Liver Disease
Liver Disease
Liver disease can be caused by viruses like hepatitis, drugs, poisons, or too much alcohol. Symptoms include abdominal pain and swelling, fatigue, itchy skin, nausea, and/or vomiting.
The Food and Drug Administration bans CBD edibles while routinely promoting dietary poisons.
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Cannabis use may protect against steatosis, the abnormal accumulation of lipids in the liver
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Finding an optimal dose is even more difficult for people with liver or kidney diseases, as these are the major organs that clear chemicals from the blood.
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Given the increasing prevalence of cannabis as a therapeutic, it’s important physicians and patients understand how cannabis interacts with commonly consumed pharmaceuticals.
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Both milk thistle and cannabis convey therapeutic benefits that are mediated by the endocannabinoid system.
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With CBD becoming widely available, scientists are taking a closer look at CBD-drug interactions.
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Science abstracts on CBD and Liver Disease
- Long-term THC use safe for liver
- The endocannabinoid system and liver diseases
- Cannabidiol protects against hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury by attenuating inflammatory signaling and response, oxidative/nitrative stress, and cell death
- Cannabidiol causes activated hepatic stellate cell death through a mechanism of endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis
- Therapeutic potential of cannabidiol against ischemia/reperfusion liver injury in rats
- Role of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in amelioration of experimental autoimmune hepatitis following activation of TRPV1 receptors by cannabidiol
- Cannabidiol improves brain and liver function in a fulminant hepatic failure-induced model of hepatic encephalopathy in mice
- Cannabidiol ameliorates cognitive and motor impairments in mice with bile duct ligation
- Potential of CBD for the treatment of viral hepatitis
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