YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, January 10 2023

Question

"What could cause sudden weakness in thighs? I can walk but feels a little weak. It has happened twice recently then is followed by anxiety and diarrhea."

Answer

Much of this would depend on many questions I would have, how old are you? What medicines are you taking? What is your background, and medical history? What is your lifestyle? Like? What does your body habitus look like already? What is your recent history of any exposure to the mRNA injections? There are so many questions I would ask you.

A sudden weakness in the thighs that is intermittent needs to be addressed by a healthcare provider. It could be as simple as just getting older and having gradual muscle mass loss. From age 40 on, we lose about 1% of our muscle mass per year. And so, you could be getting older, losing muscle mass, gaining weight with age, and having a diet maybe that is not adequate enough with sleep and water, maybe other issues. And then you're going to start finding out that any kind of a mild illness, viral illness can really amplify your mitochondrial, that's the number of cell batteries, you might say in every cell is diminished.

So, there are so many things that could go on, I would like to ask you to see your healthcare provider so that they can see you physically, and by age, and by your body habitus, and by what medicines you may or may not be on, and what recent viral illnesses you might have had, what recent injections you might or might have not had. And look at these things along with your lifestyle and start putting together whether this is just age-related and functional, or whether it could be a sign of something more serious. So, I don't want to go in and create concerns or anything, but intermittent weakness that's bilateral, because you're saying thighs, usually, I would say would be more on the metabolic side. But there could be neurological issues. And we need to address this. So, do see your healthcare provider. 

Question

"What is your opinion of low-dose immunotherapy for rheumatoid arthritis?"

Answer

Some people are getting injections for rheumatoid arthritis on a periodic basis, and I've seen this be modulating to quiet down the immune system. Usually, rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease with an imbalanced immune system. So, I'm not against it.

But I certainly wouldn't use this unless we had done and laid the groundwork for all the baseline healthy lifestyles, such as hydration. Over and over again, I'm going to be reminding you how important water, delicious water is. Your body is about 70, 80% water. For arthritis or any form of inflammation from any cause whatsoever, water needs to be a foundation. And then as we get older, systemic enzymes to reduce inflammation. We need to exercise and to move around the lymphatics. A rebounder would be very good. Another thing would be taking the enzymes along with a low-carb diet and ruling out food allergies. The ultimate elimination diet is a carnivore diet for a season of your life, maybe three months. And then looking for vitamin deficiencies, mineral deficiencies, looking at toxic exposures, heavy metal toxicities, all these things should be done first, and look at your general health before you would do this.

But my opinion of low doses and immunotherapies that are given usually intravenously, I'm not something that I would say no to and I'm not a specialist rheumatologist. I would instead say make sure that you're doing all these other things first. 

Question

"Can you explain all the effects of the rebounder on the muscles, joints, and whole body?"

Answer

Well, I don't know if I can explain them all. But in general, the history of the rebounder, which is this trampoline, it’s about a three-foot diameter, maybe about 20” of a trampoline pad on it. It usually has a bar on it for older people for balance and safety issues where they can hold on or have the bar right there. We have lymphatic systems that have no muscle and fluid drops by gravity dependently and you can get lymphatic buildup in your lower extremities. We start seeing ankle swelling with aging, prolonged sitting like when you're on an airplane, and if you're not doing regular exercise to keep your tone your muscle mass because muscles when they contract and relax are themselves a bit of a pump for the lymphatic system. Laying down with a good night's sleep is another methodology for getting the lymph is moved from the lower extremities and the bottom half circulated, getting a good night's sleep. Drinking enough water is important, having your enzymes.

But if you get on the rebounder and you just bounce on it, you know, several minutes, five to 10 minutes, twice a day. This is a systematic, rhythmic, muscular, low-impact scenario where your muscles are contracting and relaxing cyclically, much like pumping or milking your lymphatics throughout your body. When the lymphatics that are involved in your body, cleaning your body elimination of waste, that always amplifies every cell function in your body from your brain to your toe. Because every single cell in your body has to excrete toxins. And one of the ways we measure this is by doing a homocysteine reading or looking at your sedimentation rate or looking at a urine-specific gravity as to how concentrated your urine is. So, again, drinking enough water is important.

