YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, June 17, 2025

Question 

“Can you offer a good approach to reduce thyroid antibodies and decrease thyroid-stimulating hormone supplements and diet?”  [0:03:43]

Answer

In general, most people agree that disease begins in the gut with what you're eating. So, if you're eating foods that have been genetically modified, if they're glyphosated as a pesticide to repel insects, if the glyphosate is applied to the crops right before harvest to dry them out, a desiccant, it’s called a desiccant, then your exposure to this chemtrails, heavy metal oxides landing on the ground, getting into the dust, what you breathe, what you drink, what you're eating, even if it's an organic attempt to grow free, organic, healthy food, you are going to be injuring the one cell membrane lining of your gut.

Therefore, there's going to be a leaky gut or a breakthrough from what you're eating that can get right through into your bodily system. That will inflame you and often it'll create a cell molecular mimicry to the thyroid and attack it. This then will create thyroid inflammation, we call it thyroiditis, and then you wind up having thyroid antibodies, and then eventually getting lower function of thyroid performance. And then you'll need a thyroid prescription medicine. 

So, what we would do is explain to people how the food system has been corrupted, the dyes, the heavy metals, the plasticizers, the insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides. All these things are getting into us and scratching the inside of our delicate tube from mouth to anus. So what we would say is you have to repair the tube, and the way you repair it is you give it what it's made of. The cell membrane is made of protein and fat. That fat and protein is found in a carnivore diet. So, the meat, the fish with the chicken and skin, the pork, the eggs with the yolk, all this stuff, with taking digestive enzymes, will help break it down and it can repair those broken holes in the membranes of the lining of the gut. We usually ask a patient to try for at least two or three months to eat a carnivore diet. Why? Because it is going to be a chase to find out what foods are triggering some of these damages to the lining of the gut. And therefore, we want to try and help the gut heal, so we don't want to present any of these foods. Very common foods can do this. Even foods you would consider healthy. It's just if you eat them frequently, it will, just by reason of exposure over and over again, tend to leak through the gut, and then create an immune alarm or response and then antibodies to that food. That's not permanent but rather if you have about two, or three months where you're not taking any of these foods, whatever they may be, and just sticking to a carnivore diet, the whole system can calm down. And over the many years, decades, I have seen thyroid peroxidase antibodies, and thyroglobulin antibodies all come down on a carnivore diet, a healing diet. Then we can reintroduce some vegetables. Usually, we prefer them cooked slowly, and we watch and track the food journal and the inflammation markers, the thyroid antibodies. That's how we approach it. 

Another thing that we suggest is everyone in general is low in their iodine salt. So, we give iodine. Dr. David Brownstein wrote a book called Iodine. He's a family practice doctor, also a standard allopathic, similar to myself, and he placed an emphasis on looking at iodine and its actual loss in the human American diet supply. The iodine was taken out of the bread and stuff. Iodine salt will help the thyroid function and probably bring the TSH down. But follow up with your doctor, track it, find a good functional doctor, and see if they can track that with you. And, you know, for two to three months, anybody can do a carnivore diet to heal. If you're a blood type A person, you would want to take some Ortho Digestive Enzyme that has betaine hydrochloric acid and the digestive enzymes to help you digest your proteins and fats, which will be richer in a carnivore diet. If you're over 55-60 years old, your digestion may not be as good as it used to be no matter what your blood type and it's smart to use a digestive enzyme when you get older as well as when you eat food. I do recommend an excellent probiotic. I use Ortho Molecular’s product called Ortho Biotic, and I take one a day. I think those things would be a good start. 

Question 

“Why is having blood sugar fluctuations dangerous?”  [0:09:27]

Answer

Well, it depends on how much of a fluctuation. If you're having a range from, let's say pre-eating on a fast, we check your blood sugar and it's 60, and then you eat and it goes up to 120 an hour later, that would be a normal range. So, it would be extreme ranges that we would be concerned about. Typically, in the 1980s, and 1990s, we would have the over-diagnosis of reactive hypoglycemia. As the cigarette industry, Morris, Phillips tobacco industry was exposed for the corruption and deceitful advertising and the addictive materials and covering up the science they knew on the addictive nature of the cigarettes and what they put into them to increase the addiction to them, my understanding is they then shut those cigarette corporations down to some degree and put their money into getting us addicted to food, junk foods. I believe they invested in General Mills or Kellogg and these other kinds of cereal, carbohydrates, starch, and sugar-rich junk foods. And they of course then had people eat them. And then back around 1980, not a lot of us had access to so many carbs. So, there were these huge swings in blood sugars as the American population began to get exposed more and more to cheap, refined processed sugars. 

