YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, June 2, 2026

Question
“If prednisone has been prescribed to treat a sinus infection or sinus-like infection at LA, as a last resort, do you recommend increasing vitamin C and other supplements to assist the immune system at the same time?"  [0:03:36]

Answer
Yes, of course. You know, I would want to know your age. I would want to know your background and health. I would want to know your vital signs, your weight, and your waist-to-hip circumference ratio. I'd like to know your fasting blood sugar. I'd like to know your insulin level. I would like to know your vitamin D level. I would like to know your triglyceride level, your hemoglobin A1C, so I could get a feel for how much immune suppression from the standard American diet. The typical diet that everyone giggles and makes excuses for, the American diet, is so damaging to our immune system and suppresses the white blood cell function, and then eventually the white blood cell count. So, your immune system fails. And then, as you age, your immune system begins to fail, and your sinuses and your skin membranes all begin to thin. And so, irritants in the air become more easily able to penetrate the mucous membranes, irritate them, and create inflammation. This inflammation and irritation are kind of like an ever-growing catch-22 cycle. Most Americans don't drink enough water, and especially as we age, we get dehydrated, and so, with the dehydration, the higher sugars, the poorer immune function. And then most Americans are vitamin D deficient. We don't make any vitamin C. So, most of us are very often subclinically vitamin C deficient. And you put these things altogether, and you start having chronic medical problems. You'll start getting vascular damage to the inside lining of your blood vessels from the higher sugar content. The more dehydrated you are, the slower the blood flows, the more it tends to clog, the more wild your diet is and variable, the more stressed out your immune system is. So, all these things are just terrible, and it's all from marketing and social pressure. And then they use glyphosate, and they genetically modify. So, your blood type will matter in how you react to some of the more commonly marketed foods, like pie crust, pizza crust, and the cheese on the pizzas and the cheese on the cream Danishes, these kinds of things. Dairy and wheat: dairy gets homogenized and pasteurized. The grains get genetically modified. So, it's almost like we're eating Frankenstein food. 

So, what we tell our patients ad nauseam here over and over every day is you have to drink half your weight in pounds as ounces of water. So, if you're 150 pounds, 75 ounces of water. And we prefer you, of course, to filter your water, and we wish that you would drink water that is more structured. And now we're learning to drink deuterium-depleted water. You can learn about these things on other days that I've taught about them by checking some of the hundreds of videos we've done. But all this matters. So, I would take vitamin D. We have a 50,000 IU capsule for acute illnesses. So, it's 50,000 in a capsule of vitamin D3, one a day for five days. So, that'll boost your vitamin D level tremendously for your immune system. If you're really congested and inflamed, I would take a day off from eating and fast for one day, and just drink your water, and put a little pinch of salt in each of your glasses of water. Another thing that disinflames, which we prefer over steroids, is systemic enzymes. That would be something like Vascuzyme or Vitalzym. We have this here. I think the easiest one to use is Vitalzym because they're little tiny round pearls, and I'll take five a day every day of my life. If I get achy or inflamed or any kind of joint issue, I'll take five twice a day, and I'll fast for a day, a day and a half, to disinflame my body. So, I never need drugs or medications or to see a doctor. We have high-dose vitamin C drips. You can take a 25,000 immune with the minerals and the methylated B complex trace minerals. You can do that at 50,000, 75,000, 100,000. So, there are many ways to do that. We also use Argentyn nasal spray, which is a nanoparticulate silver suspension that is uniform compared to colloidal silver, which is more clumpy and a little more scattered. It's still good. But you can get nanoparticulate silver. I think the only product over the counter is a half-strength one called Sovereign Silver at the health food stores. But doctors have Argentyn silver, which is the full-strength one, and that's what we sell, and I use it nasally. This is in the spring we're having all the high (intelligible) bushes, everything, and I always see it, like all of a sudden all my patients will be saying, Oh my sinus pressure, everything, for about a 10-day, two-week period of time, and we're right in the middle of it, and I also have bad allergies as well. So, instead of doing a steroid, why don't you teach your doctor about systemic enzymes, Vitalzym Xe or Vascuzyme by Ortho Molecular, or what we have here is Systemic Enzymes. I worked with Ortho Molecular, and I helped them design a cheaper systemic enzyme in capsule form called Systemic Enzymes, which has serrapeptase in it. And definitely those are some of the suggestions, certainly not all of them. You could get grapeseed extract. You could use Pycnogenols. You could use mushroom concentrates. There are many ways to stimulate the immune system. Zinc is very important among the minerals. But we always recommend to our patients a base zinc-rich multi-mineral amino acid chelated supplement, along with a methylated B complex, along with their enzymes, and along with their D. And then a mucolytic agent, very often very useful, is iodine. So we recommend iodine daily, 12.5 mg, to our patients all the time. Lugol solution had been used for years as an expectorant. Iodine helps you expectorate and loosen up mucus if you drink enough water and stay hydrated. And then quercetin. Quercetin is a natural antihistamine. You would need about 600 mg a day. That's in our Seasonal Shield. I take it every day of my life. I take 600 mg a day. So, those are the things I would do. Hopefully that's a good start for you. And then find a good functional doctor wherever you are, because I see you're not listed as a patient, and I would ask you to share that with your doctor as some good suggestions. 

