LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Radio Show interviews, and Presentations from the LDN 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Conferences

They are also on our    Vimeo Channel    and    YouTube Channel

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

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

Dr Sarah Zielsdorf is a relatively new prescriber of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), yet her knowledge of autoimmune diseases etc. is certainly convincing throughout this interview. 

Having Hashimoto's and Hypothyroidism gives her the perspective of the patient. Her “extra" education in Functional, Integrative, and Holistic medicines makes her very qualified to treat a host of illnesses. She prescribes LDN, but does thorough tests to arrive at the best combination of treatments including diet, exercise, detox, and proper medications.

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

Sarah - England: Lilly's Fibromyalgia and ME Story (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sarah shares Lily’s Fibromyalgia and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Lily was diagnosed around 15 years ago with Fibromyalgia but she was housebound for over 21 years. She had tried many treatments in the hopes of regaining her life back but none worked until she found Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).

“Before I found LDN, I wouldn’t have been able to write this letter to tell you my story. LDN has helped me in so many aspects of my life. After over 20 years of dismal pain, I’ve got my life back.”

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

Sarah - England: Ulcerative Colitis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sarah from England went through hell and back with undiagnosed Ulcerative Colitis for 3 years. Let down by the NHS on many occasions Sarah had to do her own research to find anything that would help her. Sarah was completely housebound, she couldn’t even sit in her garden as she had to stay near a toilet all of the time.  She had lost weight, her hair was falling out and she was in pain. 

Sarah eventually found Low Dose Naltrexone through the LDN Research Trust website and found a doctor who would prescribe it for her. 

Initially, her symptoms got worse, she persevered however and by day ten realized that she was actually feeling much better, better than she had felt in years. 

In Sarah’s own words “So to take this little LDN drug every evening, I got better and better. And to be able to be cured of something so devastating within a year has got to be miraculous”. 

Sarah (2) - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sarah from England shares their Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Sarah first noticed her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms in early 1990, yet they developed “overnight” for her. She woke up one morning and couldn’t lift her own leg off the ground, she was admitted to hospital for a week but was offered no medication.

Over this period of time Sarah has had to learn to use her left-hand more as her right hand became more numb. Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) was the first medication she has used to treat her MS.

She says that she heard about LDN through her MS society and the strong reviews she heard were enough to convince her to try LDN and have great success.

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

Sarah from England shares their Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Sarah first noticed her Multiple Sclerosis (MS) symptoms in early 1990, yet they developed “overnight” for her. She woke up one morning and couldn’t lift her own leg off the ground, she was admitted to hospital for a week but was offered no medication.

Over this period of time Sarah has had to learn to use her left-hand more as her right hand became more numb. Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) was the first medication she has used to treat her MS.

She says that she heard about LDN through her MS society and the strong reviews she heard were enough to convince her to try LDN and have great success.

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

Sarah - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS)(LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sarah from England was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 1995 after an MRI scan due to optic neuritis in her right eye and a tingling sensation in her right cheek.

Sarah’s brain doesn't use her right eye on a day to day basis, and describes it as “looking through fog when vision kicks in.” 

In 2002 after more testing, she was told she didn't actually have MS by a neurologist. However, in May 2010, Sarah felt a strange sensation and numbness in her fingers and feet, and pain in her neck that was so bad she could barely move it. She was re-diagnosed with MS in June of the same year after various tests such as an MRI. 

After speaking to her GP about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN), she was refused prescribal, so sourced an online doctor which gave her the prescription. Sarah noticed her fatigue had eased after around two weeks on the medication. She had an operation in August whilst still on LDN, and shortly after, practically all symptoms had gone. She still experiences light numbness occasionally, but overall her quality of life is much better.

For the entire Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) interview, watch the video.

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Sarah - England: Fibromyalgia, Hashimoto's Thyroiditis (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sarah from England shares her Fibromyalgia (FM) and Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) story on the LDN Radio Show with Linda Elsegood.

Sarah began to feel ill following the birth of her second daughter in 2009 but had been experiencing symptoms since she was a child, including aching muscles and fatigue. Her diagnosis with Fibromyalgia came in 2011.

Prior to her renewed illness, Sarah had an active life exercising regularly. This was swiftly taken away as new symptoms such as brain fog and dizziness became more regular.

“This all changed when I found Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). Within 7 months of starting LDN my body and mind is almost back working at full capacity. I’m hoping to take LDN for the rest of my life.

This medication has given me my life back and it could get yours back too if you give it a chance.”

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

Sarah's Daughter - England: Autism, Auditory Hallucination, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

On behalf of Jasmine who takes LDN, Low Dose Naltrexone medication for Autism we are talking to her Mother, Sarah both from the UK. Jasmine has been diagnosed with chronic fatigue, chronic pain, which she's had for about three years. Jasmine first started experiencing signs of autism at the very young age of 18 months old. But only got diagnosed at ten years old.

