YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 3, 2026

Question
“Should a 77-year-old take hormones?”  [0:03:55]

Answer
Absolutely. Why wouldn't you? I mean, the men wouldn't ever question that years ago. I've been practicing 45-plus years, and there's been male hormone replacement therapy for many decades. Men don't lose their hormones, but when it does become low, they have always had testosterone available either in shots or troches, lozenges, shots. So, there's no concern about that. The reason is your doctor has to do homework, and your doctor has to start learning about what estradiol does other than just developing the lining of the uterus, endometrial lining, the first layer of the uterus, to build it up to receive potentially an embedded egg fertilized that will develop into a baby and then a human being is born. But if you're past age, you know, menopause, say 50 or older, women usually lose their ability to produce hormones, such as estradiol and then progesterone; there's no more ovulation, fertility drops off, and then the menstrual cycles end. But along with it starts the drying up of the eyes, drying up of the mouth, the skin wrinkling, the hair failure of growth and darkening- I mean, getting light graying of the hair, the joints drying out and getting sore, the metabolism slowing down, the weight gain begins in midlife, the energy is depleted. Fat estradiol is known to help with fat burning, and fat burning is very important for heart health. So, it's a cardiovascular benefit as well. It's an immune enhancer. 

So, why would you deny, let alone the bone density support issues? Why would you deny a woman natural estradiol, natural progesterone, natural testosterone, natural DHA? It's just that you have to understand what they all do, what their role is in optimizing health and maintaining life. And if you're a doctor who is just paid to follow the same old protocol that you make all your money on, why should you spend one little effort more for anyone and just keep raking in your money with your policy, protocols, your state board, and your board certifications' recommendations? Don't think outside the box. Just stay in your comfortable, overpaid, underperforming specialty. But many people, over many decades, have been looking at cell physiology and oxidative stress. Many of us have been using and managing things like homocysteine, hs-CRP, insulin testing- all these things way back 30 years ago. I remember in the early 1990s when homocysteine testing first came out for methylation for anti-aging, anti-cancer, cardiovascular health, the range of normal was up to 24. And today, the normal range, I think, is up to 13 in some labs, and our tolerance level is 9, and some even more strict anti-aging doctors are 7 or less. So, things like testing insulin are a 30-year history with our practice. It's nothing new. We certainly have been doing this long before any of these YouTubers, any of these younger doctors. We're so grateful to God that they finally have their eyes open. We're so grateful to God that they are finally studying more and discussing these things. I'm grateful to God that PhDs are being given the respect that they should have had for many years regarding research and studies they've been doing to feed into the clinicians that we are supposed to be able to give to the patient. And so, it's wonderful to see this. And I've been praying for the glass ceiling to be broken and for the nutraceuticals, the lifestyle, and preventive medicine to receive their due place in clinicians’ practice. And so, yes, a woman should have hormones. And yes, the doctor should be trained about the things to look for, things to manage. That's not what we're going to go over here. If you're interested, you should find an experienced functional natural hormone replacement physician who will look at your age, your body type, your blood type, your metabolic profile, your activity level, your state of hydration, and enzyme level. And go over a proposal and follow up every two to three months to make sure prescribed hormones are absorbed or taken in orally or as a lozenge, however you're going to receive them, or a patch, although I don't like patches because of the plastics, and then monitor you. I never give natural hormones, and I only use bioidentical. I've been doing that 30-plus years, 35 years at least, since the mid-90s. Yeah. So, yeah, that's, yeah, a good 30-plus years I've been doing it. 

So, I never give it without systemic enzymes because young girls that have higher hormones are full of healthy natural systemic enzymes to prevent blood clotting, to prevent inflammation of any sort, and they're well hydrated. So, we insist on hydration, systemic enzymes every day, and movement, exercise. If you want to be young with hormones, you better be moving your body like a younger person, and you better be taking enzymes and drinking your water. So, those are the things that I would say about a 77-year-old taking hormones. And yes, you can menstruate. I'm 73, and I have a cycle every month, or 99.99% of the time I have a cycle every month. So, yeah, I think it's a very healthy thing. 

