YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, March 24, 2026

Question
“I am 71 years old, on 0.075mg estradiol patches 2 a week 200 mg nightly oral progesterone. Weight 128 lbs., 7'5 1/2 tall. I want to hear more about you taking a break during the month of hormones. I'm a breast cancer survivor of 26 years. Diagnosis of cancer in-situ. 6 months of chemotherapy, 35 weeks of radiation, 5 years of tamoxifen, and 5 years of postmenopausal inhibitor.”  [0:04:39]

Answer
In general, my thoughts are that ductal carcinoma in situ is arguably questionable as a true diagnosis of breast cancer over the years because her diagnosis is 26 years old, so in 2000, she was diagnosed. With more time and experience in the field of oncology, and I'm not an oncologist, but over the many decades seeing these patients, I've come to understand that ductal carcinoma in situ is not considered risky or cancerous or potentially disease-causing, if it is caught in situ, and then with a simple lumpectomy. And very often, that alone, probably they'll do a single lymph node biopsy. If there's any involvement in the lymph node, then that changes the diagnosis to a deeper spread. But if it's truly local in one spot, ductal carcinoma in situ at the site, and the lumpectomy excision got it all, very often this is just an observation without much at all of any aggressive treatment, as she got a quarter century ago. Now, with that, I've been practicing now 45 years, and I would say, in that period of time, I have countless number of patients, both with ductal carcinoma in situ and many other stages of having had breast cancer, from triple negative breast cancer all the way to stage 2 or 3’s that have been treated and managed by their oncologists who have come to me, who have survived it, and they're having bone density loss, and they don't want to go on aggressive risky drugs or have the risk of bone fractures and they're losing their bone density, they are still trying to be sexually active, they're dry, their memory, their sleep is upset, their skin is very frail. And so, with informed consent and discussion with her oncologist for quality of life, we have shared natural hormone replacement therapy that is monitored, along with her oncologist. I used to work with Dr. Tetef. I think she has a replacement doctor because I think she just retired. But she would often see patients of mine. I had another oncologist, several who were willing to monitor patients who, with informed consent, made personal choices to resume natural bioidentical hormones that are monitored. And I cannot think of any case ever in my years of practicing that we've had some negative outcome from it, only benefits. I've never seen a recurrence that was felt to be generated due to resuming some natural bioidentical hormones balanced with both the estradiol and the progesterone. I cannot think of a single case. So, instead, we see better sleep, better lifestyle, marital relationships, better vaginal mucosa, better bone densities, better memories, better skin integrity, better immune system, better cardiovascular protection, and the list goes on, because estrogen does many, many wonderful things. 

Again, I'm not an oncologist. But remember, all women have estrogen receptors on their cells and progesterone receptors on their cells. And so, it's a good sign. If you have estrogen and progesterone receptors, those are much more manageable forms of breast cancer if the cell has not become so changed in its malignant degeneration that it doesn't have receptors anymore. Typically, my understanding is that the most difficult to treat are the triple-negative estrogen and progesterone-negative cancers. They use the receptor site as a handle for some of their therapies for treatment, along with surgery, radiation, and so forth, and some immunotherapies now, and that is helpful in the long-term outcome. And then we come alongside the oncologist management with our dietary, immune-boosting, and nutritional support systems, and we've had very good, in general, outcomes. Therefore, when the woman is now feeling confident and improved in her outcome, very often she'll start seeing the negative effects of having lost her estradiol and progesterone. And with these symptoms that are associated with breakdown of the tissues, the bones, and so forth, her memory, her immune system, she'll start asking, is it possible to resume this? And so, it's kind of like working with your oncologist to determine whether they'll follow you or not. I've had some oncologists who said, “If you use natural hormones, I don't want to follow you anymore." So, we just recommend them to another oncologist who is willing to do their management, as well as helping them with informed consent for quality of life on these hormones, and we've had very good results and happier patients. 

