There is one substance you can use that will lower your blood pressure and improve type 2 diabetes by a whopping 40%.

If you live in selected European countries or US states, you can use the substance legally. If you live in much of the rest of the world, the legal restrictions will probably prevent you from using it openly. But there is still something you can do.

Scientists at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine have just concluded that marijuana use can reduce your risk of developing metabolic syndrome by 40 percent.

This is an important finding, as the metabolic syndrome is a precursor to type II diabetes and the heart disease that usually coincides with it.

The Miami research team examined the medical data of almost 8,500 subjects whose medical data were collected by National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2005 and 2010. The subjects were between 20 and 59 years of age.

If subjects had at least three of the following symptoms, they were classified as suffering from metabolic syndrome:

– high fasting glucose levels,
– high triglycerides, low HDL cholesterol, high systolic or diastolic blood pressure,
– and increased waist circumference.

19.5 percent of subjects who had never used marijuana qualified as suffering from metabolic syndrome. Only 17.5 percent of former users and 13.8 percent of current users met the criteria.

This means that current users are 40 percent less likely to suffer from it than those who have never used it.

The marijuana seemed to reduce all the risk factors, including both systolic and diastolic blood pressure. Waist circumference and fasting glucose levels showed the biggest drop.

In the youngest group of 20-year-olds, current marijuana users were 54 percent less likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome, an even larger risk reduction than their older peers.

Does this mean you should suddenly start using marijuana twice or three times a week?

Not necessarily.

As the researchers admit, this large survey relied to a large extent on self-report questionnaires, which requires that respondents are honest about their marijuana use in a country where it is both illegal and cool in some circles to use it.

It does, however, warrant studies with strict scientific controls to compare users with non-users over time where their marijuana use is carefully monitored and their medical information is properly and repeatedly measured by physicians.

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