YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 18, 2025

Question
“Hi Dr. E, my friend suffers from GERD, Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. How would you treat this condition naturally? She is blood type A. Thank you ?”  [0:02:57]

Answer
From our mouth going all the way down to the beginning of our stomach, the esophagus hits the stomach, and that junction right there is called the esophageal gastric junction. And there's a sphincter there that holds it shut. And as peristalsis comes down from the swallowing action, when it hits that junction, then it opens up, and it should drop into the stomach. There in the stomach, the volume mass effect stretchers and the chemical presence of whatsoever in the food will be talked to you by the 10th vagus nerve from the base of your brain, it's your longest nerve, and then many things will go into action to say something foreign has come into the body, and so we want to make sure that there's no parasites or toxins or bacteria or fungus or poisons that get in. So, a lot of your circulation is sent to send blood there to get increased white blood cell circulation to help with defense. There are secretions for stomach acids and enzyme secretions. All these things are taking place as soon as you swallow something. Something. The acidity has to get so low in the stomach down to as low as a pH of 1.5 to kill off all parasites, flukes, nematodes, worms, bacteria, and fungus, to neutralize all this stuff. So, God has us produce all this acid to kill it all and get that pH down. When the pH gets down there, that is a signal of itself. The acidity at the bottom of the stomach is in the duodenum, which is the very beginning of your small intestines. When the acidity comes down so low, it will allow the duodenum to open up so the stomach contents can empty into your intestine because it's been thoroughly treated by the acid and enzymes. And so, it's an ongoing process. Many, many signals are fed back to the body. 

Now, let's say something goes wrong. Let's say you don't make enough acid, and that's what A-type blood people typically have. A's don't make enough stomach acid and enzymes. So, they have food in their stomach longer, waiting for more acid, more digestive enzymes. And so, the fluid chyme in the stomach stays here longer. So, if you have your stomach there, it might burp up into the esophagus, just burp up when you bend over to pick up something or tie your shoe. And that stomach acid is much lower than the esophageal pH. The esophagus is more basic around a pH of 7. So, anything, even a 4 pH in the stomach, burped up into the esophagus, is going to be clearly felt as a burning, acidic, irritating, causing belching, and everything. Therefore, we suggest people with reflux should stop eating around 3 p.m. We recommend that they take digestive enzymes because very often it is the lack of the enzyme and acid that makes the stomach full and inhibits the emptying of it, which generates the burping up and the reverse pressure up the esophagus. We ask them to elevate the head of the bed. We tell them not just a little bit, you know, but we want 15 degrees at least, maybe even 20 degrees of elevation of the bed, the head of the bed. And then we always tell them to be low-carb and not to eat late. Try to finish eating hopefully mid-afternoon. And then there are natural things like aloe vera, you can pick up at Sprouts. You can get glutamine and licorice powders. Metagenics makes Glutagenics, which is a glutamine with licorice, and it has some aloe in it. Ortho Molecular makes a GlutaShield with similar things, glutamine, aloe, zinc, and other items in it. These are all natural antacids. You could take this before you go to bed, just as a preventive thing. Even though you don't have any problems, you can take a big scoop of the powdered GlutaShield from Ortho Molecular. It’s the one I prefer. And then mix that in water and drink it down, and that will help with the healing of the lining of the cells that make up the wall. Of the esophagus and stomach lining. 

So, these are some of the things that we would do. A digestive enzyme should have the proteases, the lipases that would chop up the proteins and fats, and it should have betaine hydrochloric acid in it so that it'll provide acid. And I would take that only with food. You might take one with a meal and see if that helps, and if you feel better after a few days, take one with every meal. You could try two with every meal, three with every meal. I take, and I'm not a blood type A, but I'm 72, so I don't digest as well either. And all blood types, you get to a certain age where you're just not performing as optimally as you did when you were younger. So, everyone's going to need some digestive enzymes with aging. And I happen to use three or four with every meal that I eat, and I typically only eat one meal a day. So, hopefully, that gives you some idea of how to begin doing some management with that. 

