YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, February 6, 2024

Question 

“What is the difference between Juice Plus Fruits and Veggies and Balance of Nature Fruits and Veggies that is advertised on TV?” [0:01:24]

Answer

Well, the answer is the degree of science and clinical research involved. There are over 42 peer-reviewed journals in healthcare that have done research on Juice Plus on varying topics, such as immune support, building up your lymphocytes, DNA damage reduction, obesity studies, and reduction in obesity in children. There are studies regarding cardiovascular disease prevention and homocysteine reductions with it, and it goes on and on. Antioxidant assays are very, very good peer-reviewed research in journals like the Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of Immunology, and so forth. So, very reputable universities and so forth. So, when I practice medicine, I have to use the highest degree of science to endorse or recommend a nutraceutical because we don't have a physician desk reference like we do for pharmaceutical drugs. So, I have to use research that is out there best endorsing a product, and Juice Plus is the most nutraceutical-researched nutrient in the world. And so, I will not back off on that. That is certainly one of the wisest things we can all do. 

Question 

“Do you see any benefit for NAD+ and infusions for people in their 70s?” [0:03:04]

Answer

I'm going to say, no. I don't have the experience as I do with high-dose vitamin C, Myers’ cocktails, which is a vitamin C combination that's been around for a long, long time, EDTA chelation therapies. We have so much clinical research on these, and they are well established in their values supporting antioxidant impact. So, if I'm at 70 and going to take an antioxidant, I use Juice Plus. If I'm going to take anything to detoxify oxidative stress in my own body, I'm going to do calcium disodium EDTA chelation therapy. I am going to do the immune drip with the high-dose vitamin C with other methylated B vitamins. I’ll be on amino acid-chelated multi-minerals, trace minerals, and so forth. So, there is just hands down tremendous clinical research on the established old guard, you might say, and they haven't failed us yet. So, NAD is one of the nutrients/antioxidants that are in the Krebs cycle passing on electrons, and yes, you need that. But if you use your Digestive Enzymes and eat a low-carb diet, drink enough water, exercise, and take some of these basic good multi-nutrient digestive enzymes as you're aging, you should not have to work on one isolated nutrient in the Krebs cycle pathway support.

Question

“Hi, Dr. Rita. My friend has urea cycle disorder. She is taking L-ornithine while waiting for a specialist at UCI. Besides a low-protein diet, do you have other recommendations for her? Thank you. for what you do.” [0:05:02]

Answer

Blood urea, nitrogen, and the urea cycle are very important. We will die without enough protein and healthy fats, and there is value in cleaning up the rest of the body's metabolism. And essentially, if you look at some of the work done by Dr. Lee, I believe, who is a nephrologist, on kidney function that helps to eliminate urea in the body, they use EDTA chelation. We can use a very low dose and gradually build it up, being on a very low-carb diet, richer in fat, more like 75 percent fat, maybe 20 percent protein and 10 percent carbs, and water, and Systemic Enzymes, eating in a time frame such as like a 6-hour window, and exercise as tolerated. We can do a lot to clear away the dust, you might say, of dirt that piles up in our bodies, and these urea cycles and the Krebs cycle, all of them improve. So, I don't think the concept that, well, if you eat protein, you will have nitrogen amino acids that will create a concern. That is very superficial. So, that would be the best advice, and I would have to look at her labs and her history background, all those kinds of things to give anything more specific. But that would be my best answer.  

Question 

“Can you diagnose electromagnetic sensitivity? Thank you.” [0:07:19]

Answer 

I don't think that there is any methodology that is considered a standard of care for electromagnetic sensitivity. Rather, what we have is controversy against the corporate industry that is using all these electromagnetic waves for cell phones, cell towers, and so forth. And so getting the medical industry involved in and finding ways to diagnose with some modality of instrument, lab, it is very difficult. But what we can do is we can help identify that when the patient is near high electromagnetic wave materials, like your microwave or where the entry of the electricity to your house and the circuitry there is a lot of electromagnetic energy and waves that come off of it, and if you get this measured, you can see the concentration amplitude of these waves, and then the person will have symptomology, maybe nausea, headaches, confusion, foggy brain, maybe twitching or muscle twitching, and so forth. These things can be documented, and they are valid as a basis for arguing that there is sensitivity in a higher concentration environment of electromagnetic waves. So, you can go on the internet and look at, say, measure my house for electronic magnetic waves. And then there are many people who have these meters and such, and they can give you an estimate of this in your home, and then you can see where the symptomology is. 

