YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 11, 2023

Question

“What liver cleanse does TLC recommend to lower ALT/AST?” [03:41]

Answer

There isn't a liver cleanse, per se that Tustin Longevity Center recommends. Rather than what we do individually as doctors is when we see you, of course, we are asking if you use a lot of Tylenol for pain or headaches. We're looking at your medication profile to see if any of these can be and often do have liver stress. We also look for alcohol consumption and drug use, and to make sure that you aren't on prescription or over-the-counter drugs that could aggravate your liver. We also of course are saying not to drink or to be very modest, using it sparingly.

The other thing is we talk about getting well hydrated. Very often mild elevations in ALT, and AST, these are names for two types of liver enzymes. LDH is another one. GGTP is another one. So, there are various enzymes. There are many of them. But these are the standard ones that are sensitive to irritations. We can do a screening to see if you had viral exposure. Sometimes virus or gastroenteritis will cause this. We also look for your bowel-gut history. We look for your usage of how much water, and how well-hydrated you are. These minor viruses, lack of water, lack of exercise, stress, using Tylenol, some prescription medications, and some illicit medications that are taken, all these things can create these elevations. The one that is probably the most noteworthy and newer as far as gaining the dominant is non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. That means you could be drinking juice, doing smoothies, juicing a lot of fruits and vegetables, and you could be eating a high plant diet with lots of fruit sugars, starches, and carbohydrates in it, drinking juices, having Soda Pops, eating packaged food that may have high fructose corn syrup in it, high carbohydrates. This is even seen in children. And, you know, 8, 9, 10, 11-year-old children, preteens, and teens while we are actually seeing non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, these fat deposits irritate the liver and the enzymes go up. So, that's by far now the most concerning. This fat deposition in the liver is showing stress on the liver metabolism and making the enzymes go up. So, that's the number one thing. The cleanse for that is no one thing. You would have to start doing some fasting and start doing a very low carb, avoiding high fructose corn syrup, sodas, and juices. Oh my goodness, with a full day of work and talking all day, my throat gets dry.

But you would not have a cleanse for such a thing as this, you would have to change your lifestyle and avoid all these sugars, starches, fruit sugar, juicing, these kinds of things. So, refined sugars, especially because remember a sugar molecule is made up of glucose and fructose. And fructose is the worst implication of this.

So, in the meantime, there are certain nutrients that help the liver. One of them is Alpha Lipoic Acid, ALA. And that would be 500 milligrams twice a day. Another would be glutathione, the same thing 250 or 500 milligrams twice a day. These are very valuable to help you lower your sugar and metabolize it. Exercise. Berberine is a herb, they made Metformin after the effects and design of the natural Berberine herb that helps you with reducing your own blood sugar levels. So, that's how I would approach it. And then do follow up on that. I will often do a liver ultrasound. That liver ultrasound will show the liver texture and it will show all the little tiny fat composites starting. 

Question

“Can you treat a UTI without antibiotics? Also, just moved to NW Arkansas and wondered how I can find an office as wonderful as you guys are?” [09:04]

Answer

Go to ACAM.org. And then put in a range of miles from your address point or zip code. American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine is probably the oldest and the very first functional medicine organization that ever really existed. So, they do have a lot of doctors that may be good.

What would we do to treat a urinary tract information without antibiotics? There are certain things such as D-Mannose. This is a type of non-absorbed sugar. And if you drink enough water and you take D-Mannose, a teaspoon once or twice a day, it tends to coat the urinary tract lining to inhibit the bacteria from adhering to the lining of the urethra, the bladder, and ureters. and such like that. There's also cranberry extract that acts that way. A teaspoon of Argentyn Silver which is nanoparticulate silver four times a day. You can do this for a few days. If you are not better, you should go to your Urgent Care or Primary Doctor to get a urine sample. But those are the initial things that we do.

I would try as best as you can, to never get it. That would be with good hygiene. Because the antibiotics are often given way too, liberally. And they don't tell you how to collect urine well. For women, it is very hard to get a clean catch urine because of the structure of the vaginal canal there and the urine when it is released. It is actually not able to just come straight out, it has to go between the lips and hair there. And so, the woman has to do a very good job cleaning and holding her lips so that she can shoot the urine straight out. And most doctors feel uncomfortable or their office staff feels uncomfortable teaching how important cleaning and proper clean catches are, holding the skin and hair back, and getting a good sampling. Otherwise, you get these dirty samples that are mixed flora. And the doctors will often just give you antibiotics over and over. And when they're telling you you have a urinary tract infection, it may not be a urinary tract infection. But some other more local vaginitis or some such thing. You have to do a very good clean catch. You just have to say it like it is and tell them.

