YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 8, 2025
July 10, 2025
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“Friends gave us 2 lbs. of frozen shrimp from Argentina. The shrimp have a sulfite preservative. I wouldn’t usually buy these, even though we like shrimp. Is it okay to eat them?” [0:03:19]
Answer
You know, I don't know the producer or anything, but I would say sulfites are used as preservatives in the food industry, and it has to be on the label, saying it's a food additive or preservative. So, these are sulfate salts. And there's a definition of how much is safe in the consumption of food. For instance, your wines typically have sulfites in them. Sulfur dioxide is often used as a preservative to prevent certain problems with foods deteriorating. Usually it's in the milligram range of maybe a total daily exposure of, I don't know if I can remember, I would say it's 50 or less, something like that, 50 mg or less per serving, and then I would consider it safe because this has been used in food industry as a preservative. So, yeah, it would seem like it's not a foreign thing. So, that's the closest I can give you my experience with sulfites, not in any particular package that you've got from Argentina.
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“Are you familiar with DEXA scan to measure body fat? Are they accurate? Do you recommend?” [0:04:58]
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Yes, they are. And yes, we do use them, and we are more and more seeing the problem where it's not wrong to say 90% of the American population has metabolic dysfunction/imperfections, metabolic syndrome, from all this high sugar, fructose, starch, candy, inactivity, bad lights, and toxins. So, we are metabolically malfunctioning. 90%. I've heard some say as low as 83% and some say as high as 93%. So, anywhere from 8% to 10% of us are healthy. So that's a terrible, terrible thing to say, and that's especially terrible when you're talking about children. So, we have really hurt ourselves with what we allow and buy at the grocery stores and out at dinner or out for the movies, this junk food we have. So when you think of all that and how it promotes insulin, and insulin promotes fat storage, and that inside your body is what we call this visceral or organ fat, it makes your liver fatty. It promotes gout. All kinds of diabetic, cardiovascular inflammation, and cell damage. So, it's just a terrible thing. So, I'm going to say, yes, we need to start doing more and more DEXA scans, even on people who think they're thin. There's a thing called TOFI, thin on the outside, fat on the inside. So it isn't just having some thin appearance. It's actually how much fat do you have lining your organs? And that's very bad to have much at all. So yeah, I think DEXA scan is a good thing to do.
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“Would you recommend blood types O positive and A positive drink organic unsweetened almond milk as opposed to cow's milk?” [0:07:17]
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No, I would never do that. I don't recommend any of the nut or seed milks, whether it's coconut milk or almond or, oat milk, or Brazil nut milk. All of these nut seed things are, in my opinion, not natural, nor are they composed of things that you would necessarily need, and do contain plant lectins. So, calorically, they're too much, they don't deliver enough protein or the right kind of fats, and possibly many damaging amounts of carbohydrates and bad polyunsaturated fats. So, the cow milk, only if it's, now today, you have to put a preface on the term ‘cow's milk’ and say ‘organic’, meaning raw. You have to say raw cow milk because once it's pasteurized, heated up, and once they shake it, homogenize, you are, through the heat and the shaking, ripping apart the molecules of healthy proteins, fats. Natural milk has cellular components to it, fats, proteins, and sugars, and you're ripping it apart so that it's sticky, pro-inflammatory. The cream can't rise anymore to the top. So you don't call it milk anymore. If you take a, let's say a tree, a little tree. Let's say you have a little plum tree that's 4-ft tall, and you take a wood chipper/shredder and you take that little 4-ft. tree out of the ground and its roots and its earth ball on the roots, and you feed it into the chipper/shredder, would you still call in little plum tree on the outs after it’s all shredded up? Well, yes, it was a plum tree, but right now it's all messed up and it will not grow plums and it won't be a tree, and it's done. And so, when you take milk and you homogenize it and you heat it up, you wind up having stuff that is not milk anymore. It's a foreign, inflaming fire, white fire drink, I call it. So, no, I would only take unhomogenized, non-pasteurized raw dairy. Never any almond milk or anything like that.
Now, I don't recommend drinking milk. I only recommend milk for babies, and after that, eat real food. Not processed, packaged food with barcodes on it. Real food. And so, I don't promote drinking milk. Once in a while, ice cream on a true holiday, like I had on the 4th of July. I had some chocolate ice cream. It was really nice.
