YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, July 30, 2024

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita. My son woke up with his eye red. I'm guessing it's from stress. Is Argentyn 23 good to spray in his eyes?  What do you recommend? I appreciate all you do. God bless.”  [0:21:20]

Answer

The answer is yes. Well, there could be allergies for which D-Hist, the quercetin-rich antihistamines would be helpful, and that's a capsule that you take. You would load with – I don't know how old your son is, but if he's an adult, then you would take eight for the first day, six the next, four the next, and then I would stay on four to two every day. I need about three a day to keep all my allergies under control. Otherwise, I can get itchy red eyes. If it's one eye, then it's probably not allergies.  It's probably viral more likely, and that can be the conjunctivitis that is viral. And that's where the antiviral benefits of Argentyn silver are at, and you could just constantly spray it with your eyes open blinking, dozens of times during the day to do that. You could take a high-dose vitamin C IV here. You could take the oral vitamin C capsules. I usually, for any viral illness, I say take a 5 to 750-mg capsule every half hour until you're feeling better.  So that might be 12 capsules later on, you know, six hours later, something like that. So, the vitamin C orally, or IV, or both. The Argentyn silver, if it's the allergies, I mean the quercetin capsules, and have your vitamin D level and your zinc level up. So, those are things that I would look to for self-management. Of course, trauma, you could have scratched your eye accidentally, rubbing it, or injured it, a dust particle.  Maybe they forgot a contact, and the contact has slipped in that eye into the back part. Of course, if it doesn't improve within 24 to 48 hours, you have to have that checked out by a doctor.

Question 

“Hey, sis!  Have you read the book Super Gut? Thoughts on the most important probiotic strains, especially for mood/energy? Reuteri? Also, I was thinking of making my own yogurt using Reuteri and other strain.”  [0:23:47]

Answer

No. There are so many articles out there about strains of probiotics and they're numbered and alphabetized. So, you could have Reuteri and you could have Reuteri A1, Reuteri A1b, you know, you could have all of these. And then you could have hundreds of others, thousands. And there are trillions in your gut. So, one researcher might be working on a certain strain and getting very good benefits. Another researcher in another part of the world will be getting other benefits.  The microbiome and the environment you're living in impact your gut, and I think that's why we're seeing so many various reports starting to come in now on trying to hone in on certain bacterial strains in our gut that are very beneficial for the immune system, for the mood. Remember, your vagus nerve comes down your 10th nerve all the way down into your gut, and you can actually have neurotransmitters made more in your gut from proper digestion with the help of these good bacteria, and that will be giving feedback into your brain. So, yes, your second mind is in your gut, you might say. Your second brain is in your gut. So yes, you make neurotransmitters in your gut. And yes, that means healthy amino acid and protein intake is very important, plus fats. And because your brain is mostly made of fat and that of cholesterol, so all this talk about fear of eating cholesterol is ridiculous. 

Now, the other thing is, is Reuteri the most important? I can't say that, because in all the years, and I've done teaching on this for many years, there are multiple strains.  So what do I personally do? We have a complete digestive stool analysis, which has led the scene since the 1980s. I think Dr. Levine at Great Smokies Medical Center. He was a naturopathic physician, I believe. When I started to work there, he had created the complete digestive stool analysis. And John Wilson, who was the owner of the clinic, said that, you know, I was kind of replacing after Levine left, and Levine created this massively wonderful complete digestive stool analysis that was ignored for decades and decades and decades until of late, just doctors, like myself, John Wilson, Whitaker Wellness... many other greats in the John Wright up in Washington State, Klinghardt.  All these guys knew that the gut was extremely important, and were taught from Eastern ancient medicine, that health begins in the gut. And that's blood type and digestive enzymes and that's the phospholipids for healing the lining of the gut. And they started culturing this out and learning more. And then when the PCR test was learned/discovered and Kelly, what was his name who developed it? He got the Nobel Prize for it. He helped speed it up because we were able to do PCR testing of these various strains and start getting these trees of genomes and variations.

