YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 4, 2025

Question 
“A relative out of state has a lot of nerve pain from failed hip surgery and doesn't live near major medical centers. What should she do/take to relieve pain AND fibromyalgia? Thanks.” [0:02:51]

Answer
Well, if she had hip surgery, I'm presuming that she's probably someone in her 60s or 70s age range, and she probably had no hormones left. Hormone replacement therapy, estradiol, helps relieve joint pain, and you know, I'm on my hormones and I have zero joint pain at age 72. Estradiol is an anti-inflammatory. You have to drink enough water. You have to drink half your weight in pounds as ounces every day. I would ask you to try to learn about structured water, electrically structured water, and the Analemma wand that helps you to structure your water. That's www.Analemma-water.com. But anyway, water is very incredible in its performance, hugging every cell membrane and giving it an electro-negative, so to say, coating which helps with the transmembrane potential, electrical potential, to facilitate all the energy needs of that transport through the membrane and of the cell and the interstitial fluid. So, water.

Another thing is you might consider getting a grounding mat to lie on and/or stand on the wet grass in the morning, you know, for three minutes with your bare feet every day. People get grounding mats. I happen to look ahead in some of these email questions. One of the questions was…

Question 
"What kind of grounding mat do you recommend? I have allergic reactions in the garden, so I can't ground in the grass. Thank you for your dedication and the blessing you are to us.” [0:05:08]

Answer
Well, thank you for being the blessing you are as people. We all have a job to perform for our Commander-in-Chief, our Lord, Jesus Christ. And so, no one person's work is more valuable, and we're here each for a purpose to bring glory to Him. Thank you for that kind statement, though. And so, I have looked into grounding a lot. I've been recommending it for years. I do it myself every morning, or most every morning. I get up before the sun rises, get some things done, and prepare for the day's work. As the sun rises, I will take my shoes off and stand on my bare feet for two, three, or five minutes in the morning. That's a time for me to just gain some electrons from the earth. The earth is electronegative. And I need electrons for energy. Energy electron transport is the game for extending your lifespan, repairing your body, and doing all kinds of transactions in your body. It's the currency of your body. So, I stand and I gain electrons from the earth. And if you get a grounding mat to sleep on, directly sleeping on it, and what I've used is GroundLuxe. And this is a company that makes the mats. It makes the sheets that are intertwined with little threads of silver, and it is probably with some of the best reviews for pillowcases and sheets that have the grounding to it. It has a cord, and you plug it in. It's like a single point and you put it in the three-prong of your electric outlet. You have the two parts for your plug, and the bottom one here is for grounding. You put it in that middle grounding hole. And then your mat is helping you ground all night. And usually this will stimulate healing, cell metabolism, and pain reduction in particular, and you'll usually notice this within the first few days to a week of using this. And I have no pain. I'm so grateful. At 72, not a tweak of pain or problem with my joints. Praise be to God. And I do ground. But I also drink my water. 

Now, the other thing is I take systemic enzymes. She could easily get a hold of – we have here Systemic Enzymes, which is the rebranding of Vascuzyme put out by OrthoMolecular. We helped design that by putting in some special serrapeptase and things like that to help it have more anti-inflammatory proteolytic activity, and it works very, very well. You take it on an empty stomach morning and evening, especially if you have a lot of pain. If the pain diminishes, maybe you can get away with it once a day, like I do. I didn't take it for pain. I took it for general anti-inflammatory, cleansing in my body. It promotes detoxification. So I take five Vitalzym. That's another product we get from Japan. It is a proteolytic enzyme with a very hard case, you might say, to protect the enzymes in it. So, when I take it, my stomach acid won't digest the little casing of it, and the more alkaline juices in my small intestine tend to help then digest that outer casing, and then I absorb Vitalzym into my body. So, we have Vitalzym, Vascuzyme, Systemic Enzymes, and ProteoXyme. We have three products that you can use. 

The other thing would be to get into some strength training. I recommend all people, even if they have sore joints, they go to a gym, like SilverSneakers, and at the gym where you can sit on the machine and put the pin into how much resistance you want to pull/push against you. Put that in, and you start where you can, doing metered muscle tonings because your muscles hold your joints in place and your cage in a proper, erect form. As we lose our muscle mass, we start collapsing into ourselves and impinging on the joint spaces. So you have to exercise. You have to do resistance training. You have to in order to improve pain. Now, when I fell, I don't know, months ago, I thought to myself, I didn't think I broke anything. And the very next day was one of my weight training workouts. So I indeed went to the gym and I did my weightlifting on the machines a little more gently, a little more slowly. And I tell you, I just rebounded out of that terrible fall, and I had lots of bruising and scrapes on my body. Nevertheless, I had not missed one day of my workout. I did back off the intensity as far as each weight was reduced, but then I didn't miss any day or the time of the day that I did it three times a week, and I rebounded to keep my muscle tone. 

