YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, September 2, 2025

Question
“Quick question about taking Juice Plus, do you think it makes the urine much more of a yellow color?”  [0:04:12]

Answer
Yes. And you know, the B complex that you'll find in many vitamins will give the urine that kind of yellow chartreuse kind of color. So, the answer is yes. And I endorse, I like, I recommend the Juice Plus capsules. I don't recommend the gummies or any of the other products, because the science needs to be there enough for me to endorse them. But I have, for, I don't know, maybe close to 30 years now, or at least nearing 30 years, been using the capsules of the Juice Plus, and its antioxidant, polyphenol, oxidative protection from membrane damage to the cells is just uncopied. There's no one who has produced a supplement with more research and literature on so many of the anti-aging benefits that Juice Plus, the fruit, the vegetable, and the berries provide. 

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“Is it too late for an 80-year-old woman to start hormone replacement therapy?”  [0:05:39]

Answer
That's a wonderful question. And the answer is, no, it's never too late to start hormone replacement therapy, and that's for a multitude of benefits, from cognitive and memory issues, to immune support, cardiovascular support, the integrity of your skin from your face, your head down to your toes. It helps your bone health. It helps your immune health. So, I absolutely recommend you discuss with your healthcare provider natural hormone replacement therapy. I prefer topical creams. Especially, we would like to check that the dosing and the creams are adjustable, whereas if you get a patch or a pill, you're kind of stuck with that one thing. When we have creams, we can use more of the cream or less of the cream until we find out what works and is comfortable for you, and with a lab test to confirm the estradiol range that we would like to achieve. And I'm going for somewhere in the realm of around 70 to 150 nanograms per deciliter of estradiol. And then the progesterone, I would go for at least 4 picograms per deciliter and as high as 40, 50 picograms per deciliter. We want the progesterone effect to be there to prevent estrogen dominance. God gave us a cycle where we would ovulate, and with ovulation, we produce progesterone. And progesterone has a blocking effect, you might say, of the estradiol. So, we like that balance between the estradiol and progesterone. And so, we give both. I take mine, I'm 72 and I use my progesterone, I'm on it right now, I use it the 1st through the 15th of the month, and I'm on estradiol every day of my life, because when you start to mature as a young woman, your estradiol is continuous, although it has some undulations, but you have estradiol all the time; whereas progesterone is really a come and go cycle two weeks out of every month, two weeks off, two weeks on, if you're ovulating. And so, yes, it's quite wonderful. And work with your healthcare provider. I recommend the creams and get all the benefits from them, and see if you're a good candidate. I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't be a good candidate. So, yeah, talk with your healthcare provider. 

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“What recommendations do you have for skin issues? Scabbing blemishes on the forehead that never go away? I want to address the root cause. Dermatologists haven't been able to figure it out in 15 years.”  [0:08:42]

Answer
Well, I guess the first thing I'm thinking about is whether this is a skin cancer? If it's a non-healing site, then you always want the dermatologist to do a look and see and maybe biopsy to make sure it isn't a basal or a squamous cell cancer. But if it's not those things, and if it's like a rash autoimmune phenomenon, a food allergy rash, usually we start from the gut. And in general, the most immune-calming food allergy eliminating diet that you could go on would be a carnivore diet for say three months. And that way, all the protein and fatty acids that would help heal the lining of the gut because we feel most disease comes from a breach of that tube, the lining of your tube, and with that breach in the wall of your gut, food leaks through, your immune system is alarmed, and there's a lot of molecular mimicry across communication, and the immune system will attack parts of your body, your joints, arthritis, your skin, dermatitis, your nerves, neurological, MS, and Lou Gehrig's disease. I mean, this cross-reactivity of the immune system needs to be understood. And so, the most calming thing you could do would probably be a three-month carnivore diet. It takes about three months for a new layer of skin to grow through as well. So, all my chronic psoriatic and dermatitis patients and acne and cystic acne, because a carnivore diet is extremely low carb, and that will help stop feeding the bacteria that cover us all the time. So, that's the direction I would go. And see your doctor and try that out. It's very healing. Now, if you're a blood type A, with a carnivore diet, you'll probably need digestive enzymes to help you digest the protein in fats. And if you're over 60, usually as we age, we don't make as many digestive enzymes, and you'll need that too. I'm a B-type blood, but I still started using digestive enzymes in my late 50s, early 60s. So, hopefully that helped you. 

