Low-dose naltrexone

And I always say apply it on the outside areas, the healthy skin, and eventually you'll be able to get closer and closer to the damaged or the lichen skin because y- you'll get that turnover from unhealthy to healthy cells.

And then LDN, low dose naltrexone.

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Right.

But, uh, but anyway, um, look up LDN, take ivermectin, get a blood count every three months or so.

And, you know, make sure her immune system's healthy, too.

Um, there's a lot of ways to go about that, uh, normal ways.

Um, all that stuff you can try.

Um, but she can certainly take the ivermectin.

But add LDN to it.

Uh, HP, let me know if that is helpful.

Yeah.

I'm a big fan of LDN and T4, T3, natural desiccated thyroid.

These are life-changing for many thyroid patients.

I have not used too many peptides with my thyroid clients yet.

I, okay, so, so one of the things that, that I know we were hoping to talk about and we didn't get to was low-dose naltrexone.

And, uh, and talking a little bit about, like, how it affects inflammation and the immune system and things like that.

Do you have any kind of a LDN-related hack? And then maybe we can actually get more into the science of LDN later.

Or if you have a different hack, that's totally okay too.

Well, I think th- th- that's a really important point.

So LDN, there are so many ways that LDN actually works in the body that we don't understand.

I mean, we know a couple of the receptors that it actually works on.

You know, we, we know that it, it works at the mu receptor, and it helps the body build its own natural endorphins.

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the brand name Narcan, which in high doses is used to reverse opiate overdose, but in really low doses, LDN, is used to potentiate our natural opiate receptors.

And, uh, she's doing a study on patients with endometriosis and using that, because anytime someone gets into a chronic pain situation, even if you can identify what part of it was that initiated it and take care of that, if the nerve fibers and everything are reverberating in the body and the response-

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Let's talk about LDN, low dose naltrexone, which I found helpful for certain pain syndromes and also for sometimes chronic itch syndromes, you know, irritated, itchy skin.

And it's one of those reset things.

It's not quite clear how

This is one of the main reasons probably why we see increased dementia with chronic pain.

That's likely very, very preventable.

So both LDN and PEA, not these little round green things, but palmitoyl ethanolamide, you need a high absorption PEA.

And then naltrexone, which blocks narcotics, so you can't use it if you're on narcotics.

So that's kind of research.

What I've found in my own clinical practice over the last 10 years, some additional things are low dose naltrexone or LDN, can absolutely in a profound way reduce antibodies with no other changes.

Glutathione is another one for me, like oral glutathione, which is our body's most potent antioxidant or anti-inflammatory agent that we make ourselves.

You can also do a cream that actually patients place on their thyroid gland.

a flare.

So many great tools.

I'm a huge fan of red light therapy that has helped me a lot on my journey and LDN.

So many of the things you mentioned, I'm like, yep, yep, yep.