Question
“Please describe what you do in some detail during your weight training sessions.”  [0:12:12]

Answer 
I go to the Crunch, which is an exercise place gym near the office here, and that's where I'm going right after I'm done here. And I use the machines, the line of machines, and I use seven different machines. The first one I do is the crunch, the whole body crunch against resistance. So, I put my pins in against a certain amount of poundage, and then I hold that crunch for a count of 1, 1000, 2, 1000, and I try to do 60 to 80 reps for one session. Then the next machine I go to is the chest press. And so, I'm seated, I put in the resistance, and then I push the bar away from me so that I get my chest muscles all pushing against this bar. Again, I do this resistance I can handle, and I do 60 to 80 reps. The third machine I do is, I don't know what you call it, but you grab the handles, and you pull them so that your back scapula, your trapezius, and your rhomboids back there are pulling your back muscles back. And again, I do 60 to 80 reps of that. Then the next machine I do is the pull-down for my trapezius and my neck muscles. So I get my entire upper body shoulder girdle exercise, along with my core, with those four moves. Then the fifth machine I use is the leg press. Everyone knows sitting on the lying back kind of at an angle and pushing up, I'll try to push up. I think I get somewhere in the realm of 240 pounds. I do about 60 to 80 reps of those. And then I'll do the leg extension against resistance,  60 to 80. And then I'll do the leg flexion with the back of my calves, 60 to 80 of those. So, I do all those se seven machines for upper and lower extremity workouts. And then I'll take a mile or two walk every day briskly at a pace where I can talk but still have to be purposeful with my breathing to keep up with my conversations. And that's my program. I get up with the morning sunshine around 5:15 or 5:30, so that I'm outside about 5:40 as the first morning sun starts to shine. So, my eyes get that powerful lumens from the breaking morning sunshine, even if it's cloudy. I'm standing barefoot for about 5 to 10 minutes. I'm taking in a deep breath. This is immediately after I get up and empty my bladder, and then I kick my shoes off, and I go outside, and I do the standing there in the sunshine for 5 to 10 minutes, but three minutes is enough. But I just like being out there; I feel better and better. So, I get grounded with my bare feet on the wet grass, taking in a deep breath slowly through my nose and then slowly exhaling. I do that for about one minute. That will expand my diaphragm and my chest cavity. So, I'm getting the vagus nerve stimulated, and that'll get me out of my cortisol spike in the morning so that, you know, I don't tend to store any glycogen that's mobilized from the secretion of cortisol to wake me up. And then I'll take my dog for that 1 or 2-mile walk, and I do it without my glasses on because I want all the sun as it's coming up, and then by then it usually gets pretty bright, and then we're back in the home. That's when I have my little earbuds in, and I'm listening to my science or my Bible studies or my political commentary things every morning to keep up with the news, my Bible, and my medical science lectures. And then I get back inside, and I start doing dishes, preparing food for the day. And then I do my Bible studies. And all of that takes me a couple of hours before I even start to get dressed for work. So, that's my routine in detail. That's what I do. 

Question
“I have had a cold over the last few weeks that cleared up. Now, it feels like something is brewing in either one of my molars or my sinus cavity. Would an immune drip or enhanced chelation be better, or something else? I avoided a root canal 7 years ago by having a tooth pulled. What do you recommend now if there’s actually an infection in my tooth?”  [0:17:24]

Answer
Well, I would do both together because, remember, EDTA chelation improves microcirculation immediately, with nitric oxide producing dilation of the blood vessels all over your body. And the vitamin C, we don't make any, and it acts as an antitoxin, antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal, and it's an extremely high dose that you can never achieve orally. So, I would do the two together. I always put about 1500 mg of EDTA chelation in with my 25-gram vitamin C whenever I do it. You can do Ozone with the ultraviolet-irradiated blood. We take out a certain small amount of your blood, and then we inject your blood with ozone, and it turns it bright, bright oxygenated red, then we let it infuse right back into your vein again. But it passes through these long 18-inch lights of ultraviolet A, B, and C to kill viruses, bacteria, fungi, and stuff like that. And then, of course, we recommend high-dose vitamin C, grapeseed extract, pycnogenols, Juice Plus, things like that, and systemic enzymes. But work with your dentist and have that tooth checked with a 3D imaging of your molars to make sure that you don't have any silent infection in one of your teeth. 

