YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, May 9 2023

Question

“Can you tell me if EDTA suppositories are good to use in lieu of IV chelation? I have read that detoxifying suppositories have a higher absorption rate and a longer half-life than the IV chelation. Also, have you heard of Huperzine A for brain memory support? If yes, what should the dosage and frequency be?” 

Answer

That’s not true. So, to answer your first question, I am the one that helped work with developing the suppositories and did the clinical studies on them. And they are by far, or at least were, because I'm no longer involved with detoxicant, it is not to be made available without a prescription by a physician. I always made prescriptions and saw patients when I used them. But apparently, it got out onto the internet, and it was shut down by the FDA or some regulatory body. But then apparently, some rogue element went out of the country and so it is made somewhere else. So, I don’t know. I’m not a part of that.

But what we did originally is we use EDTA, calcium disodium EDTA 1500 milligrams per suppository. We also had a 750 milligrams suppository. And we added 375 milligrams of suppository for toddlers and little children. It is and was very effective. And we are the only ones who gave our blood, sweat, tears, and money to try and get a new investigational drug application for it. Because it is a drug that should be prescribed. And we spent years and years and time and effort trying to do that. All for naught, it was shut down. So, that was quite depressing. I learned about all the unsavory aspects of our FDA many, many years ago, decades ago.

But what did we find, when we had the original detox and we did the animal studies, we did the pharmacopeia genetics. It was the most effective suppository delivery ever developed in the nation. Because there are suppositories where you can have Tylenol delivered to bring a fever down. You can give it to children that way. There are suppositories for things that stopped nausea and the absorption and the blood levels from suppository delivery of medicine is at best, maybe 18% of whatever is in the suppositories gets absorbed. We got up to somewhere I think in the realm of 30, 37%, where we developed this philosophy that if you took three suppositories, it would equal roughly one IV. And intravenous is your gold standard. It’s delivering 100% of the dosage of the detox EDTA, rather than calcium disodium EDTA 1,500 milligrams. If you go into the blood vein, you are getting 1,500 milligrams. If you give it by suppository at 1,500 milligrams, maybe you're getting truly absorbed into the bloodstream, maybe 350, 400 milligrams. Let’s see, 30% of 1,500, I’m sorry, 500 milligrams. The issue was, we did that. We did the radioactive labeling. We did the animal studies. We were able to track it and we actually found a reabsorption, enterohepatic reabsorption biphasic pattern. We were very, very pleased.

Are they good to use in lieu of IV chelation? If it isn’t under our production, I don’t know what you are getting in that product over the counter, out of the country, through the internet, I don’t know what you are getting. So, I can’t speak to it. If you go to a physician, and you have it prescribed, we've used Harbor Compounding in Costa Mesa. That's the ones who we worked with originally in the study, our publications, our research, and our drug applications. So, they are the only ones that I use. I don’t think it’s the best way. But it is a decent way. It’s a long-term effective way. Three suppositories at 1,500 milligrams would roughly equal one of our IVs at 1,500 milligrams.

Half-Life? No, the half-life, there is some recirculation but the metabolism of it is through the kidneys, you pee it out. And so, it's pretty much gone within six hours, eight hours. So, we're going to say that no, there really isn't any extended half-life with it. So, the best is IV. The length of it in your system is still very brief, six to eight hours. But it is effective. You have to be consistent. 

Now the other question you had was, Huperzine A. I think that is one of the supplements we use for enhancing brain health. I don't know the prescription of the dosing right off the hand, But yes, it has been associated with benefits. So, chelation helps microcirculation. And that’s why we do chelation therapy for all our Alzheimer’s, dementia, memory patients, post-stroke, and things like that. But remember, nothing can overcome a bad lifestyle. If you're eating too many carbs, and clogging up all those capillaries all the time with sticky, high fructose, corn syrup laden molecules, and starch, and sugar molecules, and not drinking enough water, and your inactive, sluggish, you cannot overcome the damage that will do. You might slow it down. But we say this is a whole system where we're asking you to drink your water, take systemic enzymes, use the chelation, EDTA, be on a very low-carb diet, and exercise, not eat late, and put all those things together plus natural hormones, we see memory improvement. 

Question

“Does it matter if you have had long-term versus acute heavy metal toxicity when it comes to full healing? Just to clarify, the longer metals are in the body, are they harder to remove?”

