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How Can CBD (Non Intoxicating Cannabis) Help BJJ Athletes?

How Can CBD (Non Intoxicating Cannabis) Help BJJ Athletes?

Cannabidiol (abbreviated as: CBD) is one of at least 113 active cannabinoids identified in cannabis. It is a major phytocannabinoid, accounting for up to 40% of the plant’s extract.

CBD does not appear to have any intoxicating effects such as those caused by tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana

It’s no secret that cannabis has quite a few fans in the grappling camp. A lifetime of aches and pains coupled with a rewarding journey often produces a variety of debilitating injuries. Often those injuries impact the life on daily basis. This is why CBD is such an important aspect of it.

Hyperfly founder, Pascal Pakter is quite open about it:

“I use CBD. And CBD has saved my life.”

Pascal had the misfortune of injuring two vertebrae in training. The injury required a surgery and left him stranded in the world of chronic pain.In addition to this Pascal Pakter also got an opioid prescription.

Bas Rutten is the latest to have spoken up about how badly painkillers were to him and how fortunate he was to discover CBD. He wrote for champions.co:

Painkillers are the drugs that the country wants to sell to you. They don’t want you to buy weed because they want you to buy their drugs. Alcohol is good at dulling pain as well, yet in 2010, its misuse cost the United States $249-billion. That’s a lot of money.

Rutten continues:

As for my own experience with CBD, it saved me a lot of trouble after I realized that I had a painkiller problem that started after my last fight in 2006. About five weeks before the fight, all my injuries came back with a vengeance. It starts with one pill, then it becomes two, four, seven, ten, and slowly but surely, you are upping the count, and before you know it, you’re taking insane amounts of painkillers.

So, my doctor told me that there is a lot of Tylenol in Vicodin, even some in Norco, and that would be bad for my liver since I take so many. My doctor told me, “it’s better you go to oxycontin.” I did, and boy that stuff is horrible. Sure you feel good, but it doesn’t help with the pain after a while, and you just take it because you are hooked.

 

Michael Hillebrand brings in special guest Seibo Shen form Vape X Hale to talk about CBD’s and how they can be used to help athletes:

 

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