Cannabis and Its Effectiveness Against Covid-19: Is This Bye Bye To Vaccines?
It was only a matter of time for researchers to accept what has previously been a better alternative than the one-size-fit-all vaccines which could mark the beginning of continuous shots. Cannabis - a plant that has been in the forefront of legal and policy issues has proven once again to be the real deal in prevention and treatment of Covid-19 and its variants.
The study is titled, “Effect of cannabidiol on apoptosis and cellular interferon and interferon-stimulated gene responses to the SARS-CoV-2 genes ORF8, ORF10 and M protein.
Synthetic cannabidiol, a nonpsychoactive chemical present in the cannabis plant, appears to prime cells' innate immune systems, potentially protecting them from infections like SARS-CoV-2.
Researchers discovered that synthetic cannabidiol (CBD) boosts cells' antiviral response to three important proteins produced by the SARS-CoV-2 genome, which was previously unknown.
These proteins were investigated in human kidney cells, both alone and in combination with CBD, as well as the effects of CBD in healthy control cells, by the researchers.
Robin Duncan, lead investigator and a professor in the University of Waterloo's Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences has this to say about the effectiveness of Cannabis compounds in the prevention and treatment of covid-19 and similar diseases, "When cells in the lungs or the digestive tract are infected with a virus, they have an ability to sense and respond, even before the immune system notices a virus is present.
“They do this by activating innate responses inside of cells, which form the first line of defence. In the case of COVID-19, however, this response isn’t very good, which has contributed to high infection rates.
“With an RNA-type virus, like SARS-CoV-2, cells should activate an innate system that cuts up the viral genome, which also causes infected cells to undergo a process called apoptosis – a sort of controlled cell death that gets rid of infected cells early on. This could stop an infection, or slow its spread in the body or to others. When we combined CBD with these viral proteins, they had a much better ability to activate this system and to activate apoptosis.”
Cannabis has a one-of-a-kind relationship with our immune system. On the one hand, cannabis can help you increase your immunity and fight certain diseases.
CBD in therapeutic doses seemed to stimulate the innate antiviral system of cells, enhancing their readiness to respond to viral infection in cells that had not been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 proteins — and this happened without causing apoptosis in healthy cells.
You can enhance your immunity with cannabis, which should help you stay healthy during the COVID-19 outbreak. The only issue is abuse and to what extent are medical practitioners willing to take advantage in this period of helpnessnes and tiredness - Mass Formation Psychosis, in Dr Malone's words.
Are Health officials open to new understanding and preventive measures or they're just stuck with the god status of vaccine? That's the real issue now. Science has become split and politicized.
However, current methods and regulatory frameworks such as nosemarks and vaccines can still compliment this discovery although booster shots has proven not to be effective in contracting Covid, but it has reduced the death rate.
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