YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, August 15, 2023
August 18, 2023
Question
“Diethylenetriamine pentaacetate. The medical journal shows the most effective chelation agent is DTPA over EDTA. What are the other factors you consider using DTPA versus EDTA? And what do you recommend?” [02:45]
Answer
I don't know that anachronism for DTPA. I know there's a deep penicillamine, I know that there is EDTA. What is the name of it? I can’t think of it right now. These other chelators are more specific, DMSA is what I'm trying to think of. DMSA is more mercury focused.
So yes, there are unique chelators out there for specific metals or they have a larger affinity for a certain metal. However, the history of it does not, it pales in comparison to the 70+ years of history we have with EDTA, plus the broad spectrum of chelation and safety record of EDTA. And because I've been around it since I was seven years old and saw my own grandfather with severe unstable angina, that's resting chest pain. So, he could be doing nothing and just start getting chest pain and I was just seven. They only had nitroglycerin back in the 50s for that. My father learned about EDTA and got him chelation in the Great Lakes area where the work and research by the first cardiologist started using EDTA for the off-label use for ischemic heart disease. And so, my grandfather lived to see me go to medical school. So, that's pretty remarkable given that there weren't all these fancy drugs or invasive procedures available. And it was only EDTA chelation. And I really don't think he did many lifestyle changes as well.
We know about EDTA chelation, we know its safety record, and we know its broad-spectrum chelating abilities. So, if you're going to start reducing your gadolinium, you would want to also know that at the same time, I've seen gadolinium go immediately down. I have never seen EDTA fail, not once. So, that's my recommendation for you is to go with the EDTA.
And I'm going to write myself a note because part of the time that I have is learning from my patients. So, it’s DTPA chelation for gadolinium. And that's the heavy metal that's used in all of the scans that we're taking. So, I will talk next week about DTPA and see what they are, the acronym is really standing for. I hope that helps. I've never seen EDTA do anything other than really help everyone live a longer life.
If you go on YouTube, and you type in TACH Update 2019, Dr. Lamas. You will see him talk about the wonderful National Institute of Health-funded research on 1,708 known heart attack patients on standard care and the remarkable life extension they had compared to the likelihood of repeat heart attacks and death after the first heart attack. And then, right under that 15-minute video of Dr. Lamas, you will see the ACAM lecture, it’s an hour long, from Dr. Dorothy Merritt. I would have you watch that because that covers an hour's worth of all of the all-cause mortality reduction by using EDTA chelation. It's well worth your time.
Question
“What do you think about modified citrus pectin for heavy metal detox?” [07:15]
Answer
Well, even drinking enough water is helpful in detoxing, even for heavy metals. You can make an argument for any good antioxidant. You can say glutathione helps with heavy metal detox. You could say Vitamin C helps with heavy metal detox. You can say cilantro, the herb, helps with heavy metal detox. You could bring up chlorella helps with heavy metal detox. You could put in garlic. Any sulfur-rich antioxidant would do that in particular. And so, heavy metals are positively charged. And ant-ions are negatively charged. And they attract these cat-ion positively charged toxic heavy metals. So, you can make an argument for all these things. The same for zeolite, volcanic ash. So, I'm not going to put them down and I'm not going to say don't take them.
But when you talk about the effectiveness of looking at a reduction over a short period of time with each interval of dosing, it's dramatic, and the history behind it. So, you would have to show me a lot of modified citrus pectin studies, dramatic improvements, miraculous per fusions, you would have to show me miraculous memory deficit reversals, miraculous ischemic heart disease reperfusion nuclear scans with modified citrus pectin for me to choose that before EDTA chelation therapy. Now you can use them together and you can get an additive effect, so no doubt about that. Even the oral ingestion of EDTA has value. I helped create the suppositories for that and did the clinical studies on it and the animal pharmacokinetics on it. So, I'm not going to say that they aren't valuable. I am going to say they are valuable and they do have some effect. But nothing like the history and the safety record and the testing and the decades and decades of years of hundreds and millions of doses of EDTA chelation is so well worth doing that.
Question
“I am a 21-year-old Type 1 diabetic with a hemoglobin A1C of 6.6. I am 10 weeks pregnant. Because I’m pregnant I have Hypothyroidism. My OB put me on 0.075 milligrams of Levothyroxine. They also found a large cyst behind my uterus that they think might be endometriosis and are talking about doing surgery in my second trimester because it's the size of a large orange. And if the mutation that he has I’m even more of getting one since I’m pregnant.
