YouTube Livestream Q&A Transcript, April 1, 2025 — Tustin Longevity Center

You know, I am watching these YouTubes, and as I’m studying things, something will pop up and it’ll say, did you know that diabetes is cured by doing this 7-second routine every morning? Or did you know that your tinnitus will go away with this or that your old, broken-off, rotten tooth will grow back, you know if you take this or that? I have to watch these things because, sure as anything else, they’re going to come to me as a patient one of these days and ask me, did you know that this or that helps grow teeth or enamel, and what they’ll do is they’ll take some small biochemical nutraceutical redeeming value of a mineral or an herb plant or some kind of food item, and they’ll massage that into a product and put a whole story around it so that at the very end, you’re going to think you know the people already, your trust is going to go into them, you’ll identify and say, I suffer those things, and then you’ll say, well, I’ll give it a try. And they’re betting on, if they can get 2 million people to say “I’ll give it a try,” that’s going to be worth their investment money, and they’ll make, you know, maybe something like a few million each on benefit, or I don’t know exactly how the money flows, but most of this is just foolishness. So, all that said, I’m not impressed with sourbread products at all. But I am going to try this. The last one I watched was where you take yogurt and then you mix it with something like almond flour and you bake it, and if you put an egg in it, it’ll fluff up and make a type of modest bread. So you’re going to get in that a good deal of protein. So, it’ll be a very dense, protein-rich piece of bread per slice that you make in a small loaf pan. It will have quite a few carbs still. But if you’re going to do something, I’d rather see you make it like that rather than a piece of sourdough bread with such a low protein content.

Question

“Are the Cowden or Buhner or antibiotics effective protocols for someone that tested positive for Lyme disease?”  [0:24:12]

Answer

I’m not familiar with the product lines that you’re referring to, Cowden or Buhner. Lyme disease, I mean putting on your tinfoil hat, there are some people who say Lyme disease is a bioengineered product from the biowarfare labs that was leaked out and got into the environment, because remember, it’s better to disable a soldier than it is to kill him because a disabled old soldier requires so much more money, time, and dollars to get them off the field of fighting, two men are needed, the transportation cost to bring him back, the bed and the hospital, and the care, and the nursing, and the doctors, and the X-rays, and all these kind of things that go into caring for an injured soldier is far more profitable to destroy a nation than a dead soldier from an immediate bomb and be killed immediately. So, if you’re wearing your tinfoil hat and you’re of that ilk that believes that this is possible, and I’m certainly not going to say it’s not possible that the Lyme disease may have come from research and gotten into the environment in the northeast and this ticks and so forth, and now we have this smoldering difficult series of infectious parasites. 

Now, which product kills it and do you get long-lasting symptoms? The answer is yes, and it takes a whole venue of work to find out how long have you had the symptoms, how long has it had a chance to potentially spread in the body, and what other comorbidities you have that make your immune more susceptible to succumbing to its inflammatory breakdown products in your body. So, there are so many things that go into it, and I find it very encouraging that the whole environment, with these YouTubes awakening everyone’s awareness to the lifestyle, we have to take personal responsibility for our health, drink our water, get a good night’s sleep, exercise, do weight lifts, take certain nutraceuticals because, yes, indeed, the industrial system has really ruined the growing fields and the nutritive value of our products are maybe less than 50% of what they were in the 1950s, and then they harm our livestock with using grains and seeds that they never would’ve normally eaten, and they would’ve used grass and grass alone. So, we have a messed up healthcare system, a messed up financed, bought off, bribed out scenario that corrupts our food agricultural scenarios. We have to get this cleaned up. Maybe JFK can do such a thing, but we have to stay informed. And just find a good functional doctor that’s got an open mind and that will work step by step. Don’t think you’re going to come to your doctor and in a 1-hour, 30-minute visit you’re going to get everything answered. It’s you’re going to start building a relationship and building care and lifestyle changes with your doctor as they walk you through it.

