YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 26th, 2024

Question

“Can you interpret this for me? This was one of our friends’ gene test. She was tested to see what SSRI may work for her since she is not responsive to most of them. This individual is homozygous for the C allele of the C677T polymorphism in the MTHFR gene. Wondering if she should look more into this or if it's normal.”  [0:02:59] 

Answer

Homozygous means she has a pair of genes from both parents from each side. And so, she has some risk for increased cardiovascular heart disease with the methyltetrahydrofolate reductase enzyme homozygous gene pair. It doesn't mean she will have it, it just means she's at increased risk for this. And what this is is a conversion of homocysteine to methionine. Methionine is very valuable in the human body. It helps to prevent cancer and heart disease. It's basically a methyl donor and methylating of all kinds of molecules throughout our body is kind of like putting an anti-inflammatory coolant/stabilizer on them. It's a carbon with three hydrogen methyl groups on it. So, these methyl donors are very valuable for longevity and detoxing the body. So, if you have difficulty with your gene from methyltetrahydrofolate reductase activity, and you cannot convert the homocysteine back into methionine by having a methyl donor group, then you're going to have more and more trouble over the year and over time in your life detoxing things, and that's associated with vascular disease, cancers, Alzheimer's, the whole chronic metabolic picture. 

So, this isn't too much of a problem because we can give you methylated B complex which will give the B vitamins that are very helpful in helping your body to convert and make these methylation products and convert your homocysteine back into methionine. So, I take a methylated B complex. We have TLC Methyl B Complex. It's a very powerful complete complex B supplement. It has additional things in it to facilitate that transfer. So, it isn't just the B vitamins, it's all the other things we know of biochemically. It's a very good product. You can take from one to four capsules a day, and I don't think that I've ever seen it fail in reducing the homocysteine level. And when I say fail, it means when I repeat your lab, I see, if you're taking it faithfully like prescribed, then your homocysteine will come down significantly, and with that, your risk for cancer, Alzheimer's, heart disease, and many other chronic metabolic problems. 

Now, regarding mood and the methylation on parts of our making neurotransmitters, we know that if you take S-Adenosylmethionine and (SAMe), it's called SAMe. S-adenosylmethionine is a methylation product we have in the B complex products. We sell it separately, SAMe. We also use Cardio B which has the B6 folic acid and B12. All these products help with methylation, which helps with making neurotransmitters, which helps with mood, and antidepressants. And when you give these compared to the standard things like Zoloft Prozac and Effexor, we see really competitive results for improvement. Therefore, as a functional medical doctor over many decades, I almost never, I don't think I have ever in my life prescribed an antidepressant as a general practitioner. I've refilled prescriptions for people who were started by other doctors and the patients can very often under functional medicine care gradually come off of their antidepressants because we here in functional medicine watch over them very closely and we emphasize lifestyle, which would be a low carb diet, exercise, good hydration, good sleep hygiene and getting up in the morning in the sunshine, just the light as well of the sunshine is helpful for mood, vitamin D, these methylated B complex minerals. And when you put all these things together, we really have tremendous benefits with our patients in their mood. 

And so, this methyltetrahydrofolate (MTHFR) testing, I don't even do the test. I rarely ever order it because we're under so much stress as a people, and a nation, and we have so many bad foods, highly processed foods, environmental pollutants, endocrine-disrupting chemicals in our diet, poor sleep cycle, messed up the light environment, that when we start working with our patients and walking them through each of these domains to start taking control of, we see really really good results with the methionine conversion from homocysteine using the methylated B complex, (SAMe) S-Adenosylmethionine or the Cardio B, which is the folic acid, B12, and B6, and it's very encouraging, along with adequate hydration, and so many other things. So, try and find yourself a good functional doctor in medicine who tries to use lifestyle, nutrition, diet, and these life cycle behaviors before succumbing to prescribing drugs, if it's at all possible. 

