YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, August 22, 2023

 

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“I have a dear friend that has been diagnosed with cerebral amyloid angiopathy. Do you know anything about this? Do you have any diet or other recommendations? She will have a CCTA scan.” [0:02:30]

Answer

These amyloid deposits and angiopathy, which is damage to the blood vessels in the brain, are what we believe are associated with lifestyle problems. The argument that we would put forth is that if you're eating high fructose corn syrup, a high glycemic, high glucose, high starch, high carbohydrate diet, you're not active enough, and you are aging, you will have glycation. This is the fructose sticking to the protein, and glucose sticking to the protein. These glycation products are creating molecular and microscopic, sub microscopic damage. And then, the body is going to try and react to this. And these amyloid damage points are what we consider the pathology that we can see. But we believe this is from the lifestyle of the consumption of sugar. So, I would go on a carnivore diet, a ketogenic diet, I would do EDTA chelation therapy to improve the microcirculation. And I would drink plenty of water and take systemic enzymes.

Now they're very important things, you know, your brain is made up of largely about 70% fat. And so, that carnivore diet would be very helpful to repair the cell membranes from the damage that these little things do to the cell membranes in the brain. So, phospholipids, the egg with the egg yolk, the meat, the fish, the chicken with the skin on it, the pork, the shrimp, the lobster, the crab, all these wonderful foods, and butter would be very helpful and very satiating for them. And that's how we would begin to try and help them.

So, that's my understanding of what cerebral amyloid angiopathy is all about and how we would in general approach that. With anyone that has had a stroke, it’s the same thing. You have to repair it. It’s not that one brain is different than the other, it’s the same pattern of repair. 

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“I had a tumor removed and a full hysterectomy. Concerned about hormones.” [0:05:15]

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 The most common, non-cancerous tumor that is associated with hysterectomy is a fibroid tumor. And that's really just a hypertrophied kind of bolus of the muscle and fibrous tissue of the uterus. So, getting fibroids is stimulated also by a high-carb diet. Endometriosis is stimulated and linked with the high fiber, high carbohydrate diet. The polycystic ovarian syndrome is associated with a high carbohydrate diet. So, you're going to see a theme here, all these chronic medical problems are related to the corrupt standard American diet. All of these would require a very low carb, a low fruit sugar, a very aggressive carnivore, and systemic enzymes. Natural progesterone is the balancing signal for the stimulation of estradiol.

So, insulin is a stimulation hormonally that we all take in every day, every time we eat starch, fruit sugar, and carbohydrates. We drink these fruit sugar, fructose laden, latte, and frappes. So, we are living in a sea of sugar with hormone insulin stimulation. Not enough of the doctors are being taught to warn their patients about the hormonal charging they're doing to their bodies every day with a high carbohydrate, foods sugar diet. And so, we would recommend those things along with systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day and progesterone cycled.

Many questions, you know, to be sure that hopefully, the tumor was a fibroid, but I'm not sure which to where you're talking about. And so, you have to see your doctor about this. But this is how we would approach this in our office here and we think it's very safe. Even if you've had polycystic ovarian syndrome, or you had fibroids, or you had endometriosis to go on natural hormone replacement therapy because we're here for the rest of your life, and the trillions and trillions of other cells in your body that need the valuable blessings of these natural hormones for your quality of life, longevity and well being. 

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“How concerned should I be about oxalates? In particular, chia seed pudding, 100% dark chocolate, and spinach. I can skip spinach, but I do like chia and dark chocolate. I am currently reading Toxic Superfoods.” [0:08:10]

Answer

Well, the author of that is a well-trained nutritionist. Her work is referenced. I agree we have underappreciated the damage that plant oxalates bring to us. It is a plant material that is designed to be a repellant and have an impact to preserve the plant. It cannot run from its competitors. Oxalate-rich foods, not that I’m an expert in which plants have it, spinach, kale, many of these drinks, green drinks are so hyperconcentrated in what we think is a superfood of spinach and then you do this abnormal thing creating this massive powder and these oxalates are there. So, when people are drinking these marketed health food powdered drinks that are green drinks full of plants with lectins in it, oxalates being one of the concerning ones, their risk for micro-inflammation, kidney stones are usually the number one outcome of a high oxalate diet. You should be concerned. 

I would see your doctor. I would do a uric acid study. I would do a fructosamine study, your insulin, hemoglobin A1C, and an antioxidant panel. I would see how healthy you are and then we could see how much chia seed pudding, 100% dark chocolate you could have. I would eat spinach only as a serving, ½ cup serving, once or twice a week as opposed to the health food concentrates. By looking at other sugar, glucose, and metabolic metabolism we’d get a better idea about the carb impact of the chia seed pudding and chocolate as well. 