You can look into Faraday cages and put these metallic (09:30) that kind of surround your bedding like a canopy, only it has to go under the bed as well and see if you sleep better to heal better because we heal when we're sleeping, and various other devices to help shield you. And all these things can be clinically documented with a doctor who is familiar with this.

Question 

“What is your protocol to test for heart disease risk? CAC (Coronary Artery Calcium), blood work, Lp (a), lipoprotein particles, etc.” [0:09:54]

Answer

Yeah, they're all employed here. We usually ask a cardiologist to do a stress treadmill. There are perfusion studies that can be done with treadmills to look at tagged radioactive materials that are put through that emit flow dynamics that are even more accurate. There is an echocardiogram. So, we'll get a cardiology consult for doing actual stress tests along with the other lists that you have there, like a Coronary Artery Calcium score, that's a CT of your chest, blood work of course. Now, on the blood work, one of the best ones is fasting insulin and looking at an insulin one or two hours after eating a meal to see how high your insulin shoots up. And if you have insulin resistance, that's a very high correlation with the risk of developing a coronary artery. Endothelial lining, the lining, the delicate lining of the vessels, would be injured with a high sugar carbohydrate diet, and that would be where most of the stress comes from.

Question 

“What are your thoughts on methylene blue to treat Bartonella/Lyme and does it cause a Herx reaction?” [0:11:29]

Answer 

I don't do methylene blue. It is employed as a powerful antioxidant by some physicians in this area, and it is associated with detox phenomena, and we call it a Herxheimer reaction where you feel flu-like as you pass away damaged and debrided cells. So, I think there are physicians in the area that are using it. I don't. I don't have enough experience with it to go much beyond that to tell you about that. We've been very successful using our high-dose vitamin C, our low-carb diet, our fasting protocols, our Systemic Enzymes, and EDTA chelation to improve microcirculation with high-dose vitamin C, which acts as an antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and we get good results. So, that’s why I don't see that much more is needed. We do the ozone ultraviolet light treatments of the blood as well, and we've been very successful with those alone, which are more long-term tried and true modalities. 

Question 

“Can phantosmia arise when taking herbals for Bartonella/Lyme? And can it be caused by toxin overload?” [0:13:00]

Answer

I'm not familiar with that phenomenon, so I'm going to have to look into that. Let me write a little note here to myself as my patients and the people always keep me on my toes…phantosmia, and that's for Lyme's. Okay, so I can't give you an answer on that. But, you know, you don't just run in and start these powerful antioxidant, high-dose vitamin C chelation protocols right off the street. You need to be seen by a doctor who has been working with functional medicine and chronic metabolic problems, and chronic medical disease profiles, and then see how healthy your patient is. And sometimes we need to build up the patient's health first before we start detoxing them with some of these powerful antioxidant IVs and so forth. And the same thing goes for the nutrient recommendations. 

Question 

“Good evening, Dr. Ellithorpe. I have type A blood and I started taking Digestive Enzymes before each meal. I'm experiencing a lot of gas, and I'm wondering if that's normal. I don't have all that gas otherwise. Thank you.” [0:14:37]

Answer

It's probably, in general, the fact that you are reconstructing your bowel microbiome, and with better digestion with Digestive Enzymes, the nutrients are being digested more appropriately into their subunits, amino acids, fatty acids, and glucose molecules, and these then are being presented to a gut that has not had as much delivery of healthy digested macromolecules. Therefore, the biofilm, the bacteria, and the fungi that are in and beneficial are getting a boost. It could be also you're having too many carbs and you're feeding these bacteria. But, in general, we do see gas and bloating a little bit after starting this, but it should come to an end. You might decrease to one capsule or you might need to go up to four capsules. You know, I'll take four or five Digestive Enzymes after a big steak. But if I'm just eating a smaller meal, I might just take one or two. So, play with that and see your doctor about that. 

Question 

“Can you discuss the benefits of using compounds versus traditional regimes for bioidentical hormone therapy?” [0:16:15]

Answer

Well, I like compounded bioidentical therapies, estradiol in a cream, progesterone in a cream or in a capsule, and testosterone in a cream. I like these because they're very simplistic. You're getting the molecular bioidentical item, and it's in a very simple base. It could be in olive oil, it could be in peanut oil, if you don't have peanut sensitivities, it can be in a Eucerin simple topical cream, and then we have a better understanding of how you're reacting to just that item. I don't like pre-formed materials. I have grown increasingly concerned and suspicious of the pharmaceutical industry, given the character of the government and state departments of recommendations over the past three to four years, and the pharmaceutical history of being charged with felonies paying off billions in fines, and no one ever is fired or sent to jail. So, there is a problem just with the mere fact that I have increasing suspicion about the nature and quality of pharmaceutical companies today and their excess of wealth, and they can pay off mistakes. That's not the right environment to look for getting high quality. And I'm here to try and recommend things that will be as healthy and natural and less invasive to my patients. So, that's the main reasons why I do it like that.  