Question
“Hi Dr E, my teenager had a low potassium of 3.6 on her recent lab. She is very anxious when it comes to blood draws. How do we raise that naturally?”  [0:11:42]

Answer
Eating real food. There's a ton of potassium in your meat, your fish, your chicken, your pork, your eggs, fruits, and vegetables, but primarily I would be eating the fish, turkey, chicken, beef, eggs, things like that. 

Question
“Progesterone cream vs pills, which one is better absorbed?”  [0:12:36]

Answer
Well, there's no study to compare them. You're stuck with us clinicians who have decades and decades and decades of experience with these things. And I find progesterone can be just beautifully absorbed through the skin, or sometimes we put it on the vulva, just as well, giving great levels of the hormone upon testing a month or two later, as well as oral. And so, no one's going to make any money comparing oral progesterone and then topical creams. So, I'm going to just say you have to do it, take it in either form, have your doctor retest it in a month or two or three, and then just see what works better. I like an American lab range for progesterone to be greater than 4, and it can be as high as 30, 40, or 50. Those are all safe. I've never seen the concept of progesterone being too high. They're all fine. I don't think I've ever seen anything much over 60 in my 35- 40 years of experience. Progesterone cream usually itself doesn't get much higher than, like, a 15- 16 range; maybe rarely a 20 I've seen it. But therapeutic values begin somewhere around the 4 range.

Question
“My thyroid panel came back without red flags. Nutritionally, do these results need improving? Thyroid Perox Ab < 3.00 U/mL, TSH 3rd Gen 0.713 uIU/mL, and T4 Free 1.11 ng/dL. Thank you, Dr. Ellithorpe!”  [0:14:36]

Answer
And I don't consider red flags necessarily meaningful. Many times over the many decades I've practiced, when they're just sampling average Americans and lumping them all into one pot and getting an average, that's mixing up sick people with very healthy people, and you're getting an average number that's usually skewed because, you know, there are those functional doctors who will say up to 93% of all Americans are metabolically inadequately functioning. So, your metabolism is poor due to typically high carbohydrate, high fruit sugar, inactive lifestyle, staying up late indoors, underhydrated with water, eating processed foods. So, if you want to use them as your laboratory comparison, you're going to wind up endorsing an illness trend, and that's exactly what has been happening all these years. So, when we look at lab panels and we see a red flag, very often I will say, my free T3 levels, which are usually almost never done by other doctors, that's the real functional thyroid hormone. T4 is a precursor. You have to make the enzymatic conversion from T4 to T3 by taking off one iodine molecule. When I give my natural thyroid, NP Thyroid, or Armour Thyroid, or Westhroid, glandular thyroids, whole glandular thyroid, I'm giving a form of it that's natural, and it has T3, T4, T2, T1 in it, and so your body has many more choices. 

So she said, " Do these results seem to need any improving. Thyroid peroxidase antibodies, which are antibodies to the thyroid, usually from a leaky gut over years, were under 3, and so that's normal. So, fortunately, that doesn't look like she has any thyroid peroxidase antibodies. The (TSH )Thyroid Stimulating Hormone from the brain was 0.713 which is normal, and the free T4, which is only the precursor of 1.11 was normal. So, it all looked fine. But again, I would have gotten a free T3. I also would have gotten a thyroglobulin antibody. 

