Dr Chris Steele MBE - ITV This Morning

Chelseadog

Hi all,

I don't know how many of you are aware of the drug Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN). It is a very effective therapy for all autoimmune diseases and cancers. We're petitioning the Govt to fund trials for LDN (the cost is approx £200m so no charity is able to afford this). However it will save the NHS billions if this drug is trialled.

We know the cost on the NHS for cancer alone is £30bn and Rheumatoid Arthritis £2bn, let alone for those suffering from MS, HIV/Aids, Crohns, Fibromyalgia etc.

If we get this drug trialled, not only will it save the NHS ie they won't have to cut costs on care which is what they're going to do, but save lives too.

It is not a miracle or wonder drug. It works for about 80% of the population and already 100,000 people around the world are using it. So why is this effective low cost therapy not being offered as front line treatment and available on the NHS?

Please support our campaign and listen to Dr Chris lending his support to what we're doing. Please visit the ldnnow site and click on Dr Chris's video

If anyone has any ideas/suggestions how to spread this word around, I'd really be grateful.

Many thanks!

soolin

Try contacting NICE as well as they are the ones responsibile for licensing drugs within the UK.

zztopgirl

My dad takes LDN for his ms and cant recommend it highly enough, I researched it all and nagged him til I was blue in the face, now its as if he has had a new lease of life.:j

There is a really good book about it which I also got my dad to help convince him, unfortunately some doctors are against LDN so they need to be convinced of its benefits. Edited cos cant post link but its on the ldnnow.co.uk website.

Chelseadog

Thanks Soolin, Dr Chris is going to be speaking to Ann Kean on our behalf. In order to help him, we need more ratings and comments on the youtube video. Any suggestions on how to spead the word? I'm hoping NICE and Ann Kean will see the value in this drug so it doesn't have to go through the expense etc re trials.

Chelseadog

Thanks for your support ZZTop, we can't either. It's a case of spreading the word and asking people to sign the petition for it to hold some weight for Dr Chris.

We're having an LDNNow Day on Sept 12th 'Saving Lives in the NHS', where a number of people around the UK will be devoting a couple of hours to talking to people in the street about LDN which will hopefully gain their support in our campaign ie getting signatures on our petition.

Afterall, what have we got to lose???

Thanks again!

irishj

As a new user I cant post the link to youtube for Dr Chris. So if you google
Dr Chris naltrexone he comes up number one

John

bwmbagus

I have seen the video with Dr Chris Steele on LDN and it is fabulous. He is a premier TV doctor in the UK and his support for this therapy, which has stopped my disease of SPMS progressing for over a year now, it much too successful in clinical use to ignore now. We just need it to become visible enough to those who decide to get it approved for front line use in the NHS. Get everyone ypou know to watch the youtube video.

Invasion

It's also been effective in helping a number of people with ME regain some ability to do some "normal" things, an illness where there is very little medicine that helps to improve the debilitating symptoms. Shall toddle over to the video now, thanks

Chelseadog

That is true, and for someone who suffers from Primary Progressive MS, there is no treatment available. However, there is, LDN. Why aren't people aware of this??

David603

My wife has been using LDN for nearly six years for MS and it has completely stopped all disease progress.

My wife still needs a lot of care because we were not told about this treatment, she had to find out for herself on the web.

There is a big debate going on about who funds care. My wife only needs care because she was not told about an effective treatment earlier. There is no system that can fund care for all with the numbers needing care at the moment.

How many others need care just because they were not told about an effective treatment for their condition. I am sure LDN is not the only treatment option that people are not being told about.

The regulatory authorities must look at treatments on the basis of patient need not just whats suits the pharmaceutical industry to fund clinical trials for.

That was one of the recommendations of the Health Committee 2005 report ''The Influence of The Pharmaceutical Industry'' why has it still not been implemented for treatments such as LDN?

Every increasing drug cost lead to ever increasing rationing which leads to ever increasing care costs. Simple really.

Chelseadog

LDN works by boosting endorphin levels and opioid growth factor. This is the key to why it works in the body. The animal body works using endorphins, which boost immune system and repair cells and act as pain killer. This is why they get produced in active muscles, in order to be prepared for any injury or insult.
In the night and early morning, the body produces larger numbers of endorphins for the maintenance of the immune system and the repair cells, and also in the control of tumour development. This is why young healthy individuals are unlikely to develop cancers. This process is essential since the world is full of bugs and viruses trying to eat us one way or another, and that is why we have these immune and repair systems. Without them, we wouldn’t last a day. So, if endorphin production get’s damaged by the stresses of life, as it does, then autoimmune diseases and cancer and much else besides can get a hold. This also explains why these type of expensive diseases are common in the west. We stress our immune and endorphin systems with pollution, overwork, being indoors all the time, and all that on top of the natural climatic issues of dark winters causing lack of vitamin D and the genetic and physical factors that make us vulnerable to specific conditions etc.
LDN fixes the endorphin part of this system, which drives the rest. You still need a good diet to feed the process, and it won’t fix stuff that is smashed – regeneration is beyond humans at the moment, until we get stem cell therapies working properly. But it can stop these diseases and many times even create reversals and improvements of varying degrees.
This seems to be a reasonable explanation of how this drug is working, and we can see that sometimes it will need help from more conventional therapies, but it should be a front line treatment, which leaves the doctors addressing what is left after it has done what it can. The healthy body in ‘homeostasis’ – (which is when the body is in balance internally and with all the bugs trying to eat it) – is what keeps us alive, so when helping to restore it become possible, ie by using LDN, then it is intelligent to use it, especially when it also halts and often improves such devastating diseases.