So, I personally take a probiotic called Ortho Spore IG, and this keeps some of these more as a spore that goes through like in the soil that's outside, and then I take Ortho Biotic 100s, which are more of the kind like you would find in yogurts and lactobacillus, those kind of strains, bifidobacteria. Interestingly, the studies were done by a lady doctor in Ventura, California. I can't remember her name offhand, but she wrote The book Let's Talk SH’T, and that's the name of the book, Let's Talk SH’T, and she found that people who had been told they had COVID, had their bifidobacteria levels were extremely low. And then when they got well, it came back up. Same with many other serious chronic diseases. 

So, there's so much to learn here. I can't tell you for sure which is best. If you do a complete digestive stool analysis maybe once a year, you can look at what you're doing yourself, you can then get this great stool study done, and then you can get some feedback to yourself about what you think you want to do, and that's what I'm trying to do. 

Question 

“Yes, one eye and he is 51.”  [0:29:42]

Answer

So, that is probably either trauma or by allergies. Hopefully, he didn't lose a contact in that eye or scratched it in the night. 

Question 

“Good evening, doctor. I would like your opinion regarding Hashimoto's thyroiditis support. And also, the best way to detox from mold mycotoxins?”  [0:29:58] 

Answer

I don't know that I'm a specialist in any one area to claim that I know the best for mold or any one item. Maybe if there's anything, it's heavy metal detox because I'm so well-groomed in that. But probably for thyroiditis, some autoantibody to attack your thyroid gland is a result of what we consider the leaky gut, the irritable bowel syndrome that turns into like a colitis or ulcerative colitis, Crohn's type, which would be the worst autoimmune phenomena, and the thyroid is often what is attacked. The second comment to that would be joint cartilage and rheumatoid arthritis. And a distant remote one would be the MS and the anchylosing spondylitis, transverse myelitis, those kind of things. I think what you need to do if you have this is to see a good functional doctor and then get a complete digestive stool analysis to look at your digestion and your gut health, looking for inflammation, good healthy bacteria versus bad bacteria, yeast overgrowth, all these kinds of things. But then get the Immunofood IgG test, which looks for your reaction to even good food. So, you might find that you have 25 foods you're making antibodies to, and that could be corn, it could be carrots, it could be meat, it could be wheat, it could be barley, it could be beans, legumes, and shrimp. It could be all kinds of various things.  

And so what we generally teach our patients here, and this is what I do, we go on a carnivore diet, strict, we don't make any excuses. And we do it for three months to give the entire lining of the gastrointestinal system three months to heal. Of course, we follow you up in the midst of that, and we review it with you. And usually, we see, usually, I always see the IgG antibodies for thyroglobulin and thyroid peroxidase antibodies go down, without a doubt, hands down. I speed it up by asking them to do the carnivore diet completely, and I give them the Phospholipid powder with the SBI Protect Powder and Probiotics. So there are layers to doing this or you can do it all. That's how we do it, and that's how we approach mold the same way. There's mold remediation, however. If you're concerned about mold, you have to look for exposure to water damage where you've lived or where you work, and then you have to remediate that and get rid of that because those mold toxins and spores will just constantly re-aggravate you. 

So, those are our approaches to this, and they always work. They never fail. You certainly are better off and healthier. If it doesn't get completely rid of it, maybe you can find someone who can do some very special testing on other things, like Lyme, Babesia, mold, Bartonella, all these other more esoteric things, and other mold strains. But you can start right away today with a complete carnivore diet and then get all the moldy plants and stuff out of your environment and then have someone check your workplace and where you live for that. 

The same goes for electromagnetic energy waves. Don't sleep with your phone next to you. Don't wear these Apple watches that surveil you at night with electromagnetic energy. Get rid of all that foolish stuff. Make sure the head of your bed is away from any dense electrical activity on the outside of the wall a smart meter, or things like that. Make sure that that's handled. So you can look up internet places about smart meters and EMF detectors, and there are companies that will come over to your house or your apartment and look at that for you. That's important as well. Heavy metal detox is important. Chelation. So, there's all kinds of various things. 

Question 

“I'm low on hemoglobin. Besides beet juice, what vitamins can I take to naturally help myself? My hemoglobin level is 7.8.  I’m taking vitamin C and 20,000 IU of vitamin D3 with K2.”  [0:35:00]

Answer

Well, I'm not necessarily convinced that beet juice is the right thing either. And I would say you need to know your blood type. If you're a blood type A, you have to use Digestive Enzymes to help yourself digest the proteins and fat, so that you can construct and make your ferritin, ferrous, and ferric ions of Fe2 to Fe3, these conversions on your hemoglobin molecule for carrying oxygen. You need to eat the red meat. You need to eat maybe some organ meat. Find out your blood type. If you're older, all of us with age, we don't digest as well and we need Digestive Enzymes. I'm a B, but when I was probably 60 at least, I had to start using Digestive Enzymes a lot more to digest my food. So, those are the directions I would head there. 

