Cannabis Helps Dementia – Details, episodes & analysis

People ask me all the time “How can I get medical cannabis for my loved one at a facility?”

It depends, there are many variables. 

• What kind of facility? Medicare, medicaid, private pay?

• What State?

Today we’re having a conversation with MA Family Nurse Practitioner Rose Cain about how we might encourage our loved one’s facility to implement a medical cannabis program, or even natural, full spectrum, hemp CBD.

Rose Cain is an Army Veteran and has been a Family Nurse Practitioner for over 40 years. Nurse Rose has cared for patients in acute, primary and urgent care, geriatrics, home, hospice and nursing home settings.  

Nurse Rose brings a unique perspective to the conversation because she also practiced Elder Law and Estate planning for 20 years, and she’s been a Professional Geriatric Care Manager. She’s a member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and American Cannabis Nurses Association.

Since 2018, her practice, Creating Well Being has been providing access to medical cannabis certification for patients in Massachusetts and is expanding. Creating Well being can be found at budheals.com

From www.budheals.com

"Rose established CWB in 2018 to provide access to medical marijuana certification for patients in Massachusetts. She has been an Family Nurse Practitioner for over 40 years and has cared for patients in acute, primary and urgent care, geriatrics, home , hospice and nursing home settings. Rose is also an Army veteran and is committed to addressing the unique physical and mental health issues facing vets- including PTSD and chronic pain. Rose has served on the Board of Directors of non-profit organizations and was also a practicing attorney for 20 years."

THANK YOU! Rose Cain, FNP

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We had a wonderful conversation with Dr. Carolina Nocetti on Cannabis Helps Dementia podcast after she presented to the Society of Cannabis Clinicians detailing her work helping people living with dementia using cannabis medicine in Brazil.

Check it out https://open.spotify.com/episode/4D0eJelDqZXWIPM6mCnLsr

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In this episode we’re connecting with Dr. Blake Pearson in Ontario, Canada. We learned about Dr. Pearson when he was presenting his findings on cannabis medicine in long term care at a National Canadian Medical Cannabis Conference.

In Canada, medical cannabis has been legal for about twenty years, and there are more than 350,000 registered patients. In October of 2018, cannabis became legal nationwide for anyone over 18, but the plant medicine remains highly regulated and controlled at the national and provincial levels.

And you can’t just go ask your regular doctor about it. Because of the lack of mandated training requirements for physicians on cannabis and the endocannabinoid system, they don’t know enough about cannabis medicine to talk about it. Few doctors take the time to do this extra training.

Cannabis medicine remains out of reach for many, even with a cannabis prescription, because even though they have Universal Health Coverage (and cannabis is recognized legally as medicine) it is NOT covered by Health Canada insurance. You still have to pay full retail price out of pocket.

BUT! Some doctors, like Dr. Blake Pearson, are passionately trying to change that.

Dr. Pearson is a global leader in the field of cannabinoid and functional medicine. Dr. Pearson and his team have successfully treated thousands of patients with a range of complex conditions and have extensive experience helping patients manage chronic pain, insomnia, anxiety, and dementia.

Dr. Pearson has significant expertise supporting patients living in long-term care with medical cannabis, including hundreds with living dementia! We are so happy to be connecting with Dr. Pearson today.

THANK YOU!

Dr. Blake Pearson

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Our panelists are experts in elder care and specialists in cannabinoid medicine with first hand experience on the frontlines in California’s North Bay Area. We love that they’re always sharing their knowledge at medical symposia, events, webinars and podcasts Zoom.

Joining us on the panel to talk about anxiety and depression are

Dr. Phillip Grob, Geriatric Psychiatrist with 28 years experience. He’s a member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians with an extensive practice in the Santa Rosa/Sacramento Area.

Geriatric NP & Pres. of the ACNA, Eloise Theisen, who founded Radicle Health in California’s North Bay Area, and is the Chief Nursing Officer at Leaf411, the first free national cannabis-trained nurse hotline.

AND Health & Wellness Director for The Lodge at Fountaingrove and The Terraces memory care, frontliner in the trenches, Marissa Goldman, LVN

We’re thrilled to have you all here today, let’s get into it:

DC: Anxiety and depression are among the most common mental health complaints in the US.

According to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), more than 6.5 million older Americans are dealing with depression on some level.

In the United States alone, the average rate of depression or anxiety since the start of COVID-19 is over 32%. Isolation depression remains a serious concern for seniors; particularly those living with dementia in care facilities, which are being hit hard by COVID.

The Alzheimer’s Association reports excess deaths in PLWD not related to the virus itself, but from the changes designed to protect them, that are increasing loneliness, depression, anxiety, isolation and unprecedented stress.

Going through the coronavirus pandemic has been a really challenging time for everyone in the world, but it’s fair to say, especially hard for our isolated elderly and their care partners.

