YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, June 9, 2026

Question
“Hi doctor! What are your thoughts on ivermectin? Animal or human variations, or if there's a preference. If you are for it, how would one do it per weight?”  [0:02:36]

Answer
So, again, this is not meant to be medical advice on YouTube. This is to talk about my experience clinically in all the years of doing work, publishing some nutraceutical research on natural anti-aging healthcare preventative medicine over the many decades, and to give you my experience and my thoughts on these things.

So, regarding that, this is not personal advice. But my general experience with Ivermectin is that it's quite safe. You know, the Nobel Prize was given for just the discovery of Ivermectin, I think, around 2015 to two or three doctors who discovered this. It works as an antiparasitic, and it was regarded by health organizations nationally as one of the most meaningful medications to help the health of mankind, particularly in third world countries with diseases like Leishmaniasis, the river blindness disease, and by taking it, they would call it the Sunday pill. You would take this once a week. And if you live in areas that are indigenous or where river blindness occurs in the wet, damp areas, and you get bitten by these insects and stuff and you get the parasites, this prevents the lymphedema and the blindness that's associated with it. So, they call it the Sunday pill. And in general, it was also used very successfully, including in my own practice, for antiviral illnesses. So, its discovery and usage are not isolated just to being an antiparasitic. It also has antiviral value. And now, after we've done a great deal of study of its mechanism of action on how it inhibits parasites from growing and duplicating, that methodology is now being applied to slowing cancer cells from duplicating and surviving. And there are about nine documented steps biochemically where it's extremely clear that there is a preventative capacity of this to be used in anti-carcinogenic approaches.

There's a lot of veterinary medicine that has been published on this, and now there's an emerging large population of data on humans as well. It seems to be extremely safe. Of course, any medical doctor has to prescribe this and monitor liver enzymes and blood count. The typical dosage range runs, if I recall, somewhere between 0.4 and 0.6 milligrams per kilogram. So, if you're like a 150, 130-pound woman, you're talking somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 to 15 mg as a reasonable dose. The doses that I've seen in the research are typically cycled, where you're on it for three or four days and off for three days. This is the typical treatment dosing. Now, I've seen where people have been on it for a whole month, and then they go off for a week. So, there are various cycles being discovered and tried out there, but in general, it is a three-or four-day on per week with three or four days off, depending on the cycle, and get a physician to monitor your chemistry and your blood count. It's the same medication, Ivermectin, whether or not you're getting it in the horse paste form, and then you have to take your weight and convert it into kilograms. There are 2.54 kilograms per pound, and so you would make that conversion, and that's how many milligrams you would take, and it's quite safe. So, hopefully that answers your question. I have it right now. It’s still right here. And I got it from a friend. One of my patients, I guess, went to… Where did he get it from… I'm not sure, but he got it over the internet, so he brought some in for me. Yeah.

So, I have it on backup. So, if I were to get a bad cold, I think I would go on it for five days and then see if my cold symptoms all went away. So, it would act as an antiviral. And I have done that in the past six years, once I think I started getting a cold, but I do a high-dose vitamin seed drop. I take my vitamin D and my zinc. I eat a very low-carb diet and get a good night's sleep. I take extra vitamin C all the time. And so, I just thank the Lord that I'm able to stay very well and strong. 

Question
“Good evening, doctor. I am on testosterone at 1 mg from a compounded pharmacy. Do you recommend this dose? And what kind of formulation do you prescribe? Like mini troche, injections, pills?”  [0:08:53]

Answer
I think it's a good dose, 1 mg. I presume it's a topical cream. I like it as a topical cream. I make my own here. I just use Eucerin cream, which is just a mineral oil with petroleum jelly. It's the most benign hypoallergenic. You know, most of these other gels, topicals, and creams have so many things in them. I just want the mineral oil and petroleum jelly, that's it. And so, I rub it over the blood vessel areas here, or I put it on my face. Now, for testosterone, I put it on my inner wrists. And you could, I suppose, put it in the panty line of your groin there. But a 1 mg dose a day as topical, the way I typically do it, that's a very good dose. Then you have to get a lab level and see what it has done. The other thing I do is I usually ask the woman to take DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone). That is a precursor to testosterone because it helps with so many things. Testosterone is the end product. But as DHEA is metabolized in your digestion, you eat some butter or a steak, and you get cholesterol from it, and the body digests it and breaks it into DHEA, pregnenolone, and these breakdown products help make cortisol for your adrenal glands, and help your immune system, and help your testosterone for your muscle mass. So, I like DHEA anywhere from 5 to 25 mg once a day, and I myself take 50 mg. Men typically take 50 to 100 mg, and it is a precursor to testosterone. So, you could get testosterone benefits right now by going to a quality DHEA, and it'll convert. Usually, some women don't convert very well, and they have to go to the testosterone cream, but in general, most women do convert DHEA into some testosterone. So, we have some strength. 

