YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, October 20, 2026

Question
“My friend told me about a supplement called astaxanthin. His naturopathic advised him to take it due a mass they found in his spine. Astaxanthin heals the body according to the naturopath. Since starting the supplement, he has no more pain to his leg and the numbness is gone! Her naturopath said it’s a powerful anti-inflammatory. Thoughts?”  [0:02:46]

Answer
Astaxanthin is one of the polyphenols that is a plant product. It's from the carotenoid family, or it's carotenoid-like. It's grown as an algae, a plant algae. And it has a color to it. It shows up as the pink in flamingos, pink in the shrimp, pink in some of the algae and other red or pink-colored salmon would be another one. And so, this antioxidant acts to protect the cell. It's fat soluble. I believe it has a unique capacity to cross the cell membrane and be able to have parts of it on the outside of the cell and the inside at the same time. So, I think it has both water and fat solubility to it. Anyway, it's just one of the many many thousands and thousands and millions of wonderful biochemical creations our Lord made to help us deal with free radicals that are generated from the process of our life. Just for the engines going on in our mitochondria, that energy production in the complex 1, 2, 3, and 4, this movement of electrons creates free radical stress. There is some purpose to free radical stress. So, it isn't like you don't want any free radical stress. Just like you want a house that can have the heat turned on when you get cold or the cooling system turned on when you get warm, you want that kind of energy to run those systems and have an energy delivery system to manage the temperature of your house despite the outside weather. Same thing in our bodies, we have to have energy to do all the many things we need to do in our body. And when that happens, this energy is a controlled fire and that needs antioxidants to manage it. But it does have to occur. So we need some free radicals and we need antioxidants. Astaxanthin is one of many.

There are quite a few chemicals being talked about in the LEI and the alternative integrative functional medicine world. It is bleeding into the standard medical world. I'm seeing more and more oncologists’ drug research, pharmacists, PharmD, Doctors of Pharmacology, starting to look more and more heavily into these polyphenols of many many kinds and off-label use of other medications in cancer management of the energy flow of the cancer cell, which is much more delicate than the energy flow in a healthy cell. It could be astaxanthin is having some impact in the energy flow of a mass, some tumor that shouldn't be there. So, I'm not going to poo poo it, but I'm going to say it needs to be studied. Same as I would say for many other things like these peptides and growth hormone and these appetite suppressant peptides that are acting as signals in our body. We have to move with caution, and there are many natural things and lifestyles that we can do to modify ourselves so we don't get a tumor, so we can learn to eat well and diminish our hunger and cravings that these GLP-1 and GIP, other peptides, these growth hormones peptides are stimulating, and we have to proceed with caution because most of this we can do and have done for decades with lifestyle, exercise, sleep, dietary patterns that work really as well.

So, I don't want to endorse saying astaxanthin is removing this man's mass. I'm not saying it isn't helping to remove his mass. I'm just saying there are anecdotal studies on this, and we need to look more and be open-minded about it. I do believe astaxanthin in general is safe. I have listened to lectures on this in as recent as this year. So, yeah, it's something interesting that we need to follow through on.

Question
“Dear Dr. E, someone told me gadolinium travels with cytokines to the site of injuries and increases scarring, and she had serious adhesions 3 months after hysterectomy (after 2 MRIs shortly before) and knew others with increased (but less extreme) scarring who had contrast close to hysterectomies. Please share your thoughts on this. Thanks so much!”  [0:09:11]

Answer
Well, it is an established fact that gadolinium, which is hopefully if you have good kidney function, you can hope to excrete with the good kidney function. But my experience over decades doing heavy metal testing with chelation therapy is that I see the buildup of gadolinium in the body and its negative effects, and we have seen that, indeed, the trauma sites where their cuts/incisions and then of course the cytokine release to let the body know an injury has occurred even though it was an elective surgical injury that was wanted to be done, that cut releasing the cytokines has had a gadolinium dye that was put into the body recent prior to the surgery and has been shown to increase scarring tissue. That is why I tell all my patients to get an IV chelation before surgery, the day before, and to get another IV chelation after a surgery as soon as possible afterwards, one or two more, to improve circulation, to help the kidneys detox, pull out things like gadolinium, to bring in high dose vitamin C, the stress methyl B complex, the vitamins, the minerals with selenium and zinc that helps in all these situations. So, yeah, my thoughts are, yes, this is accurate, and yes, we've never had that problem really here because we do chelation and we've been protecting our patients for decades, so that's why my population of patients does so very very very well compared to the general population, and we thank the Lord for that.

