interesting enough, to publish and to call for more definitive, well-defined human clinical trials to see is there some therapeutic potential. we don t know the answer to that question until we have those trials. right. a lot more that s not known yet. cbd is associated with marijuana, but it s not the thc that people think of that gets you high. your literature suggests you re dealing with people who were taking it any way. in plain english, if possible, can you tell us what sit about cbd that did seem to work? yeah. so our body has genes that fight virus infection. and cbd activated those genes. and additional, it turned off some of these bad players in the hyper inflammation. so it might be that cbd can work at both stages of the covid disease process. and finally, i just want to emphasis this, because there s so much information out there, and this is an interesting
study. we talked to a lot of people. we were one of the people that tried the vaccine when it was experimental before all those studies. if someone reads about this online and says oh, that means they want to then try to take cbd or marijuana to deal with covid prevention, that s wrong because why? so two reasons. first of all, we showed that thc, the active component marijuana clocks cbd s ability to work. so marijuana and our results should not have any effect. and the second reason, of course, cbd is no substitute for preventative things that work like vaccines and masks and preventing serious disease. so it should. take the place of those better characterized approaches. got it. i ve got to say, for a scientist, you re pretty understandable. that s a journalistic tip of the
turning to the latest on covid, there are signs that omicron is fading, infections are declining across the u.s., while deaths continue to rise. there is plenty of covid to go around. in fact, we continue to see different lab studies deal with learning about this evolving and mutating virus. there s a new one raising lots of interest. 33 scientists finding that cbd can prevent covid from replicating. they observed real-life patients. experts say a clinical trial could be needed to draw conclusions. this is a study about learning what s working, it is not advice about what to take to fight covid at this juncture. now, one of the researchers from the cbd study joins us right now. glenn randall is a professor at the university of chicago. welcome.
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hi, ari. nice to be on. what did your study find? yeah. so we started looking at cbd because it has some antiinflammatory functions and we thought it would prevent the later stages of disease where disease goes haywire. we tested it and to our surprise, it directly blocks virus replication among cells. and so we tested it in animal models with our colleagues at the university of louisville. and animals taking cbd had significantly less replication. and there are patients who take cbd. it s an fda approved version, not oils, to treat epilepsy. and comparing patient records of those with other epileptic patients not taking cbd, there was a lot less cbd in the patient population. with that, we thought