YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, November 29 2022

Question

"What is the best cheese to eat for calcium? How is calcium best absorbed into the bones? I went from a -2 to -2.8 on my bone scan. I am doing 20 small jumps each day and trying to get all my supplements and hormones. I did some lap swimming for about 30 minutes last week and lifted my knees up slowly running across the pool. I really did walking and swimming a lot that day."

Answer

Our bones typically started demineralizing when we’re starting to hit menopause, somewhere in our 40s. And the bone is a site where our body will put in other toxic minerals because it’s such a slow turnover site normally. So that lead, and aluminum, and mercury, things like this are put in. So, not only do we start to demineralize our bones from calcium and get soft, but we auto-intoxicate ourselves along with our daily breathed-in, eating, and water contaminates we consume drinking. So, it's like a double whammy.

The bone has to have vitamins D and K to help appropriately mobilized calcium ions for deposition and working with the calcium cells that build versus the calcium cells that break down the bone, osteoblasts, and osteoclast. So, enough vitamin D3 and vitamin K2. And don't confuse that with vitamin K, which is really vitamin K1, which is associated with our blood clotting. Vitamin K2 is really involved in our bone metabolism and for building bone. So, we use vitamin D at higher levels than the average recommendation. Typically, the standard recommendations for vitamin D and bone-building are roughly in the 30 micrograms per deciliter to the 60 range, micrograms per deciliter. We saw that from this past time with the viral illness pandemic, the people that had a vitamin D level in their serum at least around 55, most of these people fared regardless of their age, very, very well. So, we feel very strongly about achieving a vitamin D3 of 80 micrograms per deciliter. So, our range fluctuates, at least mine personally for many decades now, around 80 to 120.

Of course, we check the comprehensive chemistry to look at liver enzymes, vitamin D is fat soluble, and there is a concern for fat-soluble stress on your tissues and liver. I have never seen it in the 40 years, except for one case, which quickly corrected itself with identification. And that was a case in which someone was taking a very high dose, even more than what we were recommending.

But the typical dosing I have most of my patients on is somewhere between 5,000 international units and 10,000. I myself take 15,000 and I have many people on a daily dose of 20,000. And I've seen research where people have been on as much as 50,000 international units for a month or two without any vitamin D toxicity, although I never recommend that other than for a five-day bout, with an acute cold symptom.

So, vitamin D for calcium metabolism and bone building is very important at high enough levels. This is why all our patients tend to do well. We also have hormones that are involved in the osteoblast, osteoclast, bone building, and bone remodeling. Osteoclast help and remodeling the bone. And so, we are aware of the importance of the natural hormone replacement therapy, also at optimal levels. So, we will give this to the woman and sometimes testosterone as well. Or with DHEA 25 to 50 milligrams to build up her testosterone. Then we want to create a sudden deceleration, like stomping on the floor, gets that sudden deceleration. Like if you act like a little angry child, like a brat, stomping. And you do that for 10 to 15 seconds, twice a day. That will literally shake, if my skin is my periosteum and I can pull the skin up and down, your bones have a sheath on it that the tendons connect to. And so that little jiggle will talk to the bone in an electrochemical way, a piezometric way to say that we want to build this bone and repair it.

I do not ever use calcium as a recommendation as part of my bone-building. I have never needed it. There is enough calcium in our food. Is there a particular cheese? I don’t know which has the highest content. I suppose I could go to my Netters Encyclopedia of food values. But I'm not going to take time to do it. Maybe you can Google that.

But it isn’t so much about trying or how much you are getting, it’s whether or not you are digesting it. The older we get, the less we digest our food. And you have to have enough stomach acids and have to break down the contents that it’s delivered in the tissues of the protein and muscle of what you are eating. So, we want you to also take digestive enzymes. That will help the liberation of the minerals that are in the food, which should be adequate. People who have been taking a lot of calcium, you know, over the past 30 to 40 years, we have seen that calcium be deposited in soft tissues, ligaments, muscles, along the lining of your arteries where it is never supposed to go in the first place. So, Vitamin D/K2 is associated with trying to help prevent that wrongful deposition. But it is facilitated with just the success of daily consumption of calcium products. So, indiscriminate use of calcium supplementation, and the quality of the calcium is a concern and an issue.