My doctor wants me to take 81 milligrams of baby aspirin. But I really don't want to be taking any kind of pain medicine. And if I don't have to do you know if there would be any more natural or safer remedies or things to help instead? Any advice or tips or really any help at all would be greatly appreciated?” [09:56]
Answer
A1C is not bad for a Type 1 diabetic. Congratulations on the pregnancy. And it looks like you've been doing a good job on trying to take care of your blood sugar and control them. You have to be very careful if you are a Type 1 insulin-dependent diabetic about monitoring your blood sugar levels. One of the things I don't like about insulin management on Type 1 diabetics who use insulin is the reference to taking food in case it drops low. So, they'll tell you if your blood sugar drops below a certain range on testing to eat something, drink a glass of orange juice. And this makes the volume of sugar and how much juice you drink or how much food you ate very problematic and fine-tuning control and your baby will need you to try and do your best job at controlling your blood sugar to be the healthiest it can as it grows and gets ready to be delivered. So, gluco tabs are much more referenceable. So, if you were to have low blood sugar, I would have gluco tabs there and be able to keep the count of how much it took to get your blood sugar back up if you needed to. You have to have a very controlled carbohydrate diet. All the more reason to get someone to be advising you on exercise and on your diet during this time.
I tend to be cautious with dietitians, who in my opinion are not invested in their patients in general, at least the ones that I've worked with. The dieticians follow the American Diabetic Association recommendations which are too high of a carb.
Regarding having some cyst, of course, I'm not trying to treat you over the internet, this is general advice but cysts, ovarian cysts, and endometriosis is a chronic metabolic scenario from high blood sugars and control of blood sugar is the best thing for it. And now a natural way to help digest this and pain relief would be for the inflammation of the cyst, the irritation that the high blood sugars generate. High blood sugars create demand for the lining of the blood vessels, that inflammation that is picked up, and creates long-term chronic medical problems. Cysts can form, and endometriosis can form. And God has given us natural enzymes, systemic enzymes to help that. And so, we have used systemic enzymes with our pregnant patients for decades. That is things like Nano kinase, Streptokinase, concoctions of natural existing enzymes, and typically you'll take on an empty stomach so that they're absorbed systemically, and they help to reduce inflammation of swelling and cysts and any irritated part of the body. So, they're naturally occurring but you can use those safely during pregnancy. We have certainly used them and that is what I would recommend over aspirin.
The other thing is, you need to be well hydrated, and you have to have a commitment to drink half your weight in ounces as pounds. So, if you are 150 pounds, 75 is half of your weight in pounds, that’s 75 ounces of water, especially being pregnant and having diabetes. So, exercise and water are stalwart functions of improved circulation. The enzymes are very valuable as a natural anti-inflammatory. Taking a very good nutrient antioxidant. In our clinic, we use the Juice Plus. We have many women who have been pregnant who have used Juice Plus to get 30 different fruits, vegetables, and berries, nutrient concentrate without all that sugar, which would upset the diabetes. So, that would be an excellent choice for you. The Juice Plus series, you would take two fruit, two vegetable, and two berry capsules every day. That would go a long way to help with a healthy pregnancy. Then, taking vitamin D, we strongly encourage all our ladies who are pregnant, in fact, all of our patients to take vitamin D, at least 5,000 international units a day with vitamin K2. And so that helps prevent calcification of the blood vessels. And the other thing we would recommend is Iodine, a natural salt. Iodoral is the name of the product. It's 12.5 milligrams of iodine salt. And that improves the intelligence and helps prevent what is considered, you know, a risk for mental retardation in the infants for improved mental acuity and better IQs.
If you look at women in Japan, places, where they eat a lot of seafood, and seaweed, their daily average consumption, is 12.5 milligrams of iodine a day in their lifestyle. Some are much high, some as high as 50 milligrams a day. We choose to use the safe low lifestyle dose of 12.5 milligrams. And I've been doing that for decades with my pregnant patients, even my own grandchildren. I use this and then we put them on a very good multivitamin-mineral. Ours is called TLC Energy Core. And we prefer that over the standard prenatal ones because we know of the high quality that goes into each of the ingredients as opposed to the pharmaceutical brands that don't use the highest quality of their nutrient sources.
So that's the base of a wonderful multivitamin-mineral called TLC Energy Core, anything that's high quality. The other would be Juice Plus to get away from all those fruit and starches and all that fruit and vegetables you get the wonderful nutrient density. Iodine and then vitamin D. And because you have a known cyst, I would take systemic enzymes that work as a natural anti-inflammatory. And then I would have a healthy control of my blood sugar, using gluco tap rather than food rescues if you have any drops in your blood sugar so that you can know exactly the dosing to get your blood sugar up without overshooting it. And that's what a lot of Type 1 insulin-dependent diabetics do. They eat too much, and they overshoot it, so they're always chasing their rescue consumption versus their insulin dosing. So, use gluco tabs for tighter control, exercise, and plenty of water.