Well, we have a vitamin called HemeVite. It's an herbal-based concentrate of iron, but I still think it's better to eat meat with Ortho Digestzyme. But you could take HemeVite if you're having trouble with anemia. But there are many causes for this. So, you would have to see your doctor to make sure we're just dealing with garden variety iron deficiency. You have to make sure that you don't have an ulcer or inflammatory bowel or other disorders that can create an anemia. But please see your local doctor and check your causes for that, and get some HemeVite two of those three times a day with your meals. That would be beneficial for a good iron supplementation. Vitamin C is very helpful, it will help with the redox of the iron level, but I would keep that up. 

Question

“Friends that have flown lately have contracted COVID. Besides eating healthy, how can we prevent it?”  [0:37:19]

Answer

I don't know that I believe that there is a thing called COVID. I don't believe in the PCR testing. They were overrunning the cycles to 40 and 35. So, I think people are getting viruses. People are getting stressed. People are getting low on their vitamin D. People are low in vitamin C. People are low in zinc. People are high in sugar which depresses the immune system. People are high in being seated for too long. We have way too many people who don't exercise, and they sit too long. People are in front of their computers for too long. And so, all these immunosuppressive activities, plus fear, the cortisol, the stress in all of us. So, I think this has more to do with what's going on than people trying to put a label on it. They've never cultured COVID. It is nonexistent to culture it. So, give me a break. I don't know that I'm convinced that it ever was anything more than, the flu went away and we called it COVID one year for some reason. I recommend maybe we never have elections and that way we'll never have pandemic viral illnesses that show up during election years for federal elections. Maybe that's the solution. 

Question 

“My mother did not finish her phospholipids before passing. Can I finish them? I'm a 72-year-old with blood type B and fasting for 20 hours. If I take Phospholipids during those 20 hours, will I break my fast?”  [0:38:53]

Answer

Yes, you will. So those Phospholipids are meant, I mean, it's not going to be any big, horrible fast. The carbohydrate content in the Phospholipids is 3 grams. So, it's minuscule, but it's technically it's a breaking of the fast. But you can use it before you eat during the 4-hour window of eating, and that would be very wise to do. So, I wouldn't worry about it. 

Question 

“Hormones supposedly exist even in organic meat products, in addition to organic eggs, butter, and dairy in general. Considering this, are you concerned about your being on such a high percentage of carnivore eating plan?”  [0:39:59]

Answer

Not at all. People have been eating this for thousands of years, at least 5,000 years. So, no, it's not a problem. And I check my estradiol level, my progesterone, my testosterone, my DHEA, my cortisol, my insulin, and I'm wearing a glucose monitor once in a while just to check myself. And my problem with the glucose monitor is they set this thing up so that if you fall below 55 on your blood sugar, an alarm goes off like you're at some risk of dying or something from low blood sugar. And I live between the 50s and 100. So, I'm being awakened in the middle of the night with alarms going off when this is my normal range because I haven't abused my body with a huge amount of carbs, starch, and sugars and everything. So, it's funny how they set their range from, I think it's 80 to 180 as normal. And I think anything above 120 is abnormal. So, there you have it. Check yourself and eat like people have done for 5,000 years, and you'll be fine, and I do check my hormones, and no, I'm not worried about it.

Question 

“Is it good to take glutathione while doing chelation?”  [0:41:41]

