trials

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You can prescribe medicine for off patent use if you are a doc. They

do it all the time. My daughter has rett, and we certainly were

prescribed anti eps that were only FDA approved for adults - but her

seizures were uncontrollable otherwise - this kind of approach, to use

meds for off patent use, as long as the doc prescribes them is

something I've often seen in the pediatric community... so I assume it

happens for adults all the time as well...

To develop a new medicine for something, I know you have to do animal

trials and meet other guidelines as well, before it goes to clinical

trial for humans, and then that is a 3 tiered kind of trial ... but I

thought that was just for a new medicine... when I looked at Dr.

Zagon's website, he is doing something with something called opiate

growth hormone (I think) - is this the one that he is doing the animal

trials with? If that is something new as a medicine, that would make

sense he was doing trials with that....

I know if you want something to be used more globally, it helps to have

any clinical trials for humans - they will measure things in your, in

your blood, your brain, your urine, etc,. before and after the med, as

well as do checkup, and document everything - the research community

likes to show physically that certain things were met in a clinical

trial, in part to get better use of the med, or not, depending on their

results.

My theory in life is if you feel better doing something, that works for

you. If you feel worse, that's not your solution.... you know, I take

an individual approach.... but researchers often go for more of a

population approach....

Still, most of the better docs I find will work with you

individually... you know, we all read the research, but at the end of

the day, we have to do what makes us feel better.... and meds are not

always understood well (why they are working, how it happens) - the

body is very complex, and is not as well understood as it will be

someday....

On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:09 AM, low dose naltrexone wrote:

Hi Aletha,

I really don't know. Have you taken a look at Dr. Zagon's research

publications?

Destiny

Aletha Wittmann <Aletha@...> wrote:

Interesting Destiny,

I wonder why Dr. Jill did not seem to need to go through the

same process with having animal studies first. Or have I missed

something?

Aletha