YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 7, 2023

Question

“Shingles, I am a TLC patient, A type blood.” [03:22]

Answer

But Joyce, what is your question? So maybe something you thought was typed in and didn't get typed in. A lot of people will be experiencing, as the Fall and the darkness and the lack of the ultraviolet light from the sun that we usually get between 10 am and 2 pm, that will hit the skin and help convert our cholesterol through them - the renal area - and then generate our vitamin D, which is really a hormone that helps boost our immune cells, our white blood cell functions, and vitamin D should be used, but Vitamin C is a water-soluble, whereas vitamin D is fat-soluble.

So the water-soluble vitamin C has been shown and there are studies, even NIH studies, that are valuable in alleviating the shingles pain of an outbreak, which is the varicella virus kind of coming out along a dermatome. So we have nerves and these nerves have a one-sided effect - a right side and a left side. And if you get stressed or your immune system drops off because you're not getting enough vitamin D, you're not drinking enough water, you're not exercising, you're not getting a good night's sleep, you're eating too much sugar, starch, bread, pasta, cracker, mashed potatoes, french fries, whatever you're eating hydrogenated fats. If you are suppressing your immune system with all the sugar, and during the season, the marketing and the propaganda put out to get you to buy and eat, buy, and eat and consume and celebrate over food everywhere you go with everyone you know, take a picture of it, brag to your friends so you eat more and eat more. And then they fill it full of high fructose corn syrup. And that is some of the most addicting, driving, but never satisfying so you eat more and more. And this suppresses the immune system, and you can get the shingles.

Now, these processed foods are lousy foods, I wouldn't even honor them with the name of calling them food. And so we have taught for decades, our patients here, that the foods we should be eating are the healthy fats and proteins. We are composed of fat and protein. We're not composed of fruits and vegetables, we don't have any essential requirements for carbohydrates. So Vitamin C is even in organ meat…like you know, this is Tuesday, I had my liver and onions and that's my one meal today. I had a huge, you know, big, big piece of liver and onions. And that's all I'm going to have today. And so that thing is full of all kinds of wonderful things: collagen and minerals and vitamin C. Yes, vitamin C. So you don't see any of the Intuit Indians, or Eskimos getting vitamin C scurvy issues. So yes, by eating the liver of whales and fish, you can get your Vitamin C. And we do have data that is shown in NIH that is linked with alleviating the pain of the post-herpetic neuralgia of shingles where the virus crawls out along one of the nerves in the dermatomes that go down your spine where the nerves come out on each side.

Hydros vitamin C intravenously is a great way to do that taking oral vitamin C, one or two grams, maybe up to four. Some people can take more usually beyond four grams, you'll get diarrhea. Vitamin C is associated with helping stimulate the immune system and enhancing your level of protection. It is associated with some antiviral activity, and it's associated with having inhibitory effects on some stems, or at least to my knowledge, all the stem cell studies on cancer stem cells have been inhibited by this. So we have here the high-dose vitamin C immune booster IV; you can have it in an hour with all the wonderful minerals with zinc and magnesium in it, and it has the methylated B in it, and B 12. And it has a high dose of vitamin C. It's a great way if you sense you're getting shingles or a cold to call up the office at our clinic Tustin Longevity Center - 714-544-1521. As for the IV department and scheduling a vitamin C drip. If you're not a patient here, we do take walk-ins, and the nurse will do an assessment. We doctors are here and if she has any questions or not, whether you can take it, she'll contact us or he'll contact us. We don't give as high a dose to the walk-ins as we do to those who are patients here because we do have your labs and we can push the limit. You do have to have a G six PD which is an enzyme that is known to help with the metabolism of vitamin C. And so yeah, you can get vitamin C as a walk-in, and you can get EDTA chelation therapy as a walk-in, but they are at a lowered dose range. But yes, Joyce if that's what you're asking if shingles would be helped with vitamin C…of course, it's helped with a low-carb diet, good night's sleep, exercise, not eating late, and intermittent fasting. 

