YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 08 2022

Question

“I am 74, and one year ago my new doctor put me on 75 milligrams of Levothyroxine in the morning and also 10-milligrams of Liothyronine in the morning, and 5 micrograms in the afternoon. I also have been taking bioidentical estradiol cream, 0.5-milligram in the morning and 0.5-milligram in the evening, bioidentical progesterone capsules, and olive oil. I have been taking estradiol and progesterone for many years and have felt great. When I have stopped the estradiol and the progesterone in the past, I felt terrible. When I was put on the thyroid hormones one year ago, I didn’t feel any better, actually worse, and lost a lot of hair. For the last four months, I have been experiencing hot flashes that wake me up at night and are very annoying during the day. Could the thyroid hormones be causing the hot flashes?”

Answer

Well, I'll compliment your doctor for trying to put you on natural hormones. Because estradiol and progesterone and thyroid are natural things that our body requires for its metabolism and repair. So, these are like construction engine materials. But when you add in the thyroid, that speeds up your metabolism. And when you speed up your metabolism then you could be processing your estrogen and progesterone more rapidly. And therefore, the effect of the estradiol can be diminished.

I hope that your doctor is measuring your follow-up estradiol since you were put on the thyroid medication in this past one year. Normally when we adjust hormones, add in a hormone, but whether it's thyroid, whether it's estradiol, we try within three months to look at the picture again and see if your body is receiving this and discuss whether or not you are having any symptoms like this. So, I would have you go back to your doctor that has given you the hormones.

I would say that Levothyroxine is not what I call really natural in the sense that it is primarily T4. T4 is just a precursor for your thyroid. Your body has to convert it to T3, the active form. He or she gave you the Liothyronine which is the 5 micrograms to take in the afternoon. That is the actual thyroid hormone.

So, what I would say is to get a new level and have that looked at. Have them do your Free T3. Very often, these doctors will just do a TSH and a T4. That is not adequate enough. You have to get the Free T3. That is how I would approach that if I was seeing someone with this kind of a history. Once again, this is not my medical management of you, this is how I would approach anybody that is doing that. 

Question

“This morning I woke up and got out of bed, I was dizzy and had to walk against the wall to maintain balance. I started drinking water and was feeling nauseous. Eventually, I felt fine but I do not like the dizzy feeling. What could this be from? My first thought was, I’m about to get my period soon. Another symptom I have had is getting a headache for three days right at the beginning of my cycle. It’s the worst type of headache and no amount of Aspirin will take it away. I’m using progesterone, the Kokoro brand. Any advice about the headaches as well? I make sure that I drink proper amounts of water. Thank you.”

Answer

Well, I know your age because I know who you are. And because you are in that peri-menopausal age in the mid-40s to late-40s, women will start having hormonal changes. Now, these hormonal changes very often are associated with a feeling of dizziness, lightheadedness, or a rush feeling where you feel an imbalance. The other thing is, this could be what we call vertigo. That is where the seasons are changing here in California, and the pollen and the congestion is generating increased pressure in your head and even on the little loops of the flow dynamics of your head position. So, as we age, a benign positional vertical is a common side effect of aging, if we're getting congested and our little pipes are getting a little rusty and clogged and stuff with not enough water, too many sugars, food allergies. But then it's complicated with hormonal changes. And these changes are associated with these feelings of lightheadedness, and dizziness. So, your hormones probably need to be checked. And the Kokoro is an over-the-counter progesterone cream. It is a low dose, it’s not a high dose. So, a time comes when you probably need to step up to a higher, more potent form of progesterone because your body is aging with time and needs a more impactful dose. It is also well-understood that progesterone does help with headaches, okay? If it is high enough. So, we like to give progesterone, which is measured in picograms whereas estradiol is measured in nanograms. So, you want a higher progesterone level, like a 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, or even 20. But at least about 4. I don’t know if the Kokoro cream can get you to that level consistently

I would follow up, come in, and make an appointment with us and see me. We will see where these levels are. Get tight with your low-carb, healthy avoidance of food allergies, and use your enzymes. Enzymes are like little cleansers that clean the pipes, so to say. Chelation therapy is another part of that. That may be considered useful. And we should be able to help you with the headaches with more progesterone and look at the allergy picture if there is some vertigo-type activity going on. That is how I would approach that. 

