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Does Cannabis Help Seniors With Alzheimers?

https://neurologyofcannabis.com My grandmother has Alzheimer’s disease and I heard that cannabis therapy can be helpful. Is that true? Hi. I’m Dr. Dan Stein and I will be addressing that issue today. Thanks for tuning in. It turns out that cannabis therapy can be helpful for conditions like Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative conditions. Neurodegenerative conditions are those processes that occur with aging, get worse over time and result in progressive loss of nervous function, nerve cell death if you will. Alzheimer’s disease is one of those conditions where over time, patients have progressive cognitive impairment. Parkinson’s disease is another neurodegenerative condition. We are learning mainly from studies in the laboratory that cannabis therapy can be helpful for neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Other examples include Huntington’s disease and Lou Gehrig's disease, ALS. It turns out that cannabis therapy provides a potent antioxidant effect. We know that in the brain, oxidative damage can cause loss of neurons. That’s why antioxidant therapy like vitamin E and vitamin C are so popular. We also know that there’s another type of nerve cell damage from excitotoxicity. This type of pathology has to do with too much excitation from glutamate where nerve cells die off as a result. That’s why we use antioxidants and medications that reduce excitotoxicity. It turns out that cannabis works quite well for those two conditions and in the laboratory, we are seeing important strides in reducing the changes associated with neurodegenerative disorders. Now we don’t have too many studies in humans. There is one going on out in San Francisco with Dr. Hergenrather where patients living in an assisted care facility are being treated with cannabis products of different ratios, CBD and THC. We’re eagerly awaiting those results and we will pass those on to you and our other listeners as soon as they are available. The take-home message today regarding neurodegeneration is that promise is on the horizon. We are learning that cannabis therapy indeed can be helpful for humans if our preclinical studies are borne out in clinical trials with humans. So thank you for listening. That’s our video for today. I’m Dr. Dan Stein. Thanks for tuning in. ----- Located in beautiful Sarasota, Florida, the offices of Neurology of Cannabis are open to all full-time and seasonal Florida residents exploring medical treatment options with medical marijuana. Lead physician and Board Certified Neurologist, Daniel P. Stein, M.D. performs all patient examinations and evaluates patient medical records to develop customized and effective treatment plans. We make the process of qualifying, registering, obtaining, and renewing access to medical marijuana in Florida as easy as possible. At Neurology of Cannabis, we are passionate about the effective use of medical marijuana to transform the health of our patients. Neurology of Cannabis 5602 Marquesas Circle, Suite 108 Phone: (941) 400-1211 Sarasota, Florida 34233