Question
“Best way to deal with crunchy, achy joints, a positive (ANA) antinuclear antibody test, and elevated (RF) Rheumatoid Factor and gluten intolerance. Hope that wasn’t too long or specific!”  [0:17:40]

Answer
Well, I'm going to say, the number one thing I would do with your doctor is see them and find out what your blood type is. If you're an A, and depending on how old you are. I don't know if you're 20, 30, 50, 60, 70- whatever your age is- your blood type does matter because blood type A doesn't digest well, doesn't make enough enzymes, so they become inflamed earlier, inflamed gut, and that leaky gut then creates a cytokine impact on the lymph system, and the whole body gets inflamed, and then these antinuclear antibodies are the first thing to go up. The gluten from the corrupt, glyphosate-treated grains in the United States gets absorbed through the gut into the body and damages us that way. So, that's damaging to the one-cell lining of the gut. So it's kind of like an escalating catch-22 and that will create these antibodies you say such, like a Rheumatoid Factor, and then gluten being positive, it implicates that this has already happened. I see it mostly in blood type O people to get the gluten sensitivity testing turning up positive. 

The number one thing, in general, with people is to put them on a food dis-inflaming program, so that they would go on a food elimination plan. I just jump right to a carnivore diet, and I say, "Why don't you try for a week just eating meat, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, eggs, and butter, salt, and pepper, and see if you don't feel much, much better. And you could test your ANA; you could test your Rheumatoid Factor after a week or two like that, and normally they come down nicely. The other thing is, I would encourage the person who has these kinds of positive ANA, positive Rheumatoid Factor, and gluten intolerance or gluten sensitivity to use systemic enzymes like Vascuzyme from Ortho Molecular. It's called Vascuzyme from Ortho Molecular. We've private-labeled it as Systemic Enzymes, and you take it on an empty stomach. That will also clean up inflammation in the body and cytokine excess production. I would also encourage them to drink half their weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. And then I would ask them to go to bed earlier and arise with the sunshine and get 3 minutes outside barefoot in the wet grass or on the wet sand or your feet on the dirt, on the lake, on the shore of the lake, for three minutes, so you get the electrons from the earth and you get the infrared light from the morning sun. This is very stimulating for repair of the cell membranes, including the lining of your bones, the synovium, and cartilage that is there. All that rich protein diet not only eliminates anti-nutrients from plants and not only does it reduce the exposure to more toxins and endotoxins generated from plant anti-nutrients and oxalates and phytates and tannins, and so forth, but it helps rebuild these tissues and cell membranes. And then, drinking the water, taking the enzymes, eating that reparative diet, you should be convinced yourself, working with your doctor by retesting them and seeing the improvement. So, that's what I do. And anytime my O-positive husband eats too many crackers, bread, I don't know, if he gets into some treat or cookies, something that might be brought to the clinic without my knowledge because my staff knows I throw the stuff away if I see it in the break room, then he will go on a 24-hour fast and do all these things – the water, go carnivore, and take his enzymes and double them up on an empty stomach, and he feels immediately better in a day or two. So, that's the direction I would head, and work with your doctor on tracking that, maybe trying those simple steps. Now, I don't know if you're insulin-dependent diabetic, so you have to work this out with your doctor because there are some contraindications for going straight to carnivore, but most people can do it. 

Question
“I started BHRT about 6 months ago. 58 years old. The first 2 months I spotted, but not since. Is this ok? Could my dosage be too low? My doctor doesn’t believe in cycling progesterone, so I use 100 mg daily.”  [0:23:22]

Answer
Well, the 100 mg, if it's getting a good blood level to suppress the development of the uterine lining, then you won't get a menstrual sloughing off from the lining. But what usually happens over time, whether it's months or even years, is that the uterine lining is going to be exposed to enough estradiol over the months and years; it'll build up and slough off. And when it sloughs off, and it's unexpected, then everyone gets, you know, their panties tied up in a knot, and they think it's uterine cancer. And I'm not saying they shouldn't look for this, but we certainly have so many, tens and hundreds of thousands of women on hormones now. Post-menopausal women are re-menstruating. Their uteruses are normal, and they will respond to natural hormone replacement therapies. Mine does; I'm 73, and I menstruate every month, but the reason why I do it is that I cycle my progesterone, the 1st through the 15th every month. And so, by the time I get to around the 12th of the month, then I will have had enough progesterone build-up, that what little lining developed in my uterus like it always has since I had my very first menstrual cycle at 12, then it will slough off. And then, as long as it comes regularly every month, I know this is a healthy cycle. If I were to have irregular cycles throughout the month over and over and over, month after month, then I'd better go see a gynecologist and have this looked at. So, you have to work with your doctor. You have to tell them how you feel about getting maybe a baseline transvaginal pelvic ultrasound to look at the lining of your uterus. And then, if all looks well, you know, you can cycle it and have a little period every month on time because you're running the show now with your hormone cycling all the time. And check the levels of your estradiol. I like the estradiol to be roughly 75 to 150. Most women have all the benefits, then without any of this excess estrogen impact on the uterus, and you can have normal cycles that way that are very light, just enough for a light day pad, and then after about 4 or 5 days, it's all over. And then the progesterone, either use it the first half of the month forever or the last half of the month forever. I don't care which half you use; just be consistent. And then check these levels of the progesterone when you're on it and the estradiol, and see how you feel, hot flashes, how your sleep is, how your energy, your vitality is, and get the benefits and see what you would do. 