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“What is an ideal glucose to ketone ratio for good metabolic health?”  [0:11:38]

Answer
The GKI index, GKI (Glucose Ketone Index). And so, if you can get that glucose to ketone index somewhere in the realm of 2 to 4, that's probably a very good range to keep it in. 4 would be on the high end, 2 would be more ideal. So yeah, that's the ratio, the Glucose Ketone Index, GKI Index. 2 is what you want. I've seen a lot of literature saying getting it at a 4or less is helpful. 

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“Hello, I have my next appointment with PA Gonzales next week. But meanwhile, wondering if she's going to be able to order a Dutch test for me? If yes, is she going to be able to help interpret it?”  [0:12:38]

Answer
I believe she does the Dutch test. And I'm not anti-Dutch, I just don't need the Dutch test. I really have done this for so many decades that I just don't see a need for the Dutch test in my practice. You know, you get to be in your 70s practicing medicine for almost half a century and doing things that now are all the rage that you saw the wisdom to, you know, many, many decades ago. You start getting, I don't know, set in your ways, would be a way to say it. I should remain open to learning about it. I understand the premise of the Dutch test. I have not looked at the Dutch test with much detail or the value of the cost of it to my patients because I feel I can do what I need to do without that test and the cost of it to them. So, during these past four or five years, especially, I have certainly tried to keep the testing to a minimum, if possible. But yes, I do think she can order it and interpret it. And so, there you go. 

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“What's better for focus and mental clarity? Nicotine or methylene blue? This is for a 22-year-old female with autism with blood type A+”  [0:14:20]

Answer
Well, I don't think it's ever been studied, one compared to the other. You're going to be stuck with just old doctors like myself that have decades worth of experience of tens of thousands and millions of patients over the past, I would say, at least 40 years, 35 years, where I've had patients on methylene blue, I've had patients using nicotine, and I think the edge and the volume of experience is for nicotine as opposed to methylene blue. But anything that improves mitochondrial functions or the engine of the cell is the battery, you might say, for producing energy of the cell, that's going to improve your overall wellbeing and every function in your body, from your memory and brain function down to your toenails having less risk of getting fungal infections. So, if I had to pick one or the other, I would say, out of clinical experience, nicotine. 

The 22-year-old girl has blood type A. I would certainly probably suggest a richer protein diet because A’s tend to learn to eat a high-carbohydrate or plant-based diet simply because they don't have enough digestive enzymes to digest the healthy proteins and fats that are made of, and your brain is made of a vast amount of fats. So that's going to help the memory. The other thing is iodine. Iodine is very important for memory and mental acuity. Another thing would be B complex. Since A’s don't digest well, they always have low B12 and B vitamins. So, being on a good methylated B complex for the blood type A will also help energy and the function of the mitochondria of the brain cells, as well as all the cells in the body. And then, at 22, I would say exercise. Exercise/walking would be very important, and a social group fellowship in Church or in a classroom, friends and family are very important for memory. And a low-carb diet, of course, because that will dull the brain, just like after Thanksgiving dinner, we're all tired and sleepy, clogging up our brain with a lot of sugar and carbohydrates. So, that's the direction I would go. 

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“Been in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, estradiol patch, progesterone oral, and testosterone cream. Just diagnosed with atypical lobular hyperplasia with ductal involvement. Estrogen positive, awaiting progesterone and HER2 pathology.”  [00:17:27]

Answer
Atypical lobular hyperplasia does not sound like it's cancer. I would probably go on a carnivore diet, and I would go and get a high-dose vitamin C with EDTA chelation. I would start an exercise program, both weightlifting and anaerobic. I would stop eating at 3:00, and I would take systemic enzymes. I would probably use Juice Plus as my antioxidant, and I would use a multimineral rich in selenium and zinc. We have the TLC MultiMin that does that. And I would probably use quercetin as an agent, a natural agent, which is quieting to the mast cells of the immune system. The other thing is drinking adequate water. And just probably follow that. I don't think hormone replacement has anything to do with this, in the sense that it's never been established or proven that hormones are a cause for breast cancer. Every normal breast biopsy of a woman without breast cancer, if you did random testing of breast biopsies, a normal woman is going to have estrogen receptor-positive and progesterone receptor-positive cells, and that's normal, and that's considered better for management for those poor women who do get breast cancer. The other important thing would be to be on iodine. So, I would see your healthcare provider, discuss some of these suggestions and ideas that I would do for that kind of scenario, and share it with them, and go from there, and have it followed closely. 