What else would I do – I would eat a high-protein diet. And being older, we need a different kind of enzyme to digest the protein, and that is digestive enzyme, I call it OrthoMolecular Digestzyme, with my meals. Another thing you could also do is take extra amino acids in the form of the perfect amino acids. And I'm laughing, I had a little over the weekend drive to Temecula, and I stayed overnight with my husband in one of these wineries in Temecula. And he brought his Perfect Aminos, and we were laughing so hard because he was thinking about what he took, his amino acids, and he accidentally called them his perfect amigos. His perfect amigos. His three little perfect amigos. And we were just laughing about that clever, instead of perfect aminos, his perfect amigos. The little guys help him inside his body to make him strong. So, these amino acids are very helpful in building muscle mass, in particular, the branch chain amino acids, and the Perfect Aminos are very rich in this. So you could take anywhere from 5 to 15 of these a day and really get the equivalent of anywhere from 15 grams of protein with one dose of 5 to 45 grams by taking three doses of 5 tablets. So, those are some early ways I would say that it would be a big help. Her hormones, amino acids…Oh fibromyalgia. Methylsulfonylmethane, sulfur is very, very important for inflammation and tissue repair. Of course, everything is important. But in particular, if you took something like 3 to 5 grams of that, you could make the argument also for mixing Methylsulfonylmethane with creatine and taking 5 grams of that a day to help build your tone, your muscles, help your mental acuity, help your muscle building, your immune system, and pain relief. So, we could go on and on about fibromyalgia. But in general, I would add plenty of sulfur to that, a very high dose of sulfa, you know, many grams worth. And then finally, vitamin C. Remember, collagen/elastin is helped with estrogen. Estrogen helps with making your skin tissue, as well as your collagen and elastin, but it needs you to eat the protein collagen in a high-protein diet, and it requires you to have enough vitamin C to make the linkage strong between the proteins. Okay. So, there are many other things too, but that would be a good starter for her. And try and get her to find a functional doctor, functional medicine. ACAM.org, that's the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, and they have a training program. They're the first that did it like any of these health conferences doctors go to. It all started with ACAM back in 1972, over 50 years ago, and they would train doctors. So doctors who go there and get some training and chelation therapy. They're usually doctors with open minds and so forth. So, hopefully that would be a good start for that. 

Question 
“What is your opinion on vitamin D3? Is it safe to supplement, or could long-term use lead to calcification? Would you supplement with a blood test at 38?”  [0:15:43]

Answer
Is it safe to supplement? Yes. Could long-term use lead to calcification? No. Would you supplement with a blood test at 38? Yes. I've been doing this for 40 years, roughly. Long before it became conversational, I've gone through all the doctor's fearful worries when 30 to 60 was considered a reasonable dose. Now, most doctors are going to say, at least 60 to 80, to be protective, especially since we went through that SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, and the dosing of the vitamin D that really, really seemed to be effective in keeping people well, a good immune response resistant to viral infection was at levels that were well above 60. The range that I kept all my patients in over the decades was roughly 80 to 120. I often will see levels come back in the blood serum at 100, 120, 150. And I'm always doing the chemistry to look at their liver enzymes because it is a fat-soluble vitamin, and it can irritate the liver. And so, if you do a chemistry panel, a complete chemistry panel that has liver enzymes, when you do your blood vitamin D serum levels, if the liver enzymes are perfectly normal and your vitamin D is 150, you're fine. And remember, vitamin D with K2 is the choice I would recommend. Not just vitamin D3, I would take it with the vitamin K2 that will promote the proper deposition of calcium in your healthy diet. The richest and easiest available sources come from eating meat, chicken, fish, pork, eggs, bacon, and cheese. And we can take that bioavailable, well-absorbed form with K2 and get it deposited in the matrix of the collagen of your bones, where you want the calcium to deposit on that collagen of your bone matrix, and it will literally take it off of abnormal deposition on soft tissues. So, I do not ever recommend specific calcium supplementation. Instead, I recommend a rich protein diet and, if you're older, digestive enzymes to use, and that will definitely help make available the protein and collagen and the absorption, and the vitamin D3 will help build your bones and remove abnormal placement of calcium deposition in abnormal spots. I just get the best coronary artery calcium scores here as a whole. I just don't get to see any new real heart attacks or anything. And so, we go from there. 

