Cannabis and Alzheimer’s Disease - Part 1

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From the WA and M Studio onthe campus of Florida A and M University.
This is Mary Forum Radio, aweekly conversation on the education and research
of the medical marijuana being conducted atBamui. Hi. I'm Heidi Otway,
your host for this conversations on cannabisMy virtue venue, brought to you by
the Medical Marijuana Education and Research Initiativeat Florida and M University. In this

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conversation, we're talking about cannabis asa treatment for Alzheimer's disease. So let's
talk and learn about this subject withour special guest. Doctor Chiron Tamar is
a retired board certified surgeon who spentnearly thirty nine years in public and private
practice. Since becoming a qualified medicalcannabis physician in Florida, he's seen more

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than eight thousand patients. Doctor Tamarworks at Cannoncare Wellness in Claremont and at
Mmcare Florida in Brooksville. In additionto serving his patients, his passion is
to educate the public about medicinal cannabis. Doctor Tomorrow, Welcome to the Forum.
I'm so very happy to be here, Hid and thank you for the

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let's start this conversation on cannabis doctortomorrow. What prompted you to start

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recommending medical cannabis to payations as aqualified organ position. Well, you know,
halfway through my vertical career, Ithought about what I would do after
surgery, provided that I had goodmental and physical health. And I've was
always been interested in naturopathic, holisticand homeopathic medicine, and you know,
knowing about cannabis, College base cannabiswas the perfect choice because it's a naturopathic,

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holistic and metropathic medicine. When Iwas ten years old, I went
to Grenada with my parents for sixweeks inclusion, I saw healthcare at another
level. So I've always been interestedin cannabis medical care throughout the rest of
the world, as I should beas a doctor. And when I came
across cannabis and took the examine intwenty sixteen when they first became legal and

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Mendon two, and then I wentto a cannabis conference twenty eighteen doctor Sasha
no I learned about the indocannabinoid systemand I was almost full out on my
chair because it's the indocannabinitary system thathealed my patients. Yeah, and homeostatus
is a balance keeps us balanced equilibrium, and cannabis helps us maintaining homeostasius because

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we have chemicals in our body thatlook just like THC and CBD. There's
no plant on the planet closer toour own chemistry, our own physiology.
There's no plan better for us amore natural tourist, than the cannabis plan.
Do the research NIH studies said that. Yeah, So doctor Tomorrow,
we brought you on the show becauseour conversation today is on Alzheimer's, and

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you've had a number of family membersthat have actually been diagnosed with it.
So for those who are listening tothe show and want to learn more about
Alzheimer's, they might have heard ofit and not even know what it is.
Can you tell us what is Alzheimer'sand what was the experience you had
with your family members? Okay again, my mother, her mother, her

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sister, all victims of Alzheimer's,two cousins. Let us start off with
the basis to understand what Alzheimer's is. Inflammation is a basis for all disease.
If you have an injury, younotice redness, swelling, Tendet's and
pain. Correct, that's an injury. It's called inflammation ocidative stress. And
when you have an injury, withthe swelling and the pain of redness in

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the timinus, white blood cells,red bloods, eosynpols, plasma sides,
all these protective cells from our immunesystem slowed down the response and you cut,
heels, your ankle, heels,your bones, your body heels,
everything heals because of the endocannabinoid systemand the antioxidives in the brain. It's

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the same thing. It's inflammation,oxidative stress in our bodies. Again,
you got to cut all these cellsgoal and fight the inflammation suppressively inflammation in
the brain. It's the same thing. And the best analogy is you've heard

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saying that person can't connect the dots. Common saying can't connect the dots.
That is exactly what happens in Alzheimer's. The dots are the brain cells.
There are one hundred billion brain cellsb billion billion brain easy to remember,
and they all have connections and aswe get older. Now TAO is the

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structural protein of the brain cell andwith time a lot of phosphorus it gets
attached to it. And a phosphorusis a normal process because mitochondria assimilates the
body to use atp and then soltiphosphates, so phosphate is a normal chemical in
all body begins to accumulate in thetown protein they own these tangles, the

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dots that we talked about. Youhave pathways going into the dots which are
the dendrodes, and is going awayfrom the dots with the astrocytes those other
inflammatory to suppress the inflammation. Butwhat happens is that they become tangled up
tile protein. Too much phosphorsk getsattached and it starts to destroy the cell

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and the structure. You have thexons, the dendro is coming into the cell.
There's fat around the fat around thenerves, like when you cut your
skin on you cut chicken skin,there's fat. There's fat around the nerves.
It has amyloid protein. That's thebeta amyloid that gives us diseases.

