organic versus regular cotton clothes. As long as it's 100 percent cotton, you're going to get the argument that regular cotton and other completely natural clothing items, linen, wool, they may have fed the animal, you know, grains and antibiotics and stuff, and now you're wearing their products on your body. At some point, you have to say, let's take a break. The real risk is never in nature; we have never had these plasticizers, rayon, and polyester, fibrins, fibers on our body where we sweat and our arms and our shoulders and our armpits rub against it. So, I am for as natural a product as you can get, and do the best you can. Same with our food. 

Question

“Hi Dr Rita, my brother is having issues with GERD, and my son is having acid reflux daily. Any suggestions and advice for both? I appreciate all you do. God bless you.”  [0:25:20]

Answer

Well, all of us, as we age, are going to have trouble digesting our food, no matter what our blood type. So, A class of blood, blood type A, whether it's positive or negative, that group of people tends to have less digestive enzymes and acids made for eating and breaking down their food. Therefore, the food will stay in the stomach longer, waiting longer time periods, hopefully, so that there'll be some secreted acid and enzymes, so it'll stay in the stomach longer. O-type blood people typically secrete the highest amount of stomach acid and enzymes. And so, their transit time can be emptied faster out of their stomach, so they have less opportunity to reflect on it. But the risk for the O is that they make so much, they tend to also have a risk for ulcers. And you know, even just thinking of food, and you can get a cephalic phase of digestion and secretion into your empty stomach, and that can create erosive ulcers and things like that. So, O’s have their problems too. But eventually O’s will not make it as much acid and enzymes. So by the time they're 60 or 70 years old, they are probably going to need digestive support. Whereas blood type A people probably need digestive support from childhood on up throughout their lives. I'm a B-type blood. I found I started needing it by the time I was in my 50s. And AB, maybe they would need it by the time they're in their 30s or 40s. 

So, if your son is young, find out what his blood type is, and give him digestive enzymes. This may not be acid excess but lack of acid and his stomach motility being so slow, that even a lower acid amount, meaning it's not as acidic, burping up from the stomach into the esophagus like when he bends over to pick up something or tie his shoes, that less acidic is still more acidic than the esophagus was designed to have. The esophagus is looking to have a neutral pH. So, if the acidity of the stomach in a blood type A can get only down to a 5 or a 4.5, but it burps up into the esophagus, where it's supposed to be a 7, you're still going to get all the same heartburn. So, indeed, we would say find out their blood type, depending on the age of your husband and his blood type, maybe he doesn't have blood type A, but he's getting 50, 60 years older., Maybe he could use some digestive enzymes. 

Now, on the other side of it, don't eat late. Try to stop eating at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. Or if you're older, try to stop eating at 4 3 o'clock in the afternoon. And you might use something like phospholipid powder mixed with warm water, a cup of warm water, and put some immunoglobulin colostrum antibody, wonderful, like babies drink the colostrum of the mother to get those immunoglobulin IgA in there. So we can use SBI Protect immunoglobulins mixed into Phospholipids, a little cup of warm water, and that is so healing and provides the actual phospholipid and proteins needed to protect and repair the lining of the gut. There are other things you can do naturally, such as L-glutamine powder. We have Glutagenics and Glutamine Shield. I think it is the other glutamine powder that has supportive material for healing the lining of the gut. Elevate the head of the bed, don't lie down after eating for four to six hours, that kind of thing. That's what I would do. 

