Endocannabinoid Deficiency as a Cause of Alzheimer’s

A report has come out that Endocannabinoid Deficiency is likely a cause of Alzheimer’s Disease. In America we spend $200 billion a year on the disease. If cannabis can help, a LOT of people will be looking for a paycheck elsewhere. That is bad for business. In the short term.

A-beta, a substance suspected as a prime culprit in Alzheimer’s disease, may start impairing learning and memory long before plaques form in the brain.

A new study led by investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine has implicated the blocking of endocannabinoids — signaling substances that are the brain’s internal versions of the psychoactive chemicals in marijuana and hashish — in the early pathology of Alzheimer’s disease.

No wonder there is still so much opposition among some politicians to legalizing cannabis. It means fewer campaign donations from certain sources.


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5 responses to “Endocannabinoid Deficiency as a Cause of Alzheimer’s”

  1. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Instapundit recently linked to a study that claimed Alzheimers seems to be related to changes in intestinal flora, Of course that could mean the little bugs just aren’t getting high enough. Anyway, if we see a significant reduction in alzheimers in states with legal pot we’ll know something.

  2. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    Whatever the case, Good B complex supplements, high inositol lecithin and co enzyme Q10 all seem to help with brain health.

  3. Simon Avatar

    MMM,

    There are quite a few anecdotal reports that cannabis helps.

  4. Man Mountain Molehill Avatar
    Man Mountain Molehill

    There are anecdotal reports that astrology works. I need measurable, quantifiable and repeatable results.

  5. Simon Avatar

    Well of course. Measured results. As soon as the Feds stop saying “no medical value”.

    It won’t be soon. Big Pharma currently has a lock on the Feds.