YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, March 5, 2024

Question 

“What do you recommend for ulcers? Should we use antacids?” [0:02:40]

Answer

Well, In general, the question has to come, why are you having an ulcer and who has ulcers, and do you know for sure if you have an ulcer? You would see your doctor, and your doctor would try an antacid, assuming there's excess production of acid. And very often, it isn't the acid so much that's an excess. Very often it's a blood type A person who doesn't produce enough digestive enzymes or betaine hydrochloric acid. And then what turns out is the food stays undigested and in the stomach too long, and it’s easier to burp it up when you're bending over, tying your shoes and stuff rather than proceeding through your gastrointestinal symptoms. So, this can happen chronically, and you start getting this reflux into your esophagus and symptoms of heartburn. It can create erosive esophagitis, Barrett's esophagus, and you can get also some symptoms that would improve if you took antacid or over-the-counter Pepto Bismol. But O-type blood, people with O-type blood tend to have excess acid production. So, on one end of the spectrum is the A with too little and food staying in the stomach too long, and on the other end is the O-type blood that tends to make too much acid, and these are typically known for producing ulcers. 

So, we recommend starting out with things like drinking enough water and stopping eating at 6 o'clock at night. Don't lay down for 3 or 4 hours before you go to bed, elevate the head of your bed, and to use L-Glutamine powder, Metagenics made Glutagenics, which was a very good glutamine powder to mix in water. L-glutamine is helpful in repairing the lining. We have Glutashield from Ortho Molecular. I have Phospholipids because, remember, the lining of the cell membrane here has that injured hole through the cell membrane, and you get a ton of these and you get an ulcer. And you have to have those phospholipids from eating meat, fish, chicken, turkey, egg yolks, and things like that to repair it. So, Phospholipids in a powder, we usually mix it with SBI Protect protein, which are immunoglobulin A, because you secrete a generalized antibody IgA, and this helps protect the body from invasion of pathogens that might be in our food. And so, this powder mixed with the Phospholipids is very helpful if you take a drink of this in warm water before you go to bed, maybe first thing in the morning, and then you could do it as often as you like. Then antacids would be the next step if it's not handled with some of these more common items. So hopefully, that works well for you. 

Question 

“What do you recommend to avoid stiff neck and back muscles? Epsom soaks, stretches, massage, creams, etc.” [0:06:09]

Answer

The first thing is water. We tend to not drink enough water and our joints get water only through diffusion. Our tendons only get the water through diffusion. So, you don't have capillaries in your tendons or the cartilage of your nose and stuff, so that it doesn't get calcified so your nose can wiggle and your ears can be soft and wiggle. So, water is critical for stiffness in the joints. 

The next thing is minerals, multi-mineral amino acid-chelated minerals. We made the Albion amino acid chelated multi-mineral, called TLC MultiMin. Taking 3 to 6 of those is very helpful if you have enough water. Of course, stretching. And then, as we age, our muscles dwindle away. They're absorbed. And then, if your structural muscle doesn't hold your cage and your shoulder girdle up and your hips in the right sense, you're going to start slumping and having fatigue of the muscle and poor posture, which will aggravate the tendons and stuff. So, weight training, upper and lower body twice a week, a minimum of 30 minutes. And that's why I'm in this outfit because immediately after this, I'm going to go work out for an hour, doing my weightlifting, which I do at least twice a week. So, that's the first direction I would go in.

Secondarily, you could take Systemic Enzymes, which are anti-inflammation. So, if you have injured cells like this over here, this little poked-out area, and that's what all disease, no matter what organ of your body. If that membrane is disrupted, those little fragments that are all coming out, they have to be cleared away without water, and then the enzymes like little Pac-Man have to eat that thing up and let a new cell membrane replace it. So, Systemic Enzymes taken on an empty stomach 5 twice a day are typically what will solve it here. We use the Vitalzym and then we use Vascuzyme systemic enzymes and that helps. And then also improving circulation with EDTA chelation therapy. That's another methodology.

