YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 28 2023

Question

“If you are getting EDTA treatments, would you recommend going to a doctor or would an IV bar that offers the treatment also be sufficient? Would there really be a difference in the treatment and how it's done? Also, what are your thoughts on IV NAD?”

Answer  

Ethylene diamine tetra-acetic acid, these are IVs that are chelators. They pull out heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, uranium, and so forth. This is designed in a 3D manner to have a strong negative end that is attracted to molecules that are positive. So, all heavy toxic metals. There are really no safe levels. EDTA is attracted to it electrochemically. There is a certain gradient of affinity in chemistry, and there is the order of what we call mass action. So, if you have a huge amount of one type of toxin, the EDTA is going to be seeing more of that than the other things. Even if the affinity would be for lead, it might pick up some other things.

I would think that all IV bars have a physician who is responsible for the IV intravenous administration of anything. Check your state laws on that. But usually, I would think they would have the doctor on premise, on the ground. So, we only do IVs at our place with the physician being present. And that way, the nurse, if there's any reason to have a question, they have a doctor available, that should be qualified to handle any kind of question or emergent issues.

I have no problems with IV bars. If the bar is offering EDTA, I would presume that the doctor went to the American Academy for the Advancement of Medicine and did the training on EDTA and the calculations. We don't want to give this to someone who has heart failure, because that would be adding more fluids to their load. We don't want to give it to someone in un-staged kidney failure, although we do give it to patients who have kidney failure in lower doses, in tiny and more frequent amounts. That does help kidney disease. We have many nephrologists who have published on this and seeing great value.

I can’t speak to the IV bars because I don’t know what their protocol is. We teach a protocol that has been proven safe and effective for 50 to 60 years. Hopefully, they are following that protocol. But I do recommend it because we are all exposed, all of us out there. From the babies to the adults, the older you get you just bioaccumulate these toxins. They are associated with all causes. Every cause of death is aggravated by these oxidizing cell membranes. They poke a hole in the membrane and hurt the cell. Then we are trying to always help you repair it, to repair all the holes. These heavy metals poke holes and burn the cell membranes. Everyone needs to do this.

They are all given intravenously. I would just think the dosing might be different. If you're using a lower dose, every dose helps. So, I would say any amount they're giving you helps, I just hope it's cost-effective.

NAD is referring to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide. NAD for short, or NADH, those are biochemical molecules that are very, very important for cell respiration in the mitochondria and many other places and transferring of electrons. Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, if you eat meats and food that is rich in it, you should have plenty of this. It does diminish with age. There are those who say it helps with cell metabolism, especially for athletes who work out heavily. I have never used it in IV form or as a nutrient because I've never seen the real need for it. 

Question

“Does red palm oil fall into the bad fats list or is it a good fat like coconut oil and butter?”

Answer

Yes, palm oil is one of those saturated fatty acids that should be considered, you know, not a concern. So, I would say yes, it would be considered a good fat, like coconut or butter. 

Question

“I have developed a dark streak on the nail of my big toe, thumb, and index finger. When I googled this, the pictures looked much like my nails, and the report suggests subungual melanoma. What would you recommend?”

Answer

Yes, we all have melanoma. There are no races, we're all one race. The Bible says we're all of one blood. We just have different volumes of melanin being expressed in our skin. So, I'm not a white person, and I can prove it to you in one second. I am a different shade of person because this is what a white person would look like. And if I look that white, please call 911.

But anyway, yeah, there are no races. There are only different shades of expression, genetically of melatonin. We are all of one race. And that certainly helps you to love all people. And to regard everyone as made in the image of God and to treat them with a concept. 

Now, it can be a concern to have the show up under the nail beds. And so, I would say you should see a dermatologist and have them look at the toenail and the thumbnail and have that exam. Especially if it's recent and new. And then, monitor it and go from there. So, see your dermatologist and make sure that is not of concern. There are benign expressions of melatonin. And hopefully, that's all this is, and usually, it is. I would just have it checked out. 