Question
“What is your view on zeolite? Thank you.”  [0:19:03]

Answer
Zeolite is a brand name for volcanic ash, and a volcanic ash has basically metal ions, metals in a hexagonal kind of 3-dimensional scenario that attracts cations, which are like toxic metals, lead, aluminum, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, to the volcanic ash, configuration of volcanic ash. And if you take it orally, that's the way it's typically given, it will bind toxic metals that are always in our drinking fluids, in our foods, because volcanic ash is all over the earth. Plus, the industrialized world has pumped out more than it has, with China as the worst offender. It has really no political intention to do environmental protection of its hundreds and hundreds of coal-fired plants that are belching out mercury and lead. That's why so many products from China come even, if they're under a medicinal label like Chinese herbs and stuff, they're typically so lead-infused from the dust. In fact, they hide the statistics of the brain damage in their children, lead toxicity that makes them neurologically damaged and/or death. So, yes, we would have to say zeolite has some value. But the widest spread, the most thorough cardiovascular and systemic heavy metal reducer is EDTA chelation therapy intravenous. So hopefully that helps you. 

Question
“Good evening, Dr Rita, is there any truth to a genetic test that shows what type of diet is best for someone? Sounds strange.”  [0:21:27]

Answer
I would say, if you got your blood type, it's not a gene test; it's a blood typing on your red blood cell. Because your immune system is very much determinant of your health and reaction to the world around you, even our immune system can kill us with an anaphylactic shock. It can be so powerful. And your blood type, you know, if you got someone else's blood infused in you, you could have a terrible reaction. It could harm your organs, shut your kidneys down, make your red blood cells, and cause them to fall apart, and so forth. So, finding out your blood type is very important because your blood is actually helping the white blood cells as well. When you eat, a huge amount of circulation will go to your gastrointestinal system to help with the immune surveillance going through your entire system, which is the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, and that immune surveillance is very, very important. As far as getting a blood test, sending it off to some research lab that'll probably be sold to bad international foreigners who will try to code and type your genome. So, I don't support Meand23 or whatever the name of that program is for getting your ancestry. You're just selling more of your personal data to a data board, and who knows what they'll use that for. But getting back to it, is it associated with a diet prediction for you? It is a field for which I am unaware of any significant clinical value of genetic testing for this. I'm not against research in genes, but ever since we got the genome and the code printed for the human genome around 2000, there have been billions and billions and billions in research, and they're going to solve cancer. Solve everything, and they've really solved nothing. There's been no significant impact on that chronic deadly disease, and in fact, we have more cancer. 

So, tell me why I have so very little cancer, and we're emphasizing lifestyle, hydration, exercise, sleep, earthing or grounding yourself with the ground, eating a diet based on your blood type because we have seen patterns where A type blood type is associated with less digestive enzyme and acid production and O type blood with excess digested digestive enzyme and acid production which each each of those two ends create medical problems for the patient that are predictable. AB's and B's are kind of midway between the two, but yes they there are dietary principles well established with your blood type.

Question 
“I heard you talk about systemic enzymes. Did you say to take them at night or in the morning? Can you confirm that? Thank you.”  [0:25:02]

Answer
You could take them anytime during the day, as long as your stomach is empty. How empty? It probably should be three hours since you last ate, and at least an hour and a half before you eat. Again. In general, I wake up with an empty stomach, of course, and that's a very good time for all of us to take our systemic enzymes because we want them absorbed into our body, not working on a load of food to digest. But I have often, since I'm usually eating somewhere between 7:30 and 3:00, if I'm up at 5:000, I can take my enzymes right away. That's one of the first things I do with plenty of water, and I'll have a couple of hours of my system enzymes getting through first thing in the morning. And then, since I don't eat really past 3:00, I can get another dose of my systemic enzymes in the evening if I need it. I usually do it only once a day, but if I feel ill or if I am congested or achy or coming down with something, I will do it twice a day. 

Question 
“There was a doctor on Instagram promoting soursop from graviola, a superfruit grown in Belize, TMO. TKO Farms for cancer fighting. Have you heard of this?“  [0:26:28]

Answer
I don't know what that means, TMO. And so, I don't understand what the question is. Graviola has a history; I've known this for decades, and it has been very valuable in immune support. There are many things our wonderful God has given us in foods, in fastings, in exercise, and in quality of sleep, and in hormone and vitamin D, all these wonderful things that help boost our immune system. But the plant graviola is a product extract from which you can boost your immune system very nicely, and many people with cancer have used it. “TKO farms for cancer fighting.” Yeah. And so, this has been used a lot for immune boosting with cancer prevention or management. “Have you heard of this?” Yes. So I've been using or have used graviola in the past. But since then, I have not seen the need. There isn't a single miracle plant with an immune-boosting phytochemical. If anything comes close, I have seen more research on vitamin D helping to prevent cancer, along with many, many other diseases. It's a mood stabilizer, a bone builder. It just really functions more as a hormone, vitamin D, and is fat-soluble. 

