Re: Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

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Bren

If you were in Thailand what time would you take your LDN and why?

Luigi

[low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

>> If there are occasions when one needs to stay up all night, or at > most gets to bed for just an hour or 2 because of some deadline, should > one still take the LDN at the regular time? Or better to skip the LDN > for that night? (In case it matters, I have Polymyositis, not MS.) > Thanks, S.>===========Go to the LDN website( www.ldninfo.org ) and read the Further Q and A Page, it will tell you that even those who work the graveyard shift should take their LDN between the hours of 9pm and 3am. Sleep has nothing to do with how LDN works.

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Hi Bren;

I know that you are very active on this site and help a lot of people. I mean no offense but logically some info doesn't sit quite right for me. As you say one should take the LDN so that it is your system during peak endorphin production. What doesn't quite sit right for me is that "peak endorphin" production is always at the same time - 2am to 4am. - and we should take the LDN between 9pm and 1 am. If in Thailand one would still take the LDN between 9pm and 1am but those times would in fact be quite different to 9pm and 1 am in USA or Canada. I suspect that peak endorphin production would occur between 2am and 4am local time but I don't really know. If that is true then it should be stated. It would also mean that peak production is according to the body cycles and is not tied to 2am to 4am USA time.

Luigi

[low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

>> Bren> > If you were in Thailand what time would you take your LDN and why? > > Luigi================You want to take your LDN during the peak endorphin production of your body. This is explained on the LDN website www.ldninfo.org

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the unanswered question is how many days/hours does it take your body to get in sync with your present Local Time?

Is it 24 hours or 240 hours?

I would figure you can't go wrong if you stay in the local window of local time, but don't take LDN within any 21 hour window, so you may end up missing a day, but with jet lag you may end up sleeping right through that anyway.

With my MS and issues, I don't think I'll ever be flying more than 2 1/2 hours in the same time zone; if I go anywhere else it would only be from ET to PT, so 0030 NY time would be fine for me on the left coast.

If you do make those time zone changes, be our guinea pig, let us know what you did and how it worked out for you

Re: [low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

Hi Bren;

I know that you are very active on this site and help a lot of people. I mean no offense but logically some info doesn't sit quite right for me. As you say one should take the LDN so that it is your system during peak endorphin production. What doesn't quite sit right for me is that "peak endorphin" production is always at the same time - 2am to 4am. - and we should take the LDN between 9pm and 1 am. If in Thailand one would still take the LDN between 9pm and 1am but those times would in fact be quite different to 9pm and 1 am in USA or Canada. I suspect that peak endorphin production would occur between 2am and 4am local time but I don't really know. If that is true then it should be stated. It would also mean that peak production is according to the body cycles and is not tied to 2am to 4am USA time.

Luigi

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Larry, absolutely right... When I asked Dr. B about the time taking LDN he did explain it was about the earths revolution not circadian clock. I was too excited to pay attention, I was only interested in how it would stop my progression. This was on my first visit so after 2 hrs I kind of stopped listening to anything that wasn't about me! LOL

You probably remember my telling this in the beginning of this group....glad someone paid attention.

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Perhaps another way to look at it is "What really causes the endorphen production that LDN is blocking?" As we skip through time zones our body "adjusts" to function on local time. If endorphin production doesn't correspond with sleep cycles then what does it correspond to?

Luigi

Re: [low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

Hi Bren;

I know that you are very active on this site and help a lot of people. I mean no offense but logically some info doesn't sit quite right for me. As you say one should take the LDN so that it is your system during peak endorphin production. What doesn't quite sit right for me is that "peak endorphin" production is always at the same time - 2am to 4am. - and we should take the LDN between 9pm and 1 am. If in Thailand one would still take the LDN between 9pm and 1am but those times would in fact be quite different to 9pm and 1 am in USA or Canada. I suspect that peak endorphin production would occur between 2am and 4am local time but I don't really know. If that is true then it should be stated. It would also mean that peak production is according to the body cycles and is not tied to 2am to 4am USA time.

Luigi

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The Earth's gravitational pull.

There's charts showing what time of day to massage what part of the body to help specific internal organs. Like 0300-0400 would be feet, 0400-0500 would be liver, 0500-0600 lungs, etc.. not sure, would have to go look at one of those charts at my chiro's office.

The chemical production isn't your own circadian rhythm, it's polar/solar... whatever... it happens during the pre-dawn hours

As far as anyone knows or supposes... however it works, it seems tied to the Earth clock rather than the patient's

Re: [low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

the unanswered question is how many days/hours does it take your body to get in sync with your present Local Time?

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Thanks Larry - that makes pretty good sense

Re: [low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN?

the unanswered question is how many days/hours does it take your body to get in sync with your present Local Time?

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JMHO...I believe this too. I think electromagnetic fields play a part. Marcie LarryGC <larrygc@...> wrote: The Earth's gravitational pull. There's charts showing what time of day to massage what part of the body to help specific internal organs. Like 0300-0400 would be feet, 0400-0500 would be

liver, 0500-0600 lungs, etc.. not sure, would have to go look at one of those charts at my chiro's office. The chemical production isn't your own circadian rhythm, it's polar/solar... whatever... it happens during the pre-dawn hours As far as anyone knows or supposes... however it works, it seems tied to the Earth clock rather than the patient's Re: [low dose naltrexone] Re: If up all night, should one still take LDN? the unanswered question is how many days/hours does it take your body to get in sync with your present Local Time?