Low Dose Naltrexone for Cancer, Multiple Sclerosis and Autoimmune Diseases

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Hi Health Activists,

I was recently reminded of an effective therapy for many cancers, Multiple

Sclerosis and other Autoimmune Diseases that is relatively inexpensive.

Dr.Julian Whitaker,MD wrote about the new uses of Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) in

his

newsletter Health & Healing of March 2007.

 

Naltrexone is a prescription drug used to help drug addicts withdraw from

drugs. Dr.Bernard Bihari,MD was treating drug addicts, but at the dose usually

used (50 mg), it suppressed endorphins and patients could not stay on it. He

began giving lower doses 1.75- 4.5 mg and endorphin levels multiplied and

immune systems got better.

 

Dr.Bihari has treated patients successfully with cancers including colon,

prostate, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast, ovarian, uterine, brain,

neuroblastoma, lung, Hodgkin's lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. He

estimates that 60% of cancer patients-most of whom had failed to respond to

conventional treatment received a benefit.

Dr.Burton Berkson,MD reported in Integrative Cancer Therapies

2006;5(1):83-89 on the case of a 46 year old man diagnosed in 2002 with

pancreatic cancer

and metastases to the liver. The prognosis for this dismal; average survival

is only 3 to 6 months. Dr.Berkson treated him with 3-4.5 mg naltrexone at

bedtime, along with 300-600 mg of intravenous alpha lipoic acid twice a week

and daily supplementation of alpha lipoic acid, silymarin, selenium and B

Complex vitamins. The patient became symptom free and returned to work.

 

A multi Center trial of LDN for Multiple Sclerosis is currently underway in

Italy. A study of LDN for Crohn's disease(an intestinal disorder) were given

4.5 mg of naltrexone at bedtime for 12 weeks. 89% of the patients had

symptom improvement, and 67% achieved remission. This was published by Smith

JP,in

the American Journal of Gastroenterology, 2007;Jan.11(Epub ahead of print)

 

Naltrexone is now off patent and is relatively inexpensive at $25-30/

month., Low Dose Naltrexone is a prescription drug that is only available from

compounding pharmacies.

 

See the Low Dose Naltrexone website

_www.lowdosenaltrexone.org_ (http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org)

Arnold

 

 

 

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