Question 

“Can you discuss how we prevent and help memory loss? Supplements and foods to avoid/add to our diet.” [0:18:28]

Answer

Fasting is probably one of the best brain natriuretic-derived factors that you can do. So, intermittent fasting, doing a 24-hour or 48-hour fast once or twice a month. You could do a 24-hour water fast once a week. You could do intermittent fasting and restrict your eating time as a lifestyle between noon and 6 PM or between 10 and 4 PM. You could eat a one-meal a day. I mean, any fasting will help the brain, but anything that is about 24 hours long will really boost brain development. So, a very low-carb diet is very important. Not eating late is very important. Staying hydrated by drinking half your weight in pounds as ounces of water. Natural hormone replacement, be it testosterone in males or estradiol in females balanced with progesterone because even if you don't have a uterus, we still know that the body has many other places where there are receptors for progesterone. So, natural hormone replacement, along with a low-carb diet, along with fasting, and then exercise is very, very good for brain development and repair. Getting a good night's sleep. Nutraceutically, I would say being on something like Juice Plus, which is a well-researched, antioxidant, low carb, there's no sugar or fruit sugar in it. And so you would be getting all the wonderful micronutrients in the fruit, vegetables, and berries. That would be one thing I would encourage. 

And then the next thing is the Systemic Enzymes to stop inflammation. Inflammation will always be associated with mental fatigue and forgetfulness. So, you might look for food allergies. A carnivore diet is the ultimate elimination diet, meaning everything is eliminated except the natural meat, fish, chicken, or pork, or egg, and that then takes away anything that would inflame your gut inflammation in your body. Doing EDTA chelation therapy will improve the microcirculation throughout the brain and the rest of the body. So, those are some suggestions. 

Question 

“You suggested last week that I take Vitalzym, which I do take. Should I also be taking Digestive Enzymes with meals? Blood type A, on a keto diet. I'm a healthy 67-year-old woman with hiatal hernia and GERD symptoms” [0:21:21]

Answer

Blood type A as a general rule don't digest as well. So digestive enzymes, like we've been talking about Ortho Biotic Digestive Enzymes from the company Ortho Molecular is a very high integrity, high-quality nutraceutical company that I monitor and have visited several times. That's for eating food and helping you to digest. And then you can play with how much is necessary. If you're eating a big steak, maybe more Digestive Enzymes. If you're eating a small amount, then maybe one Digestive Enzyme. You have to play with it yourself. It's very safe. You should not eat probably for a minimum, probably realistically the older we get, 6 hours before going to bed. So, if you go to bed at 10, you should really try and stop eating by about 4 or 5 in the evening. That's always helpful, especially if you have reflux or GERD. Systemic enzymes like Vitalzym, these are enzymes without the betaine hydrochloric acid in them for stomach digestion, and it doesn't have oxbile in them. So, there are things that are not in it because you're not using it to digest your food. These then would be taken on an empty stomach first thing in the morning at least an hour or two before eating or the last thing before bed, having stopped eating any food for four to six hours, so that it can work on the rest of the body systemically. And that is what we are encouraging. 

Question 

“The best diet program for weight loss? Healthy 67-year-old female struggling to lose 30 pounds that appeared out of nowhere. I don't eat sugar, flour, or fruit. I do the perfect workout 2x a week, plus hike and ride my horse. I have an appointment as a new patient next month at your office, btw. Thanks!” [0:23:24]

Answer

As we get older, our muscles diminish in volume. So, you're losing about 1 percent or so every year of your life from age 40 on. It could be even sooner. Some articles and scientific reports are saying it starts now at age 35. So, you have a pattern of eating throughout your life. It could be good, healthy food. You could have some good vegetables, and good salads, and eat your protein with healthy fats, hopefully grass-fed, organically grown. But as you lose your muscle mass, your body's ability to burn that down is diminished because your muscles will help you burn the sugars in your body. Therefore, even if you're eating healthy, as we age, our ability to keep up with our standard pattern of eating, it falls behind our loss of muscle mass. That's why the perfect workout, I applaud you, is very important to keep your muscle mass. And right after I'm done here, of course, I'm going to the gym and I'll be doing heavy weightlifting for about an hour. So, I think that's probably the area of why older people, as we age, we get the love handles, we tend to gain weight, we tend to have higher and higher blood sugars and higher insulin levels because our engine is shrinking that would normally have been burning these down. So, reducing the carbohydrates and maybe going on a carnivore diet for three months, that is usually a way to break through these plateaus of weight loss goals. Hopefully, that will be of help to you.  

