LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Tara Thompson, PharmD (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Tara Thompson, PharmD shares her Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Tara Thompson obtained her Doctorate from the University of Houston College of Pharmacy in 2012, after receiving her Biomedical Science degree from Texas A&M University. She joined Innovation in 2012 to advance her clinical mindset by focusing on women’s health and pursue her love for compounding. 

Tara collaborates with providers and patients across the US who are interested or presently using compounded medications to treat women’s health. Her areas of expertise and extensive research include Female Sexual Dysfunction, Pelvic Health, and Hormone Replacement Therapy. She currently serves as the Vice President of Clinical Services at Innovation Compounding.

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

Carol Petersen Pharm – 1st July 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Carol Peterson is a pharmacist from the women's international pharmacy in Wisconsin and in Arizona and is sharing her experience with Low Dose Naltrexone.

Back to about 2005 it happened that we had one of our pharmacists, had a son who developed Autism. And after he left us because of his interest in Autism, he came back and he got us to do Low Dose Naltrexone in a liquid for a physician in his practice.

And he wanted to try it on autistic children. So we did this for over the course of two years.

We compound with olive oil in the capsule. We also can do it in a crane. We can put it in Derma base and we also will put it in oil drops.

You can have it in an edible oil, olive oil, or could be another choice, or you could have multiple oils and change around if you like.

And when you have that drop formulation that could be used sublingually or you could use the drops on the skin and rub it in.

We're licensed in every single state. We generally use priority mail events, one to three days.

One interesting thing is that we are picking up on age management medicine group, because It gives you an opportunity to control inflammation and inflammation is a a symptom or a prime mover of us aging not so well. And to be able to moderate, that is a huge thing. So maybe we'll all be taking it to make our aging more successful.

I really think that LDN is an example of how we need to look at everybody as an individual and personalize their treatment where we're no longer in the age of one pill for everybody and some others, the fountain of youth that if we discover the right pond, it's going to fix everything.

We have been brainwashed for decades. Now that if we give up our power to big pharmaceutical companies, they're going to take care of us. We have to address things as they are occurred to us and our own individual environments and our own even mental attitudes.

And the blessing of Low Dose Naltrexone is that, when you take away that pain, which affects all your motility and your sleep, and you go back to sleeping normally and using your body normally gear, but your body has a chance to kick in and actually do the healing that nothing else would.

And your LDN book, I bought it. There was a good part of my presentation with all laid out there for me. So it was fabulous.

I am working for women's international pharmacy. We have a website women's international.com. And if you look in the educational part, you can find the two articles we've published on LDN in there.

Summary of pharmacist Carol Peterson. Watch YouTube video for full interview.

Pol De Saedeleer, PharmD (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr AnnMarie Graziadio - 23rd May 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr. AnnMarie Graziadio from New York, Apple Valley pharmacy shares her experience with Low Dose Naltrexone.

I got my bachelor's degree in pharmacy at Northeastern university in Boston. Right out after getting my bachelor's degree, I continued on to receive my doctorate degree in pharmacy from the university of Rhode Island. I did most of my clinical work at mass  general hospital in Boston. I then moved on and got a job for a pharmaceutical industry. Position at Solvay pharmaceuticals, which has now been purchased. I was coordinating clinical trials between that company and teaching hospitals, got to travel around the world and attend many conferences and it was fabulous.

Then I decided I wanted a family and I couldn't do that traveling three weeks out of the month. So I decided to go back into a clinical role at a hospital.

I ended up leaving Massachusetts and coming back to my home state of New York to be closer to family and raise my children here. I ended up getting a job with a local compounding pharmacist and when he was ready to retire, I purchased that pharmacy, which is now called Apple Valley pharmacy.

And we specialize in non sterile compounding. We service our local community where I grew up but we're also a bedroom community to Manhattan.

We're finding the patients that are using Low Dose Naltrexone have hardly any side effects at all and are just thrilled to find something that works that isn't interacting with anything or breaking the bank either when it comes to cost. They're a pleasure to work with.

Mostly, our LDN are capsules and we use micro crystal and cellulose as a filler.

A lot of our local providers start at 0.5 to one milligram and then slowly go up for 30 to 45 days to a maximum of 4.5 milligrams. But I honestly don't think I have anyone on 4.5 mg.

The feedback is great. There's no complaints at all. Obviously the titrating up is when they would normally say if they had any of those symptoms, like the vivid dreams and the nightmares, but we've had maybe one person say that they've experienced that during the titration phase and usually it goes away.

I usually ask them to call us within the first week of starting anything new, whether it's LDN or anything else that we would compound or dispense commercially.

We have a website which is www.applevalleypharmacy.com. We also have a Facebook page, which is also Facebook, Apple Valley pharmacy or patients can contact us via phone.

I can give you our number is (845) 988-5805 and we're readily available to help anyone that needs it. Our store hours are 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM. Monday through Friday. Saturdays we're open from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM and Sundays we're closed and we ship our prescriptions that are compounded free of charge.

So if the person doesn't live in the immediate area, it's not a concern. We would mail it to them.

Summary of Dr. AnnMarie Graziadio from New York, Apple Valley pharmacy interview. Watch the YouTube video for the full interview.

Pharmacist Brendan Quinn from Ireland - 13th April 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Brendan Quinn shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

You will enjoy Brenden Quinn’s delightful Irish accent. He is a pharmacist who has researched Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) since 2000 and witnessed great results for his patients. 

