YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 29, 2025

Question 

“Do you believe hydrogen water helps the body? Someone told me their hydrogen water bottle by Echo helps their arthritis. I'd love to know what your thoughts are on this. Thank you, Dr. Rita.”  [0:02:28]

Answer

Yes. Well, first of all, most of us don't drink enough water every day. We are so pampered, we have so much income here in America, we are thinking that everything should be entertaining. And so, water itself is not entertaining enough, so we don't drink enough of it, and the water is becoming damaged with, you know, we're all getting bits of birth control contamination and prescription medicines contaminating our water supply, even though it goes through treatment facilities. It's getting heavy metal contaminated, herbicides, pesticides, and plasticizers. Many things are creating challenges for our water. You should all filter your water. I have mine here in a Berkey filter and at home as a Berkey filter. I also have a reverse osmosis system that I use. So, I try to double filter my water. And then, on top of that, I use what is called this Analemma wand, which is this wand right here that's in my water bottle. It is a crystal; it has structured water in it, and you could say that this structured water would amplify your hydrogen. So, I'm going to say that all the way back to, I just saw an old video of Velaqua water. That was a water system that was trying to purify and amplify the positive ions, hydrogen ions in the water. And then we had Kangen water that also amplified the hydrogen ions. And now there are these little more handheld units that generate it. You can get tablets to drop into your water that generate hydrogen ions. You can get it prepackaged. I have had, in the past, Izumi water. So the Japanese have gone and done a tremendous amount of studying on water. 

Dr. Ling from China lived to about 103 years old. He was very famous in his discussions of the many properties of water in the human body cell and its metabolism throughout every process in our human body. And then Dr. Gerald Pollack here in Seattle, I think he's in Seattle, Washington, published a book and some video series called The Electrical Structure of Water by Dr. Pollack, and that's the one I ask my patients to watch, and that's where we get this hydrogen water. And this crystal is done as a result of the water research in the Netherlands by Dr. Potts. And what's the name of this other doctor…Dr. Dolf Zantinge. Dolf Zantinge worked with Dr. Potts in Europe, and they helped to try to elucidate the science behind what creates that attraction to water on any surface membrane. And what they found was this hydrogen expulsion and then an OH molecule left that is attracted to the surface, it's called structured water. So you can look up and listen to lectures on the Analemma wand, which has now put all this structured water into this little wand, and even the bubble won't move fast if you watch the bubble move because the water is so thick, you might say, in there. It's so structured. If you had carpenters, my husband's a carpenter, and so, whenever he had a balance, that bubble would just wiggle so easily, I can clearly see the difference. So, it works through the crystal to teach the rest of my water in my glass there to synchronize in frequency with a structured state and generate free hydrogen. So, this will make me more hydrated. It will help me have less joint pain and stiffness. It helps my brain, my skin, and my healing. Everything worked better, my kidneys, my heart, all of it works better. So, I'm a big fan of hydrogen water. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. Is it safe to use a grounding/earthing mat if you are elderly and on a blood thinner? Thank you.”  [0:07:57]

Answer

Well, yes, the answer in general is yes. I had a gentleman who is a patient of mine who has a pacemaker in his 70s. And the disclaimer, I think, on the grounding mats, because they don't want to take any medical/legal liability for anything, they're going to say they don't recommend it for people who have a pacemaker out of the way, way, way remote possibility that there could be some electrical mishap. I find that rather ridiculous. And so, he sent his grounding mat back to the company, and they refunded him, but I don't see that that's something of concern. I have been around people for many years of my life. Many of them usually have some form of heart disease, and pacemakers have been around for, you know, 50 years, and I have seen quite a few people using earthing/grounding devices without any buildup of knowledge of risk. So, I think this is just a medical/legal disclaimer. So, that is my thought. 

Now, regarding blood thinners, there's no risk that I could even dream of in my imagination from my chemistry, physics, and biophysics knowledge. It would only enhance the fluidity of the flow of your blood. It would never make you bleed, per se. The risk with blood thinners has always been that the older a person is, the more likely they are to develop heart disease, clots, and vascular/cardiovascular damage. Blood thinners, especially in cases like atrial fibrillation, are known to help reduce the potential for clot formation. Older people are at much higher risk of falling, and falling creates trauma and bleeding, especially if they bump their head with an intracranial bleed. So, everything in this life, people have a price to pay. That's why we're doing these educational videos, and what I've been doing for, oh, 40 years is trying to get us and myself and every one of my patients to take personal responsibility for what kind of health you're going to have as you get older. It doesn't just happen by chance. It will come if you drink your water, and if you try and, you know, filter it, that'll be better, and if you use some of these hydrogen-generating devices. I think the epitome, of course, is the Analemma wand. And then eating a low-carb diet, exercising. And water itself is an anticoagulant. So, that would be my suggestion, not to worry about it. 