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“Adding to the oxalate question. Should I be concerned about almond flour and nuts?” [0:10:49]

Answer

The answer is yes. Typically every time you take almond flour, this is a process of an original food. If you ate a handful of almonds once a day or every few days, that would probably not be concerning. But when you take dozens and dozens of them, turning them into foods you are consuming all the time, then we get a carbohydrate/lectin impact and various things. It also makes a difference whether or not the almonds have the shell coating on them or if it was taken off. This could make it challenging from a lectin point of view versus the additional carbohydrate load. All of this matters. 

We try to simplify it here in the clinic when we talk to our patients. We ask our patients to get away from marketing, YouTube, Instagram, and Facebook. All these things show what others are marketing, jars of this and that. We are trying to ask people to eat real food, learn to use your kitchen, make healthy real food meals, and prepare for the next few days. You don’t want to be caught off guard and buy these things on the fly. Then you are exposed to the restaurant's high fructose corn syrup, seed oil, and high heat. We want to eat Whole Foods. We want to stay away from processed, packaged foods. We want to stay away from sugary drinks. We want to stick with healthy herbal drinks and coffee or tea and water. 

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“What do you think about the exposure to radiation from mammograms or bone density test? I don't really need either, over 70 years old and never a positive mammogram. Never had a bone density test but never had broken a bone, workout daily and strong.” [0:12:53]

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We are concerned about bone density even in our 70s and 80s. And I have many women who have improved their bone densities even in their 80s back up into the near normal and normal ranges. I do think it has value to get bone density. Now the standard of care for practicing medicine in the state of California is to recommend annual mammograms. And yes, there is a concern about exposure, total exposure to radiation, and the trauma of getting a mammogram. You have to make that decision yourself. In order to practice medicine, we have to follow our state board's recommendations which is recommending an annual mammogram for instance. The recommendation for bone density is somewhere around menopause starting somewhere around the age of 50. And then approximately every two years depending on the state of your bone density results.

And in that venue, we respect your adulthood and informed consent. I have some patients who have weighed the situation and how healthy they live and how much exercise they do, and they have chosen to not follow the advice of standard of care and to postpone the rate of doing mammograms annually and they have done it less frequently. And I still have to give them the mammogram and I still give them the standard recommendations. But I do respect their choices. And I still follow them along and give them their options. So, it is a concern.

We know that radiation is one of the known causes of cancer. And we know that trauma in the breast is also implicated as associated with cancer formation. It is a reasonable question you have and I understand it. And I would recommend you to discuss this with your doctor. Set up a plan. But know what the standard of care is, you should have that information given to you and then we respect your personal decision. 

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“We just found out that my 18yr is tongue-tied. She mostly sleeps with her mouth open and gets dry mouth during the night. Her dentist meant if it does not bother her, leave it alone. I've read that it's possible to develop sleep apnea later in life. That made me worried. Would you recommend releasing the tongue? Is it a dangerous procedure?” [0:15:53]

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My thought is, this has to be individually evaluated. I would talk with an ear nose and throat specialist about the degree of her tongue tying. That is the frenulum that is underneath your tongue. Sometimes people have a very pronounced frenulum and the fiber that holds the tongue in place can be thicker and come more up to the tip of the tongue as opposed to the back of the tongue.

And yes, this will have an impact on the full development. She's still developing at 18, her mouth and her dentures. As you age, your throat, the larynx, the position of the posterior pharyngeal muscles, and so forth that support all the voice box will be strained by this, and the elastin collagen stressors of our aging and position we usually move forward as we age. So, see an ENT.

Dangerous or very involved thing? My grandson had his tongue laser treated to release his frenulum because it was somewhat inhibiting his sucking for the nipple. And he tolerated it very well. It was an outpatient procedure. The older you get you have more tissues. I’m not a specialist for this. See your ear, nose, and throat doctor to address this in that fashion. 

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“What can you tell us about perimenopause? I'm a 36-year-old female and have noticed a lot of changes in my cycle over the past 6 months: night sweats, sleep disturbances, lighter periods, strong PMDD symptoms, migraine and headaches coming on more frequently, etc. What do you suggest for women who are going through perimenopause at a rather early age and what does this mean for our future health?” [0:18:18]

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Well, it's a very good question because more and more younger women are going into menopause. And stress is one of the number one causes. Stress will affect both mentally, and environmentally with the pollutants, and your diet and your mobility activity level, your water consumption, your sleep cycles, the amount of duties and responsibilities you have, children, work, whatever. All these things mount up to have a cortisol impact. This cortisol will have some follicle and luteinizing hormone depressing effects. Then you won’t ovulate. Then you are in estrogen dominance. Then that is a constant stimulating estrogen phase as opposed to a natural cycle of estrogen build and progesterone clean out of the uterus and other aspects of the estradiol impact on human health.