Question
“Hi doctor, what are your thoughts on PRP or exosomes? I know it’s more for aesthetics and orthopedics, but I'm wondering if you have any knowledge of whether it works for a different treatment? And stem cells? Do you perform the treatment?”  [0:11:38]

Answer
I know of them; they're useful, they're valuable, and I have done this myself here. It's about why you need them and what your plan is. 

Well, if you take a sample of your blood, you have stem cells in your blood circulating all the time. We call them total potential cells. They are able to do surveillance and be out there to be triggered by certain signals in your body as it's metabolizing, building up, and breaking down, and those metabolic signals in various areas, if it should become cartilage repair, skin repair, muscle repair, or tendon elastin/collagen or nerve tissue repair. So, these total potential cells are called stem cells because they can become anything, depending on the signals they get from the environment of your body and how you live your life. Therefore, the question is whether you live a healthy lifestyle, you will preserve your stem cells. These total potential cells will have an easier time working on repairing all parts of your body, so you stay healthy in general longer everywhere in your body. If you abuse your body, you’re dehydrated, you don't drink your water, you stay up late at night, you have blue light, computers and cell phones on, you get lousy sleep, you don't get any outside time, you don't get infrared light, you don't ground yourself and get the electrons from the earth. The earth is anionic, meaning it's electronegative. We are literally batteries, mobile, and the sun and the earth help charge us up, but we need enough water to help create that beautiful film around every cell membrane, so we can get an electrical potential generated at the cell membrane to do its job. 

And so, if you say when should we use platelet-rich plasma, we would draw that blood, we would spin it down so that the red cells get compacted at the bottom of the test tube, your serum that looks like straw-colored plasmas there, and then at the very top of that tube are the tiny particulate material that contain all these platelet-rich plasma full of peptides and growth hormone and total potential cells material. And we suck that off with a needle into a sterile syringe, and then with some normal saline and so forth, and then we'll go into a knee joint and inject your own material back into your knee. And we know that it will understand what to do because it's the same you, you won't reject it, that material will have repair hormones and growth hormone signals all in that upper crust of that spun-down bud that you just donated, and the rest is thrown away. These injections, I have seen, help. But I'll tell you, it's limited because if you don't exercise, if you don't drink the water, if you clog up all the desperate little capillaries and clog them up with sugar, sticky fruit sugar, food allergy, immunoglobulin clots, dehydrated, sticky, not enough water, you might get the peptides there, the growth hormone there, but the continued sprinkler system, which are your capillaries feeding the healing of that joint or wherever it's at, no matter what you use it for, whether it's your skin, if you don't have a good circulatory system, drinking enough water, keeping your sugar starch, your food allergies down with good lifestyle, you're going to waste your time. So, it's kind of sad. I see all these hundreds of thousands of millions of dollars that people spend on themselves every year, whether it's for knees, for beauty, or other issues, they won't change their lifestyle. It's not going to do them much good. 

So, in general, you have to hear this. If you would just wake up in the morning with the sunrise, go immediately outside after you empty your bladder and stand in the morning sunrise sun for three to five minutes and grounding with your bare feet on the grass or the wet sand of the seashore or pond, or whatever you have, and let that infrared light come at you and the grounding with the earth, you drank your water, you know, a big gulp before you went out, so, I had eight or 16 ounces. And then, you take in deep breaths, and so your cortisol stress hormone goes down, in 3 to 5 minutes, anybody can do that. I do that every morning 99% of the time. And after I do that, I come back in, and I get a few things done. Setting up my vitamins, I take them, drink more water, so I get about 32 ounces of baseline water first thing in the morning. Then I take my dog out for a nice quick walk for about 15 to 20 minutes. And I don't have my glasses on and I'm getting that outside daylight, even if it's cloudy, I'm still getting the infrared light, and I'm getting that fast walk, that is stimulating on my fasted stomach, I'm waking up, because the last time I ate today was about 3:30. So, by tomorrow morning when I get up at 5:00, that'll be what, 3:30. So, 12, 13, 14 hours. By the time I get out to walk, that's 15-ish, 16 hours. So, I'm on a brisk walk after I stood in the grass for 3 to 5 minutes. And so, I'm burning down any cortisol-stimulated glycogen glucose that was liberated by my wake-up cortisol. That signal was tested in human beings, in multiple tests, men and women, and men can raise their human growth hormone levels by 2000 percent. Women can raise it just over 1000 percent. Why do I need to go to a plastic surgeon or a peptide doctor when I can just do all these wonderful healthy things and get a thousand percent more production of my growth hormone to repair my skin, my hair, my cartilage, and have healthy cartilage? Remember, you only have one little artery to your knee, and it’s called the synovial artery. So, you get basically this one decent synovial artery. If you look at some of my YouTube videos, look up Tustin Longevity Center YouTube arthritis, you'll see me holding up a picture of a knee and the anatomy of it and the artery there. And then you'll understand why I drink water, why I don't gum it up with a high-carb diet, why I take systemic enzymes, and then you will understand why I use chelation therapy to improve my microcirculation, so that my synovial arteries, my arteries to my joints, and all over my body have a good blood flow. 

