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Krill Oil or Fish Oils, Pick one and take it, Part 2. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 625

Krill Oil or Fish Oils, Pick one and take it, Part 2. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 625

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Krill Oil, or Fish Oils. Pick one and take it. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 624

Krill Oil, or Fish Oils. Pick one and take it. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 624

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KRILL OIL, OR FISH OIL. PICK ON AND TAKE IT- INVITEⓇ HEALTH PODCAST, EPISODE 624

Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.


*Intro Music*

InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro: [00:00:04] Welcome to the InViteⓇ Health Podcast, where our degreed health care professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that Invite Health has to offer at www.invitehealth.com/podcast. First time customers can use promo code podcast at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started. † [00:00:34]

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Jerry Hickey, Ph: [00:00:41] For many years, I’ve been collating and examining, analyzing and reviewing the data on both fish oils and Krill oil, and they’re pretty much interchangeable. I personally take Krill oil because there are other ingredients in it that are very good for your health, which fish oils do not offer. But I also eat fish. And if you look across the spectrum of benefits, there’s myriad benefits. And if you’re starting in the brain, there’s benefits from both Krill oil or fish oils for protecting the brain from some serious consequences, such as age-related diseases, stroke, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, lowering inflammation on the brain, but also healing and rejuvenating the brain and affecting the way your brain functions. So, in a very good way, I mean, your brain is largely made out of fats, especially fish oils and collagen, a protein. I mean, that’s what makes up your brain for the most part. And B vitamins and phosphatides. We’ll go into this a little bit during the course of the episode. And I think these nutrients are so, so powerful and so important that I gave this episode a very simple name, Krill oil or Fish oils, pick one and take it. And by the way, when you take those, they’re fatty soluble, they should be absorbed better into your system if you take them with a meal because the little bit of fat in the meal boosts the absorption of these fatty substances. But these are good fats. You want these fats; you need these fats. You have to have these fats to survive, but also to thrive and a lot of things lower the amount of these fats in the body. We’ll talk about that a little bit later. Also, we’ll go into the dosages needed a little bit. In any event, welcome to my episode. I already gave you the name, my name is Jerry Hickey. I’m a nutritional pharmacist. I’m also the senior scientific officer over here at Invite Health. You can find all of the Invite Health podcast episodes for free wherever you listen to podcasts or just go to our website, invitehealth.com/podcast. You can also find Invite on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at Invite Health. All of the information on this episode will be listed in the podcast episode description. So, let’s get going. I’m going to be jumping around a little bit because there’s so much to say and this is actually very exciting stuff for me. And, you know, I probably will wind up breaking this down to two or three episodes because, you know, I mean, who wants to listen to an episode longer than 15 or 20 minutes, really? † [00:03:18]

[00:03:20] So here’s JAMA Network Open, this is a very recent study. JAMA is the Journal of the American Medical Association, so this is a big time. It’s Tufts University, one of my favorite academic research institutions, which of course is up in Boston, Mass. The Indiana University School of Public Health, which is like a leading school of public health and the University of Kansas Medical Center and University of Iowa, plus other academic research institution. And they are grouping together two big similar studies on Krill oil and people with severe hypertriglyceridemia, so let me explain what that is. When you eat foods, your body converts these foods into triglycerides, and you burn them for energy. The problem is many of us are eating like a lumberjack, but we don’t exercise like a lumberjack, so we eat a big meal, rich in fats and carbohydrates. And then we sit behind a desk, or we watch our TV or on our laptop, so the triglycerides are not being burnt in your muscles for energy. So, they’re invading, they’re invasive, they invade your liver. They can be very toxic to your liver, they can lead to liver cancer, liver failure or just fatty liver disease. They’re toxic to the heart, they build up in the heart lead to all kinds of episodes like strokes. There’s even evidence that they can creep into your lungs and kidneys at this point, but we don’t know enough about that. So, and people, very high levels of triglycerides, they’re at risk of like pancreatitis and liver damage and heart attacks and strokes and heart disease. So, you want to get these down. So, they want to see, hey, is Krill oil functional just like fish oils? We know that there are prescription fish oils they use for hypertriglyceridemia, which means high triglycerides in the bloodstream, and they’re undervaluing the danger of triglycerides, the dangers of triglycerides. There’s a lot of value placed on the dangers of LDL cholesterol. And basically, also that’s because there’s drug companies making billions of dollars on drugs to treat high cholesterol. They really have to put more emphasis on triglycerides. You’ll see elevated triglycerides in people who drink a lot of alcohol like beer or wine, you’ll see it in people who are obese. You’ll see it in pre-diabetic, you’ll see it in diabetics, you’ll see it in people at a high level of a certain cholesterol called vldl. So, there’s a lot of things going on here. † [00:05:58]

