YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, October 27, 2026

Dr. E: Dr. Alt, how is stuff going here at TLC? What do you think of what you're seeing and learning? And what are your plans for your future patients coming to you, and those kinds of thoughts? [0:03:23]

Dr. Alt: Yeah, it's been really good. So, I just about hit my 3-month mark here at Tustin Longevity Center as a new naturopathic doctor. Shadowing under Dr. Ellithorpe has been really great, really informative. I'm really amazed and impressed by the quality of health that our patients have, especially as they get into their 70s and their 80s. Their inflammation levels are really low, and their cardiovascular health is great. So, that's something that's been really impressive to me.

Dr. E: And where do you think the future is for medicine, for healthcare, Dr. Alt? What direction do you think it's headed with all of this Artificial Intelligence, super-superior intelligence, as the current administration would say? Where do you think it's headed? [0:04:09]

Dr. Alt: I mean, it's hard to say where exactly AI is going in terms of medicine. I do think, with medicine, there's always going to be a need for humans because it's about a human being connecting with another human at the end of the day. So, I never think AI is going to totally replace humans in regard to medicine. I think it's a tool for information. But I think also that AI, where it's at right now, is not perfect; it doesn't know everything. It's not there yet. I've even asked it a lot of questions, and it doesn't always give me the right answer. Even from what I see, it has a different answer than what research will say online or things like that. So, it's not quite there yet.

Dr. E: So, are you saying that superior intelligence or artificial intelligence can be coaxed or biased into a paradigm of response? [0:05:22]

Dr. Alt: I think it can. I think it can, especially since all these different companies are making their own AI versions, so they can have a bias towards it.

Dr. E: Have you heard of training your particular superior intelligence AI to train it for a field of responses? [0:05:46]

Dr. Alt: A little bit. Yeah.

Dr. E: That's what I've been told. I've been told I have to train it to be functional medicine tolerant. And that's alarming to me too, to think that I'm going to ask a question to a body of knowledge and I have to tell it to be honest. Open and look at everything. I mean, give me a break. Be honest, open to everything. So, I feel like a patient sitting in front of a doctor, thinking I'm going to get a good answer, and what I'm winding up getting is a pharmaceutical canned response from the doctor.

Dr. Alt: Yeah. That's something I've seen a lot with my use of AI in medicine. It does cater towards a very allopathic approach. It's hard to even get it to think about natural medicine in a way. Yeah.

Dr. E: Why should we be able to get both pharmaceutical responses, as well as functional integrative responses? [0:06:51]

Dr. Alt: Well, I think that's where the future of medicine is heading. I think a collaborative world of natural and traditional medicine is, I think, what people need, and I think it's really the best of both worlds. You know, nobody is perfect, no doctors are perfect, and no medical systems are perfect, but I think if we can kind of bring together those worlds, that's probably the best scenario.

Question

“Hi Dr. Rita. How do we get rid of nasty mucus when you get a respiratory cold/infection? Besides all your regular protocols, of course! Thanks!” [0:07:49]

Answer

[Dr. Alt]

If they mean, like, nasty mucus in terms of congestion, I like NAC at a high dose. Usually, around 1,500 to 1,800 mg a day can help with that congestion. And then I also recommend some silver if you're having an infection or things like that.

Question

“And why the silver or why the NAC?” [0:08:24]

Answer

[Dr. Alt]

The NAC at a certain dose is mucolytic, so it can help break down mucus. Normally, it's a precursor to glutathione, so it helps our liver with detox, but at a certain dose, it's also very mucolytic in helping break down the mucus.

[Dr. E]

So hopefully that helps you. Of course, I would say take the systemic enzymes. That's fibrinolytic. So, if you're already starting to make little fibrin, congested stickiness to the mucus congestion, that will help break it up. And then you have to be well hydrated. If you don't drink water, I don't care what you take. You can take NAC, you can take vitamin D, you can squirt up Argentyn silver, and you can take oral N-acetyl cysteine, but you have to have the clean-up delivery system, which is water. And you worsen it by eating carbs. And some would say you worsen it with milk and dairy products.

