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Self-Medicating for Endometriosis
Endometriosis is a poorly-understood condition causing severe chronic pain and alterations in a woman’s menstrual cycle. As an understudied disease, treatment is limited. Scientists surveyed over 400...
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Loss of Cannabinoid Receptors in Adenomyosis
Adenomyosis is a menstrual complication that causes heavier bleeding and pain during a woman’s period. About one in five women suffer from it. As with most female diseases, it is poorly studied and...
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Do Cannabis Suppositories Work?
The back door is making a comeback – medically speaking. Cannabis suppositories have grown in popularity, but how and to what extent they actually work remains a mystery. With contradictory claims...
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Markers of Endometrial Cancer
Recent research has indicated a role for endocannabinoids in endometriosis and related diseases. A study published in Frontiers in Oncology sought to determine whether endometrial cancer could be...
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Women Pioneers in Cannabinoid Science
During a time of great crisis, we are reminded of the importance of medical science and the expert researchers who have dedicated their lives to advancing public health. In that context, we want to...
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CBD & Cannabis for Endometriosis
Endometriosis, the abnormal growth of cells similar to those in the lining of the womb, is a condition that affects 1 in 10 of women of reproductive age. That’s a staggering 176 million women...
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Cannabis & Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome
Flexibility is a physical state many of us strive for. Many times, while doing a forward bend in yoga class, I’ve glanced over with envy at a class companion with their head effortlessly positioned...
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Oral Ulcers, Gynecologic Pain & Spinal Disorders
In his 1978 song “Bush Doctor,” Peter Tosh espoused the health benefits of marijuana by citing two ailments that may strike some listeners as odd: glaucoma and asthma. But Tosh had his facts straight....
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Cannabis, Menopause & the Endocannabinoid System
Menopause is finally getting its moment in the spotlight after being largely ignored by the medical profession or at best talked about in lowered voices and euphemisms. In the last couple of years it...
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PEA: Anti-Inflammatory Superstar
Think of your brain as an ocean, an ecosystem inhabited by numerous species of fish-like neurotransmitters and their receptors, with currents of electricity connecting and delicately balancing all the...
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