LDN Video Interviews and Presentations

Dr Darin Ingels, LDN Radio Show 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Darin Ingles shared his experience as an LDN prescriber mailing for children with Autism, Lyme Disease and other Chronic Autoimmune Diseases. In 2018 he released a Lyme Disease book called "The Lyme Solution".

He has clinics in Connecticut and California and is a specialist in Lyme disease. With a background in chemical biology, immunology, clinical microbiology, and medical technology, he is more than qualified to understand and treat Lyme Disease. He has it himself and can empathise with those who suffer from it. 

As a Naturopathic Doctor for 18 years, his approach is multifaceted and that includes the use of LDN. He treats Autism and autoimmune conditions as well. In this interview he explains and describes treatments to Lyme Disease.

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

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

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

Dr Dana Keaton realised at an early age the shortcomings and limitations of the modern medical system, thus she began her education in medical research. She is trained extensively in Acupuncture, neuropathic and oriental medicine.

She is bewildered by the reluctance of today's medical doctors to accept LDN as a valuable tool. Many MD's don't seem willing to learn of any new treatments that were not taught in medical school.

Dr Keaton accepts and successfully treats many patients who had little or no improvement with their previous conventional medical doctor. She shares some great dietary habits that can be life changing.

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

Dr Dana Flavin, LDN Radio Show 28 April 2017 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Dana Flavin's training and background are extensive: she is a scientist, doctor and knowledgeable about nutrition. She dedicates most of her time to her Cancer patients with great success. With over 30 years of experience and 10 years of utilizing LDN along with other conventional medications and therapies, she has great success.

She continues to research every avenue of treatment, and is open-minded and curious. In this interview Dr Flavin explains the impact of cancer and how LDN has amazed her in hundreds of cases. She hopes studies will prove how effective LDN is for Cancer and other autoimmune conditions. 

This is a summary of Dr Dana Flavin's interview. Please listen to the rest of Dr Flavin's by clicking on the video above.

Dr Curt Maxwell, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Curt Maxwell has his office in Mexico but is originally from New Zealand. Throughout his career he has been devoted to researching alternative medicines which is where he came across Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) over ten years ago.

Firstly, Dr Maxwell noticed LDN’s benefits for his cancer patients, but then realised its great effects in the treatment of autoimmune diseases. In this interview he explains the complex scientific processes behind why LDN is such a successful drug in so many patients.

His global ties in the medical community have only served to expand his knowledge and experience in treating a variety of patients.

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

Dr Craig Hauser, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Craig Hauser has been prescribing Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) for over five years, but knew of its benefits beforehand. When he began to have his own medical issues, he researched alternative solutions and came across LDN and its many benefits in autoimmune diseases.

90% of his patients are made of autoimmune diseases such as Hashimoto’s, Sjogren’s and Fibromyalgia and his reviews are very positive for the benefits it can have while helping with symptoms and improving the patients health.

Also, Dr Hauser provides face-to-face appointments over Skype in order to provide his patients with his expert knowledge and to ensure their progress is handled personally.

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

Dr Carrie Jones, LDN Radio Show 16 June 2016 (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Carrie Jones is a naturopathic doctor who specializes in women's health, particularly in hormone, adrenal, and thyroid conditions. She found out about Low Dose Naltrexone six years ago through a compounding pharmacist friend, and discovered how effective LDN was for a multitude of conditions. 

In this interview she explains how she introduces many of her patients to LDN straight away with confidence, knowing it is safe and effective.

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

Dr Burt Berkson, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Burt Berkson practices integrative medicine in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and is an adjunct professor at New Mexico State University (Mycology) and Oklahoma State University College of Medicine.

He is the expert consultant on alpha-lipoic acid (thioctic acid) and acute hepatic necrosis and mushroom poisoning at the Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta.

He has worked as a researcher and professor at several institutions, including: the Max Planck Institute(Heidelberg), the University of Illinois (Urbana), New Mexico State University, Oklahoma State University College of Medicine, Chicago State University, and Rutgers University, and as a member of the National Institutes of Health endocrinology research group.

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

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.

Dr Brian Udell on Autism, LDN Radio Show (LDN, low dose naltrexone) from LDN Research Trust on Vimeo.

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

Dr Brian Udell has been treating patients with Autism since 1975 and opened his clinic in 2008 for developmentally delayed children. 

He has observed an alarming rate of increase in the incidence of conditions like Autism, ADHD, and other developmental delay problems, and lists the causes for this. 

He has known about LDN since 2006 and shares his success stories in utilizing this safe, inexpensive, and effective drug. In combination with diet and life changes, and other drugs, great strides have been made.

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