Question

“Your patient, my friend, has a PSA and urine test done by a urologist and scheduled for an MRI of the prostate next week and possibly a biopsy, and he was told he has a 30% chance of having prostate cancer. Please recommend natural doctor remedies. I’ve heard of fenugreek, ivermectin, fenbendazole, etc. I’m worried he’ll choose chemo and radiation, which is so destructive, 2% success rate (Kevin Trudeau).”  [0:11:01]

Answer

Well, what I'm going to say is I am a general practitioner, I'm not an oncologist, although apparently your friend hasn't been diagnosed with cancer yet. If the PSA is elevating and his specialist, the urologist, is recommending the MRI, I'm going to recommend that he follow his urologist's orders. He can do his own study on ivermectin and fenbendazole and get those studies and bring him to his appointment with his urologist and talk to him about the encouraging results. There's plenty of international and NIH studies looking at these natural anti-parasitics and seemingly having a benefit in these areas of concern. What we would do is we would talk about how cancer is a mitochondrial, which is the little battery engine of the cell to make ATP, it is a mitochondrial metabolic disease. Because if you're eating a lot of processed foods, refined carbohydrates, high fructose corn syrup, not drinking enough water, not exercising, not getting a good night's sleep, drinking alcohol, and then having these poor lifestyle habits, just by taking systemic enzymes, exercise, drinking more water, taking certain nutraceuticals like vitamin D at higher doses than are usually recommended, taking things like melatonin or finding tremendous information on melatonin being valuable as an anti-cancer suppressing tumor or replication coding in the genome and suppressing stimulation of mitosis or cell division with melatonin and vitamin D, and how high dose vitamin C intravenously can reduce survivability of any cancer stem cell. They could do a weekly high dose vitamin C EDTA chelation, which can reduce the cadmium, mercury, lead, aluminum, and all these oxidative damaging things to the mitochondria and DNA of our bodies. 

Things like saw palmetto, fenugreek, all these other herbs, mistletoe, Artemisia, these are known polyphenols/plant chemicals that are powerful in having anti-tumor, anti-cell division behaviors, and that's one of the things that they found when they discovered ivermectin from the, I believe in Japan it was the mold, they found this product for ivermectin. And then it was later found to be very inhibiting to rapid cell division on many levels, not just one aspect of the cell, but there are maybe six different parameters in which ivermectin has its effect, and fenbendazole being an antiparasitic also has very near similar and some unique anti-rapid cell dividing aspects. So, have your friend go on Bing.com and type in ivermectin and prostate cancer, download some of the paperwork, and then bring that to your urologist and discuss it with them. And if he wants to, he can have his urologist call me. Just identify that he's, whatever the named patient is, and he would like to speak to me because I have had some patients who have personally elected, I haven't prescribed it as a treatment, but they have found the information that they just went ahead and started using fenbendazole or ivermectin, and they have found some rather dramatic drops in their PSA. Now, this is a process that hasn't been finished. It's only been in the past year that we've really seen this material come to the surface, so I'm in no way prescribing it, but I am telling you that I have familiarity with patients who are doing this and it seems to be benefiting them. But you can't look to medicine cures. You have to have a lifestyle foundation. So, a good night's sleep and exercise, including muscle contraction, weightlifting, along with some aerobics on a routine basis, on a three time a week basis bare minimum, along with adequate hydration, enzymes, vitamin D, systemic enzymes, getting in a multimineral that will have good zinc, good selenium and having antioxidants, of which many of these plant products are powerful polyphenols themselves, but these antioxidants have anti-tumor effect, high dose vitamin C, reducing the oxidative stress with EDTA chelation from pulling out those heavy metals. That's the direction that I would encourage your friend to go. 

Question

“Herpes simplex virus, HSV-1, cold sores. How to keep it dormant besides taking lysine and balancing lysine/arginine foods, which seems to be a conflict of info out there too? Hadn’t had it for many years, then got it activated. Vertigo, reflux, all HSV-1. Sometimes I don't get a cold sore, but I know it’s the virus lurking. Thank you.”  [0:17:54]

Answer

As we get older, our immune system gets more and more challenged. Just eating our protein, of which lysine is in our protein, just to digest it and use it and absorb it, becomes more and more challenging as the tube from our mouth to our anus gets older and older, and it's only one cell membrane thick, so you have to understand how delicate this is. And to extract the lysine, plus all the other nutrients you need, compared to the stress we put on the system with a wide entertainment marketing of foods, so we're not eating to sustain our health. We're thinking, what do I want to eat, what will entertain me to eat, what will give me pleasure if I spend my money and sit down to eat somewhere rather than what shall I eat to take care of my body and have your mind on who you're with or what you plan to do with the strength and health that food gives you. So, the marketing specialist Bernays of the 1920s propaganda advertising, getting people to behave through advertising, has been extremely successful and absolutely made filthy rich many of these corrupt companies and lobbyists that have bought off our backbone lists congress members and representatives. It's harmed us. 

