YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 21, 2026

Question
"Hi Dr. Rita, do you give patient referrals prescriptions for acupuncture? It has greatly helped me in the past, and I would love to do it again for chronic ovarian cyst issues. "  [0:05:13]

Answer
Yes, I have in the past. Okay. We are very happy to give a referral. You know, I don't necessarily know all the acupuncturists that are around, and the one that we do have locally is at the chiropractor's office here in our original suite near our suite L; it's called Back to Work, and Dr. Han is the chiropractor and the acupuncturist that he's worked with for many years, I'd say, 15 years or so. We have a good relationship with her. She does good acupuncture work, and I think she's worked on my family, my husband, my son, or both of them. And so, you don't need a referral, but I can recommend them, or if you’re at the same address/location as our original area, and it's called Back to Work. Dr. Han, and I don't know the name of the PhD Chinese acupuncturist; she's a very sweet lady, but I think it's something like Lynn or Lee, and that might be a suggestion for you. I hope that works out for you. If you are a patient here, then please send a text so that my nurse, Terry, can get a hold of that and get action on it if you need a physical handwritten prescription for it. 

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“Hi Dr. E., you mentioned in the past that you researched and wrote a paper on Laetrile. What was the conclusion? Does it help cancer? Thank you!”  [0:07:15]

Answer
I didn't write a paper on Laetrile. I gave a lecture on Laetrile in 1974 or ‘75 when I was a young college student. What was the conclusion? Does it help cancer? Yes, there is a book called World Without Cancer written by G. Edward Griffin. And he is also the author of the more famous book called Creature at Jekyll Island. It's about the initiation of the Federal Reserve as a private banking cartel. It has nothing to do with anything federal, and there's nothing reserve about it. So, the Federal Reserve system is all a fake, and he wrote that book, and he became famous doing it. I know the man personally. When I was a teenager, we were on a speaking tour for disclosing why the Equal Rights Amendment was unnecessary, that our Constitution was fully, fully capable of protecting women's rights and needs as it stood. And so, I was on the Youth Speakers Bureau, and I was a speaker, had my own college organization and youth group. And one of the things we had was Ed Griffin's book. I read it, and I was so impressed. There was the old tape where you wind up the film, and you put it in through a projector, and you just click each one to an audio tape, and we used to play those audio tapes and click it forward. And of course, since my dad was in food research and I saw this nutritional amygdalin, laetrile, vitamin B17, and its dramatic anecdotal and some published research by really more foreign countries, medical archives, there were some NIH publications even back then on it. It's been well known to have an anti-tumoricidal effect. And yes, it did have and continues to this day to have known anti-cancer effects. And there are famous labs now, like the RGCC. I don't know what those letters each stand for, but it's a Greek physician/oncologist/pathologist, something like that, in Greece. For the past 30 years, he's been doing culture studies on tumors, and he's been looking at both chemotherapies and nutrients that are tumoricidal, and he does circulating tumor cell counts. And so, I got involved in this kind of research 30-plus years ago. He developed the RGCC, and I started to use it, and I would see Laetrile as one of the ones that had tumoricidal effects. But interestingly enough, as wonderful as his research is and I'm very grateful for his contribution to opening up the world to an integrative approach with your oncologist with chemotherapy and with nutrition as a combination, I find that I did not need his testing done, that there are such tried and true known nutraceutical high-dose vitamin C, vitamin D, lifestyle dietary choices, along with oncological management, and very good outcomes that I really didn't need the RGCC work anymore, and I was able to have as good outcomes without that high expense of that research. So, that's my personal experience. I don't want him to lose a job, but we need to see a lot of people learning about this. I am seeing it now. I'm glad the world is opening up to it. We thank God for that: nutrition, alongside oncology management, is opening up. I'm seeing oncologists actually encourage their patients for the first time in 45, nearly 50 years of work, to say, yes, do what Dr. Ellithorpe was telling you with the high-dose vitamin C drips, you know, within a day or two after chemotherapy or up to the day before chemotherapy. So, we really, really are very happy to see the way. Make America healthy again. That's my shirt again. See, make America… And then I've got my workout clothes on, but my husband just texted me and said we're going to go tomorrow. So, I'm in my gym clothes, and we're not going to wind up working tonight. So, I guess I'm just comfortable. And anyway, the long and the short of it is this. I didn't write the letter, but I lectured on these things as early as 18 years old in my own college speakers bureau and my own group. I guess I was a little bit like Charlie Kirk was, but just in my own area, influencing my own people. Glory to God. 

