YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, August 27, 2024

Question 

“My daughter is 33 weeks pregnant. Her OB recommends she get a TDAP vaccine (tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccine). Your thoughts. Thank you and God bless.”  [0:02:37]

Answer

I've been practicing medicine for 43 years and in those 43 years I was always taught you do not vaccinate pregnant women. And so, I'm going to stay in that zone. I also have done so much studying on this issue. If you read the book ‘Dissolving Illusions’ by Suzanne Humphries, M.D., she wrote an absolute volume of information and reference points, going through the entire history and development over the past 2-300 years from several countries on the history of vaccinations and the research and data concerning its impact. And then if you compare it with having peace and prosperity and not warring and opening up trade and getting fruits and ships and vegetables and oranges to the population in the higher latitudes that don't have tropics or fruit, you'll see that as nutrition and peace and sanitation and plumbing and cleanliness developed, these diseases dissolved away on their own without and before. The decline was already there, showing long before the institution of these vaccinations, the cleaning up of the infectious diseases. So, the name of the book is ‘Dissolving Illusions’. The author is medical doctor Suzanne Humpries. I would get that book. You could go to the internet and put up the statement, something like ‘Dissolving Illusions graph’. So, she has the graphs in there, going all the way back to the 1850s, and she'll show you country by country and the various smallpox, measles, tuberculosis, diphtheria, pertussis, all these things, and then you'll find the impact that right around the turn of the century 1900 to, and then certainly by World War II, there was such a drop off in the 1940s of these diseases, and that's long before these vaccines came in. You'll enjoy looking at ‘Dissolving illusions graphs’ as an internet search, and you'll see that there. I hope that's a blessing to you. But no, I don't give that out to pregnant people.  

Question 

“Hi doctor, my friend has had a persisting sore and dry throat for a few days. It seems to potentially be getting worse. Could vitamin C every half hour help? If so, can you explain to me why? My friend who had bronchitis did that and it seemed to help. Thank you and God bless.”  [0:05:54]

Answer

Could vitamin C every half hour help? The answer would be yes, especially if it has anything to do with viral allergies or infectious etiologies, it certainly wouldn't harm anyone, and it would certainly help him because we are technically people that are vitamin C deficient, as a general rule.  

Well, vitamin C is a powerful antiviral. It has immune enhancement. It works as an antioxidant. And so, as your immune system gets a breather or helps from having the viruses be suppressed with a peak of this water-soluble vitamin C ascorbic acid, it allows the innate immune system, that your T cells, to do their job and to attack if there's any specific entity that's creating an infectious sore throat, be it viral or even bacterial. So, vitamin C is very valuable and works as a pro-oxidant, meaning at low levels it's an antioxidant, at high levels it's a pro-oxidant and very well able to kill these invading pathogens. So, that's basically why.  

Now, another thing about a persisting sore throat, I don't know the age or the comorbidities, but some people get a sore throat from silent reflux of acid. They're eating too late at night. Eating late at night typically is associated with hurting yourself and depressing your immune system. So, I would be very careful about eating late and not lying down after eating. I would avoid a high-carb diet because the typical American diet is so full of excess carbs that it suppresses the immune system. So, that would be another thing to look at.  

The other thing we do is we give Phospholipids with SBI Protect. SBI Protect is serum bovine immunoglobulins and the anti-viral/antibacterial immunoglobulin in our saliva is IgA, and this is what's in serum bovine immunoglobulin. So, if you take it as a powder and mix it as a drink, maybe mix it with Phospholipids that help heal the lining of the gut, the phospholipids. Remember, I'm always showing you that these phospholipids here, these double layers of fats, so the upper and the lower levels, they look like these things hanging down. That's what's in your meat, your egg yolks, your chicken with the skin on it, your fish, your pork, your lobster, your sardines, all these things, and this helps to repair wherever there might be a break. So, we mix the Phospholipids in with the serum bovine immunoglobulin, and it lines like a soothing area, especially if this is caused by the inflammation/damage of silent acid reflux into the upper pharynx area. But again, they should see their doctor if it's worsening or persistent or lasting a long time. 