Answer

My experience is no. Doesn’t matter if you have long or acute heavy metal toxicity when it comes to healing, no. Metal is metal. And it's inorganic and it is a toxin. And there are no safe levels. And they're all damaging. And they all bioaccumulate over time. And so, any method and frequency that you can do to reduce your total body burden is always the right thing to do. If you had an acute exposure to lead, or to arsenic, or to mercury in a fish, versus the slow amount you're getting and what you're breathing, drinking, and eating, just removing it with EDTA chelation is effective. You will get the same end goal by doing it. There is cilantro, a high dose of vitamin C, chlorella, garlic, and all these other things that help. Zeolite. These are all chelators. The good Lord has given us many things that help to detoxify our bodies. There is nothing as good and researched out there as a broad spectrum, safe, non-toxic, administered by a clinician who is trained in EDTA chelation therapy. There is nothing greater than that. I will be getting mine Thursday afternoon with my dear friend and scientist Bob Settary. We chelate together. We talk science. We are the ones that worked on the detoxifying suppositories. We are working now on his hydrogenated water and the research from Japan on the extra proton benefit. 

Well, we need research. Who is going to give us a multi-million dollar research grant to do that? The answer that I’m going to say from being around this for over half a century, I have been involved in heavy metal chelation. I’m going to say, it’s difficult especially when it is deposited into your bone. But it does come out. So, it is harder the longer that it’s there, the older the person. So, I’m going to say, yes, it’s harder. But the net benefits of the vasculature and the microcirculation is equal in every application. So, you are going to get the microcirculation, nitric oxide synthase enzyme opening up the blood vessels everywhere, every time. Hopefully, that helps.

Question

“Would EDTA help with fibrocystic breast tissue that presents with small benign cysts?”

Answer

Any time you are trying to improve your bodily health tissue, if you get better microcirculation going throughout your body and then you put in enzymes like a systemic enzyme like Vitalzym, or Vascuzyme, systemic proteolytic enzymes to try and chew up these fibrocystic breast tissues. The answer is yes. But with fibrocystic breasts, I would also be low carb and I would also be on iodine. Because iodine is helpful in preventing fibrocystic breast proliferation.

Question

“What is the best frequency to see benefits from chelation therapy? How frequently should someone test for metals annually?”

Answer

It all depends. It depends on several things. So, let's say the standard we teach at the American College for the Advancement of Medicine is about once a week. But can you do it more often? Yes. What is the maximum dose that you can take? It's 50 milligrams per kilogram. Do I use that on my patients? No, I use 25 milligrams per kilogram. Because you are removing a toxin and as you remove that toxin, there can be flu-like, feeling fatigued, icky, sort of say, as you are moving out free radical toxins. So, I don’t like to rush this. It is beneficial at any level. So, I have determined to have the fewest side effects. I use the 25 milligrams per kilogram, which is 1,500 milligrams as a standard dose. And we run it over an hour and a half. And you can do that three times a week. We have some who have done it four times a week and it's well tolerated. The least frequency to see benefits from chelation, any one chelation is beneficial. So, if you only did one per year, you'd get a benefit from it. If you did it once a month, you'd have 12 times the decrease in your total body burden. If you did it once a week, you would have 52 times, because there are 52 weeks a year. And normally we do after about 30 IVs, we do a measurement called a challenge where we measure your level in the urine. And this kind of guides us to how the total body levels are coming out. 

To test for metals, it depends on how often you are doing it because if you are doing 10 chelations a year, or once a month, 12, I think, you know, it will be helpful to know the rate at which you are removing your heavy metals. You will see some reductions. It will be slower. But I like people to try and get 30 in a year, which translates to roughly about 2.5 a month for 12 months. You can get about 30 days in one year. That’s where we see the more consistent, nicer drops. But anytime you remove a toxin, you're doing a benefit. 

 Question

“What is the most important supplement, mineral, or vitamin you can recommend for someone with tremor-dominant Parkinson’s?”

Answer

I would do EDTA chelation therapy. And I would have them on vitamin D. And I would have them on N-Acetyl cysteine or glutathione orally. They could also do the intravenous glutathione. And then, they should eat a rich phospholipid diet, the meats, the egg yolks, and things like that. Very low carb. So, that’s what I would say there.

