F30A Journal — Cannabidiol (CBD)

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide in individuals under the age of 45. TBI affects approximately 1.7 million Americans each year with over 5.3 million Americans currently struggling with TBI disabilities. There are multiple causes from car accidents, falls, contact sport, to gunshot and stab wounds. TBI has been identified as the most common cause of epilepsy in adults. The effects can last a few days or the rest of a person’s life. Those effects include impairments related to thinking or memory, movement, sensation, vision and hearing along with emotional functioning...

Dear fellow provider:   Hopefully by now, all of us are on the same page with regards to the urgency and seriousness of this COVID-19 pandemic. Our patients are looking to us for guidance because of the conflicting reports in the media. Many of them already know someone with the illness or that has died from it.   Rather than debate any specifics about the virus itself, there is one thing we can all agree on. These are very anxiety producing times for our patients, both medically and economically. Patients that may not have historically exhibited anxiety, are experiencing it...

CBD is the abbreviation for the compound Cannabidiol and it is one of 113 identified phytocannabinoids found in cannabis and hemp. There is good evidence that it has potential benefit to a wide range of systems in our body because it exerts its effect through the body’s endocannabinoid system. We’ve all heard of our body’s cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal system, respiratory system, and so forth, but did you know your body also has an endocannabinoid system?   The endocannabinoid system was identified in the 1992 by Raphael Mechoulam, an Israeli organic chemist and professor of Medicinal Chemistry at the Hebrew University...

Antoine de Saint-Exupery wisely quipped in The Little Prince, “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” It seems that the heart is the resting place for all humanity. Within our hearts is the capacity for joy and sorrow, peace and unrest, and importantly, life and death.Heart disease is called “the silent killer,” a cross-cultural phenomenon affecting those without regard to factors age, race, ethnicity or socio-economic status. As medical professionals, you see this in your practices every day....