YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, April 30, 2024

Question 

“Hi Dr. Rita, I hear mineral supplements must be organic living minerals as our bodies cannot process inorganic minerals. Inorganic gets deposited in our joints, arteries, kidneys, etc. causing problems?”  [0:02:47]

Answer

Well, it's not that we can't take inorganic minerals in. It's just their ability to be absorbed is very, very minimal. So, if you take calcium oxide, magnesium oxide, these are oxidized forms of a mineral, and they would maybe be 3-4 percent absorbed. So, yes, we want what we call amino acid chelated linked to an amino acid so that our body knows how to take in amino acids very nicely. We have transport along the lining of our gastrointestinal system that recognizes amino acids. So, you would like Magnesium Glycinate, Calcium Glycinate, Magnesium Citrate, and things like that. And these amino acid chelates are best produced by a company called Albion. That’s the leading in food research mineral chelated amino acid minerals, and that's the direction that you would want to go. So, the absorption then becomes massively increased, and the distribution. That's why if you eat a healthy diet of meat and fish and chicken and poultry and eggs and raw dairy these natural sources are full of the amino acids with the minerals in them. And so, as you get older, your cell membranes start to get these little holes in them like you can see in my picture there, and you leak out the contents of the cell, and the cell will die. In the evening when you go to bed, you're supposed to repair it to a double phospholipid layer. That cell membrane is all that separates you from the world. And so, you can easily be hurting your gut and create these little holes in the gut, called leaky gut, and it increases with age because our rate of repair is depending on you eating the fat and the proteins that have to go in there. 

Minerals can come out easily and damage cell membranes like you see in this picture right here. So, the older you get, the harder it is for you to hold on to and repair your cell membranes and the things that they need. So, it becomes more often that you'll get leg cramps at night. You will need maybe an extra mineral supplement, and that's why we use the Albion chelated multi-mineral, TLC Multi Min, but we do recommend using digestive enzymes to have enough stomach acid to help you digest and help with the breakdown of the proteins and the fats, so that they are in a form that they can be picked up by the transporters that are in the lining of your gut, and you'll get the minerals that are associated with them. It's much more difficult with plants or an all-plant diet. 

Question 

“What can I do to help move along a 6 x 4 mm kidney stone? I'm drinking water and exercising. Also, I had an abdominal CT scan with and without contrast a month ago, and nothing showed up. A month later, I had a kidney stone. What can I do to prevent kidney stones?”  [0:06:46] 

Answer

Typically they'll tell you to go on a low oxalate diet because most of these stones are calcium oxalate stones. It is a calcium that is oxidized. And what promotes that, eating a largely plant-rich diet, beans, and leafy vegetables like spinach. I think the recommended dose or limit for eating oxalate-rich foods, like spinach, kale, and other leafy greens, is 100 mg per day. But if you have beans and potatoes and rice husk, brown rice with a husk on it, and maybe some spinach and like a stew, you put all that into like a stew or something, you can easily hit 5, 600, 1000 or more milligrams of oxalate in one serving from an oxalate-rich diet. Now, there are lots of foods that have oxalates in them. These oxalates are in the plant. There are also in meat and fish and poultry and pork but less so, much less so in a general rule. Although I've been told, since I've had two kidney stones and I both times had to go to the hospital to get it removed once when I was the ER doctor and I was just working my butt off 12, 16-hour shifts, I would never drink enough water. I wouldn't eat right because I was eating on the fly. And so, I got those stones. And then another time when I think I was about 60 years old, maybe 10 years ago or so. And I again, I was just working here too much, too hard, too long, and I was not drinking enough water. So, I would say the number one thing is that 2 liters of water, about 10 to 12 glasses of water a day, is probably what we all need and none of us are doing it, including myself. So, I have a game where I have a 2L bottle, and I fill it up every single morning in my home. Before I leave for work, I drink one-half of that big bottle with my vitamins and during my Bible reading and preparing for work. And then when I get home at night, I drink the other liter. So, I'm pretty good at getting 2 liters in. Maybe two and a half would be better for me to be half my weight as pounds as ounces a day. But water is extremely critical. Of course, filtered water would be the best. So, since many foods have oxalates in them, it's depressing to try and screen out oxalates because it's part of the plant and world kingdom because animals eat plants and we do get it that way as well. But in general, beans and leafy green vegetables, tea, what else? I guess you would have to go on the computer and find out what are the highest oxalate-rich foods there are. I think the key though is to be well hydrated. 