And that's our general recommendation we give to all of our patients and to all of our insulin-dependent diabetics. We wish you the best and we hope you let us know how things go.
Question
“What is the best fasting length to increase telomere length?” [19:33]
Answer
I don’t know if we can actually– The more we study it, the more research is done on fasting and the benefits, we are realizing that people are different. Everyone is special. What might work for a male who's 25 and already athletic, is he can get into an intermittent fast of 18 hours, let's say, and start getting into ketosis and start having those epigenetic parameters in his cell and intracellular fluid that promote preservation of the telomere. For him, 18 hours would begin to be protective. Then let’s say you are talking about another man who is 25, under a lot of stress, has a desk job, and doesn’t have a lot of time to exercise, and lives in a stressful city with a lot of pollution. He is 30 pounds overweight, let’s say. It might take him 36 hours to start seeing enough fasting time before the ketosis or even more time to work to start having telomere lengthening.
So, the mere fact that you're asking that question, you’re looking into time-restricted eating, maybe occasional prolonged fasting of, you know, 48 to 72 hours once a month, or fasting like that, we would certainly endorse. But everyone's different. And the fact that we're all starting to do this, the fact that we're all trying to have a longer empty stomach, so the body can have more of its blood supply working on healing the rest of the body and preserving the length of our telomeres. The proposition is that telomere length is associated with longevity. Those are the uncaps on your DNA strands, much like the little plastic on your shoelace, you have that little plastic wrap there and if that gets worn off the ends fray and then it's hard to make usefulness out of your shoelace anymore. So, I don't think there is a best fasting length. It is what you can live with and be consistent with. So, if you are living a lifestyle and you've just said, I will always eat between noon and 6 pm, and I will never eat late, once a month I'll do a 48-hour water fast or 72 hours, and leave it at that. That's going to extend your life just because of all those things you do together. And if you layer on top of that, good sleep hygiene, exercise, good water, keeping the food that you do eat in those six-hour eating windows rich and healthy, wild-caught, prairie raised, beef and poultry and stuff, you are going to get the phospholipids like we show here. This can create the double membrane of your cell membrane. The damage in the membrane can be repaired overnight. And that's the direction I would say.
Question
“How can I make hydrogel liposomal vitamin C?” [24:03]
Answer
I don’t know if I can tell you how to make it. Essentially, it's taking phospholipids, these things that we get from when we eat meat, chicken with a skin on it, shrimp, crab, lobster, egg yolks, pork, bacon, all these things are rich in these fats called phospholipids, which are these little fatty acids that hang off of a glycerol molecule. And these fatty acids are rich in those foods.
We have it, it’s so valuable and we have done so much research with this already on our cell membrane repair for chronic fatigue. We have those phospholipids here in a powdered form. Now we have to mix it into warm water because fat doesn't dissolve into water, you know very well. So, you know, I suppose if you took this phospholipid, and you mixed it with Vitamin C powder, your vitamin C is going to last longer in your gut and have a slower time release. And you can probably get higher serum levels. It’s just a process of creating these missiles where the phospholipids will naturally make little spheres because they are repelling water and the inside of that sphere is what you want to have to contain your delivery load, like vitamin C or any other item you want. For instance, your LDL particles are basically these fat protein membranes that can change the chain of all these contents of triglycerides and other fats and items. And so yes, you could use the phospholipid to do it.
