YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, March 3, 2026

Question
“I will be getting an ablation on my heart due to supraventricular tachycardia that won’t stop with Valsalva maneuver. Do you have an opinion is this is a good procedure or not?”  [0:04:02]

Answer
My experience is that you should also be working on your best health that you can achieve. Meaning, you should be low carb, you should be drinking plenty of water, you should take a multimineral high-quality product, ours is called TLC Multi Min, it's an Albion amino acid chelate, which is the best absorbed, because minerals are involved in the electrochemical transmembrane potential. Water has to be adequate for electrochemical transmembrane potentials. That's also important in blood volume and cycling of the blood flow throughout the body. Exercise is important. Not eating late at night is important. Taking systemic enzymes to chew up any misfolded proteins, tiny micro-clots, eating a low-carb diet, so there aren't sticky sugars, and these clog the tiny capillaries. Natural hormones, I think, are very important. They're calming. They are associated with natural repair, deeper sleep, and better mental function. So, when you're doing all these things, and then you're going to the doctor and they're suggesting this, I have one thing that we could do interventionally that has helped people and not infrequently will the improved microcirculation with these healthy lifestyles improve, but it's chelation therapy, EDTA chelation, which has always improved the microcirculation, even to the point of restoring the blood flow to people who have gangrenous and pre-gangrenous lesions to their feet from poor circulation which leads to cramping and nerve neuralgias and stuff. So, it helps everywhere, and it has helped people with AFib (SVT), Supraventricular Tachycardia. 

So, if you're doing that, or you're doing that alongside the plan for an ablation, my experience is the technique has become more common and safer and safer over time. And I feel that if you're dealing with a cardiac electrophysiologist, you should be able to ask him what your experience is, how many you have done, what your complication rates are, and what your success rates are. You have every reason to ask those questions. But I'm going to say that there is a good outcome from that. And in the patients that we have had that have done it, I can only think of one who had some complications; she had atrial fibrillation. But she was able to overcome it. She was able to do very well and survive it. But she had a serious complication and had to stay in the hospital, and they had to resuscitate her. But that was extremely rare. 

So, my general theme is that I think there's more and more value to ablation technology as a means to help this issue. But again, in a healthy person, you're going to want to improve. Whatever generated that irritation to have a spot that was triggering this, you want to have the healthiest body going into it. So, I would work alongside a functional doctor on your sugar, your weight, your exercise, natural hormones, systemic enzymes, and all these various things, trace minerals, minerals, and methylated B vitamins. I would do all that at the same time. Hopefully that's helpful. But again, this is not meant to be teaching you or telling you what to do over the internet. It's just telling you my experience. And I'm increasingly more confident in this particular field. So, that's my experience, but you'll have to ask those questions to your own doctors. All right. Hopefully, all goes well for you.

Question
“Is there a colostrum that you can recommend?”  [0:09:05]

Answer
Well, the one we use here, I guess I'm recommending it, it's SBI Protect. SBI Product is a New Zealand-based A2-type cow colostrum product that is used there called serum bovine immunoglobulins, because colostrum is full of immunoglobulins. So that's the one that I use there. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on colostrum? I have been interested in taking it. Is there any brand you recommend?”  [0:09:40]

Answer
Well, I'm going to stick with Ortho Molecular’s serum bovine immunoglobulin, SBI Protect. So, it is the grass-fed A2-type cow serum bovine immunoglobulins, and it is very good. For people who are trying to heal the lining of their gut, God has us secrete in our saliva immunoglobulins. And the number one immunoglobulin is IgA. IgA is a standardized, kind of universal antibody that God helps us to initially mix with our food as we're chewing, as we swallow it down to help us be protected from any potential pathogens or toxins out there. And then of course our own immune system, about nearly 80% lines our entire gastrointestinal system. That's how important what you choose to eat and how you prepare it is because God puts so much of the immune surveillance in protecting this hole. So, that then allows you to have initial protection. So, I'm very much in favor of colostrum. It's some of the richest sources of this immunoglobulin, and it's what a mother's breast milk, her first, especially dropping down, you might say, of the glandular production in the breast milk, that colostrum-rich immunoglobulin is what helps the baby's first exposure to the world, and it's a very safe way to do it. But you can make your own other immunoglobulins, of course, through your innate and your humoral immune system as your day progresses on and your immune system evaluates and reacts and can make antibodies, immunoglobulins. Yeah. So, it's very beneficial. 

