CANNABINOIDS
QUICK SUMMARY
Cannabis leaves and buds contains over 400 chemical compounds, 80 of which
are Cannabinoids. The remaining 300+ compounds include a lengthy list of
Terpenoids which act synergistically with each other and the Cannabinoids
meaning the benets are greater when the whole symphony of compounds are
consumed together.
Cannabinoids are as essential to human functioning and wellbeing as air and
water - they should be consumed daily. Deciency always leads to dysfunction.
It is only a matter of time.
Cannabinoids increase your capacity to think clearly, positively and remain
functional in stressful situations.
Cannabinoids prevent most diseases and dysfunctions and do it better than
anything else you can add to your diet.
Cannabinoids repair your body better than anything else you can add to your
diet.
Inammation is the #1 enemy when it comes to health.
Cannabis is the #1 anti-inammatory.
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WHY A HEALTHY PERSON SHOULD
CONSUME CANNABINOIDS (CBD, THC etc)
Firstly because none of us are truly healthy.
How many of us look and feel the same
at 50 as we did when we were 19?
Is it normal to grow old and wear out?
Should we keep changing our denition
of what healthy is as we grow older?
To a 19 year old good health means:
Being able to run for hours and recover
almost instantly
Have the desire and ability to have sex
20 times a day
Eat like a horse and not get fat
Feel motivated and alert all the time
To an 80 year old it means:
Being able to go to the toilet without help
Remembering the names of their children
Doesnt need to wear adult diapers
Most peoples denition of good health is just what they think is acceptable at their
age - not what would truly constitute optimum physiology.
In his book Ageless Body Timeless Mind Deepak Chopra comments:
Scientists have discovered that human cells are incredibly well designed to
be self-sustaining. The fact that we get old and die is not programmed - it
appears we are supposed to live forever
For our in-built self-sustaining mechanisms to work properly we need:
proper nourishment
stable, positive mental activity
adequate rest
protection from internal and external sources of harm
Cannabis is uniquely capable of helping with all of these four longevity factors more
so than any other known substance.
Someone who doesnt have overt signs of disease or by their own denition is
healthy - still could be closer to optimal physiology if they add Cannabis to their
diet because it supplies components that are necessary for proper functioning,
protection and repair of all body systems - components that cannot be acquired
elsewhere.
Without Cannabinoids you will grow old faster be more vulnerable to breaking down
and enjoy your life less.
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Some specic examples
ANXIOLYTIC (anti-anxiety)
We have a tendency to worry about things that are unimportant and get anxious
about things that are out of our control. Worrying:
Reduces our enjoyment of life
Can cause us to avoid necessary yet stressful things for fear of the anxiety they
will cause
Reduces our ability to focus on important things
Makes us less productive
Stimulates chemical changes in the body that promote accelerated ageing and
weakening of our immune system.
Because we do it so habitually we think it is normal.
CBD is a potent, non-psychoactive anxiolytic. It enables you to function optimally in
the face of otherwise stressful circumstances. You remain happier, healthier and
more functional. Dont think of it as performance enhancing, think of it as
performance restoring, We have become accustomed to a state of permanent
under-performance because it is all we have ever known. CBD can change that.
INFLAMMATION
Inammation is good when it is temporary and localised. Inammation is like a little
man inside your body with a ame thrower. If you have invading microbes or
damaged, dysfunctional cells that need to be eliminated, targeted inammation will
eliminate them. Imagine though if the ame thrower never turned off and he
travelled all over your body causing damage to normal healthy cells.
CRP (C reactive protein) is a chemical marker of inammation. If your body is
producing CRP it means there is inammation occurring somewhere.
During an acute bacterial infection (eg. food poisoning) blood CRP levels can go
from under 10mg/L to 1000mg/L. You would know there is inammation occurring,
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youd have pain, fever, nausea etc. Once your immune system has destroyed the
threat the inammation stops, your CRP returns to zero and you feel ne again.
A healthy 50 year old man with a CRP level that remains at around 3mg/L might
sound harmless, he would not feel that there is a problem, he would say Im
healthy - yet, compared to a 50 year old man with a CRP level that stays at zero, he
is 300% more likely to have a heart attack in the next few years.
Chronic Inammation is THE prime causative factor and/or key contributor to all the
major diseases:
CANCER
HEART DISEASE
STROKE
ALZHEIMERS
ASTHMA
ARTHRITIS
DIABETES
CROHNS DISEASE
ECZEMA
PSORIASIS
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The list of things inammation causes is only exceeded by the list of things that
cause inammation. Synthetic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, cigarettes, 99.9% of
personal care / cosmetic products, smoke from cars, trucks etc, GMO foods,
anxiety, eating meat and dairy, lack of sleep, excessive abdominal fat, mobile
phones, infectious agents, processed food, nutritional deciency etc
Your body needs a constant supply of non-toxic anti-inammatories; things you can
eat, inhale and apply to the skin. There are not many practical things that work.
Many claims are made about the anti-inammatory properties of various foods but
there are none as strong, safe or practical as Cannabis.
It is very very likely that Cannabis is the BEST anti-inammatory that exists.
It is just as effective when applied topically. eg. rashes, sunburn, toothache -
applying cannabinoid rich creams, oils or tinctures to the skin and inside of the
mouth rapidly eliminates pain and repairs damage.
