Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig’s disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the neurons progressively in your brain and spinal cord. These neurons are responsible for sending messages from your brain and spinal cord and voluntary muscles, like the muscles in your arms and legs. This disease can cause very severe problems such as your ability to speak, eat, move and breathe.
There are two types of ALS, sporadic and familial. The most common form of the disease in the U.S. is sporadic and accounts from 90% to 95% of all the cases in America. Anyone can be affected by this type of ALS. Familial ALS is estimated to be 5% to 10% of cases in the U.S., and this type of the disease is always inherited.
The disease was discovered in 1869 by French neurologist Jean-Martin Charcot, and has been estimated that more than 20,000 Americans are living with ALS. This disease usually strikes people from the age of 40 to 70 and for unknown reasons, military veterans are twice as likely to receive diagnose of ALS.
As symptoms start to show, people with ALS begin to have trouble walking, speaking, and writing. The symptoms will also to begin to create muscle weakness, abnormal fatigue of the arms and legs, and several other issues involving muscle control. Lou Gehrig’s disease will affect each person differently, and eventually, those with the disease will lose their strength and stop moving. There is no cure for this disease, only medical treatments for prolonging survival and symptom management. Most people pass 3 to 10 years after receiving diagnose of ALS, and it is usually from respiratory failure.
Recent scientific understanding regarding the use of medical cannabis for the treatment of many diseases has really taken off in the last decade alone. Studies have indicated that marijuana has a plethora of neuroprotective elements, is a powerful antioxidant, and a great anti-inflammatory. In several ALS studies, this translated to a slower progression of the disease, delayed onset, and prolonged neuronal cell survival.
Cannabis has shown to do incredible things in helping with ALS symptoms. Marijuana helps with analgesia, muscle relaxation, bronchodilation, saliva reduction, depression, appetite stimulation and sleep induction. Patients with ALS experienced relief of their symptoms after smoking cannabis, according to a study published in the March/April issue of the American Journal of Palliative Care. However, patients said that cannabis was ineffective in reducing speech problems and issues with swallowing.
In several different preclinical trials, the administration of marijuana showed benefits for symptom management and delay of ALS. Consequently, experts are asking now for clinical trials to assess the efficacy of cannabis in delaying the progression of the disease. In 2016, authors of a review posted in the journal Neural Regeneration Research said that “There is a valid rationale to propose the use of cannabinoid compounds in the pharmacological management of ALS patients.” Hopefully, clinical trials with cannabis will soon progress further and testify the efficacy of marijuana for ALS.
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