Ep.4 – Cannabis & COVID-19: How To Maintain a Healthy Endocannabinoid System

Edge of Cannabis Medicine

Episode Notes

Dr. Block takes us through the ins and outs of the endocannabinoid system, how it relates to the novel coronavirus and how to keep it strong and healthy.

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Time Stamps

3:05 - Public Health Trends - Smoking in CA

4:11 - Why Dr. Block put out the Covid memo

5:30 - Most people consume cannabis by smoking and that could be problematic at this time

6:55 - The early data from Europe and China

7:31 - Now is the time to talk about alternatives to smoking cannabinoids

8:38 - How the immune system works

9:12 - Parallels between the immune and endocannabinoid systems

10:05 - The endocannanaboid system (ECS) is much older than the cannabis plant

10:39 - The different cannabinoid receptors

12:37 - Oxygen delivery and endocannabinoids

13:48 - All bodily systems are subordinate to the ECS

14:46 - Best things to do right now for your ECS

15:20 - What smoke does to the lungs

17:45 - Other ways to intake cannabinoids

19:29 - What makes cannabinoids unique among botanicals

23:30 - Triage and what is happening in Europe

27:34 - Best advice…don’t get sick and consider changing your cannabis ingestion away from smoking

28:37 - Stopping smoking for the time being is a very good idea

29:40 - The possibilities of CBD

30:49 - CBD dosage and the placebo effect

31:53 - How to know you’re getting a good product

33:11 - Pain and what it is

35:01 - Evidence based data and anecdotal evidence

38:04 - Keeping the ECS healthy

41:34 - The ECS and selective memory

45:14 - Chemicals in our body that closely resemble cannabinoids

46:11 - We need to be in protective mode right now

47:08 - Plants have revealed our own bodily systems

49:01 - Botanicals and pain in history

49:33 - The future of CBD

51:43 - Terpenes

53:35 - Plants are highly sophisticated

59:27 - Drink plenty of water

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