YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, December 10th, 2024

Question

“Hi, Dr. E. I'm a 37-year-old woman who struggles with high LDL and low HDL cholesterol. What is the best supplement to help improve HDL?”  [0:04:28]

Answer

The best supplement to improve HDL is supplementing your activities with weightlifting and going to the gym two to three times a week because exercise is probably one of the best stimulants to bring your HDL (High-Density Lipoproteins) up to higher, more protective levels. So there's just a tremendous amount of benefits, not to mention building up your muscle mass, because at 37 years old, you are at the cusp of building the maximum amount of muscle mass you're going to ever have in your life, and then you start losing it from there on, unless you start doing weight training and doing resistance training with lifting weights, as I will be doing here very shortly within the next hour. Then, the other thing is I'm going to suggest the Clinician's Preference Oil contains the linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids that are produced so that they will not become rancid. We'll get the name and the claim for fish oils, but if you really understand human physiology and fat metabolism, it is linoleic acid that is not oxidized. That is so essential for cell membrane health and longevity. In fact, I think it was 1929 when it was first discovered by a professor and his wife. These two biochemists, in the great explosion of nutrient research, was in the early 20th century, in 1929, a male and female, married couple, biochemists, did animal studies and they denied the animals all the fats, and then they saw the illness and death rate of the animals. And then they started adding the known fatty acids back in. And when they found linoleic acid, they said that this is an essential fatty acid of which there are two linoleic acids, that's an omega 6, that's the one you hear about all the time where they say, oh, this is terrible for heart disease. But it's not. What is terrible for heart disease is when you take linoleic acid, which God made abundantly in animals, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, egg yolks, nuts, seeds, and some plants, made it abundantly available because we need a lot of it for all of our cell membranes.

All of our cell membranes, our 40 trillion cell membranes, need this to have soft pliable membranes, and linoleic acid is not oxidized and is essential for the cell membrane function, receptor holding them in place so that a multiple docking on the cell of various receptors to get their messages for cell function are received.

Now, what happens is they, in the food industry, corrupt the food system with seed oils, which are rich in linoleic acid, and when they bleach it and boil it and heat it, they fracture them and they make them hydrogenated fats. These hydrogenated linoleic acids are what are in all your popcorn and your corn tortilla chips and your cereals and your bread and your bagels and your pasta and all that, and that's what's very harmful to heart disease. Now, that's just a bonus statement there. So, the number one thing is to get out there and exercise, and build up your muscle mass for your aging and development. And then the oils that are the right ones to eat are the non-rancid or non-oxidized Clinician Preference Oils, which we have here at Tustin Longevity Center in our supplement department. Anyway, that's what I would recommend.  

Now, LDL, is what I call the other good cholesterol. Now, most doctors kind of just follow the masses of the herds and they call it bad cholesterol. But LDL cholesterol is very important. It is just a protein-sized type of protein carrier that inside has fats that are non-water soluble. The protein exterior has a water surface, so it can float through the body, and it carries the fats to all the cell membranes and repairs areas that are damaged and hurt in your body. So, LDL is what we call the other good cholesterol. At Tustin Longevity Center, we love cholesterol. In fact, we want all our patients who are 70 years old and older, like me, to have cholesterol levels that are higher cholesterols than the 200s and we don't mind elevated LDL cholesterols. Now, why is it a good cholesterol? Because if our cells are all made of fat and protein, they've got to have fat and you have to have carriers to bring the fat to repair parts of your cell membranes throughout your body, because if you injure and you're injuring them every day of your life, so if you injure them, okay, like this is a blown out part of the cell membrane, you have to have a mechanism where you can repair that injury. So, you have to have an LDL particle floating around looking for any injured cells throughout your whole body. So, we love cholesterol, we love LDL, the other good cholesterol. 