One of the ways that we know that it is a clean catch, we don’t see any skin cells, or epithelial cells in the urine sample. And if we don't see a lot of epithelial cells, we know that the person cleaned well, and held themselves properly so that the hair and lips would not be in the way. 

Question

“I am in my late 20s and I have had PCOS since the age of 18. I am overweight and it’s extremely hard for me to lose weight. I want your suggestion for my weight issue because it seems that it is itself a very bad disease and could lead to more health issues. This has affected my life tremendously. I have basically given up on trying to lose weight. I want your opinion in regard to taking Ozempic or Waggovy for weight loss and its long-term effect. Which is better obesity or taking that drug? I also want your opinion about surgery for weight loss. This PCOS has had a very long-term effect both physically and mentally in my life. What is your recommendation in regards to battling this disease.” [12:51]

Answer

Well, we can’t answer that question because it’s new and there are no long-term answers. There are issues of concern, side effects. I will never prescribe a drug unless it’s been out on the market for about five years so we can really see the trends and potential damage that may or may not be reversible in the population. I don’t like Ozempic. And by the way, Ozempic, once you use it, you have to use it all the time, and then there is rebound weight gain. These are based on tricking the glucose monitors in the duodenal, sensing the amount of glucose dumping into the system immediately. Our foods today are so simple processed foods, ultra-processed. There is a huge amount of starch and sugars in our drinks, in our lattes. This sugar dump is hitting the early parts of the duodenal right out of the stomach. The receptors are sensing a massive response. So, this glute one and other receptors there are being inhibited to try and lower, or slow the absorption of it. But then it gets into the intestine. And then you get intestinal bacterial overgrowth or yeast overgrowth in the stool. 

So, here's the thing, you and God have to talk about marketing and social pressure. Wherever you go, you're going to even drive by these restaurants have their events, and events are literally blowing out the essence of the flavor that stimulates your mind, drive, and addition because all of us have it to the food response. People are taking silly pictures of their menu plates and saying, “Look at what I'm going to eat.” And it's a trigger. Commercials have it. Gas stations have it. All the checkouts have food, and temptations there. They are visual and smells that continue to trigger us. You are under attack. We all are. And some of us have metabolisms that are more prone to succumb to the sugar metabolism not quite as able to process it. So, our society is designed to be less mobile. We are driving everywhere, we're not walking, and we don't have labor jobs anymore like we used to.

So my heart goes out to you but you have to understand and get angry. What I would do is get angry. I think every time I smell something coming out of Kentucky Fried Chicken because this one on the corner here, right when I pull out of work every day, KFC is pumping up this smell. And I think of it as an evil man that is trying to seduce me to be unfaithful to my husband, to fornication, commit adultery. And it would be so tasty, so much fun for the immediate moment, but the aftermath of the disease, weight gain, depression, and inactivity, lack of exercise as you gain weight, it’s horrific.

So, get a mental image in your mind, to assign to every trigger that you have. That's what I do. I think of an adulterous person trying to get me into trouble to commit adultery to my marriage or adultery to my own body. So, when I'm saying that, I'm creating that analogy. I don't want to commit adultery against myself and my God. And I want to take as best care of my temple as I can. So, that's how you have to see this marketing. So, once you do that, you have to realize every package, fast food, highly processed food is the enemy. The high fructose corn syrup, the fruit sugar, and the juice are all horrific. Probably the easiest direction to aim for is to go on a time of eating so that you have a window from 10 to four, or noon to six p.m. but never later than six. And make a ten-minute commitment to exercise every day and drink half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day.