Question 

“How much daily fresh air would you suggest for adults and kids?” [0:08:49]

Answer

Well, I think we should be outside getting a good half hour of fresh air and sunshine as a minimum, if possible. More is better, of course. But when you say fresh air today, we are dealing with confounding factors, such as chemtrails and these airplanes that make these fake lines in the skies are putting all kinds of pesticides or nanoparticulate metal oxides, like aluminum oxide, barium oxide, strontium oxides in them. And so, it's landing on the ground, it makes our forests have an aluminum coat. That's why they're so explosively incendiary, and we're having worse fires because we have a known pyrotechnic metal everywhere sprayed out of the planes called an aluminum oxide and they ignite on fire. So, it is a challenge. But the good Lord has given us EDTA chelation to pull this out. 

Question 

“If you personally (or your dear loved ones) had to be treated for an emergency medical condition in Southern California (and you had a choice of hospitals), which hospital would you feel safe with?” [0:10:10]

Answer

I frankly would feel safe with none of them. So, I'm sorry. It's just a sad thing. I am not happy with the state of the medical profession, with medical people who are not putting ethics first. If they can so easily be blown over to push emergency authorized treatments that are likely not well-researched and they don't know how to investigate it, and they continue to support it, and it takes years to find out their damaging effects, then you have to ask yourself, how good are these doctors? And that crosses all the specialties and all the family practice, general medicine, internal medicine. So, I'm really disappointed. I don't feel safe in any of them. Sorry.

Question 

“Is there enough data to feel safe with stem cell therapy? Do you think it's a positive layer of impact on the low carb/chelation/good water/exercise/sleep/low stress/hormone replacement therapy foundation?” [0:11:41]

Answer

The answer is yes. I am taking some studies. I went to a conference last year on peptide therapy, platelet-rich plasma injections into the joint, which have the growth factors, the repair factors that our body secretes all the time and it's in our serum. So, if you spin down the blood and then the top layer, the floating buffy coat layer, then you take that, it has all these growth factors in it. On top of that, there are peptides, certain dipeptides, and short peptide amino acid chains that are known to stimulate growth and repair. So, I think the research is out there. It's being employed. I've seen clinical effects on patients with good results. I don't particularly do it at this time, but I know that it's starting to emerge in the area here, and so I am in favor of it in general.

Question 

“What are your thoughts on using sunscreen on your face?” [0:13:06]

Answer

I never use it. I only use progesterone on my face if I have any concerns about sunscreen. And so, I'm far more concerned about my vitamin D level than I am about some pharmaceutical-promoted product that can be associated with diminishing my vitamin D level. So, no. I think we have to understand that man has been in the sun for 6,000 years, so we need to address the fact that vitamin D is far more important than sunscreen, and we can use bonnets or sombreros or various things like that, and that should be sufficient, in my opinion. Progesterone has been used as a sunscreen for many years. Topical progesterone can be used by men and women and children. 

Question 

“God bless you, beautiful lady! What is the best way to clean out calcifications in the arteries not just in the heart but in the lower extremities? What do you recommend for extreme eye dryness which causes more frequent styes? Thank you.” [0:14:12]

Answer

Well, I'm all for vitamin K2, the MK7 variety of vitamin K2, and I'm for plenty of vitamin D. I am for getting roughly at least 5,000 International Units of vitamin D with about at least 45 micrograms of vitamin K2, or higher, 10,000 vitamin D international units with 90 mcg of K2 and even higher. Up to now, I think I've been using 180 mcg of vitamin K2 with 5,000 D3. In the item that's called K-FORCE. 

Now that helps take calcium out of soft tissues and place it in bones where it should be. But you don't want to have these areas that are injured. These little sites of injured cells create signals and inflammation, and it attracts calcium. And so, if you don't want to have calcifications, you also have to say you don't want inflammation. And that means you have to drink enough water, you have to try and be mobile and get good circulation. EDTA chelation is the most wonderful thing to do, in addition to your vitamin K2 and D3. And then Systemic Enzymes and eating a humble diet low in carbohydrates, drinking plenty of water. Just remember, we're all roasting at 98.6 degrees. So, if you're 150 lbs, you're on a 150-lb roast cooking. If you're a 200-lb man, you're roasting 200 pounds at 98.6 degrees every day. It makes you want to drink a lot more water to boast a base for yourself and take your enzymes. So, that's what I would do. 