So, our first step would be to put you on natural progesterone, supplementally. That would be from day 15 of your menstrual cycle until day 25 of your menstrual cycle. That will ensure that at least ovulation or progesterone cyclically will put a block on estrogen dominance. Constant stress like that, however, you can find your estrogens declining. There are endocrine-disrupting chemicals, plastics, heavy metal contaminants, the high fructose sugar, the excess insulin, metabolic syndrome, all these things are impacting hormone communication and disruption in the access from your pituitary to your ovaries and other parts of your endocrine system.

So, we will start with progesterone. We will start with a lower-carb diet. Regular exercise to include some weight training twice a week, and then aerobic moderate exercise three times a week. So, that you're getting about 150 minutes of exercise, and that is cortisol modifying. The progesterone is estrogen-balancing. We also believe that vitamin D is beneficial in the sleep cycle along with a methylated B complex used daily. We also feel that the magnesium and zinc in a good multi mineral is very valuable and homeostasis. The other thing is adequate hydration and then plans not to eat late at night and getting a good sleep cycle in and beginning your day early enough to plan it, get some quiet time, and prepare for your day. Maybe some exercise. All those things, along with progesterone is what I would do. And this is how we have kept our women younger longer and looking less aged as they age. And that's our basic approach.

So, find a functional doctor, an integrative medicine doctor who uses natural hormones, and looks at the whole picture, not just you as a hormone issue. It's a whole-life issue. 

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“How do you feel about intestinal and liver cleanses? I miss TLC. I was a patient of yours for 15 years. My brother and mother also. Nothing like you in El Paso, TX.” [0:22:23]

Answer

Well, there will be because we're teaching a lot of doctors and we are expanding it. I think doctors are starting to realize, especially ever since this lockdown that we were imposed with over the last few years, losing our medical healthcare freedoms and choice at that point, woke up a lot of physicians as to building up the immune system which isn't being addressed, even still the value of vitamin D. So, I think we will start seeing a lot more young doctors emerge that are really dedicated to caring for the whole patient, the whole physiology lifestyle, as importantly as being aware of medications, prescriptions, and other medical of standard of care that needs to be looked at as well.

But regarding intestinal and liver cleanses in the United States at this point, for 40 plus years I've been practicing, and I would say I almost never see any health care impactful infestation of parasites or anything requiring a cleanse. Rather I try and put my patients focus on eating whole foods, non-processed, reducing the fructose sugar drinks, eating late, exercise regularly, drink enough water, and to use some tailored nutrients because the industrialized farming has reshaped our nutrient density of our fruits and vegetables. A good multi-mineral, chelated minerals like Albion produces, methylated B complexes, and finding out your blood type. Finding a doctor who will look at metabolic syndrome, your blood sugar, fructose level, your hemoglobin A1C, your triglycerides, fasting insulin, and being able to look at those things. And then the intestinal and liver cleanses are just never really needed. I don't even think unless you have high blood sugars, of which most Americans still do, but most of my patients do so well, we don’t need any of these things. So, I’m not a big fan of intestinal and liver cleanses. 

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 “Today I had a mammogram, DEXA scan, and then x-rays at the dentist. I realize that is a lot of radiation. Anything you recommend I can take or do?” [0:25:18]

Answer

Well, if you are around a doctor that can give you a high-dose vitamin C infusion, I would say that would be a great thing to do after having those three radiation exposures today. Another thing, if you can’t get the IV, I would get some vitamin C orally. I do like the liposomal vitamin C. I think Emergent C is good, the little packets that are out there at health food stores. I would take, you know, four grams, four 1,000-milligram packs of the Emergent C. I would also drink plenty of water and I really think that’s probably enough. If you are taking a good multimineral that has some good vitamin E in it, very often good multivitamins have other antioxidants in them to various degrees. Some have COQ10, some have glutathione, and some have n-acetyl cysteine in them. Some have green tea extract in them. Vitamin C used for a couple of days should be very, very good. And a high-dose vitamin C drip would be ideal if you can find one. 

