Dr. Matt Walker

So THC, I think is not to be advised right now.

CBD is interesting.

I don't think there's enough data yet for us to have a very strong opinion, but I can at least offer mine.

The data so far is a little bit mixed in what we call the effect size.

In other words, how reliable and how powerful is the benefit of CBD on sleep?

But it does seem to have some benefit

What's interesting is that it doesn't seem to have the detriments that I just described for THC.

You've got to be looking at the data a little bit careful with CBD.

It has what's called a U-shaped function to it, which is that if you're taking too little, and again, I really am so mindful of not trying to be, okay, here are the numbers.

But if you look at them, I would say, you know, kind of cross your eyes, squint your eyes, maybe less than 10%.

25 milligrams, you run into the danger of CBD being wake promoting rather than sleep promoting.

But once you get past, if you look ish, 50 milligrams and above, then you start to go in the opposite direction where it seems to be sleep promoting.

And I mentioned that just because at least here in the United States and in many places in the world,

that industry is not regulated.

So it may say 50 milligrams on the bottle.

You don't really know.

Now, some of those companies will have what's called third-party laboratory testing where they'll send it out and you can scan a QRI code and you can look at an independent laboratory that tested it and show you the purity of it.

So that may be one way to go.

So CBD, I think has some favorable evidence right now.

If that's the case, let's just assume that you and I speak in another five years time and there's really good data now for this.