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“Good evening, doc. Last week, you talked in depth about Juice Plus. Do you recommend all three, fruit, veggie, and berry capsules? Or just fruit and veggie. Then you would suggest taking them daily?” [0:10:50]
Answer
Yes, I do. Yes. I do and I have been taking Juice Plus fruit, vegetable, and berry concentrate from the day the berry concentrate was added, and I think that was about close to 20 years ago, but all three I think are nearing, at least the green and red, which were the fruit and vegetable, that's close to 30 years now it's been around. So, I've been taking that for 30 years, and the berry probably for 20 when it first came out. I do believe that it has been helpful in trying to slow down my aging process, and I've seen that in all my patients and other people who have used and promoted Juice Plus and have been taking it faithfully. I can't believe the degree of protection it’s given to all manner of disease, whether it was people who abused drugs, even alcohol, and they took their Juice Plus, or they ate poorly and had a lot of visceral fat, high blood pressure, and obesity. It's incredible. The amount of protection to the endothelial lining from the antioxidant effect, and DNA damage protection from Juice Plus. So, yeah, I strongly recommend it.
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“How to balance out supplements when I cannot afford to take all I'd like? I switch off each month. Not being consistent. Main concerns are inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis, brain fog, and migraines.” [0:12:26]
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Well, I think you have to try and reduce inflammation by finding out your blood type. And if you're an A-type blood, you have to be on digestive enzymes whenever you eat food. Systemic enzymes once or twice a day on an empty stomach. The next thing is, if you are an O type blood, the likelihood of you having a very high reactivity to any homogenized, pasteurized dairy or genetically modified grain, glyphosated grain, these things are indeed going to, in my experience, inflame O type blood people and give them a lot of joint problems. People who eat too many carbohydrates, especially high fructose corn syrup and fruits and smoothies, get all that high fructose corn syrup and all that sugar metabolism, and you're going to push your intracellular metabolism into producing uric acid or gout tremendously, and that also with alcohol.
So, what I would say is we need to be humble. We need to try and say, I'm going to eat in this time-restricted period. The older we get, the time-restricted period should end earlier in the day, meaning I try and stop eating by 3 o'clock in the afternoon, and I'm doing it more and more and more. And you know, these YouTubes actually help me because I have to try and live and be accountable for everything I'm saying and doing. And when I am tempted myself, I have to say, how can I stand in front of others and talk about this if I don't do it? So, we all need to put ourselves out there. So, I'm putting myself out before my patients by saying these things and trying to bring my personal body into self-discipline. I hope you have someone you hold yourself accountable to so that you will eat in a timeframe, not eat late. You will get the processed and the barcoded kind of packaged food out of your life, as well as the volume of sugary, starch, and fructose sugar. I would ask you to drink enough water, half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, and get a good night's sleep. Take systemic enzymes to reduce inflammation, especially if you're older. We don't make it as much after roughly the age of 40, 45. Exercise, weight training. And with all these things, then the supplements I would definitely probably take would be vitamin D, systemic enzymes if you're over 40, iodine, a 12.5-mg tablet of Iodoral every day, or something very similar. I would take an amino acid chelated by Albion producers. They make the best mineral amino acid chelates, multimineral supplements. You know, that would have your selenium, anti-cancer, your magnesium, your potassium, vanadium, chromium. All these things help with metabolic production. I would take a methylated B complex. The older you get, you pee away the water-soluble B vitamins. So that's your B’s and your minerals for metabolism. That's your D, that's your iodine, that's your systemic enzymes. And then I would probably take a digestive enzyme if you're blood type A when you're young, even as a middle school kid, and older. Once you get to be about 55, 60 years old, we all need digestive enzymes. So, that would be my core minimum of supplements that I take every day.
And, you know, even if you only used it every other day, let's say you kept the exercise, the water, the good night's sleep, the low carb lifestyle, but you only use your, vitamins and enzymes and all that, minerals, odd days, that's 50% reduction of usage, and you're still going to benefit if you use it every other day. I wouldn't take it like two weeks off, two weeks on. I think every other day would be much smarter. Hopefully that helps.
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“For the Juice Plus supplements, does everyone take two pills of each regardless of weight and sex?” [0:17:39]
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That's the recommendation, yes. Now, I don't. I actually, I am actually trying to share what I have, and I've built up a bit of a collection, so I give a lot away. And when I get low, I'll have just one red, one green, and one purple, and I've been on it 30 years almost without a missed single day. So, I honestly think if you even took one a day, you're going to get a benefit. And some of the studies were done with just one capsule. So, if you're trying to be cost conscientious, I honestly think if you took one of each every day, that would be very good, but yeah, the recommendation is no matter if you're small and thin and short or big, tall, and overweight, two a day is all they're recommending.