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 “In addition, I received results on the DEXA scan, I’m still osteopenia. I had a spiral femur break last year. Figured I would be osteoporosis. I’ve been under the care of Dr. Core. I do take Vitality C.” [0:27::05]

Answer

I’m so glad that you’ve gone out of the osteoporosis and into osteopenia. I bet she has you on a really good lifestyle diet and vitamin D and telling you to do your resistance training, stomping, and that kind of stuff. 

Excellent with Vitality C. I believe it has four grams in it, one scoop. We chose that because so many of the research papers seem to aim for four grams of vitamin C to have the greatest impact. 

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“I myself got rid of my osteoporosis I had since 2007. I didn’t shrink in two years. I’m taking a new one in September. I’m taking Perfect Aminos and Vitamin D3 with K2. [0:28:05]

Answer

Very good. The Vitamin D3 we mixed with K2, I believe all of our supplements here. High-quality D3 with K2, subfraction MK7. We like somewhere in the realm of 10,000-international units of vitamin D3 and we like 90 to 100-micrograms of K2. 

The Perfect Amino helps stimulate muscle growth and repair. All of our tissues need this. As we age, our ability to digest protein diminishes. So, taking Perfect Amino is helpful for the muscles with your exercise, resistance, and usage of your bones. That’s another great valuable thing. 

Natural hormone replacement, estradiol, and progesterone, DHEA, help make testosterone another stimulant for muscle mass in women. So, all these things are various things that we do here with a low-carb diet. 

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“I am in the acute phase of gut inflammation. (3day). I try very hard to stay away from antibiotics however, I do not want to lose a lot of weight and it is too painful to eat. So, I off to urgent care this morning. I would love for you to weigh in on strategies. Currently, I have increased my Glutashield and liquid probiotics to 3x daily. Those two products usually hold my gut along with following the gluten-free, lectin-free food lists. Any suggestions for during the antibiotics and after to restore gut health? So bummed that I have to take antibiotics ugh!! I bought a glutathione product. Would that be useful during the acute phase?” [0:29:41]

Answer

Well, glutathione is a very, very potent antioxidant. And it's always useful in many metabolic functions. So, I can't see that not being a value. So, if you have some gut inflammation and it's acute, like an acute gastroenteritis, or diverticulitis, some bacterial overgrowth, irritating one of the outpouching pockets along the colon. If you have some acute problem like that, I would not eat. I would just rest the gut for two days, 48 hours. Then I would just drink a clear liquid chicken broth or a clear liquid beef broth and plenty of water. And if you feel that you need any sugar at all, I would use something like real ginger ale. Because ginger is calming also to the gut and mix it with water to a half-strength kind of 50/50 solution. And you'll get some sugar, you'll get electrolytes and the salts, rest your gut, and your Glutashield will be helpful with the components in it, zinc and glutamine that are helpful for the gut.

As far as probiotics, the one we use that is very high powdered, Probiotic 255 from Ortho Molecular. It is a high-potency probiotic. Use one packet a day, mixed in water. You can mix it with your Glutashield once a day. That will help populate your gut from the antibiotics. Then after the two weeks of the high dose, you can use the standard probiotic daily. That should be a great benefit to you.  

So, I would rest my gut for two days on a clear liquid diet, with chicken broth and/or beef broth, and the ginger ale mixed with water, 50/50 if you have to have some energy. I would rest. I would use the Glutashield that you have and use the Probiotic 255 once a day. That should help your gut quickly heal. If not, follow up with your primary care doctor or give your doctor a call. 

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“What do you think of ECP or sometimes called EECP? Does it really help heart and brain issues?” [0:33:20]

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Again, if you were in a fighter jet and were going in dives, turns, ailerons, and stuff like that, you would have a flight suit on and the pressure would blow up in your limbs and abdomen so that when you take a dive, your blood drains out of your brain, the flight suit inflates on your lower half so that the blood cannot rush to your legs. They found that if they pulse this in conjunction with your heart rate contraction, they can enhance the microcirculation in the heart and the rest of the body, especially for ischemic heart disease. So, I am favorable to that. The studies show it is very valuable. It does help the heart and the brain.  

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“First, my grandson is 19 and has just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. His blood glucose level was at 1,006 on Saturday when he was admitted to the ER where he was diagnosed. He is medium height and weight and lives an active lifestyle which includes resistance training. He forsook soda and most junk food several years ago. (Unfortunately, he was vaxxed for school enrollment in 2022 ~ no boosters.) Do you know of any natural interventions recommended for diabetics?

