YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, June 16, 2026

Question
“Helping an 87-year-old female unable to type. She is active, a non-smoker, and unvaccinated. Severe respiratory illness in 2021 followed by progressive shortness of breath. Debilitating shortness of breath worsening daily, present 24/7. Now, severely breathless after walking only a few feet. Oxygen, blood pressure, heart tests, and pulmonary evaluations are all normal. Seen by three pulmonologists. All testing is unrevealing. Cause? Possible solutions? “ [0:03:32]

Answer
Well, that's intriguing. So in the elderly, the likelihood of some chronic medical problem becomes more and more potentially significant, like an underlying cancer, an underlying cardiovascular disease, and then muscle wasting. But when you have normal cardiac testing and pulmonary function testing, I presume they ruled out a pulmonary embolism. I assume they ruled out heart failure with an echocardiogram. I presume they did some lab testing to rule out anemia of aging, iron deficiency, all these kinds of things. So, if the chemistry lab blood count tests, CT scans, chest X-ray, echocardiograms, if all these are normal with a pulmonary function test where you breathe in and they can get the amount of flow dynamics, and you're telling me they're all normal, but she's progressively short of breath, I would have to see the patient and evaluate her. One of the things that is now becoming very popular on YouTube, through doctors' conversations and podcasts, is mitochondrial energy, the lack of production of ATP. So, the older you get, many things start failing us. The repair of our mitochondria is the little engine that makes our energy. So, that energy expenditure to get up and walk, especially in the elderly, could be dissipated because of nutrient deficiencies and just the lack of the body to repair the mitochondrial cell membrane, the cristae, that have enough CoQ10, have enough NAD, and the lipoic acid, special antioxidants that would facilitate producing energy. So, in the absence of the most common causes of shortness of breath in the elderly, you have to go to a subcellular level and just look at the energy production unit in the mitochondria. 

So, I would talk with your doctor, your functional medicine doctor, about things that help the mitochondria improve. You might give a co-enzyme Q10 300 mg a day, maybe 600 mg as 300 twice a day. You might try giving them a methylated B complex. You might also try adding lipoic acid. You could give vitamin C and glutathione, probably liposomal glutathione. I would give a very rich protein and healthy fat diet. I would consider that the carbohydrates should be very, very low. I would give them primarily, if they can eat, chew up sunflower seeds, walnuts, and pecans, things like that, you'll get some good omegas in there. Eat fish, plenty of fish. That'll be rich in the omegas and rich in protein and choline to help repair the cell membranes of the mitochondria, as well as provide protein. And then they have to have some kind of exercise activity, maybe a recumbent bike where they're just pumping a little bit with their feet like that. I would consider EDTA and IVs once or twice a week with vitamin C and all these micronutrients and minerals. I would use a healthy amino acid chelated mineral supplement, along with making sure that they get about a half a teaspoon of Himalayan salt. And then drinking enough water, at least 64 ounces probably a day, being that heart failure, congestive heart failure, is ruled out, and there's no severe pitting edema to the lower extremities. But these are the things I would think about. There are oxygen therapies such as ultraviolet light irradiation of the blood, ozone therapy, UBI, and methylene blue; those are the directions I would start looking at 

Question
“Dr. Rita, what toothpaste do you use? Thank you!”  [0:10:29]

Answer
I go to Sprouts, and I buy Radius. I think it's called RADIUS, and the name of it is called Immunity. RADIUS Immunity and mine have hydroxyapatite and xylitol in them. It also has elderberry in it, so it looks purplish. When I'm brushing my teeth, it looks purple. And that's what I use because hydroxyapatite is the mineral that is very helpful in remineralizing your teeth and enamel. I also am very mindful of keeping my mouth shut at night. I have a little pillow that I tuck under my chin to keep my mouth shut because it's in the saliva, and if you keep your saliva going, you have to drink enough water during the day. The saliva provides the remineralization to have healthy teeth and repair. 

