Tourette’s Syndrome can be a life altering condition that affects more than 200,000 people a year. While this condition can not be cured, there are many ways to help lower the symptom and give you a better quality of life. In this blog, we will discuss Tourette’s Syndrome and CBD. What they are and how they interact with each other.

Tourette Syndrome is a condition that affects the nervous system, which creates sudden and uncontrollable movements, twitches, sounds, or compulsions in the body. Symptoms of Tourette’s Syndrome can range from mild to severe, and usually show up in the form of motor or vocal “tics.” The Center for Disease Control estimates that 1 in 160 children between the ages of 5-17 are affected by Tourette Syndrome and that boys are three to five times more likely to be diagnosed with the disorder than girls. Because Tourette Syndrome is often genetic, researchers believe that familial genes contribute heavily to the onset of this disorder. However, it is possible that an interaction of various factors, both genetic and environmental, leads to Tourette Syndrome. Exposure to stressors such as smoking during pregnancy is one possible environmental risk for the inception of Tourette Syndrome. Additionally, complications during pregnancy, such as low birth weight or the use of forceps during delivery could contribute to this disorder as well. Newer studies are now looking at the effects of psychosocial stress on tic severity to understand how an individual affected by Tourette’s can be impacted by his/her environment.

Motor tics can include blinking, facial distortion, the jerking of the head or limbs, shoulder shrugging, and mouth twitching. Vocal tics can include shouting, grunts, throat clearing, sniffling, and even swearing. These tics can range in severity, reaching from mild to severe and are affected by stress, sickness, or change in emotion. Tics are not controllable and usually, involve a repetitive action. These symptoms usually start during childhood and can fade or even disappear with age.

So how is CBD able to affect this condition? Is it a positive or negative effect? Well, let us look into CBD’s capabilities to dive into the answer. CBD is the acronym for cannabidiol, one of the many cannabinoids, or chemical compounds, found in marijuana and hemp. You are probably already acquainted with tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, which is another compound found in the plant and its main psychoactive component. Unlike THC, CBD is non-psychoactive, and brings many different healing properties. Those being the ability to reduce anxiety, pain, inflammation, stress, depression, and many other conditions. There are products even specialized for specific conditions, such as the SoCal Peach Rings that can be used for very sudden anxiety and stress. Or our AHS 750mg Tincture that is specialized to help reduce anxiety, stress, and depression. This CBD oil blend being created around the ongoing pandemic in 2020/2021.