Thread by @KillerTruths

⁉️Did you know⁉️ Most every Animal, with the exception of insects, has an Endocannabinoid System [ECS]? Even in 2020, Medical students are just NOW learning about this amazing system that was discovered in the late 1980’s

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*quick note* I would love to hear from current professionals and students. Did you learn about the ECS / if so when? In school? Recent research?*

Now! Lets Get on with some fun facts and history

The [ECS] was discovered in the late 1980s, researchers were studying how [THC] interacted with the body.

In the early 90s, researchers found [2] endogenous compounds that bind just like [THC] with our bodies ECS

They are called Anandamide and AG-2

It would soon become clear, the receptors that comprised the [ECS] were the most PREVALENT Neurotransmitters through the Brain🧠 and are also found in the Organs, Bones and Skin?!

Scientists have learned that the [ECS] plays a DIRECT role in Homeostasis, which means that it regulates almost EVERY metabolic process in the body to keep things running as they should!

* Mood Regulation
* Appetite
* Memory
* Inflammation
* Pain perception

* Muscle tone and movement
* Extinction of traumatic memory
* Protection of nerves and brain tissue
* Bone growth
* Tumor regulation
* Stress management
* Eye pressure
* Gastrointestinal motility
* Seizure activity
and Much Much more…..

⁉️Did you know⁉️ Our bodies can have endocannabinoid deficiency❗️ Research is connecting to a number of ailments including [IBS], Migraines and Fibromyalgia

Even today knowing about the ECS and its relationship with the plant, Gov. have maintained severe restrictions on studying it or giving any legal access.

❓KNOWINGLY❗️

Discovered in 1980, we knew the benefits in the 90s, WHY in 2014 did we lock up 700k people for this plant?

Big[P] attempts to “Crack the code” of the ECS and create Chemical concoctions, which often have harsh or fatal results

80-90 Knowledge learned of ECS
90-99 Big[P] Cocktail creations of ECS control
99-12 Opioid related deaths Quadruple

Estimates have the ECS first developing, roughly, 500m years ago

People have cultivated this plant for millennia without a SINGLE overdose on record

Used for Fiber, Fuel, clothing and medicine

Why, in the early 1900s, was this plant removed from Medical Doctrine❓

It existed there since before written script❗️

Did you know? Back in the day medical students had to be careful while practicing making CBD Tinctures. [Prohibition] they used the Alcohol to strip the compounds from the plant to make medicine.

Find someone had doctors for parents during this time, my stories check out.

Medical Schools for the last 70 years have removed and ignored the truth behind this plant and until recently we all have completely ignored out bodies ECS.

Times are changing, explore the world of this beautiful plant

@threadreaderapp Uroll please!