Question
“Good evening, Dr. E. I'm looking for a reputable doctor for prescribing the bio-identical hormones in Las Vegas. Can you help direct me for a referral?”  [0:11:50]

Answer
I don't know of one by name. Reno, Nevada. I don’t know where Reno, Nevada, is compared to Las Vegas. I know that Dr. James Forsythe is an oncologist who, back in 1988, stopped practicing standard oncology and has the largest repertoire of stage 4 cancer patients that he's been able to treat over the years: the vitamin C therapy, chelation, insulin potentiation of microdosing of chemotherapy, and various other things, plus bioidentical hormones. So, he's in Reno, Nevada. Another way you can look into this is if you go to ACAM, the American College for the Advancement of Medicine, www.ACAM.org. That was the very first organization. It started out in the Great Lakes area, and the name back then was Great Lakes Association for the Advancement of Medicine, GLACAM. And these were the doctors who first started promoting EDTA chelation for its vast potential in microvasculature restoration from gangrene of the toe to preventing dementia or trying to help revascularize post-brain injury from ischemic brain injury and things of that nature, heart attacks, prevention of that, hypertension. So, GLACAM was started in 1969, or something like that, and ACAM was then formed in 1972. So, www.ACAM.org, and there you'll find a doctor, locate a doctor. So, I don't know the name, but you can call the office, the manager, and ask questions such as, you know, how many years he has been practicing with natural hormones, how large a practice he has, and how many patients a day he sees. These are good questions. If they're seeing, you know, like 12 patients a day, it's maybe unlikely that they're spending enough time. I'll see around six or eight people a day, and I'm working my butt off doing that. I think anyone who has about five years of experience is well on their way to being very helpful. So, hopefully that's a good start for you, and I hope that helps you find someone. 

Question
“Regarding birth control for a woman in her 30s. Currently using a copper IUD. She’s thinking of switching to a hormonal IUD or something else.”  [0:15:14]

Answer
I would just use natural progesterone, and I would get rid of the IUD because it's creating chronic inflammation. Chronic inflammation is what makes the lining of the uterus incompatible or unfriendly to implantation of a fertilized egg. And so, I would not use any invasive inflammation-causing therapies. Instead, I would ask someone to give you progesterone, and I would use it from day 7 of your menstrual cycle to day 22 of your cycle because you can only possibly ovulate between roughly one week of fertility in any cycle month, and that would be approximately day 8, which would be very rare, and to day 15 or so. So, that's the second week of the menstrual cycle. So, the first day is the day you start bleeding. So, about a week after you start bleeding, ovulation is potentially occurring. That is inhibited. So, if you start natural progesterone, the one ovary will think the other ovary just ovulated, and it will inhibit the ovulation signal. And that's what the birth control pill is based on. It gives you a synthetic progestin, which the Women's Health Initiative, which came out in 2002 July 2nd, the progestins were then later determined to be found linked with a higher incidence of breast cancer. So, these synthetic progestins, norethindrone, are the things that are in birth control. I think it's horrific that doctors are using them. They're progestins linked with breast cancer. 

Natural progesterone can't be patented, and that's why the pharmaceuticals don't want to use it. It's the safest, most wonderful, most health-enhancing for a woman, especially under stress. Just take a 100 mg capsule at night or 200 mg and/or a progesterone cream 200 mg per ml and put on at least half an ml from day 8 of your menstrual cycle through day 22 or 24, and then you'll inhibit ovulation. That would be my suggestion. 

Question
“A friend of mine is 4 months pregnant with her second child. During her first pregnancy, she suffered (HG) Hyperemesis gravidarum and was violently ill through her pregnancy to the point of hospitalization. She fears Hyperemesis gravidarum might be making a comeback in this pregnancy. What are some treatments or tips that can get her through this pregnancy smoothly? Thank you!”  [0:18:34]

Answer
Yeah, back in the 1970s, when I was at the beginning of my medical practice and training, we had an OB-GYN rotation at Cook County Hospital. We e had a lot of low-income people who were pregnant coming in for free OB care, and the poorer the people are, the less protein they eat, the more pregnancy problems they have. Problems with gestational diabetes. They have trouble with obesity. They have trouble with their blood pressure and eclampsia. They have trouble with nausea and vomiting. So, the higher the carbohydrate content and sugar and starch in the diet, the higher the prevalence of this is. So, what we did was we would boil up eggs and have hard-boiled eggs, and we'd have them while they were in their waiting room waiting for their appointment, you know, their first appointment or their 3-month checkup or whatever; we'd offer them hard-boiled eggs. And we found, or the wise doctor whom I was training under, found that giving them protein for digestion was very helpful in inhibiting nausea, pregnancy, and better health outcomes overall in all those areas. 