Can you please share any good alternative treatments and/or special dietary recommendations for a newly diagnosed ALS patient?” [0:34:33]

Answer

 That’s a huge question. Number one, he is an insulin-dependent diabetic with a blood sugar of 1,000 on last Saturday. So, he’s in the right place to be hospitalized and be in a training program monitoring. Work with a diabetologist or an endocrinologist to help him manage his blood sugars. Was this an autoimmune phenomenon that attacked his pancreas, beta cells, etc.? Possibly. Is there a connection with that vaccination he took, it could be explored and looked into. 

I would follow the instructions of the endocrinologist and the diabetologist. This is very serious. But dietarily, there will be a lot of arguments with the dietitian about taking in enough carbohydrates to manage the up and down of the blood sugars. Insulin treatments will drop the blood sugar. If you overshoot it, you need to have a carbohydrate to balance the overshooting of the insulin. There is a process of learning how to do this and measure. 

All our cells are made out of protein and fat. And so, I think this is lost in the crisis, you might say of the new diagnosis. And so, he has to work on repairing his cell membranes and eating enough healthy fats and proteins, meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, and eggs. He needs to have a food allergy test done, an IgG for the slow reactions, and an IgE for the immediate reactions. He needs a complete digestive stool analysis to look at how he's digesting. I'm sure as a diabetologist and endocrinologist is looking at such things like C peptide, does he have any insulin to produce? I have had patients who are insulin diabetic who over the years, we work with their diabetologists and an endocrinologist, and we help them eat a low carbohydrate, certainly nothing refined carbohydrate, and getting in complex carbohydrates, monitored, but with hefty amounts of healthy fats and proteins. Find out his blood type and give him digestive enzyme if he needs it. Phospholipids to line the gut, to dis-inflame the gut, and probiotics. Put on a very simplistic diet, not a wild variety diet. He needs his gut, his whole gastrointestinal system to dis-inflame. 

And then his control will be much better. My diabetics have been able over the years, some of them come off of their insulin, and some of them have been able to reduce their insulin or their insulin pump to extremely low levels, to the point where they're always controlled in a blood sugar range between somewhere between 75 and 95. And they have very tight control, and they have very healthy lives because of it. So, this is something where he needs to work with a functional doctor who's going to look a little bit deeper into all the other cells besides just their sugar management issues and work to help look at his gut inflammation with a stool and with a food blood serum allergy testing and so forth. 

EDTA chelation helps the microcirculation and improves the circulation. I think all diabetics should be chelated, at least on a routine basis, once a month. And more often if they're older but he's only 19. So, see your endocrinologist and get a good functional medical doctor to work with them and guide him.

Regarding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, that's an autoimmune disease, that's a neurodegenerative disease. And is slowly progressive, kind of a neurological damage that takes away the nerve impulses, the muscle strength, and the muscle wasting to the point where the person has trouble swallowing, and breathing, and often they will die of an aspiration pneumonia under massive supportive care and immobility.

Now, again, if they work with an exercise, muscle trainer, muscle stimulants, high protein diet, and digestive enzymes, to find out what created the autoimmune inflammation, we do believe that there's a strong argument that it is generated in the gut, leaky gut autoimmune phenomenon, inflaming them, and there's cross mimicry attack to the nerve. You have to remember nerves have the myelin sheath and that sheath surrounding the nerve as the insulation, and it's the phospholipid rich. So, very often these antibodies are anti-phospholipid antibodies. So, yeah, needs to be with someone who is experienced in this and work with the neurologist on that as a team. 

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“Do you think Botox on the face can cause a brain bleeding? This happened to my sister today and she is having a hard time walking. She still doesn’t have a diagnosis.” [0:41:28]

Answer

Botox injections are a toxin. And it’s inflaming. Inflammation starts a cascade of inflammatory and blood clotting phenomena. This Botox paralyzes the nerves, I just don't recommend anything like that to my patient base.

Can it cause a brain bleed, this is speculation. I’m just going to say, follow with your doctor, what they are doing right now, and determine where the bleed is, how bad the bleed is, and the treatment. But when she gets out, she will probably be on some form of additional medications. They may in fact be some sort of anti-inflammatory and a blood thinner. But you will have to take this as a unique case.

Remember, you and your doctor, your case is very unique. Even though you might get a general class diagnosis, you need to have your lifestyle addressed at the same time you are getting a specific medical management for a type of class of disease. So, please work with your specialist and then get a good functional doctor to look at all her other needs and ways to improve circulation and repair the blood vessels, which is a phospholipid-rich, healthy low-carb diet. 