Question
“Any suggestions for healing big toe fracture besides protein?”  [0:13:22]

Answer
Well, of course, if you think you've fractured your toe, your big toe, that's a very important walking feature of our balance. And I, as an ER doctor, had many toe fractures, and it depends on whether it's displaced, whether it is a crush versus a simple fracture. Many, many issues come into this. And we don't want the nerve, vein, and little artery along each side of the toe irritated or cut and so forth. So, it's probably very important to see your doctor, get an X-ray, and confirm the fracture. Go over the dynamics of how the injury occurred, what your personal health state or comorbidities might be, and then come up with a plan. But the vast majority are usually stable and fractures that don't need any other intervention other than taping and wearing, like a boot for that. 

Now, what helps promote healing is, of course, eating a rich protein diet because collagen, one of your largest proteins in your body, is the structural protein that all the minerals are deposited upon, eating a good natural fish, turkey, chicken, beef, you know, egg with yolk menu, taking a digestive enzyme if you're over 55, 60 to help you digest your food well, to extract this, and to not eat late because eating late, anything really if you're over 60, much past 3 in the afternoon, will not be digested and emptied out of your stomach by 9 o'clock at night. And if there's food in your stomach at 9 o'clock, which the vast majority of us with aging have that problem, and especially if you're a blood type A who digests slower from their youth on, but we all slow with aging. So, digestive enzymes with food will help get that emptied out, better digest, and absorb the protein amino acids and the fatty acids for reconstruction from our hair to our toes. And then if you fast, if you acutely injure yourself or you become acutely ill, for any reason, I usually recommend fasting that day, maybe a day and a half to two days. I also recommend taking systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day to limit the degree of swelling so it doesn't compromise, and the pressure of the swelling doesn't pinch off the nerve or the vein or the artery, elevating the foot. But again, I don't know how bad the fracture is. And in any case, you should discuss this with your doctor, even though the vast majority are conservatively managed with all my years of ER practice, but it just depends, okay. So, hopefully that's helpful. 

Question
“My wife, a patient of yours, is experiencing migraines about once a month, lasting 3 days. She has had them since she was a teenager. She is now 59 and (for the most part) follows your functional medicine protocols. What are your recommendations, and are you aware of any treatments? Should she follow up with a specialist, i.e., neurologist?”  [0:17:57]

Answer
Well, I think I know who you are, but I'm not sure. But anyway, unless I can see who you are and pick up the chart and reassure myself of certain parameters, my statement has got to be, yes, you should see a neurologist for management because obviously it's bothering her enough that it impacts, you know, a small percentage of her monthly well-being. I'm wondering if she is still menstruating. I know you said she's 59, but some of us are on hormones, and we still menstruate every month, including myself, and there can be some hormonal issues, and we can adjust that. The other thing is, has she ever had an MRI of her brain, and is it relatively recent, you know, in the past couple of years, three years? If not, that probably should be done at least to have one on record. If this has been the migraine that she's had since she was a teenager, and it is similar in its appearance and duration and severity, in other words stable, then that's reassuring. If it seems that it's worsening or escalating in any of the features, that's another reason to go and get a specialist, possibly consider updating imaging. The other thing would be: have there been any recent changes in activity- more exercise, less exercise? Are these headaches awakening her in the middle of the night, like at 3 in the morning? These are concerning signs: to be awakened out of your sleep due to the headache, not just because you have to get up and urinate. So, these would be concerns,  and yes, I would follow up on it. But if everything has been stable, you know, please, if she is my patient, have her see me as reasonably soon. If I'm full and you can't get in and there's any concern, do see an urgent care or a specialist in the meantime. 