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“Chelation didn't help varicose veins. Safe to get them zapped?” [0:18:40]
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Well, they're not meant to help get rid of varicose veins. They're already collagenous, dilated, so to say, tubes of your veins, where the collagen/elastin has been torn apart. So, that would only be something that you would probably do over years and try and reform them because actually you kind of turn over all your new tissue roughly every seven years, but you would have to be consistent with your compression socks, low-carb diet exercise, adequate hydration, inflammation, eating a rich protein diet and not eating late, doing chelation to help prevent high blood pressure and backflow, so to say so it improves the microcirculation so that the pressure on the vein wall is diminished. But the question is, is it safe to get them zapped? I am against any damage to the blood vessel or body, either by putting in sclerosing agents. I had one woman get a pulmonary embolism after that. I just don't like that intervention. I'd rather have the person wear compression socks. I've just seen too many posts, so to say burning, lasering, sclerosing, and inflammatory triggers that go on. And especially if you already had that mRNA genetic manipulation for the pandemic of COVID-19, that creates this chronic inflammatory potential if you took some of those injections, and I would definitely not do it then. So I'm not in favor of getting anything so and so, fried or zapped or so forth.
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“What helps varicose veins go away?” [0:20:53]
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I just mentioned it. You want to have an ideal body weight. You want to have a good night's sleep. Microcirculation with EDTA chelation, adequate hydration, water, systemic enzymes, and anti-inflammatories. Find out if you have food allergies. Avoid them. Eat in a time-restricted period to reduce inflammation. Eat a rich protein diet. All these things help to repair the lining of blood vessels as they reform. Hopefully that helps. But nobody is patient enough for that, but there are some, and they do very well.
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“How does raw onion and garlic help if eaten daily? Do you eat cheese every day? Milk?” [0:21:34]
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I don't eat cheese or milk at all. Milk, I just don't drink it. I do have raw cheese, which I get from Sprouts, organic pastures. I get their cheddar cheese that I use. Now, how does raw onion…allicin, that's what makes it make you tear up. That's the product that's in the onion and garlic that is so antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral. It's a powerful plant phytonutrient that is helpful in giving us protection from allicin, which is in these things.
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“What do you recommend to help with excess sagging skin after significant weight loss?” [0:22:36]
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Patience, continued healthy exercise, all the healthy things we've talked about in patience, and your skin can gradually tighten up. Now, if you're talking about having had a 150-pound, 200-pound weight loss and you have dramatically hanging skin, you have to see a plastic surgeon and reduce some of the pendulous skin flaps in that fashion. But just be patient and rejoice that you've achieved such a wonderful thing, to have lost a significant amount of weight, that your skin would be a little flabby then, and I compliment you greatly on that. But you’re just going to have patience.
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“What is the difference between systemic enzymes and digestive enzymes?” [0:23:26]
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When you eat food, the bolus of food that goes in stretches the stack of your stomach. Remember, the vagus nerve is connected directly to your brain from your stomach. Those stretch receptors will signal information to help you secrete, as well as the composition chemically of the material you're eating will also locally communicate with the lining in the wall and this para-endocrine and neurogenic secretion of enzymes and acid will help chew up the protein, collagen, chew up the fat fatty acids and then the carbohydrates are most easily digested, don't almost even need anything other than some amylase to help digest the sugars, they're quickly absorbed. But that's what a digestive enzyme does. And we don't make as much as we get older, or if you're a blood type A. Now, not all A’s are as bad. So, some A’s only have a little bit of a lack of production of acid and protein, I mean acid in digestive enzymes; whereas some other A’s are so low in it, they are tremendously needing digestive enzymes and acid. But by the time we all hit 50, 55, 60, we all have to start taking it because, you know, this is one of our pathways to death. Death is not to digest our food well. So, hopefully that helps you.
Systemic enzymes represent an enzyme you take on an empty stomach, so it doesn't have a job of chopping up food in your stomach, and it's absorbed in your stomach and in your small intestine, and it goes throughout your body. So, if you have stiff joints, a sore shoulder you injured with exercise, a tooth pulled and you're inflamed, sinus pressure, pain, anywhere there's inflammation, that systemic enzyme will help clear up the debris of the damaged cells, the mucus production, sinus pressure, all that kind of stuff.