And then for the styes, the water, the enzymes, the chelation. But I also use Argentyn silver. Almost every night, I will take a drop of Argentyn silver and drop it in each of my eyes. It works as an antibacterial, antifungal, and antiviral. So, it helps to keep the inflammation in my tiny little eyelash follicles clean and the puncta, the little holes that drain the tears open so that I don't get styes. That's what I would do. 

Question 

“Due to menopause and vaginal dryness, I am currently using a vaginal estrogen cream twice weekly. I would also like to include Revaree by Bonafide for vaginal atrophy, which is a vaginal hyaluronic acid moisturizer. Can these things be combined or is that overkill?” [0:17:14]

Answer

I certainly don't think that that's an overkill. If Revaree by Bonafide is a vaginal hyaluronic acid moisturizer, then indeed you can use that probably daily, and then the Estrace (estradiol) vaginal cream twice a week, and it should not be any conflict. 

Question 

“What type of estrogen do you use on your face? Estradiol (same as vaginal estradiol) or bio-identical estrogen? I want to make sure I am putting the right hormone on my face.” [0:18:17]

Answer

The answer is yes. Well, estradiol is bioidentical estrogen. Estrogen is like a general name referring to the category of female hormones, just like Toyota is the general name of a company that makes a Toyota Corona, and Toyota Lexus. So, these are different models of the Toyota car. So, estrogen is a group name for the specific estradiol, estrone, and estriol, and these are the only three human female bioidenticals. And I only use estradiol, I don't like estriol, biest and triest, because really the only active agent is estradiol, and that's what I put on my face. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita! My husband has been having an itchy inner ear with some tingling. We have mold in the house and are getting it cleaned up. He didn't have this issue in a previous house before mold. He also sneezes often and has mucus in the sinuses all year long. What do you think? I experience anxiety attacks. Do you have any tips to help get rid of this? It started in 2020 when the pandemic hit. Thank you. What is good for adrenal health?” [0:19:33]

Answer

Well, starting from the last question first, dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) is very good for adrenal health. It is the precursor. So, if you eat fat from a piece of meat or butter, that piece of cholesterol will be hydrolyzed and some of the two major parts of the hydrolysis will make pregnenolone and DHEA. The pregnenolone will go on to do certain things and the DHEA will go on to do certain things in the human body. So, DHEA is a precursor to the cortisol to help your adrenal glands do well. So, that's what I take every day of my life. I use 50 mg. Very often I start people on 25 mg. Some people can go as low as 5 mg or 10 milligrams, but I think 25 mg would be a good starting point once a day, and get your cortisol tested with your doctor. 

So, I would start with DHEA for anxiety. I would exercise. Exercise weight training and high-intensity training, like taking a walk and every two minutes burst out into a jog or a very, very fast walk for 20, 30 seconds, then slow down to a brisk walk for two minutes, and then speed up and then slow down, speed up and slow down. Or do it more intensely. Exercise is a great anti-anxiety thing to do, and I would do that every day for half an hour. The other thing is weight training. It’s also known to be very good for mood and for anxiety. You also could use magnesium. We use the powdered magnesium chelate, called OptiMag Neuro. It's very relaxing. Ashwagandha is a very good herb that's in our TLC calm. You could take that also before nighttime with magnesium. 

And regarding your husband's itchy ear and some of the tingling and the mold in the house, again, you have to get the mold taken out. That could be causing that with his sneezing all the time for sure. But I would put him on a carnivore diet. The most anti-allergy, anti-inflammation elimination food diet is a carnivore diet. And if he did that for a month, then he could definitely see an improvement. I would do that. The other thing I could take is a natural herbal quercetin. Quercetin acts as a natural antiviral, antihistamine without making you drowsy. You would have to load up first. We have D-Hist from Ortho Molecular or Seasonal Allergy as our private-labeled one here. And you take 8 capsules the first day, 6 the next, 4 the next, and then stay on 2 to 4 every day while you're on the carnivore diet. Drink plenty of water and work on the mold and have your doctor see how it's working or get with a functional doctor and get some food allergy testing, skin testing, those kinds of things. Hopefully, that helps you as well. 