A lot of women who can't go out and exercise because they've had vaginal deliveries, and they don't have as good control of the urine, they stop exercising because they start to leak and they're embarrassed in group or gym situations where they can't go and exercise without leaking and pads and the smell. So, it's nice to have a rebounder at home where you can get that rhythmic, whole-body, lymphatic massage. And you could stop anytime you want, go to the bathroom, empty your bladder, or change your pad if you're leaking, and then get back onto your exercise and rebounder. So, I like an in-home rebounder, especially for people as they get older. But again, it was originally developed for space, for exercise to help the bones to get some deceleration, sudden deceleration with every bounding stop. And that will pull on the periosteum of the bone sheath. Every bone, like cellophane wrapping around a bone that the tendons attach to, and then the muscles pull on that sheath. And that sheath is right connected to the minerals of casing you might say, the structure of the bone cells. And talks to it electrochemically, especially with a stress pole. And tells it to stay healthy and repair.

So, from muscle strengthening to pulling on the periosteum of the bones to massaging the lymphatics, to teaching your body balance and nerve proprioception, all these things help with the rebounder.

Question

"For those interested in detoxing their bodies from vaccines, is there a detox protocol that can be followed? I've read some doctors recommend a parasite cleanse, along with Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin?"

Answer

I suppose you could say just drinking water is detoxing because most Americans do not drink enough water, every day of your life. Whatever your pounds are in weight, drink half of that as water every day, maybe 10% more. But if you're talking about things that we know that help to get rid of excess spike proteins, and that would be enzymes. That would be Quercetin, that would be EDTA chelation therapy, and even high-dose vitamin C therapy to offset the oxidative stress, that would be taking in a diet with healthy fats, essential fats that make up the cell membrane. Remember, your cell membrane is a double layer of fats. Okay, and here's where an injury is on that cell membrane. And if you can imagine all these holes poked in on each cell membrane by a spike protein that needs to have that repaired. We have to get enough healthy fats, linoleic, and alpha-linolenic acid. You have to get protein to repair that cell. And if your capillaries, that bring the blood flow nearby that cells are clogged up with a high carb, high food allergy, antigen, antibody complex, not enough water, not enough exercise, not enough rest and repair, along with poor diet absorption, and you're going to have trouble. So, everything matters. The water you drink, taking in the repair materials of the healthy fats, and these are in our wild-caught fish, beef, prairie-raised chickens, and pork, and such. This will give you these fats, plus the protein. It will also be low-carb. And the other thing is taking in systemic enzymes because we lose this. We lose our systemic anti-inflammatory enzyme production with aging, we lose our production of digestive enzymes with aging, getting a good night's sleep, and then adding in things such as Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine to really depress the viral stress on the body, as well as taking Quercetin which acts as an anion four. That means helping zinc to get through the cell membrane so it can suppress the ribosomal production of viruses in the cell. And so, zinc is a very important antiviral agent. Many Americans are very low in. Taking enough vitamin D in helps with your protection of your immune system, and as an antiviral agent. Taking enough vitamin C in, high dose vitamin C drips. EDTA chelation acts as an anion. The spike protein, pharmacokinetics has been reported. I understand it to be a cat ion, which is positive. So, it means that the negative anion of EDTA can attract the positive cat ion of the spike protein. Enzymes can act as little Pac Men to try and chew it up. The water in your diet can help move it away, the exercise can help move it away, the good sleep at night can help you with restoration and healing with these healthy supplementations. So, I'm all for those things.

In fact, in our clinic here, no one's been hospitalized, and no one has passed away. And even those about maybe 50% of my patient base that I've seen have been injected with the mRNA gene technology. So, I would say some of them had strokes. Some of them had two strokes. But they've all recovered. And they've all done superbly well, but they're all doing these things with EDTA chelation with vitamin C intravenously. So, very often I have them on the Ivermectin twice a week, and/or the Hydroxychloroquine. And we monitor their clotting, their HSCRP, their sedimentation rates, and they are very low carb. So, that’s what I would say. 

Question

"My adult grandson came down with a sore throat on one side last night. This morning his throat looks a little red, and on one side there may be a small pocket of infection. He has been drinking hot tea and gargling with salt water today. What would be the best thing to do, and which supplements should he take?"