The other thing about it is that your stomach takes in foods, especially with the high sugars that we consume, carbohydrates and fruit sugars in our society, and all that sugar is feeding bad bacteria all along our gut. That bad bacteria makes lipopolysaccharides, which are very threatening. If it stays inside the tube and is pooped out, we're good. But as you realize, the lining of your gastrointestinal system is one cell membrane thick. It's only one cell membrane thick. Just one cell membrane is thick. And if you injure it with a food lectin or something, what will happen then is that will create a hole that needs some LDL cholesterol to deliver and repair fats and proteins to fix it, and otherwise, those bad bacteria in your gut will leak through that hole and that'll get into your blood system and lymphatics and it will create inflammation, which will promote heart disease. So, no, we know the truth here, and we don't need bought-off medical school training that just pushes something superficial so doctors don't understand really how to help their patients. We love our patients to eat healthy fats, the saturated fats, the meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and egg yolks, and the corrupt influence of the lobbyists on our misguided representatives. They buy them off so that we get sick. We eat these high-carb junk foods. And with those junk foods, we feed the bad bacteria that increase the lipopolysaccharides. Junk foods have lectins that scratch our guts, and then it leaks through, we get inflamed, we become diabetic, we get obese, we get heart disease, and we get autoimmune phenomena through the leaky gut. And so LDL Cholesterol can actually absorb these lipopolysaccharide endotoxins that are produced and becomes a sink to absorb any of this that might even in a healthy person get through occasionally. But when you just progressively don't care about what you're eating and you eat the high-carb standard American diet, then it's just going to circle and amplify and amplify and you will get all the chronic metabolic diseases that are now plaguing about 85 percent of all Americans, and unfortunately, even into newborn infants, we're seeing insulin and blood sugar, metabolic syndromes and toxins from pollutions in them. So, we're in a sad mess and we better get educated. That's why we're doing this, to help you realize you can clean up your life, you can help your children, and you can live healthier and vibrant without any medications and get in your 70s and not have any joint pain and not need hip replacements, knee replacements. You don't even need a mirror, a marital replacement. You can learn to be happy and live with the same person and learn to improve your own behavior and self as your spouse, and you help, iron sharpens iron, and then you can learn to mature and grow up and change your own faults. All right, so here we go. That's that question. 

Question 

“As a 70-year-old healthy senior, how do I know how much weightlifting I need to do? For example, how heavy weight, how long when I am working out, and how many times a week?

Answer

There you go, and there are increasingly returning more and more of us because so many people used to be very healthy when I was a young doctor practicing in the 1970s. In general, if you go to a gym that has all the machines and they have free weights, I do not recommend free weights if you're not trained and have been using them all your life to learn how to use them safely. Instead, anyone starting to go into weightlifting needs to do this on the machines. These are big machines in a line, usually, they stack them up, and the machine will have this weight pulley system and you put a pin in for the resistance that you feel you can handle. So, you discover it on your own. You sit in any machine and you put the pin in, maybe at a one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, I think they go down to like 20 little sticks of pins into stacking up the weights that you lift with moving the levers and stuff. Just find what works for you, so that you can do a slow, push-out for the chest press, slow, and return it nicely. And then, if you feel like that's a good number and you can knock out slowly, you know, 10, 20, 30, 40, then if you're doing it that well, then maybe you want to go to the next pin, a little more resistance, and maybe you can only do 30 of them with just a little added weight. So, you work it out yourself on each machine. So, the minimum I do work out, I'll be doing seven machines. I don't know all the names of it, but you pull this down and you do the abdominal crunch for your core strength, and you put in the pins to the ones that give you the strength that you feel, I'm doing this under control and I'm releasing it under control and I'm not getting here and going, oh, oh, oh, my goodness, then I let it slam back. Then you're working with too heavy of a weight. If you can't control the weight, both in contraction and relaxation. If you can't relax, returning it to its position, you're using too heavy of a weight for you.

So, work it out yourself. So you have the abdominal core crunch, then you have the chest press against resistance, then I do the pull for my back muscles against resistance, and then I do the deltoids. I pull it down from above and then I do the leg press, and then I do the leg extension, and then the leg flexion.

So that's all seven that I do. I spend about three to four minutes on each, times 7 is 21 minutes, and I try and do another two or three in my half hour that I do three times a week. And again, don't do it without drinking enough water. Drink your water. And then that should be the way to do it.

