YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, September 16, 2025

There was a question last week about the name of a PhD person who does a good review on the Lp(a) and vitamin C dosing, and the name of the YouTube channel is Physionic. He's a young PhD. He just got his PhD, I think, in the past year or so, and he did a wonderful report on Lp(a). And some of the arguments are that if you have lipoprotein (a), it is a protection since we can't make vitamin C, which, if you don't make vitamin C, you can bleed out, get bleeding gums, and have trouble controlling your bleeding/clotting. And so, lipoprotein (a) acts somewhat like a sticky pro-clot trigger, and that's why they're concerned about it in the pathogenesis of a blood clot or a lesion on the vascular wall of your blood vessels. So, look up Physionic on YouTube, type in their search ‘vitamin C, Lp(a)' and you'll see that wonderful information. So see, I do go and look for things to try and get back with you all on it. So, again, it seems like a month since our last Tuesday night broadcast in light of all that we've gone through as a people in this world. And so, it just amplifies how we and your worldview matter. I see the world as created by God in six days and that God made man in his image, mankind, both male and female, and that's how we should look at one another, as creations of God. And He is so patient with us in long suffering. So, may we all be long-suffering with one another. [0:02:36]

Question 
“What is your anti-aging regimen? You look amazing.”  [0:05:12]

Answer
Yeah, well, for 72 and working, I've been working pretty much full-time since I was 12 years old. My first job was at, it was called Elaine Boyd Creche Nursing Home for newborn to 18-year-old children. They were usually abandoned for the most part. And this nurse opened up this nursing home on Lake Street in Bloomingdale, Illinois, and that's where I'm from after my dad moved out of Chicago. And I saw the nurse with her little white hat on, and she had a blue cape, and she was so loving to these little deformed and injured children. And we had some very difficult cases where actually the children wouldn't eat, and you had to kind of capture them in the room that they were in and hold them down to feed them. They were violent. But what an experience to have at age 12. And I always looked older. So maybe I should have really, I age quicker for this. But these are things in our lives that make a difference.  06:34

I remember the first time, this wonderful nurse did everything and treated these retarded, deformed children with dignity as human beings with an injury or a flaw in their development, and she would put in excellent cleaning crews, and she got, I think, there was a music system back in 1966 or ‘67. It was called Muzak back in the Chicago land, greater suburban area, as we were just getting the suburbs and the golf courses and all that kind of stuff moving into our farmland area. And that Muzak had also news and talking. So some of these children who had just been given up for retardation or throwaways, they would hear the human talking on WGN News radio, they are in Chicago, and some music with lovely words spoken, not this confusing kind of loud rap that we have today, but beautiful love songs where you could articulate the words and hear them. And one day, I went to a little girl who had hydrocephalus, and she was just left lying all the time, so she couldn't turn her head. Her head had flattened out kind of like a mushroom. She was maybe three 3 years old, but only really the size of maybe a 1-year-old, and I came to her to help feed her and change her, and change her bedding and everything, and she looked up at me, her name was Carol, and she looked at me and she said, “Hello!” I'll never forget that this little retarded, you know, from the pressure of the fluid on her brain. Now that we know about putting in shunts and everything, what could her life have been had she had a shunt? I don't know. But things matter in the way we treat one another. 

And so, yeah, I've had a hard life. I've worked the farm, splitting the logs, grew up in a one-room home, only the potbelly stove and the fireplace, and I just didn't mix in with the Beatles or the Princess Barbie doll cars and girls because I was too much of a farm girl. No brothers. And you would think all of this would have embittered me and aged me. But by the grace of Almighty God, my father was a food research team member on the science team at Armour Food Research, and he learned about the corruption of the hydrogenated fats. And I had older sisters in the 1940s who had died, one I think from polio, I think a set of twins maybe. I'm not sure about it because I was the last one born. Dad wanted a son, I think, really badly, and he wound up with me, the eighth baby, and I turned out to be a girl. Poor dad. And he valued life because he had lost life, and my mother valued life. They had a hard World War II, and they had trouble in their Catholic church and the abuse of the preachers on my dad and my uncles as altar boys and the nuns on my mother, they left that, and they became non-church goers. And so, the only thing I heard was that there was a God and how precious life is. And so, when I got this job at the nursing home for the little retarded children, I marveled at how Elaine, she named it after herself, Elaine Boyd Creche, Bloomingdale, Illinois. I wonder if it's still there. And her love and treatment with dignity. Every dime she could turn into something more beautiful. Pink in the girls’ room, blue in the boys', all this kind of stuff. Anyway. 

