YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, June 6 2023
June 8, 2023
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“Do you recommend MCT oil, medium chain triglycerides, to prevent dementia? I’m having memory loss and fasting for 20 hours has not helped. What do you recommend?”
Answer
Well, you know, I would need to know how old you are. The brain shrinks. In the box of our head, the brain does shrink nearly 100% on everybody to some degree. We have blood supply and tiny, tiny capillaries. And we have to be eating, and we have to be resting, and we have to exercise, and we have to get that circulation going and bring the healthy fats because your brain is mostly made of fat. I remember we have this bilipid membrane here, two layers of phospholipid fats which you get from eating egg yolks, beef, fish, and chicken with skin, and pork, and eggs, and dairy products, which is animal products primarily. And we have to consume a lot of this. Our unfortunate advice over the past half-century has been to be afraid of these foods and to frighten you away from that. So, we have less healthy cell makeup all throughout the body, including our brain. In addition to that, the foolishness of the centralized medical authorities has been telling us to go to a more plant-based diet.
So, you'll remember in 1980 when they put out the cholesterol heart disease hypothesis, they made the pyramid for the food. And the bottom was made of, you know, many, many servings of grains, carbohydrates, and starches. Well, that just correlates nicely. I know correlation does not generate causation, but when you have 50 years of it, and you see it immediately improve when you reduce that, you certainly as a clinician, and I'm a clinical doctor, as well as the published physician, you’ll find that if you remove that grain, high carbohydrate, starch, and sugar phenomena, you see improvements. So, we have to incorporate the right things, the right building blocks to heal. Remember, all nerves have a sheathing, myelin sheath, and that has a lot of phospholipids in it and various kinds of lipids in it. You have to eat this fat. And that is not fish oil, it is not fish oil. And then finally, it's not fish oil. The essential fats are largely found in the animal-based kingdom, alpha linoleic acid are some of the integral to only essential fatty acids. We can make all the EPA, and DHA we need out of those essential fats.
Now, how old are you is a question? When you said you’ve been fasting 20 hours, is that a single episode or on a 20-hour fast, 4-hour eating cycle? How long have you been doing it? Weeks? Days? Months? Basically, if you exercise, that’s going to increase the circulation. If you do EDTA intravenous IV chelation therapy that's going to increase the circulation throughout your body. By fasting that will help it, by drinking enough water that will help it, half your weight in pounds as ounces every day, if you get a good night's sleep that will help it, and go to bed early arrives early. If you eat a diet that's richer in the healthy building blocks of meat and chicken with a skin on it and pork and fish and egg yolks and eggs and the like, that will help it. So, exercise helps it. And then reading and doing socialization getting involved in work or a social service program where you're dealing with people. The other thing would be listening to complex music like classical music and reading and doing puzzles and the like. Natural hormone replacement helps with your memory. Vitamin D helps with memory. There are some herbs, vinpocetine, and huperzine. This is in one of our products called Membrin. If you take Membrin, one or two capsules a day, this helps very, very much. Green tea helps too. The caffeine in coffee, black coffee helps. But all these things are healthy lifestyles, natural hormone replacement, and adequate hydration, low carb, with your hormones and enzymes like little Pac Men to dis-inflame your brain. Very helpful. That is the direction that I would go.
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“Do you recommend turmeric supplementation?”
Answer
Well, it depends. Turmeric, whole root Turmeric is better than just isolates of the root. So, whole-root curcumin, Turmeric products are preferable. There's more research that implicates the whole vegetable rather than the individual components. And there is much to be said regarding the anti-inflammatory impacts regarding highly sensitive C-reactive protein. Now, it won’t work alone. You can't take this like allopathic medicinal medicine and plunk it into your body and think that it's going to overcome not drinking enough water, or overcome not exercising, overcome staying up late at night, or overcome eating a high-carb diet, and on and on. You need to understand that these types of herbs and supplementations are designed to be given by a doctor under the monitoring of your whole lifestyle. That's why when you come here if you see us as doctors, we have a whole patient sheet that you get used to when you come in that the first thing we ask about is do you drink enough water every day. And then, are you trying to reduce your American standard diet, consumption of carbs? Because we don't agree with the American Dietetics recommendation and we never have.
