one of the gentlemen who was part of my
first conversation related to
cannabinoids in my health and my
dysfunction you know he is gonna be up
here on stage next his name's dr. Eric
Goodman and he is the creator of
foundation training which if you're not
familiar with is a fantastic modality
for being just a better version of
yourself inside and out and it's it's a
great pleasure I introduce dr. Goodman
thank you kindly sir pleasure
I brought my notes for this one I'll try
to speak as closely to the mic as I can
if you can't hear me just yell as you've
been for the past five or six speakers
so first off Ethan thank you for
inviting me for letting me be a part of
this for putting this on as a doc this
is something that's very near and dear
to me and I'm going to treat you all as
if you were my patients for just a very
brief amount of time thank you I will
this way I can drop it when I'm done I'm
going to speak to you all as if you're
my patients because in my opinion the
human race the human species we are all
somebodies patient and unfortunately
we're only as good as the information
that our doctor our physicians our team
of treatment professionals has that's
our treatment that's our care that's how
well our good or healthy we're going to
get and if you were my patients I would
want you to know that you have more
power within your body to feel good than
any exogenous including cannabis plant
can give you and the only reason that a
cannabis plant works when you smoke it
when you drink it when you eat it
whatever it might be that you do is
because you have something called your
mammalian endogenous cannabinoids system
which is a really really fancy word that
was known it was named after the plant
that made us feel good by the way it's
not the plant wasn't named after this
cannabinoid system a bunch of people
started getting stoned and they felt
really good and they started seeing
different things happening and a bunch
of scientists decided to figure out or
try to figure out what was happening and
as a result they found the most
plentiful system within the human body
don't take that lightly their lightly
it's very real the stigma of cannabis is
the only thing that people are worried
about anymore because the science is
there and the science has very little to
do with the plant with the exception
that it can trigger the receptors of the
endogenous cannabinoids system which in
and of itself makes tremendous change in
the human body
tremendous you'll hear sort of anecdotal
evidence and cancers and you'll see some
real evidence in cancers and you'll hear
anecdotal evidence in all sorts of you
know from Alzheimer's to multiple
sclerosis to autoimmune disorders and
you'll hear these anecdotal studies and
you only hear the anecdote because it is
so freakin hard to get real science out
when you're not supported but there's
over 20,000 published articles about the
science of the endogenous cannabinoids
system and its capacity to help you heal
have you all heard of the term
neuroplasticity it's pretty famous these
days yeah does anybody have any idea
what neuroplasticity is I do and a lot
of people do and I want to help you
understand it because what
neuroplasticity is is inter systemic
communication of the body adapting to
any stimulus you offer that body at any
given time of your life whether you're
young whether you're old whether you're
injured whether you're healthy the
endogenous cannabinoids system most of
the main cannabinoid receptors of which
are throughout your central nervous
system the brain the brainstem the
spinal cord
those cb1 receptors can absolutely take
in THC and CBD and beta Carafa one and a
few other cannabinoids and it can
stimulate wonderful inter systemic
communication from the central nervous
system to the peripheral nervous system
namely the immune system and it's not
like it's going to secrete this amount
of immune cells and make all these draft
you know dramatic change is what it's
going to do is mediate there is one
neurotransmitter I take that back
there are two neurotransmitters in the
human body
that move rebelliously in a retrograde
fashion shouldn't mean anything to you
until you decide that dopamine and
serotonin and acetylcholine and
epinephrine and these other
neurotransmitters that we all hear about
in depressions and anxieties in
autoimmune disorders like Alzheimer's
those dopamine and serotonin secretions
are mediated by cannabinoids that move
backwards in a rebellious fashion
because as soon as that neurotransmitter
dopamine or secreted or serotonin is
secreted into your bloodstream into your
brain there's this sort of cleanup crew
that comes in figures out what just went
on and reports so that the next time you
meet that stimulus you can meet it ever
so slightly more efficiently and that
system has the capacity to communicate
with every system in the body
cannabinoid receptors are in every type
of tissue in the body are you kidding me
that's interesting I've been studying
science my whole life and that's the
most interesting
thing I've ever heard I promise it's one
of the most interesting things you've
ever heard too you just might not know
it yet it's okay you don't have to be
smart to understand this I promise the
only thing I'm smart at is movement and
this and both are from experience I want
you to understand that this is the
future of Medicine
you've heard of opioid chemistry yeah
the opioid epidemic painkiller epidemic
opium is a plant that started a slew of
pain relieving options for people from
heroin to morphine to oxycontin to all
these things but its plan and those
concentrations over several hundred
years of research and adaptation and
application were made into absurd absurd
deeply concentrated pain relieving
compounds that are now based in opioid
chemistry but at you know there's so
much other stuff in there now there's
marketing behind it there's all kinds of
weird things that pump those things into
our bloodstream and then we have
addictions with very intelligent people
very ordinary people very healthy people
otherwise not Street druggies moms and
dads I'm sorry big pharma what we have
is a fun deal with the bull human
condition of addiction in the presence
of chemistry that is so strong that our
simple primal brains don't know what to
do with it but there's this in craft
course of course of course there's this
incredible scientifically proven feature
of the endogenous cannabinoids system to
block the dopamine receptors of pleasure
in the body and to compete with those
receptor sites so that when you're
trying to break the addiction of opioids