So, I don't need to spend money on these things. I'd rather my patients get it free from God. God has been our architect, and he knows how to get you repaired. Unless you have some serious post-traumatic or disordered issue, or you have such a severe breakdown degenerative disease where you need this kind of therapy, the vast majority of us can lose some weight, build up muscle, help take the pounds per square inch off of the joint, and improve the circulation and get pain relief and healing. It's still possible. And you know, I'm the living example. I give the Lord all the thanks for that. Hopefully that answers your question. And I just want to let you know that the lifestyle is what's important. 

And she asked, “Do you perform that treatment?” – I have. But you know what? I really… rather than me take the time to inject one person which takes longer, you know, it's like doing a suturing setup kind of a thing, I'd rather spend the time teaching and seeing, you know, many patients and teaching so that the vast majority of people will self-discipline, take charge of their body, and start letting them produce their own peptides and their own growth hormone, take the enzymes, and just enjoy the healing mechanism God has for them. 

Question
“I heard that an estradiol dose above 0.075 mg for post-menopause should require up to 200 mg progesterone for uterine balance. That is a high dose for me. What are your thoughts? Is 100 mg fine?”  [0:22:27]

Answer
That’s why medicine is a clinical practice: we're all such individuals. You have to have a doctor who is able to go with the flow and teach you and say, Look, we're going to start, wherever we're going to start, we're going to get a blood sample. We're going to check progesterone and estradiol. I'm going to see how you feel with that, how you sleep with it, how your memory is with it, how your libido is with it, how your joint anti-inflammatory pain goes down with it, how your energy goes with it because hormones are general contractors, very much like human growth hormone, it has we have receptors all over progesterone, estradiol, not just on the ovary and uterus and breast cells and so forth. It's all over. So, these are support information molecules that are like general contractors helping to repair and keep all your organs vital, and your doctor has to work with you on that. I have some women who I have on 400 mg of progesterone regularly nightly, and I have some women who are on 100 mg. So, you just have to work that out between you and your doctor. Tell them how you feel, or tell her how you feel and monitor it. That's why I always do a lab about every six months, twice a year. 

Now, when a woman is somewhere between the ages of 42 and 52, that decade in today's society is when women are really experiencing menopausal symptoms and not transitioning well from all the stress. And the first thing I tell women as they approach menopause are starting to get changes in their cycle, vaginal dryness, low libido, irritable sleep at night, not restful, stiff joints, things like that, they notice these little aging things, then I tell them, I'm going to have to see you maybe every three or four months and watch and see how you're transitioning towards, and my support of the hormones, just to make it easy. So, I never let myself go through the horror of hot flashes, night sweats, and so forth. I was able, as a doctor, to give myself my hormones and monitor my own blood. And so, I kept my bone density; I kept everything going. So, yes, I think should be monitoring, even teenage girls and 20-year-olds and 30-year-olds, and we should start this as a part of their natural healthcare, and I've been doing this for decades already, trying to tell most mothers of teenage girls the stress is blocking, the cortisol signal is suppressing follicle-stimulating hormone, luteinizing hormone, so there's no ovulation which makes the young girl estrogen-dominant, which messes up her hormones and creates medical problems down the road. Polycystic ovarian, endometriosis, typically with the high carb, high insulin input of the stimulation there. So, we have to just have doctors realize you don't go into medicine for money; you go into medicine to help human beings. And God will get you enough money to cover your needs, okay? But don't look to be wealthy and a YouTube star. Just love caring for people, and then do a good job of it. And do something well with, you know, eight people a day, six people a day, and do it well and do follow-ups on them, and then teach it to someone else. So, hopefully that helped you with that thought there. It depends on what your level is. And you know, I don't like the patch because of plastics. I do like the cream and a troche, where it goes into these formed little pellets, you might say, and you break one off, and you put it under your tongue, and you let it dissolve; that's another way of doing it. But again, I don't like the fillers and stuff. I get concerned about what they are putting in these troches now, when I can control the cream. Oral tablets, they're okay. Again, they have fillers. 