I am not going to say a grounding mat, although I have my feet on my grounding mat right now. When you plug it into your plugs in your house, there's some static, what we call wild type electrical frequencies that get in there that aren't necessarily beneficial. If you look at the grounding, we can actually pick up the noise. We can amplify the frequency of sounds. If you're standing outside like on wet grass and it has like a hissing, little tiny hissing, monosyllabic kind of tone, but if you're in your house on a mat, it's like a loud crushing kind of sound showing the static, but you are nevertheless getting some grounding benefits from your sheets or pillowcases or your mats that you plug in. Yes. So, hopefully that helps you.

Question 

“I've been taking Fibrenza systemic enzymes, but you recommend Vitalzym, but they have several versions. Which one do you recommend? Also, any suggestions to raise a low white blood cell count? Thank you.”  [0:12:22]

Answer

Well, the owner of Vitalzym came over, maybe about 10 years ago, to my clinic, because I'm probably the biggest American physician prescribing Vitalzym in the nation, and he asked me how I could improve this because enzymes reduce inflammation, and inflammation is the big enemy of aging and our health. And his product is more costly. So I asked him to create a Vitalzym that is maybe reduced in price. So, he really just made smaller capsules and put less in them. But really, therapeutically, you've got to take enough. So, there really are different types, in my opinion, of Vitalzym. They are just the size of the capsule or caplet and dosing. So, I think Vitalzym is the most researched enzyme out there in the world. But, you know, with more and more knowledge coming now, after all the decades of the old doctors like myself promoting these things, we're getting more and more people recruited into more mainstream research and getting good news and information from the studies from this. So, I can't speak to the other one. Maybe it'll come up. Maybe it'll be a very good product. But again, we need clinical studies. I have to live with the fact that I wasn't supported for 40 to 50 years of my practice with research data. And when I could find it, I stuck with that product, and I did see the results. There are unfortunately people in marketing and health who have no moral base, whatever they can do to sell you a procedure or a treatment of anything, and they'll do it. So, you'll see all kinds of nutraceuticals out there, making wild claims, and they're just going for the short-term gleaning of money. It's like going out and trolling for fish with a net and just taking it as a big catch. So, there's a lot of corruption in the alternative world, folks. But yeah, I hope this Fibrenza is a systemic enzyme that is good, but until I see human clinical data on it, I can't speak to it. 

What will bring your white blood cell count up? Well, exercise will. A low-carb diet will help because all sugars, fruit sugars, and excess starches, which Americans typically have too much access to, will lower your immune system and white blood cell count. So, begin by lowering your carbs, fruit sugar, and starches every day, stop eating late, and exercise. And then, the next thing I would do is probably start using EDTA chelation therapy to remove the immunosuppressive impact of our heavy metal toxins that we are breathing and eating every day. Find a good ACAM doctor or functional doctor who knows how to use EDTA chelation therapy, that’s ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, to help you reduce heavy metal toxicities. That would be a good start. 

Question 

“My family doctor recommends avoiding fried foods. Is there such a thing as a healthy fried food?”  [0:16:13]

Answer

I don't know of any. So, my answer is no. So, there you have it. Now, I know beef tallow will do less damage because it's all saturated fats. So, it's the trans fatty acid, hydrogenated fats, particularly of linoleic acid, and that's why they get such a bad name when they hydrogenate these fats. And there are fats we have to have, you know, our soft skin. So, when they do this hydrogenation, and that's what my father did at Armour Food Research. He realized all these seed oils, Crisco oil, corn oil, he would just yell at my mom and say, We're not going to have this, no margarine. So, I don't know of any good fried food. Sorry. 

Question 

“I'm 90 years old, anemic, and my body doesn't assimilate iron, and iron infusions are no longer improving my hemoglobin/iron/red blood cell counts. 20 years ago, I had a gastrectomy. Almost 3 years ago, I had an aortic dissection and emergency open-heart surgery. I’ve had a Fib for more than 3 years. My iron has actually dropped since my last infusions. What can I do?”  [0:17:21]

Answer

So what I'm going to say is you need to work with a functional doctor/integrative doctor who has some experience. Find out what your blood type is. Find out if you're an A, B, O, or AB type blood. Find someone who will give you clinically researched nutrients. I recommend Ortho Molecular. I give all my patients Ortho Molecular for digestion to help them get better nutrition out of their food, and I emphasize a richer carnivore diet with aging to help make available more healthy fatty acids and amino acids. So, Ortho Molecular puts out a product called digestive enzymes, and that's what we sell here, digestive enzymes. I tell people to take two to four with every meal they eat, especially as you get above age 60, no matter what your blood type, but A-type blood needs these from their youth on. And if you're an A, that acid that's in the digestive enzyme may be very helpful for your digestion and pulling out the minerals. The next thing is that the digestion of the enzymes will help bring out the fatty acids and proteins, so you can help make your red blood cells and the membranes of the cells better with the fats that have to be in the membrane, as well as the protein. 

