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We’re out there shaking things up in the hemp/CBD world! JOIN US!

Here are just a few of the exciting things we’ve got brewing.

Gifts are Great, Experiences are Better!

This year, give the gift of time! In addition to our popular gift boxes, Skinly Organics is offering-up a series of 5 DIY classes! Each comes with a full-size product. Come for 1 or join for ALL 5 and create and customize your own premium skincare products!

Skinly Organics is a skincare line under Native Roots Hemp Apothecary that is focused on helping to hydrate, rejuvenate, revitalize, and minimize wrinkles, scarring, blemishes or skin imperfections. Through all natural, premium ingredients, Skinly Organics skincare is quickly becoming a customer favorite and we’re excited to offer a chance for our guests to learn the tricks of the trade and create a product tailored to their specific skincare needs!

DIY Class Details!

Classes run on the 2nd Thursday of each month from 6:30pm to 7:45pm or the 2nd Saturday from 9am – 10:15am.

Come 1, Come All! 

Join us for all 5 classes or pick and choose whichever you prefer!

January: Facial Cleanser

February: Moisturizer

March: Facial Toner

April: Neroli Eye Roller

May: Day & Night Serum

Join us for any of the above at $20 a class, or for all 5 for just $74.99.

To register:

Call: 920-632-2001

Email: chat@nativerootshemp.com

We can’t wait to see you!

DIY Full Size Product with Each Class

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Study shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells

Laboratory research is a collaboration of researchers at OHSU, Oregon State University
Study shows hemp compounds prevent coronavirus from entering human cells. Hemp growing in a field amid the dawn.

“The study’s implication is that some hemp-based consumer products have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection from the novel coronavirus,” said senior author Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine. (Getty Images)

New research reveals compounds in hemp demonstrate an ability to prevent the virus that causes COVID-19 from entering human cells.

The study, published in the Journal of Natural Products, was a collaboration between scientists at Oregon Health & Science University and Oregon State University.

The laboratory study used chemical screening techniques to discover that a pair of distinct cannabinoid acids in hemp — known as cannabigerol acid, or CBGA, and cannabidiolic acid, or CBDA — bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, blocking a critical step in the process the virus uses to infect people.

Fikadu Tafesse Ph.D. (OHSU), a tall man with dark hair smiling in the Vollum courtyard at OHSU.

Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D. (OHSU)

“This is a lab study, so it hasn’t been tested clinically,” said senior author Fikadu Tafesse, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine. “However, the study’s implication is that some hemp-based consumer products have the potential to prevent as well as treat infection from the novel coronavirus.”

Known scientifically as Cannabis sativa, hemp is a source of fiber, food, and animal feed. Hemp extracts and compounds are also added to cosmetics, body lotions, and dietary supplements.

The study was led by Richard van Breeman, Ph.D., a researcher with Oregon State’s Global Hemp Innovation Center, College of Pharmacy, and Linus Pauling Institute.

In addition to Tafesse and van Breeman, co-authors include Ruth Muchiri of Oregon State, along with Timothy BatesJules WeinsteinHans Leier, and Scotland Farley of OHSU.

For more information, see the news release from Oregon State University: https://today.oregonstate.edu/news/oregon-state-research-shows-hemp-compounds-prevent-coronavirus-entering-human-cells

 

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What is HerbBank.co?

 

 

 

HerbBank.CO

For health. For fun. For a unique experience.

Food Therapy in a unique and fun environment.

Herb Bank is the brain child of the Native Roots Hemp Apothecary founders. It’s a clinical herbalism cafe, market and lounge concept with custom therapeutic and recreational herbal blends, focusing on hemp as it’s super food base and working with 28 main herbs and other organic ingredients.

It’s an apothecary bar with a Mixologist. It’s a vegetarian and gluten-free cafe and it’s a relaxing, unique concept lounge like no other.  It will be the first of it’s kind in Wisconsin with other targeted locations in the works.

Most importantly? It’s for everyone, everywhere.

And, it’s coming soon to a neighborhood near you.

Need more info?  Contact HerbBankWI@gmail.com

 

SAMPLE MENU – Ask us about our therapeutic food menu for optimal health!

SAMPLE Herb Bank Food Therapy Menu

Affordable, Organic Skincare now available!

You read that right. Affordable, organic skincare that works! Skinly Organics, a women-owned, Wisconsin-made product is sold exclusively where Native Roots Hemp products are sold. See our Locations Page for the nearest location to you. You can always find them at our Native Roots Hemp Hub Stores inside of the Luxemburg Pharmacy, Luxemburg, Wisconsin or at Sweet Willow Wellness in De Pere, WI.  You can shop online here with free shipping or also visit:  www.SkinlyOrganics.com for more information.

What is Skinly Organics? It’s a  full line of affordable skincare that uses unique herbs and blends to support your skin. Whether you’re a pre-teen or a senior, this holistic skincare will leave your skin feeling refreshed, toned and rejuvinated. If you’re prone to acne, our clients who use Skinly Organics have told us they’ve had amazing results in days.