Intermittent fasting promotes sugar control and so that will help prevent these viral challenges. Eating rich protein and healthy fats, getting away from processed foods. And so even if you get to stressful times, you can fly through them, like our clinic here over the alleged COVID pandemic. We really had no serious patient illnesses at all. Because all the things you hear me advise right now on it, we're in fact attenuated. We all are low carb, we all have the vitamin C drips, we're all on vitamin D, or we take a multivitamin with zinc in it. And we are trying to all exercise, get a good night's sleep, drink plenty of water, those kinds of things. So hopefully your question, Joyce, on shingles was what I covered. You put here that you're an A- blood type, A’s again, as a class of people, Joyce, don't tend to digest food as well. And if you don't digest food as well, you don't reconstruct and repair yourself as well and get minerals extracted from the foods you eat. So when I now, hitting 70 years old, when I ate my liver today, I took my ortho digestive enzymes. That would be something I would have anyone over the age of 55-60 to do. Or certainly, all blood type A people even into childhood, but talk with your doctor. Children tend to have decent digestion, but some kids who are A type blood have a lot of tummy aches, and they can be helped with a little bit of digestive enzyme support also.

Question

“​What is an integrative approach to acid reflux?” [11:50]

Answer

Well, the integrative approach to acid reflux is to stop it. And you do that by not eating late. Normally, the stomach will tend to empty itself out from the stomach into the duodenal and small intestines after about three or four hours. If you're a diabetic, you start getting gastroparesis slowing down of the movement and emptying. And it can take many, many hours. The older you get, the less digestive enzymes you have, the longer it sits in your stomach and can be six to eight hours if you're just older. And then you go eat dinner at seven o'clock and you try to lay down at ten. And you're constantly getting some of this partial stomach fluid, burping up into your lower esophagus giving you heartburn and reflux and irritation. And the sphincter there, the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach sack is also, you might say, stretched out, especially in women, when they're pregnant, that puts tension on their stomach when they're eating and the pressure there. So all these things are an issue.

So being overweight, eating too late, being older, and having blood type A, that would be a big setup for reflux. So we tell people to try and change their lifestyle so that depending on your age – I try and stop eating by four or five o'clock. I do take my digestive enzymes, but I am a B type blood, B+, but because I'm older, and I'm always working under stress, decade after decade after decade…stress, cortisol will also slow down digestion because when you're stressed the signal is to work on fight or flight issues and blood flow to my body and my brain. Cortisol will inhibit the digestion as well. So there are many factors that go into reflux, so don't eat late. Number one, don't eat late don't even drink sugary fluids and stuff because that will slow your stomach digestion down. If you're an A-type blood, take digestive enzymes. If you can take up a nice little 20-minute brisk walk or half-hour walk after all your dinners, if you do eat dinner.

The other thing besides enzymes and a walk and not eating late would be to, let's see what else, elevate the head of your bed and then for repair to stop the reflux, elevate the head of your bed. And what do you repair with? If you have injured materials in the esophagus, and at the junction between your esophagus and your stomach, these injured membranes are one cell membrane thick, and they're composed of phospholipids and proteins. So what you should be eating are phospholipids and protein. So that's why we make the phospholipid powder and the SBI protect powder. 

Now this top one here, the probiotic powder is not really, absolutely necessary. But at least these two, this is the phospholipid of this repair. So the whole damage in a membrane here can be fixed to this nice smooth double by a lipid membrane. So this is the fat phospholipids and this is the protein and you take a scoop of each and put it in water, take it before… and I would make the water warm, I put it in warm water before you go to bed at night. I always find it works. And my patients, I have mine on my little kitchen counter here in my office, because, with my stress, I can…I used to joke about taking 75 supplements a day. And that's because I take 25 and I burp it up two or more times and I have to swallow it again. And so the total re-swallowing of them makes it 75 that I have to swallow. And I noticed that because of the stress in my life and after having children, that really put a huge stress on my body. But hopefully, that'll help you understand what we would do for acid reflux.

Question

“If someone has low testosterone would it be okay to be on testosterone replacement therapy?” [16:56]

Answer

I would say so Michael, unless you have some serious prostate cancer, where you should talk with your prostate urologist or your oncologist. Although more and more papers are being written that testosterone really is not being believed to be as linked with a negative impact on the prostate. But anyway, if you're on a prostate blocker hormone suppression treatment for prostate cancer, then you shouldn't take testosterone.

