Microdosing Cannabis

Not only is microdosing with psychedelics becoming more and more popular, but it is also being used with cannabis and has many notable advantages.
Large doses aren’t necessarily the best, as we are beginning to understand more about the nature of plant medicines and how many varied approaches there are to get the most of them.

Nowadays, it’s difficult to argue against the health advantages of regular cannabis usage, as an increasing number of studies indicate that it may be able to treat ailments ranging from epilepsy to Alzheimer’s.

Nevertheless, some people find smoking cannabis, which releases carcinogens and loses some of the plant’s entire spectrum of psychotropic compounds, or the occasionally psychedelic effects of higher dosages uncomfortable.

Making the most of cannabis’ health advantages may be best achieved by microdosing, and recent studies have suggested that microdosing may even be able to cure age-related memory loss!

Scientists from Germany and Israel conducted the study, which demonstrates that memory function in older mice fed regular tiny doses of THC (the primary psychoactive ingredient in cannabis) is comparable to that of much younger mice.

After the microdosing regimen (3 mg/kg per day for 28 days), the older mice not only performed better on several memory tasks, but their brain chemistry was also considerably changed. Suddenly, the expression of different genes in the hippocampal region (a brain region linked to memory) of elderly mice receiving microdosing was strikingly comparable to that of younger mice. Put another way, these older mice’s aging process was partially reversed by cannabis microdoses, leaving them looking younger.

A word of warning: treating very young mice microdoses of cannabis caused their brains to resemble those of adult mice. Thus, it might not be a good idea to microdose cannabis for a developing brain. It’s generally best to start a consistent microdosing cannabis program later in life, preferably in your early twenties.

It’s unclear how well these findings apply to humans, but we do know that the hippocampus of humans contains a significant concentration of cannabinoid receptors. For many years, mice have been utilized as a trustworthy model to assess how human memory functions. It’s highly likely that cannabis microdosing could aid elderly people with age-related memory decline.