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“Can you talk about ways to reduce cortisol levels, please? Does blood type, sex, or weight make a difference?” [0:25:55]
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Well, yes. The natural production of cortisol usually rises in the early morning hours to awaken you. It peaks somewhere around 9:00 and then starts to diminish during the rest of the day. Some people, with the polluted environment, the bad light, living indoors too much, not enough exercise, eating a high carb processed diet with foreign additives, colorings ingredients, drinking the high fructose corn syrup soda pops, drinking smoothies all the time, the same thing over and over and over, these patterns of exposure irritate the body and that term ‘irritate’ means stress. Stress, even on a tiny molecular level, if constant, ticking away at you, will create cortisol stress with your sympathetic alarm going off. Having your adrenals notified, norepinephrine will be released, and that will drive up your anxiety, which will stress you more, and just be a catch-22. Your cortisol will go up. Your menstrual cycles will go off. You'll become estrogen-dominant. I mean, it's an entire cascade of things that promote weight gain, promote fatigue, promote poor sleep, which begets energy loss and poor metabolism, emotional anxiety, disorders, insomnia, and then with the weight gain, maldigestion, gas, bloating, and then cardiovascular, diabetic, endocrine, molecular stressors, even molecular imbalances can cause the stress hormone sympathetic adrenal and cortisol release. So, it's a wicked circle.
So, you know, the Lord says the evil of the day is sufficient unto itself. You’ve got to think about why you're here, what God has in the people around you, your workspace, your family, your commitments, and how you're to work in your world and do the best you can to respect them, love them, be forgiving, be patient and tolerant with people, just as God has been with us with our shortcomings, our sins, our failures. And as we keep on feeding ourselves this, I'm at peace, I am doing the best I can, and I have a constant dialogue with God all day long, every day of my life, pretty much. You know, I see a patient and, as I say goodbye and walk back to my office, I'll often mutter or think, I hope I did well, because every patient I see is a child created by my Lord. And so, I want to take care of his children well. And not infrequently, the Holy Spirit will catch my spirit and say, You know, you forgot this, Rita, or check that, Rita. And I'll go, oh yes. And I actually say, thank you Lord, even to the point some of the staff here might think I have a pucca, that I'm talking to someone in space, and I actually am, it's to my Lord. So, I say all that because I like to laugh at myself, I like to be a daughter to God, and just say, I'm doing the best I can, Father. Help me. I talk with him. This keeps my stress down. I exercise. I faithfully keep up with 99% of the time my workouts. My weightlifting, especially, is very cortisol-friendly if you lift weights on the machines. Three times a week is the minimum for about half an hour. Of course, I do the minimum three times a week because I don't want to do anything more. If the science is there, I'll go up to the science and then don't ask me to do more. Water is critical for stress management. Not eating late at night is critical for stress. All the things we talk about over and over again. And then, from my worldview as a Christian, I have a very close walk with the Lord, and I talk with him all the time. I read my Bible every morning. It’s the first thing I do to kind of screw my head and hard on to say, Lord, here's another day I want to do it right. Help me make as few mistakes and hurt as few people as possible because I know I don't do everything perfectly or rub everyone right. I'm sure there are some that just don't like me or my personality or the way I deliver information. But I can't take it on as a worry. I just take it and I say, I've done the best. Father, help me.
So, if you want to say how to manage cortisol, I think you have to have your…I recommend, of course, in my worldview as a Christian, you look into the Christian worldview because I have these wonderful things called the Bible, I can read every day, and I have the talking with Him and fellowship with like-minded. But you have to find that kind of comfort, and you have to be content. You know, you can have an idea. Even I, as a physician, should say, oh, I should have the vacations and the fancy clothes and jewelry and vacations/trips, and I should have all this and that. And you know what? It's a joke. It's a lie. I have my family, I have my lovely little home, and I actually do have a pool, so I am so far beyond what my grandmother, my great-grandmother, my mother, had even my sisters had. You know, I should be so, so blessed, I think on these things. And it says in the Bible, think on these things and be content with what you have, and don't worry about tomorrow. The evil of the day is sufficient unto itself. That helps my cortisol go down and all of the many catch-22 circular diseases that it feeds into. So, that's how I try to manage cortisol.
The woman usually has with her hormone cycles, a hypothalamic pituitary axis. With stress, she tends to have more cortisol problems. As a general fact, women see doctors more than men, and I think it's because we have these hormones going up and down all the time on top of stress hormones, where I think men have less of this as a challenge, but they do have tremendous stress. Please, ladies, don't underestimate what a man does for you and what he's trying to hold on his shoulders. And very often they need to be in a community, like a church, where they can share with other men safely and quietly the burdens they bear, and not be mocked, you know, because men don't want to talk about things like that.
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“Do you think it's okay to have all your wisdom teeth removed? What if you want to get braces and it's needed for that purpose?” [0:33:26]
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I'm not a dentist, so I'm not going to speak to all the dos and don'ts of wisdom teeth and future braces, and whether they are needed, and do they create electrochemical and micro-tears and inflammation in your mouth. It's just a whole mess. So, actually…what was the name of the guy who developed the…Weston Price. Yeah, he was a dentist when cameras came out, and then he went to all these primitive places.
