How Micro Dosing Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)?

Answered by LDN Specialist Pharmacist Dr Sam Lebsock
LDN Specialist Pharmacist Dr Sam Lebsock

How Micro Dosing Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN)?


The next question is about micro-dosing and how it's done. Safety with capsule or liquid form. Actually, Dr. Kim published a paper on this that I'm happy to share with you but with micro dosing normally it's about two micrograms sometimes up to four micrograms when they're doing micro dosing. Um it can't.  Liquid is probably the more reliable but the one thing I want to point out here with micro dosing is there isn't a lab that can test us down to you know micrograms. This is very very low and so it is hard to achieve that dose and get consistent dosing so that's why it's been in the air a little bit as it's hard to study because you can't prove what's in that strength. There is a lovely paper by Dr Kim that I can share with you on pain and they used between two to four micrograms and basically, they can decrease um opioid tolerance and dose by about 40 to 60 percent I even think it's quoted in the paper. So it's pretty amazing the hardest part is you know getting that consistent dosing at that low of a dose.