Question

“Tongat Ali is an Indonesian root that raises testosterone. Studies show that 800 mg raises testosterone by 200 points. What are your thoughts on this?”

Answer

I haven't used Tongat Ali. I have used other things like moose antler extract. I have used-- I can’t remember the name of it. I have not used Tongat Ali. So, all I can say is if this is generally regarded as safe, and by a good manufacturing process, I don't see a reason why you couldn't use it and try it out. Or bring it to your doctor and let them look at the bottle and get familiar with the maker and maybe do some research on that. I'll write that down. I'll try and have more information on that.  

What could raise testosterone anyway? Exercise, weightlifting, and some intermittent high-intensity training. So, if you did weights one day, upper and lower body, then the next day you did aerobic spurts, then the next day you did some weight training. That's known to raise it. Eating a diet has enough cholesterol in it because testosterone is made on the cholesterol molecule. It has to be eaten to produce it. DHEA is a precursor for it. Doing intermittent fasting promotes this. Getting a good night's sleep helps this. Avoiding all alcoholic beverages improves this. So, those are other things you can do without buying herbs. 

Question

“How do you recommend treating, and do you assist patients as a part of your practice, who have a diagnosis of Lyme Disease? Western medicine seems to recommend antibiotics. Are there other methods that you would suggest as an alternative?”

Answer

Well, Lyme disease is not something that you want to fool around with. And we have a lot of experience as an infectious disease specialist. We will usually use something like doxycycline, one of the tetracycline family antibiotics. And that over maybe first exposure to a tick-borne disease, the Bordetella virus, and it will hopefully prevent development of Lyme. But if it is missed and Lyme does develop, you have a valid lab and testing, and it’s probably been either unknown when you got the tick infestation bite, then I would say probably antibiotics are the correct path and to consult with your infectious disease specialist.

Now, what can we do to help? Well, if you follow all the healthy lifestyles to support immune building, such as a low-carb diet, good night's sleep, drinking enough water, and not eating after six o'clock so your immune system and gut can rest, and then your blood doesn't have to circulate around your stomach after eating and snacking into the evening hours. So, you have more hours where your immune system can work on protecting you. If you're eating healthier fats and proteins in your free-range meats, red meats, free-range poultry, free-range wild-caught fish, and so forth, and butter, then you’re going to be able to build up better white blood cells and build up better cell membranes. Remember, you want to protect your membranes from being injured. If you're taking vitamin D and getting a check with your doctor once or twice a year and keeping in a range that's in the upper normal limits, like 80 nanograms per deciliter to 120 nanograms per deciliter is what our clinic uses. If you're taking in enough water, as well as using enzymes systemically to reduce inflammation. If you're taking a good multi-chelated mineral, like zinc, and selenium. All these things work together to help and then we can give high dose vitamin C intravenously, that is very valuable. We can do ozone, ultraviolet light, and irradiation of the blood treatments. All these things tend to kill parasites, fungi, bacteria, viruses. And this is how we support patients who come to us who have been diagnosed with Lyme disease.

But we have traditionally worked with the infectious disease specialists, and we have never discouraged them against the antibiotic treatments. However, if they do the antibiotics, we protect the gut from harm with high-dose probiotics and prebiotics, and that all together then gives us very good results for our patients.

Question

“What do you think of these, triglycerides 99, HDL 74, LDL 146, VLDL 17, T4, 1.84, T3 32 uptake, TSH 0.005, triiodothyronine T3 193?”

Answer

She didn’t give me a total cholesterol. It doesn’t matter. The things that are important here is the triglycerides are higher than the HDL, so they were 99 and the high-density HDL was 74. So, you want to bring those triglycerides down into the 70s through eating less carbs and maybe exercising more to get the HDL up. That would be my only criticism there. But you're not far off.

