How to Use CBD Products -What to Get and How Much to Take

Before I start his weeks blurb, here’s what Ann Adams had to say about my Teplitz Blurbs – 

“I love to get your weekly reports. I had the good fortune to listen to you at a Century 21 meeting a few years ago in Myrtle Beach. It was earth shaking!!!!”

Thanks, Ann. It’s always fun for me to get positive feedback about what I do especially when it’s years after a program!

So, now for this week’s CBD Blurb:

CBD products are gaining more and more validity as a way to ease pain, anxiety and inflammation.

But there are questions about what to get and how much to use. I know I’ve had those kinds of questions and I had to rely on the employee in the store and hope that they really knew what they were talking about.

This information I’m going to share with you is from an expert on CBD, Dustin Sulak, DO. He’s been using CBD as a medicine in his practice sine 2009. He now specializes in medical cannabis and is the author of Handbook for Cannabis for Clinicians: Principles and Practice.

So, let’s answer some questions that you may have by using his expertise.

First, he recommends using a broad or full-spectrum product because it has the full range of constituents in hemp, and they work synergistically. He says they outperform isolated CBDs. 

Second, use isolates when you can’t have THC showing up in your system as for example if you need to submit to drug tests.

Third, look for a product that has a third-party certificate of analysis and use organically grown products.

Forth, look for a product that tells you how much CBD is in each drop, pill, etc. and not just the whole bottle.

Fifth, take your dose with a meal as the CBD is absorbed up to five times better with food (because of this one, I’m changing when I take my CBD capsule).

Sixth, if you’re taking drops, place them under your tongue or between your cheek and gums and hold it there for one to two minutes.

Seven, to use it for sleep, increase your bedtime dose from two to four times what you typically take during the day.

Eight, if you’re taking other medications, ask your doctor to use a drug interaction checker to see if CBD is negatively interacting with the drug(s) you’re taking (you can also Google drug interaction checker and check for yourself).

HOW TO FIND THE BEST DOSE

Here’s what Dr. Sulak recommends. With a gummy or pill, start with a 5 mg dose, once or twice a day. You can increase your dose every 2 days by 5 mg until you start to feel beneficial effects. At that point, stop increasing the dose and stay at the same dose for a week. 

He’s also found that after starting to feel the beneficial effects over time the benefits will increase. 

After a week, you can continue increasing by 5 mg every other day until you’re not seeing any additional benefits.

If you start to notice the positive effects wear off too early in the day, add another dose or two to get to the ideal level.

Dr. Sulak finds that the optimum amount for most people is 5 to 20 mg per day. However, if you’re still not getting the results you want, he recommends adding CBDA to what you’re taking.

So, now you can walk into a CBD store and know what you’re doing!!(Reported Bottom Line Health, November 2022)