I have to work out about three times a week to maintain my weight with heavy weightlifting. I used to do a perfect workout twice a week, then I went to three times a week. When I went to 3 times a week, I started seeing more benefits. So, that may be another thing.

Question 

“When treating hypothyroidism, have you ever heard that taking levothyroxine on an empty stomach can cause weight gain due to the T4 interacting with the stomach lining? What are your thoughts on taking T3 in the morning with food and then taking T4 at night with food? Supposedly this can help with sleep too.” [0:26:04]

Answer

I don't think any of that is good advice. I don't know who is telling you that but thyroid is usually taken in the morning all the way to maybe mid-afternoon; otherwise, it might interrupt your sleep and healing time. I've never ever heard it be associated with weight gain. So, that's my simple response to that. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. My brother is 26. For the past month, he's been waking up around 2 a.m. and unable to get back to sleep. Where do you suggest we start investigating to help him? Thank you for all you do.” [0:27:06]

Answer

I would make sure his vitamin D level is around 80 to 100. So, go on to your to your doctor and start with taking a vitamin D3 with K2 and he probably can take 10 to 20,000. I'd probably use 20,000 IU. That's what I often recommend for all men. And then I would put him on a Methyl B Complex, which would include vitamin B5 or what is called pyridoxine. Pyridoxine and vitamin D are very important in sleep. I would put him on a multimineral so that he's getting the magnesium, the potassium, and calcium, and I would use that as an after-dinner vitamin to take, or with his dinner. That is relaxing. And I would tell him to start exercising five days a week and drink half his weight in pounds as ounces of water. So, the brain gets irritable when you don't drink enough water. The brain gets irritable when you haven't used your body, and being 26, you need to use your body to help you dispense your potential energy use. So, water to hydrate, minerals, exercise, and then maybe get any electronics out of the room. A lot of men are sleeping in or around or near their gaming and that kind of stuff. All that electromagnetic wiring is a sink for electromagnetic energy that is irritating to the membrane surface. Remember, the membrane surfaces here of the cells in your brain can be irritated with signals through breaches. And then find out his blood type, see a good medical doctor that is functional, and we'll do his blood type. He could be a blood type A and just getting terribly low on his healthy fats and proteins and minerals, and it just makes them much more triggered, and get his testosterone level checked. Low testosterone is associated with insomnia also. 

Now, what kind of exercise? I would say do weight training at least twice a week for 30 to 40 minutes and do aerobics three times a week, and that should help turn around. So, give us a heads-up if he goes on the D, on the methyl-B complex that includes all the B complex, including vitamin B5 pyridoxine, the multi-minerals, exercise, and more water. Let us know how it does.  

Question 

“Hi, Dr Rita. I have a lot going on. I tested positive for COVID today. I have a UTI and my stool tests had high amounts of enterohemorrhagic E. coli. What can I do? What should I take? Thank you.” [0:30:16]

Answer

You have to see your medical doctor and address these symptoms and get the urinary tract infection managed. I don't know. I'm not familiar with enterohemorrhagic E. coli off the bat, but for some reason, they must have tested that on you. And so, I would encourage you to see your physician and get management on that. Right now, I would encourage you to take vitamin D, and anyone with a viral illness, be it COVID or anything else, is a generally important thing to do. And a multi-mineral that has zinc in it and that is somewhere around 20 mg, and vitamin D somewhere around 10,000 IU. But see your physician. Go to urgent care. If you're having abdominal pain, diarrhea, or bloody diarrhea, you have to be seen right away. The best thing with any kind of irritation of the bowel is usually resting the bowel with a clear liquid diet. We put them in chicken broth or beef broth, and we'll give them some maybe ginger ale because ginger helps to calm the stomach, but we mix it with water half and half. And resting the bowel for 24 to 48 hours is usually a general helpful thing. But your story is complex and you need to have a local physician manage you, or an urgent care, if you don't have one, to start the process and treat these things.