The thyroid stimulating hormone is 0.005. But then the question would be is this person on thyroid replacement medication for hypothyroidism? If they are then a TSH of 0.005 could be acceptable if they're on thyroid replacement. Some doctors would say it is too suppressed. The T3 is 193, which is in the average range. It shows if they are on a thyroid supplement, they are not on too much. So, I wouldn't worry much at all about the TSH. T4 is 1.84, which is in the normal range. 

Question

“I understand the benefits you indicate with chelation therapy for heavy metals. I've read some concerns on side effects to the kidneys. Your thoughts?”

Answer

 If you get EDTA chelation therapy in the correct manner, you never get any kidney issues. So, any medicine can be administered too much, too fast, too often, too little and you could get poor outcomes. The same is with the amino acid manmade called EDTA. If you give it in a manner that is at the right dose, and then the right speed, and the right frequency, you're always going to be safe. And we're always safe here decade after decade after decade after decade that I've used it. I've had no problems.

I have patients with kidney disease in stages 1, 2, and 3, and even some on dialysis for their kidneys, just like nephrologists have published. Dr. Lee has done study after study showing that EDTA chelation therapy tends to be protective and stabilizing in kidney failure. So, if you gave the medicine too fast, you could create a usually temporary minor vacuolization of the glomeruli tubal. But that repairs itself in 24 hours. That's the only thing I've ever seen. So, corrupt people in the internet world who do not do this, who don’t have experience for decades with this, will take that one fact and explode it to the point of creating fear. In reality, you have far greater harm and risk with aspirin and Tylenol every day being used over the counter. So, we have deaths and overdosing with this and harm to the liver. You never hear, except for one doctor that I know in Florida, many, many years ago, 10 to 15 years ago. In all of the 70 years of EDTA’s history, there have only been two or three deaths for the millions of dosing.

The National Institutes of Health, just with their study with 708 people who had a heart attack, there were no problems. It was extremely safe to administer was their assessment in the trial. And they went on to do tech trial two. Now they are in trial three. They are getting phenomenal results on circulation and longevity and saving limbs and stopping the post-heart attack risk potential for subsequent heart attack and death. So, it is ridiculous for anyone to use a kidney as a risk because if it's given properly, it is safer than aspirin and Tylenol. 

Question

“I got a CT scan that confirmed kidney stones. Do you have suggestions to help them pass quickly? The pain first started over 2 weeks ago and I still haven’t passed them. Also, my CT scan report said, mild fat stranding was seen anterior to the aorta at and just below the level of the celiac artery. In your opinion, is fat stranding something to be concerned about?”

Answer

Well, abnormal fat accumulation in the gut and the organs, viscera, shows that you're eating too many carbs. If you do some fasting, don’t eat late, exercise, and lose 10 or 15 pounds, that should solve that issue. So, if it's just a streak, but where is it going to be a year from now or five years, or 10 years from now? You have to start working on it now.

 

The other thing is what would I do for kidney stones? I've had two in my life. And both of them were because I neglected to take care of myself. One was when I was an emergency room doctor. And I was just working these ungodly shifts of 12, 14, and 18 hours on active duty. We were understaffed and I just had no time to drink water or stop to go pee. That's how terrible these shifts were day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year on active duty. And I then got a kidney stone and it required a basket retrieval.

And then, the second time I got a kidney stone was in 2014. And once again I was just not taking care of myself here, drinking enough water. So, it is drinking water and taking the time to stop, and even if you're running late you have to drink your water, and go pee, and empty your bladder. And then drink more water. If you're trying to do everything right, you just have to do it. You have to drink half your weight in pounds as ounces every day of your life. And that is the best way to prevent kidney stones.

There's no gimmickry. I have been practicing for 41 years. All these wives' tales about taking this or that, I have never ever seen in my 41 years, nothing at all compares to drinking enough water every day.

Question

“What supplements would you recommend for a fast recovery after wisdom teeth surgery for a teenager?”