The next thing is that EDTA chelation can reduce the heavy metal toxicities that damage the bone marrow because usually heavy metals are concentrated in inert tissue, like the bone and fat in a human being.

So, EDTA chelation may be a big boon in helping you. Also, getting better hydration. If you come in for the IV, they'll put it in some liquid, but you've got to drink your water. That will help take antacids with a good multi-mineral, Albion mineral, amino acid chelated. Our product is called TLC Multimin.

You have to have minerals as God's pots and pans to make red blood cells. And you have to have the B vitamins as co-factors also in the equation for making your new molecules and constructing new tissue and cell membranes. So, you need a multimineral, you need a multi-B complex methylated. You need the digestive enzyme. You need EDTA chelation. You need a good functional doctor to help figure this out. Of course, you probably should see your internal medicine and hematologist as well. You might need B vitamin injections as well because you had some kind of gastrectomy issues. So, those are the starting points that I would go with.

Then he goes on to say, “Three years ago, I had an aortic dissection and emergency open heart surgery. I’ve had a Fib for more than 3 years. My iron has actually dropped since my last infusions. What can I do?” Well, all those things I just said. But you have to remember, we're not getting, I don't think, enough vitamin C. Vitamin C is very important in the elastin collagen formation to create nice stiff, you know, pull between molecules and cells, elastin/collagen, and if you don't have it, you can break apart and get these diverticula and aneurysm and bubbles and rips and tears and so forth. So, I would start taking extra vitamin C right away just as a preventative. EDTA chelation therapy helps thin your blood.

Eating a more carnivore-like diet will help the lining of your blood. Find out whether you had the COVID vaccine with the spike protein. I've been doing spike protein antibodies. LabCorp just came out with that about a month or two ago, and I'm finding some of the people having quite elevated spike protein antibodies even years after this shot. We're talking in the tens of thousands when it should be like 1000 or less. So, we have some issues there that are irritating the blood vessel lining. But yeah, find out about that and find a good anti-aging functional medicine doctor to help you.

Question

“Were the harmful effects of sugar known by the food industry during the time your father worked?”  [0:22:35]

Answer

Absolutely. Yes, they certainly were. And there was a guy by the name of Yudkin. He wrote the book, Pure, White and Deadly, and that was published, I think, in 1959, maybe. Anyway. Daddy had that book when I was a little girl, and it was like verboten in my home. Of course, you know, there wasn't food sold at the gas stations, and junk food everywhere, and we didn't have access to candy machines and paid school lunches and stuff like that. We brought our own lunches, and we didn't have all that sugar. So Dad didn't worry about us so much, but he worried, as when we got into the 70s, he really saw the damage occurring. And yes, they knew it. And yes, they suppressed the scientific publications. Dr. Enig was a PhD. I don't know, I think she was at Princeton. She was a biochemist. She is referred to in the YouTube video by Sally Fallon, who's the head of the…what is the name of that organization… the dentist. I forgot the name of that organization. It's a wellness organization. West something. Anyway. She put the YouTube out there called The Oiling of America. And Sally Fallon presents the paperwork and lecture of Dr. Enig. And when my dad was in the food research area, they were aware of the suppression of all the beneficial aspects of cholesterol, that it could not be associated with the causative accusation of heart disease. And they suppressed that research. So, it's just a real mess there in Washington of money-hungry politicians, God help us all. 

Question 

“Do digestive enzymes give you constipation?”  [0:25:06]

Answer

No, they shouldn't. They should assist in the breakdown of the fats and proteins for your body to assimilate them. If you're a pure carnivore, that may help your body to repair lots of injuries, but eventually that comes to a solution if you're eating enough of a carnivore diet, and then maybe after a couple of weeks, you should start moving your bowels more regularly. But I have not seen digestive enzymes be the cause of constipation. Make sure you're drinking enough water and moving. Motion. Our bodies need motion. We're in our exercise clothes, so we’ve got to do that. 