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“Do you recommend CBD for brain injuries and the anxiety that accompanies them? If not, what do you recommend more?” [0:43:33]

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I'm not against cannabinoids, there are receptors for cannabinoids in the brain and all over the body over almost every cell in the body. And it is a neuromodulatory signal. And it is associated usually with a calming effect. So, I'm not against it. And it's just who has a credible source and standardization and reproducibility of dosing. So, that's always been the challenge for me. I don't use CBD here because I haven't found a reliable source. I suppose they are out there. I don't happen to know them. But I am not against it. 

What else is calming for anxiety? Well, healthy fats. Fats calm the nerves that are the lining of the cell membranes of the nerves, the myelin sheath. The brain is mostly fat. Many people will take a tablespoon of butter with hot herbal tea at night as a hot toddy, that enhances sleep. Vitamin D helps sleep that is fast and valuable. Pyridoxine Vitamin B5 and a good methylated B complex are helpful, taken earlier in the day. So, there are several things, herbs like ashwagandha, and magnesium, there are many various things to do. Exercise during the day is valuable for anxiety. So, all these things would be a part to help.

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“My functional doctor just prescribed Spironolactone 50 milligrams two times a day for high blood pressure, since all the other blood pressure prescriptions my cardiologist prescribed just didn't agree with me. It's a diuretic. So far, I'm tolerating it fine, but I'm only taking it once a day because I'm a little nervous about taking it. What do you know about this prescription? And would you recommend it? [0:45:30]

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Spironolactone is an old medicine. I rarely, if ever use it. I would have to open up my medication prompts and look into it because right off the top of my brain at the end of a long day and working all day, I don't know the exact. It’s a modulator with diuretic capabilities. I would have to reread that. 

I just know that I've never heard negative things about spiral lactone like I have other drugs. It's many, many decades old. Millions and millions of doses of things throughout decades and decades of experience. I wouldn’t be afraid of it. And I would follow your doctor's advice. I know you're taking it only once, it was prescribed twice. You know, follow up with your doctor. Have your blood pressure checked, then have your chemistries checked to look for your cortisol, your DHEA, and have your salts, potassium, chloride all those things checked as well. And go from there. 

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“What is your opinion of corn and shrimp? I have heard that both have no benefit of nutrients and shrimp is the roach of the sea.” [0:47:29]

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I am not against shrimp because it’s the bottom of the ocean floor dwelling component. In fact, there are a lot of healthy minerals rich in these items. Now, there could also be pollution in it. But you see I do chelation on a routine basis. So, my fear of shark, or swordfish, or salmon, and mercury contamination is really offset by the fact that I'm chelating at least 10 times a year with an EDTA, calcium disodium EDTA. And so, my concern about heavy metals in the seafood, and the shrimp, and the crab, and lobster is not a concern to me. So no, I don't see it as a risk for that. It is rich in healthy cell membrane repair nutrients like cholesterol and fats. And it is very rich in minerals. So, I do like them. 

Corn, not so much. Corn is mostly genetically modified. And this is a high carb and one of the top six food allergens out there. So, I avoid corn 99% of the time. And I'm mostly a carnivore so I stay away from that. 

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“I have a 10, 8, and 5 year old all with Type O blood. What is the ideal diet for their specific ages, and what supplements would you recommend? They are already taking Juice Plus. Note: My youngest has been in food therapy and struggles to eat foods, she does eat some but not many. I can always get her to drink a smoothie with vegetables, any ideas what to put in it, or prioritize feeding her?” [0:49:28]

Answer

Well, you have to understand what we’re made of, and then pinch your cheek and say, we are made of fat and protein. Whereas an apple is hard, it has a big hard sound to it, and a celery stick cracks and breaks. Nuts are crunchy. We are not that way. We are soft and pliable. We need to eat meat, fish, chicken, turkey, eggs, things like that. We are made of these. We need the amino acids to build our muscles, grow our muscles, help our brain to grow, put myelin sheath on everything, and put a nice good healthy cell membrane covering on everything. And so, I am in favor of having cooked vegetables and protein for their meals.

And I don't like any of this concept that breakfast is supposed to be any particular type of a meal. Breakfast can be dinner in my book. And you can pack a lunch that is the dinner and then you can come home and have the same dinner, in other words, a one menu day. So, if you make up chicken and you have chicken and green beans for breakfast with butter and salt and pepper, then you put chicken and green beans in her lunch, and then you have chicken and green beans for dinner, that is an immune quiet, simplistic menu for the whole gut. And it is a protein-healthy, fat, rich, mineral nutrient-dense food with chicken and green beans provide some roughage and phytonutrients. So, I am for a simplistic one-meal menu day where you have your theme protein in all your meals. So, this is our chicken day. And this is the vegetable we eat with our chicken today. And if you want to have a nut associated with it, you could say we have pecans on the days that we have chicken. And if you want to have any fruit you could say we have blueberries on the days we have chicken, with our pecans and our chicken and green beans. And that's what we have for breakfast lunch and dinner. And it's wonderful healthy planning. It’s the way that our forefathers ate all the time. Whatever dinner was, it was leftover for breakfast and lunch.