So, your food should have it. Some of the highest sources outside of dairy products, and really even superior would be in some beef and some clams and mussels, things like this. So, we do strongly encourage the consumption of meat, fish, poultry, pork, and mollusk crustaceans, as well as cheese and eggs for this as well. So, hopefully, I answered those questions. Include the stomping and sudden deceleration, and we want you to not wear all these cushy gym shoes unless you are literally a runner. That gym shoe will soften each step you take and you won’t get that kind of jam, or sudden deceleration impact. That is why we say to do this for, you know, stomping, either in hard shoes or your bare feet on tiles, cement, something like that for 15 to 20 seconds, morning and evening. That will kind of shake things up. 

Question

"I'm wondering how important it is to use a humidifier, especially in these seasons with low humidity. If so, do you have recommendations of what to look for?"

Answer

I personally use towels that I wet, and I do bring them into my bedroom. And I just lay them over the back of my chair. And in the morning, they're dried out. So, a towel or two. I don’t have continuous humidifiers that have a tray of water and a blowing machine and such because these are scenarios that tend to promote fungal growth. So, that's why I use a towel and that's why I wet it, and once it’s dry, it is finished. And so, then, of course, I strongly recommend that you are drinking, you know, half your weight in pounds as ounces every day. So, between drinking your water and having your room with one or two wet towels, you know that you kind of wrings out, that should help with the humidity issue of the season.

Now, one of the things is as we age, our mucous membranes become thinner, just like the back of our hands, and our skin gets thinner with age. And we start to bump it the ways we normally would bump things throughout our lives. But with thinner skin, the actual meat through which, you know, the blood vessels go through gets thinner instead of nice and thick. It gets thinner, thinner, thinner, thinner. And so, when you bump this, this can break, and make these bruises more easily on thin skin.

The same happens with all the connective tissue lining our sinuses and airways. So, as it gets thinner, it becomes easier for irritants, pollens, toxins that are floating in the air, and heavy metals that are nanoparticulate in size to cross these mucous membrane barriers. So, you'll notice sometimes as you get older, you'll just get a runny, clear drippy nose. That's called senile rhinorrhea. And they really don't know why it happens. The why is because, with thinner skin, it’s more easily irritated. And the secretion of that mucus is much more predominant and easily triggered. The unfortunate thing is also viruses and stuff like that can crossover and so the lack of the sunshine, the lower the D, the less outdoor activity, and exercise building your immune system, the easier it is to cross over these thin membranes, the lack of water we drink with low vitamin D, we've become more susceptible to the seasonal effects, depression, and viral illnesses in the winter.

So, yeah, humidity helps reduce that. Now, the argument is why? Is it because there are more molecules floating around and if a virus hits it, it'll precipitate out before it has time to circulate around and land in the mucus in your nose? We don't know that in specifics, but we do know that the humidity in the room is linked as it gets lower and lower with increased upper respiratory pathologies and such.

So, I would not use humidifiers, that's why I never recommend those. I recommend a wet towel and two of them would be even better. And I don't have a dripping pan either that will have a collection of water to kind of draw up the water into the towel because I don’t want fungus to grow. 

Question

 "What are your thoughts on the Berkey Water Filter?"

 Answer

I have one right here sitting in my eyeshot. I use it every day. I am also using the Dew Stand. That takes the water out of the air and condenses it like a dehumidifier and then filters it. It takes water from the air and filters it. So, there is no water tubing to it. So, the Berkey Water Filter system has been tried for many decades and has shown to have a good track record in regard to its filtering for the purification of your water. So, I have both. I have it here in my office and at my home. So, I am in favor of the Berkey Water Filter system.

