YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 07 2023
February 8, 2023
Question
“As you know I still dealing with Atrial Fibrillation. I am going to get an ablation very soon. Do you recommend this procedure? I have been holding off. Is there a natural way to avoid this procedure? Other than that, I’m doing really good for a 73-year-old man.”
Answer
Atrial fibrillation is a situation in which the top half of the heart, and there's a bottom half, these assist in putting fluid into the main right and left chambers. They can be irregularly contracting, instead of uniformly contracting. They can be kind of wiggly and not as efficient. When that flow is not efficient, there can be circulating turbulence that might produce a blood clot. So, we don't like atrial fibrillation. We usually put people on blood thinners, prescriptively, Coumadin, Eliquis, and so forth. A cardiologist is normally consulted, a Holter monitor is put on, and an echocardiogram is done to look at the heart in motion. So, a proper allopathic approach is done.
But to avoid this or to try and help get back into sinus rhythm, there are many things that can be done. Sometimes people can just bear down, like a bowel movement, and that kind of vagal stimuli, like a constipated bowel movement sometimes that will convert it. Some people have been talking about that. Some people do a hard cough, and it will convert. But that is some of the intermediary things. If you have chronic atrial fibrillation, that's not going to change it at all. We'd like to prevent these things. So normally, what we try and do is EDTA chelation therapy on top of standard management and care that improves the tiny microcirculation. Obviously, the nerves were working well and you're getting the nice contractions before it turned into this gobbledygook, you know, at the top. So, something happened to the cell, the special nervous self-promoting depolarization cells at the nose that created some trigger. Maybe it's repairable, fasting, eating healthy, the essential fats, linoleic, alpha-linoleic acid, which is in our Clinician’s Preference Essential Oils. Fasting, 24 hours, being on a low carb, so you don't clog up the tiny little capillaries because your heart has its own blood supply, its coronary arteries. But there are many, many, many tinier arterioles and capillaries. So, EDTA chelation can help that. And maybe it can reach whatever little tiny change or irritation happened right next to one of those nodes for those self-depolarization nodes that would help. So, fasting will clear it out.
Always drinking enough water will help clear it out. Avoiding stimulants like caffeine, cold random remedies, over-the-counter, and even too much green tea which has caffeine in it. So, those are the things that will help. Magnesium, we have intravenous EDTA chelation that helps open up microcirculation and improves nitric oxide to try and help the tiny, tiny little capillaries that reach the little cells that are in there. Using magnesium intravenously may help with this, oral magnesium can be taken along with us every day. So, those are some of the things that we talk about. That would be helpful to it.
And otherwise, you have to kind of follow along with your cardiologist. Any medicines that you are taking, systemic enzymes like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme work has anti-inflammatory. Whenever there is a piece of cell damage, maybe some little, tiny ding in the cell membrane there, that's right next to the depolarization node, if that little ding right there occurs from free radical if you are smoking, if you are drinking alcohol, taking in too much stimulating caffeine that might leak through some area that will irritate the node and make it polarizing. That is a source of cell damage, or another word would be inflammation or the fire burn of oxidative stress. So, anti-inflammatories help this as well, as oils to help repair the membrane by eating healthy phospholipids and healthy fats.
So, there are many things that we would lay out that you should be thinking about. I'm not against ablation. I've seen many, many, many patients over 41 years of practice and it looks as if more and more patients are getting helped by ablation with an electrophysiologist, or cardiologist. And it seems to be a very safe procedure. I've seen no real complications. Possibly one, I'm personally aware of that a complication, got through it, and did very, very fine and is doing very well years and years later. So, I am in favor of ablation, getting a consultation with your specialist, cardiologist, your electrophysiological cardiologist, and the medications that you need to be on for time being hopefully can get you back into normal sinus rhythm. And you can eventually hopefully come off of these anticoagulants, maybe off of these anti-eurythmics, and so forth. So, yeah, there's lots you can do. Hopefully, that was helpful.
Question
“I am currently on bio-identical hormones as prescribed by you. I am 48 years old and I use estrogen cream every day and take progesterone every night. My period is erratic and sometimes I go months without having it. However, I had it in December and again 30 days later in January. The January cycle went for 7 full days which is the longest period I’ve ever had. I am giving you this information as I feel it is relevant to my question.
My question is about headaches and its three parts. Part one, why do women get headaches in relation to our hormones and monthly cycles? I had a headache for 5 out of 7 days during my last period. The headache subsided for a day or two after my cycle ended but came back strongly 6 days ago. And I’ve had it consistently for the last 6 days.
Part two, is there significance to the headache appearing in different areas of the head and why does this happen? My headache during my cycle was behind my left temple, the headache I have today and have had the last 6 days is above my eyebrows at about the midpoint and is in the front of my forehead.
And part three, what can be done to prevent or eradicate these debilitating, painful headaches or to treat them? I do not want to take ibuprofen or Tylenol daily and try to only use it before bed to help me get headache-free sleep. I would prefer to not take it all.”
Answer
Well, when a woman menstruates this is the time when the lining of her uterus becomes matured and the cells are breaking down which means you’re getting ruptures in the cells. That is again inflammation. Inflammation is a cyclical phenomenon a woman has to go through. It's associated with the concept of called PMS, premenstrual syndrome. This is an inflaming time when cells are breaking down, sloughing off. Those signals, those tiny fragmented particles that will come off, these little tiny particles will trigger other inflammatory cascades if it is excessive, and what can you do to help it, stay well hydrated, exercise regularly, get a good night's sleep, eat a low carb diet, use natural progesterone cyclically to support your menstrual phase when the progesterone peaks and declines.