So, yes, on turmeric but that’s added into. And I would really use the systemic enzymes first. Vitalzym, Vascuzyme, all these on an empty stomach would be helpful, but with enough water.
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“Do you recommend testing blood sugar and blood ketones for someone struggling to lower blood sugar?”
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Yes, if there is a continuous glucose monitor, you can go to the drug store and get ketone urine strips that will turn from tan to rose to red to deep purple. The more ketones you are peeing out, they are just byproducts of fat burning. So, the more you are moving away from sugar as your energy source and start to burn fat, it chops up each piece of fat, beta oxidation is the name. Those little fragments will get peed out. And by the way, those ketones are associated with better-improved memory as well. I would definitely get the keto stripes at the drugstore. And I would definitely have your doctor check your fasting blood sugar, you know, once every three months, something like that. It should be helpful. Or ask them about getting a continuous glucose monitor. You can pick these up at a drug store, and there is an app for your phone. I don’t do the app things. I’m not that technologically sharp. I have never needed them in 42 years of practicing medicine. So, I feel that a sample of your urine ketones is just as valid as checking your blood sugar every three months or so with triglycerides, hemoglobin A1C, and insulin levels. That would be very valuable.
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“Did you have a chance to watch Nikki Willis’ The Great Awakening this last Saturday evening?”
Answer
Yes, I did. It was tremendous. I would recommend it to anyone. It was a very, very good documentary. Yes.
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“My five-year-old boy has had nose bleeds around five a.m. while he is sleeping. It has happened about a handful of times recently. He is not sick. He eats mostly healthy, with no past health issues. Any ideas?”
Answer
The question would be, how long does the nosebleed last? Just a little spotting? Is there a large area of the pillow soaked? How long are his nails? He might be waking up and picking at himself and picking at his nose. Is he drinking enough water? Is the room too hot and dry? When the air in the room is too hot and dry, then the skin will dry out as well and be more fragile. You have to remember the skin lining your nasal passages is so, so close to the capillaries because the job of breathing in the air, especially if it is cold air, is to immediately warm that cold air before it hits the lungs and try to do the best job. The capillaries are right at the surface. Most of this is usually very, very minor and of no concern. If it’s a handful of episodes over the past several weeks, and a dry room with the heat on at night, I would just wait until the summer weather with the moisture in the air. If it continues, then I would bring him to his doctor and have his nasal membranes checked, looking up there with a light nasal scope. And I guess that is the main thing. Make sure he is drinking enough water. And go from there.
But usually, it's very benign. I don't think there's any “bleeding disorder”. Bleeding Disorders are usually associated with children who have unusual bruising, patterns. Typical bruises should be on the extremities, on the extensor surfaces, which would be the outsides where you bump into people. Not on the inside parts where you're never going to bump into anyone there unless someone grabs you under the arm of the child and sometimes, you'll see fingerprints there to catch them from running into the street or something. And those are not abuse, those are usually just from someone trying to save a child from going off an edge or running into the street. But bruising on the insides of the thighs, on the tummy, these are unusual spots. If you were to see that, you should your pediatrician and have that looked at. Bleeding gums would be another thing that would imply there is some clotting disorder. So, if there is none of that, just the nose and just a little spot traces like that, it’s usually just the very thin mucous membrane, the dry room, not drinking enough water, and so forth.
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“Would you please discuss PEMF therapy? What it is? How it can help? What it can help? What your opinion of it is? And is it available at TLC? Also, can you please explain neuropathy? What it is and how it's treated if diagnosed. Is it something that can be cured or stopped in its place?”
Answer
PEMF is pulsed electromagnetic frequency. And this is where we have a large tube you might say, or a small tube, and it has in it a copper cord. And we send electricity or electrons through it. And when that does, and let's say it's a hoop and you put your arm through the hoop like this, and we send that electricity, it will have a magnetic field around it. And that will impact the muscles in your arm. So, if I put the hoop on and turned it on, in a pulse, that'll contract my hand, okay? That'll contract my hand with the pulse that's going through it. And then we'll do it anywhere, can do it to your shoulder if you put the hoop on your shoulder. If you put the hoop you know, in your low back, it'll make your low back contract. If you put it over your knee, it'll make your knee contract. So, we can get muscle contraction through the electromagnetic field by pulsing a current in a safe plastic or plasticized tubing.
