YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, August 1, 2023

Question

“What do you consider high blood pressure? I usually run 140s over 75/80. Is this considered high? I’ve been taking Clonidine one milligram, but after four to six hours my blood pressure goes up to the 140s. I feel more comfortable when I'm in the 120s/30s. The cardiologist prescribed Diltiazem slow release 120 milligrams but it gave me migraines for three days so I stopped it. I'm really nervous about taking these meds and I'm wondering if I really need to keep trying others. Which blood pressure medication do you recommend as the best? My heart is fine. My issue is more anxiety and stress that trigger it.” [03:55]

Answer

In general, blood pressure center 140 over 90 diastolic bottom number, is considered a point at which the patient and the physician should be looking at treatment. Now, very often, most high blood pressure is called idiopathic or essential hypertension, which means we don't know the cause. And that's the vast majority. But indeed, the degree of heart disease and high blood pressure, in fact, all cardiovascular diseases, but hypertension has been climbing. And we're going to put the finger on our lifestyle, and in particular, a group of issues. Number one would be the sugars, too many sugars. Too many starches, too many fruit sugars, too much drinking of sugar, and smoothies, and juices that we're making. And lack of exercise, form of exercise. We should be understanding that the body needs to move. And if you are eating too many sugars, and we're moving less as a people, we are going to gain weight. So, obesity is a growing problem, even into the children's health today. So, carbohydrates, lack of motion, lack of hydration, lack of good night's sleep.

And yes, we have concerns about stress news, world news, and world affairs. But you need to find what grounds you. For me, it’s my Bible here. I read four chapters every day of my life. And that is the piece that I know I can focus on doing what I can do where I met, I can't change people, only God can do that. But I can be steady. I can be at peace. And I can focus and get my relaxation from that. If you don't have a faith or a faith that you're practicing with you'll need to find something in the form of exercise or meditation, deep breathing, i.e. even deep breathing will bring up the parasympathetic rest and relax and digest phase, which is brought on by deep breathing and then holding it a few seconds and slowly letting it out. Just that fact will often cause blood pressure to decrease. A long walk, getting involved in hobbies, and the like.

So, I would say that if you could learn to eat only real foods and stay away from processed foods, this would be the direction to go. Nothing from a package. And start a commitment to what you'll do, being resolved that you will do this or that. A resolution that I will begin exercising five minutes every morning before I allow myself my first cup of coffee or whatever rule you're going to give yourself. Make it easy and attainable. And I will often say after you wake up and use the bathroom before you do anything else, you can start doing some marching in place for 30 seconds, sit on the floor, and do five sit-ups or tummy crunches. Roll over on your knees, doing five push-ups if you can’t do it from your toes. Stand up, march in place for five minutes. Everything helps with motion.

If you're at work and you have a seated job, if you can get a desk that raises, I would break from your desk, even have a little timer on your phone that will give a little sound, bell ring, to help you stop and walk around the office a minute. This motion is quite essential. 

And as far as prescriptions, the old-time prescriptions are usually in the form of things like beta blockers and angiotensin receptor inhibitors, like Lisinopril and H2 inhibitors. Then you get into the calcium channel blockers. I don't like the diuretics. I've never felt diuretics are the proper thing. I do believe that most of the water, or good studies recently have been showing the more excess sugar you have, you are holding on to two extra water molecules that are closely associated with each glucose, fructose, and galactose molecules in your body. Even people who start the carnivore diet very often will have a water weight loss, an initial jumpstart like five pounds the first week. 

We are not afraid of salt. We don’t believe that salt is the problem with the diet in the vast majority of cases. There are isolated specific cases where you do have to watch this. But we believe that if you get into lifestyle commitment, with your exercise, with you going into sleep, your sleep hygiene, shutting the lights off, getting your phone and electrics away from you, and then having a motion or a commitment to some motion every day, regular exercise, setting out at least one extra glass to make sure you consume, setting little rules for yourself. And be proud of yourself for that. That's how we look at taking care of blood pressure. So, let's begin to do that. 

I always try and do about 140 over 90 lifestyle changes first. When I start seeing it consistently climbing up to the 150s, or 160s, I request that my patients start medicines. And even if they're trying to do these other things, once we've cleared other causes, and we can't find the cause, so to say, and we call it essential hypertension, we're left with the high sugar, carbohydrate, insulin thickening of the lining of each blood vessel. Do you know that insulin thickens the actual wall of your blood vessels and makes it more stiff? Yeah. You can reduce that if you go low carb. 