Question

“What can I take as a natural solution? I don’t have any ivermectin right now, or I would take that. Thanks.“  [0:28:17]

Answer

Well, why don’t you call a pharmacy in Arkansas, now that ivermectin is over the counter in Arkansas, you can call any pharmacy in Arkansas and have them mail you some ivermectin. Now, is that the treatment for it? You would have to see your local doctor, or your functional doctor, do some testing, and then have them manage it. I have seen no published literature that identifies ivermectin as any kind of a cure or treatment for Lyme disease. Typically, they’re with things like doxycycline, tetracycline, and long-term cycles of other antibiotics, and we’re talking maybe six months’ worth of antibiotics. So, you have to work with a functional doctor who’s going to do a stool study and look at the inflammation of your bowel, maybe a complete digestive stool analysis, and probiotics. Look at your vitamin D level. Maybe even some high-dose vitamin. C. Some very advanced functional doctors can provide oxygen therapies. Hyperbaric oxygen is another modality. There would be those who would argue that methylene blue would be something sought after for these chronic infectious treatment disorders. So, find an experienced functional doctor and usually, you can start looking at the advertisements. Now we’re seeing more and more doctors put out a statement like, I went to the American College for the Advancement of Medicine or I went to A4W, which is another functional medicine training. There are many out there now. I’m certainly part of some of the lecture circuit and teaching back in the 1970s when they were very, very new. But a chelation doctor, acam.org, is usually a doctor who’s informed about high-dose vitamin C chelation and other immune antioxidant therapies. Ozone therapies, ultraviolet light irrigation with ozone therapies. This kind of thing would be something you want to look into. So call the office on that. 

Question 

“I had some blood work and a urine test last week and the results that I had, bacteria in my urine. I do not have a UTI, or urinary tract infection. I would know. I want to avoid antibiotics. I have felt tired this past week. What can I take as a natural solution?”  [0:31:03]

Answer

So you’re having some bacteria in your urine without symptoms. Well, again, we don’t practice medicine over the internet. It’s not unusual to see some bacteria. There’s a range limit, usually from zero to 10 white blood cells are allowed, and there is often some indication that there might be a bacteria. It should be cultured. That’s what that urine should have, is a culture, and see if it grows any predominant organism. Whoever did the urine test, call that office and find out if culture was done and if it grew in any one particular line. In the meantime, drink plenty of water. You could take cranberry extract over the counter. There are many products that have cranberry extract in them. There’s also D-mannose in products that can be taken that helps to prevent bacteria from adhering to the bladder lining. So, lots of water, cranberry, D-mannose, these are things that are very often valuable for it. But don’t assume you don’t have an infection just because you don’t feel it. Please, whoever ordered your urine and told you there were some bacteria or white blood cells in it, please ask them what the culture said. 

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“Hi, Dr. Rita. My joints and muscles have been sore. I have been gardening more, but I’m not sure if it is vitamin deficiency. My knee started popping when I walked upstairs. Thoughts? Thank you.”  [0:32:49]

Answer

How old are you? How much water do you drink every day? What is your blood sugar, insulin, triglyceride level, and hemoglobin A1C? What is your liver panel like? Do you have uric acid for gout tested? Is there any prior injury there? What is your blood type? Certain blood types tend to have more arthritis than others. O’s as a class tend to have more arthritis and get sensitive to grain and dairy adulterations through genetic modification pasteurization and homogenization. So. all these things go into a statement. What I would do is I would make sure I’m drinking half my weight and water as ounces every day. So. if you’re o 150-pound woman, then 75 ounces of water a day. I would consider taking systemic enzymes on an empty stomach twice a day, four or five of them on an empty stomach, and then you should see improvement within a day or two. See your doctor, follow up with a functional doctor, and start addressing these things. And then of course, build up the muscles around your knee with strength training, stretching, and things like that. 

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“I’ve had seizure disorder since childhood. What are your thoughts on carnivore diet and seizure control? And also can I stay carnivore for the rest of my life?”  [0:34:34]

Answer

Yes. The answer is yes. I think in the 1940s some of the very first ketogenic suppressives for irretractable seizure disorder in children were developed. So, the ketogenic and carnivore diets will be, in general, very safe. Find out your blood type. Get a good doctor, a functional doctor who’s familiar with managing patients with seizures, and the knowledge on a ketogenic diet or a carnivore diet and have them follow you, but I see no reason why you can’t. 