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Then there's the axon that leaves thenerves. That's another connection. Amyloid builds
up there. It's the beta amyloidprotein that destroys the connections between the nerves
and the TAEL protein of the braincell. And cannabis helps untangle those tall
proteins, slows down the inflammation fromthe astrocytes and the microbleia, just like

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the white blood cells respond to theinflammation. So cannabis slows down the inflammation
by reducing the angles and getting ridof the beta amyloid protein, which is
a normal protein in our bodies.Yea, but too much of it,
just like too much of anything isknowing a good for us, and it

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builds up plaque just like you haveplaques and the uteries of our uteries from
fat and inflammation. It's the samething in the brain. You have inflammation
and amyloid protein and tall protein tanglementsblocking transmission from dot to dots. That's
why Alzheimer's is described, is youcannot connect the dots because of damage to

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the dots and to the pathway intothe dot and to the pathway out of
the one hundred billion estimated dots inour brains. Yeah, So you talked
about how cannabis can help someone withAlzheimer's and actually what Alzheimer's is. So
you kind of went really deep intothe science of it, and I noticed

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that when I looked at the statequalifying conditions, you don't see Alzheimer's on
there as a qualifying condition. So, to the Floridians here that are considering
using medical cannabis for themselves or supportinga loved one who may have been diagnosed,
how would they go about getting acannabis card legally? Here in Florida?

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You have what they call qualifying conditions, and then you have conditions that
are similar to those qualifying conditions.So Alzheimer's is next to Huntington's Korea,
It's next to Parkinson's disease. It'snext to MS, which is multiple sclerosis.

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It's next to lou Gevirick's disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. It's next to
PTSD which is anxiety depression, steepand pain issues, which you know,
so there are conditions that are nonde limit pain and as long as it's
qualifying. For instance, you lookon the list, it says al sort
of politis is on the list.It doesn't mention Chrohn's disease, which is

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also an auto immune disease, soit's a similar condition. So someone that
has all sort of collide I meanour chrone's disease will fit on the al
sort of colitis. So believe me, if you have anything related to anxiety,
depreciously, pain and appetite issues,you will qualify because they can find

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their diagnosis similar epilepsy, HIV dementia'son the list. Parkins is on the
list, epileptis on the lists,PTSDs on the list, ms is on
the lists, cancers on the lists. There are twelve things that are on
the list, and if it's noton the list, we will find something
that's close to something on that list. Because everybody has something close to something

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on that list. Yeah, Sofor those who are listening and watch you,
we want to encourage you to goto the Florida Department of Health Office
of Medical Marijuana you uh page whichis called Nothefacts dot org, and you
can find information about how to qualifyand how to get a medical marijuana card
in the state of Florida. Actuallyis Know the Facts MMJ dot com the

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Florida offic Department of Health Office ofMedical Marijuana Use. So, doctor Tomorrow,
let's dig in a little bit andtalk about if someone is listening and
hearing this and you know, they'realready working with their you know, primary
care physician or their specialists, andthey're thinking, yeah, I think I
wanna I want to get a meala medical marijuana card. I want to

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have that conversation. How would youadvise them to talk to their physician about
this and and go about it ina way where they you know, again,
you know, we still have alot of stigma when it comes to
cannabis use and and such. Sohow would you advise them to have that
conversation with their physician. Well,you're after by people come in very nervous

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because of the stigma. Yeah,and I do my best to educate,
but I tell my patients that I'mgonna be honest. Most doctors don't know
about cannabis as much as I dobecause I got a personal stay here PTSD
from being a surgeon Alzheimer's cancer anddiabetes. You have to do your own

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research on your own. You gottafind a medical cannabis physician. Google it
is. You know, they gotall over the you know, all over
the country and is legal. Yougoogle a medical cannabis physician, medical maljuana
doctor. I use Candidis because maljuanais in some communities a racial slur.
Anyway, cannadis clinics are all overthe counties that cannabis is legal. And

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you have and look at the lookat what the reviewers are saying about,
look at the reviews about how mucheducation they get. Because as much as
patients told me that, I knowwhen my patients companies me, there is
Oh, there is education overload.But you have to take responsibility. Look

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up your diagnosis and look at whatcannabis can do for your diagnosis, because
I will tell you many people haveno clue after they leave the doctor's office.
My ex wife went to a cannabisclinic in San Antonio. The doctor
said that its dispensary will know whatyou need. That's that's that's irrational.