How does this help? Well, for instance, if you were bedridden, you would need help with trying to contract your muscles. That will help keep your blood flow moving and the valves in your veins pushing the blood forward so it doesn’t pool and you don’t get blood clots. It helps with oxygenation, moving tissue through blood and the muscles. It helps with maintaining muscle integrity and memory. To do that, there is an implied connection with the spinal cord that if it is stimulated, the electric chemistry of the muscle does send back both sensors that are saying it’s being used, being used. That is why you have people who are paralyzed and stuff using nerve stimulators in the muscle to keep hoping that the memory and connections to the spinal cord might be reconnected through usage and muscle memory. So, many times, and then we can control the amount of frequency so it's dial-up, it's dialed down. And it isn't a big pulse, you can keep it very, very mild, or you can build it up over time, like an exercise.
So, pulsed electromagnetic frequency helps with musculoskeletal and nervous feedback in connection with the spine and that way of the central nervous system. Yes, it can help. My opinion of it shows that it has been valuable. We do have it here at Tustin Longevity Center. And you can call and find out about it. We would have to schedule you in and talk to you about it. Who do we give it to? Most everyone. There are very few cases-- If you have a pacemaker we cannot use it anywhere near if you have this. If you have a knee or something like that, a lower extremity issue, we could probably use it. Nothing near the central core of the chest if you have a pacemaker.
What is neuropathy? Well, I can't do that in a brief summary. Neuropathy is a pathology of the nerves. And what generates pathology of the nerves, aging. Just aging itself is associated with the insulation covering the nerve lining, especially at joints or in your feet where the nerve, vein, and our little arterial of bifurcate off in the toes from the pads of your feet. That often becomes such a traumatically traumatized area over the years and decades that you can start getting this burning and otherwise be healthy. If you are diabetic, just having high blood sugar itself is an oxidizing, oxygen-depriving, metabolically disturbing phenomenon for the nerve cells. They are living themselves and have mitochondria and nuclei and all that. And that will help disrupt the nerve and break it down and then you'll get this feedback of an upset nerve we call neuropathy. Can you fix it? Well, healthy lifestyle, good stretching, good hydration, natural enzymes, EDTA chelation therapy to improve the tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny capillary function, eating insulating building blocks like the fats and stuff. Like the phospholipids that help make up the lining of every cell, not just nerve cells. So, it’s a process but it does work. Reducing oxidative stress through reducing inflammation with a low-carb diet, good hydration, stretching, enzymes, chelation therapy, taking the healthy fats in, and natural hormone replacement therapy. All of these things slow down the damage to nerves.
Question
“I recently had a crown replaced and was offered the choice of a gold crown. I chose it because it apparently can last nearly twice as long as the white (porcelain?) ones. Does the fact it has various metals in it a danger for toxicity?”
Answer
Well, if you were on an order of seriousness, those kind of silver fillings are a mixture of five large amounts of heavy metals. Those are the most, electrochemically conductive elements. Different metals will conduct electricity. They have different valences or levels of sort of say electrical charge or energy conductivity. So, with two metals next to each other, we’ll set up a circuit in a salt solution. Your saliva is salty. You will actually have an electric current with these kinds of fillings. The more you have, the worse it is.
Gold fillings have less of this configuration of the mixture of metals. And they seem to be safer. Porcelain, then, of course, wouldn't. I'm not proficient enough in it, to say porcelain is better than gold. But I think you are going in the right direction with the gold. So, that’s the best advice I would probably give you there.
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“My friend was recently diagnosed by a retinol specialist with posterior hemorrhagic vitreous detachment. What causes this? A tendency towards high blood pressure?”
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This is the back of the eyeball where all the light is hitting the back of your eye and is getting focused and transmitted into information for vision and stuff. The vitreous is that gel that kind of fills your eyeball. If your eyeball is a balloon and we fill it all with clear jelly, that is pretty much the vitreous in a sense. The back of that was apparently detached from the back of the eye and there was some bleeding associated with that.