[00:06:00] So they’re checking these two randomized placebos controlled human clinical trials, which are state of the art gold standard trials, identical. And in one of the trials, they use 71 United States based medical centers, and then the other one, they use 93 United States and Canadian based medical centers and also medical centers in Mexico. And the fasting triglycerides, because triglycerides go up after your meal. Cholesterol doesn’t change much after a meal, but triglycerides consume after a meal, 500 to 1500, so this is serious. And they were either on or not on statins and fibrates, stats are for cholesterol, fibrates are for triglycerides and the Krill Oil in a high dose versus placebo, a fake pill really made a difference. Now it’s worth noting that 52% of the subjects in the study were diabetics. It’s common for diabetics to have not just problems with blood sugar. You know, everybody knows that diabetes is a disease of blood sugar, but it’s not just a disease of blood sugar, it’s a disease of metabolism and energy and triglycerides and cholesterol and other issues, inflammation. So first of all, the Krill raised good cholesterol, HDL, between 2 to 5%, which is good because it’s hard to raise good cholesterol, even with a statin it’s hard to raise it, and it lower triglycerides, even the people on triglyceride lowering drugs, adding krill further lowered triglycerides by a further 20%. And it was very safe, and it lacked side effects. So, I mean, it’s a great it’s a great supplement. It’s really a great supplement. I take three every morning with my breakfast. † [00:07:39]

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[00:07:42] So now let’s look at inflammation. A lot of people are inflamed, like if you’re eating a typical, what they call a typical American or typical Western diet where you’re lacking fresh fruits, you lacking vegetables, you’re eating a lot of super processed foods that are high in sugar, like donuts and English muffins and white bread and canned soups that you add, you know, oil or the powdered soups that you add water to, and all these things. And if you’re you know, if your diet consists of milkshakes and cheeseburgers, you’re inflamed, but you’re also inflamed, if you’re pre-diabetic, you’re inflamed if you’re diabetic. Almost every major disease has major elements of inflammation. And sadly, you become inflamed just by growing older. And we’re, we’re not talking about acute inflammation, acute inflammation, acute inflammation means sudden, like what, an infection or a, you know, a cough. Yeah, you’ll get inflamed from that, but it’s temporary. We’re talking about long term chronic low-grade inflammation, that’s very bad for the heart, the brain, your muscles, your bones, I mean it’s just it’s a disaster really. That’s a terrible for your metabolism. So, here’s the journal Neuroscience Research, August 2020 at Central Michigan University. And they’re looking at Krill oil and inflammation, and they’re looking specifically at inflammation related to a bad diet or inflammation related to growing older, because as we become older, I’m 69, as you become older, you get more and more inflamed. It’s just the way it is. You want to push back on that because the inflammation is a disaster for you. Krill Oil reduced inflammation in your body, that was related to a bad diet, you know, sugary foods, fatty foods, etc. not eating whole grains, not eating fruits, not eating vegetables, not eating legumes, you know, like beans and lentils and peas, you know, not eating mushrooms. It also reduced inflammation in the brain, this is something else that increases with age. So let me explain that. When you’re young, your brain has this powerful, readily available pool of antioxidants. And there’s a reason for that. Your brain is a super high energy organ just like your eyes, just like your heart. And it eats up 20% of the calories from each meal, that’s it’s only about £2, dry weight. So, think of that, this this compared to the rest of body. This is small this organ, the brain. And yet it’s grabbing 20% of the calories from each meal. That’s how high an energy organ it is, as a part of the process of using sugar for energy. It is a release of free radicals, and free radicals are toxic. So, these free radicals are pretty toxic, and they can damage cells that could destroy cells, they block natural processes in the brain. I mean, look at the diseases of the brain that occur with aging, late dementia, Lewy body dementia, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease. A major part of each one of these as a cause and as part of the progression of it is inflammation. So, when you’re young, you have these great antioxidants in the brain like, like superoxide dismutase type one and superoxide dismutase type three and glutathione peroxidase, and they really snuff out, they do a great job of protecting the brain by snuffing out the free radicals because you need your brain long term. However, when you hit your mid-fifties, the level of these antioxidants, the pool drops like crazy, by the time you’re 65, it’s almost nil, it’s almost gone. So, Krill helps protect you from the consequences of that, because the inflammation is decreased in your brain by the Krill. The free radicals trigger inflammation that damage the processes in your brain, the pathways in your brain, the organs and tissues of your brain. Krill snuffs out that inflammation that gets into the brain very, very, very efficiently and it snuffs out this inflammation. But Krill does a second thing, it supplies, and that’s the fish oils in the krill doing that. † [00:12:00]

