Pot Benefits Diabetic Hearts

Pot Benefits Diabetic Hearts: The main non-psychoactive ingredient of cannabis reduces cellular signs of cardiac stress and dysfunction, according to preclinical results. In a mouse model of Type 1 diabetes, cannabidiol reduced the severity of many signs of cardiomyopathy. Human heart cells treated with the compound also showed reduced glucose-induced generation of reactive oxygen species, nuclear factor-kappa-B activation, and cell death. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Dec. 2010