How is CBD Beneficial for Your Pets? - Part 1 DOGS
It's no secret that in today's world, you can easily purchase various concentrated hemp extracts with CBD and other cannabinoids designed for your pets. Sellers boast about all possible beneficial effects their product can bring to your four-legged friend, without any unwanted side effects. Although this might sound like science fiction in some cases, after reading this article, you might reconsider your presumed thought that it's just a marketing trick. How does CBD actually work in animals and what health problems can it help resolve? What is the expert community's opinion and what do current studies say?
CBD and the Endocannabinoid System
CBD (cannabidiol) from medical hemp is probably something we don't need to introduce, nor its effects on humans. With its molecular structure of 21 carbon atoms, 30 hydrogen atoms, and two oxygen atoms, it can work almost miracles in our body, capable of influencing numerous processes. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) is responsible for interaction between the human body and cannabinoids, which could be considered an unnatural version of endocannabinoids that we can produce ourselves.
This system was discovered in the 1990s, initially presumed to exist only in brain or nerve areas. However, in 2008, scientists from the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Indiana University in Bloomington disproved this assumption by discovering endocannabinoid receptors throughout the human body - including skin, bones, liver, fatty tissues, immune cells, kidneys, heart, digestive tract, and many other parts. While human body structure might be unique, it's far from the only home of ECS. The fact is that every living being with or without a spine has an endocannabinoid system developed 600 million years ago. Dysfunction - or poor function - of ECS leads to physical and mental illnesses such as inflammation, cancer, arthritis, epilepsy, nausea, depression, anxiety, or oxidative stress. Overall, ECS is divided into 3 basic parts: