Season 4: Ep 5 - Which part of the brain can cannabis have the ability to affect and how does this impact anxiety?

<p>Check out all things around my TEDx talk at Pillarsofwellness.com/tedx</p><p></p><p>It is rewarding to get feedback and start discussions around the opioid crisis across the nation. As we progress, we will post our interviews and discussions to help bridge the conversations. Please send me your questions at quesitons@chalmerswellness.com about any of the research as you can help with the crisis through your discussions. </p><p></p><p>This podcast features some questions that have been sent in from viewers of my TEDx talk. </p><p></p><p>This podcast features questions.</p><p></p><p>- How much do I Emphasize the Importance of shutting off the Amygdala?</p><p>- Consider Cannabis as a Nutrient</p><p></p><p>The following is a transcription of this podcast from questions@chalmerswellness.com.</p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:03] This. Doctor Chalmers, welcome to Wellness Insights with me, Dr. Chalmers. Which part of the brain is can have the ability to affect and how does this impact anxiety? Well, if you specifically are talking about anxiety, that's the amygdala. So the amygdala is in the temporal lobe and it is responsible for all the bad things in the world. Fear, hate, anger, terror, stress, anxiety, all that stuff. So that's the big issue with how it affects the brain and affects the amygdala. And we want it to affect the amygdala. It does not affect the pons, like I said earlier. So you can continue to breathe as much as you want to. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:32] It has more impact on the temporal lobe than anything else, which is really good because that's where epileptic epilepsy comes from. So we can actually suppress temporal firing, which a so a seizure is abnormal firing in the temporal lobe. Okay. So we can decrease firing in the temporal lobe. </p><p></p><p>Dr. Matt Chalmers [00:00:50] Guess what? All of a sudden we've decreased seizures and that's what we see with all of cannabis in epilepsy. So that's why epilepsy and cannabis works so well together because of that suppression of a