F30A Journal — Cannabidiol (CBD)

The following interview with Dra. Myriam Sáez Cartagena, MD of Puerto Rico was conducted by Formula30A President Dara McLeod on March 24th, 2021. The content of the interview has been edited for length and clarity.(Dara McLeod, Formula30A)Hi Myriam! Thank you Dr. Saez, we so appreciate you joining me today. We were so moved when you sent the letter to our Medical Advisory Board talking about your specific patient, one that’s a newer patient to your practice, that came in. Tell us about this family, and a little bit about the story of the eleven-year-old autistic young boy that came to...

Given the wide range of cannabidiol’s potential therapeutic benefits, there are consequently nearly as many ways to formulate a product to address patients’ needs. Topical applications, in particular, provide excellent support to orally ingested CBD capsules for targeted symptom relief. Formula30A’s recently released CBD Infused Balm is all natural, and contains the same premium quality full spectrum cannabinoids as our CBD capsules - (It’s now available in an easy-to-use twist-up applicator - see the new look in the Provider Store).We asked our community of Medical Providers how they are implementing Formula30A Balm into their practices, and the treatment protocols they...

It is fitting that February is known as Heart Health Month. While most think of the heart in February as being the icon for Valentine’s Day, few really think about the health of their own physical heart.You have heard the statistics. Heart attacks and strokes are still leading killers of Americans, over cancer and other causes, yet many people do not even consider the notion that they may have heart disease. That is, until symptoms strike. I have been practicing medicine for almost 30 years now, and daily someone tells me they do not have any risk of a heart...

­As body systems go, the endocannabinoid system (ECS) is an infant, having been discovered in the waning decades of the twentieth century. For over a hundred years, science had been trying to isolate the mysteries of cannabis. Cannabidiol (CBD) was the first natural cannabinoid to be isolated from the cannabis plant, but it was soon found not to be the primary psychoactive ingredient. It would be another 30 years before ∆9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was isolated, and the rest, as they say, was history.The discovery of the cannabinoid receptors CB-1 and CB-2 in mammals, and the subsequent recognition of the ECS as...