Now, interestingly, research 50 years later, we are realizing that something between the gut and the brain is being signaled during pregnancy. And what they're finding is that it has something to do with that GPL-1 gut peptide protein. The higher the GPL-1 peptide, the more it inhibits hunger and promotes the sensation that you're full, and it promotes the sensation that you're nauseous. So, people who get the injections of Wegovy or semaglutides, tirzepatide, these therapies are providing these peptides of GLP-1 to produce the sensation of feeling satisfied and being non-hungry, or what we call satiation. But the side effect is nausea, even to vomiting. So, it's the exact same thing. So, research is going on right now to develop some antagonists to the receptor sites for the peptide GPL-1. 

One of the other things is that the placenta is producing another peptide, Gestational Development Factor 15, I think it's called, Gestational Factor 15, F15, and this has been identified as being produced by the placenta and is hitting receptors in the midbrain area which we think also function like these GPL-1 satiation, stomach emptying, slowing up the emptying of the stomach and creating this problem. So, we feel that if you eat a healthy protein like an egg with salt, plenty of salt, that this will definitely help prevent hyperemesis gravidarum, both in my clinical experience in my own pregnancies and now research is confirming it down to the receptor that this is what's going on. 

Question
“Dr. Rita, I have a painful Baker’s Cyst behind my kneecap. What do you recommend to get rid of it?? Thank you!!”  [0:23:39]

Answer
Well, usually surgery is recommended by orthopedists. Especially if it's symptomatic and large, there are surgical options to remove this cyst. When the tendons are riding on one another, they're usually encased in a – like putting on nylon socks, you know, how a girl will put that over her leg. So, imagine these tendons having this sock on them that has this serum kind of lubricant in it on all of our tendons. Like over our elbows, we can get epicondylar bursitis, and you can get a Baker's cyst bursitis. All these places are just inflammation and trauma. So, we suggest using more systemic enzymes on an empty stomach, eating in a window like between, say, 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., maybe 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., a 6-hour window of eating, and a very, very low-carb diet. Taking in the essential oils, the Clinician's Preference. The Clinician's Preference has oils that help assist in the membrane fluidity. You could take four tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil, make sure it's high quality. When you take it, you should taste that kind of pepper, a little sense of burning in the back of your throat. It should be very clear. If it's a high-quality extra virgin olive oil, it should be in a dark or opaque bottle. The label should be marked as to where this was harvested. So, this came from Italy, or this came from Morocco, or wherever it came from. And this way you would be more convinced that it hasn't been sinfully corrupted by mankind for filthy money with some horrible vegetable oil. And so, natural real olive oil that has all these polyphenols in it that are anti-inflammatory, especially for joint pain, is associated with having a little burning taste in the back of the throat. Some would say to take a cracked pepper, ground black pepper, and put just a pinch of it on your tablespoon because that amplifies the power of its anti-inflammatory effect. Anyway, so more enzymes, be well hydrated. Do range of motion, but don't exercise the joint excessively. Give it some rest. The older we are, the more we need resting time. So, hopefully there will be some ideas for you. 

Question
“I'm not on any thyroid medications and feel fine, but I do have Hashimoto's, and the antibodies are present, but no other symptoms. Are there any ways to reduce those antibodies besides eliminating gluten?”  [0:27:15]

Answer
Yeah, there are. Usually throughout the decades that I've been dealing with this is you don't have Hashimoto's, you had it in the past, to the extent that your body, normally we would say in your gut, through your leaky gut and the breaking through the one-cell membrane thickness of your gut lining¸your body saw leakage of your food into your lymphatic system where it shouldn't be through the little scratches and breaks in your gut because of reaction, some lectins, maybe the gluten, maybe alcohol, maybe lack of good bacteria, excess sugars, too much yeast growing. All these things and many others help to harm the one cell membrane that separates you between what you put down your throat and the inside of your body. Just one cell membrane, it's incredibly thin. When that breach occurs and your immune system attacks, there's sometimes molecular mimicry, and the attack against some of these food compositions looks similar to our own tissue, like your thyroid. So then you start attacking your thyroid, and that can create inflammation secondarily in your thyroid or your joints or your skin or your nerves, and we give them the name ‘itis’, like myocarditis or arthritis or dermatitis. So, wherever the inflammation occurs. 