Question

“Hello. I’m suffering with hot flashes. What do you think about bio identical hormones? Do they cause cancer? I ask my Dr and he said not to use them and prescribe antidepressants pills Xanax. What do you recommend. Can you email the answer please. God bless.”

Answer

This will be on the blog. You know, if you go onto TLCDoctors.com and look at these, we have all these answers typed out on a blog so that you can see that.

I do not like the addictive opioid product, Xanax. Xanax is from the opioid family. And you can become addicted to it. And you can become tolerant of it and need more and more and more. So, that is not how I see helping you. Anyone who is getting in that hot flash time, you're getting to a point where you're losing your hormones, and that generates these climacteric rushes, the lightheadedness, but also the vaso-activity that creates these hot flashes. It's not quite understood why that happens. But we know that when an estradiol level is restored if you get to an estradiol level that suppresses the hot flashes, it helps your memory, your mood, your energy, and your sleep deep, and it’s calming. That would be the direction to go with natural human bioidentical estradiol, balanced with progesterone. Because God had us have a cycle with estradiol and you always have it. And then, you have an appearance of progesterone two weeks out of every month. And this is what we would try and recreate for her. And usually, all our patients do well.

Now as to the question of do hormones cause cancer? There's a book called Estrogen Matters. So, I would go and get that book and buy a second one and make it as a gift to your physician and have him read it. Or he can go to Tustin Longevity Center and YouTube, type in, Hormone Replacement Therapy, Two Gynecologist Respond. There you will see Dr. Meric and Dr. Mitchell, board-certified OB-GYN doctors. And they discuss this very issue of confusion about claiming estradiol hormone replacement therapy causes cancer. And it is negated. The book, Estrogen Matters, is reviewed in that video. It is a very nice thorough review. And then, you can get the book.

I've been practicing medicine for 41 years, and I have never seen any negative effects of natural hormones. What causes breast cancer is really oxidative stress from hypoxia and metabolic dysfunction in the mitochondria, where there is a lack of blood supply to the breast tissues. And usually, this is seen many times if you're overweight, and the capillaries get clogged, and the cells get choked. And then that hypoxic environment is replicative of when you started out as a two-celled, you know, 4, 8, 16 cell without any lungs or circulatory system. It was hypoxic and your body was rapidly growing until a blood supply occurred and that blood supply through the umbilicus and the placenta is associated with the activity of the pancreas-producing enzyme. So, there's this beautiful theory by Dr. John Beard in 1909, which is discussing the theory of the embryonic trophoblast theory of cancer, that when a cell is irritated for so long and choked, it reverts back to its DNA behavior when we started as just two cells, trying rapidly to grow a new blood supply and to survive. So, until that blood supply occurs and enzymes, which happens right at the umbilicus and pancreas, that shut off this rapid growth. So, if you did a biopsy of any woman's breasts-- And I’m at 70, so if you biopsied me right now, you would see estrogen receptors on my breast cells. On the biopsy, you would see progesterone receptors. That's healthy. So, this myth that just because you see an estrogen receptor still positive on a cell that's starting to become angry, and become malignant in its behavior, doesn't mean estradiol is a problem. It's a good sign. Because these are the more successful, easier-to-manage breast cancers and the cell didn’t lose its full character and become completely teratogenic and morphed into a very aggressive form.

So, I'm going to say read the book, Estrogen Matters. I'm going to say hormones don't cause cancer. I'm going to say listen to some doctors. There's another book by Dr. Elaine Day, who wrote a book back in the 90s about her experience with breast cancer. She was an orthopedic doctor who went through this process herself. So no, I'm not going to say hormones cause cancer. Yes, I think it's a wonderful thing to do. And no, I would not use drugs that are synthetic. You're not having a deficiency of benzodiazepine-based Xanax, or antidepressant drugs, you need the mood elevation of your natural hormones.

Question

“Why is my mouth so dry at night while sleeping?”