Well, if you don’t have good cell membranes, anything can go wrong. That is why I harp on this and the carbs and all these things over and over. If you are going to have beautiful skin, a beautiful retina, a beautiful cornea, a good lens, no cataracts, nice smooth blood vessel lining, endothelial, having good cartilage, and no joint pain, you have to drink enough water. You have to be low-carb. You have to eat phospholipids and healthy fats and proteins. And really, really reduce any processed junk, carbohydrate, chippy, dippy, foods from your life. Over time, the months, the years when your body is constantly repairing and replacing, going from an injured site to a repaired site, from an injured part of that cell membrane to a repaired part because you have tiny capillaries that get there. You have enough water to get there. You are bringing in the right building blocks. You have enzymes to take away the debris. You will repair, live longer, and live more functionally without pain and injury. So, your cells get more brittle when they are damaged like this, more inflamed. The white blood cells move in to find out why it is not healing. And it is all because we are on this damn standard American diet full of fast food, laziness, not planning, junk food, and microwaved-up crap. Hydrogenated fat, and on and on it goes. Not drinking enough water.
So, what do you need to do with this, you have to do all these basic healthy things, you'll hear me be very repetitive. Because our body works in a certain way. And we have to remind you, every good thing you do helps, but every bad thing builds up. And now we're seeing all the results of decades of doing bad things and the damage it's causing. So, that’s what she would have to do to try and improve that. And of course, work with her ophthalmologist. Some people have a big enough bleed, they have to have surgical intervention. They have to go through certain medications and so forth. So, there are many other complicated features to this. But live a healthy life this is what we want you to do is try and start now before you have anything serious to recover all the good health that you can have or preserve the good health you were given.
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“My 84 yr. old aunt has dealt with bone loss (diagnosed with Osteoporosis a few years ago) for many years and has been testing it naturally with Pro Bono from Ortho Molecular for the past 1 1/2-2 years. Upon my suggestion, she added the Lifewave X39 and X49 patches daily about 7 months ago ( because of the studies and success my husband and I were having). She had a bone density scan a few weeks ago and some areas are now diagnosed as Osteopenia instead of osteoporosis - Praise the Lord! She is continuing with both of these natural treatments and is not interested in any Pharma meds. Have you done any studies on the Lifewave patches or had patients that have had success also regarding bone density improvement after wearing these patches that activate your own body's stem cells or suggest other things besides stomping?”
Answer
Well, no I haven’t had anyone that is using the Lifewave patches and I am familiar with them. Everything is electrochemical. I mean, absolutely, everything has a charge. Everything has a membrane potential. These patches are designed with the heat of your body, the energy you are emitting, to excite some of the minerals in these patches. These patches are associated with a frequency that stimulates metabolism. So, yes, I very much believe in the Lifewave patches. I can’t do everything though. I am in favor and in support of Lifewave. But I do not use them myself as a practitioner. But if you go on Lifewave on the internet and start getting these patches from someone and then work with it, I will get more information as my patients come in. So, yeah, I am in favor of it.
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“I'm 31 and a female type A positive blood type. Healthy weight, etc., the only health issues I have are gadolinium and a few minor concussions, and am a cigarette smoker of 1 pack every 24 hours. I've been having severe shooting pain only in one temple and then it goes away and comes back at random. I've been taking 2000mg of fish oil and turmeric daily. Does this sound like a stroke risk? Does EDTA, and at what dose, help reduce the risk of stroke?”
Answer
Well, I would strongly encourage you to try and get away from those cigarettes, because the fire of lighting it and the tar and the chemicals in the burnt materials and the metals, the cadmium are very toxic. If you could switch to a very, you know, there is a thing called vaping that just takes water and put some of the nicotine that you are kind of dependent on and switch to get away from all those tars and the burning and the toxic metals, that would be a step. And that would be the most important thing.
Drinking enough water would be important. Getting a good multivitamin methyl B complex, vitamin D helps you make enough acetylcholine. Acetylcholine helps calm down those addictions and nicotinic-type receptors in the human body. There are medicinal CBD gummies and oils that you might take, a low-carb diet, taking systemic enzymes like Vitalzym, Vascuzyme, and systemic enzymes. Avoiding processed foods of all kinds, especially the wheat, and the homogenized, and pasteurized dairy. Becoming a carnivore, try that for a month or two. Just be a pure meat, fish, chicken, pork-eating, fish-eating, egg-eating person and that should help. But if those sharp pains continue, you should see a physician and have that evaluated.