Now, you could go for training for a month at a gym. You can hire a personal trainer there, so they could look at your posture, and how you're doing it, and give you some help and coaching. I think that's reasonable. And that's what I did. I used to place, however, called the perfect workout, the perfect workout. They're all over the place here in Southern California. You can just say the perfect worker on Google or your search engine near me, and it'll show you a place. You go there and they put you on like five or seven machines. And they start teaching you about your posture, the way you're holding, gripping, and they give you guidance on the weight that is safe for you, and they go from there. 

Question 

“How much time does each visit to LA Fitness and how many times a week?”  [0:19:44]

Answer

Well, I would say at least 20 to 30 minutes per visit, and I would say three times a week, with a day off in between. That way, your muscles can recover. And you're doing your whole body, your upper and your lower at the same time. That's how I do it. Three times a week. I do it for 30 minutes, that's an hour and a half. Then the other four days a week, I'm trying to do a very fast-paced walk. I have my dog and I have my family I walk with, my grandchildren. So, between that. So, if you do, they say, a total of about 150 minutes a week would be the minimum, so I've got in 90 minutes so far. So I'm looking for another. 60 minutes where I'm taking a long, hard walk, probably a two-half hour-long walk or three fast 20-minute walks a week. So, I'm getting at least 150 minutes per week, an hour and a half, of which 90 minutes is my weight resistance and another 60 minutes is my vascular work, aerobic work. 

Question 

“I'm trying to schedule a time with a trainer at LA Fitness. Thanks. I will walk 1 to 1 ½ hours per day for fast walking.”  [0:21:12]

Answer

Yeah, that would be great. And then add your weight training to that bedrock. If you can walk every day, and I try to take my dog on a very fast walk every day, but the bare minimum is a 20-minute fast walk at least three times a week to get my 150 because sometimes other family members walk our dog then she gets her walk. Yeah. So, you know, we have to do it. And so, when you work with doctors or healthcare providers, you have to work with them in a way that they're going to be excited for you, they're going to be encouraging, and they're going to be looking at your lab, and showing how that lab will affect your HDL, that lab will lower your triglycerides, that lab will bring your blood sugars down. If you do this exercise and overlay it with not eating late ever, especially if you're older, and you eat a richer protein carnivore diet, because to get those muscles being built, you want to eat much more protein as you get older, almost like you're a carnivore. Like before I came here, I got home at 4 o’clock. By 4:30, I was eating a big hunk of chuck roast meat, and I slow-cooked that, I must've had maybe a half a pound of it. And so in that, I probably got 70 grams, 80 grams of protein. I'm trying with my weight, I'm trying to do my lean weight in whatever my pounds of lean weight is, that's for every lean pound of weight, I want to do a gram of protein. So, I'm trying to get about 120 grams. Every day to 140 because that's my lean mass weight in pounds. The rest is fat or some bones and stuff like that. 

Question 

“My diet is clean. Lots of lean protein, eggs, cruciferous veggies, small amounts of berries, etc. but I am having difficulty giving up sugary foods entirely. I have a couple of bites when I have a craving. Is this OK? Or should I try to cold turkey it?”  [0:23:43]

Answer

You don't have to worry about being lean. You can eat the fattiest prime rib grass-fed beef. You can. I try and get the fattiest grass-fed meat I can. I don't go for the leanest because I'm trying to get healthy fats, and part of that comes when I eat animal products.  It depends on your exam. What is your fasting insulin on a series? It isn't just one isolated fasting. We would like to do two or three to look at your history over the course of a year and a half. What is your fasting blood sugar over a year and a half, what are your triglycerides over a year and a half, and what is your hemoglobin A1C, what's your uric acid, what is your lean body mass, what is your triglyceride to HDL ratio. We want to look at things like that, and your age, and how much exercise you're able to perform, do you feel refreshed in the morning, ready to start the day, your age, we need to know your blood type. There are so many other things we would want to know, because even the Lord has, in the Bible, feast days, and on these feast days it's meant to be a time where we can have food become entertainment. So, what has happened though, our system has become corrupted, and through marketing and the greed of money and the sin of that greed, we get all this marketing to us, and they tell us through our social friends, our family, our school friends, our work friends. Even at church, we see the silly doughnuts there and you deserve a break today. Every single day. Every mother and their brother and their cousin, and anytime they have a birthday, a promotion, a graduation, an anniversary, or a party, everyone's eating and eating and eating, and eating, and this ought not to be. 