I don't think he flew there. I think he took ships because this was around 1920. And he saw beautiful teeth, beautiful without braces. The teeth come in on the babies in these very, what we consider, primitive people. And they ate a very healthy, humble diet. Very active people. And it was his conviction that there were special, certain vitamins, of course, nutritional problems because he would raise, cats, was it, or rabbits. Anyway, he used some animals and he would take certain nutrients out, and he would see the teeth malform.
So, one of the vitamins, he called it vitamin X, he thought it was very, very important in dental development and it turned out to be most likely what he was identifying in his research, even without all the fancy science, it was the fact that we need vitamin K2 with vitamin D to have nice, strong healthy bone development in the face, to have the teeth nicely come in with a broader face instead of so narrow and have the teeth crowding. So, it's a nutritional problem, and mothers need to know this. This is why I have all my young mothers; I put them on a very, very good multivitamin mineral. Not these junk process company prenatal vitamins. And their children come out with such beautiful things and talk about Juice Plus. They come out with such healthy little babies, better Apgar scores, better birth weights, far fewer C-sections needed, almost no neonatal intensive care unit problems with Juice Plus babies. So this is my experience with OB-GYN doctors using Juice Plus and having teeth that are healthy teeth to avoid having to remove wisdom teeth or put braces on. That's the best I can speak to that. Hopefully, that's some help to you.
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“I am 70 years old. I’m in good health. I take a lot of supplements. Sometimes I get pill fatigue. Is it ever good for our bodies to give them a break from all the supplements, or at least some of them?” [0:36:31]
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You know, I don't have an answer to that. I think so many factors go into it. What pills are you taking, who are the manufacturers, how many, do they use a lot of fillers, what is the gel cap made of, is it a gel, is it a vegetarian cap, what time of day do you take them? So, I'm going to say I really don't see that much here with what we use because they're so effectual and so well absorbed, II just don't see that as a problem, and I've developed a knowledge that our food systems are so poor in growing up the vegetables in nutrient quality and density compared to the 1950s as maybe 20% of what it used to be back then. So, unfortunately, we are having nutrient deficiencies. Marketing gets us into ruts where we get into patterns of buying things, and they catch us that way, and they market those things and manipulate them. The sugar carbohydrate volume in our diet puts a speed to our metabolism that sucks up what nutrients we do have to a higher rate. It's like having more tire burned off, your tires, because you're spinning your wheels with every start, because we're taking in so much sugar, and your tires get worn out sooner. So, we are in a serious problem if we can't humble ourselves and just enjoy a piece of meat and a vegetable, instead of having some God awful magazine/commercial saying, your dinner should look like this on the table, and make it fancy like this and fancy. I'm all for it if you have time to make, pour your love into your food for your children and your husband, as beautiful and well-presented as possible. But if you unfortunately had to work as a woman, then you're going to be much more limited and only able to have, you know, a roast, a cooked vegetable, maybe some butter, salt, and pepper on the table, and we give thanks for that. We have to eat real food. Get away from this packaging. We have to stop social media and the pressures. Even at church, I get angry. Every time I go to church, every church I go to, every single one ticks me off with their donuts everywhere. Donuts, donuts, donuts. And it's making people sick. No, no. That's not responsible. Oh, it might not be alcohol, but it's another addiction. So, we have such bad food habits. We have to break this, and we need to try and understand these vitamins that we're taking are making up until we can get back to smaller farms where mom and pop love the soil. They rub the soil between their fingers. They smell it, and they look at the rate at which their vegetables grow, and they rotate it, and they make sure their 100 acres are tremendously producing because your family depends on it, instead of these, you know, 3,000, 10,000-acre farms where it's industrialized. It's ridiculous.