Question 

“Should women over 75 take calcium supplements? What kind and how much? With or without food?”  [0:10:11]

Answer

I've never done that. And I'm in my 70s and I have so many women in their 80s with normal bone densities. So, the question is why aren't you getting it from your food? So, calcium is very rich in meat and fish and chicken and pork and sardines and lobster and eggs and, and the like. So by eating these things, you should be able to get the adequate amount you need. Now, as we age, our digestion diminishes our ability to chop up the proteins and fats. And so, elderly people usually have a lot of dental problems. They don't chew well. Then all they want is sugar, pudding, ice cream, pancakes tapioca, and this hastens their death because we're not made of sugar, we're made of fat and protein. So, I would give Digestive Enzymes. We take Digestzyme or the digestive enzymes that have betaine hydrochloric acid, as well as digestive enzymes when we eat our food, so that it goes into our stomach, we take the enzymes, and it helps chop all this up, so that you can extract out the minerals and the phospholipids for repair. 

Now, the other thing for bone density is you want to exercise. If you don't do, like I'm going to do weightlifting right when this program is over, and I'm going to be pushing some pretty heavy weights for a good while, and that will help build and put some stress, piezoelectric stimuli to my muscles and the attachment, so that I'm able to tell my bones that I'm alive and they should continue to remodel and to work with it. I'd rather be more concerned about the vitamin D level and your K2 level. So, no, I never supplement with calcium. I do have a TLC Multimineral that has a broad spectrum of many Albion chelated, amino acid chelated minerals to make sure you're getting in selenium and magnesium and boron and manganese, and there is some calcium in that one product, and then, of course, your multivitamin-mineral, TLC Energy Core, Mitocore, these have it in there. But it's not meant to be some supplement. When I started practicing medicine back in the late '70s, all they were saying then or in the '80s, give people 250 mg, and 500 mg of supplemental calcium because we're having so much bone loss. And then it went from 500 to 1000 mg, then it went from 500 mg or 1000 mg to 1500 mg of calcium.

No, I saw them saying use more, use more, use more, and the bone densities were going down. And I just didn't play that game. I just said you get out there, you do some exercise, you do some stomping and some muscle weight resistance work, you take your vitamin D and your vitamin K and get your vitamin D levels measured, so you're at least in the 80 range for your vitamin D with K2. So, that's how we do it. So no, I never give calcium supplements. 

Question 

“Last Thursday, mailed an empty bottle to you of a product I ordered 2 yrs, 3 months ago. It’s a ‘GHR’, Growth Hormone Releaser. I ordered 5-28-22. Don’t remember why I have not used it yet. Do you think this product has any nutritional value for my body left in its capsules? And if these are still useful, do u think GHR is good for me and how is it good for me?”  [0:14:02]

Answer

I wouldn't use anything over the internet. I don't have that to evaluate, maybe it’ll get here. But in general, growth hormone is stimulated when we don't eat late at night. So, the older you get, the earlier you should eat. For instance, aging would be to have someone who had become more like a carnivore Aging would be someone who does weight training regularly. Aging would be someone who would always eat, let's say, breakfast and lunch and not eat late at night. So, don't eat late at night, eat mostly proteins, and do weight training. All these things, with intermittent fasting and having an empty stomach when you go to bed, help with your body’s circadian rhythm in releasing your own human growth hormone factors. 