Question
“What type of water do you use for your Mayu carafe? Do you add anything else to the water? Thank you.”  [0:19:14]

Answer
What kind of water? I use Tustin City water, and I first run it through my Berkey filter system. So, I run it through the Berkey filter, then I put it in my Mayu water swirl, and there it structures it. And then I will put in, you can see my bottle of water here, but you can also see I have my wand in the water bottle that I'm drinking. So, I'll pour that structured swirl water in here with my wand. That helps even structure it more permanently. And that's what I do. 

“Do you add anything else to the water? Thank you.” -  No, I don't. So, once in a while, I have a Celtic salt or Himalayan salt, whatever I get my hands on. I'm not picking. I might put a pinch into my water. But I am taking my TLC Multiminerals that are amino acid chelated with the trace minerals and all, and I just feel that's fine. Plus, I eat a lot of meat. I eat a lot of chicken. I eat pork. I eat lots of eggs. And so, I'm getting a lot of healthy amino acids chelated and trace minerals through the natural format in the form of animal, pork, and poultry, as well as the eggs in my diet, and then I take digestive enzymes, which help me assimilate them even better. But that's all I do. I don't use LMNT. You know, there are just too many things being marketed, and we've been here decades and decades and decades. Way before most of these people who are speaking to you got their high school degree, we've been out there talking about these things and more. And so, we give the Lord thanks, and thanks to my parents and the wonderful scientists on their shoulders when I worked with Whitaker Wellness, and I got to meet Linus Pauling, and we got to learn from great men of science and research all over the world when I did my integrative medical degree in medicine in the late 90s. So, there's really nothing new under the sun. Just like the Bible says, it's just man fancies himself as so smart when he sees something, or like methylene blue is recycled now over a hundred years. I just saw this big reveal on YouTube and Instagram on (DMSO) Dimethyl Sulfoxide, which sometimes smells like garlic added to chelation. It's a solvent and great for trying to help things penetrate into toenails. Like if you're treating fungus, you can mix it with ketoconazole, some kind of antifungal compounded, and it will help you treat your fungal infections better, and many other things as well, topically. And so, they treat these things like great breakthroughs. And you know, when you learn something, it is a great breakthrough, and you should thank God, and you should be happy to be learning all the time, but not to parlay it like you own the data. God owns all the data, and we are learning on the shoulders of so many men and women who have gone before us. So, just be careful about all this marketing of LMNT, and you know, they're all talking about peptides now. And I'm not pooh-poohing peptides, I'm just saying don't put the wagon in front of the horse; You put the horse in front of the wagon. If you're not exercising, going to bed on time, getting some sunshine, drinking your water, eating a low carb diet, trying to get out, so much variety, eat a more humble menu simplistically every day, not eating late, rich in protein, adding in enzymes as you get older, no matter what your blood type, if you're an A, you add the digestive enzyme clearly from your youth on, then you're talking about peptides is like just putting a patch on a blowout on a tire. You really have to learn how to drive well and drive on streets that don't have big potholes, and take care of your car before asking to have some kind of peptide therapy. All 

Question
“Hi, Dr. Rita. What is the best time of the day to take the TLC Metabolic Formula?"  [0:24:44]

Answer
I take mine in the morning on an empty stomach. And I really don't eat breakfast. I pretty much am a one-meal type of girl. I do have some beef sticks here, I do have some yogurt, and I have some cheese here. And I may have a bite or two of that around noon or 1:00. And then I get home, and I'll have my meat when I get home. And that's I eat roughly somewhere between 11:00 would be the earliest and 3:00 is roughly the latest. That's the window of time I try to always eat in. And I'm always eating some meat and maybe some vegetable, meat, and maybe some raw cheese or a yogurt or cottage cheese, something like that, and that's primarily what I eat all the time, every day of my life. Of course, on Memorial Day, just a week ago, I had bad food. I had ice cream. I think I had potato chips. I had a piece of cheesecake. So, yeah, I'll have a treat on those days, of course. But that's essentially what I eat. But I take the TLC Metabolic Formula in the mornings on an empty stomach, and I take two of them. The bottle says take four a day, but my blood sugars are so low all the time when I put on the glucose scan, the Libre scan, to put it under your arm and get a constant readout. The alarm goes off because I often fall below 55 on my blood sugars, and at night, the alarm goes off. So, I've stopped using the glucose continuous monitors because my blood sugars always run so low, and I don't feel I need the TLC Metabolic Formula at the level of four, which I take two a day. And you know, the interesting thing is the berberine in there. I don't have the article, but you could look up ‘colon polyps prevented turning into cancerous polyps with berberine.’ And there was a study, something looking at colon cancer prevention on the polyps. And they used the herb berberine, and 100% of each of the studies showed that if you use the berberine, which helps improve sugar metabolism, it prevents all the conversion from any of those polyps on any of the people's screens from turning into cancer. So I've been using TLC Metabolic Formula for about, well, as long as I've been here, 20-some, 25 years I've been here. 