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“Hey, Dr. E, how much estradiol should I use? I want to use this. I have hot flashes even with a hysterectomy. Thank you.”  [0:19:53]

Answer
I would use both estradiol and progesterone because, unfortunately, the training in medical school is inadequate, and progesterone is on all your cell receptors, largely noted in the immune area and the limbic system of the body. So, if you're going to go on hormone replacement, I usually start a woman somewhere, I like the cream, so I'm going to start with a cream because I can go up or down based on what the clinical, how she feels on it after a month or two, and what the estradiol levels are, and how will her skin absorbs. So, I'll say start with, depending on your age, if you're younger and you've been closer to your menstrual cycles, you're not so far into menopause, I start with a 4 mg per gram cream, and one click of a four-click per ml Topi-CLICK would give you 1 mg, which is a modest beginning dose. I put it on my face so I don't wrinkle and age as much because it helps with collagen and elastin, just like it helps with building the bones and bone mineral density. So, it's very good for the structure of your body as well. And then in three months, I would recheck it. 

The progesterone dosing, we usually start with 100 mg. And I would tell you, it's probably money-saving to just use it half the month, either the 1st through the 15th or the 15th through the 30th. Since you don't have your uterus anymore, you're not going to have normal uterine function and menstrual cycles. Even though I'm at 72, I still cycle every month because I use my progesterone for two weeks, the 1st through the 15th, and every mid-month I'll have a little breakthrough bleeding, just like a normal uterus would behave. But that won't happen with you, so there's no reason to be concerned, and I would just probably start in that realm. 

I don't like patches. I don't like the unnecessary exposure to any additional plastics and topicals on the skin in the human body. I mean, I do prescribe them for women who don't like the progesterone cream or the estradiol cream, or that some people's skin is just not as absorbent with a natural Eucerin cream that I use, a very, very basic natural form of cream. So then I'll go to the patch. And the other way I would consider is oral, although that's the last thing I usually do because I don't like to get the first pass through the gut liver system, although it's been used for many, many, many decades, and I have many women on oral, and it’s convenient to them, and they like it like that. And I insist that they drink their water, take systemic enzymes if they're on natural hormones, because young girls have a lot more enzymes, and so that way you don't have to worry about blood clotting. If you drink enough water, you take your systemic enzymes every day on an empty stomach, a few of them anyway, you stay exercising, you eat a low-carb diet, so your blood isn’t sticky, and then you get all the benefits of these natural hormones without worrisome side effects.

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“Is there a good menu for the carnivore diet? If so, where can I find it? I'm hoping for something easy to follow.”  [0:23:47]

Answer
I think we make our lives a problem by thinking there's some process. A carnivore diet is just eating ground beef, or eating chicken, or eating salmon, or eating eggs, or eating pork/bacon. So, I wouldn't worry beyond that. If you do cheese, I would get raw cheese and not homogenized, pasteurized, corrupted products they call dairy, but it's not dairy anymore. It's inflammatory blocks of stuff they call cheese and inflammatory liquid they call milk from homogenization and pasteurization. But don't make it difficult. I start with roasting in the slow cooker on the cooktop. I'll put in a 3-pound chuck roast. I put it on some onions to get it off the base of the cooker. I'll put in half a stick of butter, salt, and pepper. I'll put it on low. I start it at 9:00, 9:30, and by the morning, I have all this nice roast beef ready for me. And then I'll have that and have it at lunch and finish by 3:00. I'll never finish that in a day. That will last me two days. So I eat a very uninteresting roast beef for two days, probably in a row. I'll get a whole chicken, and I'll roast that and have that in the morning and lunch for a couple of days. And then a pork tenderloin roast or something else like that, and that will last me two days. And the seventh day of the week, I'll either fast, or sometimes I fast. By the way, you know, it's after Labor Day and I'm on my prolonged fast. So, pray for me. And I feel fine, and I've not eaten for, I'm into my second day of no food, just water. But if I don't fast on one day a week and I do eat something, maybe I'll have an omelet, and I'll make a cheese omelet with raw dairy and something like that. So, that's probably what I would do. 

So, is there a menu? Yeah, I just labeled it for you. Keep it simple, and don't listen to all this hype of marketing of everyone with a program; they're trying to sell you something, buy their book, buy this, buy that. You know, what a carnivore diet is, it's animal food, and has two meals a day, and there you go. And I butter every piece of meat I eat, every piece of salmon I eat. Every piece of chicken I eat, I butter it up. I don't butter my bacon, though. But if it's a piece of ham, I will butter that. Hopefully, that helps you. Hopefully, that will help you. I don't have any referrals because I don't think a referral for a menu for a carnivore is needed. 

