LDN - Low Dose Naltrexone - Powerful Immune Boost

Low-Dose Naltrexone has been proposed as a treatment for many types of immune-mediated illnesses such as cancer, multiple sclerosis, IBD, rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune disorders. LDN is not used by mainstream physicians, and if someone is going to try this treatment, they will need to find an alternative physician willing to prescribe and follow a patient with LDN.

There are several websites that report on LDN and a great book has been written:

http://www.lowdosenaltrexone.org/

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2011/09/19/one-of-the-rare-drugs-that-actually-helps-your-body-to-heal-itself.aspx

https://www.amazon.com/LDN-Book-Little-Known-Naltrexone-Revolutionize-ebook/dp/B01CDH83U6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490503305&sr=8-1&keywords=low+dose+naltrexone

Naltrexone is a drug normally used with drug addicts to negate the effects of opiates. Is was discovered that at a lower dose, the drug actually works as a powerful immune stimulator. This forces the body to deal with pathogens that may be irritating the body and causing the autoimmune disorders, or elevate the immune system to overcome cancer.

This powerful immune boost can cause intense immune reactions in people. It can cause an exacerbation of existing symptoms, but with most people, it eventually results in eliminating their symptoms or at least reducing them. However, the immune reactions, which can cause die-off reactions, can be very intense and difficult to deal with. If someone is already ill, becoming more ill is hard to take. And many people testify that it can take many years, as much as ten, to finally get well.

LDN is a drug, and as such, it is not necessarily adding something beneficial to the body, as opposed to vitamins or foods. It is not known to have any long-term side effects. My opinion is that LDN is like pulling your body up by its own bootstraps. If you don't have what it takes inside of you, it might not work well. Or I wonder if it might push the body to do more than it really should do. The body is designed with intelligence, and playing with it with this drug does make me a bit nervous.

Crohn's disease may be a disease that is caused by a specific lack in some part of the immune system. For instance, many Crohn's sufferer's have low secretory IGA. Instead of overworking the rest of the immune system with LDN to compensate for that lack, what about adding to the body what is lacking, by taking a product like EnteraGam, which contains cow immunoglobulins? I truly do not know enough about this to know if this is right, but I wonder.