Answer

We are often, as we age, just like we get a double chin with the hanging of the skin, our collagen elastin, and the hyoid bone that our muscles for swallowing are attached to, there's a sag occurring. And the larynx, itself, the whole box, is shifting. And so, when we sleep at night, this laxity, the lack of tone, is associated with our mouth opening in, our palate being exposed to the air, and our mouth dropping open. This is typically the cause of why that's happening.

And as we age, we dry up. Number one, we don't drink enough water. Number two, our cell membranes are starting to get more irritated and damaged. And our repair of the cell membrane is inferior so it can't live as well and secrete the mucin and the materials that help keep the slipperiness you might say of your throat and mucin production. So, I would say, this is all a part of aging. Then you have allergies, seasonally, that aggravated it. Then you have the air conditioning or the heating that comes on that drives us out. So, it's multi-faceted, aggravated with aging, lack of hormones, and the actual sagging of the larynx and the issues and all of that. 

Question

“I am wondering if you may speak to gallbladder removal and treatment of a very hyperactive gallbladder. HDIA scan, the gallbladder emptying rate is in the high 90th percentile. I have had nearly a decade of upper right quadrant pain, however minimal nausea, diarrhea, or reflux issues in the past. One removed with challenges, should I be watching out for a supporting role to help the body transition without a gallbladder?”

Answer

Well, it’s a little confusing what you are saying. I’m not quite sure if you had your gallbladder removed or not yet. Your blood type matters on this, age matters. So, our ability to digest food and to have that chopped up in a nice way, so as it passes out of the stomach into the duodenal area, those properly chopped up fats and proteins into amino acids have a secondary messaging impact to the pancreas, into the gallbladder for activity, and there are receptors in the upper part of the duodenal for sugar metabolism, glute one receptors, and all. So, your digestion is diminished with aging, as time passes. And if your blood type A, that is worsened, that's amplified, okay? So, if you don't digest your food well, just with age, and worse if you are blood type A who has that as a feature of their constitution, then your gallbladder is going to get these mixed messages of over-activity or under-activity.

So, the first thing I would do is I would see a functional doctor that understands blood type, understands aging and digestion, understands the proper role and timing of eating, we should not be eating late at night, the proper role of exercise, and the function of a healthy bowel, the proper role of carbohydrates in the diet, or plant foods. And we would start with a patient with those kinds of symptoms after figuring out the blood type, and if there are food sensitivities that aggravate it, by reactivity, because your immune system lines are good.

But if we help you digest better, and if we can help you get phospholipids to repair the cell membranes, so they're less triggered. And if we can help you, so that you're not putting down food allergens that amplify inflammation, and overactivity, that's the method that we would step through. And then limit your time of eating so that you would not swallow any food past six o'clock. And then, we'd find out what kind of exercise activity you're doing. And absolutely how much water you drink every day. And then, if you're taking other things that are cholinergic, stimulating the gallbladder, there are foods that stimulate it. We'd go through a list of that, how much coffee she's drinking, and the like. And then I think that's the way we would begin to help her understand management. 

Now, if she has stones, she should have, you know, I don't know if she has stones or not. But she didn't mention that. But she should have a gastroenterologist and general surgeon who can monitor her because if she chooses not to remove her gallbladder and work with helping to calm it down, God forbid there be a stone that clogs the cystic duct where it goes into the duodenal to help digest the food and emulsify the fats for absorption. We would want a surgeon to follow her along during that time. So, those are some general thoughts that we would do from a functional point of view. Probiotics are a whole other area that we would talk about.

Question

“I’m a former patient who moved away to Connecticut, and now I’m in Georgia. I miss seeing you. I get headaches when I’m doing my fasting. They are located in the front of my head, around my eyes, and my forehead. What should I do to alleviate them? I am just getting back to doing 24 to 48-hour fasts weekly. Right now, I take an over-the-counter headache pill and keep fasting. Is that okay?

Also, can I still use the online shop even though I can’t have appointments with you anymore? If the laws change, I would love to be able to see you remotely again.”