Due to her autism, Jasmine was very lonely, couldn't make any friends and didn't really understand what was happening around her. Pain started happening when she hit puberty at 11 years old, where she was experiencing  pain in her hip which spread to her leg, elbows; and started having nodules on her fingers and rashes on her legs. Quoting that her whole body was painful. She was also experiencing fatigue problems, and even auditory hallucination, making her anxious and lethargic. 

After researching on the internet, Sarah came across the Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) .Jasmine visited her doctor to measure her nutrition and blood, where they came to the conclusion that LDN may be useful to her.

Jasmine’s appetite was appalling, she came out of school due to not being able to cope. She could not walk or exercise very much at all. 

Jasmine’s introductory side effects included lots of night terrors, seeing things and hearing voices, but when she first started LDN these were the first things to disappear. Energy levels increased, and she could start to walk for a longer amount of time and not feel tired. Now, Jasmine is back in school and can even take part in cross country, the family life has also improved for all.

Please watch the video to view the whole interview. Thank you 

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Sara - US: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Lyme Disease (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Linda Elsegood: I'd like to introduce Sara, who is from Wisconsin in the United States, and she takes LDN for Rheumatoid Arthritis. And interestingly, her dog, Nico also takes LDN for Lyme disease. Thanks for joining us today, Sarah.

Sara: Oh, it's my great pleasure, Linda.

Linda Elsegood: So, who started taking the LDN first? You or your dog?

Sara: Oh, let's see.

I did, because I have a naturopath who told me that he also takes LDN and at the time I was doing pretty well with Rheumatoid Arthritis, like not very much pain. I had done some other things that were helping me, and when I went to my naturopath to talk with him about it. He recommended LDN, but I said, "Oh no, I've got it covered. I'm good." I'm on my way out the door from his office with a flyer for a class that our local compounding pharmacy offers a class once a month in LDN for patients, and I picked up this flyer. And got very curious, started doing some research online and a day or two later called that naturopath and said, "Please put me on, make a prescription for me, please."

And I started LDN on November 2nd, so almost a year ago in the evening and the next morning, nothing was different. I took it the next night. The third morning I woke up and said to my husband. "This is a really important date, and then I said, wait, wait. I don't usually think like that." That was such a change in my thinking because I had been somebody who everything was tedious. I would have said," Sure, I can do it, because I said I would do it, and yes, okay, I can power my way through that too." That was a very bleak way of looking at the world, but that morning I woke up and said," This is an important thing." And I continued to take LDN, and a few weeks or less than a few weeks later, I woke up in the middle of the night chuckling.

I chuckled with myself awake twice, and then again in the morning, I chuckled to myself awake. No, this is not me, not the me that I was. So the way that LDN has been useful for me is more with the mood change. And I have another friend who said that because of LDN, she can now tolerate her pain, and hers is polymyalgia.

So there's a bit of that. In my case, I do think the pain has also decreased. That I was really not so aware of how painful everything had been because I'd had the diagnosis for 13 years. But the pain continues to decrease. Honestly, I'm up to almost a year later. so then I went to the class.

I had already been taking it for two weeks, and I went to the class to learn more about it. And at the class, they had the ending slide there. Was a test that LDN can be used for pets too. And in the class itself, they talked about using it for Lyme disease. For when people have Lyme disease, and a light bulb went off in my head and I, my dog has Lyme disease.

I think you never get rid of that condition either. And he had been tested by the veterinarian and been put on antibiotics very serious for a month and then Gabapentin for the pain, and he was not doing well. His leg would fall out from under him. He was no longer jumping up on our bed. We wouldn't get him and say: "Poor Nico." Lyme disease and can't do anything else for him.

So I'll admit that I started sharing my LDN with him, and I didn't know the dose except that I thought a child that was 20 pounds, there was some little bits of information would take 1.5 milligrams. And so I gave it to him, and he had the same story. Linda, three days later, he was running up the stairs and jumping on our bed and lifting his leg again to pee.

It was both in both cases. It was a little miracle that happened really quickly. So I called my vet, and I said, "Would you learn about LDN?" And she said, "Oh no. We call somebody else." And I made six phone calls, including to ours UWM veterinary science department here, the University of Wisconsin and Madison, and nobody was interested in prescribing that or at the time.

But after six weeks, I called my first vet again, and she said, they had started learning about it. They had two other dogs on LDN. And she would prescribe it to Nico, even if it was just palliative for him. And I didn't fess up to say, "I'm here. He's already been on it for five weeks." But she was willing to do it if he had a liver test.

So I took him in for a liver enzyme test and of course it was fine. LDN is actually used for liver diseases too. And then she started prescribing it for him. And I've learned that there since prescribing it to lots of other pets and other veterinarians in town are as well. So we're all much happier at my house thanks to LDN and thanks to your work.