So, that is the direction that I would advise, especially in carcinoma in situ patients where now it seems that those are actually not really considered the same category of risk as other deeper stages 2, 3, 4 in their cancer diagnosis with spread, although I've had all stages in which we have tried this natural therapy, and the general trend in my personal experience working with oncologists and the informed patient of many many good favorable results. There is a wonderful YouTube video to watch discussing these things, which is called FDA Expert Witness on Post-Menopausal Hormone Replacement It's a long title but it's on the YouTube, and you're going to see the FDA panel, and you'll see many gynecologists, gyne-oncologists, are talking about natural hormones today now and they're much more proactive and understanding this after all the decades that we have been doing it on our own. So, I feel very comfortable, especially with ductal carcinoma in situ or all these in situ levels. So, hopefully that's a help to you knowing that. 

Question
"What do you think about mammograms? I believe there's a new technology where there's no radiation." [0:13:40]

Answer
Well, that's referring to the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). And yes, that is not really involving any radiation beam therapies. They usually do, though, have the dyes, the gadolinium dyes. And so, indeed, that may be a better direction to go. But I want to emphasize your lifestyle and ask the question, why haven't there been any significant reductions in the death rate? Our number one killer is heart disease. Number two and a close second, and almost sometimes competing to almost overtake heart disease as the cause of death. Cancers are so significant in prevalence in society that you have to ask the question, ever since the war on cancer was declared, I think in Nixon's presidency, where's the big improvement, where's the big reduction? And there is none. I remember in the 70s when mammography came out, and I was just starting to enter my medical training in the 1970s, it was supposed to be so great for early detection and prevention, and that would be the biggest step to reducing the death rate in women, and we have really not seen that at all. 

So, how valuable is mammography? When younger women have more glandular breasts that have glands for a potential pregnancy, the mammography is not as good in determining any abnormality in the tissues when they have more glandular breasts. So that becomes very problematic in pre-menopausal women. So, there are all kinds of arguments against the radiation, the compressive trauma, the glandular breasts, and the lack of confidence that with all those glandular materials, they can really claim they're picking up things uniformly. So, there are many questions about this, although the standard of care here in California is to recommend doing mammography annually, and we generally start women in their early 40s, around 40. If there's a high risk of this in the family and parents, then it might even be started earlier. Or if there's any physical exam or clinical finding of some unusual mass, of course, it would be started even in the 20s. The youngest I think I've seen is late teens, where actual breast cancer was identified. So, the question has to be, where's all the research in preventing it in the first place? And there isn't enough. 

Now, I believe personally, my personal opinion is that cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease, meaning the energy-producing capacity of the breast cells or any cell in your body, when it's disrupted by the corrupted standard American diet, high carb, genetically-modified pesticide, glyphosated type of foods we eat, high in insulin stimulation through the high fructose corn syrup content of it and in our beverages, then you're asking the hormone insulin is stimulating the growth of tissue, intimal thickness of the blood vessels that leads to heart disease and growth of t tumors and polyps. So, I think it's been identified very clearly that the high-carb, high fructose corn syrup, standard American diet that emphasizes stimulating the chronic release and hypersensitivity initially, and then eventually the insulin resistance of a high carbohydrate diet of the American system from gestation, because we're getting even infants with an epidemic of obesity in the newborn infants. So, that is probably where the answer is: stimulating abnormal growth. 

So, what do I think about these mammograms? I think they're a tool. But to call them and require them on medical boards as standard of care, I think we need to grow up and make an educated decision that annual mammography has not produced the prevention and breast cancer death reduction that we had all hoped that it would back since the 70s, which is now some 50 plus, half a century of years. There are other things, like ultrasound, that would probably be better to use as a baseline for younger women with more dense fibroglandular breasts. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of the breasts with or without contrast. Self breast exams, getting women to get back on progesterone cyclically to help have an opposition to their estrogen production when they're younger women. Very often, if you are stressed, the follicle-stimulating, luteinizing hormones will be suppressed through cortisol, and we're living in very stressful times more in younger women today than when I was in my teens in the 60s. So, I'm going to suggest that all women might do well to take natural bioidentical progesterone creams day 15 through 25 of their menstrual cycles as an added prevention and have natural guarantee of progesterone from ovulation, which is inhibited through all this excessive birth control and which therefore leads to unnatural hormone and estrogen dominant milieu, which of course estradiol is a natural growth-promoting repair hormone in our body but it helps build the lining of the uterus and many other aspects of our cellular tissues helps men in many ways, helps sperm motility. 