Question

"I got very sick after Thanksgiving. It started with fever and diarrhea, then more fever and a cold and cough. I fasted for a couple of days drinking water, water with electrolytes, homemade bone broth, and herbal teas. On the 3rd day, I added a homemade blended vegetable soup. As for supplements I took 3 capsules/day of Vascuzyme, 2000-3000 mg of Vitamin C, 10,000 IU of Vitamin D3, and used the TLC Immune-Protect 2x a day, and 1 TBS of Argentyn 23 3x day, as well as occasionally spraying into my nostrils. I was pretty sick the first 3 days and I did not feel any benefit from all I was doing. But then on the 4th day, I turned the corner. Can you advise us what is the best supplementation regime when we are sick? I wasn’t sure how much to take."

Answer

The TLC ImmuneProtect is designed to be five a day. In it, we put our best suggestion of Quercetin, Vitamin C, N-Acetyl Cystine, Zinc, and versus known immune stimulants. It is excellent.

The only thing I would have said is, you could have used the TLC ImmuneProtect as five capsules a day and would have given you higher doses of the Zinc, in particular the N-Acetyl Cystine, Quercetin, Vitamin C, and such, even though you were supplementing with Vitamin C. I think everything you did was good. What you have to understand is the immunology. And the immunology associated with the immune system fighting back any cold or illness takes two to three days to kick in to produce the antibodies and repair the defense system. So, you had a very typical three days of being under the weather and then the fourth day emerging, on the mend. I would just say, we decided on TLC ImmuneProtect five a day because those are the doses in research that are associated with a rather universal immune support. So, that’s the only thing that I would have increased. You got the D in, the Vitamin D.

Another thing, we have Vitamin D as 50,000 international units per capsule. And we do recommend, at the onset of a cold, flu, or symptomology, one capsule or 50,000 a day for five days. So, you could have increased your D 10,000, maybe up to as much as 50,000 a day. If you only had the 10,000 units, you could have taken 5 a day as well.

I really like your Argentyn. I have it in my house also in case of colds, I have a gallon jug of it, I have a 16-ounce bottle, and I have a couple of empty spray bottles, you know, to spray, or on my throat. I can also put it in a little bottle where I can sip it, swish, and then gargle, and swallow it if I have a sore throat. I have it in nasal sprays to put up my nose. So, I think you did a very good job with what you have. And I don't see a real need to do anything more.

I have in the past seen some people get good results in addition to what we've just listed with Grapefruit Seed Extract. And the Grapefruit Seed Extract, we have it here, a reputable producer, and one or two acts also as an antifungal, antiviral, antibacterial, just like Argentyn. I also think that taking an iodine tablet is a smart thing to do. I take 12.5 milligrams every day in tablet form. I don’t like using the liquid spray in my nose, or anything like that. It can stain clothes and so forth. So, those are maybe some other ideas that you might have around all the time for your family.  

Question

"I haven't heard you talk about taking Calcium supplements to promote bone strength. I am 73 and have taken Calcium citrate, Magnesium, with Vitamin D for years. I have the starting of Osteopenia, but it has never progressed."

Answer

I was just talking about my feelings on calcium at the beginning of the program. I don’t think calcium is the answer. I think it is really the Vitamin D3 at adequate blood levels. You should have that blood level checked. We like it to be about 80 to 120. This helps really build bone. You might consider some natural hormone replacement therapy, at least with progesterone. And then, stomping 15 seconds on a hard surface with your bare feet or just soft moccasins so that you can feel that sudden deceleration jamming your feet. And that really, hormones, vitamin D, stomping has typically been sufficient, with vitamin K2. We pretty much blend all of vitamin D3 with K2. Somewhere in the realm of getting at least 45 to 90 micrograms. One of my supplements has 180 micrograms of vitamin K2. This is how our 80-year-olds are building their bones and are normal. And it is blowing the minds of their primary care doctors. Hopefully, that helps you. 

Question

"Will Chelation remove aluminum from brain tissue?

Answer

My clinical answer, my clinical personal experience, is yes. Now, there is no money available, nor is there any reasonable ethical test to do brain biopsies on people. So, what you have to do is look at chelation management and testing, post-chelation of urine, or hair, or serum levels, or intracellular red blood cell levels, or even stool samples. I've been doing this, and I have been around chelation therapy since I was seven years old. So, that's more than 61, 62 years ago. So, I have seen my grandfather chelated, my father chelated, I’ve chelated. I have been involved in chelation. I just taught chelation two weekends ago to many doctors.