So, if you have a good metabolism, we would calculate your HOMA-IR. That’s like a homeostasis insulin resistance, and that's your fasting blood sugar times Your fasting insulin is divided by 405, and in England, on their metric system, you'd be using a different account. I think it's 22.4 you would divide by using the glucose and the insulin in England. But anyway. Back to us, with our fasting, blood sugar, and insulin divided by 405. And if that's greater than 1, you’re insulin resistant. You are entering into the danger zone of chronic metabolic disease, be it diabetes, cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, or autoimmune phenomena. And every doctor who's worth their dime should know about this. Therefore, make sure your doctor is ordering your fasting insulin, and fasting glucose, and you can calculate that yourself. And if that number is greater than 1, you're becoming insulin resistant, and then you'll gain weight or develop a fatty liver. Even though you appear thin, you will develop a fatty liver, you'll develop maybe cancer or one of these horrific chronic diseases. Please don't do that. 

Can you have some sugar? Sure, sure you can. Do I have some sugar? Yes, I will and I do, but I'm doing my blood work at least annually, if not biannually. I'm monitoring my insulin, my glucose, my triglycerides, my HDL. I don't care what my total cholesterol or LDL is. And then I get out there and exercise regularly three times a week. I take that brisk walk. I drink my volume of water every single day. I get my little body into bed into nighttime, so I can heal all my little broken cells, so can fix the holes that are broken in my aging body, with healthy fats and proteins. That's what I do. So yeah, have a little treat.

Now, there are those, whoever, and you know, that is why I go on a fast January 1st. I kind of lost it on Christmas Day. For about a week period of time, once I taste and I get that insulin spike, that will drive my ghrelin and hunger and balance off, and I almost become crazy for sweets. So, to discipline myself, I will fast for up to five days, just on a water fast, from January 1st, the evening, all the way on to the 6th of January, and I've been doing that many, many years to help me stay in shape. If I cheat, let's say I have a wedding of my niece or nephew, someone very meaningful and close to me, and they do have a treat, the very next day, I will fast for 24 hours. Okay. So, I play those kinds of games with me because it works. You might not be able to respond to that quickly. So, you have to find out and work with your functional doctor to find out what works for you, and how much exercise, because stress will aggravate your sugar metabolism, poor sleep, just aging is stress and a difficulty for sugar control and metabolism, your mobility exercise level is a stress, your work and demands will all have an impact, how well hydrated you are. What time you eat will have an impact on your blood sugar control. So, let your good functional doctor help follow you and guide you in that. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. How are you? Hope all is well. I just want to know about your advice for autoimmune disease and whether is it treatable, specifically Hashimoto's and Graves. I do not have any nodules or infection. I am 41. Is it related to perimenopause? Is it also trauma-related? It all started after my son passed away. I am never the same afterward, back in 2021. [0:31:02]

Answer

I am eternal. That's what I am. I know who I am in the Lord and I'm at so much peace, that I know where I'm going. So that's how I am. No matter what my stresses are, I am so at peace with who my savior is. I couldn't earn a bit of it. It's just a gift I have.  