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“I have been dealing with dizziness, pupil dilation, extreme fatigue, and irregular body temperature for 11 months now. I’ve seen every doctor under the sun, and no one can figure it out. Can you discuss long COVID and potential symptoms, as well as lingering heat stroke symptoms?” [0:40:15]
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I think exercise is the first direction you go, even if you're worn out, and you work out at the gym, even if you just use the machines a little bit, and I'm only for using the machines where you put the pin in for the resistance of whatever you're going to pull. Exercise is a tremendous healer. A rich protein, carnivore diet for a season, is a tremendous healer. Not eating late is a tremendous healer. Adequate hydration is a tremendous healer. Shutting all the electronics off in your bedroom, getting your phone away from you is a tremendous healer. Getting up with the sunrise, standing in the wet grass with your bare feet grounded for two, three minutes, and then taking a brisk walk for 20, 30 minutes every morning in the early sun to get the infrared light through your clothes and on your skin, is tremendous healing. From that. Vitamin D, I would take for sure. I would probably take an iodine, salt tablet every day. I would find out my blood type. I would probably get a complete digestive stool analysis to look at if there's inflammation in your gut, rule out parasites, viruses, pathogenic worms, and whatever. And look at your digestion that way. I would also probably look at your heavy metals, depending on your age. Those of us who were born before 1990 all have had a tremendous amount of lead exposure. And the kids born in the 80s are going to live until the 2070s probably. And so, every one of us needs to get those heavy metals checked out, especially for lead, all these things impacted. I would work with a functional doctor who knows how to look at a nicotine patch or nicotine gum to kind of cover up all the ACE receptors, ACE2 receptors that the spike protein gets. I would take systemic enzymes and maybe do a food allergy panel. I would take a good multimineral. The body knows how to heal itself. If we do our due diligence with exercise, getting to bed on time without electronics, earthing, some sunshine every day for 20 minutes, and then not eat late, eat real food, normally, with a few supplements and systemic enzymes, you can get a tremendous amount done, maybe even with nicotine gum. And then, of course, the EDTA chelation is very helpful in microcirculation and detoxing, and it gives you all that wonderful vitamin C, which is a universal detox methodology.
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“Hi, Dr. Rita. As a woman, how do I know if I'm getting premenopausal? What should I do to keep hormones balanced? Thank you.” [0:44:05]
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I would say I am seeing in general that most women go into menopause too early compared to the past 44 years. When I first started practicing in the late 1970s, women would be maybe 55, 60 when they would go into menopause. Today, I'm seeing women aged 37, 42 go into menopause. So, what are those symptoms? Your sleep becomes poorer, your vaginal secretion, lubrication, especially if you're trying to be intimate, diminished, your eyes dry out, your skin dries out. You become more emotionally flat and less feeling vivacious, so to speak, full of energy and possibilities. Your menstrual cycle might still be regular with all these things happening. One month, you might have less stress and eat better, and your hormones will start doing a little better, and then you might even ovulate. Then the next month, more stress, no ovulation, and you're feeling worse, and that can go on for months like that, even a year or two. And then the progesterone goes away first, lack of ovulation, and infertility drops off. And then finally, the estrogen starts dropping off. So, I have always given myself hormones, so I never let myself go through menopause. And it has helped with keeping me relaxed, sleeping deeply, tissue repair, you know, my hair and nails. All these things I think have been done better with these general contractors, called hormones, helping me. So, I started using progesterone first, always on day 15 through 25 of my cycle. But when my cycle was unreliable, I just always used my progesterone on a fixed two weeks of the month, like if it was the first half or the latter half. Then, when I started getting hot flashes, I started adding estradiol, and I just kept it steady all the way through, and that's kind of how I would work it with a good functional doctor. And always check your hormone levels.
Perimenopause is the hardest time for a doctor to help a woman because we need more sampling of her hormones. So, she might do very good and exercise and perk up and be more youthful longer, or she might not be taking care of herself or life is very hard on her, and she'll need us to intervene more often until all of her own hormone production ends, and we can just take over. It's kind of like doing a dance, do I lead the dance or do you lead the dance, and it's trying to find out when I should take over versus watching your production of hormones. It's always a hard thing to do. But just work with your doctor. It's a difficult time, but we can get through it.
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“I have leaky gut and dysbiosis as well.” [0:47:20]
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Oh, she was talking about the 11 months ago feeling dizzy and temperature variations, fatigue, and all that. Yeah. So, you have to have a complete digestive stool analysis. Work with a doctor familiar with that. Maybe you need more probiotics. Maybe you need prebiotics to help populate and feed the good bacteria in your gut, things like that.