And the long and short of it is, I see aluminum drop nicely. And with that, I can only assume with clinical improved performance, but now remember I have a multifactorial approach. I am not just chelating, I'm having them eat less sticky sugars that clog up capillaries to the brain. I am having them drink more water. I am insisting that my patients exercise to do this hydraulic pumping and cleansing. I'm asking them all to use systemic enzymes to be like little soap suds to clean away inflammation and debris. I have them on hormones to stimulate repair and help with cognitive function and memory of the brain. I asked them to get involved and be social and pick up a new challenge, learn a musical instrument, read books, play games, and get involved in clubs, such as Hearts, Chess, or things that stimulate their thoughts. All of our experience clinically along with this and many other things is we find these people have improved memory, and many of them are pulling themselves out of dementia decline. Some have even as far as diagnosed with Alzheimer's recover. We see their blood pressure, and cardiovascular, their memories improve, and their interaction with family and friends be rekindled. So no, we don't have biopsies of brain tissue showing the aluminum is gone. But we have the post-challenge, the red blood cell, the serum levels, hair levels, all these other things along with their clinical performance indicates that we always see this aluminum reduction associated with better function. So, hopefully, that would be an answer for you. 

Question

"Is coffee bad for bone health? I heard it depletes calcium from bones."

Answer

If it is, I’m in trouble. I drink a good deal of coffee. I probably have three mugs of coffee a day. My mug has about 12 ounces, so that’s 36 ounces of coffee a day. That’s like four to eight cups. And there is good research out there indicating that the polyphenols, these are powerful antioxidants that are in the caffeine of the coffee bean itself. They are associated with anti-aging, oxidative stress reduction, longevity, prevention of dementia, and cognitive decline.

So, is it bad for your bone health? I have never seen this in the decades and decades that I've practiced. I don't have a pattern where I see someone with bone density loss and go into the question of how much coffee they drink a day. There are some outlier issues with hyperthyroidism and bone density. There is inactivity and not stomping and using your bones. These are associated with bone loss. Aging, inflammation. So, no, I am not going to say that coffee is bad for the bones. And no, it’s not to my knowledge, a known depletion of calcium from the bones. 

Question

"Will chelation remove aluminum from brain tissue? I have been listening to Dr. Christopher Exley and he recommends drinking silica-rich mineral water each day to help remove aluminum from the body. Are you familiar with this method?"

Answer

This is a repeat to the lady before. I will have to look into this because I am not familiar with this. I will highlight this. One of the wonderful things about this program here is it helps me to stay young. And my patient base is always tweaking my mind to study. And I will be looking into that. Since I teach it to doctors all over the world, I better be up on that. Maybe sometimes you can send me a reference if I don’t find it. That will be something that I come up with next week. 

Question

"In the A.M. I take 4 Vitalzym, 1 tsp. Ion Gut Health, 1 scoop SBI Protect, and then 3 strontium with liquid liposomal Vit. C. I wait about 15 ins. between each hoping for the best absorption. However, this is too time-consuming, and wondering if there's a more efficient way yet still get the best results from each nutrient. Still hoping you will accept me, 83 years old and Dr. Mitchell’s patient, as your patient."

Answer

I have to tell you, I am seeing in our new doctors, Dr. Johnson, Dr. Kaur, PA Patel. They are very good doctors and devote more and more of my time and self into their personal development. Because I will have to turn this place over at some point. Or have them buy out part of the business, or something like that, and keep this going on after I pass away. And so, I want to be teaching them. And I would like you to develop confidence in them. You will be seeing me sitting with them more and more often. We meet monthly and we discuss cases more and more often to review these patient issues. I can’t take more new patients. At my age, at 70, I just am at my peak level of bodily performance. I’m trying to learn to take a day off. I’m trying to do that. Very, very, very hard.

So, although I appreciate the honor in which you are giving me, asking me to see you, I will be seeing and watching over you. You can send to me on one of these emails too and say, I’m going to be seeing Dr. Patel or Kaur or Meric or Johnson. I will be sure that I will make sure to sit in there and oversee things going on there. That is my hope anyway.