Oh, I'm so sorry. I would say, God bless you and God strengthen you, I pray, and bring to you many mature women who will be a support to you. I hope you have some way of dealing with that stress through your family, your spouse, other children, if possible, through a church or a spiritual support system that you may have or counseling with that because that is something very significant and that will upset your cortisol and that will upset your immune system. The high stress of such a loss like that. That's why we give a free immune drip to any one of our patients whose immediate family member has died because that's such an immune cortisol hit that lowers the immune system for any kind of breakdown of the tissue or infection or shingles or various things like that. So, we try and give a boost of vitamin C immune drip with the B and the minerals and all that stuff with it. So, yes, it is treatable. And I would find a good functional doctor, and honestly, I would go carnivore to heal that lining of the gut, all those cell membranes with essential fats, phospholipids, and proteins to heal that, get a good probiotic in, and drink plenty of water and start exercising. That's a tremendous way to help de-stress yourself. Have rules about going to bed, try and get the electronics off, try and get the light down, and get yourself up with the sunshine. I would certainly encourage you to go stand in the wet grass in the morning at sunrise for 2 or 3 minutes. That would be my suggestion. You will find that the thyroid antibodies to your thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies will all go down if you become a carnivore for about 3 months. And then test it again. You'll see the improvement. I've never seen it fail me really, unless the person lied to me and said they were a carnivore but they just cheated so much, that it was meaningless to claim that they were a carnivore.

Question 

“My 28-year-old wife, a mom of 4, is in remission from Hashimoto's. She has heavy periods, possibly from past fibroids. Her doctor recommends an IUD, progesterone, and avoiding more kids due to physical and post-pregnancy stress. What holistic strategies can support her health and minimize stress during pregnancy?”  [0:34:42] 

Answer

No, no, don't ever use it, I never recommend an intrauterine device. I recommend they are always removed because intrauterine devices work through the principle of inflammation, and inflammation is the enemy of the human body. Why on earth in God's name would anything like that be introduced, can only come out of the most evil pits of thinking in the so-called healthcare system. And only that would happen to dear women. I would never imagine a man having something shoved up him to create chronic inflammation. It would be just incredible. So, no, no intrauterine devices. Yes to progesterone, and take the progesterone day 15 through 28 of the cycle is what I instruct all my perimenopausal women to do, and find out her blood type. And if she's blood type A, get her on digestive enzymes with every meal, get her to see a good functional medical doctor that can look at her hormones and her thyroid antibodies, and then I would imagine they would tell her to do a carnivore diet. We can do Immunofood labs to see what foods she's learned to react to. But she has to understand, everyone has to understand, you eat your way into disease. So, she ate herself into this problem and everyone is in America and is hurting the lining of the gut, and that gut lining is only one cell thick and food plant material, largely from plants, has lectins and oxalates and phytates and plant tannins and so forth, that are associated with harming and scratching and poking holes, as you see here in the cell membrane, poking those holes that will allow the leak to create the inflammation that very often is targeted to the thyroid. And if you shut it off by becoming a carnivore until you're healed, usually that takes three or four months, working with a good functional doctor, and then they can talk about reintroducing a limited and more controlled diet. The American system is going to harm our children, it already is, and you can see this from here. And so, just find a good functional doctor and get her there. Okay. 

What holistic strategies can support her health and minimize stress during pregnancy? Well, I look at my females who have just given birth, and I’ve tracked their thyroid function very closely because hypothyroidism is very common after delivery, and postpartum depression is also associated with a drop in that. And I only use natural T3 from whole glandular sources. I will very often support with some estradiol and progesterone. Estradiol is a mood lifter and progesterone helps you get a nice deep sleep and helps with cortisol control, for which I also give DHEA. And then I have them take vitamin D and get that vitamin D up to about a hundred. I ask them to drink a ton of water half their weight in pounds as ounces of water every single day. And then I demand that they exercise and do some weightlifting. That brings them out of this postpartum depression and this inflammatory stage, and I've really never seen it fail. So, I would encourage you to find a good functional doctor who will look at DHEA, estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, progesterone, cortisol, her free T3, her TSH, her fasting blood sugar, her fasting insulin, her fasting lipid triglyceride to HDL ratio, and her hemoglobin, A1C, and maybe even a fructosamine and a uric acid. All those need to be done, a good chemistry panel, a good blood count, and probably an iron level to see if she has enough storage iron to make enough iron. And do those things. That's what I would do, and God bless her and let us know how she's doing. 