Question
“Dr. Rita, what is a pain natural supplement to Tylenol and Advil for my niece 3 months after a fall with a broken hip and elbow?”  [0:12:07]

Answer
Absolutely, I would give her systemic enzymes ProteoXyme. The systemic enzymes Vascuzyme from Ortho Molecular has the bromelain, the serrapeptase, the enzymes that are associated to reduce inflammation that mediates cytokine release and pain signaling. So, if she would eat a very very low carb diet, drink plenty of water, eat in a time-restricted zone, say between 9:00 a.m. and 3;00 p.m., rich in protein, and then take systemic enzymes first thing in the morning when she wakes up at least two hours before she eats and take systemic enzymes in the evening when she goes to bed before bedtime. And I would take at least 5 of them. You could take it three times a day and that will definitely reduce the pain, and that will definitely help her. That's the direction I would go.

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“Hi Dr. E, what is your advice for someone that keeps waking up between 2:00 and 3:00 AM? What can be done to sleep through the night?”  [0:13:45]

Answer
I want you to know that almost all people are aroused as the planet electromagnetic changes are around 3:00 in the morning. So, everyone is aroused, and it's part of the signaling that's going to start to generate the wake up process and the release of cortisol and the mobilization of glycogen from the liver to help you become alert and wake up at 5:30 or 6 o'clock in the morning. Most of us, however, can roll over and go back to sleep. Some of the things that are associated with that is if we drink too much water right before bedtime and then we're aroused around 3 o’clock and we get up to go pee, that puts us into a much more alert state and it's harder to go back to bed, although most people can go back to bed. It becomes harder the older you get because, with age, the brain is shrinking. The myelin sheaths that are like the electrical rubber cord that covers an electrical cord, that prevents irritating the wire in there conducting the electron flow into your light or your lamp. Same thing for us. We have this myelin sheath that is kind of wrapping around the nerve so that we can get the impulses generated instantaneously. As your brain shrinks and as general inflammation increases with age, we tend to not drink enough water and be more dehydrated, and this aggravates the potential for breakdown of that membrane and irritability. So, we ask people to stay well hydrated in the earlier part of the day and stop drinking so much water, say by dinner time 6 o'clock. We ask people to eat a diet rich in healthy fats, so that will help promote the phospholipids that line the nerves. We ask people to not drink alcohol before bedtime because that's a toxin and it's a neurotoxin for the brain, makes it more irritable and harder to fall asleep. We ask people not to eat late. The older you get, the further away from sleep you have to end your eating. Most doctors will say for anybody it should be three hours before you lay down. But if you're 60 years old or older in general, plus or minus a few years, you should probably look more at 6 hours, especially if you're a blood type A because your stomach is not moving and digesting the food like you did when you were younger. So, what would have taken three hours to digest and move out of your stomach is going to now take four, five, or six hours. That food, if you lay down with it because the 10th nerve goes down all the way down from the base of your brain down to your stomach called the vagus nerve, it'll biochemically sense and through stretch receptors in the stomach, that the stomach is still struggling to clear out, digest and protect from any worms or bacteria or fungi or toxins, poisons that might have been in the food you ate, and that takes priority over any healing. So, that'll prevent good sleep.

So, we ask people to stay well hydrated and stop drinking by 6 pm. We ask people to eat a healthy nerve membrane sheath rich diet, which is eating like the fats that are in fish, beef, chicken with the skin on it, pork, crustaceans, eggs with the yolk, things like that. We ask people to not eat late, get further and further away from eating to lying down in bed up to 6 hours. So, if you're going to go to bed at 9:00 you should stop eating around 3:00. They've shown research that if you are eating past 3 o’clock, the demand on your body to produce enzymes and insulin to help process out that food is amplified and harder to perform after 3 o’clock in the afternoon in general if you're over 60 years old, and it's always worse for blood type A people because they tend to digest poorly even at younger years. So, we ask you not to drink alcohol because it's a neurotoxin, and we ask that you do a circadian rhythm high hygiene practice to get ready for bed when you wake up. So when you wake up, you should get the sunlight in your eyes three minutes. As early as you can in the morning, get outside for three minutes, don't have your glasses on, and let that morning u infrared light hit your photo receptors to keep your circadian rhythm going in a natural way that will help melatonin production at night. You could take a swig of olive oil. You could take melatonin. You could take magnesium glycinate 2 grams, 3 grams of that amino acid. These are natural things that help you sleep. So, hopefully that will help you with some of your sleep questions.