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. My friend, 67, suddenly lost her memory. No prior health issues. Brain scans were all negative. They saw a UTI and are treating her with antibiotics. Could it be some kind of a parasitic infection?” [0:32:25]

Answer

Sudden memory loss is usually associated with trauma to the brain. She needs to of course be seen by a doctor to rule out any trauma. And could parasites be associated with urinary tract infections? It's an outlying possibility, but that's extremely rare. And in all the years of my practice, I don't see parasites as something that is really one of the forefront things. It's so, so rare. But with that, she has to see her doctor. She has to be followed and evaluated for her memory with a neurologist and continued care.

If she was seeing a functional doctor, they would do her EDTA chelation to improve the blood flow to the brain. They would encourage her to be on a low-carb diet so she doesn't clog up all the little capillaries with a lot of sticky carbohydrates, be on more like a carnivore diet for a month to get all that antibody/antigen complexes that also can clog these tiny capillaries to the brain and everywhere else in the body. Make sure she's well hydrated. If she can handle some hormone replacement therapy, that is very healthy to stimulate the brain and memory, and Systemic Enzymes to reduce inflammation.

So, there are many things that need to be looked at there, and I would ask you to have that checked on her with your doctor. 

Question 

“Are there tests you could recommend? We are at a loss and Western Doctors are not helping. I told her about TLC. Thank you!” [0:34:43]

Answer

Well, she can come as a patient to Tustin Longevity Center. Our focus would be to try and get her own body to heal with improved microcirculation using EDTA chelation therapy, high dose vitamin C if there are any chronic viral or bacterial, or even parasitic and fungal issues, ozone treatment with UVB of the blood, Systemic Enzymes, those things I just suggested. But maybe you can find a functional doctor nearby where you're at, but we'd be happy to have her see her here. We have many fine doctors. Although I'm not taking new patients, I would have Dr. Amber Majid, Dr. Meric, physician assistant Patel, or Dr. Kaur, or Dr. Johnston. So, we have quite a few that could try and help look at her alongside her neurologist.

Question 

“Hi, Dr. E. Looking for a healthy skin moisturizer. Currently using MCT oil and coconut oil. I don't use soap when I shower quickly. My morning cold plunge and Vegas weather though on the skin.” [0:35:56]

Answer

So, you're doing cold plunges and your skin gets water on it regularly. All right. Well, the oils of the body are phospholipids and the linoleic and alpha-linolenic acids. You could take the Parent Essential Oil as a liquid. They come in capsules, but we also have them as liquid. But you would need a lot to rub on your body if you're concerned about that. So, I'm going to stick with things like olive oil, coconut oil, MCT oil. I think you're doing the right thing, and keeping soap off your body and trying to drink and stay well hydrated, of course, and eating healthy fats in your meat, fish, chicken, turkey, and beef. But as far as a topical, I don't have anything besides those suggestions. Maybe olive oil would be something that is affordable and you could use it in volume as well. 

Question 

“Thoughts on Ray Peat?” [0:37:23]

Answer

Who is Ray Peat? Is that someone I should know? Ray Peat. I don't know who Ray Peat is, so I can't answer that question. 

Question 

“I'm having a hard time staying asleep. Pharmacists could compound progesterone with L-theanine and maybe magnesium. Is it okay to take progesterone without other hormones - a postmenopausal woman.” [0:37:42]

Answer

I think it's safe to take without it, but why wouldn't you want to take the estradiol? That's very brain-calming. If you don't have breast cancer, and in general they don't want you on that, but I still give progesterone even if you’re progesterone positive. Now, another thing for sleep is being well hydrated. We don't drink enough water. The other thing is having enough magnesium multi-minerals. Another thing is getting the electronics around your sleeping area cleared out. Another thing is exercise helps to give you a good night's sleep. A regular four-day a week, doing a good workout every other day, aerobic and weightlifting. Another thing is vitamin D. Get your levels up to about 80 to 100, maybe 120 even, and on your blood samples. Another thing would be that for the B5 vitamins, taking a methylated B complex would be helpful. So, that's the direction I would go recommend for people who have trouble staying asleep. You'd be surprised how much water and exercise will do with a low-carb diet.