Another item is iodine. Iodine is known as a good expectorant and mucolytic agent as well. Iodine. So, I take iodine every day. And maybe that's why I never get sick. I never call in sick. I'm thinking of all the young people who work with us, and they call in sick, and I'm just shocked at how often people call in sick here in your generation, and I just don't get it. Your generation just really must have been hurt by the current food and being born into it. At least I grew up until I was in my 20s, let's say, on farm-raised food, you know, and never a visit to a – there’s no such thing as a fast food restaurant when I grew up, where I grew up. You'd have to drive out of your way to go to a drive-in soda place. The only place I remember, it was called Shirl’s Drive-In and it was just like a soda pop where you would get a chocolate malt and a burger, you know, fast food thing, but that was extremely rare. Yeah, the kids today, I don't know what's with them. They are just so weak and getting ill and calling in sick at the drop of a dime.

Question

“How do I manage SIADH? I'm doing electrolytes, tired at the gym, doing keto.” [0:11:21]

Answer

[Dr. E]

Well, one of the reasons we lose our sodium and our potassium, our salts, is because the cell membrane is being broken. So, let me get you that picture again. Well, all disease is this picture here of a cell membrane being hit with damage, and you can see it here in this picture right here. And then what you want to do is heal it at nighttime and repair it from the damage during the day. And this free radical damage, it can be from being dehydrated, viral, chemical, heavy metals. It can be from overhydration. It can be from trauma, fungi, bacteria. So, many, many things can irritate the cell membrane itself, that biolipid layer, and you have to repair it. So, if you're not eating enough meat and egg yolks with the whites, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, shrimp, lobster, crab, pork- all these things- if you're not eating enough butter, you're not going to have the materials, the protein, to replace that cell membrane. And the older we get, the harder it is to repair and fix all that use of the body and the damage overnight. So, if you don't get a good night's sleep, if you don't drink enough water, if you don't eat enough protein and fats, if you're not using enough salt, although she says she's taking electrolytes, if you are over-exercising it is another thing, depending on your age, you can actually overtrain yourself and not give yourself enough time to repair in between training, you're going to have that free radical damage to the cell membranes, and you will literally just ooze and leak out your salts, these tiny tiny electrons.

And so, I would say, make sure in your diet you're not eating late because if you're eating late, that means that food is sitting in your stomach longer the older you get, say past age 60, for sure, and if you're a blood type A, for sure, because A's don't digest the fats and protein as well, and then this will have all this food in your stomach, and it'll be there not three hours, not four hours, but five and six hours or even more, and you'll go to bed having finished eating at 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, and then you don't even possibly have emptying until 2:00 or 3:00 in the morning. You have no time to heal. So, you're building up injured cells, poked-out cell membranes like that with a hole in it, and you don't have time to fix your body at night because you're eating too late. And this is a culture thing. Nobody ever had restaurants open 24 hours until, you know, 70 years ago. Just didn't exist. So, honestly, I think that's probably what's going on. To emphasize, don't eat late; try to get your eating all in between the time you wake up and certainly no later than 4:00 or 5:00 in the afternoon, rich in the healthy proteins that are made of phospholipids from the meat, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, and eggs, and then work with it that way. Of course, there are nuances. You want to make sure you don't have adrenal gland problems. There's such a thing as diabetes insipidus. So, if you've worked with an internist or your doctor and made sure you don't have very, very rare disorders, then that's usually what the problem is.

Question

“I have chest congestion from a bad cold. How much Argentyn silver can I use in a nebulizer? And how many times a day? Any side effects?” [0:16:59]

Answer

Dr. Alt: The Argentyn silver that we have is in a very safe dose. It's in a very safe, more diluted dose. So, you could use as much as you need in a nebulizer if you're having some of that congestion or cold or something like that.

Dr. E: How often could she do it?

Dr. Alt: I would say anywhere from maybe three or four times a day, kind of as needed.

Dr. E: So, there's no risk?

Dr. Alt: There's no risk.

Dr. E: You can't overdose on it?

Dr. Alt: You can't overdose. Yeah.

Dr. E: So, how many times today? Are there any side effects?

Dr. Alt: No, there aren't really any side effects for you.

Dr. E: Is that related at all to that blue Argyria where that guy turned blue, and he had his homemade colloidal silver?

Dr. Alt: That was a different form of silver, I believe, in a different dose.