Now, one of the things we are doing here is that my wonderful nurse, Terry Delia, has her registered nursing degree, but she also has her nutrition coaching degree, and she has agreed to do some nutritional coaching. And she does have some suggestions for menus, and she's very compatible with all she's seen over these years for the wonderful health, labs, and weight loss, energy restoration, and memory restoration from these lower-carbohydrate diets. Now, I'm not against eating plants. I will definitely have cooked vegetables, and weekly I have cooked vegetables, but what I want to get at is a pure carnivore diet. Probably, my most recommended period is really three months, rarely at six months. And, you know, you can go on and off at your will with cooked vegetables and some berries for fruit, if you have to. 

Question
“Hi doctor, my daughter is 40 and she is having menopause symptoms. She is currently breastfeeding one time a day. Should she be having the symptoms at her age? What tests should she get? Thank you.”  [0:28:25]

Answer
Well, she should see her doctor and have her estradiol measured and her progesterone and testosterone measured. She should probably get her thyroid measured and her DHEA and cortisol. Probably, if she's breastfeeding, she's had a baby recently. She is stressed. Find out her blood type, especially if she's an A, because her body has given a lot to produce this baby and continues to give a lot to make all that milk. Therefore, she needs to be on a very healthy protein, grass-fed preferably, prairie-raised chicken and prairie-raised pork products, and wild-caught fish, and digestive enzymes if she's a blood type A, with multimineral, probably a multi B vitamin, and iodine as a starter. So, a multimineral, a multi-methylated B, iodine, vitamin D, that's a mood elevator, will help her with her mood and her bones during all this stressful time, and digestive enzymes with betaine hydrochloric acid if she's a blood type A. Have her see your doctor, measure those hormones, and not to eat late at night because digestion is supposed to be a daytime event, not an evening event. And if you eat much later than 5:00 or 6:00, you're going to have food in your stomach when you go to bed, and your healing and repair will be hampered. So, those are the directions I would say, and it's not unusual to see women at 40 having symptoms like that from all the stress they've gone through, but she can recover and do very well. I have some women that I will put progesterone on cyclically and even a very gentle little low dose of estradiol cream to help them with hot flashes and stuff. And then it doesn't stop them from producing their own hormones because I've watched this over many decades, and we can see when she makes her level. And I usually check the hormones about every three months, and I can help them through this turbulent time called perimenopause. So hopefully that's helpful to you. 

Question
“My sister had severe spasms and cramps in her hips, legs, et cetera. What causes that, and what can she do to help it?”  [0:31:10]

Answer
I would certainly suggest drinking water. Very often, the biggest issue there is not drinking enough water, and we tend to be dehydrated, especially in this hot weather that we're experiencing here in Southern California. The other thing is we are shied away and told not to enjoy salt, healthy salt. And so, I do recommend my patients salt to taste and enjoy their salt, even to the point of taking Himalayan or Celtic salt and putting a pinch in their water, which I do all the time. Sometimes I'll just take some and shake it out and lick with my tongue, my own palm, with my salt shaker here of the pink salt that I have. The other thing I use is the multivitamins I've referred to before. The Albion amino acid chelate amplifies the availability of absorption and is a much better product than typical, cheap over-the-counter products out there. All of this helps with contraction and muscle spasm, and your minerals, hydration, and electrolyte salts are very, very important. Not eating late at night is another very important thing to do, and being low-carb would be very important. So those would be my suggestions for you. 

Question
“Where is the best place to get Juice Plus?”  [0:32:49]

Answer
Well, I never actually do the paperwork, but this is something where you have to work with a distributor to order this for you. And the only thing I can tell you is you would have to call my front office here, and they can give you a referral for someone who is ordering the Juice Plus, and they will guide you through it. If you do and you have any children, my understanding is the company will give children free Juice Plus for a series of a few years if one adult is their sponsor. So yeah, just give the office a call and they'll help you with that question.