As LDN is becoming more widely known and utilised, he and others are starting up a large compounding business to supply many pharmacies that don’t do compounding. He confirms that LDN is the most effective, affordable, and safe drug for a multitude of autoimmune conditions, and the demand for it is growing rapidly.

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

Pharmacist Graeme Skinner from Australia - 9th May 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Graeme Skinner shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on The LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Graeme Skinner graduated from Sydney University in 1965, opened the Chisholm centre Pharmacy in 1970 and took over West Lindfield Pharmacy in 1995. He has respect for the power of natural medicine.

Graeme’s compounding pharmacy in Sydney Australia specializes in bio-identical hormone replacement compounds, but learned about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) ten years ago from a patient. Since then, he fills LDN prescriptions for many patients who have enjoyed great improvement for a host of autoimmune conditions. 

He shares his knowledge of LDN with local doctors who haven’t heard about it, and refers everyone to the ldnresearchtrust.org site to learn more about LDN. 

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

Dr. Sahar Swidan - 2nd May 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Sahar Swidan has travelled extensively to educate while running her own Compounding Pharmacy. She has witnessed many successes with the use of Low Dose Naltrexone and ultra-LDN. 

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 to make it a reliable and must-have guide.

Dr Swidan has witnessed a drastic improvement in many of patients when prescribing LDN, saying that 80-90% at least have noticed their overall health improve.

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 Nicholas J. Palermo and Pharmacist Gene Gresh guest on the LDN Radio Show 28th March (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Nicholas Palomo and Gene Gresh share their experience with Low dose Naltrexone.

We've been asked to compound LDN occasionally over the past 20 years but Gene really became familiar with it about three years ago.

And we had some pretty amazing success with a number of patients. Gene came across a number of studies and was excited because now we had some evidence that supported a lot of the anecdotal evidence that we had seen over the years.

Dr Nicholas was at his dentist's office and the receptionist was telling him that she had Hashimoto's disease and was on something called Naltrexone at a very small dose and it had basically reversed her Hashimoto's and she had never felt better in her life that turned out to be Low dose Naltrexone.

Dr Nicholas has been patients with all sorts of different symptoms and illnesses from Hashimoto's to colitis, slight arthritis, Polymyalgia rheumatica, significant results with Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, depression, various cancer patients.

Many of them are coming back with saying that their overall state of wellbeing has definitely been better.

Some of his patients have seen results within the first one to two months, others, especially Ms. patients have taken anywhere from six to 12 months. So what I stress now is go low and go slow and that's why I use the protocol of 1.5 milligrams for two weeks, and then see how they do three milligrams.

Then 4.5 milligrams. There have been a few of my patients that haven't done well at nighttime, and I've actually switched them to the daytime. And that seems to have worked really well.

And in that same light, any of my patients who have multiple sensitivities, whatever they may be, as well as multiple allergies, I will start off even at 0.5 even start lower.

And what I've also found is that many of them have genetic snippets that are related, especially MTHFR in particular. And for whatever reason, I'm certainly not a genetic specialist, but they seem to have a different sensitivity as well.

And being fortunate enough to be a family physician, those with chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia, I definitely found to have mitochondrial dysfunction.

So I will use a formula to help enhance mitochondrial functioning. And I have found that in concert with LDN, it makes a huge difference. And then I also work with them and I would probably say 60 to 80% of my patients with CFS or fibromyalgia that they have various needs that have not been met from whatever reason.

And we also think it is important to look to other things like gut microbiome, sleeping patterns, hormones,  infection and inflammation, their nutrition and exercise and play. Most of our patients (I've worked with hundreds of chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia patients) are just not getting enough fun in their life.

And then detoxification.

I have a friend who was in the military for many years and has some form of PTSD and severe depression. He was on three different medications and still wasn't doing well and had many breakthroughs. I suggested that he started LDN and after four months, his wife called me up and said: " Oh my goodness gracious. What are you giving him?"

And I also put them on methyl folate because he was MTHFR positive.

I was also at the Berlin conference.

There was especially helpful for me with children and how LDN can be helpful in cases of autism and ADHD.

Summary of Dr. Nicholas Palomo and Gene Gresh interview. Watch the video for the full interview.

Pharmacist Joseph Rossetti - 28th Feb 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Joseph Rossetti, Pharm shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Pharmacist Joseph Rossetti of Massachusetts has had a long career in the pharmaceutical industry. He has been compounding Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for 6 years and has approximately 120 patients on this safe and effective drug. 

He discusses some patient cases and says LDN is very helpful in most neurological diseases where other treatments have failed. An example of this is Lyme disease, which is a big problem in the state.

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

Pharmacist Joseph P. Navarra - 23rd Feb 2018 from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Joseph Navarra shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Pharmacist Joseph Navarra is the owner of the Town Total Compounding Center, in Melville, N.Y. Joseph graduated from St John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences in Queens, New York. Town Total Compounding Center is a PCAB Accredited compounding only pharmacy providing sterile and non-sterile compounding prescriptions. 

Previous to this he was the Executive Vice-President of the Town Total Health, independent pharmacies that have a focus on specialty pharmacy. The specialties served there are HIV, Transplant and Hepatitis-C patients in the New York Metropolitan Area. He has been involved with adherence programs, refill alignment services, MTM and investigational drug studies while owning Town Total Health.

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