LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Dr Dana Keaton, LDN Radio Show 19 July 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Dr. Dana Keating is a naturopathic physician and acupuncturist licensed to practice medicine and acupuncture in Arizona since 1988. She spent 10 years in medical research after completing her pre-medical degree, she then completed national college naturopathic medicine's four year program and attended a three year program in acupuncture at Oregon college of Oriental medicine.

Her internship was at national where she's also director of research.

Naturopathy goes to the root of the problem and any illness will improve. If you treat the underlying what we call terrain, you work with the food that they're eating the exercise they're getting, helping them to detoxify from our environment, getting sleep,  just. basic things that we forget how important they are to our body, our society. It is the basis of our health. And then there are people who have problems that require more intervention and the more severe the problem, the more intervention, but still remembering at all times at that underlying human being and the health of that human being has to start with the underlying part and everything will improve.

Even if it's not cured, it will improve by working with that body.

These days, all of our chronic illnesses, which is what people mostly suffer for based on inflammation and as long as you're eating processed food and lots of meat and fried foods, you're going to have inflammation. It's not going to go away. No amount of pills is going to take that away because it's like throwing a piece of sand on the beach.

So I I'll often take people off of processed foods completely.

Have them eat about half their diet of vegetables.

 I will tell that after a week off of fast food, sugars, etc, people's energy picks up so much that they definitely see the difference. Sometimes the joint inflammation, the headaches, and all of that starts to dissipate within about 10 days too.

Some patients come to me with fatigue and the only test that's ever been run on their thyroid is their TSH. That's certainly not enough. And oftentimes I find there is an underlying dysfunction there.

And adding thyroid, why we look for what the dysfunction is and if it's Hashimoto's and that directs me right away to get all the gluten out of their diet to give them appropriate thyroid medicine and to put them on LDN. The LDN is it's very interesting because I don't see it always changing the actual antibody titer a lot, but I do see it making a huge difference in how they feel oftentimes. Your energy. will pick up quite nicely when you add the LDN.

Lot of these people come into me on synthetic thyroid hormone and I'm starting them on something else. I might have them on a time release, T3 and T4.

I've started my patients to take LDN in the evening. Most people do fine just taking it in the evening. Occasionally the main side effect I see is effect on sleep. And so I tell them to stay with it for a week because most people within a week, it stops bothering their sleep.

But if it continues to bother asleep, then I can change it to a different time of day.

I had a woman who came to me with an enough product syndrome. She also had Hashimoto's. Her ankles were so huge that they hurt from the edema because of her kidneys. And the LDN for her was quite miraculous. We did other things initially. I put on a low protein diet using amino acids to build protein without hurting the kidney and then food sensitivity testing.

After she'd been on the LDN for two weeks, things started to improve and continued to improve. So her energy is good. She's able to do what she wants to do. She doesn't have painful ankles. She's not all swollen up. Her kidney function has stayed better and better.

So that was an amazingly great case.

And again, one nice thing about LDN is the lack of side effects. So why not try it in a lot of these cases where nothing else is available, that we know of? Why not try it? I would say the bulk of your patients are going to improve with those two things.

A gentleman came to see me from California who had Ulcerative Colitis and he'd had it for a number of years and nothing had worked.

They had tried Remicade, prednisone and Inuvik, everything that medical doctors had been tried and nothing worked. He couldn't have a normal life because he couldn't really leave the house for very long because of the bowel movements. He'd tried some dietary changes and they hadn't really stuck either.

So the doctor basically said: "We need to do a colectomy."

And that's when he came to see me. He flew over for a consult and we started him on a few anti-inflammatory herbs and the LDN, and I put him back on a diet that he had tried previously.

He did the thing and the followup. Called him two weeks later, he already was just ecstatic. He had gotten it down to the point where he only had two or three times a day where he had urgent bowel movements.

And then by the end of the month, no problem and less than a year's treatment that he's gotten to this point, his last scope, they didn't see any inflammation, which is remarkable.

Summary of Dr. Dana Keating interview. Watch YouTube video for the full interview.

