That did not provide to be translational into the human population and so these papers are typically not in the journals that you or I would read they're in journals of chemistry they're in journals of psychiatric medicine opioid overuse and if you look to the chart on the left you'll see the trend in the Buy Terpenes spike of the publications the majority of these publications have actually started to come into light in the last three to five years only this is a systematic review in 2020 by dr all showed that 23 plus percent of athletes surveyed reported using cannabis within the last 12 months now these are university athletes technically any form of cannabis is currently banned from use yet 23 plus percent said they were still using, more importantly, is we have found when we do surveys that require self-reporting of such use typically the results are underreported.

So there's perhaps a likelihood that this number is even higher so why are so many individuals using this and if it's banned and b there's a cost to it so are they truly finding relief is this relief actual scientific relief or is it placebo or perception so let's just do a little bit of terminology here and understand that inside our body we actually have natural cannabinoids Live resin Terpenes that the body produces these are called endocannabinoids what we're going to spend most of our time today talking about are phytocannabinoids these are the actual components of the plant itself and within the plant, the phytocannabinoids contains depending on who you read 100 140 or so various different cannabinoids you are probably most familiar with cbd and thc and so we'll spend a little bit of time talking about how these two perhaps interact in various studies that we have seen relative to pain inflammation performance.

These two being the most common have a significant difference though the primary difference is that cbd does not have a psychoactive component to it such as that high that euphoria whereas thc specifically referred to thc delta 9 and this is important because there are other forms of thc the thc delta 9 which is what most of us typically commonly referred to has that euphoric sense and it's important to understand that these can be separated from the plant so yes it is possible that somebody True Terpenes can have a product that's cbd typically referred to as cbd isolate and it does not have or it has only a minimal amount of thc in it because the cbd was pulled out of it there are products that have thc by itself there are products that combine a number of the different cannabinoids here's just a quick example by name and terminology of some of the other types of cannabinoids that do exist and some of the proposed benefits that again have been reported anecdotally in small case studies of what each of these cannabinoids are believed to do in the human body all of this is part of what we now know of what is called the endocannabinoid system or ecs and some of you are saying i've never heard of this i know of the nervous system cardiovascular system how come i've never heard of this.