Now, if you're on continuous progesterone estradiol, that's another issue, I don't recall who you are right off the top. So, make this a follow-up phone call so I can address this and look into your chart if you're one of my patients. But in general, that is why headaches occur. This could be secondarily also due to other things, a virus, it could be due to a sinus congestion, allergies, it could be dehydration, it could be other things you might be taking, and some food allergen. During the holidays, often we eat some foods and things and try things that we typically don't. So, our level of inflammation goes up during any holiday season and is triggered more easily and then comes back down when we're further distant from these moments when we do indulge a little bit.
So, yes, systemic enzymes tend to prevent this. That's why I want all of the women I give natural hormones to be on a systemic anti-inflammatory enzyme, that means you take it on an empty stomach, it's not meant to be digesting food, it's meant to be taken morning, maybe even evening to create more of an anti-inflammatory impact. And you might want to do that as you get closer to a menstrual cycle.
But if you are on continuous hormone replacement therapy, we have to find the levels and we have to find what it takes to maintain enough estradiol so you have the benefit, no hot flashes, sleep better, and think better. And the continuous progesterone should try and prevent that lining of the uterus from building up so much to want a sloth each month. Not that it might not occasionally happen in the course of a year or two, but this is something we work through and we spend more time individually with you. Age matters, the perimenopausal women, between the ages of early 40s to early 50s, that’s a time when sometimes if you take better care of yourself, your own ovaries might revive a bit and work a little bit longer. And then, if we are giving you some natural baseline estradiol, then your total will be a little higher for times when you are living a cleaner lifestyle. You might produce more or less. So, this is a difficult time for a doctor when women are in what we call perimenopause because sometimes you produce the hormones, and other times you don't when you don't. When you don’t, you're symptomatic, then we try to help you. When you do better like I said a better lifestyle, then you do start having your own production a little bit, then you might have more than we would want and you'll build up and you get some lining shedding.
So, this is a very dynamic and it takes clinical acumen and experience. So, those are some of the answers that I would give you.
Question
“My 83-year-old mother was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The only medicine she takes is thyroid and cholesterol. She is not a smoker. But was around smokers for many years. What do you advise your patients to take for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis?”
Answer
This means that they do not why her pulmonary tissue is becoming fibrotic. Maybe she is on some cholesterol-lowering drug.
Well, it's the same thing as I would advise for healthy tissue in all my patients, myself and family, always which is a healthy lifestyle such that we have to understand we are made of protein and fat. We are not composed of structurally fruits and vegetables. We can extract some fatty acids from flaxseed and things like that. But we're not composed of complex carbohydrates. And we're not composed of sugar, or fruit sugar, then we'd be hard like a candy. We're made of fat and protein. So, we're always trying to avoid this injury to the cell lining and we're always trying to eat so that we repair the injury. To be alive, we have engines in each cell, hundreds and thousands of them called mitochondria. Millions of chemical reactions that have waste and exhaust such as free radicals generated, which can poke holes in cell membranes. Those cell membranes that are injured and if you have a chronic injury, whether it's your lung tissue, maybe it was secondary smoke, maybe it's mold, maybe it's allergies being breathed in, maybe it is having high blood sugars too often and getting tiny little micro damage sticky spots that hurt the cell membrane from chronically elevated blood sugars being spiked by eating junk food or too high of a starchy and fruity diet. I mean, it goes on and on. Not drinking enough water. If you don't drink enough water, your capillaries will collapse, and they can't bring reparative phospholipids and protein to the cell membrane. If you get recurrent infections, viral infections, if you get reactive airways from food allergens, or just your risk family history for asthma, reactive airways, all these things can develop.
Therefore we teach the same gamut, low-carb intermittent fastings like giving up breakfast and only eating lunch and a very early dinner. The older you are, if she's 83, we would be telling patients who are older than 65 not to eat past six o’clock at night. Very often we will tell someone as old as 75 to 80 to try and eat before four o’clock, 4:30. It takes longer to empty the stomach. Very often you might get some aspiration and reflux of tissues, which makes you cough, which makes you inflamed, which creates this cycle. Another thing that we have patients do is to be very mindful to get healthy fats that repair us. So, eating the chicken with the skin on it to get the good cholesterol to repair the cell membranes. Cholesterol medications without a good rationale for it and there's very, very few strong indicators for cholesterol reduction. And that would be if you've already had one heart attack and you’re male in particular, outside of that cholesterol is very necessary for the process of healing these injuries sites in a double membrane cell, both sites. This has made a 50% fat and 50% protein. And if you are not eating a diet that has the stuff to repair it, you'll inflame and irritate your lung. And when you irritate it over and over, you get scarring and so forth. So, that along with enzymes, along with low carb, with intermittent fasting, along with enough hydration of water, and with vitamin D to protect the immune system and help build up the barrier. Sometimes using natural allergens like Quercetin and D-Hist are helpful. Various things like this would be helpful. But also, EDTA chelation again. In other words, the more we can get a capillary here to bring material to repair that injury in the cell membrane, the better off that cell membrane will be in the longer and healthier the cell then the longer the person will live.
Question
“Do you give EDTA with a Ferritin level of 19? When getting EDTA, how long before, after, do you take no supplements? I had a poor reaction to Vitalzym, is there another way to use enzymes that has less side effects?”
