YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, September 1, 2026

Question 
“Dr. Alt, tell us what your background is? Give the patients a little information about you, what your dreams were, what your goals and your hopes are for your future in medicine.”  [0:03:41]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. Hey guys. So, my name is Dr. Noah Alt. I'm born and raised in Southern California. I've always had a passion for medicine and health and science. I got my undergraduate degree from UC Riverside, majoring in biochemistry. So, I feel like that gave me a really good sort of science foundation to be able to study medicine. And then, actually, before going to medical school, I used to work here at TLC. I worked in the IV Department and then in the supplement store as well. So that really gave me a good foundation, shadowing Dr. Ellithorpe and some of the other providers we had here as well. It was really eye-opening for me. I think seeing the integration of both natural and conventional medicine, taking the best parts of both, was really important for me, and I felt like this is where medicine was heading. I think I really wanted to be a part of something that was going to be very big in the future, and already is and has been for some time, but is growing nonetheless. So that was really exciting for me. And so, I went to medical school at Sonoran University in Tempe, Arizona. It's a naturopathic medical school, and I just graduated last year. And now, I'm back in California and back at TLC, and I'm just thrilled to be here, and I'm really excited to serve this community, and I'm really excited to be back. 

Question 
“Tell me a little bit about how you feel about the nutraceuticals. So, how do you feel that kind of sets you up to get some vetting ahead of time, and what are you most interested in when you start seeing your patients here?”  [0:05:55]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. Well, first of all, I think learning the nutraceuticals really helps me. It gave me a good foundation for the vitamins and the herbs that are found in each one. And it also just gave me sort of an eye-opening experience about the supplement industry in general. And this is why here at TLC, we really make sure that our nutraceuticals come from reputable companies that are third-party tested to ensure that the product has what it says it has. And that's really important today with the supplement industry. It's been very oversaturated, and there are a lot of fillers that companies use to take shortcuts. So, I think starting in that route was something that really helped me. And it also reinforced that, you know, we make sure that we use vetted products here at TLC, which is going to be important when we can tell if it's benefiting the patient or not. 

So, I think where that kind of takes me now is seeing, I mean, I love general medicine. So, really, any condition that the patient comes in with, I always want to see how I can help in a way. If they have other specialists/doctors as well, that kind of varies per patient, but I really like autoimmune diseases, gastrointestinal diseases, cardiometabolic health, nutrition, things like that. So, those are fields that I really like, but I'm also passionate about hormone health, and just endocrinology in general. 

Question 
“When you were working six years ago here, did you have any patient remembrances of anyone declaring changes or improvements or an impact you thought, wow, I can't believe this patient because of X or Y?”  [0:07:51]

Answer 
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. Definitely there were certain instances, particularly, I think, with the hormone therapy that I would kind of see a before and after of the patient. They might come in, and they would have some fatigue or, you know, maybe they weren't feeling the most energy or vibrant. And then after sort of a few months of initiating the hormone therapy, they would come in and say, "Oh, I'm feeling a lot better. I'm sleeping better, and just overall I feel better." So, I think that was definitely something that I saw.

Question 
“What about with men?”  [0:08:40]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. With men, even in that instance, particularly with, like, starting some testosterone cream, hormone therapy, I've seen that many times. They would come in, and they would have a lot more energy. And they would tell me too. Even though I wasn't the doctor at the time, they would still tell me how much better they feel with that. 

Question 
“And what about any young people, or in your own experience or in your own group, what are you seeing in the college age, 20s, 30s, 40-year-old guys?”  [0:09:02]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] I'm honestly seeing a lot of fatigue, but a lot of digestive issues are a big thing that I've been seeing. Even amongst my colleagues in medical school, you know, stress can worsen digestion, and then when our digestion is bad, we're not absorbing the nutrients we need for energy, so then you start to have fatigue. So, it kind of carries over into everything. I think really repairing the gut lining is really important, really honing in on your diet, cutting your carbohydrates and lowering your sugar, and focusing on eating whole foods; those are some things that really are important to try to improve digestion. 