OXIDATION
Oxidation is a bit like tax - someone is taking something valuable from you. Like
inammation it can be useful if the part getting taxed is something you want to get
rid of (virus, damaged / cancerous cells) but what if it didnt stop and good healthy
parts of the body are getting taxed non-stop, all day, every day?
Oxidation (loss off electrons) in metal is the same as oxidation in the body -
electrons are being forcibly ripped away from molecules causing them to become
unstable. Your body literally starts to rust if oxidation isnt stopped.
Anti-oxidants are electron donors. Imagine the tax man coming to your house to
take your money but before he knocks on your door someone rushes in and says
here, take as much money as you want from me but leave that guy alone so you
do not get taxed.
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The more anti-oxidants you consume the longer and happier you will live.
Two of the most powerful antioxidants in the body are Vitamin C and Vitamin E. CBD
is a much more powerful antioxidant than either and unlike other antioxidants CBD
can penetrate the brain so it can prevent damage and restore function in the brain
where other (most) antioxidants cannot.
Pathogens such as tuberculosis, leshmania and legionella hide inside immune cells
which prevents normal immune system activity from destroying them - so the
immune system creates super-oxide to oxidise these pathogens to death.
There was fear that because Cannabis antioxidants are so strong they would
deactivate the super-oxide and these particular pathogens once introduced would
thrive without challenge. Cannabis is smarter than this however - it contains
Cannabinoids that destroy specically these pathogens.
Cannabinoids are the Rolls Royce of antioxidants:
super strong
super versatile
super safe and non-toxic
Besides CBD and THC there are another 419 known compounds in Cannabis
leaves, many of which are also multi-function antioxidants and anti-inammatories.
NERVOUS SYSTEM
In addition to being antioxidants, anti-inammatories, anti-cancer, anti-microbial and
anti a lot of other things, Cannabinoids also have a very unique function in the
nervous system.
Ordinarily, transmission of nerve signals is uni-directional - they only go one way.
Cannabinoids transmit information in the opposite direction giving the nervous
system feedback. What this means is that the nervous system is better able to
coordinate its activity. If there is too much or too little of a particular activity taking
place in the body (eg. uncontrolled inammation), the Cannabinoids help the
nervous system to increase or decrease that activity to optimum levels.
This is supposed to be part of our normal functioning. Most things in our body (air,
water, protein) get used up and need to be replaced. We also need a regular
supply of Cannabinoids. Without them we grow old faster, are more prone to
disease and dysfunction and cannot operate at our optimal.
SAFETY
There are cannabinoid receptors everywhere in the body except the brain stem.
Why this is important is because the brain stem controls your heart and your
breathing. No matter how much Cannabinoids you consume, including THC, you
cannot overdose and die - it will never stop your heart or lungs working. You might
get stoned and crash your car but Cannabis itself cannot kill you.
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EFFECTIVE DOSE
A fresh raw Cannabis plant contains little to no THC. It contains THCa which is the
acidic, non-psychoactive form of THC. Heating (smoking) or ageing Cannabis
breaks off the acid which converts the molecule to THC, the psychoactive molecule.
Both THC and THCa have therapeutic benets however humans can only tolerate a
small amount (approximately 10mg) of THC before they are incapacitated.
For therapeutic use, experts recommend 600-1000mg per day of Cannabinoids
(60-100 times more than you can get by smoking). This amount is easily obtainable
by eating or juicing leaves in their raw un-heated state; 30-50 leaves a day.
KRISTEN PESKUSKI
Severely ill, taking 40 different medications each day. She was diagnosed with:
Lupus
Asthma
Skin Rashes
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Interstitial Cystitis
Endometriosis
Cervical Cancer
Hypothyroidism
Multiple chronic infections
Broken bones
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.all at the same time and was told she was Sterile - would never have children.
After 6 weeks of juicing Cannabis to get 600-1000mg of non-psychoactive
Cannabinoids daily all of her conditions went into remission. She became fully
functional, healthy, happy andpregnant!
SNAKE OIL?
USA
For 80 years the US Government has
been saying Cannabis has no medicinal
properties yet in 2001 they led patent #
6630507 titled Cannabinoids as
Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants
In it the Government states its scientic discoveries which give basis for the patent:
Cannabinoids have antioxidant [Link] are
[Link] is not psychoactiveCannabinoids are not toxic
even in large [Link] are effective for the prevention and/or treatment of
Alzheimers Disease, Autoimmune Disease, Stroke, Parkinsons Disease, HIV,
Dementia, Downs Syndrome and Heart Disease.
They still publicly claim no medicinal properties
AUSTRALIA
For 50 years Australias Government has said Cannabis has no medicinal
properties. In 2001 the NSW Government commissioned the University of Sydney
to research the medicinal use of Cannabis. The ndings:
Would be effective for treating a very large number of serious health conditions.
The presence of CBD deactivates the psychoactive effects of THC.
Besides the 80 known Cannabinoids in Cannabis, the other remaining 341
chemical compounds in Cannabis contribute to its medicinal effects.
The complete suite of phytochemicals in Cannabis consumed together are
synergistic and provide more benet than isolated or synthetic Cannabinoids.
In other words - letting Australians have
access to the real plants will cure all their
diseases and reduce demand for
synthetic pharmaceutical drugs.
In 2013 a NSW Parliamentary Committee
comprising members of 5 political parties
made unanimous recommendations that
medicinal use of Cannabis be allowed.
The NSW Government dismissed the
recommendations.
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VITAMIN C
CBD
WHOLE PLANT EXTRACT