Question 

“What tests do you recommend are most essential to evaluate thyroid function?”  [0:25:56]

Answer

A physical exam and history with a good doctor who listens, who can feel your neck, look at your body type, examine your body, your weight, your blood pressure, find out how active you are, what your lifestyle has been like, and whether you are primarily sitting at a desk doing work. Then, of course, in the lab, you would get the thyroid-stimulating hormone. Most especially the free T3 and free T4, the precursor is free T4, but the actual hormone is free T3 (Triiodothyronine), and most doctors never, never, never, never do that. There are thyroid peroxidase antibodies, and there are thyroglobulin antibodies that can be done. There are other rare and more exotic tests out there, but that's the foundational thing. But I really would like a foundational thing to be a 24-hour urine iodine challenge test, where you take iodine 50 mg and collect your urine for 24 hours. And if your body is deficient, 96.7% of all of us in America are deficient because of our lousy lobbyists paid off Congress, pimping to our congressmen and senators in the food industry to use cheap foods, and they got rid of iodine, and they put in the stupid bromelain. Anyway, and then they fluorinate our water and chlorinate our water. Give me a break. Who can have a brain left in this country with that much assault on human physiology? But I think a 24-hour urine iodine test challenge with 50 mg, and then you'll hold on to all that iodine. And so, when we collect the urine, you'll probably only pee out 60% to 70% of it. And if that's the case, then you are iodine deficient and your body holds onto, you know, 20, 30, 40 percent of that dose of iodine it was so happy to get to work. 

Question 

“I have chronic constipation due to extensive surgery and low transit time. My integrative doctor told me to take Swedish bitters and digestive enzymes. I also take lactulose. Does this sound okay to you?”  [0:28:18]

Answer

Yes. Yes, it does. And you, of course, follow up with him. But again, how much water are you drinking? How much do you weigh in pounds? Cut that in half. That's how much water you have to have every day. I would eat at a regular time frequency, you know, in the morning, all the way until 3:00 in the afternoon, and stop. And then I would make sure you're taking good minerals. I mean, a good amino acid, chelated, multimineral. Ours is Albion amino acids, probably the best formulation known out there with the best supports, because remember, if you're going to have contraction peristalsis, there has to be the ion exchange based on minerals and salts, electrolytes. So, you have to have enough salt, you have to have your magnesium, potassium, calcium for these energy potentials, transmembrane, any energy potentials to occur to move things along. So, I would take a multimineral, the TLC Multi Min. I usually give my patients three a day, sometimes three twice a day. And that's how I begin to do it. There are many other things too much beyond the scope of this little one hour here. But yeah, it sounds reasonable what he is doing. 

Question 

“Some of my friends have gotten the heart CT scan, paying out of pocket. Dr. Wolfson doesn't recommend it. But it did find the beginnings of an aneurysm in my one friend in the main artery.”  [0:30:03]

Answer

There is a YouTube video out there by Ivor Cummins. He's an Irishman, I think, Irishman. He is an engineer, he is a bioengineer, and he has worked on the development of the coronary artery calcium CT score technology, including its history, and following the results of using it as an indicator for predictive lifespan, heart attacks, and so forth. And his work is remarkable. And I would tend to think that he has very persuasive data. So, the name of his YouTube channel is Coronary Artery, CAT Scan, Ivor Cummins. I think that's the name of it. Coronary artery calcium score, CAT scan, Ivor Cummins. He has a lot of data on the cholesterol, LDL, heart disease question, predictivity of longevity, and the findings. And so, I am in favor of it, along with a functional stress test, like a stress echocardiogram. Just having the calcium show up is not in itself the only indicator, but it is one of the strongest, reliable predictive indicators, but a functional stress test with a stress echocardiogram or a nuclear stress echocardiogram. But then, the more you start doing these things, you start getting into too many X-rays and dyes and stuff. But as a one-time thing, I think it's not unreasonable to do and see where you stand. So hopefully that'll guide you. 

Question 

“Thank you, Dr. E. I drink the amount of water you suggest. I exercise every day. I eat very few processed foods. I really wish I could find a doc like you.”  [0:32:26]

Answer

Well, praise the Lord. We're getting more of the whole. Just be patient. Acam.org, you can see if you can find one around you. Most doctors who go for chelation training have open minds. And I started somewhere. I didn't know everything I know. So, had you met me, you know, 40 years ago, 44 years ago in the 70s, 80s, I probably would've been very forward-thinking compared to my colleagues. But I didn't have as much experience, wisdom, and resources for quick thinking and treatments that I would put available. But get those multiminerals. I would start there, multiminerals faithfully, and fill up all your little mineral needs in your body because you pee them away every day. 

Question 

“What are your thoughts about intermittent fasting and living healthy?”  [0:33:46]