Question

“Dr. E. Thank you for all you do. Two questions if I may. Is the white residue that covers your tongue beneficial? Do you recommend using a scraper to remove or reduce the residue? Thank you for your time and enjoy your workout.”  [0:35:29]

Answer

In general, I would say most people have a slight white coating on their tongue. For people who have a dramatic plaque, that looks like an evidentiary white tongue, these are likely other conditions, most likely of which is candida. Too many carbs in the diet, it’s such a common challenge to the American diet.

And then the yeast overgrowth is there. But I have seen people argue from the left to the right on integrative and functional conferences that I have attended because, when I first started doing these conferences on integrative and I got my doctorate in integrative medicine in 1999, I started that, they would argue the benefit of scraping your tongue for harm versus value, and I think the answer is they don’t have an answer. If you have an unusual tongue appearance, you should discuss it with your doctor. Get a blood sugar. Get your fasting insulin. Get your triglyceride level. Get your hemoglobin A1C. Get your fructosamine, that’s a fruit sugar level also. Then, go from there, and make a personal assessment, always knowing that the ranges for the population averages are way too high. My limit for fructosamine, I want every one of my patients under 170. I want everyone for a glucose to be 85 or less. I want everyone with triglycerides to be somewhere in the 50 to 75 range on triglycerides or have it equal to your HDL cholesterol. So if your HDL is 60, then your triglycerides should be 60 also. And then your insulin, I don’t want it any higher than a 4. And then your hemoglobin A1C, I would like it to be 5.2 to 5.3 at most. Those are the ranges. I think if you brush your teeth, good oral hygiene, I do a swish and swallow with my Argentyn silver. I’ll do a light brush maybe once a week or twice a week on my tongue with my soft brush, and then I leave it at that. There are other problems with others like a black tongue and a very hot red-looking tongue. So there are diseases associated with it, but they’re extremely uncommon or very uncommon at least, I would say. And work with your doctor on that. Okay? 

Question

“My 19-year-old daughter has been suffering since August. Symptoms are extreme dizziness multiple times a day, extreme heat on and off all day, eye dilation, and sensitivity to light. Her sense of taste has been on and off since she had COVID in 2020. Would love any thoughts. We’ve been to so many different doctors and done so much blood work with no answers.”  [0:38:39]

Answer

Well I would want to know her blood type, her blood sugar, her cortisol, her DHEA, and her hormones, DHEA plus her progesterone, estradiol, and testosterone. I would want to know her inflammation status, SED rate, and Hs-CRP. I would want to look at her mineral status with her blood type, especially if she’s an A-type blood. I would want to look at her ferritin for iron management and anemia rule out. I would want to do a complete digestive stool analysis because so often, as stress, electromagnetic energy disrupts our very delicate, sympathetic/parasympathetic equilibrium. So when we stand up from sitting down, normally as you get old and fall apart, we start getting these dizzy episodes. But even young people, or people who have autonomic nervous incongruence, meaning a 19-year-old who stands up and can’t stand for a long time many minutes and starts getting vasodilation and faint feeling, this is totally abnormal. Your sympathetic and parasympathetic system should be able to know that you’re standing. You need to have good blood pressure and maintain it for you. Maybe an elderly person’s nervous system couldn’t sustain it for such a longstanding period of time. Aggravating features would be the menstrual cycle, which will enhance inflammation and dysregulation of the sympathetic autonomic nervous system in the body. There are certain viral illnesses that can aggravate and bring harm to this delicate balance between your autonomic nervous system. It’s implied that COVID is one of them. So the acetylcholine nicotinic and muscarinic receptors are impacted by the ACE, angio-converting enzyme, receptors that are blocked by the spike proteins. I would want to know if she had been injected with the mRNA material and so forth. So, there are so many things that go on here that become an issue. She has to maybe address this. Find a good functional doctor who will help work with you and stick this out with her now. 