Question
“Recommendations to shrink and prevent recurrences of breast cancer after my surgery?” [26:11]
Answer
Again, general advice, we would recommend to you a very low carnivore, strict keto-type diet. There is the argument by Tom Seyfried PhD that cancer is a metabolic mitochondrial disease. And this is the mitochondria, the little batteries inside of the cell. Your heart cells will have something like 50,000 mitochondria in it and then your regular cells will have maybe five to 10,000 mitochondria in it. And they are very dependent on having antioxidants to deal with the burnt smoke and debris of energy production. So, every ATP that you produce is a burn, it's an oxidation pathway of passing electrons on to create that energy bond of ATP. And in the process of it, you generate free radicals or reactive oxygen species, and you have to have any oxidants who will sacrifice themselves and give up an electron, donate an electron, and deal with these free radicals and absorb them. So, when that's damaged, it's usually kicked off by a high carbohydrate fruit sugar lifestyle, like the American diet. And it then makes cells lazy, always expecting cheap, high-octane fuel of carbohydrates and the fat-burning propensity of the mitochondria to burn things down as two carbon units to make your energy is lost or suppressed because we're always eating cheap fruit sugar, and starch, sugar diets. And then the mitochondria starts not acting well and then the DNA gets damaged, the energy production goes down, and then the cell doesn't function well. And it's like it is oxygen starved. With the oxygen-starved, there are triggers that we believe, I believe in what is called the trophoblastic theory of cancer. When the oxygen is diminished, the cell DNA in the nucleus wakes up like when you were a very two-celled, single cell coming down after fertilization, for four or five days after fertilization, you're dividing and growing into this glob of cells without any lungs or heart beating and you need oxygen real fast. So written in the DNA is the ability to grow blood vessels, and that's how the placenta is started and embedded into the uterine of bloody lining of the uterus to start getting on nutrients through diffusion. That embedding and growth of that placenta is stopped around day 56 when the pancreas is formed and starts to work. That is the beauty of the development of the human being.
So, what you want to do is drink enough water to get all your little capillaries perfused, exercise you get the hydraulic pumping, and keep the passages un-sticky by eating a very low carb, low fruit sugar, or more carnivore-like strict keto diet. Don’t eat late at night, ever. You need to have nighttime for repair. Take systemic enzymes, they are like little PacMan that clean up the areas of the micro-injury that just being alive generates. And take a very good antioxidant. Again, we here use the juice plus capsules. Take your vitamin D, vitamin D is maybe more a hormone than it is a vitamin. It's fat-soluble and is associated with better immune function, better killer cell, and T cell function. CD4 and CD8 ratios are improved with vitamin D. Your immune system is enhanced. And taking a multi-mineral vitamin that has the selenium in it. We have the TLC MultiMin that has 200 micrograms of selenium, that has known anti-cancer benefits.
And then I like doing EDTA chelation periodically, an IV maybe once a month, or 10 times a year with high dose vitamin C. There are many studies out there published looking at cancer stem cells being disabled in the presence of high-dose vitamin C. And that's because cancer cells lose a lot of the characteristics of a differentiated cell and one of them is making catalase. Catalase is very important as an enzyme and processing out free radical oxygen species like hydrogen peroxide. We need hydrogen peroxide is part of our intracellular and vital handling of lives of pathogens and viruses and bacteria that we're all living in symbiosis with. And cancer cells don't have that though. So, if you take high doses of vitamin C and they don't have the enzyme catalase, the vitamin C gets into the cancer cells like all the other cells and it kills them. So, this is well-studied. The catalase-dependent, healthy cell versus catalase-absent cancer cell can't do it and you kill off cancer stem cells that way. Some hypothesize that that's yet another reason why people who do EDTA chelation with high-dose vitamin C live longer. That's why I created the enhanced chelation formula that we use here where I put both EDTA with a high dose vitamin C in for every infusion that we have. And systemic enzymes clean up the debris and that's how I would approach it as a general rule.
Question
“I've heard recently about deuterium accumulation is an index for disease in the body, and that we ought to deplete it and avoid accumulation. What are the best lifestyle changes?” [32:58]
Answer
Well, it's been released into the environment. These dirty bombs, I don’t know, there have been thousands and thousands of atomic detonations on the earth. And deuterium is a radioactive phenomenon. We should work to reduce all radioactive heavy metal toxins, and chelation would be my number one suggestion, doing that periodically throughout all the years of your life, at least quarterly chelation if you are young. If you are older, say past 55, you need to do it more dedicatedly because the likelihood of disease developing increases with age. But in general, taking good antioxidants, again, that's another argument for the wonderful research and outcome with the Juice Plus series antioxidant, and being low carb. So, you have very good well-oxygenated microvasculature capillaries to prevent clogging and cells choking out.
So, I would do the chelation, systemic enzymes to dis-inflame. I would take Juice Plus. I would take vitamin D. I would be on a very low-carb diet. I would exercise with dedication, 150 minutes a week, both weight training and aerobic. I would have good sleep hygiene because that's when we heal. I would never eat late at night. And I would be more like a carnivore. Remember it’s the protein fats that are in the protein that repair the damage in the cell membrane throughout our body and that is what deuterium would do.