Question 

“What do you do when you spend 10 hours a day in front of a computer for the EMF? I'm starting to lose a bit and need some guidance.” [0:39:23]

Answer

Taking breaks, exercising, getting blue light lenses on your glasses. Even if you don't need reading glances, they do have lenses that have the blue light filters, taking timeouts from them. Maybe you can spread those 10 hours, like two in the morning, two in the late morning with an hour break in between, and then two in the early afternoon, and two in the late afternoon. That's eight with an hour break in between. And then have your blue lights on. But those are my suggestions. Hopefully, that would help you. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr Rita. Do you recommend ozone for the brain?” [0:41:12]

Answer

No, not necessarily. In fact, if you take a high-dose vitamin C drip, that has some hydrogen peroxide extra oxygenation ozone in it itself. So, doing a high dose of vitamin C is brain-stimulating and healthy. The other thing is I just don't see that a single item is what we need. We need a lifestyle approach to all of our needs. So, when you ask that question about ozone for the brain, exercise will help stimulate circulation. EDTA chelation will help the deeper microcirculation penetration of the brain. High-dose vitamin C will help it. And so, when you take the vitamin C with EDTA chelation, that's a one-two punch. Natural hormones help. Exercise helps a lot though too. 

Question 

“Ray Peat was a doctor in the pro-metabolic diet community. He passed away recently.” [0:42:23]

Answer

Alright. I don't know about him. I'll have to look him up. You guys keep me on top of stuff, don't you? 

I'll look into that, and maybe next week I can give some thoughts on that. 

Question 

“Also, what do you think about DOTA chelation? Is it less safe or effective than EDTA?” [0:42:56]

Answer

I'm not familiar with there being anything called DOTA chelation. And since I don't have a second-screen computer here to look it up, I can't give you an answer to that. But I've got three points already to come back and answer for next week. I didn't see any notes for this week, but I will look into that. Now, look, I've been around chelation for 63 years of my life, since I'm 70, and I was aware of chelation with my grandfather at age 7. So, I know this world of chelation, and I've never, ever, ever seen DOTA.

So if it's there, it's brand new, and I will look into that because I teach EDTA chelation at ACAM. If I get the question, I don't want to look like I don't know it but thank you for helping alert me so I can be upon it. 

Thank you.

Question 

“Due to a family history of breast cancer, it's been advised that due to the increased risk to have an annual MRI with contrast. I am concerned about the gadolinium and the risk. I've read it doesn't completely leave your body. Do you recommend getting an IV to flush this out after the scan? Same day as the scan. I am 54 years old.” [0:44:09]

Answer

Yes, if you can get your MRI early in the day and come for an EDTA chelation to remove gadolinium, it works like a charm. Plus, it's going to benefit you in so many other ways. 

Question 

“How can functional/integrative medicine help a person with a BRCA gene? Some doctors recommend radical mastectomy and hysterectomy.” [0:44:46]

Answer

I do not buy into the gene therapy of cancer. Over the 43 years of practicing hundreds and thousands, millions of people, I'm going to say genetic issues are, in my opinion, not a strong feature. But I'm not an oncologist and I'm not a breast surgeon. So, if there's some brand new finding on this, I am the one who would say the mitochondrial metabolic damage to the mitochondria, energy disturbance, is what really is the problem, microcirculation, oxidative stress, damaging the ability to handle and give energy to each cell. When that happens, it creates inside the cell an acidic environment, much like when the baby is first conceived and the sperm and egg meet. So, you've got like 48-72 hours for that glob of cellular human life with no heartbeat, no lungs, nothing, it's just depending on diffusion, and that strong oxidative stress triggers DNA to send out a vasculature to get oxygen, which eventually becomes the placenta. And by the time day 56 of the development of the child, the umbilical cord is getting the pancreatic enzymes that signal we're working fine and the feedback and that placenta aggressive growth is satisfied and you have a normal pregnancy then. So, I recommend functional/integrative medicine to give you the best metabolic health, mitochondrial energy production, detoxing, low carb, low insulin that stimulates tumors to grow because it's a growth-promoting hormone insulin, and getting exercise, and a good night's sleep, and getting your vitamin D levels up that acts to enhance your T cell killer cells that clear out stem cells and material that would tend to become cancerous, and so forth. So, that's how I would approach it.  

Question 

“Hello, I have recently been diagnosed with a kidney cyst, sub-centimeter liver cyst, and an ovarian cyst, as well as uterine fibroid.” [0:47:24]

Answer

But before I read any more, I'm going to say the vast majority of women have all those four items – a kidney cyst, a liver cyst, an ovarian cyst, and uterine fibroids. And why do they have that? Because just like your age and your skin gets weak and jiggly here and under your arms and stuff, your elastin collagen is breaking down from oxidative stress. Remember, we're all cooking at 98.6 degrees all the time, and you need to drink this water to baste yourself and get enough in you. And so, there's your kidneys hanging and they're going to get some wiggly is their kidney area and it's going to tear and maybe have cells break apart and develop these little cysts. Same for your liver and ovaries. We are also seeing fibroids from the high carb stimulating generalized growth endometriosis, polycystic ovarian disease, and fibroids. So, the number one thing to be concerned about is exercising a low-carb diet, eating in a time window frame, and using Systemic Enzymes. See a good functional doctor. Look if you're a candidate for natural hormone progesterone cyclically, and you can do ultrasounds to monitor this. 