[00:12:00] But then there’s a second ingredient in Krill called phosphatidylcholine that also reduces inflammation on the brain. The brain loves phosphatidylcholine because it’s part and parcel of building the brain, building the nerve tissue in the brain, protecting the nerve tissue in the brain, and the thought process and memory process will go into that. That’s significantly important. When you talk about Krill, phosphatidylcholine, then there’s a carotenoid pigment, pinkish called astaxanthin, that’s in Krill, it also gets into the brain and protects the brain. There are certain carotenoids that get into your brain and eyeballs, astaxanthin, lutein, zeaxanthin, and beta carotene, if it’s natural to a degree, they really help protect the brain, they really help the brain function properly. So, Krill supplies all these things, and it reduces that inflammation that would either be super toxic to your brain. But Krill does another thing, it creates an ingredient in the brain called a plasmalogen that acts as a bullet proof vest for your brain cells. So as the antioxidant levels drop, Krill reduces inflammation, restores some level of antioxidant activity, but also creates a bulletproof vest to protect your brain cells through these plasmalogens. Plasmalogens are made out of fish oils, choline, phosphotides, serine. They’re all in Krill, they’re all in Krill. So, it’s very, very good for that. † [00:13:18]

[00:13:19] So according to Central Michigan University, Krill oil has been proven to improve spatial memory, improve learning, reduce memory loss in older people, improve your mood. So, it’s good for depression. But there’s also other evidence from other academic research institutions that Krill and Fish oils reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s, like 36%. I mean, come on. But Krill does other things too. And a little while I get into the phosphatidylcholine that’s in Krill, why it’s so key for health throughout the body. But let’s look at more data on what Krill can do for you. Krill helps with knee pain. There are good studies that Krill is good for inflammation and a major cause of the pain and damage in arthritis is from inflammation. So, this is Plus One which is a great American medical journal. This was performed by Japanese and Chinese researchers, mostly in Japanese arthritis clinics. It’s a placebo controlled, randomized human clinical trial. So, it’s a state-of-the-art human clinical trial again. It’s adults with knee pain, active arthritis, Krill. These people had less pain when sleeping, less pain withstanding. They had an improvement in range of motion. You know how much you can bend your knee without pain. So, here’s the Journal of the American College of Nutrition. These are researchers in Canada, once again, placebo controlled, randomized human clinical trial. Those are the only trials are used as evidence. And there has to be a number of similar trials to prove my point. In other words, there’s a number of trials that Krill is good for arthritis, knee pain, there’s a number of trials that krill is good for exercise and muscle health. There’s a number of trials are Krill is good for the heart, that Krill is good for the brain. So, none of these studies exist in a vacuum, they all have support. So once again, this is the Journal of the American College of Nutrition researchers in Canada. It’s 90 patients with inflammation and arthritis, and they had elevated CRP. CRP stands for C-reactive protein, it’s not a good thing. You always have a level of CRP, it’s a proxy for inflammation. We don’t know if CRP does have anything, does it hurt you or is it protective? We don’t know. But we know it’s a proxy for inflammation. So as inflammation goes up, so does the level of CRP in your blood. And when it’s too high, it really inflames the brain and it really inflames the heart and it increases the risk of stroke and heart attack and it clogs, it’s involved with clogged arteries. So once again, I don’t know if the CRP is doing that or the inflammation, It’s the inflammation for sure. So, within 30 days, Krill oil reduced CRP by 31%, while in the people on placebo, CRP actually increased by 25%. And within a very short amount of time weeks, Krill reduced pain scores by 30% within weeks and it reduced stiffness by 20%, and it improves functional impairment by 23%. That was within the first week. Within the first week it would improve range of motion and improved functional impairment and it was already helping reduce pain. And you know, Krill is good for your brain and heart, unlike the drugs for arthritis, some of those drugs, I can say they’re really bad for the heart. So here is, this is a different kind of study. † [00:16:58]

