YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, October 21, 2025

Question 
“Hi Dr E., it's been almost 2 years after my daughter's tonsillectomy. The scar tissue formed a small, squishy, movable lump on her soft palate on one side. The doctor said it's not a concern, and if she wants, it can be removed surgically. She has no symptoms. He said it won't go away on its own. It happened because of the way it was removed. Should we remove it?”  [0:02:41]

Answer
Well, I think you, your daughter, and your ear, nose, and throat surgeon should make that decision yourselves. I can't see it now. And I usually have a philosophy of, if things are working well, don't mess around with them. Leave them alone. Don't fix it if it's not broken. But if she's always fiddling with it with her tongue and it's irritating her, then maybe the best direction is to have the surgeon remove it. But I hope that goes well with you. 

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“Why do the stomach and bowels hurt when I am stressed about getting kids ready and off to school and myself to work in the morning? It seems to happen when I am rushing with little time left to get out the door. Is there a way to help calm my insides?”  [0:03:48]

Answer
I would like to know what your blood type is. O-type blood people make extra acid. If anything happens with the O’s, it would be heartburn and ulcers, and then later on, it's a bad reaction to genetically-modified grains and homogenized, pasteurized dairy, and it inflames the lining of the gut in the O-type people. In my experience, over 45 years of practicing, it is worse than any other blood type. If you make more acid, an acid is secreted for digesting food, and if you're not eating breakfast and you're skipping it, or if you are preparing it and you give breakfast to your children and you're not eating it yourself, your body will get messages as if you're going to eat, psychological triggers that will tell your brain to secrete acid as if you're intending to eat. And then if you don't eat in a rush, then that extra acid is going to generate some acidity and heartburn. 

Another feature is that when you're tense and rushing, your intra-abdominal pressures get higher. You tense up and your stomach gets tensed, and the intra-abdominal pressure goes up, and then you can get acid in the stomach pressurized, and it can burp up through the gastroesophageal junction into the lower esophageal space, which would be very sensitive to the acidity of the stomach. So, those are the things that I think are probably happening. I would just make sure. Find out what your blood type is. If you're O and you're preparing food, your body is going to think it's going to get some of that food for breakfast, so you might as well eat something. 

The other thing you could do is take Phospholipids powder mixed with SBI Protect, a serum-bovine immunoglobulins. Mix the two powders together and then add some warm water, not hot, just warm like you're making a baby bottle, and then drink that, and that will line the lining of your stomach and promote healing, especially to help you prevent any inflammation, ulcers, things like that. 

Another thing that you could do straight into water, doesn't have to be warm, is GlutaShield, which has L-Glutamine and aloe, things like that. Zinc is in it. Those are other things that may help you. So, hopefully you can get that under control and have more time to enjoy your breakfast time in the morning with your children. And those are my suggestions to calm the insides. 

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“Chronic diarrhea is causing chronic urinary tract infections. I'm taking 2,000 mg D-Mannose and 36 PAC units of concentrated cranberry. Is there anything else that could possibly help prevent urinary tract infections? The diarrhea has been with me since C. diff in 2020. Also, from last week, the IV radiation is Pluvicto. It's given 6 times over a course of 6 months.”  [0:07:18]

Answer
D-Mannose is a type of sugar that is not absorbed and is just passed right through the body into the urine system, and it coats the lining of the bladder, which makes it hard for any bacteria to adhere to the wall of the urethra and the bladder. And she's taking a thing called 36 PAC. Oh, it's a cranberry concentrate. So, like CranActin, ours is called CranActin. So she apparently had a Clostridium difficile toxin production from overgrowth and activity. Also from last week, the IV radiation. Pluvicto is usually given to men who have prostate cancer, and it's a radioactive type of hormone-sensitive tissue, like an attractive molecule that will dock on hormones, and if it's radioactive, it will kill them, but that doesn't have anything to do with how she can deal with chronic urinary tract infections and D-Mannose. 

Well, I don't know if you're on hormones, I don't know how old you are, but the older you get, the less hormones you have, the thinner your skin gets, and your hair and your nails get thinner. And then even the lining of your vaginal and your urethral lining and everything begins to wither and thin, then it's easier for bacteria to crawl up, so to say, into the urethral area on a woman, especially if you're still sexually active. So, estradiol is very helpful to build that up and to help the structure of the urogenital tissues in a woman. The other thing is that testosterone helps with the constriction around the urethra. The men's urethra, of course, is very long, but a woman's urethra is maybe only 1/6 or 1/10 the length of a male urethra; however, there are muscles in that area, and taking testosterone helps. 