 When you start doing this, and you keep on talking to God about how you're trying to resist this tempter who is trying to seduce you. And that tempter is food and marketing and the social pressures. I rush out to church when I go to church, I rush out so I am not tempted by any of these donuts or all this foolishness of eating. Almost to the point that I don't even want to go to church because of that temptation, it is too me. I go of course. And I’m just always having to fight marketing via Tempter. Marketing, the seducer out there to harm us. The sugar stimulates insulin. Insulin stimulates fat growth, fat storage, tumor growth, thickening of your blood vessels, and polycystic ovarian syndrome, that stimulation of the ovaries to partially develop multiple eggs and they become cystic. That becomes problematic. Insulin is associated with carbs which are in all of these processed foods. That insulin is the hormone enemy that makes you gain the weight and makes you incentive to sugar so you need higher and higher quantities of the sugar to try and get satisfaction. But you cannot because sugar cannot create satiation because we don’t need it. It’s not an essential thing for our bodies. It’s fat and protein that our body is craving.

Try and keep with you a little bottle of extra virgin olive oil. Keep it in your purse. If you sense hunger or a tempting situation, take a swig of the olive oil. That will be satiation in about five minutes. Hopefully, that will help you.

I don’t support the Ozempic or Waggovy.

Surgery for weight loss depends on the amount, and any cofactors that you might have, you would need to be seen. I in general don't support surgery unless it's in a serious condition or life-threatening. I am for being a doctor, being there all the time so that you can come multiple times. Most insurances will allow you to bill insurance every single month as long as you are losing weight at a steady amount. I’d rather you find a supportive doctor for you. 

Question

“Should menopausal and postmenopausal women supplement with estrogen? If so, how much and any type do you recommend? I am 58, last period was Jan 2021, I have osteopenia and Hashimotos.” [21:40]

Answer 

So that means she has antibodies to the thyroid. And I am for natural hormone replacement. That's pure estradiol and pure progesterone, pure DHEA, pure testosterone, pure natural thyroid, free T3, liothyronine, and levothyroxine. I like it in the glandular form, because there's some single iodinated thyroid hormone and two iodination, up to four. The active form is the three iodinated. 

So, why do I do that? Because hormones help with elastin collagen. Hormones help with bone density. Hormones help with sleep. Hormones help with memory. Hormones help with your general feeling well and aggressive enough to get out and exercise. Hormones help with cardiovascular health. It helps with the skin, the elastin collagen, so you don't wrinkle as much. It keeps your skin thicker, so you don't bruise as much. So yes, I'm very much in favor of natural hormone replacement therapy, not anything synthetic. 

And what about dosing, our standard beginning dose is roughly one milligram topical to one and a half milligram topical daily with either a topical 100 milligram progesterone or oral 100 milligram. But then the doctor needs to repeat the hormones within a month, maybe two months to make sure and see how you are responding to it. Monitoring it twice a year, making sure you are doing a pelvic exam once every couple of years, you keep up with your breast exams, you do a bone density every few years to see the improvement. I have 80-year-olds that are in the normal range now. We see our bone densities go up, especially with vitamin D3 and K2, they are more in the range of 10,000 international units a day. So, that’s why and the general ranges that I start with. One milligram of testosterone and in the ballpark would be I typically use 25 milligrams of DHEA. And then I monitor all these levels within a month or two and I just asked the woman to come back and let me know how they're doing. 

Question

“How can we avoid getting plastics in our food and drinks?” [24:50]

Answer

I would just not buy packaged foods. I use glass containers for my water. And you can see my pitcher here is glass. I use a dash of my Himalayan sea salt. And I have water filters in my office here. I have the Alexa Pure. I have a dew stand, which makes water out of the humidity, and filters it, and I’m staying away from bottled water, and canisters that have BPA lining. I try not to use anything plastic. I try and use the Earth Breeze for my washing detergent. I use organic cleaners. I just don't use plastic. I eat off of real plates, real forks and spoons, you know silverware stainless steel, and I just don't want to be a part of contributing to this, coffee cups that are Styrofoam or plastic, mugs that are plastic, and water jugs that are plastic. And I filter all my water. That’s how I would do it. 