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“Hi Dr. Rita, my close friend of family who is holistic-minded, Christian, approximately 70 years old, eats organic, clean low carb, takes systemic enzymes, has a 5-mm kidney stone. Would you recommend EDTA chelation? I would like her to go to your clinic for a workup. Thank You.” [0:47:57]
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Absolutely. We all need it anyway, but that will help with micronutrient delivery to all the tissues everywhere and help relax the ureter, so that the stone possibly could pass if it's only 5 mm. But the biggest thing, the biggest thing, and the biggest thing, and one more thing, the biggest thing is water. She has to try and drink 80 ounces or half her weight in pounds as ounces every day. It's water, water, water, water, water. And then one more thing you need to remember to add to that is more water. I have learned my lesson through horrible kidney stone surgery myself. Just, you know, trying to take care of my patients. I put myself last, working ER shifts 14 hours as the ER doctor, and just not drinking my water so I wouldn't have to stop and pee. I was working so hard to take care of the masses of humanity coming through the doors. And I got so dehydrated and fragile, I had huge kidney stones. Horrific, horrific, horrific. And you think I'd learned my lesson? That was in my 30’s. No, I didn't learn my lessons. Then I had it again here at this place, trying to help everyone. And in 2014, I had a massive kidney stone I couldn't pass. And I did everything I could on my own for a week, and I just was destroying myself and even gave myself hydronephrosis because I was so stubborn, I didn't want to stop coming to work, and I was in severe pain while seeing the patients, and I wouldn't drink enough water again. So ever since 2014, for more than 10 years now, I have been a water lover, and I haven't had one problem with all my stones.
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“My cholesterol is triglycerides are 107, HDL 57, LDL 87, and total cholesterol 165. Apolipoprotein B is 84. Dad passed at 60. My mom had valves and stents. My cardiologist put me on a 20 mg statin. I feel like it’s affecting my memory, and I eat healthy, exercise, drink water, etc. What are your thoughts? Do I need to be on a statin? Do I need supplements?” [0:50:14]
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Not, not bad, but I always like the triglycerides under 100, closer to 75, and that's from eating carbs and starch and pastas and beans and fruit. HDL is from exercise, so 57 is good. LDL is 87. That's good. Total cholesterol is 165, so that's great. She says an apo lipoprotein B is 84. I don't care what your apolipoprotein B is. I've never seen, in all the years I've practiced, any really meaningful impact of looking at that number. Watch the video High cholesterol is Healthy. One more time. High Cholesterol is Healthy by PhD Dr. David Diamond, and medical doctor, family practice. Dr. Ken Berry. Watch that. They do a review of all the statin literature, a retrospective meta-analysis since it became an issue, and it really has no meaningful impact. It just makes the big medical blob fat and healthy and makes more money. Well, we just feed it money, and the statin doesn't have any meaningful preventive value that they can prove. So, watch High Cholesterol is Healthy.
“I feel like it's affecting my memory.” Yeah, because you need healthy cholesterol for your brain. Well, you need to see your doctor and let the doctor know who you are, and you know what your age is, are you on hormones, what your lifestyle is like, all these things go into it. But definitely, let them do your fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin, and hemoglobin A1C. That's far, far, far more predictive than your cholesterol.
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“How soon may I eat in the morning after taking Phospholipids, SBI Protect, and Vascuzyme?” [0:52:26]
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I would say after two hours, somewhere in that ballpark time.
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“Asking for a friend. What is your preferred protocol to detox from 2 vaccines (Pfizer)? FYI, I've had challenges getting on the platform, meaning I may have missed your response (s). Will address it when I go to Geek Squad tomorrow. Thank you for all your heroic efforts.” [0:52:39]
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Well, it's everything we've always been saying. Low-carb, mostly carnivore-like diet. Drink half your weight in pounds as ounces every day. Water, water, water. Take systemic enzymes. We find that the Vitalzym is extremely anti-inflammatory, easy to take, and it's a little tiny enzyme-coated capsule, so it's dissolved in your small intestine. Then I would do EDTA chelation therapy to improve microcirculation. I would consider being on Vitamin D-K2, and have someone check that. Check a D-dimer to see if you have inflammation, your hs-CRP for vascular inflammation, and the sedimentation rate for inflammation. Get your insulin, get your fasting blood sugar. Get your hemoglobin A1C, because if you have high average sugars, that promotes clotting and stickiness and fatigue and poor memory from poor blood flow, those kinds of things. So, those are the directions I would go and say for detoxing the vaccine. You might consider using the nicotine gum, 2 mg gum, usually 2 to 4 mg. Maybe as much as 6 mg a day has been very valuable in blocking ACE receptors. You might take ivermectin preventatively twice a week, roughly 0.4 milligram per kilogram, which is roughly for the average woman; that's around 12 to 15 mg twice a week. That's the way. Find a good functional doctor and work with them on that.