Another thing to do would be to get up early in the morning with sunrise. Put your feet in the bare wet grass in the morning with sunrise, so that that infrared light will come to you and you'll get the earthing or grounding in the wet grass with your feet. That helps with your envelope of the water surrounding every cell membrane in your body. It'll help with the electric potential over every cell membrane. It helps with your circadian rhythm, which will help you if you don't eat a big amount of food or eat late at night because if you have a lot of stuff in your stomach, that's going to counteract your brain signals that want to be working on your muscles and bones while you're resting. If you dump a load of food late into your stomach, and I think eating anything past 6 o'clock is late, then your brain is going to see that food and not release growth factors. Also, exercise, weight training, weight lifting, and doing this no less than twice a week for half an hour. I do it three times a week for that, some aerobic training, staying limber and adequately hydrated. These are the ways I would be concerned about supporting my growth hormone level as opposed to trying to buy some products and certainly, I can't support things from the internet that I haven't clinically tried or that the company doesn't have a good science and clinical research referencing on their product. So don't. I wouldn't use it. 

Question 

“Recommendations for Restless Leg Syndrome for a 90-year-old elderly woman.”  [0:17:26]

Answer

Most 90-year-old elderly women are inactive, and the more inactive you are, the more you're going to have cell membrane breakdown, these injury sites right here. So, you're going to have more of that. Young people are like this. So, motion during the day, walking, moving, getting to be standing and then stand up and then sit down and stand up and sit down as they can tolerate or helping them to exercise. And not being hydrated. Being dehydrated promotes cell death and to support hurting your membranes. Trying to help them get richer proteins into their diet, so they can repair these little damaged spots. So, you want to be repairing these damaged areas in your diet with your meat, fish, egg yolks, stuff like that, and with a digestive enzyme, and then giving them minerals. I mentioned before the TLC Multi-Mineral. Very often extra magnesium, selenium, manganese, and these types of minerals are depleted because they have so many holes with aging poked into their cell membranes.

They're leaking out. There are minerals and there are salts. I would make sure they're getting enough salt. You could get some Celtic Himalayan salt and put a pinch in their water. I would learn about structured water. I would have them drink structured water. You can go to Dr. Gerald Pollack on YouTube. He's a PhD and he does a lot of research on muscle contraction. And of course, he'll support the mineral recommendations. But he'll greatly support what is called structured water or exclusion zone water. And that's where I've been showing you over the past month or two about my Analemma wand, which is this. It's all full of structured water. And when I put it in my glass like this and I swirl it, the crystal in there teaches the water to become a little bit more viscous, a little thicker, and it will help envelope every cell in my body, the 40 trillion or so cells that we have, which will create a better electrical differentiation over the membrane. You're supposed to have about 90 micromillivolts across your membranes to do their work and give you vitality and energy. And that's why if you go out in the morning, if you can take your 90-year-old elderly woman and have her stand for a minute and a half, or just if she's in a wheelchair, wheel her outside at dawn and take your shoes off and let her feet rest in the grass, the wet grass for a minute and a half to three minutes every morning and let the long infrared go right through her bone, her skull, her tissues. Take her glasses off so it'll go through her eyes and let that infrared penetrate her body for a few minutes and get yourself one of these www.Analemma-water.com wands. It's about $170. And get her to drink that. So, hydrating her, giving her the minerals, getting her feet in the wet dew in the morning, and that light, that infrared far-red light from the rising sun in the morning is the most concentrated and impactful for just a minute and a half to three minutes. And then get her to eat the repair materials in soft scrambled eggs with some butter, salt, and pepper, a little Celtic salt. That should help her. And at night, once in a while, I get cramps and then if I start to, I make sure I'm well hydrated because hydration is very important and I would use this structured water. Remember that's Dr Gerald Pollack on YouTube, the electrical structure of water. Watch that. So, hydrate them, give them some minerals, puts a pinch of Celtic salt, and get on their soft scrambled eggs and get those good things in them, and that's what I would recommend.