Now, do you need it if you're not sick? I don't know that you need it. I don't take serum immunoglobulins. I think, you know, in general, I try and never eat late, I take my digestive enzymes, I drink my water, the right amount of volume. I exercise, walking daily, and three days a week I do for an hour heavy weightlifting at the gym, and I'm a protein-rich person, and I take my digestive enzymes, my systemic enzymes, my Juice Plus fruit, vegetable, and berry concentrate, my D, my Multi Min, my methylated B. I take my turmeric, my systemic enzymes, my D, and my iodine. So, I take those things, and I feel very, very good. So, I don't have stomach issues, so why would I take something if I'm feeling very good? I don't think it confers upon you something you have to do preventatively is what I'm saying, but it's nice to know it's there, in case you get reflux, acid, burning, gut problems, bloating, diarrhea, constipation, chronic fatigue, that kind of stuff, autoimmune phenomena, high food allergy, IgG reports on Immuno Food studies for the activity going on, reflecting the war along the gut lining and the leaky gut there as well. 

Question
“Would someone with an autoimmune disease benefit from colostrum, who eats as you recommended and exercises, etc.?”  [0:13:46]

Answer
Well, yeah, I just said it. If you have an autoimmune scenario and your symptomatic, let's say you have your rash or you have your joint pain or you have your thyroiditis with symptoms, and your doctor is following your food IgG allergies and/or your thyroid auto antibodies and you're on a healthy food allergy elimination diet, or a carnivore diet which is the best complete food allergy elimination diet, then I don't know that you need the colostrum. But if you're in the beginning throws of trying to heal and bring your gut into a healthier state and lift it up, then maybe for three months you could use serum bovine immunoglobulin colostrum concentrates. The only one I know and can give you good advice on is the Ortho Molecular product Serum Bovine Immunoglobulins, SBI Protect. 

Question
“Hello Dr. E, I am your patient, age 69, and have just started weight training at the gym. What are your thoughts on supplementing with creatine?”  [0:15:07]

Answer
Very, very positive on that. In fact, I have my creatine right here. I mix it into my yogurt that I take. I'll use a scoop of it. There are 5 grams of creatine. I'm using the company Ortho Molecular for my creatine monohydrate, and the scoop has 5 grams in it. It helps with my muscle mass during my workouts, and it helps with my memory. So, I'm in favor of using that, especially, you know, now that I'm in my 70s, already well into my 70s. So yeah, I'm a supporter of that. I think the mental acuity and the muscle building are being reproducibly validated in research after research article that's published. So, I decided to use it myself, and that is something that I would endorse. So, I'm so proud of your gym, and that will make a big difference there. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., what are your thoughts on the use of phosphatidylserine for elevated cortisol (per saliva test)? Pros? Cons? Thank you!”  [0:16:26]

Answer
I'm very much in favor of it. I've been an advocate for multiple decades. Ever since there was a war declared on saturated fats, my father, back in the 1950s, pointed out the corruption of the McGowans and the food industry and the lobbyist back then, destroying the healthy farm and food systems there with undeclared special interests for the grain industry, trying to generate really false experts on dietary advice under the influence of these grain industries, and they would publish almost any junk scientific article trying to demonize saturated fat. Fortunately, that's all been exposed by the carbohydrate - sugar industry now. It's taken 50 years, but by the grace of our wonderful Lord, I have been spared ever falling for that or being deceived, and my father always had us eating meat and eggs and butter, and the chicken roasted on the skin and so forth. So, that is the source, ladies and gentlemen, of your richest and most bioavailable phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamines, your sphingomyelin series for your myelin sheath, for your nerves, for your brain, for your cell membranes, is real food, real meat, real chicken with the skin on it, roasted, not deep fried, real fish, meat, pork, eggs, these kind of things. Real food. It's rich in it. So, if you say, what are my thoughts on phosphatidylserine? They're all happy thoughts because my brain is preserved and can do its function as a doctor and not succumb to Alzheimer's or dementia because my brain is full of those wonderful fats that I get from eating real food. 