The other would be iodine. Iodine is an electrolyte, it's a salt, and it's powerful in mental cognitive function and protection from fibrocystic painful breasts. PMS, polycystic ovarian disease, benign prostatic hypertrophy, glandular tissue, thyroid glandular tissue, breast glandular tissue, immune-enhancing, and seems to be quite deficient in our population, along with vitamin D deficiency. So those two supplemented by quality sources have helped my patients have such an extremely low risk and incidence of cancer. 

What else do I think is very, very good? Quercetin. Quercetin is in our Seasonal Shield. OrthoMolecular built its reputation on its product of Quercetin called D-Hist, which is like a natural decongestant, mast cell stabilizer, and I've used this now for about 35 years, maybe close to 40. And so, Quercetin has so many antiviral, antihistamine, and immune-protective activities. What else nutrient-wise… Vitamin C itself has powerful antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal activities. At higher doses, it works as a prooxidant. At standard oral low doses you take by mouth, it acts as an antioxidant; whereas high dose is a prooxidant, like in high-dose vitamin C. What else would be a very good thing to take? Selenium is a multimineral. TLC Multimineral helps get your selenium levels up, along with the potassium, magnesium, boron, molybdenum, copper, and zinc. All these wonderful things together work to protect your immune system. So, you know, between that and methyl groups, methylation, trimethylglycine, which is in the TLC Methylated B Complex, folic acid, these methylated B’s, because methyl donors help prevent cancer, help promote detoxing, are extremely important. The dietary guidelines, of course, are low-carb, low-fructose sugar, and exercise, adequate hydration. Now, we know structured water in the form of Dr. Pollack’s Electrically Structured Water video. All these things with a good night's sleep, and then a happy heart and keeping your cortisol level down, trying to have a forgiving heart, these are things that are associated with immune enhancement, cancer prevention, long life, and really a more peaceable life than any one item like the soursop from graviola. But yes, you could bring inositol hexaphosphate. IP6 is inositol hexaphosphate. Many, many other things as well. But God has many wonderful things all over the planet where the people are assembled to help take care of them because He loves them all so much. 

Question
“Argentyn silver is great!”  [0:32:27]

Answer
Yes, Argentyn Silver is a well-known nanoparticle. Remember, when you say nano particulate, it's more uniformly dispersed in the suspension of water; whereas, colloidal silver is a clumpy suspension in the medium of water. Not that it's bad, it's just less effective. It's a good product, colloidal silver, but nanoparticulate silver, Argentyn Silver, is so tiny, and it’s so diffused, it has much better penetration capabilities, better antibacterial, antifungal, and anti-viral activity, which is very, very valuable with that. That's why we use it as a nasal spray. I drop it in my eyes for pink eye the minute I see it in kids and myself. And you know, I'll pick a pink eye once every few years from my grandchildren or my patients because it's quite simple and a viral contagion. 

Question 
“I have chronic prostatitis caused by Enterococcus faecalis. Although sensitive to ciprofloxacin, treatment hasn’t fully cleared it. The infection is persistent and has not cleared up fully despite prolonged various antibiotic therapy. Are there alternative ways to eliminate Enterococcus faecalis from the prostate? Or is antibiotic therapy still the best approach? “  [0:33:41]

Answer
I'm not a urologist, but I'll speak from ancillary functional support. You have to find out what your fasting blood sugar is, what your hemoglobin A1C is, and what your insulin level is. And we have to find out what your triglycerides are. We need to know what your chronic inflammation markers are, Hs-CRP, and your sedimentation rate, and what your weight is. We need to calculate your HOMA-IR, which is insulin resistance, which will help improve your health by implying it attacks your immune system. So, you can reduce your sugar intake and fast. You could fast for, given that you're not an insulin-dependent. If you're in general otherwise good health, you could do up to a three-day fast and do that twice a month, and have that fasting time really drive down the sugar, triglycerides, sticky sugars and allow your immune system to build up, whether you're on another round of antibiotics, whether you come into a functional doctor and get high dose vitamin C drips, 25, 55, 75, 100 grams, whether you do ozone treatment, ozonation of an ultraviolet irradiation of the blood to kill off viruses and bacteria.

