Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle medicine focuses on educating and motivating patients to improve the quality of their lives by changing personal habits and behaviors.
Integrative Cannabinoid Medicine
Endocannabinology
The science and study of the function, dysfunction, and modulation of the endocannabinoid system, better known as Endocannabinology™
What is the Endocannabinoid System?
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is a complex cell-signaling system. throughout the body, involved in establishing and maintaining human health, designed to maintain a stable internal environment despite fluctuations in the external environment.
Terpenes
These aromatic compounds create the characteristic scent of many plants, including cannabis, like pine, and lavender, as well as fresh orange peel. The fragrance of most plants is due to a combination of terpenes. In nature, these terpenes protect the plants from animal grazing or infectious germs.
Cannabinoids – Endo and Phyto
Endocannabinoids, also called endogenous cannabinoids, are molecules made by your body. Phytocannabinoids produce similar effects when introduced into the body as endocannabinoids, but originate from plants.
Methods of usage
There are many methods including inhalation, ingestion, directly through the body’s mucosal membranes, topically, and transdermally.
What is the Gut Brain Axis?
The gut–brain axis is the two-way biochemical signaling that takes place between the gastrointestinal tract (GI tract) and the central nervous system (CNS). The term “gut–brain axis” is occasionally used to refer to the role of the gut microbiota in the interplay as well.
What is the Microbiome?
The human microbiome is the aggregate of all microbiota that reside on or within human tissues and biofluids along with the corresponding anatomical sites in which they reside, including the skin, mammary glands, seminal fluid, uterus, ovarian follicles, lung, saliva, oral mucosa, conjunctiva, biliary tract, and gastrointestinal tract.
The importance of supplements
Normally, you should be able to get all the nutrients you need from a balanced diet. However, supplements can provide you with extra nutrients when your diet is lacking or certain health conditions (such as cancer, diabetes, or chronic diarrhea) trigger a deficiency.