One of the things I do is I give Estriol, usually 3 mg with testosterone 1 mg/gram, and I have the woman use it intravaginally, just placing it up there with her finger every night for about a week or two, and then thereafter, maybe twice a week, three times a week. But when that firms up the local skin there and the testosterone helps the muscles, usually there's better tone, thickness, and healthier tissues. Eating a low-carb diet, of course, is very important, and drinking enough water to flush the system out, and taking vitamin D somewhere in the realm of 10,000 IU a day of Cholecalciferol. And then get your serum blood tested with your doctor to see if your vitamin D level is getting up to close to 100. That helps your immune system. You can still use the CranActin, cranberry, and D-Mannose, but that should help you. Low-carb, the estriol with testosterone cream vaginally. You can take systemic estradiol for every other part of your body as well. Estradiol can be given with progesterone and many other things. We could look at your DHEA, we could look at your immune system. You might need extra vitamin C. I would take buffered capsules of vitamin C at least two a day, twice a day minimum. Hopefully, that will help. You could see your gynecologist, but start with a functional doctor who can give you some of these natural hormones and help build up your immune system, your vitamin D, and look at those things.

Question 
“Hi, Dr. Rita. Can you please share this action plan to make people healthy again – LowCarbMaha.org. Please share on social media and tag officials to change the Official dietary guidelines and pray. Thanks.”   [0:11:50]

Answer
LowCarbMaha.org – it’s an organization that is composed mostly of women, but many health care-related para-professionals and professionals are in www.LowCarbMaha.org, and they're involved in trying to help create communication, networking amongst healthy-minded, patriotic, constitutional, God-loving people, and that's the organization – www.LowCarbMaha.org. 

And she says, “Please share on social media and tag officials to change the official dietary guidelines. Pray.” Yeah, because the dietary guidelines are based on really no good science. If you look at Nina Teicholz’s book, Big Fat Lie, and you look at her scientific paper she published in, I think, it was 2015 to the British Journal of Medicine which they tried to get pulled, and actually she is a journalist, she's not a healthcare provider, but her medical research over the past decades has actually established the fact that these dietary guidelines are based on little to no science and often are influenced by big industry in the food industries. And so, their recommendations are foolish. So, the book is called Big Lie by Nina Teicholz, a journalist. Her paperwork is published in the New England Journal of Medicine, and it survived the battle attack of all the journalistic heavy-headed, pinheaded academics, trying to get her report torn down, nitpicking and arguing against what she wrote. But they couldn't argue with the facts, and the facts are, most of the nutritional advice and dietary recommendations are based on bought off flawed, compromised, men and women who are in advisory positions that have really no experience or qualifications other than an old unused MD degree and they're just living on the high dollars of consult fees at this time of their life. So, they're easy to buy off. Yeah. So hopefully that will get spread around. It's called LowCarbMaha.org, all one word. 

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“Have you had any success in treating severe lymphedema with neuropathy? What do you recommend to unclog the lymph system and reduce the swelling?”  [0:14:40]

Answer
The lymph system is usually underdiscussed in healthcare, but it's involved in all of our recommendations for every visit we have on this YouTube every week, and that is drinking an adequate amount of clean, purified water that has been filtered, and exercising regularly. In particular, if you have lymphedema, I would use a rebounder. There's like a rebounder might be three feet across, and it'll have a bar for you to hold on to so you don't lose your balance. And if you bounce on that, you know, 5 or 10 minutes every day, morning and evening, that is going to do a lot for the rhythmic contraction and relaxation of the musculature that helps pump through the lymph system in your body, that helps move it through your lymph nodes, and supports cleaning your immune system and detoxing you that way. Of course, we would say then, don't remit bad food and toxins into your body. Adopt a healthy diet, which would be very low carb and not an exotic entertainment diet where you're looking for every mouthful on the planet to be an exhilarating moment in your mouth. Rather, except, you know, we have our bodies to take care of, and in my worldview, we're here to build the kingdom of God and help our neighbors and loved ones. So we take care of ourselves to be of good service. So if I get meat and a vegetable, or if I get chicken and a vegetable or pork in a vegetable, or fish in a vegetable or egg at a vegetable, that is plenty of variety and that is healthy, and without colorings or glazes or all kinds of exotic taste flavorings to complicate the immune message from when you take it into your body. So, eat simple, eat low carb, and eat a rich amount of proteins because we're made of protein and fat. As you get older, don't eat late. Try to eat it at 3:00 . Exercise, drink your water, and probably add in digestive enzymes and a probiotic as you age, because the gut system is being hampered with so many antibiotics. If you can buy grass-fed, prairie-raised, wild-caught material, that's best because the feed yards and the animal beef industry, the stockyards, they just give them oats and fatten them up, and they're not active, and those oats have been raised with genetic modification and glyphosates. And typically, before they cut the oats, they spray a heavy dose of glyphosate on them because it acts as a drying agent, we call it a desiccant. So, you're getting a triple whammy of glyphosate. So, that's what I would do for lymphedema. The other thing is systemic enzymes on an empty stomach, morning and evening. I use Vitalzym. I use five once or twice a day, depending on how I feel. As I get older, I'm more easily irritated with minor issues, such as getting a cold or a sore throat, or something. So I have to use more enzymes to help cleanse my body. I have to eat, finish all my eating earlier, so I have more hours of healing and a better evening to heal. So, these are the things we do to treat lymphedema.

