Published in the journal Nature at the end of 2022, a new clinical study has confirmed the potential of CBD for anxiety. According to researchers, full spectrum CBD is safe, effective and, unlike traditional drugs, free of particular side effects.
CBD and anxiety: the most common mental disorder in Europe
Tachycardia, tremors, sleep disturbances, nausea, dizziness. Often underestimated, anxiety is the most common mental disorder in Europe. In fact, according to research conducted in 2018, it would affect approximately 25 million people: 5.4% of the population.
Anxiety that can be linked to a particularly intense or stressful period, but which can also turn into a chronic disorder which compromises our quality of life.
Although there are already drugs to dull anxiety, such as benzodiazepines, which act as depressants of the central nervous system by inducing a feeling of calm, dizziness and sleep, these remedies unfortunately cause important side effects e addiction.
Unlike the CBD, a cannabinoid that does not boast psychoactive effects, does not generate any addiction and is without any particular side effects.
CBD for anxiety: significantly improves the condition of patients
Led by researchers from the Cognitive and Clinical Neuroimaging Core at the McLean Hospital Imaging Center in Belmont, Massachusetts, the goal of study was to confirm the anxiolytic properties of CBD, evaluate its impact on cognitive abilities and indicate new strategies for anxiety-related disorders.
The treatment involved four weeks of full spectrum CBD (9.97 mg/mL CBD, 0.23 mg/mL THC) administered sublingually: 1 ml 3 times a day to 14 patients, who had been diagnosed with moderate or severe anxiety.
At the end of the study, the 100% of the people involved responded positively to the treatment. In fact, the conditions of the patients, as confirmed by the researchers, improved significantly.
Conditions improved both in terms of the state of anxiety, whose levels in the fourth week are dropped by more than 15%, and for related disorders such as mood changes, cognitive abilities with faster response times, the balance of the sleep-wake cycle and quality of life.
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CBD against anxiety: safe and well tolerated
“Initial results from this phase of this clinical trial have demonstrated significant improvement in primary anxiety outcome ratings, providing preliminary evidence that a full-spectrum, high-CBD product can be effective for treating anxiety and with few side effects,” explained the researchers.
In fact, scholars have highlighted that it was well tolerated by all and that no particular side effects were reported during treatment, but only mild levels of drowsiness and fatigue, dry mouth and, in some cases, an increase in energy.
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