Question
“Are you eating whole foods or are you trying to do that?”  [0:09:59]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yes, definitely. I take GlutaShield, which is a glutamine powder that helps prepare the gut lining. I honestly stay away from whey protein powders or soy protein powders. I always try to eat whole foods – steak, chicken; that's going to be better than anything that's in a protein sort of supplement like our whey supplement. Real food is always going to kind of take that mark. 

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“What do you think of those references to blood type diets and the impact of their health outcomes?”  [0:10:33] 

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Well, like Dr. Ellithorpe, like you've taught me. So, with our blood types, everyone is different. So, if I have type A negative and Dr. Ellithorpe has type B, if I were to give her my blood, she could pass away, and that's huge. So, that's just a clear example of how important our blood type is. And from Dr. Ellithorpe’s years of experience, she's noticed certain patterns with certain blood types. For example, type As don't digest as well. They're more enzyme-deficient, so they need digestive enzymes to help them absorb nutrients. Type Bs are more prone to allergies, so they might need something like a Seasonal Shield that has, like, quercetin in it to help support them. So yeah, I've definitely seen, even from being here the past month, the importance of the blood types. 

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“Were you surprised to see the volume of patients I have that are which blood type?”  [0:11:35]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] A. There's a lot of A's. Yeah. Yeah. 

Question
“And why do you think that is?”  [0:11:44]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Well, I think a lot of the ones that we see come in with digestive issues, which is what we love to treat, and we love to help those patients. But yeah, I have noticed a large prevalence among the type A patients. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] And if they don't digest well, then they can't repair well. And if they can't repair well and extract the nutrition they need from their average diet, not even mentioning the corruption of the food system, then A’s are going to get sick and injured first. They’re going to be the people that are hurt first.

Question 
“I have a concern for your generation, for your fertility, for the young women, the young men, the marriages, the ability to handle stress. How do you think we can help the younger people?”  [0:12:27] 

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Well, we can help them in a lot of ways. We’ve got to manage stress, most importantly. When they come in, we take a close look at their labs. We help them with lifestyle recommendations; maybe they don't have good sleep hygiene. We help them with their diet. We focus on what they're eating and foods that could be exacerbating their symptoms that they might not be aware of are worsening their symptoms. So, that's just a few ways that we can help them. And then our great nutraceuticals here that really help support them in different ways. 

Question
“Have you seen young people benefit from even any hormone support for a season or…?”  [0:13:21]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah, definitely. Specifically, like a thyroid support, I have seen a lot. Hypothyroidism is very common these days, unfortunately. And so, I think I definitely have seen a lot of patients benefit from thyroid support, like our glandular NP Thyroid.

Question 
“What about younger men with their testosterone levels?”  [0:13:50]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. So, I think unfortunately today a lot of young men have lower and lower levels of testosterone. So, seeing them come in with fatigue, maybe low libido- these are some of the things that can indicate that. And we can support them in various ways. DHEA, which is a precursor hormone, can definitely help to increase testosterone. Weight training, I think, is important as well; resistance training. And of course, we have the testosterone cream as well. 

Question
“Do you think they could come off the testosterone cream if they changed their lifestyle?”  [0:14:29]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah, I think they would be surprised how much lifestyle can impact their testosterone levels. And really focusing on their diet and their exercise, I think that can make a big difference. 

Question 
“What about girls on birth control – Birth control, IUDs, all these things like this, how do you think that has impacted their fertility or their libido or their moods, or their just general health?”  [0:14:46]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah, I mean, it's tough to say. I know a lot of women have different reactions to birth control. Some patients feel fine with it, and some patients feel like their hormones are just completely out of order and their mood is unstable and things like that. So, I think having them come in and seeing their hormone levels and seeing what type of birth control they're on is important, so we can see how we can sort of evaluate them, things like that. 

Question 
“Have you ever seen, in your medical school years or in your post-clinical training, birth control women being tested for the levels of their hormones?”  [0:15:29]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] It's not something I've seen a lot. No, unfortunately. And I think it is something that needs to be done, especially. 

Question 
“I am just astounded at the volume- millions and millions of young women who have been on birth control, and they have never had their progesterone or their estradiol done, and they would be shocked to see how terribly low it is. And what about, I think most of them don't even know the chemical difference between the drugs in birth control that are trying to mimic progesterone and its long-term impact. Have you ever heard them, you know, teach this even in naturopathic medical school?”  [0:15:53]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] No, we didn't learn as much about the difference between the progestin and the progesterone. 

Question 
“And you're aware of the Women's Health Initiative of 2002? And what did that show?”  [0:16:37]

Answer 
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. It showed that the progestin had a higher incidence of potentially increasing breast cancer risk, 
and that's very different from the progesterone, the natural hormone. 

Question
“What do you recommend for treating and/or preventing canker sores in the mouth? Mine seem to be triggered by acid foods and stress. I currently have a large one on my tongue that is very painful.”  [0:18:57]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] So, I think the biggest thing is really cutting down sugar. Sugar is something that really makes canker sores a lot worse. And then I would also recommend the Argentyn silver. Swishing that around in the mouth a few times can really help. Even the Buffered Vitamin C powder; putting that in the mouth as well can help with that. And then also just a vitamin D supplement as well, just to increase that immune response. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] And sugar, there was a book called Immune Failure or something like that about 25 years ago, referring to research on the phagocytosis, white blood cell movement in correlation with blood sugar levels. And so, as the blood sugar average increased in the human being, just like the hemoglobin A1C gets higher, the ability of your white cells to get through that blizzard of sugar in your body slowed down the white blood cell movement to go after bacteria, and that one soda pop, one Coke, one smoothie, very often these health drinks and shakes are hidden sugars, and they can suppress the immune system for up to 8 hours. Yeah. 

Question
“My doctor would like me to get my LDL down to 70 or lower, and I am currently taking 20 mg of rosuvastatin. I would really like to understand your approach to potentially getting me off the statin in the future; I am also interested in supporting my liver naturally to do its job. Thank you.”  [0:20:53]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] Basically, I would need to know who you are, what your age is. Have you had a prior known myocardial infarction, heart attack? Do you have any comorbidities, like diabetes? What is your weight, and what is your blood pressure? What are your insulin, triglycerides, hemoglobin A1C, and fasting blood sugar? What is your exercise level? What is your stress level? When I look at all those things and your blood type, then I can come to a better recommendation because just to say LDL needs to come down and that's a treatment is narrow-minded because my understanding is that, really, statins are only really effective and proven to be beneficial in a narrow group of individuals who already have had a heart attack. And so, I don't know your background case. 

The other thing is that LDL has great value. LDL works in your body not just to carry fats, triglycerides, and other cholesterol molecules around the body, but it also acts to help prevent endotoxins lipopolysaccharides) from bacteria in your gut or infections in your body that leak these endotoxins, and it sequesters them. So, this is an actual immune benefit to have LDL in the body. And people who are over 70 years old, if they don't have a total cholesterol level above 200 and commensurate with the LDL 120 range, their life expectancy is not expected to be as good. So, those who have a total cholesterol above 200 and LDL in the 120 range are the ones that are looking, with more confidence and statistical randomized controlled trials, placebo-controlled, that live longer with higher cholesterol. So, there's a YouTube video out there called High Cholesterol is Healthy, and that's looked at by a PhD professor called David Diamond and Dr. Ken Berry. They did a very nice update to the YouTube video they did a year ago, called High Cholesterol is Healthy, and the subsequent one- I don't recall the title- but it was just put out a few months ago, and it says LDL is not dangerous, or something like that, or they lied to you about LDL. So, please look that up, and you'll understand we are made; our cell membranes have to have lots of cholesterol. And it really is more the size of the LDL molecule. Tiny little ones are associated with infiltration and higher risk for cardiovascular and inflammatory reactions. Big fluffy ones are the transporters that we want. The more you eat starch bread, rice, beans, crackers, pasta, bagels, popcorn, soda pop, cake, ice cream, potato chips, French fries, you know, all that pizza and stuff, the higher your likelihood of having inefficient tiny LDL particles. The lower the carb and the more you exercise, the more likely you are to have the big fluffy ones. 

Question
“Hi Dr E., what could be the reason for low blood pressure? My mom is 75, overall good health. Her A.M. blood pressure was 79/49; she felt dizzy, blood type A. It happened after having chickpeas.”  [0:25:36]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] Well, I would ask, at age 75, has your mother been put on medications? By this point, the vast majority of Americans in the medical system are on polypharmacy, one or two or even three blood pressure medicines. They often are not counseled to drink enough water. They are often not exercising enough. They are often eating too much processed food. They are often eating too late at night and allowed to sleep in too long. So, the weaker you become, you shrink your muscles, your muscle tone goes down, and you're on blood pressure medicines or other medications that may slow the heart rate, like beta blockers; these various things add up together, creating low blood pressure. So, I think that blood pressure needs to be followed up the way you're putting it out at 79/49 with your local doctor there and have that checked out and review for her medications, other medical comorbidities, how hydrated she is, how active she is, and so forth. Yeah. So, I think those are the most likely reasons. 

Question
“Could it be related to that?”  [0:27:38]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] I don't know what you're talking about there. I reviewed with your mom that it could be lack of water hydration, lack of exercise, excess processed refined carbohydrates, eating too late at night, prior medications or too many medications, those kinds of things. I think that's the best I could answer you.

Question
“Hi Dr. E, I am starting Calcium EDTA suppositories, but I may need surgery in about a month. When should I stop taking EDTA before surgery, and when can I resume after surgery? Thanks so much!”  [0:28:36]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] My experience with this- and I'm the one who published on it, did the animal beagle studies, and did the biphasic absorption studies, and then the human studies on the men with prostatitis, prostate cancer, trouble with urinating- my experience is there's no risk at all. You could use the suppository even the day before and the day after surgery, and you'll get a better result of the microcirculation, the healing, and all that. There isn't enough antiplatelet action because, if you take an IV, you can get higher doses in than with the suppository. And with higher doses, that’s 4 or 5 times more potent- you could get a slight, what you would call, blood-thinning effect. You would have no worries with EDTA. So, it's only going to benefit you. So, I wouldn't restrict it at all. I just hope you're getting a quality product because I have not been involved with the production of EDTA suppository usage for about 10 years now. Not that I wouldn't try and do it, but it's just that it costs way too much money, and when I did the work, I did it, it really financially busted me completely. Yeah. So, we were trying to apply for a new IND, a new investigational new drug application. EDTA is already FDA-approved. So, we thought this would be a slam-dunk thing just to do the study with the men, but no, they milked it for every dollar and tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they were not impressed with anything in our studies enough to say, "Yeah, let's get some Federal tax money to help do a bigger, larger study." We had fantastic results. Even the NIH called me and asked how I was able to dissolve the calcifications away on the prostates that were inflamed. And so, you know, it had to do with they couldn't patent it; no one's going to make money on it. And well, anyway, this just brings up my anger when I hear about that again. 

Question
“Forgot to mention my mom is in Europe where they have extreme summer heat day and night. I am not sure if that affected her drop in blood pressure.”  [0:31:33]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] Of course, yes. That would be probable. But again, 79/49, that's too low. Please have your mom follow up with a local doctor on that and look into those items as well. And then let me know next week how she is. We pray for your mom. 

Question
“What are your thoughts on Zeolite? Also, are newborns tested for Cystic Fibrosis (CF) or only if there are signs and symptoms? Can this test be a false positive?”  [0:32:12]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] No, they're not all tested for that, if that's what the question is, cystic fibrosis. Zeolite is volcanic ash, okay. And it has a 3-dimensional structure which mimics EDTA chelation. The molecule of EDTA is polarized, and it's negative; all toxic heavy metals are positive. So, when they come near, it just attracts them, and it holds them by an electrochemical bond. Zeolite is not able to penetrate into the CSF and other areas like that. So, I'm not against Zeolite. I have not been impressed with any of their published testing. Okay. Whereas, I have seen clinically in 45-plus years, ever since I was a pre-grammar school kid, 4, 5, 6, 7-year-old kid, I have seen IV EDTA chelation remove heavy metals. Tremendous breakthroughs, okay. Microcirculation. Macular degeneration improves with better vessels to the back of the eye. Better kidney function in stage 2, 3, and 4 kidney failure. But when the creatinine gets above 2- 2.5, then we have to really watch and do more chem studies to track it. It doesn’t mean we don't give EDTA; we just lower the dose, and we keep on gently opening that up with lifestyle and diet. So, Zeolite is okay, but you have to really get this as an IV because we're just exposed to so much of it as well. 