Answer

It is revealing that you are just getting back to this 24 to 48-hour fast. And whenever we withdraw from carbohydrates, if you have not had a pattern or a discipline on going on a steady plane, your body acclimates to a certain amount of reactivity and expectation of those carbohydrate treats coming in. And if you then stop, and start a fast 24 hours, that headache is a withdrawal symptom. And so, that is something that any withdrawal symptom has to be endured. I would persevere through. I would drink plenty of water. I would make sure I'm drinking half your weight in pounds as ounces of water every day. And I would use only headache medications, if absolutely necessary. And I would go for something more like Tylenol, because Motrin, Ibuprofen, and Advil, these have an irritating effect on the stomach, and especially if your stomach is empty, that's going to be hard on your stomach. Those are normally expected to be taken with food. Whereas Tylenol you can take without it. Now Tylenol is not something I want you to do, I want you to gradually get back into your fast. And I would do that maybe instead of a 24-hour fast, I would do what we would call a time-restricted eating. Just give up breakfast and only eat between noon and 6 p.m. Run that for about a month. If you tolerate that well and you are tightening up on your carbs, exercising, with some weight resistance. So, the weight resistance will help tune up your metabolism to manage carbohydrate shifting. Maybe I would be easing into fasting a little more gently so you don’t have such a dramatic withdrawal reaction. And there are other things, looking at your hormone levels, looking at cortisol and DHEA, which help you deal with stress in your adrenal glands. It is important to have enough magnesium and potassium on board. You might be electrolyte deficient. So, if you go on a 24-hour fast, and I would have to know your blood type. Maybe if you drank an electrolyte solution, that would also help with your hydration to avoid headaches with that. So, ease into it a little more gently. Try to do a resistive time eating between noon and 6 p.m. And then, maybe in the next two to three weeks, you can shave it to eat between 1 and 5 p.m. for a few weeks. And then, see if you can shave it to eating between 2 and 4 p.m. Do you see what I’m saying? So, you just narrow the time down so it’s not such a change. 

I’m to a point where I can go five days without eating. And I do fine. The first day is semi-okay. Day two is always my hard day. But once I’m past the 48 hours, I’ve been so low carb, I just shift into gluconeogenesis. And I can go days. I choose to stop at 5 days. The second day, it’s a hard day since I have been eating low amounts of carbs, intermittently. Even though I’m more carnivore-like, when I take it all away, my body reacts. It is very brief and momentary. And I have my TLC Multi-Mineral that I take with potassium and magnesium in it. And I take my L-Carnitine, which helps carry it for energy production and flipping to burning fat. I get satiation from eating/consuming my own fat. So, that’s why and how I would approach that. 

Question

 “Can D-Mannose be used daily for reoccurring UTIs or is not safe for cancer patients?”

 Answer

 D-Mannose does not absorb, so it stays in the gut and the urinary tract, and the bladder. It works to kind of put a coating along the lining of the bladder to stop the ease of adherence of bacteria. So, it is safe to use. 

Question

“A few weeks ago, you offered suggestions to a grandmother in San Diego who is unable to see a newborn grandchild due to not having shots. I live in OC and am in a similar situation with a two-month-old child in Northern California whom I may not see for several months because I have not taken shots. DPT is a concern for the parents and I’m wanting to have an antibody test as you suggested previously. My questions are, where do I go to get one? And are they reliable results as I have not had any inoculations for many years? I do not have a GP. I asked the nurse at the endocrinologist's office where I have had annual bloodwork done and she said that they would not write a prescription for the test. I appreciate any advice that you can offer. I have an appointment with Dr. Meric in March of 2023.”

Answer

Well, as an individual I would do this. As a grandmother who just finished seeing my 7-week-old grandson-- I don’t know how to put this into words. You have to go to an internist or a general practitioner, or family practitioner doctor, and work with your in-laws, I mean, your daughter-in-law, son-in-law, whoever it is. And you can ask that general practitioner to order a pertussis antibody titer. DPT, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, and you can get titers to tetanus, titers to pertussis, titers to diptheria. And then we all have old antibodies to it. And we'll find out where you're at. Although that isn't the final answer. A good doctor should be willing to do that for you.