Question 
“Is there any legitimacy to the concern many express over hormone supplementation, like increased risk of breast cancer? I've been under the impression that the concern only applies to hormones that aren't natural. However, someone was questioning that. I'd appreciate your input and maybe an answer I can give on this.”  [0:18:54]

Answer
“I’ve been under the impression the concern only applies to hormones that aren’t natural” – Like the Premarin, which was equine horse estrogens, which were not designed for women, and that is true. And the progestins, which were synthetic progesterone, increased the risk of breast cancer incidents. And they gave that out like candy back in the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and early 2000s. So yes, there's some truth to that. 

Really, the answer is that cancer is a metabolic mitochondrial disease. It is extremely rare to try to identify any genetic causal relationship that a gene has done this. We have so many genes, and a mass of tumor cells is uncoordinated and it is irregularly behaving with a disordered metabolism, and the whole genetic makeup of any one clump of that same mass could be very wide in its variety. So, to think that you're going to get a biopsy and then you send it off for gene assay, and you're getting some great advice on its potential for management just based on genetic advice, is not without being challenged by the scientific community. For instance, estrogen and progesterone receptors on tumors for breast cancer are present in every healthy woman on the planet. So, is that to say that every woman with estrogen and progesterone receptors on their breast cells should expect breast cancer? The answer should be no to that. The answer should be, why is it that the breast cancer started, and it is responsive to certain treatments/medications that block the estrogen receptor uptake? Why is that? Is it because the estrogen caused it? Or it's because it is started by something else, and until it becomes extremely undifferentiated and very aggressively malignant, undifferentiated means it is no longer related to its originating tissue. So, undifferentiated. That means the gene, the picture of it, is just falling apart so much. So the answer is, the more you have estrogen-positive, progesterone-positive features, the easier it is to treat, but not because it was the cause of the cancer. I think there is far more volume. So, if we were to have a scale and we were to say, how much is the genetic cause for cancer really being validated since the 1980s, when I think Nixon declared the war on cancer? Well, after 45 years, there's almost no real action. All the action that's happening is in the immune system, which is making these monoclonal antibodies/tagged monoclonal antibodies that have activities to target certain tissues through antigen and complex receptors, which have nothing really to do with the gene form. 

All I am saying is the paradigm has to shift, and our eyes have to be open. At least we have to be able to discuss this. If you listen to Thomas Seyfried, PhD, on YouTube and type in ‘cancer as a mitochondrial metabolic disease,’ he addresses the gene question. So, if you stuck a needle in my breast right now, you'll get estrogen and progesterone receptor-positive cells. Does that mean they're malignant? No, it doesn't. So something else is triggering it. And the argument that our high carb, our inflammation, our lack of water, our lack of circulation with lack of exercise, our eating too late, our immune system being worn out with always taking all this food variety, all these antigen that your body through your immune system has to figure out with every bite you take, I would say that is straining our immune system, clogging up circulation and microcirculation, all the toxins, and that is generating oxidative stress. And so, the cells are starting to revert back to a more primitive, facultative, anaerobic energy production, which is very inefficient, like fermentation, like making wine or alcohol, and you need a lot of sugar and glutamine, but mostly glucose carbs to feed the ineffective sugar metabolism for energy of the cancer cells. 