So, the studies on lysine, the amino acid lysine, if you don't use at least 1 gram and many of these studies are designed to fail. You know, medicine is manipulated. Marsha Angell was the head of the New England Journal of Medicine, and she retired around 2006, she said, “You know, one of my regrets is so much of everything published is rubbish, basically useless bought off through finances. So, it's a purchase science with bias.” Well, I always say to that, gee, thanks, Marsha Angell, chief editor of New England Journal of Medicine, after serving in that position 20 years, you, on your retirement, start admitting to what we've been talking about for decades as we watch the system become biased and corrupt. So, I don't respect that statement at the end of her 20 years either. But the fact is finally she admits it, and so did the British Medical Journal, or maybe it was The Lancet. What was his name? I can't think of his name. But anyway, I said all that to say you can buy off science and set it up to fail.

So, lysine at 1 gram or less is probably going to fail because you need upwards of 3 grams of lysine taken on a regular basis preventatively to stop cold sores. 

But then the argument would be because food research is so hard to do, maybe if you just eat more protein all the time and you get those 3 grams in by eating just much more protein every day, you'll by nature reduce the sugar, starch, and carbohydrates, and fruit sugars, which are immune suppressives that will harm the immune system and allow viral outbreaks to occur. So, you can see how very hard it is to try and have controls and get absolutely good science on these things. You've got to have zinc. You have to have a low-carb diet. You have to have an exercise tone. As we age, we're losing all of these things, plus our minerals, we're demineralizing ourselves. So, even less stressful triggers can open up the door for an outbreak of shingles, cold sores, or other problems like this. That's why we're always stressing please, please, please eat to be well, not to be a little puppet of the propagandist marketing commercials that food should be entertainment. It should not be entertainment. It should be nourishing and the people you're with and the reason you're eating, that you're taking care of your body to serve the Lord and be an asset to yourself and family and friends and your employees or your company is the real reason why we eat. 

Now, we're going to have Thanksgiving in two more days, and that is a day to bring some entertainment into the food, and pretty much everyone's yawning, oh, yes. Thanksgiving. We've had so many Marie Callender’s pies. We've had so many candy bars and any drive-through and get whatever you want. What is the big reason for us to work so hard and cook so hard to make entertaining food? Our casseroles and our delicious tender turkeys and our cranberry servings and our mashed potatoes, all this wonderful stuff, what's the big deal when you can go and just buy it? So, it really puts a kibosh on the family gathering and the mother or wife or woman who's going to be doing the cooking or the man who is going to be doing the cooking, and it takes away the idea of a very special day, it takes away the idea of grandma's great pie. My husband would always talk about his grandmother's pies and how he would look forward to the holiday meal and gathering when she would come from way far away with her pies, and it would just be something special because you could smell it right when you got in the home there that she was there and then she'd be sitting with her little sparkle in her eyes that she did it, even in her 80s or late 80s, she did it, and what a joy it was to see her gift of her service to make a beautiful family gathering and fellowship. So, it just brings a tear to my eye to remember her. 

Question 

“My husband is 69 and healthy, not on any pharma meds. In a recent checkup, his testosterone was 301 ng/dL. Do you recommend any supplementation?”  [0:25:17]

Answer

Well, it depends. If this is a recent testosterone for a fall reading, it's low, it's really very low, because the reading on a man goes up all the way into November. And God established when he created the earth 6,000 years ago. He designed it so that all the boy animals and men would have a very high testosterone in the fall to get the little girl animals all pregnant so that they could be in gestation as a general theme over the winter and give birth in the spring when things would warm up and the earth would bear fruit and there would be plenty to eat. That way, once the winter breaks right at spring, the lowest time of testosterone is right around January, February, March, and maybe April. That's the lowest, and that way, all the boy animals won't eat their pups from being so cold and hungry over the winter. So, God brings their testosterone, and their aggressiveness way down. So, it's a bi-annual phase for men. 