But I don't think you need to do that because if you're not symptomatic, if you're not having a cold, cough, runny nose, or sneezing, and you're in good health, you should do well. And you've had your own vaccinations. There is no data precedent setting now that all grandparents before they hold their newborns have to be screened for antibody titers. That's unsubstantiated recommendations. So, my heart goes out to you. To work it out, find a good general practitioner, or a good internist, or a family practice provider who will run those titers for you. And if you're healthy, and I would focus on drinking my water, getting a good night's sleep, exercising, being low carb to boost your immune system, eat a humble diet. What did we have for dinner tonight? Meatballs and broccoli. That’s pretty humble. And so, there wasn’t a wild variety. Even though we are visiting and stuff, we don’t want to succumb to that temptation. And that’s the direction that I would advise you to go. God bless you. And I pray that it all works out for you. 

Question

“I was wondering if iron deficiency, anemia can contribute to hair loss in an otherwise healthy female in early 30s. Blood type A+. Would you recommend doing IV EDTA if experiencing anemia?”

Answer

Well, A’s as a class do not digest as well. And they do not absorb their minerals well. And they learn to become dependent on a plant-based diet because it's easier to digest. But we're not made of plants. So, as the A's that get the mineral deficiencies, because the most dense mineral deficient nutrients you can eat would be like oysters, clams, crustaceans, meat, liver, chicken, fish, pork, all these meat flesh animal products, fish products. And if you are sticking with a higher plant base, you are going to be over time diminished. And that includes the iron because we get the iron usually from eating the flesh of a beef that has blood in the muscle cell and the iron in it and that's our way of doing it.

EDTA chelation removes toxic heavy metals, not nutrient minerals. And I'm going to be teaching this day after tomorrow. So yes, you can do EDTA chelation, but I would ask you to use a multi-mineral. As a standard in our teaching for certification for doctors, to use a multi-mineral every day. Although I've never seen EDTA chelation cause a mineral deficiency. So, I would make sure you're eating enough iron through the eating of meat, and pork, and chicken, beef, things like that. And use that ortho digestive enzyme. And Vitamin D, 3 every day, 5 to 10,000 units for the immune system. Take a Zinc in the form of a good multi-mineral. Chelated zinc. And take extra Vitamin C. No human makes Vitamin C now do guinea pigs. So, we should have that. I rely on my Juice Plus every day to be my Vitamin C source. 

Question

“Do I have early symptoms of dementia or Alzheimer’s? How can I manage stress and prevent problems? Please advise. I am a type A+, 43-year-old Caucasian woman 5’2”, weighing 108 lbs, with an intolerance to gluten. I’ve been on a gluten-free diet. I have learned to eat more frequently. Typically, at 27. Got it up to 323 with raw D from the burden of life. I have been to so many different doctors. It started 8 years ago. I went to a physician to find out why I had extreme fatigue, insomnia, awake 24 hours or more, and negative thoughts with thoughts of anger. I tested pos for intrinsic factor antibodies. Since then, my husband has been getting B12 injectables from a compounding pharmacy for me. I inject weekly because I don’t know how else to keep going. I don’t seem to absorb B12 orally or sublingually. The physician said to consider gluten-free. I didn’t follow that and I paid for it with stomach pain, bloat, joint inflammation, and brain fog. Recently I saw a GI doctor and hematologist. I am on 50 milligrams of iron every other day. I can’t tell if it helps with energy. I have too much trouble focusing and remembering things. I am not on any other medications. I do not drink alcohol. Since age 21 it has made me extremely ill, even in small amounts such as two ounces of wine. I don’t drink caffeine because I’m highly sensitive to it as well. I’m very concerned about my weekly mental confusion and ability to complete tasks. One day, I will have suicidal thoughts and then the next day I am perfectly happy and ready to help others with little fatigue. I pray a lot. I have done my best to manage my diet. I walk on a treadmill three times a week for 30 to 40 minutes. It seems like it helps me manage stress. But suddenly on some days, I have bouts of crying that don’t always coincide with my cycle, which is regular. I have passed out due to low blood sugar recently. It seems that my blood sugar drops quickly during perceived stress. I’ve tested it several times in different ways. I believe 2nd Timothy 1-7, yet, I have had panic attacks since December of 2021 after I recovered from COVID-19. I have experienced secondary post-traumatic stress from the sudden loss of a loved one over a year ago and also the same thing with another loved one 15 years ago.”