Now, there's another article. Well, I don't have the article here with me, but this is an article that was written, I think, a year or two ago, and it is about the incidents of breast cancer recurrence or death. After you've been diagnosed with breast cancer, can you take hormone replacement therapy? And so, this retrospective meta-analysis goes all the way back to the 1980s, with women who chose to use their natural hormones, or who were still young enough with breast cancer that they had their own hormone production still from the 1980s to the present. And I can say I have many patients who have had breast cancer, who have had it treated working with their oncologist, and they chose electively to go back on their hormones for many other things, like bone density, mental acuity, immune function, heart function, cardiac risk factors, many things that will involve slowing aging and improve the immune system, and we don't see any increased risk of recurrence or death. So, I'm going to say, no, there's no link. You have to use someone with your oncologist and be informed. Read the book, Estrogen Matters. I think his name is (0:26:56). I'm not sure. But the author of the book, Estrogen Matters, is the one who also published the study on the retrospective meta-analysis of all the women who had breast cancer and went on hormone replacement therapy afterwards, and there was no increased incidence of recurrence or death rate. 

Questions 
“Can removing the thyroid gland cause dementia? I read about this in an old book (from 1922).”  [0:27:27]

Answer
That would have to do with metabolism, which would crash the thyroid function. So, if you had your thyroid taken out and all the ability to have thyroid hormone, you could become mentally slow. Remember, newborn babies are tested at birth for their thyroid production. If they don't catch this, they become what we call cretin. Cretinism is the retardation of undiscovered hypothyroidism at birth. So, yes, the answer is it's possible. 

Question
“Greetings and blessings, Dr. Rita! I just started a carnivore diet. I had an egg this morning and three lamb chops a while ago. I'm 0+ blood type. How long should I stay on this diet?”  [0:28:16]

Answer
Well, it’s probably going to take about a month for your whole metabolic energy mitochondrial production to get used to an extremely low carb diet, a very low carb diet, and then you'll see the benefits accrue, and you'll get better metabolically as you get closer to the third and fourth week. So, I would say you probably should stay this way for two months. It is a season of time where we're going to have a Thanksgiving dinner, a Christmas dinner, and I think you can still have one dinner for Thanksgiving and one meal for Christmas, and you'll recover very quickly. And then ultimately, if you've achieved your goals, feeling better, maybe it's weight loss, just a sense of cleanse and wellbeing, it's a wonderful detox for the human body, then I would say you could have a keto diet, which is very low carb but allows some vegetables in it. But that's how I would approach it. Okay. 

Question
“Bacopa (Bacopa monnieri), is it good for the brain, etc.?”  [0:29:45]

Answer
Boy, that sounds familiar. I don't have another computer with me. I don't have the answer on that one right off the top of my memory here. Bacopa monnieri. Usually, these things are put into other nutrients. Like I have, what is it called…Now I can't even remember the name of my own brain support medicine. It has Vinpocetine in it, and I think it may have Bacopa monnieri as well, but I can't recall the specifics on it. Next week I'll try to bring that up. Bacopa monnieri for the brain. And I'll speak to that next week. 

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“I was wondering about Juice Plus since fruits and veggies have anti-nutrients like lectins and oxalates. Does Juice Plus have any of these anti-nutrients in it?”  [0:30:48]

Answer
That's in the flesh of it and usually in the peels and the fibrous rind and all of it. But the micronutrients that are carried in the fruit, the vegetable, and the berry are what we call polyphenols, and they are not the lectins that we're talking about. So my answer is I've been on it, closing in on 30 years now. I am very sensitive, being a B positive with many allergens, and my immunofood is very, very benign. I think it's normal for any normal gut to have 10 to 12 IgG food reactions ongoing. It's when you start getting teens, 20s, 30s, 40s that you really have a leaky gut. So, I've never seen it with Juice Plus. Hopefully that's helpful. Remember, there's a difference between the actual peel and the rind of a vegetable, fruit, or berry versus the chemical micronutrient, the polyphenols that are in them. 

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“Hi Dr Rita, my family and I seem to have an itchy rash. Possibly poison oak. Do you know of any home remedies that will help? Thank you.”  [0:32:13]

Answer
Usually, we've used aloe vera. The other thing is to take the Clinician's Preference Oil, which is the linoleic/alpha-linolenic acid. We do have it as a liquid here. Put a drop on your finger or two and then rub it into the itchy area. Don't over-shower and try to drink plenty of water and stay hydrated. If you're showering a lot and putting soap on it and getting in the warm water, it'll only feel good for a minute. Then you get out and you'll dry up, you'll crack, and the crack will be deeper and worse than it was before the shower. This typically happens to us as we get older. We digest less well, we don't absorb our fats, our skin dries out, and our circulation to the skin gets more limited. Therefore, elderly people start to take more and more hot showers for joint pain and dry skin. That's the opposite of what they should be doing. 