Question

“My son has bad allergies and he says he has Polyps in his nose. I suggested D- Hist But I am not sure how many milligrams he should take a day. He’s in his 40s and he’s a positive blood. What else do you recommend?“ 

Answer

I would say  D- Hist has 200 milligrams of Quercetin which is the natural antihistamine per capsule by Ortho Molecular, a very foundationally God-fearing company. And that's why I work with Ortho Molecular. I really love their leadership and owner there. I can trust them and have been out there to look at their operations, at least twice.

So, it's 200 milligrams per capsule. The first day you take it, you have to load your body up, all your mast cells. These mast cells are the allergy degranulation inflammatory of cells in your body or at least the major ones. And so, you would have to load with about eight capsules, on day one. Day two, six capsules. Maybe day three, four capsules. And I would probably stay on two capsules twice a day for a total of 800 milligrams a day and see if that's enough to see all the symptoms quiet down. But you got to drink enough water. And then I would take those systemic enzymes, like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme to chew up all that debris and inflammation and dead cells. And then, I would use Argentyn nasal spray, which is the antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal. Be on a low-carb diet to rinse out the sinuses, and blow your nose, that should help him greatly. 

Question

“A 71-year-old friend of mine, who is generally in good health, had a bad fall about 2 months ago, resulting in a severe concussion. She had been doing okay, but now has weakness on the left side, dizziness, slurred speech, difficulty eating, unstable walking, some falls, etc. Her MRI and CAT scan was unremarkable. After difficulty getting an appointment with a Neurologist, she finally has an appointment tomorrow. Please suggest a good protein shake since she has not been able to eat much. Would it be helpful to take 5 Vitalzyme in the morning and in the evening? Wondering what other supplements would be helpful. “ 

Answer

I would get her EDTA chelation. She needs improved circulation to any damaged tissue, any old bleed, or micro bleeding that occurred in the jostling of the brain. Yes, the enzymes five of them, twice a day. Lots of water. And limited, you know, do a physical occupational therapy exercise to get the pump going through. Very, very, very low-carb diet. 

Now I don't really have a good protein shake that I like. I would suppose the Ortho Molecular brand has, what is the name of it? I don't prescribe it often. Yeah, there it is, InflammaCORE. Because there is inflammation after trauma. So Ortho Molecular has reliable research-tested amounts because I don't trust these companies that make these protein powders. But Ortho Molecular powders InflammaCORE is at least reliable. And chelation therapy, and enzymes, lots of water, a very low carb diet, a time-restricted eating window, and I would try and get her back or him back into, you know, talking, activities, going out as tolerated. And then, that's where I would start.   

Question

“What are some problems with the pure vegan diet?”  

Answer

Well, that's a good way to ask it, what are some of the problems because there are significant ones. And these are usually the gradual development of deficiencies. A vegan diet is a pure plant-based diet without any eggs, without any fish, without any animal products. It is a pure, pure plant diet. And what happens with that is you get the fat, essential vitamins, vitamin E, vitamin K2, and vitamin D. These fat-soluble vitamin deficiencies start to emerge. Plus you get certain B vitamins, B12. You get certain mineral deficiencies, in particular iron. Then there are certain amino acids that are very challenging. And for pure vegans, I just have to tell you practicing 40 years even here in Southern California, I often find people start and you may actually feel healthier and feel good initially with a pure vegan diet but over time, rarely do they stay pure vegans. They'll have the occasional piece of fish, or the occasional egg, or the occasional dairy which all these things are very beneficial in providing some source of these multiple amino acids, fatty vitamins, and minerals back into the diet. It helps improve these deficiencies. And so, this smoldering state of health, it often will take about seven years it seems before they finally go back to eating more of a free range wild caught prairie raised diet. So, those are some of the concerns that I have for anything that is purely vegan.  

Question

“I don't have the best health insurance, and I can't find a functional medicine doctor who accepts my insurance. I struggle greatly with my sleep and brain fog - often feeling sluggish throughout the day, usually wanting to take a nap (but can't), and struggling with sleep-maintenance insomnia for about half of the month. I eat very healthily, I am on my feet most of the day, and I've tried a variety of sleep hygiene methods (reading before bed, no electronics after a certain hour, going for morning walks every day, etc...) yet I still struggle with my sleep and daily fatigue. I rarely wake up feeling well-rested. My blood tests always come back within the normal range. Doctors just want to medicate me, but I want to get to the root and fix this naturally. I took the chronotype test several times and I am the dolphin each time. Do you have any suggestions for people like me who struggle with their sleep and energy no matter how hard they try to create healthy routines and how many different methods they implement?” 