Answer
Well, that's something that I would want to see you for. It says that you are a patient, I would bring that up at the next appointment. But Ferritin is usually related to iron metabolism and transport in the human body. Your Ferritin levels if they're low are suggesting the need for iron. It could be other autoinflammatory problems. So, that would need to be looked at alongside others.
We really don't give EDTA chelation with regard to Ferritin. EDTA does help lower iron levels, but it is in no way known to be something that puts you at risk for iron deficiency, or anemia. So, that would be a wrong conclusion or association. So, I don't think there's any limitation to taking supplements around getting chelated. You can take it before, during, or after I don’t think that’s related at all.
And for your second question, you react to Vitalzym, I would have to know your blood type. I would have to know what time of day you are taking, how many you are taking, and how often you are taking, so that is a question during a visit.
Question
“What is the cause of vertical nail ridges? Is there a cure? Also, is there a natural solution for toenail fungus? My mother has a severe case and the drops the doctor prescribed did not work after 3 months.”
Answer
Well, maybe three months wasn't long enough because toenails grow at about a 10th of the rate of fingernails.
But what causes vertical, I'm going to have to dig back into my way back machine. In general, poor protein metabolism and stress are associated with those lines, longitudinal lines that are in this fashion on your nail buds. We usually associate that with poor collagen elastin linkage. And so, the curvature, the stress on the nail bed is going to create these tiny micro-breaks. And so, that can be a Vitamin C deficiency. That can be a number of things, zinc, not eating enough protein, quality proteins, and not enough essential fatty acids, which could be tiny capillary microcirculation problems. Everything has to have a sprinkler system if you want your lawn to grow. So, you have to have the tiny capillary beds even for your nail, scalp, for your hair, and so on and so forth. All of these things come into play.
Question
“Have you seen this? https://live.childrenshealthdefense.org/chd-tv/events/never-again-is-now-global/Never-Again-Is-Now-Global-Part-1/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=c4cd7f01-c961-4d86-9d01-b192ba764fab”
Answer
I usually follow John F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense is a very good resource when I give out my reference sheets here. I have it listed right here at Children’s Health Defense. So, you can pick this up. These are references over many, many sources that I have used over the years. I will look at that. I like to look at the things that patients find out, the books they give me to read, and I try to read all of them. I read about 70 books a year. I have to be honest with you, 66 are the Bible. There are 66 books in the Bible. So, I probably get down about 5 more a year.
Question
“My teenage daughter is currently getting evaluated for celiac disease. Her blood work is showing a very high probability. Her situation has made me think that I might have passed this condition to her. I have had a score of digestive and health issues over the last 30 years which improved once I stopped consuming gluten. Do you think it’s worth getting myself checked for celiac as well? In your opinion, is there any value in knowing if someone like me has this disease when they don’t plan on changing their diet? Thank you in advance for your input.”
Answer
Well, I think knowledge is power. And so, if you have your doctor, I don't know, it says yes you are a patient here. So, bring that up on your next visit. We can order a tissue transglutaminase/glutamine level and look at some of these celiac indicators. Find out what your blood type is, O type blood tends to seemingly have more risk of having this in my clinical experience. So, yes, I think the grains in America and the corrupt food industry lobbyist, just for making money have destroyed the health of America 80%, close to 80% of everything that is in a grocery store today never existed before. These are mostly processed foods. That's why you want to shop mostly on the outsides of the store so that you're buying the fresh meats, the fresh poultry, pork, chicken, fish, you're getting your vegetables that are local ground, hopefully organic, you're getting your eggs, your butter, and things like this on the outside of it. As opposed to the center which is full of all these packaged and processed foods.
So yeah, knowledge is power. And I would look into it. Bring it up when you are in the office next time with your healthcare provider here.
Question
“I have been diagnosed with two issues, I only trust your opinion to help me proceed with treatment. I follow all your protocols and I’m healthy. I have two nodules on my right side of my thyroid. My right lobe is not enlarged and my left side was removed 45 years ago. The nodules are measuring 2.5 and a 3. My blood levels are all ok except the T3 is 182. Is this really high? No thyroid meds.”
Answer
Some labs measure this as total T3 and others do as Free T3. I think that is the normal range.
Question
“I will have a biopsy by aspiration, but my question is there anything I can do to reduce the nodules? Chelation? Supplements? And if they are benign, are they left or do you recommend surgery?
Answer
If they are benign, I would leave them alone. I would say the older you get, the more likely you are going to have fibroids, cysts, and nodules throughout your body. The scars of going through this life, and these are very small, 2.5 centimeters and a 3. Sounds very benign. I think it’s also important in the nodule, and how it looks. There are certain nodules that have characteristics that are more concerning for having a malignancy. So, the ultrasound is reported to the doctor in a fashion that will put it on a scale of the likelihood of it being a problem. They are ranked, T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5. You would have to talk to the doctor that did the thyroid imaging and see what that looks like.
I would then say, chelation therapy will always help microcirculation, bringing repair and removing waste. Enzymes will always dis-inflame, help to chew up, and break up. Eating healthy and essential fatty acids for tissue repair. Cell membrane, you have to understand, we are always thinking on the level of the actual cell membrane which is a double layer of phospholipids hanging down or up, no matter how you are thinking about it, and the outside is polar where the water is, where the inside of the cell is fuller. That membrane is fat and protein. We have been made too afraid of fats and being scurried away by the foolishness of eating bugs and things. Check your packages. If you are buying processed foods, you are not eating these impossible-- I wouldn’t buy anything processed anyway. There you have it.