Now, as to what to do. The older we get, the less we digest. And I think the more important thing is if you are taking that SBI Protect, that is a protein. One of the ways that you can enhance absorption is with a digestive enzyme. If you can tolerate taking one Ortho Digestzyme with your SBI Protect. And just take all together your four Vitalzym, your teaspoon of the gut ion health, your scoop of the SBI Protect, and your three strontium with your liquid liposomal vitamin C. Just take it all together, with one digestive enzyme. And that should be sufficient. So, hopefully, that will help you. 

Question

"Can you share with us the difference between the TLC progesterone cream 200mg/ml vs oral capsule 100mg? TLC estradiol cream 6mg/ml vs estradiol transdermal patch 0.05mg/day? Cream vs pills/patch, which is better for overall health? Is it personal preference? During menopause, is it ok to take progesterone every day so we don't have a period? Which way is better 15 vs 30 days of progesterone of the month?"

Answer

Here is the difference. To use the cream, you are using a simple base cream that has the real natural hormone in it, because they are fat-soluble steroid hormones made from cholesterol, which is a fat. So, they mush into, you might say, the Eucerin cream very nicely. Which also helps as a moisturizer and a skin protectant and helps slow aging. So, I like that. Plus, we can chop up the dose, we can smear it over larger or smaller areas, and just concentratedly rub it in. But it’s the same identical molecule Estradiol or Progesterone. It is just the format. I like topical creams because we can do and manage them with so much more. I don’t like having capsules or patches that have these, you know, latex or plasticizer or this even reaction that I see with it sealing up the skin there for two and a half or three days. So, that’s not natural. I’m trying to do everything as naturally as I can. So, patches with Estradiol are okay. But it’s still a more unnatural application method that you are exposing yourself to with the plastics involved and all that goes into making them. Capsules have the same healthy, wonderful human bio-identical molecules in them. But again, the plastic of the capsule, or fillers, you might say, if it’s in a different format, these are things that I am trying to stay away from. But good old Eucerin cream is pretty much just going to stay on the skin and help your skin look smooth, soft, and sealed. So, that’s why. 

Then you said, during menopause, is it okay to take progesterone every day, so we don't have a period? Absolutely. It is fine to take it every day. I do think you should get an annual pelvic. And if you get some breakthrough bleeding, after all, if you are taking hormones and have a normal uterus, there is always a possibility for your normal uterus to build up a little bit of the lining in response to the estradiol and to be cleansed out with a progesterone, both natural reactions to natural hormones. Well, then if you're postmenopausal, it makes all these uninformed doctors, you know, have a heart attack thinking, oh my god, you're having postmenopausal bleeding. So, that, you know they're worried about cancer, they want to do an endometrial biopsy, they want to do a pelvic ultrasound, and a visit and maybe a follow-up. So, I tend, and I personally use progesterone the first of the month to the 15th of the month, so that I always have a little cleanout, like a normal menstrual cycle, right around the middle of the month, every month. And this way, it comes at the right time, because when I stopped the progesterone, or just before I'm finished on the 15th day, I start having the normal effects of cleaning the uterus out of any potential buildup in the lining. I like that because I know things are working correctly.

I could just as easily take the progesterone every day and then maybe do a pelvic once a year with an ultrasound just to look at the lining. And follow it that way. So, no, there's nothing wrong to try and stop having a period. But it’s so light for me, and for most women, we can get it to be so predictable, that it is very manageable. Well, it’s six of one and half a dozen of the other. I hope my explanation helped inform you that either way is okay. 

Well, I wouldn't recommend drinking any silver, per se. Colloidal is just a chemistry procedure in the production of the silver in the solution. And it's associated with less uniform dispersing, it's more clumpy. It's decent, it's good. It's what we've had for many, many decades. And so colloidal silver over the counter is probably very useful. Whether you drink it or you apply it topically or you gargle it and swish and swallow or gargle swish and spit it out, you're going to benefit on those surfaces that it touches in particular. But I like Argentyn silver because it is nanoparticulate, meaning it is more universally, smaller, and dispersed so that its capacity to cover a surface more uniformly and thoroughly is enhanced. So, doctors get Argentyn, but the public does not. I use Argentyn.