Very often, we will give EDTA to improve the microcirculation throughout the whole body in the capillaries, especially in the prostate area. I would always sit on a donut, so your prostate is never squished by the chair sitting on it. That way, if you do EDTA chelation, we could give it to you in suppository form. I did a study, got published, where we were able to dissolve away prostatic microcalcifications that disrupted the National Institute of Health, which was doing research on targeted ultrasound destruction of calcium deposits in the prostate, which were harboring chronic bacteria. When they saw my work and research that we were doing here with EDTA chelation, they were just blown away how easily I got it to dissolve away with EDTA chelation, and I used tetracycline, or well it was tetracycline, and that's was the best thing because research, I think, in Denmark had shown tiny vascular irritation breaks down the capillary and the body will seal it off with calcium deposits, whereas chronically irritated, inflamed or injured. At the same time, they found in those calcifications in the artery walls, bacterium, like mycoplasma and pneumococcus…or what was it…It was Mycobacterium, and there was another type of chronic bacterium.

But anyway, the tetracycline was able to get it especially, and it's almost like tuberculosis in a way, and the calcifications that they pick up on lung nodules that have calcified. So, they were able to turn around some cardiovascular/vascular disease with tetracycline, and we amplified those results by having it given when the EDTA suppository was shoved up right up next to the buttocks¸, you know, you have to two knuckles up where…and put that suppository in, and it was absorbed at least with the formulation we had. Of course, terrible forces in the FDA drained us of all our income and stuff. We fought hard and tried to get it as a new investigational drug, and they just stole all of our work and stressed us with one rule after another rule after another rule, another cost. Another scientific group had to test our suppositories. And I am a nobody. I don't have that kind of money. And we even had investors that tried to help us get this off the ground, and they just bled us to death, and it didn't take off. But it worked so well, they called me from the National Institutes of Health, and urologists were trying to figure out how this little old general practitioner was able to do so much with these calcifications.

So, I never worry about it. I did one mammogram in my life, and I had micro-calcifications in my breasts, and I just got rid of them with EDTA chelation intravenous therapy. So, there you go. That was a long answer for his question on prostate, but systemic enzymes. I would put you on the same enzymes for the inflammation. I would find out your blood type. I would have you not eat past 3:00. Anyone over 60 should stop mid-afternoon. And then I’d get your vitamin D level up to the 100 range. And you know, start with those kinds of approaches. Find a good functional doctor who can help you do that. 

Question
“Hi Dr. E., what are your thoughts on black cohosh for managing perimenopausal symptoms? Also, what are your thoughts on supplementing with whey protein powder? Thank you!”  [0:40:29]

Answer
Not much. Look, if you're old enough to have perimenopausal symptoms, why don't you use what God gave you, the natural hormone? Estradiol, progesterone, DHEA, and testosterone. That’s what I would use. They are plant steroids that mimic the attachment to the hormone receptor site but less aggressively. And so, you're supposed to say that it modulates some of the hot flashes, night sweats, but you're going to get all the bone density loss, all the wrinkling, all the foggy brain. So, I don't support ayurvedic, herbal, black cohosh, Dong Quai, all these kinds of herbal phytoestrogen mimickers. Just use the natural thing. 

And she goes on to say, “Also, what are your thoughts on supplementing with whey protein powder?” Well, I believe in eating real food. Whey concentrate is basically more of a whole type of full milk dairy concentrate, and one of the reasons why it has some value in it is it is a source for lactoferrin which is many many fold more powerful in absorbing excess iron in the body, especially for people with hemochromatosis or iron metabolism disorders where they had tend to have higher ferritin and iron store. So lactoferrin is very good. So, a whey concentrate would be a wise supplement there. However, there are lectins or food allergens that are in the dairy product that may have been created from the bad food industry, injuring the gut with leaky gut, and those food proteins may awaken your immune system, causing it to decide that dairy is an invader. So, you might have to work on healing your gut or testing your gut for Immuno food allergies first before you use whey protein. 

There's whey isolate. That's a much more expensive and a much more isolated form of just the whey protein. These proteins are very valuable as a protein supplement for the manyfold need our body has for protein, for our cell strength and structure, our bone health, our collagen, all these wonderful things. So, I'm not against it, but I really would like to see people eat whole foods and eat grass-fed beef, wild-caught fish, prairie-raised pork and chickens, and that kind of stuff is my preference, with digestive enzymes, and go from there. 