Next day, you know, make salmon for dinner, breakfast, and lunch with asparagus and a different nut and a different berry. Have at least four meals. That is what I would say. You will get taller, stronger, and more mentally alert, focused, lower carb, less gummed up children who can better focus if you do that. 

I do believe vitamin D supplementation is important for young people. Pretty much a 10-year-old is getting to an adult-appearing weight. Anyone who weighs 80 pounds or higher, I usually treat as an adult. I give them 5,000 international units of vitamin D with K2. I do believe that Juice Plus is very adequate along with vitamin D. I think those two items, I am in support of iodine supplementation as well in children. Anywhere from 6-milligrams a day for their diet up to 12-milligrams a day. The multimineral should be rich in their food. But you can give them a multi-mineral as well. What do we use? We use our Energy Core. For the 5-year-old, one a day. For the 8 and 10 year old, I would use two a day. And for mom and dad, I would use four a day. Those are just ranges for that typical average age group that I would use. The 5-year-old, I would probably put on 2.5 international units of DK3 with the vitamin K. 

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“A friend of mine has many fatty lumps all over his body. Some of these lumps are painful since they are embedded in ligaments and muscle tissue. As his weight has gone up so have the number of lumps. What can he do to reduce these lumps besides improving his diet and exercising more regularly? Also, these lumps are very common in his extended family, both thin and heavy in weight.” [0:54:27]

Answer

That is usually associated with a high carbohydrate lifestyle and hypertriglyceridemia. It is all carbohydrate, insulin-mediated. They are usually always associated with the skin and tissue. There is neurofibromatosis. There are other things that a doctor could see and address this. 99% of them are always just like pomas from eating a high-carb diet. 

Well, it's very, very difficult. Just for his life extension, he needs to be on an extremely low-carb diet and exercise, take systemic enzymes, and probably L-carnitine which helps shuttle with fatty acid from the triglycerides, which are fatty acids when they're being digested to burn them up and alpha lipoic acid. We have a TLC metabolic formula that has the berberine and the alpha lipoic acid and a few other items that helps with sugar metabolism. But he needs to see a doctor that's going to look at his blood sugar fasting insulin, triglycerides, and fructose amine. He needs to intermittent fasting and just follow that very closely with his doctor.

Question

“My husband who suffered an MIA 10 years ago resulting in a stent placement, was recently found with a calcium score >800 on an EBCT test... His cardiologist said the nuclear stress test was okay. How alarming is this finding? Any suggestions? What he can do about it? Is it reversible?” [0:56:00]

Answer

 It’s going to be all the things that you know already. He should probably be going into EDTA chelation therapy once a week, get a challenge so we get a heavy metal total of his very first EDTA infusion of calcium disodium of EDTA. And then see what his heavy metal oxidative stress load burden is. Do that chelation, which improves microcirculation. Be on K4s, two of them, which will give him a total of 10,000 vitamin D, and 180 and 180 would be 360 micrograms of a high-quality MK7 which will help with calcium deposits. He needs to be extremely low-carb. He needs to have a cardiologist clear him for exercise. He needs to have a regular program. Have his fasting insulin and triglycerides checked every eight weeks to make sure they get to a management level of where triglyceride is no higher than his HDL. Typically, HDL is around 50, or 60. You want your triglycerides 50, 60. And then you want the fasting blood sugar to be 85. You want the triglycerides, I already said 50 and 60. You want the insulin to be four or less. You want the hemoglobin A1C to be 5.2 or less. And you want an IR, which is a one or less, your fasting blood sugar times your fasting insulin divided by 405 in American milligrams per deciliter.

And then after he gets 30 IVs, then I would repeat the challenge. He will probably need another 30 IVs over the course of six months. A year out, after you did 60 IVs, I would do another CT scan to see if it is at 800 or dropping any. Certainly, that it is not increasing. So, if it stays stable, slowly bring it down, yes, I have seen it come down. And then, using systemic enzymes, find his blood type, and do a stool study to look for chronic inflammatory bowel low-grade levels causing this. Get any dental work taken care of, and root canals pulled out. 

Question

“Do you recommend Ozempic for weight loss?: [0:59:17]

Answer

Absolutely not. I don’t. It’s a new drug. It’s a GLP1 agonist. You need to be on a low carbohydrate diet and you need to take healthy fats in and exercise. That’s God’s natural Ozempic. 