Question
“What are your thoughts, please, on NMN or NR as a B vitamin supplement?”  [0:28:14]

Answer
Is that Nicotinamide Mononucleotide or Nicotinamide Riboside? I'd have to look them up. Here's my thought on the vitamins. Nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide (NAD) is all the rage. It is part of the electron transport in your Krebs cycle, your tricarboxylic cycle, your respiratory cycle, three different names for the same thing. Passing energy off from the fuel we eat. So, look at the sun shining on the plant. The plant takes the sunlight with the green chlorophyll, it absorbs that infrared light, it absorbs the ultraviolet light, and it reflects off of it the infrared, and it takes that energy photon from the sun with the carbon dioxide and the oxygen, and it biochemically forms carbohydrates, starches, and sugars. So, you get fruit growing and potatoes, and you get beets growing and carrots, and all these wonderful foods are growing from the sun. And then we come along, and we eat that, and we digest it up so that a little molecule of sugar is released and then it goes into our tricarboxylic cycle, our Krebs cycle, respiratory cycle, and we start dividing it up into two carbon atoms and those atoms then are processed through the Krebs cycle to harvest electron energy to make at the very end of this ATP. And part of the co-factors, CoQ10, we need some lipoic acid in there, (NAD) nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide. And as we're passing those electrons through this engine in our cells called mitochondria to make ATP energy, we are then making water and we make oxygen with this and carbon dioxide rather is made from us, and then we blow out the carbon dioxide and then the plants use, take in the carbon dioxide with the sunlight and they take in the material from the sun and the CO2 and they make oxygen for us. And so, that's the beautiful cycle, plant to human, human to plant, but we're all taking energy from the sun, even we are, to help that little transport of the electrons in the mitochondria. That's why I have been teaching all these years; you have to have clean blood flow. You can't clog it up with sugar. You can't clog it up with food allergies. You can't clog it up by eating late at night. You can't clog it up by not drinking enough water. You can't clog it up by not having regular exercise. You have to have an empty stomach before you go to bed, so all this healing can take place at night, and you get into a deep sleep, a deep growth hormone. Otherwise, you're going to have sleep troubles, and you're going to get an insulin drop in the middle of the night, which will create a cortisol surge, and you'll wake up at 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning all the time if you eat late and you have a high-carb dinner. So, if you want this beautiful orchestra of our relationship with the plant kingdom and the sun and them giving us oxygen and the sugar, starch, fruit sugar that we eat, and then we give them back the CO2, and we make water, what a wonderful relationship that is that we have with our environment. And no, we really shouldn't be needing to see doctors that much. So, there you go. 

Now, do we need the NMN? Do we need the NR? And I'm not exactly sure what you mean by NR. But I'll tell you one thing: the vitamin content of these over-the-counter CVS and Walgreens vitamins they're pretty much rubbish. A lot of filters. They're like everything in the kitchen sink in them, just so that you see a long list, even though the micrograms or milligrams are minuscule. It's best to eat the dense, nutrient-rich meat, fish, poultry, pork, and eggs, and some vegetables, butter with limited seasoning, salt, pepper, and eat calmly. Remember, as you take that into your body, it could have had pesticide, herbicide, fungicide drift over on it. It could have had someone cough and sneeze on it as the waiter was bringing it through the restaurant to your plate, and your body has to take that food coming in that's invading you, you have to make acid and enzymes in your stomach to chop it up and make sure any bad parasite, bug, or virus or bacteria or fungi that got in there is being burnt up with the stomach acid and chewed up with the enzymes. So, no healing growth repair will be released from vagus nerve going down into your stomach if it senses food still in there, which it typically is the older you get, you know, up to six hours, I've heard a lot of YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram people talking about this now and they're saying, well, three hours, stop eating three hours before you go to bed. That's old data for us that is above 50, 55. Really, it's got to be six hours. That's why the research is really clearly showing that you don't really eat much after 3:00 in the afternoon because it just stays in your stomach. And that's why, even if you're an O-type blood, you take digestive enzymes when you get older, because by the time you're over 60, you're not making those digestive enzymes like you did if you were an O-type blood when you were 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50. But by the time you're hitting 60, you're not digesting the way you used to. And again, everyone, we play, we try one digestive enzyme, two digestive enzymes. I take three, or if it's a Thanksgiving dinner, I'll take four or five to help me digest it. So, that's a long answer for all the NMN and NR, but it's good to see the continuum. All these questions may be different, but they're all connected in the same beautiful biochemistry of the human body. So, everything matters. 