Dr. Babak Baban is a highly accomplished researcher and has been studying CBD and cannabinoids at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University for years where he is Associate Dean for Research, a professor and immunologist. One of Dr. Baban’s studies on how CBD helps reduce cytokine storms in COVID-19 made headlines last year, and that’s how we first noticed his work.

More recently, I was blown away by a revolutionary study on mice that had severe familial Alzheimer’s Disease. Two weeks of high dose CBD seemed to reset how proteins are made in those Alzheimer’s impacted mouse brains!

Dr. Baban has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, presented at dozens of national and international research conferences and has served on international study sections and editorial review boards. He is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, American Heart Association, and the International Cannabinoid Research Society among others.

Study links:

Cannabidiol Ameliorates Cognitive Function via Regulation of IL-33 and TREM2 Upregulation in a Murine Model of Alzheimer's Disease

Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, 2021 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33612548/

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210309192548.htm

A Scripps Research study published in the journal Molecular Pharmaceutics in August 2006, “A Molecular Link Between the Active Component of Marijuana and Alzheimer's Disease Pathology”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2562334/

https://www.scripps.edu/newsandviews/e_20060828/news.html

Targeting the endocannabinoid system: a predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine-directed approach to the management of brain pathologies

Cannabidiol (CBD) modulation of apelin in acute respiratory distress syndrome CBD normalizes lung function

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32549916/

https://jagwire.augusta.edu/cbd-helps-reduce-lung-damage-from-covid-by-increasing-levels-of-protective-peptide/

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcmm.15883

Neurological consequences of COVID-19: what have we learned and where do we go from here?

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32998763/

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In our season 2 premier episode, we have a great conversation with renowned integrative physician, Dr. Dustin Sulak, D.O from Maine, about easing symptoms of dementia, addressing chronic pain, and sleep issues with the same medicinal plant.

You may know Dr. Sulak from his educational site Healer.com or from the many articles he’s written and lectures he does to help educate people worldwide on cannabis therapeutics. He’s also a board member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and Americans for Safe Access.

Like many of our guests, we first met Dr. Dustin Sulak at the CannMed conference in 2018

Dr. Sulak is an osteopathic physician, licensed in Maine as a general practitioner and he’s an expert in integrative medicine: the intelligent combining of conventional and alternative approaches to healthcare.

Dr. Sulak’s clinical practice focuses on treating stubborn or unmanageable conditions in adults and children.  He is the founder of Integr8 Health and Healer.com, a wonderful medical cannabis education resource with free monthly webinars as well as certificate courses.

Dr. Sulak is a passionate teacher of clinicians, patients and industry professionals, and sits on the board of directors of two nonprofits focused on cannabis education, The Society of Cannabis Clinicians and Patients Out of Time.

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We heard Eloise speak about cannabis and seniors at CannMed2019 - a huge, very serious medical cannabis conference where we also met Dr. Raphael Mechoulam, the Godfather of Modern Cannabis Research. Every one who is anyone in the medical cannabis space was there!

ELOISE THEISEN, is a board-certified Adult-Geriatric Nurse Practitioner who has cultivated a wealth of knowledge and data for using cannabis to treat a broad range of conditions and diseases, especially those that commonly affect seniors. Eloise is a co-founder and Chief Visionary Officer of Radicle Health, developing ongoing cannabis education for healthcare professionals and the community as well as patient care and industry training. An more recently Eloise has launched Leaf411, The first FREE cannabis nurse hotline. 

Prior to Radicle Health, Eloise also founded Green Health Consultants, a medical cannabis clinic that helped patients use cannabis to help treat chronic and age-related illness and was one of the first healthcare practitioners to bring a clinical dosing regimen to the cannabis space. She’s treated more than 5,500 patients using cannabis. Eloise previously served on the board of the American Cannabis Nurses Association and is now the President. She helped in the development of A.C.N.A.’s first online core curriculum, providing over eight hours of educational content as well as continuing education credits for nurses. Her work has been featured in Newsweek and the SF Chronicle, among others.

There are very few healthcare practitioners in the US with a comparable level of cannabis expertise and experience.

Joining NP Theisen to talk about anxiety and depression include experts in elder care and specialists in cannabinoid medicine with first hand experience on the frontlines in California’s North Bay Area. We appreciate that they’re always sharing their knowledge at medical symposia, events and now Zoom meetings.

Dr. Phillip Grob, Geriactric Psychiatrist with 28 years experience. He is a member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians with an extensive practice in the Santa Rosa/Sacramento Area.

AND Health & Wellness Director for The Lodge at Fountaingrove and The Terraces memory care, front liner in the trenches, Marissa Goldman, LVN.

Full episode drops Friday May 14th.

This new episode of Cannabis Helps Dementia Podcast and more drop Friday May 14th! 