Now, of course, you know, I used to make that bar, it was called The Doctor's Great Bar, and that was because decades ago, my patients were eating so little meat, fish, and chicken. They were so afraid of it still because of our corrupt media and our corrupt medical journals and the lobbyists and food interests, that I wanted to create that bar that was so rich in phosphatidylserine, ethanolamine, cholamine, sphingomyelins, that I made the bar, and it was a real big hit. But unfortunately, you know, interactions of the company, human beings, we get caught up in what we think is right and how to do something, and the whole team fell apart that made that bar, unfortunately. But fortunately, we're eating more meat, fish, chicken, and eggs today. So, I love phosphatidylserine. 

Now, why will it be good for cortisol elevations? It's because stress breaks us down. And when you break down, you have this injury here, and then you have the injury, and then you have to fix it up. And all of this stuff right here is the phospholipid fats that have to go in to fix that broken hole in the cell membrane. So, if you're under stress, and that's a catabolic breakdown of the cell, then you want to eat the healthy phospholipids to repair those holes. So, those things that are hanging down, those fats, those essential fats, and the protein get all fixed in there. So, yeah, I love phosphatidylserine, especially for aging and cortisol stress. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on taking phosphatidylserine for cognitive function, cortisol balance, sleep, and weight control?”  [0:21:18]

Answer
The answer is that my thoughts are excellent for them. I mean, to have a good night's sleep, you have to have a calm membrane. Can you imagine how many irritated messages will come from that bad injury right there? Your brain will be irritated, irritated, bing, bing, bing, because it's not working right. But if you're sleeping nicely, you probably don't have a lot of injured brain membranes. So, you can see how important the healthy fats are for our brain, for our memory, and to help with reducing stress because you can repair and get better sleep. And when you have less cortisol, you will have fewer weight problems with aging. That's for sure. Because you're already going to get stressed just because you're aging, and if you're taking enough healthy fats, then that should help modify that. So, please eat rich free-range meat, wild-caught fish, prairie-raised pork and chicken, and roast these things; never deep fry them. And if you have to do any frying, I would do it in beef tallow or suet, you know, pig fat, and you'll stay far, far, far healthier. 

Question
“Hi, I was wondering what blood test you would order to assess the risk of heart disease? I have heard of the heart ceramides test, and also C-reactive protein (CRP) and apolipoprotein B. How would you assess, and what blood work/scans would you order? Thank you so much.”  [0:22:57]

Answer
I have enjoyed, by the grace of God, such a wonderful 45 years of practicing medicine every day with almost – I can’t I think of anyone that I've seen since their teens, 20s, and now add another 30, 40 years to their life that have had to go on blood pressure medicines or have had a heart attack or have become demented or developed a cancer. If there is one out there, I can't remember. But what that is telling you is that our lifestyle is far more important to monitor than any specialty test. So, I've always ordered your insulin level many decades before it became a popular anti-aging topic because insulin stimulates growth and thickening of the lining of the blood vessels. So, if the blood vessel is thick, then the flow dynamic of the blood will be very constricted. But if the cell wall membrane is not thick, then it won't be tough and stiff. If the body is uninflamed with lower sugars, because sugars always promote inflammation in the body, they're associated with clogging up capillaries and choking the oxygen away from cells that need that blood supply at the very little capillary level, then I get a fasting blood sugar to see where you're struggling at. And of course, the ranges of doctors have been woefully allowed to be way too high. I come out of the years in the 1970s when a normal fasting blood sugar was allowed up to 125 mg/dL. That's a death sentence. That's stupid. At least I've seen it come down over the years to 99, but that even is too high. Our cut-off here is 85. So, good old-fashioned insulin fasting, blood sugar fasting. And if you multiply those two together and divide by the denominator, you get 405 for everyone. So, you take your fasting blood sugar, and you take your fasting insulin, and you divide it by 405, you'll get a number that you want to be 1 or less, and that means you do not have such high sugar or insulin that it drives that number up high, so that 405 goes into it multiple times. If it does, you're insulin-resistant. And if you're insulin-resistant, your lifestyle is harming you. You're either not eating enough protein, or you're eating too much sugar, or you are eating good protein, but you're eating excess sugar on top of it, or you're not exercising with weight training for muscles to burn off, what carbohydrates you do use, you know, these things like this. And it has served me through all the years. I have gone through every iteration there is about lipid, LDL, lipoprotein (a), ApoB and HDL, non-HDL, oxidized LDL, particle size, and I'm telling you, even before some of these things were available we had been keeping people's blood sugar advisably at 85 or less and insulin at 3 or 4, and nobody got any of these diseases. Even if they had a technical 300 - 400 cholesterol or a technical 150 to 250 or more LDL, they just wouldn't get sick. They wouldn't develop heart disease. 