Question
“Hi Dr. Rita, please tell us about your workout with weights. Which machines, dumbbells, free weights, etc. Thanks.”  [0:27:59]

Answer
I never do free weights. I never ever, ever, ever do free weights, and that's because I'm not a professional. And if I get any sense of a hurt on a joint at all and I want to stop immediately, if I'm on one of the machines, I can literally let go, and then it'll fling back up, or I will fling back wherever the machine goes. It won't hit me. It won't hit anyone. So, I never use free weights. I don't use any of that at all. Now, I do consider using the bands, where I step on them with my feet and then I can pull up like that, or I can do squats with them, but I never use free weights, okay? I just don't want to hurt myself. I did it once, and it set me back many weeks. I'll never use a free weight again because I'm not a professional with it. 

Question
“Does Juice Plus replace any individual supplements or is it an additional supplement? Thank you.”  [0:29:02]

Answer
I take Juice Plus because of the research profile on it, including my own publications on it. Again, I tried to prove the antioxidant claims were overrated, and so, in 1999, I started my own study on it. Got it published in the nutraceutical journal, The American Nutraceutical Journal, which is no longer running, because back then, this nutraceutical stuff was still just emerging in the 80s and 90s, and not every magazine for scientific research publications was successfully continued, and The American Nutraceutical Journal was one of them. But what, as long as it did last for about, oh, maybe 10 years, I got in some of their earliest publications, and mine was the spring issue of 2000 I got published in. And the study, I thought I was going to prove Juice Plus wrong. The work I did, I did use all my patients, whether they had cancer or heart disease or diabetes or depression, or whether they were an athlete, old or young, pregnant or non-pregnant, menopausal, all these patients, I think I had about 200 of them, and I followed them over the course of three months. And I did a pre- and a post- usage. They used two capsules of the red and the green. The vineyard didn't exist back then, the purple one. And the level of increase of their antioxidant level of protection was so statistically elevated as a shield that it was undoubtedly a very good product. So, indeed, I changed to using it and recommending it, and I've been on it ever since 1999 myself to present. So, it's been 28 years since I've been on it. 

So, I just use it as a polyphenol because, at that time, I think there were something like 19 or 17 different fruits and vegetables in the green and the fruit red capsules. So, all those polyphenols from all those fruits and vegetables were really a beautiful polyphenolic nutraceutical bouquet, you might say, that we don't even know of all the things that are in all the fruits and vegetables. Then, when they added the berry blend of the vineyard, I added that. So, I take it as one of my core bases, along with my iodine, along with my vitamin D3 with K2. I add that to my TLC Multiminerals. I have bad allergies, so I take the quercetin. I am old, so I take the systemic enzymes on an empty stomach in the morning. I take five. I have always struggled with weight, even though my blood sugars and insulin have always been excellent, but I could just look at a piece of carbohydrate, and it seems to fly on my hips, arms, and legs. So, I've always taken berberine for 20 to 25 years. I take probiotics. I take a broad-spectrum probiotic. And that's my core base there. Yeah, that's what I do. 

Question
“I have a rheumatoid arthritis nodule on my wrist that can be quite painful at times. Is there any type of treatment or stem cell therapy to help? I exercise, an anti-inflammatory diet, all the things you suggest. I have some erosion too”  [0:33:13]

Answer
I'm not sure that there would be anything. Here would be a case with your rheumatologist. It would be interesting if they could learn to compound a topical anti-inflammatory, maybe like curcumin or turmeric, and then mix it with a small amount of (DMSO) Dimethyl Sulfoxide as a solvent to help it sink in to that irritating point on the wrist. I might get a wrist guard at the drugstore just so you're not bumping it all the time, because it's usually the extensor surfaces where we're bumping ourselves all the time, that we get these little reactive nodules. I would certainly take the systemic enzymes. I would certainly stay well hydrated. 