Answer

Well, I'm all for and have been recommending intermittent fasting for the past year or so. I have been more aggressively saying we need to, especially after the age of 60, try to give up eating dinner. Eating robust, rich, and breaking your fast in the morning when you get up, and having, you know, steak and fish and chicken. Don't let them market to you and make you think eating breakfast is a bowl of cereal, a croissant, or a muffin. This is marketing and it's selling and making some people rich, and the hospital system rich for all the disease producers. But when we break the fast, we can break it with a nice roast like this. I am using my slow cooker at night, and it is ready at 5:30 in the morning. And then I am up at that time, and so, I can eat. I had roast for breakfast Monday morning, and for lunch yesterday, I had roast this morning when I woke up, and what I got home for lunch today. Now, it's all eaten up. And tonight, I'm going to probably put in a chicken and let that slow roast, that'll give me two days like that. And I just don't want to eat in the evenings. I want to try to stop around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. That's why I'm burping a little bit because I ate, you know, I got done around 2:00, 2:30, got home, and so, I ate so that I could be done. But you know, I'm 72 now, and digestion is lower. In fact, I forgot to take my digestive enzymes. So, here's a case lesson. So, here's my digestive enzymes, Ortho Molecular, private labeled. And how long? It's already two, three hours since I ate. But I'm going to take my two vitamins because I forgot. What is it that the three-second rule, you can pick it off the floor, gets some good stimulation in my immune system? So, I keep it near me. 

So, fasting. Yeah. That way, I will be without food, roughly 3:00 in the morning, and I’ll eat around 7:00. So, that'll be 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 hours from my last meal. And then, eventually, what I really should try to do is bring lunch to work here. But I really don't have a free moment to eat until around 2:00. So, that's about the best I'll be able to do, and then God will have to deal with it and do the best I can. And of course, you know, do my workout, do my walking with my little dog morning and evening, and try to eat right all the time. So, I'm all in favor. The research is voluminously out there, that intermittent fasting is associated with autophagy, cleaning up old agent cells, debris, protein complexes that are misfolded, and yes, very very good anti-aging benefits of trying to go 16 hours, 18 hours at least every day between your feeding times and trying to not eat late, and ending it after age 60 by around 3:00 in the afternoon is also another very wise thing to do. 

Question 

“Hi Dr. E., have you heard of the company called Quicksilver Scientific, and most of their products are liposomal, which I prefer due to a narrow passageway. Would your capsules be safe to open and put in water to drink? Thank you.”  [0:37:55]

Answer

The answer is yes. And you know, I have gone to Quicksilver's. I have one of their products, in fact, let me see it right now. So, yeah, they dropped off stuff. So, you can see I am constantly looking at their Quicksilver Ultra Vitamin. They got a spray for copper liposomal. And so, what I did was I looked for data on their product. Of course, they're talking about my cell formation. This is what liposomal means: to have amphiphilic material. So, the outside loves water, the inside tails love fat. So, it's amphiphilic. Two different ends to the same molecule. And so, when you dump that in water, they'll all arrange themselves into a ball with the fat on the inside, fat-loving, and the water-loving oriented to the outside. So, I've been involved in this research and I've been published in it for many decades. And yes, this is smart to do, and that's why I love telling people to eat their protein and fat because that's what we're made of, folks. We're little bags of cells with water in them that is now electrically structured, so that the water in your cell is more like an egg yolk than it is drippy liquid water. But when I look at this company, Quicksilver Scientific, I'm trying, and I did, and I have looked in the past, the only product I have not seen any of their products themselves studied. In other words, they're talking about, they might even be quoting my research on phospholipid membranes and cell health and energy maintenance, but where is their product in the study? Whereas, for instance, Juice Plus has 45 or more, and it's just been selected again at the NIH to be promoted in a research study for antioxidant longevity. So, they're talking, you know, like what I'm doing, I'm teaching, they're teaching about phospholipids that I've been teaching, and I have my pictures up on my desk every time you come in and see me, but I'm asking the question, where is their science? Where is their science in their product? They're saying, “We did liposomal, and therefore our product has the science we're referring to.” I want the science on their product versus this is what you need to see. I didn't believe Juice Plus. So back in 1999 or so, I was full of myself, but I was doing another doctorate, and I needed a research product, so I decided I was going to prove Juice Plus wrong. So, I did a study, and I got it published in the American Journal of Nutraceuticals. And what they do is they go through the standard process of a study, all the levels that are involved. And then they did various areas, like bioavailability studies they did on their product. They did dental studies on their product at dental universities around the globe. They did heart health studies on their product, and on and on it goes. They did immune studies, they did DNA studies. And so, you can go and then look up these studies on Juice Plus online, and what you'll find is you can see an entire list of their studies, all those universities and those reference numbers right there. You can see every one of them, and you can look at this product being studied in the university-based, peer-reviewed clinical research. I can't find a single one on this Quicksilver on their product. I can find mine and 45 others on Juice Plus. That's why I always take Juice Plus. It’s hands down. There's no doubt it's the most researched out there. 

Question 

“Coincidence? I had one dose of Cipro after a urological procedure, and 4 days later, I woke up extra achy and tired. 6 days now - having leg soreness and new back pain. I upped water intake/taking Vitalzym.”  [0:43:24]

Answer

Let's see. So you took one dose, but four days later woke up. I think that's a stretch. I think that's a stretch, although it is a fluoroquinolone. The fluoride is something known to be damaging to the intercalation of the fluoride ion in collagen/elastin, and allows it to break, so you get ruptured Achilles tendons with these fluoroquinolones. It could have some irritation, I would say, but I think you're stretching it to, you know, make it blaming. So there you go. That's my opinion. 

