Stem Cell Research: Canada Man Gets Help for His Multiple Sclerosis

Arndt Roe-I am intrigued by your story in THE SCIENCEBLOG. I have had MS for 25 years. I am 45 years old now and have had this disease for all of my adult life.

I would like to follow your diisease progression and also would like to inquire how much the proceedure costs.

I would appreciate any words of wisdom you can impart upon me.

Thank you,
Jane Vitelli

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR ALL MS PATIENTS

To my fellow MS sufferers:

By way of introduction, my name is Joseph Wouk. I'm the son of the novelist Herman Wouk whose works you might be familiar with. I'm a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law school in NYC.

I have recently completed a book entitled Google LDN! available on Amazon and B&N. It can be read in it's entirety for free at googleldn dot com. In addition, the site has lots of information on LDN as well as three videos explaining about it ranging from seven minutes to an hour.

As posting links is not allowed on this forum, just Google the title of the book or my name and you'll find it. The hundred page appendix should have all the information you might want concerning LDN and it's operation.

The blurb from the back of the book explains my story:

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Diagnosed with Progressive Relapsing Multiple Sclerosis, Joseph Wouk, youngest son of novelist Herman Wouk refuses to accept the doctor’s opinion that there is nothing more to be done for his medical condition. He plans to go to the Amazon to try to cure himself with a Shaman’s ayahuasca ceremony.

The book begins as a journal entitled, PLACEBO – A Rationalist Seeks a Miracle Cure. Wouk, a hardened western rationalist has no patience for spooks or spirits or any other new age wishful thinking. His plan is to try to delude himself with psychedelics into thinking he is cured - Thereby activating the placebo effect to cure himself for real.

He covers all the bases: From Buddhism to Judaism. From quantum physics to Gödel’s incompleteness theorem. From alternative medicine to the Metaphysics of Quality.

Told with humor and honesty, Wouk pulls the reader through his thought processes as he watches his mind dissolve from the subcortical dementia caused by his particular variety of MS.

Right before he is scheduled to leave for Peru, all his MS symptoms suddenly disappear. The only drug he was taking was Low Dose Naltrexone (LDN).

The second part of the book is entitled: LDN – Miracle Cure Found ! After his symptoms disappear, Wouk finds out that LDN has been stopping the progress of Progressive MS for 20 years. It also has been helping cancer victims, AIDS patients, Parkinson’s sufferers, and a host of other immune system related diseases.

Naltrexone was FDA approved only to treat recovering addicts. The low dose version works its magic by tripling the body’s production of endorphins. This restores the immune system to full operation; hence the drug’s ability to help so many diseases. It doesn’t fight the diseases; the body fights them once the immune system is restored. Because it is now generic, no one will spend the millions required for FDA approval.

Google LDN ! is Wouk’s attempt at Dana Paramita, the Buddhist version of Christian “good works”.

The book includes a hundred page appendix with the most up to date information about LDN and its effects on immune system related diseases.

You’ll laugh and cry through the first part of the book and be inspired by the second part.

A man who refuses to give up in the face of insurmountable odds ends up completely healed despite the hopelessness that western medicine tells him he faces.
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Please note: Despite the literary license used in the blurb, LDN is NOT a "cure". It's a palliative which has to continue being taken for its effects to last.

I addressed the first annual LDN conference on April 25 in Glasgow and that video is available at the same site as the book.

This matter may well be the most important one to national health since the discovery of penicillin. Writing that makes me feel like a self promoting flake pushing some variety of "snake oil." That's been one of the lesser problems in getting LDN recognized for what it has proven itself over and over to be capable of. It's hard to swallow that any drug could possibly control the following list of diseases:

Cancers:

* Bladder Cancer
* Breast Cancer
* Carcinoid
* Colon & Rectal Cancer
* Glioblastoma
* Liver Cancer
* Lung Cancer (Non-Small Cell)
* Lymphocytic Leukemia (chronic)
* Lymphoma (Hodgkin's and Non-Hodgkin's)
* Malignant Melanoma
* Multiple Myeloma
* Neuroblastoma
* Ovarian Cancer
* Pancreatic Cancer
* Prostate Cancer (untreated)
* Renal Cell Carcinoma
* Throat Cancer
* Uterine Cancer

Other Diseases:

* ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease)
* Alzheimer's Disease
* Ankylosing Spondylitis
* Autism Spectrum Disorders
* Behcet's Disease
* Celiac Disease
* Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
* CREST syndrome
* Crohn's Disease
* Emphysema (COPD)
* Endometriosis
* Fibromyalgia
* HIV/AIDS
* Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
* Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
* Parkinson's Disease
* Pemphigoid
* Primary Lateral Sclerosis (PLS)
* Psoriasis
* Rheumatoid Arthritis
* Sarcoidosis
* Scleroderma
* Stiff Person Syndrome (SPS)
* Systemic Lupus (SLE)
* Transverse Myelitis
* Ulcerative Colitis
* Wegener's Granulomatosis

I'm no self promoter and LDN isn't snake oil. In fact, if the trials bear out the experience of doctors who have used it, it could well be the best drug ever discovered for restoring the immune system to it's proper function. It does this not only for humans, but for animals as well. Dogs and cats with cancer are routinely stabilized with LDN and live long, normal lives.

Be sure to Google the study that was completed six months ago in Milan, Italy where over the course of 6 months, only one of forty PRMS patients showed any progression of their disease while taking LDN.

The Yahoo group "lodosenaltrexone" has over 6,000 members who have been, or are being helped by LDN. While cancer and MS are the two most common illnesses that LDN helps, over the past few years children with autism have shown such amazing improvement that Hadassah Medical School is beginning a study about it. When I Googled "LDN autism" just now, it returned 11,100 hits.

It's method of functioning is pretty straight forward. Naltrexone, as an opioid blocker, makes the body think it has a deficit of endorphins. This causes the body to produce 2-3 times the normal amount of endorphins. The endorphins then fortify and help restore the immune system. All this is accomplished with essentially no bad side effects.

None of this is rocket science for medical professionals today. What's somewhat different about LDN is that it doesn't treat the disease. Instead, it treats the body and then lets the body treat the disease. This is reminiscent of Homeopathy and may be another reason why LDN has failed to attract the attention of the medical community despite all the evidence.

The central reason that LDN is still unknown is no reason at all. That is, unless making money is considered a "reason". LDN became a generic drug years and years ago. On the one hand, this is good. LDN is cheap because anybody can produce and sell it. The problem is that its effects on the immune system were discovered after it had become generic. Our "for profit" system of medical care has lots to recommend it. However, in the case of a drug whose important use is discovered after it becomes generic, the system completely breaks down.

While I have no use for "Big Pharma" in general, I can hardly blame them for not investing the 30 million dollars necessary to gain FDA approval if there is simply no way they can ever recoup their investment.

This is a terrible hole in our medical system that needs to be fixed. While LDN may represent the most extreme example of the damage that can result from this "hole," it is the tip of the iceberg when one considers how many drugs are going generic on a daily basis. None of these drugs will ever be tested for new and important uses no matter how much evidence there is to justify it. The current patent law insures that a drug's approved use becomes "frozen" as soon as it becomes generic.

While many different solutions to this problem have been proposed, I believe that as long as our society continues to use the "for profit" system, the only real solution has to be found within that system. That's why I've proposed that the patent law be changed to allow for "re patenting" of prescription drugs for new and important uses.

If that law had been in place 20 years ago when Dr. Bernard Bihari discovered the effects of low dose naltrexone on the immune system, millions of peoples lives would have been saved, trillions of dollars would not have been wasted, countless hours of suffering would have been prevented, and the continent of Africa would not be facing decimation at the hands of AIDS. By now, LDN would again have become a generic drug.

These are the issues that I would like to get across to the public and to our legislators. My book and my story serve only to give me some patina of authority which I otherwise completely lack.

Since LDN has been used effectively for over 20 years to treat MS with no adverse side effects reported whatsoever, I suggest that people consider taking it. They have nothing to lose and everything to gain. My experience is not an "anecdotal" fluke. The numbers that have been gathered show that LDN is effective in halting MS progression and preventing relapses in 80% of the people who take it.

To all my fellow sufferers here online, I wish you all a recovery as complete as mine was. Progressive MS patients finally have an option to save themselves, and this is truly a cause for great rejoicing. All you need to do to find out all the information you need is to do as the title of my book suggests, Google "LDN Naltrexone". Thousands and thousands of sites to choose from. Start at the number one site in the Google listing if you haven't started at my book's site.

Warmest,

Joseph Wouk