As far as other injectables, there is such a thing as Ozone injections, which provide extra oxygen in that area. But again, if you bump it and bang it, you're just going to reinjure the spots. So, you'd have to be doing this all the time. It's a lifestyle of living with healthy, good hydration, good sleep, good enzymes, low carb, a more simplistic menu, and getting enjoyment from food as an entertainment on true holidays, not as an everyday or a weekly phenomenon, which is hard on the whole system. Digestion is very hard on the human body. So, I don't have anything, and I don't think there exists anything that I'm aware of in the peptide world, injectable world, outside of what I mentioned, the Ozone. Very often, that's mixed with some procaine anyway, which is an anesthetic. So how much of it is the procaine? How much of it is the tremendous antioxidant of Ozone? We'll never know because I’ll never spend money on testing things like that. So, I'm not sure I can help you with that other than to live as healthy a lifestyle as you can. 

And she goes on to say she has some erosion too from the rheumatoid arthritis. I don't… You know, the oils are very important to eat enough fats in your diet. So, Clinician’s Preference Oils, I think, are very important. I am not a fish oil fan. When they tell you omega-6 is the problem, what they're really talking about is hydrogenated omega-6, and everything is hydrogenated in the world of omega-6 foods in the store because that's how they get the extended shelf lives on all this stuff. So, the damning statements about omega-6 fatty acids are not the actual way God made them. God made omega-6 to be one of the two essential fats you need, but they ruined it all by hydrogenating it and making it a bad fat. And yet, every membrane of your body needs it, and it arms the human being. So, they knew what they were doing. And why do I know this? My dad did it in 1950, helping to make TV dinners. He was hydrogenating the fats back then, and he was yelling at my mom in the kitchen about when he saw her buy some corn oil or something like that. And boy, I can tell you, there were some mighty crazy arguments between her and him, with even pans flying. I saw flying frying pans as a kid. Anyway. No, omega-6 is wonderful. It's one of our two essential fatty acids. And now they're trying to make the argument that C15 is the third essential fatty acid. But when you hydrogenate the fat of the foods of which omega-6 is the most abundant, it's going to ruin it, and then that's going to make all kinds of diseased cell membranes all throughout your body. But those Clinician Preference Oils are the very oil, and I worked very hard to find and work with Professor Peskin, who helped develop that, and I've used it for decades here. 

Question
“Thank you for sharing what supplements you take. Which broad-spectrum probiotic do you take?”  [0:38:17]

Answer
I use Probiotics. It's just called Probiotic from Ortho Molecular, and it's got all of the gram-positive probiotics in it in a nice, you know, Lactobacillus, Bifidobacterium, and acidophilus series. If I ever have to, but I can't think of, the last time and the only time I saw a doctor in my life was in 2014 when I had a kidney stone passed, and I was so stubborn, I worked through it here. You guys didn't even know I was in deathly pain and falling apart. And finally, after a week in that stone, and then my ureter was starting to dilate, I couldn't handle it anymore, so I broke down, and I went to the hospital, and I had to have surgery to have a basket retraction of that stone. And why is that? Because I get caught up doing so much, and I don't drink enough water. So, when I say drink water, and you see me drinking water, now you know why, because I got myself in a situation where I had to go and see a doctor. And I was sad. You know, that doctor never examined me. The urologist never touched me after the surgery, never during the two-week follow-up or Kaiser doctor, Kaiser. Never touched my human body. I just don't understand these things about what they call medicine today. That's history, though. So, I would rather live healthy than go see one of these people with an MD on the back of their name. I'm really burnt. I'm really burnt. I really have so much motivation to stay healthy, get myself in bed, get myself outside, let God's ultraviolet and far red light heal me, get some late afternoon light at the end of the day¸ exercise, take my dog for a walk, drink my water, calm myself down with the love and the word of God and just not think about medical doctors and get myself all worked up. So, that's all I do. And that's the probiotic I take. But I did take a higher probiotic back then, that's what led to my disgusting state, you know, because she did give me antibiotics after surgery and during surgery for the kidney stone, and I used Probiotics 225 powder. And I used that for two weeks. It's a box of it, and there are little sachets of a powdered packet you mix in water, and you take it once a day. When I finished that, I tapered down to the Ortho Biotic 100. So, I went from Probiotic 225 powder one-a-day package for two weeks, then down to the Probiotic 100, down to 100 billion, and then one capsule a day. I think it lasted me two months. And then the maintenance is just Probiotic. And then you can get a complete digestive stool analysis from Great Smokies Medical Center. I do not like Genova’s products at all. I like Doctor's Data from St. Charles, Illinois. Much more history with that company and reproducibility, in my humble opinion. And so, if there are strains there sometimes, I see, and I might need to use a Sporebiotic, or I might need to use a gram-negative Ohhira’s essential probiotics. Sometimes I will recommend fermented food, like eating more sauerkraut two times a week. Those are things that I’d recommend there. 