Question
“Hello, Doctor E. I am a female, 61, diagnosed with avascular necrosis in the left hip. Pain is unbearable. I currently see a chiropractor adjusting me twice a week. It helps for 15 minutes. I take CalMag Boost 6x/day, Viranon 8 times a day, Ligaplex 8 times a day, Congaplex 12 times a day, and Ancient Minerals. Celluma red light 2 times a day. What else could you recommend? Please!”  [0:43:52]

Answer
I don't know what Viranon is. All right. So, I think this is the apex producer of what we call plant supplementation to produce better ligament, nutrient support, collagen support, and so forth. I find these things to be miserably deficient. There's no reason in my mind why you shouldn't take the anti-inflammatory natural blessing, estradiol, progesterone, and weight training at your tolerance. So, do resistance training at a comfortable level, gradually building as your muscle grows, and a high protein diet with digestive enzymes, and then systemic enzymes first thing in the morning on an empty stomach, last thing at night, drinking half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, and then being extremely low carb. That should take you a leap and balance forward with your avascular necrosis of the hip. And then improve the vasculature microcirculation with EDTA chelation therapy, high-dose vitamin C. And with the enzymes, you should do notably better. Find a good functional doctor who can help you get those things started. 

Question
“My 19-year-old son will be having surgery next week to remove a deep parotid tumor (benign). What are your suggestions for his hospital stay? He eats and lives like you.”  [0:45:55]

Answer
He's probably iodine-deficient because the parotid gland is a glandular tissue that needs tons of iodine to help make the saliva juices. And I would take high doses of the systemic enzymes twice a day, and that's how I would begin with him on that. 

Question
“Do you see any benefit for a male taking DIM in terms of estrogen regulation?”  [0:46:39]

Answer
Diindolylmethane is a plant nutrient that modulates estrogen receptor stimulation. And so, this is like that question on Dong Quai, black cohosh, and so forth. So, yes, all of those will help. But will it be as good or as powerful as the tiny half tablet of anastrozole 1 mg or 0.5 mg twice a week? Those plant phytonutrients couldn't even begin to do the work that a little half milligram of anastrozole would do. 

Question
“I'm enjoying your YouTube here in Texas. I'll be 79 in January. Every other day, I go to the gym. 15 minutes of intense cardio, 5-minute cooldown, 20 minutes upper body on free weights or machines, repeat cardio, then 20 minutes lower body. I notice you don't mention cardio when you go to the gym. For me, it works. Comments??”  [0:47:27]

Answer 
Well, I'm doing cardio every day with my early morning routine of walking my young little 1-1/2-year-old puppy dog, Macy. She's a rescue, and she runs like a banshee. And so, I get that every day, once or twice a mile, or two. The day we go. So, I'm just not thinking about that. I'm doing cardio all the time. You know, people say, get 10,000 steps in a day. There are 5,000 in a mile, and if I do two miles, I'm getting the 10,000 there. I have to admit, I do more of the one-mile than the two in a day. So, no, I'm not against cardio at all. It's just that it was not the cardio that really translated into research all over the world being reproducibly proven, but it's the weight resistance training three times a week for 30 minutes that really turned into long-term life and health quality of living. It was not so much the cardio, but it wasn't distracting at all, but the cardio was not as connected with the predictivity of long life, health, and personal individual freedom. So that's why I said that.

Question
“Is there a way to eliminate a urinary tract infection without using antibiotics?" [0:49:34]

Answer
Again, I'm not a urologist, and I think most doctors, unfortunately, don't do their best work. They're lazy, they listen to protocols, hospital protocols, organizational protocols. And what a doctor has to do is literally to explain. I literally stand up and I squat and show how you got to hold your lips apart and clean really well if you're a girl, and the urine needs to shoot out the tiny little urethra, and it should not flap between the lips and the dirty hairs down there because all skin hair has bacteria on it. And so, too often the lazy, lousy assistant and the lazy, lousy doctor will not take the time to show how important it is to give a clean catch. And so, too often these doctors will say, "Oh, there's, you know, a few extra white blood cells and some bacteria. So, we'll send it off to culture, and in the meantime, here's an antibiotic." They're harming you with that, and I hate that lousy practice of medicine, and it's creating resistance, and it's creating abuse. So, I individualize each case and see how much I really think you are giving good, clear signs that you're having a urinary tract infection. I demand a urinalysis to see how many epithelial cells show up. There should be none if you're holding your lips apart wide enough, and it should shoot right out of the urethra, and then you should go in the stream and out of the stream. Pee all over the cup. Don't be embarrassed. We wear gloves and get a nice sample set off. So, I do not think urinary tract infections are always urinary tract infections. Plus, the periurethral area on a woman gets weaker and more flabby and paper-thin tissue as she ages, and her strength to that little one-inch urethra she has is harder to shut off and not leak. And you get this acidic urine, irritating tissue down there that has no more estrogen and irritation. And very often, she'll have symptoms of periurethritis, just the irritation of the urethra there, from thin skin that's leaking urine all the time. 