Now, since everyone seems to have this so much, the sudden increase in the sugar and the rapid insulin response to bring the sugar down, overcompensating and then bringing it far too low, which would drive up the hunger again to make you eat it is not as typically seen. We're just eating in a constant steady state, and so we're getting this steady state of insulin production driving us to eat. So, find yourself a good functional doctor who'll do blood insulin levels, fasting blood sugars, track your triglycerides with it, counsel you on weightlifting, resistance training to build up your muscle mass, your circadian rhythm, your bedtime, your awakened time, the time you spend in the sunshine and other aspects of your lifestyle, and then that should be able to help you. 

Question 

“Until my first appointment with you, what foods do you recommend (like a do and a do not eat list) that I can get started on right away? I'm a 52-year-old female with autoimmune (possibly lupus), SIBO, IBS, candida, fibromyalgia, chronic infections like the Epstein-Barr, MTHFR (Methylenetetrahydrofolate), perimenopause, and possible breast cancer.”  [0:12:44]

Answer

Well, you see, the American diet is such a destructive diet. It is a diet that is so rich in junk food, quick access, cheap carbs, and processed, highly processed foods, that it drives up the sugar. And like all diabetics, the higher sugar depresses the immune system. And then all these viral illnesses, all these chronic prior viral illnesses of our youth, some of which have a longstanding presence in our tissues, but our immune system suppresses it like varicella. The shingles outbreak is a chicken box exposure of our youth and our immune system keeps it suppressed. But if you eat cheap, high-carb, highly processed packaged food, barcode-buying food system because you don't plan and you don't take the time and the effort to discipline yourself to eat well and plan well for your diet, we get into this cheap food, these compromised food eating patterns that suppress our immune system. We get all these chemicals in it and we get these colorings in it, and we get the heavy metal exposures. So, we're on the road to immunosuppression. Furthermore, all that sugar is driving havoc and damage into the cell engines called mitochondria of every cell, the mitochondria are supposed to take that sugar, starch, and fruit, sugar, process it into energy. But if we're not exercising enough, then the congestion, you might say the traffic jam and the free radical generated, free radical reactive oxygen species, it's like the engine gets too hot inside our cells and it spits out these free radicals that damage the membranes. Those membranes then are associated with oxidative stress, and they can trigger mitochondrial metabolic dysfunction, which is really felt to be the true cause of cancer of any tissue cell system in our body. And it has been well established and proven, and I've seen clinically over the many decades, that those people diagnosed with cancer suffered really many, many years, maybe even decades, with metabolic syndrome, high insulin stimulation for growth of tumors. These growth-stimulating features are trying to make more tissue that will absorb the junk food, carbs fruit sugar, and starches that they're feeding us, and it's kind of like the body is trying to create another glob of cells that can use up that sugar, and they do, but now you've got an uncontrolled cancerous growth eating up all the starch and sugar. 

So, we look at the gut biome filled with all the sugar. You're going to feed the bad bacteria. You're going to get small intestine bowel bacterial overgrowth. You're going to get a suppressed immune system. You're going to get reactivation of suppressed viral exposures, and poor response to further new exposures. Your B vitamins from the stress will be tremendously low. So, if you have even the methylenetetrahydrofolate snip that is making metabolism harder, then it'll just be amplified even more. So, it's a whole system. And again, this is not taught in medical school. You have to study. You have to be a doctor who is willing to study all the days of your life. 

But what would I do? I would go on a very low-carb diet of only real foods. I would eat breakfasts and lunches and stop eating around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I would begin a 20-minute daily walking program, 20 minutes, like 10 minutes from your home and 10 minutes back as brisk as you can, or with little spurts of brisk walking in between. Not dog walking. This is you walking yourself. I would go to the gym on the machines and do some weightlifting resistance training at least two or three better three times a week. I would drink half my weight in pounds as ounces of water. So, if you're 150 pounds, that's 75 ounces. That would be the direction I would begin, with that kind of approach. Hopefully, that helps you.