Answer

I’m not familiar with the chronotype test. 

There are many things involved in sleep. Your sympathetic, parasympathetic, autonomic nervous system is in your lower brain, in your brain stem. It impacts almost every aspect of your well-being, including your sleep and circadian rhythm. It can get messed up with toxins, and sleep work cycles, stress, your dietary food corruption with hydrogenated fats and plasticizers, and glyphosates. All these things are hurting, cell membrane damage from not enough phospholipids. But vitamin D deficiency in the gut, and good bacteria in the gut, are well associated with a decrease in serotonin and even melatonin production and these cycles. The electronics around us, having your phone near your bed, having the electric outlet to your house near your bed with these electromagnetic waves, electric blankets, even electric clocks, and their lighting, the electronics are another issue. How old are you and what is your exercise level? Are you eating too late at night? And do you need digestive enzymes to help you with your evening meals to keep that food from just sitting in your stomach too long? Are you eating enough fats to get the vitamin D absorbed, the vitamin K2 absorbed, the vitamins A and E, and all these things that are very important. Do you have enough of the minerals, magnesium for relaxation? Do you have your estradiol or your progesterone if you are a woman and the DHEA pregnenolone? Do you have enough testosterone if you are male? Are you drinking enough water because chronic dehydration makes it irritable brain cell membrane.

There are quite a few things that go into this. I don’t know where you are at. We do take insurance here. And we have several physicians that would like to probably work with you. But I would start with taking Vitamin D and getting that level above 80 micrograms per deciliter. And probably no higher than 120. Then I would probably work with getting a very good probiotic in your gut with B vitamins, pyridoxal phosphate, which is vitamin B5 in a very good methylated B complex. And then I would ask your doctor to help you with your hormones, male or female. I don’t know if you are a woman or a man, I know male and female Renee’s. So, anyway, start with that. Start with not eating late and an exercise program. Then I would go from there. We do take plenty of insurance here. 

Question

“What is the best way to calm the nervous system?” 

Answer

If you want the immediate thing that I have learned to do is deep breathing. So, you take a deep breath in and hold it and then you blow out that breath very slowly. You do that for about five to 10 times. That is probably one of the best parasympathetic modulators that you can do. I think we too often are breathing shallowly, too inactive, and sitting too long. So, that’s what I do. 

The other thing to help my nervous system is I focus my brain on reading scripts. I read my Bible, four chapters every morning. I set aside an hour of a day every day of my life for that purpose. I reflect on those words. Year after year, reading the Bible cover to cover, I get the Bible done in maybe nine months. So, I have read it through and through so many times, I couldn’t even count that. I just have so much Scripture floating up of reassurance. That is very calming to my nervous system. And then, exercise. Exercise is fantastic for balancing your autonomic and sympathetic to your parasympathetic system. And having routines, to have that morning bowel movement, and to have water, and your routine is very critical. 

Question

“What do you think of juicing with green vegetables only?”

Answer

You know, I don’t like juicing, I’m sorry. It’s unnatural. You are turning what would have been a complex carbohydrate through juicing, pre-digesting, and making available much more of the sugars for immediate spiking of your insulin. So, I would go ahead and eat the green complex carbohydrates but I would never juice anything.  

Question

“Do you need to take time off of work, the following day after chelation therapy? Or are you able to function normally?”

Answer

Everyone is able to function normally. I mean, I chelate in between, sometimes at my lunch hour, and I have busy people coming all the time, in the mornings, afternoons, moms, dads, kids, everybody. It’s a very natural thing. Remember, this is safe enough for babies, you know. We gave this to toddlers, you know, 1.5 years old chewing on the lead-based, chipped paints in Chicago. They were actually intoxicated from a teeny, tiny chip of lead-based paint. We saved their lives. This is so safe.

Question

“Husband has Iritis, flare-ups usually occur a few times a year. Any recommendations for what could be causing/and treatment outside of steroids?” 

Answer

That is inflammation of the iris of the eye. Absolutely. In fact, I had someone go blind here. She was having optic neuritis. So, it wasn't Iris, it was the nerve in the back of the eye. So, this was a neurological problem. Anyway, it’s from the gut. It’s something he is eating. He’s been chronically eating. And now his whole body is having these inflammatory flares when these dietary waves are occurring. If I saw him, I would probably go with a carnivore diet until all of the flares stop. Then I would do the food allergy test. I would do the complete digestive stool analysis to look for the inflammation in the gut. And use systemic enzymes. I would take rich phospholipid powders, probiotics, and vitamin D and vitamin B complex methylated. So, that’s what I would do.