Question
“Which do you recommend for HRT - static or rhythmic therapy (Wiley Protocol)? I've been on Wiley for years and still have my ovaries (aged 55). It's hard to tell whether fluctuations in how I feel on a day-to-day basis are due to hormones since I "may" be producing my own still and that could decrease my need for the amount of replacement I need.”  [0:35:52]

Aswer
I know Wiley. I looked at her manuscript back in the 1990s when she wrote her book on the Wiley protocol, and she even wrote a book on life back in the 90s. I'm just going to tell you, I am biased against the Wiley protocol, not because I don't understand the value of getting up enough hormones and reproducing the natural cycle that we were designed to have, but the system of the Wiley protocol is so convoluted with varying doses throughout the whole 30 days of the month, and it's just pretty much practically a nightmare for physicians to answer questions and dosing and multiple pharmacy discussions. And so, I have long since steered away from the Wiley protocol since around 2000. Maybe even in 1998 I was kind of done with it, just because it's so complex. I like cycling. I'm on a cycle. I take my progesterone from the first of the month through the 15th of the month, but I take my estradiol every day of the month, and I don't vary the doses like Wiley does, on very high and coming down. I don't do that. I've never seen a long-term benefit from it. So, I don't do it. And I can't pay staff, nurses, and people to answer a thousand texts, emails, phone calls, and messages. I can't afford it. I cannot, I won't survive. I'll shut down and not be available to anybody. So, I will not do the Wiley protocol. If someone comes to me who's been on it, and then I can talk to them and tell them, if you're stable this and doing okay, I'll monitor you, but I'm not going to play around with this. If we start seeing too many questions or variations, we're going to go on to a more simplified rhythmic cycle. So, I'm on kind of a variation where I do rhythm, but it's static. So, I'm on the same dose of estradiol every day of my cream. I put it on my face in the T-zone, over my eyelids, and everything, and I put on 1.5 milligrams in my cream. And I take the progesterone as a cream 200 mg per ml, but I'm only using half an ml, so I'm on 100 mg, and I rub it on my wrists from the 1st through the 15th. So, I'm on that static dose for 15 days and the same 1.5 mg of estradiol to my face every day. This will achieve in me enough hormone level because I test to make sure I don't have hot flashes, night sweats, lose my bone density, have a memory that is retentive still, have adrenal stress, emotional calmness, stability, I have a better immune system, I have a better cardiovascular system, and I'm going to stay on this until I die. 

Some women just don't want to have a period, and I will get a little period probably every month right around the middle of the month. Some women just don't want that, and that's okay. But I tell those women, Then you have a uterus, and God gave you a uterus, and it's designed to respond to estradiol, building up the lining a little bit, so that it will, in the presence of progesterone, when progesterone comes on board, it kind of matures it to allow it to shed. So you have this constant progesterone all the time trying to prevent the lining from developing, and you have the constant estradiol trying to make it mature or build up on the lining. And eventually, I will say most women will eventually have some breakthrough bleeding. It doesn't mean you have cancer of the uterus. We have so many thousands and thousands, probably millions of women now on hormone replacement therapy. So, they're going to have a uterus that will likely respond. So, what do we do? We get a transvaginal pelvic ultrasound done, and they get a pelvic exam. And if the lining of the uterus seems abnormally thickened, then we ask them to stop their progesterone at least one week out of every month so that there's a time to get a clean out and have a little bit of a menstrual cycle and clean the lining of the uterus up. So, you need a conversation; you’ve got to get maybe an endometrial biopsy if the lining of the endometrium is too thick. 

