Some links on ldn I've collected, maybe someone will find it of interest.
From reading ldn may be a great benefit to many. I am strongly considering trying it.
I found the Scottish docs utubes(4 of) interesting, especially as he thinks peroxynitration and peroxidation are involved, as I suspected back when 2003? Great someone with his drive and intelligence has also come to this thought. Wish I could have him for a doc!
Ldn for MS- symptoms, numb in legs, fatigue...
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6R1GAZ6L9rk&feature=channel_page
Part 2 - on ldn, pain reduction, sleep improved, movement, ability to walk then drive and independence from wheelchair bound
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kYoxKctjVoY&feature=channel
Ldn for stomach pain, headaches, curled up in ball with pain, hair falling out - diagnosis here of Crohn's disease (another autoimmune disease)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=EodqDy1DxoE&feature=related
ldn success stories
1. Male, numbness & tingling, fatigue, depression, poor coordination, blader frequency
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8sHEWweXfEo&feature=related
fatigue improved first day, bladder frequency within a month, two months back to sports etc
2.Female, speech issues, swallowing problems, pain, heat-cold sensitive, loss of muscle control in calves of legs, fatigue
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_OnYXB-NkX4&feature=channel
3. female, MS, symptoms incl. dropping things, balance off, difficult to get out of a chair, couldn't type
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz52KK5IhOc&feature=related
ldn for pancreatic cancer treatment, together with intravenous alpha lipoic acid (alpha lipic acid can reverse liver disease, and appears to alter some of the cancer growth genes). Pancreas, liver
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WqRwXEnPYKk&feature=channel
LDN Conference Best of Dr Skip Part 1 _ study un by pharmacy
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HuIQcm1Ixmg&feature=related
84% people taking ldn had NO exacerbations since starting ldn
The rest include those who stopped taking ldn, sometimes due to hospital stopping the ldn medication
as well as a really good ldn summary to give to your doctor
http://goodshape.net/LDNHighlights.html
Dose : From listening to Dr Tom Gilhooly on the utube links below the dose can be as low as 1mg to start with, and from many sites and users up to 4.5mg may be required
Doctors on ldn
Dr. Phil Boyle
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1sZGQqYTVBg&feature=related
Dr Tom Gilhooly- from Scotland
patient symptoms incl. tremour in right hand
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=pGcnzy8Gv5E&feature=channel
(also into Nutritional medicine wrt. MS- eg omega3, vitD)
Part 2 bladder control frequency, study for ldn- going to try to measure beta endorphins
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vJ0ZmKFUDT4&feature=channel
Part 3 peroxynitrates(ONO)- chemical that damages, NO synthase & endophorins (possible antiaging effect of ldn via this mechanism, which is what i've noticed in photos of someone on ldn)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dzoWGI6s9kw&feature=channel
Part 4- psorasis
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpgh9kfaAMY&feature=channel
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8313092875696096715&hl=en
Video on ahsta.com website 2007 Dr. Pat Crowley & Dr Bernard Bihari (neurologist)(about 6 mins into video)
Other doctors, including Dr Gluck
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZ1fQKdOC8
Other possible uses for ldn
ldn for autism? (similar immune test panel results to MS) CD4 cell count raised by ldn- so considered and HIV in Africa as this has a lowered CD4 count
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=30EGZzgKID4&feature=related
ldn for HIV trial in Africa - subjects had already lowered immune systems (as measured by CD4 count)but not as yet AIDS, theory is that ldn may work by raising immune system as measured by CD4 count.
Autoimmunity is not involved here, but a purely lowered immune system via a virus. Hopefully it will help. It will be interesting to hear the outcome
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DAZ1fQKdOC8&NR=1
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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1nmqe5M1DGM&feature=related
Histopathology Spinal cord--Multiple sclerosis, myelin lessened in spinal cord
Note: demyelination generically is a normal part of the CNS reaction to injury (eg injury from a traffic accident?), goes hand in hand with odema englyosis?
Demyelination from B12 deficiency = Histopathogy
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MbvQd1EDjFY&feature=related
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Ldn may work by reducing glutamates ?