Dr Bruce Berman, LDN Radio Show 2016 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: I'm joined today by Dr Bruce Berman from sunny Florida in the US thanks for joining me, Bruce. 

Dr Bruce Berman: My pleasure. 

Linda Elsegood: Could you tell us how long ago it was when you first heard about LDN? 

Dr Bruce Berman: Yes at least five years, I read an article about it.  I'm an addiction specialist, so I was very intimately familiar with naltrexone, and I know that the side effect profile is very negligible. And when the hypothesis came up concerning low dose, I said, it makes perfect sense to me. The benefits certainly outweigh the risks. So I started using it.  Hashimoto's disease, any autoimmune disease, cancer, depression, fibromyalgia. It's sometimes miraculous. I had a 29-year-old woman with ulcerative colitis who was having 15 bloody bowel movements a day that nothing in medicine could stop. We started LDN and in two days her bowel movements were down to two, and they were normal its great for the joint pain in rheumatoid arthritis.

 I use it as I do integrative cancer therapy. So I use it as part of an overall program in cancer. Cause as you know, it's the endogenous opioids that have the antitumor ability.  Plus, they help balance the TH1  to immune cells. So it's a double whammy against cancer cells,  it's just amazing.

The worst side effect I've seen and really not that bad. It's just bothersome, is vivid dreams and sleep may be affected. You may have an early awakening. We've now tried giving patients the LDN in the morning. And it still works, and it doesn't affect their sleep then.

So I'm, I'm a satisfied customer. A lot of patients are coming to me cause they do research on it and they see it. They go on the cancer tutor website and a lot of other websites and just do alternative therapies and my name comes up. And I'm happy to give the service because it's so innocuous. It's such a benign treatment, and the effects can be dramatic. 

Linda Elsegood: And how long would you say, if pushed on average, it would take a patient to notice that there are benefits of taking LDN? 

Dr Bruce Berman: I'd say anywhere from a couple of days to a couple of weeks, usually within a month. You see some dramatic results. I start low.

I start at one and a half milligrams and work up from there. Usually around three milligrams, you're going to see effects, and if you need to push it to four and a half, patients respond. But usually within a month, sometimes within days, patients respond.

Anything you want to treat for,  it's safe. It's inexpensive. It's easy to obtain. It has almost no side effects. It's like the perfect drug. Most conventional doctors are so pigeonholed that they will say, Oh, I can’t prescribe that. It's not indicated. When, of course, as you know in the States, if you have one indication for a drug, you could use it for anything called off label use, but they don't want to do it because most conventional doctors are, they're hamsters on a wheel. They don't know they're spinning. They think they're going forward. That's why I had to do functional medicine. 

Linda Elsegood: Well, he says he taught this like you who think outside of the box. 

Dr Bruce Berman: Well, I was on the hamster wheel, and all I did was give patients drugs to placate symptoms. And now, I mean, yeah, when you address causes the results are dramatic. Really, really dramatic. And it's, that's why I'm here. To find out what's in my patient's highest and best good. 

Linda Elsegood: So, in your practice, you mentioned Hashimoto's and cancer. Do you do all the autoimmune conditions? Do you know ms? 

Dr Bruce Berman: Yeah. We use LDN on all of them. We also use bee sting therapy in autoimmune, quite dramatic the way they work together. They work together to balance the immune system. But here in the States,  the LDN is so inexpensive. It's under $40 a month.

Linda Elsegood: And I'm always being asked by patients who can't travel. Do you do any online consults?

Dr Bruce Berman: Skype  I do. I do phone counsels as long as they can get local blood work if they need to just have a doctor on hand for any conditions that might need local attention. Why not? I do it a lot. I have a couple of patients from England.  I have one from South Africa. 

Your listeners should go to the website, the LDN summit 2016  was just held in Orlando last month. You can download and watch the videos on all the presentations on LDN. It was tremendous. And there's also a book about LDN now.  I know some of the speakers, Marty Gaydon, is right near me in Miami. In our field what we do in functional medicine, people are few and far between. I'll give you an example. Martin is a hundred miles south of me. And the next closest doctor is 150 miles North of me. Nobody in between. 