And yet the Lord has helped me to stay healthy. And I even went through a case of pan myocarditis. You know, you're hearing about pan myocarditis or the Inflamed heart from the COVID injections. I had a pan myocarditis at age 15, 16. Very severe illness in the 1960s, maybe 1970s, it was. And I was hospitalized for four months at Alexian Brothers Hospital, a Catholic hospital in Elk Grove Village, Illinois, in the Chicagoland area. I was there for four months. Anyway. It was there that I was given a Bible, and I started reading it, and it revolutionized my life. And dad would give me vitamins. And that's how I think with all that, it helped me get through these things. The mortality, the death rate of myocarditis in the 1960s was, you know, 90% probably. But because my father gave me vitamin C and chelation therapy, that's probably who I am today because of Ray Evers, a doctor who developed the chelation IVs and gave all the doctors of America the right to prescribe off-label due to our level of education and licensure as medical doctors. So, I'm humbled by how God's working in our lives, even amidst the foolish sins that we do and the foolish, selfish, hurtful things that we've done. If you turn and come to him and try to do loving things to your neighbor, how gracious he is in wanting to be to you. It says He would not that any should perish, but all would come to the knowledge of their Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. So, this is, I think, where my peace comes from. I have such good sleep. I have such good peace in the midst of trials and tribulations throughout my whole life, and I give it all to the Lord, especially since I was in the hospital with pan myocarditis for four months, in the cardiac care unit. So, that's where it comes from.

Now, what do I do? I eat a very low-carb diet. I try not to eat past 3 o'clock. When I was younger, I'm about 72 now, so when I was younger up until age 60, the research is showing, I would say try and finish eating by 5:00 or 6:00. But now that I'm 72, but they said 60 or older in the research, you shouldn't eat past that because all of us don't digest very well and it gets worse with aging. The other thing is I drink plenty of water. I take about 80 ounces to 90 ounces every day, that’s half my weight in ounces every day. I use the structured water. I use the Analemma wand, which is a structured water. So the water becomes more, you might say, energetically helpful in my cell function. Every cell of my 40 trillion cells works better with this type of structured water. You can learn about that by going to Dr. Pollack. Gerald is his first name, and his book is called “Cells, Gels”. I don't know, he has written two or three books. But anyway, his YouTube is called Electrically Structured Water. Very, very good. And I can tell what I went before, like I got to the end of my day, I drank a bunch of my structured water, I went out to the gym and got on the weights for 45 minutes, really pushed it with my husband. Then I came here, did a little paperwork and sorting right before this. And I'm telling you that water really helps me with my cellular energy. And if you watch the video, you'll see how the water that is right next to the water loving cell membranes, rich in proteins and fat, turns it from H2O into an OH, which is now more electronegative, and that creates a negative surrounding the cell membranes both inside and outside, which creates a transmembrane potential, which facilitates energy deliverance through the membrane and to the cell itself through this potential. It's amplified with sunlight, especially infrared sunlight in the morning. So I try to get up before sunrise to start my day and get my Bible reading done. And that's where, I think, my peace comes and my cortisol stays down. And then I read about three chapters of the Bible, I write notes in the margins so I can remember things, and I read it every, you know, cover to cover every year. Dozens of times I've read the Bible. And I then have my water set out, and I have all my vitamins, of which I'll take the D 10,000. I'll take the K-FORCE, which is 5,000 more IU of vitamin D with K2. Then I will take my methylated B complex, two of them. Then I'll take my TLC Multimineral to get my selenium, my magnesium, boron, vanadium, and chromium to help with cell co-factors that require all these wonderful nutrient minerals. Then I will take my Perfect Aminos because I'm trying to keep my muscle mass at my age with my weightlifting. I'll take five Perfect Amino Acids in the morning before the sun rises while I'm doing my Bible reading. And then I take the Juice Plus as my antioxidant polyphenol shield that will have things in it, like the resveratrol, the anthocyanidins, all these wonderful antioxidants from the greens and the reds and the purples. Then I will take the curcumin, I take TLC DeFlame, or the other name we give it is Turiva, which is a turmeric curcumin capsule. Then I take extra vitamin C capsules, about 1500 mg in the morning. I'll take that at night also. Then I take my Vitalzym, which is five capsules on an empty stomach with all my vitamins. I take my iodine tablet also. And then I take my Seasonal Shield for quercetin. I'll take two or three of those. I have allergies because I'm a B-positive blood type, and I have lots of seasonal allergies. Then I do take glandular thyroid, and I will take, especially at this time of the year, I will use Claritin, loratadine 10 mg for my severe allergies every summer. With the grass cutting and the pollens, it's just too hard for me to deal with them with just quercetin, but when I take them both, I do well. And then I think that covers everything I take. 