Question
“What are your thoughts on adapalene for acne. Are you opposed to facials?”  [0:20:25]

Answer
I am not sure what adapalene is. I'm not sure what that is, so I'm going to have to look that up and then I can come back next week.

What do I think of facials? We're all different. Some people have more oily skin, some more dry skin. I think the field of skincare is overly emphasized, marketed, appealing to our vanity, and the products and sales for skincare is just outrageous today. The skin itself is a layer of dead cells, and under it, the dermis, is the living part that has tiny capillaries and has the hair follicles in it and the nerves. And we have studies. For instance, Juice Plus has been studied to look at the thickness of the skin and the capillary density to help the moisture, the cleansing of the tissues with the veins and the little, tiny capillaries there, and it was shown to be thicker when you take Juice Plus, which provides many of these fruits, berries and vegetables and antioxidants, polyphenols. So, I've always used Juice Plus for the past 26 years or so. I also don't shower, you know, about once every six or eight weeks. I try and keep soap off of my skin. I only do sponge bathing. So, soap only hits the pits where the bacteria are. So, my dermis will be able to stay thicker, longer, and not be scraped off, and my oils rinsed out and scrubbed off. When the skin dries from that, it cracks up, so you get deeper and deeper crevices. So, I'm able to stay more moist, more soft, have thicker skin. Eating a high carb starch, bread, pasta, soda pop, juicy, fruity tutti-type diet, eating late destroys the immune system and produces the high clogging of the tiny capillaries, which makes the tissue of the skin organ more volatile and less able to cleanse itself of debris in the hair follicle chambers and then bacteria can crawl in and eat food off of the dead keratin cells. So, oily skin I think would do very very well to try to eat a very very very low carbohydrate fruit sugar diet. Do eating in time-restricted time. The one thing, if any, I recommend for skin is Argentyn silver spray like a mist every night to spray on the skin to keep the bacterial count down, and those are the things that I recommend. And sunlight of course, exercise of course, and not smoking, things like that. So I'm not against – you know, I don't know what they're going to go do a facial for. I believe you can get rid of your blackheads and your pustules if you eat a low carb diet, get sunshine and use Argentyn silver and stop irritating the skin and cleaning yourself from within. That's my general experience.

Question
“Do you think lectins are unhealthy?”  [0:25:14]

Answer
I think you’re referring to plant lectins. Every plant defends itself from invading fungi or insects, and they produce these proteins that are unique to that plant that act as deterrent, you might say poisons for these insects and fungi and other invading bacteria and things. So, yes, if you eat them, they're typically on things like grains, legumes, nightshades. And these lectins, when we eat them, it may not kill us because we're much bigger than an insect or a fungus or a bacteria, but our delicate one cell membrane in our gut lining is going to be irritated, and it can help break that cell membrane up and open up the membranes, the zonulin borders broken, which allows the sewage bacteria of the gut to leak into, we call it lipopolysaccharides/endotoxins into our body, and it sets up an inflammatory feeding cycle which promotes more and more leaky gut, irritable bowel, and then ultimately to ulcerative colitis and Crohn's. So, yes, I would say lectins, the plant defense system can be very harmful to the delicate lining of the human being. So, cooking and soaking things like rice and grains and beans, pressure cooking, tends to denature the proteins and make them less harmful. I hardly eat any of those things. So, I'm eating mostly the meats and chicken and ham, pork, eggs. So, I'm more carnivore-like. So, lectins have very little exposure to me, and I try to avoid them for that reason because it upsets my stomach in general. So, yeah, they're unhealthy.

Question
“Would you recommend a biopsy or removal of facial sunspot that has changed in texture to more scab-like?”  [0:28:10]

Answer
Well, I would definitely have that checked because I can't see it. Yeah, there's no way to see it, and we do have the risk of it being a skin cancer. So, please have your doctor check that or your dermatologist check it. Any changing skin mole or lesion needs to be looked at. So, yeah, have that looked at.