Question 

“How can one cope with a carnivore diet mentally and socially? I'm struggling getting started and having recipes and knowing what to eat exactly.”  [0:18:13]

Answer

Well, don't make it difficult. Any animal product, be it a fish, be it poultry, chicken, be it turkey, be it a goose, be it pork, eggs, you could have raw dairy, you could have beef, hamburgers, bacon, sausage.

You can do all these things and you can make, there's many of these YouTube programs where they will take cottage cheese and they will blend it with an egg, a single egg, and then they'll smear that on some parchment paper and bake it at about 350 degrees for about 15 minutes, and that layer of that cottage cheese with an egg will make a thin piece of, you could make it almost like a wrap or somewhat like a piece of bread roll, and you could put some meat and mayonnaise and cheese and roll it up, and that could be like an all-protein carnivore sandwich because it's made of all animal products. So, just start thinking about eating your chuck roast, put it on low all night, and then you wake up in the morning and just start eating off that chuck roast and eat that until 3 o'clock. Then, the next day, you could in the evening put a whole chicken in a stovetop/cooktop cooker and put it on low for eight hours while you sleep, wake up to a roasted chicken. You could have pork tenderloin. So, there are many ways to do that. Find out your blood type if you're having any problems, sometimes it's helpful, or if you're older, to use a digestive enzyme. You want to try and get about 1000 grams of protein in a day, that would be a goal. That's very satisfying. I would encourage you to butter your steak, put butter on your chicken, put butter on your fish, and use that rather than other condiments because they're usually full of hidden colorings and flavorings with high fructose corn syrup. So, that would be a beginning point, and hopefully, that will help you.

Question 

“Do you accept patients who are in other states through telehealth visits?”  [0:21:07]

Answer

You know, the problem is malpractice. We have such a litigious society, that my malpractice will not allow me to have out-of-state patients, even over telehealth. So, that's the problem. When everyone plays naughty in the playground, then the teacher and principal have to put harder rules on the kids and restrict their play more and more. And that's the story of my life. Ever since first grade, the more and more there were naughty behaviors in the classroom, the more and more the classroom was denied certain things. And I'm the youngest in my family. I remember my older sisters describing how proud they were to have responsibility, privilege buttons, having hallway time without being pulled over and asked, you know, how, why are you in the hallway. I mean, if you were like an eighth grade, you know, it's part of adult growth patterns that eighth graders tended to have some freedom being in the hallway, doing things for teachers, walking around. I look forward to getting a responsibility privilege passed, but the behavior of my class and subsequent classes was so poor that, they ended any of these gifts of responsibility. We also were to have had a trip to Mexico City, Mrs. Gravrock was our eighth-grade teacher who taught all my older sisters, and by the time I got to her class, she would teach Spanish as an extracurricular benefit. She would take the children, the eighth graders, to Mexico City for a week or two, and my father greatly supported that. So, all my sisters got to go.  But again, by the time I got into eighth grade, looking forward to the trip, of course, the group behavior of the class had become so poor, that all kinds of extracurricular blessings and trips were canceled. 

And so, malpractice today is just everyone's going to sue. Everyone is going to be upset with everyone. No one can please anyone, and so, we're going to sue everyone left and right. So, it restricts me from trying to help people in the way I would want to. And I'm saying that unfortunately, the only answer really to this is to raise up God-fearing children who know the Lord. I have a Christian worldview. Therefore, I believe the Bible is the word of God and that the plan God has for the family and the structure of the family is the right plan. And that if we raise up God-fearing children with strong fathers and strong mothers in the home, then children will behave again and respect the teacher and the authorities that God has placed in our lives to help us along through this journey, and then maybe we'll have less foolishness going on and less frivolous lawsuits that make everything such a pain now to practice. So, I'm so sorry about that. 

Question 

“Hello, Dr. E. I want to detox from gadolinium. You have talked about EDTA being good for that, but in my reading, it says EDTA can drop the toxin, so DPTA should be used instead. What are your thoughts?”  [0:25:26]

Answer

I can only go with the fact that we live in a corrupt marketing world now. Everything is money, money, money, say or do anything to get clicks and things sold. So, my personal experience is that ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid is a long, long voluminously used millions of times a year in the United States, millions of doses worldwide, millions more, very safe, I know of no serious side effects or deaths or anything, and it does reduce the gadolinium beautifully. My experience with every single time I've seen gadolinium climbing on the charts of my patients who have these scans and doctors are increasingly doing more and more scan this, scan that, scan this, scan that. How much of this is really needed? I would question maybe half of all the scans that I've ever seen in my 44 years of practice. How about a little good preventive medicine, needing fewer scans, better lifestyles, lower carbs, exercise, water, good night's sleep, grounding, things like this, and then we don't need so many scans with gadolinium dye. It is a metal that is put in that helps the system differentiate tissues with more resolution. Therefore, gadolinium, the metal, is used. And the more people and the more scans, the more we're burdened with yet another toxin. So, EDTA chelation therapy is absolutely, in my experience, safe, effective, and powerful in lowering gadolinium.

