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Reader's Digest The Essential Guide to CBD: Everything You Need to Know About What It Helps, Where to Buy, And How to Take It
The Essential Guide to CBD is an authoritative but user-friendly primer on CBD.
The Straight Facts on Healing with CBD
CBD has splashed across the nation’s headlines, taken the country by storm, and has everyone from Coca-Cola to Starbucks considering adding this new “miracle supplement” to their drinks. But the FDA has only approved it for use in treating epilepsy in children.
What is CBD, anyway? What’s the difference between CBD, THC, cannabis, hemp, and marijuana? Can CBD help me lose weight? How much CBD do I need to take to help my condition? What do I look for when buying CBD? Is it better to take CBD oil or gummies or what?
To all these questions and more, the editors of Reader’s Digest have teamed up with the experts at Project CBD to bring you a reliable, easy-to-understand guide to all things CBD. Drawing from peer-reviewed research and medical studies, as well as interviews with neuroscientists and doctors, this book debunks common myths and rebuffs pseudoscience. Inside, you’ll
Complete with recipes and first-person accounts from real people who have used it, The Essential Guide to CBD tells you everything you need to know about the all-natural treatment that’s sweeping the nation—and why it’s worth the hype.
Praise for The Essential Guide to CBD
“To have a natural product that works as well if not better than harmful pills has been a boon to my success,” —Terrell Davis, former NFL player
“The Essential Guide to CBD effectively cuts through the misinformation surrounding CBD and empowers readers to succeed in using this health-promoting tool. Highly recommended to those who want to try CBD and current users want to optimize their results.” —Dustin Sulak, D.O., founder and director of Integr8 Health
“Discovering cannabinoids felt like being plugged into a power source, as though I was Humpty Dumpty broken into a million pieces and now I was being put back together. This is my medicine!” —Chelsea Leyland, founder, model, DJ, and activist
“A highly educational and relevant work that’s both engaging and easy to follow.” —Kirkus Reviews
"Fully living up to the promise of its title, Reader's Digest The Essential Guide to Everything You Need to Know About What It Helps, Where to Buy, And How to Take It is an authoritative but thoroughly user-friendly primer on CBD. Comprehensively informative and deftly organized and presented for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the subject, it is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal...collections." —Midwest Book Review
The Straight Facts on Healing with CBD
CBD has splashed across the nation’s headlines, taken the country by storm, and has everyone from Coca-Cola to Starbucks considering adding this new “miracle supplement” to their drinks. But the FDA has only approved it for use in treating epilepsy in children.
What is CBD, anyway? What’s the difference between CBD, THC, cannabis, hemp, and marijuana? Can CBD help me lose weight? How much CBD do I need to take to help my condition? What do I look for when buying CBD? Is it better to take CBD oil or gummies or what?
To all these questions and more, the editors of Reader’s Digest have teamed up with the experts at Project CBD to bring you a reliable, easy-to-understand guide to all things CBD. Drawing from peer-reviewed research and medical studies, as well as interviews with neuroscientists and doctors, this book debunks common myths and rebuffs pseudoscience. Inside, you’ll
Complete with recipes and first-person accounts from real people who have used it, The Essential Guide to CBD tells you everything you need to know about the all-natural treatment that’s sweeping the nation—and why it’s worth the hype.
Praise for The Essential Guide to CBD
“To have a natural product that works as well if not better than harmful pills has been a boon to my success,” —Terrell Davis, former NFL player
“The Essential Guide to CBD effectively cuts through the misinformation surrounding CBD and empowers readers to succeed in using this health-promoting tool. Highly recommended to those who want to try CBD and current users want to optimize their results.” —Dustin Sulak, D.O., founder and director of Integr8 Health
“Discovering cannabinoids felt like being plugged into a power source, as though I was Humpty Dumpty broken into a million pieces and now I was being put back together. This is my medicine!” —Chelsea Leyland, founder, model, DJ, and activist
“A highly educational and relevant work that’s both engaging and easy to follow.” —Kirkus Reviews
"Fully living up to the promise of its title, Reader's Digest The Essential Guide to Everything You Need to Know About What It Helps, Where to Buy, And How to Take It is an authoritative but thoroughly user-friendly primer on CBD. Comprehensively informative and deftly organized and presented for the non-specialist general reader with an interest in the subject, it is an extraordinary and unreservedly recommended addition to personal...collections." —Midwest Book Review
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Published March 23, 2021
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The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.
The company was founded by DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922 with the first publication of Reader's Digest magazine, but has grown to include a diverse range of magazines, books, music, DVDs and online content.
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July 26, 2021
The Introduction in this book talks about The CBD Revolution. “The big tipping point came between 2014 and 2018, when under increased public demand to decriminalize cannabis, Congress passed Farm Bills that changed the way hemp could be grown and sold. (2021, p.6) “And the marketplace exploded. The sale of CBD products skyrocketed 706 percent from passage of the second Farm Bill in 2018 to the end of 2019.”
This book is divvied up into three parts: part one gives the reader the basics of CBD, the second portion is about CBD and health, and the final part is a user’s guide to CBD.
Chapter 1 tackles the CBD Basics. “Well, CBD isn’t just a supplement like a vitamin C or calcium pill. It is a molecule that actually mimics and helps support innate health and wellness regulating system within your body: the endocannabinoid system or ECS. The ECS is involved in nearly every single biological processes, including digestion, metabolism, hormone regulation, appetite, immunity, memory, emotions, sleep, and much more.” (2021, p.10) There is a brief history of the medicinal use of cannabis on page 19.