Question
“Do cigars deliver nicotine to the bloodstream faster than cigarettes? I recall hearing that in an anti-smoking ad.”  [0:33:37]

Answers
Do cigars deliver nicotine? Yes, they do. Do they deliver it faster than cigarettes? I don't know if that's ever been studied. Cigars usually are very large or thick, as a general rule, compared to the slenderness of a cigarette and its packing; whereas cigars are leaves that are rolled up, I understand. And so, the nicotine is in the plant. You get nicotine from the plant kingdom every time you're eating tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, and things like that. So, it's not a terrible molecule. It's everywhere in our diet. So, go ahead and say, yes, the cigars will deliver more nicotine because they're bigger and fatter in general than the cigarettes are. Now, I don't endorse the burn and the tars of plant material being inhaled in the body, and that's what I think is carcinogenic, plus other chemicals and flavorings they put into these cigarettes and cigars, and products like that. But I empathize with the smoker, of course. I used to be a smoker. I think everyone smoked in the 1960s when I was in high school, and in the early ‘70s when I was in college, everybody, including myself, smoked, smoked, smoked, and I only stopped because I had my children. And then I started up again in the very early years of opening this clinic. It was so stressful, and I broke down, and I started to smoke cigarettes again. And then I stopped, and I had the electronic cigarettes then. Then I went to the flavorless electronic cigarettes with nicotine in them, and then I finally got off of that as well. So, the addictions and habits are very difficult to break. So, I'm certainly empathetic to people who are using those products. But I'm all in favor of the research about the nicotine, and I use a little lozenge of that. Maybe that's why I'm able to stay away from vaping.

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“Butter grass-fed full fat.”  [0:36:09]

Answer
Yes. I'm all for grass-fed and marbled healthy fat in the meats that I buy. But remember, marbling is amplified on many people who are dishonest and put their beef in for slaughter, but prior to that, they'll put them maybe 2, 3, 4 weeks on a very high carbohydrate grain diet, and that will puff them up with a deposition of the fats made from the sugars and all that carbohydrate grain they're eating. So, you have to be careful with that. 

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“Hi Dr. E, I have an astounding number of patients who were put on low-fat meats because their doctors told them that eating saturated fats raises the LDL. Is this true?”  [0:39:24]

Answer
Well, it could be true. Very often, I find over the many decades that eating saturated fats from meat and chicken with the skin on it and fatty fish like salmon and tuna, these are associated with a lowering of their LDL largely because they're eating far less starch, carbohydrates, grains, and sugars, and fruit sugars. But there are what we call lean mass hyper-responders that have very good body fat percentages, and they're very lean, and they tend to have a small group of them have high LDLs. But then you have to ask, what evidence are you worried about for LDL being a concern and predictive of heart disease? And the answer is it's been studied and well established now that LDL is not, and I say again, is not associated with any significant predictive risk factors for heart disease. Instead, and I give God all the praise, it is truly the triglyceride and HDL numbers in your lipid profile, the hs-CRP inflammation factor, and the hemoglobin A1c long-term blood sugar stickiness and your fasting insulin that are far, far more predictive of heart disease. Maybe also getting a coronary artery calcium score to look for calcium deposition in the coronary arteries. And to work with a cardiologist who is up-to-date on looking at these kinds of numbers. We have been so blessed here, and I have been blessed that my dad was in food research, and I have just been able to stand on the shoulders of so many wonderful people in medicine and research before me. Remember, the PhD who isn't seeing the clinician patient load is doing a lot of research, and if they're not bought off by pharmaceutical interests and they're doing it out of good health and good motives for humanity, the health of humanity, they are the good doctors/PhDs that are helping us to get validation of the research on these lab values that are far more predictive. And if you do any research into the whole corruption of the payoff of the sugar industries, hiding the true fat research because we're made of fat, we're not made of plants and vegetables, we get micronutrients from them. And they're valuable. In other words, I take Juice Plus for the polyphenols that we get from the fruits, vegetables, and berries, but I don't eat the fruit, vegetables, and berries because I probably have had enough for two lifetimes already in my life of 72 years. So, I'm going to do everything I possibly can to keep excess carbohydrates, starch, and fruits limited in my life and exposure. But LDL, probably the best YouTube to look at this and look at a review of the retrospective meta-analysis Cochrane studies, like that would be the YouTube called High Cholesterol Is Healthy, High Cholesterol is Healthy, and that's with Dr. David Diamond, PhD, and then a clinician, medical doctor, Ken Berry. And that's about an hour long, and you'll see all the studies reviewed. It was done last year, so it's a very good review.

