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Dr Leonard Weinstock 16th March 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.
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 LDN works to help heal the Gastric Intestinal Track in cases like Crohns, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and other autoimmune conditions. 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.
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 Leslie DeGasparis - 15th April 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.
Dr Leslie DeGasparis from Seattle in Washington is sharing her experience with Low dose Naltrexone.
I'm an NDA naturopathic doctor. I went to the University of Washington for my undergraduate bachelor's degree. And then from there, I attended the Bastyr university for my doctorate in naturopathic medicine. And since then I've been practising for about 15 years. The first 10 were mostly primary care.
And then the last five I've concentrated on endocrinology with thyroid disorders and hormone balance.
Mostly, I attend women and I'm pretty happy with the outcomes of the infertility cases, especially when, on their last stop using LDN. They've usually already seen fertility doctors. And what I do notice is that something like LDN and really focusing on thyroid as well are often overlooked. So when we add those components to the fertility treatment, that pregnancy can happen.
Regarding LDN dosing times, historically over all these years, I've used it at night because originally that's what was said to work and it has worked. I'm a little wary dosing in the morning, but that being said for compliance reasons, in a few cases, I find that morning needs to be the time.
I'm watching these people to see if they do, as well as the models.
I have some people on doses between two and three milligrams longterm. We can watch their antibodies and we do know they're doing well. So I was very intrigued about the lower dosing and the intermittent dosing discussion in the conference this year.
I've had some pretty phenomenal results with some of the cases I have with children.
Children with autism in the practice where they really didn't know where to turn. And we use nutrition and LDN.
I treat mostly men with Hashimoto.
I just recently got someone with renal failure. I put them on LDN and he's actually no longer headed for dialysis. He had told him he was going to pass away in the next year or two and he's actually doing very well. And I think LDN was a big part of that.
Regarding gut issues, 'll do a breath test for SIBO and H pylori. Those are best detected by a breath test and then still test them. Or I like to look for overgrowth of fungus, parasites, inflammatory markers, food allergies, that kind of thing. There are blood tests too for food allergies.
I feel like they're a little bit less accurate than the stool test, but I'll use a combo of those things to get to the bottom of the case and get it figured out. If necessary I also put them on an anti-inflammatory, gluten, dairy, and sugar-free diet. I called them kryptonite when I talked to my patients and I feel that they are inflammatory.
Our clinic is in North gate, which is in Seattle, just north of downtown. Our phone number is (206) 925-3525. And our website is www.seattleadvancedthyroid.com.
Summary of Dr Leslie DeGasparis interview. Watch the video for the full interview.
Lili - Denmark: Psoriasis, Psoriatic Arthritis, 11 April 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.
Lily from Denmark experienced the first symptoms of arthritis 20 years ago, 10 years into that she was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis as she had developed a horrible rash mainly in her scalp. She was given methotrexate by her specialist. Methotrexate helped her in the beginning but soon stopped helping and Lili was at a loss, she had a lot of pain and very poor sleep and her life was severely affected.
Lili did her own research online and heard about Low Dose Naltrexone from a Facebook group. Her doctor was great and prescribed it when she requested it. The first dose helped her, she slept better and had less pain and her psoriasis, on her scalp, cleared up within a fortnight. As she increased her dose her pain also disappeared and she is now able to live a normal life. Laura walks 8 Km a day now with her dog and sleeps through the night and consequently feels so much better.
Anthony - 11th April 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.
Anthony shares his Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and Low Dose Naltrexone story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.
Anthony first noticed an issue with his alcohol during teenagehood, when he would continue drinking long after his friends had stopped. From the age of 13 to his early thirties, Anthony barely went a day without drinking.
During this interview Anthony discusses “Alcohol Use Disorder” (AUD) and how successful The Sinclair Method is in treating the problem. Simply explained, the patient takes a 50 mg Naltrexone tablet one hour before drinking alcohol. It negates the effects and over time, reduces the addictive aspects. She explains how this is safe and inexpensive and that the success rate is 78%.
This is a summary of Gary’s interview. Please listen to the rest of Gary’s story by clicking on the video above.
