Ask Dr. B February – March 2023

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I can get significantly nauseous when I supplement with Vitamin E (I take right after a meal, usually with fat). I’m wondering what is causing this and if I should discontinue or take differently. I usually take Holozyme HCL and digestive enzymes with meals.
I was a healthy active male until around 8 years ago. Feet started to hurt and there started to be a cracking sound in my ankle joints. Fast forward to now and I need a double hip replacement and my knees and all my joints are failing to the point where I can barely stand and I need a walker to move around. I have a rheumatologist who is only prescribing drugs and testing my blood, nothing else. In the meantime I am losing mobility. Orthopedics doctors are useless unless there is a surgery to perform, that is literally all they care about is making the commission on surgery. I went to Orthopedics 3 times for help with my joint health and each time was a horrible experience.
Can you recommend a DC that is in the Chicago area that could help me?
I am currently taking 600mg lithium and 40mg geodon. The nurse said she wasn’t sure if I had bipolar disorder but said it could be. The problem is I find myself being really tired, slurred speech, and slow thinking when on geodon. I also noticed akathisia and find my body will rock back and forth very slowly when standing. When I take lithium at 830pm I am also out like a light until 4 in the morning. I sleep for hours. My parents are forcing me to take this meds because the doctor from the psychiatric ward said I needed to take it long term for life. She said she will lower the dosage but what is a way to detoxify and get off these drugs in a safe way instead of asking the doctor for alternative medication? I see that many people experience bad side effects such as seizures or other problems. I do feel I don’t have bipolar or schizo, just depression but I’ve learned through the videos on here how to to better manage it.
My question is do you work with patient with an osteosarcoma history? I want to bring my daughter to your clinic in San Diego or Tijuana? She had it on the left leg at 9 years old. A left lung nodule that was osteosarcoma at age 14. She did chemo and surgery for both. The oncologist wants her on a chemo pill with the main side effect is thyroid changes, red hands, itchiness, dirrhea…major side effect but unlikely is heart and high blood pressure, blood clot. We don’t know yet if we doing this route. I am trying to find information about other alternative options.
I reached out to schedule a consultation with Dr Smith. I watched his video about his book deconstructed cancer.
And now wondering if I should get her in to see you for extra support for my daughter.
My eyes are very sensitive to blue and florescent lights (they fatigue very easily). I also have had a few episodes of ocular migraines and would like to protect my eyes. I bought some cheap blue light blocking glasses on Amazon which do help somewhat.
Can you recommend any affordable (but better than what is available on Amazon) blue light blocking glasses? The ones I’ve seen recommended on Extreme Health Radio and Nourishing Traditions are over $100-$150 each and well out of my price range!
Nasal and Oral Probiotics
I live in a moldy house and have Lyme/Co-infections. I believe this led to me developing allergies. My herbalist recommended I use Snoot (Chlorine Dioxide nasal rinse). It definitely helps with my allergy and brain fog symptoms. Do I need to do anything to repopulate the nasal microbiome? On the same note, my family and I have been using the Essential Oxygen Brushing Rinse (Mouthwash) and I wonder if there is anything we should be doing to maintain a good variety of beneficial bacterial in the mouth?
My 12 year old son has been complaining of intermittent pain in his left wrist for the past couple of years. It mostly occurs when he goes to bed late or if he is bored at school. It seems to be a dull ache on the inside of his wrist. The doctors ruled out carpal tunnel and he has been through 2 rounds of physical therapy and on and off chiropractic care, and the pain is still there. His trap muscles are tight and so are the muscles around his left elbow.
He also gets overwhelmed very easily (especially learning about new things in school), to the point that he completely shuts down and gets very angry (seems like classic “fight or flight”).
Last month I finally convinced the chiropractor to take x-rays of his spine and they found that his left hip and left shoulder are higher than the right, his mid-spine curves to (his) left and his neck curves to the right.
They recommended that he lie on a hard surface on his right side with a book (about 1″ thick) under his right hip and with a pillow supporting his neck and raising it slightly for a few minutes each day.
Do you think the wrist pain and strong emotions are due to the curvature of his spine and unevenness of his hips and shoulders?
Do you agree with the chiropractor’s exercise?
Is there anything else we should be doing for him?
In November of 2021 you looked at my x-rays and identified that I had a massive rotation at the top of the thoracic area that was causing my panic attacks and anxiety. I found a chiropractor that was able to implement your protocol and was seen about 70 times over the course of just over a year (end of Dec. 2021 – February 2023). Follow up x-rays show no more rotation in the upper thoracic.
How long does it take for the body to move from a state of sympathetic dominance to parasympathetic dominance? (ie. when should the anxiety/panic begin to recede?)
I do still have a slight anterior spondylolisthesis at L5. Are pelvic sacral blocks useful to use at home to help correct this?
My 64-year-old mother has muscle aches all over her body and feels fatigued. She has never felt like this before and feels like she had lower energy then usual. What could this be?
IBD/Colitis Our 12-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Ulcerative Proctitis. We have done our best to handle the disease with managing her foods along with supplementation and avoided medications (Mezera) for fear of her having long term side effects. We were able to control the disease for a while, yet now she in a flare that we can’t get her out of, which is including stomach pains to all foods and drinks and constant diarrhea. We have worked with two different naturopathic doctors in the past, yet feel that once they have exhausted all recommendations that they have, they are no longer in tune with working with us.