In the second portion there is a lot of helpful information regarding different illnesses and other symptoms and how CBD can help. These disorders range from Autism to Depression to Diabetes and Heart Disease to Parkinson’s Disease and way more. For instance, the symptoms for depression are listed and then “…suggested that depression might be a product of endocannabinoid deficiency, meaning that low levels of these important mood regulators could lead to depression.” (2021, p.91) When the discussion turns to heart disease they state the following. “THC and CBD are both vasodilators, meaning they widen the blood vessels…this can have a positive effect on blood pressure.” (p.105)
As you can see there is a lot to learn about CBD and how it can be used as a natural health restorer. If you want to learn more I suggest you buy the book and read it. If it (CBD products) can do what they say they can we should all be using it.
This book is divvied up into three parts: part one gives the reader the basics of CBD, the second portion is about CBD and health, and the final part is a user’s guide to CBD.
Chapter 1 tackles the CBD Basics. “Well, CBD isn’t just a supplement like a vitamin C or calcium pill. It is a molecule that actually mimics and helps support innate health and wellness regulating system within your body: the endocannabinoid system or ECS. The ECS is involved in nearly every single biological processes, including digestion, metabolism, hormone regulation, appetite, immunity, memory, emotions, sleep, and much more.” (2021, p.10) There is a brief history of the medicinal use of cannabis on page 19.
In the second portion there is a lot of helpful information regarding different illnesses and other symptoms and how CBD can help. These disorders range from Autism to Depression to Diabetes and Heart Disease to Parkinson’s Disease and way more. For instance, the symptoms for depression are listed and then “…suggested that depression might be a product of endocannabinoid deficiency, meaning that low levels of these important mood regulators could lead to depression.” (2021, p.91) When the discussion turns to heart disease they state the following. “THC and CBD are both vasodilators, meaning they widen the blood vessels…this can have a positive effect on blood pressure.” (p.105)
As you can see there is a lot to learn about CBD and how it can be used as a natural health restorer. If you want to learn more I suggest you buy the book and read it. If it (CBD products) can do what they say they can we should all be using it.
August 28, 2023
Well, there is so much to learn about CBD since there is plenty of fake news/info out there. I learned a lot by reading about various aspects of CBD/CBN, etc. & how people use to help them for various ailments. I didn't realize the amount of things one needs to know about it though, kind of overwhelming. Where you get it & what to look for, is it a reputable product/vendor, etc. There is so much to sift through like the lingo of full-spectrum, terpenes, etc. I am almost more confused after reading this since I feel like there is so much more to learn. What is the definition of cannabinoid & what your body does w/ it. Dosing is another aspect that each person has to determine for themselves along w/ how to take CBD since there are various ways to do that. So I am glad to have learned about this but also know there is plenty more I need to understand. This goes though so much & totally recommend it so you can also be in the know.
March 21, 2021
Reader’s Digest The Essential Guide to CBD
The book starts with a great introductory section on the CBD Revolution. Part I: CBD BASICS includes What is CBD?, How CBD Works in your Body, The Swiss Army Knife of Natural Healing, What Causes Endocannabinoid System Dysfunction?, CBD Myths & Facts, Part II: CBD FOR YOUR HEALTH includes everything from Acne to Women’s Health; and Part III: A USER’S GUIDE includes How CBD Oil is Made, What is the Best Way to Take CBD?, Buying CBD, Dosing CBD, CBD Safety, Your CBD Action Plan, CBD Recipes, and CBD for Pets. The book also includes pictures, diagrams, resources, notes, a glossary, and an index. This is a very comprehensive resource on just about anything and everything you would ever want to know about CBD. I just reviewed Reader's Digest The Essential Guide to CBD by Reader's Digest. #ReadersDigestTheEssentialGuidetoCBD #NetGalley
The book starts with a great introductory section on the CBD Revolution. Part I: CBD BASICS includes What is CBD?, How CBD Works in your Body, The Swiss Army Knife of Natural Healing, What Causes Endocannabinoid System Dysfunction?, CBD Myths & Facts, Part II: CBD FOR YOUR HEALTH includes everything from Acne to Women’s Health; and Part III: A USER’S GUIDE includes How CBD Oil is Made, What is the Best Way to Take CBD?, Buying CBD, Dosing CBD, CBD Safety, Your CBD Action Plan, CBD Recipes, and CBD for Pets. The book also includes pictures, diagrams, resources, notes, a glossary, and an index. This is a very comprehensive resource on just about anything and everything you would ever want to know about CBD. I just reviewed Reader's Digest The Essential Guide to CBD by Reader's Digest. #ReadersDigestTheEssentialGuidetoCBD #NetGalley
July 15, 2021
Surprisingly this is the best book I've read to date on using CBD as a potential treatment for chronic illness. This book really gets into the facts about HOW CBD and related cannabinoids work in the body; which formulas (isolates, broad spectrum, full spectrum) work for which conditions; how various products are made and what that can mean for side effects; and the options for how to find, research, buy and consume the products. Incredibly useful and informative.
March 26, 2021
This was overall a surprisingly good read. I do not do any recreational drugs whatsoever, although I do suffer from constant pain all around my body which is super lame so I keep taking paracetamol to manage it. This was quite a breath of fresh air to know that there may be a more effective alternative to manage my pain.
March 24, 2021
This is an excellent guide to what CBD is, how it works, and how it helps. A must-have!
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March 3, 2021
Good guide to everything CBD. Answer all your questions and gives you a good knowledge of CBD and all the benefits.
September 1, 2021
Extensive, colorful, but I am not sure how really useful.
February 13, 2021
Comprehensive resource on CBD! I'm new to CBD, having heard about the benefits. This book is organized into chapters based on conditions and diseases. CBD and it's effects on the body are covered in Part I, and Part II covers conditions such as acne, anxiety, Depression, Diabetes, Migraines, Sleep disorders and so on. Part III contains information on manufacturing, safety, dosing and use with pets. This is a great reference that I'm sure I'll be referring to again and again.
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