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[00:16:58] Now we’re looking at muscle strength. We know that there’s many studies that fish oils are very good for muscle strength. The by the way, why do I prefer Krill to Fish oils? Well, the fish oils in Krill are more stabilized. They don’t go rancid as easily. They don’t go bad as easily as in fish oils, but they’re also better absorbed because they’re attached to phosphatides like phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, I mean, this improves their absorption, you get more into the bloodstream. So, I really like Krill and people don’t usually have those fish burps with Krill. The fish burps that you get with those large fish oil capsules. So, we know that fish oils are very good for your muscle. There’s a number of studies on that. If you look at the data, there’s plenty of data. So, this is the Journal of Clinical Nutrition that’s a good journal, it’s the University of Glasgow, which of course is Scotland, the University of Western Australia and Nottingham Trent University, which would be in England. And these are all people over the age of 65, it’s 102 men and women, but they didn’t exercise regularly, so they looked at the effects of Krill at baseline, which means before the, you know, at the very inception of the study, at six weeks into the study and six months into the study. So, they did a good job of observing what’s going on here. And they found that knee strength, they tested knee strength and giving Krill or placebo, did it have an effect on knee strength? Did it have an effect on their hands on grip strength? Research shows that in older people, those with stronger grip strength survive better. You know, you have to be strong, life is tough. You want to be strong. You want to be a tiger inside. You might act like a kitten on the outside, but you want to be a tiger on the inside, and Krill helps that, along with exercise, good diet, enough sleep, etc. So, six months supplementation with Krill oil, improved knee strength, improved grip strength and improved muscle thickness. That’s good because that’s one reason why Krill would be good for the knees, if you improved the strength of like your thigh muscles, etc. It stabilizes your knees, and it reduces your risk of falling. So, Krill increased muscle strength and muscle size and older people, and it was to a clinically important degree. Now, of course, you should exercise. I mean, I exercise all the time, I ride a bike, I lift weights, I do a lot of walking, I kayak when I have, I have availability, it’s really important. But Krill, it’s great, just like fish oils. They’re good for your muscles, with or without exercise. But they also reduce your risk of dementia. They will reduce your risk of sudden cardiac death. They’re great for the liver, especially the Krill, is fantastic for the liver. Just because I’ve got so much more to say, I’ve got so much more to say, so I have to break this down into like two or three parts. So, I want to thank you for listening to today’s podcast episode. You can find all of the invited episodes for free wherever you listen to podcast or just go to invitehealth.com/podcast. And you can also find Invite on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at Invite Health. I have a lot more to say about Krill, how it’s good for the liver, how it’s good for the brain, how it helps protect you from heart attacks. I mean, this is important stuff. So, we’ll try to cover all this, next week in the next episode that I do. Jerry Hickey signing off. And thank you so much for listening. † [00:16:58]

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You’re Older, think about taking these supplements, Invite Health Podcast, Episode 620

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Choline, the brain boosting nutrient most of lack, Part 2: The Liver. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 600

Choline, the brain boosting nutrient most of lack, Part 2: The Liver. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 600

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Supplements to Aid Anxiety, Part 2. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 599

Supplements to Aid Anxiety, Part 2. Invite Health Podcast, Episode 599

 

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Supplements to Aid Anxiety, Part 2, Invite Health Podcast

Hosted by Jerry Hickey, Ph.

