[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help] 

Status: Not Logged In; Sign In

Texas Man Arrested for Threatening NYC's Mamdani Man puts down ABC's The View on air Strong 7.8 quake hits Russia's Kamchatka My Answer To a Liberal Professor. We both See Collapse But.. Cash Jordan: “Set Them Free”... Mob STORMS ICE HQ, Gets CRUSHED By ‘Deportation Battalion’’ Call The Exterminator: Signs Demanding Violence Against Republicans Posted In DC Crazy Conspiracy Theorist Asks Questions About Vaccines New owner of CBS coordinated with former Israeli military chief to counter the country's critics, BEST VIDEO - Questions Concerning Charlie Kirk, Douglas Macgregor - IT'S BEGUN - The People Are Rising Up! Marine Sniper: They're Lying About Charlie Kirk's Death and They Know It! Mike Johnson Holds 'Private Meeting' With Jewish Leaders, Pledges to Screen Out Anti-Israel GOP Candidates Jimmy Kimmel’s career over after ‘disgusting’ lies about Charlie Kirk shooter [Plus America's Homosexual-In-Chief checks-In, Clot-Shots, Iryna Zarutska and More!] 1200 Electric School Busses pulled from service due to fires. Is the Deep State Covering Up Charlie Kirk’s Murder? The FBI’s Bizarre Inconsistencies Exposed Local Governments Can Be Ignorant Pissers!! Cash Jordan: Gangs PLUNDER LA Mall... as California’s “NO JAILS” Strategy IMPLODES Margin Debt Tops Historic $1 Trillion, Your House Will Be Taken Blindly Warns Dohmen Tucker Carlson LIVE: America After Charlie Kirk Charlie Kirk allegedly recently refused $150 million from Israel to take more pro Israel stances "NATO just declared War on Russia!"Co; Douglas Macgregor If You're Trying To Lose Weight But Gaining Belly Fat, Watch Insulin Arabica Coffee Prices Soar As Analyst Warns of "Weather Disasters" Risk Denting Global Production Candace Owens: : I Know What Happened at the Hamptons (Ackman confronted Charlie Kirk) Illegal Alien Drunk Driver Mows Down, Kills 16-Year-Old Girl Who Rejected His Lewd Advances STOP Drinking These 5 Coffees – They’re Quietly DESTROYING Your Gut & Hormones This Works Better Than Ozempic for Belly Fat Cinnamon reduces fat How long do health influencers live? Episode 1 of 3. 'Armed Queers' Marxist Revolutionaries Under Investigation For Possible Foreknowledge Of Kirk's Assassination Plot

Health
See other Health Articles

Title: Study: Cannabis helps to heal bone fractures
Source: [None]
URL Source: http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015 ... es/9431437083214/?spt=hs&or=hn
Published: Jul 17, 2015
Author: Stephen Feller
Post Date: 2015-07-17 01:29:03 by Tatarewicz
Keywords: None
Views: 22

TEL AVIV, Israel, July 16 (UPI) -- A non-psychotropic component of marijuana, cannabinoid cannabidiol, or CBD, can help heal bone fractures and speed up the process, a study on rats with mid-femoral fractures indicates.

Researchers at Tel Aviv University had previously discovered cannabinoid receptors within human bodies stimulated bone formation and inhibited bone loss. This led them to investigate whether cannabis, or the compounds found within it, could help bones to heal.

"We found that CBD alone makes bones stronger during healing, enhancing the maturation of the collagenous matrix, which provides the basis for new mineralization of bone tissue," Dr. Yankel Gabet, of the Bone Research Laboratory in the Department of Anatomy and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University, said in a press release. "After being treated with CBD, the healed bone will be harder to break in the future."

According to Gabet, the human body is equipped with a cannabinoid system that is involved with regulating both vital and non-vital systems. This is why the psychogenic compound in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, has an effect on the human brain.

The researchers tested CBD alone as well as CBD with THC on groups of rats with fractured femora. They found CBD and THC sped up the healing of the rats after eight weeks of treatment. CBD alone was nearly as effective at helping the bones to heal.

"The clinical potential of cannabinoid-related compounds is simply undeniable at this point," Gabet said. "While there is still a lot of work to be done to develop appropriate therapies, it is clear that it is possible to detach a clinical therapy objective from the psychoactivity of cannabis. CBD, the principal agent in our study, is primarily anti-inflammatory and has no psychoactivity."

The study is published in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. Like Us on Facebook for more stories from UPI.com

Post Comment   Private Reply   Ignore Thread  

[Home]  [Headlines]  [Latest Articles]  [Latest Comments]  [Post]  [Sign-in]  [Mail]  [Setup]  [Help]