Dr. E: Yeah. Homemade stuff, you can't. This is nano-particulate Argentyn. It would be impossible to get that blue man syndrome.

Question

“Dear Dr. Ellithorpe, if after surgery, like a hysterectomy, I take Calcium EDTA suppositories to try to reduce scarring from gadolinium going to the incision sites, will the Calcium EDTA suppository stir up more gadolinium even as it removes some since it binds best to lead but less to gadolinium? I heard that Calcium EDTA leaves 30% of gadolinium in other tissues but keeps removing in later doses.” [0:18:33]

Answer

Dr. Alt: It's tough to say. We don't know the exact type of suppository, like the brand that they're using or the efficacy of it. So, It's a little bit hard to say the exact effectiveness of that.

Dr. E: Well, what do you think about Calcium EDTA removing gadolinium versus lead?

Dr. Alt: I mean, it removes both of them fairly well. That's what we use here in our IVs. So, I think if you had any concerns about gadolinium, lead, mercury, arsenic, the calcium EDTA definitely can help with that.

Dr. E: Well, what do you think about these issues where people hear stuff out there that it leaves 30% of gadolinium in other tissues? I mean, what do you make of a statement like that?

Dr. Alt: Yeah, you can't definitively say that. Again, you have to know the brand and the studies.

Dr. E: What studies?

Dr. Alt: Yeah, exactly.

Dr. E: What studies?

Dr. Alt: There aren't any studies that are showing that, so…

Dr. E: So, what has happened to her?

Dr. Alt: She's, I guess, taken some information and seen it somewhere and maybe just believed that that was the truth.

Dr. E: All right. So, I'm pretty much the queen, you might say, of EDTA suppositories. I am probably the only one with the longest history of experience with doing real published data and pharmacokinetic studies using animals with a real generated matrix to put a certain amount of Calcium Disodium EDTA and 1500 mg, and then we've watched the uptake with radioactive-labeled carbon. I mean, I know what I'm talking about. And so, in this world, Calcium Disodium EDTA is, to my knowledge, not made anymore in the United States of America. It's overseas. And why is that? Because people are getting it without a prescription from physicians. And that is illegal in the United States of America. It has to be by prescription because it's a prescription drug: EDTA Calcium Disodium or Disodium or Magnesium EDTA. Don't use those other ones. We only use Calcium Disodium. This is a prescription drug. So, what are you getting, and from whom? And number two, who said it's 30%? Is it moved here or there or not? And what study are they quoting? I would have to see that. Does it exist? Show me. You know, I'm hoping that maybe someone in some country somewhere in the world might be doing it, but I haven't seen it. Okay. I haven't seen it. Am I for Calcium Disodium EDTA? Yeah. I almost made myself a poverty popper as a doctor, pouring all my money into the value of Calcium Disodium EDTA to try and get a new drug clearance usage for it other than for children to remove lead from them.

So, I don't know if I believe anybody who is telling you or selling you this idea that you heard: Calcium EDTA leaves 30% of gadolinium in other tissues but keeps removing it in later doses. EDTA Calcium Disodium removes gadolinium. And I see it all the time, every day of my life, every week of my life, every year of my life, every decade of my life here in this place, when we give it under our prescription, and it works great to remove it. And we don't get bad scarring here; we get great results. When I see my knee replacements, my hip replacements, the doctors are amazed. The orthopedic doctors are amazed at the lack of scarring. So, I would get EDTA IV because I don't know what you're getting over-the-counter with these products in the internet world, and the same applies to these peptide therapies.

Question

“What do you think about using hydrogen gas locally with a sleeve for joint pain and inhaling for autoimmune disease and overall health? Along with using it in water.” [0:23:40]

Answer

Dr. E: Do you have any thoughts on hydrogen therapy for joint pain and inflammation?

Dr. Alt: No. To be honest, I'm not too familiar with that.

Dr. E: Hydrogen therapy has been used as like an anti- free radical antioxidant and it has been used similar to how Ozone has been used, and they'll do it insufflation up your rectum in a bag and kind of squirt it and kind of squirt it up your butt as insufflation. We have wrapped joints with it; we've done it intravaginally, and it does seem to reduce inflammation and pain locally. It is a free-radical quencher because it's a positive molecule. It has a positive valence. So, it can take on a free radical negative charge.

