CBD For Insomnia

People say if you cannot fall asleep, it can mean that you are in somebody’s dreams. If night wakefulness happens once or twice a month, this idea can serve a good solace. Yet, suffering from insomnia on a day-to-day basis makes us become obsessed with a desire to find this strange sleeper calling us to his or her dreams each night and wake them up. Indeed, the lack of restful sleep does not promote a romantic mood, in addition it is a meaningful sign of health problems you should not ignore. It is not time to look for an abstract, metaphysical explanation (what we indeed often do), but an alarming moment requiring immediate actions.

So, what is insomnia, and why it should be treated?

We often mistakenly think that insomnia is a problem when we cannot sleep at all. While we have the smallest chance to stay asleep at night, we do not pay decent attention to this illness. Yes, it is indeed illness poisoning our daily life and stealing our energy. And, you will be surprised by the fact that it happens even when you think you are sleeping. The thing is that insomnia is a sleeping disorder influencing not only your ability to fall asleep but also the quality of your sleep.

For those who are unfamiliar with the physiology of the sleeping process, we want to note that it includes five stages smoothly replacing each other for a few times a night. Each of them is highly important for human functioning during the day. Especially it is said about the so-called REM sleep stage during which the processes of the body become a little more active than during the others. The brain is activated, it consumes more oxygen, eyes move rapidly and heart beats faster. The scientists link the success of this stage to human learning and memory abilities, concentration potential, and mood.

You might be curious about the reasons for our telling about this so long. We have the answer: insomnia violates the natural sequence of sleep stages! Even when you are sleeping, you cannot reach the REM stage, and, thus, lose your ability for decent life-performance. When waking up, you feel fatigue, exhaustion, low mood, and many other health problems.

What can be the reasons?

You should know that all body dysfunctions are strongly related to the nervous system potential. If you have experience stressful situations, molecular chaos occurs in your nervous system the protective function of which becomes weaken.

Why you need CBD and how it affects sleep?

Until this moment, society does not discover the most effective manager of psychological and psychological processes except endocannabinoids generated by the human body. The trick is that the only analog of natural regulators responsible for binding receptors and balancing all the processes is found in cannabis plants. Phytocannabinoids are chemical compounds of industrial hemp and they also are the core active elements of CBD products.

Enriching the human body with natural endocannabinoids, cannabidiol CBD contributes to regulating serotonin levels, normalizing blood pressure, and reducing inflammatory processes. It also enhances the responsiveness of the nervous system enabling it to fulfill the natural protective function decently. Acting in so a natural way, CBD has a variety of health benefits. It may help in treating post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and chronic pain, which are among the most widespread preconditions to insomnia.

Not to be unfounded, we want to mention about the latest research concerning the effect of using CBD for sleep. Thus, the scientists handled an experiment the results of which were published in 2019. Treating the patients who suffered from insomnia and anxiety, they found that the use CBD significantly reduces anxiety (in 79 % of patients) and improves sleeping (67 % of cases) (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6326553/). Moreover, they did not observe any possible of declared side effects like fatigue, for example. Maybe, the reason is in the dosage – it was much lower than that one recommended by some medical sources (between 25 and 175 mg/d). This case except CBD’s effectiveness demonstrates that even the smallest dose provides an adequate clinical response. So, if you have never practiced such medicine, you can have no worries and apply the minimal portion to check whether it fits you.

However, it is worth saying that not for all people CBD works equally well. There is a small percentage of those who experience the worsening of sleep when taking it. The reason can be in the roots of the illness and biochemical composition of your body. If your insomnia is not preconditioned by health problems rooted in the functioning of the endocannabinoid system, apparently it could not be treated by CBD. So, trying it in a small dose and noticing its ineffectiveness, you need for medical consultation and physical examination.

If you are ready to try, let’s check what to choose.

CBD exists in a few forms that allow choosing the best individually-suitable option. Cbd oil is a basic product, which can is used as oil drops you can take sublingually or add to food. CBD oil is also used for producing the other CBD products – gummies, pills, cream, vape. You can guess that cream is not a case for treating insomnia, while the rest of the options you can choose depending on your needs. Gummies and pills are absorbed through the digestive process and, thus, they affect your body slower than CBD oil and vapes. The latter, by the way, is one of the fastest ways to feel the effect of CBD.