Question 
“How long until T3 is out of the bloodstream?"  [0:09:40]

Answer
T3, she must mean free T3, your active thyroid hormone. I don't have that number right off the top of my head. But I would say that if you take a dose of thyroid, that will have, if it's a glandular product, it'll have all T2, T3, T4 in it, and that'll probably be effective essentially. The half-life is probably 8 hours to 12 hours, and that would be my answer for that. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on methylene blue?”  [0:10:24]

Answer
It is the new rave, so to speak, and it's been around for a hundred years, you know. And so, there was a rave back in the ’60s, there was a rave in the ’80s, and now it's circling again. It's like a comet, you know, it comes and goes around. I'm not against methylene blue. It has many abilities to help with scavenging or neutralizing free radical species. It works notably in the mitochondria around complex 4. It can actually help produce more energy for the cell. Most people, when they take it, feel the surge of energy, or it could be a placebo effect because this has been around for so long, and it comes in waves. I'd rather spend my time putting my money and buying grass-fed, grass-finished beef, not eating late, doing weight training, getting structured water into me, adequate water, and maybe getting this wand, you know, for $170, this is the Analemma water wand, because you've got to have the water, you have to have the protein, you need a good night's sleep, you need the exercise. And so, I would put my time and effort into that rather than thinking there's a miracle single molecule that God made that's everything and the kitchen sink, you know, better than everything else. It's not. So, I'm not against it, but I'm not going to, I have a limited income myself, and I'm not going to waste my money on methylene blue. 

Question
“Greetings, Dr. Ellithorpe! Ben, my husband, is here and wants to know about polyphenols in olive oil. What are they good for? Also, is balsamic vinegar good for a keto diet?”  [0:12:37]

Answer
All plants make polyphenols, and these are plant antioxidants. And they're usually colorful. So, you'll see the red in the tomato, you'll see a green in the green bell pepper, you'll see an orange in the orange, and so on. So these phytochemicals are usually what is considered to be good antioxidants for many pathways in the body to snarf up free radicals. Think of each of your cells as a running car. The car has an engine, and there's a combustion in there, and it produces work for you, in that it will drive your car with that energy of the piston, and the car will move, a 5,000-lb car. But it has an exhaust, and that exhaust, we would call the free radicals we make. So, if you have 40 trillion cells all over your body, and each cell has, you know, anywhere from 500 to 40,000, 400,000 mitochondria, like your heart cell will have maybe, you know, 200,000 mitochondria per muscle cell. Your kidneys will have 100,000, your liver, and so on. So, each cell has these mitochondrial engines that are producing all this exhaust. So, God has given us all these things to snarf up, neutralize, reduce these free radical electrons that are looking to rip up like a terrorist some cell membrane or local damage within the mitochondria or the cell itself. That's what aging is in a nutshell. You know, those of you who have come to my office, you've seen my picture. You see that picture all the time where there's a blowout in the cell membrane. See that right there? The blowout in the cell membrane? And our job is to eat the food and have good circulation to repair it every night. That is what we lose the war doing because this is happening all over our body. And as each of your mitochondria has an excess of free radicals, it needs polyphenols to snarf it up. So, any way you can take natural foods, real foods that help reduce and mitigate the exhaust waste, you're going to do better. Olive oil has these polyphenols unique to the olive oil plant. A red pepper will have its polyphenols, and cocoa beans will have their polyphenols. There's a rage about the polyphenols in cocoa beans now. So, I've been around doing this so long, I'm tired of all these rages and clickbait on YouTube. 

Better that you have a cycle that you're disciplined with. You have your get-up time early in the morning with the sun shining. Get that free infrared light early in the morning. Shoes are off. Your feet are in the wet grass for two to three minutes, where you gain the electrons from the earth. That sunlight infrared helps increase what we call the exclusion zone, water lining all your cell membranes to help with energy production/transmembrane potential. And then have an eating cycle where you have a window to eat, and you won't eat past it. We were suggesting that if you're over 60, don't eat past 3 in the afternoon. Start with breakfast. We're made of protein and fat. So, we say eat your grass-fed, wild-caught, prairie-raised mammals and poultry and fish and so forth. We say, if you don't know your blood type, find it out, and use digestive enzymes. We say, drink half your pound weight as ounces every day. Better to try to get structured water. And then once you're doing that, we are in a polluted world, and there are some base nutraceuticals that have good research. We use Juice Plus here. Its polyphenol has been studied against DNA damage reduction, antioxidant, immune system, enhanced function, and many other studies with Juice Plus. So, unless I find something that has remotely as good research as Juice Plus, I'm going to stick with that research and that recommendation because I see it physically, after almost three decades now, the healthiest, longest-lived people I see are the people using Juice Plus. That's the richest polyphenol sourcing I've ever seen in one research-documented nutraceutical. And then we recommend the vitamin D, iodine, and a multimineral amino acid chelate. Albion is the name of the company. So, you get your minerals. And then methylated B vitamins. So, you get your minerals, which are co-actors, and your methylated B’s, which are co-actors. Those minerals and the B vitamins are such a support for the template for God to bring certain amino acids and fatty acids together to reconstruct and make various collagen, tissue, and materials in your body. That's the way to think of it, and that's the way I would think of it. 