I'm wondering if I'm missing anything. Oh, DHEA. I take DHEA 50 mg a day and my D 10,000. Yeah. All right, 

Question
“Hello Dr. E., I have been diagnosed with fatty liver, and a scan showed I definitely have fat deposits in my liver. What do you recommend to reduce the fat? I am on a strict diet plan - have lost 5 lbs. I was 165 at 5'8", BMI: 24. I want to start feeling better. I no longer drink alcohol, not a snacker, drink 6-7 glasses of water + tea during the day.”  [0:42:55]

Answer
You and one in three Americans just about have fatty liver from this lousy, terrible food. They call it so-called food that we eat. It's full of high fructose corn syrup, making it an entertainment thing to eat rather than eating to feed our body and structure. Everything's got to be entertainment and convenient and a comfort, and that's foolishness. So, this food is killing us. So, one in three people, you're not alone with fatty liver disease. 

And she or he had a scan, maybe an ultrasound, that showed “I definitely have fat deposits in the liver.” So, instead of the liver looking like a nice pink red lump of tissue, it has little pimples all over it, full of yellow packaged cholesterol fats and fatty acids, and it harms the cell structure and makes the enzymes go up and destroys the ability of the liver to detox your body from toxins. 

“What do you recommend to reduce the fat?” – You don't need to reduce the fat. You need to stop eating in response to a triggered response from marketing, social media pressure, or the donuts at church. It's all carbohydrates and high fructose corn syrup. Watch the YouTube video by Dr. Lustig called Sugar: The Bitter Truth. Now, I know it's a biochemistry lecture, but if you go to the 101-minute point, you're going to see him talk about the big difference between fructose being metabolized. And remember, sugar is a dimer; it's a glucose and a fructose molecule, and we call it sugar. But as soon as you eat it, it separates into glucose and fructose. So, 50% of every teaspoon of sugar, and if you have one soda, I think that's 10 teaspoons of sugar, that's five teaspoons of fructose you're getting. It's disgusting and killing our children, our toddlers, with all the stupid junk food we give them. And we have the high fructose corn syrup in our cereals and our glazes and in our salad dressings, and it's just everywhere. So it is not fat. It is starch, fruit, carbohydrates, potatoes, beans, rice, bread, pasta, all that stuff you have to get rid of. And certainly every soda pop and juice and smoothie and latte frappe that you’re drinking. That's what you have to do – eat cooked vegetables and cooked beef, chicken, fish, pork, and just eat like that. Stop eating at 3:00. Start doing some weight training and walking, and burn this off, and have a doctor who will follow you and track that. That's what you need to do. And don't drink alco alcohol. That's right. 

Question
“Despite my cardiologist’s objection, I intend to start a trial of testosterone to aid in rebuilding strength and stamina. I'd like to understand the dosage recommendations for senior women and if a minimal dose can still be effective.”  [0:46:32]

Answer
Yeah, it can be. Again, the reference ranges are just population averages, and American people are horrible to compare yourself with. If one in three of us has fatty liver disease, what on earth do you think those reference ranges are made on your lab forms? They're just stupid ranges for stupid doctors. So, you have to understand, they'll say testosterone for a woman, whatever your age, 70, 80, 90 years old, is maybe 2 to 25 or 40. Well, that's a stupid range. Okay. What's the difference between 2 and 45? It's mathematically stupid. So, your doctor either does not want to work or is truly incompetent. The order of magnitude or difference between a 2 and a 47 on a range for testosterone for women is ridiculous. What I have found effective over the 45 years I've been doing this is 75 to 150. Now, men used to have testosterone levels roughly between 700 and 1400, or 800 and 1600. Now, the lousy ranges have dropped to 185 to 700. So, you see, everyone is getting sick and limp and wimpy. So, yeah, the ranges I think that are good are 75 to 150. And yes, I do pluck a hair every week, and I'll feel a hair, and I'll pluck it. And my serum range is, I think, 170 was my last testosterone. But I need that strength in order to stand up without needing any help to raise myself up at any time I want to stand up off of this chair or this swivel chair I use. And I use a swivel chair here at work most of the time instead of a seat back so that my core is always being worked. So, I make life a little bit harder for myself, so I stay healthier longer, so I can work full-time into my 80s and my 90s because I love working. I love my job.