So, the real way to heal this and bring antibodies down is to stop thinking that we are entitled to eat what we want, when we want it, and as much as we want. Rather, eat a humble, simple menu of a protein and a vegetable, butter and salt, and some pepper, and be content with that and restore the concept of a holiday, a special day for a special food preparation, back to a more humble one once a month or less frequently. But we're marketed to, and we are trained like little rats or Pavlovian dogs to think that we should have this food entertainment¸, and this hole here we call our mouth as an entertainment demand center is a brat demanding entertainment every single day now. That then brings in so much variety of foods and spices and volumes and combinations throughout the day that that little gut lining in your immune system is just too darn worn out, and it gets broken down. The way we build it up is that we eat this simple, one-menu-type day. And we call it one-menu day, where you're primarily, for instance, what I do is I'll cook a roast on my cooker, on my kitchen counter, and I'll start it at 9 o'clock at night on low. I'll put some onions on the bottom and a cup of broth. I'll put half a stick of butter in there. Then I'll put a 2, 3-, or 4-lb chuck roast in there, and then I'll put some broccoli usually in with my meat. That's on low all night until I'm up at 5:00. That roast will last me for two days at least, maybe three, and it will provide breakfast and lunch for me because I don't eat late. And so, my body just takes in that same food, not a lot of variety. Then the next thing I'll cook up is a whole chicken with some onions and, let's say, green beans, and that'll last a few days. And then the next thing would be maybe like a pork tenderloin. My fish, I grill, so it's simple enough if I have that, or an omelette. 

And so, if we treated our gut with much more respect than driving it like a poor horse being whipped without any breaks and enough rest time. So, I'm saying all that to say the number one thing that I find heals people with antibodies to thyroid peroxidase antibodies or thyroglobulin antibodies is going on a carnivore 100% diet for two months, eight weeks And then at the start of the diet, take your level of antibodies to thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin, and then it don't cheat at all, and you'll see within eight weeks a dramatic improvement because the lining of the cell membrane is made up of the protein and fat that you find in meat and fish and pork and chicken and these kind of things. So, that's what I would recommend that you do. And then go on a more humble diet the rest of your life. 

Question
“What do you suggest for leg cramps? My GP suggested electrolytes and cut salt. I told GP that sodium is low. He said cut salt because I drink water at the level you recommend, 1/2 my weight in ounces.”  [0:33:09]

Answer
I get Himalayan salt. And what's over there? Celtic salt, Himalayan salt, pink salt? I'll get any variety. And then I'll take a- I did just before I came here. I put it in the palm of my hand here about that much salt, and I just licked it with my tongue because I was in a hurry to get back to work because I have to get home after, you know, my patients eat, and I have to get back here in time for this. So, I don't eat late. And I licked the salt, I felt like a horse or deer out in the valley there licking the salt block. And I take extra TLC Multi-Minerals. They're very high-quality Albion amino acid chelated minerals that amplify the absorption of minerals that will give you the calcium, magnesium, and potassium that are so important. Remember, your cell membranes are getting more and more holes in them, and it's only fat and protein that plug them up, not carbohydrates. So, you’ve got to eat a rich, healthy protein and fat menu, and you have to get enough salt and mineral electrolytes, and that's what I would do. 

She went on to say, "My GP suggested electrolytes and cut salt. I told the GP that the sodium was low. He said to cut salt because I drink water at the level you recommended. Half my weight in ounces." No, you need the salt. You don't have to worry about salt restriction to the standard recommendation. I think they say 2 grams or 2.5 grams a day. That's too little. That's based on the average American who's been all messed up and sick for the past 40, 50 years of their recommendations, who never drinks enough water. So, no. Just feel free to use your salt food to taste, and I put a little dab in my palm, you know, maybe a half teaspoon or a quarter teaspoon, and I just lick that, and I have my water and my TLC Multi-minerals, and that'll take care of it. 