As to the other chelating agents out there, and yes, there is DMSA, that's mostly from mercury. DMPS is another lead-detoxing IV chelator. There's penicillamine, that's another lead chelator. These, I've not used as much because I've had incidents of side effects when I had used them. And so, why use anything that might produce a minor side effect? I never saw a serious side effect. So, I stick with what is safe, clinically tested, and researched as well. And therefore, I'm going to stay with EDTA chelation. I don't know what you read. I am going to tell you that's my experience. If there is an article that is new, send it to me, and I'll take a look at it, but I, in no way, have ever seen anything come near to the value of EDTA and its safety. It even pulls out mercury, and I read very often people second-guessing that. Well, don't believe your lying eyes.

Question 

“What to do about brain fog and sound/light sensitivity due to possible central spinal fluid leak? Takes months to be diagnosed and accepted by a neurosurgeon for repair. Already eat healthy and exercise as you recommend.”  [0:29:24]

Answer

What to do for brain fog and sound/light sensitivity? I think the best insulator, the best thing that heals, whether it is the patch over the dura that is punctured, if you ever had lumbar spinal, a couple of them for pain relief or whatever, and then it didn't heal well, and you have a slow leak of your cerebrospinal fluid or any accident, it's made of collagen and elastin fibers, it's made of deposits of fat with it as well, very trace minerals. So, I would eat a rich carnivore-like diet, maybe some cooked vegetables that are very low carb. And I would drink, of course, plenty of water. I would be on natural hormones because estradiol and progesterone testosterone and DHEA are like general contractors for the human body, and these hormones help us in our repair. EDTA chelation helps the microcirculation everywhere, including in our spine. So, I would eat that material of a rich protein, fatty, carnivore-rich diet. I would use digestive enzymes. I would do EDTA chelation therapy with vitamin C to promote microcirculation to get those fatty acids and proteins and things to repair the area, drinking the water, and being on my estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA as my general contractors to find that part of my body that's important to heal. 

Question 

“I used to live in Central Coast and was able to buy such farm and ranch fresh food. I am so frustrated here in Tustin about the choices for buying meats, seafood, and poultry. Where do you all shop?”  [0:31:54]

Answer

I largely shop at Sprouts. It is close to my house here in Tustin. I have used The ButcherBox. I also use Meriwether Farms for meats and such. I buy them in bulk. So then I'll get a bunch, and then I won't use it for, you know, maybe six months because I'll buy a large portion of the meat. I buy all my dairy from Organic Pastures. That's a central dairy farm. The gentleman lectured here for my patients about 20 years ago, and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked the owner of the farm to be an advisor for his concerns about dairy and safety. So, we were certainly with the right people at the time we opened this place up. So, those are a few of the things that I do. 

Question

“Hi, doctor! I tested for dairy sensitivities and have benign prostatic hypertrophic (BPH). When I consume the wrong foods(cheese, milk, wheat, seed oils), I can wake up 4 or 5 times per night to urinate. If I eat clean, once or twice. Recently I drank a glass of raw milk. I only woke up one time. I was hydrated. I repeated it 2 days later and the same result. Should I avoid raw milk? 51-year-old male.”  [0:33:56]

Answer

Well, this is just pointing out that the stuff that you call dairy, the stuff you guys call milk is not milk and it is not dairy because it is damaged and ripped apart and turned into a different product through homogenization and high pasteurization. Pasteurizing and homogenizing heats it up, and then the homogenization pulverizes it with terrible shaking, that in the heat and in the shaking, all the proteins and fats and any of the natural cellular immunoglobulins and cells and cellular contents are all ripped apart. So, not even the cream can float to the top anymore. This is no longer dairy. It is a foreign product inflaming our gut. It is one of the contributors to the cause of the American terrible health system. So JFK. You call (202) 224-3121. Call JFK Jr’s office and you tell them to get the scientists on this hot trail of looking at how milk is mislabeled. It is not from anything that a cow gives you out of its utter. So, please do that. And so, here you are finding that raw milk does not produce the inflammation, the fluid retention, the edema, the irritation to his cells that makes him get up and urinate so much. So, when he's not using these damaged food products, then he has better sleep at night and not peeing as much. So, I think raw milk can be used. I don't think I would use anything every single day. I would try and rotate it some. 

