Can Cbd Oils Benefit Your Overall Health

4. Better Sleep and Sleep Disorders

It is reported that 31% of people taking CBD for other conditions such as anxiety or non-cancer-related pain reported improved sleep with CBD.

In a recent case study of 72 people, 48 patients (66.7%) reported an improvement in sleep scores within the first month.

Other trials of 300 mg of CBD in people with anxiety or depression showed that CBD appeared to preserve sleep architecture, meaning it was unlikely to have any negative effects on sleep quality.

Up in the wee hours of the night, stuck watching videos of puppies? CBD may be promising as a sleep aid; one of the side effects of the CBD trials for epilepsy was drowsiness, according to Mr. MacKillop, a co-author of a review on cannabinoids and sleep. "If you are looking for new treatments for sleep, that may be a clue," he said.

Sleep can be disrupted for many reasons, including depression. Rodents seemed to adapt better to stressful conditions and exhibited less depressive-like behavior after taking CBD, according to a review in Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy. "Surprisingly, CBD seems to act faster than conventional antidepressants," wrote one of the authors of a new review, Samia Joca, a fellow at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark and an associate professor at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, in an email interview. Of course, it's difficult to detect depression in animals, but the studies that Ms. Joca and her colleagues reviewed suggested that in models of chronic stress exposure, the mice and rats treated with CBD were more resilient.

Conclusion

CBD does not appear to interfere with sleep and may help many people achieve better sleep.