Question
“I’m your patient and will continue to be, but a year ago you told me to see a doctor to help with recurring diverticulitis. He is a functional medicine MD who recently prescribed VINCO bioidentical 20-mg progesterone topical spray for other symptoms. I’m 64, and I’ve heard hormone treatments cause cancer. Is it safe, and will menses and fertility return?”  [0:35:31]

Answer
The answer is no, your fertility shouldn't return if you're over, you know, 50. And you shouldn't have menses if all you're getting is progesterone. It's possible to get it if you drink a lot of alcohol because alcohol turns into estradiol, or if you eat a very high-carb diet, which can increase your estradiol formation in your body and other tissues. But in general, no. And what I mean is, I think I know who you are. I think what I meant there was I wanted you to see a gastroenterologist, not another functional medicine doctor. Hopefully, gastroenterologists will become more functional, and they are. We are having an influence throughout all the fields. From psychiatry to dermatology, we are absolutely impacting them with all our functional medicine background, and we thank the Lord for that. We're very pleased and grateful that God chose us to be a part of helping educate over the past 50 years. But the concept there is that I'm not the specialist, and I don't want you to have recurrent episodes of diverticulitis. And if there's something new coming in the field I'm not specializing in that one venue, I want you to be up-to-date with that. Now, diverticulitis: why does it occur? Well, that lining between the gut and the body is only one cell membrane thick. So, you’ve got to emphasize eating enough protein and fat every single day. High protein, healthy fats every day, and less-inflammatory menus. In other words, calm your choices down. Don't make this mouth an entertainment hole. And as you eat a more simplistic diet, there's less inflammation and less challenge to that single cell membrane in your gut, and more repair material from your protein-rich, healthy fat-rich diet, which will repair the membrane. So, it's a health improvement circle versus a health destruction life cycle through marketing and just entertainment of life pleasures in a hedonistic, self-serving way to eat, whatever you want, when you want, as much as you want. 

The other thing is that by taking healthy amounts of minerals, you get salt. We need vitamin C to help the elastin collagen of the protein, and the elastin molecules are tight with vitamin C. Without vitamin C, they don't bind. They have to have zinc to bind. Without it, they pull apart. And if they pull apart, they can balloon out and become these nipples from the pressure in the gut. And it just shows there have been years and years and years of not the best diet and not enough protein, not enough vitamin C, and not enough minerals. So, that's why we want you to do that. Now progesterone helps with cramping and the menstrual cycle, but it also helps with relaxation all over. So, progesterone is a calming agent, hypnogogic, and helps you sleep. So, that's very fine. I'm in favor of estradiol as well, for the most part, for all women as a general contractor for repair. But you see, that's thinking big about the whole body, not just thinking about what a standard licensed protocol is, where if I use it, you can't sue me because I stayed within the lines of the protocol. You have to be a person who is a problem solver, thinking outside the block. So, I was using the referral to the other doctor, a gastroenterologist, just to make sure that if something was coming through or something was there, something needed to be done with a colonoscopy update or something because you were having too many episodes, okay, if that’s who you are. So, make sure you have a follow-up so I can see who you are, but make sure you have a gastroenterologist who's seeing you and that your diet is healthy.

Question
“Hello Dr. E., I just completed 24 EDTA chelation IVs for gadolinium toxicity. My heavy metal levels are now much lower except for thallium. My thallium level when I started the IVs was in the low range, and now, after all the EDTA chelation IVs, my thallium level is high. It went from 0.2 to 1.2 on the Doc's Data challenge test. What caused this, and how do I now get rid of the thallium?”  [0:40:34]

