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Hey doc, do you know what kind of effects marijuana has if any on insulin, lepitin, cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, etc?
100% agree. My research being what I see throughout college...From my research, people create the problems the marijuana is blamed for.
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Effects of marijuana on testosterone in male su... [J Theor Biol. 1983] - PubMed - NCBI
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I am not sure about any of that lol but what i have heard that it is good for weight loss. People say that you get the munchies after you smoke the ganja and you just want to eat eat eat eat! But if you hold off that temptation and not eat after you smoke your metabolism kicks in and i heard you can lose some serious weight. My cousin who smokes weed every single day! Is ripped and skinny as fuh its crazy cause the kid has like bags of skittle sour patch kids and potato chips always in his room munchin on em... and he works out maybe 2-3 times a week.Hey doc, do you know what kind of effects marijuana has if any on insulin, lepitin, cortisol, testosterone, estrogen, etc?
Keep going, convince me. Please, for the love of god, convince me.I'm not sure the 28 year old study is the best reference for this one...
Thanks for posting up all those studies. Now, when I argue with my friends that using chronic chronically (see what i just did lol) may have a negative impact, depending on the individual, I can actually have a good set of references that I can look up with a few clicks. I knew that marijuana does raise cortisol, but what I'm wondering is how much does it raise it if one were to use marijuana say 5x a week compared to once a week, and ONLY after workouts; seeing as how cortisol is spiked naturally after workouts.And I can go on and on with posting studies and offering interjection, but I think we should stop and summarize on the effects of the hormones that were listed in post #1.
1. Testosterone: Mixed - most current studies suggest LOWERING of T levels, but studies through the 90s did NOT suggest such a pattern - they SAID NO CHANGE, studies before the 90s also said LOWERING - lot of reasons likely behind the discrepency (populations studied; different metabolic processing / metabolites; and so on...). Also a significant bias on the part of the researchers likely explains some of the trends.
2. Estrogen: RAISES (pretty unanimous in the endocrine disruptor literature)
3. Leptin/Ghrelin, other appetite hormones: RAISES (again pretty unanimous)
4. Cortisol: RAISES (again pretty unanimous); this one is interesting and NOT surprising at all given the appetite control data. Please don't view cortisol elevations as inherently BAD all the time.
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Well said (you, cooper, the doc)Thanks for posting up all those studies. Now, when I argue with my friends that using chronic chronically (see what i just did lol) may have a negative impact, depending on the individual, I can actually have a good set of references that I can look up with a few clicks. I knew that marijuana does raise cortisol, but what I'm wondering is how much does it raise it if one were to use marijuana say 5x a week compared to once a week, and ONLY after workouts; seeing as how cortisol is spiked naturally after workouts.
I think for the most part those studies do not reflect the matter in which we are after...and that is how it effects young-middle aged males, who engage in mild-high level activities, 3-5x a week. I think for most of us on this board, that would describe us pretty well. I'd like to see a study on those factors and see what happens with the hormone panel then. I think there would be a significant difference as far as negative effects go. Of course it would be nice if all volunteers would only be allowed to use a certain type of supplement(s) too because let's face it, someone that's using chronic on a cycle is less likely to experience low test levels than someone who isn't; but who knows I may be completely wrong due to the changes in the HPTA from both kinds of substances (PHs/DS and marijuana). Which is why it is absolutely critical for all volunteers to be on the same exact protocol to get a definitive answer, and to, of course, have a control group.
But seeing as how I don't expect that study to ever be performed in the U.S. any time soon, I guess we'll all have to just get our own bloods done and see what happens, heh.
Oh and btw, I don't have anything against marijuana. Like mr.cooper69 said, a lot of people like to create the problems marijuana is blamed for, and I have to say, I completely agree. And like we say on this board, too much of a good thing can be a bad thing or rather, too much of anything can be a bad thing.
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