Question 

“I did carnivore and went lion diet but then experienced oxalate dumping. Thanks so much for the advice, Dr E. It is by God's grace that I am still going. Praise God! God gave us another baby after our loss. Praise God for that. God bless you Dr E.”  [0:39:34]

Answer

Yes. Amen. Oxalate dumping has a limit, and I would still do it. I'm not saying you couldn't eat any. If you work with your functional doctor, and each case is unique, we will look at your situation and see if we can't help mitigate it with some other things. His ways are above our ways. His thoughts are above our thoughts. His thoughts are always for our good. And I just try, you know, my Bible reading today was in Isaiah 53, and I was just so touched with the fact that God Almighty said He was satisfied with the travail of his soul. Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior, dying on the cross after being mocked and set up for this and getting the government tricked into crucifying him. And without complaining, he didn't speak back, what a wonderful thing that is. And God was satisfied with the travail of his soul. So, when I think about the horrible sins I've committed in life, and how God should judge me and separate himself from me for them, and yet he can forgive me, oh my goodness. I am so, so, just I've just given over. Basically, I am dead, I've already died to myself, and I live on to God, my commander in chief, and it's just a wonderful, free, loose way to live. So, I am so happy for you that you have that comfort and just trust him. And you know, some of us, he's going to let us go through the fire. Some of us, like Job, had to suffer such great loss. Some of them had to give up their lives, and we don't even know how many dear people out there have given up their lives helping others for their sake. Anyway, I just, love that, and I can't find anything else that approaches that kind of a wonderful God.

Question 

“My daughter is 26 years old. She has not had a period for 6 months. She has stayed consistent with weight other than losing 10 to 15 pounds in June, which may have been when the trigger. What to do?”  [0:44:33]

Answer

Well, it depends on what her mass is. There is a critical mass that a girl has to reach pound-wise roughly to commiserate her maturing into her hormones, and many gymnasts and athletes lose so much of their body fat and have such muscle mass that they become amenorrheic. So, if your daughter is less than. 102 or 99 pounds, it's probably going to be very difficult for her because hormones are made from fat/cholesterol. So, get her a good functional doctor. Wherever you are from, you can go to ACAM.org, and ACAM.org, that's where they teach about chelation and detoxing. It was the very first functional medicine, integrative medicine, national grouping of allopathic medical doctors who said heart disease is being helped with EDTA chelation therapy, I don't care what the cardiologists say, and they created The American College for the Advancement of Medicine, and now they got the tech trial done, trial to assess chelation therapy, which proved that we can cut a heart death 50% if people can get chelated, and I'll defend that statistic to the last day of my earthly physical life. But anyway. So she has to get a good functional doctor, get her blood type, get her hormones, maybe give her some natural progesterone, and help her that way. That would be my recommendation. Get a body mass index on her. 

Question

“She got down to 115 at 5’5.” [0:47:37]

Answer

Yeah. So, I think she got to a weight that might be on the threshold. So, get a body mass index, a BMI of her body, so we can get her true body muscle mass to fat mass. Let's find out about her natural hormone state. Remember, stress in these teenagers today is so much that it blocks the hypothalamic follicle-stimulating hormone and they wind up not ovulating, and without ovulation, the whole menstrual cycle gets off. So, natural progesterone, you could buy it over the counter. We have the Kokoro. I've used that for 35 years probably. A natural progesterone cream over the counter, day 15 through 25 of the cycle. That helps. Eating healthy, get away from all the processed foods and packaged foods, and please just use natural homemade foods. Put it in your lunchbox or send it to school with her and get her to drink enough water see where she's at and find a good functional doctor. 

Question 

“46-year-old female with low Ferritin-14. Total iron is 88. Iron binding capacity is 353. Saturation is 25.  I eat some red meat and a balanced diet. I take Thorne 25 mg iron ferrous bis-glycinate chelate daily.”  [0:49:05]

Answer

That's an iron transport inflammatory iron stability kind of reference in the lab. The total iron is 88, which is acceptable. Ferritin is 14, that's on the low side. Iron binding capacity is 353, so it's up a bit. So, whenever your body needs something, it makes more of the protein that's trying to grab out and get all the iron it needs. So, the total iron band binding capacity is up because it is looking for more iron. So, that's fine. She’s saying the percent saturation is 25. So that's low normal. 