Answer

Well, I would use Argentyn Silver. It comes as a liquid, with an eyedropper. I will put a drop in my eye. Each eye every night. This is the nasal spray. I will spray my nose every night. This is a mist. You can spray it. Maybe if I do it against this black paper, I don’t think you can see it. But anyway, it’s a spray. You can spray your throat or you could take a teaspoon of it, swish, gargle, and then swallow it down. 

Vitamin D, I would take Vitamin D. We have the 50,000 capsules. You could take one a day, for five days. And then go back to your five or 10,000 daily average dosings. I would take powdered Vitamin C. It is called Vitality C. I don't have it here. But anyway, Vitality C, you take a scoop, put it in your water, and I drink that in the morning. Then another thing would be you could take the zinc, which is in the TLC Multi Min capsules. Three capsules a day. That would give you your zinc, your C, and your D. And remember Argentyn Silver works as an antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal.

Now, this is if he's feeling overall well. But if he starts getting worse, and with a fever, then he needs to be seen and evaluated by a physician. But in general, adults don't tend to have Group beta strep. And this is the one that causes the strep throat of concern that can give you heart disease. So, I would assume in the adult male, when you say adult male, I'm assuming he's in his early 20s or older. You could get a Group A Beta strep in your early 20s. You'll have to follow this. But most sore throats are viral and/or they can be acid reflux at night, what we call a silent reflux or laryngitis. And this just needs to be followed. If these simple measures, along with a low-carb diet, and plenty of water, don't solve it, then he has to follow up and be evaluated by a healthcare provider, especially if he becomes ill with fever and other symptoms. 

Question

"My right eye has a problem called epiretinal membrane (aka macular pucker). I'm 69 and otherwise healthy and not on any medicines. My left eye is fine and I can still read without glasses. I am short-sighted and need glasses when driving."

Answer

So, I guess the question would be, having some EPI-Retinal, meaning above the retina membrane puckering. If this is where the pupil is and you're looking out this direction, and then if I turn the eye this way, then the pupil would be here and would be looking straight at you. The covering of this would be the retina membrane. Apparently, a part of it is puckering out. So, you have to ask, why?

Well, you have to understand physiology. And we know that with age, we are making less collagen and elastin. We are making less muscle mass. We are wrinkling. And this is another way to say a macular wrinkle, so autophagy would probably be the first thing I would do. I just came off last week, my five-day fast. I fast from the first of the month through the fifth, and sixth of January. And I do this twice a year throughout the month, I will eat only one meal a day very often. Sometimes I'll miss a 24-hour period and wind up being 36 hours. Very, very often this will happen with my busy days. What this means is that my body through this fasting times, especially when I do a prolonged fast of three to five days or more, I wind up getting into a state which is called autophagy, where it chews up debris, it chews up wasted materials because I'm not bringing anything in. And so, the body starts, so to say, cleaning up waste material, even amyloid plaque that might be in my brain that would eventually build up to the point that it would lead to dementia and Alzheimer's. So, the other nice thing about it is it helps diminish your wrinkling on your body. At 70 years old, I should have probably many more wrinkles than I really do have. And I can only assume that this autophagy would help get rid of that pucker there.

So, under the care of a doctor, because I don’t know who you are, and I never recommend prolonged fasting to anyone unless we know them medically and where they are metabolically. But prolonged fasting is quite safe and quite common. And I do it twice a year. And intermittently, fast every day of my life, meaning I never eat breakfast. So, I am always on an 18-hour fast and I eat between noon and 6 p.m. So, my body is already primed. The minute I start to fast, even longer than 18 hours, my body, if I eat well, is ready to start catabolism itself, breaking down unnecessary or mismatched proteins or older cells which will create a stimulus for new cells and remodeling and repair.

The other thing is, of course, you need to be low-carb. The other thing is you need to drink enough water to rinse away the debris and enzymes which are the Pac Men that eat up the debris. For instance, I had a floater in my eye. I don't know last year sometime. I woke up with it one day, it was quite dramatic and quite annoying. And I knew right away that I needed to go on a five-day fast. I did that and it dissolved away easily about 80 to 90% of it. That is just a testimony to self-healing and autophagy. I am taking my enzymes, drinking enough water, and keeping those sugars low. Whatever is gummed up in our body in general, your body senses that it's abnormal and needs to be addressed and cleared up. So, that's what I will say about that.

