 Hey, we're back everybody. Hopefully you can see me and find me again on Facebook. That's never happened before. We just totally went off the air in the middle of the spoon, and it was like a flash of light, and there goes Zoom, and there goes Facebook. So hopefully it wasn't anything that I said. Who knows nowadays, right? But we're back. So please join me on this feed. I'm also going to go back to the other feed and look at your questions, because I know a lot of you had questions there. But like I said, oh my gosh, 59 comments. This is fantastic. So I am going back to your questions and going to answer. Okay. So let's see where we were. So many good questions. Thanks for the highs. Hi, Elaine, Megan, Victoria, Kristen, Dr. Jo Ellen. So she asked, what is the best source of vitamin D in the most efficient form for the body to metabolize? So a good clean form that soy free and other, you know, excipient free, they're all pretty, pretty good. You can look on our Dr. Jill Health website to see some of the brands that we carry. I like Thorn Research or the Molecular Products, Zymogen, Designs for Health, many others, Quicksilver, I'm sure I'll forget to mention a few. There are liposomal forms, so the liquid forms. If you're having trouble with a capsule, you can try a liquid drop. And some of them have K2 with them, which is great for bone health and metabolism. So that can be a good thing too to get them together. The only thing with the K2 form is if you want to go higher in your dose for a day or two, you can get too much K2 because they're together. So it's probably better to have them separately if you're, you know, doing various doses of vitamin D3. So we got through High Cynthia, High Lisa, High Salane. Hopefully some of you are back on listening. Could Lisa ask, could one ever be clear of psoriasis? Yes, Lisa, guess what? I don't know. A decade ago, I had psoriasis really bad on my scalp and back on my neck. And this is not the case for all patients, but for me, I had two root canals, both sides here. And they were the second to last molar. I think number 19 on one side and number two on the other. I don't know the numbers of the teeth very well. So if you're a dentist, you can correct me. But what happened was those root canals, because I had a weak immune system from my mold related illness and Lyme disease. I was getting little bits of bacteria into my immune or into my bloodstream and unbeknownst to me, that was affecting my autoimmune psoriasis. When I pulled those two teeth and got rid of the root canals, my psoriasis went away within seven days. So again, not for everybody, but if you do have root canals, I would consider that as an issue. Looking at the gut, leaky gut can contribute. So if you have yeast or fungal or mold exposure or bacterial growth, those can all be contributors to psoriasis, as can other tick-borne infections like Bartonella or Lyme disease. So Elaine, do you recommend a second GPL test after detoxing? And does it show improvement? So she's talking about probably the mycotoxin test. And she's probably heard me say, usually I test it in the beginning. And then I don't always retest because what you're doing when you're looking at mycotoxins in the urine is you're looking at excretion. So when we are excreting those mycotoxins in the urine, and then we're doing a detox, we want that excretion to occur. So if we test too soon afterwards, sometimes we'll get higher levels and it'll be confusing for the practitioner and patient. If you know that you might be higher levels because you're excreting and that's a good thing, there's no problem retesting. But I usually wait at least six months to retest and sometimes longer because what I usually do is I'm looking at their symptoms and seeing if they're improving over time. Kristen, those that are immune compromised scheduled to get the vaccine phase two in the spring, do you recommend we get it? Or is Ivermectin supporting your immune system safer? So as you can imagine, I have to be very careful about how I talk about this. As the data comes out, I promise you I will keep you posted because I definitely have thoughts and feelings, very strong ones on certain issues. But what I will tell you now is this. So far, most of the trials have been about two months. And if you were to get a reaction like autoimmunity from a vaccine, that's not going to happen in a short amount of time. Now I'm not saying they caused that, we don't know. But I would if it were me, I would not be the first one in line because I want to see more data on the safety. I'm not saying they're not safe. I'm not saying we might not find in time. It's no problem with autoimmunity. But I am saying I don't think that right now, I would feel safe with the amount of time that we've seen them getting that I'd like to watch a little bit longer. And I hope that makes sense. Best binder Megan for ochre toxin and citron. Ochre toxin tends to be found very well by colostyramine, which is that prescription. Some people call it fish powder because it tastes so bad and smells bad. But it's very effective. I still like to use clay and charcoal and zeolite and citrus pectin and glycomannins and chlorella. So you can use all of those. But for ochre toxin, the colostyramine still tends to be