{"id":168009,"date":"2023-07-21T16:28:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discover"},"modified":"2023-07-21T16:28:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T21:28:48","slug":"cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discover","title":{"rendered":"Cannabis Use Linked to Epigenetic Changes, Scientists Discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cannabis-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes-scientists-discover2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body\u2019s epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/epigenetic-changes\">epigenome<\/a> functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/news.feinberg.northwestern.edu\/2023\/07\/18\/marijuana-use-linked-to-epigenetic-changes\/\">says<\/a> Lifang Hou, a preventative medical doctor and epidemiologist from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cannabis_(drug)\">Cannabis<\/a> is a commonly used substance in the United States, with 49 percent of people trying it at least once, Hou and a team of US researchers report in their <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41380-023-02106-y\">published paper<\/a>. Some US states and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/australia-s-capital-just-legalised-recreational-marijuana-in-defiance-of-federal-laws\">other countries<\/a> have made it legal, but we still don\u2019t fully understand its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cannabis-for-pain-relief-review-of-20-studies-provides-sobering-results\">effects on our health<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using cannabis may cause changes in the human body\u2019s epigenome, a study of over 1,000 adults suggests. The epigenome functions like a set of switches, activating or deactivating genes to change how our bodies function. \u201cWe observed associations between cumulative marijuana use and multiple epigenetic markers across time,\u201d says Lifang Hou, a preventative medical doctor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,1495,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-health","category-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}