So, in that theory, then it works. So, hydrogen gas locally with a sleeve for joint pain, inhaling it for autoimmune disease and overall health, along with using it in water. Yeah. So, those who have those hydrogen tablets they put in the water, they're literally getting some gaseous inhalation, and they're getting oral, and that is such a small molecule; it can travel throughout the whole body. It can be given topically. There are people who are doing baths in hydrogen water. That's part of what, along with the sulfa and the magnesium that's in these, like, lords of water, you know, these healing spots where you bathe. So, I'm all in favor of it. Yeah, I think it works.

I'm actually using, you know, when I do my structured water here, I have the swirling water right here. And then I have my Litewater bottle right here, this one that's right here. That's called www.drinklitewater.com or just www.drinklite.com, and that's deuterium-depleted water because some hydrogen isotopes are heavy; they have a neutron with them. And then about 150 parts per billion is in all the water in our environment here. 150 parts per billion. And that deuterium gets into our body, and it messes up our hydrogen protons or potassium, which is a positive ion. Potassium is a K symbol and then hydrogen is a positive. Those little ports that are right by your energy mitochondrial electron transport chain can get clogged up with deuterium-heavy hydrogen and clog it up. So, you lose that balance of the electronegative flow dynamics of your trillions of mitochondria. So, I am all in favor, and I am trying to increase my hydrogen exposure. I had Izumi. I think last week somebody asked me about the water. It was called Izumi, from Japan. It's in little packets. So when you pop the seal, you’ve got to drink it right away. Otherwise, the hydrogen gas will go away. So, yeah, I use it. I'm all in favor of it.

Question

“Do you recommend a good quality probiotic to be taken daily or just when we think we need one?” [0:27:41]

Answer

Dr. E: How would you look at that answer?

Dr. Alt: Yeah. We use Ortho Biotic, which is a probiotic for daily use by Ortho Molecular. That's typically what we'll recommend for a daily-use probiotic in terms of just every day. We do have other probiotics that are higher strength that we might recommend for patients that have taken antibiotics that, you know, so when you take an antibiotic, it might damage some of the good microbiome and good bacteria that you have. So, we'll have some higher-dose probiotics for that. But for daily use, we recommend the Ortho Biotic by Ortho Molecular generally.

Dr. E: But why do you recommend it? Why should someone do that when grandpa never did?

Dr. Alt: Yeah. Well, I think because of our food system and the way it is today, it really damages our gut, and obviously the better foods we eat, and the more support we can give our gut with that good bacteria, I think, can really be beneficial.

Dr. E: When you say good bacteria versus “average bacteria” or bad bacteria, what do you mean by good bacteria? What does it do for us? Is it doing something for us?

Dr. Alt: Yeah. So, basically, bacteria in the traditional sense that we often see in medicine are bad. It's disease-causing; it causes infections and sepsis and things like that. that. But there are a lot of other forms of bacteria that are natural in our gut that help us to digest, absorb nutrients, help distribute nutrients on where they're needed in the body and those are necessary for our gut. And most of our immune system is located within our gut. So, they also function in our immune system as well. So, They’re just super important overall.

Dr. E: So, are they involved in even helping to make some of our nutrients?

Dr. Alt: Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. E: All Right. So, then the answer would be, yes, I would take it regularly.

Dr. Alt: Yeah.

Dr. E: I think the older I've gotten, the more I've been taking probiotics. There are gram-positive bacteria; there are gram-negative bacteria. I take three different kinds. And once in a while, I take four different kinds. One is the Probiotic from Ortho Molecular; it's my number one base. Number two, I take Ohhira’s. That is a gram-negative. It has some Gram-positive in it, and it's got fermented things in it. I take one of those. Then the third thing I take is Sporebiotics. This is a different kind, so it gets all the way down to my colon. And then the fourth thing I take, and I don't have it here, but when I'm always doing research, I started to take Akkerromancea mucosin Jenna. And I actually saw the mucus in my bowel movement; it slips out more, like when I remember I was a kid. You know, when you would poo, it would just slip out, you know, surprised like, oops, there it went. And it had all this healthy mucus with it. So, Akkermansia, we lose it with age. We just lose it over time, the wear and tear on our gut. So, I have found that I have started using a lot more probiotics in my life.