Question

“What is your thought on taking activated charcoal for stomach upset and/or to control loose bowels?”  [0:22:30]

Answer

No, I'm not in favor of charcoal for that. Charcoal is really designed to if you get exposed to a toxin and it will help you to prevent that from being absorbed. You need to see your doctor. Find out whatever is causing your diarrhea, what your blood type is, what good bacteria pre- and probiotics that you're taking, and things like that. This is what you need to be focusing on, not some item like charcoal. So, you have to look at your diet and make sure, remember there's only a single membrane. This is one membrane. Remember folks, that's the membrane. This area is just the cell membrane, and that's the only division you have from the outside world. So, your acid soda pops, your alcohol, your even maybe coffee, if that's hard on you, your spicy foods. You have that one-cell membrane separating you from your stomach through your gastrointestinal tube. So, no wonder it breaks down and we get leaky gut and we get inflammatory bowel disease in so many, many, many issues and diseases. 

Question 

“I need a quick and easy protein supplement. Bars and powders for smoothies are my best options. I am sodium-restricted due to heart failure, so most bars don't work.  Is there a protein powder supplement for those of us who are economically challenged?”  [0:24:02]

Answer

I don't know of one off hand, but I honestly would buy 4 pounds of hamburger and I would put them in little mini balls, you know, just kind of take the bowl and put some garlic powder, onion powder. You might put in a packet of maybe some chili mix or taco mix, and mooch that with an egg or two. Well, if that's 4 pounds, I would use like three eggs, and make this meat with the egg and the seasonings and make tiny little balls, and cook them up, fry them up, or just put them on a big tray in your oven, and you get these little bite sizes of protein. And they're pretty tasty and I like them. So, I will do that. I'll buy maybe a bunch of chicken legs or chicken thighs, and I'll sprinkle them with some paprika, onion, garlic powder, salt, and pepper, and I might use an egg paste on them and I'll cook up 20 of them, or 30 of them on a tray. So, I'll have a tray of chicken and then I'll have a tray of my little meatballs. And then very often I'll do pork chops. And what else do I do…there's one other thing. Oh, bacon. I have another tray in which I lay my bacon out like that. 

So, I bring real food. I don't like buying stuff that's processed. So, I work very hard and I take the time twice a month to go out and go to the store. I usually go to Sprouts to get as grass-fed as I can, natural things. I also use ButcherBox, and now I use Meriwether Farms for my meat. And I'll just get a bunch of it and I'll cook up a lot and then I get my little Ziploc bags and I'll put a bunch in my freezer. And so, when I come to work in the morning, I grab some chicken or I'll grab some hamburger little balls or I'll grab some bacon, or I'll grab some chicken or pork chop pieces. And by the time lunch hour is here, it'll have thawed from being frozen, and I'll just bite on it. I have a little mini refrigerator in here, and I have mayonnaise in there. So, that's no carb. And I'll dip it in mayonnaise if I think it's too dry. And that's what I eat. You know, I'm not here to entertain myself. I'm here to eat well and to try and stay well to help my patients, and my family and serve God. 

Okay. So, I'm sorry, I don't recommend these powders. I have some powders here. But again, they're fancy dancy and higher cost and I never use them. I just don't use them, sorry. And this way, there are no carbs in them. 

Question 

“Hello, Beautiful lady. 

What do you recommend for an ear fungus? Argentyn silver? And how much, if yes? How about Tea Tree oil? Thank you! And God Bless you.”  [0:27:58]

Answer

Now, an ear fungus is a serious thing, and any of these things, if you're not improving with these simple natural suggestions, you need to see your local doctor and have it looked at. This would be something I would want to see, and what's going on in your ear. Yes, in general, Argentyn acts as an antifungal. There's no limit to how much you can put in there. There are eardrops that you can, in a dropper mechanism, you can put drops in your ear, but that has to be watched by a physician and managed, and maybe cultures need to be taken or maybe you already had that, if you know it is a fungus. But really fungus needs to be dry and with good air circulation and it needs to be in a low-carb body. And so, there's just so many things that I would want to ask and look at, I would want to be seen by a doctor and managed for that.  

