Cannabidiol (CBD) may help individuals fall asleep faster without negatively impacting REM sleep.

“promising cbd does give you that same benefit you fall asleep faster you don't seem to get the hit on rem sleep now i don't think there's enough studies for me to yet feel comfortable in saying definitively you don't but for the small handful of non-placebo control trials for whatever it's worth and we are talking about hands up here everyone no recommendations no promissorial notes this is just very early tentative preliminary evidence suggests that you may not get the rem sleep deficit which is good”

“the other thing is that you typically don't see the dependency issues nor do you get the insomnia rebound when you stop using cbd”

“i think cbd is more promising on the data right now the data for cbd is that you get that benefit of falling asleep faster by the way would you just to interject for a second would you be able to get an irb approval to do a real world study where a bunch of people were just using wearables and you could homogenize and uniform the wearable and the cbd and things like that but without having to do it as an in-house sleep study do you think the wearables are good enough that you could get enough data in the community i would probably do a hybrid i mean no that makes sense irony if it's of thc and cbd often being used as hybrids is not lost on me but i would probably do a hybrid where i would do some tracking of sleep ecologically in the in the home setting as it were and then have a couple of nights where they would actually come in and we would measure their high grade sleep quality because the trackers out there right now you know they're just not quite accurate they're not clinical grade enough for me to understand the quality and the stages of your sleep i think trackers are not bad right now and but even those metrics you'd get a clue right like even with the somewhat of a clue yeah you can see it i think you know people often ask me what's the best sleep tracker and i would say it's the sleep tracker that you wear every night you know i think most of them are much of a muchness in terms of their current inaccuracy so i would do a hybrid study probably where i do some tracking outside with things like wrist watches or rings and then i would do some in laboratory studies but i think for cbd things are actually looking more promising cbd does give you that same benefit you fall asleep faster you don't seem to get the hit on rem sleep now i don't think there's enough studies for me to yet feel comfortable in saying definitively you don't but for the small handful of non-placebo control trials for whatever it's worth and we are talking about hands up here everyone no recommendations no promissorial notes this is just very early tentative preliminary evidence suggests that you may not get the rem sleep deficit which is good the other thing is that you typically don't see the dependency issues nor do you get the insomnia rebound when you stop using cbd”