Question 

“Good evening, Dr. Ellithorpe. What is your take on sauna? We have an infrared sauna which I set at 140 degrees, which is enough to really drip sweat. I find I'm craving it. I'm 64, healthy, no contraindication. Does it truly detox? God bless you and your caring concern for his Children.” [0:23:53]

Answer

I like it. I have my own, infrared sauna. Does it truly detox? The answer is yes. Yes, the heat and the circulation will make your heart beat faster as if you were exercising. So, one of the features of the research with sauna, either the humidity-induced or the dry sauna with the lights, all of that heat makes the heart beat faster because your body is starting to heat up. When your heart beats faster, it's trying to cool you down, and that is like simulating aerobic exercise. Therefore, finished studies have shown that people who do sauna four times a week have a clear-cut extension in life longevity because of a better cardiovascular state of health. But of the side benefits, when they study the sweat and they look at these people in more depth, they do find that detoxing of volatile organic pesticides, herbicides, and things like that, is sweated out, as well as other toxins. So, yes, it's a very valuable thing to do, and I would recommend it four times a week.

Question 

“What do you recommend for treatment of a cold? No fever, just tremendous congestion. I know to drink water and fast but do things like Sudafed or Claritin really help?” [0:25:43]

Answer

Well, they act as decongestants to dry up the lining of the mucous membranes through adrenergic stimulation and antihistamines. So, yeah, it can be a help, but again, those are drugs. 

Question 

“My vitamin C has zinc in it, can I double the dose? Does Ivermectin help?” [0:26:14]

Answer

Yes definitely, you could because you're not going to take this chronically. So, for two weeks or so, you could certainly double the dose. Zinc, I think the highest doses I've seen on a daily basis for a limited time is somewhere in the realm of 200 - 225 mg a day to really boost up the body's ability to fight off viruses. But if it's an allergen, that's not going to be that meaningful. Quercetin in the form of D-Hist seasonal allergy screen is quercetin. That's what we use here. It actually is the Ortho Molecular D-Hist private-labeled. But Quercetin in 600 to 800 mg a day is a very good anti-histamine, anti-allergy, anti-viral item as well. If you think it's viral, then I would definitely take the zinc. If you think it's just pure allergies, then I don't think I would worry about it. A daily maintenance of zinc should probably be in a multivitamin somewhere around 6 mg. Separate amino acid chelated zinc is often sold somewhere between 25-50 mg capsules, and you could definitely use a few of those daily for a week or two. If you take high zinc too long, you can offset your zinc-copper ratio on your body. So, short bursts should never be a problem. People have been doing this for thousands of years. 

What else would I do? I would use Argentyn silver nasal spray multiple times a day, each nostril. Brush your teeth, have good oral hygiene, water, a low-carb diet, or a fast for 24 hours - 48 hours, and that should get you through anything for the most part. And then, of course, your vitamin D, especially if you think it's viral. 

Question 

“What causes toe and leg cramping in the day and night?” [0:28:37]

Answer

Well, the older you get, we're slowly breaking down, and the cell membranes are not being repaired enough. So, you get little cell membranes with holes in them and it leaks out its contents and minerals. The leakage of material can create irritability in the nerve. That could be a nerve membrane right there, that could be any cell membrane from your nerve, the lining to a nerve to any cell in your body, the muscles, the blood vessels, and so forth, lymph, and this then can trigger a depolarization. When the potassium chloride ions and calcium ions spill out of a cell, it can create a destabilization of the electron membrane that is supposed to be balanced, and with a breach of the membrane, that pouring out of the material can create depolarization and cramping and stuff. So, we recommend that you eat a low-carb diet, drink your water, take your enzymes, exercise, don't eat late, take a multi-mineral, and eat foods that are rich in phospholipids, so you can repair that so that you get the healed membrane there. And that goes from your brain all the way down to your toes. 

So, most of the damage begins where we traumatize it the most, our feet, our legs, our knees, our hips, and they get poorer circulation than your arm because you don't raise your legs up throughout the day and get some flow, so that the edema building up. Because when you have the edema, you're just leaking out in your cells and it's accumulating in your legs, and that's a sign of aging and that this is happening if it's bilateral, and it usually goes away in the morning. So, take good care of your health, eat the phospholipids in your meat, your fish, your chicken, your egg yolks, and things like that. Repair your cell membranes. 

