YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, September 5th, 2022

Question

“I have high pressure in my eyes and occasionally see little flashes of light peripherally. I have read that taking zinc 50-milligrams daily as viral prophylaxis for almost one and a half years may cause a copper deficiency and affect my eyes. My optometrist says he doesn't know what causes high pressure, but it's not copper. Would you have an opinion?”

Answer

In general, as we get older, glaucoma increased eye pressure because the exit and the entrance flows to the eye because there's fluid in the inside of your eye. The exits become irritated, scarred, clogged, and so forth. So, the pressure can build up. Now, I am not aware of any level at 50-milligrams of zinc daily being related to causing high pressure. So, I would say a zinc of 50-milligrams is not a problem. 

You could see your doctor. You could get a serum copper level. Yes, high continuous zinc dosing would potentially cause a copper deficiency. Will that relate to some kind of glaucoma increased eye ocular pressure? I don't know of any test literature on that. But I don't think 50-milligrams is a causative or concerning level.

Most multivitamins have somewhere between two and a half to five milligrams of zinc in them. These are general multivitamin formulations. I think those are very, very valuable. And if anything are under dosed. In my multivitamin, I think I have six milligrams. And zinc is very important to help with your body to find out viral infections. It works as an ionophore which means it helps zinc to get into the inside of the cell where the virus is trying to replicate and messes up the ribosomes that are trying to replicate the viral material.

So, what I would suggest is using systemic enzymes, plenty of water filtered, half your weight in ounces, and chelation therapy which improves microcirculation, even to the eyeballs. And so, I have had patients who have had such high eye pressure glaucoma that they were going to be scheduled for surgery to reduce the eye pressure. And they would do IV intravenous chelation therapy three times a week and they stopped the need for the surgery completely and that's over years now. And so, we have many cases like that, macular degeneration, where it just seemed to suspend any kind of further visual loss, and so forth. 

So, hopefully that helps you and that gives you more insight. And you have some other areas you can look into. Especially chelation therapy, a low carb diet, systemic enzymes, Vitalzym or Vascuzyme. And of course not eating late, exercise is always helpful. 

Question

“My sister is 54 and tries to fast longer than six hours. She gets grumpy. Is there something that causes this? What can she do to try and prevent it? She doesn’t have any issue with her blood sugar.”

Answer

Getting grumpy with fasting, some of it can be as the blood sugar goes down, then the body is signaling for its habitual patterns of sugar levels. And that will give you hormonal signals to seek food to satisfy that. There's social indicators and environmental indicators. You know, if you always sit down to watch TV with a bowl of popcorn every evening, then you're not enjoying your evening relaxation as well. So, usually the lowering of the blood sugar, the hormonal response, and the environmental factors are a psycho-emotional impact as well. She should be able if all things are equal, if she goes to her doctor and she asks for a morning fasting insulin and a morning fasting glucose on a general chemistry and then a fasting lipid panel to include the triglycerides, a hemoglobin A1C, that is the glucose sticking to the hemoglobin proteins. If she gets those, we should be able to see if she has insulin resistance. An insulin level that is over 4 is starting to show that you are habitually consuming too many carbs. If you reduce that, you can get grumpy and irritable. But this should pass as you discipline yourself to not do that.

And she could also take a tablespoon of olive oil, extra virgin olive oil. Drink extra water. How much exercise is she doing? Is she getting grumpy after exercise, which would lower her blood sugar? So, these various things have to be addressed with her physician and see how it does. But most people should easily be able to do a 12-hour fast when they go to bed, you know, at nine o’clock and they should be able to make it until nine o’clock the next morning without eating a thing. So, it sounds more like psycho social. But have her see her doctor and look at those things. So, a fasting insulin above four--

And what irritates me is the labs reference ranges are corrupted because we are tolerating an American pattern of increasing number of obese people being developed so that the insulin ranges go from two to about 25 on the fasting insulin. And that's at a magnitude of 12 orders of elevation. That's ridiculous. Either it's healthy, you have a low fasting insulin if you haven't eaten or not. And I’m telling you, if your fasting insulin is much over four and you haven’t eaten in 12-hours, your body is sensitive and wants and expects carbs to come, sugar to come, fruit sugar to come down your throat, and it's going to have insulin ready to utilize it or try to process it.