excellent. Nicole's asking, is that like Zyphaxin? Yes. When I was at talking about treating the different infections, rifaxin is a generic name for Zyphaxin. So yes, Nicole. And then Sassy says, I don't bind a sunlight. It's probably from cute dog. Yeah, Robbie is a darling companion. Elizabeth asked, what if you have CUMT and don't tolerate corcitin and bromelain? Yes. Elizabeth, I understand. I'm similar to you. I have a funny story to tell. I, what was it the other day I had a reaction and I thought, oh, corcitin will help. And I can't remember what it was that I was thinking I had an allergic reaction. And I thought, oh, I'll take some corcitin. I don't normally take a lot because like you, Elizabeth, I have CUMT plus plus, which means we don't break down norepinephrine, epinephrine, and estrogens as well because that's a rapid metabolizer pathway. I'm sorry, the slow pathway. Slow pathway, we get accumulation of those things in our system and corcitin blocks that pathway. So all that to say back on my funny story, I'm driving home and I'm like, oh my gosh. Like I'm not normally a nervous, anxious person, but that particular day, you know the feeling when you've just gotten to Carxton or you just got stopped by the police and you're just like, you know, you're feeling really like revved up inside and it's all adrenaline. That's what happens. You get this adrenaline surge. Like if you have a bender, bender and you just ran into someone and you got this adrenaline surge and you just feel like you're about to explode inside because you have all that adrenaline. I was driving home from work that day after taking like six corcitin, which I should know better. And I was like, what in the world? My body feels like so revved up. And so like, I wasn't anxious mentally, but internally it felt like that. I was like, oh, I just did an experiment in inhibition of COMT. And for me, I already have a slow COMT. And so by taking that large disc of corcitin, I just up-regulated my adrenaline and I got this like massive surge and it was pretty awful. So it didn't take long. It took some charcoal. I was fine, but I learned better than to take six corcitin for COMT plus plus mutations. Ali asked, Colleen, does it take mold-related weight gain to shed? Oh, my dear. I'm so sorry to hear that. I remember having like ankles that looked like elephants. I couldn't wear dresses. I mean, three plus pitting edema with the mold. I definitely had lots of water retention and weight gain. The difficulty there is you really can't lose the weight until you detoxify because dilution is the solution to pollution. And what that means is our bodies like to hang on to the weight and the fat because it dilutes the toxic effect. So not that you can't start to lose weight during that process, but you really need to focus first on the detox. And I would say that could take anywhere from six to 18 months. And then after you're adequately detoxified, that's when you might be able to start losing that weight. And it's no fun process. I'm so sorry that you're going through that. Nicole says, my question is if someone suspects chronic Lyme, what's the best? Oh, we talked about that last time. Mold but can't leave the environment. What are ways it can help protect? So Patricia asked about, what about if you have mold in your environment, but you can't leave and what can you do? So this is tricky because I always say it's like bailing out a boat that's leaking and you're getting just a little bit of traction, but you're like two steps forward and one step back. But I understand some people are in a mold environment. Some people have exposures. Some people just can't do anything. So it's still worth it to take binders. I still most every day. I mean, I'm in a clean condo. My workplace is clean. There's no mold exposure, but mold is everywhere. So when I travel, which we don't are doing much anymore, of course, when I used to travel, I used to take charcoal every day. And if you're in a mold environment, I would absolutely take binders. I would start the detox process and I would open your windows again, dilution solution, pollution. So what you can do is you can dilute the air in your home by getting the high quality air filters, changing out the filtration on your HVAC system with a high quality Merv rating filter, getting Austin air units, like I mentioned, opening the windows whenever possible because anytime you can dilute that effect, it will make you feel a ton better even in a toxic environment. Okay. Mass cell and extremely sensitive. This is Taylor. It smells fumes, fragrance, essential oils. Oh, Taylor, I'm so sorry to hear that. Yeah, this is super common because those basically think about this. If you have multiple chemical sensitivity, meaning you're extra reactive to chemicals and you go down the fragrance aisle and target and you get all sensitized, that means that your bucket, your toxic ability to detoxify is full. So we're all born with the bucket capacity to detoxify, meaning that's our ability to get rid of toxins and things. And as that bucket fills up over time, it could be with mold, it could be with environmental toxic chemicals, it could be with natural gas in your house or a leak or radon or heavy metals, you get mercury fillings in your