So, hopefully, it says here: do you recommend a good quality probiotic to be taken daily? We would say yes. We would start with the probiotic, a long true enduring results, quality company, good specs as far as manufacturing quality and reliability called Otho Biotic or Probiotic. And if you need one, that means you're probably taking an antibiotic, and that's when you should probably use the strong ones.

Dr. Alt: Yeah. Yeah.

Dr. E: What do you recommend then if they were on antibiotics?

Dr. Alt: Yeah, we have two additional types. Probiotic 100 and then Probiotic 225, and these are a higher dose of the good bacteria for our gut. So, when we take those antibiotics and are damaged, we can replenish it quicker and fast.

Dr. E: So, a higher amount to get a quicker response and replenishment.

Dr. Alt: Yeah.

Dr. E: And then you go back to the Ortho Biotic standard after a while?

Dr. Alt: Yeah.

Dr. E: Okay.

Question

“Dr Rita, is ferritin level 23 too low for a 48-year-old female?” [0:33:11]

Answer

Dr. E: You know, that's a loaded question because I've been doing a lot of studying, and I just ordered the book to read by Morley Robbins, and the name of it is Cure Your Fatigue. And there's a play on the word CuRE. C-U-R-E, but the CU is put in a box like the elemental copper symbol on the elemental chart. And doctors really get a lousy education in nutrition, and we are at the behest of our training in our medical schools, and we didn't get enough training on – if they say iron deficiency is common, and you have to get more iron in, then we just believe it blindly as medical students. And yet he's going to make the argument, and it's true. If you say, what is the number one mineral on Earth, the number one mineral? It's iron. Iron is everywhere. Iron is everywhere. And so, iron can get oxidized quickly and become harmful, like rusting on a piece of machinery; your iron rusts and breaks off and chips. We use the iron carried in our hemoglobin to attract and hold on to oxygen. And then it has to be managed in a valence and storage, this kind of stuff. So we have proteins that carry it around, transferrin for iron, but we don't hear much at all about its modulator, and copper is turning out, in the study of mineralogy, to be the management supervisor for iron. And guess what? We are absolutely deficient. As a people, with industrialized farming and a lack of minerals in the soil in our vegetables, we’re copper-deficient in general. And all I can remember is being warned about Wilson's disease and copper excess disease as if it were a rampant thing. And so, physicians become fearful of copper just because there's one genetic snip: mismanagement of copper metabolism in the human body- it’s very, very rare. So, I'm going to say, iron shouldn't be floating around, and transport proteins in general, we have so much in general in our body, that ferritin should not be considered low at 23. And I’ve got to tell you that there are those who are starting to argue that a ferritin of zero is healthy, and yet we were always taught that implies iron deficiency.

So, you see, ladies and gentlemen here, I'm 73; I have worked 45 years every day, every week, no vacation, and now I’ve got to start restudying iron metabolism. And praise the Lord, it's okay; I love learning, and I have now been using copper in my multi-mineral, and I am finding great benefit by restoring a minimum dose – because back when my dad was at Armour Food Research. I keep my dad's old book. This is the Encyclopedia of Food Values from the 1950s. Can you believe I have this? And this absolutely shows the fact that nutrients from food were at least 50% to 75% richer in small-farm old America without industrialized business farming. And copper back then was considered normal somewhere above, you know, you would eat about, you know, the research suggests 6 mg a day, and now they have is like 400 mcg a day. So, somebody's got to have the answer. And I am certainly not 100% sure, but I am now going up to 2 mg daily, and I have for a year now. I've been taking 2 mg of copper a day. I tell you, I don't know why I feel well, but at 73, I feel like a powerhouse. So, your answer to that is, I think 28 is just fine. I would not worry about it. I would look at your hemoglobin, your hematocrit, the size of your red blood cells, and make sure they're not too small. And then I would see what your symptoms are and make sure those are all normal. Then I would look at your blood type. If you're an A, it's very likely you're copper deficient, and I would re-mineralize you.