Answer

You are a blood type A. A, as a class of people, just don’t digest fat and protein well. If we are composed of protein and fat, and not plant food, remember this is the cell membrane. And this is a double layer of phospholipids hanging up and down like that. And these are the protein receptors. 50% fat and 50% protein. And life is always a situation where you have damage from, you know, viruses, bacteria, toxins, heavy metals, volatile or organic acid, benzoin rings, plastics, microplastics stress, lack of sleep, bacteria, fungus, viruses. And so, by the time you hit, you know your 20s, and as a blood type A, and not all As are equal. But you sound more like a more sensitive A being only 43 and having this much trouble to think you are getting dementia or Alzheimer's. So, you have to remember your brain is about 70 to 75% fat. Your nerves are in sheath, with a myelin sheath is composed of fat. We have to eat the cholesterol. We have to eat the fat. We have to eat the protein to do the reconstruction of these materials. And if you have cell membranes with holes busted in it, you become hypersensitive and your ability to tolerate stress diminishes more and more with time. 

So, your doctor has to get you to be using Ortho Digestive Enzyme, which has bedtime hydrochloric acid and digestive enzymes to help you eat a richer, fatty, protein diet every day. And the quicker you do it, the quicker you'll heal. And that will help you absorb your minerals. And help you not to be dependent on iron supplements and so many other supplements. You can't absorb these and you can't make your own B vitamin, B12. Because you have to have enough stomach acid to make intrinsic factors to absorb B12. And you don't have it. So, you're on a break down story and I have these kinds of patients all the time. And I take the time to educate them that you have to every time you eat use a digestive enzyme with bedtime hydrochloric acid, every single time you eat. You have to put the fats in there and the skin of the chicken with it and you have to butter your food and you have to stop eating by six o'clock. Then your body will start repairing. 

That's why if you can hand me the NT Factor and give me the one on the bottom. We increase and accelerate the rate of healing by giving this BioPC Pro phospholipid to mix with this. With this one right here, the protein, we mix these two together, morning and evening, a scoop of each in room temperature water to help repair these holes that are in every cell membrane, including your nerves. And then you probably are having diminished estradiol production, diminished progesterone. And so, you're coming to a pathway where we see hormonally, you're getting pre-menopausal, you have the cell membrane phospholipid protein diminished, and you don't have enough stomach acid. So, unless you get some doctor that's going to help you to start working on getting fat and protein, fat and protein, fat and protein into your diet, it’s not going to bode well for you. So, we would encourage you strongly to get that ortho digestive enzyme, an enzyme with hydrochloric acid in it. Start eating a rich protein, fatty diet with your enzymes. Get your hormones checked, and get your multi-mineral supplement, not just iron. And then, you know, besides the multi-mineral, I would be on the shielding antioxidant protection once you repair something, use Juice Plus as a shield. Get on a vitamin D, which is more like 10,000 international units every day with vitamin K2. And then have your doctor recheck out level, four to six, maybe eight weeks later to see if your level of D, which is fat soluble is coming up.

Then you'll get this nice calming cushion, the insulation of your nerves, the calmness, and remember your hormones are made of the cholesterol fat line. So, your body's crying for fat and protein. That is all you need. And that would be the direction. Find you some doctor that can walk you through that and you will be just fine. You will be so solid, so stable, praise God. And He will bless you. 

Question

“Do you have any suggestions for tinnitus? I have been dealing with it for about a year and a half in the right ear.”

