It’s no secret that many people are beginning to turn to medical marijuana to treat various health conditions when other options have run out. For some people dealing with chronic pain every day, they may not have effective medications to treat their pain and can no longer safely raise the dosage of their medication. Other people with chronic diseases may be having no success in trying many different treatment options and are beginning to feel like their options are running out.
In any of these cases, medical marijuana can be an extremely effective and natural way of treating pain or disease, and many patients find great relief of their symptoms in the first few days of using medical cannabis. So let’s talk about diabetes. Why is diabetes referred to as the “silent killer”? It’s because diabetes is normally impossible to detect in the body until it’s in its very latest stages.
What makes this worse is that Type 2 Diabetes is often easily diagnosed as other diseases that it mimics. This means that the disease can be doing lots of bad things to the body without a patient even knowing. Some states in the United States have added diabetes to their list of qualifying conditions to be accepted into the state medical marijuana program. This is because more and more research is coming out that shows the effectiveness of cannabis being able to treat diabetes in a variety of ways. Some states even allow doctors to personally decide if a patient is eligible for medical marijauna, simply by judging if it would benefit their physical or mental health. I think that this is a great way to allow patients to receive medical marijuana if they are in great need of it. So let’s talk about how medical cannabis can be helpful for patients with Type 2 Diabetes.
There are a lot of Americans who struggle with diabetes in their everyday lives. According to a recent study done by the CDC in the United States, there are currently over 34.2 million Americans who have received a diabetes diagnosis. To make things worse, 26.9 million of these people have the chronic disease. And if that’s not bad enough, it is also likely that as many as 7.3 million Americans have diabetes and may not even know and have not gotten treatment for it.
So how can medical marijuana treat diabetes? Well, there was a clinical study done by the Department of Biotechnology and Bioscience at the University of Milano-Bicocca. In this study, researchers wanted to see the potential effectiveness of cannabis on diabetes patients, specifically those who have Type 2 Diabetes. Research suggests that certain sativa strains with high cannabinoid content may be effective for treating diabetes. This is because most sativa strains have more than 60 unique cannabinoids and are also rich in phytocannabinoids content.
In our bodies, we have both CB1 and CB2 receptors that are responsible for feelings of pain and discomfort. In this study, researchers found that higher levels of cannabinoids in the body helped to increase levels of antioxidants in the body, which in turn helped to repair damaged tissues, optimize cell function and efficiency, and even ease some of the nerve receptors responsible for sensing pain.