Answer

There aren't any studies, and there will never be any studies unless we get medicine out of oligarchical control with a click of pharmaceutical and regulatory administrative bureaucrats who don't give a darn about you but want royalties on drugs for problems. So, that'll never happen unless we return ourselves to a constitutional republic and stop this permanent deep state that we have in our government. So, I'm going to say, no, because I've been around this since I grew up with my dad in food research and around vitamin shops and chemistry and healthcare all my life. So, I would say 60 years I've been around this, and I'm going to start my 71st year now. So, I'm going to say glutathione is one of the very valuable antioxidants in the human body. But is it more valuable than say Coenzyme Q10? Is it more valuable than vitamin E? Is it more valuable than vitamin C? Is it more valuable than some of the colorful plant things that the anthocyanidins and polyphenols like that? No. We don't have the answer to that. So, I take Juice Plus. I take it without the sugar in it. I take the powdered concentrate of the berry, fruit, and vegetable, I don't get any of the starches from it, and I get all the benefits of those antioxidants. I take a precursor to glutathione, called N-acetylcysteine, and I use that 500 mg twice a day. And then I try to do my chelation on a maintenance level. Now, I only do it once a month at best. So, I'm not going to say there isn't any better value to do taking it with the event of getting an infusion of chelation therapy. No. How can I say that? There are no studies. 

Question 

“What are the benefits of taking progesterone for those diagnosed with PMDD? What are the side effects? Any supplements recommended for PMDD sufferers?”  [0:44:05]

Answer

I would definitely take progesterone because stress makes cortisol. Cortisol suppresses follicle stimulating and luteinizing hormone cycling for your ovulation. So you don't get progesterone. So then you become estrogen dominant, and estrogen dominance has problems of fibroids, polycystic ovarian and polyps, and irregular cycles, mood swings in and of itself. And then those mood swings are associated typically with a high carbohydrate for dopamine, you know, momentary gratification through your mouth of oral sugar stimulating you that leads to insulin and polycystic ovaries. So, it's a world of evil companions and behaviors. So, take progesterone, that's what I normally tell anyone with premenstrual depressive disorder, and I ask her to use it from day 15 through 25 of her cycle, that's just 10 days, and do it faithfully. And then I ask her to try and stay away from so many carbs and starches, I ask them to stay away from eating late at night. I ask them all to exercise, walk, and alternate the next day with weight training and the next day walk and the next day weight training. And then I ask them to drink 64 ounces of water. I'm asking almost everyone now to go out in the sunshine in the morning at dawn with the sunrise, take your shoes off and get your feet into that wet grass on the soil and let yourself get grounded, which helps with mood. The infrared light in the eyes helps with circadian rhythm and sleep. It energizes, the infrared goes right through your body and your skull. It helps the brain and everything. I'm into looking into what is called structured water. If you look up Dr. Gerald Pollack, PhD., Water, Electricity, and the Cells, something like that, I think is the title. Now, he has many, but I think that Water, Electricity, and the cells are the most fantastic and well-cartoonized kind of for him to explain to you just how beneficial this is. So, that's how I would do it. 

And I would take enzymes. Ovulation, premenstrual, is usually that ovulation where you're trying to ovulate and rupture out of, you know, from the egg, the corpus luteum to make the progesterone, and it doesn't happen, and there's a discord there, maybe the cortisol stress, and it's an inflammatory time, and that inflammation creates more mood swings, more cortisol, and it's a vicious circle, and more food cravings, more inactivity, more fear-based behavior. And so, sunlight, exercise, water, progesterone day 15, whereas day 1 is the first day of your menstrual cycle, so 15 days after you start menstruating, you take the progesterone at night to help you get a good night's sleep for about 200 mg, 100 mg, and then that should really help you. But the enzymes, if you take it also, you'll have less inflammation. So we take enzymes on an empty stomach for this, three to five on an empty stomach, morning and evening. And you'll see everything lift. It always works. I've never seen it feel really. 

Question 

“I would like to have daily maintenance of vitamins and minerals to stay healthy. Would you recommend a good multivitamin, C. D3 K2, and anything else you think is important for people to take daily for good health?”  [0:48:34]

Answer

And that's wise, because with all this industrialized farming and all the pesticide/herbicide and with all the genetic modifications – now when I say that, I'm not necessarily always talking about glyphosate or anything like that. They actually take old-fashioned apples and they breed them so they get more plumpy and sweet honey apples and juicy apples, big, big apples, where most apples were much smaller years ago and more tart. So, they're just huge nutritional benefits defeats and high sugar excess is what we're seeing in much of our food today. So it's smart. I could easily say across the board a vegetable or food today is about 50 percent of what it was when I was a little girl. 