So, what would I do? It isn't a test. What it is is a doctor stays in one place year after year after decade after decade, knows you, knows what you're doing, starts getting a record of your behavior and your eating and can love you and say you have to face the fact that you need to go to the gym and push and move the muscle, so that that muscle doesn't shrink down and is unable to burn what healthy carbs, complex carbs you eat, because this happens to all of us with aging. Our muscles shrink, and that muscle can't burn down even good complex carbohydrates. The insulin goes up, the blood sugar starts to climb, and we move toward diabetes, heart disease, dementia, and cancer with aging. So, you need a doctor that you have a relationship with that will be there for you year by year, decade by decade, helping you, your family, and know your situation, and be your cheerleader, be your tester, help you to not get in the weeds with minutia but stay with a steady pace. Exercise. Don't eat late. Remember, eating late will amplify the difficulty of burning carbohydrates, especially as you age past 60. So, eating late amplifies the entire problem of trying to repair your body and build muscles. So, you have to have a doctor who knows these things and works it out with you and watches you. And I am so thankful to God, I have the healthiest patients in my population here with the greatest functionality. 

Question
“Have you heard of FODZYME/FODMATE? Is it just another digestive enzyme, or is there something noteworthy about it?”  [0:29:18]

Answer
Yes. FODZYME and FODMATE, this is getting into – everyone is an expert today, and everyone sells something that's a vitamin. And you know, it's funny, over the decades, I've seen the fads come and go. And I'll tell you, you know, 25 years ago, back then the criticism would be, oh, you're just trying to have expensive urine, or you're just trying to sell me a vitamin, and there's no science and no proof, you know, and you're a quack. You're not a real doctor helping anything. So, in that situation, to recommend a supplement and to get good science on it was very hard. That's why I've published myself, and I've only worked with companies and products that have good peer-reviewed, third-party clinical trials that hopefully are randomized. But you can't do a trial on everything. 

Now, given that, now there are things called FODZYME, FODMATE, what else? There are all kinds of things out there. Everybody has a thing to sell because it has now become popular. And FODZYME has, I think, what it has in it is an enzyme for fructose, an enzyme to help break down fructose, galactose, and lactase. So, it has some of those enzymes. FODMATE is another co-product you buy with some of those enzymes, but it has probiotics in it. And where is the history of it having meaningful value for the gut flora, stool study results, pre and post over a period of time, life extension, patient’s life/quality of life improvements. Where are they? Well, maybe they're there, but we do not have a financing source that will help us study these things. So, you're stuck with doctors like me who have just been here through the decades looking at things like this, and they may have some help, they may not, they may just be a gimmick. I'm going to tell you, now I'm seeing as much corruption in the alternative nutraceutical world as we have in the standard Western medicine because we're all sinners, we all are fearful, we all need money, we all have an issue and struggle with pride, and we all want to seem like we know it all. I don't know it all. That's why I said I'm going to set myself in one spot, like George Washington was a surveyor and he would set his stake down, and he would shoot land mapping off of a certain azimuth. So, 45 years ago, I set my azimuth, and I said, I am going to do this for my patients, I'm going to advise these known functional, much like grandma's advice for all these years, and stick with real food and get the most clear science that I can for any nutraceutical, keep up on the research. And over these 45 years, we've had such success with the simplicity of just good doctoring and inspiring you. I believe in you. I believe in my patients. I believe they can self-discipline themself, auto-regulate, auto-govern themselves what goes in this mouth, what comes out of the mouth, and that they can be the best example not only for their own benefit but for the community and for their family and their workplace and for their children and for God's kingdom. So, this has not failed me, and FODMATE and FODZYME have these enzymes. They have the enzymes that are also trying to help break down lactulose – I mean, milk, sugars, and fructose particles and probiotics. Maybe it's helpful. There just isn't enough that I can say about it other than I don't think it'll harm you, other than if you're overspending on things like this, which many, many people are. 