or whatever you're trying to break the
addiction of you can you get a head
start you get support I'm not going to
go into the chemistry of how that
happens except one thing your endogenous
cannabinoids system is only as good as
is practiced I would say but more
importantly than that it's only as good
as its supported and fed we start
hearing about diets for things like fat
loss and we hear about diets for
autoimmune disorders and for every
being out there from Crohn's disease to
back pain to you know anxiety and
depression there is a food component
that people talk about
we've gone very far down the pathway of
omega-3 fatty acids which are very
healthy for the human brain there's no
question about it they're very healthy
for the human brain but we've taken that
ratio so far that we're taking
supplements that are only omega-3 fatty
acids and we're getting these kind of
short-term bursts of joy and happiness
in our brain maybe even thinking a
little bit more coherent Li but we are
forgetting a very important thing the
breakdown of omega-6 fatty acid
arachidonic acid leads to two things an
and amide cb1 plentiful throughout the
entire central nervous system brain
major higher function of human being
components an and amide is a breakdown
of arachidonic acid omega-6 the other
one to Iraq a Donnell glycerol ish to AG
is a breakdown of arachidonic acid
omega-6 fatty acid we have to have
inflammatory
is a inflammatory fatty acid with that
inflammation comes the body's response
of anti inflammation and with
anti-inflammation comes radical inter
systemic communication from the central
nervous system to the immune system and
back from the digestive system to the
immune system in back the endogenous
cannabinoids system is only as good as
how well you feed it and it's fed with
things like avocado oils pumpkin seeds
things that are high in omega fatty
acids all of them but don't get marketed
into thinking that piecemealing
of chemistry is how you get better
because it's not it might be the way
that you help a symptom you get a
pharmaceutical for your blood pressure
for your pain for whatever it goes by
all means help the system help the
symptom but feed the endogenous
cannabinoids system because you don't
need pot to stimulate it it just so
happens that it also does you can hit it
faster with marijuana
but even still the healthier your body
the healthier the ecosystem in the gut
the healthier you feed yourself the less
impediments to the receipt the reception
of your cannabinoid system the more
likely your body is going to be able to
break old pain patterns break old
thought patterns move into the newer
version of yourself that you'd like to
be it's moving from complacent
adaptation to active adaptation things
like cryotherapy have gotten a
tremendous amount of accolade lately for
their pain relief and nervous system
calming impacts and if you go just a
little bit of research down the one you
know just google it
cryotherapy and endogenous cannabinoids
system and you're gonna get about 30
articles that tell you why that works
it's a trip it's wild
I couldn't believe what was happening as
I started researching this stuff deeper
and deeper it makes everything I teach
in biomechanics makes so much more sense
to me and the reason that people get
better when they change biomechanics
makes so much more sense to me now you
need space in your central nervous
system you need room for cannabinoid
receptors you need nutrients to feed the
system so that the system works well and
is available to you when you're ready to
use it when you need it if you're
extremely sensitive to your inner system
it's because your endogenous
cannabinoids system is likely working
pretty well you just might need to feed
it a little bit more to get you over
that inflammatory hump what I offer all
of you is not to stand up here and take
anything I've said as word or truth or
gospel or anything like that but get
your butt on Google look up things like
project CBD do the research on pain
management and endogenous cannabinoids
do the research on what happens when you
have beta carafa one with CBD s and all
of a sudden you get an exponentially
effective less dosage needed environment
in which your body can actually reply
and respond to stress extremely well
better each time you stress yourself one
thing I tell patients all the time is
stop avoiding stress if you do yoga if
you do movement if you do meditation
don't do it to avoid stretch stress do
it because your body is designed to hit
stress in the face and
come back from it and every time you hit
it and come back from it you get better
you get more efficient you develop the
skill of coming back from a stressor
moving towards homeostasis towards
health the better you get it moving from
a stressor towards health the more
you're exercising your simple practice
of neuroplasticity and again that neural
plastic process that neural plastic
potentiation is governed and mediated by
the endogenous cannabinoids system in or
out of the presence of the ganja okay
you got to know that the only reason we
know we have this system that every
single mammal on earth has its older
than us is because we started using the
plant and we started finding things that
were really really impressive in science
the more I read the science of cannabis
the more I think about the effects that
patients of mine have had personally
that I have had personally in my own
life that friends of mine who are
brilliant powerful influential human
beings have had because they fuel their
body right they live well they exercise
well they eat well so when they need the
cannabinoid system it is present to make
them steadily better versions of
themselves the science I've read the
facts I've seen the people I know
science is there the stigma is the only
thing existing around this anymore and
the stigma doesn't deserve what it is
can you become a pothead absolutely can
you get lazy with this stuff of course
of course but that's your own fault feed
yourself well think what learn well live
well be around inspirational people and
do inspirational things and I promise
you no matter how much pot you smoked or
how many endogenous cannabinoids system
receptacles you use be it diet cold
baths exercise whatever you will never
become a burnout you will inspire a lot
of people and don't let people recognize
that while cannabis is a gateway
it is a gateway to help it is a gateway
to breaking addictions it's a gateway to
breaking patterns and if you use it well
you'll surprised the out of thank
you
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