Question

“What are your thoughts on using nicotine patches for chronic fatigue most likely caused by Lyme? Should those with atrial fib and/or (SVT) supraventricular tachycardia episodes be cautious using nicotine?”  [0:42:06]

Answer

Because nicotine helps in most situations where you have this autonomic nervous dysregulation. So you need to find a doctor who can discuss it and maybe use some low-dose nicotine gum or patch and try that with your daughter with many other issues at the same time. Is she drinking enough water, getting up in the morning, grounding herself to the earth for two to three minutes, standing barefoot at sunrise, getting the infrared light, shutting off her lights at night, the bedroom, the phone, and the screens, and the blue light and getting in bed around 9 o’clock, getting up with the sunrise. There are many things that can work to help the autonomic nervous system. 

So, my knowledge of nicotine is that there are two kinds of receptors, a nicotinic and a muscarinic receptor that are responsive to nicotine, and it’s all over the body. So it’s not like nicotine is a bad product. And there have been those with tachycardias that have used nicotine to modulate the racing heartbeats. Now, I’m not a cardiologist, I’m not qualified to say that that’s a treatment or one should try it. I just say that this is being looked into. And so, find someone with experience who might be able to address this for the racing heartbeat, atrial fibrillation. Acetylcholine is what is trying to dock in these nicotinic receptors, and this is part of the nervous system. And so, you have to eat a healthy diet and you have to have adequate hydration, and a multiplicities of lifestyle factors, have to be all spun together at the same time. I would never think that just taking nicotine as a gum or a patch is one nutrient over-the-counter answer because I don’t, I’ve never believed one biochemical structure is the solution to anything, I believe it’s always a multiplicity. So, that’s why you need a doctor to work with before you take any action on that. I’ve heard of it. I have heard that it has helped these racing heart rates. But whether or not you should try it, you need to find someone with more experience, a cardiologist. And there are more and more functional or what we call integrative cardiologists who are willing to if you say, I’ll take it on my own accord, but would you watch me as I do it, Dr. Smith, you know, and then if you find a doctor like that who’s a cardiologist that will watch you use nicotine on your own because it’s safe enough to be over the counter as gum and patches. So, for heaven’s sake. There are those who use it to help overcome attention deficit issues and hyperactivity disorders. They chew gum during their work hours to stay focused and on the job more attentive. So, it’s not something that’s, in my opinion, of much concern for toxicity at the recommended doses, but I don’t know if there’s any recommendation for tachycardias. 

Question

“My husband passed on January 4, 2025, at 85 years old. I was just reviewing a test that was not accessible until weeks later for PTH Int Only. It is 276.1 with a reference range of 8.7 pg/ml – 77.1 pg/ml. I am hoping you define a bit about what this means, if possible.”  [0:46:06]

Answer

Well, it’s responsible for helping to regulate your calcium and phosphorus balance in your body, parathyroid hormone. And when we become ill, sometimes we become bedridden. We have many things that happen to us, especially if organ failure or cardiac issues happen, tissues then begin to break down and calcium can spill out. Potassium levels and electrolyte levels change. And so, your body makes heroic efforts to try and put back the sodium where it should be, the potassium where it should be, the calcium where it should be, and so forth. And they might have drawn his blood at that time when he was doing a heroic reach for trying to bring control back to his calcium-phosphorus balance. But an endocrinologist would be better to address this question, and bring it up with a doctor at that time who was managing them to see what that meant. There is a very rare parathyroid cancer. Does it involve high parathyroid hormone levels? It could. And so, that may be something that was unknown in your husband at 85 years old, but that’s the best I can give you, an idea of what was going on and when it secreted a surge like that. Usually in extreme situations along metabolic shutdown crises, that often occur towards the end of life. But I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you have family and friends and people that are supportive of you at this time even now.

