CBD Articles & Resources

CBD and Covid-19

It has been reported in a new study that cannabidiol (CBD), a compound produced by the cannabis plant, inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection. ...

CBD 101

An introduction to CBD or Cannabidiol. Understand the basics and take wellness into your own hands. CBD stands for Cannabidiol. It is a natural, non-psychoactive and non-addictive oil derived from the Hemp plant, along with over 100 other naturally occurring cannabinoids. ...

CBD and Sleep Disorders

Around 60 million people in the US suffer from sleep disorders that hinder daily life and productivity levels. With the increasing incidence of sleep-related ailments, you might need long-term and effective treatment for such conditions.  Also, sleep disorders include conditions that degrade the quality ...

Is CBD Effective For Chronic Pain?

Natural healing involves using simple, effective, and readily available raw materials to induce a state of well-being. You can curb the menace of chronic pain and inflammation using some herbal remedies. Also, it possesses the ability to alleviate symptoms associated with systemic illness and ...

CBD and Migraines

Migraine headaches are one of the most common and painful ailments affecting a significant percentage of the world’s population. The symptoms associated with the onset of a migraine are seemingly endless and highly debilitating: excruciating pain combined with nausea and increased sensitivity to light and ...

CBD and Inflammation

Did you know that one of the main benefits from CBD hemp extract is the reduction of inflammation? This post will take you through what inflammation can do to the body and how CBD hemp extract can bind with your body’s receptors within your endocannabinoid ...

Does CBD Oil Help In Overcoming Anxiety?

Anxiety refers to the feeling of excessive worry, unease, and nervousness about an event whose outcome is uncertain. We all suffer from some form of anxiety in our day-to-day lives. There’s a common joke that the apparent lack of stress is in itself anxiety. ...

8 Tips For A Meaningful Wellness Journey

Wellness is a pervasive term that represents physical, mental, and spiritual balance. But our hectic lifestyle never lets us take the necessary steps to keep this balance uninterrupted. Although it should radiate from within, it has become difficult for every one of us to ...

Hemp CBD vs Cannabis CBD

Cannabidiol, or CBD, is one of the major active compounds found in the cannabis sativa plant. It is non-psychotropic, so it won’t cause you to feel the “high” that is normally associated with cannabis. That sensation is the result of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. CBD ...

CBD & Obesity

Obesity is running rampant globally. It’s estimated that almost 2 billion people classify as obese worldwide. There are many factors that can contribute to an increase in our body mass index (or BMI), from stress to lack of sleep to sedentary working conditions. It’s important ...

7 Natural Sleep Aids And Home Remedies

Sleep is a physiological phenomenon that governs your recovery, rejuvenation, and regenerative capabilities. After hours of strenuous physiological processes, your body needs some rest to get back on track. In case you’re unable to sleep, you might end up experiencing several psychological issues. Insomnia ...

8 Signs Your Anxiety Is Getting Worse

Anxiety is a normal response to stressful events, and it’s something that happens to all of us at some point in our lives. For the most part, the symptoms of anxiety usually go away the moment we no longer consider the triggers a threat. But for ...

5 Health Reasons Why CBD Is Legit

Cannabidiol, popularly known as CBD, is one of the 100 chemical compounds derived from the Cannabis Sativa plant. Another very famous cannabinoid found in this plant is Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), best known for its psychoactive properties. However, unlike THC, CBD is not psychoactive. Today, CBD is ...

Can Cannabidiol Help Arthritis?

Arthritis is one of the most common chronic conditions in the United States with roughly 54 million adults currently suffering from it. There are many different forms of arthritis, including rheumatoid and osteoarthritis, but the condition basically comes down to deterioration and inflammation of the ...

CBD and Fibromyalgia

Fibromyalgia is one of many conditions that can be classified as “treatment-resistant”. These also include migraines, arthritis, and irritable bowel syndrome. Each of these conditions includes chronic pain. With fibromyalgia, it is believed that the pain is the result of the condition affecting the way ...

Can CBD Improve Gut Health and IBS?

Gut health can be a touchy subject. Especially for the approximately 15% of the developed world that suffers from some form of Irritable Bowel Syndrome and its uncomfortable symptoms. With no cure for IBS, management of the abdominal pain and gastrointestinal discomfort that it causes ...

Handling The Pain From Gains

Whether your workout routine focuses on muscle confusion, progressive overload, or a combination of both, you’ll come out the other end with the good kind of muscle ache. Managing the discomfort we feel in the aftermath of workouts isn’t just about staying comfortable. Pain can ...

7 Effectual Natural Sleep Aids

Sleep is a physiological phenomenon that governs your recovery, rejuvenation, and regenerative capabilities. After hours of strenuous physiological processes, your body needs some rest to get back on track. In case you’re unable to sleep, you might end up experiencing several psychological issues. Insomnia ...

Can CBD Induce Lucid Dreaming?

We’ve all experienced those nightmares in which, no matter how great an effort you make, your body just won’t do what you want it to. This tends to occur at remarkably inopportune times, for instance when you’re being chased by an ax-wielding maniac. But what ...