Question
“Is 20 years past menopause too late to start hormones for bone health?”  [0:49:10]

Answer
Absolutely not. This is an invention of people. I have been doing it for 45 years, at least 38 to 40 years, because after I got off active duty and I had more liberty to do what I needed to do, I immediately started using natural hormone replacement therapy since the early 90s. So, I have many decades of experience with this. And I would just tell you, I was never encumbered by a woman's age. And my own mother was like 84 when I started her on hormone replacement therapy. So, no, I’ve never seen a problem with it. 

Question
“What do you recommend for GERD (LPR)? Been struggling with morning and night cough with mucus for months.”  [0:50:03]

Answer
Well, again, there are many things to do, but in your lifestyle, I would stop eating around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. If your blood type is A, you’ve got to be taking digestive enzymes. If you're over 50, 60 years old, you have to take a digestive enzyme no matter what your blood type is because you're not digesting well like you used to. So I'm a B positive. I started using digestive enzymes in my late 50s. And I elevate the head of my bed. I have a bed that automatically raises 15 to 20 degrees. And so, I sleep like a baby. I have the most entertaining dreams. It's almost fun to go to bed every night for me and have happy dreams, with sleeping a little elevated, I put pillows on either side of me so that I'm kind of like armrests. I'll put a little pillow under my chin, so I keep my chin up, so I don't become a mouth breather, and I breathe through my nose. And then I just zip away into Narnia at night and enjoy all these fun dreams. And even if I occasionally have to get up to use the bathroom in the evening, it's kind of fun because I can go right back to bed and go right back in the dream that I was in, and it was so fun. And I don't use melatonin. What I use is a good morning hygiene. As soon as I do wake up and get out of bed and empty my bladder, I'm outside in the first morning sunshine. And if I get up and it's still really dark, like 5:15, then I'll do a few duties and make my bed and things like that. But as soon as I see enough light to stand outside, I'm out there to get that lumen into my eye, so it will set my circadian rhythm, so I'm charged and ready to go for the day. 

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“What do you think of Losartan for managing high blood pressure? My BP reading is often 160/97 or close to that.”  [0:52:08]

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Well, losartan is an angiotensin receptor blocker type II drug. It has some calcium block capacity too, which prevents the constriction of the blood vessels. You’ve got to be well hydrated. You have to do weight resistance training. And I would do wall squats. I would stand against the wall and squat down like you're seated in a chair and hold that tension of being like a chair against the wall for a minute. I would do that once or twice a day, at least four days. days a week, or as often as you can, and then I think you'll see your blood pressure come down. Drink your water. Be low carb. Do your routine exercises and walking. Take your systemic enzymes. And I'm not against losartan, whatever your dose is. There are many doses of it. And I think if you do wall squats, that has been proven to lower systolic 10 degrees, which would drop you from 160 down to 150, and the diastolic is dropped, in the research with wall squats alone, a minute once or twice a day. Anybody can do that. That would get you down to about 150/90. So, that's what I would do.

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“Do you think that Armour Thyroid and NP Thyroid are equally effective? NP thyroid is cheaper, and if of equal value, I would prefer that.”  [0:53:53]

Answer
Yes. Yeah. Then yes, use the NP thyroid. Let your doctor know. 

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“I've been struggling with an upper respiratory virus infection? I finished a Z-Pak, steroids, and now I'm on doxycycline, day 4. Still can't shake it. My friend suggested Frequency Healing. Is that something you're familiar with?”  [0:54:11]

Answer
Well, yeah, that's almost like going outside and letting the frequency of infrared light hit you every morning. There are many types of frequency medicine, vibrational medicine, energy according to vol. And the basis, though that you have to remember is, if you don't drink enough water, your cells aren't going to be able to throw off enough phlegm, mucus. You'll need iodine. I would use the Argentyn nasal spray. I would do high-dose vitamin C orally. I would get buffered vitamin C. I would take 2 grams in the morning and evening. I would get the vitamin D, take a 50,000-unit capsule once a day for five days, just five days, and then take 10,000 a day thereafter. I would take the systemic enzymes five times twice a day. You should be able to break that. You can come in and find a doctor or a hydration center, hopefully that does high-dose vitamin C. We like to add chelation therapy, so you get the microcirculation with EDTA and nitric oxide dilation, plus the heavy metal reduction. So, those are the things I would suggest. Maybe quercetin as well. And by the way, the high dose vitamin C works as a strong antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and it's the universal antitoxin. 

