LDN FOR AUTOIMMUNE DIABETES (LADA & TYPE 1)

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone does anyone if LDN has helped stabilize-prevent (or

aggravate) autoimmune diabetes either Latent Autoimmune Diabetes of

Adults (typically slow onset-so probably easier to intervene) & /or

antibody-positive type 1 regardless of age?

It appears about 10% of Westernized countries adult population

presenting with pre-diabetes (particularly lean-non-obese adults

between ages 30-50) may have pancreatic autoantibodies that increases

their risk of insulin-dependency compared to those without such

antibodies making it far more prevalent than classic onset type 1:

http://www.actionlada.org/why/why.html

From:

http://www.low dose naltrexone.org/ldn_and_ai.htm

" There exists a common notion that the immune system in a person with

an autoimmune disorder is too strong and, in its exuberance, targets

a body tissue for attack. Rather, the evidence is more consistent

with autoimmunity resulting from immunodeficiency.1 Kukreja et al

have demonstrated that multiple immunoregulatory T cell defects lie

behind Type 1 diabetes both in humans and in non-obese diabetic mice.2

Sacerdote et al measured low beta-endorphin levels in two animal

examples of autoimmune disease — a mouse strain with a lupus-like

syndrome and a strain of chicken with an autoimmune thyroiditis.3

They had significantly lower hypothalamic concentrations of the

opioid than normal controls. In each case, the low levels of beta-

endorphin were found well before the expression of autoimmune

disease. This adds to considerable evidence of a key role for

endorphins in regulating immune responses and suggests a therapeutic

pathway.

Bihari et al found that a low oral dose of the opioid antagonist

naltrexone, when taken at bedtime, led to a doubling or tripling of

low levels of circulating beta-endorphin.4 Bihari has since treated

some 100 people with autoimmune disorders. None of them has

progressed further while the patient continued taking low dose

naltrexone each night at bedtime. Since no side effects are

apparently associated with its use, this medication might well be

studied as a possible preventive for Type I diabetes in those

youngsters with beta-cell autoantibodies. "

Appreciate any replies, Josh

[Guest guest]

Actually that was just a quote from the website.

My original posts stands largely as an inquiry...

Josh

>

> joshdeanrichards - this is the exact way i came to understand why and

how

> LDN works on autoimmune diseases!!!! thanx for the simple explanation

that

> confirmed my thought processes!!

>

> marshiris