What is Naltrexone?
Naltrexone is a non-selective antagonist of opioid receptors. It is majorly used as rehabilitation therapy for discharged opiate addicts for eliminating addiction so that they can live a normal life and prevent or reduce relapse. After some more research on Naltrexone, it was found that if we use it within a specific dosage limit, It can be helpful in multiple autoimmune diseases, even in cancer, and HIV or AIDS. After this discovery, Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN) may become a promising immune-modulatory agent in the therapy for cancer and many immune-related diseases. Now, as you understood what is Naltrexone and what is Low-Dose Naltrexone. The second question would be which autoimmune diseases does it work for? And, How do you use LDN? Let’s talk about it..
Conditions Treat with LDN
- Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Hailey-Hailey Disease
- Lichen planopilaris
- Guttate psoriasis
- Lupus
- Crohn’s disease
- Fibromyalgia
- Major depressive disorder
- Cancer
- Chronic regional pain syndrome
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth, and
- Multiple sclerosis.
How to Take Low-Dose Naltrexone
FDA has approved in much higher doses (50 mg to 300 mg) to treat drug and alcohol addiction. But the therapeutic dose of low-dose Naltrexone (LDN) for autoimmune conditions is typically somewhere between 1.5mg – 4.5mg. At Texas Medical & Wellness Clinic, Dr. Nhi first understands the condition of the patients, then she decides to start with LDN as there are two protocols, Slower LDN and Faster LDN. In slower LDN protocol, we start at 1 mg, and In the Faster protocol, we start at 1.5 mg. It completely depends upon the patient’s condition.