Answer

Fasting is the greatest thing you can do to speed up healing for a period of time. So, I would be fasted when I go into have a tooth pulled and I would be fasting for 24 to 48 hours afterward for any surgery actually. It stimulates human growth hormone and if you're taking vitamin C, and vitamin D, I like the series called Juice Plus, the fruit, vegetable, and berry concentrate. There's no sugar in it. A good multi-mineral. And I would take systemic enzymes after any surgery. I would not take them days before surgery because taking systemic enzymes all the way up to the day of surgery, you could get a little bit of tendency toward blood thinning that would just make a little bit of oozing of the capillaries and harder for them to stop the bleeding and they would have to cauterize it. Same with the tooth. So, about four days before the surgery, I was stopping enzymes, if you're taking them. But even if you're not taking them after surgery, I would take them immediately after surgery the next day. And I would use like four or five twice a day on an empty stomach, especially if this stomach is empty for two days. 

If the patient must have something, then I would just give them chicken broth or beef broth. And if they must have something with sugar in it, I would give them ginger ale with the real sugar in it, the real ginger ale but I would mix it with water to cut it, so it isn't so sweet. And that's what I would do for the teenager with the wisdom tooth extraction.

Question

“What are your thoughts on ozone for brain injury and metal toxicity? Is it safe and effective? Anything else you would recommend for the brain to promote healing?”

Answer

Fasting will promote healing of the brain and healing of the body like nothing else at all. So, fasting for two, three days is so growth hormone repairing. EDTA chelation will help the microcirculation and using systemic enzymes will help dis-inflame and using ozone oxygen is certainly probably valuable. I don't know of any studies. But nobody makes money on EDTA chelation and no one will pay for studies on this. I was amazed that the tech trial was done. After so many decades of chelating people was so wonderful to finally see some of the money of the government go to looking at a qualified trial for chelation and it turned out spectacular. But EDTA chelation will always improve microcirculation which will always improve tissue and any part of the body from the brain to the toe. Ozone likely will help it because it enhances oxygen and decreases viral bacterial and fungal contaminants. And fasting will stimulate healing like nothing else will. 

Question

“I’m currently using both estrogen and testosterone hormone creams from longevity. Is it a better product than what I would get from a regular doctor? More natural? How long should you use HRT?”

Answer

I think compounding pharmacists and standard pharmacists that don't compound but only give pre-made pharmaceutical products called estradiol or progesterone, called Prometrium. These are the true estradiol and Prometrium is true progesterone. But I don't think there isn't as much variability. We like the creams because they're what we would call pure, we make them here ourselves as pure estradiol with Eucerin cream. Very simple, very, very basic. There are no chemicals in it.

And then, you and your doctor can adjust the dose with creams a lot easier than rewriting a script, reformulating, and only a certain amount of packaged delivery mechanisms that the pharmaceuticals Yeah, so are cream forms were done so we wouldn’t waste any of the creams. We could up the dosing, and lower the dosing by the volume of the cream dispensed. It’s very easy, easy to do. So, there is nothing better than estradiol. You can't improve on what God made it, estradiol is what it is. 

When pharmaceuticals put it in patches like the Vive-Val patch or the Mini-Val, then you are dealing with adhesives and suspension plastics and stuff sticking to your body. You are picking up some of these plasticizers into your system because the skin is an organ, and it will pick up these fat-soluble items. And many times, these chemicals are fat soluble. So, I don't like the patches for that reason. Plus, they're fixed doses.

The other thing is that I don't like pellets. I don’t like the injectable testosterone. These are unnatural ways to administer it. I think the most natural is a cream or oral capsule or tablet. 

Question

“Please explain Herzing and do you recommend doing it?”

Answer

I think what he's referring to is the Hertz-Meier reaction. The Hertz Meier reaction is a Doctor Hertz Meier who first described the phenomena of detoxing symptoms. Let's say you go on a low-carb diet, intermittent fast, or you fast, and you start getting what they call the low carb flu. Meaning you start feeling achy and you start feeling tired, maybe even some nausea from your hunger. And you might get a little softer stool or looser stool. The Hertz Meier reaction or herzing refers to the body’s natural process of detoxing. You could get an EDTA chelation IV or a high dose vitamin C IV. And these will promote detoxing of the body and you could feel a little flu-like afterward.

