YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, May 13, 2025

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Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita! The HemeVite - take on an empty stomach or with meals for best absorption? Thank you.”  [0:05:13]

Answer

I usually recommend taking HemeVite with food. It doesn't exclusively have to because it's already, so to speak, connected to, chelated to amino acids, which helps it in a more absorbable form. But always when you're taking iron, iron is a more difficult thing to biochemically, biologically absorb. And so, the best way to get iron is to eat red meat. Getting it in the natural form is the best as eating animal food products. Second best is the amino acid chelated format, which is HemeVite. Usually it's one or two or three times a day, and that's why we say with meals. Hopefully, that's a help to you. 

Question

“I am using your HRT protocol with one click of estradiol daily and two clicks of progesterone days 1 through 15. If I take the estradiol in the morning, I tend to have hot flashes at the wee hours of the morning, and it wakes me up. So, I have started taking the estradiol in the afternoon/evening instead, is that ok? Can I take both hormones at the same time?”  [0:06:32]

Answer

Absolutely, yes. That's perfectly fine to use them in the evening. And then she asked, “Can I take both at the same time?” And that also is a yes as well. I typically put my estradiol on my face, and I put the progesterone on my inner wrist like this, and I rub them together right over the veins that you can see on my wrist for better absorption. So hopefully that will help you. 

Question 

“As basically a carnivore, I have been advised that my body pH is overly acidic, likely contributing to excess mucus in my body, manifesting as nasal congestion. I have been advised to eat more fruits and vegetables, especially those higher in alkalinity. I already take Juice Plus, but apparently am still too acidic.”  [0:07:33]

Answer

By whose standard, and who is the advisor, and what is their clinical experience, and how many decades have they been practicing every day with humanity and getting tests on them, both on their blood and on their urine, and some of it involves getting pH values. So, this is in the world of the alternative diet, nutritional advice, paraprofessional in general, and we are exquisitely controlled in our pH, roughly between a blood pH of 7.25 roughly to 7.45. Okay? That's an absolute teensy weenie, itsy-bitsy, yellow polka dot bikini, tiny, eenie-weenie range. And if you fall out of it, you become very sick and could die. So, you have to understand, for those of us who are medical doctors who treat human beings and understand the extreme complexity and dynamics of the human body, to just say you're too acidic is a vast oversimplification of generalities. Okay. To say one food is acidic or one food is more alkaline is an overgeneralization. Inside each cell, there are different organelles. One of these is the lysozyme. And in the lysozyme, it contains materials like xanthin oxidase, very potent superoxide dismutase, powerful acidic elements that God put there to kill off bacteria, invaders, extremely rich in your immune system. So, you want to carry these little packets of enzymes and the ability for them to create tremendous acidic, free radical species to kill off fungi, bacteria, viruses, and so forth. Therefore, are they saying that you're too acidic from having too much lysosomal superoxide dismutase or catalase, or other of these lysosomal components? Are they talking about your urine sample, and that's where we have to get rid of waste. And we normally detoxify things by making them more acidic to kill off parasites with a more acidic discharge in the urine, so bacteria won't ascend up the urethra into the bladder? Are we talking about the stool pH, which tends to be on the slightly acidic side? Anything roughly above 7 in the stool tends to be more concerning. So, where are they talking about? 

So, in general, I'm using this lovingly to say, you don't just say to someone, I think you're too acidic. These are opinions about the diet, about the body processing foods, amino acids, proteins, and fats into fatty acids. These are essential for life. There is no essential requirement for fructose, a fruit sugar. There is no essential requirement for carbohydrate starches. And so, there's this war that goes on between the plant-based recommendations and the more animal-based recommendations in the diet, like a carnivore diet versus a vegan diet, and then in between those two extremes are all the variations. And you'll hear the conversation that the more animal food you eat, the more acidic you are; the more plant food you eat, the more alkaline you are. This is theory, this is frank theory, and what you have to do is ask the person what scientific article is being quoted. Don't ask for the doctor's name because often, even doctors don't have enough chemistry, biochemistry, self-physiology, and organic chemistry to discuss these issues. Our ability to attack and kill cells, like potential cancer stem cells that are probably popping up in us all the time, we have to have an immune system that identifies and attacks these cells and then implodes that cell, just destroys it with this powerful, powerful, destructive digestive, free radical-releasing acidic contents of the lysozymes inside of them and many other mechanisms. 

So, this is the area that needs a vast amount of study because if you look at the natural elements, quercetin, vitamin D, melatonin, then you have ivermectin, you can have curcumin, green tea extract, and the list goes on and on. God has given us many, many wonderful varieties of naturally occurring organic molecules that are multifunctional in preventing out-of-control replication of cells, promoting a normal cell life turnover. Even during daylight and nighttime, the cycle of light is part of the triggers for this. So, healthy lifestyles are the best thing you can do to have optimal pH, optimal repair time at night when you're sleeping, and optimal energy during the day for your work. It does depend on you drinking an optimal amount of water, getting an optimal amount of exercise, and using your muscles to maintain muscle mass. Everything is important. Nothing is negotiable. And since the only essential things we need are fats and proteins, we only have essential amino acids and essential fatty acids, these are the foods we must consume and they're being no essential fruit sugars or carbohydrate starches, then you have to say, since we can make our own glucose, then you make the argument, a plant-based diet does not pretend to be the most advantageous for long life and health. And that's going to be argued all the time. You can bring up the China study. That was an epidemiological study that really is based on making a lot of do about people claiming what they ate over the past 20 years of their life. Can you really claim very well what you've eaten over the past 20 years of your life? Well, maybe with more and more science and awareness on this, we can, but memory of diets is the most inferior form of scientific endeavor and reporting. Therefore, these epidemiological studies, on which almost most nutritional advice and books are based of and documentaries are pretty foolish. And you can get a population of people to say almost anything you want, and then you have your documentary that says, well, this method of eating is the best and makes you live the longest. It's a magician. I want to find the truth. So I see the value in….