Question

"My 85 yr old father who lives in Italy has prostate cancer. His oncologist opted for hormonal therapy. He gets an injection of 10.8 mg of goserelin acetate every 3 months which gives him hot flashes as a side effect and makes him very uncomfortable. He does not drink or smoke and never has. Is there anything he can do or take to help with the hot flashes?"

Answer

This is because this hormone therapy blocks the testosterone to bring the testosterone way down as a method of having the prostate cells not be responsive to any hormonal signal from testosterone. But that sudden drop creates this, and we don't quite totally understand what the climacteric hormonal reaction is about in menopause or in men who are having chemical-hormonal appellation through injection. This is getting rid of your hormones you might say through an injection. But there's some change that creates this sensation of a hot flash, sweats. So, this vascular activity is not quite well defined.

So, what we give women who are on estrogen blockers like Tamoxifen and other agents to block estrogen, we use plant-based items like black cohosh and ashwagandha which isn't a blocker, but it is a herbal kind of mood stabilizer. We give them magnesium, extra magnesium, and potassium, and calcium. We give them vitamin D to get their levels to about 100 nanograms per deciliter. And we tell them to drink plenty of water and to exercise and get a good night's sleep as best as possible. If necessary, use melatonin to sleep at night. These are the things that we give and often it’s a big help. So, hopefully, something like that would be a help to your father. 

Question

"How relevant is folic acid as a supplement for heart health? Should folate levels be monitored before and after supplementation?"

Answer

I have never seen that as a serious concern, Folic Acid. I just have never seen that in my practice over these 40 some years. I would say it would be difficult unless you are actively supplementing with a folic acid only that it would be in an elevated range. And even if it was, I don’t think that would be much concern. It is the low folic acid levels that I have more concern about having metabolic symptoms develop from it. This B family type vitamin is something that is in meat, your fish, and your vegetables. It really isn’t something that you have to worry too much about supplementation. You can measure it on a lab test, but I don’t usually ever prescribe folic acid because I have never found it as one of the real feature elements of deficiencies.

Most good supplements have folic acid in the multivitamin supplements. Most B complexes have folic acid in it. A good B complex will all have methylated B complexes. And so, I don't think it is a major issue for heart health in and of itself. It’s such an uncommon thing, at least in my practice. I haven’t seen it. 

Question

“Saw a urologist today who was 20 minutes late for me, her first appointment and after 10 minutes she said she had to go because others were waiting. She gave me Premarin as a remedy to stop from getting up 3-4 times during the night to urinate. The side effects seem disastrous. Your opinion?”

Answer

Well, Premarin is a horse estrogen. It is designed for a 2,000-pound horse. It is an estrogen-like feminizing, but for a horse. It is not in a human form. There is no estrogen that a horse makes that a human woman would have in her. So, I don't like Premarin. I've never liked it.

And I would instead suggest that you get natural hormone replacement therapy from a doctor who is familiar with your whole being. You know, who you are, how old you are, lifestyle, etc. I won't give hormones to women who are not going to take care of their health, drinking enough water, doing some exercise, being on a low-carb diet, and they must have systemic enzymes. Because if we're going to allow you to have the benefits of your youthful hormones, then you better have some of the habits of youthful people. And one of them is exercise, drinking enough water, and a lower-carb diet, and using enzymes. Because young women have tons of enzymes in them, older women don't.

So, Premarin is a horse/equine derivative. It is designed for 2000-pound horses. It is not what I would give any human being. And that's how I would state that.