So, how many doctors have used hormones? When I was growing up for 45 years, none of the doctors were doing this. I never saw a doctor really put it together or think of what the poor woman was going through. And when we started giving natural hormone replacement therapy 35 to 40 years ago, the frequency of urinary tract infections dramatically reduced. And of course, I was very clear about what's happening down there and why we take these hormones, not just because we're trying to have veins, but also to have fewer wrinkles. We're trying to actually be able to exercise without dribbling every time we push a weight. So, all these things go into effect. So, I'm trying to say, I'm not so sure you have a urinary tract infection. It could just be a periurethritis. I don't know how old you are, but these are various things that have to be asked. 

Question
“What can I do if I am getting bad headaches from the progesterone cream?”  [0:53;22]

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I can't imagine getting headaches from a progesterone cream. I have never in 45 years seen that. I'm not saying it can't happen. I'm just saying that would be extremely unusual. I would see your doctor. I would talk to them about this. I would get a blood level of your progesterone and your estradiol, DHEA, and testosterone. Find out your other inflammatory markers. Find out your blood type. Get your weight and height so we can get a body mass index for you. Find out how much water you're drinking. Find out your insulin level, your blood sugar level. There are so many other things that can go into this. So, I would ask you to please see a good functional doctor and get some of those things done before you start saying it's progesterone. Now, of course, you could stop the progesterone cream alone and see within, you know, two weeks, it should be basically all out of your body, and you could make a statement on that. But see a doctor who has good experience with progesterone replacement therapy. 

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“Is there anything natural that I can take that will help with focus and memory?”  [0:54:50]

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How about fasting? Do intermittent fasting, or do a 2-day fast, or do exercise with weight training, or make sure you're drinking enough water. Or find out your blood type, depending on how old you are. And if you're an A, you need digestive enzymes, so you can help digest your food better. The other thing is that natural hormones help with memory acuity. There are some nutrients, many nutrients that help with memory. But basically, it's your good hormones, your good hydration, your good exercise, a good night's sleep, and not eating late. And we have a thing called Vinpocetine, which is a nutraceutical that is in a supplement. That's what we use as well. We also use iodine to help with mental focus with our hormones. But those are some early suggestions right there. Hopefully, that will give you a good start. 

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“LifeWave X39 patented phototherapy patches have helped me in many ways, as well as with menopause.”  [0:56:15]

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Absolutely, because they have certain mineral crystals that are associated with energy that's transmitted through the skin, much like grounding, and again picking up extra electrons/free energy off the earth. And the free energy of the infrared waves from the sun that are richest and the longest first thing in the morning with sunrise, many of these things work. But that LifeWave patches are also based on that very same frequency principle, and your own body's infrared will heat that patch up and make those crystals vibrate at their unique characteristic for their structure, and that structure will be transmitted into your body because it's like a patch on your body wherever you put it, and it will transmit that energy, much like the concept of homeopathic therapy, and that's the same concept where you can speak to a vial of water and say hateful words to it, and then to another vial of water, loving words to it. And then you can look at the water structure of it when you immediately freeze it. The loving water has beautiful symmetrical crystals, like snowflake images. And the water you spoke, nasty, hateful, energetically damning type-words, will have discordant crystals. Isn't that something, ladies and gentlemen? 

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“I also take a progesterone pill, estrogen cream from a compounding pharmacy, and a DHEA supplement like you recommend. I walk daily and lift weights 2 days per week.”  [0:58:02]

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Well, good for you. God bless you, and may that support you. I would say, the older you get, the more you need, maybe three times a week exercise, be low carb, and drink your water.

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“Someone said it is not helpful to take HRT after 60. Is there a time when it is not helpful?”  [0:58:31]

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They're just passing on mythology. How much of medicine is really evidence-based? And what is evidence or science? Well, we are finding out that a lot of science is a bucket of lies. And Dr. Marcia Angell, the Head of the New England Journal of Medicine, chief editor, upon her resignation and retirement in 2006, said, “As I retire, I regret to tell you, more than half of everything that we've published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine was lousy medicine bought out by conflicting interests.” Well, gee, thanks. After you've put in all your years on your leaving day, you say how horrible it is. I've always known it's horrible because my father warned me about that in the 1970s and 60s, even in the 50s. I would hear him argue about it as a little preschooler. His anger at work is about the injustices of the scientific system. 

