Benefits:
-Reduces Muscle soreness and weakness
-Relaxes nerves and muscles
-Reduces nerve and joint pain
-Anti-inflammatory
-Helps with sprain (injuries)
-Increases functional mobility
Cannabidiol (CBD) a constituent in Medical cannabis has been shown to have specific properties
that help to treat chronic pain, spasticity, mood inflammation, and oxidant effects in clinical
patients. These effects could improve and accelerate recovery caused by a prolog or intense
physical, physiological, and cognitive efforts as in sports. (1,2)
Inflammation and oxidative stress underlie many human chronic and acute health conditions and
pathologies. In this sense, and knowing that exercise-related damage and fatigue mediate
inflammation, proliferation, and oxidative stress in most cases, it is hypothesized that
CBD-related inhibitions in oxidative stress and neuroinflammation could have some therapeutic
potential in sports research. This statement is based on evidence suggesting that CBD could
induce changes in cortisol release, regulating the inflammatory response to injury. This mediation is
due to the interaction between CBD CB1, and CB2 cannabinoids and adenosine receptors,
leading to reduced cytokine levels and downregulating over-reactive immune cells. (3,4,5).