Answer
Thallium is one of the; it's always been there, it's not like you got it new. Thallium is in the industry. It's in the Earth's superficial dust of the crust. It's churned up in the air every day. We're breathing it. It lands on all the fields we grow food on, our trees, our animals eat it, we eat it, it blows on the water, the fish eat it. And so, we're bioaccumulating all these mind-out minerals. And so, doctors, just like you know, I've been preaching this for almost 50 years: we have to get EDTA chelation up there on the venue, and everyone needs to be chelated with it because these oral volcanic minerals, zeolite, cilantro, chlorella, garlic, and these oral forms are just not going to cut it. They're not wrong to do; they're not harmful, but they're never going to pull out what you bioaccumulated throughout your lifetime, of which you can see it did pull all these other things like lead, aluminum, arsenic, and cadmium out. But once we lower all these other bad ones that were so so bad, then it becomes easier for that EDTA to go mining and pull out other bad stuff. So, it's not like it was never there. It was always there; it's just that there was so much other bad stuff over here, the EDTA was pulling it out with each IV. And as that came down, the EDTA was able to go over and work on the thallium and start pulling that out. So, it's not that you have more, it's just that now you have such a good relief of the total excess of toxic metals, that it can go to more exotic ones like thallium. So, this is actually a good sign. 

Question
“The testosterone information was great. How does someone without access to a functional medicine doctor determine what dose is appropriate? I assume a blood test should be done first, and then the dose can be determined? I know my PCP would be clueless.”  [0:43:21]

Answer
Here's the suggestion. Remember, the ranges on your lab are population averages, and these population averages, for the most part, have nothing to do with health optimally. So, I've seen ranges for women's testosterone as low as 2 to maybe 48 or somewhere in that range. So, that's a ridiculous range, 2 to 48. Stupid. I keep mine somewhere around 150 because my muscle mass is the best thing I've got going, and the research confirms this. It's what is going to help me get to my 80th birthday, upcoming, and my 9th birthday, and my 100th and 110th. So, I use DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), and I use 50 mg a day, and I happen to have the enzymes that help take that DHEA and break it down into testosterone. So, I don't need to use topical testosterone. Not all women need to do that to achieve a very good, supportive testosterone. Remember, men's testosterone back in the 1970s, I was on active duty, and the male testosterone back then was like 1600 to 800, and the 800 would be the springtime readings, and the 1600 would be the fall readings, a doubling of it. Now, the lousy ranges are 185 to 700, maybe or 600. So, we really are a fallen society from all this marketing to get us to be little dogs like Pavlov and satisfy our mouths with entertainment for food and eating at the wrong time. Therefore, I would say use the DHEA, get a testosterone level before you start it, it's over the counter, and try that within a month or two, get another lab and see if your testosterone goes up. So, let's say your testosterone is 30, and you take a 25-mg DHEA, then that should theoretically go up to 60. If it doesn't, then you're not a converter, and you'll need to ask your doctor to write for testosterone cream compounded as 4 mg per ml. Put it in a Topi-CLICK and they'll mix it in the cream and you click the bottom of it and it'll kind of push out like a popsicle used to push up when I was a little girl, we had the push-up popsicles, and then one click would represent a milligram topical daily, if there's 4 milligram per ml and it takes four clicks to equal one total ml. So, a fourth of an ml will come with one click. And you know, this isn't rocket science, and you don't have to be super accurate. You just have a general one-click a day, and I put it on my inner wrists; that's where I put it. 

Question
“Do you consider 'net carbs' to be accurate? For example, a food product lists 13 grams of carbs and 12 grams of fiber; Therefore, it has only 1 net carb.”  [0:46:59]

Answer
There have been arguments over this for the past 45 to 50 years, ever since I've been in medicine. I think a lot of self-denying bad habits I’ve come across come from people thinking they are getting indigestible fibers and getting too many total carbs in as a result. So, I would be very cautious of what you call ‘net carbs’, and that's just my generalized warning. And you can test at home, you can get your own glucometer without a doctor's prescription. You can check how foods impact you. You can ask your doctor to get your fasting insulin and glucose. So, that's how I would check it, but be careful.