Question

“Would you recommend I do EDTA chelation once a month? Been doing the larger dose, 3,000 milligrams or 3 grams over a 3-hour plus IV. Do you recommend a lower 150,000-milligram over 1.5 hours?” [11:43]

Answer

We prefer the 1.5 grams of EDTA in the 1.5-hour infusion. Very few people today have three hours to give. The benefit of EDTA chelation is so prolific from head to toe. It’s really an anti-aging phenomenon to do if you look up the TACT Update 2019, Dr. Lamas. If you pull it on YouTube, TACT Update 2019, Dr. Lamas is only 15 minutes. He's the head of Cardiology at Cedars Sinai. He will tell you how he was resistant to chelation and finally agreed to look into it. The National Institute of Health did the study. And that's one good thing the federal government and funds did that I'm aware of. And then the results were just fantastic. So, he was so excited. He got involved with TACT Trials 2 and 3. They are doing wonderful prolific benefits for every part of the body from your thinking, Alzheimer’s, to your toe fungus.

When you have chelation open up your microcirculation, that is what you need to do. Whether you do it on the highest maximum dose possible, which is 50 milligrams per kilogram and taking up to three grams, and sitting for three to four hours at a time, that’s up to you and your doctor. We have found a beautiful steady flying, level flying where if we do a gram and a half once a week, or over a period of time, once a month, 10x a year, we are staying ahead of the toxic heavy metal pollution that is out there. 

Question

“What is the best cutting board to use for the kitchen? What is the best way to clean it? I use glass jars to store my food.” [14:07]

Answer

If you clean your boards after use all the time, the likelihood no matter what board you're using these new plastic boards or your old-fashioned cutting boards or using marble surfaces, my answer is warm soapy water that is not leftover dish wah. So, good fresh, warm, soapy water. Taking a paper towel and putting the soap into it and squirting some warm sink water on it. That along with all the rich soap I let sink into my board. I use the wood board. Then I put it under the water. I run it for three passes. Most people consider that quite adequate. I’m not going around culturing anything. I just think your cleaning methodology needs to be consistent with warm soapy water. I don't think you need to get into caustic astringents or things like chlorine or bleaching. But I'm very prolific whenever I'm working with meat or chicken, fish, or beef, I am always washing everything it touches and my hands between touching other things so I'm not transferring the uncooked flesh of the protein onto other surfaces. So, just warm soapy water is just fine. 

Question

“For someone with Hashimotos, can it ever be reversed holistically? If not, is there a natural way to help the autoimmune system?” [15:48]

Answer

Hashimoto’s is felt to be an auto-antibody attack against thyroid gland tissue. There are predominantly two types. There's the inside of each cell conglomerate, the thyroid peroxidase, and then there is the tissue surrounding the thyroid globulin antibodies in these little vesicles that are making your thyroid hormones. 

And why does that happen? We don't have a 100% consensus. And science is always about being able to openly theorize and discuss continuing studies on what may or may not be the cause. I think the most accepted and the one I've seen the most beneficial is that when we eat food that is genetically modified, or glyphosate for insecticide resistance, you take it into your body, and it is seen by your immune cells lining your digestive system, it has to break it down into absorbable nutrient packages, bring it through the membrane of the cell and are sorted out in its proper digested size into the lymph, bloodstream for absorption and direction to its needed site in the body.

But if there are foods that are irritating to the lining of the gut, then it will harm the gut wall lining that creates what we call a breach or leaky gut. And that leaky gut, therefore, is then associated with separation between cells. And that's what the Zonulin markers are all about. But there's actually transcellular breaching through the membranes, that's what this picture is here. And that's often from plants, food, lectins, phytates, oxalates, and the like that are associated with allergic reactions or harm to the gut. Then the bacteria can leak through and they are endotoxins. And then, it's a never-ending circle when you get that kind of immune challenge along the eating gut every day, common foods then that you consume or are marketed to you to consume are repeatedly on a daily basis multiple times, are highly likely to leak through you make antibodies to it. And there are some cross-transfers mimicking genetically where it's misunderstood to be similar to the cell protein structures on other cells, which more than likely often are thyroid because you have thyroid receptors on all your cells. And then you get what we call Hashimoto’s. 

