What Role Does The Endocannabinoid System Play?

"Stephen Katz, DVM, owner of Bronx Veterinary Center in the Bronx, New York, is one such practitioner. He is one of the founders of Therabis, an herbal formula containing CBD—a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid derived from industrial hemp—that he recommends for mobility problems, anxiety, and itching. “I had been working with natural anti-inflammatories for 15 years,” Dr. Katz says." “I started looking at cannabis ... and decided to turn my scientific mind toward using it in an effective, medicinal way to benefit my clients’ pets.”

The endocannabinoid system plays an important role in regulating a broad range of physiological processes that affect our pets everyday experience – their mood, their energy level, their intestinal fortitude, immune activity, blood pressure, bone density, glucose metabolism, how pain is experienced, stress, hunger, and many more. What happens if the endocannabinoid system doesn’t function properly? What are the consequences of a chronically deficient or overactive endocannabinoid system? In a word, disease, anxiety, skin allergens are able to set in. Check out this article on AmericanVeterinarian.com

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