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It's not it's inaccurate. It's it'swrong because it's a hipo violation for the
people in the dispensary to know yourdiagnosis. They can advise you. It's
a doctor to give you some guideand it's up to you to get on
the website before you get to thedispensary and look up the cannaboids, skinnabinoids

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and turkeys that you need for yourdiagnosis before you get there. And there
are consoles tation rooms in every dispensary, and I'm sad to say that I
have never or rarely seeing anybody inthe consultation rooms in the dispensaries. Go
to the consultation rooms, but youhave to come there armed with your own

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information, which I post on myFacebook page, which I've been posting for
three and a half the years.So, doctor Tamar, when we're talking
about patients who have who have beendiagnosed with Alzheimer's or some form of dementia,
and a lot of times they're probablygoing to have a caregiver or a
family member or someone who supports themas they're going through this medical issue.

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What are the rules in Florida whenit comes to caregivers who are supporting a
patient who is using cannabis legally,the caregiver is going to be the one
that can take the products to thepatient, can purchase their products for the
patient. The patient has to registerwith the MNU and they have to have
proof of identification. They have toshow a lease agreement or a lease to

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show where they live and be arelative. I can be a family member
or family member. It can bea good friend, a lawyer, a
power of attorney, can be acaregiver. But they also have to show
their medical Malwana card that they're registeredas a yeregiver and the proof of their

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own identification. And of course theyhave to prove they live here. And
do you recommend that those caregivers alsodo some research too, so when they're
taking that patient into a dispensary,they are educated enough to know what to
help. Absolutely. Let me justtell you something. I've being my surgical
experience to this because when I wastraining at when I got into practice,

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we went to Ashairman's conference on howto Reduce How to reduce malpractice. The
people that are sitting there that arescared is because of this thing, but
they only hear twenty percent of whatI hear. You need to have a
healthcare advocate no matter where you go, even to a doctor's office. I
sometimes have to force people to comeinto the office with their partner so they

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can be to hear four years becauseit is so much information, you can't
give it out in fifteen minutes.Given that the elderly of the fastest growing
segment, it was en sane groupdoes read seven people of the sixty five
are the fastest growing segment. Usingcanabis that it's in pains is cheaper and

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you need People need to educate themselvesbefore they get there by getting on the
website of each dispensary and looking asto what you want and what you need
and not what's on sale, whichis more THC, which can be to
the point about THC. When youtake too much of it, it can
affect your memory, it can affectyour functioning, and that's why people that

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are young are just getting THC.When you need CBD as much as you
need THAC because CBD protects the brain. So tell me the difference between the
T the THHC, because that's thecompound that causes the high right correct.
TVD is the kind that kind ofcalms you, Is that right? So

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I'm gonna let you kind of tellthat because you're the doctor. I'm just
say okay, and believe me.All this is on my Facebook page.
CBD and THAC do the same thingstogether. They both releed pain, they
both belied anxiety and depression. Theyboth believe cancer. They both do over
two hundred things together. Along withCBG, CBN, THACD, cbccb DA,

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there are several cannabinoids. We havetwelve of them. They are over
one hundred and fifteen to plant.We don't know anything about the other one
hundred and thirty plus. You nellCBD during the day so you can focus,
concentrate, do daily activities, operatemachinery, go to oh study,
get good grades, be a bettermother and father, be a better person.

