Posts by Steve Gold
Why Brain Fog Can Return During ECS Recovery
Brain fog is one of the more disorienting features of early cannabis cessation. It tends to be constant at first: thinking feels slow, attention drifts, and mental effort produces less than it should. For most people, this fades over the first weeks of recovery as the nervous system begins to restabilize. What is harder to…
Read MoreHow Suppository Placement Changes Cannabinoid Exposure
Rectal delivery occupies a strange position in cannabinoid discussions. It is taken seriously enough to generate real interest, yet rarely examined with the precision the anatomy demands. Most accounts treat it as a variation on oral delivery: material placed inside the body, expected to move inward, assumed to be heading toward systemic circulation by a…
Read MoreTHCA and Cancer, Part 2
THCA does not need to act directly on a tumor to influence biology that matters in cancer. A compound can shift the conditions surrounding a tumor cell, change how immune cells behave when they encounter it, alter inflammatory signaling in the tissue around it, affect the way pain is generated or perceived, or interact with…
Read MoreTHCA and Cancer, Part 1
Where Modulation May Matter Most people carry a fairly simple picture of cancer: cells that have slipped free of the usual restraints on growth, dividing when they should stop and eventually forming a mass that does not belong there. That picture captures something real, but only part of it. Uncontrolled proliferation is one of cancer’s…
Read MoreWhen the Heart Races After Stopping THC
A Nervous System in Transition. Somewhere in the weeks or months after quitting, the heart starts doing something unannounced. It picks up pace while sitting still. It pounds harder after a single flight of stairs that never used to register. It flutters mid-sentence in an otherwise calm conversation, for no reason anyone can name. There…
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