Over the years, several customers have been telling us that a low dose of CBD mixed with caffeine seems to improve symptoms of ADHD in both adults and children. What they tell us, and what we have experienced ourselves, is that the CBD offsets the bad aspects of caffeine (i.e., jitters, an afternoon crash, perhaps a headache) and instead takes the good, clean energy it can provide and causes it to last all day. We decided to dig further and found that these stories are supported by the research
As you will see in the featured study (see the picture above), it also reduces impulsivity in animal models, an issue from which many with ADHD suffer.
In addition to impulsivity, ADHD often comes with increased anxiety and emotional dysregulation. Studies have shown that CBD really shines in this area as well, calming stress and anxiety, helping the primitive brain to release trauma, preventing the creation of more traumatic memories, and regulating the body’s physiology. Of course, everyone could use that kind of help, but especially those with ADHD.
To learn more, feel free to reach out and discuss the research with us in more detail. Or, to see what CBD can do for you, why not just give it a try now?
One of my biggest struggles has been with restless legs at night. If you’ve experienced it, you know the almost torture it can be.
You can’t get comfortable in bed, and just as you are about to fall asleep, you feel you HAVE to move. And over and over.
I was able to get rid of restless legs from my regular life (I had them since I was little) by eliminating gluten. BUT no matter what I do, they still pop up in pregnancy, esp toward the end.
I have done magnesium in all forms, homeopathic protocols, the Dove soap trick (IYKYK), heating pad, Epsom salts, other food restrictions (MSG, for example). Usually a hot bath AND magnesium AND the heating pad, AND sleeping on my stomach so there is pressure and heat on my thighs, will work. I need all of it, though, and then it may still wake me multiple times. It’s EXHAUSTING.
I did see that CBD is used for restless legs and I tried one dropper full at some point. It didn’t work. I figured mine were just too severe and I gave up.
Until, finally, a week ago, I gave it another try. I had not slept before 3 or 4 am all week (they seem to subside no matter what in the early morning) and one morning they kept me up until 5:30 am and I saw the sunrise. So, I tried four droppers. A biggish dose.
But over the next 20 minutes….the restlessness just melted out of my legs and body. I FELT it. And I slept that night for a solid eight hours. And every night since, even taking less.
I have noticed this with CBD. Sometimes you just need a big dose to get you over the worst of it. And then something resets, you can use less and all of the sudden…your health struggle is over. Even I, constantly touting the benefits of CBD, can get this wrong.
I am no longer looking forward to seven weeks of torture until baby’s due date. I can sleep! I can rest! I am thanking the Lord above for this amazing plant.
While everyone’s system interacts differently with CBD, and that needs to be kept in mind, the research (combined with my own experiences and feedback from customers) highlights some trends and patterns in how CBD is best used. Here are some important pieces of information for best using your Venerable Aubert Herbals oil:
1 Hold it under your tongue.
Start by holding it under your tongue for thirty to sixty seconds. You may begin to feel the effects within just a few minutes with this method. Then, when you swallow, you will likely feel the effects again about twenty minutes later as your body digests the oil. Not only does the sublingual route bring a more immediate action, it also has been shown to act in different ways than the digested oil, providing a greater spectrum of relief. Some also argue that it has greater bioavailability, but they didn’t cite their sources and I found nothing to show that to be true. Rather, I found that the bioavailability and absorption levels were similar whether by orally or sublingually.
2 Be willing to play with your dosing and find what works best for you.
Our recommendation is to start with a quarter dropper and then work up by a quarter dropper each time. We find most people do well with:
1/2 to 1 dropperful/day for *mild* issues or maintenance
2-3 dropperfuls/day for moderate issues
2 dropperfuls 3x/day for acute or severe issues.
Also, always feel free to email or reach out for dosing advice specific to your situation!
3 Eat it with a fatty meal.
We use MCT as our carrier oil because research shows that it results in the highest level of CBD bioavailability, meaning it helps your system absorb the most possible out of any oil. However, if you eat a fatty meal right before your CBD, it will even further increase absorption.
4 Know that with time taking your CBD results in building new cannabinoid receptor sites in your body and also a buildup of cannabinoids in your body. So, you should need *less* and *less* CBD with time; however, with all the toxic insults in the world today, a maintenance dose of a daily dropperfuls is highly recommended.
5 Stop filling your medicine cabinet with endless supplements and instead use learn to use your CBD for all of its benefits.