Question

“Can you share your knowledge on all things Glutathione with us? How should one take it or should one encourage the body to produce it instead? Best ways to encourage the body to produce more glutathione? Are glutathione blood tests a legit way to test one’s levels? Does NAC encourage glutathione production? Does glutathione remove heavy metals from inside the cells or mitochondria?” [26:44]

Answer

Well, as we age, we become oxidized, burnt up more, and free radical damage, and cells are not repairing fast enough. So, in other words, the damaged cell here compared to the repaired cell membrane, see the bilipid membrane has a hole in it and you have to fix the two layers of fatty acid with fat, the phospholipids from eating meat, fish, and chicken, turkey, beef, egg yolks, certain seeds and nuts. And our rate of repair gets diminished. Our capillaries to reach these cells get diminished. We tend to drink less water as we age, and we get less exercise so the hydraulic force of pumping with exercise diminishes. We sleep less well with age, and we repair less well. So, the rate of collecting more of these damaged cells and their free radical breakdown products uses up our antioxidant glutathione. We can make it. It is made of three different components. But N-acetyl cysteine is a precursor. 

We do encourage taking glutathione as you get older, 500 milligrams. I usually take 500 milligrams of glutathione and I take an acetylcysteine 500 milligrams. But I exercise five days a week and I drink my water and I only eat in a time-restricted zone. I try and keep it very low carb. The diet that is beneficial is a rich cruciferous diet, eating broccoli, brussel sprouts, and green foods like that. And that's about the best you can do. 

We do have the ability to give this intravenously and that is by IV. We start out with a lower dose and then if it's tolerated we go up to the maximum of 3,000 milligrams or three grams. So, oral glutathione and oral n-acetyl cysteine, are the precursor. Foods, broccoli, brussel sprouts, eating a low-carb diet, eating at a time-restricted window, not eating late at night, exercising, and a good night's sleep. These are the best ways to help you make your own glutathione and preserve your mitochondria. Exercise will help you build mitochondria. And then we can give it to you intravenously. 

Question

“What do you recommend for someone who has HD?” [30:42]

Answer

 Heart disease, is that what you mean by that? I don’t know what you are referring to by saying just HD. I am going to take a pass on that one and wait until she says it later or comes back next week. I’m not going to go over all of heart disease. 

Question

“What is Methylene Blue used for? Is it a good product to keep on hand for the upcoming Apocalypse?” [31:20]

Answer

Methylene blue is an antioxidant that has the ability both to donate and to accept electrons. So, it's a unique molecule. It's not naturally occurring. And it has been used for many, many years. I have never needed it or recommended it because I have been able to do everything, I need to do nutraceutical and natural with just a healthy diet, the water, the exercise, time-restricted eating, systemic enzyme, chelation therapy, and vitamin C. But methylene blue does help with oxidative stress, you know. Most infections will create a cytokine storm. That is a tremendous amount of free radicals. Methylene blue can absorb some of the extra electron damage, and free radicals. That’s where it comes into use. I don’t think you need to stockpile it. 

Question 

“My daughter is 19. Her blood work shows low vitamin D and high bilirubin. She never had jaundice as a newborn. She has gained weight over the last year in college. ​She hasn't been eating the best. She is exercising now and getting more sun. What do you think about the bilirubin?” [32:47]

Answer

Well, some people have an elevated bilirubin. Maybe, you know, 15%, 10% of the population have what is called a benign Guillain Barre Syndrome. And it's spelled like the name Gilbert Syndrome. And that is just an enzyme sluggishness, it doesn't mean you're sick or shorten your life or anything like that. It just means your bilirubin will always be a little bit higher than the average population. These are usually in the Mediterranean gene pool. And so, you could be an Eskimo and maybe some sailor got into your gene pool in the past and you are expressing that. Long and short of it, just to have a mild elevation in bilirubin, in and of itself is not serious. It should be followed. If it’s getting to levels like three or higher micrograms per deciliter, it needs to be looked into. You could have a gallstone in the cystic duct blocking its release into the body. Remember bilirubin is just old red blood cells that the spleen collected and delivered to the liver to process. This is used as an emulsifier for fats. When you eat fat, your liver senses it and sends a message to the gall bladder, squeeze that gallbladder and send down some bile into the duodenum to emulsify the fat because it won't get absorbed unless it has a coating, putting a coat on it to be utilized by the body. 

So, vitamin D, if it's low, you're going to have to take it orally, and you get quality vitamin D3. I would take it with K2, be on a low-carb diet, and drink plenty of water. Have your doctor track it. You might need an ultrasound to look for gallstones. You might need to repeat the bilirubin in six to eight weeks to make sure it isn't climbing. And then the doctor would know what to do at that point. But those are usually non-serious situations. But the more we eat a lousy diet, the more we're going to build a gallstone, you know, and the risk for surgery and a blockage in the system to duct can be life-threatening. So, have it followed up. 