And the other thing I do is I do an amino acid chelated multimineral that has the magnesium in it, and the potassium, and the manganese, and the selenium, and that helps me have a very good magnesium level and that's generally very, very low in the population. Magnesium deficiency is the number one mineral deficiency in Americans, and that's because of our processed diet, and our industrialized farming that's terrible on the land, stripping the land of its nutrient wealth. And so, we all become magnesium-deficient, which means the vasculature gets stiff. You need magnesium to smooth muscle, and relax. So, I do believe that my dedication to taking amino acid chelated, TLC Multi Min, I do that every day of my life now in the past 10 years for sure since my last kidney stone, and I just feel wonderful. Let's put it that way. And I do EDTA chelation therapy which also is improving microcirculation, so that I'm getting a nice relaxation of the smooth muscles on my ureters. And because when I had that kidney stone the last time, I tried all the home remedies. I tried taking Coke and asparagus, mixing it together to be a shock to my kidney system and diuresis and dilate the vessels, I went a week in terrible pain, and I wound up getting some hydronephrosis on my kidney, drainage from the kidney down to the bladder.

So, I hurt my tubes a little bit from that. 

So, that's what I would say. Number one, 10 to 12 glasses of water a day. Don't hesitate to use a good mineralized Celtic salt. Get a multi-mineral is of a high quality, Albion amino acid chelates, and to avoid a lot of spinach. And I like spinach. I could eat a whole can of spinach with butter and salt and pepper. I used to buy that nice can of cooked spinach, but I can't do that anymore. So, that's what I would say. 

Question 

“According to my Apple Watch, My BPM is usually in the 90s. It doesn't seem healthy.  How to lower it?”  [0:13:46] 

Answer

BPM, beats per minute, I assume is what that stands for. I'm not sure 90 is wrong. I don't know if you're on thyroid medication. In general, I have found the blood type A’s to have a slightly higher blood beats per minute than an O or an AB or a B-type blood. And I would want to know your blood type. I'd want to know your thyroid function, your free T3, and your thyroid stimulating hormone. I would want to know your water and your urine. Specific gravity. If you're drinking enough water, then you have a low specific gravity, meaning you're well hydrated and your urine is not dense. I would want to know how much you're exercising. I would want to know what your magnesium level is, and a red blood cell mineral analysis will help show that to me. So, those would be some of the things I would want to begin to look at. 

Question 

“Hello, doctor and sister in Christ. I've been feeling much better using Lugol's iodine. Do you use this with your clients, especially thyroid conditions?”  [0:15:10]

Answer

All the time. But I don't use the Lugol’s solution. I use a tablet, and that's because accidentally people knock it over and they'll lose the money because it spills and then it stains. So, I try and avoid that by using it in tablet form. David Brownstein is the author and family practice doctor up in Michigan who wrote the book called Iodine and really popularized how America has been stripped also of the salt iodine, which is associated with lower mental focus and lower IQ and confidence, and breast cancer, prostate cancer, various other things. So, I use the tablet form. Each one has 12.5 mg and that's what I use. But you're so right. I would say, in my personal population over the decades here, when I test for iodine sufficiency with the challenge test, I have my patients take four tablets, 12.5 each, which is 50 mg. And then I collect a 24-hour urine sample. If the body is deficient, it'll hold on to a good portion of that iodine, so you don't urinate the majority of it out. It should be urinated out if you're sufficient in the salt of iodine. Well, I would say 96.7 percent of my patients were all and are all deficient. So, I would see them maybe urinate out 60%, or something like that, and that's terrible. So, we use the iodine one or two tablets a day, and very often I don't repeat it because I've never seen a problem with 12.5 mg for every human being once a day. If you're about 80 pounds or more, then you need about one tablet, 12.5 mg a day. 

Question

“Hi, Dr. Rita. My kids and I have a congested cough and mucus in the lungs from a virus. Do you have any tips to get over this? Thank you.”  [0:17:31]

Answer

Well, I would definitely look at your diet and how much sugar, starch, bread, pasta, sugar drinks, and juices are in your diet because that's all immunosuppressive. The high fructose corn syrup that's in these sodas juices and energy drinks is just full of high fructose corn syrup. It will depress your immune system. Secondly, I want to get your vitamin D levels checked in yourself and your children, and I would want a vitamin D level close to 80 mcg/dl. And I would encourage you to use a good multivitamin. What I'm getting at is vitamin A. Vitamin A is very important to the mucous membranes, vision, and many other things in your body. And with a multivitamin, usually, there's zinc in there. Zinc also is associated with antiviral protection, and it stops the virus from replicating itself. And I would consider getting powdered vitamin C to put a little bit in water for everyone to have their first glass of water with vitamin C because we don't make any vitamin C. So, those would be my first approaches. If you can get some Argentyn Silver, which is a broad-spectrum antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and you can squirt it up your nose. Sometimes I have it in a mist, I'll spray it and I'll just inhale the mist if I want to get it in my bronchi to clear that out. So, those would be some good points to begin with that’s safe for kids, little toddlers, and all.  