Yeah, so if you're just low and you don't have prostate cancer, I would definitely use it. But why not try an exercise? Exercise will build it up, have your zinc levels checked, or forget the zinc level and just go ahead and take, you know, 25, 50 milligrams of amino acid-culated zinc because low zinc levels are associated with that. And I find this very common in my adult men.

Also, the time of the year that you test your testosterone… So right now testosterone should be about its highest is going to be in the fall. So that all the male animals and all, you know, human men are on a biannual testosterone phase. So testosterone rises up in the fall and then after about, you know, January starting, it starts to decline all the way until about May. And in May, then it starts building up again. And why is that? Most of the animal kingdom will carry their pregnancies through and have them born in the spring and God did not want the male adult animals to eat the pups. So God lowers the testosterone throughout the animal kingdom and you'll find that you the time you get your blood tested - so if you test your blood you know in February, March, April you're gonna see the lowest level and then you might want to exercise and take zinc and eat, you know, a healthy protein, healthy low-carb, natural fats, and then re-tested in the fall in September, October, November, and maybe it will be good enough there, Michael.

Question

"My husband was diagnosed with paralyzed vocal cords. Are any alternative treatments available besides surgery (tracheotomy or cutting part of a vocal chord)? The throat is dry & restricted, and pain if he tries to speak." [​19:45]

Answer

Well, Denise, this is too complex for me to jump into with any statement about what you should or should not do. But if someone came to me, and they were diagnosed with paralyzed vocal cords, we would want to find out why did that happen. And so with your otolaryngologist watching over you, because we don't know the cause, that's not common, and it usually isn't bilateral because there are two sides of the innervation. Very often what we would tell our patients to come alongside nutritionally and immunological support to the specialists - the ear, nose, and throat surgeon - and the internists, I would do some fasting. If you would go on a 48-hour fast and just have nothing. Very often this will prevent reflux, which could irritate things, and it will improve the immune system. If there's a viral illness, taking a high dose of vitamin C drug would be helpful. Taking vitamin D is helpful. And I would do this protein, for a quick powerful support - the phospholipid and the SBI protect protein with the immunoglobulins, so that all the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, that’s about 70-80% of your immune system lines, this area here, whatever is causing the paralysis, you're going to boost your immune system immediately.

So start with a 24 to 48-hour fast, just a water fast, unless he's an insulin-dependent diabetic, of course, because they would have to be under the close management and discussion of any fasting with their doctor. But that's how I would tend to begin to support there.

The fat helps the sheath lining the nerve…is a cholesterol-rich, phospholipid-rich lining around the nerves. So it makes all the sense in the world to have the phospholipid in there, and then after the two-day fast, you know, I would eat organ meat, prime rib, roasted free-range chicken, I would eat salmon buttered up. And I would try and stay away from plant foods. The reason being, there's such a huge need to stimulate the healing of the nerve. What you need is the cholesterol and the phospholipids and the proteins to promote the healing of the sheath. So that's a beginning thing there and then find a good functional doctor and work on that and get on some vitamin D. And that's that's the beginning where we would start anyway.

Question

“​Do you recommend Juice Plus Omega Capsules? Or will eating healthy animal fats suffice?” [23:25]

Answer

I have not been using the Juice Plus mega capsules because I'm driven by the science. And I think one science paper has come out on the omegas the fatty acid capsules in the Juice Plus series and I respect all the science and Juice Plus. The paper was you know, interesting. It was favorable. And so I'm not against it. And I am for clearly the science that I do know; I happen to use Clinician’s Preference Oil which is the Omega three and six of the only two essential fatty acids linoleic and alpha-linolenic acid and that's what I use. Eating healthy fats and animal, yeah if you eat the egg yolks and you eat some meat and fish and chicken and you're gonna have nuts and seeds, like flax seeds, sunflower seeds, walnuts, pecans. That would be useful too.