So then, how do you treat it? You have to understand you can't listen to marketing, you can't be drawn by TV commercials, social pressure, or even your mind's thought of eating, we have to get a divorce from food as an entertainment or an award. We have to see food as a servant, as a replacement for damaged parts. I don’t think the mechanics in a car shop are rejoicing for every you know tire that comes in or gear or light bulb or fuse. They see its usefulness because it provides them with income in their repair and they have a healthy income and lifestyle. So, we should look at food, bringing the parts to our body that we need to it, and get away from prepackaged secret natural flavoring labels that are obscure or you can’t even read that are full of chemicals. They have not truly been established as safe. In Europe, there are many foods that we are commonly consuming in the United States that are banned there because of ingredients. Red dye is banned, I think in Europe. Genetic wheat is banned in Europe. The list goes on and on. So, that damages your gut. You are doing it because everyone else is doing it. You don’t see a drop dead immediately but don’t understand that it hurts your immune system which could have been useful in doing more screening and prevention of tumors and stem cells and killing cancer stem cells. That’s how you would approach it. 

Now, the phospholipids are rich in the diet of meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and things like that. And that is the double layer replacement for every cell membrane, not just your gut, but every cell in your body. And we would then say, if you ate that way, you ate more simplistically, you ate in a concept of rules, a time restriction when you would eat and would not eat, so you don't eat late, which is harmful. If you would swear off all packaged foods, and all sugar drinks, and just commit to drinking water, black coffee, or tea, these are things that I think would be most beneficial.

And then we give phospholipids and probiotics, a simple menu, a time-restricted menu. And then we recheck the thyroid antibodies about two to three months later. And we will always see if they will really do this and not cheat. And I mean, you know, not be casual about it and lie that they really did do that when they really didn't do it. We see those antibodies come down dramatically. 

Question

“Hydrogen peroxide, our body makes it until a certain age. What is the function?” [22:00]

Answer

Well, these oxidants, like hydrogen peroxide are part of our body's defense. We have lysosomes and vacuoles inside our cell membranes. When they consume a bacterium, a virus, or a fungi, then this digestive burst from the lysosome can consume that invader. And one of them would be various enzymes and very highly oxidatively stressful chemicals like hydrogen peroxide. So, yes, we do make this.

As we age, all cell functions begin to diminish. We bioaccumulate more damage if we don't eat enough phospholipid-rich foods. And that's primarily in meat, fish, and chicken with the skin on it. Egg yolks, pork, and crustaceans are rich in the things that will repair this double fat by a lipid membrane. And as they frightened us away from it, now they're changing their mind and saying that saturated fats are no longer claimed to be the cause of heart disease by the American Heart Association, quietly on their website as of 2015.

We go by the wisdom of science, and changes. There is an old joke in medical school, half of what you are taught is not going to be true 50 years from now. That’s a very true idiom. That was said in my class in the 70s. There was a big scare about cholesterol back then, but now they're denying it today. So, we need to be open-minded and discuss these things and trust nature as long as we possibly can. And look to nature to give us some good teaching. 

And I can't always prove science, I can't always prove the diet that we're recommending. And it's going to take years of study and research and open communication. But we should always have our ears open and our eyes open and be learning. So, this concept of hydrogen peroxide and killing off these bad things, viruses, bacteria, and the like, using high-dose vitamin C, infusions actually produces some hydrogen peroxide that kills off these bacteria. But again, the argument as to whether it's an absolutely bad thing, hydrogen peroxide, we have to understand even water can be a bad thing if there's too much. Salt can be a bad thing if there's too much. So, the delicateness and the marvel of the human biology and system are to be glorified as a great creative event way beyond some random chance in my humble opinion. And so, we'll have dangerous things like hydrogen peroxide, and we will have it under control. And that's why we need healthy membranes to keep these little chemical reactions in healthy packages.

Question

“Do I need to take calcium supplements if I don’t have any dairy in my diet? And if not, is it needed to absorb magnesium? I take this for nocturnal leg cramps.” [27:59]

Answer

 The answer is no. That is not clearly necessary. We don’t believe in taking exogenous calcium, you know, little supplement capsules. Over the years, the calcium recommended back in the 70s was 250 to 500 milligrams. And by the 90s, it was 500 to 1,000. And by the early 2000s, it was 1,000 to 1,500. And eventually, we are starting to see decades pass with no bone density increase by just taking exogenous calcium. Calcium is in its biological form, which is absolutely massive and rich in eating grass-fed beef, fish, chicken, turkey, eggs, pork, shrimp, lobster, and crab. All these have very good natural absorbable bioavailable calcium. So, we recommend it to be in your diet. Yes, it's available in fruits and vegetables to some extent. The older we get, the more we lack healthy digestion. And so, our nutrients become harder and harder to get and our ability to fill these poked-out holes in our cell membranes becomes more and more challenging. So, we stress a phospholipid-rich, animal-based diet, and rich and all the minerals. There is no supplement that you'll probably need if you were on an all-animal diet, fish, or poultry diet. So, that’s what we think about calcium.

