CBD effective against body aches? Azureans have made a cream of it

• Three entrepreneurs from the Côte d'Azur have imagined a recovery cream for athletes formulated with CBD, one of the derivatives of cannabis.

• Sold for 59 euros per 250 ml tube, it would offer a "de-stressing and relaxing" effect on aches.

Applied in massage on muscles sore from the effort, the CBD would work miracles.

In any case, this is the promise of entrepreneurs from the Côte d'Azur who have launched a cream formulated with this derivative (very fashionable but still subject to tension) of cannabis.

Led by a perfume industry executive in Grasse, an experienced ultra-trailer, they created Wailer.

"At the end of 2018, I had the opportunity to test a tiger balm enriched with CBD after the Diagonale des fous", an infernal 164 km race in Reunion, explains Olivier Maubert.

The 57-year-old sportsman immediately feels a "beneficial effect" on his recovery after this "intense activity which creates a lot of trauma to the muscle fibers".

He then looks at this hemp extract, which the World Anti-Doping Agency removed from the list of prohibited products in 2018. He joins forces with the Niçois Cédric Messina, founder of MyCoach, multi-investor, and with Fabien Giausseran, who works with him at one of the leaders in aromatic products.

The formula of this

is validated with the help of "experts".

Christophe Geoffroy, a physiotherapist well known to top athletes, is notably called to the rescue.

A “cosmetic” product

In the tubes, CBD therefore and its “de-stressing and relaxing” effect, assures Olivier Maubert.

But also "essential oil of Wintergreen which acts as a muscle and joint pain reliever and essential oil of peppermint which activates the thermoreceptors of the skin", unfold the creators of Wailer, who praise the "natural" side of the product.

"It's not a medicine, it's a cosmetic product", specifies the entrepreneur.

But its potential is validated by a “study under dermatological control”.

According to 90.48% of athletes whom the brand asked to test the product, it would have "a soothing, immediate and lasting effect, recuperating after exercise".

It would even be very useful in case of torticollis, still assures Olivier Maubert.

"There may indeed be a biological effect"

And science in all this, what does it say?

wanted to seek the advice of a specialist.

Sylvain Antoniotti, research director at the CNRS, at the Nice Institute of Chemistry, worked on the subject.

He has not tested the cream but confirms in any case that cannabis derivatives have been the subject of a real craze and have mobilized “a lot of researchers in the medical and paramedical fields” for several years.

“With THC, which induces the stoned state, and CBD, there are more than 130 different substances in the plant, phytocannabinoids.

And we realized that there were more than thirty receptors for these molecules in the human body”, explains Sylvain Antoniotti.

“We have uncovered an endocannabinoid system that regulates processes, which can be involved in inflammatory diseases and therefore in pain.

There may indeed be a biological effect,” he says.

The CBD concentrations used in the Wailer cream are very low, specifies Olivier Maubert, but the "microemulsion" process used would allow a tenfold effect.

With some cost.

Count 59 euros the tube of 250 ml.

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