 Answer

Tinnitus is very difficult to deal with. The cause, and treatment is the most challenging. Again, your nerves have to be insulated properly. Find out your blood type, make sure you're eating a healthy, rich, protein-fatty diet, and drinking enough water. EDTA chelation will improve the microcirculation to the nerves in your brain and your cochlea and your hearing apparatus because if you have breaks in the insulation of a nerve, okay, and you have salts, we are electrochemical beings, you can get these miss-informational signals. And it can be a tremor, it can be forgetfulness, it can be a ringing in your ears. So, we have to work on our body much like mechanics. And get that oil greased up, and have that checked with doctors who do a whole body workout instead of focusing on one thing. You have to see everything you're doing here can affect your ringing in your ear. So, I would do the EDTA chelation, the systemic enzymes to kind of be like little pac men cleaning up the capillaries, the microcirculation. I would exercise. I would look at hormones. Because hormones work as general contractors to help orchestrate elastin, collagen repair, rebuilding, and restoration, and so much more. So, find a good functional doctor that will help you walk through them. 

Question

“What is the difference between L-Serine and phosphatidyl serine?”

Answer

So, serine is an amino acid. And God made the amino acids in dextrorotatory and levorotatory forms. And our body prefers the left-turning light of the amino acid construction. You can have like a mirror image. Serine has a left and right rotation and all the amino acids and many biochemicals. And it is so specific it only uses the left-rotating ones. So, that is what L-Serine means, okay?

Now, phosphatidyl serine is the fatty cholesterol based on fat, phosphatidyl molecule has the amino acid attached to it, serine. So, it’s phosphatidyl serine. It can be a phosphatidyl ethanolamine. It can be phosphatidylcholine. There can be many attachments to it to give it a little bit of extra work or construction for your body. And so, hopefully, that answers the question for her. 

Question

“My repletion schedule from my doctor states 1,000 milligrams of L-Serine. I don’t know why it’s suggested for me. But 1,000 milligrams seems like a lot. I can’t find it at Sprouts. How do I get it?”

Answer

Eat meat. Eat fish. Eat chicken. Eat eggs. Eat turkey. Eat cheese. We're supposed to get all these amino acids in our diet, not from a health food store. Or even from a functional integrative doctor like ourselves. I will say this on many of the antioxidant assays like Spectra-Cell or Micronutrient Assays, and they'll say, “Oh, you're deficient in this essential amino acid, this vitamin.” So, we just start prescribing, you know, just like all these lists. And I am trying to tell people, to eat the food. Digest the food, you know. And save your money and find out, try to get yourself to eat a more quiet, humble menu instead of all these spices and varieties. And your immune system and your digestion and as we all age, we need digestive enzymes. 

Question

“I feel good after I eat non-GMO soybeans. So, should I try and get nutrients like L-Serine from that food?”

Answer

I don’t like legumes in general. They are high carb. If you want the most densely concentrated form of amino acids, eat liver, eat organ meat, eat meat, eat fish, eat chicken rather than trying to go to the plant kingdom and trying to extract isolettes out of it. So, please eat food. 

Question

“I found an indoor pool near me and did four laps before I had to get out. I know they have aqua aerobics. My bone scan went from -2 to -2.8 in two years. I am doing 20 small jumps every day. I will get ankle weights. Do you have any suggestions? I just want to be safe. One fall can take me out. I know I need flexibility and strength first before endurance.”

Answer

I believe she is on natural hormone replacement progesterone and natural hormone replacement estradiol which helps with that. But she also has to be on a vitamin D with K2. And you have to be on a good dose of that and faithful with it. And then, one of the things would be getting a rebounder and bouncing on the rebounder, that mini trampoline. Because that was designed for the astronauts in NASA in the 1960s because they would be weightless and they wouldn't have resistance and their bones would accelerate and start to de-mineralize. So being on a mini trampoline would be extremely safe. They have a bar on it so you can jump up and down and that acceleration/deceleration puts a pull on the bone to help the bones with it as well. So, that's the direction that I would go. 

Question

 “Levels of T4 2.24. TSH 0.005. T3 7.1. Estradiol 5.0. Progesterone 0.4.”