Question 

“What food supplements or care do you recommend for gout?”  [0:29:44]

Answer

If you look at the diet of Americans, and we're eating so much fruit, sugar, high fructose corn syrup, granulated sugar, which is 50% fructose, 50% glucose, that fructose metabolism, fruit sugar metabolism in the engine of the cell, is metabolized through a series of steps biochemically that promote uric acid production. The same will happen if you drink alcohol and beer. So, alcohol and fructose are very hard on the cell, and we've been hit as a nation with all this processed sugar, high fructose corn syrup, ketchup, salad dressing, and material. And so, all of our metabolism is shifting to making more uric acid. So, in those people who have maybe not the best metabolism to process any fructose or alcohol out, they will struggle even worse, and it will produce more uric acid. The uric acid will then make these little crystalline deposits, and you'll have the joint pain. So, I would say get away from all the fruit, the sugars, and the alcohol. Drink half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, exercise, and eat a diet that's very low carb, staying away from fruit and sugars, really most of the grains, because there's so much sugar in eating rice or starchy foods. That's going to put a strain on the biochemistry of all the sugar metabolism, so whatever little fructose you do have, it'll really struggle for biochemical pathways. If you want to see a technical and a very excellent YouTube on this, watch Sugar: The Bitter Truth, where Dr. Lustig goes through this process and shows the biochemical pathways of uric acid production on the cellular basis throughout all the cells of your body when you eat the typical American diet, and it'll show you the exact pathway and the alcohol and the fructose and typical foods we eat that promote uric acid production. So, you’ve got to drink a lot of water. 

Question

“Prior to breast surgery, should I stop taking Vitalzym for how many days? And then after surgery, when should I resume taking it to help with inflammation?”  [0:32:42]

Answer

I would say four or five days. But the day after surgery and after all that trauma, any surgery, you could go back on the Vitalzym the very next day and double it for two weeks until all the inflammation from the surgery is improved. But stop it four or five days before surgery. 

Question

“Hi, my hemoglobin a1c is 5.0. What does that mean, and would your store carry liquid or chewable supplements? Also, would you recommend a doctor like you in the San Diego area? Thank you.”  [0:33:08]

Answer

Well, 5% of your protein that was isolated to be studied, which is the easy access protein called hemoglobin in your red blood cell, but all your proteins throughout your body, they're not as easily accessible as a blood sample with the protein hemoglobin in it, but 5% of your hemoglobin protein had the glucose sticking to it from your daily consumption of starch, fruit and sugars coming through your body. That's a sizable amount of sugar sticking to your proteins all throughout your body, every type of protein. That's called glyphosation, and that is harmful to the protein action and the biochemistry, the physiology, and the metabolism for which that protein was designed to do. So, you knocked it out of commission, and it can't do its job. That's how we're all killing ourselves with all this sugar, starch stuff. 

“What does that mean, and would your store carry liquid or chewable supplements?” We would say, if anything, you have to open the capsules and put them in some liquid or sugar-free applesauce, something like that, and/or some plain yogurt, hopefully naturally made, and then consume it that way. Just open it up that way. Or you could get a little pestle and crucible to smash up any tablet, like if you're using the Perfect Amino tablets, you would crush them up. 

And do I know any doctor like myself in San Diego? I would go to ACAM.org. That's the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, where we teach IV chelation therapy and many other natural foundational nutrient functional medicine pathways, and it was the foundation that birthed all these movements to natural medicines and many other organizations since then. But the oldest really and the most successful and consistent that birthed every sincere good doctor moving down this direction started in 1972, called ACAM, and that was born from the Great Lakes Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, and those were the cardiologists from Michigan in the Great Lakes area that started chelation therapy and helped so many off-label use of EDTA chelation, not just for pulling lead out to children and saving them neurologically and from death, from lead and the paints and so forth, but they found that it cardiovascularly really helped circulation throughout the body. So, these Great Lakes doctors started GLACAM, the Great Lakes Association for the Advancement of Medicine, and they're the ones who moved chelation to the off-label use for cardiovascular improved circulation and saving so many lives that way. Go to them, and they have a physician finder. So, anyone going to ACAM is pretty informed. Maybe you'll find someone that way. 

