Welcome to the Cabral concept, where board certified naturopath and integrative

health practitioner Dr Stephen Cabral shares how he was diagnosed at the age of

17 with a life-altering illness and given no hope for recovery.

He was only after studying and traveling all over the world did he discover how to combine

ancient Ayurvedic healing practices with state-of-the-art naturopathic and functional

medicine to fully rebalance the body and re-energize it with life.

It's time to discover how to get well, lose weight, and finally feel alive again.

And now here's your host, Dr. Stephen Cabra. Hi everyone and welcome back to the

the Cabral concept great to have you here today on this wellness and

weight loss Wednesday where the topic is going to be on

how CBD works in the body and is CBD still living up to the

hype. So just I would say about a year ago we saw CBD explode onto the scene. It was in all sorts of stores

whether it was your local Walgreens or Whole Foods even started selling it, but

they were mainly topicals and I also want to explain the big differences between

topical and ingestibles. Ingestables being any type of capsule or soft gel or gummy or

oil. So huge huge differences between the two and it's also a big difference in terms of the

research which is why a lot of people kind of have moved away from CBD because

they weren't seeing the results.

Because what they were doing is they were purchasing these topical ointments or lotions

from the Walgreens or the Whole Foods or whatever might be and they just weren't feeling the effects and that's the truth. I mean that is the truth that you are not going to get the same absorption as you would

through the ingestibles meaning like you're not going to get the same

dosage because the dosage is typically like okay you're gonna put 5 milligrams on

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