(Study) CBD Users Use Less Traditional Medicine

HelloMD, one of the largest online communities and information resources dedicated to medical cannabis, recently performed a survey to determine the use and efficacy of CBD products among its 150,000 members. ...

Fun facts on the long history of Hemp

All the noise about cannabis and CBD can make it difficult to distinguish the facts from fiction. As studies continue and as more benefits of Cannabidiol (CBD) emerge, consider the role that hemp has played in American history. ...

CBD Might Help You Stay Focused

Daily distractions are at an all-time high these days. Whether it’s social media or notifications from our smartphones, it feels like it’s getting harder and harder to stay on focused. ...

Can CBD Help Us Better Manage Stress?

Our body has a natural system in place for handling stress. It’s commonly known as our “fight or flight” response, but the formal title is acute stress response. Even when the situation that activates it isn’t as serious as the terminology might lead you to ...

Better Sleep and CBD

8 hours. That’s how much sleep most of us needs in order to properly recharge our bodies. Some people can get by with less while others could need more. Even if you’re managing to get to bed on time, the quality of the hours you ...

New CBD Treatments For Concussions

Those of us who train in high-impact sports like Mixed Martial Arts know that we have to remain vigilant when it comes to the health of our brains. After a strenuous round of sparring, it’s important to make sure our minds heal as well ...

Treat Anxiety With CBD Extracts

Whether we like it or not, that nervous feeling in the pit of our stomachs when we’re about to do something stressful is a necessary survival mechanism. Anxiety is our body’s way of telling us to pay attention. When we feel it, we know it’s ...

TSA CBD Policy Change

As more people learn about the healing benefits of CBD, it often seems as if our laws governing its use are slow to catch up. That couldn’t be more apparent than in the TSA’s longstanding prohibition on flying with CBD. ...

Can CBD Enhance Your Yoga Session?

Yoga is a fantastic way to practice physical and mental equilibrium, but would incorporating cannabis sativa into the equation help or hinder our ability to find balance? ...

Boost to Your Workout with CBD

CBD enriched hemp oil is full of medicinal properties that can enhance your workouts in a variety of ways. An article on GymJunkies.com highlights the effects that CBD has in our bodies courtesy of our endocannabinoid system. ...

Elevate Partners with Spartan

Elevate, a leading producer of pharmaceutical-grade hemp extract products that enhance well-being (pain relief, insomnia, anxiety, etc.), has partnered with Spartan, the world’s largest obstacle race and endurance brand, to provide athletes a homeopathic, non-pharmaceutical alternative to synthetic drugs and prescription painkillers. ...

Single CBD Dose Lowers Blood Pressure

Stress. Lifestyle choices. Genetics. All of these can have an effect on our blood pressure and whether or not we might develop high blood pressure (aka hypertension) in the future. Making healthier choices can help lower the odds, but now there’s another way we ...

Is CBD Oil Is Effective Against Epilepsy?

For the first time, a major study with a large number of participants has shown that CBD, the non-psychotropic compound in cannabis sativa, is an effective treatment for a particularly severe form of epilepsy known as Dravet Syndrome. ...

Scientists Argue The Benefits of CBD

When leading scientists are willing to go on the record in a government hearing about the medicinal benefits of CBD, it’s time to start paying attention. ...

The Endocannabinoid System

If you’ve been seeing a lot of news and hearing a lot of talk about CBD lately it should come as no surprise. This cannabinoid found in hemp-oil extract has become the newest nutraceutical to exhibit several beneficial uses. But what is it, and ...

Promising Research on CBD for Dogs

Astonna McCoy’s Newfoundland, Riley, had already been through surgeries to address elbow dysplasia and a torn ACL. At just 3 years old, she was already suffering from osteoarthritis that would force her to lie down to eat. After a momentary respite provided by stem-cell study ...

A Different Approach To Pain Management

As athletes, pain management is just as much a part of our routine as reps and PRs. ‘No pain, no gain’ isn’t just a catchy phrase – it’s the truth. When it comes to handling the unexpected tweaks and sprains that come with pushing our ...

CBD The All-Natural Wellness Product

What’s the first thought that comes to mind when you think of the Stone Age? No, not The Rock’s debut in WWF/WWE (November 4th, 1996, for those who are wondering), I mean THE Stone Age. The one that ended around 2000 BCE when metal tools ...

Natural CBD Oil Versus Synthetic Alternatives

As Cannabidiol, in particular, CBD oil benefits emerge, pharmaceutical companies are paying attention to this versatile plant extract with their own synthetic alternatives. Are synthetic cannabis products as beneficial as real CBD? The true answer may lie in years of research and further studies ...

Stress and Anxiety over the Upcoming Election?

Election anxiety may not be listed in the diagnostic manual used by psychologists and psychiatrists, but it’s no secret that this election is creating higher than usual stress levels for Americans in every state. According to the American Psychological Association, this phenomenon is ...