Question 
“Also, is it safe to do EDTA while also doing a sauna niacin protocol? (I am trying to reduce gadolinium poisoning, especially as I may need surgery, but someone I knew developed fibrosis from surgery weeks after gadolinium injection.”  [0:34:45]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] So, the answer is, yes, EDTA will remove gadolinium. Absolutely, it will. Yeah. And she does confirm that with cystic fibrosis on there. So, no, not all newborns are randomly screened, to my knowledge, for cystic fibrosis. It's only when they start manifesting some breathing problems that that's typically done. But yes, EDTA does remove gadolinium. We've seen tremendous drops in our gadolinium levels. Yes, gadolinium is a typical dye that is used in all these CAT scans that are done, especially on cancer patients, or in orthopedic surgeries, with the dye, with and without, to look at the definition of the tissues around the joints. Now they seem to be moving more toward MRI, but they'll still use it with and without gadolinium. Okay. So, I just tell my patients to do an IV chelation right away after one or two of them, for sure. But we all are exposed to heavy metals. Maybe not so much gadolinium if you're not doing scans or MRIs with contrast, but we're breathing it, and we're eating it, and we're drinking it. So, my statement would be: get the EDTA chelation IV with all that vitamin C after any contrast dyes.

Question
“Can CA EDTA remove gadolinium from the brain?”  [0:36:42]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] Well, my answer from clinical experience is, I'm going to say yes, and the reason why I say that is there's no study confirming this. No one is out there who is going to tag gadolinium metal ion with some radioactive thing for crossing the brain or anything like that. We have to assume, when we see such a nice drop-off in the chelated challenge urine tests, that we create such a sink that the osmotic pressure is going to pull it out if it does get into the brain. So, my answer is going to be, clinically, I've seen such nice reductions in all of our EDTA chelation post-chelation testing that I'm going to say it's got to help everywhere because all the people get better and all the neurological symptoms get better. 

Question
“Hi Dr. Rita, my 14-year-old daughter has been having what seems to be GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) but feels better on Prevacid. The doctor would like to do an esophageal imaging study and a full scope. All blood work is normal as well. Would you recommend some other alternatives that might help with GERD? She's cut down on dairy, spicy foods, low sugar, and takes 2500 IU D3 and a multivitamin.”  [0:37:58]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] I think it's good to hear that you've been cutting down on the spicy foods; that will definitely help. I think definitely trying not to eat late is really important. If we eat late and then we go to bed and our bodies are lying flat, all that acid now has the potential to come up our esophagus and create more inflammation. So, I think we should avoid eating late. And then also, I think the GlutaShield that we have, it has the glutamine and the aloe; that's going to be really soothing, and it's going to help repair that inflamed esophageal lining. So, I think those two additions will put you on the right step.

Question
“Given that we all now have COVID, what are the best remedies you recommend? Augmented NAC? Others. See the new book by Stephen Quay, “Code as Witness.”  [0:39:32]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] No, I haven't seen that book.

[Dr. Alt] Well, I don't think we all have COVID, per se, doctor. I think with the COVID kind of pandemic and the PCR testing, there were a lot of reported false negatives that came out. So, it's difficult to say if we all have that. But I think coming in and doing a high-dose vitamin C, even just once a month, can really help with any sort of viral kind of infection that we're getting. If we feel a cold coming on or any of those symptoms coming on, getting that done can definitely help you. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] And then getting their vitamin D up and getting those levels checked. 

