LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Dr Samyadev Datta, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Samyadev Datta shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Samyadev Datta was first introduced to Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) in 2012 by Dr Pradeep Chopra, who explained the myriad of benefits LDN has in boosting the body’s immune system in order to combat diseases.

In his practice, Dr Datta primarily specialises in pain, particularly patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) and has found LDN to be very successful in these patients. 

In this interview he explains the complex relationship LDN has with opiates and painkillers, while providing an interesting insight into some cases in his practice.

This is a summary of Dr Samyadev Datta’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Datta’s story by clicking on the video above.

Pharmacist Sahar Swidan, LDN Radio Show 2016 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Sahar Swidan shares her Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Sahar Swidan has had a busy career, traveling extensively to educate while running her own Compounding Pharmacy. She has witnessed many successes with the use of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and also ultra-Low Dose Naltrexone. 

She is a humanitarian and is writing a book on opioid-free pain medicine in an effort to educate more people on the many other optional treatments. Many experts will add chapters.

In this interview she provides an interesting insight into pain management and how LDN can be used in its treatment.

This is a summary of Dr Sahar Swidan’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Swidan’s story by clicking on the video above.

Dr Ronald Hoffman Interviews Linda Elsegood on LDN and The LDN Book (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood shares her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Story on the Intelligent Medicine Podcast with Donald Hoffman.

In 1969 at the age of 13, Linda had glandular fever (Epstein-Barr virus). She was seriously ill and away from school for six months. 

Late 1999 Linda’s mother had a serious heart attack and the trauma affected her badly. She was working full time, travelling two and a half hours every day and running the home. This excessive workload and stress began to take its toll on her health, and by May 2000 she had lost her balance, lost feeling in the left side of her face and her head, tongue and nose were numb with pins and needles.

In early December 2003 Linda started Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), and the results were incredibly positive. By Christmas Linda was functioning again, and her liver tests were back to normal. She felt like herself again.

Linda founded the LDN Research Trust in May 2004. In this interview she says that it is the most exciting thing she has ever done. She is able to give many hours a week to the Trust, helping people to get LDN and trying to get it into clinical trials.

This is a summary of Linda Elsegood’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Linda’s story by clicking on the video above.

Dr Pat Crowley, LDN Radio Show 18 Dec 2016 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Pat Crowley shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Pat Crowley is a retired GP from Kilkenny in Ireland, and he's been prescribing Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) since 2004. He graduated from a university college in Dublin in 1968 and went on to have an extensive 40-year career in the pharmaceutical industry.

Throughout his career he has noticed the incredible benefits LDN has had to offer for not only his autoimmune patients, but also many cancer patients. Additionally, there has been instances which Dr Crowley has noticed where LDN has been effective in treating addictions such as Alcoholism.

This is a summary of Dr Pat Crowley’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Crowley’s story by clicking on the video.

Pharmacist Neema Yazdanpanah, LDN Radio Show 07 July 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Neema Yazdanpanah shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Neema Yazdanpanah has been a compounding Pharmacist for only a year, but is very knowledgeable and extremely enthusiastic about the effectiveness of Low Dose Naltrexone. He has done extensive study of LDN because it has been helpful to his patients with numerous autoimmune conditions. 

He did a survey of 62 patients for 3 months regarding side effects, effectiveness, and satisfaction of taking LDN. The average score was 9.12 on a 1-10 scale on effectiveness. Only 18% experienced minimal side effects which subsided after a week or two. This survey will be available on the LDN Research Trust site soon.

This is a summary of Dr Neema Yazdanpanah’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Yazdanpanah’s story by clicking on the video above.

Dr Michael Arata, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Michael Arata shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Michael Arata from the United States first heard of Low Dose Naltrexone around 2010 when one of his Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients asked about the drug. Luckily due to his connections with other physicians, Dr Arata was able to begin prescribing LDN to his patients swiftly.

In the first few years he found LDN to be particularly successful in the autoimmune patients from his practice, including patients with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, chronic Lyme, etcetera. 

In this interview Dr Arata explains how LDN works in the body against autoimmune disease and declares his optimism for LDN’s possible future for being adopted into mainstream medicine.

This is a summary of Dr Michael Arata’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Arata’s story by clicking on the video above.

Dr Mark Shukhman, LDN Radio Show 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Mark Shukhman shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Psychiatrist Dr Mark Shukhman practices in the suburbs of Chicago. Belmont Pharmacy is a nationally respected compounding pharmacy which compounds Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and bioidentical hormones, as well as a number of custom amino acids and mineral blends. They're based in Colorado and ship nationwide. Their goal is better patient outcomes through quality compounding, combining effective communication between practitioner, pharmacist, and patient.