We have women gaining bone density here also with a vitamin K, to which the ruminant cow will produce by eating the grass in her seven stomachs. That K2 is different from vitamin K1. It’s not a blood thinner. K2 is very valuable in supporting a fat-soluble vitamin. The transfer of the calcium and vitamin D signals its bone deposit in their appropriate places. It also is associated, there's good science saying, to mobilize it out of the tissues where it falsely got played from chronic inflammation like in the blood vessels.

Question

“What can help reduce puffy eyes upon awakening? She has a friend that uses a CPAP device.” [30:43]

Answer

You have to understand this device is made of plastics, you can have some low-grade sensitivities. But mostly the eye tissue, the skin around your eye, the skin, and the blood vessels there is different from the skin right on your cheek and your arm. And it's very thin and porous. And so, fluid when you are standing all day is draining, moving towards your kidneys to be excreted through urination. And then when you lay flat, the water equilibrates through the night. And so, you'll get some of that water bioaccumulating in your skin in your brain. And then, if you have compression to your face, some of that passage of that water will be inhibited. So, that's the likelier cause of it. 

Question

“My husband gets dizzy when he lays down to sleep on his back. He never feels dizzy when he’s upright, leaning over, or leaning one side or to the other. What could be a possible cause to the dizziness?.” [31:42]

Answer

Well, Positional Vertigo is associated with the typical spinning room. But you don’t have to have a complete spinning room to have something stuck in one of your three loops of Hellene. One is for each plane and then the lateral/diagonal planes. So, horizontal, vertical, and then diagonal. And you have them on each side of your head here. It tends to get dried out with age as we don’t drink enough water and we don’t do enough exercise to do our hydraulics to keep it through and use enzymes to keep things moving along. And we eat too many carbs, and it gets sticky, we become more diabetic with aging, as we lose our muscle mass.

But I would have your husband see a doctor. But one of the ways to promote that is to get your husband to drink half his weight in pounds as ounces of water, go on a very low-carb diet for many, many, many days, to start walking or marching in place, and use the systemic enzymes, like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme. If you can get them to EDTA chelation that'll really help the microcirculation. And then the ENT and the Barney Chair will almost work all the time. If that doesn’t, you need to go up in the scale and do an MRI of the brain to look at other causes, maybe vascular pathways. That’s what I would say. 

Question

“What is the best shrimp to get? I was told to only get jumbo shrimp because it’s less toxic. Is that true?” [33:48]

Answer

That’s a myth. Shrimp is bottom dwelling, primarily. Usually, the dirt, filth, and toxins are going to land on the bottom of any water-based area. And that's the reason that they feel shrimp are not good to eat.

But I'm telling you basically the amount of toxins accumulated a lot by a shark, or a tuna, or these large fish consuming all these little are fish that are also about cumulating puts probably more toxin in the shark and the tuna and most of us don't blink an eye at eating these things. So, we're in a toxic world. We have to come to grips with that. And we have to start getting doctors to open up their minds to address toxins and irritants like that in our lifestyles to try and address these. The mercury, for instance, EDTA chelation therapy is a broad chelating substance over the 40 years I have been using it. I have always seen mercury go down. There is a myth in the teaching that you can’t get mercury out with EDTA chelation. That’s a false statement. In fact, you definitely can. I've always seen it come out. That's why I use EDTA chelation because it's the best study, it is the oldest, the highest, multi-decade usage, millions and millions and millions every year without any side effects. And yet it is a broad-spectrum chelator of many toxic metals. That is what I would suggest. 