Question 

“I am under a tremendous amount of stress, and these have all come about in the last 6 to 12 months. I'm 42 and my lab work is normal. What is the most effective way to treat these? Thank you!” [0:49:14]

Answer

Well, number one, don't worry. Number two, in a good functional medicine doctor's hand, we can look at these by ultrasound, and the lifestyle changes I listed would be the best way to approach it. 

Question 

“At what point do you feel it's appropriate to prescribe statin drugs for cholesterol?” [0:49:40]

Answer

I think it's really only in males typically who had a recent heart attack, for their first heart attack.  

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“Do you take into account if someone has slightly high cholesterol?” [0:49:55]

Answer

I love cholesterol. I don't agree that cholesterol as a danger for heart disease. What is the danger is what they won't allow the doctors to learn or talk about, which is carbohydrates, starches, sugars, fruit sugars, processed food, sugary drinks, hidden sugars, inactivity, sedentary lifestyle, inadequate hydration, environmental toxins, and heavy metal stress accumulation, bioaccumulation. There's no enzyme or pathway in your body. to remove heavy metals, but there are liver detox pathways to conjugate sulfation, like glycation, methylation, and other pathways in your liver, but yeah. So, that's what you worry about.  

Question 

“But is it made up of high good cholesterol, normal bad cholesterol, and low triglycerides, on a keto diet? Would you try to lower the overall cholesterol? And if so, with what protocol?” [0:50:52]

Answer

All you have to worry about is how much sugar, bread, pasta, grains, beans, oatmeal, rice, crackers, bagels, sodas, fruity/juicy, shakes, juicing things, how much you're taking in of starch and carbohydrates that are converted to simple fat triglycerides, and then you have to transport them around and you get these injuries, anoxia to the cell membrane. Remember, we're talking about this picture right here with these little injuries here to the cell membrane. So, if you clog up a capillary, that cell membrane is going to get sick and not repair, and you get more and more of that in your body. Your sed rate goes up, you become inflamed, and your body. will produce more cholesterol to try and help these fill in these holes here in the membrane. And so, it's a catch-22. There's a YouTube out there called High Cholesterol is Healthy by Ken Berry and David Diamond. They review the data, they talk about the rare and isolated potential value of a statin drug. But for the most part, they're talking about the current literature that says statins in general are over-prescribed and meaningless in the long-term prevention. But if you want something meaningful, go look up the tech trial, Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy, Dr. Tony Lamas, TACT Update 2019 Dr. Lamas. EDTA chelation reduced the post heart attack morbidity and mortality by nearly 50%. So, give me a break. Why isn't that in the news? Why? It's because they won't make any money on it because it's not patentable. So, you look that up. So, be low carb, exercise, don't eat late, see a good functional doctor, have your insulin checked, your triglycerides checked, your hemoglobin A1C, your fructosamine, fruit sugars sticking to things, and your fasting blood sugar. Track that always. 

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“Hello again, Dr. Ellithorpe. Can you tell us the story of the development of NT Factor with Garth Nicholson? Also, do you know or are you familiar with Dr. Nachman Brautbar in LA? Thanks again for Story Time with Dr. E” [0:53:29]

Answer

I'm going to tell you, I just don't have enough time, I have six minutes left. We should probably open up this on another channel, but again I am so, so, so busy, but I love doing this. I'd love to talk about it. If we have done this work and research with Garth Nicholson and others on membrane repair, my father was doing this back in the 50s and 60s, which helped stimulate data that Dr. Garth Nicholson got a hold of. And so, if you don't understand structure dictates function, you're not going to have good function if you have holes in your cells, okay, holes in them, and you have to eat phospholipids and the right fats. So, I will get to that, and we'll get to the more story time. 

