When it comes to losing weight you must know the reason behind gaining weight. Most people gain weight by taking in more calories but not consuming or burning them. Your ability to burn fat accumulated in your body can be influenced by many factors including the compromised metabolism caused by changes in the patterns of metabolism, the function of the system of endocannabinoids, inflammation, and imbalance in hormones. So, you will have to maintain a balance between the immune system, nervous system, and digestive system of your body for a steady weight loss. Various studies have proved that CBD oil can help in losing weight by suppressing your appetite. The information provided in this write up will help you to know more precisely the effect of CBD on weight loss.
What is CBD?
Before discussing the effect of CBD oil on your body weight you must know what CBD is. The plant of cannabis provides several cannabinoids and CBD is one of them. These cannabinoids are classified into psychoactive and non-psychoactive cannabinoids and CBD is from the second category. According to various researches, being a non-psychoactive cannabinoid CBD offers many health benefits like treating cancer, epilepsy, anxiety disorders, chronic pain, along with various other medical issues including weight loss.
How does CBD help in losing weight?
According to the evidence provided by a study, CBD has the potential to change white tissues of fat that
store energy into beige-colored tissues of fat after burning them. This process is also known as the browning
of fat tissues. This process increases the rate of breakdown and oxidation of fat as well as the ability of your
body to burn calories and decrease the effect of proteins in generating fat cells.
This study has further proved that CBD can help in making animals more tolerant of glucose as well as more resistant to the abnormalities in the lipids of blood like diabetes etc. In this way, it can also act with humans in similar ways, though it is still under study.
What is CBD Oil?
CBD oil or hemp oil is a natural oil extracted from hemp plants. Though this oil includes CBD, it is not used
for smoking however it can be used as cooking oil. CBD oil has a positive effect on weight loss in many
ways like:
- Omega-3 fatty acids: The level of omega-3 fatty acids is high in the hemp oil which can help in lowering the level of triglycerides in your body and the risk of heart problems.
- Low calories: One tablespoon of Hemp oil contains nearly 100 calories as compared to 120 calories in one tablespoon of olive oil.
- Metabolism: It improves your metabolism in a very inexpensive way due to its good taste and the presence of omega-3 fatty acids in it.
- GLA: the right amount of gamma-linolenic acid in hemp oil makes it helpful in avoiding weight gain.
According to latest studies CBD oil can help in weight loss in different manners like:
Starts the process of browning fat
According to the supporters of CBD for weight loss, CBD has the capability to convert bad or white tissues if fat into brown which can improve the calorie burning ability of your body. The risk of various chronic diseases like heart problems of diabetes etc. increases due to the white tissue of fat in it. So the process of browning the white fat tissues can also provide various other health benefits along with losing weight. The researchers in this study have observed that the interaction of your body with fat can be influenced by CBD oil in different ways. Along with browning your fat tissues CBD oil also helps in breaking them down efficiently in your body. The brown cells of fat in your body can help in stimulating the process of thermogenesis to burn calories efficiently by producing heat energy.
Suppresses Appetite
It is said by many supporters of CBD that it can help in weight loss by reducing your craving for food.
Though people have contradictory views in this regard, as those who smoke cannabis feel hungrier after
smoking it but it is THC psychoactive cannabinoid that increases hunger whereas CBD is a nonpsychoactive cannabinoid.
THC increases your appetite because it activates CB1, the receptors of cannabinoid, in your body. On the other hand, CBD reduces your appetite not by directly deactivating the cannabinoid receptors in your body but by promoting the other molecules in your body to block the receptors. So, some people using CBD oil eat less as it curbs their appetite. According to an old study on rats, CBD reduced their craving for food. But there is no evidence of the effect of suppressing the appetite of CBD on humans. It is still in the trial stage.
Improve resistance to Insulin
Diabetes and obesity are directly related to your resistance to insulin.
The pattern followed by a healthy metabolic process starts with the rise in the levels of blood sugar when
you eat something. This glucose in your blood is moved to your body cells with the help of the insulin
released by your pancreas. This glucose is used by the cells as a source of energy.
Your system will go out of order when your body gets an excess amount of glucose consistently due to your
patterns of eating. The cells of your body become resistant to the signals of insulin to provide sugar to the
cells when they cannot consume more glucose.
Your pancreas can start producing more insulin even when the levels of glucose rise to the dangerous levels.
Ultimately the levels of glucose drop due to unusually extreme production of insulin. This fluctuation in the
level of glucose in your blood can make you feel tired and hungry very frequently.
On the other hand, the process followed by an unhealthy metabolism starts with a rise in the level of sugar in
the blood after eating your food. The sugar is moved to the cells of your body with the help of the insulin
released by your pancreas. The level of sugar in your blood goes on increasing if insulin does not work
efficiently. In this situation, to protect your body from the high level of sugar in your blood your liver starts
converting it into fat. It increases your appetite as your body cells need more sugar for energy. The
continuity of this process helps in increasing your weight.
Various studies have revealed the fact that the potential of your body cells to absorb glucose can be
increased with the help of cannabinoids like CBD, CBN, and THC, etc.
So when your body cells can absorb sugar from your blood with the help of CBD then your hunger will be suppressed and you will start losing weight.
Reduce the risk of metabolic disorders
According to various studies, various disorders in your metabolic system like high cholesterol, type-2
diabetes, and high blood pressure, etc. can be caused due to obesity. And you suffer from obesity when the
CB1 cannabinoid receptors in the tissues of fat in your body get over-activated.
According to some studies on rodents, CBD oil can reduce the risk of obesity as it can block the receptors of cannabinoids. The level of total cholesterol was reduced by 25% with time when rats were treated with CBD. Moreover, the health of their liver improved and the levels of blood sugar decreased due to the antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties of CBD.
Repair damaged liver
The problems of diabetes and obesity can also damage the cells of your liver as it helps in converting the usable stored fat in your body as a source of energy for it. The high intake of sugar can be harmful to your liver as it has to overwork to consume that sugar. The increasing dysfunction of the liver can cause inflammation in it. CBD can help in repairing your damaged liver cells.
Reduce inflammation
CBD offers various types of anti-inflammatory benefits. Chronic inflammation can cause metabolic
dysfunction. Chronic diabetes and obesity can increase the risk of inflammation in the entire gland of the
pancreas due to its hyperactivity to generate more insulin to absorb excess sugar in the blood. The beta cells
that are responsible to release insulin can be damaged due to prolonged inflammation in the pancreas.
It reduces the ability of your body to produce sufficient quantities of insulin for your body and hence you
suffer from obesity and diabetes.
According to various studies, the use of CBD can reduce dysfunction of metabolism as well as inflammation in the pancreas due to its anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties.
Fix dysfunction mitochondria
Mitochondria are the special structures in the living cells of your body that help in producing energy for
them. It produces fuel for your brain and body from the glucose brought by insulin to the cells. But the fuelproducing capability of mitochondria gets affected when resistance to insulin occurs. An imbalance in the
levels of glucose can also cause dysfunction of mitochondria which can increase the risk of cancer. It has
been revealed through various studies that the use of CBD can also improve the functioning of mitochondria
as it can improve the functioning of metabolic cells.
Thus, CBD oil can help in the process of weight loss by reducing fat in your body by controlling your appetite.