So, I work out three times a week, weightlifting heavy, with many repetitions. I do 40 to 80 repetitions on the machines to get the upper and lower body three times a week for 45 minutes. And then I walk my dog every morning with the sunrise. I do stand with my feet bare in the grass most every morning, whether the sun is cracking through or not through the clouds, with my feet on the wet, moist grass to get grounded. And then, of course, the brisk walk for about a mile every day with her. So, I get to bed about 9 o'clock at night. I usually will set up my crockpot three times a week for a slow cooker to roast my pork roast, my beef roast, or my roasted chicken, so it's ready in the morning. Good, healthy food. I usually have one cooked vegetable with it. And then I try to stay in that realm for the most part. So, thank you for that. That's exactly what I do. 

Question 
“How much protein should the goal be per day? Does it differ for men/women or blood type?”  [0:19:57]

Answer
The argument is that we've been too low, and they're arguing that you could take 1 gram of protein per pound a day. I would at least try to get 100 to 120 grams a day on average, if you're anyone in the realm of 140 to 200 pounds. So, try to aim for 1 gram per pound in your diet. So if you're 250 pounds, I don't think you need 250 grams of protein. Probably, if you get 150 to 175, you're going to be fine. 

Question 
“I wanted to ask about how to start a fast.”  [0:20:47]

Answer
Well, if you've never done a fast, the first time I did it, if I can remember, it's been so many, many, many, many years ago. I just said I'm going to stop eating dinner. And once I stopped eating dinner, and I was too busy to eat breakfast, I didn't. I do try to eat breakfast all the time, but I tried to give up one meal so that I narrowed it to a 6-hour eating window. And then eventually I narrowed that to eating one meal a day after a month or two, probably. And then I did a 24-hour fast, going from dinner to dinner the next day, and then I just kept on extending it until I've, I think, the longest fast I've done is a 5-day fast, which I try to do twice a year. Labor Day, I do it because my month of August has so many birthdays and anniversaries and celebrations, and I do it January 1st through the 5th for the same reason. And so, you have to work it for yourself, what you're comfortable with. Just remember, your body is going to be dependent on a higher, average continuous sugar insulin cycle. And when you stop eating, you're not going to get that insulin, sugar, insulin, sugar cycle feeding itself, and you'll start to burn your fats for satiation. And so, I can so easily flip my machinery biochemically into a fat-burning complete mode that I can, you know, pretty easily just knock out three days of fasting without much effort. I come to work, I do my workouts, and I feel just fine. We're all different. Talk with your doctor and see where your fasting insulin levels are. Now, my fasting insulins run between 2 and 5, and my blood sugars have typically run between the 60s. And I would say fasting, I think once I hit 90 on my fasting blood sugar. And when I do those CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitoring), the alarm goes off because I very frequently dip into the 50s in my blood sugars, which is sugar sticking to proteins all over your body, which harms the function. If that was a truck or a car or an airplane, it couldn't fly, it couldn't deliver its goods. So when you have sugar sticking to your proteins in your body, you're messing up messaging, repair, building your immune system, and protecting yourself. So, we have to understand that we have been deceived and propagandized into eating all this junk, processed, high-carb, high-fructose corn syrup food, and we need to responsibly, as adults, back away from it. 

I talk to God a lot. There was a book many years ago, and I think the title of it is Walking With God; another one was Talking With God by the same author. And these men of God said, be open about your faith, your worldview respectfully, and talk with God frequently. On the way to work today, for instance, I felt like I was being cut off by a car. And so, I wasn't so Christian. I wanted to keep the spaces between the cars narrow and not let someone merge in, and that was an unchristian thing to do. And I just started talking to God, saying, I don't know where this older age of judgmentalism is coming from, and I repent it. I asked God to forgive me for it. And it wasn't – a minute later, when I'm making a right-hand turn, the person in front of me wasn't making it fast enough or something, and I just, I think I said a naughty word, and I just, immediately I said, I didn't even go a minute without being critical of other drivers. And I just said, Where is this anxiety or this anxiousness coming from? Well, it's coming from the evil one. And so, I talk to God all the time about it, and it helps me with everything that I do. I am reminded about a patient's need, and I'll think of something, and I'll go, oh, thank you, Lord, that you reminded me about that patient. And I am sure many times this has actually made a difference in the healthcare of my patients over 45 years. 

