Welcome to Green Stem CBD. If you’ve arrived at this page, you’ve either heard of CBD and are curious to find out more about its amazing benefits or you’ve been using it for a while and would like to know more about how CBD works. Either way, you’re about to discover why over 6 million people in the UK have already tried CBD and how 1.3 million of those, and rising, have regularly incorporated CBD into their everyday lives.
You may be unfamiliar with CBD, but you’re certain to have heard of the cannabis plant. There are dozens of strains of this leafy, green shrub-like plant, of which perhaps the most famous is marijuana. The other most prevalent variety is hemp, which has been cultivated for centuries for a variety of uses including ropes and textiles, paper and biofuel.
What all varieties of cannabis plant share in common is their abundance of cannabinoids: chemical compounds that interact with the body and other biosystems in a variety of ways. Marijuana is rich in THC (tetrahydrocannabinol), the psychoactive compound known for getting the user ‘high’ and is most commonly used recreationally, although it is also now widely used for medicinal purposes. Hemp, meanwhile, is brimming with CBD, also known as Cannabidiol, which does not affect the user cognitively in any way, as has been proven by countless scientific studies.
While both plants share these chemical compounds, and a host of other beneficial cannabinoids as well as terpenes, vitamins and fatty acids, they are cultivated in such a way so that marijuana contains far more THC than CBD, and hemp contains predominantly CBD and only trace elements of THC. This is reduced even further during the CBD extraction process, so that the end product presents no risk of a psychoactive reaction. In short, CBD is safe to use for practically everybody.
The remarkable thing about cannabinoids is that they are found naturally in many biosystems, not only within cannabis. In fact, our bodies also produce cannabinoids as a result of something called the endo-cannabinoid system (ECS), a network of chemicals and receptors that plays a subtle yet influential role in maintaining our general health and wellbeing. If you hadn’t heard of the ECS before, you’re in good company. Little was known about it until the 1990s when restrictions on scientific research into cannabis were relaxed. A great deal has since been discovered about the ECS with more revelations emerging all the time.
The ECS helps to support and regulate a variety of functions within the human body, through receptors present in most of the major organs, the immune system, the nervous system and peripheral tissues and organs. Those functions include the body’s pain responses, mood, appetite, sleep, recovery from inflammation and exertion, energy levels and much more. Cannabinoids like CBD bind to the endocannabinoid receptors, activating and promoting their effects upon the body.
After that, it all gets rather scientific the more you explore about the ECS, but the important thing to know is that the ECS seems to exist solely for the purpose of helping the body’s various systems achieve homeostasis: that is, optimal balance and performance. By introducing CBD to the ECS, through a variety of wonderful methods that we’ll get to in a moment, you’re effectively encouraging your ECS to get to work supporting, repairing and maintaining a multitude of functions that have a tangible impact upon our daily lives and wellbeing.
While medical science has not yet provided conclusive proof of CBD’s positive benefits for human health, there is a wealth of compelling research and anecdotal testimony that supports the use of CBD in treating a wide variety of ailments:
- Insomnia
- Depression
- Acne
- Anxiety
- Migraine Relief
- Arthritis
- Inflammatory pain
- Muscle-spasticity in multiple sclerosis
- Nausea and vomiting associated with cancer treatment
- Epilepsy
Medical trials have already produced a CBD-based drug called Epidiolex for the treatment of seizures and was successfully trialled on child patients at Great Ormond Street Hospital. Those results led to FDA approval and signified a potentially seismic shift in the level of esteem the US Food and Drug Agency holds cannabis derivatives like CBD for further research.
We source our CBD from hemp grown at high altitudes in the perfect climate of Colorado USA, where clean mountain air, nourishing soil, bountiful sunshine and the purest water filtered through the Rockies over thousands of years create the ideal conditions for extracting the best CBD in the world.
Once the hemp has been cultivated we extract the CBD using a CO2 process which uses pressurised carbon dioxide (CO2) to ‘pull’ CBD from the plant and separate it from the psychoactive compound, the THC, in the plant. This ensures our CBD is completely free of THC and other impurities, making it not only safe to use but highly effective at supporting your health and wellbeing.
We then incorporate this premium CBD into a range of fantastic products fused with gorgeous aesthetics and fragrances that help make Green Stem CBD an effective and attractive complement to your lifestyle.