Question 

“Best practices to combat halitosis. My husband, a 72-year-old male, has atrocious halitosis. He does have good dental hygiene. I started to give him digestive enzymes. Eating yogurt at breakfast does not help. Even right after brushing his teeth, it's bad. I cannot get him to do an H. Pylori test. Suggestions please?”  [0:36:49]

Answer

Well, I would probably, you know, of course, see your doctor. But if I had a patient like that, and I would get their blood type, I would look at their blood sugar levels and insulin levels. I would look at their immune system. I would ask them about their sinuses, their nose breathing, or mouth breather. I would squirt Argentyn silver up the nose. Argentyn silver is nano-particulate silver, so, it's in a beautiful suspension. Whereas colloidal silver, although useful, is not as effective. It's more clumpy and more spotty in its impact. So Argentyn, nano-particulate silver squirted up the nose morning and evening. Take systemic enzymes to chew up inflammatory debris. Stop eating around 3 o'clock in the evening. So don't eat late dinners. Use digestive enzymes with eating. Use vitamin D. I would start probably, most of my patients had 10,000 units with K2 90 mcg. I would then have them see if in a couple of weeks, not eating late, having the food get out of the stomach with digestive enzymes, squirting the nose as a broad spectrum antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, taking the vitamin D to get a better immune system up, having enzymes to reduce inflammation, and eating a very low carbohydrate diet, this should be the beginning of healing. And if it doesn't, I would see your local doctor and an ear, nose, and throat doctor. That may also be the cause, you know, some fungal chronic infection in the ethmoid or maxillary sinus. 

Question 

“What do you recommend for gout not related to diet?”  [0:40:01]

Answer

I'm not sure that I believe that gout is anything but dietary. If you watch the YouTube video called Sugar: The Bitter Truth by Dr. Lustig, a pediatric endocrinologist, on lecture, around the 1 hour and 2-minute slot, you will see a biochemistry chart where fructose metabolism is coming into the cell, and it'll show the pathways that emphasize the production of uric acid as an end metabolite of the corrupted high fructose sugar material. Your triglycerides go up, uric acid goes up, and inflammation in the body goes up. That's the direction I would aim for. Of course, see your doctor. Colchicine for acute problems. That's a dangerous drug, and it should be only used under the care and prescription of a physician. Allopurinol intervenes in some of these metabolic pathways, that's why Allopurinol helps. But you must drink your water very liberally. You would have to drink at least half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. I would probably increase that by 10%. I would start a regular exercise program. I would do chelation to improve the microcirculation. I would, as much as possible, eat a protein-rich diet with digestive enzymes, so I can get very low on your fructose and sugar metabolism. Hopefully that helps. 

Question 

“Dr. E., what measures would you take for a 65-year-old male with an RBC, Auto of 4.15, HGB at 12, and HCT, Auto of 38.8? These numbers have stayed in this range for about 4 years.”  [0:42:14]

Answer

These are not terrible. These are not any severe anemic numbers. They're very slightly on the low side. As we get older, all of us tend to get what we call anemia of chronic disease or anemia of aging. The bone marrow is starting to slow down in its production. Well, all the healthy things that we do, taking EDTA chelation to reduce the toxic burden of heavy metals that tend to be in the bone piled up and in the fat, eating a low carb diet, doing weight resistance training, doing a brief with maybe little intense periods of walk, a brisk walk, maybe every minute try and pick up the walk for a burst of 20 seconds, and then come back down to just a comfortable pace for 20 minutes every day, stop eating at 3 o'clock, and be very low carbs so you don't suppress your bone marrow and immune system, and I don't know your age, but these things can all be associated with age-related changes, and I would work with your doctor and discuss that and then repeat it after you make those healthy lifestyle changes. Another thing that helps blood is the systemic enzymes which get rid of waste debris and inflammation so that your bone marrow can work more fluidly. 