Now, over the many decades that I've done this, I've never seen this as a problem because we know how to dose it so well. And we have dose ranges that tend to not give this as a problem. But nobody is identical to the next person. And so, we all can have a different reactions. So, herzing refers to doing detoxification protocols where you're getting some of that kind of achy flu-like, maybe even loose stool feeling, for hours to a day or two. But it shouldn't last beyond a day or two, because your body doesn't ever detox, even if you’re doing a fast or taking some herbs to promote this to the level of a prolonged Hertz Meier reaction. It is always within a day or two.

So, herzing is saying, I'm going to detox, I'm going to go on a fast, or I'm going to take some extra vitamin C, or I'm going to take a juicing protocol, whatever you're going to do, you'll probably get a little bit of a Hertz Meier reaction. So, if that's what you're referring to, I think it's safe. It's been around for thousands of years. It is self-limiting. And it certainly shouldn't take more than a day or two to get through these flu-like simple symptoms. 

Question

“I just found out I have a hormonal imbalance. I'm a woman and have too much testosterone. What would you recommend I do?”

Answer

There are many things that could be going on. First, you know I would want to know your age because if you're on the birth control pill, which I never prescribe, I won't prescribe. These concoctions of synthetic hormones mess with the ovulation cycle and they make the hormone levels in a woman altered so that we don't get our waves every month, the biphasic waves. And we don't build up the bone density that we should. So, if your estradiol level is usually lower, your relative testosterone level could be higher, and then you become more aggressive and bitchy.

So, we would say, if you're on the birth control pill, that's one of the causes. The other is that sometimes the lab reports will say that the testosterone level of a woman is too high. But I'm going to tell you over 41 years of practicing medicine that those ranges change with a population average, and the population is your measuring stick. And people are not as healthy as they used to be 10, 20, 30, 40, or 50 years ago. When I first started practicing, I would say I did my own testosterone when I was 43 years old. I think that was the first time I ever did it. And I had a testosterone level of 93. And I was in the normal range back then. And this was around the early 1990s. 

I would say today, I think the highest limit on the population average for women's testosterone that I've seen is 70. So, see how the picture gets blurred just because you're sampling a population of people who are getting sicker and sicker and less healthy and less resilient. So, your testosterone level, if I could see it in light of your age and your exam and against the other hormones in you and what medicines you are not taking, I might say that your testosterone level is great. So, I would see a healthcare doctor who is very experienced in natural hormone replacement therapy and put it into perspective. Because your testosterone level may not be the problem. It might in fact be other issues okay going on. 

Question

“What is your opinion on ionic detoxing?”

Answer

I'm not sure I know what you mean by ionic detoxing. There could be various things. Ionic is talking sometimes about putting your feet in a foot bath, where there's actually an electric current that creates ions in the water because water is the most mysterious element in the world. H2O is the most exciting, mysterious element on the planet.

And if you put an electrical current in the water and you put your feet in it, it'll make some free hydrogen atoms or free hydroxyl atoms, and putting your feet in that can create a particle count differential so that your skin cells in your feet will start shedding certain molecular items. We will leave it that way.

Other ionic detoxing talks to taking drinks in which you put a packet of minerals that do somewhat of a similar thing in the sense that these are usually minerals like magnesium citrate or other chelated minerals. And these minerals, when you take them in with a lot of water, will help bring out and make you have a loose stool and a bowel movement and help your kidneys to expel excessive water. If that's what you're talking about, I think you should talk with your doctor and not go wild. You could make yourself become dehydrated with the oral technique of these mineral packets. So, you have to know what you're doing and not overdo any of them.

Most of the foot baths are pretty much, you know, not a risk. But I think that's what you're talking about. So, I think for the most part, they're safe.

