by Adam Townsend | Jun 10, 2020 | Endocannabinoid System, Featured
If your body, with all its delicate, specialized instruments, is to be thought of as an orchestra, then your endocannabinoid system is certainly the conductor. While this system is incredibly complex, with roles ranging from managing appetite to maintain homeostasis,...
by Adam Townsend | Feb 5, 2020 | Endocannabinoid System, Genetic Predispositions
Building an understanding of genetics is the key to unlocking the potential of both cannabis medicine and personalized medicine with treatments tailored to the individual. It starts with understanding endocannabinoid genes and how individual differences in your...
by Adam Townsend | Jan 4, 2020 | Endocannabinoid System, Featured
Like the conductor of an orchestra, your endocannabinoid system directs when you get hungry or sleepy; how you remember tasks and process trauma; how severely you react to mental and physical stress and a host of other functions. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is...
by Adam Townsend | Jan 3, 2020 | Endocannabinoid System
Though researchers are rapidly filling journals with data about the endocannabinoid system, we still don’t understand some of the basics of how this fundamental and pervasive neural signaling system works — for instance, how do endocannabinoids travel in and out...
by Adam Townsend | Jan 3, 2020 | Endocannabinoid System
FAAH is one of those random acronyms that makes neuroscience outsiders’ eyes glaze over, but it’s a crucial mediator in our endocannabinoid system. FAAH is a nerve enzyme that can shorten your high or, in its absence, prolong it. Overproduction of FAAH can lead to...
by Adam Townsend | Dec 4, 2019 | Endocannabinoid System
One of the less-discussed parts of the endocannabinoid system is the point at which it dovetails with the subsystems that sense pain and burning and activate inflammation response — the TRP or “transient receptor potential” system of neuroreceptors. TRPV1 stands for...