But I think you would see if you moved away from the smoking that is probably one of the most triggering inflammatory things that you could be doing to yourself. I understand that. I used to smoke. I’m almost 70 now. Everyone smoked. Remember the Surgeon General, there were commercials on the TV set when we only had three channels and the Surgeon General had commercials that Camel is the unfiltered, without a filter, was the cigarette of choice of the Surgeon General and that was recommended to reduce stress. So, you have to understand, we are injured by centralized authority figures when it is incompletely-- We are all human. We’re all fallen short of the glory of God. The more we decentralize, the more we have local control of our education, local church and school, and everything, and get away from centralized authorities. This is, absolutely keep the government to a minimum. That way, with hundreds of thousands of people doing work and studying, you get the greatest plethora of variety and consensus, and so forth. So, hopefully, that helps you.
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“I moved to TN and understand it gets very humid two months in the summer and very hot. You will feel like you can’t breathe is what I was told. I believe drinking plenty of water will help, what do you recommend?”
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It can be so hot, which is amplified by the moisture and humidity being so dense. This does make you feel oppressed. So, fans are probably the best thing and the cooling in the evening. Drinking plenty of water, taking systemic enzymes, finding a local doctor in TN that does chelation therapy, I don’t know if they allow it there in that state. Hopefully, they do. But enzymes, water, a low-carb diet, staying in shape, exercise, and walking. That’s certainly what I would recommend. Stay away from the carbs that make your blood sticky, and gooey.
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“I just got vertigo a week ago. I’m still having dizzy issues. What can I do other than laying the head back and turning from side to side? I took Meclizine. This didn’t help.”
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That’s the sense that you are spinning and nauseated. Everything seems to be unstable, you can’t focus your eyes on anything. That’s vertigo. Meclizine is a strong antihistamine.
Again, in the loops of Helene, there are three planes. There is the flat plane, then the diagonal, and then the vertical plane so that your body knows when your head is turning to the right, the fluid in these two starts to move and send signals back to the brain for proprioception as to the angle your head is. If you right your head, then the fluid starts to send information back that you changed to the upright, vertical position. Forward, backward, and so forth with the planer, loops of Helene.
If we do not drink enough water, we get dried up and then get irregular flow dynamics of these tubes that are in our inner ear area. That is why water is so very, very valuable. The older we get the more dehydrated we get. The older we get the circulation diminishes. So, that’s why I like chelation therapy so much with EDTA chelation. The older we get, the less active we get. That’s why I stress doing weight training twice a week and aerobics with little spurts of high-intensity brisk walking or cycling and then going to rest for a minute or two. Then high intensity for a minute. That’s why I suggest a low-carb diet so you don’t get stickiness in each little capillary. Allergies will aggravate that. That’s why they gave you Meclizine an antihistamine, anti-allergy. Staying away from food allergens, away from sugar, away from the typical food allergies, peanuts, corn, dairy, eggs, soy, and wheat. These are the big six. They are genetically modified. So, again, I like carnivore. That is the greatest eliminate diet if you are using wild-caught, prairie-raised, free-range sources. That gives you the least amount of contamination from any grain they may have fed them. That’s how I would use it and use enzymes.
2 liters is about 64 ounces a day. If you weigh 150, 160, or 170 you need 80 ounces. Good for you on that.
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“I've been using a grounding sheet on my bed for a little over a month now. It has helped me sleep better and deeper and I only get up 1 once at night to use the restroom instead of 2 to 3 times. Just in the past week, I have been experiencing headaches and tiredness. I bought the book on Earthing, (Grounding), and it mentioned in one of the chapters that if you are on a medication for Thyroid, Glucose, or Anti-Inflammatories, you might need to have your medication adjusted. I am currently on Bio-Identical Hormones and Thyroid Medication. Dr. Mitchell is my doctor. Should I make an appointment to have my hormones checked again? What are your thoughts on grounding pads/sheets and the effect they can have on the medications we are on? I am 71 years old, blood type O negative.”
Answer
I am in favor of grounding, anything that helps to take access to negative electrons of our body and send them back into the earth for recycling. So, a grounding sheet is very good. I’m not impressed with any of the data that has come up with questions regarding it making your hormones or thyroid needing adjustment. I would follow up with your doctor on your routine, every four to six months, and have that checked. I have never seen that as a significant problem. So, don’t worry about it, and keep the routine follow-up and have them checked as usual.