Question 

“I was a patient of yours for many years before moving to El Paso, Texas. I used to get calcium disodium EDTA 1500 mg suppositories from a compounding pharmacy. through you. Then for a while, you sold them in your TLC store. I haven't been able to find any of these anywhere near where I live. Do you know where I can get more of them?” [0:30:55]

Answer

It is a medicine. You have to get it prescribed by a physician. So, if you find a functional doctor and you go there, ask the doctor to make a compound suppository that has 1,500 mg of calcium disodium EDTA, and you can use it three times a week, and that'll probably do very well. 

Question 

“Hi, Dr. Rita. Do you prefer to give bioidentical hormone progesterone in capsule or together in cream with estradiol?” [0:31:02]

Answer

I like them separate. I usually try and steer my patients away from a multi-dose pill. Why? Because I can't manage them individually then. So, if I put progesterone and estradiol in a capsule, and let's say the progesterone is too low, then I can't say take two capsules because then it might make the estradiol go too high. So, I like prescribing bioidentical hormone replacement as single, either capsule or cream topical forms and not use combinations. That's how I like it. Whether it's in a capsule or a cream, it doesn't matter so much. It depends on the woman. Our skin is not all the same from woman to woman. Some women, beautifully absorbed through the skin, other women, not so much, and they need the oral form. 

Question 

“My 86-year-old diabetic mother has developed open sores and an open abscess in her legs with us coming out constantly. She has a Serratia bacterial infection and has been taking antibiotics for three days now. Doctor gave her Cefdinir antibiotics 300 mg (2 twice a day). The pus is still oozing out. Can I spray colloidal silver or use c. silver soap?” [0:33:20]

Answer

Yes, absolutely 100%. And that would be the thing that I would say. Get Argentyn silver spray or a liquid and put that in the gauze and try and help there. But make sure her homecare nurse and her doctor can see these ulcers, and you have to move her and try and get the pressure off of these ulcers or spots where they're developing, and keep her on a low-carb diet because she has diabetes, it looks like. No, she, you didn't say she had diabetes. But bacteria grows rich in a glucose-sugar environment area. 

Question 

“How long can you go without sleep before it starts to impair your cognition?” [0:34:47]

Answer

Well, sleep deprivation is well-known to create oxidative stress, and oxidative stress then creates all those little damaged areas that are in your brain like that, which then creates difficulty in neuroelectrochemical reactions and so forth to generate your thoughts and nerve symphony in your brain. So, how long would I say? Definitely, at 48 hours there is a cognitive drop that is observable by the outsider person, the doctor, and the family. 24 hours is observed by the individuals themselves. They can tell subtle slow cognitive recall and things like that. But I would say 48 hours, and I don't think I would recommend that at all. 

And why is that? Because it is during sleep that we do our healing. So, if you go to sleep, it is at that time on an empty stomach. And so, you should stop eating 4 hours or so before you lay down so that the body knows that this is a time when your body is going to shift to repair and development of certain biochemical actions that your body needs to resuscitate itself. Let's put it that way. And this only happens when you're asleep. So, if you're not sleeping, then you're just building up oxidative repair, dirty, dusty damage. It's like going into a blizzard. You’ve got to slow your car down. You can't drive in a blizzard. When it clears up, then you can drive at the normal speed and safety. 

Question 

“Dr Rita, how do you reduce high blood pressure naturally?” [0:37:07]

Answer

Well, I would say, number one, is water. I would say the number one thing we don't address adequately is taking in enough water. So, if you weigh 150 lbs., then you need a minimum of 75 ounces of water daily. Exercise. Regular aerobic and some weight training exercise, aerobic activity, 30 minutes, 60 minutes brisk walking every day, doing weight training twice a week. And then if your blood pressure is still up, then I would start adding in items like magnesium, amino acid chelated magnesium-calcium supplementation at night. Then I would consider EDTA chelation therapy. Then I would consider seeing your doctor and having them look at you, get a cardiology consult, a stress treadmill, maybe an ultrasound of your carotid arteries, and an echocardiogram with a cardiology consult. And if all those are still good, I think the first direction I would go into for any medication would be something that is called a calcium channel blocker for blood pressure medicine. But naturally speaking, I would do all those things first. 