Question 

“Can insulin resistance be determined by looking at insulin level and hemoglobin A1C from a blood draw?”  [0:29:26]

Answer 

It can be inferred. Really, insulin resistance is done by what we call a HOMA IR, and that is the number where you take your fasting blood sugar times your fasting insulin, and in American medicine, you divide that by 405. If you're in European numbers/metrics, you would take your fasting glucose and insulin and divide it by 22.4. But let's say your fasting blood sugar is 100 and your insulin is 6. Well, then you multiply that, that's 600. If you divide that by 405, it goes in 1.3 or four times. Anything above a 1 is insulin resistance. So, more important would be fasting blood sugar, fasting insulin divided by 405 in American lab units, and that's what I would say. 

Now, hemoglobin A1C is a long-term amount of glucose sticking to the protein hemoglobin. Not sticking to all the other proteins. It's just the hemoglobin is easy to collect in a blood sample and get an assay on it. But if you have 5 percent of all your hemoglobin stuck with sugar on it, It's going to inhibit the function of that wonderful oxygen-carrying protein. So, the higher your percent of hemoglobin A1C is really sticking to everything, and your lens, the beautiful lens in your eye, and it makes those proteins stick and you get cataracts from that. So yeah, you need to have low carbs, and the formula is fasting insulin times your fasting glucose divided by 405, and that needs to be under 1. And really, the only way you can get that number, you know, I've always been telling my patients, I want your fasting blood sugar to be 85. Many people will remember that about me. And now you realize that if your fasting blood sugar is 100 and your insulin is a 6, and most doctors call that normal, and that total is 600 multiplied together. So you know you're already onto insulin resistance and disease through your doctor's visits who don't study these things and look into them. That's why I'm always called so hard and severe on my patients and myself because I demand fasting blood sugars, 85 or less, and insulins 4 or less and some three or less. So, you'll never be over 1 if you're 85 times 4. It'll never happen. You'll be not insulin resistance and then divide that by 405. So, see, there's a method to my madness. 

Question 

“My friend, your patient, is scheduled biopsy for prostate cancer even though the specialist doctor said it’s unlikely he has cancer from a physical exam, and the lab test results of 4.1 were revealed in your office. I think this is unnecessarily risky because biopsies, I heard, can actually spread cancers that would otherwise be contained as a tumor. Your thoughts?”  [0:33:04] 

Answer

Well, I don't know who this is, but for a person with a PSA of 4. 1 and a normal digital rectal exam in the anus on a man to feel the prostate, I would be concerned about being overly aggressive. So, if he is my patient, as you said in your question, have him call the office and leave a message with my nurse, Teri so that I can pull up his chart and figure out what's going on. Yeah. I don't think we should be doing invasive biopsies unless we have a real concern. There could be other outlying issues. Maybe he felt something or a big nodule in the prostate. Maybe he had a percent free and total PSA that were concerning. So, I'm not saying not to obey and follow through, but if he is my patient, I would like to look into that. So, have him call my office here with Teri, so I can get his name and look in his chart. 

Question 

“Can Vitalzym Xe be taken at bedtime instead of morning? I understand that you can't eat for an hour before, which includes morning coffee.”  [0:35:02]

Answer

Yes, absolutely. I do it every night. No, I take my morning coffee and I swallow my Vitalzym down with it. My morning coffee with my Vitalzym. But I am drinking several glasses of my water. I mean, big glasses. So, no, don't get yourself all tied up in a what-over. The only thing you have to worry about is you take digestive enzymes, Digestzyme. So, this would be my digestive enzyme. And you take that after you eat a meal or during the eating of a meal, that's with food. And then the Systemic Enzymes have to be on an empty stomach. So, I take my first thing in the morning, 5:30 to 6 o'clock in the morning, and I usually don't eat until two 2:00 or 3:00 in the afternoon anyway. So, that's a long time of emptiness. And then, I'll take it again around 9:30 or 10:00 as I go to bed. So, systemic is empty, digestive enzymes are with your meal, and yes, you can take it with coffee.

Question 

“Dissolving Illusions by Suzanne Humphries.”  [0:36:30]

Answer 

That's the correct one, yes.  

