Human Health’ s Unsung Hero
The Endocannabinoid System Doesn’ t Need Your Thanks-It’ s Too Busy Keeping You Alive
By Matt Snyders
“ Rolling down the street / Smoking endocannabinoids / Sipping on ginseng juice”-no rapper ever
The immune system gets a lot of love and attention from health aficionados. Ditto for the nervous system. Why shouldn’ t they? Both biological structures serve as central pillars to human health and enjoyment and where there’ s discord in one, there’ s bound to be discord elsewhere.( Also we can discuss both without having to expound on excrement).
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But there’ s another system worthy of your attention and appreciation. It’ s an internal bio-regulator without whose tireless feedback relaying and aggressive antioxidizing neither the immune nor nervous systems could function, as we know them. It’ s an ancient intercellular motherboard that’ s been hardwired into vertebrates for 600 million years. It’ s called the endocannabinoid system. And it’ s keeping you alive.