InViteⓇ Health Podcast Intro: [00:00:04] Welcome to the InVite Health podcast, where our degreed health care professionals are excited to offer you the most important health and wellness information you need to make informed choices about your health. You can learn more about the products discussed in each of these episodes and all that InVite Health has to offer. At www.invitehealth.com/podcast, first time customers can use promo code podcast at checkout for an additional 15% off your first purchase. Let’s get started.† [00:00:34]

Jerry Hickey, Ph: [00:00:38] Okay. Welcome back. I hope you listen to part one of this episode. We’re looking at nutritional supplements that can aid anxiety. In the first part, I spoke about the symptoms of anxiety. I didn’t go into the drugs, but I did go into the nutritional supplements. And we discussed  rhodiola, which is also called Viking ginseng, which is also great for energy and endurance. So it’s worth a try. It’s very safe. I also discussed L-Theanine from the tea plant, which is good for being soothing and a little bit anxious and nervous and helps you focus and even helps creativity a little bit without making you sleepy. Take 100 milligrams at a time, 2 to 4 times a day, and that may be helpful. For anxiety, it’s worth a try because it’s very safe. And then I started to discuss fish oils.† [00:01:22]

[00:01:22] So we’re going to continue today with fish oils. This is Frontiers in Physiology August 2018 at University of Bordeaux in France. That region makes great wines. So they said the brain is particularly enriched with polyunsaturated fatty acids, and then they talk about omega six to omega three. We discussed that at the end of the last episode. Omega six tend to come from vegetable oils. Omega three come from like flaxseed and fish oils and walnuts and avocados. There’s generally an imbalance in Western society. We’re getting an awful lot of Omega six and I don’t know if omega three you need a balance of those oils for the immune system. So when there’s not enough omega three like from fish oils or krill oil and there’s too much omega six, omega six is loaded into processed foods, you tend to become inflamed. And this can affect the brain, the heart, the immune system. It does a lot of things. So of course it affects the immune system because that’s what inflammation is all about. But I said the brain is particularly enriched with polyunsaturated fatty acids, omega six from vegetables. And I said, Don’t worry about eating vegetables and getting vegetable oils because you don’t get that much. It’s actually when you put oils on something or they incorporate the oils into the production of foods. So they said these unsaturated fatty acids have received substantial attention as being relevant to many brain diseases, including anxiety and depression. They reviewed the importance of fish oil type fatty acids for the prevention and also for the treatment of neuropsychiatric diseases. And they go on to say mainly depression and anxiety.† [00:02:56]

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[00:02:57] So they focused on clinical and experimental research linking fish oil type fatty acids with improving depression and anxiety, and in particular, they highlighted how fish oils can modulate neurobiological processes involved in the pathophysiology of anxiety and depression. In other words, the things that are going on, the natural pathways in your brain that are disturbed, that lead to anxiety and depression, those pathways would be offset by enough fish oils. So not only can it help you treat anxiety and depression, it can help prevent anxiety and depression. And there’s no doubt about that. There’s a lot of research on it.† [00:03:31]

[00:03:32] So they say it affects the endocannabinoid system. That’s very interesting. That’s where CBD affects, cannabidiol in the brain there CB1 receptor sites that are great for neuropsychological issues like anxiety and stress. Maybe not depression, but certainly anxiety and stress. And then they talk about the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis. The hypothalamus is a major organ in the lower part, back of the brain, that controls the rhythms of the body. Your body’s internal clock called your circadian rhythm, you know, sleep ,awake and all that. And then the pituitary is where you control the neuroendocrine system, the release of all different hormones by the body, like stress hormones from the adrenal glands and thyroid hormones from the thyroid. So they’re talking that there’s an axis of interaction between your brain and all these glands, including the stress glands, the adrenal glands, since these two triangular glands, one sits on top of each kidney. So here, the fish oils affect the endocannabinoid system, the CB1 receptor sites involved with controlling the body’s rhythms and stress and anxiety and fear, etc.. So that’s a good thing.† [00:04:36]

