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Can Cannabis Help With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Saturday 3 August 2019
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Can Cannabis Help With Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
There is no known, underlying medical cause for the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue, which include inexplicable exhaustion that doesn’t improve with increased rest and sleep.
For someone with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, the tasks faced in everyday life feel insurmountable with a limited resource of energy to tap into. The frustrating nature of CFS, sometimes called Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, is that it is difficult to diagnose. There is no known, underlying medical cause for the symptoms of Chronic Fatigue, which include inexplicable exhaustion that doesn’t improve with increased rest and sleep.
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CBD and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
From the start, it is important to be upfront that there is no existing formal research on the effects of CBD, or marijuana, on chronic fatigue syndrome. There are anecdotal reports, however, from individuals using CBD to manage their symptoms.
As VeryWell points out, many individuals who have CFS also experience joint paint. There are recent animal studies that have observed improvements in pain symptoms with the use of a topical CBD product, like this study published in 2018.
There is evidence that chronic fatigue is connected to having a hypersensitive central nervous system. In 2017, the journal Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets listed cannabidiol as a way to decrease the activity of brain cells called glia, which triggers that hypersensitivity of the nervous system.
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