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Aaron Boster

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887 total appearances

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Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And what I want to find out is when did it kick in?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

When did it peak?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

When did it go away?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

What were the benefits and side effects?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And if you can answer those questions, I can help you dial it in like any other medicine.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And if five milligrams doesn't work, you don't want to be like a...

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

a 20 year old boy and then take another five and another 10, you know, and pretty soon you're going to have a really bad evening.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And so you keep notes and over a couple of days we can figure it out.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

So we use edibles to help with insomnia, to improve sleep, to help pain and spasticity overnight in a low dose during the day can help with anxiety.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And so we can use different routes of administration of cannabinoids to really target symptoms the same way that we do with Lyrica or Neurontin or Baclofen.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

I mean, these drugs that I just listed, they have side effects and they have tolerance and other things that are also important to grapple with.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And so I just view this as another tool to help us navigate through, you know, helping someone live their best life.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

I'll tell you a quick funny story, though.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

Years ago, before there was medical cannabis in the United States, I was at an international MS meeting.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And a bunch of investigators, we were all having coffee or whatnot.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And I was talking to this MS doctor from Israel.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And he said, in Israel, we give patients with MS rolled joints for free.

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And I said, really?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

Why?

Ologies with Alie Ward
Neuropathoimmunology (MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS) with Aaron Boster

And he looked at me like I was an idiot.