So if your testosterone is only 300, in the peak of the fall when it should be the highest, I would say it is low. What brings it up? Exercise is probably the number one. Weightlifting training brings up testosterone. But if you start weight training and then you go in March and check your testosterone, you're going to be disappointed if your doctor doesn't understand the bi-annual phase of it. What you have to do is be faithful with your weightlifting and go through the year to get a plot, maybe two or three readings through the year to see it come up in the early summer into the fall peaking out, and then you'll know. Zinc helps men's testosterone. So a good multimineral, we have TLC Multi Min with Albion amino acid chelates. Eating a rich carnivore diet, which would also necessarily be rich in minerals because the most nutritious food is in the meat and liver and things like that. So, a high protein diet, weightlifting, exercise, good hydration, and good sleep, because not sleeping well will mess up the follicles-stimulating his Leydig cells and his testicles that produce the testosterone. So, he needs all that to go from and he needs to be low carb. So, that's the direction I would go.  

Now, if he really wants testosterone, I'm not going to say no if the patient says I really would like some to make me feel good during my weightlifting, and then maybe we can withdraw it and see if he can just maintain it once he developed all those good habits. So, there are all kinds of ways of doing that.

Question 

“He is active with a type B blood. I take bio-identical hormones - progesterone capsules, and compounded estrogen cream to stay balanced. Do you recommend anything for men?”  [0:28:35]

Answer

Exercise, good night's sleep, adequate hydration, a rich protein diet, weightlifting, a low carb diet, a good multimineral that has zinc and selenium, and things like that in it. I'm all in favor of being on a methylated B complex, TLC Methyl B Complex. So, a mineral with a B complex, along with exercise, a low-carb diet, getting to bed on time, and drinking enough water, that alone should be the fix. 

Question 

“My 34-year-old daughter went to her doctor to review irregular Hs-CRP yesterday, and they gave her a flu shot and a tetanus. By evening, she couldn't walk. The emergency room gave her a steroid. Will chelation help?”  [0:29:32]

Answer

Absolutely, it will help. Most definitely. Now, why do I say that? I say it from my own clinical experience. Remember, I'm fighting an old boys group, atta boys group from the pinheaded, pointy-nosed professors who go to Harvard and Princeton and Stanford and they all get these cushy jobs and 10 years and they get nominated to the health and human services and Department of Health and FDA, and they just live in there, as Fauci did, and they get these grants and money and it's a good old boy’s system and they give grants and money to colleges at Harvard and Princeton and Stanford that will keep that college financed and producing the science that – Remember, Marcia Angell, the head of a New England Journal of Medicine, said the vast majority of all the science is rubbish because it's bought off. And so, it's a money-laundering system for the most part in the FDA and HHS and NIH to the university study groups, and you will not get free thinkers. And how do I get the income to do what we do? I don't get it. I use my own money and I live an extremely modest financial lifestyle to publish the stuff that I do and that I get the wonderful results that I do. So, I'm speaking from living in penury from using my own income to develop my own knowledge of science to study EDTA chelation and publish on it. I have just seen the nerve damage, optic neuritis, and blindness, repetitious and recurrent episode after episode of these failing steroids. We do chelation therapy, we do diet therapy, we do enzyme therapy, and the vision comes back and she gets her driver's license back again. We see people with neuropathy nerve damage. We see people with Parkinson's slowed in the progression of their disease or first-order scleroderma, various multiple sclerosis.  

So, will this help? It most definitely will improve the microcirculation, reduce the oxidative stress, and pull out any aluminum or aluminum, as they say in England Oxford, and it will reduce the oxidative stress, and the high dose of vitamin C will boost her immune system and should help her, but you have to put these various things into place. So, definitely, we could see help with that.  

Question 

“My husband, my daughter, and I are all patients at TLC, but she isn't. Trying to get her in as soon as possible for an IV at your office.”  [0:32:59]

Answer

Well, there's a walk-in. You can call in and get a walk-in right away. But you just call Terry, my nurse, and that's a desperate situation for a young woman. So, if the Lord will give me strength and time to add on yet another, I will do that. So, call the office, and ask to speak to my registered nurse, Terry, and we'll see if we can make that happen. 