So, when we have these birth control and the stress cortisol inhibition of ovulation, we are setting ourselves up for abnormal hormone milieus that generate, I think, angry cellular metabolism, and then the cell itself wants to survive, and it will have a genetic code of survival and make itself produce its own blood supply and have vascular factors for growth promoted. Like when we were a single-celled fertilized egg that split to 2 cells, 4 cells, 8 cells, 16, 32, 64, and 128 cells, we had no heart then or vascular system. But within the first 56 days of our being, we started to form, differentiate, and produce and reach out a vascular system to implant into the lining of the uterus and get the placenta started. And then our enzyme production, because the umbilical cord is right at the center of the abdomen, where the pancreas and liver are, and this enzyme production starts around day 56. And it seems to be taught that enzymatic reduction is an inhibitor of the uncontrolled placental growth to develop a blood supply for a growing baby. That's why I always insist that women who use natural hormone replacement therapy use systemic enzymes on an empty stomach every day, at least three times, which will provide systemic enzymes like our body had when we were first growing as infants to inhibit an uncontrolled placental invasion into the uterine wall. Without which, there's a rare choriogonadotropin cancer, which is felt to be due to a lack of those enzymes produced around day 56 of our gestation, or 6 weeks of our gestation, an abnormal lack of control of the invagination of the infant's vascular invasion to get oxygen and nutrients, but doesn't know how to stop and get the balance. Well, that balance is enzymes, which has been taught since 1909, Dr. John Beard, 1909, the Trophoblastic Theory of Cancer. So, I never bought into it being a purely genetic problem ever in my medical life, although there are gene snips and enzymes and signaling molecules, immune-signaling molecules that are part of this whole complex picture, which genetically can be helpful and modifiable. But these other things need to be financed and discussed, and I'm glad to see it starting to happen right now in further research with more information and lack of censorship, which allows us to just openly discuss our experience and our feelings over the many decades of showing up to work and seeing dear people with these problems and are talking about them openly. So, hopefully that helps answer your question there about the mammograms and our opinion on that. 

Question
“Hi, Dr. E. What are your thoughts on the shingles and flu vaccines?”  [0:24:56]

Answer
Again, you have to ask the question, why are we taught to expect disease? When I'm probably one of the most stressed women who has worked non-stop for… I think I got my first full-time job working at Elaine Boyd Nursing Home for retarded and deformed newborns to 18-year-olds. At 12 years old, I was working full-time. And then I don't think I've ever stopped working since I was 12. So if I'm 72, that means 60 years I've been working without vacation or breaks. So, talk about stress. I can only praise God for His strength and His endurance in my life because this idea that shingles and disease should be expected and we should prevent them with a vaccine, rather than talking about enough vitamin C, we don't make any vitamin C at all. And so, we know that vitamin C is antiviral. And so, I have, since age 16, been receiving chelation vitamin C high dose IVs, and I survived a terrible pan-myocarditis from Coxsackievirus, at least that's what I was told, when I was 16 at the – what was the name of that hospital in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. Anyway, I can't remember the name of the hospital anymore. But I was there four months on the cardiac ward with a dilated heart or something, irregular rhythms, so forth. So, I've always taken extra vitamin C. My father, in food research on the research team at Armour Foods, always had me on a low-carb, rich-protein diet, building up my immune system. And by the time I got married at 17, and then I got into the military and passed the military physical exam for ROTC in college, I think I was 18, 19, I passed the physical after having been hospitalized at 16 for four months for a pan-myocarditis. 

So, I've seen miracles not only in myself, but I've also received chelation therapy. I received it from Dr. Ray Evers, who was the medical doctor who brought chelation therapy and the right of medical doctors to use their training and broad knowledge on pharmacokinetics and application to human beings, and having the right to do off-label prescriptions. Therefore, the cardiologists who attacked Dr. Ray Evers were silenced because Ray Evers brought this before Congress, and Congress authorized duly licensed medical physicians to prescribe off-label due to our training and experience with medications that we felt were valuable and to further the envelope of helping patients by thinking about how to help them with other medications. So, EDTA chelation was one of the things that improved microcirculation, along with the extra vitamin C and vitamins that were in each infusion. And so, within two years, I went from irregular heart rhythms, arrhythmias, I think AFib or SVT, and I went to pass the military physical to get into ROTC, worked all the days of my life, had babies, and so forth. 