I think you should be able to talk with your doctor and just say, "I know you don't believe in cycling progesterone, but I wanna try it." And, if he throws you or she throws you out of the practice because they don't want to do a cycled progesterone, then find a doctor who will, because the normal human physiology is to have the progesterone only half a month, and it's typically the same half of the month all the time. So, you could find maybe another doctor that will work with you. 

Question
“What is best for morning sickness/headache?”  [0:27:44]

Answer
Protein. Absolutely, it's protein. I will never forget boiling eggs for the Cook County OBGYn ward in the OB area when I was on rotation there as a medical student at Cook County Hospital, and we made hard-boiled eggs, and this nausea went away. The other thing is hydration. They're not drinking enough water. They're drinking flavored teas and coffees and lattes, or, you know, back then I don't think they were drinking lattes because that was in the 1970s. But it was a lack of protein; that was my experience anyway. Okay. Hopefully, that would be helpful. 

Question
“When do you use nattokinase and when do you use Vitalzym for enzymes?”  [0:28:46]

Answer
Well, I really never use nattokinase because it's very similar identical to serrapeptase, which Vitalzym is. Serrapeptase is what's in Vitalzym. It also comes from Japan. From the silkworm enzyme, they make the silk, and then the silkworm makes the enzymes to dissolve the cocoon so the butterfly can come out. So, that's the serrapeptase, and it's fibrinolytic, just like nattokinase is. Nattokinase is made by biological fungi/bacteria, and so that is what is that sticky stuff on the food that makes nattokinase, another fibrinolytic enzyme. I think they're equal. I don't think there's any really comparative study of them, at least that I'm familiar with. What is the name of that channel… His name is Carl Curtin. He is a researcher. And if you put it on YouTube and you put in the name “nattokinase” and then put in the word- I'm not sure his first name is Carl, but just put in the last name “Curtin,” you'll see he's kind of like a dark-haired, maybe 55-ish, early 60s. He has some comparative data, rare data, but I can't recall it. It's been so long since I've listened to him go over the science. But he does a good review on nattokinase. His big three are nattokinase, serrapeptase, and bromelain. Those are his big three. And that's what I would suggest you see– Mr. Curtin. I don't know if he has a PhD. I think he owns; he's been doing nutraceuticals since the 90s. I don't know if he has any lettered degree, but he's extremely well-versed in these topics, and I think he owns his own supplement company.

Question
“Should you be rotating progesterone if you have had a hysterectomy and are already in your 70s?”  [0:31:29]

Answer
You know, I don't think you need to rotate it if you don't have a uterus. You can stay on it. A lot of my patients say, "Well, I want to be on continuous progesterone because it helps me sleep so much." And I let these ladies stay on it from the first of the month through the 25th. So, they get like a 5-day break so that they don't develop excessive tolerance to the progesterone level. I don't know if there's ever going to be a study on asking for answers to questions like yours. You're just stuck with experience. I think progesterone helps you sleep. It is also effective in helping with bone building and your metabolism, but it isn't financially valuable enough to get answers like that to these natural products. I think you'll do very fine if you use it two weeks out of every month and always stay like that. I don't think you would harm yourself at all if you stayed on it continuously. I think you would save some money if you just used it three weeks out of the month and the fourth week, took a break. But I don't even have any science really other than saving money with my patients in the past.

