HEALTH & WELLNESS
Hemp for Pain, Cancer & More
by Terry Lemerond
I
t’s hard to miss the recent headlines about
hemp and CBD. Research into the humble
hemp plant’s potential for treating a wide
range of health problems has exploded
lately! A major reason people are so
attracted to hemp and CBD products is that
their benefits are proving to be as effective
as many prescription drugs, without causing
unwanted side effects.
The best hemp oil provides a full spec-
trum of phytocannabinoids that can help in
a multitude of ways:
• Stop joint and muscle pain
• Slow cancers and stop the spread of
tumors
• Strengthen bones
• Alleviate epilepsy symptoms
For years, both researchers and patients
have experienced amazing benefits from
TERRY'S BOTTOM LINE
hemp oil for everything from reducing
Some of the most exciting, recent devel- seizures to stopping tumors. But until
opments in natural health involve hemp oil, recently, the regulatory environment for
making it one of the most intensively sought- hemp oil was unfriendly, to say the least,
after natural medicines on the market. Like
so many people who would have benefited
anything with a lot of new news around it,
from the science and real-world results could
there is also a lot of confusion surrounding
not. Now they can.
hemp oil, its compounds, and its benefits.
Virtually free of psychoactive THC
While much of the current focus centers on
(delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol – legally,
cannabidiol (CBD), one of the compounds
THC content must be 0.3 percent or
from Cannabis sativa, I recommend a hemp less. The oil from Cannabis sativa stalks
oil with the complete entourage of phyto-
provides a full range of other compounds
cannabinoids from the plant, of which CBD called cannabinoids (including cannabi-
is only one. The endocannabinoid system –
diol – popularly known as CBD – as well as
our own set of receptors and cannabinoids
cannabichromene and cannabigerol), that
– needs a full range of nutrients.
affect the brain and body in very positive
32 HimPower March/April 2019