But as far as treatments, there is now a whole field of interventional medical therapies that are looking at two venues: one is prevention, and the other is acute early rescue. And these are medications; some of them are injections, and they range from monoclonal antibody intervention to other gene therapy, blocking certain receptors. They have many different names, and they're coming out at this time and seem to have value. I'm not a neurologist; I'm not a specialist, so I'm not going to propose to even be able to recall their names off the bat because I just saw your question here. But, as far as those treatments, I don't normally give them unless I'm refilling what some other prescribing doctor has already started, and the patient has been on it and is well-tolerating it; I will refill them. But I don't do that often. Our intervention is to reduce inflammation. We feel that migraines are triggered by some inflammatory process that irritates receptor sites, turning into vasospasm or vasodilation; then the only part that hurts is the dura, the lining, the covering, not the brain itself. So, we're talking about the vasculature that is in the membrane, and that's the only thing that has nerves. 

So, one of the things that has interest, and these are also listed by neurologists as potentially valuable, is magnet therapy. So, they have magnets or bands that they're starting to use. Another therapy is acupuncture as well. Another therapy is – what was the name of that? I can't think of it off the bat since I didn't get a chance to have a prep time for these questions. – But yes, there are other therapies. Being well hydrated. Just something as simple as if she doesn't have allergies to aspirin. If you go to the drugstore, My Good Pharmacy I know carries it, and you can type it in the internet; it's called Goodies. G-O-O-D-I-E-S. Goodies is a powdered aspirin with caffeine, and they're in just like a little gum paper, just like you used to get gum and you would pull it out a stick of gum; it would be folded up. This paper, it looks like it's in a pack of gum box, and you pull out one of the papers, and then you kind of open one end and you let the powder go under your tongue, and that creates an immediate early rescue at the onset of a migraine. Goodies, G-O-O-D-I-E-S, and that's at The Good Pharmacy. Most pharmacies have it, or you can get it off the internet. I have found that, interestingly enough, it has rescued quite a few people ahead of time. But anti-inflammatory lifestyles, good hydration, stable hormone management, good exercise, good night hygiene with good sleep cycling and getting up in the morning in the sunshine, grounding. These are items, along with natural enzyme therapy, that tend to be very, very valuable. Of course, minerals, magnesium, amino acid chelated minerals, as well as B vitamins, are very helpful as well. Those are some of the items that I would be recommending. But you might want to look into magnet therapy with a neurologist, acupuncture, Goodies, or the other new recent developments in the past year or two- these injectable and oral medicines that are working on receptors on the vasculature of the dura and the lining of the blood vessels that are associated with vasoconstriction and then post-constrictive vasodilation. 

Question
“Hola, Dr E. A recent DEXA scan shows I have osteopenia. I won’t see you until I come back in November. My Spanish doctor wants to put me on Fosamax Plus vitamin D once a week, and Demilos (vitamin D3 and calcium) daily. What do you recommend for osteopenia? I exercise daily, plus stomp. Hope you are great!”  [0:25:39]

Answer
Well, I don't know if you're on natural hormones, but natural hormones are very important: your estradiol for bone building and progesterone. The osteoblast formation of new bone minerals and cell development is very sensitive to natural bioidentical hormones, as well as vitamin D, zinc, and vitamin C. And if you only have osteopenia, I would not go on a more risky medication, like Fosamax. These are bisphosphonates, and they are associated with significant risk of side effects. Some are osteonecrosis of the jawbones; others are associated with abnormal calcification deposits. I think there is a bleeding risk with these drugs, and osteopenia is not at a fracture risk of concern yet. So, for osteopenia, I would not be aggressive. I would try to get your vitamin D level up to the 80 to 120 range. Do the resistance training, weightlifting, the stomping, your hormones, the D, the anti-inflammatory lifestyle of not eating a wild-inflaming body, and don't eat late. I know in Spain they have a cultural habit of eating dinner at 9:00. That's absolutely not good, and it slows down growth hormone and repair, and you only rebuild your bones at nighttime. So, please don't eat late. Make sure you're well hydrated so you're not inflamed. Take your systemic enzymes on an empty stomach, so you're not inflamed. Use your hormones if you can. I don't recall if I put you on hormones or not; I hope I did, but that is a direction as long as you didn't have any other contraindications. Getting your vitamin D measured and up in the range of 80 to 100, 120. And then just observe and wait another year and a half to two years and see if you're holding at that level or starting to build. So, that's what I would do. Hopefully that helps you. 