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Because CBD protects, CBD enhances theefficacy of the mitochondria, the powerhouse
of every cell in our body.I guess everybody remembers that. If not,
this is a review and THAC isresponsible for rest, repair, renewal,
and regeneration. That's why you needmore CBD during the day to focus,

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concentrate and do everything you need todo, and THAC at night to
rest, repair, renew and regenerate. That's what I learned in twente A
eighteen two years before I retired,that the end of cannabinoid system is what
he's my patience. Why do Itell my patients that they have to wait

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six weeks and so they can startlifting, pulling and pushing. That's because
they're waiting for the end ofcannabinoid systemto help them so they can now get
up and walk. Their appetite isbetter, eating better. They're eating better
because they've just had the trauma ofme operating on them, and the end
of the pentaminoi system restores us backto balance. He wos stasis. The

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end of penabinar system is the airtraffic controller of the fishboard operator, the
symphonic conductor. The mice show themotherboard to keep our systems best. To
repair, we new, we generate. We make new brain cells when we
sleep. That's why sleep is themost important part of wellness. Yeah,
the patients, you go out onState Road fifty on in Clarmont. And

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if you go to Brooksville, whatkeeps us brings us down from road bridge
when we're trying to make a Uturn and someone cuts us off. That
brings us down from set up,from sentence and depression. Why don't we
say I don't need to go tothe doctor. Why did I tell my
patients six weeks after surgery that theycan start lifting ponium pushing because they've reached
homeostasis balanced equilibrium in cannabis. Theend of panabular system that brings us back

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has an ormal anandamne in two aags, an almost exact reluctile structure the CBD
and THAC. There's no plant onthe planet closely through our own chemistry,
our own physiology is a plant betterfor us, are more natural to us.
Discovered by doctor Rothey Machulem and doctorBenchabad in nineteen eighty who going to
phrase the entorop effect, who discoveredantibiden two ag and the end of can

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have my system to godfaum. Soit's information overload and you have to do
your research ahead of time before youget there, put in your diagnosis and
hyphen put in your diagnosis hyphen howthis canbine is helped. That's how I
found everything I post. Yeah,yeah, So doctor tomorrow, I want

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to add a little bit of balanceto the conversation because I really loved how
you explain the difference between the CBDand the THC. And we're in Florida,
and if you drive down the street, you will see all these different
shops that are selling these CBD products, but they're not part of know the
Florida law that says if you getTHHC, you legally you have to go

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to a dispensary. So let's reallydig into educating our listeners and viewers about
the difference between the CBD that youmay get in a convenience store or an
infused drink or a gummy you knowthat you're getting, you know, and
I don't know gas stations, Imean they have them right there now at

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the desk, versus what you getin a dispensary. I tell my patients
that, uh, the cd D. Again, there are some people call
the entorong effect, so some ofall parts of the planet are greater impacts.
So when you go to the dispensary, you get A C B D
C D D T A c BT A C, you get A.
The flabinoids you get into terrapenes,you're getting cd C c B G c

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BN, and you're getting T Ac V and th A c A.
The point is you have to readyour labels. You have to get more
information. dB D, according tothe NIH, enhances the efficacy of the
mitochondria, the powerhouse of every sellin our body. And then the second

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paragraph and NIH THAC helps restore,renew, regenerate. You have to do
so much research on your own toknow what cannabina. It's not just the
CBD in the gas stations, setlems of supermarkets. They're essentially worthless because

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it's very it only has CBD andthe very very easy principle to remember,
given that there are one hundred andfifty cannabinoids in the plant, we only
know about twelve or twenty or so. At best. That's legal, but
it doesn't last very long because theauthor wage effect stas some of all parts

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of a plan have a greater impactthan any individual component. That's why there's
no I in team. Our ancestorstold us to use the whole plant.
All of our answers told us touse the whole plant, and the government
owns the patent there on CBD.In two thousand and one February second,
the government patented CBD which helped withHIV dementia in Alzheimer's, but not by

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itself because there's no I in team. I'm a detired surgeon. What could
I do without a team? That'sthe same thing with the authorage effect.
You have at least twelve pentapinoids andover two hundred turpens. You have to
do your own research because there isan over rumbling amount of information because cannabis

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can treat over two hundred medical andneurological conditions. It's on my Facebook page.
Yeah, so talk to tomorrow.One of the things that you referenced
that I think, you know,just to kind of put a pin on
for anyone that's listening, is thatwhen you do go to a dispensary or
whenever you order a product that hascannabis in it, there's a certificate of

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analysis that kind of tells you what'sin it. Right, So you talk
a little bit about that. Ithink that's important for folks to know when
they're what to use. Absolutely giventhat that terrapins are the most powerful part
of the plant. Truelyaf and Moveas far as I know, True Leaf
and Move has a see a WaveCertificate of Analysis button where you can look

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and see what can have a nooiseand what turpies and the percentage of peace
and all the tests that they areundergone to make sure it's pure. Thank
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