I see people constantly, who are borderline that diabetics, whose fasting insulin is 6, 7, 8. And this would still be in the normal ranges according to the lab ranges. But I’m telling you, those ranges are way too tolerant. The same goes with the fasting blood sugar. Most labs over the 40 some years of practice medicine, they used to say it was a normal fasting blood sugar years ago that as long as you're fasting blood sugar was under 115. That's ridiculous. Now, I see a more consistently saying, a fasting blood sugar under 99 would be considered normal, I'm telling you a 99 is too high. We say, our cut off is 85. And that's because I see so many people with ranges that are 89, 92, 94, that have high insulin fasting, you know, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 ranges. And they are starting to develop pre-diabetes. So, you have to tell them, they're playing on the edge of the cliff. These are not good numbers to tolerate. And to pull back on their starches and carbs and exercise as well to try and bring it down with some resistance training. 

Question

“Can you talk about the difference between Vitalzym  and Vascuzyme? It is priced higher because you can use less Vitalzym for the same result?”

Answer

Vitalzym is made in Japan. It is a prescription only item in Japan. Vitalzym is by prescription only in Japan. The Vascuzyme and Vitalzym, these systemic enzymes are not considered pharmaceuticals in the United States. And so, we can have these made cheaper.

However, in getting the Vitalzym, we do have to pay a higher price to get this here for us. It is well-researched, as you can imagine, to be a pharmaceutical. It has gone through a very good human clinical trials. So, we do have on that particular item, very good references and research on it. So, it is more expensive because it has gone through more rigorous human clinical trial research and is a pharmaceutical in Japan. So, here it does cost more money. But I find that it is a very potent anti-inflammatory, helps to prevent blood clots, helps to reduce joint pains, helps to reduce general inflammation, and risk factors in the human body. Basically, all chronic diseases associated with inflammation. And inflammation is a damaged cell and damage cells need to be cleared away if they're irreparable from being repaired. And enzymes clear up this debris in us. So, I like Vitalzym.

I like Vascuzyme. I was part of Ortho Molecular’s development team, I’m on that. And it's an excellent systemic enzyme. So, I think they're both fine. I use them both equally. And if you can save money on Vascuzyme by Ortho Molecular, I would be very pleased that you do it.

Now, you have to use enough. So, if you have a lot of arthritis and joint pain, for instance, if you have glaucoma like that other patient in the question. I would at least use five capsules twice a day as a real powerful anti-inflammatory for a month. And that's along with plenty of water, a low carb diet, not eating late, trying to exercise, doing some intermittent fasting, all these various things. But they really are not different Vascuzyme and Vitalzym. They're basically the same type of systemic enzyme that is taken on an empty stomach, so the enzymatic actions are absorbed into the body to work on your body overall. 

Question

“How would you treat Sjogren’s Syndrome? Is it reversible? Out of state, so haven’t found access to chelation IV therapy.”

Answer

Sjogren’s syndrome is a connective tissue autoimmune disorder. And we believe it's like so many of these things today associated with chronic gut, leaky gut issues. So, we work very hard with our auto immune patients and everyone. We're trying to get all our patients to get away from all this humongous variety of eating and foods and contents and list of ingredients. We're trying to get people to cook at home. We're trying to ask them to have their beef and vegetable and be done with that and be satisfied with that for their lunches and dinners. We're asking everyone to try and eat between noon and 6 p.m. or or just two meals a day in a six-hour time restricted window, so that your gut is empty longer. We are trying to have them have wild caught, prairie raised food for the contents of repair of our body and the lining of the gut. We're trying to get them away from using salad dressings with all these ingredients and stick with simplistic olive oil and vinegarette. We're trying to get them to eat some nuts or seeds, such as walnuts, pecans, almonds, sunflower seeds. And stick with those rather than the cashews or peanuts that are really legumes. We're trying to get them lower carb by eating this way. We're trying to use less spices, butter, or cook with coconut oil, and use salts, Himalayan salt, and keep the spices limited. We're trying to ask our patients to drink plenty of water, we're trying to ask them never to eat late at night, we're trying to find out their blood type to see if they need help with digestion. Because all these things work to age the lining of your gut. That's only one cell membrane thick. And that damage will create chronic inflammation spots that will trigger the immune system that then attacks your body.