Question
“How would you treat cardiac sarcoidosis?”  [0:33:32]

Answer
That's an autoimmune phenomenon. I would get your blood type. I'd work with your cardiologist. This is not in place of your cardiologist, but we believe this is an autoimmune phenomenon. Find your blood type. I would go on a hundred percent carnivore diet anywhere from three to six months. I would not eat after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I would drink my water half my weight in pounds as ounces every day. I would go to bed on time, around 9:00. I'd get up with sunrise. I would stand with my feet grounded barefoot in the wet grass for 2 to 3 minutes every morning with the sunshine, the infrared long waves going through my skull and my clothes into my body. I would take a brisk walk daily for 20 minutes. I would do weightlifting as tolerated. I would get a complete digestive stool analysis to look for inflammatory markers in the stool and your gut flora. I would do the food immuno IgG allergy tests to look for what immediate foods were irritating you, because if you don't stay on a carnivore diet, then you want to go back on foods that you definitely avoid, based on what they find. I would get iodine. Either take iodine, I use Iodoral, Dr. David Brownstein. He's on YouTube. You can listen to his lectures on their relationship to good cardiac health. I would take systemic enzymes to reduce the inflammation. Of course, sarcoidosis is an inflammatory response in the tissues with the laying down of fibrous materials. So, I would also do a microcirculation-enhancing chelation therapy once a week or twice a week for an hour to improve the microcirculation, keep the electrical flow dynamics as normal as possible. Eat a rich protein diet as a carnivore to heal yourself with healthy protein amino acids, and find yourself a good functional doctor to do that with. 

Question
“Okay, Dr. Rita. I'll continue the carnivore diet, and I'll make an appointment to see you in December. I'll have my lab work done then, too. Can I stay on Juice Plus and vitamins while on carnivore?”  [0:36:06]

Answer
Yes. Anyone on Juice Plus can be a carnivore because you're not taking in the fruit juices; you're just taking in the micronutrients. Absolutely. 

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“My dear friend just got diagnosed with acute angular glaucoma. Is there anything natural that will slow the progression of the disease?”  [0:36:46]

Answer
Yes, EDTA chelation therapy. I've had people with such severe new-onset glaucoma that they were almost going to be rushed into surgery within days. And they went on a carnivore diet; they did an initial 48-hour fast. They took the systemic enzymes, and they did chelation therapy three times a week. And on the follow-up visit in the following week, the ophthalmologist was shocked at the microcirculation improvement and health of the tissue in the eye, and the reduction of inflammation through the enzymes and the diet changes that she made. So, definitely. Find a good functional doctor who'll help you get that done. And then let your ophthalmologist know what you're doing. It's not to say you won't go on their meds or you won't see the ophthalmologist. This will greatly improve your chances of not needing any serious medication or surgeries, or eventually getting off them.

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“What is your cold/flu/COVID prevention protocol? What do you recommend if we get a cold, flu, or COVID? Is Ivermectin part of your protocol?”  [0:38:02]

Answer
The ivermectin is not necessarily a part of it. I have it on hand. Of course, I am a doctor, and I can call it in easily, and I understand that's problematic for anyone who doesn't have a license to practice medicine. So, I would see your doctor and maybe get a standing order for the appropriate milligram strength for your body weight. The recommended dose for the onset of a cold/a bad flu would be using the ivermectin once a day for about seven days, and then twice a week thereafter for at least three or four more weeks to make sure everything's all healed up. So, most people know it comes as a 3-mg tablet, and most people, 150 pounds or so, are going to need about 15 mg. And so, if they took five times the 3-mg tablet, that would be 15 mg. So they would take five little tablets (they're very tiny) all at once at one time once a day for seven days at the onset of their illness. And then the other things we normally do, even without ivermectin, is we'll do a high-dose vitamin C drip. You can call up and try to get a high-dose vitamin C 25-gram immune drip. You could do that once or twice during that week to really help work as an antiviral agent. You can take oral vitamin C. We use the buffered vitamin C here, two caps, as often as you can take it, because oral vitamin C can loosen your stool up a bit. We also take a high dose of vitamin D. Very often, we'll just tell our patients to double up their vitamin D dose, whatever they're taking. Or we have a packet or a bottle of the 50,000 IU capsules, and you could take one a day for five days just to boost your vitamin D for a week. 

