Leveraging Quality CBD to Optimize Health—with Will Kleidon of Ojai Energetics – EP135
For thousands and thousands of years, humans have consumed cannabis, leveraging its micronutrients to adapt to technological shifts. And then we abruptly pulled it out of our diets, just as our oxidative stress levels shot up. So, what can we do to counter this one-two punch to our collective health? How, exactly, do CBD and other compounds produced by the cannabis plant work to benefit our body systems? And what can we do to choose quality CBD products that actually work?
Will Kleidon is the Founder and CEO of Ojai Energetics, an ethics-driven health and wellness company based in California. Ojai Energetics seeks to bring ancient healing products to life by way of modern innovation, and it leads the world in producing vital natural organic supplements with water-soluble CBD to promote everyday health and healing. Will is a subject matter expert in the art, science and technology of the cannabis business, and his work has been featured in Forbes, Money and Entrepreneur Magazine, among many other media outlets.
On this episode of Ali Fitness, Will joins us to define CBD and explain the benefit of CBD-rich full spectrum complex over CBD in isolate. He speaks to the CBD product fillers we should avoid, describing what to look for in terms of third-party batch testing and certified organic ingredients. Will also shares how bioavailability differentiates Ojai Energetics products from others on the market and walks us through the laws around CBD in the US and abroad. Listen in for insight into how CBD fuels the endocannabinoid system and learn how it can support athletes in recovery!
Topics Covered
[2:05] The fundamentals of CBD- Compound produced by cannabis plant
- Cannabis = super-vegetable fuels endocannabinoid system
- Broadest profile of documented benefits
- CBD-rich full spectrum complex better than CBD in isolate
- Look at third-party analytics
- More cannabinoids than CBD alone
- MCT derived from hexane
- Synthetic agents used to create encapsulation
- TPGS (may be listed as vitamin E)
- Lot # on bottle linked to third-party batch test
- Certified organic label
- Every system has endocannabinoid receptors
- Fire at optimal levels, systems in harmony
- Effective dose = 500 mg daily
- Encapsulation allows immediate uptake (only need 5 mg)
- Put in water, should go straight through vs. float
- Avoid liposomal encapsulation
- Feel effects of CBD in under minute
- Body absorbs majority of CBD (not flushed out)
- Humans evolved for millennia eating compound regularly
- No one wouldn’t benefit from vital micronutrients
- Sleep cycles regulated by endocannabinoid system
- Decrease recovery time, inflammation
- Increases neuroplasticity in brain
- Support healthy digestive + cardiovascular system
- Enhance skeletal, nervous and respiratory systems
- Good for massage or use after workout
- Versatile product with botanicals
- Serve as tugboats, direct cannabinoids to payload sites
- Bioactive through inhalation (wide variety of smells)
- Hemp-derived cannabinoids below 0.3% legal in US
- Bans in some states (South Dakota, Idaho and Iowa)
- Australia only allows for medical use
- In process in Singapore to allow in supplements