Are they useful? If you say on a scale of one to 10, would I use it and do I bring it up in my practice because it's valuable? And if 10 is the most valuable, and one is it has no value, I'm going to have to say it's a 1 or 2. There are just so many other things that are so much more valuable, like fasting, and drinking enough water, and getting a good night's sleep, and regular exercise both weight resistance and aerobic, not eating late, being low carb. Those are the tried-and-true things that you can't fix the whole human body of trillions of cells with these little ionic mineral drinks, or these foot baths, or minutes on a Bemer mat. They may have their moments of value, but I hope you understand at the scale of things, it is not going to be worth it. 

Question

“I have been having leg cramps at night. I am 67 Is there something I'm missing in my diet?”

Answer

The older you get, the more you get these holes in your membranes here, this little break of the cell membrane, a blowout in the wall there. All your life when you're younger at nighttime you fix it, and then you're ready to start the next day. And you get some breaches, but you go to bed at night and you fix it if, if you're drinking enough water, and you're taking those building blocks. Like eating meat, fish, chicken, pork, fish, egg yolks, and dairy products that are free range or raw, full of the phospholipids, the cholesterol, the protein, the healthy fats, and protein that we are made of.

So, most of these leg cramps are from too many holes. I keep on my desk, this waffle wall or pickleball to try and let you know the older you get, the more of your cells have holes in them. And so, the little capillaries that are supposed to bring all the blood supply there are in fact, themselves getting damaged and clogged up. So, that's why this is one of the miracles of medical health care drinking water.

Drink half your weight in pounds as ounces every day. And then minerals. If you've got lots of holes in your cells, then it can't hold on to the energy production or its contents and it's leaking like a sieve. And I've been getting some cramps sometimes in my older years now and so I will take some multi-mineral which is the magnesium, and the potassium, and the calcium, and the other minerals, selenium, and so forth. I take that every day. I'll take some vitamin C in water. It’s combined with ribose. It’s chelated or sticking. The vitamin C is sticking through ribose. Then I use magnesium in an item we have here called OptiMag Neuro. I'll take a little scoop of magnesium and my Vitamin C powder and I'll put it in a drink every morning when I'm taking my little bowl of vitamins, and then I don't get cramps. So, that's what I would do, and drink enough water and eat your fats and protein. So, you can repair yourself, you might do some chelation therapy. 

Question

“Do you think hard water can affect your health, hair, skin, etc.?”

Answer

Well, I think what she means by hard water is the city water has a lot of calcium in it. Well, water has a lot of calcium in it. And for the most part, I don't think that this is going to be a concern. What I'd be more concerned about with city water are contaminants, you know, just like consider Flint, Michigan, and the lead that was in the water, the chlorine that they put in the water is harmful. So, you know, just the fact of the matter is Americans bathe too much. And they rinse off their skin too often and they're getting the chlorine, a big dose every time they shower every day. So, I shower at most, you know, once every couple of weeks. I am really trying to keep the city water of Tustin off my body. Sponge bathe. The other thing I use is Argentyn silver or Argentyn gel. I use it as a deodorant. It works very, very well. I wouldn't be worried about that. My water is all filtered and then re-mineralized and then it goes through an ultraviolet light before I drink it. 

Question

“Are labs usually done for fatty liver?”

Answer

Yeah, well, labs for fatty liver usually are elevated liver enzymes. And elevated liver enzymes are from the fact that you're delivering too much sugar, starch, bagel, crackers, breads, bananas, eating too many seeds, or nuts, all things that from the plant kingdom, and sugars and especially high fructose corn syrup and fruit sugar. And this will then cause your body and your liver to try to process all of this to make too many triglycerides and you'll get fatty liver excess and then this will hurt a liver cell disrupted and the enzyme will spill out and over. So, there isn't really a lab test that says, fatty liver, it just is elevated liver enzymes.

If you do an ultrasound of your abdomen that will show the fat accumulation in the liver. This is probably one of the best ways to do it. When I see elevated liver signs in my patients, but they don't drink, and their blood sugars are in the upper normal ranges and triglycerides are above 100. I then start saying you're getting fatty liver disease and I order an ultrasound to confirm it.