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“Have you heard of micro-dosing, the new weight loss drugs like Ozempic for rheumatoid arthritis?”  [0:43:41]

Answer
No, not for that in specifics, but for autoimmune diseases, I've heard of it as a general umbrella area. And again, why would that possibly be so? If you are having less of an appetite and your appetite has dropped because you're stimulating your GLP receptors and that sends an appetite suppressant feedback, then you're going to be eating less. And when you eat less, you're taking in fewer triggers, which we call food lectins, food allergens, food antinutrients that are usually associated with amplifying all autoimmune gut membrane, leaky gut inflammation, and it would help improve all inflammatory conditions. And that's why. 

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“What helps with memory loss to stop it or slow it down?”  [0:44:50]

Answer
Exercise, natural hormone replacement therapy, a low-carb diet, rich healthy fats and proteins, vitamin D, adequate hydration, a good night's sleep, stress reduction, iodine will help with that, those kinds of things. 

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“What are your thoughts on low-dose naltrexone to build the immune system? I was on it 15 years ago or so, and I do remember my mood was lifted, but I have no idea if it did anything for our immune system. I do have an immune condition.”  [0:45:24]

Answer
Well, part of a low-dose naltrexone regimen, naltrexone is a bit of an agonist-antagonist modulator for opioid receptors, and that generates feedback information for neurotransmitter production, and this can be associated with mood elevation. So, low dose is being studied on many, many different levels due to its receptor effect on opioid receptors. So, I can see how it may help with mood. It's also often associated with autoimmune disease trials, clinical trials on inflammation from autoimmune diseases. And that again also has to do with the neuroreceptors in the gut, leaky gut for Crohn's disease, it seems to be helpful in Crohn's, rheumatoid arthritis pains, because all of our cells tend to have opioid receptors for pain management or pain neurotransmission. So, it's not surprising that we see this. But again, can we achieve this without a prescription? How about we do a trial of. Giving ourselves maybe a fast, like I'm trying to do a three-to-five-day fast right now. Every time my husband, who has an O positive blood type or O negative, I forget, but his O type blood is very sensitive to wheat and grains, oats, rye, barley, and it will make him stiff, and that autoimmune leaky gut phenomenon will give him even gut symptoms. So, if he fasts for about two to three days, water fast, then his hands become nimble and he feels much better, his mood is better, his gut is better. 

And so, these antinutrients, all these plant phytochemicals that are antinutrients, are just inflaming. And so, maybe the better way to get pain relief, mood elevation, better gut, better everything is to go on a water fast for a couple of days and talk with your doctor about that, not if you're a type 1 diabetic that's brutal on insulin injections every day, but in general, the population, if they were on a diet that's anti-inflammatory through a water fast for a couple of days. And then if you went on the carnivore diet, which he does, then he'll do that for weeks, and then he'll feel much, much better. So, yes, of course, I'm going to say low-dose naltrexone is going to be modulating opioid receptors all over your body, but why use a drug, and is that impressive? I'll just tell you, my clinical impact of observation of patients who have been increasingly over the past maybe 20 years on low-dose naltrexone for various issues is not impressive. I have not seen a big ‘aha’ from the clinical experience of people using low-dose naltrexone and opioid receptor medication to modulate it. 

Question
“Dr. E, what do you think about colloidal/nano silver as a mouthwash? Thank you.”  [0:49:33]

Answer
I think it's very good, especially when you're getting dental work done, pre- and post, and maybe a day or two of your major oral surgery. But remember, we need good, healthy bacteria. We have a biome in our oral mucosa, too, and I would not want to kill it off with just the nonstop antibacterial, antiviral, antifungal effect of nano or colloidal silver products. For a short term, yeah. 

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“Today I saw my eye doctor. He is concerned about glaucoma. He wants to see me back in 6 months. Any advice or suggestions on what I can do or take?”  [0:50:15]