Question

“Is protein better absorbed if I delay drinking water with or right after a meal?” [0:39:41]

Answer

Dr. E: I don't know if anyone has an answer. How would you look at answering that?

Dr. Alt: I wouldn't say it really makes a big difference if you drink water before or after. If anything, I think having some water would help with the absorption.

Dr. E: Okay. All right. How much water?

Dr. Alt: I would just say maybe if at dinner, an 8-oz glass of water with your meal is sufficient.

Dr. E: Yeah, because some people go extreme. If 8 is good, then 16 is better. If 16 is okay, 32 is better. I think you can overdo your water. I think what she's getting at is reducing the acidity of the stomach after a meal, and you need acid to help you digest. I don't know if they have elucidated any real clear-cut answers to that. So, I'm going to say drinking water to taste is the best way I would do it. I have to take digestive enzymes after eating, and that's just the way that story goes.

Question

“What is the best way to treat swollen feet and legs for someone who is on their feet for long hours?” [0:41:22]

Answer

Dr. Alt: I would say, when you get home, try to elevate your feet for a little bit to take some of that pressure off. And then if you're at work on your feet, I think using something like compression socks can help with that. But I would also preface this with, since we don't know any more information about the patient, to do some sort of cardiac workup to make sure it's not heart failure-related.

Dr. E: What is the most likely reason that you would be getting some water accumulation in your legs at the end of a day?

Dr. Alt: I mean, it's probably lymph-related and cardiac-related. So, not having enough/sufficient heart pumping to move some of that lymph fluid that's accumulating at the end of the day.

Dr. E: Well, I would say I have fluid retention, so I know I don't have heart disease. So, what do you think's happening in me, a 73-year-old woman?

Dr. Alt: Well, I think, I'm sure as we age, there's more lymph build-up over time because of gravity and standing.

Dr. E: Well, what's happening then? Actually, the little capillaries and the seal between one cell and the other are coming apart- the adhesion. Okay. And so, the strength of the cell integrity – remember those little holes I was telling you about? Guess what accumulates more and more as you age? If you eat too late, if you don't digest your food and eat your protein, you get more holes in your cells, and the fluid leaks out. You don't have to have heart disease or heart failure. And so, it is a fact of aging that you'll start having inferior repair than when I was 20 versus now that I'm 73. Okay. That's 53 years later. Of course, I'm going to have more damage compared to you. So, I'm going to have a little bit more ankle edema at the end of my day, but indeed, I put it up. I don't wear compression socks, but I exercise a lot. So, I'm trying to walk. I wear my step counter all the time. So, I'm making sure that I'm active and I’m not eating late. And what if I ate a high-carb diet? What would that also do?

Dr. Alt: I'm sure that would make it worse.

Dr. E: In that, the little tiny capillaries would be blasted with a blizzard of sugar, and then probably sticky glycosylated end products.

Dr. Alt: Yeah. And also I just want to add on to that, with exercise, the calf muscles sometimes are considered like a second heart because they're helping to squeeze. When those muscles contract, they squeeze the veins, and they help push the blood back to the heart. So, it definitely goes back to the strength training as well.

Dr. E: And there have actually been studies on people; if you just march in place, like I'm sitting here, one, two, one, two, and I'm making my calves, I'm going up on my toes, and that itself has lowered blood sugar. You don't have to have insulin receptors in the muscle cells there; it'll just suck up any carbohydrate I had at dinner. So, that will make a difference too. Everything matters. It isn't like you can do anything you want; just do two different things well or three well. Everything matters in life.

Question

“Have you heard of and endorse the living diet by Dr. Sean O’Mara? Basically carnivore with sauerkraut or kimchi. He showed pictures of how his face structure changed, improved, and his body.” [0:45:32]

Answer

Dr. E: What do you think that implies? Carnivore and fermented foods.

Dr. Alt: Well, yeah. So, basically, it's a low-carb diet with added probiotics is kind of what it’s sounding like. The sauerkraut and kimchi are fermented, so they have a good source of natural probiotics. And it makes sense that, you know, since he's on a carnivore diet, he's low carb, low sugar. So, it would make sense that his face structure would look a little bit leaner after doing a diet like that.