Question
“What would you recommend for Factor 5 Leiden blood clotting gene, other than 81 milligrams of aspirin during pregnancy?” [35:06]
Answer
Well, all the things I have mentioned before in general for the diabetic Type 1 that we just talked about. It’s the same thing. We are the same biological entity. We have the same mechanisms for healing. So, you're going to hear me repeat this over and over because God is a God of order and logic. Although it is so complex, even the one cell to the universe. Just bringing up foolish people out there who claim they are a scientist and say they can create one-cell life. That’s ridiculous. That has never been done. The complexity we know now in one single cell with a nucleus is beyond the ability of any scientists anywhere to ever have done. The same for the universe and the Big Bang and all that. There are as many astronomers and astrophysicists and physicists and mathematicians that are young earth, six-day creation believing, who are out there. But their data and their papers published are being suppressed, just like ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine have been suppressed. There is so much volume of these reputable scientists out there, doing their work, laying the data, that it really is so reinforcing to the absolute logic of the layout of the historicity of the Bible.
So, when we talk about answering questions like, what do you recommend for Factor 5 Leiden blood clotting gene other than aspirin, I would certainly recommend again, water. One of the best anticoagulants is drinking enough water every day, half your weight in pounds is ounces. Exercise. Exercise prevents sludging and it moves the fluids around and creates the environmental osmotic and hydro pressure in the capillaries for fluid movement to move forward. So, all the cells get their cleaning and delivery of nutrients. Eating an un-sticky lifestyle diet of low carb and low fruit sugars and taking systemic enzymes to prevent clotting like the Vascuzyme and Vitalzym, three once a day of the Vascuzyme or Vitalzym. If you are more concerned, use it twice a day. It’s safe in all situations. I have never seen a situation it’s unsafe for.
And using antioxidants, because clotting is triggered by the intrinsic and extrinsic pathways like an extra injection as scratch and bleeding and you want clotting, so you don't continue to bleed out of that scratch. And then the intrinsic would be the damage, for instance, from the stickiness, and of shared trauma, the sheer force of the cells and material passing by the endothelial, the inside lining of the blood vessel. And they scratch it because there's so much sticky sugar and carbohydrates. So, when that happens, it triggers the clotting factors. So, that's why water, low sugar, taking enzymes, exercising, getting a good night's rest, all these things matter. And then eating the repair mechanisms for that lining of the blood vessel, the endothelial cell membrane is this little thing right here, the phospholipid bilayer, lipid layer protein, and fat. So that's how I would say that there.
Question
“Can a three-year-old take OptiMag Neuro for constipation?” [39:20]
Answer
Yes. I would start out with one scoop, which has four grams of magnesium, I don’t recall. Just start with a fourth of that mixed with water. Put a little bit of vitamin C powder, and Vitality C powder with it. Make sure they are drinking enough water, not all the marketed pimped sugar drinks, juices, or orange juice. I would never give my child juice, never. Never in a thousand years. Instead, if they want something, I would peel an orange and have some slices of it. That way they get the fiber and slow the sticky sugar down. Play with it and offer it to them in doses, build it up. Even if they get too loose of diarrhea from it, just cut it back. No harm done.
Question
“I’m a little concerned because my adult grandson moved out recently and is confirmed to have TB by two blood tests. Should my husband and I be tested?” [40:25]
Answer
It sounds reasonable. You can go to your doctor or the county health department and get the skin patch test. And if you flare up, then you should see your doctor to get the treatment for that, or a chest x-ray and be monitored.
Question
“I’m on hormone replacement, in my 60s. What should my levels of testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone be?” [40:57]
Answer
Well, in general, I think for a woman, we have been underestimating the value of testosterone for retaining our muscle mass, I like to see women have a testosterone level of at least 50 to maybe 100, somewhere between 50 and 100 on testosterone. Estrogen, I'm going to say that's a little more variable. I've seen women who are very satisfied with estradiol levels of you know, 35, 50. And then I see other women who have hot flashes at that level, and they need more. We have gone up to 200 to 250. But pretty much all women are in the 50 to 250 range. There's a rare few on either end of it, on the bell curve. That’s the range for estradiol. I like the progesterone to be four pica grams per deciliter or higher. I would be more comfortable with a six or an eight. But progesterone I've seen can go up to like 40 and still be quite normal. So, some women get too groggy, too sleepy with a high progesterone level. So, as long as it's a four, or five range, then I think that's good enough.
Question
“Which of the three hormones cause breast sensitivity?” [42:26]
Answer
Well, you would say the estradiol, largely. But it goes away after time. Like when we're little girls and our breasts are just starting to form, there's very little breast tissue. But when you're a mature woman with mature breasts, and you start estradiol therapy, it's got all this breast tissue it can work on and you can feel it right away rather than the gradual build over the year or two as a child into your young adulthood. So, you can gradually increase it or just know that you can go through about three months of just being aware of drinking more water and taking the systemic enzymes like Vascuzyme or Vitalzym. I would use like maybe five twice a day if I had tender breasts until my body equivalent equilibrated and always use the progesterone to balance the effect and a low-carb diet and take iodine and maybe avoid caffeine so much caffeine tends to make tender breasts as well. And all these things would be improved if you had fibrocystic breasts.