Now, is balsamic vinegar good for a keto diet? Sure, it is. And it has acetoacetate, which is easily used in your body as one of the cofactors that are produced in the Krebs cycle to help you make energy. So, yeah, I think it's good. 

Question
“What water-filtering system do you recommend for the whole house?”  [0:19:31]

Answer
Actually, there is a water filter system now put out by the Analemma company. Analemma wand, the people who make this wand here that I use, now they have a whole house structured water support system and filter, and that's the direction I am going, which is at Analemma-water.com, that's their website, and you can see their whole system there. I'm not excited about your standard reverse osmosis and remineralization. That's what I currently have. I don't know the name of the producer of it, but I am looking more at the scientists and the research behind Dr. Gerald Pollack and Dr. Potts, who is now deceased. But the research on structured water is just incredible. The work of Dolf Zantinge, his work and research on animal and plant growth and enhancing the productivity of the, I think it's the Netherlands where they have all the tulips and that little small amount of land but they produce so much food, they did all this research on water many, many, many decades ago, and that's where this all comes from. So, I respect their research and their publications. So, that's where I'm going with my water system. But get outside, get your feet in the grass for two to three minutes with sunrise. Don't have glasses on. Let the sun hit your eyes. Get your circadian rhythm synchronized with the sun and the earth, and that'll be a blessing. 

Question 
“What is the difference between Argentyn silver and colloidal silver? And what about colloidal gold? What is it good for?”  [0:21:55]

Answer
Well, I'll speak to Argentyn silver and colloidal silver because I know a lot about that. Argentyn is nanoparticulate, meaning it is processed into water and mixed, dispersed in certain ways that the molecule of silver is so tiny, it is in a uniform form, nanoparticulate parts per billion. And colloidal silver is more clumpy, clumpy, and the use of colloidal is helpful, and it's been around for years, thousands of years in fact. But if you're talking about getting a good therapeutic antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral effect, you want uniform dispersal of the killing agent, which silver is. And so, you want the nanoparticulate material, although colloidal is all we've had for many, many years, but in the past 30 or so years, we've learned about the ability to make nanoparticulate, and it is better. I think if you go over the counter at a health food store, they have now privatized it as a less concentrated, but at least it's available to the population now. It's called sovereign silver. That’s the same thing as Argentyn silver, but I think it's only 13 parts per billion, whereas Argentyn, the most dense nanoparticulate I know of, is 23 parts per billion. They're both good. You'll probably just have to use more of the sovereign silver over-the-counter. 

And then what is colloidal gold? Well, they can take the same metals and suspend them, and I don't know of a nanoparticulate gold. Gold had been used in arthritis as an anti-inflammatory. It fell out of disfavor many decades ago. I'm not sure why, but I haven't heard or seen any use of it in the alternative anti-aging functional integrative world for so many years. So, I couldn't speak to it because I've never used it or seen it revived as something useful. Sorry about that. 

Question
“What could be the reason for tiredness, joint aches, and pains? Could it be low estrogen and low testosterone?”  [0:24:44]