Question
“Hello Dr E. My friend had breast cancer 5 years ago. She had the tumor removed and had several rounds of radiation. She is cancer-free. She is 60 years old. Her doctor told her she can never have HRT because of her history of breast cancer. What are your thoughts? She also said her breast cancer was estrogen-driven!”  [0:33:37]

Answer
Well, they've never proven that estrogen drives or is causative of cancer. That's a theory. Now, we understand the mechanism of estrogen and the development of stimulating breast tissue, uterine tissue throughout, and many tissues in our body responsive to that hormone signal. But does it cause it? So, we don't know the cause of cancer. Many are arguing now, with strong evidence, that it really is a metabolic disease of mitochondrial energy production, in which metabolism of glucose and fructose, which is way too excessively driven on the machines of our little cells, drives them into a state of insulin resistance and then metabolic distress, and this is always associated with cancer cells having very poor metabolism. They go into anaerobic or fermentative metabolism to burn up sugars; that is very inefficient. Fermentation, anaerobic, will produce maybe only two ATP energy molecules per sugar molecule, whereas a normal healthy cell, normal respiration mixing with oxygen and breathing, with good circulation, will make 34, 32 ATP molecules. So, cancer cells have such a lousy metabolism, that they're so injured, they are so morphologically altered, that the more aggressive the cancerous cell behaves, the more ugly it looks and deranged and the mitochondria looked deformed and they can't do their metabolism well. So, they make a lot of insulin receptors to take in tens and hundreds of times more sugar molecules because of their insatiable appetite for sugar and fruit sugar. So, you'll always see this in research on these cancer cell lines that are studied, and we see excellent building up of scientific data showing that starving the cancer with carnivore or true keto diets is really harming the replication of the cells and allowing the oncologist to have more effective impact on whatever chemotherapy, radiation, or treatments that they need, and that's a double hit to the cancerous cell. So, you start adding nutraceuticals that are known to help us mess up the metabolism of rapidly dividing cells, like all the research on ivermectin or fenbendazole, mebendazole, or vitamin D, or berberine or quercetin or melatonin, and the list goes on and on, ECGC; then you are going to start seeing a better recovery rate from known cancers that are being treated. We never tell you not to work with your oncologists. We encourage the oncologists to allow us to assist their patients with a complimentary functional diet and nutraceuticals. High-dose vitamin C from a pro-oxidative stress at high dose. It doesn't act as an antioxidant like low-dose vitamin C. We're talking about orders of a hundred times higher, a thousand times higher dosing which acts as an oxidative stress complement which is totally non-toxic. 

