This is a medical recommendation for the use of alcohol. By regularly exceeding this daily dose serious health consequences are threatened because alcohol is toxic to the liver cells. Excessive consumption causes the liver to become inflamed, tissue scarred, and dangerous cirrhosis can be the result, as well as high blood pressure, strokes, liver disease and liver cancer.
Is the combination of alcohol and cannabis more dangerous than the individual substances?
Recently, scientists from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and the INRS Armand-Frappier Research Center, led by Drs. Terence Bukong on the effects of long-term mixed cannabis and alcohol use on the liver. The 2018 study included studies in about 320,000 people who had a longer history of both substances. And although one would think that combined consumption would necessarily increase the negative consequences for the body, the results of the investigations show that it is surprisingly different in this case.
Cannabinoids like CBD inhibit the cause of liver disease
Bukong and his team found that in people who consume both alcohol and cannabis, the risk of alcohol-related liver disease is lower. And the more cannabis people consume, the stronger this effect is. The researchers explain these amazing results with the anti-inflammatory effect that cannabis, and especially cannabidiol (CBD) has. Older studies suggest that cannabinoid receptors in the liver are able to prevent or treat liver disease. The activation of these receptors by cannabis reduces the inflammation of the liver cells at an early stage. This slows down the progressive damage caused by alcohol.
The research on the mixed consumption of alcohol and cannabis goes into the next round
Dr. However, Bukong warns against understanding the research findings as an invitation to excessive mixed drinking. Because many historical data were collected through interviews, there is no information on the quality and drug concentration of cannabis that the participants consumed at that time. So far, there are no clinical studies that have tracked the effects of mixed consumption virtually in real time. Bukong's research group is already working to find out which cannabinoids and combinations of cannabinoids have the best medical effect on liver disease.
Coffee and cannabis prevent scarring in liver tissue
Despite all precaution and caution, as a result of their research, researchers find that cannabis users are less likely to suffer from alcohol-related liver damage, the least to long-term consumers. Also good for preventing scarring in the tissues of the liver should be drinking two to three cups of black coffee per day. Why this is so, has not been explored until today.
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