Thorne 25 mg iron ferrous bis-glycinate chelate, sounds like it's an amino acid chelate. I would strongly encourage you to go and get a sacred liver. It is a dry, desiccated liver from grass-fed cows. This is very rich in natural iron sources, so it won't constipate you or make your tummy feel bad when you're eating it. So, liver pills, and desiccated liver are very, very wise to do. We have HemeVite here. These are known iron chelates. You could use it up to two, or three times a day. But try and eat more red meat in your diet. Eat the liver. I love liver. I have bratwurst in my little refrigerator here, and I'll take a slice of liver pate or bratwurst and I'll put it on a raw cheese, slice of raw cheese with a little mayonnaise on top, that's my lunch here. So, I'm carb-free pretty much except for maybe some vegetables. You need more iron. You need more desiccated liver capsules, but the name of that company that I can recommend, I can't remember. It’s Sacred Farms or something like that. All grass-fed liver products. That's what I would do. And find out your blood type. Because if you're a blood type A, you need to use digestive enzymes when you eat, so you can extract the iron out of it. 

Question 

“My mom has been having heart palpitations for a little over two years now. She wore a heart monitor for two weeks and was diagnosed with supraventricular tachycardia; not sure if it was caused by the C-shot. She was prescribed Bisoprolol 5mg, how would your clinic treat this condition?”  [0:52:09]

Answer

Supraventricular tachycardia, that's the top part of the heart, the atria, not the big ventricle part on the left or the right. “Not sure if it was caused by the C-shot.” So she must have got the mRNA shot, which creates myocarditis, which can generate this kind of aberrant rhythm. She was prescribed Bisoprolol, which is a type of beta-blocker to slow down the heart rate, to lessen the triggers that might irritate the cell membrane walls. 

How would the clinic treat this condition? With EDTA chelation with the rich phospholipids that are in meat, fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, and yolk, so that you can repair those little injured spots, even if the C shot did it. So, if she became more like a carnivore, stop eating late, don't eat past 5 or 6 o’clock at night. Your last piece goes down your throat at 5 or 6 PM. Get enough water and start an exercise program, if she's able to, and move toward a more carnivore diet. And then do EDTA chelation to improve the microcirculation, so her heart can improve and heal. Get someone to do her hormones, and find out what her testosterone level is. The heart is a muscle, and women have woefully low testosterone levels from our lousy American diet. I'm constantly getting all my women to double, triple, quadruple their testosterone levels to have strength and endurance, and vitality. So, that's the beginning of that. She probably needs a mineral assay to look for mineral deficiencies. She probably needs some autoimmune screening for food allergies. So, many different things. Natural hormones are calming, so she can get better sleep and heal at night. So, quite a few things that I would recommend. So go find a good functional doctor in your area who can start that process. 

Question

“MY 55-year-old husband has high potassium. He takes indomethacin 30 mg two times daily for reactive arthritis. He works out daily, either doing zone 2 or weight training. What would u suggest to help bring down his potassium?”  [0:54:38]

Answer

The first thing I would do is find out his blood type. I would need to know his age. I would find out his creatinine, and look for CPK muscle enzymes. He needs a uric acid level done. He needs his sticky sugar fructosamine, hemoglobin A1C, insulin, triglyceride, HDL, and lipid profile. He needs his fasting blood sugar on a chemistry that looks at his liver enzymes. He needs hs-CRP for inflammation of his blood vessels. He needs a sedimentation rate for general inflammation. Depending on his blood type, he needs systemic enzymes at least to reduce inflammation, so he's not so dependent on such powerful long-term drugs like Indocin, and really you're not supposed to be on that for a long time. That can create kidney disease. It can create ulcers and other cell membrane damage. 