Question

“Is it okay to take calcium with early dinner if the patient is old and currently bedridden?”  [0:34:17]

Answer

Well, yes, you can take it, but I have never found calcium supplementation necessary, even in my cancer patients and stuff. But bedridden people are demineralizing. They’re just lying there in bed, they're not using their muscles. There's no pull on the bone with that muscle and the tendon and talking to the bone and having that piezoelectric stimulation on the periosteum, which is the coating/lining of the bone, jiggling it, shaking it. That's why I talk about stomping, stomping for women for bone density, and hammering with your arm to get strong bones. Anyway, so, if you eat meat, if you eat fish, chicken, turkey, beef, eggs, pork, ham, lobster, shrimp, these have so many wonderful chelated minerals that are easily physiologically absorbed, that there should be plenty of calcium in a robust rich protein diet. So whatever the pounds of the patient is, let's say they're 150 pounds, they need half that minimum as grams of protein in their diet every day. And if they're bedridden, I dare say, they should take 1 gram of protein for every pound of weight they have. So, it would be 150 grams of protein a day. That's where the calcium will be best absorbed because look at, I have decades of experience trying to give the best quality supplements to people, and we used to give 250 mg of calcium back in the 1970s, and early 80s. Then it went to 500 mg. Then it went to 750 mg and 1000 mg. Then it went to 1,200, 1,500 mg. And then finally by the time the stupid talk on the magazines, we didn't have YouTube then, hit that 1,500 mg, they finally said, duh, oral taking of calcium, even if it's amino acid chelated, is very poorly absorbed. And so, voila! Eat a piece of steak, and liver, and have some chicken with the skin on it. Tremendous amounts of calcium in there. 

Question 

“Should calcium, magnesium, D3, and MK7 be taken together for better absorption? Some articles warn against too much bonding if calcium & MK7 are taken at the same time … And some note that magnesium and calcium will fight for absorption! Calcium helps with sleep but D3 should be taken in the daytime!”  [0:37:01]

Answer

I would say, yes, because there's going to be fat in the meat, and vitamin D is fat-soluble MK7. So, yes. You know what? That's nitpicking. Why don't you get there and roll your sleeves up and be a real doctor, a real clinician up and see the patients with their problems and do their labs and care for them and see and sample their calcium and their bone densities and watch them for over decades? Then talk to me about their nitpicky little, oh well, it might be too much bonding if calcium and MK7 are taken at the same time. Give me a break, as if I had enough time to nitpick over that. Just get it in. Take your vitamin D with MK7. I don't care what time of day, but get at least 10,000 IU with about no less than 90 mcg of K2 in it. 

Then she says, “And some note that magnesium and calcium will fight for absorption.” Look, your whole body is in a dynamic scenario of receptor docking. So, let's get over these nitpicking little articles that people have to write to make money, to keep their jobs, to have their little health space in the newspaper or their magazine. Why don't they talk to some of us people who are real doctors every stinking day of every stinking week of every stinking month of every stinking year of every stinking decade after decade? Ask us who really does the work and we'll tell you where it's at because you can't go really to any of these Harvard and Oxford and Stanford locations and see real good science anymore, according to the heads of journals. And I agree, it's a bunch of foolishness paid off science. You have to get down there, you know, change the diaper yourself. I so love being a woman and down to earth. 

Question

“A friend was recently diagnosed with early-stage non-Hodgkins lymphoma. Male, age 83, active, general good health, modified carnivore diet. What do you recommend? Is lymphatic drainage massage okay? How about using a vibration plate? Thank you. God bless you, Dr. Ellithorpe!”  [0:39:25] 

Answer

Well, all the things I've been saying because everything that we talk about helps everything uniformly because that's what humans and mammals need on the planet and fish. We need our oxygen. We need good microcirculation. We need a reduction in oxidative stress. We need the proteins and fats that make the cell membranes. We need good sleep for restoration and healing. We need to get up with the sunrise and get sunshine vitamin D and infrared light for our circadian rhythm. We need to get the minerals really from the carnivore-rich free-range diet. We need to get away from marketing our food selections and learn that if we're made mostly of protein and fat, we should be eating protein and fat, and stop letting them tell us what breakfast is. Breakfast can be steak and broccoli, lunch can be steak and broccoli, and early dinner can be steak and broccoli. And there you had it, a wonderful meal that probably two and a half, 3 billion people on the planet would give their left little finger for a little consistent steak and broccoli every day. 