Question

"What is your opinion on eating organic soy to help fight breast cancer? "

Answer

 I don't believe eating organic soy helps fight breast cancer. The theory is that soy acts like a little bit of estrogen in its biochemistry. And it'll be attracted, in theory, to the cell receptors for estrogen. And by doing so, they will block the real human estrogen in the body. So, it acts as like a blocker of estrogen. But in practicality, I find and have been around this for 30, 40 years, seeing all forms of soy concentrate from organic sources and women taking this, and I have never, ever seen it make a difference. And I have followed some of these. I've traveled out of state to go to lectures on this and see healthcare practitioners who have tried some of these hyper-concentrated organic soy things. And it just didn’t make any difference. And I will tell you why. Because unless that woman is low carb, the real hormone that needs to be blocked is insulin receptors. And cells have more and more insulin receptors, the more and more your high carbohydrate, starch, and fruit sugars are consumed in your lifetime. And so, with increased receptors for insulin that is the biggest, strongest growth stimulator, fat stimulator, blood vessel thickening stimulator, and tumor-promoting stimulator. And until we have every single doctor on the planet discussing the number one hormone that's associated with cancer, tumor growth, fat growth, heart disease growth, and diabetes growth, then I think they're foolish. And they are just not addressing the real issue and trying to sell a product. So, that's my opinion on soy. 

Question

"In November 2022, I packed up tiny individual bags with (5) Immune Protect and (1) 50,000 iu Vit D each for a trip I was taking, just in case I caught a bug. Thankfully, I did not! How long are these vitamins still good to use out of their containers? Is it as long as the container says or for a shortened amount of time?"

Answer

I would say if you kept them sealed in a plastic sealed container, in a dark environment that was cool, in other words not exposed to temperatures over 85 degrees for any long period of time, I think they are just fine and I would still use them. 

Question

"I have an infrared sauna that I use once per week for about 35 minutes. It's set at 125 degrees, and I usually start sweating between minutes 12 - 15 minutes. Do you recommend trying to get more weekly sessions in? A lower/higher temperature? A shorter/longer time? Also, is there a correlation between our health and how long it takes us to sweat? My husband usually is sweating within 5 minutes of entering the sauna."

Answer

Yes, more weekly sessions. The research really indicates that three to four times a week shows a tremendous all-cause mortality reduction into the 70s plus a percent reduction of all causes for death. That is closer to four times per week. 

I think if a woman goes in there, and remember men have more muscle mass. And with more muscle mass and their heart beating, they are going to have larger mitochondria, have a higher metabolism, and energy production. They'll sweat sooner, they always will. So, women sweat slower. Don’t feel bad about that.

But I would increase just the frequency of doing this. Now, you're getting benefits from any sauna. So, don't say, I can't do it four times a week, therefore I won't do it. Please do it. And if you can work yourself up to closer to four times a week, and the same amount of minutes, you know 20 to 35 minutes, I think you're doing excellently. Temperature-wise, you know, you could bring the temperature up. I think a little higher, maybe 140 degrees, 145. But I think overall, you're doing a good thing. 

 Question

"About plastic in our food supply: I only use glass or ceramic plates, and cups and store leftovers in glass. Will it reduce plastic transfer to food if I transfer purchased foods from plastic packaging to glass jars once home?"

"Is it possible to package vitamins and food supplements in paper that can be transferred to a glass container once received?"

Answer

I do not have a microwave. I will never microwave. I don’t microwave. So, never do that in a plastic thing, ever, ever, ever. 

I think that’s the whole idea, keep them in a cool, dark environment sealed, there isn’t really any interaction there. 

Question

"After reaching a core temperature of 101 degrees F in a FAR Infrared Sauna, does taking a cold shower to inhibit or compromise the body's ability to continue producing Heat Shock Proteins (HSP''s)?"

Answer

To the best of my knowledge, no. In fact, it is a known immune benefit to take cold showers afterward. But I'm going to do something, I'm going to leave this planet some decade in the future, and I will never do cold showers. I just won't do that. Sorry, it’s not going to happen.  

But yes, the answer is a cold shower will not compromise anything. You will not reduce your body’s ability to make heat shock proteins. In fact, a cold shower afterward actually is known to be beneficial. 

Question

“A year ago after I had COVID, I ended up in the hospital. And for 2 days and 2 nights, they were not able to stabilize my heart. It was atrial fibrillation. When I got out of the hospital, I was given 2 choices by the cardiologist: to be on medication for the rest of my life (Eliquis and Multaq) or ablation. Please let me know if there are other options and especially if this heart condition is treated at Tustin Longevity Center."

Answer

Ablation is a procedure where they go into your heart, and they find the site in your atrium or the lining of your heart because your heart is a muscle beating, but it has very unique nerve conducting type cells that auto depolarize and create this little electrical beat. If you burn a lot, a little spot like cauterizing it, then that can block it. So, this really isn't a question. It's more of a statement.  

