Naltrexone Protocol for Cancer
Naltrexone Protocol
Jake Ames, MD, HMD & Douglas G.
Mitchell, Ph.D., D. Univ.
This is
a protocol for low dose naltrexone (LDN). You need prescriptions for Naltrexone
Instructions using compounded tablets
You need a compounding pharmacist.
The first prescription should be for 21 1.5 mg tablets, and
90 4.5 mg tablets. Subsequent prescriptions are only for 4.5 mg tablets. The
pharmacist will prepare these tablets.
You always take LDN at bedtime.
Week 1: Take 1.5 mg tablets at bedtime.
Week 2: Take 2 1.5 mg tablets at bedtime.
Week 3 and thereafter: Take 4.5 mg tablets each day for
life.
Instructions using 50 mg tablets
Naltrexone
is mainly sold as 50 mg tablets. These are available off the shelf. If a
compounding pharmacist is not available or too expensive, buy 50 mg tablets.
Crush
the tablet with a mortar and pestle or use the back of a spoon on a plastic
cutting board to crush the tablet into a very fine powder.
Put the
Naltrexone powder into a glass jar with a screw-on lid. The jar is big enough to hold 50 ml of
water.
Add 50
ml of distilled water or reversed osmosis water into the glass jar. Your water should contain close to zero parts
per million dissolved solids, (ppm).
Measure this with a total dissolved solutes (TDS) meter. The resulting
mixture contains 1 mg/mL Naltrexone.
Shake
the bottle thoroughly, and then use a 5 mL syringe to withdraw 1.5 mL (1.5 mg),
3.0 mL or 4.5 mL as required.
Make
sure that you shake the closed jar real thoroughly each time you draw out the
Naltrexone.
Side Effects
We
usually do not see any side effects.
Rarely, patients may have some mild nausea at the 4.5 mg dosage. The
patient then needs to decrease the dosage to 3.5 mg. This usually works to eliminate any nausea. A few weeks later, return to a 4.5 mg dose. Patients now usually tolerate this dosage.
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