Question 

“I love Dr. Brownstein. I just discovered him. Wonderful. I'm taking 6.5 currently.”  [0:19:39]

Answer

Well, I take for my patients, 12.5 mg is what I give everyone on a baseline. David Brownstein, Dr. Brownstein, really recommends 25 mg for two of the tablets. I tend to oscillate on the little lower end, 12.5 to 25.

Question

“Should I up the dose? I had terrible headaches, and brain fog in the beginning. What cofactors do you recommend to reduce?” [0:20:11]  

Answer

Well, that's another area of. For headaches and brain fog, I would get the sugar certainly down, and I would take a very good methyl B complex with vitamin D and get a good night's sleep, and that's the direction with your iodine that I would do. In general, I make sure every one of my patients is good in their vitamin D, approaching 80 ng/dl, 80 of the D3. Then I give them all iodine. Then I put them all on a low-carb diet. Then I get them all on Juice Plus. That's my go-to for the research and the data across many aspects of human bodily functions, DNA damage reduction, longevity, and immune building. And so, for my antioxidant go-to, it's Juice Plus. And then I will give each of them systemic enzymes to decrease inflammation on an empty stomach. And then I will give a multi-mineral to get extra zinc and magnesium, another selenium anti-cancer benefit. That's the basic core that I do with, I would say, every one of my patients. 

And that's because of all this industrialized farming, they're raping the land.  we no longer have family farms with 200, 300, 1000 acres. Instead, we have industrial businesses that have thousands of acres. And they just mow it over, they glyphosate it, spray it, they turn it over, and it's just being raped for its service. The minerals, the nitrogen content, potassium, it's just sad. It's really low. So, we have to therefore then take good supplements, unfortunately. We are marketed to and the system is run by the American Dietetic Association's recommendations by men who are tied to the food industry. And so, I think they have compromised positions and they probably know little to nothing about nutrition. They just enjoy the prestige and the membership on boards and their company association, affiliations with food companies that industrialized farms and rape the land, and it's just a sick picture, and it's the raping of the land.

Question 

“I have a friend whose mother is in stage 3B kidney failure. She asks about a diet for her mother and for her so, she can be ready to give a kidney if needed. I think the renal diet is false.”  [0:23:15]

Answer

Well, I would want to know what they think is causing the failure, her weight, her circulation, her electrolytes, her blood type, her blood sugars, her insulin level, and her cardiovascular status. I have found, and we have done EDTA chelation therapy, which is an IV that you put into your vein. We take the amino acid that is made, called ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid. It chelates out toxic metals like lead, aluminum mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and the like. And when it does that, it also is associated with improving platelet function, blood flow, less tendency toward blood clotting, and microcirculation tremendously improved. If you go to the YouTube and put in the TACT update, 2019, Dr. Lamas, the head of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai. The National Institute of Health did a 10-year study on heart attack victims managed by the standard of care and then put them into four groups, and in the four groups, those that got the chelation with a good multi-mineral supplement did incredibly well. It's a criminal thing, in my personal opinion, that the College of Cardiology has not endorsed chelation therapy as the most safe cardiovascular rescue for heart attack and any ischemic vascular blood flow problem, whatsoever. The data was so impressive, reducing up to 51 percent absolute risk reduction. We're not talking relative and fiddling with the numbers. We actually see a 51 percent reduction. So, shame on them for hiding this from the population. 

Now, when you do that, it'll help the circulation everywhere in the body, from your brain dementia down to your toe fungus and gangrene toes for diabetics, and that includes the kidneys, it improves the circulation there. That's why I give all my kidney failure patients the EDTA chelation. And nephrologists/specialists of the kidney have done chelation studies and found that they can stop the progressive damage with EDTA chelation therapy.  I think his name is Dr. Li or Dr. Lee. Anyway, he did about seven different publications of studies, where he took his stage 4, 3, and 2 level creatinine counts, and he found as the creatinine level was getting higher and higher and the function diminishing, as soon as he introduced chelation, it stabilized, and some improvement was noticed. Over and over, he repeated these tests clinically seven different times. So, it's undoubtable that no one can challenge this that it does work. 

Now, you don't give the same dose you would to a person with kidney disease that you would do with someone who is a healthy person with normal kidney function. You have to have a person who is experienced and trained in giving those IVs. But it's extremely safe but you would reduce the amount of chelation, you would check the creatinine, and you would wait and see as they progress, then you could somewhat increase the EDTA dosage. 