So, I think all of these things help me to stay younger, going back to that, and helping me with my fasting. If I do something like that and I have any sense of ghrelin hormone for hunger starting to growl, I know that the ghrelin hormone to make me eat with hunger is only going to last 3 to 5 minutes. And I'll say, Lord, help me through these next 3 to 5 minutes. Help me walk, help me pick up your word. Anything. So this is how I'm trying to talk with God, walk with God, and bring my body into subjection, like the Apostle Paul did in the walk and obedience, because I am a soldier, I am a disciple, I am a follower of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my commander-in-chief. And that's kind of fun for me because I was on active duty for 10 years as a doctor. So, I really understand what authority is. Like the centurion in Romans, he said, “Lord, you don't need to come to my house to heal my servant, whom I love. Rather, just speak the word and it'll be done because I, too, can speak the word to my soldiers and they do what they say.” So, I think those years on active duty, although I'm not advocating a woman should join the military and certainly not the combat aspects of the military, it was very instructional to me for those years. I had to do that because I used a military scholarship, my husband was an E3 on active duty during the Vietnam War, and we didn't have any money to pay for medical school. So, that was that story. So yeah. I ask God to help me with a fast, to bring myself into subjection to His authority in my life, just like my husband has authority over me in my life. So, I like the dynamics of the structure of the kingdom of God and the way He wants us to live. 

Question 
“Can too much vitamin D elevate the blood level of calcium?”  [0:28:14]

Answer
Yes, the answer is you can. But if you see your calcium go from, I think the allowable typical upper limits are 10.8, and it'll go up to 11.2 or 11.4. I have seen this in 45 years of practicing medicine a dozen thousand times, and I am not going to see those as alarming ranges. Vitamin D is actually quite safe at levels of 5,000, 10,000, 15,000, 20,000 units a day because I've been testing this for many decades on thousands of patients over the years. And if you are getting too much vitamin D, typically what we'll first see is that liver enzymes will start to be elevated because vitamin D is fat-soluble. I would say only one time in my 45 years of practicing general medicine have I ever seen vitamin D supplementation by a patient be too high, that it did bring their vitamin D levels up to a point where they needed to be hospitalized and they were getting neurological/neuromuscular and fatigue issues, and their calcium level was getting up to a 13-14 range. And so, they had to be put in the hospital and given some calcium binders, and then they were better the next day. That's one time in 45 years with hundreds and thousands, millions of patients that I've seen over the past 45 years. And as an ER doctor, I calculated once that I had seen 4 million people, probably over the course of those 10 years on the military active duty time. Okay. So, the answer is yes, you could do it, but it is extremely rare¸, and that's why I check the blood chemistries on my patients twice a year, every six months. And then I give them instructions on the vitamin dosings with a handout on that. I ask them to use my supplements because I know they're tested and how they work, and we supervise this. 

Question
“I’ve been using disodium EDTA with distilled water as enemas to dissolve prostate calcifications. 1,500 mg EDTA per session, twice a night. After 3 months, the calcification shrank from 1 cm to 0.6mm. I plan to continue for 3 more months, but am concerned about kidney damage. What precautions should I take, and what are your thoughts on this method?”  [0:30:48]

Answer
EDTA, Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, which is a chelation agent, pulls out heavy metals and calcium as well, calcium plaque too. He wrote twice a night. I would imagine this is twice a week. That'd be frequent. It wouldn't necessarily be wrong to do twice a night. So after three months, the calcification in his prostate shrank from 1 cm to 0.6 cm. And that's what we did in my research on the men with prostate problems. We weren't necessarily working with men with prostate cancer, but many of the applicants to become subjects in our trial were reviewed by the IRB to ensure safety. We were doing the rectal suppositories, and we got trans-rectal ultrasounds of the prostate, and we saw the calcifications there, and we saw a very nice reduction in the calcifications. Even the radiologists had never seen improvement in his lifetime of practicing medicine until he saw our cases of ultrasound-proven reduction of calcification of the prostate glands with our chelation suppositories, EDTA. And we use the calcium disodium EDTA, and so you get a very good result with that. I think you said you took the disodium EDTA because you didn't want to have the calcium because you're trying to get rid of calcium, but biochemically and the chemistry of it all, it really works, maybe even a little better with calcium disodium EDTA. 