 

Well, what I would say is that many things come into play. And that's your whole, you know, your age, your background medical history, what other medicines you're on, how physically fit you are to start with or not, what your weight is, your body mass index, what your stress test, your coronary artery calcium score is, what your blood sugar is, your fasting insulin, your triglyceride level, your HSCRP, your sedimentation rate. Many factors along with your free T3 thyroid function, how well hydrated you are. All these things matter. But other things they'll never do is look at how much aluminum, how much mercury, how much lead, how much cadmium, how much arsenic. These heavy metal toxins that we bioaccumulate over time, in our food, in the air we breathe, in the chemtrails that are in the sky falling down on the land, growing into our food and water. Like a balloon, we bio-accumulate this. These metals misconduct electrochemical signaling. And this is well established. And we know that the National Institutes of Health did over 10 years a study on chelation therapy that looks at microcirculation and improving the circulation throughout the whole body, not just the heart muscle. So, EDTA chelation therapy would be a direction I would head, along with looking at lifestyle, lowering the sugars, getting the enzymes back in, and getting some modest exercise, maybe getting a rebounder, making sure you're well hydrated, good night's sleep. You can get on your medicine, such as the Multaq and the Eliquis while you are repairing your body and as you get healthier and better with better microcirculation, and monitored with your cardiologist and ourselves, your rate of going into AFib, or if you have chronic A-Fib if you go back into a regular rhythm from time to time. We have many people get off of Multaq and Eliquis. They get out of their AFib and live a normal, healthy life. They do about 30 IV chelations, EDTA, and calcium EDTA, and with a healthy lifestyle, and certain nutrients and enzymes, we see great improvement. 

Now if you go on to YouTube and you look at a YouTube that is titled, TACT Update 2019, Dr. Lamas. And TACT means, Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy. This is a couple of years back, when the head cardiologist is reviewing some updates. Because they did TACT trial 1, then they did TACT trial 2, and then 3. They are ongoing. They are almost done with TACT trial 3 now. And all of the results are fabulous for circulation. So, you don’t have to be afraid to be on your cardiologist’s recommended medicines. You can work with doctors who will try and help improve your overall health to the point that maybe you can get off, maybe not.

On the other hand, could you do an ablation? I have seen people successfully receive ablation therapy. But I'll tell you, it's going to come back if you don't change your lifestyle and do chelation to reduce the heavy metal toxicity. One of the ways I like to describe it is if I went to your box on your house that has all the electrical units on it, where all your breakers are, and I opened it up and I took the dust of aluminum and I opened the box up and I blew in a bunch of dust of aluminum and I close the box to your breaker on your house. I bet you your lights will flicker and go on and off or go haywire. So, you have to think about that.

If you go to that YouTube TACT Update 2019, Dr. Lamas when you get that, it's a 15-minute video. And right underneath it, you're going to see a picture of a woman called Dorothy Merritt in a one-hour video, which is the all-cause mortality of death cut in half basically, by those of us who do chelation therapy. I would watch that one too. Dr. Lamas just talks about the heart benefits, and tremendous things that he has seen, and now is a convert to doing chelation on his heart patients. Whereas Dr. Merritt and I, we teach chelation therapy for all-cause mortality. And that is a Blockbuster Video of hers, right beneath his. They always show up together. 

Question

"I submitted this question last week but too late for you to respond. I did want to elaborate on the details. I have rheumatoid arthritis. I follow a paleo anti-inflammatory diet, no gluten, no dairy, low sugar, etc. I exercise and see a physical therapist twice a week. Take supplements as I can afford them. Meditate, do yoga. I use an Alpha Stem M device for pain and inflammation. The only RA medication that I can tolerate is Plaquenil. I have had my diagnosis since 2011 and started the diet in 2014. My inflammatory markers are all within the normal range currently. But I am developing some deformities /erosion in my toes. I also have shoulder pain that will only resolve with cortisone injections. It seems to become irritated and painful every two to three months. I have wrist pain off and on and am developing erosion in one wrist. My rheumatologist is going to start offering low-dose immunotherapy. Are you familiar with this and do you have an opinion? But it is not covered by insurance, would be out of pocket. Do you have any other suggestions? I feel as if I’m running out of options and do not want my joints to undergo any more irreparable damage."