Question

“Hi. Dr. Rita, my mom is 73 and has high blood sugar and cholesterol. She changed her diet about three months ago. Her fasting glucose is higher in the morning than in the afternoon. Why is that?”  [0:37:02] 

Answer

Well, there's a lot to have to know about your mother than to just say that in particular. Is she on beta blockers? Beta-blockers can raise your blood sugar. Does she get outside in the sun? Infrared helps lower blood sugars. If she doesn't get outside very much, that'll be a problem, especially in the morning. Does she drink enough water? Is she doing exercise? What is in her diet? You said she changed her diet, but she might have changed it and gone to more whole foods, but they're richer in carbohydrates. She might be eating more fruits and more vegetables like yams and beets that are very high in sugar, maybe bananas. So look, it's just too difficult with a number like that and her age to say any one thing. Is she on any steroids? These are various things that need to be evaluated, and I can't give you any more thoughts that run through my mind. So, have her see a doctor and discuss it and keep a log of her diet and her activities and the time she goes to sleep and the time she gets up because these stressors, cortisol, stress can raise up the blood sugars, things like that. 

Question 

“I'm curious if the chelation challenge is safe for someone with hip replacement. I have it scheduled for November. I just want to be sure. Thank you.”  [0:39:32]

Answer

The answer is yes.  Absolutely. In fact, there are those who would argue that everyone who has surgery should have IV chelation the day before or the day off because it helps prevent blood clots and other damaging effects. If you watch the YouTube TACT Update 2019 with Dr. Lamas, that represents a trial to assess chelation therapy. So, the anachronism is TACT Update 2019 with Dr. Lamas. When you pull that up, if you scroll down, you should see right under it a few videos below it, there's one called Chelation Therapy Data Review and Development: An Inside Look with Dr. Dorothy Merritt, M D. That is absolutely knockout, wonderful to watch on chelation therapy, and it'll talk to you about how life-saving that is. They did studies on I think it was rats, and they tied the renal artery and tied it off, shut off the blood flow to the kidney. And then they had another rat group and they gave him chelation therapy, and then they tied off the renal artery, and then they sacrificed them, I guess, a set amount of time later on. And what happened was the ones who didn't get chelation therapy, their kidneys showed a breakdown of the glomeruli and the kidney tissue structure significantly. For the ones who got chelation therapy, it was very, almost impossible to see any damage to the kidney compared to the two groups. So, the same rats, both had their arteries tied off at the same time and then after some period of time, I don't remember how long it was, then they sacrificed the rats. The ones who didn't have chelation, their kidneys were all hurt by the lack of blood supply. The ones who got the EDTA chelation almost had no kidney damage. So, I have that study in a handout here. It's a summary of the benefits of EDTA chelation therapy. So, if you ask the front office for our handout, I have that reference article in there and you can look it up. 

Question 

“Recommendations for labile high blood pressure other than Losartan 25 mg?”  [0:43:01]

Answer

Are you well hydrated? And now that we understand the great importance of the envelope of that exclusion zone water over every cell in your body, and how important that electrochemical difference is, hydration with water is critical. But then if you can get this as structured water and do that, that would even be better. Watch the YouTube Dr. Gerald Pollack, The Electrical Structure of Water, and it'll blow your mind about blood flow and resistance and lowering your blood pressure. Of course, exercise would be critical, both some resistance and aerobic training at least twice a week for a half an hour bare, bare minimum. I do my weight training three times a week, and then my aerobics the other days. A low-carb diet, a good night's sleep, and a consideration of magnesium supplementation. So, there are many things. Then chelation therapy would be another thing. These would be recommendations for a labile high blood pressure other than Losartan. I would get outside in the morning at sunrise with my bare feet in the grass for 2 to 3 minutes and just stand there and let the electrons from the earth come into your body, help all the enveloping of your cells and help you and it will set your circadian rhythm. It'll help lower your cortisol. It'll help the depth of your sleep at night. And if you're hydrating enough, it will help you with making structured water in your own body. But you can assist yourself with, like I said, this water wand called the Analemma water wand. 