Question 

“Hi Dr. Ellithorpe, when it comes to spider veins, is it dangerous to treat the main vein to treat the smaller ones? I'm going to a doctor and he wants to inject the “mother vein” to treat the spider veins.”  [0:44:15]

Answer

I'm not a specialist in this, so I'm just going to tell you from a general practitioner's point of view, my experience. We are seeing so many autoimmune diseases, which are generated by foreign material in our food, contaminants, pollutants, plasticizers, heavy metals, pesticides, fungicides, genetic modification, and especially if you, unfortunately, took the shot for COVID injection. These things have made the entire American population nearly so all inflamed. So one of my dear patients, just about a year and a half, two years ago, she did that with the spider veins and the main vein, and she had a terrible cascade of inflammation from this that led to blood clots and pulmonary embolisms. So, I would just wear socks or leotards or pants. I would never let someone put a foreign material in me for spider veins or anything like that. That's my bias.

Question 

“Extracorporeal Blood Oxygenation and Ozonation. What's your thoughts?”  [0:45:55]

Answer

Well, we do that here, and it's a form of oxygen therapy that has many benefits. It's very antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal. It is a system that stimulates the immune system. We don't have EBO, but we have the ozonated blood with ultraviolet light perfusion/reperfusion that we've been doing for many, many years here, and it's quite helpful.

Question 

“Is vitamin D better obtained through red light and/or sunlight?”  [0:46:39]

Answer

Well, you have to eat enough cholesterol. You have to eat enough fats, healthy fats. Otherwise, I don't care how much sunlight or how much red light you get exposed to. If you're not eating the base products that that light that is supposed to be in a part of the cascade that helps generate this, and you have to have that cholesterol molecule to do it, then it won't make any difference how much light or what light you get. Hopefully, you understand that. 

Question 

“Hi Dr. Rita, I watched the YouTube you recommended, High Cholesterol is Healthy. They talked about coronary calcium score which Dr. Kaur had me do about a year or so ago. It said I was in the 90th percentile for women my age for coronary artery disease. Should do another one? And also checking for clotting, is that checked in bloodwork? Thank you and God bless.”  [0:47:20]

Answer

Well, should be seen by your doctor and followed up. Dr. Kaur isn't here. She has another location she has moved to, and we're so proud of her growing up and starting her own practice. I think it's in Orange. If you call the front office, you can get her number to follow you there. I do believe that you should be evaluated with a functional stress test. Have a cardiologist do a stress test on you. They might use a gadolinium dye, and do perfusion as well, so a nuclear test might be needed. You will do probably another coronary artery calcium score. The way we do this is with all the same healthy lifestyles we've been talking about, such as the low-carb diet, the weightlifting, the walking, drinking enough water, taking systemic enzymes, not eating late at night, and then EDTA chelation therapy, along with vitamin D and K2, along with natural hormone replacement therapy and some basic multi-minerals and antioxidants that we would recommend. All these have kept all my patients healthy. I just can't tell you. I don't get the heart attacks. I don't get the strokes. I don't get these things. I have patients who come to me later in life, and they have had prior episodes, and then we're managing them. And we believe the reason why they don't re-succumb to a terrible outcome or die from it is that even though they've had the disease, we, with all these therapies, keep them alive and doing much, much better than they would if they did only standard of care therapy alone. So, we believe working with your consultant, and your cardiologist, we get much better outcomes. So, I would have you do that and see if that would help you. And yes, repeat it and not worry about it. Get a functional stress test. And yes, ask for the insulin and the clotting parameters. But clotting is promoted by dehydration, so you want to love your water and drink half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. You're going to want to exercise and move so you don't get stagnant. You're going to want to take systemic enzymes on an empty stomach at least once or twice a day, which is a natural God's way of keeping us uninflamed and unclothing. 

Question 

“What are your thoughts on using nicotine patches for inflammation, insulin resistance, and long COVID?”  [0:50:27]

Answer

There's a lot of good research about this. In fact, one of the subgroups of people who did very well through this pandemic was those who smoked and had nicotine in their cigarettes. This is a natural nicotinic. There are nicotinic and muscarinic receptors. The nicotinic receptors seem to be associated with preventing the ACE2 receptor sites from being docked on by or loaded with spike protein production. So, nicotine is part of that, and that's the understanding so far. So, I'm in favor of more research on this, and I think that you know, it wouldn't be over the counter. You can get a nicotine gum, and you can get nicotine patches over the counter. It's quite safe. You could try it. 

