Oil Doses

Starting low helps establish your optimal dose of CBD, so you can find your therapeutic window. This is the space between the smallest dose which produces a meaningful effect, and the dose where your response starts to plateau.

Start with a low dose, say 8mg (one full dropper of Arketype 250mg Oil). If this doesn’t provide any meaningful effect for you, increase your dose until you find it does. You’ve now found your minimum viable dose.

You may choose to explore higher doses for greater effects beyond your minimum viable dose. This way you can explore if more is necessarily better for you, or just ends up wasting your oil. This is a valuable experiment you can conduct on yourself to truly understand how your oil is working for you.

Topical Doses

 Using CBD topically requires a slightly different strategy to when its used orally. When applied through the skin, CBD doesn’t tend to have widespread effects in the body but acts locally.  It is still a good idea to bring awareness to how much you are using, and what doses you apply. This way you can see how much product you need to provide you with your desired effects.

 Start off by using ~ 2.5ml, which looks like a small dab on the end of your finger. See how that works for your desired outcome, and increase by 0.5ml each time until you experience your desired effects. You can then increase the serving by 1ml each time to see how you respond to higher
doses of CBD.

Tracking

Tracking makes it easy to understand how CBD is helping, and is a great way to get the most out of taking it.  There’s no one right way to use CBD as it works very subjectively. Tracking helps to remember what doses have been used, at what time and the experience noticed for that particular dose.

Tracking also helps establish if its best to:

     Dose in response to symptoms

    Dose periodically through the day

    Dose in the morning or at night

    Dose with food