Study: Is the cardiovascular system a therapeutic target for cannabidiol? Christopher P Stanley, William H Hind, and Saoirse E O’Sullivan Abstract Cannabidiol (CBD) has beneficial effects in disorders as wide ranging as diabetes, Huntington’s disease, cancer and colitis. Accumulating evidence now also suggests that CBD is beneficial in the cardiovascular system. CBD has direct actions […]
CBD is short for cannabidiol, the second most prominent naturally-occurring cannabinoid found in all cannabis plants, comprising up to 40% in some plants. After THC, CBD is by far the most studied natural cannabinoid and is the cannabinoid that possesses the greatest therapeutic potential. According to countless scientists, physicians, and researchers, CBD may be the […]
In animal trials, one of the cannabinoids found in cannabis, cannabidiol (CBD), was shown to significantly reduce both pro-inflammatory cytokines in the bloodstream and the incidence of diabetes in non-obese mice (Weiss, et al., 2006). Later, those same researchers followed up with a similar study, but with rodents that were either in a latent diabetes […]