If you have questions, drop us a line.  SkinlyOrganicsChat@gmail.com

Stay healthy. Skinly Organics, SO good for your skin.  SO good for your wallet.

Native Roots Hemp has MOVED!

Native Roots Hemp has moved to its new location at 327 Main Avenue, De Pere, WI 54115.  This location will be a collaborative wellness store, with Sweet Willow Wellness.  You can still park in the Main Ave rear parking, just enter the Fifth Avenue Shop Building a few doors down, past Nicky’s. However, we now have Main Avenue front-facing access as well at the 327 Main Avenue De Pere location!

We are gearing up for some amazing changes in collaboration with Sweet Willow Wellness.  One of the great things is the addition of an organic cafe, where we can combine Sweet Willow’s amazing foods along with Wisconsin -grown full-spectrum hemp for enhanced wellness!

We will begin collaborative products in the coming months in a great way.  Native Roots Hemp has already instituted some of Sweet Willow’s herbs in our hemp teas to help some of our Cancer clients and folks suffering from other conditions, per client request.

Eat. Sleep. Live.  Better with us!

920-487-8288

Chat@NativeRootsHemp.com

327 Main Ave De Pere, WI  54115

How Hemp/CBD Changed Medicine

Hemp/CBD & Your Health/Wellness

Here at Native Roots Hemp we spend most of our time helping guests better understand the endocannabinoid system and how our organically grown Wisconsin hemp helps the body remain in a more balanced state of being.

But sometimes, others can explain it even better! The article below talks about the Endocannabinoid System and it’s profound effects on the human body.

Hemraj, Dipak. “The Discovery of the Endocannabinoid System: How It’s Changed Medicine.” Cannabis Science, Leafwell.com, April 16, 2018, leafwell.com

It has been written or said in many places, but it is something that needs to be reiterated: had cannabis not become such a maligned plant, Raphael Mechoulam and his team would be awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of the endocannabinoid system (ECS). In fact, there are several researchers in the field of endocannoids and phytocannabinoids who would be worthy of such a prize. Thankfully, they have at least been awarded a multitude of other prizes, so we can be assured that there is at least some sense in the world. After all, “If viagra can win the Nobel Prize, why not cannabis?” (Please watch The Scientist to get this reference.)

Endocannabinoid system; ECS; CB1 receptors; CB2 receptors

These scientists have won so many prizes for a good reason; and that reason is because, in discovering the ECS, they’ve changed the way we look at the human body and medicine. Many used to believe that targeting one receptor using one highly purified drug was necessary, but the discovery of the ECS has changed their mind. Nowadays, much of the talk around developing safe pharmaceuticals concerns itself with the ECS and multi-modal treatments. In some cases, learning more about the medical properties of cannabis has made us better doctors.

Indeed, so significant is the discovery of cannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system, that it may help us answer one of life’s most fundamental questions: “How and why are we here?” This is because cannabinoids play a crucial role in the beginnings of life. To quote the Abstract from ‘The endocannabinoid-CB1 receptor system in pre- and postnatal life’:

“Recent research suggests that the endogenous cannabinoids (“endocannabinoids”) and their cannabinoid receptors have a major influence during pre- and postnatal development.

First, high levels of the endocannaboid anandamide and cannabinoid receptors are present in the preimplantation embryo and in the uterus, while a temporary reduction of anandamide levels is essential for embryonal implantation. In women accordingly, an inverse association has been reported between fatty acid amide hydrolase (the anandamide degrading enzyme) in human lymphocytes and miscarriage.

Second, CB1 receptors display a transient presence in white matter areas of the pre- and postnatal nervous system, suggesting a role for CB1 receptors in brain development.

Third, endocannabinoids have been detected in maternal milk and activation of CB1 receptors appears to be critical for milk sucking by newborn mice, apparently activating oral–motor musculature.

Fourth, anandamide has neuroprotectant properties in the developing postnatal brain. Finally, prenatal exposure to the active constituent of marihuana (Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol) or to anandamide affects prefrontal cortical functions, memory and motor and addictive behaviors, suggesting a role for the endocannabinoid CB1 receptor system in the brain structures which control these functions.

Further observations suggest that children may be less prone to psychoactive side effects of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol or endocannabinoids than adults. The medical implications of these novel developments are far reaching and suggest a promising future for cannabinoids in pediatric medicine for conditions including “non-organic failure-to-thrive” and cystic fibrosis.”

Sprouting plant; new life; plant growing.
Picture from https://www.flickr.com/photos/mr_t_in_dc/5057059458; Picture by “Mr.TinDC”.

To break that down for you:

  • The body’s own version of THC, anandamide, is necessary for human life to happen in the first instance.
  • Cannabinoid receptors are necessary for brain development.
  • Endocannabinoids have been discovered in the maternal milk of mice, and there is no reason to believe that other mammals’ milk is not the same.
  • Anandamide protects the brains of newborns.
  • Prenatal exposure to THC or anandamide affects memory, motor and addictive behaviors, and prefrontal cortical functions.

