LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Pharmacist Skip Lenz, LDN Radio Show 27 Nov 2019 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Dr. Skip Lenz from United States talks about his experience prescribing Low Dose Naltrexone.

Approximately in December of 1999, I had a patient who was on another product for Multiple Sclerosis who asked me to walk into this new thing, Naltrexone low dose.

There was a doctor up in New York who was prescribing it and was getting tremendous results with MS Patients. So I looked into it and I had several conversations with dr. Bahari, who was a clinical innovator of the year. And the rest literally is history.

We're now always down 100 to 200 scripts at the end of the week.

Back in 1999 we did a clinical study to close to a thousand MS patients and 83% not had an exacerbation in greater than three years.

I started taking LDN for Rheumatoid Arthritis about six years ago for prophylaxis. I'm a pharmacist. I have access to literally anything, nothing worked very well.  After three months, four months after I started my LDN, I wasn't taking Ibuprofen anymore.

LDN still hasn't been FDA approved. I was skeptical the first year. This is one of the reasons why I did our survey. Is working so therefore that's the reason why I am an advocate of it.

I've been a pharmacist since 1973. First of all, I have a conversation with my patients about what they're doing and what have they tried, what are their symptoms, what are their expectations of LDN. It's again, my experience that sometimes in a niche stuation, whatever the disease is in an acute situation, you may or may not get the result that you expect in a chronic situation and you're generally going to judge the expected result.

My experience it's either going to work somewhat in six months or it's not going to work at all. What I mean by somewhat is that you might only be getting, 20, 30, 40% of the results that you are expecting in six months, that you should be getting some sort of results.

Summary from Dr. Skip Lenz's interview. Listen to the video for the full interview.

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.

Pharmacist Sabastian Denison, 19 May 2021 LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sebastian Denison, RPh, FAARM (candidate), received his BSc in Pharmacy at the University of British Columbia. He worked at Northmount Pharmacy in North Vancouver for 11 years, specializing in HRT, veterinary, pain and sports compounding. He also was the Manager of Pharmacy Operations with the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic/Paralympic Games, and then the Manager of the Whistler Olympic Village Polyclinic Pharmacy. Sebastian is now a Clinical Compounding Pharmacist for PCCA in Houston, Texas. He works with both the U.S. and Canadian C3 education teams and the Pharmacy Student education team, and also speaks at physician, pharmacist and other healthcare professional education symposiums and events. He has recently lectured for the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine on Nutrition and Pain, Pharmacy Compounding and Collaborative Practice, and Alternative Uses for Naltrexone.

Pharmacist Michelle Moser - LDN Specialist, LDN Radio Show 04 Aug 2021 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Michelle Moser is a graduate of the University of Washington 1987 with a bachelor of science in Pharmacy. She holds a fellowship with the American College of Apothecaries and the American College of Veterinary Pharmacists. Michelle has worked in Long-term care, hospital-based and retail pharmacies in the Puget Sound area.

Michelle, along with her family, moved to Skagit Valley in 1996 and worked at Skagit Valley Hospital, Hilltop Pharmacy and Holland Drug before starting a consulting business. In 2007, became an in-home medication therapy manager for COPES clients in Skagit, Whatcom, And Island counties. Also served ambulatory surgery centers as a pharmacist consultant in Skagit and Whatcom counties.

2011 opened the doors for Makers Compounding Pharmacy where medications are made by hand for specific patient needs. Compounding for human and veterinary customers is a privilege, according to Michelle. In August 2015 a Hallmark store was added to the retail area. Since March 2017, Makers Compounding Pharmacy has upheld the highest industry standards for quality and safety through continued PCAB accreditation. Michelle lives in Big Lake with her husband Michael, who runs and operates The Learning Ladder Childcare. They have 4 children and are living the dream!

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.

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.

Pharmacist John Walczyk, LDN Radio Show April 2016 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr John Walczyk is the manager of a compounding pharmacy in Massachusetts and first heard of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) in 2008 through one of his patient’s therapies. Within a year he was seeing it prescribed more.

Rather than being primarily motivated by his own research of LDN, it was the positive reviews of so many patients that motivated Dr Walczyk to begin incorporating the drug into his own treatment. He has over 650 patients currently on LDN for a large variety of autoimmune diseases.

Despite very few minor side effects including a lack of sleep, Dr Walczyk is a strong advocate for the use of LDN in treating autoimmune diseases such as Fibromyalgia and Hashimoto’s.

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

Pharmacist Jim Hrncir, LDN Radio Show 23 Aug 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Jim Hanser who is the founder of Los Colinas, pharmacy compounding and wellness in Texas since 1984 shares his experience with Low dose Naltrexone.

I do want to start up by saying that thank you for what you do Linda Elsegood, because you have been an inspiration patient to me, even in inspiration to a lot of patients with your own personal case and putting that out there, which might've been painful for you, but I do appreciate what you've done and the work that you've put in to help patients achieve better health.

And I read your book and it was inspiring to me and an important read for my patients because that's what's most important is how we take care of our patients.

We started our pharmacy back when I was a kid. We had family,  friends that were pharmacists. They owned their own pharmacies and drug stores.

I got a degree in pharmacy.

It's quite a struggle to get your own pharmacy and I really applaud those who have done.

After working about two, four years,  for some of the chain pharmacies, I had an opportunity to start my own pharmacy. And at first it led us into dermatological compounding. And we were having early successes with that.

I started realizing that that western medicine, traditional medicine did not have all the answers. It's not they're trying to do a good job. Most of my friends are traditional doctors, but I thought there's got to be something more out there. So I started investigating integrative medicine or functional medicine.

And in the late eighties we opened the store.

We have our providers doctors who write prescriptions for compounds, we tested our products.

We become accredited in 2014.

We compound LDN capsules, liquid, cream and a spray nasal.

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Pharmacist Dr Izabella Wentz - US, LDN Radio Show 28 April 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Izabella Wentz, Pharm D shares her experience of thyroid issues, LDN and her book "Root Cause" The Definitive Guide for Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.

She speaks from experience in her books and her lectures, as she has hashimotos, IBS, and thyroiditis. Although she is a Pharmacist her time is spent consulting clients with thyroid and other autoimmune conditions.

She describes how diet, supplements, and LDN are important in correcting thyroid problems. She found going gluten, dairy, and sugar free was the first and most important step in her healing.

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

Pharmacist Dr Ike - US, LDN Radio Show 09 June 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Pharmacist Dr Ike is the CEO and founder of Enovex Total Wellness Pharmacy. He is a compassionate health care practitioner, cares about the health of every patient and tries hard to have all the information he needs to guide them to a better health.

He has been a pharmacist since 2003 and has a bachelor degree in biochemistry. He opened his own pharmacy in 2010 and a year ago he opened his Enovex pharmacy. They only do compounding, but will also do screening. They are licensed in six states.

He describes the various conditions where LDN is very effective, and applications for hormone compounding. He also talks about Ultra Low Dose Naltrexone which is very effective in enhancing action of the Fentenol patch. Less pain med is required and it lasts longer. Also the addictive nature of the Fenenol is reduced, which could be an important development in reducing opiate dependence.

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