Question
“Use of phospholipid mix with non-GMO sodium ascorbate in a jewelry cleaning sonicator for the liposomal vitamin C.” [43:59]
Answer
Interesting, interesting. Yeah. Alright, so they took the phospholipid mix, and you put it with the sodium ascorbate, and you put it in the jewelry cleaner and create these little liposomal is very, very good, okay. Because if you put fat in water and jiggle it, just you know, that's pretty rough in a jewelry cleaner. But in general, you don't want to break up the muscles either. That's what homogenization does to dairy. It destroys the soles on the cell membrane. So, you got to be careful about how high how that vibration going.
Question
“How much protein daily, grams per day, do you recommend to those to not lose muscle mass as we age? My exercise is a mat, pilates, and dog walking. I did start light weights. But navigating my 120-pound dog on a leash helps my arms as well.” [44:46]
Answer
I would say one milligram per roughly 0.8 pounds. Or one milligram per kilogram. If you weigh 150 pounds in kilograms that is roughly cut in half 75, 70. You would want about 70 grams of protein a day. That would be my minimum. I think you are very safe to eat 100 grams a day and take a higher amount up to one milligram per kilogram or more. Some people use 1.2 milligrams per kilogram. I try to aim for 80, according to my weight, and 100 for optimal. You have to use your weight training. I do my weightlifting three times a week with a personal trainer on heavy weights. You have to do that too to preserve your muscle mass.
With your exercise, that is a lot of steps. I would say, it’s very good what you are doing. But in general, I would say you have to do some heavy-weight training under the guidance of a personal trainer. We really need to set time aside under the guidance of a trainer, as we get older, to get the deltoids, the pectorals, latissimus dorsi, your core, your leg extensions, leg flexions, hip abductors/adductors, and your quads doing the leg press. I just think you have to do those six exercises all the time.
Question
“I had questions a few months back about some severe stomach pain and cramping and headaches that I've been experiencing. I've come to the conclusion that it is a sensitivity or allergy to Sage, maybe some other spice, not sure yet, through food and blood testing with an allergist. Before knowing this, I had three bad bouts of these symptoms, lasting one to five days. In the past, I had an anaphylactic attack and that brought me to the ER. Besides having an epi-pen, what can I do if I accidentally eat sage and get one of these terrible attacks?” [47:12]
Answer
Well, prevention is the thing. And then I would recommend anyone with allergies to take Quercetin all the time. Quercetin is in our D-Hist, 200-milligram per capsule. I take 400 milligrams a day. Sometimes in the bad allergy seasons, I take 800 milligrams or four capsules a day.
Question
“Also my internist mentioned I can get a CT scan, with or without contrast. What are the negatives of CT scans and contrast? I have a sensitivity to chemicals. I am on a paleo diet already, gluten and dairy free as I have rheumatoid arthritis. [48:11]
Answer
I think I would go all the way to a more carnivore diet and I would eat that way for three months to heal your gut lining. And then you could go back to paleo and some vegetables. Because apparently, you're getting aggravation of your allergies. Now I don't understand why your internist wants a CT scan, other than he just wants to look at your abdominal contents, your liver, spleen, adrenals, kidneys, you know, uterus, ovaries, intestines, and the structures in there and just make sure everything looks normal.
But I think ultrasounds are less invasive. The gadolinium, like the other gentleman who had that question about that DTPA for chelating out gadolinium has its toxicities. It's cancerous along with everything else. Fortunately, you can do chelation right after a CT scan here or the next day so you can reduce and pull that stuff out. So, unless there's some reason for it, you might ask your internist if he would be satisfied with an abdominal ultrasound, and pelvic ultrasound together. He may have reason to ask for it and follow up with what your doctor says.
Question
“Is there anything a man can do to mitigate the symptoms of hormonal treatment for prostate cancer? Exhaustion, physical weakness, and extreme hot flashes. He also has a suprapubic catheter.” [49:55]
Answer
That is a tough one. But I'm really exercising a high protein diet, taking multiple minerals rich in zinc and magnesium, taking systemic enzymes to reduce inflammation, and plenty of water. So, a rich protein diet with healthy fats, the enzymes, the exercise, and enough water. These are some of the best things. Another thing is vitamin D, which helps with mood and sense of well-being. I am in favor of DHEA to help with the adrenals. I've never seen it aggravate in my 43 years of practicing medicine. I've never seen it aggravate anything with testosterone at all, especially in a man. So that would be my recommendation.
