How does using cannabis affect weight loss (ignoring munchies)?
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I am not a doctor. And have no medical knowledge of this whatsoever.
But I know whenever I smoke regularly for a while ( think daily for like a month or more) my metabolism goes into overdrive, even if I don’t give in to the munchies.
Don’t know why
We’ll have a much better idea once the study currently underway at UCSD looking at the metabolic effects of cannabis consumption finishes up and reports results.
I’m not aware of any good-quality studies looking at the subject that have been published to date- in large part because cannabis’s status as a schedule I drug in the US generally precludes most serious research.
Science says there is no change in weight loss.
There is one theoretical exception: certain inflammatory diseases. Inflammation leads to water retention. Water retention leads to weight gain.
Another way it promotes weight loss: if food isn’t available, it makes hunger less painful. I have known plenty of poor people to use cannabis as an appetite suppressant when they ran out of money for food.
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