Treating Food Addiction with Cannabis

Cannabis May Replace “Self-Medicating” with Sugar – LPC

For years doctors have debated whether or not cannabis substituion treatment can help with things like opioid addiction. Many note that cannabis addiction in itself can be an issue for 10 per cent of the population. Now some scientists are reseaching treating food addiction with cannabis.

CBD and THC alert the body to activate or block certain CB1 or CB2 receptors. / About 160 million Americans are overweight, including 30 per cent of children under the age of 20, according to The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. And The Week reports the average U.S. adult weighs 15 pounds more than two decades ago, and researchers have been studying the obesity epidemic at a rising rate. How did the U.S. get here?

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) was correlating restriction with obesity over a decade ago and found: “(Animals) given intermittent access to sugary food ate less of their normal food when the sweet food wasn’t available, and they overate the sweet food when it was available again. The scientists hypothesized that the brain’s stress system might be behind the behaviour.”

A Boston University team tested drugs that block signaling for stress, showcasing the power of food addiction. A partner of the study, Dr. Eric Zorrilla at the Scripps Research Institute, explained that stress often leads to overeating. “Our findings suggest that intermittently eating sweet food changes the brain’s stress […]

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