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Experts are testing a vaccine that could effectively teach the body to attack brain tumours and improve survival rates in children.
Find out more about The Front podcast here. You can read about this story and more on The Australian's website or on The Australian’s app.
This episode of The Front is presented and produced by Kristen Amiet and edited by Jasper Leak. Our regular host is Claire Harvey. The multimedia editor is Lia Tsamoglou and original music is composed by Jasper Leak.
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Hi, Welcome to the ECS Episode of the Medibis podcast series, Phyting Words.
Angus Chapel – Medibis CEO
Dr Evan Stephens – Medibis Scientific Advisor
DISCLAIMER – THIS IS NOT MEDICAL ADVICE – THIS IS SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION
ECS (Endogenous Cannabinoid System) basics
All of the systems throughout your body are constantly changing and working together to keep you in balance. Your body temperature is regulated using your skin, your breath and heart rate and modulated depending on the amount of energy you are using at any given time, your nervous system is modulated, the amount of adrenalin in your blood depends on your fight or flight response, your level of fear or excitement. All of these systems need to work together, and they do this very well considering there is no interference from the occupant of the body, it all happens innately.
Research is showing that the ECS is playing a very important part in this process, perhaps even controlling, to a degree, all of the body’s systems. For a localised pain event for example, the ECS may produce higher levels of anandamide and have it delivered to the area of the body that has reported the pain response. It may also send 2AG if inflammation has been detected at an unacceptable level.
Of course, there are limits to how much of these endocannabinoids can be manufactured by the body, the same as adrenalin for example. There must also be a consideration for the spill over effect into other systems of the body that, perhaps, may start to be compromised by excessive levels of a particular compound because at the end of the day, the body’s systems should be restored back to a balanced state.
Using an integrated system of signalling, the ECS is able to not only monitor but also communicate through signalling to almost every other system in the body. This is fundamental to our homeostasis. All animals work this way, so it’s part of our magnificent design. Food and nutrients are some of the tools that the ECS uses to properly do this job, as are endo and phyto-cannabinoids and other phyto-compounds. It is microscopic and thus has evaded detected for many years and is a relatively new discovery.
Because it has only been detected and recently understood, it doesn’t yet form part of the curriculum for a general practitioner, and there are few, if any, specialists for this system of the body. We have cardiovascular specialists, endocrine system specialists and almost all the other systems in the body except the ECS. It’s a huge discovery and a new frontier for science.
So let’s go digging …….
What is the ECS?
CB1 and CB2 and Discuss specifics like TRPV1 and PPAR nuclear receptor proteins, FABP, etc.
Also, enzymes e.g. FAAH, MAGL.
Interactions by AEA, OD, AD.
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FABP1
Fatty acid amide hydrolase - Wikipedia
Monoacylglycerol lipase - Wikipedia
Much of the research started since the 1990s and 2000s.a
8 different dietary lipids.
ECS discovery. Why did it take so long to discover the ECS? What did we used to think was happening with homeostasis?
Molecular biology tools (roughly from the 1980s, generally biology is much more complicated than chemistry)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Mechoulam
Professor Raphael Mechoulam from the School of Pharmacology in the Faculty of Medicine at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is one of two winners of the esteemed Harvey Prize for his ground-breaking research in the world of medicinal cannabis. His studies in this field have given the entire world a new perspective on cannabis as a healing plant, rather than just a recreational drug.
Prof. Mechoulam was born in Bulgaria (1930), where he studied chemical engineering. After immigrating to Israel he received his M.Sc. in biochemistry from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. at the Weizmann Institute and completed his postdoctoral studies at the Rockefeller Institute in New York. In 1960 he joined the junior staff of the Weizmann Institute, and in 1985 he became a professor at the Hebrew University.
He is the first scientist to isolate plant cannabinoids, first CBD (cannabidiol) then THC (tetrahydrocannabinol) and he also is the first to discover the human endocannabinoid system, which is a complex cell-signalling system made up of receptors found throughout our entire bodies. These receptors react to plant cannabinoids to treat numerous conditions we suffer from. All living creatures except insects have an endocannabinoid system.
