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How Daylight Savings Affects the Body

United Patients Group

It helps regulate sleep, wakefulness, body temperature, digestion and hormone secretion. Your suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) then interprets these signals as “daytime” or “nighttime” depending on when they arrive – this tells you when to go to sleep or wake up! Heart attack rates increase.

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Article: Canada: Future Care Costs For Cannabis In Personal Injury Claims

Cannabis Law Report

Poirier’s family physician did not advise against the use of cannabis but did testify that, in the past, excessive use of the drug had resulted in adverse effects, including hospitalization at a psychiatric facility and problems with digestion. Robichaud , 2007 NBQB 50. Footnotes. 2 Cannabis Act , S.C. 4 Poirier v.

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The Immortality Key: Lost on The Road to Eleusis

SpeedWeed

Carl Ruck, “Since the wine of Dionysus is a mediation between the god’s wild herbal ancestors and the civilized phenomenon of his cultivated and manufactured manifestation in the product fermented from the juice of the grape, it is most probable that this was the way in which the Greeks incorporated hemp into their pharmacopoeia” (Ruck, 2007).