Now, we usually say “starve a cold.” So I wouldn't eat if you were starting to get sick, congested, sore throat, achy, stomach ache, diarrhea, that kind of stuff. I would starve myself for 24 to 48 hours. I would take quercetin. We use it in the form of Seasonal Shield. Quercetin is a powerful antiviral. It helps stop a virus from being replicated in the cell. I would take zinc in the form of 25 to 50 mg a day for a week or two. Now, we have most of this in a product called ImmuneProtect, and it's got the quercetin in it, it's got the zinc in it, and so forth. So, you could get a bottle of that and take that dose for a week or two and really boost your immune system in that way. The achiness and the sore cells, we usually give you systemic enzymes. And so, I would take five twice a day until the achiness and the injured cells get cleared out. So, with a good night's sleep, plenty of water, taking the D, taking the zinc, taking the quercetin, fasting, lowering the sugar so you don't depress your immune system, getting a high dose vitamin C, taking the extra vitamin D for a week, and if needed, taking the ivermectin, that's pretty much our protocol right there.

Now, there is our Argentyn silver, which is nano-particulate silver. I use it in a nasal spray. I also have it as a mist to spray on my face. I have it as an oral liquid. I can take a sip and swish, swallow, and gargle with it. Last week, unbeknownst to you, I was suffering from pink eye that I picked up from one of my grandchildren. But the minute I saw my eye getting pink, I went on hyper alert for washing my hands and for using tissues anytime, just one tissue per eye, so I don't transfer to the eyes. I use the Argentyn silver drops in my eyes a hundred times a day, and in between patients, I just keep on using them. And then I was better in a day or two. I kept doing it for a week to make sure everything was well, and I did that even without ivermectin, although I did take one dose. So, hopefully that helps you. 

Question
“Can we get your views on Fosbury on light: Astrophysicist on Infrared Light & Life Interactions | Robert Fosbury, PhD.”  [0:43:18]

Answer
Yeah, I believe he's that British astrophysicist. And the down under on all this is just get outside more. One of the things I did with my pink eye – we have become indoors with LED lights, which is just a single wavelength. We're losing the infrared and the color zone and the ultraviolet lights part of the wave, and we're tremendously losing the infrared light. And that seems to penetrate deep. It'll go into our cells, and it will interact with the water in every cell of your body and the intracellular water, which, if you listen to Dr. Gerald Pollack, PhD, on the Electrical Structured Water of the body, you'll see how it is extremely logical to conclude that infrared waves penetrate centimeters deep into our body and through our skull. It amplifies the energy of the structured water over the membrane of the cell, the transmembrane potential, which helps in energizing the whole cell to have better electrical differentials for the flow of electrons and energy. And that's what life is all about, the flow of electrons. So, getting outside is what you need to do early in the morning, barefoot, standing in the wet dew grass in the morning, and let your body kind of, discharge into the earth, that is negative, it has a net negative charge, the earth, and equilibrate, so to say, with the sun shining on you, drinking plenty of water so that you are potentially charged up as much as you can to begin your day and your best immune system and function. So, that's what it all boils down to. And try to get at least 20 to 30 minutes outside every day, especially first thing in the morning.

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“I had a biopsy finally done on what I had been told for 5 years was a lymph node beneath my right ear, but the doctor doing the biopsy said, “it’s NOT a lymph node,” but he did not say WHAT it was instead. What might it be? It is very small (about the size of a small pea) and has not changed much in 5 years. I’m waiting for 2 weeks to see the Ear, Nose, and Throat specialist who ordered the biopsy. Hoping you have an answer.”  [0:45:57]

Answer
Well, I wouldn't have an answer until you get the pathology. But if the fellow didn't think it was a lymph node when he took the biopsy, it's probably just a fibrous tissue or a sebaceous cyst there, just fatty acids that are clumped into a big fatty cell area there, or a follicle, and your skin got plugged. Or sometimes we can scratch ourselves or plant matter like a twig or a stick, or a scratch can get under the skin, and this plant matter is so foreign, our body will make a fibrous ring around it, and these become benign little fibromas in our body. So, that's likely what it is. 