Answer
Well, I had a patient here two, three years ago, and maybe it's four or five, time flies, but in the recent past five years, and she had such bad eye pressure that her ophthalmologist was going to do urgent surgery, let's say it wasn't an emergency, but very high concern for surgical intervention. And I told her to go on a carnivore diet immediately, absolutely not eat late, drink half her weight in pounds as ounces of water every day, to get EDTA chelation with a high dose of vitamin C and the minerals and B vitamins that are in it, and she did that twice or three times a week. By the time she went for her follow-up with a doctor, she had been given eyedrops, of course, on the initial visit when she found it, and I think her eye pressures were like 24, one was a little lower, but it was very high. And she was having some blurring, and we're concerned that that pressure will impact the optic nerve and put pressure on it and create vision loss over time. That's why they want the pressure down so quickly. Well, when she came back, even after just a week, because I think her follow-up was in a week later, the ophthalmologist was absolutely flabbergasted at what her eye pressure was. And I've had people with macular degeneration, which is another type of eye disease breakdown. And the same thing, they would go on a very low-carb or carnivore diet, and the EDTA chelation, and they were getting injections in their eye of Avastin, a prescription drug that helps stop the revascularization and growth of capillaries and blood vessels. And that doctor was giving the injections two or three times a week and then it dropped to once or twice a week, then it dropped to once a week, then twice a month, then every three months, and that ophthalmologist was amazed at how this woman, who I think is now 88 years old, and has still been able to remain in independent living and driving. It's just amazing what improving the microcirculation through EDTA chelation can do for the human body for all diseases and all conditions.

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“I recently had a blood test. There is an indication that there is blood in my urine, and my white blood cell count is low. They have been low for the past few years. The numbers have been going up and down over the past few years. Can this be due to stress? Thank you.”  [0:53:08]

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Well, the answer is, yes, because stress is high cortisol, cortisol is catabolic, and it is a breakdown type of impact hormone, and chronic breakdown catabolism in your body is not what you want. There's a place and a season for it, short-term, but chronic stress is no good. The environmental pollutants, usually, again, talking about EDTA chelation, when I give EDTA chelation, I always see the white blood cell count go up. And if you do it very sparsely, you're not going to see the movement, at least it won't be as low as before. But if you do chelation once or twice a week for, let's say, 30 IVs and within the year, say within eight to nine months, we recheck it, we always, it is never good to say always, but I would say the vast, vast majority of patients see the total white blood cell count go up. Why? Because we've lowered the oxidative stress of the heavy metal toxicities, creating free radical damage. So, that's my thought on that for you. Now, as to the microscopic or blood in your urine, you need to work with your urologist on that and have that followed up; that's not something to be ignored, but do follow up with your doctor.

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“Have you ever eaten yak? Elk or venison? I'm okay with bison and lamb, but thinking these others might taste too gamey...but so good for us.”  [00:54:58]

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No, I've never eaten yak. I have had venison. Well, yeah, because they really don't get the pesticide, herbicide, fungicide that can be in the grains, and the hormones and the antibiotics for sure. But, no, I haven't had yak or elk, I don't think I've had. Maybe I've had elk and venison from the deer. But yeah. Yak is a domesticated cattle. I think that came from Afghanistan. It's long-haired. Yaks have long hair. They are cattle with long hair. 

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“My friend has pseudomonas in his lungs. Per the Mayo Clinic infectious disease doctor, it has colonized, and there are no additional antibiotics to take as he has taken them all. Can you suggest anything to help his breathing and energy level?”  [0:55:49]

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I would have him seen by a good functional medical doctor who's familiar with ozone therapies, such as hyperbaric oxygen, definitely ultraviolet light irradiation of the blood with ozonation of your blood, and high-dose vitamin C will definitely be a benefit. High dose vitamin D for a short season, monitored by the medical doctor and rechecking blood levels within a couple of months, as well as zinc, doing mineral assays, and antioxidant assays. And, of course, it's always wise to go on a low-carb, protein-rich diet and not eat past 3 o'clock in the afternoon in general, and drink enough water. 

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“My mom is now experiencing “numbness” in her legs from the shin on down, including her feet. She thinks it may be due to a newer medication, gabapentin, but she sent me a complete list to ask you if any of these could be causing this: Metoprolol 25 mg 2x day, tizanidine HCL 2 mg 1x, amlodipine g 1x, pantoprazole 40 mg 1x, tramadol 50 mg every 6 hours, aspirin 81 mg.”  [0:56:53]

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Okay. So she's on gabapentin, which has the effect of impacting calcium reuptake, and that would be associated with nerve tingling, numbness. She's on metoprolol, which is another beta-receptor beta-blocker. She's on tizanidine. Tizanidine is a medication for muscle cramps, a calcium-positive charge manipulator of the flow of calcium in the channels for calcium. Amlodipine is associated with edema. Pantoprazole is a hydrogen ion pump inhibitor, and that'll be associated with poor digestion, which means low magnesium, low B12, all of these impact neurotransmission and sensation, even calcium, even bone fractures. Tramadol, just a weak opioid, another nerve transmission agonist, and she's on baby aspirin, a platelet inhibitor. So, she's on quite a cocktail. You have to remember, you are a guinea pig. Nobody has done any studies on gabapentin, metoprolol, tizanidine, amlodipine, pantoprazole, tramadol, and aspirin altogether in one human being. No one's ever studied the cross-reference, yeah, especially in older adults. And getting this impact on the transmission at the nerve receptors and cell membrane receptors is absolutely a problem. So I would say, definitely it's related to her medications, and she needs to work with her doctor about how seriously she needs all of these, and try to improve the nutrition in her lower extremities. Hence, EDTA chelation would be a very good idea to start with, working with a good functional doctor, try to find one. 