Question 

“Leptin/insulin resistance/Menopause- 55-year-old, healthy eating, type O, menopause, high stress in past/cortisol issues/adrenal, subclinical hypothyroid. Suggestions for getting the weight to come off. My problem is not what I eat but probably that I do not eat enough, or didn't for years. Tried carnivore and didn't lose a pound.”  [0:45:30]

Answer

Yeah, there is a situation that does sound like, and I've seen even very obese people, they eat very little. If they do the calorie counting, they’ll be 750, 800 calories and they still don't lose weight, and one of the things is high cortisol chronic stress is going to just prevent that leptin adiponectin glucagon feedback cycle satiation in eating, and then you lower the amount of calories you eat trying to lose, you might even exercise some, and that just adds stress. This has turned into too much of a stress feedback in your body and you wind up retaining the weight just from all the stress of your life. So, it could be in order to lose weight, you need to eat more food. Now, you can't be overly liberal with this, but you need to maybe have some carbohydrates. So, some people who go pure carnivore, lose some weight, then they hit a plateau, and I don't tell them not to eat some carbohydrates. Maybe some raspberries maybe some squash, some cooked vegetables, asparagus, green beans, broccoli buttered up, salted, and peppered, and then they start to have another breakthrough. So, the body with low carb might flip that into an excess stress response and then you can't lose weight because of the cortisol blocking. So, I would try eating a cautious amount of healthy real food complex carbohydrates and with a generous portion of your healthy fat and protein. And I would shift to eating breakfast and lunch as opposed to dinner, add in your exercise, and then see if that will help you.

Question 

“Hi! Is Vascuzyme considered an SPM? I’m guessing it is by the article I was reading. Would it be good for high blood pressure? And what supplement do you recommend for occasional high blood pressure? Not super high. Thanks!”  [0:48:25] 

Answer

Well, I don't know what SPM, that anachronism stands for. So, you're going to have to type it in, or if you're live let me know because I don't know what it stands for. Yes, Vascuzyme is a systemic enzyme, and it improves microcirculation which will enhance blood flow. But now we're learning about infrared light, the circadian rhythm, the structured water enveloping every cell membrane in your body, and the critical need for hydration. So, I'm going to say that, with the exercise on the TLC Multi Mineral to get some Albion magnesium in you, that would be the direction I would go.

Question 

“I’m 59 and in good health, exercise, on HRT, organic diet, no alcohol or drugs, drink lots of water but am getting lots of spider veins on ankles, smaller varicose veins on calves and now a vein in my thigh is hurting but not visible. My heels are getting dry and cracked, also. Could it be a liver issue or bad valves? Appreciate your guidance.”  [0:49:44]

Answer

I'm going to tell you the most common thing, and that is it’s just age. As we age, the thickness of our skin gets thinner, and with that thinner skin, the little venules and blood vessels that were always there but had a higher cushion of robust elastin collagen and fibrin and tissue are now thinned out, and so then you can start to see these spider veins show up. Also, this is very often maybe some expression of a vitamin C deficiency or borderline deficiency which leads to the elastin collagen breaking apart. Vitamin C with hyaluronic and enzymatic action makes strong elastin collagen tissues so that you don't get aneurysms blown out or diverticula or varicose veins. So those are some of the thoughts I would share with you about your tissue and things like that. Grounding/earthing is another thing that helps blood vasculature and adequate hydration. So that's the direction I would go in. And I would get my hormone levels measured. You might be on hormone replacement therapy, but it's too little or chronically still low. So, look at those things. 