Question 

“What is the best way in general to detox or mitigate if someone took one of the “C19” jabs?”  [0:51:41]

Answer

Well, everything we've said here is EDTA chelation. EDTA is an anion, the spike protein is a cation. And so, it helps to dock on it and have you pee it out. Staying well hydrated, taking systemic enzymes like Vascuzyme or Vitalzym or our systemic enzymes we have here. Motion, exercise, walking, movement.

Don't inflame yourself with a high carbohydrate sticky diet. Don't eat late at night. Get a nice waking and going-to-bed rhythm in your life. When you wake up in the morning, go outside, let the infrared light energize your cells, stand in the grass, get some ion balancing of your electrons with the earth, and get grounded. Do that for two to three minutes, just standing in the wet morning dew of the grass with a nice red infrared light from the sun every morning for two to three minutes. Then take your brisk little walk. And then these are the things, along with EDTA chelation, that have kept all my patients well with the good vitamin C that's in it, and the minerals that help with the vasodilation microcirculation.

Question

“Fenbendazole side effects for people over 80. Can you get low hemoglobin if you give someone 1 mg for a period of time? I have a friend in the UK who was giving fenbendazole to her father, and he had to have 5 blood transfusions. He was in the hospital for 2 months due to discitis while she gave it to him.”  [0:53:06]

Answer

Yes, you can overdo water. You can overdo oxygen. There are many things you can overdo. Fenbendazole does have actions that stop the rapid growth and the metabolism of cells rapid growth. Now, if you're taking this without the guidance and supervision of a physician who's willing to track liver enzymes, track your blood count, you know, your blood is turning over, and relatively speaking, it's growing new red blood cells and you can wind up making yourself anemic. That's why they have cycled therapies, typically three days on, and four days off. That's what the anecdotal. But there needs to be much more research on this. If you go to the website called Dr. Casey Peavler, he's a medical doctor.

He has a wonderful YouTube series. He talks about fenbendazole side effects, in particular the updated clinical and in vitro testing, and animal testing. It's all extremely promising. He also talks about the other same kind of anti-parasite called ivermectin. And then the other one is mebendazole. He has many of these things about the chronic metabolic disease of the mitochondria, disordered, then generates cancer and abnormal growth patterns and high consumption of glucose and glutamine. That's where you want to go to check out for more informative information on that in particular.

Question 

“I ordered and received a grounding mat from Grounding Luxe as you recommended, but had to return it because it mentioned that my pacemaker may be a concern. Their remedy was to run a lengthy wire from outside my house from a stake in the ground. But since I wanted the mat in an upstairs room, I rejected the idea.”  [0:55:12]

Answer

Yes, we don't recommend things in general to each patient. If you have any questions, ask your doctor, but in general, grounding is a very good thing to do. These mats are in general extremely safe, and I think for more reasons, medicolegally than actual risk, they have to put that on all their products.

So, if you are who I think you are asking this question, see me and make an appointment with me and bring that up so we can talk about it in general together because I do not think grounding mats are truly a risk for defibrillator AFib, you know, pacemakers rather. Something like a pulsed electromagnetic frequency therapy where a true muscle contracting that moves your whole joint may and should indeed be avoided by people with pacemakers, but a grounding mat, I would say, is nothing; otherwise, people would be telling you not to walk in the grass where you're grounding all the time with a low-grade microcurrent.

Question 

“Dear Dr. Ellithorpe, I tripped and fell 3 weeks ago. Badly bruised, cuts, and very sore on the knees, legs, and lower back. I don’t feel like anything is broken, but I’m so sore, I can’t stand on my feet for very long. I would appreciate your suggestions to speed up my recovery. Thank you, Dr. E.”  [0:56:53]

Answer

What I suggest to you is, if you were that sore three weeks ago, see your doctor, and have yourself evaluated because I don't know your age or your medical condition, whether you've had a bone density recently or not. See your doctor so that this can be evaluated because we should be up and moving pretty well within a day or two of any fall. And certainly just standing like you're saying ”I'm so sore I can't stand on my feet for very long,” that's abnormal. So go to your doctor or urgent care.