So, that's what we need with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But that is a lymphocyte, the progenitors, stem cells that make the different bloodlines, red cells, and white cells, and in the white cells there are different lines of white cells. These then become injured. How is that? Maybe through DNA damage. And what happens then with these chemicals and these oxidative stressors that injure our DNA, because we don't have enough good antioxidants, I always say take Juice Plus. That's my number one antioxidant. Number two is good hydration. Number three, EDTA chelation to improve the tiny microcirculation all the way down to the bone marrow. Number four, intermittent fasting, having times where there's no food in the gut for about 18 hours and only a 6-hour window of eating, and that being very high carnivore protein with very low carbohydrate. And then taking things like systemic enzymes, iodine, 12.5 mg minimal, probably 25 mg would be more optimal with the non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and all cancers, getting in the vitamin D at least 10, 000 units with K2, getting in melatonin either with a good night's sleep or taking it at night because melatonin helps with anti-cancer. And then a high dose of vitamin C. In fact, there's so much literature on blood non-solid cancers, like leukemia, and lymphomas, that are extremely responsive to high-dose vitamin C. There's just tons of data on that. 

Yes, lymphatic drainage is helpful if he stood on a vibration plate or used a rebounder would be good, but I can't tell you how important weightlifting is.  There are research papers coming out on myosins. Myosins are the little, tiny fragments of cell damage from use on muscle contraction and relaxation with real intense, you know, pushing a piece of heavy metal, not a little 3 or 2-pound, 8-pound weight, that's not hard enough to stimulate any muscle strength, and these myosins are associated with repair in the body if you get a good night's sleep, and that even includes your bone marrow repair area. So, oxygenated, with microcirculation, with hydration with vitamin C, cleaning it out with systemic enzymes and fasting, adequate hydration, a very low carb diet so you don't stimulate abnormal growth with insulin, and exercising, get a good sleep-wake cycle, taking the D, taking the multimineral, taking the antioxidant, iodine, all these things with a good functional doctor who would check and would test for. 

Question

“I have flare-ups of microscopic colitis and wonder if my usual inclusion of probiotics exacerbates the problem?”  [0:44:25]

Answer

Well, I don't know what you're using because, remember, we don't get the money to get the research to get the data. Each of us doctors who cared anything about our patients over the past 50 years like we did, had to find, hunt, pick, research, and go. I've even flown to sites to see how they do it because I majored in chemistry to look at their analytics and make sure they're testing. So, the science of probiotics is difficult. So, we are learning more. We could learn faster if we could get the captured filth out of our research and our government and our bought-off Congress people and former presidents. So, I just think we need better research here.  

There is a woman who wrote a book, and she has her specialty, but her eyes finally open. She finally started looking into this about 15 years ago. And what is her name? She wrote the book, Let's Talk SH!t, which you know what that stands for. Hazan, I think, is your last name. Anyway, she's up in Ventura, California, and she too has to take out of her own money to do financing. Bless her heart. I'm glad she went for moral care of the patient rather than personal riches and fame, and she took care of her patients and did the research she needed to do. She's found a tremendous amount of the fact that bifidobacteria and that family are associated with the best immune protection, even in those who allegedly had COVID. 

So, could your probiotic exacerbate your colitis? It's possible, but I'm going to say far more likely you ate something with a lectin in it that scratched that one cell layer, disrupted your very delicate single membrane, of phospholipids and protein, and that injured it as opposed to a probiotic. Remember, probiotics usually help you make nutrients and other vitamins and other components of like short-chain fatty acids, butyrates and the like that help build your immune system. So, the only thing is I can recommend my probiotics because I've tested them for decades. We're talking 35-plus years. I'm going to recommend Probiotics 225 for an acute terrible colitis inflammation for two weeks, one packet a day. Then the Probiotics 100 capsule as a step-down, one a day after the acute flare, and then maintenance with Ortho Biotic, and the other one I use with that is Ortho Spore IG, one a day. And that's all I can say, is the ones I've used have never been associated with any questionable flair.

Question

“Is taking progesterone pill at night and two applications of the estradiol (1 mg) cream daily ok? HRT? It seems as if your routine was different.”  [0:48:10]

Answer

Well, yes. In a general sense, the answer is yes, but we have to measure it, we have to see what your blood levels are. We have to know the milligram strength of your progesterone. Are you absorbing it orally? What's the level? How many results are you getting from the estradiol cream? How well is that absorbed? Are they balanced? How are you feeling? Do you menstruate on it or not? Have you had an ultrasound of your pelvis or not? What are your other risk factors? You know, I don't like giving hormones to women who won't drink their water and take systemic enzymes and who won't exercise or eat a high carbohydrate diet because those high carbs, lack of exercise, and dehydrated, non-drinking, inactive people are the ones who are going to get chronic metabolic diseases, and they're going to blame it on hormones. That's just what the standard insurance and medical pharmaceuticals would love to do because they don't want you on natural things that make you feel vivacious and full of energy and power and health and well-being and get the get-up and go to go and work out and lift weights and walk and work six days a week or whatever you have to do. They want you off those wonderful things and they want you on their dependent patented drugs forever as you deteriorate. So yeah, I think that's a great thing, but to get to a good doctor who's in functional medicine, who knows how to look you over and make sure it's going well for you. 

