HOW CBD CAN HELP YOUR GUT
In recent years, gut health has become an area of health and wellness. After all, as Hippocrates said: “Every disease begins in the intestines.”
Since gut health is so important, it seems important to take care of it. Many foods and diets seem to help, especially probiotics and cultured foods, which act as friendly and beneficial bacteria reservoirs.
Cannabinoids such as CBD also play an important role in maintaining gut health.
Medical cannabis can interact with the endogenous cannabinoid system to alleviate problems associated with nausea, vomiting, gastric ulcers, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn’s disease, secretory diarrhea, paralytic bowel obstruction, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
The results show that the endogenous cannabinoid system offers a therapeutic perspective for the treatment of intestinal diseases characterized by an exaggerated inflammatory response. Cannabis is an adaptogenic immune modulator capable of increasing or decreasing immune function to contribute to a healthy outcome at all times.
The use of medical marijuana to treat digestive disorders is a proven system and is generally a safer procedure than the use of drugs or surgery.
Cannabis helps to combat the spasms that accompany many gastrointestinal disorders because the cannabinoids relax the smooth muscle cuts in the intestines. Studies show that the body’s own cannabinoids, known as anandamides, influence the neurological system and gastrointestinal control function.
Studies have shown that the cannabinoids in cannabis bind to cannabinoid receptors in the gastrointestinal tract, particularly in the small and large intestines, causing muscle relaxation, reducing inflammation, relieving pain, increasing neuromuscular coordination, and reducing spasms, such as those causing diarrhea.
Recent studies have shown that cannabidiol (CBD), one of the main therapeutic compounds in the cannabis plant, can help reduce the troublesome symptoms of inflammatory bowel disease. Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease are two of the most important diseases for which CBD has great potential. Not only has CBD been found to have a positive effect on the symptoms of IBD, but it has also shown incredible promise as a potential treatment option.
The GI, the Canadian Intestinal Society, is just one of the studies leading to the use of CBD to treat IBD. They reported on studies of the use of CBD oil to treat colitis and “found that adding CBD after the onset of inflammation reduced it while adding CBD before the onset of inflammation did not reduce it at all.”
Dr. Jordan Tischler, a physician at Inhale University’s MD Health and Wellness at Harvard Medical School, also uses this ancient cannabis plant to treat a variety of conditions, including inflammatory bowel disease. He says cannabis is much less harmful than traditional medicine and claims that he can count on one hand the number of patients who have suffered adverse side effects from cannabis. Dr Tischler discovered that by prescribing CBD to patients with forms of IBD, they felt much better without the unnecessary side effects of conventional medicines.
CBD is a potent substance that has an overall healthy digestive effect without the serious side effects of conventional medicines. Clinical studies show that CBD and other cannabinoids appear to relieve temporary increased intestinal motility, gas, abdominal discomfort, upset stomach, and poor appetite.