Question
“And what level would you aim for with your patients?”  [0:40:38] 

Answer
[Dr. Alt] We like to see, I think, around 80 to 120 vitamin D levels, and most recommendations want you lower than that, but we like a high vitamin D level. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] Yeah. A recent study was doing a review of preventing prostate cancer and breast cancer, and they found that if you kept your vitamin D levels significantly above 60, there was an 80% drop in the onset or new diagnosis of breast or prostate cancer. So, we like the higher levels, but we check twice a year, once a year. So, we're always on top of that, and we're always checking the liver enzymes. It's a fat-soluble vitamin. And so, if it were too high, it would irritate the liver enzymes. So, we're on it. 

Question
“My family took a trip to visit relatives in China and went swimming in the Dalian Sea. It wasn’t that clean, and several of them are having ongoing infections in their airways, ears, nose, throat. They’re suspicious that it had to do with the water. What do you recommend?”  [0:41:45]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah, I think I would start with the Argentyn silver. So, that can be a mist that you can spray in your ears, in your nose, in your mouth. Really, in all your sort of nasal passageways. Even drops for the eyes. I think I would start there, given that you don't know exactly what you might have contracted in China. And then I would, again, reiterate the vitamin C IVs and the vitamin D just to really boost that immune system and lower the carbs. 

Question
“Dr. Ellithorpe, I'm 60 years old and bruise very easily. Could that be a sign of my Iron being too low? My Iron doesn't show on my yearly lab test. I do eat meat, and I have a very clean diet with no processed food.”  [0:42:53]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah, definitely, it could be, but I think we would have you come in and get your labs done. We want to get a complete blood count to look at your platelet level, your red blood cells, and things like that to make sure there's no anemia or other things that can cause that bruising. So, we would kind of want to do a full kind of history so that we could evaluate something like that. 

[Dr. Ellithopre] And then you would want to screen - Are you on blood thinners? Are you on aspirin every day? And what are your hormones? Because the older you get, the thinner your skin gets. And the thinner your skin gets, the same blood vessels run through there. But if you have a lot of collagen and elastin and stuff as packing, so to speak, like packing a glass, you have all those little popcorn things; well, that's how thick the skin is. But when we age, our skin gets very thin, and the bump today is not the same as the bump when you were 10, 20, 30, 40. Okay? And so, that thinness of your skin brings that blood vessel closer to the top. And usually this is nothing serious but aging. But if you rub half hormones on, because I'm not getting all dinged up and I'm in my 70s. 

Question
“Why does my mouth seem really dry sometimes after eating fruit? Is there a logical reason behind this?”  [0:44:49]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Fruit can have small particles called tannins in them that can create more dryness in the mouth. So, that's something that could be potentially causing that. I also just want to be sure that you're drinking enough water every day. We typically aim for about half your body weight in ounces. So, if you weigh 200 lb., you should drink about 100 ounces of water a day. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] The background on that is these plant anti-nutrients and other phytochemicals agglutinate the immunoglobulins in our saliva. And when they stick to them, then the water gets thinner and is more easily absorbed, and you're left with a drier mouth. 

Question
“What is the likelihood that the combination of Paxil and trazodone is causing essential tremors in both hands of one of your patients and my good friend? He’s seeing a neurologist to rule out Parkinson’s, and they asked him to do the test where they inject a substance and then scan, which I believe is bad for him. What can I do to mitigate that? Thank you.”  [0:46:02]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] I think those two medications can potentially cause something like a tremor. Again, we'd have to have you come in so that we could take a full history and kind of see other things that could be potentially leading to that. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] Yeah, they're both serotonin reuptake inhibitors. One is an antidepressant, and the other is a sleep inducer. And so, both of them having serotonin neurotransmitter reuptake inhibition, that's impacting the nerves. And as you get older, we're already getting slower and slower nerve-to-axon, or, you know, signaling and coordination changes, and even your proprioception will be impacted. So, both of those, you're correct, cause potential tremors. Yeah. So, I would have that checked out. I would always do EDTA chelation because that'll improve microcirculation, and then tell him to eat a lot more protein in his diet. And older people need how much more protein than a younger person to start signaling repair? 

