CBD Use: What Does the Research Say? with Dr. Rebecca Siegel

Change Your Brain Every Day

Dr Daniel Amen

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2019

⏱️ 13 minutes

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The debate rages on over whether doctors should be allowed to prescribe medical marijuana to their patients. But what does the science say on the matter? In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen and Tana Amen are again joined by Dr. Rebecca Siegel, this time to discuss what scientific studies have shown us about using CBD for certain treatments.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body.
0:19.0	The Brain Warriors Way podcast is brought to you by Aemon Clinics, where we have been transforming
0:25.5	lives for 30 years, using tools like brain-spect imaging to personalize treatment to your
0:32.0	brain.
0:32.7	For more information,
0:34.1	visit Aaman Clinics.com.
0:35.9	The Brain Warriors Way Podcast is also brought to you
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0:41.6	neutraceuticals to support the health of your brain and body.
0:45.3	To learn more, go to brainMD.com.
0:49.6	Welcome back to CBD Week.
0:51.2	We're here with Dr. Rebecca Siegel, child adolescent and adult
0:55.2	psychiatrist in our Manhattan New York Clinic. We are having a very interesting time talking about the difference between marijuana and hemp and THC and CBD and most of the country now thinks it's innocuous and should be legal.
1:19.1	It's legal in 26 states, 10 states for dementia.
1:25.0	The problem I have with it all, and I always say I have no dog in this fight,
1:32.0	is that for the last 30 years we've been looking at
1:36.0	people's brains and brains of marijuana smokers are not healthy.
1:42.6	It's just been a pattern I have seen for decades and we published two large studies,
1:50.2	one on a thousand people showing virtually every area of their brain is lower in activity.
1:57.0	That's a bad thing.
1:59.0	And in a study of 62,454 scans, we showed that marijuana was one of those things that prematurely aged the brain.
2:12.0	Now, is it worse than alcohol? Is it worse than Xanax? Is it worse than
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