[00:04:37] So here’s JAMA Network. Open JAMA is Journal of the American Medical Association, and it’s the use of fish oils for anxiety symptoms, but it’s a systematic review and meta analysis. I mean, how many medical doctors have subscriptions to that? Right. A systematic review means they go through all of these electronic databases that collect research and they pick out the studies that pertain to fish oils and anxiety. And then they perform a meta analysis. They put aside the studies that just don’t fit what they’re looking for. Like maybe it’s unclear, the results, maybe it’s poorly organized, maybe it’s poorly reported. Maybe they felt it was a bias to the study, and then they pick out the studies that are exceptional, that are looking at what they want to look at. In this case, do fish oils help the symptoms and severity of anxiety. So let’s see, they have 19 human clinical trials, so this is JAMA, open JAMA Journal of the American Medical Association and total it was 1203 people on the fish oils with anxiety, a mean age of 44 so they were probably like age 35 to like age 50, 55% were women and then 1037 people not on fish oils. And they said there was clearly a connection between symptoms of anxiety and treatment with fish oils compared to placebo, etc., that the fish oils really improved anxiety. So they said the anxiolytics effect of fish oils, see that’s really important. Anxiolytic means it gets rid of symptoms of anxiety. It treats symptoms of anxiety. This is without using a drug. The anxiolytics effect of omega three puffers fish oils were significantly better than that of controlled with a higher dosage. So it had to be at least 2000 milligrams of fish oils a day, lower than 2000 milligrams did not improve the symptoms of anxiety.† [00:06:22]

[00:06:23] Now let’s look at CBD, in the old days there was a marijuana plant and in marijuana there was THC, which is Delta nine tetrahydrocannabinol. That’s the stuff people use when they go to concerts and they want to get high. So that’s the stuff people used to smoke on a weekend. And then there’s cannabidiol, which does not get you high. But they found out that they could separate the plants. So there’s still the marijuana plant where they get the recreational marijuana that they use in parties and concerts and stuff. I don’t touch it. It’s not good for the brain. It reduces circulation of the brain. And then there’s the cannabidiol, which is now from the hemp plant. It doesn’t have the THC. It doesn’t have the component that gets you high. That’s not good for the brain. And they found that cannabidiol is very safe for the brain. How did they find that out? There was signs from decades that children who had epileptic seizures where the drugs didn’t work, CBD worked. There were signs that CBD worked for dozens of years, and recently they actually made a drug out of CBD, which is cannabidiol, which to me comes out of hemp plant, not the marijuana plant. They really have to differentiate their explanation of that. There’s no THC. You don’t have the THC in the hemp plant. It has to be below 0.3%, which is basically nothing, but that’s by law.† [00:07:43]

[00:07:44] Now the cannabidiol they use in children. These are very fragile people. They’re very vulnerable, is a super high potency, hundreds of milligrams. But yet when you want to help somebody with stress or anxiety, you’re giving them like 20 milligrams or 30 milligrams. You’re giving them very little and it’s extremely safe for them. So here’s the journal Neuro Therapeutics now in the body CBD cannabidiol effects CB2 receptor sites for like pain. So it’s very good for pain. That’s why you can have a CBD cream or ointment or roll on for like joint pain and back pain or muscle pain or even nerve pain. Whereas the capsules or the liquid drops and the squirts, the extracts, they’re useful for the brain, they’re useful for pain too, as they affect the CB1 receptors sites in the brain that calm you down and help with stress and anxiety. I don’t know if they help with depression and I don’t know if it helps with sleep, unless you can’t sleep because you’re anxious or stressed out and it’ll help you. But regular insomnia, I do not believe CBD helps. So that’s why when we market it, we have a hemp with melatonin. The hemp is for the stress to calm down the brain and clear out all the noise, so you can relax, and the melatonin is for the sleep, so that makes sense. But of course, you don’t take melatonin in the daytime, so you take straightforward hemp capsules. So here’s the journal Neuro Therapeutics October 2015. Cannabidiol is a pharmacologically broad spectrum constituent of hemp. So Pharmacologically Broad Spectrum, it does a lot of things that in recent years has drawn increasing interest as a treatment for a range of neuropsychiatric disorders. So they’re looking at a review, can it help with anxiety? So they’re looking at pre-clinical. Pre-clinical means animals, but certainly the pre-clinical studies are like dogs and monkeys, etc. It worked. But then human studies, clinical studies, epidemiological evidence, here’s what they said. Oh, by the way, this is NYU School of Medicine in Manhattan. Here’s what they said. We found that existing preclinical evidence strongly supports CBD as a treatment for generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, socialize disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder when administered acutely. That means right away it helps acutely means you give it today it helps. But they’re saying preclinical that means in animals. Okay.† [00:09:57]

