Guest guest Posted January 7, 2006 Report Posted January 7, 2006 In a message dated 1/7/2006 6:48:18 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, susan.lucey@... writes: What does LDN stand for? Low Dose Naltrexone, it is a opiate receptor blocker and is thought to act on the immune system Joy Research Assistant to Dr Enlander _www.enlander.com_ (http://www.enlander.com/) Quote
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2006 Report Posted January 8, 2006 Joy, I want to ask you something but I am a little queasy since is no longer with us, but it seems important to follow up on. He sent me an email on 12/5 asking for my thoughts on his theory. I think I saw where he sent the same to others. His treatment for his theory was LDN plus he often talked about LDN, but since he did not seem to be doing that well, it was hard for me to think that LDN was worth looking into, but you bring it up that Dr E is, or has?, using it for CFS. Below is just the opening of his email about his thinking. I mean no disrepect toward in saying I didn't think LDN was doing that much for him, but it must have been helpful for him to keep saying it was the best treatment he saw so far. He was way above my understanding. God bless you . Bob, I am writing up a paper on endogenous opioidergic dysfunction in the pathogenesis of CFS. Quote
Guest guest Posted January 8, 2006 Report Posted January 8, 2006 Dear Bob Joy asked me to answer your email regarding 's LDN thoughts. On his last visit two days before he passed away, he talked to me about his thoughts on Naltrexone. Naltrexone (50mg) is used in heroin addiction, I must immediately state that was not a drug addict. Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) is used in 3mg - 4.5mg doses, less than 10% of the opiate therapeutic dose. It was found by research workers to positively affect the immune response, some thought it changed the cytokine production, others considered it acted on a cellular response. He was keen to explore the LDN effect after we had weaned him slowly off some of his other medicine, in collaboration with his local doctor. His vivacious thinking will be missed Enlander MD New York ================================= In a message dated 1/7/2006 9:09:57 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, blue74730@... writes: Bob wrote: Joy, I want to ask you something but I am a little queasy since is no longer with us, but it seems important to follow up on. He sent me an email on 12/5 asking for my thoughts on his theory. I think I saw where he sent the same to others. His treatment for his theory was LDN plus he often talked about LDN, but since he did not seem to be doing that well, it was hard for me to think that LDN was worth looking into, but you bring it up that Dr E is, or has?, using it for CFS. Below is just the opening of his email about his thinking. I mean no disrepect toward in saying I didn't think LDN was doing that much for him, but it must have been helpful for him to keep saying it was the best treatment he saw so far. He was way above my understanding. God bless you . Bob, I am writing up a paper on endogenous opioidergic dysfunction in the pathogenesis of CFS. Quote
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