Dr Laura Blevin - April 4th 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.
Dr Laura Blevins from Portland in Oregon, a naturopathic doctor is sharing your experience with Low Dose Naltrexone.
I believe I heard about LDN for the first time back to my first year in medical school. One of my professors who teaches the gastroenterology classes was a very big proponent Low Dose Naltrexone and introduced us to it pretty early in some of our pathology classes. He was bringing it about in the context of autoimmune disease and my father has had multiple sclerosis since the mid-1970s.
I actually use personally as well. I have Hashimoto's and I largely credit LDN with helping to get my Hashimoto's into remission. And I probably write at least a dozen prescriptions for it a week because I see so frequent autoimmune disease in my practice.
Most patients I'll start with 1.5 milligrams at that time for a week, and then we double it to three milligrams for a week. And then we go up to 4.5 milligrams and as long as they tolerate that, that's the dose that we stay at and I do kind of give them a heads up that some of the more common side effects include restlessness and vivid dreams.
But I let them know with each dose increase that if they start to experience those side effects and that it's bothersome to them, that they need to call or send me a message and check-in so that we can discuss options because I have a few patients that are very sensitive and need to stay at that lower dose and still get good benefits from it, but they can't tolerate the higher dosages.
The children I've used it for the youngest was aged six. We were using it for severe allergies.
And I started her with a quarter milligram and then we ended up moving up to a half milligrams into three-quarters of a milligram. And she ended up staying at a milligram and we did six months worth of therapy and then tapered her off of it and remarkably so far. And we're about a year and a half out.
Now, her allergies are completely gone and have not come back.
She's kind of one of my miracle cases. She had done allergy shots and was on high dose anti-allergy medications every day that made her very drowsy and less functional in her life.
And their parents were so happy that we found this other answer for her.
I've I always counsel my patients about kind of what I call the basic treatment guidelines, exercises, good clean diets, stress management, good sleep.
I look int food intolerances. I do a lot of food allergy testing in my practice or counsel patients on how to do elimination diets.
For good sleep, I talk with them a lot about sleep hygiene, about having a good bedtime routine that generally does not include any kind of screens. I talked with them about how screens inhibit our natural melatonin production and usually counsel them to read a good book before bed, but not anything too exciting.
And especially if they have issues with insomnia, I generally recommend that they read the dictionary or an old college textbook.
And getting to bed at a decent hour, preferably earlier than 11 o'clock, midnight. Oftentimes employing things like white noise machines, because a lot of people tend to be very light sleepers and wake up frequently too small things.
And sometimes as simple as just running an old fan in their bedroom will dramatically improve the quality of their sleep.
I have four basic supplements that I recommend for most patients. Omega 3, probiotics, magnesium and B vitamins.
Another important thing I tell my patients is about the research that shows the opiates can sensitize the brain to pain and over time become less effective and can actually make their pain seem worse. And so that's always an end goal trying to get them off of their narcotics and I talk with them about LDN. It will help to decrease the inflammation, make them feel better by increasing endorphin levels and can help to moderate their pain.
And so I usually taper them down very slowly, give them lots of other kinds of anti-inflammatories curcumin and once they can make it completely off their narcotics for 24 hours, I usually actually have them start at 4.5 milligrams and I actually have been started at 4.5 milligrams of LDN twice a day.
For the first couple of months, oftentimes I find that that helps dramatically with some of the withdrawal symptoms from coming off of the narcotics. They don't get as severe diarrhoea. They have less nausea and sweating and all those kinds of common, narcotic withdrawal symptoms.
For anxiety and depression symptoms, oftentimes I prescribe herbal things or trying to do some genetic testing, kind of back to that MTHFR genetic pathway and oftentimes that's a major factor.
And once we can kind of get them sorted out with their neuro-transmitters and being on appropriate levels of the B vitamins that their anxiety and depression can improve dramatically.
Patients can contact me through www.wholesomefamilymedicine.com in Southern Oregon.
Summary of Dr Laura Blevins interview. Watch the video for full interview.