Answer
Well, the answer is, yes, and I do try to keep my testosterone at least at 100 and my estradiol in that same range. But I do the exercise to keep my muscle mass in good bulk value to hold up my structure. Eventually, I will die. “It's appointed unto man once to die and then the judgment.” But in the meantime, I can work out three to four times a week and do very hard weightlifting and my daily brisk mile or two walk, along with all the other nutraceutical things I do, and not eat late, and that will help mitigate the feeling of fatigue. The hormones help with the repair, rebuilding, and supporting of your bones. They're like general contractors. But you have to eat the proteins and the minerals and the B vitamins and the water and lie down at night to get the good construction going. You have to do those things on your part. There's more and more talk about the value of (0:26:01) sulfa in the joints and in the cartilage. There's a lot of talk about the bones and density and it's not so much the mineral calcium as it is eating enough protein because that calcium has to be put onto the structure of the triple helix of the collagen molecule just like they put the iron girding in cement to firm up the cement so the cement can catch on to the metal and it kind of holds it stable, same with collagen and all. And you have to have a high-protein diet. All animal foods are rich in sulfur and minerals. That's why animal products for food, grass-fed, wild-caught, free-range, are one of the best sources of complete foods. Minerals, B vitamins, sulfa, protein, amino acids, and the like. So, when you say tiredness, there are many things that go into it. Estradiol itself is an anti-inflammatory, and that alone, if you're at a decent level and that's hovering at the 30-40 range on estrogen, but if you get up to the 75, 100, 150, you should get the joint pain relief starting at those levels. Then you need enzymes, and then you need the water. 

So, it's a package, people. It isn't any one thing. You have to have the whole package going forward. We have engines, those mitochondria, we were just talking about, and they generate the free radicals. You have to have the antioxidants, and I take Juice Plus for that purpose. But there's a lot of talk about other things, such as sulfa and melatonin, and you could go to methylene blue and discuss these more fringe topics. There seems to be more and more research on sulfa of late, and melatonin as well. So, I think as people are starting to realize that the pharmaceutical solutions aren't there in the past two to three years, there's been this explosion of healthcare providers, YouTube personnel getting on the bandwagon with research PhDs, discussing some of these more old-time but very valid things. I remember when I was applying to medical school, and my father reminded me, I think it was my dad, that when you go for the interview, you're not really going to have doctors talking to you who are clinicians with patients. They're busy out there taking care of their patients. You're going to be interviewed by a PhD research personnel, maybe a PhD in anatomy, a PhD in microbiology, a PhD in physiology, and so forth. So, you better realize that you may be out there and getting the love back from your patients, but it was some hardworking PhD person at a desk doing scientific research day in day out, year in year out, decade in decade out until he finally got the right answer for the right situation for an enzymatic process that is helpful either in medicine development or many other things that involve physiology. So, we have to put the whole package together and value them all. 

Question
“How soon can you eat after taking a probiotic?”  [0:29:54]

Answer
I would say mediately. I don't see any reason why you should not be able to eat with any of your nutrients. The only nutrient I would delay eating would be a systemic enzyme, and maybe your thyroid. The reason is food; typically, if it's real food and not processed, it has a good amount of minerals in it. Calcium, being one, will tend to block the work of a thyroid prescription medicine. And the other thing is you want your systemic enzymes to be absorbed and not work to digest the food you eat. So you want to have a couple of hours after taking a systemic enzyme before you take any food. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., can vitamin C be taken to prevent getting constipated after a surgical procedure? I'm having surgery to repair an inguinal hernia.”  [0:30:53]

Answer
Yes, absolutely. Yeah. So, you can take – you know, typically 4 grams of vitamin C is about the average human threshold. Now, some people might start getting loose stools at a thousand, but the average patient I've had over the decades, it's about 4 grams, 4,000 mg a day, and they can take that easily, and that is very helpful in tissue healing. It's involved in the establishment of that bond you're going to make with the scar and the tethering of the elastin/collagen materials in your skin and the tissues healing up after surgery. Eating real foods, sulfur-rich foods, eggs, and broccoli vegetables like Brussels sprouts, broccoli, those kinds, eggs have the sulfa in it, that's very helpful. The protein and the animal foods needed good healing. I typically recommend my patients fast for 24 hours before surgery, and then after surgery another 24 hours, because that'll really stimulate growth hormone repair, which will create tremendous healing and less scarring. If you can find a functional doctor who will do EDTA chelation and vitamin C before the surgery, like the day before, and then as soon as you get done, the day after, get another high-dose chelation and vitamin C, then you can improve the microcirculation everywhere. So, the penetration, restoration, and cleaning up of the debris will be better. 