 The company does produce a half strength over the counter called sovereign silver. It too is nanoparticulate, but it's about half the strength. Now, to drink it, I would never drink it as in a glass. There are people who will take a teaspoon of it, swish, gargle, and swallow during an illness. And then they'll take this for you know, seven to 10 days. I think that's perfectly fine with a high-quality nano-particulate silver and probably even colloidal. But I would not recommend making your own silver because that's how you get [inaudible]. You saw the blue man, he looks like that cartoon of the little guys who have white here and little white hats and they're all blue. I forget what their names are. Anyway, he's the blue man. And he made his own silver, and he kept on drinking it every day. This is not what we're recommending. But using it for a cold for seven to 10 days a teaspoon four times a day, five times a day, that's on the recommendation bottle. All right, so hopefully that helps explain that. 

Question

"There were some concerns about the Berkey Fluoride Filters producing an aluminum product.”

Answer

I have never of that. I’ve never heard of that. And I think I’m pretty much up on all of these formats. But here we go. This is how you guys keep me young. You keep me studying. So, there is a fluoride byproduct that you thought was from the Berkey. I will see if I can scrounge anything up on that. 

Question

 "I’m 70y/o woman. I’m IF 20/4. I learned that 20 hr fast balances my hormones. I’m not happy with how I am able to focus. My skin is softer. Should I take female hormones and why? I'm blood type B."

Answer

Very good, I compliment you. God bless you and your efforts.

Well, if I hadn’t mentioned it, I will mention it now. This isn’t meant to be individual medical management. These are general principles as to how we would approach them. Natural hormone replacement is going to help with your cell membrane repair. They are general contractors in our bodies, your estradiol, and your progesterone. And it will help your hair to grow, your skin to repair itself, and stay thicker. It helps the elastin collagen and the thickness of the skin on the back of your hands, so you don't look quite as old, you know, and age as much. The other thing is, to remember that fasting will help you with your insulin growth factor, which is your somatic statin. These are growth-prompting repairs. And all of these things will help you. But hormones have the additional benefit of helping you with deeper sleep. As well as going to bed on an empty stomach will help you with sleep and that will help you repair better and age more slowly. But it also greatly is associated with mental acuity, mental recall, and emotional stability. And so, I am all in favor, if at all possible, of women using natural hormone replacement therapy.

There's a book out there by the name of Estrogen Matters. And it goes over-- There are nearly 400 biochemical known benefits of estradiol and no I don't agree that it causes cancer. I am blood type B too. So, let’s be a beautiful 70-year-old woman and take our hormones. I eat one meal a day. I might extend that eating of that one meal over a three-hour window. And so, it might be more correct to say that I’m on a 20-fast, 4-hour eating window. But sometimes, I am 23/1. But I so strongly compliment you on what you are doing. Get on those hormones if that is possible. Find a doctor that is competent and familiar with using them. They will measure your levels and do follow-ups to get it right. 

Question

"I started taking Estradiol every day and Progesterone for bones since I broke my femur. I looked on label and paper from PA Patel and did not state if need to take every day or just for 2 wks?"

Answer

Call in the office tomorrow. That issue can be followed up. I will not remember that. So, call in the morning and have PA Patel clarify whether it’s two weeks out of the month or the whole month. We can then address that. 

Question

"Would you please recommend any supplement for strengthening my heart?"

Answer

Well, we would certainly say there are two things, Coenzyme Q10, 300 milligrams. We have a wonderful high-quality sourcing for this. And you could use one or two a day 300 to 600 milligrams a day. The other thing is doing that fasting like you saw, above, 20 hours of fasting, four hours of eating a healthy protein-rich diet. Remember your heart is a muscle, it needs all that healthy protein and healthy cholesterol and fat. So, that would be something. Then the other thing is testosterone. I like my women to have testosterone levels around, you know, 60 to 100 to help because that will help with the heart contractility as well. So, those are just some things there that would be recommended.