mouth. And as that bucket starts to fill up, it overloads. And when it starts to flow over the top, you present with symptoms and people with multiple chemical sensitivity will almost always have a very full bucket. So what to do? First of all, avoidance is key when you can. So you really do want to decrease exposures to perfumes commercially. I use almost exclusively essential oils if I want to scent because I don't, or the perfumes, if you do want to use them, which a multiple chemical sensitive person probably wouldn't. But for those of us who do want to use something like that, spray it on your clothing, not your skin, because it does absorb. And then you're going to get phthalates and parabens in your body. And that's not good either, because those can contribute to cancer. Leslie, if you have antibodies to COVID, do you need the vaccine? Well, technically antibodies are what the vaccine gives you. So I would say no. However, I think the rules and regulations around how our country is going to be doing this is to be determined yet. So that question may, may, the answer may come. Although technically, if you have antibodies, you have antibodies, however you get them. Cynthia, hi, and thank you for the live Q&A. A 51 been on prednisone for two years and two months for mast cells due to mold toxicity now off prednisone, but need to deal with osteoporosis. Oh, you poor thing. So she's taking some bone support testosterone, doing exercises, estrogen, et cetera. My concern is my non-MD approach taking enough, is this enough to build the bone? So yeah, prednisone will decrease or increase the reabsorption of bone. And so if you're on that long term, that can be a risk factor for osteoporosis. So bone is a lot to do with acid alkaline. And how this works is if you're very acidic from infection or toxin or diet, or even airborne exposures, you're going to buffer the acid because the blood keeps the pH highly regulated. So that in order to regulate the blood pH, the body will borrow from the bone those minerals because they're alkaline and they will buffer that acidity in the blood. So first thing first, you want to make sure your alkaline in your diet and your detox and how you can do that is lots of green foods, lots of leafy greens. Let me see if I can find my acid food chart. And if I can, I'll show you here quickly. Here we go. I think I can show you guys a picture of this on the screen chair, just so you can see for a sec here. So these are acid alkaline foods. You can see in the most alkaline baking soda, sea salt, mineral water, and then broccoli, onion, sea vegetables, etc. And then more acidic would be like table salt, beer, yeast, sugar. So if you're in a very refined sugar diet, you're going to be a lot more acidic. And if you're eating more leafy greens and nuts and seeds of some types, that's going to be a little bit more alkaline. So is this enough? You know, it depends on your numbers and that I think that like calcitone and nasal spray is a very gentle way to help increase bone density and it is prescription. And then I have mixed feelings about some of the other drugs as I'm sure you do. But I would start there, I would monitor your bones and see how you do and think about acid and alkaline that may help. Oh gosh, we're running out of time again. This is so much fun. And I see tons of questions. Let's see if I can get a couple more in. We talked about Addison's Marcus ask of tests positive by a blood test from gastro for certain food allergies. Would you stay away from those foods? I don't react to those foods, but I don't want to cause further inflammation. And I always wonder if eating those foods could cause silent inflammation. Marcus, this is a great question because I have been to and so let me tell you my story. I had Crohn's disease at 26 years old. I'm completely in remission from Crohn's. But because of that, and because of the chemo, I had from cancer, I have a very permeable gut and it's been healing all the way along. However, because of the permeability, I have developed IgE food sensitivities. If you would do a test on me, I light up like a Christmas tree. And so if I would, if I were to eliminate all the foods I'm sensitive to, I would probably not be able to eat many things. So what I do recommend Marcus is you take out the big ones, wheat, dairy, egg, soy, corn, maybe tomato, maybe potato, maybe a peanut, depending on you, maybe pie and some random things, get out the really large reactivities. And then for the rest, you want to rotate foods and try to eat the same thing every day. But if you have a severe permeability issue in your gut, you're going to have more IgG foods sensitivities and you don't necessarily want to forever eliminate all those. I like to have a diverse diet. So even if I have people eliminate them for 30 days or 60 days or 90 days, I'll often try to add them back in in time. Oh my goodness, this is so much fun. So I do promise you all I will be back and I'm sure there's loads of questions I haven't gotten to, but I will take note on those and stay tuned because we'll do this again after the holidays and I will be back to answer your questions. Thank you so much for spending time with me today and I wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy new year. Bye.