The other thing I tell patient is not to take their systemic enzymes before surgery because it is a slight blood thinner, very slight. But if I were a surgeon, I wouldn't want my patients on enzymes for four days before surgery because the bazillions of little capillaries will ooze, and then you have to use the cauterizer to kind of fry those little ends that normally would have stopped on their own. So, don't take systemic enzymes four days before surgery. But the very next day, double it, you know, take four twice a day the day after surgery, when you're just on a clear liquid diet, so that you can get a tremendous amount of anti-inflammatory effect and do that for probably two weeks and then you can drop down to once a day systemic enzymes thereafter and then follow up with your primary doctor or your functional doctor who understands how to use systemic enzymes, and that hopefully will be a help to you. 

Question
“I'm on Eliquis for Atrial Fibrillation. Is taking vitamin K contraindicated?”  [0:34:17]

Answer 
There are different kinds of vitamin K, and the K1, which is the typical one you get from eating leafy green vegetables, messes with anti-coagulation, and the superficial knowledge was taught to the patient, take the drug and avoid the good foods, and don't take your vegetables. I think that's foolish advice. I would say eat healthy, and then we'll adjust the Coumadin to the healthy standard diet you maintain. But nevertheless, never expect anyone to pay attention to a healthy diet and medicine, at least up until recently. I think they're getting better about it now, and I thank the Lord for it, and I congratulate my fellow physicians for being more open on this as well. But the other kinds of vitamin K are not involved in clotting, and that's vitamin K2, K2, and that is the kind that you'll see associated with taking vitamin D and K2 supplements, and that won't be a problem. So, you can take your vitamin D with K2 and not worry about it having any contraindication to your being on an anti-coagulant. Hopefully that helps. 

Question
“I’ve been having lower right abdominal pain, but I’ve also been very gassy with a lot of burping and bowel movements. Could this be appendicitis?”  [0:35:53]

Answer
I would say it's always a possibility, but you have to see your medical doctor, urgent care, or ER because how long has it been, the exam is unique, do you have an elevated white blood cell count, and do you have fever, chills? These are things that have to be addressed. So, yes, theoretically, it could be, but see your local doctor and have that addressed. More likely, it depends on your age; we don't know your age, who's asking this, it could be diverticulitis or diverticula bordering on getting inflamed. So, there are various things like this. And they would want to get a urine sample, make sure you're not getting kidney stones. So, see your local doctor and don't fool around with abdominal pain. 

Question
“You have said that cancer is not genetic but is a mitochondrial metabolic disease. Could you please explain that? With my recent cancer diagnosis, I have been told to get a genetic test so my family can be warned. Do I need to do that?”  [0:37:06]

Answer
So the engines of all the little cells, the mitochondria, the engines in these cells that produce energy, along with other sources, you know, there's going to be the argument that structured water now is also a big source of providing energy to the body. But when a cell cannot produce energy well, it's missing some nutrients, some minerals, some B vitamins, there’s oxidative stress, maybe some ischemia, either an injury, a infarct will occur there, or a cancer can evolve, and that will generate what we call anaerobic metabolism, which is a metabolism to allow the cell to survive without oxygen around. And this is very similar to our life when we first started as a single cell, then 2 cells, 4 cells, 8 cells, 16, 32, 64, 128, and so forth. We didn't have any lungs or blood vessels. And that rapid cellular growth became stressful, and there had to have been a blood source and oxygen available, which wound up being the uterine lining of the mother, with the bloody lining having rich blood and oxygen in it for the baby to implant into. And then the stress, the oxidative stress, stopped the rapid division. And once the heart and blood vessels are formed in the first six to eight weeks, you're getting a tremendous placenta and formation of body parts starting already. So, there is the argument that cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease where chronic oxygen starvation occurs intermittently, and there are pathways, hypoxia-induced enzyme flip switches genetically, that can turn on and make the cell think that it's not going to survive in its current situation, not enough blood flow. Maybe the sugars are too high, maybe the triglycerides are too high, and the cells are getting too little oxygen, and then they become angry and they flip. 