But getting back to doing people at 60, should they stop their hormones? Well, I'm 72, I'm still on, I still menstruate every month on time with my cycling hormones. I wouldn't change a thing. I have such enduring energy. I'm so thankful to God for it. And I have so many women already in my 45 years of practicing medicine, at least 35 of those years I've been using hormone replacement therapy. So, I have so many women who started in their 50s, and they're still with me, and they're in their 80s. I have some of them who have passed their hundredth birthday, and they're still on their hormones, alongside taking the enzyme, alongside of doing their exercise, alongside not eating late, alongside being low carb, alongside of taking good systemic enzymes and other tailored nutraceuticals. Yes, when you take in the whole picture of what it means to stay healthy, hormone is another part of human natural physiology that has no age limit. Show me the science and show me removing confounding factors. If there is any, were these women doing exercise? How much water were they drinking? How late were they eating? Were they taking systemic enzymes and on and on and on like that? So, you can create a scientific study of poor women who don't know any better, whose doctors don't know any better, and they gave them hormones. 

And the other argument is, the life expectancy for a woman is, maybe at best. At best, the life expectancy is now dropping since the pandemic. Maybe a woman is going to live as long as 84. I think the age is dropping. And so, doctors don't want to start some hormones at 76 and then the woman dies at 84. And then the family members say, "Oh, well, maybe if grandma or great grandma didn't have hormones, she wouldn't have died at 84. She would have lived to 104. Well, you can't argue that there are so many confounding factors. So, for fear of the fact that most women, by the time they're 85, most men by the time they're 85, if you do autopsies on those that do die at that age or so and check their breast or check their prostate, you're going to see some abnormal, likely prostate cancer and breast cancer tissues. And so, they're going to say, don't give hormones after a certain age, likely because the doctor doesn't want to have even the inkling of being sued. Now, they don't give a darn about the quality of life, the failing memory of the aging patient, the lack of joint mobility and memory, and watch them mentally collapse,  joint-wise collapse into a wheelchair, dehydrate, and become detached from the world. That's all fine for fear of, oh, maybe they'll be found to have breast cancer or prostate cancer, but have a much more meaningful connected life. In other words, you have to talk and be informed with your patient. And doctors don't get paid to talk to you. It's a business. Don't you know medicine is a business? Get them in, move them out, get them in, move them out. And they would never, I don't get paid for this kind of YouTube time. I thought seriously, and I often think I don't want to come tonight. I'm tired, I worked hard, or you know that kind of thing. But you know what? I'm not working for me. I'm working for you and my Lord and Savior, my commander-in-chief. And that's why I'm here. And you think these other doctors feel a loyalty to their patients to give them information to help them personally critically think about why they're doing what they're doing? No, these other doctors want to just go out and party and have their sex and their alcohol and their fun time trips. Yeah. Over and over and over and over again. I'm not impressed with these doctors or healthcare providers. It is unfortunate. Let's leave it like that before I get myself all worked up. 

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“I am 58 and have been on HRT for 2 years and plan to continue with it. “  [1:04:30]

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There you go. I've been on mine since 40, 43. So, for about 30 years, I've been on it. Yeah. 

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“X39 has helped with fatigue from rheumatoid arthritis. When I forget to use it, I notice how tired I am and then notice I forgot to put it on.”  [1:04:47]

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Yeah. These patches, I think, last for 24 hours. I think, in principle, the crystals don't change, and they should last much longer. 

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“Are you aware of any studies that show that moderate testosterone use with men who have slow-growing prostate cancer is harmless?”  [1:05:13]

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Not in particular because I'm not a urologist, I'm not an oncologist. I have just been giving testosterone replacement therapy over the past 35 years, or a little more, to men, and we watch their PSAs. When we see it go above 4, we refer them to a urologist. But we keep our patients and treat them more under the principle theory, which I think is the correct one, that cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease, a disorder of energy production. And so, all the men who exercise, eat low carb, don't eat late, take their enzymes, get their feet grounded in the wet grass, all these men who drink their water, do EDTA chelation, have the best microcirculation, take their enzymes, have low blood sugars, low insulins, these are the men who do very well. And how do I know that? Because even my men with cancer who have seen their oncologist and their Gleason scores have been low, you know, under 7, and they have elected to be informed, they want to be on their male hormone replacement and monitored that way, they have gone years and years. And the prediction is that a Gleason score under 7, whether you do nothing or you do intervention, they usually have the same life expectancy. So, there are many confounding factors and so much science that is starting to implicate that hormones have nothing to do with the mortality of finding adenocarcinoma of the prostate or estrogen on the cells of breast cancer that have malignant changes. So, there we would go now.