So, what do I recommend? Well, the things that I've tested, there could be other things. I don't know everything, but I can only go with what I've clinically tested or I've personally published on or I saw in my patients. So, that is Juice Plus, Vitamin D 10,000, 5,000 to 10,000 every day with K2. Taking a multimineral that has a good, we have TLC MultiMinerals. I've tested it. It's Albion, it's amino acid chelated, so it's the best. And it has all the magnesium, selenium, boron, manganese, calcium, all those things that you need in there. One iodine, Iodorol 12.5 mg tablet a day. And then I'm going to say if you're a blood type A, Digestive Enzyme with betaine hydrochloric acid when you eat your food. If you have aches or joints, or you're over 45, you probably need Systemic Enzymes on an empty stomach, morning and/or evening or both. I take them both because I'm so old. So, I take Vitalzym 5 twice a day. We have systemic enzymes called Vascuzyme, which are really pretty equivalent, and much cheaper. I helped work with Ortho to develop that, and then we've privately labeled it to a thing called Systemic Enzymes so that we can make it cheaper. So, that's enzymes, both systemic and digestive, the D, the iodine, the minerals, and the antioxidants, and that should be enough.  

Now, I would argue, that we're so stressed, that maybe extra Methylated B complex is a very smart thing to also use. Methylated B complex. And that'll take care of all the, I think 30 percent of people have methyltetrahydrofolate deficiencies, and that it solved that problem right there. That's what I would take. 

Question 

“What brand/type of Vitamin C would you recommend I keep on hand at home, so I can use it when I start to feel like I'm coming down with a cold? How much would you recommend I take per day?”  [0:51:31]

Answer

Well, I can only again recommend what I've tested. And a lot of this comes from corrupted fields and from China, the vitamin C. so, I won't use that. So, I use Ortho Molecular. I know the owners. I know the people. I know they have the same biblical worldview that I do. And so, what I've gone there and I've looked at their vats and their sample sizes and sourcing. They're not using those bad sources. And I use the Ortho Molecular's Buffered Vitamin C capsules 750 mg, and I take one every half hour if I'm coming down with a cold, or if I feel like I'm getting constipated. 

Question 

“Hello, Dr. Rita. What are your thoughts on possible health issues arising from the batteries in the Tesla cars? Should there be any precautions taken? Appreciate your knowledge.”  [0:52:33]

Answer

Yes. If you take an electromagnetic frequency surveillance and you bring it to Tesla cars, you're going to see that's not a place to be putting your children or young developing pregnant moms sitting near those batteries, especially in the backseat. So, yeah, that's something I just would be very, very careful about. Those should be cars only for old people, in my opinion. And then I don't like the electric cars because they take so much energy and slave labor from these communist collectivist societies where all the people are equally poor. That's what socialism really is all about, getting everyone equally poor and starving, and then you're forced in these labor camps to dig up these rare earth minerals and they abuse the little children, and you're using all these big heavy engine equipment to do the blasting and the moving. And so, you're using all these oil-based engines and then to make a battery. It's ridiculous. So, I'm not in favor of electric cars. 

Question 

“Do you have any suggestions for naturally resolving recurring urinary tract infections? I am post-menopausal and have had 4 infections this year. I've tried all the different types of antibiotics but believe I have a resistant strain. I'm currently taking a lemon, ginger, garlic, honey, apple cider vinegar, and cayenne concoction every two hours.”  [0:54:05]

Answer

Well, I think hormone replacement is very important because, like this paper right here, if your urethra is thin, and you're urinating down this thin tube right in here, and you're only this thick in the lining, then it's not going to shoot well, and you're going to get easier ability to tear it and get patchiness down there when you're wiping and stuff, especially cross-contamination from potential fecal material.

And hormones help thicken it up. If we have tissue that's thicker, imagine this tissue here is rolled over like this, and it's much thicker, it's hard to see into the hole there, so you're making the tube much thicker. And so, when you crunch down like a Kegel exercise, you can pinch it off, and it'd be much harder to have bacteria crawl up to your bladder area. So, hormones are very helpful in the thickness of the lining of the vaginal and urethral region to avoid unnecessary accidental cross-contamination up there. So, that would be one. Number two, stay well hydrated. I'm going to direct you to look up Dr. Gerald Pollack, Electric, Water, Cells, and Life. Watch that YouTube video about structured water and how it'll give you energy and the cells in your immune system especially. A low-carb diet. I would go carnivore or very strict keto. You could use cranberry extract routinely. You could use D-Mannose, which is a type of sugar that you can take and drink that goes into the urinary tract system and lines the lining of the bladder. And then infrared light, that grounding where you get the red light, that's very helpful for the immune system. And get your vitamin D level up, and get your zinc level up. Those are the directions I would have. 