Answer

If you are doing all these healthy things, that might be an option to go with for low-dose immunotherapy.

Your joints have to have circulation too. And you have to know that joints have cartilage and cartilage is the cushion and then the tendons. There is a synovial artery, capillary that is the only blood supply to a joint space. And if that little artery gets clogged up, the joint breaks down and just dries up, cracks up, and falls apart. So, chelation therapy is a good concept. Remember all cause of death mortality is improved when you improve the circulation to every part of your body.

The other thing is adequate water. The other thing is natural hormone replacement therapy is an aid to stimulating growth and repair in a healthy way, even to the muscles and cartilage, and tissues. And you could also use some natural testosterone therapy, DHEA, and the other thing would be having a very good weight resistance muscle training under the supervision of a personal trainer to help build up your range of motion and your muscle tone of the pelvic girdle and your shoulder girdle here. You know, your deltoids and your biceps and your lats behind and your trapezius in the back. So, this is a whole muscle system. Range of motion, and water, and enzymes, and hormones, and low carb and natural hormones and testosterone for muscle mass stimulation. Intermittent fasting to stimulate autophagy to repair. These are other considerations that you might consider to be a help.

There are joint injections with things like hydrogen peroxide, ozone, and B12 with hyaluronic acid. There's prolotherapy injections in these joints. So, there is lots to talk about, I would see a well-informed functional medicine doctor and look at some of these potential things to help you. That’s where I would go with that. You have to eat enough protein too and healthy fats. 

Question

“My brother has been sick for three to four weeks with flu-like symptoms, not sure of COVID. Would he benefit from ivermectin? He has been vaccinated.”

Answer

I would say the answer is yes. He should definitely see your doctor, a healthcare provider. Ask him if they would consider letting him go on seven to 10 days of ivermectin according to his weight. .4-milligram per kilogram. Typically, a 200-pound man is somewhere in the realm of 18 to 21 milligrams a day for 10 days. And then, I would keep them on it twice a week for the month thereafter. I would follow up. I would get his Vitamin D level up using the 50,000 international unit like we have here. And I would use one a day for five days. And then, I would stay on the 10,000 to 15,000 once a day. I would take TLC Multi Min, which gets the zinc level up. That’s three a day. And then I would probably take a scoop of vitamin C drink every day. I'd be low carb, I would never eat late, and I would skip breakfast always. I would only eat between noon and 6 p.m. You would know in the first two or three days if he was getting better.

But you know, what is his age, what’s his other medical background? Systemic enzymes are the healthy achiness of that. Drinking enough water helps the fluid and if he could do a little rebounding, even feeling under the weather, if you could get on there, three, four minutes, just bouncing, watching the news on the TV, then get off, and rest and relax and get on it again. Three, four times a day for two to three minutes would help move the lymph tissue. Those are suggestions I would make in general.

Question

“What are some good foods, and vitamins to support heart health? I've been having some sharp heart pains recently.”

Answer

Well, heart health is multifaceted. And it depends on your age. Sharp chest pains are usually non-cardiac, more knifelike, and stinging sharp pains are related more to the musculoskeletal chest wall and/or the gastroesophageal junction and reflux. So, I would in general, with that kind of a story in an otherwise healthy person, I would suggest taking some GlutaShield or Glutagenics, which is a glutamine base powder. And I would mix a scoop of that in 16 ounces of water I would drink it first thing in the morning, last thing before bedtime. I would have it wherever I spend most of my day in case during the day I get any sense that I'm full or having any trouble digesting. That will stop acidity in case this is from the gut.

The other thing would be I would do fasting. That's an anti-inflammatory. So, if it’s chest wall, or musculoskeletal, doing some fasting will always reduce inflammation. Just stop eating for one day and drink maybe chicken broth, beef broth, and water. Just see if you stop eating food and just have the broth, not bone broth. Just the clear liquid chicken broth or beef broth if you've never fasted before. The other thing is low carb. Low carb will always be a heart-healthy thing to do. And other heart supplements.