Question

“I read your book, Detox Outside the Box, then sent a copy to my functional medicine doctor who prescribed the calcium disodium EDTA suppositories for me from Harbor Compounding. My doctor is sending me NTFactor, but we could not locate the Vital Cellular Nutrition described in your book. Could you update me on what nutritional supports you recommend?”  [0:50:10]

Answer

Vital Cellular Nutrition was a multivitamin-mineral that we had specially made in our research for the Detoxamin usage because it was a phospholipid-rich multivitamin tablet, compressed, full of fat phospholipids, and I think you can still get it under the name Propax in New York, and John Casey was at the time, we're talking 25 to 30 years ago, he was the one who was producing that. So, it's called Propax by John Casey. We had used them but then issues developed in shipping and accounting, and it became so problematic, that we discontinued them. And then the FDA put the crunch on getting EDTA suppositories. And so, there you have it, everything we tried to do and spent our hearts out on, they sat on like a big Jabba the Hutt with their chain around me trying to get help to my patients.  

Question

“I have come across a form of EDTA suppository sold as a supplement that uses magnesium and potassium instead of calcium. This form is described as having advantages over calcium. Please share your view on this. This manufacturer seems to be respected in the detox field and has high testing standards for purity. (Remedylink.com).”  [0:52:13]

Answer

Please don't use that. I mean, we did the research. Magnesium in a suppository is going to set your anus/your butthole on fire. Don't put magnesium down there. No way Jose. Please don't do it, okay. 

“This form is described as having advantages over calcium.” – No, it doesn't. If you want an explosive experience with those suppositories then go ahead and try the magnesium form of the suppository. It was horrific. 

Remedylink.com. I'll have to look that up. Let me write that down. I'm always learning from my patients every day, every week of the year. Remedylink.com and that's the EDTA suppository magnesium. Well, maybe they found some way to chelate it so it doesn't do that. Okey dokey. All right. I'll look into that.  

Question

“My cardiologist and gynecologist recommended against HRT. I have congestive heart failure and have had two valve repairs and a history of Atrial fibrillation. I want to discuss it with my cardiologist. If there is data to the contrary, I'd like to be able to have it to present to him.”  [0:53:47] 

Answer

Well, you have to ask him what his data is for recommending against it. My goodness. Testosterone was used in the mid-20th century. Around the 1950s and 60s, testosterone was used in heart attacks, heart failure, and valvular disease with heart failure because your heart is muscle. I mean, can you believe it? Gee! The heart is a muscle and it responds to better contraction and longevity to testosterone, natural hormone replacement therapy. Number two, progesterone and estradiol are always associated in the literature with heart health. So, excuse me, I'd have to see what they're referring to, to even recommend against it. It seems not logical to put it nicely.

Question

“These are the results of a 43-year-old male that fasts a lot. Urine - Ketones - trace – abnormal. Total cholesterol 255. Triglycerides 96. HDL 73. VLDL 16. LDL 166. Hemoglobin A1c - 5.8. Is this a cause for concern?”  [0:55:30]

