Realistic Health & Wellness WNY

12/11/2025

NEW Williamsville Trader Joe's location opening December 12!!!

5017 Transit road

12/08/2025

Thank you Dare to Dream Graphics for making all our sweatshirts and long sleeve shirts for Cannabis Education Open House.

12/06/2025

SUNY Niagara Horticulture Program

🌿 Please join us in welcoming Dr. Daniela Vergara to the SUNY Niagara Cannabis Conference as a panel speaker on Tuesday, January 13th! 🌿

She will be speaking on the Educator's panel:
✨ “Academic Insights on Careers in Cannabis'

Dr. Daniela Vergara is an evolutionary biologist, data analyst, educator, and public speaker whose work has advanced cannabis science on a global scale. She is the founder and director of the Agricultural Genomics Foundation (AGF), a nonprofit dedicated to making h**p and cannabinoid research accessible to the public.

Her experience includes roles with leading industry organizations such as Steep Hill, Inc. and Front Range Biosciences, and she currently serves as an Emerging Crop Specialist with Cornell University’s Harvest New York Extension Team, supporting farmers across the state.

Dr. Vergara’s research including comparisons of federally produced versus private-market cannabis has been featured in The Atlantic, Science, and FiveThirtyEight. She has also published extensively on genomic tools and maternally inherited genomes in cannabis, collaborating with scientists and industry professionals worldwide.

In addition to her research, she is an international consultant, policy advisor, and expert witness in U.S. and international legal cases. Learn more at vergarascience.com.

🎟️ Tickets are now available!
Get yours here: https://sunyniagara.edu/cannabisconference/

We are honored to have Dr. Vergara bring her insights to this year’s conference! 🌱✨

12/06/2025

Hormonal imbalance is one of the most under-recognized drivers of modern chronic disease. Whether you’re experiencing stress, sleeplessness, reproductive challenges, or metabolic conditions like obesity or diabetes, your hormonal systems are involved. But what if the key to restoring balance lay not in your hormone glands themselves, but in the larger system that regulates them? That system is the endocannabinoid system (ECS), a master homeostatic regulator that influences nearly every endocrine axis in the body.

The Endocannabinoid System (ECS) helps regulate your hormones, acting as a balancing system for your body’s response to stress. It consists of endocannabinoids, cannabinoid receptors found on cell membranes throughout the body, and enzymes that manage these components. This system plays a key role in how hormones are released, and how the body maintains systemic homeostasis. The elements of the endocannabinoid system are present in the hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal glands, thyroid, pancreas, ovaries, and te**es, which means the ECS has the potential to modulate hormonal activity at every level (Hill & Tasker, 2012)

🌿 Your hormones do more than you think, and so does your endocannabinoid system.

Hormonal imbalance can affect everything from stress and sleep to metabolism and fertility. The endocannabinoid system (ECS) helps keep your body’s hormones in check, influencing how you respond to stress and maintain overall wellness.

Learn how cannabinoids may help support hormonal balance in this Ask the Green Nurse: https://buff.ly/EUtXaAu