The team here at Roka Wellness is dedicated to your well-being. Our CBD products are made with the highest quality ingredients. We know, we grow them! We began Roka Hemp providing seeds and seedlings to farmers across the Midwest, and have turned our medicinal hemp into the most effective wellness products we can! We started as farmers, and we highly respect our land and our customers. Our products are federally compliant, meaning they contain less than 0.3% total THC. All of our products are third-party lab tested to ensure quality and to assure you that what’s on the label is really in there! At Roka Wellness our motto is, “Formulating for Perfection”.
Benefits of CBD
CBD oil has many potent benefits, giving people a natural and accessible solution to their health issues.
Anxiety & Stress
- Lowers cortisol levels
- Controls receptors in the brain associated with stress
- Anti-Depressant effects
Sleep
- Aids with Insomnia
- Facilitates deep sleep
- Boosts Recovery
Pain & Inflammation
- Modulates chronic pain
- Lowers inflammation
- Reduces joint swelling
Daily Balance
- Promotes a healthier lifestyle
- Compound effect of several key benefits
- Emotional Homeostasis
Metabolism & Fat Loss
- Helps control blood sugar
- Can suppress appetite
- Improves gut health
Endocannabinoid System
The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) is a cell-signaling system that helps maintain homeostasis throughout your body. Your ECS helps regulate a range of functions including sleep, appetite, mood, muscle growth, bone density, skin health, memory, and reproduction. The body produces its own cannabinoids, called endocannabinoids. The two best known are anandamide (AEA) and 2-arachidonoylglycerol(2-AG). These endogenous cannabinoids attach to endocannabinoid receptors found all throughout your body. The main two are: CB1 receptors, found mostly in the central nervous system & CB2 receptors, found mostly in the peripheral nervous system, especially immune cells. The body then uses enzymes to break down the endocannabinoids after they have done their job. The fatty acid amide hydrolase, which breaks down AEA, and the monoacylglycerol acid lipase, which typically breaks down 2-AG. Scientists are still working to better understand all the ways CBD and other cannabinoids interact with the ECS, but we are excited to offer a variety of products that work alongside this system to help your body achieve its optimal state.
Creating the Industry Standard
Studies have shown that only around 40% of all CBD products on the market contain the advertised amount of hemp extract and cannabinoids. On top of that, many companies are sourcing cheap hemp from foreign entities and use harmful extraction techniques. Roka Wellness was founded on the belief that we could use our organic farm to provide extremely powerful benefits from the hemp plant. We are building that belief into our practices so we can help people receive clean and ethically sourced products with hemp plant medicine. By using Full-Spectrum oil, Nanotechnology, Solventless Extraction, GMP Manufacturing, and continuous cutting-edge innovations, Roka Wellness is dedicated to helping create the future of this industry.
Hemp Vs Marijuana
Both hemp and marijuana are flowering plants from the Cannabaceae family. Hemp is bred to produce low THC, the psycho-active component that is often associated with the “high” from marijuana. Conversely, marijuana is grown to have high THC content. Hemp-derived CBD oil is federally legal because it comes from industrial hemp containing less than 0.3 percent THC by dry weight.
This 0.3 percent THC definition was first proposed in 1979, in a book called “The Species Problem in Cannabis: Science & Semantics.” In the book, author Ernest Small addresses the fact that it’s difficult to distinguish hemp and cannabis because there’s no actual taxonomical difference between the two. Small proposed the 0.3 percent rule as a possible solution, but he himself acknowledged that it’s an arbitrary number. This number was used in the legal definition of hemp, as specified in the Agricultural Act of 2018 and other laws in the United States.
Isolates Vs Distillates
Isolates:
During the extraction process, everything is removed or filtered out of the hemp plant except for the desired cannabinoid. This leaves you with a pure product. CBD isolates should be free of harmful additives, contaminants, and heavy metals. Isolates also don’t typically contain terpenes, however, some companies have terpenes added back into a CBD isolate product. CBD isolates should be free of any other cannabinoids including THC, CBN, CBG aside from CBD, and any other organic matter. At Roka Wellness, some of our products contain isolates like CBN, CBG, and Delta-8 which only naturally occur in hemp plants at small amounts, but offer a number of benefits to consumers.
Distillates:
After extraction, distillates may contain numerous cannabinoids, including terpenes and organic material. The distillate can come with either a broad spectrum or a full spectrum of cannabinoids, meaning the trace amounts of THC that are federally allowed are either present or removed. The 0.3% THC limit means none of our products will get you high, but for those concerned with drug-testing a broad spectrum product may be the best choice for you. Allowing some THC to work alongside the other cannabinoids produces what is known as the “entourage effect”, suggesting their combined effects are greater than when isolated.
Cannabinoids
Cannabidiol (CBD)
Just one of the more than 113 identified phytocannabinoids derived from the cannabis plant that shows promising potential to aid with a wide range of internal functions and ailments. Studies suggest benefits with autoimmune diseases, neurological conditions, metabolic syndromes, neuropsychiatric illness, gut disorder, cardiovascular dysfunction, skin disease, and more.
Cannabigerol (CBG)
Like CBD, CBG is non-psychoactive and won’t get you high. It’s technically the precursor to CBD, THC, and CBC. Studies show CBG also has the potential to offer some pretty amazing benefits to help ease pain, muscle cramps, anxiety, and depression.
Cannabinol (CBN)
CBN is still being studied, but things are looking promising concerning its effectiveness as being used as a sleep aid due to its sedative effects. CBN is starting to be regarded as “the” compound that generates the feelings of calm and relaxation that cannabis is so well known for.
Cannabichromene (CBC)
While CBC hasn’t gotten much praise or attention, it has been shown to have anti-viral, antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, anti-proliferative (anti-cancer), and pain-relieving properties. It also appears to be effective for depression, anxiety, and migraines.
Delta-8 THC (D-8)
This compound exists naturally at a small percentage in hemp, and is roughly half as psychoactive as Delta-9 THC. We add D-8 isolate to some of our products to offer a legal product to those who want the benefits of a full spectrum product with the added euphoric effects of THC. This product will show up on a drug test, be sure to consult your physician before consuming.
Nano-Processing
Nanotechnology has been around for over a decade in the medical world, but rarely applied with hemp extracts. The pharmaceutical industry uses it to improve the bioavailability (the rate at which the body absorbs a compound) of medications. Nano-processing CBD coats the molecule in nano-carriers like liposomes or lipid nanoparticles that help the molecule to stay in the body longer, reach its intended target, and release the intact CBD in the target tissue. More and more people are turning from smoking CBD to ingesting it due to health concerns, but ingesting it normally has the drawback of reducing total bioavailability since it has to go through the stomach and liver. Nano-processing aims to bridge this gap so that ingesting cannabis can be more effective.
Scientific Papers/Research
Science is the backbone to our work at Roka Wellness. We continuously work with experts and seek out cutting edge studies done on CBD to help us make better products. Our goal is to empower people with the potent benefits of plant medicine. To make that possible, it takes a dedication to the highest of quality standards. Below are some links to papers that we have found very informative and powerful.
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