Andrew Huberman· PhD
I think the majority of people in the canabo field would agree that the primary physiological role of endoc canabo is to maintain homeostasis that's what they do they keep everything in its happy place let's say so like and that's probably why the CB1 receptor is so widely distributed is that neurons can excite or inhibit each other um that is raise or reduce the amount of electrical activity in the let's say nearby neuron cuz you talking about retrograde signaling but um ultimately you don't want runaway excitation that looks like epilepsy exactly and you don't want runaway inhibition because that looks like um suppression of ability to think move Etc exactly so you want to keep things in the in where they should be