So, it isn't to say there aren't any unique genetic trends that we have seen in the HBLA genes that we, snips we find, some of the methylation snips. Learning about all these things since the genome project in the mid-1980s, and then they got all the genes coded. By 2000, the genome project was done. But they spent almost a trillion dollars of our tax money as if everything is a gene system, and we've had all this knowledge over the years about Otto Warburg, who got the Nobel Prize in 1931 for this metabolism of cancer, which is a fermentative, oxygen-deprived metabolism of abnormal cells. And there should have been a lot more research on this. There have been thousands of papers since 1931 on this. But I don't know who has the finger that pushes where my tax dollar and your tax dollar go, but it certainly made the pharmaceutical and certain health care businesses very wealthy while people were dying off. I am going to say there's very little impact of genetic research on cancer survivability and treatment currently. The lifestyle, the low carb, exercise, enzyme, not eating late, looking at healthy minerals and polyphenols, plant antioxidants are where the greatest outcome of survivability has emerged. So, although I'm not going to say 100% it isn't genes, should you have your family tested and make money for the $4 trillion plus healthcare business, when you would be far better off to say, family, let's not eat late. Family, let's stop eating quick, fast, easy, convenient, and cheap. Highly processed carbohydrates, starches, and fruit sugars. Let's have family time, relaxation, fellowship, eating a protein and a healthy vegetable, and not eating late. Let's take a few things like extra water, vitamin D, and some enzymes, and exercise, weight-bearing, and get to bed on time. And then let's get our insulin checked all the time and our fasting blood sugar, our triglyceride, and our hemoglobin A1C. And let's see with all that exercise and healthy eating of real food and checking our sugar metabolism that is far more associated with the hormone insulin-stimulating thick blood cells that choke off cells that starve them for oxygen as a better recommendation for the family, and it doesn't cost you a dime, and it’ll save you money anyway, and make a happier family. So, that's my bias there. 

Question
“I am on levothyroxine, and I am taking Systemic Enzymes. Can I take them together, or how long after levothyroxine should I take the systemic enzymes? Thank you!”  [0:43:29]

Answer
I would say take them together. I take mine together every morning. My NP Thyroid and my systemic enzyme, I take them every morning on an empty stomach. And I will at least wait two hours before I put anything in my mouth. 

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“I also walk my dog. We have miles of desert behind my house, but I still feel the need to be in the gym. There are studies supporting the benefits. Comments?”  [0:44:02]

I agree. But as I was telling a patient earlier today, we maintain our muscle mass so that we can stand up from a chair without pushing off with our hands, so we have enough muscle strength to do that in our 70s, our 80s, our 90s. And if you don't have that muscle mass with resistance training, you are not going to get up off that chair, and you're going to fall, and no amount of running, even though you have a good vessel running through you, is going to help get you up off that chair if you don't have the muscle mass. So, it's a blend. I am not against cardiovascular or even high-intensity moments of working out, where you'll take a walk and then you break into a jog for 20 to 30 seconds, and then you go back to your walk, and you go through cycles of that on your walk. That's fine. So, don't take that I'm against it, but please, three times a week, the research shows 30 to 40 minutes pushing on those machines is where it's all at. 

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“Have you heard of or have an opinion on Bioresonance testing and treatment?”  [0:45:48]

Answer
My opinion is not ready for prime time. Now, I'm not saying holding energy according to vol handles that are linked up to a computer that feeds in certain frequencies associated with certain nutrients or food items, or holding it and doing it by digital O-ring applied kinesiology. I did a second doctorate in this stuff. I'm not saying it's not true. There's wonderful research that everything is energetic. Everything is energy. Everything is about maintaining your little engines to keep your cells going well, and everything matters. But is that Bioresonance machine the answer? No, it's not. It is too wild west. Back in the 1990s, I had a machine for doing this, testing people, putting something on the plate, holding it, and seeing if it resonated with you. What if you had a bad day that day, or you were dehydrated, or many other, you know, emotional things that affect your bioresonance? So, the science isn't good enough yet to say that it's a valid resource. Maybe the person using it and saying they're a naturopath or helpful or some kind of energy person, maybe they mean well, or maybe they found a way to make some money and just do little simple things. I don't know. But I've never seen this to be an enduring, reliable resource. But I believe in science because we are all vibrating. We are all energetic. It just needs to get some of that trillion dollars and the big finger instead of benefiting the multi, multibillion, trillion pharmaceuticals. How about letting us locally decide where to go and have a whole, you know, 500 million researching bioresonance? You know. It's just when you have government, you're going to get fraud and you're going to get sticky hands in the cookie jar, and the bureaucrat is going to take larger and larger chunks of money because nobody's watching, and that's what happens. 