Question

“My 39-year-old son got a vasectomy, May 20th. His pain slightly improved after two weeks. But then started to get worse. He has a pee size lump right under the incision site that is causing him intense, sharp pain. It is extremely sensitive to touch. It is difficult for him to wear clothes and be mobile. The urologist said his ultrasound and blood work were all normal. No infection. Said the lump is something more like scarring. He is a firefighter, paramedic, and took off the last three weeks to lay in bed. The Epsom salt baths and rest still did not improve him much. We are wondering if it could be nerve damage. Also wondering if he will need more surgery to correct this. So, far the doctor has not been able to give an answer. Have you heard of this type of pain two months after a vasectomy? [35:38]

Answer

Yes, I have. Well, this is one of the most immune reactive of substances in the human body for men is their semen. So, when they're doing a vasectomy, it's not uncommon to have a little tiny micro drop to leak out at the side of the surgery and it creates an intense autoimmune inflammatory response. Google that, the autoimmune response to semen leaks with vasectomies.

That is very much like, having walked in the fields, in the grass, on the hiking trip wearing shorts and boots and getting poked by some cellulose dead stick or weed and it sticks into your skin on your leg or your shin and a little tiny piece of that cellulose get into your skin, your body will start making a fibrous nodule around that and that'll stay as a bump lump on your shin all the rest of your life. For some people, it is irritant and very sensitive to the touch, and brush against it. So, that's exactly probably what happened. And the doctor was correct saying it was a type of scarring. Yes, it's a fibrotic autoimmune reaction. And we would say, you could cut it out. And you know, do it under a clean surgical, medical doctor supervised management, or you could do a highly detoxing autoimmune type diet, which would be the carnivore diet for two months, eight weeks. And then during that time, drink plenty of water and use high-dose enzymes. Enzymes help to clean up the inflammation of any autoimmune or inflammatory process. And that's the direction I'd go and work with your urologist on that. 

Question

“I have been hearing a lot lately about the benefits of eating organ meat from grass-fed animals, not given hormones or antibiotics. What are your thoughts on this? Which organ meat is beneficial? How to prepare?” [38:52]

Answer

That’s all true. You know, it's well established that a vegan or vegetarian diet will necessitate in time some deficiencies, and one of them particular B12, zinc, and protein deficiencies. And unless you can really learn to purchase vegetables that have balances in their amino acids and get in the fats that you need, it is a challenge with those diets. So, the most complete diet, I think the most simplest thing to do for busy people who can't plan out their diets is to go carnivore if they have a serious problem where they just want to live healthy, but live very highly nutritious without the need much supplementation and that would be the animal-based diet, grass-fed. 

Now a superior thing to do would be to have what they call these, you know, hamburgers where they pre-ground in liver, kidney heart as well and you can get all that mixed into the meat of the hamburger. That is powerfully nutritious. I don't do that. I could get around to doing it. It's just I'm too busy. And the best thing I do is eat a carnivore diet and get liver in. Liver is my go-to for my organ meat. I have always enjoyed liver, even since a little girl. I have been blessed with very very good health and a very good cell structure of throughout my body. So, it's very hard to poke my membranes destroy them and get me susceptible to some invading toxin, virus, bacteria, or fungi, or toxin. But it's the best. 

Question

“Perimenopause weight gain is very concerning, plus 20 pounds. Nothing seems to work except cold turkey on carbs, sugars, and large caloric deficit. However, I still have an active lifestyle with sports and with little children, and battling to find energy. Always hungry, always craving sweets, what is the solution to the problem while sustaining energy and being active?” [41:02]

Answer

We are all different. We have different blood types. We have different stressors. We have different demands on us. Age matters, the age at which this is happening, whether you are on or off with natural hormone replacements such as continuous progesterone versus cycled progesterone, which would be two weeks out of the month you're on it with your estradiol. And so, this is no easy question to answer. And it's one that's constantly evolving.

Plus, to age is to stress. The older we get, the stress of aging bioaccumulates, we're always trying to slow this down by exercising during muscle weight training to keep our muscle mass. So, it doesn't dwindle away our muscle mass. We are always trying to stay well-hydrated. Even if we don't feel thirsty, we're trying to understand by discipline, the value of water. We're trying to replace enzymes we're not making like we did when we were younger. The effect of the stress hormone cortisol is becoming more and more dominant. Cortisol itself is a steroid and is associated with weight gain. Weight gain comes because it's perceived in a multi-dimensional biochemical pathway as stress. And stress always holds on to storage fat because the body thinks that you're very sick when cortisol is high. And that you're going to be in bed or won't be able to get food or if you're like an animal, the animal is stressed when the cold starts and the cortisol goes up to try and turn all the fall harvest berries into fat for the bear to hibernate for three months. 