We live in Ontario, Canada and are wondering if you are able to give an opinion or suggest a doctor within this area that we could contact. Or if you have any protocols that we could follow, we would greatly appreciate it.
My mom was told by an eye physician that she’ll need cataract surgery in the future. I suggested not to do it.
Are there any side effects of having cataract surgery?
Are there any ways to heal the eyes of cataracts?
I usually drink fruit shakes instead of eating breakfast. Recently after eating/drinking a bad combo of food i.e. after dinner, I had organic chocolate. Than 20 minutes later I drank a Non GMO ginger ale. 20 mins later I drank what was left of my blended fruit shake. And my stomach was feeling uneasy throughout the night. The next day the uneasiness got worse. After a colonic, the uneasiness went away. The next day, I drank a shake again, and felt uneasiness again. It got better after i had to go to the bathroom. I’ve taken a break from drinking fruit shakes for a few days now and so far so good. I also drank water + castor oil and that seemed to help “unstuck” me. Could it be bad to be drinking blended fruit shakes every day?
I have a 26 yr old male friend. It has been about 2 months that he gets priapism, or basically his penis gets erection without any stimuli and he has had to go to the hospital to remove blood from there as a solution. The problem is getting more frequent and from once a month, it is now weekly. The doctors are out of ideas. He has got the jab. He’s healthy and in good shape. His life has turned upside down since this problem started.
My gums bleed when i floss. I went back to consuming Complex-C and Complex-B. Do you know what reasons this could be? What else I can do to prevent this? Background: I oil pull everyday, floss everyday, brush with baking soda, gargle with a.c.v. I’ve been taking oOegas 3, Vitamin C in powder, iodine, and digestive enzymes. I do liver cleanses and colon cleanses.
About a month ago, I noticed 1 of my molar teeth sensitive when I floss it. As of a few weeks ago, it’s gotten worse. It’s now temperature sensitive, mostly when I consume something cold and the floss sensitivity has gotten worse. Any thoughts why? Anything I can do about this?
Background info: this molar tooth is a crown i had put on at your clinic in Tijuana. I don’t use commercial toothpaste. usually baking soda, sometimes with peroxide. Once in a while I gargle with a.c.v., pink salt, lemon essential oil, and cayenne pepper (mainly because of bleeding gums when i floss). I’ve also been oil pulling, almost every day now due to the tooth sensitivity. And I just finished a liver/gallbladder flush if that helps.
Is it ok to use an infrared sauna blanket or infrared sauna tent if you have mercury amalgam fillings? I use one where the head sticks out of the tent so my head is not directly exposed to the heat, although my body temperature gets raised from the sauna. Will the increase in body temperature increase mercury vapors to a dangerous level? I will probably get my mercury fillings removed this year (safely at a biological dentist).
For ozone therapy, you previously recommended using an antioxidant to counter the oxidating effects of ozone. I currently have a water Sota ozonator that I am using to drink ozonated water. I also purchased a molecular hydrogen breathing device, which I guess is good for antioxidants (and has other benefits). How many hours apart should I be drinking the ozone water (oxidant) from the molecular hydrogen inhalations (antioxidants)?
Is drinking ozonated water on a daily basis a good way to get full body ozone benefits? Will the ozonated water enter the blood stream and circulate the entire body?
I’ve been experiencing nerve like pain originating from upper left shoulder blade/ upper back area. It used to radiate to my left index and left thumb depending how I sat, but I think having my back adjusted had stopped that pain radiating to my extremity. Today it was probably a 9 of scale 9-10 in regards to the nerve like pain around my left shoulder blade. Sitting in a car I couldn’t adjust, leaning forward or leaning back makes the pain terrible. I tried using my posture pump to see if it helps. I usually do 18 minutes per use, but the pain got worse, I stopped using it at about 12 minutes. Should I stop using the posture pump if I’m still feeling pain in this area? Or is more pain a sign that the posture pump is working? Anything else I can do to cure the left shoulder blade discomfort?
In your True Health Tuesday Talk you mentioned The anatomy and physiology coloring book. Who is the author of the specific book you talked about?
My wife aged 40 has been informed about her diagnosis which is a precursor to cervical cancer. Of a rating of 1 to 3 she is 2.5. Showing signs on her cervix of a whitish slight lumpy. She has very strong periods. Also an autoimmune disease in the frontal inside of her vagina along with lymphoma in her legs and a hyper thyroid. She uses light birth control to stop her period and takes thyroid medication. Any help on those issues are greatly appreciated.
I’ve been feeling dull like pain/discomfort above but left side of my crotch. I think I noticed it after doing some wrestling back in Nov 2022. I feel discomfort when I sneeze, but the pain ceases at the end of my sneeze. The discomfort also occurs depending on how hard I cough, subtly depending on how I stretch, flex my abs, and rarely laying down, a subtle dull/burn like pain. The discomfort is tolerable, meaning I can go about my day. Is this a sign of a hernia or something else? Anything I can do? Not sure if this matters, but I do not take medications, do liver flushes and colon cleanses.