Question
“Hello Dr. E! Are you familiar with what a methylation test is?”  [0:29:09]

Answer
Yeah, a methylation test, all that a methyl group is is a carbon with hydrogen on it, and so, that's a methyl group, three hydrogens attached to something, and that's usually how we detoxify and quiet down irritated molecules. For instance, in the process of metabolism, we will take methionine and it'll take off or donate a methyl group to do some work for the body, building things we need. But when that methionine has a methyl group ripped off, then it becomes more irritable and toxic waste and we call it homocysteine. Homocysteine then can be returned back to methionine if you have a methyl donor. Now, if we get enough B vitamins in our diet, if we have healthy proteins and vegetables that we're eating, we get in our diet methyl groups and that can then be used to put back on to homocysteine and convert it back to methionine. So, there are blood tests where we can check for your homocysteine. So those are methylation tests. There’s a cardiovascular risk. There are other tests for genetic snips. If you don't have the methylenetetrahydrofolate proper gene code and you're missing a snip, we call it, then you will not methylate as well as maybe someone else and have a tendency to have higher production of homocysteine. So you'll always need to take like a methyl B complex. Many many many people do. Maybe up to a third of all Americans in general practice don't have the ability to methylate quite as well.

Now, the next thing is there are neurotransmitters norepinephrine, epinephrine, and these dopamine, all these things need methyl groups, and Catechol-O-methyltransferase is an enzyme that needs to transfer that methyl group. And if you don't have (COMT) Catechol-O-methyltransferase, then you're going to have trouble with your neurotransmitters and producing them, and so to say refurbishing them. So, there are genetic snips, there's testing you can do. They'll usually do that with lab tests, homocysteine, methylenetetrahydrofolate. So yeah, there are many methyl tests that you could do. So, I would get them done if you have a problem. But in general, rather than confirming or spending the money on methylenetetrahydrofolate (MFTHR), then just take a methyl B complex because most of us, as we get older, we need that extra B vitamin for our metabolism is slowing down and those methylated B’s are water soluble and we pee them away every day and that's quite a good help cardiovascularly to prevent cancer with, for our mood, our neurotransmitters. So, please take a methylated B complex as you get older at least one.

Question
“Is folate the same as methyl folate?”  [0:33:33]

Answer
Yeah. Yes, essentially it is. So, folic acid and folate are different formats. Methylfolate is the form we like to give in our methylated B complex. So, that's what we use there.

Question
“Is Glycine better than cane sugar?”  [0:34:02]

Answer
Sucrose is a dimer of glucose and fructose and glycine is an amino acid that we have to have. Glycine is about 70% 2/3 at least the sweetness of sucrose, cane sugar. So, it does have sweetness. So, you could take glycine and have a gentle sweetness to the foods you're preparing. You could use glycine to help you sleep at night, 2 or 3 grams mixed in water and chuck it down helps sleeping. Glycine is part of the antioxidant glutathione production. It's one of the three components of making up glutathione. So, glycine has many useful capabilities in the human body; whereas, sucrose has none of that. It's just used to be burned in the engines of our mitochondrial cells. And so, is glycine better than cane sugar? I'm going to say, yes, if you could do it that way. Yeah.

Question
“I have had a large nodule on the left side of my thyroid. I have two root canals on the upper left molars that have never been right for years. Do you know of correlation between abscessed root canals and thyroid nodules? I’m having the root canals extracted tomorrow.”  [0:35:40]

Answer
Well, that's probably a good thing because when I did my doctorate in integrative medicine in 1999-2000, we had these Chinese medicine meridian classes. People came over from the East and from the Europe and all over really to teach us allopathic doctors mostly. There were some dentists, there were some naturopaths there, but they showed us that there's energy lines that are linked between each tooth and the body. These meridian lines are energy flow lines. And I believe, let's see… we have the two incisors, so it's the one next to our two front teeth, the very next one is an incisor, but it's not your canine. Your canine has the point on it. So, it's between the canine and your big tooth, that incisor is linked to the thyroid. I remember that. And I think the first molar, there's two of them linked to your molar. So, if either your first molar or the second incisor is linked, I believe that that's going to be associated with thyroid function problems and inflammation. So, yeah, try and work with dentists who are familiar with biological and energy and doing 3D testing to look for cavitations and see if they can manage your teeth better in that fashion.