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reducing autoimmune disease
http://autoimmunedisease.suite101.com/article.cfm/natural_healing_in_autoimmune_disease
http://www.ahsta.com/Features/ElaineMoore/RepositoryofArticles/tabid/175/Default.aspx
http://www.ahsta.com/Community/Forumactive/tabid/208/forumid/95/threadid/1758/scope/posts/Default.aspx My post on acupuncture. Possibly ldn and acupuncture both have similar results with lesssening of MS-type symptoms as they both may be working by raising endorphins? I was only having acupuncture for pain after a traffic accient and tightness in my muscles, everything else I hadn't really put down to the acupuncture until I read about ldn rasing endorphins and its effects..and realised I'd had similar effects from acupuncture
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ldn users in ahsta
http://www.ahsta.com/Community/ForumArchivesreadonly/tabid/110/forumid/45/scope/threads/Default.aspx
http://www.ahsta.com/Community/ForumArchivesreadonly/tabid/110/forumid/45/threadid/442/scope/posts/Defaut.asp
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found this thread on users of ldn for depression etc
I posted here
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I'm looking into this for autoimmune thryoid disease(TPO and TG antibodies),although my thryoid is almost destroyed now.. it "felt" like it was self destructing after the traffic accident , and an ultrasound later showed it had almost..very little tissue left.
I've also had other autoimmune "MS-like" symptoms including balance,tingling/numbness in feet, loss of muscle strength in knees and legs, bladder control and frequency, intense pain,stiffness which exacerbated after a traffic accident but its difficult to say for sure if it was the accident or the stress from the accident exacerbating some underlying autoimmune susceptibility which had come and gone over the years. I think acupuncture helped resolve it at least temporarily.
No brain white plaques ever found on MRI luckily, although back in 2003 some vague white patches called non-significant were found, so no diagn osis of MS, just most of the early symptoms.
I feel a bit of stiffness and fatigue coming back after 2 weeks off acupuncture. I also had something like rheumatoid arthrits many years ago which went with exercise at the gym for a few hours a day over 9 months. So I guess I have some underlying autoimmunity and perhaps the endorphins increase help me control it?
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Edited to add:
http://www.webspawner.com/users/introtoldn/index.html
An Introduction to Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), story about someone who also had depresssion and more links
http://www.ldn-database.carnebeach.com/index1.html
Good page of links to sites, including how to get ldn in the US
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http://www.ahsta.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=BaBWsPqGYyg%3d&tabid=210&mid=942
Elaine's Chat on ldn
Elaine's book on ldn
Elaine on how to make a low dose of ldn from tablets http://goodshape.net/HomemadeLDN.html
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buying ldn
so far have found these
http://www.webspawner.com/users/howtoobtainldn/index.html
The least expensive option for obtaining LDN is to purchase 50 mg Naltrexone tablets online without a prescription from either of these two sources:
The River Pharmacy (Canada)
or
AllDayChemist (India), but still loooking
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For those of you in the first 3 months of LDN therapy Dr. Bob
Lawrence from the UK who has MS & uses LDN himself explains why the temporary increase in MS symptoms.
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/LDN_Users/message/6815
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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19041189
Med Hypotheses. 2008 Nov 26. [Epub ahead of print] Links
Low-dose naltrexone for disease prevention and quality of life.
Brown N, Panksepp J.
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL 32114, United States.
The use of low-dose naltrexone (LDN) for the treatment and prophylaxis of various bodily disorders is discussed. Accumulating evidence suggests that LDN can promote health supporting immune-modulation which may reduce various oncogenic and inflammatory autoimmune processes. Since LDN can upregulate endogenous opioid activity, it may also have a role in promoting stress resilience, exercise, social bonding, and emotional well-being, as well as amelioration of psychiatric problems such a autism and depression. It is proposed that LDN can be used effectively as a buffer for a large variety of bodily and mental ailments through its ability to beneficially modulate both the immune system and the brain neurochemistries that regulate positive affect.
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This is a copy and paste from LDN-Users
Here is the beginning of the ldn conference
http://www.skipspharmacy.com/vid/suzieintoldn08-webpreset.mov
the audio is a little weird -had some issues at the beginning but its audible and these great ladies are not to be missed Suzie, Aletha, Vck and Deidre
I split it in two and part one is uploading to u-tube as we speak for anyone new -- all the ldn videos live here
http://www.youtube.com/user/TropicalDawg
and if you go to playlists...
Part 1 on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOkwBnRTKY8
Part 2 on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvl9OmxnJM8
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