Question
“Hi Dr. Rita, thank you for taking the time to share your wisdom and knowledge with us. If you were giving guidance to my 63-year-old sister, who is just getting started with supplements and isn't able to swallow capsules, which foundational supplements do you feel are most beneficial, and can she open them? Thank you so much.”  [0:28:49]

Answer
Yes. All right. Well, if she can't swallow a capsule, is she seeing a gastroenterologist? Does she have some kind of scarring and strictures in her esophagus? I mean, I would look into that. But given that aside, what would I do if she cannot take a capsule? I would use Juice Plus because it has the most research of having the most universal anti-aging, life and cell membrane extending, immune-enhancing, DNA damage preventing, published nutraceutical in the world. I would open up the capsules into some food, like maybe cottage cheese or yogurt or unsweetened applesauce or avocado. Mix it into an avocado, mush it in. And I would use the fruit, the vegetable, and the berry blend. So, that's number one. That's for eyes: lutein, zeaxanthin, all that kind of wonderful vitamin A benefit, resveratrol, all those wonderful concepts, and many, many others are in Juice Plus. So, that one thing. Then the vitamin D3 with K2. You can get those as droppers, and most are listed as vitamin D with K2. Per drop is about 1000 IU, and I would take 10 drops. So that gets your antioxidant shield, your vitamin D. Next, I would, first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, I would take my systemic enzymes because the older you get, the harder it is to get rid of inflammation in your body, broken-down older cells. And you can open up the systemic enzymes Vascuzyme, and I would open that up in some water and just drink it down with a swig of water. The other thing is I would take the TLC Energy Core. You could open those up and mix them with unsweetened applesauce or an avocado at the same time as the others. And I think that would probably be it. If you can get some Lugol solution, usually it's 12.5 mg or 6.5 mg per drop. I do believe in taking iodine for breast cancer, memory, mental acuity, focus, your thyroid, metabolism, immune system function. So, that gives her a multi, an antioxidant, her D, her systemic enzymes, and that gives her iodine. The other thing I would be strong about is maybe the Clinicians Preference Oil because it comes as a liquid and she could take a teaspoon every day, so her cell membranes are smooth, from her brain to her toe; she'll have better membranes. That would be my base, and that's all solvable with oral usage. So, hopefully that's a help to you. That would be my recommendation. And they're all very well tested clinically, and they're all really established. Have her see a doctor, get her vitamin D level, get her fasting blood sugar, a blood count, a comprehensive chemistry, her thyroid function with a free T3, her insulin level, her lipid profile. So, we get the triglyceride and HDL, as well as total cholesterol and LDL, and then a complete blood count, and that should be basically enough right there.

Question
“I heard the results of osteoporosis testing are dependent on the skill of the technician and also the placement of the hip/leg during testing. So, it may be a false positive. Is this true?”  [0:33:39]

Answer
I agree with you. We have to have standardization on machines and patient placement. It has to have the correct X-ray ability. So, the quality of the test is dependent on the machine and being in tiptop shape. Just like anything, every lab we run controls, we have rules about our lab and our testing and our test samples, and we have to send to the state our findings, and if we see deviations, we have to do a self-analysis. And annually, or every so often, the lab inspector comes by to look at whether we are keeping a log on our lab, our quality, our testing, our control samples. The same goes for these X-ray equipment machines, their radiation dosing, and so forth. Yeah. So, this is all a true thing. Now, how much does that turn into real-time variations? I don't have that answer. But I do know that most times, the vast majority of patients and watchful waiting is far better than risking a drug with known side effects that are harmful in at least a modest percentage of the people. So, yes, indeed. Yes, I've heard of that. And, yes, we do have to monitor everything we do all the time. 