Question

“​I have urinary retention and am working with a urologist. I have been fortunate not to have a UTI or bladder infection so far. What can be a preventative to keep from getting one?” [36:23]

Answer

I had mentioned that before, one asked about natural ways to treat urinary tract infections. That is drinking plenty of water. The other thing is, you can take a teaspoon or two of the Argentyn silver twice a day. You can also take D-Mannose. This is a non-absorbed type of sugar that stays in the urinary tract system for excretion, which prevents the lining of bacteria, the bacteria from adhering to the lining of your urethra or your bladder or ureters. The other thing is cranberry extract. Lots of water. You suppress your immune system on the typical standard American diet. That will suppress your immune system allowing overgrowth and bacteria. 

Question

“How do you treat severe gout? Asking for a friend. Her doctor has ordered” [37:57]

Answer

Well, Gout is the crystalline formation of uric acid crystals. I would look up on the internet, uric acid creating foods that are from oxalate-rich foods, like spinach. A lot of people will create these smoothies with a lot of spinach in them. And they're getting tenfold the amount of oxalates that they normally would. Being on a low-carb diet will help as drinking tons of water and staying absolutely away from all fruit. Not one piece of fruit or fruit juice or high fructose corn syrup at all if you have gout. So, with that, taking some magnesium and maybe mixing it in some of the water, magnesium citrate tends to help that a lot. Hydration, magnesium citrate, not any fruit, any fruit juicing, no juicing, no lattes, nothing high sugar like that, low carb. Get all of those oxalate-rich foods out of your diet. 

Question

“I have always taken Vit D3 gel form. I bought Vit D3 with K2 caps. Is this a good form of D3?” [39:38]

Answer

I’m not sure. I don’t use the gel form. I don’t necessarily think there is anything wrong but I’m not familiar with the filler in the gel. That would be the question of concern. You would have to look at the contents and look up each content to find out what it is on the internet, Googling each component. Try and get as few extra chemicals in your life. That is why I used capsulized forms with things that have been studied in the human nutraceutical area to be benign or inert. And then we do clinical testing, and we see the blood levels go up. So, figure that out, and, and I just wish I could help you more because I don’t use gel. 

Question

“​I now have two female neighbors with Pancreatic cancer (one 77 and one 65). They are both going through Whipple surgery. Do you have any advice for them to recover after the surgery?” [40:51]

Answer

Well, that's a very aggressive form of surgery for removing the pancreas and the surrounding tissues when you have pancreatic cancer. The advice I would say is follow your oncologist and surgeons’ advice. But try and find an integrative doctor that can look at your situation, looking at what other medical problems you might have, what other medicines you might be on, looking at your blood levels of your insulin to try and get that insulin down. Enzymes tend to be very helpful with pancreatic cancer systemic enzymes, like our Vitalzym, and going on certain antioxidant nutrients. 

The pancreas gives sodium bicarb to kind of quiet the acid state of the stomach when it pours into the duodenal. And so, taking a little bicarb, sodium bicarb is very helpful. There are people who have studied this, and they have actually seen cancers dissolve because being in a basic environment, actually, the cancers really can't exist. So, a low carb enzyme rich, sodium bicarb, supplementation, high dose vitamin C, intermittent fasting, see a good integrative functional doctor. You can maybe look up ACAM.org where you live and see if you can find out. Let your oncologist and surgeons know what you are doing. We believe in the high dose of Vitamin C and the chelation therapy to help the microcirculation. Plus Vitamin D and many other things, that is the basic thing to go after. And whatever eating they do, they will have to take digestive enzymes to help themselves besides the other systematic enzymes.  

Question

“When Moses was leading Israel, he never did weddings....who in his family did he delegate to do all weddings in Israel? His sister Miriam.” [43:22]

Answer

Miriam. All right. Here is one for you Robert. How do we know that God is Japanese? We know God is Japanese because he loves meso. He loves me so. 

What do you call a pastor who lives in Germany? He is a German Shepherd.  

Laughter is an immune builder, amen. 