There is the Academy for the Advancement of Medicine ACAM, the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine, ACAM.org. This is where physicians get taught how to do chelation. I'm one of the teachers. Dr. Dorothy Merritt. If you do that YouTube where you put in ‘TACT Update 2019 Dr. Lamas when that YouTube page unfolds, usually the next video or two under it, you'll see a lovely little brown-haired woman with glasses on, and her name is Dorothy Merritt, and she'll go over a didactic lecture on the history of chelation, why it's so great. She covers the kidney, nephrology, and, and many other important points that we teach to doctors about that. So, hopefully, that would help your mother. 

As far as the diet goes, I would use a whole food. I would never use processed food. I would eat in a time-restricted zone, say 11 to 5, and I would eat vegetables and protein. I would use a modest amount of spices, like salt and pepper, and maybe some garlic or onion powder, onions. And then intermittent fasting helps this, adequate water will help it. So, that would be some starter points I would put out there for you. 

Question 

“A nose spray that I purchased in the past was recalled because it may be contaminated with bacteria.

What could happen or should the concern be?”  [0:29:34]

Answer

Well, that's why I give usually a name brand, and the name brand nose spray that has silver in it that is half strength from what we physicians get is called Sovereign Silver, and the same company that makes it for me, the physician, which is called Argentyn Silver 23. That's the one you can buy over-the-counter, Sovereign Silver, and bacteria cannot and should not and will not grow in it. 

Question 

“Hi, do you have any remedies for age-related macular degeneration? Thank you.”  [0:30:22]

Answer

Yes. The EDTA chelation, we've actually had an absolute dramatic stoppage of the progression of the disease. Some of the people that I've had are in their late 80s now, going into their 90s and they were so bad, they were losing their driver's license and then they were getting injections of Avastin (30:50) eye injections twice a week. And then after doing chelation with a low-carb diet, taking systemic enzymes, not eating light, drinking plenty of water, and using good multi-mineral enzymes, vitamin D, and so forth. The ophthalmologist dropped the injections into the eye from twice a week to once a week, and then every other week, and then once a month, and then every three months. Do you think that an ophthalmologist ever called me to ask me what I was doing to his patient that had brought a cessation to the progression of their macular degeneration? No, they never call. If you make too much money, you're too comfortable to learn anything else. So, that's what I think is the problem with medicine. And if you don't love God and love people, to work hard and study, to be a doctor, you have to study all the time, and you have to go to these conferences, meet doctors, learn things that have been out there and studied and published on for decades and you're very safe and moving forward and employing them into your diet. So, I think that's the problem we have. 

Question

“What are your thoughts on spirulina supplements?”  [0:32:14] 

Answer

Don't use them. These green drinks and shakes and all this smoothie stuff is so full of the same lectins over and over down your throat. Usually, they have sugars in them. They are becoming an inflamer of the gut. Where you would see these little holes poked in, that spirulina will leak right through if you take in these big glasses every day of your life. I don't care what green drink it is.  There are 14 different ones of them out there and that volume of all that powder you're taking down is just impacting you terribly. So, I'm not in favor of it. Sorry. 

Then there are other issues, like when they try and get these chlorophyll-rich products, God made chlorophyll to try and help the plant photosynthesis and they need and they can use magnesium and they pull out mercury from the environment. So, it helps detox the planet. So, anywhere you go, whether it's the chlorophyll and such that you get from the algae and the ocean, it’s mercury contaminated. And so, unbeknownst to people thinking they're doing something good, they're actually getting mercury dosings in their body from that. And that is something that in chemistry, analytical chemistry, is not well reported nor do many doctors at all understand the significance or even how to look for it, let alone test for it. So, these green drinks, this chlorophyll and spirulina, and all, just have been a bad thing over the decades that I've seen.  

Question 

“She says they said they don't know why she is in failure.”  [0:34:13]

Answer

Well, quite a few things are called idiopathic because the doctors don't know. Well, I'll tell you what, we have great success in fixing it with EDTA chelation, an extremely low-carb diet, time-restricted eating, adequate hydration of water that's filtered, systemic enzymes, digestive enzymes, as you age or earlier if you're blood type A, adequate vitamin D, a methylated B complex, and Albion chelated minerals that assist, and then eating just the whole foods, nothing processed. Written in the DNA is your healing message. Psalm 139 talks about how fearfully and wonderfully we were made and how our parts were written for, as quoted in the book. That book is your DNA and you’ve got to read Psalm 139, and you'll realize how smart God is and how dumb we are. So, praise the Lord. Idiopathic just means they're not going to do any extra work to learn why or even trust that the body could heal itself. That's very sad. Just so sad in medicine, my whole profession.  