Question

“Heart ablation seems like it isn't addressing the root cause, is it?”  [0:36:55]

Answer

Well, if you're having such irregular, recurring heartbeats from injured heart cells and the special dual purpose of the cardiac muscle contraction, as well as neurological timing tissue, it's the most unique creation of tissue; it has both a nerve-like behavior and it has a contraction behavior as well. So, if those are being hurt or damaged, you want to intervene in this as reasonably soon as necessary. So, doing ablation, in my clinical experience over 44 years, I have seen some tremendous turnarounds by an electrophysiologist/cardiologist doing a very well-pointed ablation. So, I think they have done this well. Therefore, I liken it unto the surgical suite that was developed after the Civil War and surgeries and cleanliness, and sterilization, and anesthesia transformed healthcare and many other cases of infectious wounds, diseases, problems in the human being, traumas, limb loss from war, and that surgery saved the simple appendectomy instead of dying from sepsis or horrible death. So, no, I don't like the scar I have on my abdomen from an appendicitis kind of ovarian cyst that I had at 18, but I'm glad that the science is there, and they were able to handle things. The same with ablation, I don't like that it has to be done, but if there is a person who qualifies for it to be done, then I've seen, really, the one person I do know that had a complication, and their heart did stop, they were revived, and they did beautifully. Now, did they revive beautifully because they were a patient of ours, they were already doing chelation therapy, they were already on Juice Plus antioxidants, they were already well hydrated, they were on their natural hormones, all these wonderful things? I'm going to say that contributed to their doing well. But of the one patient who had a problem, she recovered beautifully from it. So, I'm in favor of it.

Let me just add to that a little further. Because if you have an irregular heartbeat and you have little pools of inefficient blood flow direction, and they're pooling in little corners and crevices of the atrium and parts of your heart, then that pooled blood that's not moving as efficiently and kind of stagnant gets sticky and can create clots, and that can be thrown up from your heart into your carotid, into your brain, you have a stroke, and then die. So, that's why I'm so aggressive with it. 

Question

“Do you have any suggestions on the use of DMSO? My dad used it many years ago topically for pain. It has also been recommended in a very small usage with a glutathione eyedrop.”  [0:40:38]

Answer

DMSO is a hyper solvent. The smell of the sulfur component of DMSO is so noxious that I don't use it. It's for tissue penetration, it's a carrier, it helps dissolve things better and deliver better, especially in topical applications for localized pain, balms and treatment, salves and poultices, and has also been used topically for solutions of the eye for dry eye and antioxidant drops, glutathione drops in the eye. Yes. So that has happened. But it is so stinky and irritating, I've had more people deny themselves the benefit of chelation and vitamin C for antiviral microcirculation enhancement and many benefits because the IV suite stunk like someone had gas and was farting all the time in the suite. So I won't use it. Okay. So, there you have it. 

Question

“Do you feel it is safe and necessary to use the fluoride and arsenic filters with the regular black filters with the Berkey Water System? What do you think of the grounding bed sheets that plug into the wall from the grounding companies? Thank you.”  [0:42:10]

Answer

I think it's a good idea. The fluoride in the water is just waste material. It's a floral, these floral quinones that are used as Teflon and the non-stick pans and many other items, like your toothpaste, are toxic and are known carcinogens. So, if you can get rid of them in your Berkey filter system, I would do it. 

She also said, “What do you think of the grounding bedsheets that plug into the wall from the grounding companies?” I am going to say that if you use a grounding plug in your ground plug on your room plugins, I think it would be better for you to have an electrician come over or a man who understands how to get a copper wire just dug into the earth outside your bedroom window, and then have that copper wire, the wire go up through your window, or they can drill right through your wall and put a seal on it, so your bed is plugged in directly to the earth outside your bedroom window. Why is that? Because there is static electricity in the entire electrical circuitry of your house. Although it is a grounded system, it has a lot of static noise, and you can test this with meters and do that. So, I am for earthing. Earthing is when you stand barefoot on the ground or stand on the salty water of the sea on the sand with the water going over your feet. That's earthing. You're directly connected, that's called earthing. Grounding is when you are taking some device like that through a copper connection into the negative anions of the earth with a copper wire. I'm in favor of them both, but I'm not so much in favor of any of these house grounding plugs in the wall. 