Question

“​I am suddenly experiencing muscle pain over the past few weeks. I eat low-carb, drink water, take enzymes, and do intermittent fasting. What is causing this? I will be doing a 5 day fast soon. ​I first saw you back in 2008 and I have been taking Juice Plus Red, Green, and Purple since then continuously. Taking it that long, what benefits do you think it has had on me?” [24:51]

Answer

Well, I think it's protecting your DNA damage. And I'll just tell you, there is no one study that says… let's see, I've been on Juice Plus since 1999. So how long is that? 99, 2009, 2019. And so about 25 years. And I feel wonderful and thankful in my seventies now, to have this enduring energy. I will tell you that the owner of Juice Plus, I think is about 90. And he's still working, and he's still all together. And, of course, he tries to eat a healthy lifestyle. I think he avoids alcohol for the most part. But in general, I am surprised at all the people that, when I joined, let's see, I was about 48, maybe 49 when I joined. And 25 years later, the people who were in their late 60s, they're all still alive. I don't really know but one or two have passed on. And, that one of them was by an accident.

So I have to tell you, I am totally impressed with the longevity of people who use Juice Plus, and who use it continuously over the years. We have more than 42 studies now. It prevents DNA damage. We have several studies on how it boosts the immune system. The childhood research involves now millions of children over more than 10 years, less missed school, less medicines prescribed by their doctors, less allergies, better academic performance, better athletic performance, less cravings, or a better diet in general. We have cardiovascular benefits from it. We have just so many studies on Juice Plus; it's the most researched new nutraceutical. So that's why I stay with it, Robert. Now regarding your muscle pain all over, you know, you have to see a doctor, Robert, and you have to have someone look at you, look at maybe some CPK enzymes, these are muscle damaging enzymes, ask about any vaccinations you may or may not have had recently, any viral illnesses you may or may not have had recently. And, you know, look at general autoimmune screens and look at it that way.

So please go see your doctor and let us take a look at you. And hopefully, you find a good functional doctor that can do that, Robert, because you bring us so many good jokes. We want to take care of you and have your blessing, presence, joy, and wisdom as well.

Question

“What would you recommend to do a week before surgery, to prepare the body as much as possible, for a quick recovery? What would help after surgery?” [28:46]

Answer

Well, I would say, I see this question was one of two I apparently didn't get to from October 31. You probably had your surgery already. But in general, for surgery, I tell people to go off onto an extremely low-carb diet and eat rich free-range beef, roasted chicken, salmon, and have lobster, crab, and sardines and if you're going to have vegetables, I would have the cooked broccoli, brussel sprouts, green beans, asparagus, things like that. Only buttered with salt to taste.

I would never eat past five or six o'clock and I would start eating around noon. So there's a six-hour window because that'll stimulate your body to heal and build itself up and get all the Protein-building blocks. See, when you're cut in surgery, you need a ton of protein to repair all that damaged tissue. Most Americans don't eat enough protein in general. So eating a rich, free-range, wild-caught protein diet is very important preoperatively. 

And then the other thing we would say is the day before surgery, they often tell you not to eat for 12 hours before surgery, I asked my patients not to eat for 24 hours before surgery. And most of my patients can do that because they've been seeing me for decades. So they're already used to a 24-48, 72-hour fast. Why? Because this stimulates human growth repair hormones. So you get a jumpstart on all the somatic statins that will promote healing after you have the surgery done. The other thing I tell my patients if they're on the systemic enzymes like Vitalzym, or Vascuzyme to stop at four or five days before surgery because that will thin their blood and prevent blood clots. And that's the streptokinase, nattokinase, those kinds of enzymes that are anti-inflammatory. And we stop it not because it's going to really be harmful. It's just for the surgeon, I have seen patients who were on enzymes, and there's tiny, tiny little oozing of capillaries, and he has to cauterize those little spots. And so to be nice on the surgeon to have less bruising, you should stop those systemic enzymes about four or five days before surgery.

But the next day, the very next day, you should double it. So if you were on four or five a day, I would take five, twice a day. And I would do that for two weeks to clean up the post-traumatic insult injury of inflammation from the surgical incision site. And then that helps with the being fasted. And I wouldn't eat the day after surgery, I would just have chicken broth, beef broth, not bone broth, chicken and beef broth like the bouillon cube thing. And because if you can make it the next day, and just rest and sleep a lot and just sip on these broths, that will be another stimulus for more growth and repair. So whatever surgery you have, these are the best ways we recommend approaching it.