[Dr. Alt] They need about twice the amount of protein that a younger person would have. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] So, do you think most people are eating 120 grams of protein a day at least?

[Dr. Alt] No.

[Dr. Ellithorpe] Yeah, I don't think so. Yeah. So, that's what I would do. 

Question
“I believe my wife is experiencing the onset of frozen shoulder. Can this be diagnosed with a particular type of imaging? She may suspect it could be related to low estrogen. What would you recommend as a course of action to determine the cause of her shoulder pain and lack of mobility? It’s hard to see her dealing with the pain. Thank you, Dr. E.”  [0:48:14]

Answer
[Dr. Alt] Yeah. So, for something like frozen shoulder, its medical name is adhesive capsulitis; it's typically evaluated by doing a physical exam, kind of testing the range of motion of the shoulder. Really finding that limited range of motion. An MRI could also help to sort of take a look at the soft tissue of the shoulder. In terms of estrogen, I don't really think it has to do with that. I think that's more pointing towards a potential bone mineral deficiency issue. That would be different than a frozen shoulder issue. And then, in terms of treatment, there are some exercises that you can do, and weightlifting to strengthen that shoulder and to help with joint mobility. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] Yeah. If she gets pain relief, if you can get a physician to prescribe something for the pain, and you start putting her through that external rotation, and just slowly, with therapy, unlock it. Now, the ultimate treatment, if it's really frozen, you have to go to surgery, and then they knock you out, and then they'll do it, and you won't feel the pain. But the solution is to move the joint, get the range of motion. And that's why we tell all our patients to do weightlifting three times a week. Pull it down. Push it away. Pull it to you. Crunch it down. And that is moving your shoulder every way. Plus, the leg extension, the leg flexion, abduction, adduction, all these things. You know, if we don't use it, our muscles will dissolve away. They'll get sticky. So, she's got to drink a lot of water. And those systemic enzymes, Vitalzym, Vascuzyme, on an empty stomach, I would say use that twice a day, 5 or 6, to help her with her range of motion. That'll get you started; see how that goes and give us an update then on that. That's in general. 

Question
“Chiropractor visit?”  [0:50:57]

Answer
[Dr. Ellithorpe] I don't know what you're referring to. 

[Dr. Alt] If it's referring to the frozen shoulder, I think maybe a physical therapist would be a better fit than a chiropractor for that, if that's what the comment is referring to. 

[Dr. Ellithorpe] I see, yeah. And you would need pain medicine. It depends. You have to see how bad it is.

Question
“Hello, Dr E., would you please explain the difference between Vitamin C vs. the supplemental product Vitality C? I have been using Vitality C daily, 4000 mg, for about 5 years and assumed all this time it was the same as buffered vitamin C. I want to ensure I’m receiving the most benefit from a vitamin C supplement without risk of too much. Your preference? Thank you.”  [0:51:24]

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[Dr. Ellithorpe] They're both buffered. Vitality is just in a powder, which generates it as a liquid that you can drink down, but you’ve got to drink it right away because, if it's open to the sunlight, that'll start oxidizing it. So, we say, please, if you're going to take Vitality C, don't let that glass sit out there, or have it in a dark, sealed container you could put it in, like a Keurig coffee pod, and it'll be fine; you can slowly sip it. But it is really a proprietary blend made by Ortho Molecular with a powder that has MSM and D-ribose in it and methylsulfonylmethane. So, this is all attached to the vitamin C hydroxyl groups to stabilize it, make it more alkaline, less acidic, because if it gets too acidic and it’s not buffered, it can promote a lot of gut irritability. So, whether you take it as a capsule, and they have other buffers, or you take it as a powder, they're both equal. They're both doing the same thing. It's just convenience. One is a powder, and one is a capsule. 