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[00:09:57] Now they’re looking at human studies, evidence from human studies supports anxiolytic role of CBD. Anxiolytic means once again helping with anxiety. So then they go on to say, But this is in 2015. Overall, current evidence indicates CBD has considerable potential as a treatment for multiple anxiety disorders. Now that’s in 2015. Let’s fast forward to the Permanente Journal. You know, the Permanente is this big medical institution throughout California like Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. I think that’s their headquarters, right? So this is the Permanente Journal in 2019 and they’re talking about CBD, cannabidiol and anxiety and sleep, a large case series. It’s the Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado in Denver, the Department of Naturopathic Medicine, the Wholeness Center in Fort Collins, Colorado, The North Ranch Behavioral Health Research Institute in Greeley, Colorado, and Colorado State University College of Health and Human Sciences, also in Fort Collins. A recent, now this is 2019 where states have, they passed the farm bill. So it’s legal now to grow marijuana in a lot of states and also sell CBD, which is not marijuana. That’s hemp. So like in New York State, you can have both. You can have marijuana, you can have hemp. So they said now there’s a surge in scientific publications. They found preclinical and clinical evidence documenting the value of CBD and some neuropsychiatric disorders, including epilepsy, schizophrenia, but anxiety also. So they said evidence points to what a calming effect for CBD in the central nervous system. So they did a study, but these were people with anxiety. So not all people with anxiety can stick in studies because they’re anxious about the study. So what can I tell you? So the final sample of people was 72 adults. Their primary concern was anxiety, but also poor sleep. And within the first month, 80% of the patients anxiety absolutely improved with CBD, sleep not as good, 67%, but it fluctuated. That’s why I said when we have hemp, if you use it at night, we put hemp with melatonin. Hemp and CBD are not really for sleep. Only if you’re nervous and you can’t sleep. That’s different. That’s not insomnia. But it’s great for the nervousness that’ll help you sleep.† [00:12:06]

[00:12:07] So for the sleep, it helped 67% of the clients, but the effects fluctuated over time. So it helps with anxiety related disorders. So thank you for tuning into the InVite Health podcast. Let me just give you a little quick review. If you’re anxious, especially if it’s temporary, you could try Rhodiola. But that takes a couple of weeks to kick in. The beauty of Rhodiola, though, it’s also good for energy, strength and endurance and the immune system. L-Theanine kicks in immediately so you can use it any time and it’s helpful. Fish oils take time to build, but they’re a lot of research, they’re helpful. CBD works right away also, so L-Theanine and CBD works right away. Rhodiola takes several weeks. Fish oils, they have so many other benefits, it’s really worth the cost of trying them, you know, just go and buy them and use them. Fish oil is naturally declined in the brain with age and they’re really important for brain function. So you can’t just depend on your food. Like when you’re in your 50, 60s,70s and beyond, you really need like a fish oil supplement or a krill oil supplement. So once again, thank you for tuning in to the InVite Health podcast. You can find all of our episodes there free wherever you listen or just visit InVite Health.com/ podcast. Please subscribe, please leave us a review. You can also find us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram at InVite Health. I hope to see you next time on another episode of InVite Health podcast. And thank you so much for listening in.† [00:12:07]