Now, remember, most of the data in the textbooks teach physicians that if the endometrial lining in a post-menopausal woman is thicker than 5 mm, then the likelihood of it being abnormal from excess estrogen is a higher risk, and they should have an endometrial biopsy. But they don't have, back in the 70s when I went through medical school, hardly anyone was on hormone replacement therapy, or very, very few, and now almost all women are getting on it. So, now we have all this going on, and hopefully the radiologists and the textbook writers and the board of gynecology, college of gynecology are realizing that a woman post-menopausally who's on hormones is going to have a uterine lining that will probably be 5 mm to maybe 7 or 8 mm on a transvaginal ultrasound. And these women, you have to do the work as a doctor to track it and not necessarily do an endometrial biopsy as a knee-jerk just because it's a millimeter or two beyond what you would want it to be. So, you have to be a physician who'll work and follow, and you have to be a patient who is patient, understanding, and teachable. So, being a doctor and being a patient is a relationship where two are working together in the office to try to understand things. It's not necessarily a 100% cookbook. 

So, what do I recommend? I have to find out what the woman wants. Does she want to never have a period? I don't think that's possible. Eventually, you will get breakthrough bleeding on static therapy. If you can handle that and get an ultrasound, you know, every once in a while, which is maybe once every few years, have a see your gynecologist, get your pelvic exams, then that's reasonable. 

Question
“I am 72, and the skin on my forearms is very thin but not wrinkled. I don’t even realize how this happens, but even when I rub up against something, I get terrible bruising from bleeding right under the surface of my skin. The skin is never broken. I use Arnica cream to help heal the discoloration, but it lasts for weeks. Thoughts?”  [0:43:04]

Answer
Well, that's aging. See, your skin is so thick when you're young, but as you age, the thickness thins out. So, if skin is very thick and then it thins over age because you have less collagen, less elastin, the rebar, the structure, like when you're pouring a cement foundation for something¸, yeah, you pour the cement in, but you have the rods of the iron in there to give it structure and hold it there. But if the cement falls away, it's going to be thinned out. So, the same is happening to our skin everywhere. The thickness of that skin is going to shrink because of the collagen, elastin, and fibroblasts. So, that's why you get sunshine, you get into bed on time, you get up with the sunshine, you stand on the ground for three to five minutes with the sunrise, you take in that infrared light in the morning, you drink your water¸ you eat a low carb diet, you try and eat a more humble, less exciting menu with all the food allergens that you can stimulate, with all this entertainment, spice and variety. You eat a more humble menu, low carb, and drink your water and exercise. You take systemic enzymes, and then your circulation will be better. In fact, one of the interesting things the college of dermatology – well, we had some testing published on the Juice Plus, and we did biopsies of women who have been on Juice Plus for years, and we found the thickness of their skin was I think somewhere close to about 37% thicker because of all the antioxidants polyphenols that we have in these fruits, vegetables, and stuff without eating all that sugar and starch of the fruits and vegetables and berries. These women had better skin quality, better microcirculation, and better capillaries. So, here I am, I'm on Juice Plus, I do the IV chelation, and have better microcirculation that has been totally proven. I do it about once a month or 10 times a year. I take my enzymes to be the little Pac-Man to clean out my blood vessels. I stay low carb. I exercise. I drink my water. I'm on my hormones to help the rebar. I take my vitamin C to help the elastin/collagen/hyaluronic so it doesn't, you know, rip apart through stress, and so I stay nice and thick in my skin. So that's what you have to do. You have to have a doctor who will think all of these things at one sitting and monitor you through it. So, you need to be on hormones and all those other things. 

Question
“Do you have an eye doc referral for a basic exam that accepts Medicare in the Costa Mesa area?”  [0:46:18]

Answer
I don't. I don't have anyone I can tell you. I know here in Tustin, just a block or two from where we are right now, Dr. Bruce Grant is who I use for my glasses and so forth. Dr. Bruce Grant. And he will literally be right behind our new building when we move. So, very, very close. Hopefully that helps you. 