We have to understand that vaccines are taught with not enough understanding that the manufacturers are not liable for the bad side effects, harm potential that they can produce, and they're not clear about their statistical benefit in prevention. The so-called COVID vaccine, you were supposed to take it so that you don't spread the disease, but they found out that it does not stop you from spreading the disease. Then you were told you were to take the so-called COVID vaccine because it would prevent you from serious disease, and they found out it did not, and you did wind up having more frequent hospitalization and a more severe disease. And then it was promoted that the so-called COVID vaccine would prevent you from getting it in the first place, and very often, you got it. And so, we were told it was safe and effective on an experimental basis. The science was being hidden. Pfizer, in fact, would not release the research they had on it and bound it up for 75 years until the Freedom of Information Act. I think that was put out by the lawyer Siri. He's the main lawyer for Del Bigtree on the Children's Health Defense, www.thechildrenshealthdefense.org. And they won the case, and the judge refused the 75-year hiding of the research from Pfizer. It was exposed, and the studies were dismal in trying to justify safety and efficacy. 

And so, when you ask me, what do I think of a shingles and a flu vaccine, I think of the fact that we have what almost sounds like the mafia, where the business buys protection from the local government, the town councilmen, the mayor, the local judges, and on up now to Congress and the institutions that we thought were of ethical integrity. And this payoff of lobbyists for the massiveness of the industry has now purchased us a more like mafia system than anything that has truly worked preventively. I know, in my experience, many patients who have come to me, and they claim they have had these protective vaccines, and then they subsequently get the pneumonia, or they get the shingles. Why don't we rather use high-dose vitamin C? – as I said, I'm probably one of the most stressed women who has ever lived and worked. – And I use this on a regular basis. At least monthly, I take a high-dose vitamin C drip, along with certain daily nutrients. The low-carb diet. I always fast for about 20 hours a day. I work out three times a week, weightlifting for an hour. I walk daily aerobically. And I have a sleep routine. I'm in bed. I have a good night's sleep. I'm always up at about 5-ish in the morning, in bed ready to sleep at 9:00. All these things help our immune system, especially a low-carb diet and intermittent fasting, along with vitamin D. I take extra vitamin C. I keep it here so that I feel at the end of the day, if I feel stress, I'll just open up a capsule of my buffered vitamin C right into my mouth, and I'll let that kind of swirl around and then swallow it so that I'm getting at least a few grams every day. Linus Pauling would always take 6 grams a day. I don't know how often he did the IV. He used to come to where I worked at Whitaker's Wellness Institute in Newport Beach on Birch Street. Julian Whitaker used to run the place. He was a doctor who was impressed with all this and friends with Linus Pauling, and Linus Pauling lived remarkably. I think he was 97 when he died. Anyway. No, I don't recommend these. And if they are not liable for being sued for efficacy or side effect damages and you can't sue them, then I wouldn't use them any more than I would buy a product from a company like a car or an airplane ride that isn't liable for their performance where I could sue them if the car failed me and I got in an accident and injured or the airplane malfunctioned due to negligence and I would sue them. So, why would I use something from a company that's given indemnity? 

I want you to remember again that the Childhood Vaccine Safety Injury Act of 1986, signed by President Reagan, is exactly that. It's the National Childhood Safety Vaccine Injury Act because it's an injury, injury, injury. That means the vaccines were known to cause injuries. And they gave them government protection with the mandate in that law in 1986 that the vaccine companies, the CDC, and HHS were to mandate every two years a report on their safety and efficacy. And there's never been a report on the safety and efficacy, and they couldn't produce it. And that's why Children's Health Defense, the lawyer Siri was able to win the case, and was kept suppressed by the controlled media. So you don't hear these things. So, why wouldn't I say it's very much or sounds like, in my opinion, a mafia with abnormal protection? So, no shingles, no flu vaccines is my opinion. I would rather see the money now go to building up health and finding out why people like me, who are so stressed at work, are so healthy and do not need those things. I thank the Lord, my God and my provider. 