I wouldn't imagine there would be any kidney damage because Dr. Lee would do intravenous, 100 percent bioavailable chelation right into the vein, and he did it on a patient with chronic kidney disease. He was a nephrologist. He did maybe 10 or 8 studies published on people with chronic kidney disease at various levels, where their creatinine is getting lower, their filtration is getting lower. And the ones with EDTA chelation definitely stopped the progression, and the majority of them improved the filtration of the kidney glomeruli because it helps microcirculation. So, I can't imagine there would be any kidney damage whatsoever. And we certainly didn't. And we did the kidney creatinines, and we did the transrectal ultrasounds of the prostates on all the men, and we saw a great improvement with EDTA chelation. Also women. I think I did one mammogram in my life, and I had microcalcifications noted in both my breasts in the upper outer quadrants. And that is something that they will often recommend for further workup for possible tiny microcalcifications, which imply inflammation, damage, trauma, or cancer, and biopsies or close surveillance. Well, I didn't let them do any of that, and I just did my chelation, and they all went away. I did one more mammogram, maybe 20 years later, and they were gone, but I had been chelating. So, it does help with calcifications. 

But the thing with EDTA chelation is the microcirculation, which is just tremendous from your brain to your toes. And, you know, maybe one of the reasons why I was also blessed to have, looking now at 72 years old with all that I've gone through in my life, is because I've been chelated and had an improved microcirculation. And being a daughter of an Armour Food science research team member, I've been eating meat heavily to make protein and get all the nutrients which are most dense in animal tissue. I've had a wonderful carnivore-like diet all my life with EDTA chelation since age 16. Alright. Hopefully, that helps you. I think you're doing very well. Try to find an EDTA chelation doctor and try to get your case recorded and published because I think that would go nicely in the literature, and some doctor would probably want to hear that to help himself and his own prostate, as well as his dear patients. 

Question
“I wear compression socks for venous insufficiency, and I also have peripheral artery disease. Does that mean there's a contraindication for wearing the socks?”  [0:36:08]

Answer
You could argue that. But I think more importantly, if you are the John who I think you are, I always examine a full exam every time I see a patient, and you never have any significant edema or lack of peripheral pulses or good warm feet. So, I don't know that you need those compression socks if you're the John I'm thinking about. Nevertheless, I think the biggest thing that is helping you, if you are the John I'm thinking about, is that you have done so much chelation. You have probably extended your cardiovascular system and then your entire circulatory system to the extent that the vast, vast majority of the American healthcare system has denied it to all their patients. So, you're doing very well. Plus all that vitamin C I give you. Remember, vitamin C is not made by the human body. And if these are two proteins that you need to lock together to create a vessel wall that won't break open and make leaky gut or a dilating aneurysm of a blood vessel, or on your diverticula of your colon, or saggy skin. Maybe one of the reasons why I don't have as much saggy skin. I have some, but it's probably because of the vitamin C and the rich protein collagen I get from eating all this meat, fish, chicken, pork, and such. I think that vitamin C acts as an anti-ascorbate, which prevents tissue breakdown and bleeding. And we are all suffering subclinical scurvy as a nation from the stressfulness of our nation, which will absorb vitamin C. You know, an animal when it gets stressed, will roughly triple the amount of vitamin C it makes. So, a goat of 150 pounds, if it makes 9, 10 grams of vitamin C naturally a day from glucose, if it's stressed, it will make 30,000, 45,000 mg, you know, double or triple that amount. So, yeah, we need a lot of vitamin C. So I've gotten a lot of vitamin C. So I think it's helped with every cell function membrane in my human body. So, for your peripheral vascular disease, make sure you're getting the C. But if you're coming and doing the IV once a month, you're probably going to have plenty of vitamin C doing that. 

Question 
“My inflamed prostate and retinal vein occlusion both resolved.”  [0:39:25]

Answer
Well, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord on that. I've had optic neuritis and many unusual symptoms, including blindness from optic neuritis, recurrent alternating eyes. I've had peripheral vascular disease and ischemic heart disease. And when we do chelation with the vitamin C, we see perfusion. Repeat studies show the flow dynamics greatly improved in that heart tissue where it was showing a lack of blood flow to parts of the heart. Chelation works. I don't care what any other doctor says. I've had it since I had my pericarditis, and my father got it to me to help save my life and what heart tissue I had. And I got on active duty through the military. I passed their flight physical, I think, around age 20. So, four years after four years, I mean four months of a coronary care unit, and then to pass a military flight physical on ROTC to join, the very first time they let girls join ROTC, so I could get the scholarship to be a doctor. Don't tell me EDTA chelation does not work with high-dose vitamin C. It’s just, they're wrong. By the grace of God, we have been right. All glory to God.