This is a multi-system issue. That's why you see so many YouTube saying, I have the answer, I have the answer. The fact is, good doctors are going to work with their patients, they're going to remind them that aging is stress. Stress is cortisol. Cortisol is weight gain. The loss of hormones is one of the things that propels us into aging and higher cortisol. So, is it the natural hormone or is it the cortisol that is going on? Is that being measured and checked by your doctor as well and its precursor, DHEA? I would say you would want to look at many of these things with your doctor and talk about them.

There are people depending on the volume of exercise, and the timing of their exercise, and the amount of high-intensity episodes and weightlifting. This all is variable to when you can have carbs or not carbs and sometimes it's wise to have carbs. But I tend to think there's enough biochemistry and research that exercise is best served on an empty stomach. Especially if you want to mobilize fat out of the fat cells and so I don't have a quick answer for you. There is not a black box statement that we can say as a general patent rule for everyone. 

Question

“My vitamin D level was 105 and my doctor said it was too high. And I should cut back on my 10,000 a day with K2. I feel good. Should I be concerned?” [45:01]

Answer

That is false, that is not too high. Well, if you are a patient, ask your doctor to do a vitamin D level at the same time you get your comprehensive chemistry done. Comprehensive chemistry is including your liver enzymes, including your bilirubin, including your protein levels, your immunoglobulins. And if there's no liver enzyme damage, then they add vitamin D, which is fat-soluble, if it's too high, it will irritate your liver and your liver enzymes will go up. So, whenever you get a general full comprehensive chemistry, the doctor can look at the vitamin D alongside the liver enzymes. And if they're normal, I have some patients with liver enzymes that are perfectly normal and their vitamin D levels are 150, 170. So, that's foolishness. It's very fine. 

Question

“I have been purchasing topical creams, progesterone, and estrogen. I have developed thickened skin in my uterus and now undergoing a procedure in Europe that will be removing polyps. I was happy using your creams and felt better with my back herniated disc. But here in Europe, they said my thicken walls in the uterus could be due to hormone taking. My question, could hormones be related to development of polyps and bleeding at my post-menopausal state that I’m going through now?” [46:15]

Answer

The answer is yes. If you have a natural human female normal uterus, you can give yourself enough hormones that it will start, you'll start to menstruate again. And I cycle myself at 70 now. I use my progesterone two weeks on, two weeks off. I use it from the 1st to the 15th. When I start to do that, it’s the signal as if I had ovulated like a young woman. And that'll start making any lining build-up from my estradiol that I use every day to clean it out so that at the end of 50 days of using it, will generate a small normal menstrual cycle. Now I prefer that because I want to be regular. I don’t want to build anything up and have unexpected cycles of bleeding. I don’t want to have ultrasounds, endometrial biopsies, or DMCs.

Whoever is supplying you with your hormones should be checking your hormone level at least twice a year, with the progesterone level and the estradiol. And then doing a pelvic once every year or two. And then occasionally getting an ultrasound of the pelvis, especially if there's any question of breakthrough bleeding. But you have a normal uterus, nine times out of 10, this will be normal endometrial response to healthy natural hormones.

How do you think they can get older women to be surrogate mothers for their daughters who can't carry a baby but donate their eggs? Their mom is put on hormones so that the uterine lining will be built up so that when she gets the implant of her daughter's egg to carry the baby for her. It is done with her having the uterus that has the rich lining. So yes. But your doctor has to watch this to make sure these are balanced. We like to progesterone, at least four picograms or higher. And we like the estradiol high enough that you're not hot flushing, your mental acuity is sharp. You feel vaginally moisturized, you have less joint pain. That's why your disc felt better because it helps with moisture, absorption, and lubrication of our joints. And I could go on and on. But yes, you have to have a good doctor that understands how to do that. 

Question

“What protocol and supplements can you recommend for a family of four to do a parasite cleanse? Ages 46, 45, 16, and 13.” [49:28]

Answer

I don't know that you need a parasite cleanse. I would see a doctor who has the ability to do a complete digestive stool analysis and look and see if there are parasites. I do hundreds, thousands of complete digestive stool analyses. I can count on my hand in 23 years, maybe on one hand, maybe two where I have seen a parasite of the hundreds and thousands. Do I think everyone needs to do a parasite cleanse? No. What might be a valuable thing, you could use the orthomolecular intestinal and what is the other product? Ivermectin is a cleanse, grapeseed extract is, and caprylic acid is. I’m saying, for what purpose? I'd rather see you spend your money on a good amount of vitamin D get a lab for checking that, and get an EDTA chelation because we know we are all exposed to heavy metals.