Question
“Dr. Ellithorpe, what is the best way to lower blood pressure and uric acid that does not affect your memory?”  [0:37:07]

Answer
It's doing weight resistance training three times a week on the machines, doing wall squats, where you do a wall squat and hold that position against the wall like you're seated without a chair under you. You hold it for a minute twice a day. And you cut out absolutely all fruit, high fructose corn syrup, juices, smoothies, all the high fructose corn syrup. If you look at the video called Sugar: The Bitter Truth around the 101-minute level, you'll see Dr. Lustig talk about the biochemical pathway, how fructose is produced, and how it promotes uric acid formation. So, they have shoved uric acid into our systems secretively, you might say, for so many decades. All of us have probably had two to three lifetimes' worth of high fructose corn syrup in our bodies from any icing on a cake, ice cream, or all the things we've had. So, that system has been hurt. And you can recover it. But exercise and cut out all the fruit and smoothies and sodas and be low carb, don't eat late, and do that exercise. That's what I would say. That'll help your memory as well. 

Question
“Why are so many regular doctors afraid of Hormone Replacement Therapy? Met with an oncologist yesterday. She was not interested in all the new research or anything. Made me feel shamed and said my mole could be EST.”  [0:38:53]

Answer
I don't think they love their patients. I'm not sure if they love their God, because it should be the love of their patients and God, and taking care of such a great and mighty creation as a human being. That would drive them to go home after a hard day's work and to look and study, and open a book or look at some of the research on PubMed or the NIH research on this, or YouTube videos on hormones, or read a book on it. There's a wonderful book called Estrogen Matters by Avrum Bluming. He wrote the book, Estrogen Matters, and all the many hundreds of reasons and biochemical value of natural bioidentical estrogen. And this paper that I'm reading here is ‘Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer. Is it Time?’ And he does a retrospective meta-analysis of doctors like me who have done and used it and published their findings, although I personally have not published my findings, but there are many who have since the 1980s. And the conclusion is, in all of the publications, there was no increased risk of recurrence or death rate from hormone replacement therapy by using natural hormones. 

So, I just think it is God, at least for me, and the reason why I became a doctor was not for fame and money, but it was to serve my faith in my Lord, Jesus Christ, and His creation with the Father and the holy spirit. That drives me. I'll have an image of a patient that will come up. I believe that's the moving of the Holy Spirit indwelling us, who believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Just like the Holy Spirit came on Moses or came on David to prophesy, or other people in the Old Testament, now we have, after Pentecost, the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. And I can't rest unless I look something up. And very often, I don't know how I find things or how things come to me, but I pray over my work, over my patients, for wisdom and discernment. And so, I love what I do, and I love God's creation. So, why don't you ask each of your doctors when you see them, what is their worldview? What is their worldview operating? Because we all have one. Atheists have one, and all people have a worldview. But my Christian worldview is that we are made in the image of God. And being made in His image, we are like God, and we should understand the value of each human soul and regard each human being as an awesome creation and not as an enemy. We're to love our neighbor as ourselves, and we're commanded to love our enemies, to feed them, and to do good to them that despitefully use you and mock you. Now, that's quite different than all other religions. And that's why I believe I have the right worldview. At least it keeps me always studying. It keeps me always at peace and gives me an understanding of why I do what I do, which is serving God, who is watching everything I do, and I'm serving Him. So, glory to Him and all the wonderful things that have happened in my life. It helps me have a better marriage and to try to be a better mother. And I've certainly made terrible mistakes in my life, but I'm happy to know that he paid for those mistakes. I could never work my way out of them. So, ask them about their worldview. And if they say it's not your business, then say, "Okay, I'll find a doctor who is going to explain to me what drives them beyond money and prestige to treat me with more than fear of being sued.” Okay. I see my patients as family. 