Question

“For several years I’ve attempted to elevate my extremely low level of DHEA with no success. I’ve used different brands, including those recommended by TLC. I’ve even tried a sublingual one from a compound pharmacy. I’ve used 50 mg. If I’m failing to absorb it, where is it going? Should I shoot for the moon and try a 150-mg pill?”  [0:48:36]

Answer

Well, if you take cholesterol, it’s made from cholesterol. You could have been someone who was advised not to eat eggs and not to eat egg yolks and meat and cholesterol-rich fruits. So, you have a whole body deficit of cholesterol. You might be on cholesterol-lowering drugs. All these things will have a mitigating effect on hormone production, and just in general cellular homeostasis or balance and your health. So, you might need higher doses if you are on any of these things or have any of these problems. If your blood type is A type blood, your ability to digest your steak or your egg yolk is even a matter. You might take it in your mouth, but whether or not you chop it up and then it’s absorbed is a whole other thing. And since your DHEA is made of that, as well as all your hormones need cholesterol, then this might be a whole pattern. So you would have your doctor do your DHEA, do your cortisol, your testosterone level, and look at your estradiol level. But that’s what I would think. Find a good doctor that can help. Look at those things for you. Find out if you’re at risk for having poor cholesterol metabolism that’s so necessary for these things to be of value in your body. But personally, I know of no harm to taking DHEA 100 mg a day or 150 mg but have it monitored by your functional integrative doctor or your endocrinologist. 

Question

“How much exposure are we getting to BPA? I know there was a move to get it out of items used for infants, but I just read that a lot of cans use BPA liners. So eating and drinking things put in cans is exposing us to BPA. Can we test for BPA in our systems? Are there indicators? Like metabolic syndrome, blood sugar/insulin, etc.?”  [0:50:42]

Answer

These are the products that are lining the inside of our cans. When you get a printout from the register receipt, they spray kind of laser the numbers and the checkout receipt, and that’s on a paper-corded with BPA. So, this material is associated with endocrine dysregulation significantly. So, I would just not eat canned food. I would get the green beans and cook them yourself in your own pot of water and have fresh green beans or bake them or however, you bake them. 

So how much exposure are we getting to BPA? Well, I’m not getting much because I won’t touch my receipts. And I tell every cash register, please put gloves on, don’t handle those receipts, or I don’t buy any of the plastics or the canned foods that have it in it. Or if I have something with it, it is so rare or it’s from someone else, so I want to go eat that. So, I don’t think it’s that much of an issue if you’re aware of it. Yeah, and I think that we should have the glass bottles for our infants again and not these plastic bottles. So, correct. 

He went on to say, that eating and drinking things put in cans is exposing us to BPA. True. Can we test for BPA in our systems? Yes, you can. That’s on paper chromatography or spectromorphic analysis. That’s very, very expensive. So hopefully that answers your question or gives you more insight. 

Question

“What is the difference between reacted magnesium and magnesium phosphate? Why is one preferred over the other?”  [0:52:40]

Answer

Reacted magnesium is having it bonded to something like an amino acid, magnesium glycinate, magnesium sulfate, magnesium citrate, and magnesium malate. So, these amino acids are much better absorbed through the gut and you get a much higher and more bioavailable, bioactive form of the magnesium. Whereas magnesium and phosphate, are just two pieces of mineral. The ion absorption of magnesium phosphate is extremely low and probably pretty much valueless.

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“What are your thoughts on drinking raw cow and/or goat milk? Do you drink it yourself? If so, where do you get it from?”  [0:53:29]

Answer

The answer is yes, from time to time. If I have milk, I buy the raw, unpasteurized, non-homogenized dairy at Sprouts. I go to Sprouts and I buy their organic pasture products. We had the man, in fact, he was invited by JFK Jr. So the man I had here years ago with his farm, to help popularize his raw milk, I had him do some speeches here. Now, he’s been appointed to work with RFK Jr on this very issue. But his farm is called Organic Pastures. It’s in California here. We’ve been to his farm, it’s lovely, very clean, beautiful. Happy-looking cows, free cows. 