Question
“Hello, Dr. Rita. Regarding the Analemma rod, how long does the structured water last after the rod has been removed? Does it change the structure if Celtic salt had been added? Blessings!!!”  [0:34:23]

Answer
My understanding is that water, for instance, I have my wand in my jar here. See, there's my wand in my jar? And if I take my wand out, and then I take the same water here, for the next several days, this will stay structured water. That's one of the wonderful things about the wand, it's days worth, because the structured water in this crystal has lasted, I think their longest rod that they've tested is about 25 years, and it stayed structured. So, yeah, this is going to last you a long, long, long, long time. As opposed to that, Mayu swirls with the magnet, so when I take this off here, you can see that that swirl is going to stop, and then the water there is going to lose its structure within minutes. Okay. So, I fill my glass up with a rod in it with my Mayu Swirl so it can more quickly impact through its frequency and bring that water in my jar that I have my straw in to drink from into a structured state, and that's how I do it. So, I think the answer to your question is that it will last for days. If you put Celtic salt in it, it will last for days. So, that's my understanding of many lectures I've listened to by Dolf Zantinge and by his references to Professor Gerald Pollack and the original work of Dr. Ling and Dr. Potts all over the world over the past 75 years, this research on structured water, and helping the plants to grow in the Netherlands and the cell membranes to stay younger, healthier, and more moist and have better transmembrane potential. That's why this would be good for anyone, the one who’s asking about her supraventricular tachycardia. You would definitely do well if you had structured water. So, watch the video, Electrically Structured Water, Gerald Pollack. 

Yeah. If the Celtic salt had been added, it wouldn't make a difference; it'll stay structured, is my understanding. 

Question
“So true. So many pushing supplements that are not good quality.”  [0:37:23]

Answer
Unfortunate. So, I have flown out with my son Talon. We've gone to these sites. We have been in contact with producers. We do have some very limited things I make myself here, and I'm so picky about. The Juice Plus, I've been to their plants, and the only thing I recommend is the fruit, vegetable, and berry capsule, and for little children who can't swallow a capsule yet, the gummies. But even then, I don't like the gummies for anyone much over 4 or 5 years old. So, we have done the best we could with the time we had and limited funds of just my income to fly out to these places, see the scientists, because I was a chemist in my training, an analytical chemist, majoring in chemistry and minoring in biochemistry. So, yup, it is a hard thing. It is. 

Question
“Hello! Your weekly flower deliverer purchased "Retina Clear" supplements for himself and me to "support our eyesight". It contains Vitamin A, C, E, zinc, selenium, copper, chromium, and a proprietary blend including taurine, gingko, grapeseed oil, and more. I told him I wouldn't take it unless you approved it. Would you recommend it ?”  [0:38:39]

Answer
Let me tell you, maybe these ophthalmologists, we should be praising them that they're open now, finally. See, I've seen the whole gamut over almost half a century, where I was a joke, a laugh of a doctor because I was using nutraceuticals alongside a lawful prescription medicine when absolutely needed, along with lifestyle changes, and they would laugh at my patients who I gave a supplement. One of which, one of the best for eyesight is Juice Plus. Why? Because it is the most researched nutraceutical in the world, even to date, with somewhere nearing a 42, 44 peer-reviewed and some blinded and some randomized controlled trials on a variety of things about anti-aging, DNA damage, and it's just concentrated fruit or vegetable or berry blends where it is grown on small farms where it's flash frozen and the water even that supplies these small farms is tested for contaminants, pesticide, herbicide, fungicide, way above the requirements for saying organic. They do (0:41:24) testing at the site, flash freezing upon receipt at the company. I've been there, and during the process of doing a cool dark dehydration, rinsing out the sugar of these things, and preserving the oxidative value of the tremendous amount of biochemical plant phenols that make fruits, vegetables, and berries so tremendous. So, taking the red, the green, and the purple. I've done this for 27 years, and I'm going to say, I think it has slowed my aging and preserved my vision. I was noticing, I don't know if you all remember, a couple of years back, I had noticed in my left eye, I woke up one morning with a floater, a rather large one, which was pesty, and if I would block my right eye, it would make it difficult for my fine central vision to read with. When that happened three or so years ago, I stopped eating immediately for five days. I fasted for five days. I just had water, my supplements, and my enzymes. I doubled my Vitalzym on an empty stomach. Well, that plump immediately reduced by about 85%. So, I had just a little tiny dizzle whistle there in my vision, and I could see my optometrist and get my eye studies, and all went well, and he couldn't even, I couldn't capture any real significant loss for what was left over. But of late, I have even noticed what little, maybe 15% dizzle was there, I don't even, I don't even see it at this time. So, I'm still getting better. Glory to God. Glory to God. 