It’s little wonder that our innovative approach to CBD garnered us several of the industry’s top awards in 2019, at the UK Hemp and CBD Expo, including:
- 1st Place for “Best CBD Oil” for our Seville Orange-flavoured CBD oral drops
- 1st Place for “Best CBD Oil” for our Black Cherry Flavoured CBD Oil
- 1st Place for “Best Inhalable CBD” for our Apple & Raspberry CBD E-Liquid
- 1st Place for “Best CBD Cosmetic” for our CBD Lip Balm Natural
- 1st Place for Best Packaging
You’re sure to find a product that perfectly suits your lifestyle at Green Stem CBD, but it’s worth taking a moment to discuss how best to take CBD with a look at ‘bioavailability’. This fancy name merely describes the degree of absorption of CBD into the bloodstream across a range of delivery methods. The two methods with the best bioavailability are sublingual and inhalation. Sublingual refers to placing a drop or two of CBD oil under the tongue (sublingually), while inhalation means absorbing CBD through the lungs via a CBD vaping liquid. Both are great methods for absorbing CBD, but you can achieve wonderful results via other forms of CBD including tasty gummies and relaxing skin creams and bath bombs.
Taking CBD in a concentration that produces tangible benefits for you is usually the result of a simple process of experimentation. The important thing to remember is that even at higher doses – around 600mg a day – CDB has been proven safe to consume across a multitude of clinical studies, and the World Health Organisation has concluded that CBD is “generally well tolerated, with a good safety profile”. The other thing to remember is that our bodies are unique to each of us and so we all absorb and metabolise supplements like CBD differently, based on a number of factors such as age, sex, weight, and whether you’re taking other medications.
So, with Green Stem CBD products ranging in CBD concentrations as low as 10mg (a single fruit gummy) up to 6000mg (a 30ml bottle of CBD oil), we provide you with every opportunity to experiment to find the right dose for you, in the form that best suits your lifestyle; edible, sublingual, topical or vape.
As a general rule of thumb, when starting to take CBD for the first time it may be best to start with a medium or low dose, with a 1000mg or 500mg bottle of Green Stem CBD Oil oral drops for example, assess how you feel after a few days of use and titrate up or down in dose in order to achieve the benefits you seek.
When buying CBD, you want to be assured that the product you’ve chosen contains the specified dose and has fully met the highest standards of quality and safety. In other words, you want to choose a company like Green Stem CBD.
The CBD industry has grown incredibly rapidly over the last few years in a constant race to keep pace with the justifiable excitement the public feels about CBD and it’s enormous potential to support everyday wellbeing and soothe a variety of ailments. Unfortunately, legislation has been somewhat slower to catch up, either being too prohibitive and stifling the transmission of clear, helpful information about CBD’s benefits, or failing to enforce existing regulations, allowing for some disreputable suppliers to make false claims about their products.
Fortunately for consumers, we at Green Stem CBD strive to embody the highest standards for our industry. Green Stem uses only the purest CBD extracted from sustainably-sourced hemp from Colorado, USA. To ensure our products are THC-free, we stringently test them to demonstrate a “non-detect” level, and we can provide Certificates of Analysis for all our products so you can be assured of the highest quality formulation across the entire Green Stem range.
CBD: Cannabidiol
A chemical compound found in high concentrations in hemp. Interacts with the endocannabinoid system.
Cannabis
A plant with many strains including hemp and marijuana.
Hemp
A plant belonging to the cannabis family. Cultivated for industrial uses such as textiles and paper, as well as CBD extraction.
Marijuana
A plant belonging to the cannabis family. Contains THC compound used for a recreational ‘high’. Also has medicinal applications.
Bioavailability
The percentage of CBD that is actually absorbed into the bloodstream.
CBD Oil
A broad-spectrum CBD extract suspended in a carrier oil, usually coconut oil. Applied with a pipette under the tongue (sublingually.)
CBD Oral Drops
See CBD Oil
CBD Vaping Liquid
A CBD isolate suspended in a nicotine-free solution of vegetable glycerin and propylene glycol, often with added flavourings. Inhaled using a vape device.
We hope that this guide has given you enough knowledge to start your CBD journey with confidence. There’s much more to find out here at Green Stem CBD with useful blogs and handy tips within our product pages.
We’re always on hand to share our passion for CBD and to help you if you want to ask us anything about this remarkable product. Simply contact us via email at customer.services@greenstemcbd.com or call 0800 6 441 111 (Mon-Fri 9am-5.30pm.)