Question
“I am following a low carb, protein priority diet and also on BHRT, including testosterone. However, my latest CBC shows persistent elevated hematocrit, hemoglobin, and RBCs. I will be donating blood as advised by my doctor to lower the health risk. Do you think this condition may be due to diet, testosterone, or both? Any insight is appreciated.” [0:38:12]

Answer
Well, yes, hormones can have an impact on the bone marrow because it is anabolic and building to be on hormone replacement therapy. After all, it helps us build muscles and tissue and the lining of our uterus and our skin, collagen, elastin. So, yes, there is a growth management, repair, promotion of our bodily tissues with hormone replacement therapy. The bone marrow can be impacted and that will help stimulate the growth of red blood cells. If you are taking inadequate amounts of water, which we tend to do with aging, there can be a mild increase in hemoglobin, hematocrit, and red blood cell count. So, make sure you're drinking half your weight in pounds as ounces. So, if you're 150 pounds, you need 75 ounces of water every day.

Are you on diuretics? Diuretics help you pee out your water and concentrate your blood. Another thing would be are having any kidney problems? There are some issues with kidney disease and impacting red blood cell formation. So, there are various things that can impact this. But one unique thing that I don't think most doctors at all look at is heavy metal oxidative stress. Lead, arsenic cadmium on the bone marrow are very stressful and are associated with polycythemia, increased red blood cell count, and other disorders because the bone marrow has to grow about I think 22 million red blood cells per minute or is it per second? I don't know. We have to make a lot of them. So, I would look at heavy metals and do a heavy metal chelation. I would do the phlebotomy, follow your doctor's advice. But I have never really seen in my life, and I've been doing this 40 plus years with hormone replacement, I have never seen the hormones in a woman cause increased red blood cell count. There is an issue with copper. Most of us are copper deficient and some people have a fear of copper due to Wilson's disease. In general, lack of copper will allow for high iron retention and taking copper tends to improve iron metabolism and formation of red blood cells. So, those are some things you can share with your doctor that might be a help.

Question
“Hi Dr. E, I have been wanting to fast just for health. I am relatively healthy and only take HRT and thyroid. I am at 24 hours tonight and will go until the AM, but hungry. Any tips/tricks?”  [0:42:25]

Answer
You could take some herbal tea and put a tablespoon of butter in it. That really should be helpful. You could take a tablespoon of olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, that'll be helpful. Usually the wave of hunger lasts anywhere from 3 to 5 minutes. That hormone stimulation for hunger will go away. You are probably helping yourself live longer by doing these short fasts for 24 to 36 hours periodically, you know, couple of times three times a month. This is very wise. There's so much volume of data on the benefits of anti-aging, normalizing the adaptability of your body to burn fats, then go back to burning carbs, then burning fats, that's a very healthy sign. So, the more you get used to doing that, more you get used to eating in a time-restricted zone, and you get that insulin down in your blood, the healthier you're going to be overall.

I was just talking with a patient today, and she was concerned about her, I think it was her lipoprotein (a), something like that, or LDL. And her doctor ordered these tests for a Boston Heart lab panel. Her insulin level was above 10. And I asked her if she had discussed this with her physician who she had seen the day before today, and the physician only pointed out where the paper clearly showed a red dot for an abnormality and it was regarding alpha linoleic acid. I asked her, did she bring up the fact that her insulin was 10 and the risk there. Of course, the Boston Heart Lab said that it was normal to have an insulin, I think on their scale it was normal up to like 18. Anyway, not only that, her triglycerides were, I think, 140, something like that, 144, and the Boston Heart Lab said it's normal up to 149. And so, the HDL was 61. If you divide 61 into 141, it was something like 1.3 or somewhere in that zone. Anyway, the insulin, in research, if you look at a hazard ratio for predictability of heart attacks, the risk hazard ratio for elevations in insulin is 640 times higher than the next risk tested item which is high blood pressure which is like 230% higher and then I think the next one was triglycerides, which was like 140%, and then LDL levels was 38%. So, all these doctors are out there worried about your LDL count if it's elevated according to their numbers and the risk ratio hazard is 38% higher risk for a heart attack, but they don't talk about insulin, which is 640% risk higher. I mean, don't waste my time talking about LDL when it's 38% and insulin is 640%. I think we have to gently ask our colleagues, our fellow physicians, and your doctors to get a grip on the seriousness of carbs and starch and the insulin levels associated with all-cause death, macular degeneration, Alzheimer's. They say the sugar issue is diabetes type 3 of the brain and it's always mediated through insulin and the damage and growth promotion that it does. Heart disease, diabetes, cancers. So, it's kind of sad when we are seeing this not being stressed and taught well just to satisfy our lust to eat all this food and marketed stuff and eat too late. So, there you have it.

