Naltrexone has been around since the 1960s. It is an opioid antagonist useful in drug addiction In the last few years NYC police officers can use it in the field for suspected drug overdose. It has been used as low dose naltrexone 1 mg to 6 mg for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases for the last 24 years.
LDN and another 1960’s drug called Ketamine has now found its way to combat COVID 19. A small study is being conducted called SINK COVID 19 to the use of both of these drugs to combat COVID 19. It is believed that these drugs will reducing symptoms by reducing the autoimmune hyperinflammatory stages of the disease. These stages are destructive to body tissue that rapidly leads to death. Ketamine is an anesthetic that also shows anti inflammatory effects early in the stage of a disease
I use a lot of LDN in my patient population with autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue syndrome, Lyme, and cancer . I find it so interesting that that group of my patients on LDN have not had COVID. For those that have COVID taking LDN for these conditions above, they have only had mild symptoms
This drug combination could be useful. More needs to be studied
Until tomorrow…