Question

“Have you used red light therapy for anything? If so, what is it most effective for?”  [0:44:33]

Answer

Well, red light is one of the longest wave frequencies out there, and we are vibrational electrochemical beings. So another way to get energy into your body is to use infrared long wavelength red light therapy, whether it's for pain in a joint or just general amplified energy to the body and circulation, whether it is to raise your body temperature up a degree or two and then to get some heat shock proteins so you get some wonderful biochemistry, anti-inflammatory, immune protection, anti-cancer protection. These are wonderful things. So, if you have certified infrared lights, I have the SaunaSpace system where I have a tent in my bedroom, and I can go into it and I can turn my lights on. I think you have to at least do it 20 to 40 minutes about four times a week to get value from that from a unit like that. I also try and go out almost every morning in my bare feet, standing on the grass with the rising sun at sunrise, and the infrared light with sunrise is so powerful and the most dominant, and it goes right through my eyes, I take my glasses off, it goes through my clothes, and will promote energy activation throughout my whole body. So, I'm very much in favor of it, and it's good for everything. 

Question

“What is the best way to transition from methyl B12 to B Complex. Should the B12 be finished first, then start the B Complex? Or continue B12 while starting B Complex. I have more B12 than I can afford to discard.”  [0:46:17]

Answer

B complex has methyl B12 usually in it; most formulations do. I take the methyl B that we have with folic acid. That's kind of like a spot patch Band-Aid. But I'd prefer that my patients use the whole B complex that includes the methyl B12 and folic acid. So, you don't have to plan or do anything. They're all water soluble. You can take them all together, use up your B12 sublinguals, if that's the kind you have, and just take them all together and then just stick with a methylated B complex form. 

Question

“Hello! Do you see any issues with taking 100 mg oral progesterone and DIM, Diindolylmethane, to counteract estrogen dominance during perimenopause? Thank you so much!”  [0:47:04]

Answer

No, I don't see any issues with doing it. It's just one more thing to do. Diindolylmethane is another product you have to buy. It is helpful in estrogen metabolism, and I suppose it helps you prevent excess estrogen in your body. Progesterone helps with estrogen balance. So, there's no problem. If you can afford DIM, go ahead and take it. 

Question

“Hi, Dr. E.  My friend has polymyositis.  What is this caused by, and what can he do to help himself heal? Thank you.”  [0:47:49]

Answer

This is an autoimmune phenomenon in our entire American lifestyle. The way we use all these ultraviolet light, fluorescent lights, and the flickering, the lousy genetically modified foods, the chemtrails, and heavy metals, such as barium oxides, aluminum oxides, that are dumped into the environment. Air and stop the ultraviolet lights that help our skin make vitamin D, the high fructose corn syrup, genetic modification, and glyphosate. We are living in a toxic, synthetic process world. We are not digesting well. We are overeating this sugar, and this is hurting our immune system. Leakiness occurs in the gut, it breaks through with inflammation, our immune system lining that gut, and then we start auto-attacking ourselves through what we call molecular mimicry. Certain insults to the immune system happen so often that the immune system starts shooting without discrimination, and we have these autoimmune attacks. This generally generates oxidative stress, free radical stress in our cells, and those in our connective tissues and muscles, and our mitochondria are injured, and then the whole body aches, is stiff, and sore. It's fixable. I have had several patients with polymyositis rheumatica, or yeah, PMR, and we fix them by putting them on a carnivore diet for at least six months with systemic enzymes, drinking their water and various nutrients, and usually it solves the whole problem. 

Question

“Hi Dr E, I’m a 44-year-old female patient of yours. I want to know if you like creatine to use as a supplement. If so, how much, how often, and any specific brand you like? Thank you!”  [0:49:58]

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The answer is yes. I don't like any of the brands out there. I can't test everything, and we don't have any nutraceutical evaluation standardization stamp saying the samples and the sourcing for creatine sources were of high grade and handled in a way that is healthy and protected from degradation.