It doesn’t sound bad. If it’s benign, if they do a biopsy, I certainly would not remove them.
Question
“My second issue is herniation of the rectum into the vagina(rectocele) that doctor recommends surgery with mesh. I am against mesh use due to pending lawsuits. There is a new technology called D-cell for pelvic floor repair. It’s a new generation tissue called DermaPure and VNEW dermal allografts. Do you know if this would be better to use? Can I get away from not going through surgery by exercising the pelvic area and by doing Mona Lisa Touch and adding estrogen internally?”
Answer
This is very, very common. This is not unusual, especially if you had children.
I am against mesh use due to pending lawsuits, I understand that. Anytime you have a foreign item in your body, it can be a point of contention in your body and trigger your immune system.
That's a good starting point. I would do the Mona Lisa touch which helps thicken the lining naturally through natural light therapy. And then natural estradiol or estriol vaginally and testosterone. And then there's a physical therapy for the pelvis of women is called Womanology. It involves having a by manual hand exam with a trained physical therapist on the pelvic floor for those muscles there and supportive of the rectal sac and the sling that holds it tight so you don’t feel that you have to have a bowel movement all the time. So, Womanology, physical therapy, kegels, Mona Lisa touch, natural vaginal hormones, maybe even a pessary. A pessary is an insert that is removable. It can be put up deep into the vagina, which helps lift the tissues there and it gives women very often a sense of focus to work on their pelvic exercises. All of these things would be helpful. And I would certainly try and do that.
I am not familiar with new advances called DermaPure and VNEW dermal allografts. So, I would have to defer to your gynecologist, or neurologist, and get information from there. But hopefully, that works for you.
Question
“What recommendations do you have for post-colonoscopy (ie: to replenish the gut, etc.)?”
Answer
Well, in general, by doing a colonoscopy, you are just taking this magnesium citrate jar to drink. And that should not really harm or do damage to your gut. I don’t see any problem with that.
Question
“What are your thoughts on EMFs, chakras, and meridians? (a friend is wearing a necklace that is supposed to ward off the bad effects of EMFs and wanted others' thoughts about this).”
Answer
Well, yes, everything has vibration, even my glass here, it seems solid and firm. But this glass itself has a frequency it is not just sitting here. Without motion, we can't perceive it. But this glass is vibrating. In fact, if you look at windows that were made in the 18th century, you start to see it dribble, see ripples in it, like teardrops you might say. Nothing is solid. If we can be in this room here and a thousand years go by, you would see this-- Nothing touches this room, not a bomb, not a hurricane, nothing. Just this room sitting here, you would see the plastic curl up on the edges. You would see the floor plastic curl up. You would see the walls peeling off from the paint on it. You would see cracks in the plastic because everything is trying to vibrate and mix. There is a law of thermodynamics called entropy. Things that are in order proceed to disorder, always and fall apart and degrade. So, everything is vibrating. Everything is combining with stuff nearby it, the oxygen, and it might be a slow fire. You know how I use that term? If you are a 150-lb. woman, or 200-lb. man, you are 150 or 200-lb. roast slowly cooking at 98.6 degrees. So, yeah, we are always vibrating.
Now, what do these electromagnetic frequency devices do? Well, some of these things have an emission that tends to interdict an incoming wave. So, if two waves are coming in and you can block it, then that will help you from being exposed. So, there are such devices and they are often lockets that we wear, a stone on your desk because those waves just don’t go out a tiny milli inch. They go out, go out, and go out. Everything is communicating. So, yeah, I’m going to say if you read the book, Vibrational Medicine or another book, The Body Electric, this was breaking when I was a very young doctor. I read them when I did my doctorate in Integrative Medicine after I got my medical doctorate. And those were very, very powerful books back then. And we've only tremendously expanded on that. We are learning about all the vibrational tendencies in the human body. I do believe we'll have tricorders like Captain Kirk had on the Star Trek Enterprise, and Bones, the doctor there. If there is an interference, it will say, what is going on here? What is going on here, here, here, or here? We are not there yet. So, yeah, we have to work on that.
Question
“Why do you need DHEA and is it safe to continue to take it? I have been on since you all suggested it years ago.”
Answer
I’m still on mine. I have been on mine since the 1990s. I went into menopause early in life in my late 30s because of all the stress in my life. My adrenal glands and the ER and crashes and resuscitations and sudden infant death and working and busting our butts trying to take care of these people, you know really took a toll on my stress and adrenals. So, Dihydrotestosterone is a precursor from food when you digest your food, and it is from the cholesterol that's in the butter, in the meat, the fish, the skin on the chicken, and the pork, and so forth. When you digest this the cholesterol is turned into pregnenolone and DHEA. And then they go down their pathways.
DHEA is processed to help form cortisol and testosterone for muscle strength. It helps your immune system. So yeah, I started taking DHEA in the 1990s. And I have been on it even today. It should be very benign, very wonderful, help with your testosterone, help your immune system, help you handle adrenal stress, and your life.
Question
“How to get rid of burning mouth syndrome?”
