Will Hemp Help Me Regrow Brain Cells The Same As Marijuana?

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(12-29-2018, 01:53 AM)fredtoast Wrote: https://merryjane.com/health/cannabis-neurogenesis-brain-cell-regrowth-myth-march-2018

Michele Ross, PhD, is the executive director of IMPACT Network, a non-profit medical cannabis research organization. She studied neurogenesis and drug addiction in rodent models during her graduate and post-doc studies at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the California Institute of Technology, respectively. Since then, she has strongly campaigned for cannabis legalization, but she's no longer convinced weed can grow new brain cells.

"It's great to say, 'In the rodent brain, exercise increases neurogenesis' or 'CBD increases neurogenesis,'" Ross, told MERRY JANE by phone. "But if it doesn't happen in the [human] adult brain, it's not worth bringing it up. It's completely irrelevant."

According to researchers at the University of California at San Francisco, brain cell growth — or "neurogenesis" — does not occur in the adult human hippocampus. This study seemingly flies in the face of the past two decades of research claiming the hippocampus could regenerate lost cells. In other mammals, such as rats and mice, the hippocampus is believed to direct neurogenesis in other parts of the brain as well, but humans probably cannot tap into this Wolverine-like ability.

Quote:But not so fast says one renowned scientist.


"Keep in mind, this study only dealt with the hippocampus," says Robert Melamede, PhD. "There are other studies showing neurogenesis in other regions[of the brain] not addressed by this study."