And to repair the body, you have to have all these fats and proteins that will help repair the soft tissues and your bones. So, chelation therapy improves the microcirculation so it can penetrate deep into your tissues where this is needed. Besides which, with all the chemo, chemtrails rather, and the geo stratospheric engineering, dropping the aluminum, the strontium, the barium, and various heavy metals on us getting it to all our foods, pulling that stuff out is very helpful. So, with systemic enzymes, which are very important to stop the inflammation, probiotics, gut health guidance, maybe testing like a complete digestive stool analysis that is very deep that looks at how well you're digesting along with these therapies that's how we manage Sjogren’s syndrome. 

Question

“What are the causes for leg cramps at night? Any recommendations besides magnesium? Is iron beneficial?”

Answer

We do not know exactly the cause of leg cramps at night. And I also have them intermittently. Usually, it is microcirculation with time and aging and position. So, that as you're lying there and the blood flow is diminished or you have your legs crisscrossed or something, there is a pinching off or a shutting off of fluid, or even the nerve is compressed. and then there is a triggering through the electrical potential of the membrane to put that muscle into contraction.

And so, taking minerals, I use the TLC Multi Mineral. And I use three every evening to try and prevent myself from getting leg cramps, which are very annoying. The other thing I do is I take Himalayan sea salt, and I'll take up to like a quarter teaspoon in water every evening. And this seems to stop the electrochemical triggering of a contraction of the muscles in the lower extremities.

Now, the other thing that helps stop it, is good circulation. So, if you are doing EDTA chelation therapy, drinking enough water, exercising, using systemic enzymes to stop inflammation, eating healthy foods that help repair the endothelial lining of your tiny, tiny capillaries and blood vessels, arteries, and venules, and the tissues, then they are less likely to become irritated. So, everything does matter.

But the iron is not one of the components that I believe is ever been associated with relief. I get very good relief, and I found with my patients, the TLC Amino LBN Chelates. That is minerals with amino acid chelated. The magnesium, the potassium, the calcium, and manganese, as well as other minerals is in our concoction with Himalayan sea salt, like a quarter teaspoon. Now, you have to drink plenty of water every day. Try and get in half your weight as ounces every day. 

Question

“The only prescribed medication I take is Progesterone 200-milligram (using 2-clicks, half of a gram). I struggle with brain fog, memory loss, and night terrors. I recently stopped taking [inaudible] after three months of taking 10-milligrams from my cardiologist. My particle numbers were high. I am 69-years-old.”

Answer

I would say, I’m proud that you are only on this Progesterone. I would wonder why you are not on the Estradiol as well. Estradiol helps with memory and brain fog. Estradiol helps along with your immune system, your bone health, along with the Progesterone. Progesterone helps as a hypnogogic to help you sleep. Whereas Estradiol is calming to the mood and the emotions. So, I would want to see what your Estradiol and Progesterone levels are. If your Estradiol is too low and you are able to use it, I would consider adding that in.

As far as nightmares or night tremors, that has to be addressed visiting with your doctor, talking about that.

I don’t know how to to pronounce the, I can’t think of the trade name. That is the generic name. I don’t know if that would have had any impact. But you are off of that and I presume still having the brain fog, memory loss, and these night tremors. So, please use see your doctor. Please get your Estradiol level checked. Discuss with your doctor if it is possible for you to use that. You might not have high enough of a Progesterone dose. You might need a much higher level. Very often, you can see-- Levels, some women are very helped and blessed with levels of progesterone level of four nanograms per deciliter, whereas other women need to go up to 50 and get a good night's sleep. So, talk with your doctor about that. And talk with him about your night terrors and see if there is something that we can do to help you or your doctor can help you do with that on a separate issue. 

Question

“I am a magnet for mosquito bites, especially this time of year. And notably, after a morning walk. I have gone through bottles of Argentyn gel. I should have stock in the company and yet the bites are still swollen along with insane itchy. Any additional suggestions would be greatly appreciated.”

