LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

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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.

Burton Berkson, MD, PhD - 21st March 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Bente from Denmark - 14th March 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Bente from Denmark has problems with a loose tailbone, which calls tailbone nerve pain because it's worn away the cartilage.

"In September 2013, more than more than five years ago now, during a holiday, when I came home, I went to the doctor and he said: "You just have to have patron. It can take up to about a year."

And what happened was because it was so loose, all the movement wore off the cartilage. I had periods 10 to 12 days where I couldn't even sit down for five minutes.

Couldn't get into the car to drive. Couldn't go to work. I've been off work six years.

First my doctor offered me the regular analgesic like Evil but then I ended up with Gabapentin, Lyrica Morphine until February last year.

I had CT steroid injections. They were hesitated to remove the tail bone because the sacrum has already been affected as well and then they sent me off to the pain management clinic and that's where they informed me about LDN. It is difficult to find LDN in Denmark. I only got Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) because I got it from the pain management clinic and then my own doctor couldn't really say no.

I started at 1.5 milligrams of LDN because they gave me 4.5 tablets and then I started with a quarter of a tablet and it took me about six months to find my dosage, which is now at 3.5 milligrams.

When I first started, I felt pain relief nearly immediately only after a couple of days. I did get some nausea and a little bit of headache.

I only have the advantages now. I can tell you now I was the first person my doctor prescribed to and he has about 20 patients now with all different diagnosis on that again. He has learned and he's impressed.

I'm 95% pain free. I can drive in the car for eight hours. No problem.

I can feel my tailbone still clicking.

We have an LDN group in Denmark. When I joined in February last year, we were 800 members. Now we have 3,400. You can find different files in there You can print out and take to your doctor. And a lot of people have had success with those. That's what I do not like is people keep comparing it to the cannabis and think it's sort of a magic pill which obviously it is not. Hou have to have patience to find your right dose.

I  have more energy than before.

Some people wait 8 to 10 years before they go to a pain management clinic"

Summary of Bente's journey with Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). Listen the full interview.

Dr Andrew David Shiller - 9th March 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Andrew David Shiller shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Andrew David Shiller is a doctor who goes the extra mile to heal his patients. After completing his “conventional” medical training, he realised it was not enough and studied holistic, functional and integrative medicine. 

He often receives new patients who were not helped by other doctors. He has great success, where others fail by covering the patient’s whole lifestyle and conditions. He has utilised Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for over 4 years and feels it’s an important tool for many conditions. 

Also important is diet, nutrition, exercise, detox, restful sleep, and addressing allergies. Dr Shiller states that LDN blocks pain, shifts mood, increases energy, moderates the autoimmune system and stimulates anti-inflammatory action.

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

Leesa shares her Hyperthyroidism and LDN story - 7th March 2018 from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo

Leesa from the United States takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Hypothyroidism and other conditions.

Doctors found my thyroid problems when I was 21. And I am now 36.

So I've been struggling with this for over a decade. I have Hypothyroidism, which is for low active thyroid. On top of the Hypothyroidism, I produced at autoimmune that we are trying to find out what was going on with the autoimmune and never could pinpoint the autoimmune through multiple different specialists and doctors that I continued to go.

My thyroid problems cause body aches, weight gain, hair loss, lack of sleep.

I would get on different medications, and it would make my thyroid go up into hyper. And then I would have the reverse where I could not sleep, lost weight. And so it was just kind of a yoyo effect going back and forth on. I produced  Epstein bar,

That makes me feel lethargic all the time. My serotonin levels are really bad. I'm trying to get up in the morning. The more tasks you have to do during the day they call it a fight or flight mechanism for not having the correct pituitary gland problems with your thyroid not being produced.
So your thyroid usually does not have a problem. It's something else in your body that reacts to that, and it attacks your thyroid.

I had a cyst and some mornings I'd wake up, and I wouldn't have a voice. And if my voice came back, it would be shallow. I would go to eat something, and I would get choked.

I would lay down and feel like I was being suffocated. In 2009, after I years, I ended up having the mass removed on the right side of my whole thyroid on the right side, which I still have just my left thyroid at this point.

So for the rest of my life has to be on the thyroid medicine to regulate my thyroid, since I just have one left side of my thyroid.

I started LDN in March of 2017.  So I've been on LDN for nine months.

Before that, everything that goes with that with the Epstein BARR, I had increased anxiety that I'd never had before. I would wake up, and I had nerve endings that were on the top of my skin. I just felt like I'd been in the freezer.

I had really bad leg cramps, Restless Leg Syndrome starting and they were looking at maybe some Rheumatoid Arthritis.

So in April started feeling a little bit better. Each month we're upping my dose of LDN by the 0.5 mg. I'm currently on 4.5 milligrams, and I've been on that for probably about three months now.
My thyroid is now regulated. I take a natural thyroid medication called WP thyroid. And this is the first time I've been on the same dose for six months now.

My levels always stayed in the middle of where your thyroid levels should be.
I would say my quality of life before LDN on most days I would say probably a two out of ten to where I was just struggling to get up every morning.

And the only reason I was doing that is because I had two kids that were relying on me all the time to be there for them.

Now I am walking jogging three miles. I work four days a week, then massage therapy.

I have at least six clients a day. I am constantly busy, and I'm able to work all day. Now my quality of life is a nine. I'm continuing every day to get better and work on getting better.
I've lost 58 pounds a little over a year. I think my kids are amazed to have their mum be able to do so many things with them where you couldn't before.

Leesa's summary interview. Please watch the video above for the full interview.

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

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.

Pharmacist Dr Colin Taylor - 23rd Feb 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr Colin Taylor shares his Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Experience on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Dr Colin Taylor is a graduate of Otterbein University with a dual major in biochemistry and molecular biology (2013). He is also a graduate of The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy with a Doctorate of Pharmacy (2017) and the lead pharmacist for Central Ohio Compounding Pharmacy’s “Low Dose Naltrexone Management and Monitoring Program (2016) ”

His LDN program was started around 3 years ago to help spread community education of the proper use of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). Their goals for this program were to aid physicians on proper dosing and administration of LDN, educate patients on the medical benefits of LDN and help further their pharmaceutical understanding of LDN through patient profile monitoring.

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