Dr. E: Yeah. So, you can put a name on it. If I had the time, I could write Rita's diet. Let's put out Rita's book. But you know, I think everyone's had enough books, and everyone understands, but we're all trying to find a key and a lock and a simple solution, and it isn't that simple. It's taking on personal responsibility that when you get up matters, how much you move matters, how much light you get in the day, when you break your fast, and what you break it with. If you break it with toast or a croissant or cereal, or bananas and fruit, that is no good way to break a fast. You need protein. And so, the guideline to eat your protein first on your plate is a wise thing to do. How much you exercise, what time you go to bed, how much sugar is in your diet, how much fruit is in your diet, how much carbs are in your diet, are they complex carbs or are they simple carbs, refined, cheap things like that. Are you happy? Are you optimistic, or are you angry and bitter all the time? I think that has already been established to be associated with immune responses and the degree of illness. I mean, everything matters, folks. So, is there a diet for everyone and anyone? I would want to know what this man's blood type is. I would want to know how old the author of that diet is. I would want to know what kind of stresses in his life? Does he have a wife supporting him, cooking for him, or does he have to do all his cooking, do all his own shopping, walk his own animal, clean his own house, you know, go to work? You know what I'm saying? There's a difference there. So, if he's fighting a wall of stress, it isn't just a carnivore diet and fermented food. So, I wish it was that simple. We need a doctor that can hear and listen to you and just say, I'm here to work with you. I'm here to try and find out what your level of stress is and walk you through it.

Question

“About 5 days ago, I had a stye on my eyelid. It was getting painful and puffed up and inflamed. I had a stye over 1 year ago and the doc gave me meds to heal it. My eyelid is almost healed now. I treated it with raw garlic, a small amount, then I used nano silver, a warm compress, and also I used a green tea bag for swelling...yippy, it is going away fast. I am amazed. Amen. A small amount of raw garlic rubbed carefully on my eyelid.” [0:48:57]

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[Dr. E]

Yeah. Any poultice that you put on, or like a cod liver pus over your liver, there's an osmotic difference, and your body will have things “drawn out” osmotically, very much so with a pus-filled pustule on your body. I wouldn't go poking it or lancing it. I would see a doctor about it. Staying low carb so you don't feed the bacteria, drinking very high amounts of water, not eating late, staying active in motion, using the silver, which is an antibacterial, antifungal, antiviral, and then warm compresses to enhance localized circulation, having a good amount of vitamin D and probably zinc in a multi-mineral in your body. All these things speak to healing. Now, systemic enzymes for inflammation: taking a serrapeptase systemic enzyme-rich or a nattokinase fibrinolytic enzyme-rich is helpful. Bromelain is very helpful. In fact, probably the best thing I've ever seen together is serrapeptase, nattokinase, and bromelain. That is the number one powerhouse for inflammation in the body for pain.

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“My question is about DHEA. Why when I take 5 to 10 mg of DHEA, my ovaries that have small cysts in them begin to throb and hurt?” [0:51:44]

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Dr. Alt: I don't think it's related. To be honest, I think DHEA can affect our hormones, but I don't think there it's known, especially at the doses that we give, only 5 to 10 milligrams in this example, to cause any sort of small cyst to the to the ovaries.

Dr. E: And then I would want to know her blood type, her age, is she ovulating, is she post-menopausal, because in fertility work-up there is maturation of follicles to help improve fertility optimization before they give a shot of clomid, which is a powerful hit to the ovary to ovulate and make an egg. They will have them use DHEA, but at higher doses. Typically, I think it's 50 mg. But I'm going to say that would be very, very, very rare. I'm not saying it's impossible, but I think it's unlikely. And if anything, the benefits of all the many things that DHEA does for you- if you get a sense of that- I would just take systemic enzymes, Vitalzym, and keep that going as a generalized anti-inflammatory in your body.