Question 

“What are your thoughts on Perfect Amino? Have you had favorable clinical outcomes?” [0:38:49]

Answer

Yeah, my husband uses them. He takes five of the tablets twice a day. He's 76 and he works out with me. He'll be with me when I go to work out in a few minutes here and his muscle mass is remarkable for his age. And his performance in the gym, you know, doing pull-ups, and he hangs around his waist.

He'll hang a 25-lb weight and he can still do his pull-ups and stuff like that. So it's quiet. You know, I sit there and I watch in the gym while I'm doing my workout, once in a while, I can see him doing that. And I see the young men around noticing and I can see them saying, boy, I want to be strong like that when I get to his age because he's obviously older at 76. He's fully gray-haired and otherwise quite sculpted. And I do believe that the years of him using a low carb, meat carnivore-rich diet and his Perfect Aminos, and Dr. Minkoff who developed it is an older man himself. I think he's like 84. He's still working. He does the triathlon. He always wins because no one's there to compete with him anymore in his late 70s and early 80s. So, yes, he designed it specifically for building muscle mass in the older gentlemen, but it definitely will work with younger men. But I try and encourage people to eat the real food, the meat, the fish, the chicken, the turkey, the beef, the eggs, and if you're a blood type A, to use Digestive Enzymes with it. So, hopefully, that'll help you to get a grip on that. I'm very much in favor of the Perfect Aminos. 

Question 

”Dr. Rita, I am 52. I take progesterone every night and estrogen patches twice a week. I don't get my period anymore, but I heard the longer you get the period is better for longevity.” [0:40:58]

Answer

Yes, but I think you shouldn't strive to have a period. What you should do is have a good functional doctor who will check your hormone levels, and look at many aspects of your health parameters besides your hormones as well, in addition to your hormones. And if he sees that you have a very good estradiol level, even if it isn't enough to generate a menstrual cycle, let's say your estradiol level is 70 pg/dl and you're not having hot flashes or night sweats and you feel sharp mentally, and you have a good progesterone level, say at a level of 4, 5, 6 or higher picograms per deciliter, then I think you're doing well, and you've achieved a very good womanly hormone milieu to help you stay younger and longer. But it isn't just hormones. it's exercise, it's water, it's a good sleep, it's a mental attitude of peace and service, which I believe comes I'm sure from my conviction of my faith in my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, who I try, and serve every day. And so, I think mental peace, the exercise, the water, the low-carb, finding out your blood type, looking for any food allergies, trying not to get into marketing and situations. For instance, they're marketing all these green drinks, and their concoctions of a powder mixed into water, in which you're drinking a large volume of dehydrated spinach and kale and other items, and you're doing this day after day after day, and you're going to wind up, if you did a food IgG Immunolab, you're going to wind up seeing you're getting inflamed from the very thing you're trying to do to take to make you healthy.

Now, juxtapose that with Juice Plus. Juice Plus has the fruit, the vegetable, and the berry blends. So, there'd be a red fruit capsule, a green vegetable, and a purple-looking berry capsule. And if you take two of them each, you're getting a tiny little amount, and you're not getting this volume. And the research on Juice Plus is so compelling and established over almost 30 years, that I can assure you I've never seen the inflammatory impact of seeing such a small but well-designed antioxidant protection. But these drinks that you're marketed to, longevity drinks, it's a huge volume of antigen you're exposing yourself to. That's like taking 30 or 40 capsules. So, hopefully, that helps you to understand. I'm glad you're doing those things. But have a humble life, a peaceful life, a joy from serving others. And then somehow, you know, it's more blessed to give than to receive. And when you do that, there's such a peace that comes to you. And then when I'm trying to live from my faith, I am always asking in my prayer, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So, it's not my will, but thy will be done. And so, I'm taking my nerves off of me. I'm not looking at me so much anymore, and I'm trying to say, you gave me this body. How do you want me to take care of it? So, I see myself as a soldier of Jesus Christ and trying to serve him, and I'm not focusing on me. And it gives me peace at night. I sleep like a baby. I drink the water because I know God wants me to take good care. I exercise. You think I want to go and work out hard right now? I don't want to. But because I'm trying to serve my Lord and I'm trying to be a good example, a good teacher, I must discipline myself. So, that's why I think it's good to have a faith, a plan of discipline that motivates you, and that's how I motivate myself. And that will give you longevity. And then research shows. People who are married, people who have attendance to their faith with dedication, these are people who live longer. Yes. 

