Walk for LDN Awareness - Please e-mail the Governor!!

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> Please support her by sending an email to Gov Schwarzenegger. Tell him the importance of LDN research. Tell your LDN story. I have a link to his office at http://www.ldners.org/advocates.htm

Hi all,

First, thanks to Sammy Jo for posting this great news! This is an opportunity for all of those on this Group to easily make a positive impact!! Vicki (as an Multiple Sclerosis patient) is walking 53 miles to raise LDN awareness and funds! Now that's dediction and determination to put LDN on the map. For more information on Vicki, please see http://www.ldners.org/advocates.htm. Also, I would encourage you to send the Governor an e-mail. Anything that we can do to get LDN in the news, realistically moves us one step closer towards clinical studies for each of our diseases. So let's please support Vicki in her efforts! Please Send Governor Schwarzenegger an email and tell him to meet with Vicki!

I sent the below e-mail tonight to him (if you want to copy/paste parts of my e-mail, feel free to)!

Go Vicki - And "Thank YOU!" on behalf of us, our children, family members, and all of those who suffer and have/will in the future benefit from LDN! You have our respect, prayers, and best regards!

Cheers ~ Joyce

Dear Governator (Mr. Schwarzenegger),

You, as the Governor, have an opportunity to reduce your Health care costs in California and be an innovator for the U.S. Yes - you can effect change!! Vicki Finlayson, who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has an incredible story on how she has been helped by Low Dose Naltrexone (also known as LDN). She is walking to the Capitol steps in Sacramento on May 19th at 2pm and hopes to meet with you in order to raise awareness of this very low cost drug. LDN is a very Low Dose of Naltrexone. Naltrexone, which is an opioid antagonist, has been proven (by NIH and other researchers) over the past few years to modulate the immune system in multiple diseases. The University of Pennsylvania (Hershey Medical School, Dr. Ian Zagon, Dr. Jill , and others have been doing significant medical research into this area for years. Last year, a LDN Crohn's Study was released where 89% showed improvement in their condition and 69% of the Crohn's patients went into remission (and this at the cost of approximately $1.00 a day -- yes...that's 100 pennies)!

Regular dose Naltrexone was already FDA approved many years ago, and is now in the generic stage where it is so cheap. LDN must be compounded to make it approximately 1/10 to 1/15 of the regular dosage of Naltrexone. Therefore, there is no profit in any drug company doing any of the clinical studies for LDN for any medical condition since it can already be used in an 'off-label' use. That means that most clinical studies specific to LDN are or will be either sponsored by the Government (such as National Institutes of Health, NIH) or groups personally raising funds to sponsor a study, such as Vicki.

We, ourselves, have seen the power of LDN in my daughter's liver condition. While we were waiting for a pediatric liver trial to start for my daughter's condition, we found LDN. LDN made an immediate impact in the condition of her liver and she has made significant improvement (and no longer needs any liver drugs). LDN cost us $20 a month, instead of the approximate $800/month for the other drug she would have taken. That's a significant health savings, as well as the dramatic improvement in her liver condition!!

So please meet with Vicki and learn how you can make health care affordable for California. Please set an example of innovative approaches to health care. For more information on Vicki, please read ( http://www.auburnjournal.com/detail/51371.html?content_source=archive). For more information on LDN, please read http://www.ldninfo.org/. Thanks!

Sincerely, Joyce