The past three years have put a spotlight on the immune system and ways to improve immune function. Even if Covid weren’t front and center in our day-to-day lives, there’s still a plethora of cold and flu variants we face — particularly now, as we head into the cold weather months. We’re all looking for ways to stay healthy, and CBD can help! CBD’s interaction with the body’s endocannabinoid system brings with it a variety of health and wellness benefits. And matched with the right supplements, it can be an excellent base ingredient for immune system support products.
In this article, we’ll look at how your immune system works, and we’ll examine ways that hemp-derived cannabidiol (CBD) can bolster your immune system. Finally, we’ll take a look at five exceptional products for supporting immune system health.
How Does Your Immune System Work?
The immune system is a complex network in your body, consisting of cells, tissues, organs, and the substances they generate to help fight infections and other diseases. The immune system includes white blood cells, as well as the organs and tissues of the lymph system, including the lymph nodes, lymph vessels, thymus, spleen, tonsils, and bone marrow.
When the body is invaded by toxins or other foreign substances, called antigens, the immune system senses them and triggers an immune response, producing antibodies to fight off the invasion. These antibodies (immunoglobulins) lock onto specific antigens so that T cells and other helpful cells can finish them off. The antibodies linger in our bodies afterward, in case we have to fight the same invaders again (think chicken pox). Antibodies can also neutralize toxins produced by different organisms and activate a group of proteins from the immune system, called complement. Complement helps to wipe out bacteria, viruses, and infected cells. This whole system together helps protect the body against disease. We call this protection, “immunity.”
How Can CBD Help With Immune Function?
CBD is one of a group of compounds, called cannabinoids, which are produced by the cannabis plant. Your body creates its own cannabinoids, as well, which are called endocannabinoids. These are part of a cell-signaling system called the endocannabinoid system, or ECS. This system helps the body to maintain homeostasis, or balance, in a number of organs and systems throughout the body, including the brain and nervous system. This, in turn, helps to regulate a number of important functions, including immune function, as well as sleep, mood, memory, stress, appetite, motor control, pain, and much more.
When you ingest CBD and other cannabinoids, they mimic your body’s own endocannabinoids, signaling to the same receptors and bolstering your body’s ability to maintain homeostasis. This helps the body, then, to regulate all of those important functions — including immune system function.
What Are the Best CBD Products for Immunity?
We carry a number of CBD immune and wellness products. These CBD products not only contain organic cannabidiol, but also a wealth of natural ingredients, promoting good health and immunity.
CBD Gummies With Mushrooms for Wellness
Our CBD Gummies With Mushrooms were formulated to help boost your immune system and provide a bevy of healthful nutrients. With 50 mg of CBD per serving, you’re already getting plenty of CBD benefits. But we add to this seven adaptogenic and nootropic mushrooms, including chaga, cordyceps, lion’s mane, maitake, reishi, turkey tail, and shiitake mushrooms — each with their own immunity, stress, and wellness benefits. And with a delicious, natural berry flavor in every CBD gummy, you won’t even realize you’re eating mushrooms.
CBD Gummies With Apple Cider Vinegar
Our CBD Gummies With Apple Cider Vinegar are a great way to provide dietary support and promote a healthy gut. While the science hasn’t yet shown that apple cider vinegar is effective in fighting off viruses, it does have antimicrobial properties and can destroy bacteria, yeasts, and fungal infections. These surprisingly delicious CBD gummies also contain pomegranate, which is an effective antioxidant, and vitamin B12, which has long been known to boost energy and immune function.
CBD Gummies With Turmeric & Spirulina
With our CBD Gummies with Turmeric & Spirulina, we’ve combined wellness-boosting cannabidiol with two powerful superfoods. While turmeric and spirulina are renowned for the nutrients they possess, they also are excellent antioxidants and anti-inflammatories. As your body performs functions, like immunity and other natural processes, it releases free radicals as a kind of destructive agent. This is normal and healthy. But when those free radicals grow out of balance, they can lead to tissue damage and potentially serious diseases. Antioxidants neutralize free radicals, keeping your body in balance and protecting it from injuring itself.
Focus Mushroom Tincture + CBD + CBG
Our CBD Focus Mushroom Tincture delivers the brain-boosting energy and stress-busting support of nootropic and adaptogenic mushrooms, along with wellness-boosting cannabidiol and the “Mother of All Cannabinoids,” CBG. CBG (cannabigerol) is a potent cannabinoid, known for boosting overall wellness, as well as delivering energy to help you start your day. It’s also a great anti-inflammatory supplement. CBD Focus Mushroom Oil makes a great addition to any morning health regimen.
CBD Oil Wellness Tincture
CBD Oil Wellness Tincture is another potent CBD oil that contains healthful CBG. Like our CBD Focus Mushroom Tincture, our CBD Oil Wellness Tincture features broad spectrum CBD. Broad spectrum CBD oil contains nearly all of the cannabinoids, flavonoids, and terpenes of the hemp plant, but with the THC filtered out. This robust CBD oil allows the user to experience the “Entourage Effect,” which is a phenomenon wherein multiple cannabis compounds, when consumed together, actually bolster one another’s effects — making your cannabidiol work harder for you!
Final Thoughts on Cannabidiol for Immune System Support
Because of cannabidiol’s beneficial effect on the endocannabinoid system, CBD makes a wonderful supplement for bolstering the human immune system. If you’re looking to boost your immune system, it’s important to not only find CBD products that are packed with complementary natural ingredients, but also to find a CBD brand that insists on purity and potency in their products.
Because hemp can absorb things like pesticides and heavy metals from the soil, it’s vital that you find a CBD company that uses organic hemp for all of their CBD products. And that CBD should be extracted with clean CO2, which doesn’t leave behind potentially toxic residues like some solvents can. Lastly, it’s important that every CBD product you buy is backed with a Certificate of Analysis, which is a report from an independent, third-party laboratory that not only tells you how much CBD, THC, and other cannabinoids are in your product, but also alerts you to the presence of any toxic compounds.
At CBDfx, your safety and satisfaction are our top priorities. We hope that you found this article on CBD and the immune system informative. We encourage you to try one of our immune system CBD products today and #FeelTheDifference!
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