Answer
I'm not sure if I understand what burning mouth syndrome is by what you're meaning By that, I’m taking that to mean, typically we think that this is a sensation of silent GERD, where acid reflux comes up and it irritates the nerve endings. And it makes you have this off taste, this kind of neuropathy, you might say. And basically, I would do fasting. And how much fasting? I would eat in a short period of time, every day that you reasonably can, a four-hour window, 20 hours fasting. Four hours eating or 18 hours fasting, 6 hours eating. If you want it to be extreme and get the maximum impact, maybe a carnivore diet for a month, and then you would be getting all this phospholipid, all this healthy fat, all this protein. Remember, you're trying to repair the fatty lining of the myelin sheath of nerves and all the cell membranes. So, a carnivore diet is considered the ultimate elimination diet that creates irritation, burping, belching, gas reflux, and slow transit in the stomach, usually. Sometimes it can cause fast transit. In general, you want to repair membranes. That is your number one goal. That's how we should be taught.
I have had more people with such severe disease disorders, eczema, and stuff, they take the fat that isn't like a powderized formula, you take a scoop, and then you mix it in some water in a cup like this a scoop. And then you take the SBI Protect, which are the immunoglobulins that are in your saliva to help the lining of your gut. And then we often will take one packet of this powder when you are done with the box, it only lasts two weeks. This will last a couple of months. Then you go to the capsule or a cheaper powdered form of probiotics. Mix it in water first thing in the morning so you are lining your gut with this healthy phospholipid which is the fat here and the immunoglobulin immune help protein, which helps the proteins here. And then, this is just good bacteria to help any bugs that are trying to take over. I have just seen wonderful healing. Just wonderful, wonderful healing. I think everybody should be issued this at the first sign of an upset stomach. Stop eating. Use this twice a day. Reduce your eating to a four-hour window. Keep it extremely simple, rich in phospholipid fat, real food, the building blocks of which are made, and then see how that works out for you. And see if that burning mouth syndrome starts to heal. It takes about three months to heal the lining of a gut, four months if you are older.
Question
“My son has a swollen knee. The doctor recommended ibuprofen for the pain and inflammation. Is it ok for him to take ibuprofen with Vitalzym or Vascuzyme? Also, which Vitalzym do you recommend of the 2 in your store, and how many should be taken? I have been taking the Vitalzym XE myself for autoimmune issues.”
Answer
Yes, it is.
Well, it’s how big your boy is. If your boy is about the size of an adult, we start giving adult-sized portions to anyone who is about 85, or 90 pounds. So, if the person is about 90 pounds, we treat him like an adult. I know a lot of kids are overweight today but then you have to treat them for the poundage they are if they approach being as heavy as an adult would be.
So, you know, I would take four twice a day on an empty stomach first thing in the morning, last thing at night. But I would get those inflaming packaged junk food things out. They are always going to feed the fire of damage, clog up with too much sugar junk and poke holes, and they have to drink water. They have to drink half their weight in ounces. If they are 100 pounds, they have to have 50 ounces of water.
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“When making Thermophilic Yogurt, what are the optimum cultures used for SIBO / SIFO management?”
Answer
You got me there. I don’t have that. I would have to look that up. I don’t just keep that up in my head there.
You know, there is a heat level that you grow these things at. You can have variations in the growth of certain beneficial bacteria by even very small variations in the Fahrenheit or Centigrade you are using in your home yogurt makers. SIBO, small intestinal bowel overgrowth, these kinds of things, you know, are concerned. Now, I don't usually ask my patients to do yogurt because it's just one more thing to have to learn and another contraction if you have the time to do good for you. But I use Probiotic 225 and Ortho Spore IG. Those two together have solved a multitude of chronic, inflammatory, bowel, irritable bowel, all sorts of bowel disorders, reflux, and esophageal irritation, it's been a great, great blessing.
So, I don't have those answers. But I haven't needed to retain that knowledge because I found these wonderful things that are made by the owners of Ortho Molecular. I know them for over 35 years. I have been out to their plant a couple of times. I have toured it as a chemist and a doctor. I can tell you their philosophy, and their Christ-centered purpose, I really love their work and their products.
Question
“I have a question about the Juice Plus. I noticed the ingredients are not organic. Does this mean there are pesticides in them?”
Answer
Well, two things to correct. It's beyond organic, in the sense that the small farms throughout that are contracted to be the suppliers for making the 30 different fruits, vegetables, and berries small farms, and their irrigation system is tested for pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. So even the water coming at them is tested and filtered. Then they use plants as natural repellents like flowers or certain flowers that repel certain things and bugs and materials. And then, when they're harvested, there's the first sample tested for herbicide, pesticide, and fungicide. They are flash-frozen, they are brought to the plant, quarantined and identified, and labeled to retract. Then they are brought into their second testing in the labs. Again, they are screened for pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Then when they are processed and the drying occurs, then it's the third time, and then the fourth time is when they are encapsulated. At any point in those four areas, they find that the whole batch is eliminated. So, this is beyond saying that something is organic. This is laboratory-proven and tracking individuals and then they archive over decades and decades now have the batches in the bottles for testing and reference points. They're all labeled, and they're all identified. So, it is the most researched nutraceutical in the world.
I will not do without my Juice Plus. I will stay on it forever.
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“Also, the ingredients contain a lot of Oxalates in them. I have heard these are hard on digestion.”
Answer
These oxalates are in things like spinach and other leafy vegetables. This is not so concentrated that it would be an issue. I have never in my life seen anyone take Juice Plus, I've been using it in my practice clinically, for about 23, or 24 years, and I do extensive testing. I do uric acid levels. I have never ever once seen the use of this be contraindicated. So, this is all theory puff and conjecture, just like the thought that it is, “non-organic”. So, please go with the science. You can go to their plant, processing here. You can ask for a scheduled tour. One of the plants is north of San Diego. Go for yourself and look at it.