So, he needs a good functional doctor to look at his metabolism. He might have to back off the intensity of his exercise. Make sure he's drinking half his weight in pounds as water every single day. Every day.

This man is critical because it's showing that his cells are getting stressed. It could be from high blood sugars unbeknown to him. He's spiking them. He needs to find out if he's insulin-resistant. He needs those insulin parameters and fasting sugars done. He needs to have his male hormone to see if he's able to have enough male hormones to stimulate the amount of workouts he's doing and the intensity of them. He certainly needs to be sure he's adequately hydrated and maybe an extra 10 percent because of the volume of workouts he does. So, he needs to be seen by a good doctor there who will functionally look at him and see if there are autoimmune antibodies starting up, thyroid antibodies starting up, gut autoimmune antibodies. We need to do a workup on him and find out.

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“How do you test for heavy metals?”  [0:57:31] 

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We do what I've done since the start of the American College for the Advancement of Medicine. I used to be on their board and taught chelation therapy to young doctors all around the world. And we do an IV of a set amount of the Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid. I always use the calcium disodium EDTA. We infuse that and then collect six hours of urine. That's our standard because a 24-hour collection is just too cumbersome. So, for decades now, we've done the 6-hour, and we can compare because we have the same exact protocol. We send it off to Doctor's Data in St. Charles, Illinois, and (0:58:25) Dr. Quig there has been working with me for many decades on my patients. I've been one of his biggest users for many decades now. So, do a urine challenge, and EDTA urine collection for it. That's the best way.

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“Hi, Dr. Ellithorpe! I have been doing really well with the carnivore-ish diet but was wondering why I get such indigestion when I eat hardboiled eggs. Silly question? Also, is cheese a no? Thanks and God bless you!”  [0:58:48]

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I would need to know your blood type. A's have a harder time with protein digestion, and the fat, when you get it solidified in a hardboiled egg, it's not as hard when the egg yolk is runny and so forth like that. I think this has to do with your blood type. Find out if you're a blood type A. Then use our Ortho Digestzyme from Ortho Molecular or the Digestive Enzymes, which is our private label, or find some good digestive enzyme with betaine hydrochloric acid in it.

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“Did I understand that you recommend and take Juice Plus? If so, where could I purchase Juice Plus?”  [0:59:43]

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Well, you can't purchase Juice Plus. You have to find someone who is a distributor because Juice Plus is shared by educational trained representatives. Now, of course, if you call the clinic here at (714) 544-1521, and you get the vitamin department/supplement department, they will help you get connected so that you can order it. And then be sure, if you were to order Juice Plus, if you know of any child between the ages of 4 and college age, because you can nominate them to get on Juice Plus for free for four years because the owner or creator of Juice Plus, I can't think of his name right now, but he is a teacher, and he is a Christian, and he loves children. When he developed the company, NSA (National Safety Association) was all about home items to protect the family and children, like fire alarms first came from NSA from him, and then when he discovered Juice Plus from a naturopath, he marketed it and he wanted children to get it for free for four years because he's trying out of his heart to bless the children that the Lord made. So yeah, (714) 544-1521. is the phone number, and we can get you linked up with someone who can help you in that vein. 

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“Sometimes I will swallow and it -what we used to say - goes down the wrong pipe, and I get a tickle and start coughing and have a hard time catching my breath. What could that be?”  [01:01:49]

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The older we get, just like our skin sags on us, the same thing is happening to the structure of the voice box. It's starting to fall forward. It's not held up as tautly as it used to be. The uvula, all that stuff is starting to sag and hang down. And so, the normal trajectory of swallowing and our strength of doing it is also all subtly changing, so that it's much easier to have what we call aspiration of our foods and liquids the older we get. Plus, we start moving forward. Instead of doing and maintaining our exercise position, we start looking like this, you know, with our neck sticking out like that, and that all leads to this kind of dysphagia, trouble swallowing, and aspiration. So, you need to do weightlifting and exercise for posture and hold yourself up. You need to become more mindful as you're eating the older you get. All of us do. I have too, even with my weight training, I've noticed this starting to happen to me in my 70’s, but that's what it is.