Answer

I'm not sure that I have an answer for you on what attracts mosquitoes to people. There are oils, essential oils, and I believe it is peppermint that is a repellent for mosquitoes and bugs in general. I know that they plant that around the Juice Plus, small farms they plant herbs to reject, repel pests, and so forth naturally. I would look into essential oils to repel the insect bites and so forth. I just don’t have any other future advice on that. I’m sorry. Hopefully that'll be an area for you to look into. And when you see your doctor, you can talk to her about that. 

Question

“I’m a TLC patient and was recently told about concerns for hypothyroidism and given a prescription. However, I wonder if I should try a few things before jumping into a prescription. I began to take iodine six months ago, but only 1,000-micrograms. Should I double the dose? I used to take magnesium and haven’t in over a year. Could this absence contribute to my current thyroid results, and should I consider adding magnesium back to my routine? There appear to be some components of ashwaganda as a supplement? What is your opinion?”

Answer

Ashwagandha is is an herb, it is what they call an adaptogen. It seems to facilitate a multifunctional equilibrium in the body. It's a calming agent. It has been used for years and years. Will it help? Probably since it's just a calming agent, it would be beneficial. I don't have in my mind any studies on the thyroid in particular. But I'm not opposed to Ashwagandha. It is not rare to see it almost in many, many, many formulations of supplements because it's such a calming agent and supportive.

Magnesium. Yes, magnesium is critical and literally countless biochemical formulations in your body. And so, you have to have, because it's one of your essential nutrients. But if you're eating meat and fish and chicken, and eggs and things like this, you really should be getting enough magnesium. Notwithstanding a general multi mineral, like TLC Multi Min would be useful. But if you're taking iodine, and it is the micro gram, mcg, then you're only good doing one milligram a day. And my standard dose is 12.5 milligrams a day.

But whoever saw you, to prescribe the thyroid, they've probably already considered these things. I would, I don't-- I would discuss it with your doctor. And I would bring in the product that you're using of iodine to your doctor, let them actually see the description of the product so that they can get an idea because yes, iodine is helpful with thyroid performance in the human body. But we would have to check that product out. So, I'm not against it at all. But I would want you probably on no less than 12.5 milligrams a day. 

Question

“I have stage one breast cancer and just had a lumpectomy and five lymph nodes removed. The lymph nodes were clear and the borders on the tumor were clear. The tumor was estrogen progesterone positive, and grade three. So aggressive. I have been on bioidentical estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone, but was told to go off of them, which I did. I am also taking 10-milligrams of DHEA from my bones and muscles. I have osteoporosis in my hips. So, I’m concerned about not being on the hormones. Can I continue taking the DHEA or even increase it?”

Answer

Yes, DHEA I have used for many decades on every one of my patients who have a history of breast cancer, whether estrogen and progesterone positive or not. DHEA has never been an issue. And yes, it will help specifically with testosterone and your muscle tone which will help with your bone development. So, follow the instructions of your oncologist and your doctor for management. But the DHEA you can easily go up to 50-milligrams. I have some of my patients with a history of breast cancer on the 50-milligrams.

I also have patients who have had breast cancer, estrogen and progesterone positive in the past who have gone back onto it. And they have changed their lifestyles and become very low carb, they exercise, they use the enzymes. And they always have the progesterone which is the balance against the Estradiol. So, they get all the benefits of the natural hormones.

And I want to point out to you a breast tissue that has estrogen positive receptors and a breast tissue with progesterone positive receptors is a more normal breast cell formation because very aggressive malignant breast tumors that do not have estrogen receptors or progesterone receptors, these tend to be more aggressive and worst prognostically of an outcome because the breast tissue has become so changed from the malignant changes of the information and signals of the cells.

So, if you were to biopsy my breasts right now or any woman without non-breast cancer, all her breast cells should have estrogen receptor positive and progesterone receptor positive, because that's normal. Once again, it's normal. The normal breast cell has these receptors.