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“Have you ever heard of Zoe science & nutrition? Supposedly they are able to test your microbiome by testing your poop and blood sugar response by pricking your fingers after sample food. Once they assess your gut microbiome you will know which food is best for you and you will be able to monitor blood sugar with a continuous monitor. I am going to attach their website on which you will find their studies… would you mind giving me your opinion once you take a look? https://joinzoe.com/whitepapers/the-predict-program”
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Here is the problem with medicine, we need good research. We need good clinicians. We need good Ph.D. doctors doing the science, pure science. So, there are doctorates with PhDs who look at a sphere of body of knowledge. And then, there are clinician medical doctors like us. Some of us do science, but most of us are clinicians that just see patients every day. We look at the application of much of the data that they would come out within the research centers, the PhDs. Unfortunately, the less you love God, the less you really see people as precious creations of God Almighty, and the more you just become involved in money, position, and your personal state in life. Therefore, coming up with any gimmick that will make you more money in your current situation, we start to see all kinds of cheap, alternative medicine nutrients being sold as if that nutrient is the answer in and of itself. It really never is. You will see lab testing. The rage right now is the gut biome and the flora in your gut and the probiotics, prebiotics, fiber, digestive products, and inflammation markers in the stool, food sensitivities, and leaky gut. There is a plethora of everyone starting to build up if we do this lab test and market it, market it smart and wisely, people will get some information. But is it high quality? Really reproducible? My patients only have so much money and only have so much time. And some are very ill and I can’t waste their time or money on tests. So, they are coming to me for my experience and to get the best answer out of the most juice out of the squeezed fruit, so to say.
I don’t know enough about Zoe. This is just them about their white paper and good for them they have this. I am for good gut biome research testing and studies to be out there. Don’t take it that I’m against this Zoe Science and Nutrition. It’s just I have learned over 40 years of practicing not to trust the newest thing on the block. The old things have been so valuable over the years and have seen the craziest illness miraculously turn around. Therefore, it would be hard for me to be impressed. And I can’t see anything more valuable than a carnivore diet for a period of 2, 3, or 4 months because that is the richest, most nutrient-dense, phospholipid, healthy fats, and proteins that we are made of.
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“I started to have cold symptoms today with a sore throat, body aches, 100.2 temperature. Also feeling weak. I took 15,000mg K-Force and Vitamin C . Also took all the other supplements recommended by Priya Patel. I am 61 and have had Covid a year ago. Please advise what else should I do to come out of this fast. Are you suggesting taking IV treatment at your facility now?”
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High-dose vitamin C is very beneficial. It is a powerful antiviral. You can call the office and your doctor to get some ivermectin. You can go on Quercetin. That’s our seasonal allergy. You would want 600 milligrams a day. The only name by Ortho Molecular is D-Hist. It has 200 milligrams in each capsule. I take three or four every day of my life for my chronic allergies. But it also works as an antiviral. Zinc is another thing. Make sure you are getting in anywhere from 6 to 25 milligrams of Zinc a day. And see how well you do. Don’t eat a heavy diet. I would try and be on chicken broth, very little carbs that suppress the immune system, chicken soup, and vegetable soup. Connect with the office and follow through on that. I don’t like to treat fevers. 102 is not a fever. That is the immune system doing the job it needs. I treat a fever if it is over 103 and if you are really bothered by it. If you can get through it with water, chicken soup, broth, rest, fluids, vitamin C, IV vitamin C, increase vitamin D, Quercetin, Ivermectin, or both, and Zinc. You should do much better and see this all improved.
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“I have been suffering from GERD for several years which was only made worse with omeprazole. After reading into the side effects associated with the medicine I decided to stop taking it. Since then I found out I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease which is a side effect of the omeprazole and also have an enlarged spleen. I have since then started apple cider vinegar two times sometimes three times a day I was able to get relief from my acid reflux and haven't taken any stomach pills since it's been about 2 years for that within this last year I've lost 115 lb by doing intermittent fasting and drinking the apple cider vinegar. I'm thinking that I have some kind of hernia because I have pressure and a small lump toward the bottom of my breastbone and the center of my chest I have trouble with heart arrhythmia even though I had a healthy result for wearing a halter monitor and also having an EKG and ultrasound on my heart I researched and seen that different hernias can actually cause heart arrhythmias (tachycardia) I didn't know if you could take the time to maybe go into this about hernias is surgery my only option or can I heal this naturally?”