Question
“Did emails already go out regarding address change?”  [0:35:39]

Answer
Gee, I'm not sure. I think Talon, my son, did send them out, but I'm not sure. I do know that they will be coming out soon. Our first open day, I think, is August 4. August 4th is Tuesday. The first Tuesday of the month of August is the 4th. We're taking Monday off, the 3rd of August, because we want to make sure all our internet communications and our lab are ready. When we move these machines for our lab, we have to do testing. We have to do sampling again; anytime you disturb the machine, it's a balance. So, we need that day to do it. And with your prayers and God's help, it'll be a smooth transition. We have to move our clean room for our IV with the hood and all our materials. And so, we do need your patience and your prayers of support. But we'll be all in one area, and it'll be a better flow. I'll have better communication with my other fellow doctors and our IV nurses and our vitamin and our laboratory staff. So, this will be a much better situation than we were kind of spread out here at this current location, and it just didn't work for good communication. So yeah, I'm sure this will be out this week because we are open for business there on August 4th. So, we still have a little time there, but thank you for asking. 

Question
“I know that, in general, you are not in favor of many of the common preventive shots, like shingles, flu, pneumonia, etc. Why do you not recommend them, and are there any that you do believe have some preventive value?”  [0:37:32]

Answer
I'm going to say the standard of care at the medical boards here in California is the recommendations they have for pneumonia at a certain age. The senior citizens are recommended to get a yearly flu shot, to do the pneumonia/pneumococcal vaccine, and to do the anti-varicella, shingles vaccine. These things are recommendations. They're not requirements, but that is the standard of care. Now, what is not brought up is how, in 45 years, almost 50 years of my practice, I've never used or recommended shots for any of these things. And yet I have the longest, healthiest-lived population that has the least amount of complications and pneumonias and infections and needs for seeing doctors and antibiotics. It's because there are other ways to improve your immune system, such as vitamin C. We have high-dose vitamin C infusions that are a universal antitoxin and antiviral, have anti-tumor effects, and have anti-fungal effects. So, we use that. We screen for G6PD to make sure you have the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase that helps you to metabolize vitamin C. And we are able then to have very healthy patients avoid going from getting a common cold into a more severe pneumonia. We are able to check and do our lab here and keep your vitamin D levels in a higher average range, roughly between 80 and 120, all the while looking to make sure there are no toxic effects with your chemistries for liver enzymes and the such. And we find this also helps the bone density of our patients, so as they become elderly, if they do trip occasionally and fall, they don't get any serious injuries or fractures. So, we're finding so many ways, along with teaching them a low-carb diet because the sugar, fruit sugar, starchy carbs depress the immune system, which makes you more exposed to infections and outbreaks of varicella, shingles, pneumonia, and the like. So, it is because we employ all these other things that are so safe and natural that we have never found a need for these others, which do carry risks with them and have never shown any great preventive numbers that make it impressive to use these vaccinations for pneumonia or shingles or flu. Yeah. So, that's why. 

Now, there's a book out there, and it's called Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries, who is, I believe, a PhD along with being an MD. She was an internist; she majored in physics, went to medical school, became an internist, then she became a nephrologist. And because she refused to have her kidney failure patients get the flu shot upon admission to her fancy-dancy East Coast Boston hospital, they fired her. She was very clear that these vaccinations in her kidney failure patients were aggravating their recovery and progress. Because of this, she did a deep dive and study on the entire history of all vaccinations over the past 300 years, going into the archives in London, England, the very first known types of vaccinations, the cowpox for the small pox and various others, and she traced all this, and it ultimately turned out to show that all the hype that these were preventing measles and diphtheria and small pox and meningitis and so forth were embellished. Any critical science against them was suppressed. So, you have to go in this book and see its extensive documentation in the back, and you'll be impressed with all the legwork she did with the other doctors putting the book out. It's quite extensive, a few hundred pages, called Dissolving Illusions. And she graphs this out very nicely so that, I think, she goes all the way back to like 1830, and she tracks when anything was introduced that might have any similarity to a vaccination intervention. And then she shows that once mankind got into a state of peace and less war and building and prosperity occurred in abundance, so that we ate a better nutritious diet, international shipping and oranges could be shipped from the tropical regions in the wintertime up to the northern hemisphere, and vitamin D-rich foods could be transported in peace as civilization grew. And then sanitation from the carpenter and the plumber was employed. And handwashing, flushing of waste, and gutters and sewer systems were employed. All these common infectious diseases became tremendously depressed. So, this actually occurred before the very first vaccines were really largely employed, especially the one for measles. Everyone thinks measles and diphtheria, smallpox- all these were in general, or the timing of the onset of these vaccines compared to the better nutrition, peaceful relationship and communication one with another with civil behavior, reduced the threat of immune cortisol stress and damaged sewage and unsanitary conditions, and the diseases went away on their own. So, that's why. Get the book, Dissolving Illusions by Dr. Suzanne Humphries and read it. I think there are YouTube videos on it too, if you want to do the CliffNotes way. 