And you can have your multivitamin, your mineral, your digestive enzyme, you can have your vitamin D, you can take your vitamin C, your B complex, all of these are very fine. And very often they have a swath world where they'll say the surgeon will say don't take any supplements, you know before surgery for a week. Well, that’s foolishness, okay, that's ignorance. So, yeah, don't take fish oils, because that's a known blood thinner and the only thing that you have to be careful with are the systemic enzymes, Vascuzyme, Vitalzym, ProteXyme that has those things like nattokinase, streptokinase, and stop it about four days before but double it the next day. And then stay low-carb as long as you can. 

Question

“How long can one fast before muscle wasting begins?” [33:51]

Answer

I would say it depends on the individual and how much muscle mass they have to start with, what age they are, and what comorbidities they might have. So it's a very difficult question Dennis, in and of itself alone. I would rather say I think it's very safe to go on up to a three-day fast for most all situations, all people with all kinds of illnesses. Unless you know, and there are various kinds of fasting… we're talking about a pure water fast right now. So if you're an insulin-dependent diabetic, that's a separate category that needs to be managed with your doctor, and certain people with heart failure, congestive heart failure, and things like that, we would want to have them all be followed by their doctor if they're going to do a prolonged fast, which is really anything past 24 hours for food. But after about 72 hours, then you can start seeing some potential for muscle breakdown. But it's minimal. We're talking about serious muscle breakdown that could start for the average healthy person as much as five days and seven days. I've seen literature on that but again, it's it's mostly academic. Ultimately, you know, we have seen people go on these fasts for three months and then that's where they're such fasting that they passed away from muscle wasting, but it'll begin at about maybe the earliest three days. We can certainly see some academic evidence at five to seven days and clearly thereafter so yeah, it depends on the person and the situation.

Question

“Put castor oil w heat on liver, broke out v itchy bumpy red raised skin on cheeks. I put Argentyn 23 spray 3 times/day, take quercetin 1500mg, C 1500mg, Zinc, D 10K IU, turmeric, low carb diet, bone broth all day, tea tree oil, shea butter, Eucrisa What are your suggestions? What happened to my body? Is it toxic unloading? Allergic reaction?” [35:59]

Answer

Castor Oil is, in general, it's used mostly as a laxative if it's used for anything, and that's the oral consumption. It’s made from Castor seeds. And ricinoleic acid I believe is what is squeezed out to make the castor oil and process. But you know the deadly poison ricin I think comes from the seeds that produce castor oil. So that's taken out in the processing. I've never heard of any serious toxic risks with castor oil. Although its seed is the resin deadly poison. I don't think it's useful. I'm going to say I would rather you fast for 24 hours, you'll get a lot more known research on detoxing, body cleansing if you would go on a fast for 24 hours, and drink plenty of water, and take your multi-mineral, amino acid, chelates, and take systemic enzymes and take a walk. These kinds of things. Castor oil, I don't think it's anything really that exciting. And usually, if you're going to get a rash it'll be at the site of the application of the castor oil pack. So it would have been on your liver there. To have something show up on your cheeks I think is totally different. So don't know what's going on there, Lilly. But I don't endorse the time and effort of castor oil packs. I know the culture of many well-meaning naturalists of say it's beneficial and there's a long history. I'm not sure that you can justify that with research, although the NIH has done some research on this a lot of course for the resin poison from it. But regarding its benefit, it's really only a laxative and otherwise has a very low risk for allergy.

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“Following a 4-day drive from CA to Houston, TX I ended up in the ER fearing I had a DVT. After an ultrasound, I was diagnosed with "Cellulitis," and prescribed Clindamycin HCL 300 MG x 40 cap. every six hours. I have finished this RX. --What do you recommend I take to complete my healing, as I still have swelling, pain, and redness?” [39:00]

Answer

Well, you've got to see the doctor and that could be serious. But I would fast, you know, your body knows what to do when it's fasting. If you would drink a lot more water. We drink a lot more water when we fast and take systemic enzymes of four or five twice a day, three times a day on an empty stomach. If you do a 24 or 48-hour fast, elevate your leg. You know how a cat will kind of pump with his feet - like that - if you raise your legs and you pump your legs to promote circulation, and you take the enzymes with the water, you'll see a dramatic improvement of the pain even within 5-10 minutes. And you'll know that what I'm telling you is right.