Question
“I had COVID over a year ago. And I’m still losing hair. I have been using shampoos, conditioners, and taking supplements recommended by my dermatologist but still losing hair.”
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Stress causes hair loss. Cortisol is a catabolic hormone, and it promotes fat retention toxins that go into the fat and promote inflammation and it's a bad cycle. That's why we don't like anyone on permanent steroids, even your own stress and adrenals can produce too much. So, you're going to have a triggering point. Age is stressful, just to age is a stress and that's associated with a diminishment in the reparative restorative, that's why we wrinkle as we age. That's why our hair thins out and so forth. And we ultimately will all meet our maker. So, I would suggest to you try not to shampoo, conditioner, or anything. Try and go, you know, using sponge bathing, wash under your arms and your pits, and try and stay clean that way. If you sweat, sweat is not stinky. You are not going to get stink on your arms or your legs. That is salty water. It doesn’t need to be washed off. The only place that needs washing is where bacteria can be and that is in your pits.
So, give yourself more rest. Good night's sleep, low carb, EDTA chelation, DHEA 50-milligrams, and follow up with your doctor. Have them measure your hormones, DHEA level, testosterone, and DHT, and try not to shower or bathe or wash your hair, and just let it be. Wear scarves, put it up like I do, and let your skin get a rest and heal. Drink plenty, plenty, plenty of water. Take your enzymes. And then see if you don't notice that you're doing better. You know, I don't shower that often and get wet and rinse all my healthy oils off. I sponge bath mostly. I think this is partly why my hair is so thick and long and my skin and complexion have done well. I've been told this over and over and over again. And I'm most gracious to anyone who has said that. But I do think we over bathe and we put chemicals on our bodies. I do none of those things. So, hopefully, that'll give you some idea and try not doing those things.
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“What is the best way to speed the healing of herpes outbreaks on the lips?”
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Fasting. Get Argentyn 23, that’s the spray for silver. I have the Argentyn right here. This is only what doctors can get. It’s a spray. And very often, I will just refresh my face and stuff. If I have a patient come in here and coughing, coughing, coughing, sneezing, coughing, fine. Afterward, I will wash my hands. I will spritz my face and lips, and silver is anti-viral, it is fungicidal, and bactericidal. You can take a sip of Argentyn in a bottle, swish, gargle, and swallow. So, that’s what I would do. I would do fasting. That stimulates cell repair and healing like nothing else. You know, I basically eat one meal a day. I’m so blessed to be so healthy for working six days a week essentially. I am here being coughed and sneezed on for three years all through this alleged COVID and I just have not really suffered one bit from it nor my patients or anything at all.
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“I am dealing with thyroid nodules and in my research, I have found an endocrinologist in Miami who works at Mount Sinai Medical Center. His name is Agustin Andrade he is a pioneer in radiofrequency ablation, laser ablation, and ethanol ablation to shrink nodules in order to avoid surgery. If my nodules come back benign, I am considering having him treat me, but I wanted to know if you had heard anything about this type of treatment in order to avoid major surgery on my thyroid. His website is www.thyroidcenter.com.”
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Yes, tumor abolition, embolization, there are ultrasound-directed therapies to kind of break up nodules in the prostate gland. So, this is not new technology. And on some of my publications when I was working with EDTA chelation and the suppositories for the men with prostate issues, the National Institutes of Health saw some of my work and they called me because when it gets calcified, then the sound wave breaking up of these things gets repelled backward. So, they were very intrigued with my successes and getting rid of this microcalcification plaquing. So yeah, it's old. And, you know, that was back in 2006, 17 years ago when I was working on that project. So, yeah, I think it's reasonable. And it all depends on the size and so many other factors, but it's very interesting. I wish you very well on that.
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“I was diagnosed with Diverticulitis when I had a colonoscopy in December of 2021. My gastroenterologist said that it was due to my age. I will be 71 this month. I am a patient of Dr. Mitchell and take my supplements, drink half of my body weight in water, take bio-identical hormones and eat very healthily. All of my labs are normal. I am type O negative blood type. I recently have had a few bowel movements with blood. I sometimes have pain from the diverticulitis but nothing in the past 10 months as I have been trying to eat more fiber. Can you suggest anything else I can do? I did let my Gastroenterologist know about the bleeding, but he says that since my colonoscopy was normal just to eat more fiber.”
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I don’t think you were diagnosed with diverticulitis, that's the infection and they will never do really or very rarely would do a colon up the butt when you're inflamed, that would put you at risk for poking through it. So, you probably were diagnosed with diverticula, not diverticulitis. And diverticula, those outpouchings, are often reported on a colonoscopy.
I will be 71 this month, so here's breakthrough knowledge. The same reason why we get flabby skin here and I don't know wrinkly skin, I don’t have a lot, but you get flabby wrinkling skin is because you are aging. And with aging, if there is tension on it like a bowel movement, it’s going to poke out, okay? With pressure in the tube, like on a tire and getting a blister on the tire. Your skin is hanging here, and you are going to get some weakness.