So, do I think women can go back on natural hormone replacement therapy after having cancer? Well, let's see. Once again, I have this article, Hormone Replacement Therapy After Breast Cancer, Is It Time by Dr. Bluming. And basically, this article is from the May-June issue of the Cancer Journal from 2022, and essentially they did a retrospective analysis on women all the way back into the 1980s who went back on hormone replacement therapy after being diagnosed with breast cancer and oncologically managed to the standard of care then, and there was no increased mortality nor increased recurrence rate in the women that did it. Really identifying the fact that the drive of the cancer is not estrogen; it has to really be something else. Now, healthy women, if you took a needle biopsy of my breast right now and you put it under a microscope and with a diet testing or antibody, any tagged for estrogen, progesterone receptors, I’ll come up positive too. It doesn't mean I have breast cancer. It means I have normal cells. So, breast cancer biopsies that are estrogen-positive and estradiol-positive receptors are just showing your cells are almost normal. They have their normal receptors, they're behaving normally, and this is not an identification of cancer-driven material. They do use estrogen deprivation as one of the handles; just like I would add to that a ketogenic or carnivore diet to starve the rapidly dividing cells by denying them sugar, and that's a handle to choke the cancer. They're using the normal receptor estradiol to help choke the cancer, but it's not causative. It's not causative. And I think it's about time that we start challenging our oncologists to show us the paper that identifies it as causative. It isn't causative. It's just one of the handles we use, just like denying insulin receptors from getting all that sugar to take into the cell. So, there you have it. That's what I would discuss, and have her get an article like this. There's a book out there called Estrogen Matters. Please have her read it. It's by the same author, Dr. Avrum Bluming, and then have them watch that. I think I have another article too. Yeah. So this is another article on it as well, called Hormone Replacement Therapy in Patients With Breast Cancer, and this is by Dr. Philip DiSaia. And when was this presented…This was at The National Conference on Gynecologic Cancers, April 2, 1992. Yeah. So I've been around these kinds of researchers looking at these issues because I've always been around the alternative, complementary venue; all my life, my dad was in food research. And so, I have seen countless women, and I have countless women- I don't know how many I have because I'm not tracking them in particular because I'm a general practitioner- who have gone back on their natural hormones post-cancer treatment, post-getting off of tamoxifen, things like that, and I don't recall any of them having any increased recurrence or death rate at all from doing this. But a lot of relief, you know, their bone density is improving, their sleep is improving, their energy metabolism, their emotional relationships, their genital urinary tract function is much better. So yeah, there's data on this. So you could look at it. 

Question
“Is the sugar in raw kefir a different kind of sugar that won't affect glucose? Thank you.”  [0:43:26]

Answer
Well, kefir is a dairy product, and there's lactose in it. And yes, it has an insulin-driving effect. So, it will impact your glucose metabolism. 

Question
“Mucus buildup from the esophagus- what do you recommend to clear that constant need to clear the throat and nagging cough?”  [0:43:54]

Answer
I have developed it since I've gotten into my 70s, late 60s, I'm 73 now. I have thinner mucous membranes. My skin is getting thinner, although it's not as old-looking as a true post-menopausal woman who has never had any hormones since her last period. Your skin thins out from that because estradiol acts as a natural, you know, general contractor for the whole body repair system, and so you get better skin, better hair, better bones, better eyesight, better everything with your natural hormones for repair. So, the next thing you have to ask is: the thinning of the lining of your skin also happens to your mucous membranes, your bronchi, your gut; everything gets thinner, and the blood vessels start showing up. You bump your arm, it bruises more easily because it doesn't have as much wrapping fibrin, elastin, and collagen around it. So, the capillary can get bumped and leak a little bit, and you get bruising more easily. But in the nose, when you're breathing in stuff, and the membrane is thinner, that means that those particles, pollens, whatever, that trigger an irritation that stimulates the goblet cells to secrete mucus to repel that particulate invader are going to be more easily triggered. So, all older people start getting what we call post-nasal drip, and that post-nasal drip is body temperature. So, you're not going to feel it sliding down your uvula in the back. And like when I'm talking so much every day, maybe a drip will occur, and it'll hit my larynx, and then I'll have to cough, or I just can feel more and more dripping. Sometimes, even if I bend over, at my old age, I have absolutely clear nasal rhinorrhea, and I can just bend over. God forbid, I start examining my stomach, you know, and I'm examining, and I could get a drip. So, I have to be cautious to use lots of my Kleenex here to make sure that clear mucus generation is cleared up because that's what happens with age, just like thinning of your hair, thinning of your skin, irritation of the mucous membranes, more post-nasal drip. So, what I'm trying to gently tell you is that, with age, we're going to have this nagging cough of clearing our throat. It's just going to happen. 