Question 

“I just found out my 85-year-old mother’s doctor has had her on statins and just increased her dosage. What I’ve seen is that many dementia patients are taking statins. Doesn’t the brain need cholesterol? Can she just stop taking them or is there a process for going off of them? Does something happen that is not wanted when a person stops suddenly?”  [0:57:46]

Answer

No. You can stop statins without any tapering at all, but I'm not recommending that. I don't know your mother and I'm not her doctor. You should inform her doctor. Whatever you choose to do have that, have it with their information and their guidance and their supervision. But personally, in my own practice, when I'm seeing a patient and I'm aware of all their other lifestyle, medicines, and situations, I just abruptly stop it. 

Question 

“I'm on a statin and I would like to take magnesium to help me relax. What should I take? When should I take it? And is it safe to take, even though I'm on a statin?”  [0:58:40]

Answer

Well, yes, it's safe with a statin. I don't support statin prescriptions. I don't think I've ever prescribed it in 44 years of practice. It's an extremely tiny, narrow population of people that may have some possible benefit, and that's mostly acting as an anti-inflammatory. So, statins do have some anti-inflammatory capabilities. When there's less inflammation, there's less disease and cell injury. And the real issue is in having a post-heart attack, usually in males, and it's a small group. And even when they do long-term studies, the extension of life. See, we think we'll take a drug for days, months, weeks, years, or decades to extend our life if we have a heart attack. But the reality is the research shows statin therapy can only really be proven to extend nominally days to weeks of a person's life. So, why are we spending years and decades taking it all the time if it doesn't have any benefit that really extends your life? 

Question

“What is your view on lumbrokinase? Thank you.”  [1:00:20]

Answer

These are systemic enzymes. They're all valuable. Lumbrokinase nattokinase, and streptokinase, are various types of a class of proteolytic enzymes that are mammalian and tolerated very well to break down blood clots and debride cells. So, I'm all in favor of them. 

Question 

“Hello, grade C esophagitis/reflux, localized erosion of the mucosa with stigmata and bleeding noted in the duodenal bulb and erythema in the antrum, stomach, body, cardio, pylorus. What protocol should I use? The doctor only gave me omeprazole.”  [1:00:54]

Answer

Well, again, this is something that I wouldn't say what protocol. I'm not your doctor. I don't know your other extenuating circumstances. But in general, I have many patients who come to me and they're typically people who eat dinner too late, the food seeps up at night, and get a reflux. So, I tell them, to stop eating at 3:00 in the afternoon. I tell them to raise the head of their bed at least 20 degrees. So, raise the head of the bed significantly. About 20 degrees. I tell them to eat a protein-rich diet and use digestive enzymes, which will help chew it up and the rich protein in fat will help heal the injured cell membranes of the duodenum stomach and the rim around the esophageal gastric connection and the duodenal line and all throughout the stomach. I ask them to take a probiotic. I asked them to use the phospholipid powder with SBI Protect powder, and serum bovine immunoglobulin A. So, if they take those two powders in warm water and mix it before they start the day doing anything and take a shot of it, just a little scoop of each in maybe 4 ounces of warm water, and the last thing they do before bed, you've got beautiful immunoglobulins. You've got some protein. You have the phospholipids to help repair it. Plus, when you eat, you're eating a rich carnivore diet, that helps. Plus, you take a digestive enzyme to help chew up the proteins and fat so it doesn't stagnate in your gut. You stop eating at 3:00.

Probably take a walk after every meal for 10 to 15 minutes to help move it out of your stomach. Drink plenty of water every day. And then beyond a good probiotic, those are things that we do for our gastritis patients/reflux patients. 

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“Hello, Dr. Rita. What is your opinion of the oral peptides?”  [1:03:27]

Answer

Well, why not just eat meat? Why not just eat fish? Why not just eat chicken? All the peptides are in there. This is all marketing hype. There’s one product that I can endorse, it’s called Perfect Aminos. Dr. Minkoff is in his late 80s or early 90s. He looks fabulous. He’s still working and he does the triathlon every year. Of course, he wins because he’s the only man in his age class. And so, he developed the Perfect Amino Acids for his workout, and his muscle mass. So, I’m going to say I’m not thrilled with all this marketing about peptides. There’s this much corruption in the alternative functional world. People get a gimmick Like everything is a nail when you’re a carpenter and you have a hammer. Everything needs the product that you’re marketing. So, I want to market let’s eat good food, let’s digest it with digestive enzymes, and not eat late.