#158 Cannabis and Mood with Dr Dani Gordon plus an intro from Dr Michael Dixon LVO, OBE
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
Dr Rupy Aujla
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2022
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Today I’m chatting with Dr Dani Gordon. Canadian, British and American Board Qualified Medical doctor and author of ‘The CBD Bible’ and the forthcoming ‘The Resilience Blueprint’ .
She has treated thousands of patients with medical cannabis, trained some of the first UK cannabis physicians and now runs a UK based medical practice focused on Integrative & Cannabinoid Medicine.
Dani has been on the pod before when we did a hugely popular series on CBD, so definitely check that out if you haven’t listened already.
Today we chat about:
- An overview of CBD and its chemical constituents
- CBD and coffee
- The mood stabilising effect of CBD for mental health
- What to look for in a CBD product
- Uses of other classified drugs
But first, I also have a quick chat with Dr Michael Dixon, chairman of the college of medicine and his CV is about as long as the podcast! Having graduated in psychology and philosophy at Oxford University he studied medicine at Guy’s Hospital. Since 1984 he has been a general practitioner at College Surgery in Cullompton, Devon. In 2008, he and his partners created the “Culm Valley Integrated Centre for Health”, which is widely regarded as a prototype for general practice of the future.
Since the early 1990s, he has been a leader of the GP/clinical commissioning movement with its aim of allowing frontline clinicians a far greater role in improving local services and health. Since 2007, he has been visiting professor to the University of Westminster (Integrated School of Health) and was also appointed visiting professor of University College, London in 2012. He is a regular writer and broadcaster, having written several books including “The Human Effect in Medicine” and is a former president of the Health Writers Guild.
Michael and his team were pivotal in creating this conference that brought together a huge collection of varied professionals and frankly I’m counting the days till the next one.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode is sponsored by Holland and Barrett's The Wellness Edit Podcast. The fifth series of |
| 0:05.6 | The Wellness Edit is out now. The prior four series are obviously still available to stream, |
| 0:10.8 | and this season I am a guest on the podcast. You can hear me chat to host Dr. Gemma Newman |
| 0:17.1 | about the connection between our diet, our mind, the importance of gratitude, and what wellness |
| 0:23.2 | means to me. You can also go back and listen to a whole back catalogue of interviews with guests |
| 0:28.9 | including Ella Mills, Dr. Rungan Chatterjee, and Emma Gunns. Listen to the podcast on the Holland |
| 0:34.8 | and Barrett website, HollandandBarrett.com for a slash podcast, or search The Wellness Edit to |
| 0:40.8 | listen wherever you get your podcasts. Dr. Skitchie. Recipes Health Lifestyle |
| 0:49.2 | When people talk about, you know, new tropics and having a new tropic stack for mental performance, |
| 0:55.0 | oftentimes they're using small amounts of caffeine, and not that I recommend this, but even small |
| 0:59.2 | amounts of nicotine to kind of help keep their focus going in concentration, but you can have |
| 1:04.0 | side effects from those. So when you bring in CBD, it's actually a different mechanism you're working |
| 1:08.9 | on. We think CBD works on the hypothalamus, the HPA axis, potential on some of the serotonin sub-receptors, |
| 1:16.8 | so it's a different pathway. So it might allow people to get, you know, the in the zone kind of focus |
| 1:23.1 | that they might need in the morning without anxiety. Sometimes using my medicine, but using it, |
| 1:29.2 | you know, not in this very didactic way. Also, you know, sometimes taking a few risks, |
| 1:36.4 | say, risks in terms of whether things are working or not, safety risks, but sometimes trying |
| 1:42.2 | things that you think might be helpful, perhaps, complimentary treatment, and going with it, you know, |
| 1:49.3 | because we know that if you think it's going to work, it's more likely to work. |
| 1:55.2 | Welcome to the Doctors Kitchen podcast. |
| 2:00.4 | To show about food, lifestyle, medicine, and how to improve your health today. |
| 2:07.9 | I'm Doctor Rupi, your host. I'm a medical doctor, I study nutrition, |
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