Question
“What is the difference between estradiol pills and estradiol patches? I know the plastic concern, but anything else? Price? Availability? Stomach issues? I am on 0.075 twice-a-week estradiol patches, and they loosen before it’s time to take them off! I am concerned I am not getting the significant amount of hormones that my body needs. Last tested, it was in the 30s! I am 71 years old and have been on progesterone 200 mg every evening and the patches twice a week.”  [0:46:54]

Answer
Yeah. Well, I don't like the patches either. And I don't like the current medical system that I’m like put under a vice around my neck. You guys want to save money, you want convenience, and yet I can't pay for staff and pay for nurses to answer a hundred questions from everyone and the pharmacist because someone wants to save money and go to this pharmacy, or someone wants to change and see if the patch price over here is lower. I can't, I won't stay alive. I'll dry up and not be available to anyone. And that's the way they squeeze out functional doctors, and I'm trying not to be a concierge. I'm trying not to go cash only. Why? Because I want to be able to at least work in this corrupt world, this socialist, communist sort of corrupt medicine that they've created. We do not need insurance. We need people who understand medicine and keep their patients healthy. That's what we need. I never see a doctor. I never get sick. Glory to God, I have a sister who died of breast cancer, I had a sister who died of lung cancer, and a mother who allegedly had a stroke. You know what? You can stay healthy. Genes are not where it's at. Your genetic code is not determinative. It is your lifestyle. 

And so, I'm going to say I like the most benign Eucerin cream mineral oil that I use in the creams. And it's versatile. On the same prescription, we could use more dosages, we could put it in a different part of your body, and see if it's better absorbed. It's so much more versatile, and you don't have these toxic plastics with it. So, it's a challenge, my dear, and I would certainly say, pray, call your congressman, (202) 224-3121. Call your senators and tell them to get the government out of medicine. You know, Danny Thomas, I think I was mentioning last year, Marlo Thomas's daughter, in Nashville, Tennessee, created St. Jude's Children's Hospital for cancer. It's free. It's all through people making donations. The parents get there free, their travel is free, their housing is free, and the treatments are free. You know, we can do medicine and have done medicine all the way up until after World War II without insurance. It has put a Nazi kind of mafia between the doctor and the patient, and it's creating this war-type situation. I'm stuck on these payments for insurance for what I do, and I can barely stay alive financially. So, give me a break. I am for what I have here, use my stuff, and help keep me alive here. I don't like the patches, and yes, I think you should have higher estradiol than that. I like estradiol to be at least around the 70s to 150 range. I like the progesterone to be roughly between a 4 and anything above that, though, you know, a 20-30 range on the progesterone. 

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“How do you treat mold spore colonization in the body? Not just mycotoxin exposure from a moldy indoor environment, but the actual spores residing inside the body in the GI tract, sinuses, and brain. With binders like Dr Shoemaker or Itraconazole like Dr. Campbell?  What does Dr. Ellithorpe say? Thanks.”  [0:50:59]

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In general, a healthy gut environment is very good. In fact, there are good bacteria that have the capacity to bind these molds and their toxins. So, I take a good probiotic by Ortho Molecular, Ortho Biotics is what it is called, one a day, and I take Sporbiotic IG one a day, and I eat a very low-carb diet, so my immune system is revved up to do that surveillance all the time in case I inhale a mold spore or something. And I take the high-dose vitamin C drip, which is the universal antitoxin for everything. Literally, high-dose vitamin C is the number one antitoxin for everything. You can make a second runner-up with lipoic acid intravenously and take systemic enzymes like little Pac-Man to chew up all the gunk everywhere in the body. And your body is designed by God, and we are learning all these exciting cell markers and intermediate messengers for repair. Everyone's excited about them. It's all old news. They're better defined; they're trying to, just like drugs, try to get a little peptide, make it maybe with an extra amino acid, and call it theirs. Do some tests, get it published, and then say, "Oh, we’ll market this for hundreds of millions, millions of dollars for beauty and longevity.” That's what it's all about. It's not about being a doctor supporting a training system, a healthcare system where good, loving doctors are sitting there day after day, week after week, decade after decade, being there for their patient population, saying the lifestyle you live is far more important than any peptide schmeptide you're ever going to take in your life, and that will help your immune system do the surveillance that needs to be done in case you do inhale a toxic byproduct of the spore or the mold product or the spore itself. 

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“Hello Dr. Rita! First, since you don’t wash your face, what brand of skincare and makeup do you use? Second, do you use any brand of electrolytes or just salt? Which brand of either do you like using? Thank you and God bless!!”  [0:53:44]

