the munchies where one develops these
sudden and impactful craving for
delicious palatable sweets and junk food
especially after a cannabis lit session
and more often than not the munchies are
unapologetically satisfied by a quick
trip to the nearby 7-eleven with that in
mind the last thing you would think when
smoking the J is that it will help you
lose weight after all how can you eat
all this and expect to look like this
interestingly enough in 2011 researchers
found something rather peculiar on this
matter through surveying roughly 50,000
people they found that the more
frequently subjects reported smoking
weed the less likely they were to be
obese and this is after adjusting for
other factors like age sex and other
drug use such as cigarettes the most
frequent users in this case measured as
three or more times per week or about
40% less likely to be obese than those
with no cannabis use in the past 12
months
that's quite a sticky icky results but
considering Reid's Munchie effects how
is that possible well there's a few
hypotheses floating around possibly
explaining the bong induced effects in
play and they're based on how the
constituents of mj-- known as
endocannabinoids interact with our
bodies two of the major endocannabinoids
that tree smokers know and love is
tetrahydrocannabinol aka THC and
cannabidiol aka CBD of the two THC is
most responsible for the increased
munchies were familiar with even then
researchers in 2013 hypothesize that
long-term use of THC might actually lead
to the opposite effect this is through
their belief that repeated receptor
stimulation from THC use can lead to a
down regulation or desensitization of
its effects like caffeine one might be
able to build a tolerance to THC
continued use leads to an oversaturation
of THC this prevents other stronger
endocannabinoids our body makes like two
AG from binding to cb1 receptors which
when stimulated facilitates the release
of appetite inducing hormones thus if
any of this were to be true more THC
leads to less appetite and eventually
suppressing appetite
CBD unlike THC has been discovered to
outright antagonize both cb1 and cb2
receptors is not much of a surprise that
it theoretically limits cravings and
promotes weight loss also to point out
cb2 receptor stimulation have been shown
to reduce appetite as well and another
lesser-known endocannabinoid THC v can
also act as a cb1 receptor antagonist
possessing similar appetite suppressing
potential SCPD you would think with all
these sciency appetite reductions that
it will be an open-and-shut case to tell
everyone how great a little joint can
help you with your waistline but all of
these findings only stand as
hypotheticals for now the thing is the
majority of these findings weren't in
humans but in rats unfortunately human
trials are few and far between
due to marijuana's controversial leaked
on h éeer by the way picture fit does
not condone the use of marijuana and
everything discussed in this video is
strictly for educational purposes if we
were to see these mechanisms replicated
in humans then we might have a clearer
answer and with the acceptance of
cannabis on the rise that might not be
too far down the line but for now if you
were to ask if marijuana is a good
weight loss tool the only possible
answer is maybe
now cannabis use does have some
practical benefits one is that if you
consume alcohol mainly for its
psychological effects replacing it with
marijuana can provide its own
psychological effects but without the
added calories also if you find yourself
being able to exercise more intensely or
longer while high then that can help you
burn more calories just be cautious
though since THC can raise your pain
tolerance
causing you to possibly ignore pain
signals related to potential injury so
don't go too hard but other than that
the answer is still maybe in the future
that might change with new data and if
it does you can be certain that there
will be new picture fit contents all
about it for now enjoy your blunts if
you choose to just don't think it will
blunt the number on your scale let me
know what you think about the marijuana
weight loss magic in the comments below
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