Fasting promotes the communication between the cells to stimulate healing, the water helps as a transport medium to remove toxins. The enzymes are your PacMan that clean up the junk. I would make sure you're on vitamin D. And I would make sure you're on a probiotic. Because antibiotics impact your gut, good flora. Clindamycin shouldn't have any detrimental effects on muscle and stuff. But if you're still sore, and you finished your antibiotics, and if there's redness there, I would have the doctor check it again. Get your CVC a white blood cell count and check it. 

Question

“I’ve been experiencing a burning feeling in my upper stomach area after my stomach empties. I wake up in the middle of the night with an empty burning feeling. I’m AB+. And this has been going on for about a week. Just curious what your remedy would be.” [41:07]

Answer

Kim, it could be so many things. It could be something you ate. Or you might think it's a good food but you're getting a delayed IgG immuno food allergy reaction, it could take a day 2,3,4 days to show up. So a food could be doing this in the slow allergic response. That's why doctors tear their hair out with gut complaints because it's so hard to help people with gut complaints because a food you ate 1-3, up to four days ago can create stomach pain that’s delayed.

Secondly, eating too late, besides the food allergies, which will delay the peristalsis and it can make your stomach empty slowly. And that would make your reflux more likely. Not drinking enough water, taking medications or drinks that are acidic like, you know, coffee, caffeine, these could do it. The other thing is having a… whatever your age is, have you had children, you know the reflux. So what would I do I would have you use this powder (phospholipid powder and the SBI protect powder) mixed in warm water one scoop of each. And I would drink that and I would do it first thing in the morning when I woke up, last thing before I go to bed, and anytime during the day, You could do that, you know, several times a day. It's natural, it's food. And that should help stop this, but then I would make sure I eat a diet that is a one-menu day and have a plan. So my plan is Tuesdays are liver and onions. You know, Wednesdays for me would be like steak and broccoli. Thursday would be roast chicken and green beans. Friday would be salmon and brussels sprouts. Saturday is often a fasting 24-hour fasting day. Sunday, I usually will eat something leftover if, there are leftovers from any of that. And then Monday would probably be just my eggs, buttered. Lightly scrambled, butter, eggs and bacon. So that's kind of how I live my life. I eat like that. I try and eat mostly a one-menu day. I try and eat between two and five o'clock. And that's how we do it.

So why am I saying that? So if you eat a one-menu day and let's say you're going to have two meals a day, I would make enough liver and onions so that I would have it for my lunch tomorrow to heat up. Or I would make enough beef and broccoli so that you could heat it up for lunch the next day. I would make enough chicken and green beans to heat up the next day. I would have enough salmon and asparagus to heat up the next lunch. You see what I'm saying? That way if you started doing an elimination diet, you could say, all right, I'm going to eat a one-menu day, that decreases the exposure of spices and all kinds of things I can get into my diet. And then I'm going to chew it real well and take my digestive enzyme and my phospholipids and not eat late, raise the head of my bed, and then you should be able to work it out that way without having to see a doctor. But if that doesn't help you within, you know, a few days, then see a good functional doctor.

Question

“I started a pro-metabolic diet in July after 3+ years of IF (minus pregnancy + postpartum in 2022). It worked for years but in postpartum I felt depleted and had poor skin + chronic diarrhea. The PM diet cleared my symptoms at first but now I’m worse off than when I started. Which diet is best for healing hormones? I'm 35 w/ Hashi’s, SIBO, and a TLC patient.” [45:12]

Answer

Well, many women are getting pregnant today, not healthy enough, we haven't eaten enough healthy protein fish meat to have all these wonderful membranes here so that we can not only repair ourselves but build all the membranes in a baby. So we're eating all this junk food and it puts us really behind the eight ball plus, so much of the junk stuff they call food is mineral and nutrient depleted. With industrialized farming glyphosate and hydrogenated high fructose corn syrup, just a horrible situation. And we lose our essential fat-soluble, k2 and k1and vitamin D and vitamin E and vitamin A and so we're having lots of trouble. And then postpartum depression is often associated with not only then do you have that, but then you're probably breastfeeding. So we need our doctors to get a crash course, not crash, learner, learn nutrition, and they should all get the Corinne T. Netzer Encyclopedia of Food Values. Every doctor, if they're a doctor, should have a food value.