Question 
“I am a 57-year-old menopausal and currently on HRT. Since my teens, I have had severe pain in my right ovary, always to be told "it's just a cyst that burst". I tried everything, BCP when I was younger, uterine ablation as I got older. Then, finally, about 7 years ago, I had my uterus and cervix removed. The pain is back. How can I get to the root cause?”  [0:41:09]

Answer
You need to work or see one of us and go through the cause for inflammation and what your blood type is, what your hormone levels are that you're on, are they too low, are they just right, could they be too high, are they balanced, and look at your sugar metabolism that would be a big cause for inflammation in the body if it's not controlled. Are you exercising? How much are you exercising, how good is your sleep for your repair time, how much water are you drinking, do you take systemic enzymes, what does a current abdominal transvaginal pelvic ultrasound look like in that area, and so forth. So, this is what you need to do, and sit with your functional doctor and address those things. You might need to see a gynecologist, but you probably should get checked to make sure your colonoscopy is also up-to-date, have a pelvic with a transvaginal ultrasound, and see your doctor. 

Question 
“Do you have protocol suggestions for essential tremors that have been successful?”  [0:43:01]

Answer
Yes. The very EDTA chelation with high-dose vitamin C, a primarily carnivore-like diet. If you're going to have any vegetable at all with it, it has to be a cooked, high complex vegetable like broccoli, asparagus, green beans, Brussels sprouts, these kinds of buttered, salted with your cooked meat, and have a very humble diet, just of your protein and one vegetable. Only two meals a day. Exercise, the enzymes, and chelation, probably twice a week, and the tremor will go down. The B vitamins that we give, the minerals that we give. The rich phospholipids in your mostly carnivore diet will help the myelin sheath of your nerves to repair. It'll be a process that will take probably one to two years to gradually improve, but yes, I've seen them greatly improve with doing it like that, plus enzymes and various other things. But see your doctor to go over that with a good functional doctor who can look for your gut microbiome inflammation. And hormones help with tremors. Hormones are general contractors for the whole body to stay well. The chelation improves the microcirculation and delivery of all the nutrients to the absolute side of all your tissues and cells.

Question 
“Microplastics: Does tamarind, fenugreek, or okra help remove them?”  [0:44:38]

Answer
I would have to look up what tamarind that is. Right off the bat, I can't think of it. I know fenugreek and okra. Okra makes a mucilaginous kind of slimy material, and that helps with the bowel lining through this mucin production, which is very important to the lining of your gut to protect the little microvilli that are all in there. So, will that help prevent the plastics from being absorbed? It's possible. There are those who also talk about the microbiome getting in. I think it's lactobacillus, as well as bifidobacteria. Rich probiotics help a healthy colon to stay healthy and the good bacteria to keep it moving forward, the motion of the bowel movements, so microplastics in the food or in what you drink ingested don't get the time to or ability to break through that lining in your gut. You know, exercise helps. Sauna, an infrared sauna, helps. Being well hydrated, a low-carb diet helps, not eating late helps, and I would think vitamin C and magnesium help propel the bowel movements. So these things would be helpful as well. 

Question 
“Hello, Dr. Ellithorpe! I am 54 years old on the bioidentical hormone therapy, and after 10 months of not menstruating, I was bleeding for 6 days. I am having pelvic pain in the buttocks, pain that also radiates to my legs. I had a complete pelvis with a transvaginal ultrasound that was normal, but it showed non-visualization of the right ovary. Any thoughts? Thanks.”  [0:46:32]

Answer
Well, that's very common because the gas in the bowel very often obscures the ovaries. So, if you had a pelvic exam with the hands, the bio manual with the doctor's hands through the vagina to feel the uterus and ovaries, it's unlikely that they've missed anything. But you haven't entered menopause yet. And so, that menstrual cycle is what happened and cleaned you out, so to speak. I wonder if you are on continuous progesterone or if you are on cyclical progesterone. Women usually ovulate and generate progesterone only two weeks out of every month if they're in a normal cycle. I have women who want to not have any menstrual cycle again. So, we give them a little lower dose of the estradiol and we check it twice a year, every six months, and we keep them on a progesterone level, which, if they keep their levels 4, 6 roughly or higher, then it won't allow the estrogen to stimulate the uterus normally to develop a lining that needs to be menstrually shed.