What helps collagen elastin? Well, hormones help. I give hormones all the time. I take estradiol all the time. I think that’s why I don’t have many wrinkles on my face. And then Vitamin C helps the erotic acid, collagen elastin stay sticky and link up nicely, instead of being loose. Nutrition, vitamin C, hormone replacement, stimulating repair through fasting you know, I do a five-day fast twice a year. I'm eating almost one meal a day or within you know, eat within a 20, 21-hour framework, nibble off a meal for two or three hours. So, the more your stomach is empty, the more human growth hormone you're going to make, and the more repair you're going to have all your tissues in your body. The slower you're going to age, the longer you will live.
Well, I would do fasting. I would do a one-day, 24-hour fast, once a week. Maybe once a month, I would do a two-day fast. I would eat all the things that were composed of was made of protein and fat. So, you can repair these things and make sure you're getting enough vitamin C. I use Vitality C as a powder because I take quite a few capsules for supplementation. So, anytime I can take a good supplement in a powder I will. I will take about a scoop, 4,000 milligrams of vitamin C at night or just under that, with my Opti-Mag Neuro powder. I get about 400 milligrams of magnesium. Then I have my human growth hormone stimulating repair with all the fasting that I do. I do weight training three times a week. I missed yesterday morning, I got my days mixed up, and I feel really bad about that. But three days a week I do heavy weightlifting. And twice a week I do a full hour, almost a full hour with my physical therapist at Pilates of Old Town. I love it. So, those are some things I would have you think about.
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“If cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, what is? Besides the obvious obesity and poor nutrition. What is a healthy cholesterol range?
My husband has taken Lipitor for 2 decades for high cholesterol, was 300 range, now 170. After taking Lipitor he developed type 2 diabetes, with no family history. Dr. says Lipitor does not cause type 2 diabetes. He walks 5 days a week, 3-4 miles. He is 6'2' and weighs 205. He eats a good diet and few carbs but not enough water, working on that. He has normal blood pressure. He has no health complaints and is very active. Could he stop taking Lipitor and take supplements instead?”
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Inflammation. It is cell damaged for a multitude of reasons, chronic viral infections, chronic stress, high carb, sticky, glyphosate, fruity sugar, fructose sticking, lack of water, lack of exercise, cortisol breakdown, stress, not getting enough good sleep, losing our enzymes, losing our hormones. These are the cause of it.
The older you get if you're not above 200 by the age of 70. Google longevity or mortality and low cholesterol, and you will see tens of thousands of articles that if you are below 200 by age 70, you are not going to probably live long. It’s like a bell curve. You can be too low and your death rate goes up and you can-- I’m not talking the extreme of a cholesterol of a 1,000. But people with two, three, 400 cholesterol, you have to remember I have been practicing 41 years. When I saw soldiers, healthy men, and then senior officers, noncommissioned officers, and these men had cholesterols 350, 450, 560. We didn't blink an eye at this in the 1970s. These men weren't keeling over with heart attacks. And their blood sugars were far, far less than the average junior high, grade school kid today. It is ridiculous.
So yeah, I don't care what your total cholesterol or your total LDL is. Those are just numbers. What I care about is the triglyceride that comes as a result of sugar, starchy carbs, fruity sugars, and carbohydrates. We are not made of sugar and fruit sugar and carbohydrates and starch. We are made of protein and fat. And we're eating way too high a percentage that stupid government pyramid, stupid then, and my father said it was stupid when I was a little girl. The PhDs in Armour Food Research Labs, Dr. John Hopkins, said it was stupid then. They were right. Just because someone has a white coat on and a title to their name, means nothing today. I think you all learned that by now.
Lipitor, if you are being shunned away from healthy fats, then you are going to move to a higher starch carbohydrate pyramid diet. That is the cause. So, your doctor needs to grow up on that. Tell me what his fasting insulin is. I don’t agree with the ranges on the labs. Tell me what his fasting blood sugar is. Tell me what his hemoglobin A1C is. Tell me what his fructosamine is. And tell me what his triglycerides and HDL are. Then, I will tell you if he is on a low-carb diet.
I have gotten so many people off of insulin and metformin and diabetic medicine and so many things. But they assumed responsibility for their life, they assumed responsibility for educating themselves and sharing it with their doctor. So, I think anything's possible.
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“Does BioPC help with brain fog? And can it make insomnia worse? I am about to start my second canister - my brain fog has improved significantly but my insomnia has become much worse. Wondering if there is a correlation.”
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Yes, yes, yes. The cell membranes in your brain are about 70% fat. You may not have known how capable your brain is. When your brain works well, your memory, activity, and ability to make new connections and retain data, think, sort, and interact become fantabulous. So, that might be such a new, exciting health advantage. You may find it difficult to go to sleep for a while. But normally, it is not associated with insomnia.
I think that might be related to healing. So, don’t eat late. Depending on how old you are, try and stop eating you know six o'clock, drink plenty of water, and don't have green tea or caffeine. And maybe take some Vitamin C powder with magnesium powder, kind of as your evening drink. Drink it down, and don't let the light get at it because that'll destroy the value of the vitamin C. And then exercise after your dinner, take a good walk, and then get a routine so you have good hygiene for sleep patterns. So, you have the same room, a cooler temperature, enough blankets, you have the lights out, and the electromagnetic energy makes sure there are not any cords. If you are in an apartment, make sure the apartment doesn’t have any of those energy devices receiving signals. There are all kinds of things. Be on natural hormones, take some progesterone, maybe take some melatonin, maybe you need some DHEA, maybe you could use some ashwagandha, that's very very helpful. Chamomile tea, all these things might be a big help to you.