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I’m so proud of you for your weight loss. Very often a hiatal hernia is where a part of the stomach bulges through the diaphragm into the chest cavity. And this often happens and develops during pregnancy, when we're carrying the big babies in the later part of our term. We eat it puts stress on us and the stomach kind of pokes itself through that weak spot in the diaphragm where your esophagus comes through to meet the body of the stomach and the sphincter is just not tight enough, where it dilutes open. That is called a hiatal hernia. That can cause palpitations, discomfort, and feelings of pressure. And really, I have never in all the years I've seen I'm not saying it can't be helped. But surgery on hiatal hernias, in my experience as a general practitioner, I've never seen it solve the problem. So, by getting to your optimal weight, stop eating at five, use digestive enzymes to help move that food through, walk after eating, follow up with your cardiologist, of course, make sure that chest pressure feeling, those palpitations, are in fact not serious cardiac issues. It sounds like you are seeing a cardiologist so that's very important and good.
Really it’s maintaining an ideal weight, not eating late, walking after eating, and helping your digestion by using a digestive enzyme, and apple cider vinegar does help with that sometimes. But there are digestive enzymes as well that also help. Drinking enough water and being low carb. That’s pretty much what I would be saying right now. If you want to, you can take Gluta-Shield or Glutamine. These are concoctions that have some vitamin A, Zinc, and glutamine powders to help line the gut. If there is any acid, back flush, and you don’t get heartburn reflux. Raise the head of your bed so you are not absolutely flat. These are the things that I would say. See your doctor, talk about these natural things, and then try and keep on to your natural weight. I’m so proud of you for the weight you have lost already.
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“Is it possible to reverse hearing loss and tinnitus, or at least slow it down or decrease the ringing without the use of hearing aids? I'm close to 40 years old and have struggled with hearing loss and tinnitus for many, many years after chronic migraines, and one in particular that put me in the hospital. Doctors believe it was my migraines that caused hearing loss and tinnitus in my left ear. What do you recommend for this?”
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A low oxalate food diet would be very valuable. Oxalates are crystal-forming calcium oxalate. So you would want to avoid a lot of the plant kingdom foods. Becoming carnivore is one of the solutions to that. Taking a multi-mineral amino acid like potassium citrate, or magnesium citrate, because that helps form oxalates out. EDTA chelation improves some microcirculation. So, the reducing food allergies stops the inflammatory flare that tends to create the inflammation vascular vasospasm that generates the headache from the food allergy, and environmental toxins of the foods. And then drinking enough water, of course, regular exercise, good night's sleep, taking the magnesium and potassium citrate, EDTA chelation, systemic enzymes, and checking magnesium levels. See a doctor that can help explain or look up on the internet what an oxalate is. It is in your spinach. There are people doing crazy things like making smoothies with spinach. That’s such a high oxalate diet. It’s in lentils. It is in peanuts, everywhere. Those oxalate crystals are associated with the crystals that make kidney stones. This can generate problems and inflammatory injuries to the cell membranes here. Chelation improves the circulation.
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“Which foods cause inflammation and which foods are anti-inflammatory? The Internet has conflicting information.”
Answer
I can’t answer that in one minute. In general, the American standard diet, anything that is packaged and processed, probably has BPA, some hydrogenated fats, some glyphosate, and genetic modification, then you have just food allergens that can pass through because you have irritated the lining of your stomach. So any food you eat can actually leak through or fragments of some of it will not digest. It is not like there is a food, or an oxalate-rich food, or a gluten food. Once you have a rash, you protect it so that the dirt doesn’t get to it. But no one thinks about the rash on the lining of the gut from using all this corrupted American standard diet. So, anything can do it. That’s why it is such a complex problem. That’s why doctors don’t want to do this kind of medicine. They don’t want to work through or encourage the patient to understand why, if they have a lot of chronic problems, moving to a carnivore diet is so remarkably healing for the vast majority of people. It gets all of that packaged, processed foods out of their lives. If they do this for three months, at least, many times they stay as a carnivore and go off for a brief time in their lives because they have seen the food system so corrupted. Of course, any food like that, that breaks the lining, or the cell membrane, or gets between the cell junctions, it will create an inflaming inflammatory response.