I don’t know your age. With this sharp pain, you need to be seen if this doesn’t clear up. But in general, sharp is not cardiac. But if you're concerned, you should see your healthcare provider or go to urgent care. I don't know what your age is or what other medical or medicines you may or may not be on. But in general, it doesn't sound cardiac. 

So, to have good heart health, doing some aerobics and doing some weight training, at least three times a week would be wise for heart health. Coenzyme Q10 is primarily and very highly needed by heart muscle tissue. I would have my testosterone level checked. Testosterone levels need to be up enough. And the other item would be, the heart is always working. And so, B vitamins for stress, a good methylated B complex is always heart healthy and it helps to lower homocysteine. Things like Juice Plus have been studied by the Journal of Cardiology Publication and shown to be very cardioprotective as an antioxidant, from low oxygen, and oxygen stress. So, magnesium is very important for the minerals of the heart. Now, I can make an argument for potassium and all the others. But in general, these are the major thematic ones. So, look down this road, see your doctor, and address these. Don’t put them off. Address them. 

Question

“How much melatonin do you recommend for sleep?”

Answer

You know, it's very variable. Over the many years, and decades that I've been using melatonin, I find some people go to sleep very nicely with one milligram. I know some people that need 15 or 20 milligrams. It is so variable. But men tend to need more. Women as a general rule, need less. It seems to be very helpful in flu situations. It's a powerful antioxidant. It has many other functions in the human body. So, I would say, find a good supplement that has one milligram in it and play around with just one or two milligrams, or three. If you're not getting a good night's sleep with that much, then look for a supplement that has five milligrams in it and then play with one or two, where you're going from five to 10. And just find that sweet spot for you. 

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“What are the benefits of using liquid essential fatty acids topically on skin and areas of itchy type skin areas?”

Answer

I use the liquid form because every cell membrane here is a double layer, bilipid, and phospholipid layer. And when it has an injury like here, you put that oil on it, it helps with the actual membranes.

Once again, if I show you this picture here, that I have on my wall, this right here is a double membrane, right here. And here is a protein that is a transmembrane protein receptor. But the fatty acids that hold these things into place are right here, right here, and right here. Here's cholesterol, cholesterol, cholesterol. These are phospholipids right here. Notice how they're uniform like this, these fats. This is the polar end, this is the fat-loving. So, the world is out here, the inside cellular world is here, and you have to have these fatty acids. And that's exactly what this oil is here. And this oil, you have to keep it cool. You can’t let it get old. This is what I use for demonstration. I have had this for probably five years sitting here. I wouldn’t use it anymore. By now it is oxidized. But essentially opening up one of those capsules, you could take the same thing and pop open a capsule onto an itchy thing and it helps quickly to heal this need for the skin to have these fats, right here, that are having these special double bonds here, double bonds here, double bonds here, and double bonds here. As opposed to no double bonds right here, see these hang. But if you have double bonds, it becomes unstable. But that electrochemical reaction helps hold the protein in. Because the protein itself is so full of extra hydrogen sulfhydryl groups, that the double bonds in the fatty acid here are looking for the sulfhydryl connection. So, hydro connections share extra hydrogen where it's unstable at that double bond. So, it's a perfect design. And it's like falling in love with a boy and a girl and the double bond finds the sulfhydryl in the protein molecule, and then they kiss, and they stay hugging all the time. This is what you get when you eat your meat, and your chicken with a skin on it, and your fish, and your egg yolks, and all these wonderful things. 

Question

“Are EDTA suppositories as effective as the IV chelation?”

Answer

I'm going to say I'm the only doctor I think on the planet that has ever done research on this, published on it, done clinical human trials, did the animal pharmacokinetics with our team here, and saw that actually, our formulation of making a suppository was very effective in absorption through the rectum. It's the most absorbed pharmacokinetic working suppository delivery for any medicine that's ever been delivered. However, it is not as powerful as the IV. Because the IV goes right into your vein, nothing can reach what an IV can do. But up to as much as 30% was absorbed, well over 30%.

So, we said three suppositories are roughly equal to one IV. Since then, the pharmacy we use that makes it doesn't make our kind of suppository. So, I have no control over the quality of it right now. You're going to get some benefits. But there is no replacement for the IV. EDTA suppositories are maybe the next best thing.