David (Dedi) Meiri – Behind the smokescreen of medicinal cannabis
https://www.ted.com/talks/dedi_meiri_behind_the_smokescreen_of_medical_cannabis
What does it do? How does it work?
Activated dietary lipids and similarities to phyto-cannabinoids
Metabolic disease – ECS tone
Cannabinoids
Housing cannabinoids and 500+ compounds, cannabinoids, flavonoids and terpenoids.
Aging, diet, and lifestyle effects.
Senescent cells and SASPs
Quality of life
The start low and go slow idea is not dissimilar to common dosing schedules, and this is to determine tolerability. There are some people in very low numbers who are unable to tolerate cannabis. We can measure this using genomic sequencing.
Whilst THC has many cited medicinal applications, and replicates Anandamide throughout the ECS, the Side effect of THC can be intoxication or euphoria. What we know now through research is that we can improve the bioavailability of THC by adding CBD as this p...
Stephen Wilson is an adjunct professor at the University of Queensland, and the author of a recent report on the future of nuclear energy in Australia. In this episode, Wilson talks about the “church of electricity free markets,” why coal continues to be a dominant fuel for electricity production, the attraction of the “romantic poetry of renewable energy,” and why regulators must play a bigger role in managing electric grids. (Recorded August 11, 2022.)
In episode 2 of Phyting Words - Phyto-Compounds, we're joined by Evan Stephens, Lead Scientific Advisor at Medibis, and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland. We discuss the cannabis plant, the compounds produced by the plant, and how they are recognised as powerful medicines. We also define the different varieties of cannabis and why this is important, along with plant health, terpenoids, and flavonoids.
Show notes and links:
Wormwood (Artemisia annua) contains several compounds, one of which is artemisinin. In the 1970s it was demonstrated to have capacity to treat malaria. One of the scientists (Tu Youyou) responsible for the discovery was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine many years later in 2015. Millions of lives have been saved through this discovery. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/summary/ Today some of the most effective therapies for malaria are still based upon this discovery in the 1970s.
There’s an opportunity to briefly make the distinction here between Pharmacognosy and other traditional plant therapies that may not have been substantiated with clinical or laboratory-based evidence.
Pharmacognosy is the study of plants or other natural sources as a possible source of drugs. The American Society of Pharmacognosy defines pharmacognosy as "the study of the physical, chemical, biochemical, and biological properties of drugs, drug substances, or potential drugs or drug substances of natural origin as well as the search for new drugs from natural sources".[1]
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In our first Phyting Words podcast episode - Patient Access, Angus Chapel, Managing Director, and Kristy Hunter, Marketing Manager, discuss the issues surrounding medicinal cannabis access in Australia. We also discuss how we hope to help solve some of them.
Show links:
Theraphttps://www.tga.gov.au/sites/default/files/tga-infographic-how-to-access-medicinal-cannabis.pdf
https://www.tga.gov.au/community-qa/medicinal-cannabis-products-patient-information
https://www.medigreenaustralia.com.au/
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Our guest in this episode is Dr Sarel Gronum (Business School at the University of Queensland), whose Masters students get thrown into proper, several week long, consultancy projects with real world business clients. Besides the challenge of building this flagship course and how he had to fine tune his own teaching role within it, Sarel talks about the centrality of ambiguity and ‘trench warfare’ for student learning.
In this episode, we talk to A/Prof Allison Mandrusiak (School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at The University of Queensland).
Coordinating a cardiorespiratory physiotherapy course, Allie has built a model hospital to replicate real clinical practices and even lets her student play cardio karaoke. But central to Allie’s teaching are the ideas of building scaffolding and safety nets into her course that help reassure her students, reduce uncertainty, and build their confidence and competence. Tune in and listen to the tips and tricks from Allie whose teaching was recognized with a UQ excellence award last year.
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Paula Jarzabkowski is a professor at the University of Queensland Business School.
You can find her on LinkedIn or follow her on twitter @ProfJarz.
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