Now, in my case, I use my progesterone only two weeks, the 1st through the 15th of every month, and that then allows me to have a little menstrual cycle right around the mid-month, every month, a very light one, so that whatever it was built up, it's cleaned out and shed just like a normal cycle. And so, here I'm in my early 70s still cycling, but I don't run to the GYN or get a pelvic ultrasound because every month is the same. I'm having a normal cyclical expression of this for years and years and years and decades now. So, you might talk with your doctor and say, let's have hormone replacement that is cyclical so that you don't get a buildup, and then this big heavier clean out, which is, remember, that when you menstruate, it's a little momentarily inflamed time of a woman's month where tissue is falling out and being cleaned out like a scab, you might say. But talk with your doctor about that, and then have them see the ultrasound, and go over that with you.

Question 
“Dear doctor, I’m always researching health & longevity. Being a patient of yours has changed my life forever! What is your opinion about the Coronary Artery Calcium scan? I value your insight!”  [0:49:43]

Answer
There is a wonderful amount of information on the coronary artery calcium score. It's a CT exam designed to mainly look at the heart and see if the small blood vessels are building up calcium in it in that kind of heart image, and the association of calcium buildup in a higher number is associated more with the predictivity of potential heart disease, heart attack, and such than is your cholesterol ever will be. So, the statistics favor the prediction of a coronary artery calcium score over any of the laboratory studies for cholesterol levels. Now, soft plaque is not picked up with this, and there's an argument that soft plaque damage of the blood vessel that has not calcified yet is called soft plaque, and is potentially worse to develop. 

But how do you prevent it? You prevent it with a lifestyle of drinking your water, taking a walk, doing some weight training, taking systemic anti-inflammatory enzymes on an empty stomach, not eating late, looking at the wild inflammatory processed foods, high fructose corn syrup, and food allergens, getting them out of your diet, taking vitamin D, taking natural hormones, taking a good night's sleep, and just working with your functional doctor, getting EDTA chelation therapy, extra vitamin C and minerals, magnesium, these things will help you to stay uninflamed. Work with your doctor on checking highly sensitive C-reactive protein, your sedimentation rate, and your ferritin level. Your triglycerides should be kept in the 75-50 range. Your HDL, try to keep 55 or higher ranges with exercise. And then do this every six months and drink half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, and it's very unlikely that you'll suffer a heart attack. And why can I say that after 45 years of doing this? Where are all my new heart attacks? Where are all my new strokes? Where are all my new cancers? It just doesn't happen. I get patients who have had a heart attack, or have had the new cancer, or have had the stroke, and they're coming secondarily for recovery and repair beyond just follow-up with more imaging and drugging them. So, we do lifestyle work here. We come alongside their specialists and try to optimize their outcome results. So, yeah. I'm in favor of the coronary artery scan. There is a YouTube video put out by an engineer called Ivor Cummins. Ivor Cummins is an Irish engineer who helped work with the original studies on developing the coronary artery calcium score, CTs of the chest for cardiac management, and productivity. He has a wonderful YouTube channel and is up-to-date. So, that's where I would look, and I would recommend them. 

Question 
“Is it safe to use baby powder to help with greasy hair? Is it safe to use spray-dry shampoos?”  [0:54:08]

Answer
In general, I think there were items in the talc of the baby powder that were carcinogenic, and women used it as a body powder, and that talc was associated with certain crystals that became irritants and caused inflammation and cancer. So, no, I'm not in favor of it. I have seen women use natural things like bentonite clay and powdered bentonite clay. Some have used cornstarch, arrowroot, and they've used that and put it in a shaker to do a few shakes to their hair if it's oily, but outside of that, I would never use the old-fashioned baby powder for anything, for any human being. I would make your own with those natural products if you're going to use them. 

Question
“Is Argentyn silver better for bruising than arnica gel?”  [0:55:19]

Answer
You know, that's just going to my years and years of experience. I am going to say Arnica is probably better than Argentyn silver. Now, Argentyn silver is mostly for post-trauma tissue damage, bacteria being caught up in it, and viral/fungal contamination. And fenugreek has more impact on the blood clotting and the actual breakdown of tissue that leaks and causes bruising so much. So, I'm going to stick with the arnica gel. 