Question 
“I have been using ION Gut Support daily for several months now. Have you heard of it? Just wanted to mention it.”  [0:45:48]“

Answer
No, I don't know what ION Gut Support stands for. But gut support, we have to understand the most offended entrance into our body is through our mouth. The food could have toxins in it, poisons. It could have heavy metals. It could have botulism, bacteria, fungi, molds. It could have bacteria. So, this food and God put lining, our adenoids and tonsils; nearly 80% of our whole immune system is lining the entrance for the presentation of food to go inside our gastrointestinal system. And so, the lining is only one cell thick, and I've been teaching this for a quarter century or more, at least here, and even before that in other locations with patients. And what we want to say then is the wilder and more often you nibble and eat frequently throughout the day, the more of a strain and work you put on your immune system. Conversely, the more you eat a diet that is simplified, protein-rich, with a paired cooked vegetable, and I say cooked because it reduces the lectin inflammatory triggers that might be in that vegetable you cook. Plus, it sanitizes if there happen to be any bacteria, fungi, parasites, or viruses in there. And with that, then a simple protein and vegetable buttered up, salted and peppered- that's called food, and it is taken into our body, and we live. It's not called entertainment; it's called food. And this is not a hole for entertainment; this is called our mouth whereby we take in food for our immune system, so we can use our body and hands and mind and thoughts to do the work of God to build a kingdom of love that reflects God's will for all mankind. He would have none to perish but have all to live. He does not take pleasure in seeing the death of the wicked. So, we want to take care of our bodies, and we are supposed to be the temples of His holy spirit. Then he has feast days all throughout the bible; there are feast times, and there's fellowship times, breaking of bread, communion, and that's a time where you could have a more embellishment to show your tender care, and you're preparing a food to make it more attractive, a little more tasty. But these are feasts, and we're not supposed to do this every day, like where's my dessert at every dinner, and why isn't there a fun thing to eat at each meal I eat. This is called marketing, and this is satanic, and this is degrading to our bodies and our immune system. It puts great stress on the gastrointestinal system. 

So, when we're talking about improving our gut health, helping our gut health, the number one thing to do is to tone it down: the wide variety and the kind of foods you're buying. So, if it has a barcode on it or it's packaged, I don't think I would try to purchase it or buy it. I would try to eat the meat. I would eat the broccoli. I would eat the fish. I would eat the asparagus. I would eat the roasted chicken. I would eat the green beans. I would eat the pork tenderloin and have the Brussels sprouts. I would have the eggs with the spinach and cheese, and I would eat maybe some nuts or seeds. And I would have maybe, maybe, maybe, although I never really do it, have fruit, a Fuji apple, probably one of the most nutrient-dense in today's standards, although the food density for nutrition has diminished in the past 50 years. But you see, the more simplistic you eat for a day- so I have a meat and vegetable day, I have a chicken and vegetable day, I have a fish and vegetable day, I have a pork and vegetable day, I have an egg and bacon day or egg and sausage day- then my gut is not being pulled every which way. It can spend its time repairing, building, defending, and keeping me healthy rather than trying to figure out why there's such an inflamed tube called my gastrointestinal system. So, long before you even think of buying something as a product for your gut, put your effort into your lifestyle. That's my suggestion there. 