Question
“A1C management. I am conscientious with limiting carbohydrates including a keto diet that works well keeping off weight. I am a thin guy naturally (low BMI) and never in my life have I been even close to obese. I exercise and run a mile daily. Anything to help keep my A1C in the mid 5's? It's 6.5 now. Berberine? Tumeric?” [51:14]
Answer
Well, some of this depends on your age because the older we get our muscle mass diminishes, even in men. That is another engine that burns the daily consumption of our carbohydrates. Aging is associated with muscle wasting, loss of muscle, and aggravates blood sugar consumption, and processing. So, I would seriously look at trying to be more of a carnivore-type person. You could try it for three months and repeat your hemoglobin A1C and watch it dramatically drop down to 5.5 in three months. It would be tremendous. I would not want to tolerate a hemoglobin A1C of 6.5.
Now, Berberine is excellent. Now if you've got a quality product, and I can't speak to all the things that are out in the stores there. There are shams even in the alternative world, just wanting to make money off of people. We use your clinically researched, ours is called TLC Metabolic Formula in which we put Berberine. And we're putting somewhere in the realm of 600 milligrams that acts like Metformin. Then there's alpha lipoic acid that helps with sugar metabolism. Then we have an idiom and chromium and things like this to help. It works really, in my opinion, better than Metformin on my patients who use Metformin. But that's the direction I would head there.
Question
“I am 85 and had a hysterectomy 42 years ago. I take 2 meds - Armour Thyroid (60mg) daily and Estradiol Vaginal Cream (0.01%) twice a week. My recent blood test revealed my hormone levels are as follows:
DHEA - 202 (21-402)
ESTRADIOL - 11.1 (6.0-54.7)
TESTOSTERONE - 45 (2-45)
PROGESTERONE - 0.2 (0.0-0.1)
Are these levels OK or should I be making any adjustments?? I am healthy, active, and good weight, and my recent bone density test revealed that half of my scores have moved from osteoporosis to osteopenia. Would it be a cancer risk to apply the estradiol vaginal cream every 3 days?” [53:22]
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Well, again, we do not practice medicine over YouTube. Please speak with your doctor. You should be on more progesterone to get that level to a four instead of 0.2. Your estradiol at 11, you need more estradiol. The DHEA and testosterone are fine.
I think you should every three days with the cream.
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“My husband and I are TLC patients and are taking the EDTA suppositories to purge metals from our systems. We have noticed changes in bowel movements, general tiredness, and increased thirst on days after using the suppositories. Is this to be expected? Also, does EDTA therapy bring out underlying or dormant ailments in the purging process?” [55:54]
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Yes, I would say because you are moving toxins.
In general, no. It's just removing oxidative stress. Just like if you worked out really hard and you felt kind of after a hard muscle workout when you move oxidative stressful toxins out of your body, you might have a day or so of feeling a little but it will diminish as you start getting in a pattern this will decline and decline until I guess like at my age, I've done so many chelations and so many suppositories, I don't feel anything anymore. I feel clean as a whistle.
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“Do you have any tips or supplement recommendations for sleep? Aside from hormones and melatonin, please.” [56:59]
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Yes, fat. It's very valuable to get enough fat in your diet. So, I would emphasize fatty foods, like prime rib is a fatty meat, eat the skin on the chicken, and maybe butter it before you eat it. Eating butter with all your meals and your vegetables, be low carb. I would recommend shrimp, and crab, and lobster, and all the fatty fish, salmon. Eat plenty of fat. Now what you could do is take some herbal hot tea like sleepy time tea, these have these natural relaxing herbs in it, and put a big tablespoon of butter in it. You might put a dash of minerals or Himalayan salt in and take in the daytime TLC Methylated B Complex for the pyrophosphate B5 in it. That will help you with your sleep and your vitamin D which is fat soluble. And what you're doing is you're talking to the brainstem here that is really stressed out with microwaves and our diet and our stress and our high sticky carbs and our circadian rhythm and the light stress, the blue lights. So, the fat helps to heal it, the minerals help to heal it, and the salt, the B5 in a high-quality B Complex with Vitamin D. Try that.