She goes on to say that she met with an oncologist. She was not interested in the new research at all or anything. “It made me feel shamed and said my mole could be estrogen positive." – Well, I don't know what to say other than we should treat human beings with love, and have our boundaries, you know. Stand for righteous things, whatever is lovely, good. Think on these things, as Philippians 4:8 says. But I don't understand why she made you feel that way, or he made you feel that way. And maybe you can find someone. I do think there's a revival coming. I think people are – well, I heard this one preacher say in my Bible studies, I listen to them, and this one preacher said, "Make sure you preach the gospel or good news of the Bible always. And if, necessary, use words.” I thought, " What do you mean, preach the gospel, good news, and then if necessary use words? And then I realized that what he was saying is the way we behave, the way we handle our demeanor, the way we treat others should be a living testimony without our having to say a word. But if ne necessary, sometimes, like I'm declaring now, that is the basis of my whole being as a physician. 

Question
“How do we keep from getting shingles in this stressful world? Lysine? I would get a vaccine. Thanks!“  [0:45:45]

Answer
Well, that's been used for many decades. Lysine is an amino acid, and many times the real reason might be that we have been so marketed too to eat sugar and high fructose corn syrup and tasty mouth entertainment foods that we have actually suppressed our immune system with all this sugar and fruit sugar and mouth-entertaining foods rather than eating the good protein that builds our cell membranes, our white blood cell count. We have much, much, much research that shows sugar, starch, carbohydrate, and fruit sugars are typically eaten way in excess by Americans. We've exported this type of horrible diet to the world largely through our sugar drinks, and that suppresses white blood cell function. 

And so, if you're already starting the day with a sugary cereal and orange juice sugared up, then your immune system is going to be shocked for eight hours at least. And that's what we do to our children and all that junk food and carbs and packaged refined, you know, barcode-labeled food. No, we should be eating more protein, and that's maybe why lysing is showing up. If we ate higher protein, we'd have better immune system production and better immune function. Immunoglobulins are proteins. And so, I think it is that reason largely why we succumb to viruses more often and our immune system fails us, and that's why I think if we lived a low carb and exercising non-entertainment for this hole in our mouth but rather used it to repair our body to be of service to God every day in our surroundings, we wouldn't be having this talk about vaccinations. 

Again, there's a wonderful book called Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries. And in it, she just, as an undergraduate in physics, internal medicine medical school, nephrology subspecialty, she found that they were giving flu vaccines to her kidney patients upon arrival to the ICU, and their health was declining as a result of that, so she stopped that, and they got better. And when the hospital administration found that out, they fired this very learned doctor, physician, researcher. She was at Stanford, and then she was at the East Coast prestigious hospital group. So, she wrote this book, called Dissolving Illusions, and she graphs out the research of all infectious diseases. And what really improved them was peace, nation-to-nation trade, progress, getting better diets, shipping oranges to London during the winter season, shipping healthier protein-rich products and animal products, and, for children, better pregnancies. Electrical plumbing, the carpenter, and the plumber did more for keeping people healthy and reducing communicable diseases and infectious diseases through sanitation. We saw the decline in measles and smallpox, so forth, long before any vaccine could have been produced or had any worldwide impact. And that was after World War II, largely in the 40s with better trade, peace, sanitation, productivity, and plumbing and sanitation. 

Question
“To get a tooth implant, I will need to take amoxicillin for 10 days. What would you suggest doing to support the gut/microbiome at this time? Probiotics before, during, after, and what else? Thanks.”  [0:50:25]

Answer
Well, a very low-carb diet. I would fast for at least 18 to 20 hours before the procedure. I would not eat anything for 24 hours afterwards. So, that would be at least a day and a half of fasting. ramping up to. And afterwards, I would do a high-dose vitamin C drip. I would probably do it with the EDTA chelation. I would use Argentyn silver, swish and swallow, gargle. I would use a toothbrush paste made of xylitol and hydroxyapatite. I would be extremely low-carb to carnivore the week or two afterwards. I would use probiotics. We have high-dose Probiotic 225, 225 billion a packet, once a day in water, you drink it. Then after that, I would move to the Probiotic 100, one a day for two months. And then I would taper down the third month and stay on probiotics every day. I never use antibiotics for my dental work, and I was able to, with these measures, personally, and the high-dose vitamin C drops, not have any problem. I don't know your personal situation. I don't know your health. I don't know your blood sugar. I know my blood sugars run in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, and I know my insulin is good and triglycerides and so forth. I know my lifestyle. So, I have a very good immune system. I have a very good vitamin D, making sure I took at least 20,000 IU the week before my dental work, and I used it for a month thereafter, and then I dropped back down to 15,000 IU. That's what I did. 