Question 

“Now that I'm in my late 60s, my forearm skin is super thin and always bruises and is flaky.  Do you have a cure for this?  What causes this besides hormones?  (I can't take hormones because of a history of breast cancer). Thank you!”  [0:57:10]

Answer

Well, I have many women who have had breast cancer and they are on hormones. I don't ascribe to the fact that hormones are a causative of cancer. I disagree with that. So, number two is collagen. Eating a rich protein diet gives structure for healthy fats to your skin and helps you have that elastin collagen, which also hormones will help with. The other thing is being adequately hydrated and then doing weight training exercises. That's what I would recommend.

Question

“What is your opinion on men or women taking Nioxin to reduce hair loss and promote hair growth?”  [0:58:03]

Answer

Nioxon is Minoxidil topical, and it's fine. Minoxidil, Rogaine, and Finasteride are all items that are topical. Well, Finasteride is oral, and a lot of people complain of side effects with that. But the topical Minoxidil seems to help promote hair loss and it shortens the quiescent phase of the hair follicle, so it's more aggressively active. But chelation helps it, eating a healthy protein diet because your hair is made of protein, being well hydrated. All these things would be very beneficial.

Question 

“Will you provide some education on the risks and precautions for donating plasma? My friend is selling her plasma and I worry she's overdoing it.”  [0:58:56]

Answer

Well, plasma is like a blood volume extender. It doesn't have red blood cells in it. So, plasma is 90 percent water and maybe 10 percent protein and other things in it. And it's got that straw-colored liquid where you cut yourself and you see a bead of straw-colored liquid. And it's 90 percent water. So, you can replace that. I think the regulations, I don't recall it off the top of my head, but once or twice a week is a typical limit for doing plasma donations. So, if the person is healthy and they're drinking adequate water and eating a rich protein diet, I don't see a problem with that. That's my personal experience, but that's just off the top of my head over the past 43 years. 

Question 

“What is an SBI protect powder used for? Can I take it during my 20-hour fast?  Thank you.”  [1:00:10]

Answer

SBI (Serum Bovine Immunoglobulin), and that has the colostrum IgA antibody. IgA is the very first antibody your saliva mixes in with whatever you eat, and it's a generalized antibody to bad things. And so, that's what it's used for.

Question 

“Hello, dear Dr. Rita, please discuss the benefit of the Vortex water and the wand that you use. At this point, are you recommending it as a valuable tool to add to our health regimens?”  [1:00:50]

Answer

I am. And so, I have the Analemma wand right here and see that drip of water here. Just it takes a long time to drip off because it's more viscous.  So, all the water in this crystal, this is crystal here, this is pure structured water in here, and it takes a year to make it. This crystal will last a lifetime if you don't break it. The wand costs $170. It's www.Analemma-water.com. So, that's where you can order it. I don't make anything on it. You can look that up and look at all the studies about the brain waves, about the energy. We are batteries. We are electrochemical beings. The membranes on the inside and the outside of the cell surfaces attract the water molecules, and these water molecules orient themselves into a nice structure instead of randomness. The positive is separated from the negative in the water, and it creates an electrical energy gradient. You need to have a good gradient over your cell membranes for cellular health for every cell in your body. So, when you help your water that you drink to be more structured, it will quickly instantaneously be absorbed and snuggle up through your membranes, enhance the energy potential, and then the function of that cell, and that equates to better mental health, better stamina, better sleep. Everything metabolically is improved with that. So, the most important thing is the Analemma wand, and putting that in a glass of water, hopefully you filter it. You know, I have my glass of water here with my wand in it. Then I have my straw and I just drink my water out of it. Now I use MAYU Swirl,  www.mayuwater.com. MAYU Swirl creates my vortex. See that vortex in there like that? And that swirls the water to enhance the saturation with oxygen and gets it in a kind of pre-structured form. So, you don't have to have that, but I like it and I pour it into then my glass jar here in which I have my wand all the time. And so, I am clearly 20-25 percent better in my energy now. I almost feel like I have the energy of my 50s and 45s.