Question 

“Hello Dr. Ellithorpe, my father is experiencing hearing loss, he also has tinnitus (ringing in the ears). He took a hearing test and it was below normal levels. He is going to look into getting a hearing aid, but I am curious if you have any advice or recommendations on hearing aids or other methods that could help him.  Thank you.”  [0:51:46]

Answer

Other than the healthy lifestyle things that we talk about, I think I know who you are because it's a unique name, and I would look toward having your dad get to a functional integrative doctor. Chelation therapy will help the microcirculation into the hearing apparatus all throughout the body, but in this case, also it'll reduce heavy metal toxic levels in your body and the burden. Adequate hydration. Those are the directions that I would go in, and not clogging it up with a high-carb diet. And that's the direction I would go. Get some chelation. 

Question 

“I was a long-time patient of yours before moving out of state. I used to get calcium disodium 1500 mg EDTA suppositories from your store, and before that from a compounding pharmacy. I haven't found any here. There are several on the internet: Detoxamin, Kelatox, and Kelamin. Do you know about these? Any suggestions? No ACAM doctors within 3 hours.”  [0:53:04] 

Answer

EDTA chelation is a prescription medicine and it's illegal to make this available on the Internet because it's a prescription medicine. So, I am very dubious about these resources. The old brand name that I used to work with was Detoxamin for calcium disodium EDTA. But in America, you cannot sell this. So, if there's some internet, a foreign source you're getting it from, I can't verify it's a good product or anything. So, I'm cautious. If you can make it out here and re-inactivate your chart or see one of our doctors here, we could probably order it and have it made for you by a compounding pharmacist. But that's the best thing I can suggest.

Question 

“My husband Jerry is a healthy 54-year-old man who developed shingles a week ago on his left arm and shoulder only. Although they have scabbed over, there is still some pain and discomfort. His primary doctor treated him with 2 medications, Gabapentin 300 mg and Valacyclovir 1 gm. Also suggested Advil. My question is what would your method of treatment have been?”  [0:54:50] 

Answer

I would have put him on high-dose vitamin C IVs, and I would have done a series of three that very first week. And then I would have had him, you know, really probably fast the first 24 to 48 hours, so that his whole immune system could work on that viral outbreak along that one nerve line. I would have him on the Vitalzym to disinflame it and help clean up the debris and inflammation. Fasting the two days. Things like chicken broth, beef broth, just clear liquid, see-through chicken, and beef broth nice warmed up and sipping on and relaxing with it and taking some enzymes, anti-inflammatory. I would have given him a high dose of vitamin D, probably 50,000 IU once a day for five days. And then if he wasn't better within two days, I would probably give a prescription of the Valacyclovir which is a prescription drug antiviral agent. Quercetin is another natural antihistamine capsule that works as an antiviral, and the multi-mineral with zinc in it also helps. So that's the direction I would have gone. 

Question 

“Can you touch on pre-, pro-, and post-biotics, and how to get all of them in your diet? Post-biotics are new to my ears. What is their benefit to the digestive tract? Thank you for taking valuable time to help us all!”  [0:56:56]

Answer

Prebiotics would be taking the food that feeds good bacteria. So, if you have onions, what else…avocado, these are vegetable pasty items. So, I guess I would have to go on. I eat lots of onions if I'm going to eat anything that's a vegetable and go off my carnivore diet, but it is the food for which good bacteria eat. So, onions, garlic, avocado, inulin, this kind of stuff helps feed the bacteria, this organic material. Then the probiotics are the good living bacteria. And the postbiotics are stuff like when all this digestion is done, there are short-chain fatty acids. There's the vitamin K2 that is made from this digestive process. There are B vitamins made. There are various chemical by-products that help suppress bacterial endotoxins toxic stuff that some of the bad bacteria make. So, there's an entire ecosystem living in your gut. So eating a low-carb diet, getting in certain prebiotic organic materials from eating the avocado or the onion or the leeks or the garlic, taking in probiotics in yogurts, and taking in fermented foods that are rich in probiotics. And then in the digestive process, with Digestive Enzymes, especially as you get older, it helps you chop them up so you make the postbiotics, which are the short-chain fatty acids and other biochemical products that help fight off endotoxins and other materials. That’s what it is.