Question

“Do you suggest a DIM supplement or cream for older women on HRT” [44:12]

Answer

DIM helps metabolize your estradiol. There are other items that help with this. Do we really need to be taking all kinds of supplements? My answer is no. I think we have to draw a line here as functional doctors and say, there's a limit to every little bit of research. That doesn't mean you have to take these supplements. So, this is for really high estradiol. And we don't raise our women's estradiol to high levels we raise them to their pre-menopausal levels, but at the lowest end of their menstrual cycle to stop hot flashes, and night sweats, to help them get a good sleep, to help them build their bones. So, no, I don't think you need that. 

Question

“My ALT/AST are high & I have fatty liver & often upper right pain after eating. What liver cleanse do you recommend?” [45:28]

Answer

I don't recommend a liver cleanse. You have to have a lifestyle change for fatty liver. And that means you have to avoid fruit and fruit sugar and high fructose corn syrup, and all highly refined foods, processed foods, pastries, treats, sugar in your coffee, lattes, frappes, all these high fructose corn syrup, and especially anything fructose. No fruit whatsoever. That is the direction I would go with that. 

Question

 “Do antidepressants (Wellbutrin) cause cognitive decline/ dementia?” [46:26]

 Answer

There is significant concern about the long-term use of SSRIs, serotonin reuptake inhibitors. And this is one of them, which is a depressed cognitive function. I think Jennifer, what we really need to do is exercise, get out in the sun, socialize, serve our community, take high doses, enough vitamin D to get our vitamin D levels up to above 80, drink plenty of water, and natural hormone replacement therapy. And some good methylated B complex and multi-minerals such as magnesium and calcium are calming. Just give your body in service to others and then at the end of a busy, busy day you wind up being tired, you go to sleep, get a nice deep sleep, and you feel refreshed. You get up early in the morning and try to get into the sunshine for at least five minutes before 10:00 a.m. Then you don’t get harmless ultraviolet light then. 

Question

“Is it safe to get off a beta blocker even slowly for tachycardia? 7 years on it” [47:58]

Answer

You need to be under a supervisor and know why you are on it and if you are able to improve other parameters of your health profile to be safe to do that. So, the answer is yes, we can get off these if we taper off and under medical supervision. The reasons have to be well understood.  

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“Two years ago, I suffered a bout of diverticulitis in my sigmoid colon. The diverticulitis was brought on post-surgery and was due to constipation from the narcotics that I was taking. Once healed I resumed my normal diet of healthy eating, which includes healthy proteins, cruciferous vegetables organic berries, nuts, seeds, etc. From what I’ve read. many professionals, don’t feel that diet is the cause of diverticulitis. Here we are now, 24 months later (I am 61 if that matters) and I have just suffered another bad diverticulitis attack and infection which sent me to Urgent Care resulting in another 10-day stint of antibiotics, Cipro & Metronidazole. It has cleared up but I am super frustrated, and curious about your opinion as to what causes diverticulitis and whether or not, I should be adjusting my diet going forward. ?? I also heard stress can be a factor. Please help as these attacks are out of the blue and very painful and alarming. How can I prevent them going forward with the understanding that a CT scan showed pockets in my colon, so I am now susceptible.” [48:53]

Answer

Well, the collagen elastin, the adhesion of you know, so you don't pull things apart. Remember your colons under pressure as it moves the stool forward. And so, that tension on the wall can rupture, and then you can get these blowing out of these areas. So, yes, diet matters. Because you have to have enough zinc and protein, and you have to have a low-carb diet. And you may be very well good, but I would say most of the people in my chair here, say they have a good diet. Then we test their insulin and it’s greater than 4, fasting blood sugar is higher than 85, and testing their hemoglobin A1C and it’s over 5.2. We test triglycerides and it’s over 50. We test their fruit sugar level and it’s elevated. And so many times what we think is healthy is really not healthy. And we are in a chemically polluted world. These are creating oxidative stress, which this oxidation blows this out, the heavy metal accumulation. A complete digestive stool analysis and food allergy should be done on you, immunoglobulins. I like Fort Lauderdale ImmunoLabs and I like the complete digestive stool analysis at Doctors Data in St. Charles, Illinois. You probably need to be on high-dose probiotics. We can get an idea of what your flora looks like. A dose of antibiotics can be very harmful for up to two years in your gut. And then bad bacteria create inflammation and weakening of the lining of your bowel, on top of all that stress, on top of age-related changes, maybe micronutrient deficiencies and bad bacteria will harm it. So, you have to see a functional doctor who knows how to handle those things. 

