July 13th, 2020
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This week is type 1 diabetes awareness week!
July 12th - 18th!
This awareness week is designed to highlight the mental and emotional health impact living with diabetes can cause. If you are a sufferer you already understand this condition better than anyone and know that diabetes controls your daily routine activities. It can involve insulin injections multiple times a day, can be costly and have an emotional effect on your wellbeing.
It may be hard to see a solution, we implore you to dig deep and keep on going! Australia is behind some other countries in terms of legalising cannabis for medicinal purposes. The benefit from this is that these other countries are able to report conditions that have been helped through the use of medicinal cannabis and give us hope and an opportunity to treat these conditions and relieve Australians who have been living with these ailments.
These reports encourage studies to be conducted and verified here in Australia, with the pressure to get these conditions approved for these treatments. One of these being type 1 diabetes.
The American Alliance for Medical cannabis (AAMC) have conducted studies and have reported possible benefits to include:
Stabilising blood sugars
Suppress arterial inflammation associated with diabetes
Prevent nerve inflammation and ease pain of neuropathy
Lower blood pressure over time
Relieve muscle cramps and pain of gastrointestinal disorders
Be used as a topical cream to relieve neuropathic pain and tingling sensation in the hands and feet
Reducing nausea and vomiting
Helping with appetite loss
Promoting weight loss
Reduces depression
Medicinal cannabis is a powerful alternative, it has demonstrated its ability to improve metabolism and decrease blood glucose in patients, with studies proving the insulin levels increased also. It is renowned for its ability to reduce inflammation and help control chronic pain associated with many health conditions.
Any interest in this can be discussed with your doctor, or request a referral to an approved cannabis doctor. They will be able to discuss options as well as possible side effects associated with medicinal cannabis. When this becomes an approved condition to be treated with cannabis here in Australia, a treatment plan can be designed to suit you with all stages monitored by a professional.
If you would like to do some extra reading on this subject we have included a few websites to check out! These websites refer to the UK diabetic association, the American Alliance of Medical cannabis, the research from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The research and studies are there, it is only a matter of time before this is available to you here in Australia!
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