Patient advocate and "Honest Medicine" health blogger/writer Julia Schopick has just published a new book, The Faces of Low Dose Naltrexone. The 116-page book is available as an ebook for free download. The Faces of LDN was created in honor of International Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Awareness Week (ILDNAW) (October 19-25), and offers information on of the LDN story. LDN, a drug approved in the 1980s for treatment of drug and alcohol addiction -- is being used successfully at very low dose levels to treat a variety of immune-related illnesses, including autoimmune diseases like multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease, lupus, and autoimmune thyroid diseases, and new studies are learning more about uses for this medication.
Julia Schopick is making the book available to anyone who would like to download it for free. You can read more about it at her blog, or download the book now in PDF format.
I’ve been taking LDN for nearly 2 months now for inflammation and unusually severe allergies/asthma.I was having severe sinus pain and asthma attacks,which I haven’t had in years on a regular basis.The only thing that helped at all was Advil Cold & Sinus.
The LDN seems to be helping to calm my allergies and asthma down.I still use Advil Cold & Sinus occasionally,but now it’s every once in a while instead of multiple times daily.
I take it at night before I go to bed and occasionally I forget to take it.When that happens, I wake up the next morning wheezing and with a sinus headache.I won’t be without this.
Congratulations on putting together such a wonderful book which I am sure will help a lot of us get the medical profession to sit up and take notice. However, please find that the petition to the UK Government to make this drug available as front line treatment is the work of LDNNow. So any information regarding the efforts of this petition, please go to http://www.ldnnow.com and talk to Andrew, Jayne or Tommy.
This is very interesting stuff. I have a number of autoimmune disorders–Hashimotos, type 1 diabetes, allergies. Are there any websites listing doctors who are on board with the LDN regimen and who will prescribe it? I live in the Los Angeles area and wold love to give this a shot to see if it helps.
I have been on ldn for a little over 2 months. It is having a normalizing effect on me. I’ve lost weight, my sleep is better and I have more energy. The first week was hard with sleep issues and then they were gone and I sleep better than ever.
I am a walking autoimmune problem. LDN has made me feel like they are melting away. Go to google scholar and research.
It is having a dramatic effect on people with IBD and Chron’s. A clinical trial at Penn State had great results for Crohn’s and now they are going to study with kids.
What is LDN?
The LDN is why I may have suddenly lost weight?I’ve lost about 15 lbs since I started taking it.What a nice,unexpected side effect!!