So, do we need Retina Clear? I don't think so if you're on Juice Plus and with these good, healthy lifestyles and getting chelation. I had that dental work done, and I did a few more EDTA chelations with high-dose vitamin C in a series. Was that what helped lift this little eye dizzle? I think so. I think that, along with a healthy lifestyle, along with exercise, along with the structured water, getting the sunlight in the morning, grounding my feet on the wet grass for five minutes every morning, all things work together, you know, to them that love the Lord, Praise God. So, I pray that Retina Clear is a blessing to people, but we've been there for decades, long before this product came along with lifestyle, chelation, and Juice Plus, and we have the people's long-term health as a testimony that this works. So, I don't think you need it, but I hope it's a good product. You know, you can make an argument about ginkgo and all its microcirculation help and help for the brain and memory. And you could make an argument in research about taurine as an anti-aging element, about vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc, all these things. And so, all the king's horses and all the king's men can be put in to try and make Humpy Dumpty better again, but we have the data on Juice Plus. We have it already. So, why go looking elsewhere? 

Question
“What is the best way to treat a methane gas overload without antibiotics?”  [0:45:04]

Answer
What she's talking about is, you know, getting gassy and bloated and farting, and this usually is having overgrowth of bacteria in your bowel that is converting and chewing up what you're eating and producing gas and the hydrogen and the methyl products, methane gas, and that's giving you the bloating. And they think they have certain bacterial groups that they're identifying that are associated with this more than other bacterial families and groups, but there are trillions of cells inside your gut. And to think that we have this figured out, don't let a doctor lead you down that lying road. It is much more difficult for you. And so, I have followed a standard low-carb diet, not eating late, exercising, adequate hydration, getting sunlight, and using systemic and digestive enzymes when I eat. And I've been taking a standardized Sporebiotic and Probiotic. So, I've been doing that for years and treating people who have had antibiotics for diverticulitis, or gut surgeries, or bladder infections, or lung infections, or sinus infections, skin infections, and I been studying the stool samples for decades now, and I have found that these lactobacillus bifida, acidophilus, the Sporebiotic IG series has done a wonderful with the gram-negative of O’Hara's gram-negative, combinations have really helped. Now, was it the low-carb diet that did it? Was it not eating late? Was it the probiotic? What was the Sporebiotic? Was it the digestive enzymes? Was it the exercise? Was it the natural hormones? Was it the vitamin D? It's all these things, ladies and gentlemen. It's all these things. You know, it just reminds me of the Bible, over and over again, God says, you know, I'm the head and eyes, and not the foot, and I'm more important than this.” No. Every part of our life, our choices, and our lifestyle is important. Yes, you might need an antibiotic legitimately for a bladder infection or a serious sinus infection or a tooth infection or whatever, but what you eat, how much water you drink, how much good sleep you get, what sunlight you get, what your vitamin D level is, what your insulin level is, this matters. And you have to have a doctor that just lets it, gets all knit together, and believes in you, and the wonderfulness of your creation, and all things will work together for good to them that know the Lord. And He's so merciful, it says, “Even the wicked have the sunshine and the vegetables grow, and the plants grow.” I mean, I've read the Bible cover to cover. God is good. God is good to everyone. 