Question
“I have been on 0.25 mg estradiol patch for 8 weeks and it has caused headaches off and on. Would switching to daily gel possibly eliminate this or is this a sign I’m not a good fit for BHRT.”  [0:48:50]

Answer
Well, I don't know exactly who you are. You have to discuss that with your doctor. Now, the gels have all these chemicals in these estradiol gel packets and same for male testosterone androgen AndroGel packets. These chemicals that are in all this stuff to keep it in a gel format in these little packets is unnecessary chemical exposures. I like just good old Eucerin cream with the hormone mixed into it as a topical cream in a, you know, a Topi-CLICK. Would it cause headaches? I would want to ask, are you on systemic enzymes, because you don't start hormones without being on systemic enzymes like Vitalzym, Vascuzyme, systemic enzymes, ProteoXyme and taking three or four and drinking plenty of water and being low carb and doing a little exercise. That should prevent any of these minor side effects. So, share that with your doctor and see if that helps you.

Question
“Also on 100 mg progesterone at night.”  [0:50:44]

Answer
That seems like a decent dose. The patch of a 0.25 estradiol patch, not to mention the plastics that are in the patch, is a very low dose. I rarely ever see women achieve significant therapeutic levels on it. It's not impossible, but I would have to see your data. I like women to get a serum estradiol level of at least 50 to 75 pg/dL to be valuable enough to be meaningful for skin, bone health, heart health, immune system, memory, those kind of things.

Question
“My husband went to the heart doctor today and had Lipid Profile, and they showed LDL at 137. The doc says it is high, he wants it to be a 70. My husband has a stent in his heart after a heart attack almost 2 years ago.”  [0:51:37]

Answer
Yeah, that's the policy from the pharmaceuticals. You got it. And the pharmaceuticals feed the medical schools their curriculum and they sit on the boards and they teach all these doctors this, and they benefit from all the drugs that the doctors are taught to give and not to second guess this stuff. I would tell your husband to see a YouTube, it's a podcast by Thomas DeLauer. Now, he's just a trainer who has been doing this for about 10 years, very famous now with his podcast, and he is interviewing a Dr. AJ, which stands for Andrew Jay. And in it, the title of this, and this was, I don't know, within days, study of 28,000 people, and that's in the title, study of 28,000 people shows the error of LDL, or something like that. So, if you look at that, it's in the first 15 minutes of the hour interview, and he lays out the author and the fact that fasting insulin is linked with a 640% higher risk ratio than LDL which is only 38%. 38% to 640%, I think your doctor should have talked to your husband more about what his insulin level was and I bet you they didn't even measure it.

“My husband has a stent in his heart after a heart attack.” Okay. So, I think you should discuss the insulin because that's more of an issue leading to heart disease. Period. So, Thomas DeLauer and Dr. AJ, and the title of the video is A Study of 28,000 People and LDL, that's as much as I can remember the title, and you'll get there and look at it in the first 15 minutes. Bring that to the attention of your doctor and say, what's going on? Why aren't we talking about his blood sugar, his triglyceride level, his insulin level, that kind of stuff.

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“We try to do the natural ways for heart health and are not too trusting of some of the medical advice these days.”  [0:55:03]

Answer
There’s another good study if you would watch. It’s by Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. David Diamond, PhD, and it's called High Cholesterol s Healthy. And they just did a second follow-up to that. So, High Cholesterol is Healthy is about a review of all the studies on cholesterol that they make their recommendations over, and it's very very good and easy to follow. And then they did an update four months ago and it's called Why Your Doctor Lies About LDL, something like that. And so, I would watch that as well.

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“His one doctor told him he would not help him if he needed help anymore if he did not continue the prescribed medicines, a threat the doctor told my husband.”  [0:58:12]

Answer
Well, praise the Lord. I'm only going to say, the cholesterol value, well, you watch that YouTube by Dr. David Diamond and Dr. Ken Berry called High Cholesterol is Healthy, and you'll see study after study where they call it into question. Now, if someone has already had a heart attack and they're male, your husband's a man, so there may be some small anti-inflammatory effect of lowering cholesterol, but I think there's many other healthier ways to do it. So, I am not going to say it's inappropriate to stay on it, but there's so many other things to do at the same time.