Question 

“I thought I had CBD.”  [0:44:37]

Answer

I don't know if it has CBD products with it. But you know, folks, if all you're interested in is catching the wave and riding the wave out with money's flowing here, folks, everybody start doing your imaging, your website, set it up and claim the wave, we've got the product, sell, sell, sell, rather than having clinical doctors that have used it, that can at least endorse the product, but I don't see these products doing it. So that's what I'm looking for. Because I'm a scientist too and publish, so it's hard to impress me. It's really hard to impress me. So, I have a group of lifestyle and glory to God, you know, he's made us fearfully and wonderfully. And we don't need all these super excitable little, little tiny products. What we need is self-discipline, self-control, get to bed, get up at sunrise, ground yourself, get that weightlifting in, get that brisk walk in, eat a healthy protein and fat-rich menu, do your weightlifting exercise, and then be happy, be supportive. I mean, a good heart, a pleasantness, a good mood is always associated with a better immune system, better white blood cell count. That's already been studied. And you know, of course, I have the worldview of a Christian. And so, I believe in God and the God of the Bible and Jesus as my Lord and Savior, and He loves us and He's for us. And I read His Bible, it calms me, every morning three chapters a day, every day of my life. It just calms me down, gives me hope and peace to know where I'm headed, no matter what I'm facing; it's just the peace of my life. And it gives me joy to understand that He died, He loved everyone so much, He died for them to pay for their sins. So, when I look at a patient, I say to myself, my God, you're made in the image of my God. I'd better take good care of you. And that keeps my head screwed on and my heart motivated rather than for income and fame and parties and vacations. I just love God's creation. And I don't like this marketing, and I don't like quick grabs and writing some, you know, crazy stardom of some nutrients that really have been around well since creation, but we only maybe just found out about. Very few new things have been found. Hopefully, we'll learn more if more money is devoted to nutritional research, and that's what I think is valuable. 

Question 

“For cataract, does N-acetyl L-carnosine help?”  [0:47:39]

Answer

Well, yes. You can't say, you know, I studied chemistry, biochemistry, and physics, and I can't say if God created N-acetyl cysteine, that it has no function in any part of the body. Of course, it does. It functions as an antioxidant. But is there a specific nutraceutical research that will say it is valuable in cataract management or prevention? Off the top of my head, I don't know of any volume of research, and I'm studying every day of my life. Now, it's not going to harm you. Its history classically is in the form of a mucolytic. It helps to mobilize mucus and to help people expectorate. Mucomyst is N-acetyl cysteine in the form of a prescription medication usually given to people with chronic lung disease, cystic fibrosis, and stuff like that. So yes, it has value in the human body. But if you're going to say what helps cataracts? Go get Juice Plus. It's the most proven antioxidant. In fact, what now, I have 30 years of experience, I'm now going to be 72, and I see my optometrist and Dr. Grant are always pleasantly surprised at just how clear my lens is and so forth. And I just don't seem to be showing that age-related change. And I don't have any eye problems, blood pressure, hip pain, joint pain, replacement, or anything. Why? Because I've been on Juice Plus for almost 30 years, and my father had me eating primarily a carnivore diet since childhood, very low carb. I had worked hard on the farm. You know, these things do pay off. So yeah, there's nothing wrong with it. Yeah, carnosine. N-acetyl carnosine. In and of itself, it's not a prescription medicine with a big bang at the end. It's part of a whole multi-system of God's great creation. We definitely will do well to do all those healthy things I've been always saying, a good night's sleep, stay hydrated, natural hormone replacement, get up with the dawn, get yourself grounded, do weightlifting, mostly carnivore eating, use your certain nutraceuticals because they've raped the soil and made the food so useless and pimped all this carbohydrate us and all this fried hydrogenated fat, and your vitamin D and your enzymes. These are the things that will make the difference. Okay. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr Rita. I do all natural all the time and take extra Vitalzym Xe when needed, but I have really bad lower back pain, and icing is not working. Which is best for a couple of days for pain relief? Aleve, Tylenol, Motrin, or other? 72 years young, sensitive stomach, past kidney stones. God bless.”  [0:50:32]

Answer

How much weightlifting do you do? How much resistance training do you do? Do you do this training to hold yourself up, or are you aging and shrinking in your muscles, all shrinking because there are little muscles all along your spine and your transverse membranes of your spinal to hold you up and your shoulders, and to have good posture? And if you are doing weightlifting and crunches and pulls and pushing away, and the leg press and the leg extension, leg flexion, and you do that three times a week and build yourself up, the back pain usually solves itself. If you haven't had bad back pain up to now, that's what I would say to do: be very well hydrated, and that's the direction, at a gym, on the machines, do that. That’s my suggestion. Vitalzym. And if I'm going to use anything, I'm going to use Motrin, but I take it with food, and I use it very rarely. I try to use it only, you know, at most once a week. If you're using it once or twice a week or more, you need to see a doctor to get X-rays and look at things more aggressively.