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“Hi Dr. Rita, what do you think of the genetic methylation gene testing that is the big rave online? One company (10x your health) is testing by a cheek swab for the MTHFR, MTR, MTRR, AHCY, and COMT? Thank you for your wisdom.”  [0:48:29]

Answer
There you go. Raves. I don't like raves. So, what if you have snips or partial snips of any of these methylation processes? And they're usually not one gene, but it's a process of things to come to making that coenzyme effective. And mineral deficiencies, B vitamin deficiencies, and so many other situations. Dehydration will affect it. So, do I think we need to make this company wealthy? I think you need to spend your time calling your congressman, getting a good doctor that isn't going into medicine to make money and yachts and two homes and vacation homes and diamonds and jewelry and nail time and hair time, and you know, all this kind of money spent on themselves. Rather, good doctors who just want to be with their community and know their patients and keep on reading, keep on studying, let's have that, be what we go with. And they'll say, "You know what? You're not drinking enough water, Suzie. Let's have you do more of that. You know, Suzie, your blood type is this. You should be taking enzymes. You're this old now. You need enzymes. Suzie, are you in the gym? Get yourself to the gym. Suzie, are you taking your minerals, your vitamin D, your methylated B complexes? Are you eating too late?” These things are the biggest payoffs on longevity and health. Never ever have I seen a methylation study make a big difference. And I'm not against looking at all these pathways. I majored in chemistry and biochemistry for heaven's sakes. But what I'm saying is we need good doctors who will just take care of a few thousand patients for decade after decade after decade and see the children grow and then the grandchildren grow, and that doctor knows that family and is there Semper Fidelis and is going to take care of you. That is what makes a difference, the lifestyle. Never a single little snip finding you need a methylated B complex. 

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“I’m eating a carnivore diet, I eat bacon and eggs for breakfast every day. Is this OK? I get worried about eating that much bacon. I usually have about two slices of bacon and four eggs for breakfast. Then I don’t eat again until dinner time, which is usually beef or fish.”  [0:51:22]

Answer
Well, it sounds like you're eating mostly like a carnivore. And hopefully, if you're eating grass-fed, prairie-raised, wild-caught sources, this should be fine. It's when you start adding a lot of the plant kingdom that you can get repetition in food, which can wind up getting with irritation/inflammation on the lining of the gut, leaky gut, and then you get these food allergies from the plant kingdom largely. So, I don't see any problem eating like that. 

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“My brother-in-law has dementia and Alzheimer’s. Is it safe for him to get chelation? He has a naturopathic doctor who does not recommend it because she thinks it could cause more inflammation in the brain. I would love to get your thoughts on this. Thank you, Dr. E.”  [0:52:15]

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Absolutely, and he absolutely, in my opinion, needs chelation to enhance the microcirculation and disinflame the brain. Well, I have no idea where this person claiming to be a naturopathic doctor would ever say that. That's absolutely bizarre. I disagree 100%. Yeah. I've absolutely seen people who have been told their husband is on Aricept or Namenda, which are medications given for established Alzheimer's/dementia cases. And they have changed their lifestyle, they have gotten an exercise, they've gotten on hormones, they did the chelation therapy, they took the anti-inflammatory systemic enzymes, and they not only didn't have to quit, they stayed in their job and retired at a time they wanted to retire. So, I've had everyone on chelation with any history of memory challenge, dementia, or Alzheimer’s. So, tell that naturopathic doctor to go to the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, ACAM.org. Sign up and go to the chelation training there. 

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“Are all oils that you cook with bad for you in terms of cholesterol and triglycerides? Is one better than the others if you have to cook or bake with an oil?”  [0:53:58]

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No, not at all. I only use butter and beef tallow. So, when I'm baking a cake and it asks for a cup of oil or half a cup of oil, I always translate that into butter. I never cook with anything other than butter or beef tallow. So, we love cholesterol. You have to have tons of it. The stuff between my two ears is mostly cholesterol up there. So, yeah, I love cholesterol. Your body loves cholesterol. 

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“There is a new study showing there is a cardiac risk with Melatonin. The study was conducted by an internal medicine doctor who looked at statistical data and said it was preliminary. It wasn't randomized and only looked at melatonin users. What are your thoughts about Melatonin and cardiac risk?”  [0:54:45]

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Yeah, that recently came out. 