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“I forgot which infrared sauna you recommend. Also, do you know anything about the Kangen water system? I don't think it's worth the money but what do you think?”
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I don’t know if I know the best of them all. The one that I bought for myself in my bedroom is called SaunaSure. It’s a tent with a bamboo framework inside. I did get it with the Faraday cage.
I used to sell the Kangen water system because I was so impressed with them 15 years ago. I’m still impressed with them. I think they are a good product. Great customer service. The service is in Torrance. They can give you good repairs and help you get it installed in your kitchen. I do believe that it is wonderful to have extra hydrogen ions, that is just one more extra antioxidant you can get into your system through the water, through the platinum electroplating. So, yeah. I like it very much.
Well, let me put it this way. If it's between good at taking nutrients and buying organic meat, then I wouldn't buy Kangen. If you can afford organic and afford Kangen, probably the best of both worlds. But I have my Berkey Water Filter. I got it from the Alex Jones Show because I'm trying to support Alex Jones and all the years that he's been talking freely without censorship up until about four years five years ago. So, I got the Alexa Pure from Alex Jones and it does a great job so I'm happy with that.
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“My 34-year-old son was diagnosed with Alpha-Gal syndrome and it affected his colon so was difficult to diagnose. After many years of having fistulas and fissures and hemorrhoids. He had two surgeries that did nothing for him but caused more injuries and finally had a temporary ostomy bag done to heal him. It was after that surgery he was diagnosed. Any suggestions on supplements or treatments to help?”
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Well, I think everything in this series here, you heard me talk about the diverticula, the vitamin C, the water, the enzymes, the healthy fats, the essential fats, and that's not EPA and DHA, and then hormone repair. So, listen to the whole program and have him see if it's possible.
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“A doctor prescribed a baby aspirin every day to lessen blood clots caused by the MTHFR gene mutation after 2 miscarriages. Do you have any immediate concerns with this idea? Separately, my blood count went down to 10 a month and a half ago from complications with the latest miscarriage; is it normal for me to still feel sluggish and weak today? Please, share any suggestions for healing.”
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Yeah, it is just more drugging. Basically, how much water? Did he tell you to drink half your weight in ounces as water as a natural anticoagulant? Did he tell you to cut your carbs and keep your fasting insulin to no higher than four? Did he tell you to keep your triglycerides to be no higher than your high-density HDLs, which would be roughly 60 or 50 for triglycerides? Did he tell you about the danger of fructose and glyphosate action from that and high fructose corn syrup? Did he tell you about the importance of exercise and microcirculation to prevent clots? Did he tell you about fasting and how that helps repair? Did he tell you about systemic enzymes that are God’s way to dis-inflame a human body with enzymes like Vitalzym or Vascuzyme?
No, he changed with another, next patient, chi-ching. Instead of learning to take time, trust the Lord for your income, and just help each patient intensely and get to know them, and let them know that you care about them and their outcome and a follow-up, which is as much an exam of the doctor as it is an exam of the patient. And then, exploring natural ways and opening up a book and watching a video and going to a conference and learning these things.
No, I don’t like aspirin. And did he tell you to take methylated B12, folic acid, and B6? Did he tell you to take methylated B Complexes? Did he tell you about the research on Juice Plus in the General of Cardiology done years ago showing its great cardiovascular benefit across the board to include, you know, the anti-inflammatory effect that would stop clotting? My goodness.
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“With so many states legalizing marijuana, I have many concerns surrounding how the smoking of this plant impacts peoples' physical, mental, and emotional health. There are many people in my life who have taken up smoking marijuana daily - whether they say it's for therapeutic reasons or just because they enjoy it - but I can't imagine it's at all healthy for people to partake in this. They say it's a natural plant, so there's nothing wrong with it. What is your opinion on the daily use of marijuana, and do you have concerns with its legalization spreading nationwide?”
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Yes, and yes. I have concerns about legalization and I have concerns about its daily use. I see it as a gateway drug. I see it as a rebelliousness, a cheap solution instead of studying to show yourself approved or workman worthy that God can use and getting the eyeballs on the Word of God and soaking it in. They are soaking in a plant of pharmaceuticals I mean, nutraceuticals, THC, and cannabinoids that are touching nerve receptors that are impacting our dopamine and happy centers. So, I am concerned about it.
Read the Bible every day.
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“What is important to take and eat for osteoporosis?”
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Well, I can't go into everything and I'm way, way way over today. So, you have to eat what you're made of. And you have to stomp your feet and stimulate, 15 seconds twice a day, stomping like you are an angry little brat girl or man. Get that shuttering feeling up your legs, hit the table with your arm, jam it, 10 strikes a day, to get that bone stimulated. Vitamin K2, and vitamin D levels should reach at least 60 to 80. If you can use natural estradiol, natural testosterone, and natural progesterone, that'd be great.
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“I'm seeing a Dr in Colorado for EDTA therapy. But they made me stop for the only reason being due to having a 19 ferritin level. Is this necessary? Can someone continue EDTA if they're taking iron supplements to replace?”
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No, that’s not necessary. You have to have someone figure out why is your ferritin low, that’s not terribly low at all. But for the benefit of EDTA chelation therapy, someone is being overcautious.
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“My sister has a water softener - is this good for your skin? She has a friend who switched from salt to soften hard water to potassium cubes (sodium-free) - which is the best option?”
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The best is don't shower that much. Don't bathe that much. Don’t wash off your natural oils is the answer to that.