Question 

“Hello, Dr. E. For the last 2 months, my ears have been super itchy inside. I'm taking Zyrtec in case it's an allergy, but it's not helping. I'm afraid it might be a bacteria or a mite. Is there a way of testing for this?”  [0:52:31]

Answer

That's an over-the-counter. I think that's cetirizine 10 mg, yes. Whereas loratadine, Claritin, is a 10 mg antihistamine. All right. So, he is taking a long-acting antihistamine, but it's not helping his itchy ears. Really, you’ve got to go and have a doctor look inside your ear with the otoscope. As we age, we dry up. We're showering too much, we're bathing too much, we're eating hydrogenated, damaged trans fatty acids, we're eating too late, we're inflamed, and our skin gets cracked. And so, my suggestion is to eat more like a carnivore and take…we use the two fats a human has to have, which are linoleic and alpha linolenic acid. So it's called Clinician's Preference. You can get that over the counter or at our store. And we put that also in a liquid, and you could take a little Q-tip and put a drop on the Q-tip and kind of rub the inside of your ear to moisturize it a little bit. But have a doctor look at it first because I don't know what your eardrum looks like. And if you're oozing out a serous otitis, a low-grade infection, or a bacterial infection, what's going on, have a doctor look at it. But Clinician's Preference Oil is what I would use. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. My friend is taking Rosuvastatin for high cholesterol. What are the thoughts on this medication? I heard that the medication statin can be dangerous for our health. Thank you.”  [0:54:13]

Answer

Well, just look it up on Google or go to YouTube and watch the video by Dr. David Diamond, PhD, and Dr. Ken Berry called High Cholesterol is Healthy. I think our poor doctors don't have enough understanding of basic science and health science. They certainly don't know where our health is.

They do know where their paycheck comes from, and they will honor that pathway and those protocols. But God help you if your doctor will not study and look out for you in particular. Instead, they'll worship a protocol pathway that brings that almighty paycheck to them every day, no matter what, and I think that's a shame. So, I have never prescribed a statin in my life. I don't think in 44 years ever in my life I've prescribed a statin. Instead, I've prescribed self-discipline, exercise, not eating late, low carb, certain nutraceuticals, adequate hydration, those kinds of things. You know, it's associated with rhabdomyolysis, which is the breakdown of muscles. It's associated with many concerns for memory loss, dementia aggravation, and Alzheimer's aggravation. It's associated with preventing HMG-CoA reductase from converting into CoQ10, which is an essential thing needed for your energy in the mitochondria of all your cells. I mean, how dare you say you're going to prescribe something that blocks my mitochondrial energy electron transport system and doesn't have massive statistical evidence that it's beneficial for preventing heart disease? In fact, really, I think the studies say at best you get an extra week of life for all the misery and years you pay for taking that terrible drug, and the muscle aches, and the memory loss, and many other possible damaging effects. So, no, I don't like it. 

Question 

“Hi Dr. E. Last week, I asked about using HRT when I have a history of migraines with aura. My understanding is that this increases my risk of stroke and blood clots. What are the risks involved, and do the benefits outweigh the risks? Is there anything I should be made aware of before starting HRT with my history of migraine with aura? Thank you!”  [0:56:53]

Answer

You know, for 44 years I've dealt with an endless number of women and men with migraine headaches and many with aura, and I have never had any stroke or heart disease. In fact, my prevalence of disease in society compared to any other doctor around is infinitesimally small because I won't budge. I'm going to say, look it, you drink your water, you take that walk, you get to bed on time, you eat a low carb diet, you eat a richer, healthy grass-fed, wild caught, prairie- raised meat, fish, chicken beef, and you take systemic and digestive enzymes and certain nutraceuticals, and life goes well. The natural hormone replacement therapy I've been using voluminously since the 1980s, and most of the science is just based on poor data, mostly of old equine horse-based serum extracts of their horse estrogens, which are far more powerful molecules. No, really, if you look at Google this, they don't know the cause of migraines. These guys don't know the cause of migraine. But I seem to get great benefit when I give people progesterone, I give them the enzymes, I give them the water. I give them food allergies to avoid, find out their blood type, I stop all the wild entertaining foods and keep it to just specific holiday treats, and the migraines tend to go away, and I put everyone on natural hormone who will let me do it, so that they can get all the construction, general contractor repair, building support benefits of natural hormone therapy. So, no, I don't think there's any risk. 