Question 

“Thank you for that. I just bought some of the EDTA suppositories for mercury. When is the best time to take binders? I’m afraid I will herx as I did with higher iodine.”  [0:35:49] 

Answer

Very good. And again, even in the alternative complementary functional medicine world, you're going to find doctors, like myself, who are going to say EDTA does not chelate mercury. And all I can say to them is, that's not true.  it does a very good job pulling out mercury. I've been around EDTA chelation and calcium disodium EDTA because you can get sodium EDTA. I never use sodium. I use calcium disodium always. It's only an extremely rare time would I ever use disodium. It just pulls out the mercury and is a beautiful chelator. God is so good. Always gives his children something to deal with the evil challenges of their day. 

I usually recommend inserting a rectal suppository for EDTA chelation at nighttime. Plenty of water, away from eating food for at least 4 hours, and then taking systemic enzymes with a big glass of water. 

Question 

“Hello again, Dr. E. What are your thoughts on micro-dosing psilocybin mushrooms for OCD (Obsessive compulsive disorder) and PTSD (post-traumatic stress disease) patients? Do you have any personal experiences or stories you can share with us? More medical story time with Dr. E. Thanks.”  [0:37:24]

Answer

Well, I am going to say I am not impressed with mushrooms psilocybin for this, in particular the mushroom family. Now, the mushrooms are very good with CD8, and CD4 T-cell function in the immune system, but that doesn't necessarily translate into mood support. I really would say exercise is going to be my go-to answer for OCD and PTSD. Exercise has been exploding in research reports. There are myosins and other macromolecules. See, when you, when you see this little damaged cell membrane, you might see these little dots right here. This are little dots and fragments coming off of this thing. They have many functions in the body. And so, if your muscle cell is ripped with exercise, stimulation for repair and healing, which has secondary euphoric mood-elevating phenomena, being on adequate vitamin D, having a routine where you make yourself get up in the morning with the sunrise, go out in your sandals and then step on the grass and ground yourself on the earth for a minute or two and let those negative ions just discharge into the earth. Drink adequate water so you alkalinize yourself And try and do some kind of weightlifting, on a regular basis, two, three times or so a week, upper and lower body, real heavyweights on the machines, and some form of aerobic or have your pet that you have to walk vigorously. Not some old little pet that moseys along and sniffs every flower. We're talking about getting that good 20 to 30-minute brisk walk on most days of the week added to your weight training. 

Putting those things together with a morning routine of getting that sunshine, the vitamin D supplement, as well as from the sunshine in the morning. Morning ultraviolet lights are so healing. You don't get those bad UV lights that are associated with skin cancer. Rounding, standing with your feet in the grass. I just did it this morning. And it just floods me, the minute I step in the grass and I feel the tickle and the moisture on my feet, and then I look up and I see the sun starting to peek through, I'm just filled with gratitude and respect for this great creation of this world and God's word because usually, I do that after I do my Bible reading because it's dark in the morning when I do my Bible reading.  

Question 

“I just visited my breast surgeon who removed a radial scar in 2021 and did a great job. She has the opinion that Hormone Replacement Therapy should only be for 10 years. The doctors at TLC do not believe this, right? My understanding is that HRT is safe for the rest of my life, correct? That is what I hope to do.”  [0:40:46]

Answer

Well, I joke with my husband and family, saying when I die, put some extra hormones in my casket because I'm going to want them with me all my life. And so, yeah, men have hormones all the way through, and women are blessed with the general anabolic construction, general contractor activity that hormones give us for our cardiovascular system, for our bone structure, for our brain calmness, for our sleep, for our skin, and our elastin collagen, for our hair growth, our nails, for our depth of sleep and our mood. just so many wonderful things.

Now, you have to be on a low-carb diet. I won't give hormones to women with high carbs. I'll take them away. You have to be on enzymes. like a younger woman has many more enzymes than a postmenopausal woman. So, I insist they take Vitalzym or, or systemic enzymes, Vascuzyme. I insist on water. I insist on some exercise. And if I see their labs go sour, I say, well, I don't know that I'm going to refill your hormones. You’ve got to take care of yourself. And you know, I've worked since what, for 30 or so nonstop. And then when I'm done here in 20 more minutes, then I'm going to go across the street over into the Crunch Gym, and I'm going to work my machines and I'm going to do that for 40 minutes. And I'm not talking about some 5-minute break between them or talking to someone. I'm just going machine to machine to machine. So, yeah, I think hormones are wonderful and that you should use them. 

