LOW DOSE NALTREXONE - Alternative therapy for autoimmune problems

What health problems has Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) benefited?- Autoimmune Diseases, Cancer, AIDS, HIV, COPD and More

What health problems has LDN benefited?

From the www.lowdosenaltrexone.org website

Bernard Bihari, MD, as well as other physicians and researchers, have described beneficial effects of LDN on a variety of diseases:

Cancers

• Bladder Cancer
• Breast Cancer
• Carcinoid
• Colon & Rectal Cancer
• Glioblastoma
• Liver Cancer
• Lung Cancer (Non-Small Cell)
• Lymphocytic Leukemia (chronic)
• Lymphoma (Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's)
• Malignant Melanoma
• Multiple Myeloma
• Neuroblastoma
• Ovarian Cancer
• Pancreatic Cancer
• Prostate Cancer (untreated)
• Renal Cell Carcinoma
• Throat Cancer
• Uterine Cancer

Other Diseases

• Common Colds (URI's)
• Emphysema (COPD)
• HIV/AIDS

Syndromes

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)
• Fibromyalgia

Autoimmune neuro-degenerative:

• Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS/(Lou Gehrig's Disease)
• Alzheimer's Disease
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (incl. autism disorder, Asperger syndrome)
• Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
• Parkinson's Disease
• Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
• Transverse Myelitis

Other Autoimmune Diseases:

• Ankylosing Spondylitis
• Behcet's Disease
• Celiac Disease
• CREST syndrome
• Crohn's Disease (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD")
• Dermatomyositis
• Endometriosis
• Hashimoto's Thyroiditis
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• Myasthenia Gravis (MG)
• Pemphigoid
• Psoriasis
• Rheumatoid Arthritis
• Sarcoidosis
• Scleroderma
• Sjogren's Syndrome
• Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)
• Systemic Lupus (SLE)
• Ulcerative Colitis (one of two types of idiopathic IBD)
• Wegener's Granulomatosis

In addition to the above list, LDN Research Trust in the U.K. mentions other health conditions for which LDN may be of benefit:

Conditions where LDN could be of benefit
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis	Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Addison's Disease	Agammaglobulinemia
Alopecia areata	Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
Anti-GBM/TBM Nephritis	Antiphospholipid syndrome
Antisynthetase syndrome	Asthma
Atopic allergy	Atopic dermatitis
Autoimmune aplastic anemia	Autoimmune cardiomyopathy
Autoimmune enteropathy	Autoimmune hemolytic anemia
Autoimmune hepatitis	Autoimmune inner ear disease
Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome	Autoimmune pancreatitis
Autoimmune peripheral neuropathy	Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome
Autoimmune PROGESTERONE dermatitis	Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura
Autoimmune urticaria	Autoimmune uveitis
Balo disease/Balo concentric sclerosis	Bechets Syndrome
Berger's disease	Bickerstaff's encephalitis
Blau syndrome	Bullous pemphigoid
Cancers	Castleman's disease
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy	Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis
Churg-Strauss syndrome	Cicatricial pemphigoid
Cogan syndrome	Cold agglutinin disease
Complement component 2 deficiency	Cranial arteritis
Crohns Disease (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD")	Cushing's Syndrome
Cutaneous leukocytoclastic angiitis	Dego's disease
Dercum's disease	Dermatitis herpetiformis
Diabetes mellitus type 1	Diffuse cutaneous systemic sclerosis
Discoid lupus erythematosus	Dressler's syndrome
Eczema	Enthesitis-related arthritis
Eosinophilic fasciitis	Eosinophilic gastroenteritis
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita	Erythema nodosum
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia	Evan's syndrome
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva	Fibrosing aveolitis
Gastritis	Gastrointestinal pemphigoid
Giant cell arteritis	Glomerulonephritis
Goodpasture's syndrome	Graves' disease
Guillain-BarrÃ© syndrome (GBS)	Haemolytic anaemia
Hailey -Hailey Disease	Hashimoto's encephalitis
Henoch-Schonlein purpura	Herpes gestationis
Hypogammaglobulinemia	Idiopathic Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis	Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (See Autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura)
IgA nephropathy	Inclusion body myositis
Inflammatory demyelinating polyneuopathy	Interstitial cystitis
Juvenile idiopathic arthritis	Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Kawasaki's Disease	Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome
Leukocytoclastic vasculitis	Lichen planus
Lichen sclerosus	Linear IgA disease (LAD)
Lou Gehrig's disease (Also Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)	Lupoid hepatitis
Lupus erythematosus	Majeed syndrome
MÃ©niÃ¨re's disease	Microscopic polyangiitis
Miller-Fisher syndrome	Mixed Connective Tissue Disease
Morphea	Mucha-Habermann disease
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)	Myositis
Neuromyelitis optica (Also Devic's Disease)	Neuromyotonia
Occular cicatricial pemphigoid	Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome
Ord thyroiditis	PANDAS (pediatric autoimmune neuropsychiatric disorders associated with streptococcus)
Palindromic rheumatism	Paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH)	Parry Romberg syndrome
Pars planitis	Parsonnage-Turner syndrome
Pemphigus	Pemphigus vulgaris
Perivenous encephalomyelitis	Pernicious anaemia
POEMS syndrome	Polyarteritis nodosa
Polymyalgia rheumatica	Polymyositis
Primary biliary cirrhosis	Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Progressive inflammatory neuropathy	Psoriatic arthritis
Pure red cell aplasia	Pyoderma gangrenosum
Rasmussen's encephalitis	Raynaud phenomenon
Reiter's syndrome	Relapsing polychondritis
Restless leg syndrome	Retroperitoneal fibrosis
Rheumatoid fever	Schmidt syndrome
Schnitzler syndrome	Scleritis
Spondyloarthropathy	Still's disease
Subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE)	Susac's syndrome
Sweet's syndrome	Sydenham chorea
Sympathetic ophthalmia	Takayasu's arteritis
Temporal arteritis (also known as ""giant cell arteritis"")	Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease	Undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy
Vasculitis	Vitiligo

Clinical Studies on Safety and Benefits of LDN for Autoimmune Diseases

Research examples

A couple of examples follow, but a complete list of past and current research is at the lowdosenaltrexone.org website.

- LDN for Multiple Sclerosis. Dr. Maira Gironi, an Italian neurological researcher, treated 40 patients affected with Primary Progressive MS (PPMS) with LDN for six months,concluding that LDN was not only safe and well-tolerated, but halted the progression of the disease in all but one patient. Results published in the journal Multiple Sclerosis .

- LDN for Crohn's Disease. In a pilot study involving 17 Crohn's disease patients, Low-Dose Naltrexone Therapy Improves Active Crohn's Disease, an impressive two-thirds of the patients in her pilot study went into remission, and 89% responded to LDN treatment to some degree. Smith J. et al, Apr. 2007, American Journal of Gastroenterology

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