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I don't know. I spend no time on myself. Zip. Nothing. I'll use it; I’ll go into Walgreens once every six months in my life. And once in that year, I'll go and say, Oh, I need a little base. So, go over to makeup." I walk to makeup. I look around, I see CoverGirl, I see Revlon, I see Maybelline¸, and I go, "Oh, let's look for a liquid light beige thing. I see a bottle, I see a reasonable price, I buy it. That is the brain power I put into my cosmetic care for my human body, and I only put it in my T-zone here so that it softens, you know, the wrinkles. But I really think the wrinkles are softened by my lifestyle and by my hormone estradiol. So, I don't know the name of the bottle in my drawer. I couldn't care less, really. And then lipstick- I’ll buy a lipstick; it looks pink enough, rosy enough. I don’t know who makes it, and I put it on every day. What do I buy… And then these things last me a year or two. What is this product? This is my lipstick, L'Oreal. I've had this in my office here for 5, 7 years, I don't know. Praise the Lord. I care about being presentable. I care about exercise. I care about inner beauty. I try to have as much as I can. I pray every day that I have God's patience and long suffering and mercy and justice, all that kind of stuff. So, I read my Bible. That's my best makeup every day – reading my Bible and praying. Yup. That's it. There you go. I know the label of that brand. There you go. 

Then she asked, “Second, do you use any brand of electrolytes?” – No, I just go to the store, and I'll buy some Himalayan pink salt at Sprouts or Celtic salt. I don't nitpick; I don't stress over the minor things. I don't mind getting a variety because if they mine it in different areas, I'm likely to get a greater variety of trace minerals. So, I don't know. I just got it at Sprouts. I couldn't tell you the brand name either. Yeah, God is my provider, that's for sure. 

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“What is your opinion on massage therapy? Should one visit monthly to relax the muscles? Or do you suggest another type of therapy?”  [0:56:43]

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I can't afford it. I cannot afford to get a massage myself. My 2006 car has fallen apart, and I'm looking at getting another used car here shortly. I can't afford it, but I think it's nice, I think it's good. I think human touch is wonderful, but this doctor doesn't make much money at all. 

“Should one visit monthly to relax the muscles, or do you suggest another type of therapy?” – I suggest weightlifting and a brisk walk for 20 minutes every day, and all the healthy lifestyles I've told you about. If you can afford a massage once a month, more power to you. I do shake it out, you know, just shake it out for 10 seconds. Let yourself shake out. That's very relaxing to the parasympathetic system, along with a deep breath. 

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“Since peptides are a broad cell booster, how could they affect active/dormant cancer cells? Thank you.”  [0:57:57]

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Good question. They don't have the answer on this, and I am every day of every year, 99% of the time. I'm listening for one or two hours to all kinds of people who are talking about health, anti-aging, the latest things, because I know you, my patients, like watching over my children at what they were being exposed to in school and looking at their textbooks, I'm looking at all this stuff. And Dr. Huberman had a gentleman last week or so talking about peptides, all things on it. He had someone on there about the peptides last week. That's his hour-and-a-half interview. And he asked, he said, “Would you inject these things into yourself?” And he said, “No.” The guy was not an MD. He's a PhD, I think, at Stanford. He has red hair and black glasses. What's his name? Dr. Picard, PhD. He would not use it. So, look at it: if you exercise in the morning on an empty stomach, being fasted already for 16 hours, 18 hours, you're going to drive up your natural growth hormone a thousand percent. Do it every day. Don't eat late and then have that growth hormone surge at night when you're asleep, so you can repair. 

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“I have heard you can take your progesterone pills vaginally. What are your thoughts? I do take oral medication every day and wonder how it affects my liver. Testing, I heard, doesn't capture given it is locally.”  [0:59:47]

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I suppose you could open up the contents of the progesterone pill and use it kind of like a suppository. I would rather put it in a cream. 

“I do take oral every day and wonder how it affects my liver.” I have never, in the 40 years I've been doing this, at least 35, I have never seen anything with liver damage from estradiol and progesterone, but I see a bazillion of it from eating bread, starch, crackers, fruit sugar, smoothies, lattes, frappes, all these beans, rice, all of this carbohydrate stuff. That's where you should put your concern. 

Now, you know, I know the second path of the portal system and the liver venous system. I have never seen a problem with oral estradiol or oral progesterone usage in my many, many, many more decades than anyone else on YouTube or anywhere else. And Dr. John Lee is dead now. Bless his soul. I hope to meet him in heaven because I know you believed, he's the one who, in the 1980s, came and wrote the book on progesterone. So, I think I'm probably the oldest one around who has been publicly doing this since the mid-90s. So, I’m the most experienced. Yeah, I have the most experience, and I have done more labs over the many decades than anyone. Zero, am I worried about it being causative to cancer or liver damage? If you're a good doctor monitoring it and you're telling your ladies, I won't refill your hormones unless you're taking systemic enzymes, trying to be low carb, drinking your water, exercising, and taking the enzymes.