Question 

“How do I get rid of post-nasal drip congestion? I had a bronchial infection at the end of March/early April. I had to take antibiotics to recover. Since then, I have had a lingering drip in the back of my throat. Is there anything I can do to get rid of it?”  [0:43:07]

Answer

I would want to know how old you are because as you get older, there is something called senile rhinorrhea. And for those of us who have senile rhinorrhea, the lining of our mucus and our turbinates on the two sides, and the skin lining our sinuses gets thinner, just like the back of our hands gets thinner with aging. And so, as the skin gets thinner, it's far easier for viral penetration, pollens, and dust materials to irritate the lining than it did when you were, say, 55, 60, okay? And so, over time, these little irritants occur, the body secretes the mucin, and then you get this drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, drip, you know. And really there's pretty much nothing you can do about it, except take hormones and testosterone for men, maybe a little for women, DHEA for both, and that helps the thickness of it. And then I use my Argentyn silver every single day of my life, usually morning and evening, to rinse it so that there aren't lots of holes poked in my membranes there. I eat a rich, healthy non-processed diet, plenty of meat, fish, chicken, eggs, pork, and very few vegetables. And so that way I'll have all those amino acids and that collagen elastin to work on my sinuses and keep them as clean as possible. I take my Systemic Enzymes. That helps chew up the mucus and congestion. I'll do a high dose of vitamin C drip, that helps my immune system. We make no vitamin C. Try and find a doctor who'll give you an immune drip. I make sure my vitamin D level is about 80 or higher. I eat a low-carb diet, so I don't suppress my immune system. And those are the things that I do.

Question 

“I was told to take progesterone days 1-15 of the month. I’ve read your comments where you recommend days 15 to 25 or something like that. What do you consider when you prescribe the dates for progesterone? Thanks.”  [0:45:34]

Answer

But yeah, that's for girls who are still menstruating on their own. They're young enough and they're healthy enough, and their hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal signals, follicle-stimulating, and luteinizing hormones are still working for them. And so, I follow their cycle.  

But postmenopausal women don't have that anymore, and so we just use a set time during the month. So, I am on the first through the 15th. I have no more hormonal activity going on. So, I just use my progesterone from the first through the 15th. I could use it every day, but I like to save money and I like to do it a little more physiologic, and I like to have a very light menstrual cycle every month around the 15th, so that I know my uterus and all things are working well in my body, so I don't have to check my blood all the time. Because usually postmenopausal women who have any vaginal bleeding at all, everyone gets excited thinking it's endometrial cancer or some form of gynecological cancer, and that was what was taught and justified because very few women were on hormones many decades ago. But I have been on hormones for over 30 years, and I've been regular every monthly cycle, and I feel emotionally stable, I get deep sleep, and my bones are solid. I just feel great. And I know that the menstrual bleeding I have every month is because I bring the progesterone in, and then when I stop it, that allows for the drop of progesterone and the cleaning out of my uterus a little bit for the amount of estradiol that I have. I check the blood levels of my patients twice a year usually. And if they bleed outside of that expected time zone, then I'll do a pelvic transvaginal ultrasound. I will do the referral for an endometrial biopsy, and things like that. 

Question 

During a prolonged fast, is it okay to have MCT oil (in coffee), Proven MD Phospholipids (in water), and/or the unflavored Pedialyte to help through the days? If so, how much per 24-hour period? Or is there something else you recommend? Thank you. I want to get more 2-day fasts in my life for health purposes.”  [0:47:59]

Answer

Yeah. If you take the MCT oil, I'm not going to say you're on a perfect fast or water fast because you're adding in fat, and it is an energy and a metabolite. But if that's all you're doing and that works well for you, some people put butter in their tea or coffee, black tea or coffee. I did that in the beginning, years and years ago, long before Bulletproof was a fan or a rage, and that's what I did to train myself to start fasting decades ago. So, yeah, I think it's a fine, safe thing to do. 

Now, the Proven MD phospholipids, those are the things that are in this that we created together, and those are the little fatty chains that make the sandwich of the cell membrane, the whole thing goes around it. So, that should not be in hot water like coffee. The medium chains, yes, the butter, yes, but not the phospholipids. That should just be in warm water. And I think it's fine. If that's all you do, then you can consider yourself a success. 

Question 

“Do you think that high potency B2 800 mg and high potency CoQ10 1000 mg split morning and night might help essential tremors in the hands? What are your thoughts?”  [0:49:31]

Answer

I have usually worked with people with benign essential familial tremors by doing chelation therapy that helps the whole circulation to the brain, putting them on hormone replacement therapy, getting their sugars down, and getting them eating whole foods and no processed packaged foods, exercise, and then the body knows how to heal itself and most of the tremors go away with that approach. I do put them on a methyl B complex. I don't just give riboflavin. I will give them the whole eight B vitamin compound. 

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“I've been happily using Berkey clean water system for years. They've discontinued the filters for California. Do you have recommendations for other products?”  [0:50:32]

Answer

Well, I have the Berkey myself right here and that's what I use, and I'm sad to hear somebody's telling me, no, I can't even get my filters. So, I'll have to fly out to Alex Jones in Austin, Texas, and buy a bunch, I guess, and drive home, and hope I'm not frisked for water filters. Anyway. I also use the Kangen water system. The company is in Torrance, California, so they have excellent service for the Kangen, and they have the water filters there. So, those are the two that I use.  