So, because the alternative world is full of the same kind of temptation to sin and making money over against the highest qualities, the creative sources in general are junk. Now, the greatest source for creatine-rich foods is eating a carnivore diet. So, that's the best thing to do. I, however, am working with a nutrient company that is making me high-grade, testable resource, stabilized creatine, and I should have this within the next six months. The dosing typically for a girl would be, a woman would be a 5 to 15 g, maybe upwards of 20 grams of creatine to load, and then stay on 5 grams minimum a day. You could use 5 grams, possibly twice a day. I see no risk with metabolism or kidney function if you're living a healthy lifestyle and drinking enough water and have no known kidney disease or liver disease, but work that with your doctor, who will check. 

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“How common and worrisome is calcification in breasts? Once found, a stereotactic biopsy is ordered. It's scary to go through and can be very invasive.”  [0:52:04]

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Whenever you see calcium deposited anywhere, there is chronic damage in that part of the body. Usually, the term chronic inflammation, cell membrane damage is elicited. When the body can't heal itself with the correct tissues, it just starts cementing the area down with calcium. So, you get degenerative joint disease from using your joints. And if you don't heal as well and quickly as you did when you were younger, after using your joints and body throughout the day, then you start getting arthritis, especially if you don't drink water, use your hormones, don't stretch and maintain your muscles, and eat enough protein and healthy fats. Then you start seeing those joints where they rub. You start getting little lips and calcium deposits, osteophytes. Well, the same thing happens wherever there's chronic irritation or damage. So, in the breasts, if there's chronic irritation to some wire in the breast or in the bra, rather, wire in the bra poking at you, you sleep, squish on your breast if you sleep on your stomach, these things create microtrauma, and you have to heal. So, over time, if it keeps on happening, then little calcifications will start. 

Now, I had microcalcifications on the one and only mammogram I ever had, and I know this. And they would have talked me into doing a stereotactic biopsy, and that was over 20 years ago. And I never did anything, never did another mammogram. Instead, what I chose for myself, this is not what I'm recommending as a doctor to others, but my personal decision back then was that I'm going to live healthy and uninflamed, I'll check my inflammation markers, and I will go in that fashion with my personal healthcare. And I've never done another mammogram, and I have no problems whatsoever. So, do you have to do that? I don't know a lot of people who are as strict as I am about my health choices. There are some. And so, I think if you get a blood test that looks at your inflammation, SED rate, hs-CRP, hemoglobin A1C for sugar, sticking to proteins, your fasting blood sugar, your insulin fasting level, if all those are very good ranges, not what the lab recommends but nice and low like hemoglobin A1C 5.2 or less, fasting blood sugar 85 or less, insulin, a 3 or 4, and with hs-CRP under 3, preferably a 1 or less, it's very unlikely that there's any serious cell damage, inflammation, or diseased cells in your body. 

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“If one has bone mass deterioration severe enough that could merit medication, how much will HRT help with any bone strengthening or bone regrowth?”  [0:55:39]

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I've seen nothing short of miracles. I have 80-year-olds with normal bone density, and I will become an 80-year-old in about eight years. So, I have normal bone density. I did one in my life. I did one colonoscopy, one bone density, and one mammogram. And I do the stomping. I take my estradiol progesterone. I take my DHEA to keep my testosterone up. I do heavy lifting with weights three times a week. I drink my water, go to bed early, do my aerobics, take my anti-inflammatory enzymes, digestive enzymes, my vitamin D with K2, I eat a very uninflamed diet, mostly carnivore with some cooked vegetables typically, and then I live my life that way. And yes, I've seen tremendous bone help with my natural hormones, estradiol and progesterone. 