Question

”Blessings! My 69-year-old husband is healthy, does not drink, exercises, eats well, and is on no pharma meds. He got back his PSA biopsy and it’s 5.3. Seven out of 12 samples came back as a group 1 Gleason 6 score. We are choosing surveillance ivermectin and fenbendazole daily. Any recommendations on the doses of each? His urologist is in the med. industrial complex.”  [0:54:29]

Answer

As long as your urologist/oncologist knows what you’re doing and can follow you, maybe you can find a good functional integrative doctor to follow along with you. 

So you’re saying any recommendations on the doses of each? I couldn’t recommend it because we don’t treat prostate cancer or any cancer. But the studies that I have seen, the testimonials that are coming out in the blogs, like Joe Tippens, are basically saying fenbendazole, I’ve seen recommendations for 444 mg, four days on, three days off. The ivermectin is around 12 to 24 mg, three days on, four days off. I have some people using one or the other. I have some people who have chosen in my practice to be on both at the same time, and they’re using them on their days off. So, if you’re on fenbendazole for four, then they’re off for three. On those three off days, they put in the ivermectin. So there is no training, there’s not enough research. Again, we need this income that has been abused, and the fraud to promote all these pharmaceutical get-rich-quick schemes controlled with their patents for a single drug needs to be stopped, and we need to get income funded for food research, nutraceutical research on things like this that the people are demanding. And so, we can find safe things to advise, because I can tell you, countless numbers of my patients are asking me this very question. So yes, I have to go to NIH, I have to go to PubMed, I have to go to the internet, I have to go to all these vlogs and blogs and read, and it leaves me a very little bit of life to live on my own. But I do this because I love God and I love serving His creation. But in no way can I say that this is standard of care or this is a recommendation from standard of care. I have to say, this is still in the Ether, you might say, and it’s all by word of mouth now. And what we need again is valid studies.

Now, I will tell you that of the countless number of patients that I’ve seen use this now, whether or not they had cancer or were using it for something else, I’m telling you, I’ve never seen harm except but in one person who took too much of one of these, I think it was fenbendazole, and he did get anemia that he recovered from but it did create a low red blood cell account and he did have a transfusion. Now, he was already under the care of his oncologist and getting other chemotherapies. Was it the fenbendazole that did it? Was it his other chemotherapy? I think he was on oral or GAVI or something else like that. We’ll never know because it was unique. But I’m saying, you cannot just recommend this willy-nilly. You have to be under the care of your oncologist who’s trained to treat cancers. Work with a functional doctor who is aware of all your questions and needs, and maybe your doctor. Like I work with a particular oncologist very well, and we’ve communicated over the decades. He knows what I’m doing and he knows how I’m trying to support the healthy immune, nutritive, and detoxing ability of my patients, and I never represent that I’m treating their cancer. So, find a good functional doctor, and a good oncologist, and let us know how it goes for you and your husband. We pray the best for him. But it sounds like it’s a low risk, and there is a group that will say a Gleason score under 7, watch and wait. The rate of doing nothing and observing compared to a 10-year study, there are studies that say watch and wait is beneficial for that Gleason score group.

Question

“Is the supplement Pregnenolone 25 mg okay to take for hormonal imbalance? My 37-year-old daughter has been on Zoloft for 19 years now. Her symptoms have worsened which are anxiety, sadness, weepy, excessive thoughts, and hopelessness. She is estrogen-dominant. Currently on EstroDIM, B vitamin, is seeing a functional psychiatrist which he recommended.”  [0:59:16]

Answer

Well, I don’t know your case. I do think that that’s a safe dose no matter what. We need our hormone estradiol. What we don’t need is to have estradiol without our progesterone. So there are many layers to this far beyond what I can address on this level, but I am for finding out what her blood type is. Most A-type blood has this kind of imbalance early in life because they don’t digest well. So find out if she’s a blood type A, and then talk about that with your psychiatrist. Have them give me a call here and I’ll tell them about my experience with blood type A and what we find and the balance of progesterone and checking the cycles, and the DHEA, the cortisol, the B vitamin levels, the D vitamin levels, the mineral levels. All these things matter. So, I think the 25 Pregnenolone is fine.