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“I have rheumatoid arthritis. I take Plaquenil 150mg, but I'm taking Evista for Osteoporosis. My rheumatologist insists it should be taken with calcium citrate. I have a sensitivity to citric acid, and this calcium makes my body and joints hurt as well. I also have a sensitivity to dairy products. Any ideas on how to get the calcium I need?”  [0:51:32]

Answer

Yeah, eat a whole-food diet. Just don't buy any processed foods. Eat primarily good meat twice a day, fish twice a day, chicken twice a day, pork twice a day, and eggs twice a day. Use a digestive enzyme to help ionize and assimilate that, and that should help you nicely, or get the TLC Multi-Mineral here. We use calcium glycinate and orotate. Those are well, well, well tolerated. But really the rich foods are whole natural foods for minerals. We don't need to try and say, you know if you look in the plant kingdom compared to the animal kingdom, shellfish is a great source of zinc and other minerals. So, I would eat clams and sardines and crab and lobster, It'd be rich in that. Dip it in some butter. Sounds delicious. 

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“I am 50 and in perimenopause. I have factor V Leiden and another clotting factor, but I've never had a clot myself. Is there any hormone replacement therapy that is okay for me?”  [0:53:12]

Answer

Yes, I've had many patients with factor V Leiden factor or other issues with that. They'll never do a study that if you really drink 2 liters of water a day or half your weight as pounds as ounces every day and that you lower your sticky carbs, you don't eat the processed packaged food, you don't eat late at night, you exercise, you take systemic enzymes. No one's going to do a study and compare that with their anticoagulant drugs. But I tell you, I've been practicing 43 years and no one's ever had a clot that is due to us using these natural methods. So, yeah, I would recommend the hormones, and I would watch you and I would watch your sticky sugars. And if I see you go off or you're not exercising, I'll say, well, I'm not going to refill it. 

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“I'm sorry if you've already covered this. I did search the blogs and I didn't see anything, however. What’s your opinion on taking Fosamax for the beginning stages of osteoporosis (-2.7 in my lower spine)? Side effects to watch out for? I’m 63, very petite, never smoked or drank. Thank you.”  [0:54:30] 

Answer

Yes, we do blogs, and so you don't have to listen to this. You can kind of look down and see the questions and the topical highlights on this, and you might find something that is interesting to you. 

Oh, yeah, I have never needed drugs to help my patients with osteoporosis and I use natural hormones. I do all the things I've just told you - exercise and stomping, sudden deceleration, stomp, stomp. And then vitamin D. I get their vitamin D above 100, I check it, and their liver enzymes with it. Plenty of water, and I've never seen it fail. It always works. God's ways always work. 

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“A friend's daughter has a painful stye on her eyelid. Is there a way to help it heal naturally? What should she do?”  [0:55:39]

Answer

Well, I'd put her immediately on a low-carb diet. I would check her fasting blood sugar, her triglycerides, her insulin.  And the ranges on the labs, they are way too tolerant. I would want her fasting blood sugar under 85, and triglycerides to be around 50 or 60 or equal to her high-density lipoprotein HDL. And I would want the insulin to be 4 or less, and I would want the hemoglobin A1c to be 5.2 or less. And then I would have her use Argentyn silver every day and put a drop in her eye. I would use a Q-tip and kind of rub the eyelashes upper and lower, and that's what I do every day and every night with myself. And then warm compresses, plenty of water, and systemic enzymes. That's what I would do.  

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“There's a lot of “experts” out there making money, selling supplements and books that encourage a plant-based diet. As a long-time client of yours, I came to you originally because of symptoms I was having with a vegan diet. You put me on B vitamins and that cleared up. As a blood type O, I especially benefit from a 100% grass-fed organic source. I wish I still lived in California because I have yet to meet any healthcare provider here that compares to TLC.”  [0:56:33]

Answer

Well, how sweet of you to say such a nice compliment, but really it's our designer, God Almighty Himself. And by the way, they've proven evolution is dead, it's a dead hypothesis, and they've proven the young earth. So, you go look that up. The book Traced about how they traced the male Y chromosome, all the migrations over the years over time due to mutational rate changes, father to son, in a retrograde fashion, and they traced it all the way back to Shem, Ham, and Japheth and Noah.

And then they did the studies on the geological Grand Canyon and showed it's a young earth that way too. So, go to Answers in Genesis, Ken Ham. YouTube them and you'll see where all that's at. The book is called Traced. Thank you again. So, it's God and not me. I'm just his servant. I'm on active duty for His kingdom every day. 