Question

“My teen boys are dealing with acne. Would you recommend? Not wanting to do chemical products. Willing to do any diet you recommend or natural cleaners. [0:59:42]

Answer

Yeah, the low-carb diet it's an absolute killer to the skin of teenage boys. And then I would get that Argenton clear liquid and spray their face every night to decrease the bacterial count on their face and so forth, they could do it morning and evening. 

Question

“I’m on hormone replacement. Taking NP Thyroid, progesterone, and the patch. For many years, I was on hormones that worked well, and that were from a compounding pharmacy. I believe in going more natural, than going the pharmaceutical route. It seems that the patch is pharmaceutical. Is there an alternative that you might recommend? (Seeing Dr Cindy for Gyno)” [1:00:12]

Answer

It does have latex and adhesives, it’s an unnatural kind of delivery technique. But the estradiol in the patch is natural. 

I use here the natural estradiol cream. We make it ourselves. We are compounding here. It’s just a simple base not with a lot of components in it with the estradiol. Very unreactive. Very innerate. You can adjust the dose instead of trying to cut up patches or rewrite prescriptions. It is an amount of cream. I think it’s important to balance it with progesterone. We have the progesterone as a cream or oral as well. 

Question

“Is there reasonable value for a patient to determine if they have APOE-B gene?” [1:01:21]

Answer

I don’t think so. We can go chasing genes down. I would do a methylated B complex, because how are you going to treat even if you had APOE, all four snips of this signature? You have to take methylated B. APOE-4 and the risk of Alzheimer's is associated with not being able to methylate things. Methylation is a cancer prevention, it is repairing your body, many cardiovascular benefits. So, take methylated B complex every day of your life. I would take the SAMI and methylated B every day of my life. And just enjoy your life. There is nothing else you can do, except for exercise, a low-carb diet, and take the things that will mitigate some of those snips. I’m telling you, I have seen many patients over 40 years, if they do this, in my life here of thousands and thousands of patients with 40 years of seeing them, lots of them with the APOE-B gene snips, I have never seen them go wrong. 

Question

“Is the glucose ketone index (GKI) a helpful and reliable measurement/ratio for both Type 2 diabetics and insulin-resistant people? Is Homeostatic Model Assessment for Insulin Resistance (HOMA-IR) I should be monitoring in diabetes management?” [1:02:56]

Answer

Yes. That's the Homa IR. 

You can get all caught up with numbers and gimmicks. You have to eat more humble. You have to discipline yourself, do intermittent fasting, exercise, control your time of eating window, and never eat late. So, try and eat in a six-hour window, and find out your blood type. Some people do need digestive enzymes to help them extract the fats. If you're a blood type A, you might have trouble digesting fats, and yet you need it. And so, to go on a low carbohydrate diet, you have to learn to eat your proteins with fat, you might need the digestive enzyme.

But essentially you should work with your doctor to be tracking every six months or every three months you could track your fasting blood sugar, triglyceride, insulin, hemoglobin A1C, and that shouldn't be enough for you to know where you're at. You could pretty much cover everything if you keep your fasting blood sugar under 85, your triglycerides somewhere in the 60 range or less, your insulin in the 4.0 range or less fasting, and your hemoglobin A1C at 5.2. If you're in that zone, you are fine. Your Homa IR will be fine. You don’t need to worry about glucose, ketone index studies, or all of that. Just check your blood sugars and keep your lifestyle all the time. 

Question

“What formulation do you recommend for estrogen and progesterone? What ages, post-hysterectomy, recommended transdermal estrogen and micronized progesterone? Are your formulations bioidentical?” [1:04:58]

Answer

Yes, they are bioidentical. I think the capsule of progesterone is just fine to take orally. For progesterone, 100, 200, 400 milligrams of progesterone. The topical estradiol, we start at 4 milligrams per milliliter, or gram. One-click on the click is ¼ of a gram. So, if you have four clicks, you click out four parts of one milliliter which means if it is a four milligram per milliliter, each click is one milligram. Four clicks is four milligrams per milliliter. So, we can play with those adjustments there. We like to put them on the bloody vessels on the inside of your wrist. I put my estradiol on my face. And there are other places where you can put it. We do have more concentrated estradiol creams in case we need a higher dose. I have never seen in decades anything that I couldn’t manage with four milligrams per ML or six milligrams per ML. Just works so beautifully and nicely. The cream is just a beautiful, hypoallergenic, natural base as well. That is what we do.