Question
“Hi Dr Rita. Do we need fiber? I heard that the sulforaphane in cruciferous vegetables isn't good unless you have cancer. What do you think? I get bloated when I eat cooked vegetables the older I get.”  [0:51:21]

Answer
I'm pretty much going to say, for every one thing said by one doctor or scientist, you're going to find a doctor who will say the exact opposite. I can only share with you that I've been a physician in general practice for 45 years now, raised by a father in food research, and I think we all have uniquenesses. If you can't tolerate cruciferous vegetables, then there are other ways to get sulforaphane, and you could use it as a supplement, and that would be a valuable thing. And indeed, if you took Juice Plus, you would have that in that mechanism there. So, I would just take Juice Plus. Are you taking a digestive enzyme when you eat your food? How late are you eating that food? How much are you exercising or walking? I do recommend a 5- to 10-minute walk after every meal, not eating late, and a simplified meal. So, maybe many things in the meal are bloating you, not just the fact that a cooked broccoli is with sulforaphane in it, is causing the problem. So, look into those things, my suggestion. 

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“My homocysteine was 18.5 last month. It’s always been within normal limits. What could cause the change?”  [0:53:07]

Answer
Well, homocysteine has to be remethylated to turn it back into methionine, and methionine is a great methyl donor in many medical physiological needs of the body – to detox, to prevent cancer, and so forth. Stress can generate this. Many causes of stress can take away your body's focus on certain things, drop your B vitamin levels because the B complex/methylated B complex is what really is needed to help remethylate the homocysteine back into methionine. So, a stressful situation can do that. Lack of using methylated B complex. Even a cheap B complex that's not methylated wouldn't solve the problem. So, those are the usual causes. And I would use a quality product. I use Ortho Molecular’s, and I have a very narrow few producers that I trust the quality of their sourcing. Methyl B complex, take all the B complex. And then just get it retested in a month or two.

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“What do you think of hydrogen water? Been hearing a lot, listening to Gary Brecka.”  [0:54:36]

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Yes, I've been talking about water and hydrogen proton management, cell membrane potential, anti-aging, anti-cancer effects for decades. And originally, we were using 25 years ago to 20 years ago, here the Kangen, which had the plates; they’re platinum-coated and used the electrical. You plug it in, and the current would take the water through it and ionize the water molecules, so that it would hyper-concentrate the hydrogen and you could change the pH, rich in hydrogen, making it very acidic, or not so rich in hydrogen, making it more basic. So, yes, hydrogen is critical in cell physiology and balancing the bioelectrical membrane potential, and your mitochondria are always pushing through either a glucose or a fatty acid molecule through the Krebs cycle and tricarboxylic acid cycle and generating energy ATP out of it. And in doing so, these electrons are passed by, and there's a nice balancing trick with proton hydrogen ion pumps. I had talked about deuterium-depleted water and the ions that are heavy and clog those up and offset, so you don't get an even electrical flow of the electrons; it gets disrupted, and the protons for management and balancing become disrupted, and you harm your mitochondria. So, these are sciences and physical medicine, the applying of physics to physiology and biology; we have to see all these things come together because we're not isolated. Well, just like the body of Christ has many members and no one's more important than the other, we need to have the specialists start coming together and be more generalists as well. So, yeah, it's very important to talk about hydrogen in the water. 

Now, are there charlatans out there selling bottles that claim various things? I certainly wouldn't buy any bottle that's plastic, and I don't even like plastic patches for hormone replacement anymore because of the plasticizer or all the microplastics that are emerging as a toxic burden to our humanity. So, if you see water that's packaged in plastic, don't buy it; it's a joke anyway. So, glass bottle only. There are packets, aluminum or metal packets, that they use on the spaceship; I don't know what they're called – Izumi. I did research on that, and it is hyper-concentrated hydrogen ions in there. And so, yes, we know that if you drink this hydrogenated water, it facilitates the hydrogen balance. If you drink it, it helps get rid of the bad isotope, deuterium, heavy hydrogen, that helps. So, yeah, I'm all in favor of it. Yes.