Linda Elsegood: Wow. 

Dr Bruce Berman: pretty sad. 

Linda Elsegood: It is. And it's a shame. I didn't know about you before. 

Dr Bruce Berman: Well, that's okay. I’m happy just to be able to see people. I had a woman, I just saw her yesterday for a recheck. She came to me last July, so we're coming up on a one year anniversary, psoriatic arthritis, so bad that the inflammation was affecting her joints. Her skin was horrible. Her dandruff was horrible. She's been on it now for ten months. She's about 90% improved. 

Linda Elsegood: wow. 

Dr Bruce Berman: The lesions are going away. She can make a full fist. There's almost no dandruff. Now we did other things. Besides that, you know that I don't know if your readers know readers or listeners know the most common cause of the autoimmune disorder is dairy products, reaction to the casein protein in milk and gluten. Yes. So all my autoimmune patients have to go off that, or I can't promise they're going to get better, but this one has been really, really strict. I have a patient who just told me she found out there's gluten in her Chapstick so who would think, wow, but gluten is everywhere. So you really have to investigate. If you want to take care of yourself because no one's gonna take care of you. The corporations aren’t going to take care of you. They're just going to give you something that's easy to use and appears to work and tastes good. They have no concern about whether or not it's beneficial. 

Linda Elsegood: And how sad is that. 

Dr Bruce Berman: I'm over the sad part, I'll tell you why I understand it. Because corporations have one job to do, their stock price goes up. Truly they don't have a humanistic component or anything else.  My patients need to be educated on what to do.So it's a lifestyle change for all of this. For cancer, for autoimmune. I mean, we've reversed three cases of MS. Well, they are reversing. They're not normal yet, but they're getting better. That doesn't happen in medicine. I had an ALS patient, Lou Gehrig's disease, actually got off a ventilator off a wheelchair onto a Walker.

Linda Elsegood: So 

Dr Bruce Berman: it's not me. We're just reversing the toxicity of this world. So I'm a, as we say, I'm a satisfied customer. 

Linda Elsegood: Wonderful, and thank you so much for sharing your experience. 

Dr Bruce Berman: Of course, my pleasure. And please have your readers, if your listeners go to their doctor and say, can you prescribe this? And the doctor says no, I can educate them.  It's innocuous. And if they have any questions or concerns, they can go to my website. All my contact information is there. 

Linda Elsegood: Wonderful. Thank you very much. 

Dr Bruce Berman: Wonderful. Have a great day.

Linda Elsegood: Do you have LDN experience to share? If so, please email me at contact@ldnresearchtrut.org I look forward to hearing from you.

Yusuf Saleeby, MD - 20th Nov 2019 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

I  am Dr. Yusuf Saleeby and practice in the South Eastern coastal United States in South Carolina. We have our main office near Myrtle beach and a second satellite office in Mount pleasant.

We see patients with autoimmune diseases of various types, everything from MS to Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's disease where Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) can be used

We are prescribing a lot of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). We also have relationships with several compounding pharmacies in the area, both in North and South Carolina.

If somebody comes into a compounding pharmacy seeking out LDN, but does not have a prescriber that is knowledgeable or willing to prescribe, the pharmacist will give them our names and refer them to us.

Lyme disease is a problem in every state of India, every 50 States in the US and internationall in Brazil, Argentina, China, the Netherlands, Germany.

So we are doing diagnosis with the Borrelia as well as the co-infections, like the BCO Bartonella Ehrlichia.

We know very little about good treatments. There's the variety of different protocols for for treating Lyme in the chronic phase. And it's very poorly research. It's very poorly understood, and it's all over the place.

 To protect against tick bites, if you are out in nature, after, you need to do a tick check, a full-body tick check on you. Wear brightly coloured clothing like white as opposed to a dark colour.

If you're walking in high grass pull the socks over the bottoms of your pants. Use natural repellents.