 Answer

Well, in standard medicine, they're going to say the T4 is on the high end, okay? That's the precursor. It's not the active form of the thyroid. The thyroid stimulating hormone is low, 0.005. Presumably, you're on thyroid replacement therapy, that's what I'm presuming. So, the signal for the TSH will be low, because you don't need a signal from your brain if you're taking it through your mouth. So, the active hormone is T3, Free T3 of 7.1. And that's a reasonable level. That is on the upper normal. And if you took that blood test after you took your dose of your thyroid, you are going to get your peak level. So, the way I’m looking at this for a man, this is a healthy range. To me, this looks healthy. If he's on hormone replacement therapy with like a glandular thyroid or levothyroxine. Estradiol should be low in a man. That is a very nice number of 5. Estradiol stimulates the prostate gland to grow like breasts. And progesterone is typical for men. So, those are good numbers. 

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 “Question about Ortho Molecular BioPC Pro versus Drs Nutrition Bar. How much phospholipids do I get with the bar versus one scoop of the powder?”

 Answer

12 grams you get in each bar. That is a huge amount of phospholipids. The BioPC Pro, it looks like it is 10 grams. So, this is very, very powerful. The bar has many other things in it, soluble fiber, insoluble fiber, probiotics, the essential fats in it, and phospholipids. It is a complete meal replacement. So, this has more but they have two different uses. You can use them both together. I have never heard of anything like overdosing on phospholipids. 

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“Is a vitamin D level of 125 too high?”

Answer

Absolutely not. And that's based on your doctor getting a comprehensive chemistry, where on the chemistry you are going to have the liver enzymes. The liver reflects the processing of the fat and the bile for the emulsification of fats and detoxing the body. So, if you're taking too much of a fat-soluble vitamin, it'll irritate the liver and your liver enzymes will start to rise. And this is one of the things besides which you can look at the calcium on the comprehensive chemistry. So, if you start seeing liver enzymes and calcium abnormalities, then you have an understanding that the D could be the cause of you taking it so much. But I've been doing this for decades and decades right now and that’s why all my patients stayed well and do well through every viral flu season there is. And we have patients with 150, and 170 on their vitamin D levels, and their liver enzymes are perfectly normal. Their calcium metabolism is perfectly normal. But your doctor and you have to get that checked to look at the dose you're taking to make sure that it is well tolerated. And I usually do this once or twice a year with my patients. So, that is a fine number. 

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“What do you think of glutathione and a nebulizer versus a suppository?”

Answer

Well, glutathione is a rather large molecule. Its absorption orally has some limitations. So, nebulized glutathione has high deliverability. And it's associated with the surfactant on the inner lining of each sac alveoli in your lung to enhance the fluidity of that sac so it can expand and contract with each breath. And it helps with expelling debris and dust and viruses and things like that. So, I think it's fine and a good way to deliver glutathione through a nebulizer, inhaling it like that. Trans-rectally, you do have in the rectum a plexus of veins whose job is to reabsorb the water so you don’t have diarrhea, or loose stools all the time. And in that function, it's an excellent area for medicine delivery. We've done this, you know, with Tylenol suppositories, for nausea of pregnancy, and other medications. And so, glutathione can be delivered through the rectum. But that's more for systemic antioxidants, and mitochondrial metabolism, as opposed to the nebulizer, is really for the lung surfactant in each little alveolar sac, but they're valuable.

Question

“Trace minerals in citrate form versus picolinate form, which one is better to absorb?”

Answer

I don't know that I'm aware of any study that looks at them comparatively. They're both chelates. And that is better than oxide. So like magnesium oxide, these are more abnormal forms of mineral delivery. So, L-Bian produces all these wonderful amino acid chelates. Citrate is more behaving like an amino acid, it’s smaller than picolinate. But I've never seen the two compared. So, I couldn't say one is better than the other. And so, I think right now, to my knowledge, over 40 years of doing this, that they are equivalent.

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“I was told by a chiropractor that studies have proven that eating liver will bring down inflammation. Do you recommend any specific liver supplements?”

Answer

Well, there are liver concentrates, so you can take dehydrated desiccated liver as a capsule. It is highly nutritious. So, that means it's full of phospholipids, minerals, and protein fats, that help repair anywhere in your body. Your body is smart. So, yes, if it repairs some of those punched-out cell holes, it's going to reduce inflammation. So, that's a true statement.