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“What can cause muscle cramps in legs, feet, and hands?” [59:03]
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Well, they don't actually know what causes these leg cramps. And I really think it's the cell membranes here and these cell membranes have little holes in them. And as the day wears on your volume of tiny microdamage, I always have on my desk here for my patients showing on my wiffleball, pickleball. It’s just showing them all the free radical damage even from your own mitochondria, reactive oxygen species shooting out damaging that phospholipid membrane. The only way to get that repaired is to eat enough meat, chicken with the skin on it, fish, egg yolks, and stuff. They have frightened us all away from it. So, eating fat is soothing, calming, reparative, life-extending, and youth-preserving, and just preserving of the endothelium of your blood vessels, all that. Being well-hydrated is very important. And having good electrolytes that potassium because when you poke a lot of these through the days use out the potassium, sodium ratio balance between the cell gets disturbed and when that delicate negative positive chlorine ion gets messed up calcium ions, then it creates a depolarization and activation of this cell membrane, which can generate a muscle contraction. So, you need to eat fat, you need to have your minerals a good multimineral with potassium and calcium and magnesium and we have that in our TLC MultiMin. That's what I take. I eat a rich, almost 100%, carnivore diet, and good hydration. And that's what I would do.
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“I have acid reflux. It has gotten worse in the last year. I am taking Kirkland's signature brand Omeprazole. It's a 42-day course. I took a week off and it came back with a vengeance on Saturday. In fact, it made me feel so ill I couldn't finish eating. Is there anything that I can do that is natural? I don't like being on drugs but I can't take this acid reflux either. Any insight you could share would be very helpful.” [1:01:00]
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The lining here, the tube that is going through the diaphragm into the stomach down here, that's where you're getting this burping up of the acid. And so, the solution is not to stop the acid because that's dangerous long-term in and of itself. It's in having something that will repair the membranes and what those membranes the lining of your esophagus is made up of, it's made of these fats, and phospholipids to repair. So, if you took a scoop of this in warm water, with some protein to help repair the fat and protein membranes here, and you mix this in some warm water, and you do that first thing in the morning, last thing at night, first thing in the morning, last thing at night, probably take a good probiotic, stop eating absolutely by 6 o’clock, drop your fork. I don’t care if you are at the king’s dinner. Drop your fork, you don’t eat late. And take a walk to promote the digestion moving forward. And you will find that you will heal here.
Let's say you're in the middle of a day at lunch and you just were fasting all the way till noon and you get the heartburn. We'll go ahead and take a midday dose. I mean this is food, these are natural things, the building blocks are repair there. The medicine is a chemical, hydrogen, H2 blocker. And just says, make less acid. Nothing about repair. So, it would be like coming along and say you have a drip on your faucet and the guy shuts the water off to your house. All right, fixed the drip on your faucet and now you have no water in your house. You’ve got to use your gut. Let’s repair it with the things it is made of. Let's have doctors learn how to use natural things. I'm not saying you can't use some medicine for a short period of time but you can use this every day. I have mine here in my office kitchen desk here because I need it. I’m getting older and the little sphincter there is weaker as I age. I use it all the time.
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“My daughter has hyperpigmentation issues that started in 2021 when she was 13. The white spots started on her legs and some on arms and hands. Now it has spread to her left side of abdomen and more on her left leg. What natural remedies can I do? We have seen a doctor and she did blood work and talked to us about diet. But we already eat pretty clean. My daughter is a picky eater though so I wonder if her pickiness and love of sweets also contributed to her skin problem. I’m sure it didn’t help. She’s not overweight. She’s an equestrian and loves animals. I also wondered if she picked up some kind of fungus or bacteria that might have triggered this issue.” [1:04:00]
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Shower only with Selsun Blue, a selenium-rich shampoo that’s designed for your hair, for dandruff, and stuff. Let that get all over the body in case there is a fungal skin component.
And again, I’m just going to say it, you’ve got them onto a protein-rich diet.
The sweets will cause an autoimmune problem in her gut based on your description of her diet. This will create a leaky gut which causes cross-reactivity, and mimicry, and attack the skin there. She needs to get a complete digestive stool analysis and a food allergy immunoglobulin G.
She’s not overweight and loves animals. I wonder if she picked up some kind of fungus or bacteria. Have her shower always and only with Selsun Blue.
Then have her eat the cell membrane skin protective of a phospholipid-rich diet. Have her see a good functional doctor who will do a complete digestive stool analysis and the immuno food allergies and help teach her. Then, on screen, we are seeing more teenagers than ever before getting liver transplants because of their horrible diet full of high fructose corn syrup, lattes, frappes, soda pops, and junk fund, high fructose corn syrup that is destroying their immune systems, destroying it. So, she needs to have her insulin done, her hemoglobin A1C, her fasting blood sugar, her triglycerides, and her fruit sugar level.