Dr. Babak Baban is a highly accomplished researcher and has been studying CBD and cannabinoids at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University for years where he is Associate Dean for Research, a professor and immunologist. One of Dr. Baban’s studies on how CBD helps reduce cytokine storms in COVID-19 made headlines last year, and that’s how we first noticed his work. 

More recently, I was blown away by a revolutionary study on mice that had severe familial Alzheimer’s Disease. Two weeks of high dose CBD seemed to reset how proteins are made in those Alzheimer’s impacted mouse brains!

Dr. Baban has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, presented at dozens of national and international research conferences and has served on international study sections and editorial review boards. He is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, American Heart Association, and the International Cannabinoid Research Society among others.

Hear the entire episode starting Friday, May 14th, 2021. 

In our premier episode dropping May 14th, we have a great conversation with renowned integrative physician, Dr. Dustin Sulak, D.O from Maine, about easing symptoms of dementia, addressing chronic pain, and sleep issues with the same medicinal plant. You may know Dr. Sulak from his educational site Healer.com or from the many articles he’s written and lectures he does to help educate people worldwide on cannabis therapeutics. He’s also a board member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and Americans for Safe Access. 

Like many of our guests, we first met Dr. Dustin Sulak at the CannMed conference in 2018  Dr. Sulak is an osteopathic physician, licensed in Maine as a general practitioner and he’s an expert in integrative medicine: the intelligent combining of conventional and alternative approaches to healthcare.  Dr. Sulak’s clinical practice focuses on treating stubborn or unmanageable conditions in adults and children.  He is the founder of Integr8 Health and Healercom, a wonderful medical cannabis education resource with free monthly webinars as well as certificate courses. 

Dr. Sulak is a passionate teacher of clinicians, patients and industry professionals, and sits on the board of directors of two nonprofits focused on cannabis education, The Society of Cannabis Clinicians and Patients Out of Time. The 2021 Patients Out of Time annual conference is May 20-22. 

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In our 2021 premier episode we have a great conversation with renowned integrative physician, Dr. Dustin Sulak about easing symptoms of dementia, addressing chronic pain, and sleep issues with the same medicinal plant. You may know Dr. Sulak from his educational site Healer.com or from the many articles he’s written, lectures he’s given or panels he’s participated in to help educate people worldwide on cannabis therapeutics. He’s also a board member of the Society of Cannabis Clinicians and Americans for Safe Access.

In upcoming episodes we connect with a Harvard Medical School professor. Having grown up in a home where his father was a very well known, ground-breaking cannabis researcher, and seeing how his older brother, who passed at 15, got relief from leukemia related nausea, vomiting and pain, Dr. Peter Grinspoon is considered an authority on all aspects of this healing herb, including adult and medicinal uses, as well as the racist misinformation, rather than science, that was the foundation of prohibition. He also knows first hand how powerful cannabis can be in healing from opioid addiction.

PLUS!

Dr. Bonni Goldstein, has treated thousands of adults and children and seen their quality of life improve with cannabis medicine. We’ll talk about her book, “Cannabis is Medicine” and how her senior patients are finding relief from symptoms of dementia, chronic pain and getting better sleep.

Dr. Babak Baban, is researching CBD and cannabinoids at the Dental College of Georgia at Augusta University. Some of his recently released studies include: one on how CBD helps reduce cytokine storms in COVID-19, which is really interesting, but the big news to us is about a mouse study where two weeks of high dose CBD seems to reset how proteins are made in Alzheimer’s impacted mouse brains.

We have an excellent panel discussion on How Cannabis Eases Anxiety and Depression among seniors with three geriatric specialists including President of the American Cannabis Nurses Association, Geriatric NP Eloise Theisen, RN, Geriatric Psychiatrist Dr. Phillip Grob, and Health services director of a world class assisted living facility and memory care in Santa Rosa.

Dr. Blake Pearson, is a practicing family physician in Ontario, Canada treating hundreds of PLWD in facilities and at home. He’s seen huge quality of life improvements in patients living with dementia using medical cannabis.

Dr. Genester Wilson-King is a women’s health expert. We’ll talk about the impact of hormonal imbalances and risk for dementia and how cannabis may help.

We’re also going to connect with Dr. Ethan Russo about his comprehensive 2018 review article in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, “Cannabis Therapeutics and the Future of Neurology” and do a deep dive into the Alzheimer’s section as well as talk about other studies since then that question if cannabis helps dementia.

Dr. Melanie Bone is the medical director of the cannabinoid initiative at an over-65 residential community in Florida with a teaching nursing home, memory care unit, hospice, and rehabilitation facility on site. We spoke with Dr. Bone in the 2020 season and look forward to connecting with her again and hearing how things are going!

Dr. Patricia Frye, wrote one of the textbooks for the University of MD School of Pharmacy. We’ll talk about the importance of healthcare provider education on cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system and how cannabis may be helping seniors and people living with dementia.