Re: MRIs rather than clinical tests.

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> [low dose naltrexone] MRIs rather than clinical tests.

>

> I need some advice here. Maybe expert advice? In general, could evidence

> from before/after

> MRIs be assembled - in numbers too great to be statistically random - be

> used to prove cause

> and effect re: MS and LDN, be substituted for clinical trials to " prove "

> the effectiveness of

> LDN? It would surely cost a lot less. Maybe some of the money already

> raised to finance

> clinical trials could be given to a test group of MS patients to pay for

> their MRIs both before

> and after treatment. MRIs don't lie, or at least I presume they don't,

> and the MRI trials

> could be done at some institution whose integrity is unquestioned.

I wonder if it would be possible to isolate the effect of LDN with such

data. It also seems that this type of data would show, correlation more

readily than causation. If it makes any difference, I am willing that my

MRI's be used in such an effort.

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