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“What is happening when, after I eat, my stomach area is pouched/bloated and overall digestion is slow? Is it a lack of stomach acid, liver issues, or? What is best to do to get things back in good working order? Thank you for taking the time to teach and educate us all!”  [0:56:02]

Answer
Well, you're probably getting older. You're not making enough digestive enzymes and stomach acid. It depends on your blood type. Taking digestive enzyme with every meal, two, three, four, sometimes I'll take four capsules after a meal. 

“Is it a lack of stomach acid, liver issues? What is best to get things back in good working order? Well, stop eating late. Really try to stop eating around 3:00 or 4:00. Try to eat a more humble life menu. So, only eat meat and one vegetable and stop all the other accoutrements and the wild salads and the wild salad dressings and all this stuff. It slows your gut's digestive time down. I only eat cooked foods now. I want to get the lectins cooked off, I want to get the poisons off my food, and the GMOs. Whatever floats into the area of where my food's at, I want it cooked. I slow-cook it and my vegetables to help me with digestion and with my digestive enzymes. And so, I eat a simplistic menu. It's easy on my stomach. I eat consistently between roughly 11:00 and 3;00. And I have a one-menu day. I typically eat the same thing, meat and vegetables, or chicken and vegetables, or pork and vegetables, or egg and vegetables, and then I come back to meat and vegetables.

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“Is there any downside to using high-dose melatonin (60 mg) over the long term. It's an antioxidant and a good sleep aid.”  [0:57:38]

Answer
Well, yeah. Dr. Russel Reiter, PhD, MD, has been using 100 mg for 30 years every night. So yeah, I would say look at his YouTube Dr. Russel Reiter. He's the king of knowledge and publication on the wonderful benefits of melatonin. 

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“Is hormone replacement therapy a good idea for anyone over 40 to maintain optimal health?”  [0:58:14]

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Absolutely. You know, my worldview is as a Christian. And so I think if Adam and Eve never sinned, they'd still be alive and having children maybe every 500 years. And so, yeah, hormones were meant to be general contractors to keep us healthy, young, strong, and repaired. 

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“Do you think increasing magnesium to about 1000 mg daily might potentially reduce the frequency of irregular heartbeats?”  [0:58:42]

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I'm not so sure. You have to get red blood cell mineral testing for that. Serum magnesium levels are not so reliable. So, you can get an (RBC) red blood cell mineral¸, and I would slowly go up to that. It depends on your age and what your medical problems are. Work with your doctor, get a red blood cell. Go up to 500 mg, then maybe 750 mg for a month, and then get a red blood cell mineral again and see what the levels are. 

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“What are your thoughts on Rosacea?”  [0:59:26]

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Well, rosacea is really somewhat of an autoimmune phenomenon of the skin, and just the diet destroying the gut system, creating inflammation there. And so, I would go on a carnivore diet for at least eight weeks, and I would use Argentyn spray on my face. And I don't ever use anything on my face. Nothing touches my face except water, cold water, and the cream from my estradiol cream. Nothing has touched my face for decades. I don't put any cosmetics on it at all. I don't trust anybody, what they put in there. So, if you would let your skin grow out, God has the best skin layer that any facial treatment would have. And then, if you calm your gut down, you shouldn't have these inflammatory cytokines irritating your blood vessels and your skin because skin is a place where your body detoxes. Argentyn Silver is a broad-spectrum, very simplistic antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal that tends to help all of my rosacea patients. 

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“Hi Dr Rita, my dad is in liver failure and kidney disease. What would you do if it were your patient? Thank you.”  [1:01:04]

Answer
That's too hard at the end of the day to address. It depends on so many things. Your father's age, was he a drinker, was he a smoker, what kind of work environment, was he a smelter, you know, soldering kind of thing, was he a pilot getting all the fumes in, and what is his blood type? All these things would make a difference. But I would definitely use EDTA chelation with high-dose vitamin C, and I would try to put him on a carnivore diet immediately just to calm down the work of the liver and the kidneys for detoxing. That's my general statement, but bring that up next week so I can think more about that. 

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“It’s hard to find a doctor to prescribe HRT where I live. They have old-school beliefs. What can women do? I’ve seen online doctors that can be used, which would be out of pocket.”  [1:02:07]

Answer
You know, if you can fly out here and see me, I can see you and prescribe from here. But I don't have an answer for that. We have to pray and trust the Lord that God will raise up good people and good doctors, good presidents, good senators, good preachers, good scientists, good businessmen, and good mayors. And without a good heart trying to serve people, we're never going to get anywhere if everything's got to be entertaining and everyone's got to have so much money. You’ve got to learn to do things because you love people. That's what we have to do here. And all this fame and money and entertainment- we’ve got to get over this.