Introduction

I have had a long journey with chronic illness. Diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis at age 9, I have been on daily medication for it since. My issues with IBS started even earlier and, in my early 20s, I was diagnosed with gluten intolerance (and eventually Celiac disease), which began a long series of ever-more-restrictive dietary interventions until I ended up obligate carnivore in 2017.

Likely because of chronic disease issues and difficult childhood experiences I've also been perpetually alienated from my body and prone to dissociation to cope with difficult emotions. The degree, how long it had been a part of my life, and how much it's affected my ability to be present and connected to my body only recently became clear to me.

Enter Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN).

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