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“COVID February 22, no jab, end of the year. I had four blood clots, went on Xarelto, clots are gone, starting in August 2023, my hematocrit was high, 47. Phlebotomy brought it down to 44. I've had five phlebotomies in the last year in order to bring the hematocrit down. Jax 2 mutation negative. LD is 139, Ferritin 51. Why is the hematocrit high?”  [0:58:21]

Answer

Do you live up in the mountains? You'll have a higher hematocrit if you're at a higher elevation. Do you drink enough water? What is your blood type? How old are you? What is your blood sugar and your fruit sugar, fructosamine? I would see a good functional doctor. I would, of course, see a hematologist and track that. But we have great success, and I would be on systemic enzymes, Vitalzym, or Vascuzyme. I would be on four twice a day all the time to prevent blood clots. Drink your water, and lower your sticky sugars. Work with your hematologist and a good functional doctor.

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“Have you had any experience with LifeWave X39 general wellness patch phototherapy? Do you think improved stem cell production could help with thyroid, breast cysts, or arthritis pain? Do you know of any negatives to watch for?”  [0:59:49]

Answer

Yes, those are the patches LifeWave X39. These are crystals in a patch you put on your warm body. It heats them up and it transmits those frequencies into your body. And we're all energy beings anyway. We're vibrational energy. There’s a book Vibrational Medicine and then The Body Electric. So, for every cell membrane, across that membrane, there is a potential from the inside to the outside of the cell, and electric potential will jump and you'll get an impulse. It's about 90 millivolts. And so, yeah, you’ve got to keep your water, keep your salt, and keep your exercise, and keep your electricity right in your body. I've never seen any problems with that patch. It helps with stem cell production, you're right. And so, it's very good. 

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“I am a 52-year-old female. I still have regular periods. They tend to be heavy. Other than that, no signs of menopause. I strength train at the gym six days per week. I am holding on to fat (14 pounds) that I can't get rid of even with a calorie deficit. I know you are pro wild yam cream. Please advise on how to apply it and when.”  [01:00:53]

Answer

By the time you get to 52, you're probably not ovulating at all, if that, only extremely rarely, maybe once a year or twice. And then you're estrogen-dominant. Estrogen dominant signals stress on the body and the hypothalamic axis gets stress signals. Those stress signals show the age changes. It holds on to calories because it is a benefit when stress is coming to accumulate calories because you're going to possibly get sick, the body thinks. And so, it holds on to this. But if you have the progesterone, and you did it cyclically, day 15 through 25, or in your case, I would probably do it, if you're at 52, I would just say use it the first through the 15th. And I would use three, four, five, six pumps of Kokoro Creme to get enough progesterone in. Otherwise, see a doctor who can give you a 200-mg capsule or stronger cream. And then your period, your lining will clean out. And when you start this, you'll get a big, heavy period clean out, but then it'll slow down if you keep your progesterone the 1st through the 15th, the 1st through the 15th, the 1st through the 15th of every month. And then what will happen is your uterus will get thinner and the lining normal because right now you just then build up the lining in estrogen dominance. I would watch alcohol. Alcohol falsely raises the estradiol and makes heavy periods. And so, that’s what I would do there.

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“Do you believe everyone should be taking methylated B vitamins?  [01:03:11] 

Answer

I do. Again, that’s largely because the food system is so horrible, industrialized farming is so raping of the food line processing. And methylation is an anti-cancer treatment too, among many other benefits.

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“I was told I am an under methylator.” [01:03:34]

Answer

Then please use methylated B complex. 

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“What about over methylators?” [01:33:40]

Answer

It’s water-soluble, so you’d pee them away. So, I’m not worried about that.

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“Can you recommend a device to monitor blood sugar throughout the day?”  [01:04:12]

Answer

You know, I don’t. I am trying to save money for my patients, and I think discipline and a checkup with your doctor should be adequate. All this fancy stuff, money-costing things sticking to you, apps on your phone, transmitting data to who God knows who, in what country, where, I am just not in favor of that much online exposure to my health. So, no, I don’t recommend them.

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“Could EDTA chelation help with cognitive impairment?” [01:04:54]

Answer

Oh my goodness, yes! All the Alzheimer’s. I’ve had people who were put on Aricept and drugs for Alzheimer’s and they told their wives the company should be shut down, have their husband give it over to the junior or the new CEO, and let them just grow demented slowly and shut things up. So, they changed their diet, they exercised, they did chelation, and what do you know, it didn’t progress and they got off the Aricept. So, no. Look, we’re fearfully and wonderfully made. Give the glory to God where it’s all right to go. Our DNA for the most part, if you have a good coach to help you work with healthy lifestyles, will get you there.