Now why it becomes an issue is it becomes part of a treatment protocol, where if it is positive for estrogen, very often they give you hormone blockers like Tamoxifen or Arimidex, Astral, or Arimidex as a blocker for this thinking it will help to slow down breast metabolism. So, just because your estrogen positive, progesterone positive is not something of concern, in fact it's more favorable. And yes, there are oncologists who work with me, with my patients who choose to have quality of life and the benefits of natural hormones, even though they had a history, and they were treated and managed. And following along with her oncologist, some have made the decision to continue that therapy. And so, we follow them closely. And we have several and they have done very, very, very well.

We look at the irritation of the cell to transform into an uncontrolled malignant cell through chronic inflammation, chronic stimulation, through insulin, through a high carb diet. And so, many women have moved into a very low carb keto-type lifestyle, exercising, time restricted eating, systemic enzymes, high dose vitamin C, detoxing with chelation therapy to get heavy, irritating, oxidizing heavy metals out of them. And then, they've done quite, quite well. So, hopefully that answers your question.

Question

“How do I treat a UTI? And then, successfully prevent it from reoccurring?”

Answer

Well, if you have a urinary tract infection, that can be serious. And so, you should get a urine sample to confirm that the bladder is-- The urine is showing infection with an organism, a bacterium. And then, we would culture it out and we would do sensitivity training studies to see what antibiotics would kill it. And so, you have to do that through an urgent care or your doctor.

Now, to prevent this, we talk about if you're sexually active, after intercourse hygiene, and washing up. We talk about drinking enough water to keep the flow. If you're older and you're into menopause or perimenopause and your skin is thinning there and more irritated, we talked about natural hormones. We talk about testosterone to help the sphincter down there. DHEA can help with that. Topical testosterone can help with it. Like we said hormones, progesterone, Estradiol can help with that. Then there are things like cranberry concentrates as a supplement. And that gets into the urine to help fight off bacterial ascension up through the urethra into the bladder and so forth. There's also de manos, which is a type of sugar that is not absorbed in the human body, but it's concentrated in the urine. And it helps to prevent the walls of the bladder from allowing attachment of bacteria and so forth. So, there's many things you can do for that. See your doctor. The feeling that you have to pee all the time, that it hurts to urinate, blood in the urine, urgency to pee, and you really don’t have much volume, these are signs and symptoms of a bladder system, urinary tract infection, and do you see the urgent care, your doctor. Have the urine tested. Let them find out and then start a plan, workup a program. It might involve a pelvic exam as well and your history. This is to see where your age, where you are, and how we might help prevent this. 

Question

“How can I alleviate extreme hot flashes and sweats that happens multiple times a day that are not caused by hormones? I simultaneously experience an extreme burning sensation of my thighs and dizziness. They occur almost always after eating. But can continue throughout the day and night.” 

Answer

This sounds more like a neurological neuropathy going on in your body already. And, you know, it could be from a side effect of medications. It could be after you eat, close to 1/3 of your blood supply will rush to your gut, which is a normal thing to get the white blood cells there to try and protect from bacteria invasions, things like that. So, that quick shunting, so you might prior to eating, take a large glass of water and put a little bit of Himalayan salt in it, maybe a quarter teaspoon, so that you don't have as much of a rush there.

 

But I would see your doctor. Talk about your medicines. Check your hormone levels, if you're on natural hormones because you may not have enough. Take that big glass of water with Himalayan salt before you eat, like a half an hour before. And then, also try and get your doctor to check your hormone levels and then proceed from there. You might have to have a neurologist seen to address this as well. 

Question

“How can IV therapy help with stress reduction and inflammation due to chronic stress?”

Answer

Chronic stress is a cortisol dominant. Cortisol is catabolic, it tears down. It also promotes sugar dysregulation, promoting you to become more diabetic. It promotes weight gain. And it harms your immune system. So, IVs like a high dose vitamin C with B vitamins, minerals and stuff, tends to boost your immune system, tends to kill off viruses and fungi and bacteria. And so, these immune drips are very helpful. The IV we have Enhanced Chelation, has not only the vitamin C and the B vitamins and good minerals. But it also has EDTA that improves the circulation because very often with chronic stress, circulation is diminished, and that will improve it there. So, that's why we do that for chronic stress. 

Question

“What is the cause and cure for very low blood platelet numbers in my blood work? I am not jabbed.”