Question 

“What do you recommend for pinched nerve pain radiating through the shoulder and back?”  [0:59:13]

Answer

Well, how much do you weigh? How much do you exercise? How much water do you drink? How much range of motion/stretching do you do? How much sugar do you eat? How many processed foods do you eat? What kind of job stress are you under? What supplements/vitamins do you take? Because look at it, like I told the other lady, I said you have to exercise with a crunch and the chest and pull and push, and the leg extension, flexion, and the leg press, and the deltoid pull downs. You have to build up all the muscles in your core and your body. You have to drink enough so your intervertebral discs, which are only going to get water by you drinking it through diffusion, as there are no blood vessels in the discs between each vertebra. And you have to see a doctor about pinched nerves if it isn't getting better with doing all these things, and gradually build up your strength, so you sit up straight and have good posture and good strength. No matter how old you get, you have to keep that muscle tone. Eat a rich protein diet. Take digestive enzymes as you age. These are the things you need to do. But if it doesn't go, you have to see a doctor and make sure there isn't some calcification on it. But all these things would help on the lips, which are all the transverse processes of each vertebra. And you have to check your inflammation markers to make sure you're uninflamed. So, if you do those things, you're uninflamed, you don't have bad X-rays with a lot of terrible degenerative changes, you are exercising, but it's still not getting better, then you have to have a doctor screen for any kind of impingement from a tumor or a prior trauma or scoliosis, things like that, to be checking. But in general, we are fearfully and wonderfully made and can self-repair most of the time. 

Question 

“Can you explain why doctors say women who have had a hysterectomy can use estrogen alone without progesterone to control their menopause symptoms? Do you agree?”  [1:01:22]

Answer

Well, if you're very narrow-minded, uninterested in researching your own area of expertise as a gynecologist, yeah, it will get rid of your menopausal symptoms to just take estradiol, but then you'll become estrogen dominant. And the thing is, progesterone has receptors on every organ system in your human body. These gynecologists who say you don't have a uterus anymore, so you don't need to take anything but estradiol, they're just ignorant. They're just undereducated, understudied, you know, at both mediocre gynecologists. You think better for you. You have better memory. You have better sleep depth. You had better take care of your body. You have better bone health. You have better immune health, better digestive health, better cardiovascular health, all throughout your body. It will be foolish to give a woman estradiol and not give her progesterone. Men can use progesterone as well. 

Question

“Thank you, I am a 73-year-old female. I’ve had a season of unrelenting chronic migraines, and I’m very desperate about it. I am prescribed numerous medications, which I take because I’m in pain at least 18 out of 30 days a month. I don’t like taking medication, but feel I have to. My iron is very low as well. Along with this are panic attacks and anxiety.”  [1:02:51]

Answer

You need to get a good functional doctor. It’s my opinion that we’ve been successful with helping so many irretractable migraine sufferers when we get rid of the inflammation in the body. And usually that starts with the gut. We’ve been teaching this for 40 years. Find out your food reactions/allergies. Find out your blood type. Get hydrated, get exercise, get a good night’s sleep. Get on natural hormones to start general repair, and have it monitored. Do your exercise, take systemic enzymes, and take the Albion chelated minerals. You might need extra progesterone. You might need some curcumin, things like that. But find a good functional doctor because usually we can help people like you.

Question 

“I took a food sensitivity test 3-4 years ago with Dr Kaur. My question is, how often should we repeat this test? Do we humans develop new sensitivities we should become aware of, and can we overcome sensitivities over time to begin to moderately eat those foods we were sensitive to?”  [1:04:11]

Answer

Do we humans develop new sensitivities? The answer is yes. So, in other words, we are marketed to put all kinds of things that make other people wealthy by shoving them down our throats. Market, market, social pressure. And the common things that go down your throat over and over and over again will leak through your gut, and you’ll inflame through it. So, they can take wheat and turn it into muffins and pancakes and bread and crust on the Kentucky Fried Chicken and wheat, wheat, wheat, wheat, wheat. So, if you learn to avoid that, all these processed foods and probably dairy, and just eat cooked vegetables and protein, or just be a carnivore for three months, usually all the healing in the gut occurs. So those food allergies that were just taking advantage of the raw, hurt stomach gut lining, are going to go away, and then you can use them on a rare basis of exposure. So, yes.

Question

“Hi, Dr Rita. Do you believe water pills work? My dad has been taking them, but needs his stomach drained every 3 weeks due to liver disease. I'm wondering if they're making it worse.”  [1:05:29]

Answer

This is just too much to try to say there. There are many causes for why that would happen. But in general, the prescription by your internal medicine doctors for a serious disease is well studied. And so, I would ask the doctors about that. I would have to know much, much more about it to even give some opinion, but I would follow your doctor’s advice in the meantime.