So, the point is, you know, methane gas is a product of a corrupted lifestyle where we're feeding bad sugary junk food down our gut, and it is feeding bad colonies of bacteria that have taken up residence in the excess in our gut, and it makes this methane gas. Just like cows, you've seen a vet poke the swollen belly of the seven different stomachs in a cow, and this bacteria can get overgrown, and they'll make too much gas. So, we get one stomach. We only have one stomach, so let's use it right. And let us do all those things. No, it isn't any one special. You know, I just had a patient who told me that he was on an antibiotic for SIBO for six years in a row. Can you believe that? My goodness. My goodness. To be on antibiotics for six years. I have never seen this in my life. But, you know, I'm here long enough, I'm starting to see so many strange things. No, we got to check his stool out and see why his GI doctor has him on that [0:50:12] Rifaximin antibiotic for six years every day. I can't wait to see his stool flora. So, I feel like they're my tea leaves. I'm reading all these poop study reports, and it's kind of interesting. Okay. So, hopefully that helps you understand. The best way to treat methane gas overload is not an antibiotic; it's a lifestyle. Low carb, don't eat late, exercise, take your digestive enzymes, check your fasting blood sugar, check your insulin levels, and have your doctor follow along with you. 

Question
“I just got my Analemma inlay. It sits at the bottom of my glass water jug. What benefits have you noticed? I also pour the water in my dog’s water bowls.”  [0:50:03]

Answer
I feel my energy at 70, going to be 73. I feel my energy has just exploded since I've been on my water, and all I drink now is Analemma water. Every drop of water down my throat is structured water now. And so, I need 80 plus ounces, 96 ounces a day for my weight. So, the benefits, you know, I have no joint pain, I have no dry eyes in my 70s, my skin is moist and plump, my stool is moist and firm, I don't have inflammation, sinus dryness, or congestion. The joy of having a healthy electrochemical lattice work around all of my 40 trillion cells is fantastic, and it's in a series of doing all the other things well. Okay. So, yeah, I think the benefits are limitless. I think we have to understand how important water is. 

Question
“What do you suggest for people who have irritable bowel syndrome?"  [0:52:34]

Answer
Well, you know what I'm going to say, folks. Don't you? Don't eat late, exercise, drink your water, preferably structured water with the Analemma wand. And there are house units for that. You can get a hold of the website www.analemma-water.com, and that's their website, and you can learn all about it and study it. So, with irritable bowel, certainly find out if you're a blood type A. A's don't digest well, as a class, all the A's, some worse, some better in the A group. But all of us, when we get to a certain age, don't digest well either as we get older. Older people, as a group, just by age, don't digest as well. So, you have to find out your blood type, whatever age you are, when you're having these symptoms. You’ve got to clean up your diet and eat real food. So, I ate eggs today, and I ate some yogurt, and I ate some beef. I had some hard cheddar cheese. And I ate all before 4 o'clock today. So, you just have to live a healthy lifestyle. 

Question
“I used to be a runner; however, the labrum in my hip socket is wearing away. What other exercise would you recommend to stay fit?”  [0:54:11]

Answer
Weightlift, weightlift, weightlift. And then after that, weightlifting. Weightlift. Weightlift. Weightlift. Get in the gym, get on the machines, put the pin in, and use those machines for 45 minutes three times a week. And then walk, so you aren't as hard on your joints. I praise God, you know, when I get up in the morning, and I'm standing, and then I take my dog for a walk and so forth, I have no joint pain. I am just so blessed to be in my early 70s without a symptom of a joint problem. Praise God. That has to be all these good things from the meat my dad gave me. You know, he always brought home extra. We called it the holy meat because there'd be a steak, and they would core out holes to do testing. So we always ate holy meat at home, and mommy would laugh about that; we got holy food. And I'm an Armour hotdog kid. I'm what eats Armour hot dogs. And so, I actually ate beef hot dogs today with my cheddar cheese. And yeah, I think all that made the difference. And I'm a B positive, and I had to start using a digestive enzyme. I think I was in my late 50s when I started saying, " You know, I'm starting to get gas and bloating, and I'm not digesting like I did when I was a younger girl. And now it's fine because I use it. 

