Cannabis compounds may improve metabolism and reduce diabetes risk

Cannabis compounds beyond THC may help reverse metabolic problems during weight loss

A University of California, Riverside preclinical study is shedding light on a long-observed but poorly understood phenomenon: chronic cannabis users tend to have lower body weight and a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, despite the drug's well-known tendency to increase appetite.

Cannabis compounds may improve metabolism and reduce diabetes risk

A University of California, Riverside preclinical study is shedding light on a long-observed but poorly understood phenomenon: chronic cannabis users tend to have lower body weight and a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes, despite the drug's well-known tendency to increase appetite.

Cannabis Compounds Linked to Improved Metabolic Health and Weight Loss

A preclinical study has shed new light on why cannabis consumers may have lower body weight and a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes

Why Regular Cannabis Users Have Lower Rates of Type 2 Diabetes

Cannabis makes you hungry. This is, by now, one of those facts that barely needs stating. And yet chronic cannabis users are, on average, thinner than non-users. They’re also roughly half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes. The contradiction has been sitting in the epidemiological literature for years, quietly irritating anyone who takes metabolism seriously, and nobody has had a particularly satisfying explanation for it. A study published in…