So, you asked, you know, is there enough calcium in my body, what foods would be great, and you look at meat versus bean, you're gonna go for the meat all the time. But if you look on the internet, there is a political correctness where you're not supposed to say meat is the end all be all to everything you need, or liver, and so it won't really bring that up much, but it's fabulous. So how did I get there? We were talking about your pro-metabolic diet. So I would say you know, about half of all people with Hashimoto have, or half of the people with small intestine bacterial overgrowth, have Hashimoto. So you have to understand, what you eat, what we eat! If doctors don't understand what you eat matters, okay, and not only on top of what you eat matters. You have to have organic, free-range, wild-caught, and you'd be amazed at how satisfying a free-range piece of steak every, you know, few days for me. Eggs, salmon, my liver day, my roasted chicken day. It is so satiating and that's how I can have fasting blood sugars in the 50s and 60s and low hemoglobin and see low insulin and low triglycerides. It is so satisfying. And I'm just like you, I can become binged on carbohydrates…Thank the Lord I didn't have any Halloween candy. You know, I did get, my son went out and got some almond something, coconut almonds, little mini things for the kids. I don't support Halloween at all, but we do open the door and we give them little Bible tracks and give them a little something. And I did not touch this up, but I'm like you, I would binge it away. You know I would binge it away.

So you have these instinctual limbic guttural survival drives that override for sex, for defense, you know, fight or flight for salt, the taste of salt, sweet, and butter fat. These guttural drives in us are what these New York advertisement companies capitalize on hyping up to, you know, billions of dollars for marketing to us getting psychological profiles, how to image color reactions, all of this to get you to consume their stuff. And it's not satisfying, you had better, you had better getting angry, and you had better start developing a healthy image about how you're going to defend yourself. So if I go to a place that you call a grocery store, I call it a pornography store for your mouth. I call the grocery store a pornography store for your mouth. And that is killing our children and our young men and messing up their hormones, and they're never satisfied. They're all driven through Instagram and marketing.

How did I get on that? Pro-metabolic diet…But anyway, so you have to, I would really get away from any packaged food, breads, crackers, all that stuff, not to mention, you know, candy and soda pop. And I would eat real food, learn what eating real food, regularly, and how satisfying it is. And see how good - you are a TLC patient - okay, well, why don't you talk with your doctor. And if you're not satisfied, have your doctor here at TLC bring your case up at our grand rounds. We do that once a month, and we bring up cases and this video thing, and what we're doing is helping us doctors so much to get a wide variety and we’re measuring the amount of hits on topics. So we know where we need to drive our training. So we're working on this in the background, I'm coming out with a teaching for physicians, and we're starting to focus on areas of greatest interest. We have to teach you that you're responsible for your health. And we have to teach you how remarkably well your body will heal itself if you can get it off the Bronco of food bouncing you around, you know, and turn. You know every time I go out the checkout, I feel like I'm going into a, you know, pornographic aisle, not just the magazines, but all the candies like Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are screaming to jump into my mouth. And I have to think very evil thoughts about it. And how evil that is to do to me every time I need to get a simple piece of good food. That's so wrong. That's so evil to do to me. And everyone and I feel so sorry for my patients. All right, I went on a rant, I should be answering questions.

Question

“I have a friend who has a 1.8 cm. liver lesion on the left extrarenal pelvis. What is this? I have a friend who has had 2 pulmonary embolisms. One while she was on an airplane and another one just recently. How do these develop? I know the doctor said her blood was very thick - she takes nattokinese. but was thinking about changing to Lumbrokinase but doctors tell her to take Eliquis.” [53:15]

Answer

What is this, Linda, that’s too little information and that's too important to miss. So you need to bring that up to your doctor. Now that's very often to see cysts in the liver, especially as we get older, just like we sag, you know, and wrinkle, and our skin wiggles, your livers hanging there right under your right lung and it's sagging too and it can, you know, pop, smack, and a little cell opens up in the tissues tear about and you get some cysts, okay. And that's benign, but it could be so many other things. This isn't enough information for me to go beyond that. But hopefully, it's just the most common little cysts.