I think we don't appreciate how damaging broad-spectrum antibiotics are. And I personally accepted the risk that if it didn't work, I was going to have more dental work and bone grafting or bone trouble. But I valued my immune system and my gut, and I took personal responsibility because no one has a 100% answer for anyone. But at least if you do the antibiotics, please do those things to help your nutritional and immune system. And always stay well hydrated. I try to drink about 90 ounces of water every day. Half your weight in ounces every day. So, you know how much I weigh approximately when I say 90 ounces now. 

Question
“Hello, Dr. E.! What can you tell me about a condition called photophobia (when you have extreme sensitivity to bright lights)?”  [0:54:14]

Answer
I think I'd ask you, do you have blue eyes? People with blue eyes tend to have more photophobia. People with migraines tend to have more photophobia. We don't really have an understanding of that. And we have light pollution, you might say, with this, what we call dirty LED light, which is not the natural full light spectrum, and I think it's showing up with more photosensitivity. So, I don't know what more to say about that. I'd have to look into that. That's all I can offer you. Don't use sunglasses inside. Try to use normal incandescent lights. I know in California they've banned them. That just shows you the mentality of the stupidity of this state legislation. 

Question
“Do you see crossover between perimenopausal symptoms like frequent UTIs, trauma recovery, and post-concussive syndrome? Do you think people can have magnesium deficiency even though lab results don’t confirm it? Are there magnesium supplements that are not sold in stores that are easily absorbed and don’t cause excessive stimulation and irritability?”  [0:55:19]

Answer
Yeah. And the reason is, what are hormones? They're general contractors for repair and rebuilding. So, if you had a concussion, your recovery is going to be marginalized. Your connective tissue repair is going to be marginalized. Your skin is going to start wrinkling and sagging, and so forth. Your urinary tract and vaginal tissues are going to droop, wrinkle, and become patulous, and be more at risk for irritation. 

She goes on to ask, "Do you think people can have magnesium deficiency even though the lab results don't confirm it?" – Absolutely. The levels that they call normal are typically population averages. And the American diet and the American soil, with the government now industrialized to subsidize farming, is corrupt, and it's usually monocrop therapies. No longer do we have hundreds of farmers whose family and fortune descendants depend on that land being well cared for and rotated, and him smelling the ground and rubbing it between his hands and looking at its content and rotating things. Instead, the farmer is bought off, and it becomes thousands of acres, and the mineral and nutrient density is now a fraction of what it used to be almost a hundred years ago, where an orange today is maybe 1/7 of the nutritive density than it was in the 1940s and 50s, and that's because they've genetically modified everything. So, it's just fun to eat, pretty to look at, and sweet to the mouth. Who cares about its nutrition? So, yeah. So, I think magnesium should certainly hit the top range, if not more. 

“Are there magnesium supplements that are not sold in stores that are easily absorbed and don't cause excessive stimulation and irritability?” – Well, it depends on what you're getting. Magnesium oxides are almost completely unabsorbed, if it says magnesium oxides. That's the cheapest, and I would say, you only absorb 4 or 5% of it. So, if it's a 250 mg, you're only maybe getting 10 to 15 mg out of that. If you want it to have blood-brain barrier passage, you want magnesium threonate. If you want to be a bowel softener, try magnesium citrate. If you want it to be a calming, muscle relaxant, maybe magnesium glycinate. So, you’ll want amino acid chelates, preferably. They're far better absorbed. 

Question
“I am your patient. I have been using estrogen and progesterone cream. We just switched to the 100-mg pill. I have had vaginal bleeding for about 5 days. Is this normal? Should I continue the pill?”  [0:58:27]

Answer
Send this question to me through the normal doctor channels. Call the office. I don't know the last name, so you'll have to initiate that action to contact me. But yes, if we change your hormones to a stronger oral to get higher levels, we will probably get a natural clean out of the lining of the uterus, and it will diminish over time and maybe not occur. It depends on whether you're on cyclical progesterone or continuous progesterone. So, please turn that into a question that goes directly to me medically in your chart and identify yourself with your last name so we know who you are, and I will contact you and look over your levels and why we did what we did. 