Question
“Which structured water device do you recommend again? Thank you!”  [0:47:20]

Answer
The one I have right here in front of me and in my water bottle is the wand. This is Analemma, www.Analemma-water.com, and this has structured water in it. So, when I put this into my water here and I put this in there, that is going to talk to all the water in here, and it's going to bring it structured. Much like throwing a pebble into a pond makes all the water ripple. You know, maybe it'll last for minutes, the perturbation of the water. But the structure X through the crystal and structure of the wand, and that's called the Analemma wand at www.Analemma-water.com.

Question
“What form of estrogen and progesterone should I be taking to address osteoporosis? I am a female, 72, currently taking both for Hashimoto's and dryness, but now my focus has shifted to increasing bone strength/density. Patch? Cream? Vaginal? Injection?”  [0:48:26]

Answer
I like the topical creams. I don't like patches because I don't like the plasticizers. That's just more plastics you're putting on your body over your lifetime, and I intend to use my hormones all my life. So, I use Eucerin cream with my estradiol mixed into it, and I can adjust it easily, a little more cream, a little less cream. And getting a level that will get your blood serum level somewhere close to 100 ng/dL with a progesterone to balance, that's getting you somewhere in the realm of 4 to 8 ng/dL also. And then do strength training on machines in the gym and really work your muscle mass. And you could stomp. Just hit the floor and stomp with your feet. That sudden deceleration will stimulate the periosteum and the lining on each bone that the tendons attach to. That micro millimeter of jerking on the bone is what talks to the cell in an electrical piezoelectric moment, you might say, by every stomp you take. And we have such cushy shoes and gym shoes. Now, if you're out there running, you're going to get that piezoelectric signal. But if you're not a runner like me, and I can't run, I'm going to be doing stomping and lifting my heavy weights on the machines at the gym three times a week and using my natural bioidentical estradiol cream and my natural bioidentical progesterone at night, and that's how I would do it. 

Question
“Took out grade 1 breast tumor, margins clean. I want to go on fenbendazole and ivermectin going forward. What dosage do you recommend?”  [0:50:33]

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Now, I'm not an oncologist, and I'm not recommending treating any cancer, proven cancer, with antifungal/anti-parasitic agents. But the anecdotal information and my own patients who have chosen to get this on their own, because you can get it over the internet, is quite impressive. And there is a YouTube doctor by the name of Dr. Casey Peavler, MD. He's in Florida. And if you go on YouTube, Dr. Casey Peavler, hit his round face image, and his website will come up, something about mitochondriacs or something like that, because cancer is a mitochondrial metabolic disease. And type in his search bar, fenbendazole and Ivermectin. There, he talks about the various case studies that have been published around the world on it with good literature and really good outcomes. The patients that I have had who chose themselves to follow some protocol about 10 years ago, called Joe Tippens. He’s a gentleman who was given up for any further treatment, and his veterinarian friend had given fenbendazole, or Ivermectin, I think it was, to the animal kingdom, and they found cancer remissions. So, he took it himself. He talked about using dosages in the range of 200 to 400 mg and ivermectin in the range of 12 to 24 mg. These are doses we're seeing anecdotally, but they shouldn't be used consecutively and without supervision or knowledge of your oncologist or doctor, so they can check your liver enzymes and your blood count. Because I had one patient doing this on his own, and he took the fenbendazole I think every day, he didn't take a break, he did get some anemia, anemia bad enough that he had to have a transfusion with his oncologist. His oncologist was very understanding because he was in a very serious end-stage 4 of his cancer, prostate cancer. And it turns out that he has turned this around, and he is doing quite well, has gained his weight back, and is very active. 

So, it's quite impressive to me, but those are the dose ranges that I have been anecdotally seeing. The one I got myself, I got a product online, it's called ParaGon by Mahoney, because there's a lot of wild Indian country out there on the internet, and this seemed to be the only one that seemed to have papers that have assay publications of quality and content. This one, three capsules have 222 mg of fenbendazole and 12 mg of Ivermectin per three capsules. That would be, yeah, a starting dose, according to all the anecdotal reports I've seen. And it would be used. Most people that I see choosing to do this on their own are four days on, three days off, four days on, three days off. Some have doubled this. They take six capsules a day, four days on, three days off. But again, you have to share this with your oncologist, with your family doctor.
Let them know what you're doing. There may be some wonderful breakthroughs occurring. And yes, you might be able to get this over the counter, but please work with your doctor and your oncologist, inform them what you're doing, so we can help watch out for you. And we'll just share with you our experiences, what we've heard, but I'm not an oncologist, and I'm not recommending any dose range or any treatment protocol. 