The other thing with aging is if you don't exercise and maintain your posture, your head goes forward like this, and you just start hanging like this and start doing all that, and that creates a perfect drop zone, targeting your larynx for that post-nasal drip to hit. So, you have to work on your posture all the time to help your neck not move forward and your chin not move forward. Other things that you can do are take natural antihistamines. So, I take my Seasonal Shield with quercetin every day. I take 600 mg a day, especially now during these higher pollen, tree leaf-falling times. That does help a little bit with the trigger of my mast cells degranulating. I drink extra water. And I work very hard to keep my mouth shut when I sleep at night. I'll shove a little pillow under my chin. I'm a side sleeper, so I've got my little pillow there. So, I will keep my mouth shut. Sometimes I've taken a band to keep my mouth shut because then that dries up this mucous membrane if we are mouth breathers, and then it'll be hard to expectorate this dried-up mu mucus. So, there you go. Hopefully that helps you understand. 

Question
“You’ve mentioned that you take vitamin C. Can you recommend a type, brand, and dosage for adults to take?”  [0:48:38]

Answer
Well, I have to recommend what I have, and I've tested. So, I have hundreds of thousands, yay, millions now, over 40-plus years of patients, and I've worked with Ortho Molecular since the mid-1990s. They make Buffered C, and I use their capsule of Buffered C. I use their powdered Vitality C because I know the character of the owner of the company. I've worked with them, and my patients have done extremely well on their sourcing. A lot of vitamin C is sourced out of China, and there are contaminants, there's a lack of milligram-accurate dosage, heavy metals are in it, and so forth. So, I use Ortho Molecular. We keep the Buffered vitamin C here. The recommendation is two 700 mg capsules a day. I tend to open the capsule up and just let that powder open up into my mouth, and I swish and swallow it because I'm always being sneezed and coughed on, and in my 70s now I have to be more and more careful to keep myself healthy, so I never have any sick days, never miss work ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever. So, that's what I use.

Question
“I had abdominal surgery last week and would prefer to take Detoxamin to continue detoxing from gadolinium from an MRI this summer, and there is no ACAM dr near me, but I’m also considering HOPO as the binding to Gd is the strongest, but with both I am worried about aggravating MCAS-type symptoms developed after gadolinium, and also impeding healing with any minerals removed during chelation or any other effect (though I will also take minerals to try to replace) but I am also worried about scarring, fibrosis or adhesions from the gadolinium.”  [0:50:18]

Answer
I think you worry too much. I have been doing this 40-plus years. I have never seen any harm from EDTA chelation. I have been around it since I was 7 years old, clearly. I'm 73 now. I have Zippo, none, no bad side effects. It doesn't steal your minerals. There's just too much data out there and way too little knowledge base. I’ve been doing this, you know, 40, 50, and experientially 60-plus years, and I'm still learning about it. So, don't think that you've learned or heard from the experienced one. I'm the experienced one. It's the easiest thing to do. It's the safest thing to do. It's the most broad-spectrum heavy metal chelator. I've never seen it create a mineral deficiency in my life, and I've been around it constantly every day of my life for many, many, many decades. So, don't worry about this. I've never seen it aggravate mast cell activation syndrome. And I would just be well hydrated. Take some quercetin. Go ahead, and I've always taken a multi-mineral because our food is so mineral-depleted today because of industrialized farming. And I wouldn't worry about it. 

Question
“I am also thinking of starting a month and a half after surgery, after main healing has occurred, but your advice would be much appreciated. It is a chelation agent developed by Berkeley, not yet FDA approved but in trials.”  [0:53:04] 

Answer
I wouldn't be anybody's guinea pig. I have to be very careful. Remember, it's the professors, pinheaded professors, and pompous clinical specialists that sold you a certain viral pandemic and a certain injectable that they said would stop the spread. They said it would stop you from getting the virus. They said it would stop transmission, and it had no side effects, and it would stay at the injection site. And every one of those statements was false. So, I don't think I would easily follow and be in the first group. Just like all this peptide therapy. I'm going to wait a good five years probably before I start talking about using it because there are so many natural things that can replace those things anyway.