Linda Elsegood: I assume you're talking about the classes that David Hazel and Sue. I can't remember her other name off the top of my head. Hawaii from Hawaii. Apaka three, In Madison. In Wisconsin. Yes, they are doing amazing things in getting the word out there educating others pharmacists, physicians, patients.

 So, that's really interesting that you went to one of their classes. So if you had to say before you started LDN, your quality of life on a score of one to 10 what would it have been? With ten being really good.

Sara: Just before starting LDN, I would probably say six and a half or seven. It wasn't bad. And then, of course, your next question is, what did it change? I would say 9.9.  The colour of the world has changed. My mood is so different. I just find that I'm motivated to do what needs to be done and what I want to do in a way that I hadn't is for all those 12 or 13 years since the diagnosis.

And honestly, I was probably deficient in endorphins long before the diagnosis. What's true is both of my sisters now take LDN and feel like they're benefiting from it mood-wise. Very other friends are taking it for other conditions, but probably in my family, my mother had depression and died of pancreatic cancer. So, I really think that had we known about LDN sooner, all of us,  the quality of life would have been better for so many of us, but we have it now, and I celebrate it.

Linda Elsegood:  Oh, fantastic! You did say before that you would do something because you said you would do it and you would make yourself do it. Now when you have to do something how do you feel knowing you've got to go somewhere do something? How do you feel these days?

Sara: I'm very much like I, not only I can do it, but it's important, and I want to do it. It's important. That same feeling that I woke up three mornings after taking LDN. This is important, and so there's less of drudgery or pushing myself to do something. It just doesn't have that same effort required.

Linda Elsegood: Yes, because pushing yourself to do things It's very tiring in itself, isn't it? Forcing yourself all the time. I totally get it. Thank you so much for coming and sharing both your story and Nikos, and long may the LDN continue, and the best advocates of LDN are those that LDN has worked well for, so I'm sure you'll be spreading the word as well.

Sara: Yes, absolutely. Thank you so much, Linda.

Linda Elsegood: Thank you. This show is sponsored by our members who made donations. We'd like to give them a very big thank you. We have to cover the monthly costs of the radio station, software, bandwidth, phone lines, and phone calls to be able to continue with their idea of the show.

And thank you for listening.

Any questions or comments you may have, please email me at contact@ldnresearchtrust.org. I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for joining us today.

Linda Elsegood: I really appreciate it your company. Until next time, stay safe and keep well.


Any questions or comments you may have, please Contact Us.  I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for joining us today. We really appreciated your company. Until next time, stay safe and keep well.

Sara - US: Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Fibromyalgia (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sara from the United States has rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia. She was 24 years old when symptoms first started, but wasn't diagnosed until a year later.

Sara quoted that it absolutely changed her life, she found the right medication, but did develop very severe irritable bowel syndrome and seemed to come out of nowhere. Sarah was officially diagnosed with fibromyalgia in February 2010.

Sara first read about Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) a few years ago before the Fibromyalgia, she found lots of information online, found our website and wanted a prescription for LDN after being skeptical of it. Her Rheumatologist would not prescribe Sara with LDN, because it was not FDA approved. But if Sara’s GP was willing to prescribe LDN, she saw no problem with that. And she would partner with him. After 3 days of being on the LDN medication, Sara felt absolutely fantastic. A few days after, she started seeing an increase in pain and fatigue, which then resulted with depression and anxiety. But this was due to being started on a higher Mg dosage. Sara rated her life a 3,4 out of 10 before her LDN mediation, she says that LDN is very cheap, and nothing has been more effective than LDN.
Please watch the video to the whole interview, Thank you.

Any questions or comments you may have, please contact us.

Sara - England: Multiple Sclerosis (MS) (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

Sara from England takes Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for Multiple Sclerosis (MS).

In 1990, my symptoms started just literally overnight. I got up one morning, and my left leg couldn't lift up the ground. And then I went to the doctors who arranged very quickly within a week to get me into Liverpool hospital for tests.

I had pain across into my shoulder every now and again, not very often.

I was diagnosed with MS and I was not offered anything. I stayed in the hospital for the week. They basically always said they couldn't offer me anything.

Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) definitely gave me back mobility. I'm having some really, really good days. I go to the gym. I've been taking LDN for two years.

I knew about LDN through someone that I know in the MS Society.

My GP got permission to give me a prescription, I didn't have any side effects when I started taking LDN. After a few months I realized LDN was helping me.

I definitely would recommend LDN I definitely think it's worth a try. Nobody says it's a miracle.

I think I'm just starting to really see noticeable benefits now.

We've had some people that have said similar to yourself that they haven't noticed any improvements at all until about 15, 18 months, which is quite amazing.

They hadn't progressed any further progressive disease. That's good news in itself. Some people respond quicker than others.

Summary of Sara's interview. Please listen to the video for the full story.