Posts by Steve Gold

Where Modulation May Matter THCA does not need to act directly on a tumor to influence biology that matters in cancer. A compound can shift the conditions surrounding a tumor cell, change how immune cells behave when they encounter it, alter inflammatory signaling in the tissue around it, affect the way pain is generated or…

The Biology THCA Would Have to Influence Most people carry a fairly simple picture of cancer: cells that have slipped free of the usual restraints on growth, dividing when they should stop and eventually forming a mass that does not belong there. That picture captures something real, but only part of it. Uncontrolled proliferation is…

What the Evidence Shows So Far Multiple sclerosis is not defined by inflammation alone. Its biology depends on a particular interaction between peripheral immune activity and the central nervous system, with glial cells, myelin, and nerve tissue all becoming part of the disease process. Any relevance THCA may have therefore has to be found within…

How the Biology May Intersect Psoriasis is most often recognized by what shows on the skin, including raised plaques, scaling, discoloration, and patches of thickened tissue that can flare, fade, and return over months or years. These visible changes are what bring the disease to attention, and they are not incidental. They are the outward…