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Greetings!
At MD Custom Rx, we care about our patients and want to provide you with quality information about your health. If you ever have questions or would like more information, please feel free to ask. We look forward to caring for you and your family.
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Strengthening your Immune System with Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) Therapy
 Evidence suggests that Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN; 3.0-4.5 mg orally, taken once daily at bedtime) can help to strengthen the immune system, which may in turn help to reduce various cancer-causing and inflammatory autoimmune processes. LDN may also play a role in the healing and repair of tissues.
LDN increases the body's production of endorphins, including beta-endorphin from the pituitary gland and metenkephalin, an endorphin made in the adrenal gland. Endorphins are the "feel good" substances that are released in the body after aerobic exercise, that also help to relieve anxiety. But, endorphins are chemically similar to opiates (like morphine), hence they are known as "endogenous opioids", because they are made in the human body. Ian Zagon, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Hershey Medical School, Penn State University, has theorized that activation of the body's opioid receptors by endorphins produces apoptosis, which is the term for programmed cell death that primarily occurs while cells are dividing. Cancer cells divide much more rapidly than normal cells in the body, and endorphin levels are often low in patients with cancer, so endorphin stimulation by LDN might be helpful in fighting cancer.
Bernard Bihari, MD, the principal investigator of LDN until his death in 2010, believed that one of the causes of cancer may be a drop in endorphin levels, which deprives the body of an important defense against cancer, the immune system's natural cytotoxic killer cells (CD8). Dr. Bihari also believed that naltrexone should be useful in treating any chronic infection - tuberculosis, Lyme disease, and genital herpes - by increasing the immune system's ability to control these diseases, and he used LDN to treat his patients with these problems. Dr. Bihari also treated patients with chemotherapy-resistant lymphoma with LDN, and achieved remissions according to his reports.
We are not suggesting that LDN be used in place of other treatment for cancer or chronic disease, but that it may be a reasonable adjunctive therapy.
Naltrexone is only available commercially as 50 mg oral tablets which are approved for treatment of addiction and opioid drug withdrawal. It is doubtful that large scale studies will ever be done to investigate potential indications for the much lower dose of naltrexone (LDN) discussed in this newsletter "because there's no profit motive to fund research on an inexpensive drug with an expired patent."
Health and Healing. May 2010. Vol. 20, No. 5
We welcome the opportunity to discuss this therapy with you and your physician. Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN) is available only by prescription and can be compounded by MD Custom Rx. Ask us about professional grade nutritional supplements to support your immune system.
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Do Stress Hormones Speed Up Cancer?!
FREE SEMINAR!
 | | Dr. Debra Muth, ND, WHNP, APNP, BAAHP Board Certified with the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine |
Dr. Muth will discuss this intriguing topic as well as answer the following:
- What is a safe length of time to stay on hormones?
- Does BHRT increase the risk of cancer?
- What can I do to offset my risk if
I want to use BHRT? - Can I use BHRT after cancer?
Join us for this FREE event!
Wednesday
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Presented by Dr. Debra Muth, ND, WHNP, APNP, BAAHP
Seminar is at MD Custom Rx
19035 W. Capitol Dr., Suite 105 in Brookfield, WI 53046.
Call 262-373-1050 to register. SPACE IS LIMITED!!
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