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“How to clear arterial plaque using diet, without a prescription?”  [0:55:53]

Answer
Well, there's another recent study that came out. If you go to Physionic, the other place would be – no, I think it's just Physionic, but I can tell you another place. But in Physionic, there's a young PhD there, and he was going over lycopene, and this is again a plant phenol that I'm getting all the time because I take Juice Plus all the time. And it's that red coloring. It's also in tomatoes. And it's associated with clear-cut data now, showing you get your lycopene levels up, and it's going to help reduce plaque in your arteries. But along with everything else we do. So, I have all these years and decades of patients who have been doing this for the most part, and they're just not getting the heart attacks, they're not getting the high blood pressure, they're not getting the dementia. They're growing into old age with wonderful grace and power. So, look up lycopene on Physionic. So, when you get to lycopene, you'll see this handsome young man with black glasses and short brown hair. He always shows off his biceps because he wears a T-shirt so he can show off his biceps. He's a cute young man, PhD. And you'll see his face, click on it, and you'll see his Physionic homepage on YouTube. And then type in the little search area ‘lycopene,’ and you'll see all this data. Or just start taking Juice Plus and live a healthy lifestyle. 

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“Hi Dr. E., could you explain the benefits of being on desiccated thyroid, and any potential concerns, and also with synthetic versions of thyroid meds. Thanks so much!”  [0:58:01]

Answer
Essentially, desiccated thyroid is just that gland of the pig taken out, and so, it's dried up, desiccated. Drying it up turns it into a very dry piece of glandular tissue. Grind it up, and then weigh it as a powder, and then compress it into a little tablet or put it in a capsule. And this has been standardized. I remember there being a lawsuit in the late 90s. The makers of levothyroxine, Synthroid, were trying to sue, I think Armour had the, because it was my dad's company. Yeah. And there was a lawsuit, they were trying to say that it wasn't consistent, the amount of thyroid hormone in the glandular from the pig, and actually, the research found that the Synthroid had less reliable T4 levels in it. It was so funny that they didn't win the lawsuit. So, all desiccated thyroid is just dried out glandular thyroid from the pig, porcine thyroid, glandular thyroid, desiccated thyroid, in a standardized measurement. It usually comes, I think the tiniest they make is 15 mg, which is one quarter of a grain, 30 mg, which is half a grain. I don't think there's a 45. And then you would hop up next to a 60 mg, a full grain. Then one and a half, 90 milligrams, two-grain is 120, and then there's a 240, and I think that's it. But that's what it is, and it has been so reliable over the many, many decades. 

Now, everyone wants to take part in things. So, they take out of the gland, and they try to extract just T4. They've tried to synthesize a de novo, but no. Really, what they're doing is extracting T4 from this. And that's a precursor; whereas T3 is the real thyroid hormone that's in the whole gland. If they take the gland and extract T4, that's a precursor. Now, if you have the enzymes that can convert the T4 into T3, you get a good result. And so, the long and the short of it is, many people can't make that conversion. So, if you use desiccated thyroid, you're getting T3, T4, and T2. All the stuff you need is there to help your thyroid function. 

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“Osteoporosis T 3.3 can be treated naturally without medication? Is Forteo the preferred medication?”  [1:01:07]

Answer
Well, Forteo is a synthetic parathyroid hormone, which is much involved with bone formation, and that's a last resort drug that's used. So, no, that is not something that I would ever have spontaneously given to a patient ever ever in my life. Probably an endocrinologist would be the one to determine if everything else fails. Normally, our natural hormones, our exercise, our vitamin D, good hydration, and good lifestyle have really solved it. 

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“Is 62 too old to start hormones for osteoporosis?”  [1:02:01]

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My goodness, no. That is young. I wish I were 72. I'm 10 years older than that. And I start women in their 70s, their 80s, their 90s on hormones. So, yeah. So, no, you can start it and find a good doctor to monitor you. 

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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe! I am one of your patients. I am 62 and am following all of your recommendations. My lab values are good. I am still dealing with thinning hair. What are your thoughts on oral minoxidil? Thank you very much!”  [1:02:24]

Answer
Oral minoxidil has been used in the past as a blood pressure medicine because it helps dilate the blood flow. And people who apply minoxidil topically are trying to get dilation at the root of the hair follicle and get more blood supply. But if you eat a low-carb diet, you exercise, you get sunshine, you do EDTA, you're going to get the same thing, and if you add minoxidil topically or orally, you'll get an enhanced effect. So, I don't see anything wrong with doing that. 

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“Would love to hear your thoughts about peptides.”  [1:03:19]

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A sweet short answer. Eat your meat, your fish, your chicken, don't eat late, exercise, drink your water, do intermittent fasting, and you'll get natural peptides, which are probably far superior to anything that they're making and without any cost and all the benefits.