Some theorize that children may actually be less prone to the psychoactive effects of THC! Though there is no definitive evidence behind this, the logic seems to be that, due to the high amounts of anandamide in children, THC may not affect them in the same way it affects adults! This is one more reason given as to why cannabinoids may be an excellent treatment method for children.

However, we are sceptical of this claim, as cannabinoids play a massive role in the development of the brain during childhood and teenage years, and introducing phytocannabinoids without medical supervision during such a sensitive period may cause potential health problems, in particular mental health. There is significant research suggesting that those aged under 25 are actually more sensitive to THC, as their brains are developing. As for CBD, as it is a cannabinoid that does not have any affinity for CB1 or CB2 receptors, it is unlikely to have the effects THC has. Still, we do not know for sure precisely what sort of effect has long-term. CBD still has a physiological effect, after all.

Those who need cannabinoids for a particular health condition, they are still a potentially valid treatment regardless of age. We must also ask ourselves, “Why don’t we treat many other drugs and medications the same way and see what effect they have on the brains of children?” After all, many children are prescribed much harsher drugs than THC when they suffer from serious conditions.

Chemical structure anandamide; anandamide; THC; anandamide THC; skeletal anandamide; endocannabinoid
Anandamide. Picture from: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anandamide_skeletal.svg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Now, we don’t know about you, but this sort of thing gets us excited, and we’d be surprised if anyone doesn’t get as excited as we are about such research. Cannabinoids being one of the reasons why life exists? This is the sort of talk that belongs in stoner circles. Yet at least one of those circles must have the spirit of Carl Sagan and other prominent now sadly-passed scientists possessing them, as that talk may just well be true!

Now, not only do cannabinoids seem to have a massive role to play in the beginnings of life, but it may also perform an immensely important part in the continuation of it as well. Cannabinoids are intimately involved in homeostasis – the “checks and balances” that keep the body and its physiological processes in equilibrium. Anandamide is hugely important for maintaining immunological health in the gut. Learning about endocannabinoids and endocannabinoid has given us a greater understanding of immune regulation, and the advances made in cannabinoid pharmacology have given us a whole new range of therapeutic targets. In fact, the ECS has potentially given us an entirely new branch of therapies. The reason why cannabis may be useful for so many conditions is because an “out-of-tune” ECS is implicated in many disease states.

Infinity symbol; cannabis leaves; cannabis; hemp; infinity symbol made from marijuana leaves.
Picture from https://pixabay.com/en/marijuana-drugs-cannabis-drug-hemp-2766323/

That cannabinoids may make up the constituents of life is nothing short of an outstanding discovery. It is almost surprising that we have only just discovered it just over two-and-a-half decades ago. The ECS is so complex that we have barely just begun to scratch the surface on what it does and how we can modulate it. There is still lots more to be done, There is actually lots to be discussed here, and in some ways the way we treat the cannabis plant has asked a some questions that shake some of the philosophical underpinnings of medicine. “How do we ensure the cure isn’t as bad and dangerous as the disease we’re trying to treat?” “Why do we prescribe things that are much worse than cannabis, especially when sometimes the evidence is shaky at best?” “Are there ways we can treat a condition without the need for invasive surgery and/or harsh pharmaceutical drugs?” Who knows? One day, many of the medicines at your local pharmacist may be cannabinoid- and/or terpenoid- based!

Caffé Tlazo Launches Hemp Infused Menu

Adding some cannabinoids to your daily routine.

With so many of our natural food derived nutrients stripped away these days (whether from stripped soil or processed foods), we’re excited to announce that Caffé Tlazo in Algoma, WI is bringing them back with hemp infused teas, coffee and smoothies! With about 150 phytocannabinoids in the hemp plant, Native Roots Hemp products take advantage of far more than just CBD. It’s time you get ALL the benefits of full-spectrum, organically grown, Wisconsin hemp!

Jenelle Glime from Caffé Tlazo invites you to the healthy side of hemp with the newest addition of hemp-infused goodies to boost those CB1 and CB2 receptors. Keep your Endocannabinoid System in a healthy state of balance.

Why should you consider HEMP in your diet?

Because of your Endocannabinoid System, that’s why. This system acts like a message center that communicates with the CB1 and CB2 receptors found in the central nervous system (CB1 receptors) and peripheral organs like immune cells (CB2 receptors). The phyto-nutrients that come from the hemp plant are known as phyto-cannabinoids. These positively interact with the CB1 and CB2 receptors to bring you to a healthy state of balance.

NATIVE ROOTS HEMP. SUPPORTING WI FARMERS. ORGANICALLY GROWN HEMP.

Located in downtown De Pere, WI, with a licensed kitchen and private outdoor patio, Native Roots Hemp offers everything from Hemp/CBD and Delta 8 edibles and smokables to premium skincare products. They have what you’re looking for. And don’t forget your furry-friend! Native Roots Hemp also offers calming dog treats and pet oil. Native Roots Hemp prides itself on our one-on-one customer service, assisting you in choosing the right hemp/CBD product for you. Whether you’re beauty-obsessed, a fitness-enthusiast, just looking to destress or a senior, there is a hemp product for you.

Contact us at 920-487-8788, and learn more or order online with free delivery at nativerootshemp.com

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