Question
“What are your thoughts on muscle testing?”  [0:48:09]

Answer
It's not ready for prime time. Back in the 1990s, I was doing my doctorate in integrative medicine, and this applied kinesiology Bi-Digital O-Ring testing your muscle strength while in the field of the vibrational impact of a substance, either it amplified your own aura and then you could be strong, or you bring it near into your field, your aura, and then you have a muscle test and it breaks it. So, there's way too much variability for this to be identified with practice for decision-making in real medicine. I'm not saying you can't do it, I'm just saying a practice that's based on that as the routine is very fufu for me right now because this has been going on for thousands of years. You know, kinesiology and applied kinesiology, Bi-Digital O-Ring testing for energy and impact on your total body aura vibrational fields is ancient medical. It was one of the Chinese medicine techniques that we were taught back in the 90s. So, there is this energy according to Voll machines, where you hold on to these electromagnetic ends. They supposedly have all these volumes of organ tissues and stuff in your body to measure, and you introduce some product, berberine, or you take a whole bottle of something your doctor prescribed you, and then it'll run the frequency and see if the frequency of this concoction of multivitamin or whatever is helping the energy aura or diminishing it. And this is variable, it's so variable that I can't make medical decisions on it.

But I'm not going to deny the future science and impact, and I do believe eventually we will get down to, you know, like on Star Trek where Dr. Bones would take his little surveyor of your energy aura and then find an energy component to which you were lacking in, and then, remember, it would be like an injection, you go poo and it would go right into you and you would get that energy shot but it was a frequency. So, yeah, I'm not against it. It's just that I think people are impressionable. The placebo is impressionable. A very charismatic health care provider is very able to, just with their words, bring so much confidence and comfort into a situation and enthusiasm, that a patient will apply those positive mental attitudes to the use of something. So, we're not that sophisticated that we can't rule this out. So, I think it's not ready for prime time. Keep it in observational research, and it's not ready for prime time. 

Question
“Can the vitamin IV therapy be used on a person with early-stage Parkinson's to detox and also to replenish? 80-year-old male, 50 pounds overweight.”  [0:51:44]

Answer
Absolutely, because the substantia nigra where they believe the brain stem is, and for some of the feedback neurochemical signals are being burnt, you might say, oxidized, is greatly helped with better microcirculation and reducing heavy metal toxicities, bringing in the vitamin C, bringing in the B vitamins, and the minerals. It's a very, very good experience, and I've usually seen that it has tremendously helped people. Glutathione intravenously has a very powerful and notable effect. Dr. David Perlmutter has a video. If you put “Dr. David Perlmutter and Parkinson's video,” you'll see him give an infusion of, I think he used 3 grams of glutathione IV, and he gave it over half an hour or an hour. And you see the man beforehand, he's stuttering in his talking, and he has a very slight shuffle, you know, no facial expression, a shuffled walk, and then after the IV, his stride loosens up, and he speaks with normal fluidity. So, yeah, absolutely, these IVs help. 

Question
“What should be a typical daily dose of vitamin C? There are published risks of kidney stones at high doses. Have you seen this in practice? Thank you.”  [0:53:21]

Answer
No, I have not. I have never seen that. That's still in the land of mythology. In all the 45 years of practice, certainly heavily since I got off of active duty, I've been in full-time functional integrative medicine since the 90s, and I've been working every day without a vacation. So, we're giving, what, 25 grams of vitamin C, 50 grams, 75 grams, huge, huge doses. This is just not seen, sorry. But we also emphasize drinking water, taking enzymes, eating a healthy diet, and not eating a high-oxalate diet, which often produces stones. 

Question
“Dr. Mitchell diagnosed thyroid nodules in 2021, and I've been going to another functional medicine doctor. Did the RGCC Oncotrace test. It came back positive with a 1.9 CTC count. They classify it as stage 1, but do not say where the tumors are. She recommends SOT therapy. Sounds amazing, as it takes your blood to create your treatment. Thoughts?”  [0:54:25]

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This is not FDA-approved. These are your self-oligonucleotide therapies, where all of us, see, we believe that we're all making cancer stem cells every day of our life, and our healthy immune system, because we live a healthy lifestyle, is generating a good immune system, so that our T-cells and killer cells are doing surveillance to look for these abnormal circulating tumor cells. And when we stop having such a good immune system, motility, hydration, good sleep, good nutrition, good enzymes, our hormones for repair, muscle contraction, good exercise, when these things fall down, then our surveillance immune system fails us, and then these stem cells can find an area to take hold. Another argument is that your cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic dysfunction. So really, all disease is a problem with the energetics of the cell. The mitochondria are not producing like that. The very first question about that elderly person, 87, who is short of breath now at just walking a few feet with a normal pulmonary and cardiac workout. This is a failure of producing energy at the mitochondrial site. 

