Marijuana, Weight Loss And Diabetes Patients

[trix]

Marijuana Could Benefit Weight Loss and Diabetes Patients

 

Jul 09, 2012

Researchers have discovered that substances found in marijuana can help manage metabolic diseases such as type 2 diabetes. Scientists with GW Pharmaceuticals have discovered that marijuana leaves contain two substances, cannabidiol and THCV, which can increase the number of calories the body burns.

 

 

Not only do these substances increase the number of calories burned, they also have been shown to contribute to the treatment of type 2 diabetes in test animals.

 

 

Marijuana Could Benefit Weight Loss and Diabetes Patients

 

 

Scientists are hoping that these two substances can be manipulated into pharmaceutical drugs which could be taken to combat obesity, high blood pressure, and diabetes, which in turn could help to limit the chances of heart attack and stroke among patients.

 

Clinical trials are currently being run on 200 patients. According to Dr. Steph Wright, “We are interested in how these drugs effect the fat distribution and utilization in the body as a treatment for metabolic diseases.”

 

Cannabidiol and THCV have been observed to suppress the appetite for short periods of time. They also increase the body’s sensitivity to insulin and protect the cells that make insulin.

 

Additionally, these substances have been found to increase animals’ metabolisms, which led to a lower cholesterol level and a reduction of fat in the liver.

 

Significant research still needs to take place, but the researchers at GW Pharmaceuticals are hopeful that their findings will lead to a new drug to combat obesity and type 2 diabetes, two of the fastest growing health epidemics in the United States.

 

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Trix

[mrd]

I guess the author never at a package of chips ahoy in one sitting. It might decrease appetite for a short time but then ....

 

Yes I did regret eating all the cookies!

[trix]

lol, I ate all the brownies!

[Wild Bill]

I started using cannabis for orthopedic pain but discovered that it was also seemingly helping to control my blood glucose levels.

 

That was the only thing that had changed with my regimen so I have to assume it is the cannabis.

[trix]

I have several close family members that suffer from diabetes, I continuly push marijuana research their way. Do to the life long stigma and fear of arrest, they will still not try marijuana as a source of medicine. makes me sad.

 

My brother in law has went blind, and is on the pancrease transplant list due to juvienile diabetes (37yrs old now), and still is to affraid of what could happen if he chose to use marijuana.. What If they found marijuana in his system he could possibly be turned down for a transplant.

 

Trix

[Dilligaf]

As long as I eat a spoonful of oil infused almond butter (I like it more than peanut butter) a day I don't have to use Insulin. Without the oil I use around 100 units a day. I know it works.

 

Mike

[Wild Bill]

As long as I eat a spoonful of oil infused almond butter (I like it more than peanut butter) a day I don't have to use Insulin.

I never thought of infusing nut butter. Thanks for the tip!

[Dilligaf]

I never thought of infusing nut butter. Thanks for the tip!

 

I use 1-1.5 grams per cup (8oz), a heaping teaspoon a day works wonders.

[medicinesfas]

Thank's for your useful tiops, really great man.Keep posting like this...your post is so informative.