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“My son is 39 and has severe knee pain in both knees. He is 6'3" and 175 lbs. He got the Johnson & Johnson COVID vaccine in 2021. He felt really bad for 24 hours afterward, but then felt fine. The orthopedic doctor and rheumatologist don't know why he has so much pain and inflammation after an MRI and blood tests. Does he need a detox for the spike protein?”  [0:59:28]

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I would do the SARS-CoV-2 semi-quantitative total antibodies for the spike protein. That's Labcorp 164090. Do that lab test and see what his antibody levels are. If they're over 3,000, then he's still producing from that 5-year-old vaccination, active mRNA production of antibodies, and he's just constantly producing them. But you need to go to a functional doctor and have that addressed, and there are many ways to do that, with lifestyle changes, enzymes. IV chelation vitamin C therapies are very helpful. We have to find out his blood type. We have to look at his gut to see if there's inflammation in the lining of his gut as well. 

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“Greetings and blessings, Dr. Rita! Can a carnivore diet cause hormonal changes, such as vaginal spotting, in post-menopausal women?”  [1:00:50]

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Yeah, because the hormones are mostly based on a sterile steroid cholesterol-type backbone. And since there's rich cholesterol formation in all of the animal foods we're eating, you're going to have better support for maintaining your hormone levels. And yes, that can happen. So, if you're Damian, I think you are, I know you are a patient, please send your call to me as a patient, so I can directly look, find out your history, re-familiarize myself with your age and what you're on, and then contact you personally. So, please, again, contact me. I think you're my patient, or your doctor on that. 

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“I may have to take antibiotics for a red spot that my chiropractor says looks like cellulitis. I see my GP next week. Since chronic constipation has been a struggle for a couple of years, I am concerned about my digestive tract. I’m 77, I eat high protein, and cook vegetables, as well as fruit. I drink about 70-80 oz of water. How can I best recover?”  [1:01:48]

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I would have to ask the question: Have you already started the antibiotics? I'm not sure that you needed it. You really should see your general practitioner. If that's a serious infection and it is an infection, and then you have to start it, then you have to. But a very low-carb diet and taking a high-dose probiotic usually have the gram-positive bacteria, which are largely destroyed by the amoxicillin-type antibiotic. That's what I would begin to do. But be sure to follow up with your general practitioner. 

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“Hi, Dr. E. I was wondering what you think of the bone medication Reclast? Do you ever put someone with pretty advanced osteoporosis on it for one year and then go off and see how they do? Assuming they did the diet, supplements, weight-bearing exercise, and the estrogen patch? Thanks.”  [1:02:54]

Answer
Reclast is a bisphosphate, and it's associated with osteonecrosis of the jaw, as well as atypical fractures in the femur. Well, what about their vitamin D? What about the levels of their hormones? What is the inflammation factor of their sugars, their food allergies? Many things like this have to be addressed. So, find your doctor and go over that. I'm not a fan, and I've never had to use any of those bisphosphates, Reclast, or Fosamax. 

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“What are your thoughts on taking Soy Isoflavones for pain and inflammation?”  [1:03:51]

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Well, they mimic estrogen behavior. They act as plant phytoestrogens, plant estrogens. And estrogen is a natural anti-inflammatory. So, they have anti-inflammatory effects, and they do help with pain and inflammation. So, that's what I can tell you about them. But if you can use the real thing, the natural estradiol, why not use that? 

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“What do you know about Hydroxy-7 or Hydroxymitragynine? I am concerned that there is not much research out on it. Can you recommend a natural supplement to help deal with nerve and muscle pain?”  [1:04:26]

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That is a type of narcotic. It has narcotic-behaving chemical features and is a dangerous thing to take. I would not use it. 

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“How likely is it that a woman who has passed menopause is anemic due to an intestinal issue? Should one get a colonoscopy?”  [1:04:55]

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Yes, I think I would get the colonoscopy. Find out the cause of your anemia and see your doctor. Usually, it's not through something necessarily intestinal just because you're post-menopausal. There can be other issues, such as irritable bowel or inflammatory bowel disease. Find out your blood type. Have a complete digestive stool analysis to look for inflammatory markers.