What Are Natural Opioids?.

0:00What are natural opioids?

0:04I'm going to tell you.

0:05I'm Dr. Rodrigues from Healing Sky.

0:07I'm also the medical director of the Dalry Center for Healing.

0:10And today we're going to talk about what are natural opioids.

0:16Natural opioids are opioids that are derived from actual plants.

0:22The most common ones are the poppy seed pods and also kratom leaves.

0:30These are naturally occurring in the environment.

0:33They're actual plants that exist.

0:36And you can derive natural opioids from these two sources.

0:41From the poppy seed pods, you can derive codeine and morphine.

0:46These are considered the most classic natural opioids.

0:50They have all the effects of an opioid, both the pain relief and the intoxication elements,

0:55the addiction elements.

0:56It's all there.

0:57And then you have the kratom leaves where you can derive mitragynine and also 7-hydroxymitragynine.

1:07Both derived from the kratom leaf, both very addictive, very addictive and unfortunately

1:13available legally over the counter in most states in America.

1:20These can create the illusion of safety because of that word natural.

1:28Just because it's natural does not mean it is healthy and it certainly does not mean

1:32that it is safe.

1:33In this case, it just means that it is biologically originating, coming from a plant.

1:41And this is still something that is very addictive.

1:45So something that causes tons of addiction.

1:47And when it first was discovered, way back when, it caused a huge outbreak of addiction

1:52way back when.

1:53Again, because even though they're plant derived, they're extremely addictive.

1:58So that's what it means when you hear a plant derived or a natural opioid, it is deriving

2:04from the kratom leaf or from the poppy seed pods.

2:11If you have an issue with opioids, please seek help.

2:13You can find a provider here on Healing Sky or if you want to see me as your provider,

2:18you can find me at delraycenter.com.

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2:29Thank you.