Research shows your one bottle can work for mental health issues of all kinds, neurodegenerative disorders, autoimmune disorders and chronic issues of almost all kinds. However, it can also work for your family: tummy pain, teething pain, tooth aches, headaches, wound healing (topical antibiotic), acute injuries etc.
About seven years ago, about a year after my third baby, life suddenly hit me very, very hard. I have always struggled a little with my health, mainly chronic fatigue, allergies, and gluten intolerance. And I have responded by living as clean and healthy a lifestyle as possible, with great results! But that year, one day out of nowhere, my health started to suddenly decline. I couldn’t eat anything without terrible stomach pain, fatigue, joint pain and symptoms of intestinal ulceration. With a little Dr. Googl-ing, I soon realized I had Ulcerative Colitis. Shortly thereafter, a visit to my functional medicine doctor and a GI specialist confirmed my self-diagnosis.
We were all stumped, however. I have no family history, I had been in great health, and I was very fit. All tests came back negative for the normal culprits such as SIBO, Lyme, mold, etc. I was already gluten free, juicing, and eating a very clean and nourishing diet. I still don’t know exactly what could have happened, except that we are all dealing with a bit of a toxic soup in our food supply, air, and water. Perhaps it was just my turn to take a hit.
That said, I did slowly, and in the face of my conventional doctor laughing at me, figure out how to put the ulcerative colitis almost completely and totally into remission (without the toxic drugs my GI insisted I would need). A huge part of my success came from CBD oil. And, ultimately, not just any CBD oil, but our own Venerable Aubert Herbals CBD oil!
Briefly, I tried many autoimmune diets, strictly, and supplement protocols and some alternative therapies with almost no success. I was losing weight, in pain, and had to keep rotating my foods as I would quickly sensitize to each new food as I tried it. With prayer, I became convinced I heard God nudge me toward two therapies in particular which I had found through my many hours of health research: Low Dose Naltrexone, which is also amazing for autoimmune, Lyme, mood disorders, and so much more. But, also, quite clearly, I heard to try CBD.
At first, I tried a CBD brand that was made from a lab-produced hemp extract powder. That product, so much inferior to our own, somehow worked in a way nothing else had even approached. It was a subtle thing, like a light dimmer quite suddenly dimmed down. The weird stomach pains, the joint pain, even some unrelated neurological symptoms and the floaters in front of my eyes (another unusual symptom that had appeared with the UC) would just dim. It was fairly immediate and very noticeable, but subtle.
I kept paying monthly for that $100 bottle. It was worth the relief, however mild. But, it still left many symptoms unresolved, if dimmed down. So, after a while, my husband turned to me and said, “you’re so good at researching things and creating things, I bet you could make a better and stronger CBD than this one.” Meanwhile for anyone who has read the letters of St Zelie, I also kept hearing God say, I believed, “See about Making CBD oil.” The same thing God had said to St Zelie that prompted her to start making a business selling Aleçon lace.
It took us several years to get to the level of potency and purity that we ensure is in every bottle of Venerable Aubert oil today. Research started us off, but it’s taken so much more to get us here. Rounds and rounds of testing. Working with many different kinds of flower and many different suppliers. Trying out different methods, temperatures, cycles, and formulas. Now, CBD doesn’t just slightly dim down the light switch of my autoimmunity, instead it flips it right off. I have no symptoms when regularly using my Venerable Aubert’s.
And so, we did it. And here we are. We truly believe we offer the most exceptional, high quality, and potent CBD on the market. Many other manufacturers skipped the steps we went through to make it fresh, from high quality, organic flower. Instead, you will find that they’ve simply dissolved one of a handful of lab-created hemp extract powders or concentrates into an oil and called it good. And you can tell. The CBD still shines through a bit, dimming down symptoms of all kinds. But they just don’t flip that switch all the way off like Venerable Aubert’s can.
Why is this? Why are other CBD oils inferior in potency and purity? Well, first, they don’t benefit from the full Entourage Effect, which potentizes the oil as all of the terpenes, cannabinoids, and other compounds work together synergistically in the flower as God made them. Oil with more than just CBD isolate or a few added terpenes has been shown to be exponentially more powerful than the CBD alone.
To end, dear Venerable Aubert customers and friends, know that every batch made by hand, by our family, is also used by me to keep my Ulcerative Colitis in remission, as well as for an endless list of other things. The ultimate quality control: I depend on it myself for my own health and use it for my own family, a little of every single batch.