“The study was conducted by an internal medicine doctor who looked at statistical data and said it was preliminary.” – I’ll say it was. It was an observational/associational study where they asked questions about by ICD-9 code for…what was it…I guess it was for memory issues, and then they screened for usage of melatonin, and it's not like they were doctors seeing these people, or they were patients. Anyway, I think it was a lousy study. I think the American Heart Association, if I am correct, is one of the ones that published this. I haven't respected the American Heart Association at all ever since its inception. Dr. White, one of the first cardiologists around the time of this whole issue about cholesterol, was a cardiologist, and he was against the whole proposition published by the American Heart Association, which, back in his time, was a newly created association, called the American Heart and Lung Association. It was originally that, and then it morphed into separate entities, one the lung association and then for TB prevention, and the other one was the heart. And it's business. It was bought off, I think, Pillsbury. I don't know which companies were doing this, but the whole thing is corrupt. 

So, I'm for melatonin. Medicine is corrupted. There's a big figure that pushes your tax dollars around. Let's get the government out of medicine. And when you have melatonin studies that are indeed being sponsored by local influencers, local college, and not collective, and then the whole thing collectively behind the scenes, the puppet strings by a central guiding finger, then you're going to get better science. Right now, the PhDs are bought off in many situations because they know they won't get a paycheck, they won't get tenure, and they won't be kept on at the university unless they play the social game. And the game back in the 1940s and 50s was you're going to see that cholesterol and high saturated fats are the cause of cancer. And now the American Heart Association finally, in 2015, very quietly published in its newsletter, in its magazine circulation, that it does not believe that saturated fat is associated with heart disease. So, this is the game people play, people. And we all know melatonin is natural. There's a guy by the name of Dr. Reiter. He's about 88 years old. He is as sharp as an attack. If you put the word “melatonin” and “Dr. Reiter”, you know, he's got glasses and a little round face, he looks a little chubby, and with his white coat on. And he's a PhD and he works…where does he work…I can't think of which university now. But he's been publishing on and is the most published on melatonin worldwide. So, if you want the down and dirty on melatonin, then go and ask him. I know this man takes, I don't know, 300 mg. He takes what is called a supraphysiologic dose of melatonin every evening, and I know all his buddies do too in the labs, many of the other fellow scientists. 

Melatonin is a wonderful antioxidant, anti-aging, anti-cancer, circadian rhythm, and a wonderful cell preserver. It sucks up antioxidants generated from the engine. It helps regenerate glutathione, so you could make the argument that, without melatonin, you wouldn't have as much glutathione. So, no, I like melatonin. And this is just a cheap shot piece of research, in my opinion, on trying to shoot down melatonin. Not that we need a lot more studies, but where's your tax dollar going, ladies and gentlemen? So don't complain if you don't call. Call (202) 2224-3121. Call them and say Get government out of healthcare. Get the government out of my insurance business. The Affordable Care Act of Obama's administration was absolutely a setup to put a wealth transfer into the big insurance companies and doubled, tripled. And I know many people – I couldn't afford my own healthcare insurance for my family. I, a doctor, couldn't afford it, and I had to let it go. I said, you know what? I never use it. I'm not going to pay, you know, $1400, $1700, and then it went up to $2100, from what I think the original was like $700 or $800 years ago. So, give me a break. It was a setup from the beginning. It's a setup now. Get the government out of health care, totally. Let it go back. And once Obamacare went through, when there used to be dozens and dozens of healthcare insurances that you could compete with and use and select from, then it went down to four or five carriers. Period. Well, of course. Just like when the government subsidizes colleges, the price goes up. Okay? And it gets higher and higher to go to college. I remember spending $195 back in 1973 for a college at Austin Peay State University for a whole semester, and that included my books. So, you know, give me a break. 

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“I was exposed to mold. How do I get rid of the candida?”  [1:02:02]

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That’s a low-carb diet. You work with your doctor and get keto on your diet, insulin, hemoglobin A1c, fasting blood sugar, and your insulin level. And test your stool for candida, complete digestive stool analysis. Find a good doctor who'll do that. 

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“A few episodes back, you mentioned a functional doctor in South Florida. What is his name, and why do you recommend him?”  [1:02:24]

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Yeah, his name is Dr. Casey Peavler. I think he's in the Miami area. He has a YouTube channel called Dr. Casey Peavler. So, that's the one I'm talking about. 

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“Could you share your thoughts about drinking raw milk daily, eating cottage cheese, plain yogurt, etc.?”  [1:02:47]

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I love it. I love it, and I’m all for it.