Re: LDN is used in the treatment of obesity?

[Guest guest]

> LDN is used in the treatment of obesity?LDN helpful was with those who lose

weight?asking for a friend.

To some people, food is an addiction. Endorphins are released that, at least for

a short time, make you feel better. Taking this hypothesis, it is logical that

if you block those endorphins, just like with heroin, then the person would stop

getting that " high " from over eating and would lose their addiction from lack of

positive feedback. This would probably require the full Naltrexone addiction

dose, blocking endorphins rather than making them.

A second way that LDN could work to help lose weight is that, with the flush of

endorphins, a person feels so good that they get up off their rears and actually

do something, burning more calories and building more muscle. I know that when I

started LDN, the reduction of MS fatigue was huge and for the first time in

years, I actually felt like getting up and exercising.

A third possibility is the reduction of depression. Endorphins are the " feel

good " hormone and when a person is no longer depressed, they are capable of much

more activity than when they were depressed. When I am depressed, I know

intellectually that activity would help, but I used to be too depressed to do

anything about it even tho I knew that exercise would probably help, sigh.

But most of us who are overweight, simply overeat out of habit, or more often,

from sugar swings that crash our blood sugar and make us hungrier than before we

ate last. Turning to a high protein, low carbohydrate diet, stops those sugar

swings and allows us to lose weight without the hunger pangs and cravings.

Mostly, I think that when a person starts to get healthy and happy that they

start to have some investment in their own health and welfare. They start to

care about how they look and how they care for their bodies. When we were sick,

it was all we could do to make it through each day. The thought of going on a

diet or getting out to exercise was more than we could manage. Once the LDN

starts to kick in and we can start to remember what it was like to feel

" normal " , it is finally possible to deal with peripheral problems like weight.

Do any of those possibilities make sense?

Francie

[Guest guest]

Yes it does