Question

“Who needs CoQ10 and why? When do we need folic acid supplementation?” [52:47]

Answer

Well, anyone on a statin, a cholesterol-lowering drug. You need that in the production of your CoQ10. It is very important for heart health and all your mitochondria, every little battery in your cell of all the cells in your body has to have that extra antioxidant. Pretty much anybody above 60 should be supplementing it. 

In general, that is water soluble. It is so easy to be deficient. I would in general say, yes. 

Question

“Here is the link to the NOBS tooth tablets that I asked you about...this is the direct link: https://betterbiom.com/products/nobs-toothpaste-tablets.” [53:40]

Answer

I will check into that. I did look into that and saw something about the NOBS tooth tablets, about the plaque, and see where you are missing when you are brushing and flossing if I am remembering correctly. 

Question

“I had a routine Pap smear, and then an ultrasound and found out I have two cysts very small in the left ovary and one small in the right. She wants to do a biopsy and blood work. Do you think that is necessary and what are the chances that a cyst is cancerous? I’m 63 years old and I heard that cyst are very common in younger women but when a woman is over 60 they have a better chance of turning into cancer. What are your thoughts?” [54:27]

Answer

Well, ovaries can have the appearance of benign cysts, that don't have any debris inside the cysts. They are what we call simple cysts. These are usually just followed up with another ultrasound. If it is a cyst that is, you know, sizable, above two and a half centimeters, it certainly has to be watched. If it is above five centimeters, it has a higher likelihood of being a problem or cancerous. But any surface that is solid or has debris in it needs to be followed up. 

But without seeing your report, I'm just telling you some standard answers. I would have to actually see the ultrasound and since I'm not your doctor, I'm not going to practice medicine over the YouTube. But you have to follow up with your gynecologist and your doctor and find out if they are simple cysts, how many centimeters big they are. There is a blood test called a CA125. That is a tumor screen for the antigen of ovarian cancer. But let your gynecologist do an ultrasound to follow up, on the uterine lining, the ovaries, follow the texture of them, and how big they are, and guide you as opposed to-- It’s always good to be low carb. It's always good to take systemic enzymes to disinflame anything. It’s always good to do fasting, intermittent fasting. It’s always good to use Vitamin D and get your blood levels closer to 80. That is also associated with longevity. It is always good to exercise on a regular basis, about 150 minutes a week. It’s always good to get a good night's sleep. You need to have a doctor there that looks carefully at these and so many other things. But your insulin level, fasting glucose, hemoglobin A1C, triglycerides, fruit sugar level, and your vitamin D, CA125 if it is appropriate. And follow their advice. But consider systemic enzymes like Vitalzym on an empty stomach, taking five twice a day. That tends to dis inflame stuff and we see the cysts go down. Very often we do use progesterone which helps cysts go down. Doing a 24-hour fast once a week and only eating in a time-restricted window the other six days a week. Maybe those things will help you. 

Question

“I have had a slight tingling numbing on the left side of my face, my left arm and left leg down to my left foot. My blood pressure has been spiking recently. What do you suggest I can do? What can this be? My cardiologist will be doing a coracoid vein test. Echo is normal. Should I do a chelation? By the way, I was able to log in to your store and buy my supplements but I have been blocked because I’m not a patient, that is what I have been told, is this your policy?” [58:20]

Answer

Could be a coracoid artery test, which is a sound wave picture of your coracoid arteries. So, good you are seeing a cardiologist to address this. Chelation always improves circulation. 

I don’t know about the store, it’s not my policy for sure. But some of the companies that we work with only want physicians to be able to use these supplements because they do not want them on the internet. I don’t know if we have to sign an agreement with them. I will bring this up to Talon and ask about the situation. 

What to do about this tingling, you are seeing a cardiologist, let them do the workup. You may need to see a neurologist. But it sounds like you need an MRI or CT of the brain to make sure there isn’t a lesion in your brain or a vascular problem in the brain itself. The cardiologist will be doing the ultrasound of your coracoid. The heart sounds like it was normal. Do all the right things, low carb, walk, exercise, drink half your weight as pounds as ounces every day of water, intermittent fast, 24-hour fast, EDTA chelation will improve all the microcirculation, and take a good multi-mineral. See how that is working for you and follow up with your doctor. Maybe you will need a neurologist. Let’s see how that goes for you. 

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