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“I'd love to get your opinion about osteoporosis with an extreme risk of fracture. I know walking and weight-bearing exercise are recommended, but what is mobility impaired?” [0:54:43]
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I don't understand the question. Think you typed the question wrong, but I think you have to get your vitamin D levels up to about 100 ng/dL. I see most doctors, unfortunately, accept 40 to 60 or 80 as acceptable. We needed to be 100-120. Check with your comprehensive chemistry to check your liver enzymes, but I put all my ladies, including myself, on 10,000 to 20,000 IU with vitamin K2, MK-7 vitamin K to help with that with stomping. I ask 20 seconds like you're having a little temper tantrum on a hard surface cement patio with your shoes off, just stomping your feet and then jamming your arm into the table so you get your radius and ulna with that little sudden deceleration, and do that 15 seconds, twice a day. Vitamin D - K2, trying to get to the 100-120 range. Be on progesterone. Be on natural estradiol. Be low-carb. Drink plenty of water so you don't have inflammation. Inflammation always promotes bone loss, and high sugars promote inflammation, which promotes bone loss. So, our whole society is eating and living and doing the TV thing and not exercising. So, that promotes inflammation and bone loss. So, those are the things I would suggest for you to do.
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“What is your stance on parasites/pathogens having a root cause of disease? How do you address these if you believe they do wreak havoc on us? I understand they are part of our environment, and we need them in balance with the good bugs.” [0:56:53]
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It's marketing. You would've never asked this question if you didn't have social media. Yes, ivermectin acts as an antiparasitic, but the other thing is hydroxychloroquine and fenbendazole. These antiparasitic medications interrupt cell metabolism for growth and duplication, and multiplication. It interrupts it in many, many different sites. It interferes with the sugar metabolism of a growing, multiplying cell; that's why they're finding benefit in cancers. And so, with this knowledge of in regard to trying to kill off cells on the COVID antiviral materials, they found this benefited the Coronavirus even as far back as I think 2005. But with all this talk about antiparasitics for veterinary medicine use, and the fact that the veterinarians saw less cancers in the animals, and then humans started using the animal dosing for the veterinarian antiparasitic prescriptions and they started seeing resolution of some of their cancerous material, this got into the media, social media, and a lot of people are passing it around as how they did use these items to help improve their cancer state, and now it is multiplied and everyone's talking about it. So, people want to make money, all they suddenly start to produce human sourcing for ivermectin or fenbendazole, and they don't…you know, they haven't been there a long time. And I'm not saying it's wrong to have it available. It's just marketing. What causes cancer, in my humble opinion, is the American lousy eating lifestyle, our sad American diet, our high carb diet, destroying our metabolism, specifically our mitochondrial engines that are given the task of burning down all the sugars and then there's so much sugar, starch and fruit sugar consumed, that very little fat metabolism and satiation is never achieved, so people are incessantly eating more carbs, driving up the hormone insulin to make the carbs go into the cell to get the sugar burned off. It's a catch-22 again. That insulin drive makes you hungry for more sugar, which makes your insulin go up. And insulin is one of the most powerful fat-promoting storage and tumor-growing hormones that we make.
So, I am upset with all this commercialism on ‘parasites cause all disease’. No, they don't. That is typically marketing a lazy lifestyle, cheap, quick, fast-foods filled with toxins, additives, electromagnetic energy waves, various high fructose corn syrups laid and glazed, as all this material is making us all sick and ruining our metabolism and depressing our immune system. You know, just one Coca-Cola will depress your white blood cell movement to phagocytize bacteria, fungi, and material. It'll slow it down for 8 to 10 hours. Give me a break. And people are having the equivalent of 10 teaspoons of sugar either in a Coke or in their added-up bread, pasta, bagel, rice, beans, and fruits every day. Talk about immune suppression. Now, don't tell me it's a parasite problem. It's a social media laziness with too much access to stopping off and getting a quick bite to eat. And you know, all the checkout counters have all that filthy pornography of food. You’ve got to put it in your brain that when you're going to the grocery store, you are going to a pornography store for the body. A pornography store for the body, for the mouth. Oral pornography store is right here, and you think it's called food.
So, this concept of using the antiparasitics to try and stop the rapid turnover of the cells is definitely an important off-label use of Ivermectin, fenbendazole, and hydroxychloroquine, but it isn’t that a parasite did it. That’s ridiculous. And this AI artificial intelligence is generating these images of doctors who are promoting “yes, we have found the cause of diabetes. It’s a 2.5-cm parasite in the pancreas.” Please, don’t make me throw up. That’s ridiculous.
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“Any additional vitamins you recommend besides a prenatal?” [1:03:02]
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Well, I don’t recommend prenatal. The system is corrupt. The manufacturers of this stuff use junk materials for their prenatal vitamins. You have to get quality. Juice Plus, vitamin D, iodine, multimineral, and methylated B complex, that’s what you need.