Question

“If I use the progesterone cream you recommended as a sunscreen will it affect my hormone balance as I use progesterone and estradiol as prescribed?” 

Answer

Yes, it'll have some impact. If you're using the Kokoro, I think it's less than 20 milligrams, recommended dose, that's a very low dose. And so, I don't think it would be anything huge. And progesterone is such a wonderful, natural molecule. We are bathed in it for a year whether we are a boy or a girl when we are growing up in our mommy’s tummies, their wombs. And it is such a wonderful productive thing. So, if you use you know, two, three, four pumps as a sunscreen, I think you are going to do fine. 

Question

“I would greatly appreciate your thoughts regarding the cause of slightly elevated liver enzymes. (AST 41; ALT 61) Most obvious causes have been ruled out. No alcohol consumption, no OTCs, liver ultrasound was normal, labs are negative for hepatitis, iron, and copper are normal, and all other investigative labs are normal. This was the only abnormal finding on routine labs and follow-up labs. Have been following dietary and lifestyle recommendations for a year including a very low carb/ high protein diet with mainly meat and veggies only, drinking half body weight in ounces of water daily, and avoiding food sensitivities. vitamin d level is 88 (taking K-Force daily), regular brisk walking 4 times/week, fasting 10-12 hours nightly, 8-9 hrs of sleep/night. BMI 23.5, no alcohol consumption or OTCs with acetaminophen, no medications. No symptoms, sleeping well, no jaundice, good energy and focus, late 40s, still having regular menstrual cycles. Just mildly elevated liver enzymes. Ultrasound for “fatty liver” was normal. PCP has suggested stopping the use of all vitamins, minerals, and enzymes of any kind with the exception of Vitamin D (kforce), omega 3s, and quercetin. Labs will be repeated in 2 months. 

I’m perplexed about the elevation and conflicted about stopping the use of vitamins, minerals, turmeric, and systemic enzymes while adhering to a low-carb/high-protein diet. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts regarding the possible causes of elevated liver enzymes and general solutions for such elevations.”  

Answer

We are all unique. And well over 40 years of practicing, I have found certain people have some mildly elevated liver enzymes, no matter what. And as long as there is no gallstone found on the ultrasound, which I’m sure it was okay as you had an abdominal ultrasound. Some people have mildly elevated, and when you put that AST41, some labs will call that a normal range. And I think our lab level has 37 for the AST. ALT, I think it’s something like 48 or 47. You are 61, I don’t know. Maybe you are one of those rare people that always have a slightly mildly elevated enzyme. As long as you're stable, you have a good workup, I don’t think we are missing anything. Maybe a complete digestive stool analysis would be helpful, besides the food allergy. Looking for inflammation in your gut, that’s a complete digestive stool analysis by Doctors Data in St. Charles, Illinois. It’s excellent. That’s what I use for studying it.

What else would I say? I’m not opposed to being off all vitamins for a month, you know, just stop it. Even two or three weeks and redo the lab and take a look. And if you can correlate stopping it, maybe there's something about the product, that you're is not sitting well with you. So, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. So, let's do it that way. I would follow up and follow what your doctor says and stop them for, you know, two, three weeks. 

Question

“Do you suggest any supplements to improve hearing loss? Or any other treatments besides hearing aids, my husband wears hearing aids nice new model but is having a hard time understanding sometimes, he cannot hear certain tones.” 

Answer

I would do EDTA chelation therapy to improve any and all systems in the human body or any other treatments. 

So, you have to put the whole thing together. Chelation is wonderful. You have to start exercising, getting your circulation going, fasting, and eating the healthy phospholipids that repair the cell membranes, nothing replaces that.  

Question

“Over the last few weeks, I have noticed that the outside of my right ankle and the top of my right foot near the ankle have been warm. At first, it was just a few times a day, but now I notice it almost continually. It isn't uncomfortable but the rest of my foot, other foot, and hands are generally cold. My husband doesn't think it is warm to the touch but I definitely feel what I call warmth there. Do you have any idea what this could be?” 

Answer

I think that probably is the beginning of a neuropathy. And getting these unusual nerve feelings, so see how I take a little twist of my salt and put a little salt in my water, then I mix it up with my straw. I get all those little crystals and trace minerals.

