Showing posts with label Hepatitis C. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hepatitis C. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 October 2020

"CBD & Liver Disorders"

CBD & Liver Disorders" Mycannashop
Probably you'll have heard about an article in Forbes,  with title "CBD can cause liver damage"... 

Actually the article claims that CBD “could be damaging our livers in the same way as alcohol and other drugs." ... the evidense was taken by a study from researchers at the University of Arkansas in Little Rock.


Of course, they never mention that the drug that the researchers used was the EPIDIOLEX, wich is a prescription medicine that is used to treat seizures associated with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome or Dravet syndrome in patients 2 years of age and older. 

Also the doses was extremely higher than the normal (20mg/kg)...
"Animals were gavaged with either 0, 246, 738, or 2460 mg/kg of CBD or with daily doses of 0, 61.5, 184.5, or 615 mg/kg for 10 days. A dose of 246 mg/kg was chosen as an initial dose as this is a MED analogous to those used in recent clinical trials (MED of 20 mg/kg CBD)

Subsequently, researchers used doses of 738 and 2460 mg/kg CBD as 3× and 10× doses, respectively. Finally they demonstrated that CBD, when delivered orally to mice in the form of a concentrated CBD-enriched Cannabis extract, has the potential to cause liver injury...

So, on the basis of such an inaccurate article, we thought about doing our own research on CBD and the potential benefits it may have to the liver-related diseases...

Thursday, 15 November 2018

Can CBD Help you with Hepatitis C?

Scientists recently discovered properties in cannabidiol (CBD) found in cannabis that could be used as a novel treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV).
Untreated hepatitis is known to cause significant liver damage that typically results in hepatocellular carcinoma and other chronic diseases. While significant barriers have been overcome in developing treatments for HCV, a large number or patients remain untreated due to the high cost of curative antiviral drugs.