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“I'm a 67-year-old woman who is postmenopausal. I wonder if you would recommend some low-level testosterone, and if so, why and how much?”  [0:59:24]

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Absolutely. My testosterone level is like 170. I use DHEA alone, DHEA (Dehydroepiandrosterone), and I take 50 mg a day, and I convert the DHEA into testosterone, and that gives me that level. The ranges on the labs are ridiculously low, and they let your muscles become atrophied and shrink away and dissolve away. So, I'm for DHEA in everyone past the age of 40 for sure. Testosterone can be given as a cream. I have some women who are on DHEA, and they just don't build up their testosterone; they don't convert to testosterone. So I give it to them as a cream. And I'll start with 1 mg a day topically up to maybe 4 mg a day, and I do a retest on their labs. So, hopefully that answers your question. 

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“Blessings, Dr. Ellithorpe. What are your thoughts on taking anti-parasite medicines, such as ivermectin, to treat cancer? There is so much talk lately on the subject, and I’m wondering if you use this protocol or recommend it as a preventative as well.”  [1:00:32]

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There's an increasing volume of the value of the many biochemical pathways where ivermectin inhibits cell replication of these tumor cells. There are at least nine known pathways where ivermectin stops rapid cell production and turnover. And if you can stop them from turning over without the harmful effects, like radiation, which will stop at chemotherapy as a poison, these kinds of things will stop it; this seems not to be harmful to our regular healthy cells. So that's my thought on it. But if someone has cancer, they should be treated by an oncologist who's informed on these things.

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“Good evening, doctor. In conversations with type 1 diabetics, they believe they need 30 carbs per day to prevent low blood sugars. Can you speak to this fear, as we see shows where people have to have sugar or go into a coma, etc? I believe cutting out carbs would be more beneficial. Can you speak to sarcopenia prevention and reversal? This seems to be a growing problem. Thank you!”  [1:01:27]

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Well, to the first, I would say I don't have enough time to get into it in detail, but I have many patients that are type 1 diabetics or they're on the insulin pumps, and we have them on the ketogenic, low-carb, or carnivore-like or near carnivore diets, and they do very, very well. So instead of having wide swings in their blood sugars, they are much more titrated into a stable zone, and it is the wide swings in the blood sugar that are a problem. So if you can have a continuous monitor, glucose monitor, work closely with your doctor, and have a health coach like our nurse, and start to gradually incorporate more protein, digestive enzymes, exercise, not eating late, and reduce the carbohydrates, especially the simple carbohydrates, and move toward a more protein-rich diet, a more ketogenic-like diet, we have many patients who do that very safely and very effectively. But that is a topic of itself and needs to be managed with and worked with a healthcare provider familiar with these things.

Sarcopenia is low muscle mass. Really, the branched-chain media acids leucine, isoleucine, and lysine, I believe valine, I forget which one now, the three, but these branched-chain amino acids are very valuable. Exercise, resistance training especially, is very valuable, and not eating late. So, that's a simple, quick answer. 

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“Where do you get your meat for the carnivore diet?”  [1:04:00]

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I go to Sprouts, and I typically buy their grass-fed beef there. I also have a service with ButcherBox or Meriwether Farms, but I have so much meat, I haven’t finished eating it. I’ve stopped my subscriptions because my freezer is full.

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“Hello, dear Dr Rita. Please comment on your opinion of the DNA SNPs that evaluate (MTHFR) methylenetetrahydrofolate and other methylation issues, such as coenzyme COMT. Do you see these as valuable tests?”  [1:04:26]

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Not really, because a third of the population is really suffering from the SNPs of the genome that have trouble with methylated processes in the body, which is very valuable to prevent heart disease and cancer. So, just take a very good methylated B complex, a reputable source, and be faithful with it, and that’s about the best you can do.