So, I don't support just the concept of a random parasite cleanse. I actually think a lower-carb diet, spending some money on some good steaks, and that would be far better. 

Question

“Do you have recommendations for products for high cholesterol and artery blockage?” [51:12]

Answer

Again, it's the low-carb diet. We are literally being killed with fructose, glucose, galactose, sugars in our drinks, sugar in our packaged long-term storage life packaged foods, our cereals, our rice, our beans, pastas, treats, drinks, smoothies, etc. We are turning all of this into bioavailable juice and smoothie plant foods and fruits that make the sugars bioavailable. Cut that down and you'll see cholesterol come down.

Now, I don't mind high cholesterol. There is a YouTube by Dr. Ken Berry and the Ph.D. Professor David Diamond. And the name of that YouTube is called, High Cholesterol is Healthy. I would ask you to watch that because this was done in the last three months, and they did a nice review of all the recent literature on cholesterol and the recommendations for being on statins and so forth. But if you want to know the main thing to do, cut those carbs severely down, don't eat anything that's packaged, eat a whole food, natural diet, and exercise, and do some chelation because that will improve the microcirculation and takes the stomach enzymes that'll help clear up micro clogs. Don't eat late at night, and have a time-restricted eating time. 

Yes, there is bergamot, which is a special fruit that has an anti-cholesterol, cholesterol-lowering effect. And red yeast rice is how they developed the very first Lipitor-statin. You could take red yeast rice. But don’t spend money on that. Buy a good steak, exercise, or get a gym membership. Drink water. And don’t eat after six o’clock. Do intermittent fasting. 

Question

“Are there dietary changes that can be made to get rid of spider veins on legs?” [53:25]

Answer

The answer is really no. To have the best health, you want to do all the things that I just told you to do with the low carb, exercise, not eating late, enzymes, EDTA chelation, and eating the foods that help make up healthy membranes. Healthy thick skin is also benefited by having natural hormones so you don’t get thinner and thinner on your skin thickness. There are tremendous amounts of collagen and material that will help keep the cell membranes there so the little veins don’t emerge with thinning skin with aging. 

I have seen people get blood clots after the sclerosing agents they've injected in spider veins. So, I am not ever going to recommend that for a patient. Put a pair of leotards on and cover them up. Eat a low-carb diet, exercise, and put some, you know, beige makeup on it. If it’s tremendous, of course, go see a vascular surgeon. There may be some new breakthrough that I haven't heard of, but I doubt it. 

Question

“For almost 9 months, I have been treated for mold, fungus, yeast, and bacteria. Although I eat very well, I follow the detox supplement and mitochondrial diet protocol as requested. The process seems endless. Would like to know how you would treat this challenge and consume at least five ounces of homemade Kimchi and sauerkraut every meal, three times a day. Because fruits, grains, and milk products feed the health challenge. I eat no more than one fruit, and one grain per day and consume no milk products due to my weight at 100 pounds. I don't want to lose any more weight. I also keep the body moving daily walking 100 miles a month as well as earthing. She does grounding standing in the earth, and uses my rich way biomed daily.” [54:40]

Answer

Everything that I've told in the prior answers, such as eating a low-carb diet, the healthiest elimination diet for building your body is the carnivore diet. There's a book out there called, Carnivore Cure. It is by Judy Chow. She's not a medical doctor, she is a nutritionist. There are mold case stories in there. And of course, you do the home remediation, getting the plants out, and getting the carpeting out, and draperies. Have someone look for water damage in your house, these kinds of things. 

But if you have done all of that, I would go on the carnivore diet. It is the most amazing thing for a doctor to see a single menu for people. Find out your blood type, if your blood type A you've got to use digestive enzymes to help you with digesting meat, fish, chicken, pork, eggs, and so forth. And I would use lots of enzymes and we use the vitamin D with K2. We use a multi-mineral and the antioxidant we usually use is Juice Plus, the fruit, vegetable, and berry that has all the starch and fruit sugars out of it. It has all the phytonutrients in it. And then lastly, a good probiotic. I would see a good doctor, a functional doctor, who could do a complete stool on you, do an iodine level on you, and do your minerals on you. EDTA chelation can pull toxins out as well that way. And the yeast should diminish very clearly that way. Mercury will be removed and so forth. That's where I would begin. 

