Does CBD Give Athletes an Edge?

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A welcome back to G we're talking about the CBD give athletes an edge. So Rick, what do you think? million dollar question?

per set? Yes. And it is a million dollars. Sometimes it's a $10 million question. Right? Absolutely. 100%. Yes. Professional athletes, college athletes. And for people like me now. Right? The Weekend Warrior athlete.

Right? Those are the those are the most important ones, because those ones tend to get injured and need to recover for work the next week.

We're the moms and dads. That's right. Right,

exactly. So what is it about CBD that are making so many athletes turn to age to really improve their performance?

Yeah, so you know, I think it's, it's learning, right? So learning and the understanding now and the spin booth in the United States anyway, right? Four to five years of the benefit of understanding CBD, and it becoming more popular and safer for athletes. You know, all five major sports organizations, United States, you know, NFL, Major League baseball, hockey, a Major League Soccer, and basketball, basketball, National Basketball Association, thank you, all five may have endorsed CBD right. 100% if it's safe and pure without any THC, 100% endorse and in fact, about, you know, in July, roughly around in July 2022 Major League Baseball came out and said, we now in all 32 cities all over franchises. 100. So 100% support and endorse you getting CBD sponsorships and using it for your athletes. That's a huge thing. So why like why now? Right? Yeah, CBD, you know, safe CBD without the THC that's pure and consistent. It has been shown to help reduce pain, inflammation, you know, general stress and anxiety in the bodies, and just overall wellness. Now, think about you know, why do you want to reduce inflammation so quickly, right, right for pain because you get a pain in your in your elbow, for example. And then it becomes it's just a small little pain then becomes inflamed? Well then if you don't take care of it, and you're and you're an athlete, you using that every single day, you're swinging a bat, you're getting hit carrying a football or whatever, throwing the baseball, wherever it may be, then the inflammation becomes arthritis or arthritic right? Then you have arthritis, and then you have rheumatory arthritis and a tennis elbow. And then you're done. Right? Like you you can't perform as well, you lose, you lose contracts, you lose, you lose money,

right. And if you're like a weekend warrior, that could also mean that you're not able to work then during the week because your elbows so sore. So you're really losing a lot of money financially to

Yeah, you're professional athlete, you lose a ton of money, you lose playing time. If you're a dad like me, we can warrior you can't you miss maybe, you know, for me the most valuable time of my life working playing with my son, my daughter out there being part of their life and still being able to at my age, right. And so, you know, it's shown it's been proven to work for pain. And in fact, our we have a, you know, we we have a pain relief rule one actually has a pain relief claim. And we have a healing Relief Cream for an inflammation. And that's huge when you can reduce those pains, inflammations. So you can perform better and longer but also, Michelle, the recovery aspect,

oh yeah, that's huge. The recovery, the faster you can recover, the faster you can get back out there. And then the less time and money you lose

naturally right safely with the plan. Vitamin is something that's an organic plant based product that you can use for all these benefits without any side benefits or harmful negative. And now, you know, maybe five years ago, you know 2018 19 CBD was cannabis has stigma a little bit because a lot of it contain THC, right? People are like well, you're taking CBD it's from I don't this from this, you know? Kasich taboo percent now

No Please we're not allowing it are

so loud and proud to be using CBD knowing that it's you know, taking something that's great into your body that helps you recover faster eliminate helps reduce that pain, inflammation, from you know, race car teams now to professional sports teams to people every single day. It's truly the go to I would

imagine the coaches can really benefit from the stress reduction as well.

That's a good point. Yes, they can right.

So now what about the athletes that are not injured yet? They should be taking the CBD so as with they recover faster than if they're already taking the CBD than they would have if they hadn't been prior to being injured? Yeah,

I mean, it's a daily right preventive regimen. Absolutely. You're putting you know, these plant compounds these plant environments into your body that that only been found that CBD and these cannabinoids are the only thing that's been found to help nourish and support our endocannabinoid system. Every single human, every single animal, you know, humans or animals, every single pet we have has an endocannabinoid system. So think about that. That's the only cannabinoids from the plants are the only, you know, naturally occurring compounds vitamins that have actually nourish our endocannabinoid system to keep us healthier, to help regulate our stress or pain or inflammation. So it's amazing how the science works. And you should take it you know, I take 100 to 150 milligrams every single day for my daily wellness. I give it to my dog every single day my children take it you know, and I still wish I was playing college soccer.

Yeah, well, especially what you're sharing with me yesterday where they have now the college athletes, especially in California being able to be paid a significant amount of money like for them to be able to be not injured, recover faster if they're going to make a lot more money than they would if they were being injured and on

the sidelines. Yeah, the United States NIHL right. The name image and likeness has changed the landscape of college sports dramatically. And now college athletes you know from soccer and I think it's a good thing in general you know, these kids two years ago it's a some Obama hamburger or paid for their car to get washed daily, they could lose their scholarship It was crazy. So now they're making lots of money. And now you know if you're a quarterback at a major university making a million dollars a year you know, you got you're gonna stay healthy, right? You can do everything you can protect yourself. This used to be when you're going pro now it's your your freshman in you know, in college doing this

Yeah. And I think that's like going to help them like just be able to stay in the college sports for so much longer to and stay injury free or you know, recovering faster. And I think that it's nothing but great things I can count from having the athletes and now what about a competitive advantage? Like do you think they're gonna be like faster, smarter quicker?

Well, that's you know, that's the next that's the next thing right? You have CBD in general right? That's if it's safe without THC. That's you know, it has purity, right has a high potency level right without contaminants meaning herbicides, pesticides, heavy metals, you don't want any contaminants besides that, no THC, right. And consistent that you can take it every single day, every single week, they announced the applications right as topical roll ons that have claims for pain or inflammation relief like ours do, right? You can take it in gourmet gummies like we have, but you know, now you're the science is there where you can take safe pure CBD. And you can combine it or I can say marry it right with other, you know, clinically proven ingredients or clinical trial products had been in the market. And that's what we've done. We've created the first of its kind, clinical CBD brain IQ. That is 25 milligrams of very powerful and safe broad spectrum CBD. Meaning has multiple cannabinoids with clinical nootropics for focus for brain nutrition. You think quicker you think faster, you have better memory support, like it's a total game changer in sports. Michelle, for gamers, athletes, stock stock traders, you know, just everyday people who want to be sharper and be on their game.

Right. Wow, that's so important. I think that's not holy, like you said not only great for athletes, but like for all of us weekend warriors and people who are in jobs that need to be super quick and sharp to you. That's awesome.

Yes, for that, you know, it's for everyday people and that 1% Right, that 1% that wants to optimize everything in their life to be optimized mentally, physically. spiritually to do to attain more than a this is an amazing product for them and again, it's all safe. Zero THC.

Wow, that's awesome. Well Rick, thank you so much again for joining us because this is another really informative dive into like, why why CBD is giving our athletes that competitive edge

physically, financially right right

not only physically but financially and I love the recovery aspect.

I think that's fantastic minor percent.

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right, awesome. Well, we'll see you guys again next weekend for those athletes. If you have some stories of you using CBD products and never had some great recovery stories or injury. Coming back from injury stories. We'd love to hear them do so reach out to us. Take care.