Answer

So, you have low platelet numbers. Very often, platelets are a response to stress. They are a response to general toxins in the environment, heavy metal toxins. They can be an autoimmune phenomenon through leaky gut. And just how low is a question. Because there's this number in the complete blood count that says anywhere from like 140 to 450,000 units per deciliter are normal. And yet, I have seen people and hematologists over 40-years of practicing medicine, they don't seem to really get concerned unless the platelet count drops below about 40,000. And many times, I've even seen them just monitor it at the 20,000 mark. So, it really is a matter of who you are, the general trend, what it looks like, should we see a hematologist? Very often, we have found if you use a high potency probiotic and work on your gut health, that there seems to be a relief from platelet destruction. So, I have a gentleman for about 21 to 22 years with chronic low platelets. And we’ve always given the Probiotic 225. It’s a powdered high potency probiotic and he's been using it. He's almost 90 years old. And this has rescued him for decades. Of recent he did go on, his hematologist watches him as well, and did give him a prescription that also helped. But his hematologist followed along for 20-years with this man and agreed that the probiotic and gut health really carried him through all these years. So, it's a matter of good gut health, detoxing from heavy metal toxins, having a good diet, and tracking along with your doctor and maybe a hematologist. 

Question

“I submitted a question regarding my 56-year-old daughter's integrative lifestyle who as a result of many years of orthodontics and teeth being moved back and forth wound up with oral bone loss and shortened roots. In answer to your queries, her DEXA and testosterone levels are fine. She is including an excellent comprehensive vitamin K supplements along with 10,000-Vitamin D. However, I would still like to hear your opinion on her now retired naturopath suggestion not to include boron in her supplementation because of its effects on estrogen. What effect? And does my daughter have to eliminate a supplement that includes boron, like a good multi, such as Ortho Molecular or Jerrells for bone support.”

Answer

I'm going to have to confess, I am not familiar with any real negative relationship between boron and estrogen and the human body. She probably should, besides having a good testosterone and a good bone density, she probably should be on estrogen, as well as progesterone. She has to bite and work hard on her chewing to use those bones in her jaw, chewing on that rubber. I said a spatula or something like that just to really bite down hard. I don't know that boron is a concern. And I wouldn't be against her taking a supplement with boron in it. We have TLC Bone Health, and so that is a clinically researched one that has it and strontium is in it. And she's on a K and the D. So, I wouldn’t agree that Boron is a problem. So, I would use it. 

Question

“A good diet to follow to keep endometriosis from coming back? I had it a few years ago and had it removed. Now, I have two children and don’t believe it has come back. Also, been mostly pregnant or breastfeeding.”

Answer

What I would say to you is the insulin stimulates the growth of not only endometrial implants throughout the body, but the prostate, the breasts, the fat tissues, the thickening of the blood vessels, sugar, carbohydrates, fruit sugars thicken up the body, clog of the vessels, and promote all manner of chronic disease. So, the diet that is the healthiest is your low carb diet. Eat complex carbohydrates, fibrous vegetables, instead of these fleshy ones like potatoes and beets and yams, peas, corn, carrots. They are all so full of cheap, easy starchy carbs. So, be very cautious of them. That's the key. It is the low carb diet with endometriosis.

Also, progesterone to help prevent the estrogenic stimulation. And alcohol, drinking wine, wine will raise up estrogen in men and women and that will promote endometriosis. So, don't use alcohol. And for God's sakes make sure you have cyclical progesterone day 15 through 25 of your cycle. 

Question

“My sister has had several kidney stones. And her third one, just now, and going to see the doctor. What do you recommend for supplements? She's going to be 70.”

Answer

Water, filtered water. The older we get the less we like water. Our brain is shrinking with age. Part of the antidiuretic hormone, vasopressin, these hormones from the brain and thirst diminish. You have to have her drink half her weight in pounds, every day as ounces of water. And then I would put, you know, just to trace, maybe an eighth of a teaspoon of Himalayan salt in there. And I would have her take a multi mineral with magnesium in it like, TLC Multi Mineral. And water, water, water. That's the key to the kidney stones. And that would be my best suggestion to you for her.

I've had kidney stones, and so has my husband. And we all were just not drinking enough water.