In this interview, Dr Shukman focuses upon the psychological impact of autoimmune diseases and how LDN can help patients to recover from difficult experiences as well as boosting their immune systems.

This is a summary of Dr Mark Shukhman’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Shukhman’s story by clicking on the video above.

Pharmacist Mark Mandel, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr. Mark Mandel, owner of Mark drugs, compounding pharmacy in Illinois, United States shares his experience in prescribing and compounding Low Dose Naltrexone.

I first heard about LDN in the mid 1990s. One of my patients husband was using LDN, for a couple of conditions that he had at that particular time.

He had been diagnosed with cancer and with autoimmune diseases.

We compound LDN the simple way. LDN one compounded alone with lactose sugar is the most readily absorbed available source.

For those patients who are sensitive to lactose, the only other modification or alteration we do was we put it in combination with probiotics, and that seemed to have a beneficial effect for many patients as well.

We have the ability to put chemicals into any dosage form that was effective.

We do ship LDN all across the domestic United States.

We help patients with Cancer,  Multiple Sclerosis, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis prescribing LDN with success.

Dosing on the Low Dose Naltrexone can vary anywhere from a minimum 1.5 milligrams at bed time to the maximum effective dose, approximately 4.5 milligrams at that time. And then it's actually the 4.5 milligram dose is typically the most common dose.

There's a variety of different patients have different response rates.

And depending on the condition that's being treated, different concentrations at different dosages may be appropriate for different patients.

We probably have about 2000 physicians who are ordering Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).

We have physicians in the Chicago land area in central Illinois, and in Northwestern Illinois. We also work with physicians in Wisconsin and Indiana, which are the States surrounding Illinois surrounding the Chicago area.

Talking about LDN side effects, the majority of patients that report any, would be the very vivid dreams. The dreams are typically not disturbing. However some of them can be quite disturbing. Some can cause some anxiety, if the patient knows in advance that their dream cycle may be effected.

We found from a server that we carried out that only about 5% of people experience side effects at all.

We find that we're able to give the patients a lower price with a larger quantity of Low Dose Naltrexone, or they tend to get three to six months supply at a time. As you get to a three month or greater supply, the price of the LDN dropped to less than $20 a month.

So other medications that are available to treat these autoimmune conditions have awful toxicity, from simple nausea to complete fatigue, which is some of the things that you're trying to combat with conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis.

I've been amazed since I first learned about Low Dose Naltrexone, which was quite some time ago, at the positive results and the positive benefits that our patients have seen. I've had patients have been diagnosed with breast cancer, who decides to use Low Dose Naltrexone in conjunction with other treatments who've seen a reversal of the breast cancer, colon cancer and prostate cancer.

I encourage patients to contact me if they have questions. I can be reached through our website at Marc drugs or you can email us through our website@infoatmerckdrugs.com.

Summary from Dr. Mark Mendel interview. Listen to the video for the show.

Dr Leonard Weinstock, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Gastroenterologist Dr Leonard Weinstock shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Leonard Weinstock is from St Louis in Missouri and helps patients with GI Issues and other autoimmune conditions.

He first studied Clinical Pharmacology before going into Internal Medicine. His greatest interest is in Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and autoimmune conditions. In this interview he describes many conditions like Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS), Small Intestinal Bacteria Overgrowth (SIBO), and Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS). 

Also, Dr Weinstock explains how the brain-gut connection is vital in order to maintain one’s health and wellbeing. He utilises LDN to increase endorphins that help reduce inflammation, a common cause of many illnesses.

This is a summary of Dr Leonard Weinstock’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Weinstock’s story by clicking on the video above.

Dr Laurie Marzell, LDN Radio Show 01 March 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Laurie Marzell shares her Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Laurie Marzell is a primary care physician from Oregon that combines her knowledge of naturopathic medicine with modern medicine to help facilitate the body's ability to restore and maintain optimal health by creating a healing internal and external environment.

From a young age, Dr Marzell was fascinated by how the body works and how one is able to solve its issues through certain chemical processes. This led to her career as a primary care physician, which she has been in for over 30 years, 10 of which she has been prescribing Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).

However, it was the LDN Research Trust and its wealth of information that convinced her that LDN was the correct step forward in terms of treating her patients. Ever since, her patients have enjoyed great success.

This is a summary of Dr Laurie Marzell’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Marzell’s story by clicking on the video above.