Question 

“Good evening! I have a dear friend that has started reading the book “eating right for your blood type”. Any words of wisdom I can give her? Maybe it's okay, but I've never heard of this before. Thank you.” [0:54:41]

Answer

I don't like the book by D'Adamo ‘Eat Right for Your Blood Type’. Why? Because it is just rubbing in the fact that A’s don't digest well. Therefore, it's harder for them to digest fats and protein. Therefore, they should avoid it and just stick with their high-carb, vegetable vegetarian diet because it's easier for them to digest carbohydrates than healthy fats and proteins. But they get sick. We're all made of protein and fat, and they can't get enough typically in a vegetarian or vegan diet. And then he comes out with these lines of vitamins for blood type. I just don't like that kind of marketing approach. It leaves a sour taste in my mouth. So, I don't recommend the book. And of anything, at least he brought to attention blood types matter, and I applaud him and honor him for that that he wrote a book about it. I guess, you know, there are so many doctors so darn busy seeing one human being after another every day, that I don't have time to write books on these things. So, pray for him and tell your friend, to get to a good functional doctor who knows A type of blood needs, to have Digestive Enzymes. B’s tend to have more allergies. And it's not true that B’s are sensitive to chicken like he says in his book and so forth.

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“Can you speak about EMF? How can I safeguard against electromagnetic transients? Are they harmful? Do you think cell phones can negatively affect our health? Thank you, Dr. E.” [0:56:21]

Answer

Yes. So, I would go on YouTube and learn from them, I think his name is the EMF Doctor, Electromagnetic Frequency Doctor, and he has references there. And so, the Faraday cage, turning off all your electronics, some people literally shut their breaker off at night and their whole house goes dark. No electrical impulse can come in. So, yes, that's a starting point for you. 

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“I'm perimenopausal and I have the MTHFR gene mutation and have been dealing with low mood and some anxiety. I do not want to take antidepressants, but I'm wondering if it would be helpful to take methyl folate. Is there another supplement that would be helpful?” [0:57:20]

Answer

Well, absolutely. People with Methylenetetrahydrofolate have trouble in an enzyme pathway that helps with methylation and making serotonin, making norepinephrine, and epinephrine, all these neurotransmitters very much involve methylation, and these are some of our happy hormones. So, if you use a very good clinically tested Methyl B complex, I would use our TLC Methyl B Complex because it has all eight or nine B vitamins, including that wonderful B5 that's involved in helping you sleep. I would use vitamin D for your mood, and I would eat more meat, fish, turkey, chicken, beef, and eggs to get better healthy membranes in your brain, and I would exercise and I would get out in the sunshine for at least 20 minutes a day, and that would be my beginning point. And get away from all processed foods. I would also take a good multi-mineral, those kind of starting points would be my suggestion there.  

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“Do you have any recommendations for Parkinson's patients?” [0:58:47]

Answer

Yeah. Get to a functional doctor and start EDTA chelation therapy and maybe glutathione intravenous infusions with exercise and healthy diet and a workup. That would be a great beginning point.  

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“What are your feelings regarding HRT in women whose mother has a history of estrogen-dependent breast cancer? I am 64 and healthy and was on HRT for about 10 years. When my mother developed breast cancer, I stopped. I get yearly thermography and do have some mild rusk features. Thank you. God bless.” [0:59:08]

Answer

I believe in the metabolic mitochondrial disease. All breasts have estrogen and progesterone receptors, healthy breasts, and the more estrogen and progesterone receptors on tissue that they say is a breast cancer sample just merely reflects the fact that it isn't as bad a cancer, it isn't as grossly irritated and malignant. So, the worst kind of breast cancer is typically the triple negative, there's no receptor. So, that cell is totally devolved away from its original breast tissue. So, I, in no way, see a relative…My sister had breast cancer and she died of it, she wouldn't listen to me and follow my advice, and I still stay on my hormones. My other sister stays on her hormones, and we have an excellent lab, but we exercise, we eat low-carb, we drink our water, and we take certain nutraceuticals. So, I don't see any link with that to be a concern. 

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“Hi, Dr. Rita. Other than the potential for heavy metals in fish oils, is there a difference between fish oil and Clinician Preference Oils at the physiological level? Thank you.” [1:00:44]

Answer

Yes, yes, yes, yes. We have linoleic, and alpha-linolenic in our cell membranes, not EPA, and DHA, and we're not fish, and we don't need 6 double carbon bonds and 5 double carbon bonds EPA and DHA, respectively. We need the 2 and 3 double bonds that God wanted us to have for healthy cell membranes. I do not recommend fish oil at all. 

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“Can HRT be used well into and after menopause? Or does it need to be stopped at some point? And how does that work if you have to stop?” [1:01:24]

Answer

Well, I'm an example. Yeah. And I joke about putting some in my coffin when I die. Does that need to be stopped at some point? I see no reason why. I don’t recommend to stop. So, if you want to stop, I've had women just stop abruptly and there's no problem, but they might get hot flashes back.