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“Hello! When would you use Nattokinase, and when would you use Vitalzym? I understand the difference in digestive enzymes. Thanks!!!”  [0:56:47]

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Well, they're both proteolytic enzymes. They've never been put against one another in any clinical study. They don't put money into natural research. Nattokinase is a proteolytic enzyme that breaks down fibrin. Streptokinase, which is in Vitalzym, is made from streptococcus bacteria extract, and that then stimulates plasminogen, which then breaks down the plasma fibrin molecules. They're both the same way, two different pathways. I find them equal. I don't see one better than the other. And so, there you have it.

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“Guess What Came to Dinner?Parasites and Your Health, paperback – July 9, 2001 by Ann Louise Gittleman, PH.D. CNS (Author). 4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars   (148) 3.9 on Goodreads  72 ratings. See all formats and editions. Coupon:   Apply a 10% coupon on Shop items | Terms. Are you having difficulty shaking an illness? Have you been feeling chronically tired and…”  [0:57:48]

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He is sharing with me that he must have heard me say there's too much talk about a parasite here, a parasite there, here a parasite, there a parasite, everywhere a parasite. Old McDonald's doctor said parasites cause everything. So, what I would say is he wants me to read this book. Guess What Came to Dinner? Parasites and Your Health. This is a paperback written by Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD. She is also a certified nutritional specialist. Wonderful. And lots of stars and everything. So, I may take a look at that. But, again, I have been practicing medicine for 44 years. If anyone's sympathetic to parasites, it's me. I've been doing natural alternatives, looking at the underlying method, the history of the pleomorphic changes of infestations to fungi, to bacteria, to nematodes, to flukes, to whatever worms in your body. I've done a second doctorate in integrative medicine. And no, this is in general. Just picking up on the ivermectin, and I like ivermectin, I take ivermectin, fenbendazole, antiparasitic, hydroxychloroquine, all these natural antiparasitic/antiviral things that were suppressed, and there's a lot of hype about it, and I want to keep a sober attitude about it. I will ask for this book to be gotten and look at it. Hulda Clark, when I was a teenager, I read her book. So, that's 50 plus years ago. She was all about parasites and everything. And so, I'm open to this, but I've never seen it practiced out in healthcare of the finest, high-quality natural functional medicine. No, we don't see parasites everywhere. Sorry.

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“Due to severe osteoporosis (72-year-old female who is active), I will be reluctantly starting the drug EVENITY soon. My plan is to continue the proper supplements, diet, exercise, etc. Is there anything else you recommend/emphasize in addition to drinking lots of water during this treatment? Thank you!”  [1:00:00]

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Yeah, I would get a good functional doctor and get on natural hormone replacement therapy. Get your vitamin D level up to 100, 120, check your liver enzymes, make sure it has vitamin K2, MK-7 with it, and put all those things together. Check for inflammation. Find out your blood type, this kind of stuff, and try to get away from that drug. I have taken many women off of Prolia and other types of injectable drugs with many severe side effects, and I think EVENITY has cardiovascular side effects that are severe warnings. 

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“Is it okay to take Juice Plus gummies or powder to put in water?”  [1:00:56]

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I don't like the fructose. That's a game to get little kids to chew their vitamins. We're adults. Let's not do it. I'm not in favor of Juice Plus powder in water because it's exposed to more oxygen. I am in favor of it going right from the jar right down my dark throat into my body so the polyphenols are not oxidized. 

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“Hi Dr E, I have a 76-year-old friend who has had extremely swollen ankles for the last 2 years. Her Kaiser doctors do not seem to know why. Can you suggest something that she can do to reduce the swelling? It makes her have difficulty walking. She does take blood pressure medicine.”  [1:01:24]

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So, they’ve probably ruled out cardiovascular causes. Yes. See a good doctor who will do inflammation studies, inflammation screening of her stool, check how much water she drinks, put her on a carnivore diet, put her on enzymes, and put her on an exercise program, if she can do all these things. So, get to a good functional doctor and start doing the right thing.