Showing posts with label lennox-gastaut syndrome. Show all posts
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Dietary Hemp? Cannabinoids? Unraveling the Information

Lots of attention to Cannabinoids lately.  Does CBD help epilepsy, spasticity / CP. 

Here is an easy overview of the differences between hemp and marijuana and how the former has  promising effects on the treatments of neurological conditions. -JR


"...Cannabinoids And Dietary Hemp..."

Marco Torres, Prevent Disease


"There are over 400 phytonutrients that exist in Hemp Plants. Hemp is often mistaken for its cannabis cousin, marijuana, even though smoking an entire garbage bag of hemp would not produce an altered state of consciousness. Optimal brain health is achieved when linoleic acid (LA) and alpha linoleic acid (ALA) are consumed in a ratio only naturally found in hemp.
The brain also has a requirement for cannabinoids, which regulate most of the major functions of the body including alertness, emotions, inflammation and cancer defenses.

The brain can make a small number of its own cannabinoids, but as 4,000 years of history and decades of scientific research indicate, it operates optimally when supplied with dietary cannabinoids, such as those found in hemp.
What’s The Difference Between Hemp and Marijuana?
Confusion amongst the public on how exactly hemp oil differs from cannabidiol, or CBD, oil, has prompted the nonprofit Hemp Industries Association to issue a statement explaining the difference between the oils in order to ensure that consumers — specifically, medical marijuana patients — are not misled about the intended uses.
Confusion between hemp oil and marijuana oil has spiked recently, as states have passed medical marijuana laws that allow for the use of strains of marijuana that are low in THC and high in CBD. Consumers often confuse hemp oil with CBD oil because both are low in THC and contain CBD."

Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Living with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome: Family cherishes each moment
BY SETH STRATTON
Published: Monday, March 7, 2011 at 3:40 p.m.

MIDWAY Denae Ayers used to be bothered by the looks. She knows them well, the downcast gazes of disapproval quietly shot in her direction at the grocery store when bystanders saw her daughter, Heather Carlton, behave in what many would believe was an out-of-control or unruly manner.

But what many parents failed to understand, or ask, was that this was actually a good day for Heather, an 11-year-old living with Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome, or LGS, a rare and often severe form of epilepsy that causes the redheaded, freckled-face girl to have debilitating seizures, sometimes several dozen a day.

Read the rest of the article here.