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Ep14_HELP CBD HELP YOU
Meredith [00:00:06] All right, welcome back to this episode of Full Spectrum Living with CBD. I am your co-host, Meredith, here with our host, Jessica and Adriane. And today, we’re going to talk about how to set yourself up for success with CBD. So how to help yourself have a great experience with this. And Jessica, I know this is a huge passion topic for you. So you’re going to kick us off today. What’s one of these? We’ve got five tips. So what’s what’s your first one for today?
Jessica [00:00:30] Oh, well, I was just going to. Basically, this is coming from having clients come in occasionally that, you know, really seems like their expectation is they’ll take a CBD product and everything is going to improve despite, you know, maybe eating a really poor quality diet and not moving enough and having a ton of pharmaceuticals. So there’s a lot that influences it. I think the main thing to start off with is like, what are your expectations of CBD? Are they realistic? And is there a way that you can more accurately assess your expectation and the reality of how likely it is for it to be successful, but also measure that? How how successful has it been for you in the past month or so? So I think that that would be a really good place to start with. The conversation here is just what is the consumer’s expectation and what is a way that we can track what they are looking to achieve and what they are achieving to really evaluate how it’s affecting them? In that one specific area and not writing it off just because maybe you didn’t have a level eight to level zero pain change. You know, so that that would be one place to start.
Meredith [00:01:50] Yeah, which makes sense. I mean, we’ve talked about how everybody’s experience with CBD is a little bit different, how you can’t pinpoint it and say it’s gonna be the same for everyone who uses even the same amount. Right. And so I think what you’re suggesting is that people really kind of document their experience so that they can manage their expectations, because sometimes people are going to see that shift quickly and sometimes it’ll be overtime. Right.
Adriane [00:02:15] Well and I think we also tend to forget at what level of pain or discomfort or what we were really experiencing once you, once CBD has started working for you and maybe it’s been a month or two. And so all of a sudden you forget the level of inflammation that you had in your joints. And so documenting that I think is a good way. You know, you can start off and it doesn’t have to be in a diary or a journal or anything, which although that’s a fantastic way to do it. It could literally be on a desk calendar where you’re just sitting there thinking you’re like pain level eight, you know, inflammation, you know, can’t close my hands. So just small things like that. And then as you’re tracking it through your servings and as you’re going through the weeks, you will be able to look back and think, oh, wow, I was at an eight before. I’m can, I’m in a four now. I’m not pain free, but I’m definitely pain better. Right. So I think having that way to really track and look back. I know parents with kids with epilepsy do this because the number of seizures, the length of the seizure, the severity of the seizure, they document all the time. So it’s a great way to kind of look back and see at what level of benefit they’re experiencing.
Jessica [00:03:23] And I think on on that note as well, I know I’ve mentioned in other podcasts, but to evaluate not just daily but maybe prior to your serving and after your serving kind of check back in and see if you’re noticing any more immediate effects. So I’ve mentioned on here the inner inventory through the healer training that we go through and I think definitely it applies here as well. So that is advocating that when a person takes cannabis depending on their route of consumption. So assuming you’re taking our oil or an oil, the peak effect that you would notice more immediately would be one to two hours in. And although many people don’t immediately notice, like, OK, an hour later their pain is gone, like that does not always happen, does not often happen with CBD. It’s a more of a long term progress towards pain relief. But you can notice things like you’re able to breathe more easily, you’re able to get more comfortable when you’re seated, you’re able to smile more easily. Your mood has improved. Those are all signs that it’s taking effect and working for you in a short period of time. So I would definitely say if we’re talking about checking in on yourself to do it not just daily, but maybe around one or two hours after you take a CBD product and just see what are the subtle changes that indicate that it is doing something, although it might not be everything you are wanting to immediately. What are the subtle differences that you’re noticing, like ease of breath, comfort and mood that you can measure.
Meredith [00:05:06] Awesome, so expectations and then just checking in with yourself and noticing and being in tune with what’s going on in your body. So what’s another area that people can really help themselves in when it comes to maximizing the impact of CBD?
Meredith [00:05:21] It’s gonna come down to diet and nutrition. It really is. And that’s always everybody’s favorite subject, right? Yeah. Everybody loves to talk about what they’re eating and how they can lose weight, but it really comes down to, you know, whole foods and just eating better. More vitamin packed and nutrient foods, because I like to use the example of if you’re using CBD to kind of help with gout, you can’t eat red meat and drink a beer with it and then expect the CBD to make the gout go away or that make the gout never come back again. So it really comes down to you have to look at what you’re consuming. You can’t out train a bad diet. Right. So you need to think about it from that same aspect. And that doesn’t mean that you can never have a steak, that you can never have a beer, that you can never have pizza. Not saying that at all. It’s literally just about looking at what you’re consuming and making better choices. Around the new year, everybody’s always looking and making their resolutions. And so what better time, right, than to sit back and say, well, I know I’m going to eat better so now I can put realistic expectations and maybe my CBD will actually start working even better for me than what it already has been before.
Jessica [00:06:29] And I would like to just add onto that, I think I believe we’re going to be touching on this a little bit more in a future episode, but there are specific things that can boost the endocannabinoid system that we’ll talk about later. One of those being chocolate. So some of them are fun, enjoyable ones and and things you can remove that have a more negative effect. Alcohol would be one of those or minimizing your alcohol consumption. And there’s a lot more to that. But I think what’s always worked best for me is adding in positive things. So I would say start adding in more probiotics. So we know there’s a connection between the endocannabinoid system and and your gut health. And that’s something that we’re trying to understand better. But that might be a good thing to introduce instead of trying to just overhaul diet as a whole.
Meredith [00:07:25] Absolutely. So diet would be kind of our second area where we definitely can help ourselves to make the experience better. What’s our third?
Jessica [00:07:35] I would say stress management and this might not be all particular orders, but definitely significant. Stress management I think plays a huge role in everything. CBD, of course, helps with stress management, but I think taking additional steps to manage your stress more effectively certainly helps to promote the endocannabinoid system as well. So it’s just another thing you can do to maximize your your health there. So of course everyone’s different in how they manage stress. But, you know, breathing, exercise, meditation, yoga, those are all things that seem to be very closely related to it or endurance activities like runners or people who just like to get out in nature and go for a walk. There’s so many options and we’re all familiar with that. But just drawing the connection to how important that is to really get your endocannabinoid health up to speed. So I would say at least starting with some intentional deep breathing. Just breathe more. That’s a great way to start.
Meredith [00:08:44] Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, what about people? We were talking a little bit earlier. The fourth area was in relationship to pharmaceuticals. So people that are taking meds, how should they manage that if they’re integrating CBD?