Question

“Is it okay to DHEA if you have breast cancer? What supplements do you recommend for fatty liver?” [57:40]

Answer

Yes, the answer is yes. I really recommend the low-carb carnivore diet. You can use Berberine and Alpha Lipoic Acid. These help with lowering your blood sugar and the fructose. Remember sugar is a glucose fructose peptide, I mean disaccharide. And these fructose is like taking alcohol into your liver. We're so full of carbohydrates in this country, we don't even realize how many carbs are coming at us every way. So that would be the first thing. And exercise. And then you could use alpha lipoic acid 500 milligrams twice a day, you can use Berberine 500 milligrams twice a day. That is what they made Metformin off of. So, it will help you lower your blood sugars more quickly. Exercise will help you do that. Enzyme systemic on an empty stomach twice a day will help you do that. And never eating late. And just staying away from those carbohydrates and sugar drinks.

Question

“What do you recommend for osteoporosis?” [59:08]

Answer

Natural hormone replacement therapy is monitored by your doctor twice a year with a pelvic ultrasound if needed. Doing the vitamin D with K2 to get the levels up to at least 80, if not 120. 

Question

“I am 77 years old, female, who has a prolapse of the uterus and bladder, stage two and three. What do you consider to be the best treatment for such a condition? I’m very active, eat low-carb, and exercise. I want to continue lifting some weights but am afraid to do so at this time. I have never been on hormone replacement.” [1:00:04]

Answer

I think it'd be very smart to go on hormones especially if you could use vaginally some estradiol or estriol. Estriol is very benign and mixes it with some testosterone to get more thickness and structure in the cell structure there to help prevent the bladder from coming down along the lining, unfolding, and ripping down the lining of the vaginal canal. There are pessaries you can put in there and they do much better if you're on some natural hormone replacement as well. Yes, I think that would be very important to do. 

And then of course, see your gynecologist whether or not you have to use surgery or not. And I would still use hormones even then. 

Question

“My primary care physician explained the atherosclerotic coronary vascular disease risk calculator to me. My risk evaluation puts my 10-year risk of atherosclerotic coronary vascular disease at 8.1%. The recommended treatment for this risk is to be put on a statin treatment. Do you have a position on statin regimens? Or do you recommend alternative treatments?” [1:01:20]

Answer

Well, I would tell you to work with your physician and to ask him to watch the YouTube, High Cholesterol is Healthy by Dr. Ken Berry, and PhD Professor David Diamond. They're reviewing the latest literature. I would ask you to ask your doctor to find out what the side effects are and discuss the percentage risk ratios there. That is what is on the video. That far exceeds the 8.1 risk of heart disease development. I would richly ask you to look at the information on a low carbohydrate diet which will help lower cholesterol and reduce your triglycerides and increase your HDL and do those lifestyle changes more much more than a statin. So, watch Dr. Ken Berry, a family practice doctor, and Professor David Diamond on the YouTube series called High Cholesterol is Healthy.

Question

“Is it okay to take Ashwagandha while on NP Thyroid?” [1:03:02]‘

Answer

Definitely, it is. Your NP Thyroid has to be dosed daily. The peak of its energy is in the morning for metabolism. Ashwagandha is a calming herbal agent associated with calming of the brain and the mood. It’s very valuable to be dosing with this in the evening and mid-afternoon. They're quite safe together. 

Question

“Is there long-term effects from taking synthetic vitamins, such as vitamin D3?” [1:04:58]

Answer

These are studies that need to be done. I'll tell you practicing and my dad in food research, I've been about around vitamin and vitamin arguments since I was probably four years old. And so, that's 66 years. I tell you, there have been some pilot studies done or they've done random sampling of various locations to pick off glucosamine sulfate and some bottles didn't even have it in the bottle. So, what else do they do? And this is a most essentially unregulated field, which is the supplement area. So, could they use fillers? Could they make the capsules out of it? God only knows. 

Therefore, to have reproducibility and some sense of control, because I don't think you need wild crazy large supplementation out there. I have my own little nutrient pharmacy where I'm testing clinically on my patients all the time to find out if given, does it work, we sample it clinically, it's associated with clinical improvement, and laboratory efficacious levels improved, and the downstream biochemical pathways. That is the dilemma. I wish I could give a 100% answer. But it’s just generally a wild west out there and unfortunately, a lot of people do this just for the money.