I think this is a peripheral neuropathy starting up. Nerves have a myelin sheath. The myelin sheath needs phospholipids to make the fatty insulin around the nerves. And when they start to break down, they usually start breaking down as we get older in life. And it's usually the feet that we first start perceiving these altered sensations. So, when it’s not obviously hot and yet you are feeling the message of heat, this is what we call neuropathy. So, you can see your doctor or a neurologist. The other thing that you would always want to check is for swelling and blood clots, things like that. I would see your doctor. But I would work on eating a phospholipid-rich diet, which is the carnivore-type diet, where you're getting all those wonderful fats that every cell membrane, including the nerve membrane needs, and enzymes for inflammation, and water. Chelation therapy for the microcirculation and see how that works out for you. 

Question

“Can a sonogram of the breast be done instead of a mammogram and be as accurate or reliable and safer?” 

Answer

They are never going to say that to you. The standard of care, the policy here in California, the state medical board wants us to use recommendations of the standard of care which is an annual mammogram. Now, you the patient, you are an independent sovereign citizen, still at least yet for a while, you can run your own body. So, I never do the mammograms. I never do it. I think I have had two in my lifetime, once when I was 39 and once when I was 58. I was normal both times. The second time I got a bruise. I just will never do it again.  

Now, I can take responsibility for myself as an individual. And my fasting blood sugar that I just recently did was 62. My IR is 0.5, which means I’m at very low risk for vascular heart, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and all those things because I eat a healthy lifestyle. And I exercise regularly. And I get my sleep. I drink my water. I take my vitamins. And I don't eat late at night. So, there's nothing more I can do than that. So, I'm just not going to worry about it. So, I myself, I don't do mammograms, I can do my own self-breast check when I shower or bathe. If I see my doctor annually and have a pelvic because I do take natural hormones, they can do a breast check and a pelvic exam and feel for any unusual lumps or bumps. And I can check myself a month later. And beyond that and seeing your own doctor and checking to see that your insulin is 4 or less, checking to see that your fasting blood sugar is 85 or less, checking to see if your triglycerides are never higher than your HDL, roughly in the 60s or less range. Checking to see if your hemoglobin A1C is 5.2 or less range. If you are doing those things and trying to eat a healthy diet, low in carbs, and avoiding processed foods, I don’t think you have to worry about screening for cancer because it’s unlikely. But I would say the standard of care is to do a mammogram. And they are never going to market it for which it would bring less money to the hospital of the imaging center. Ultrasounds are helpful. They are different methods, totally. I think there are different perimeters and qualities to it that the radiologist is going to say is inferior for detecting concerning lesions. So, that’s my answer there. You have to be an adult. You have to take charge of your own body. Either live a life where you eat what you want and keep on screening until your cancer or heart disease shows up and then bingo you ate yourself and had a lifestyle that brought you to the disease. Now bingo, you got it and found it on screening. The system will make all kinds of money off of you. Or you can live a life to say no to these things and only going to keep these treats to legitimate true holidays, holy days, and very special day scenarios and go from there. 

Question

“What is the name of the company you like us to do the food sensitivity test with?” 

Answer

That is Immuno Foods from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Immuno Blueprint, I think is what it is called from Florida.  

Question

“I am a mid-fifties yrs old patient at TLC and getting good improvement of my health, so THANK YOU. I was on estradiol and progesterone cream for a year, with occasional spotting. I switched to bioidentical patches and pills 6 months ago using them every day so I didn’t have any periods. I switched from 0.05 to 0.1mg Estradiol patch and 100mg to 200mg Progesterone in mid-February 2023. Mid-April I had a 5-day period 2-3 pads a day, a few days I had another lighter 5 days period. Last week I started another period of 3-4 pads a day. Today is the 6th day, it’s getting lighter. What are the possible reasons for my periods? Should I cut back to 0.05 estradiol and 100 mg progesterone on my hormones? Is it better to take a week's break from hormones?” 

Answer

We need blood levels. And we need to do a pelvic exam, probably a pelvic ultrasound. So, I would be seen. I would come to your doctor and ask for blood levels of what you have been doing. What were you doing and what level did you get to? And then, we want to get the ultrasound to see how it impacts the uterus. Then we want to make an adjustment and follow you up. So, see your doctor on that and get a blood test right away. Call your doctor and be seen.