And then Linda says you have a friend who has had two pulmonary embolisms one while she was on an airplane and another just recently How did these develop? Well, it's not enough water because we're made mostly of water. Pray everyone that I can get a glycol check which is a machine that will help me to demonstrate to you how important EDTA chelation therapy is. This is like a hook on our device with a camera on the tip and you hang it on your mouth like that and it takes a picture of your veins and arteries right in the mucous on the floor of your mouth, just like you get a hand identification when you go to Disneyland. And some of people have that as they take an infrared picture, and it's a very unique identifier of your veins.

Well, I can take a picture under your tongue with a glycol check. And I can see living flowing blood cells through a capillary, teeny weeny capillary. And I can calculate the flow dynamic of that one red cell trying to squeeze through and feed all the cells in its domain and take up all the garbage, it's a lot of work for that little capillary to do. And if the membranes are injured or broken, or you're not drinking enough water, or you're eating sticky, gooey carbohydrates, starches, pasta, beans, rice, too much fruit, sugar in your latte, fratte, frappe, whatever those drinks are called. And, and that's going to make it sticky for that little thing to pass through. And they'll clump up, you can actually see this so pray that I can make enough profit here that I can get this machine that I can do it so I can do it on all my patients to reinforce and come back at that marketing and come back at that terrible place called the grocery store this really a pornography store for your mouth. And I can show you live flowing, what water would do, chelation therapy, enzymes, a low carb diet, I need to be profitable. But I will trust the Lord he has provided for me well.

All right. All right. And so how do you get these pulmonary embolisms? Well, a lot from just inactivity, the blood flow is sluggish, and you're not exercising, you're not drinking your water. You don't make the enzymes as you're aging, and you're gumming it up with so many sticky sugars. And you have antigen-antibody sticky complexes from food allergies, it's a recipe for a blood clot or an embolism or something. So our patients I never would see that until we saw something come out in December of 2020. This something that came out that you would poke into your body, and then all hell broke loose and I've seen nutty crazy things from children to adults, not my patients really so much, not one of my patients really suffered, especially if they do chelation, drink their water taken on some low carb diet. So yeah, sticky blood like that.

Question

“I recently heard about the connection between SIBO and thyroid medication (specifically, Synthroid). I potentially have SIBO and am taking Levothyroxine for hypothyroidism. I don't have an issue with motility, so am wondering if this even pertains to my situation.” [57:59]

Answer

Well here, it's not the Synthroid. It's the condition of why are you hypothyroid and hypothyroid people tend to have a slow motility and bacterial overgrowth, and too many bad bacteria, not enough good bacteria, lack of water, too much sugar, feeding all the bad guys to grow and be popular. And so you get this overgrowth and people who have that have damage to this wall of the intestine. Then you get breakthrough, an irritation of the gut-associated lymphoid tissue that creates immunologic mimicry of molecules that cross-react with your thyroid, hypothyroid attack, cross-react with the joints, and you get arthritis, cross-react with your nerves and you get MS.

So look, it isn't that we don't need our specialists. But if we had far more good doctors trained who could help teach these patients we'd have far healthier people, far less need for all these specialists. And we need to get these specialists trained to help their patients eat right so their specialty skills and - I want a specialist if I need it and I refer to them. But there are maybe a million doctors in the United States licensed to practice medicine. Out of that million only about 200,000 of us are general practitioners, the 800,000 are all specialists. This is wrong, folks. This is wrong. This is a recipe to just say “Come on, let everyone get sick. And we'll make money as you come by with your illnesses.” No, we need 800,000 good doctors who will enjoy the love and lifetime of supporting a community of people. And then these people will love and the doctor will love them. And they may not have a Mercedes or they may not be able to fly to Cancun, fine. But they'll be the happiest doctors in the world. And they'll sleep like a baby at night and they'll look forward to seeing you most of the time. And hopefully, we'll be in a good mood most of the time because I know I can be crabby too.