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“How to best remove heavy metal toxicity?”  [0:56:10]

Answer
Well, I am biased. My bias is EDTA chelation therapy because I've done it for over – well, I'm 72 now, and I was 15, 16 when I first started getting chelated. So, I'm going to say, with experience, I have, let's see…57 years of experience with chelation therapy, and I've seen tens of thousands of cardiovascular benefits for longevity, better microcirculation from your scalp and hair down to your toes and toenail fungus. So, I have seen reports. The reports of the EDTA heavy metal chelation. I don't do the hair analysis. The current challenge would be you give them the IV you're going to give them for removing it, and you collect six hours of urine, and we see what that chelation got you to pee out at that time, right after the IV is done. And then we do 30 IVs or so, and then we do another challenge and collect the urine for six hours, and we do them comparatively, and we always see reductions in the mercury, the lead, and so forth. The two worst and the most attracted to the EDTA chelation molecule. But once those bad lead and mercury levels start reducing, then there's going to be enough EDTA in there to start pulling out more arsenic and more aluminum and things like that. So, you have to be experienced in understanding the entire process because we have a ton of this material in us. That's a hyperbole; we don't have a ton because we would weigh a ton, but we have way more than you or any medical school teaches your doctor about, and these are oxidants that are harmful. So, yeah, EDTA pulls out the widest swath with the least side effects. I really have no side effects at all with our EDTA chelation, anywhere from 25 mg/kg to 50 mg/kg per IV dose. We use the 25 mg/kg, 1.5 g IV over an hour and a half. If you use 3 grams, you have to be there for three hours. Nobody wants to do that. So, I use more frequent IVs at shorter intervals for longer-term compliance. Remember, any good habit done, little by little, little steps done consistently lead to long-term good end results, no matter what the issue is in your life. 

Question
“What is in Zepbound/Tirzepatide that causes the endometrium to thicken and cause menstrual bleeding? Is it estrogen dominance? Lack of enough progesterone? Are toxins in the adipose tissue being released? The ordering doctor says losing fat excretes stored estrogen? I’d like to know what you think, so I can figure out how to stop the ongoing cycle bleeding.”  [0:59:18]

Answer
Well, that's Mounjaro. That is a GLP-1 and GIP. These are receptors that are blocked, and the signal of hunger and being satiated is promoted by these drugs. And it also slows the propulsion of food, leaving the food longer in the stomach. So we're getting all kinds of side effects, and it came out with a black box warning right at the start of medullary thyroid cancer. I don't favor any of these medications. Self-discipline, fasting, weightlifting, exercise, adequate hydration, working with the patient with nutrition, health coaching, things like that, are as successful. I would never expose my patient to any of those drugs. 

So, what is in Zepbound/Tirzepatide that causes the endometrium to thicken and cause menstrual bleeding? Well, everything has slowed down. I don't know biochemically, and I would have to look and see if there's a direct biochemical link now seen in women taking the tirzepatide, which is Zepbound, which is Mounjaro, and if it has in prolonging the estrogen waste products because there are many estrogen-mimicking herbs and food products out there. If the woman is obese, these are obesogenic factors that are deposited in the fat as toxins. And if you slow the whole gut system, it'll allow a longer period of time for these estrogen-like mimicking chemicals and herbs and things, alcohol, to recirculate estrogen that will restimulate the uterine lining longer, but I'd have to look into that. 

Is it estrogen dominance? So, that's something. You know, just off the top of my biochemistry background before becoming a doctor, and this knowledge of this drug coming out, I actually think it is the recirculation of these estrogen-mimicking chemicals in our society and alcohol that is creating a prolonged estrogen stimulation of the uterine lining, if that's what's happening. And then, of course, most women are stressed, and with stress, there's cortisol production. Cortisol blocks ovulation and progesterone production by the ovulated egg. So, yes, you'll be in estrogen dominance. 

“Toxins in the adipose tissue are being released.” Yeah, I  already spoke to that. “The ordering doctor says losing fat excretes stored estrogen.” Yes, I spoke to that already. And it isn't so much stored estrogen per se, as it is more these alcohol and estrogen-mimicking chemicals in our society. Well, find a good functional doctor. Find a health coach. We have a health coach here that is now helping me with my patients to really spend time looking at their lifestyle and working – remember, 85 to 90 percent of all disease and problems today are lifestyle-caused. All of it. Maybe 10 percent is from other traumas or infections or things like that. So, if you want solutions, you want to work with a doctor who’s going to help you through this and help you with checking your progesterone levels and giving you doses of it, finding out your age and your background history to work with you to get the best outcome.

Question 
“Have you had any patients report bad reactions to consuming large quantities of bubbly water in a single day? Is it rare to have extreme nausea and headache due to the impacts of carbonation on the gut lining?”  [1:03:41]

Answer
Usually, it’s sodium bicarb CO2 that’s bubbled into the water, and it makes it a little more acidic. You know, if you have more than two servings a day, I think it’s going to make very little difference. Remember, a can of Coke is what we used on the emergency ambulances to dump on blood stains on the ground; the acid in it is like a pH of 1.5. So, no, Seltzer water is not going to have any long-term effects in comparison to what a soda will do.