Answer

Urine ketones were traced, that's fine. Total cholesterol at 255, that's fine. Triglycerides 96, not so fine. HDL 73, is good, but you see, his triglycerides are higher than his HDL of 73. So, triglycerides are 96, his HDL is 73, so he's eating more starch, carbs, fruit, and sugar than he is for HDL. So, he's getting imbalanced. He's eating too much and not burning it off and that will lead to vascular, cardiovascular, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. So, LDL was 166, in and of itself, it's not a problem. I only care about him fixing those triglycerides and bringing it down to 73 to equal the HDL or get it under it, and that's just by eating less starch, and carbs, and not eating late at night. His hemoglobin A1C was 5.8. That's pre-diabetic. So yeah, this is a cause for concern. And yes, he better start addressing this and fixing it because people who get cancer say to me, how did I get cancer? But for the past 15 years, 20 years, I've been saying your blood sugar is 91, that's too high, your blood sugar is 94, that's too high, your hemoglobin A1c is 5.8, that's too high, your hemoglobin A1c is 5.7, that's too high, your hemoglobin A1c is 5.6, that's too high. In other words, because other doctors don't confirm and the reference ranges say you're normal and old Dr. Ellithorpe out there is saying, nope, you're not, nope, you're not, nope, you're not. And finally, these little computer whiz math guys came up with a formula, called HOMA-IR, which is basically insulin resistance, your homeostasis insulin resistance, and that's your fasting sugar times your fasting insulin divided by 405 equals a number. And if that number is higher than 1, you're insulin resistant, on your way to all kinds of chronic metabolic diseases of which 85 percent of all Americans are doing and getting obese and getting on medicines. And it starts even in utero now, we're actually seeing an obesity epidemic in newborn children. Look at, we're eating badly, we're making fat metabolically unstable newborn babies. Let's get a grip on this, ladies and gentlemen, and accept our personal responsibility that food is not for entertainment. It's to stay healthy. You use food for entertainment, for a very special reason of gathering or celebration, and you know what I mean by that. Okay. So, yes, it is cause for concern. 

Question

“I have heard you say you are not too fond of thermograms or mammograms. What do you suggest for a 64-year-old woman to check for breast cancer? Is there an age you can stop?”  [0:59:01] 

Answer

Now, the standard of care for the practice of medicine in the state of California is to recommend women get annual mammograms, screening mammograms, and if there's a question, to get a diagnostic mammogram with ultrasound, and that's the rule, to see your healthcare provider and do a breast exam. And so, my suggestion to you is to eat healthy, exercise, drink water, get chelation therapy, reduce your oxidative pollution, estrogen-mimicking hormones out of your diet, get all that bad cookware out of your diet, plastics out of your diet, and drink adequate filtered water, and use systemic enzymes, and then do self-breast exam every month. When you're showering, examine your own breasts, get used to them, what they feel like, and just check them every month yourself, and most or a majority of breast exams are women finding a little lump on their own anyway, and the mammogram didn't do it. And yes, there are some mammograms that do find something, but mammography has in no way revolutionized the detection longevity, and extension of life in women and breast cancer development. In fact, cancer is such a sad history for the American people for all the money we spend.

We're the number one purveyors of money dumped on the healthcare system. I think we're a 4-trillion dollar entity every year, and our outcomes are lousy and our newborn death, neonatal death rate is, I don't know, raked around 50 or 40, somewhere in that zone. It's ridiculous. 

So, what do I think of mammograms? Not much. What do I think of ultrasound? I think a little more of ultrasound, but I personally don't do them, and I take the personal risk. But as a doctor, I have to recommend to my patients what the standard of care is, which is an annual mammogram and all the other recommendations that are standard, and give them the option. But I do tell them that there are those of us who go through life, not on medicine, and I don't do any diagnostic evaluations and I don't plan to, because if I can keep my insulin in the 4 or 5 range and my blood sugar 85 range or less, and if I can keep my triglycerides in the 50s or less and my fasting insulin in the 4 or 5 range or less, hemoglobin A1C 5.2 or less, I'm likely not going to get cancer if I exercise if I get a good night's sleep if I drink my water if I take my vitamin D, my multi minerals, my Juice Plus, my iodine, my systemic enzymes, and my digestive enzymes. That's pretty much how I live this God-blessed vivacious lifestyle. So that's what I think of mammograms. And when can you stop? Whenever you decide to, the standard of care for the practice of medicine in California is that you have to do them every year, notwithstanding trauma. And if you've ever had a mammogram squish your breasts, and I've had that happen on my one mammogram with bruising. So, give me a break. I am never going to do that again. I am personally taking responsibility to live a healthy life.

Now, I’m not afraid of death because I know that God died for me and I will go to heaven. So, I’m at peace, I don’t have to worry about myself. So, there you go. That’s who I am, that’s what the standard of care is, and you have to take responsibility for yourself. And if you’re worried about cancer, then live a lifestyle that reflects your concern and that you would take care of yourself and do these healthy things and greatly minimize the negative things.