08/14/2026
One of the strangest truths about health is that sometimes the best thing a cell can do is die. Your body has an elegant process called apoptosis—programmed cell death—that helps remove cells that are old, damaged, or no longer useful. Cancer changes that conversation. Malignant cells can acquire ways to resist the very signals that should tell them their time is up.
That's where Lesson 4 of The Biology of Healing gets fascinating. Researchers have repeatedly demonstrated in laboratory cancer models that THC, CBD, and other cannabinoids can influence pathways involved in apoptosis, autophagy, proliferation, and cell survival. We're going beyond the old conversation about cannabis simply helping with appetite, nausea, or discomfort and looking directly at what cannabinoid signaling can do inside a cell.
The science in humans isn't finished. But the biology is far too interesting to ignore.
And Lesson 5 takes us even deeper: The Conversation Between THC and the Cell.
https://kingharvest.org/when-cells-forget-to-die-thc-cannabinoids-and-apoptosis/