“It’s CBD [cannabidiol],” Diaz said. “It helps with the healing process and inflammation and things like that, so you want to get these for before or after the fights, in training. It’ll make your life a better place.”
I found a research paper (1) regarding the use of cannabidiol (a nonpsychoactive cannabis constituent with no documented side effect) for collagen-induced arthritis (CIA):
Taken together, these data show that CBD [cannabidiol], through its combined immunosuppressive and anti-inflammatory actions, has a potent anti-arthritic effect in CIA [collagen-induced arthritis].
but it is quite old (2000), and doesn't address tendinopathies.
Does cannabidiol (CBD) help prevent or heal a tendinopathy? If so, what's the best modality (e.g., injections, patches, smoking)?
- (1) Malfait, Anne-Marie, R. Gallily, P. F. Sumariwalla, A. S. Malik, E. Andreakos, R. Mechoulam, and M. Feldmann. "The nonpsychoactive cannabis constituent cannabidiol is an oral anti-arthritic therapeutic in murine collagen-induced arthritis." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97, no. 17 (2000): 9561-9566. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=505227943814940929&hl=en&as_sdt=0,22 ; http://www.pnas.org/content/97/17/9561.full ; http://sci-hub.cc/10.1073/pnas.160105897