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“My husband's PCP is recommending he get the RSV vaccine, respiratory syncytial virus vaccine. We don't usually get vaccines, but just wondering if there are any situations in which you think it might be wise to get this one. Thanks!”  [0:53:17]

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[Dr. Ellithorpe] On the respiratory syncytial vaccine, I'm going to say no. I would ask your primary care doctor to cite the results and the placebo-controlled studies on respiratory syncytial virus, and treatment, benefits, and outcomes. And I'm going to assume- I don't know for sure, but I have never seen a placebo-controlled study in which the placebo had no vaccine. Do you see? They won't do it. They will always add vaccine upon vaccine in studies, especially with children's studies. So, I'm going to say, the better thing to do is to say, doctor, you show me, please, what you're referring to in the science, what literature or study has been done that shows the risk of RSV in my age group for my husband, if your husband has some sickness or morbidity risk, maybe he's a cancer patient, maybe he's diabetic, maybe he has a severe autoimmune disease. And then, if he has those special conditions, and he cannot exercise or he cannot drink water well or stay in good health, then your doctor should be able to convince you of the need and use some science behind it. 

I recommend you look at the book called Dissolving Illusions, and the illusion we have is that vaccines are needed and good for you and they save lives. Now, I think we've all been shook up over this recent, you know, shot we were all told was safe and effective, and now we're seeing discussions about it not being so safe and effective. The book, Dissolving Illusion, is written by Suzanne Humphries, MD, a major in physics. Then she went on to medical school. Then she became an internist. Then she went on to nephrology, and she saw her patients being injured in the hospital. Her kidney patients were all being given routine flu shots upon admission to the hospital, and they were already seriously ill at that point, and they got worse. And the doctor said, “They're my patients; I decide what kind of challenge their immune system is going to take on admission.” And the hospital system fired her. And she was a Stanford graduate. So, if there's anything to having, you know, name labels thrown out there, Stanford is one of the better places to come from. And so, she was so angry at this, she wrote this tome of a book. I don't know, it's like 400 pages long with maybe 200 pages of references, and graphs all over the place. And she went into the archives of England and Ireland and Spain and the United States, tracking all the infectious diseases. She tracked it out, and her comment was that she can see no interventional vaccine therapies that have done anything as important and good as plumbers and electricians and carpenters who cleaned up society and the sewage and water flow and peace among men so trade could occur, and we could get oranges in the winter from shipping because there were no more wars. So, that peace and trade and good sanitation were never outbeaten by a vaccine to prevent anything. So, of course, the vitamin D, the high vitamin C, and so forth. Read the book and then ask your doctor what he thinks of that book. And then you could go on YouTube and see her talk; on YouTube, Suzanne Humphries, and you'll see her great scientific presentations. 

Question
“I do not take estrogen after my complete hysterectomy. What foods can I eat that are high in estrogen to avoid taking medication?”  [0:58:32]

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[Dr. Ellithorpe] There are none. There's no food high in estrogen. Zero. Nothing. Now, you can try to take receptor-mimicking herbs like Dong quai, black cohosh. These are herbs that have a tendency to try and land on estrogen receptors and mitigate the hot flashes and night sweats, but it won't protect you from any of the high cardiac risk that you move into when you lose your hormones, because then you become like a man at higher risk as soon as you lose your hormones. It won't build your bones. It won't calm your brain. It won't help your memory. It won't help your skin. So, no, you have to take natural bioidentical hormones. 

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“I've had colitis, on and off, for many years. I recently read your response regarding TLC Metabolic Formula, where you cited a study, i.e., berberine was effective in lowering polyps in the colon. Do you recommend I start taking it along with my other supplements?”  [0:59:28]

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[Dr. Ellithorpe] It wasn't that we lowered the polyps; the polyps that existed did not turn into cancer because that's the whole reason for following up a year or two or three later, is they have a higher tendency to become cancerous. The berberine group: none of them turned cancerous, and that was the benefit of it. 

“Do you re recommend I start taking it along with my other supplements?” – Well, I don't know who you are or any other issues, so we don't practice over the video. What we would say is that the research and the anti-cancer benefit on sugar metabolism improvement, the quieting down of tumor gene signaling being shut down with berberine, is fantastic, and I take it. So, I use about 400 to 600 mg every day, and I've been on that for about 30 years.