There are also some clothes that are impregnated with Permethrin. You can wear the same garment multiple times, like ten times and wash it, and it still has the active agent within the material.

When you're out in the in the woods, these little critters will crawl up from your shoes to your legs and kind of lodge in your groin area, under the armpit or axilla or back of of the neck and they can feed on you for a couple of hours or even two or three days and then fall off. And you don't realize you've been bitten.

And the heralding sign of a bullseye lesion is only present and about 30% of people who will contract a cute line.

You wouldn't know until maybe months later when you start having symptoms. And it could be a mired of symptoms. A lot of them are confused with other disorders.

A lot of people come in with Ms diagnosis,  with fibromyalgia, people with all kinds of other autoimmune diseases. And when those diseases are identified the workup stops there.

Sometimes medications that are given could be even worse than the disorder itself. But in functional medicine, we obviously go deeper to find the root cause, and sometimes we find that it is a tick-borne illness that's causing these symptoms.

Usually, at that point, it's chronic Lyme disease or late-stage Lyme, which is a totally different animal than an acute line or chew. Lyme is really easy to treat. Sixty days of Doxycycline or  a type of penicillin drug. We'll usually eradicate it, and end of a story that's it is finished. But if it sets in as chronic Lyme, it's really a different way to treat.

And it's really, really difficult to try to get it under control.

LDN does have a place in Lyme disease, and many of my patients will benefit from Low Dose Naltrexone, whether it's for the pain states associated with some of the Borrelia and Bartonella that cause fairly excruciating pain, but also as an immune enhancer because most of the people that are susceptible to the late-stage chronic Lyme disease are folks that have a  out of balance immune system. And LDN is used to put it back into balance.

I had a longstanding 20-year history of ulcerative colitis woman that came to me and within a few days of taking LDN, I get a phone call from her, and she says.

You're not going to believe this, but the bloating and gassy and my intestines and my stomach have improved like 90%.

Her belly is nice and flat. She doesn't complain of all the usual symptoms of IBD, Ulcerative Colitis.

And she's not on any of the other traditional traditionally prescribed medications for Ulcerative Colitis  Irritable Bowel Disease.

We're are seeing a lot of publications in Europe which are proponents of the use of LDN and, Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

She has sensitivity to gluten and wheat,  so if she cheats a little bit on her diet, she'll get more symptomatic. So we encourage her to be more compliant with her diet.

She's been doing that for over a decade anyway. But then with the inflammation implementation of LDN and even one milligram, her symptoms were relieved almost instantaneously.

I was just quite amazing the change in her. She almost looked  like she was four or five months pregnant when she first presented if she was that bloated.

I had a woman with Hashimoto's and  while she was on LDN, her TPO titer started to drop on a steady downward slope. And then when she ran out and was without it for three months or TPO, tighter spiked up again. And she's on a natural desiccated thyroid replacement, and she's doing quite well.

She continues taking it. I usually tell my patients. I said," well,you take it as long as you want to continue feeling well. Now if you decide at some point in the future, after two years, you don't want to feel well, well then stop taking it." And so I think they get the picture.

Or only a few patients I have to take them off  and restart at a lower dose. And sometimes they use very Low Dose Naltrexone just because of some of the symptoms. They may report a GI upset, vivid dreams that are disturbing to them. And then sometimes I switched the dosing from nighttime dosing to daytime knowing that's going to be a little less effective, but at least we're getting it in them and then making dosage adjustments.

Summary from Dr. Yusuf Saleeby LDN Radio Show. Listen to the video for the show.

Tracy Magerus, NMD – 15th August 2018 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Tracy Magerus is an MD from Phoenix, Arizona. Having graduated in 2009, she has been in private practice for nearly ten years giving her a great depth of valuable experience. 

She had previously heard of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) during her studies in the late 2000s, but first prescribed it for one of her patients in 2012 where within weeks she noticed improvements in their overall health.

Dr Magerus currently has over 25 patients on LDN and considers it a vital tool in her naturopathic arsenal.

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