does weed hasten the metabolism?

I heard somewhere on these forums awhile back that it sped up your metabolism. I was just wondering if someone could de-bunk/certify/justify this

 

i don't think it does.

 

Even if it does, don't expect to be losing weight... (munchies, mmm...)

 

Highly doubt it

 

If it affects the metabolism at all, it seems to me like it would be slowing it down. I don't know why, it just seems like it would. Like someone already said, if it did speed it up, those munchies will kill that.

 

i think it increases it. depends on what sort of metabolism you have in teh first place. thats genetic

 

Well, eating will speed up your metabolism (although putting the food in to begin with counter-acts the increase), so maybe it's actually munchies that increaes metabolism.

In any event, it won't help any if you're just munching down on the foods. But it might explain why so many stoners munch out A LOT and don't gain much weight.

 

I'm pretty sure the reason you get the munchies is because your metabolism increases...that's why I can eat a whole pizza while high, but only like 2 slices when not.

Though I can't be sure, it just seems a lot more likely than for some random magic reason you get hungry. Cause it's not just that food tastes good when you're high, if you don't eat (and you're someone who gets the munchies) while high...your stomach will grumble after a while.

 

ive read a few places that it either lowers blood sugar or tricks the body into thinking it has low blood sugar. whatever teh case, most stoners tend to become scrawny not fat. there will always be people who just will put on weight from eating too much

 

when i have the muchies i eat a metric ass ton of food and end up being so full thatr i cant walk then like an hour later i get wickied hungry again.

 

i'm one of the stoners that gets the munchies big time and since i've been smoking weed (about 2 years) i've actually lost weight rather than gaining it, so i do believe that it speeds up metabolism. i eat like a pig when stoned but i've lost weight, so that must say something

 

that's crazy. i always wondered why stoners were so skinny. what if you smoked and didn't eat more than normal? would you disappear?

 

it speeds it up im sure.

You can eat like a motherfucker, it makes benzos and other drugs come on faster. does it have to do with metabolism?

 

I have given my sister some of my latest crop and she has said if she puts any weight on through the munchies she will kick my ass.

 

Isn't the munchies a craving for something pleasureable that dope makes your brain want? I thought it had nothing to do with metabolism at all.

Drinking water will make you skinny,and you expend more energy eating an apple than you gain.

 

Have you been talking to the little folk again? Think you mean celery not apples.

 

nope, when cannabis affects the hypothalamus, which regulates hunger and reactions to eating (among many other things), it triggers hunger. amphetamines do the opposite in that part of the brain.

 

Dr. Bill is one hundred percent correct on this one.

 

I know like within 3 months after I started smokin weed I lost like 25lbs.

 

i think high school stoners are often skinny because we are smoking all our cash lol....

me and my boys will smoke a half ounce that cost us 120 bucks in one night, and then be like....anyone got some change so i can get a drink???

haha whatever