Question 

“Maybe the questions are slow coming in as it is voting Tuesday.” [0:46:19]

Answer

Yes. Well, I'm very thankful that we have the ability to go vote. Hopefully, the vote is accurate and hopefully, people understand our Constitutional Republic. So, I'm going to be holding classes here three Saturdays in a row this month and three Saturdays in a row next month, starting this Saturday, the 9th, in which we're teaching the Constitution in six classes, two hours each, and that'll be right here at my little lunchroom. So, that's how I'm trying to help my, country. 

Question 

“Thank you. My estradiol is 45.” [0:47:16]

Answer

45 is decent. Maybe it could be higher. But again, that's the interaction. That's what clinical medicine is. Some women are beautiful at 45 and live a long time. There are other women who need to be 90, you know, double that. So, just work with your doctor. Hopefully, you have a wonderful, good functional doctor that you can discuss these things, and you could try lifting it up to higher levels, increasing the dose or the concentration of your patch, and see if you don't feel better, think better. I believe my mental acuity in my 70s now is largely because of all these things, including my estradiol levels. I think mine was like 150 or 170. But I don't know how big you are. If you're more petite, I'm a pretty big woman, I probably need a little more.

Question 

“Yes, I should get on Juice Plus again.” [0:48:22]

Answer

Hopefully, you do. I take it all every day. I've been using it for close to 30 years now. 

Question 

“What about the concept of eating 5-8 servings of vegetables a day, mostly raw juice? I tried and was very gassy. Others say it caused other negative issues. Is that why Juice Plus is better?” [0:48:38]

Answer

Well, I think there are way too many carbohydrates, starches, and fruit sugars in 5 to 8 servings of vegetables. This is jargon that has just shot out of the American Cancer Society for decades without any real science behind it. And only Juice Plus is the most researched nutraceutical, and they don't address that when you juice something, you exacerbate and make a massively available all the starch into little chopped-up sugars that suddenly shoot up your blood sugars, spike up your insulin. And so, you would take something that you would normally eat, maybe chewing slowly, and have less release of the sugar, carbohydrate, glucose, and fruit sugar components. But when you juice it and blend it, you blow it into your body. So, these are myths. And if we had any competence at the CDC or the NIH, there would have been massive research with our U.S. tax dollars investing in preventive medicine and getting concrete answers to this. Now, you're just stuck with old doctors, like me, who have trudged through 40, I've done 43 years of preventive medicine, and I've always taught the low-carb diet. I didn't need this fad to teach me that sugar and high insulin were wrong. I didn't need a fad to promote the carnivore diet. I didn't need a fad to teach me about phospholipid membranes. And so, I have seen it with my eyes and I have the healthiest, longest-lived population of patients, and Medicare and their research even validated that about me and our clinic here. 

So, we give thanks to God, because I'm not that smart. It is the wisdom of seeking the truth with a humble heart, having teachers and people who have gone way before me, my father in food research, other researchers who said during this cholesterol hypothesis of heart disease back in the ’70s, the professors I had said that's foolishness, this emphasis. And we now know that it was never validated, that it's all marketing, it's all government tax dollars and media co-opted lobbyists, pharmaceutical persuading you and deceiving you. So, that's why you need a doctor that stays in place, one place, and not moving around and moving around, so that you can get to know that doctor, and get to see them, and they can see you over the years, and you can have conversations and you can try things. We have a corrupt system and it is unfortunate. However, the good Lord has provided enough people who will teach the truth and not work for money or fame but work for the joy of seeing this creation of His, His people, and His children. And I get joy out of seeing people with improved symptoms just by changing their lifestyles, without me giving them drugs, and trying to reduce even the supplements I give them. So, we are designed to heal.