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“What are your thoughts on Juice Plus’s new “metabolism” powder line for a female in her mid-30s trying to lose weight (about 10-15 lbs.) and working out 2-3 times per week and eating a whole food diet low in sugar and carbs? Their new product claims appetite regulation, feeling fuller, and natural GLP-1 production. I purchase Juice Plus through this and wanted to see what you thought.” [0:53:32]

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Dr. Alt: To be honest, I don't think it's something we typically recommend for this. I did look into this product a little bit, and I believe it had some fiber and things like that in it. I'm not saying it wouldn't help in a way, but I think what we endorse here is just eating a low-carb diet, high in protein, and weight training. I think the weight training is really big, especially for females that may want to lose an extra 10 or 15 pounds. A lot of females think that if they do weight training, they'll be like buff, like a big bodybuilder, but that's not really true. Women don't have as much testosterone, so they're not going to be big and bulky like that, but it is going to help their strength and longevity down the road. So, that's what I think we would lean more towards rather than this supplement here.

Dr. E: Yeah, the only thing in Juice Plus that I've seen researched and with enough publication on is the Juice Plus itself. So, I stick with that. I'm not going to say nay or yay to any of these other products, as well as to all the myriad of other things that are out there. Show me the science. Show me the science, and then I'll get involved in endorsing it or not. But the king of researched, established value in a nutraceutical is Juice Plus. There's just nothing that holds a candle to it yet. It has like 47. I'm published in it. I tried to prove that thing wrong as an antioxidant. And my own research that I got published in the American Nutraceutical Journal. The Spring 2020 publication published my work on the antioxidant coverage. I did something like 260-some patients. It was an open-label study, and they all improved tremendously with it. These GLP-1 products out there, food and exercise, can actually do what a GLP-1 peptide or peptide mimicker does. And then they're taking herbs and things like this. There are certain nutrients and food concentrates. And they're trying to make money off this, and I just don't like that gimmick. Just, it doesn't sit well with me. Eating a steak is so satiating. Fat, butter, is so satiating because it's a tremendous GLP-1 trigger in the body to say you've eaten something of value, enduring value. So, no, I'm not endorsing it. I'm not saying you can't use it, but in a medical practice, I'm not endorsing it. Okay.

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“Hi Dr Ellithorpe, what brand is the grounding mat you use?” [0:57:06]

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[Dr. E]

It is called GroundLuxe, and I like the company. It has everything you want, in that you can get a voltage meter to make sure the voltage goes up when you're using this, that there's a current going. It will give you a tester for your house socket. It'll give you a copper thing to stick in the ground and then 40 feet of wire to get to your room through the window. It gives you the beds, the mat sheets, the pillow sheets. The number of threads, I don't know this; I'm not running a commercial for them, but I think it's something like 4 to 600 threads on their mats and stuff. So, I appreciate all the work they've gone through to make everything (unintelligible) usable and understandable. They have it all on their website: all this testing and equipment, plus the product. GroundLuxe.

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“Dr E, I have had a fair amount of nodules on my thyroid, 2 have been biopsied and waiting for results. TSH level is 0.06. Most of the nodules are not a concern. Is there something holistic that can be done to get rid of nodules naturally? I do not eat processed food or sugar. I eat 2 meals a day at 9 AM and 5 PM. I am 63 and on HRT. I am a patient. Thanks.” [0:58:37]

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[Dr. E]

In general, for all nodule therapy, and you're waiting on the biopsy results, it's important to follow through because we know if it gets to a certain size, if it has a characteristic where it's vascularized or it looks like it's getting a blood supply or has any heat to it, these have higher risks of being metabolically active like a cancer. So, if it's a nodule that is cold, that means it doesn't have a blood supply, and if it is a certain size, I think it's under 2 cm. Otherwise, they should be checked. Now, the thyroid gland: if you read the book Iodine by Dr. David Brownstein, the glandular tissues in our body- our thyroid, our ovaries, our breasts, our prostate- all this glandular tissue is metabolically more active, and it needs iodine, and our diet is woefully low in iodine. So, it becomes more active and gets bigger, like a goiter, or there is activity in the thyroid; the prostate gets bigger, the breasts get bigger, fibrocystic breasts. And iodine usage has been clearly identified with reduction in size and preventing, lowering the incidence of cancerous changes. I take iodine. I have been on it for about 30 years. I take systemic enzymes, the Vitalzym systemic enzymes, 4 twice a day, 5 twice a day. I don't eat late. I eat low carb. I exercise. I drink plenty of water. I take the iodine. And with that, I have seen my thyroid nodules stabilize or actually become smaller. But if they have any of these other features, you have to have them worked up and biopsied; that's what I would say about that.