So, I don't think we're ready for prime time either on the SOT therapy, where you take your own blood, send it in, have it harvested, and they make an amplification of the genetic sequence that will attack this circulating tumor cell. I have been and have used RGCC looking for circulating tumor cells, and I started when Dr. Ioannis Papasotiriou from Greece, who came up with this test in the late 80s, early 90s. So, I know this whole thing, and I've worked with patients with it before. I have not seen it make any big difference compared to the person who doesn't do the test but just does all the healthy things that we have traditionally used: high-dose vitamin C, more of a carnivore-like diet, exercise, not eating late, systemic enzymes, vitamin D, berberine, curcumin, and so on- these kinds of things. And with that, we've seen basically the same results so far. All the tens of thousands of dollars that patients had to pay out for the RGCC test, I finally just gave up using it as guidance because it was all reinforcing everything we had already learned to do. So, until there's something much more spectacular and unless they have FDA-approved and reasonably large trials of human beings that take their own blood samples and get these oligo-molecular enhancements to immune identify and tag and kill off these circulating tumor cells, I'm not going to be a part of doing it. I'm just going to be a part of preventing it and keeping it going. And by the way, we would monitor people with cancer, and as long as their CTC number was 2 or less, which you are by what you're defining here, there was no further action required other than the healthy things I had listed that we were doing anyway. 

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“Hi Dr. E, what are your thoughts about hydrogen water? Thanks.”  [0:58:57]

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Hydrogen water is typically water that is produced by putting extra hydrogen gas into the water and sealing it in a can or kind of a firm package, and extra hydrogen molecules are associated with an antioxidant, alkalinizing-type therapy, which is probably very good. So, I'm pretty much in favor of it. 

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“65-year-old female with prurigo nodularis, an itchy skin disorder. Despite Dupixent, recurrent left hairline/neck nodules with regrowth after scraping, requiring excision. Role of the sun, stress, sugar, or carbs? Treatment options?”  [0:59:43]

Answer
Number one, I wouldn't shower, I wouldn't bathe. I would sponge bath every day under your arms and in your pits. I only take a shower about every eight weeks. So, six times a year, I'll take a shower and bathe. Yes, I do get in my pool once in a while, but I don't want any hot water or soap on my body to rinse off my oils. And then I eat a very healthy meat, pork or chicken, and egg yolk to repair my cell membranes. And you know, I don't worry about the sun. I never use sunscreen ever, ever, never, never in my life. I don't use any cosmetics except for a little lipstick and mascara. I use a little foundation right under my eyes and around my area here. I don't put it all over my face or my neck or anything like that. So, I use so little makeup, it's maybe every three to five years that I'll buy any makeup. I'm the best wife you could ever have. I don't spend a dime of your money on my own cosmetics. So, keep your skin oiled up, don't rinse it off. And then take Clinician's Preference Oil and eat that simplistic protein and vegetable menu, a simple one-menu day, and over about six months, you should see progressive healing. And sleep in a cool and dark environment. Get some grounding in the morning with the infrared light. That’s how I would approach that. 

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“What would a typical vitamin C daily dose be? I’ve read there is a risk of kidney stones. Have you seen issues with high-dose vitamin C in your practice?”  [1:01:57]

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On that vitamin C, I would recommend I take about 1500 mg in the morning and evening. 

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“If there is a child with hypoplastic ventricles who is about to be born, what are the best things to do when going through the Glenn and Norwood procedures?”  [1:02:50]

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That's beyond my knowledge base there. I don't know what the Glenn and Norwood procedure is, but I can look that up. But I will say this, find out the baby's blood type. Find out Mom and Dad's blood type. That's important to me. 

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“Thoughts on hydrogen therapy for inflammation, joint pain, sleep issues? The machine is recommended, inhaling, which is quite expensive.”  [1:03:43]

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It's just an antioxidant supportive therapy. They're positive molecular entities, and they are trying to sacrifice themselves to free radicals that are negative.