Question
“What is your opinion on F-Scans to detect parasites? Do you do this at TLC? The functional doctor I am seeing in San Clemente is really big on this. When I went to LAM Clinic in the past, they were not very involved in looking for parasites, so I just wonder what the truth is. I know we all have them, but how do we detect them and get rid of them?”  [0:55:00]

Answer
You know what, you have trillions of cohabitants on you right now. It's in your gut. It's in this tube here, the sewage pipe. And we have it on our skin. It's on the surface of our eyeballs. It's everywhere. These bacteria, these fungi spores, these viral particles, they're with us all the time. As far as worms, flukes, parasites, E. coli, all these other parasites, roundworms, Ascaris, I have been doing for decades so many complete stool analyses, and I just don't find it. I do dozens and dozens and dozens and hundreds and thousands over the past 25 years here at this clinic alone, and I would say a handful of times I've had to give some Flagyl metronidazole to use for trying to treat anything at all. Very rarely. So, no, these handheld F scans looking for the frequency of Ascaris, roundworms, tapeworms, filaria, these kind of things, malaria, this this is ridiculous because these are such tiny energy signals. This stuff is in the environment we're living in, and you can pick it up on a frequency basis. No, I would say most of this is a scam. Most of this is a scam and just is selling you something. That's where I stand right now because I'm way before these people. I'm so old. I'm so experienced in it. And no, I don't think we're ready for vibrational frequency diagnosis of anything yet. That's too early for prime time. So, it's like Saturday Night Live. Yes, let's look at it; let's keep it being studied. I'm for vibrational medicine, but I don't think it's a diagnostic capability yet, and that's what F-scan is all about. 

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“Could you please confirm if you mentioned Juice Plus and that you take “one” of each flavored gummy twice a day? My question is: Do you take one or two of each flavored gummy twice a day? Same question for capsules. Thank you.”  [0:58:03]

Answer
I don't use gummies. I keep sugar and fruit sugar out of my diet as much as I reasonably can. I only use the capsules, and I take two green veggie, two red fruit, and two purple berry ones every day. 

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“I have been dealing with excessive to moderate phlegm that I cannot get to thin out - this has been going on for months. I can breathe through my nose just fine otherwise, and I am not a smoker. What can I take or do OTC to get it to thin out? I have tried Mucinex, but I would rather look to something medicinal, not an Rx. Thank you!”  [0:58:31]

Answer
Well, iodine. Iodine has been a mucolytic agent for years. Drink enough water: half your weight in pounds as ounces every day. Taking systemic enzymes. They are fibrinolytic, and the mucin is made up of glycoproteins, and there's immunoglobulin A in there, there's white blood cells in there, there's all kinds of debris in this material, but it's mostly made up of water. So, drink the water; take systemic enzymes on an empty stomach, five times a day. We have Systemic Enzymes or Vitalzym here. Take iodine. We have the tablets Iodoral, 12.5 mg; that's mucolytic. N-acetyl cysteine is another thing you could take. So, those are four examples that might help you.

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“How do you feel about Sea Moss supplements? I've read they can aid in digestion and add beneficial iodine. There are several manufacturers that claim to test for and eliminate heavy metals in their compounds, which is a plus. Your thoughts? Thank you.”  [1:00:01]

Answer
I think it's another marketing thing. I don't trust these packaging companies. I don't trust that they have any good studies on humans about how much heavy metals they bring to the case – because remember, chlorophyll, the green molecule that's making the color green in the moss or the tree or the leaf or in this red algae that is the sea moss stuff that it's made of, it is a detoxer of the environment and it pulls mercury out to detox it and sequester it. That’s the problem with all this chlorophyll stuff marketed as a heavy metal detoxer. These products – and I've worked with PhDs who have been trying to develop a chlorophyll pill for years, since the 90s at least, that is a chlorophyll pill that doesn't have contamination of mercury already – you’re taking it to soak up mercury in you, at least in your gut, but they can't isolate the mercury from the chlorophyll itself. So, these kinds of products, I think, are useless in general, and there's no way to test for their veracity, in my opinion, and there's no money to do it. So, that's how I feel about that.