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“Hello, Dr. Rita, my total cholesterol is 309, HDL is 92, LDL is 208, VLTL size is 68.2, glucose is 93, A1c is 5.5, but my doctor is recommending that I stop eating meats, and the fat of the meat and chicken, to stay away from tallow and to lean more towards vegetables, fruits, and legumes. She also recommends red yeast rice. Your Opinion?”  [0:54:59]

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Your glucose is 93. Do some weightlifting to get that burned down. Watch your carbs. Hemoglobin A1C is 5.5. That's decent, but I prefer it down to a 5.2 or 3. Red yeast rice is what statins were made from. They take wonderful herbs, like berberine, which is what they made metformin out of, and red yeast rice is what they made the first statins out of. And then there was a big law fight between the makers of red yeast rice and the producers of statins, and I think they lost the case, because I've always had red yeast rice around. But we are made of fat and protein. You need tons of cholesterol in a healthy body, and the more as you age. I have never, in my 45 years of practicing medicine, ever seen someone sue me because I told them to eat meat and a low-carb diet. Instead, I have really no heart attacks, no stroke patients, no new cancers, and this is really a phenomenon of just helping people stay well with a good immune system, good cell membrane integrity. 

So, I would ask you to watch a YouTube video. It's a year old now, but it's still very good. It's called High Cholesterol is Healthy, and it's put out by Dr. Ken Berry and Dr. David Diamond, PhD. Dr. Berry is a family doctor, MD. But we've known about these for many decades already. It's nice that these younger doctors understand YouTube and are doing all these nice pictures and graphs on YouTube. So, I'm very happy that they're doing what they're doing and that it is a resource for you to be able to help yourself learn about the safety and value of cholesterol. Look at that and have your doctor look at it, and then discuss it from that point. 

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“Do you know anything about RejuvaTress, recommended by Dr. Rosenberg at Suncoast Sciences, to reverse hair thinning? Thank you for all your years of experience and knowledge to help us heal as God intended.”  [0:57:43]

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Yes, I have heard of that. I have been doing this for 45 years, and if there's anything women complain about, it's hair loss and thinning of hair. I stress with them, and we have only tried to do everything to build up their natural health, their natural immune system, their microcirculation, detoxing, and good multi-nutrients, rich proteins, healthy B vitamins to build good hair with, because as your body is aging, it'll defer any protein you get in you for vital organs, and it'll say, don't worry about the hair or the nails. So, I'm not going to say that I'm impressed with RejuvaTress. I'm not going to say anything against it either because I don't have enough patients who have used it to make any fair judgment. But I'm saying, as a class, I didn't see anything in it that I thought was exceptionally unique that was associated with sharing with friends and building a reputation. I hope it is good, but I can't say that I would recommend it. 

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“Hello Dr. E. Is surgery needed for upper spinal stenosis (L4-L7) when the x-ray and CT scan show narrowing of the spinal cord and bone spurs?. Is there an alternative? What can be taken to help strengthen your body?”  [0:59:12]

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There is no L-7. That must be L-4 through L-5. We would certainly recommend all the healthy things we're telling you – the low-carb diet, the systemic enzymes, not eating late, weight training, chelation therapy, microcirculation, high-dose vitamin C, and avoiding food allergies. And then if that's still not helping you and with physical therapy, then you have to take the advice or take along with the advice of your orthopedic neurosurgeon, their advice, and come to a decision. But the best we can do is help you be in the healthiest state you can with your exercise to stay well. 

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“I am trying to lower my fasting blood sugar level. I have been doing a lot of intermittent fasting, 16-8 and 18-6. Today was 150 in the morning and down to 88 at 3 PM - after 20 hours of fasting. Advice?”  [1:00:26]

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My advice is keep it up. You can't expect your cellular engines and the epigenetic messaging to change overnight. It's going to take at least a month for your mitochondria to be relieved that there's so much less sugar, starch, and fructose to deal with, and it'll learn how to burn fat for energy efficiently. 

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“I am good with my diet and water with electrolytes - no sugar or soda. Is my fasting blood sugar higher in the morning at all related to high cortisol? I have a high-stress corporate job. Advice?”  [1:01:10]

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The answer is yes. That's called the dawn effect. You're doing all the right things. And even if your blood sugar never became totally perfect, the whole choice of this lifestyle is so much better. Don't worry about the numbers so much. Keep the exercise, the weight training, building up the muscle volume and mass, keep the sugars down, and do not eat late. So, good girl on that.