Setting the Saga Straight with Science: Hormonal Effects and Essential Oils The Basics on Fennel Oil In my recent series that was spurred by a badly extrapolated study on tea tree and lavender oils, I’ve been reviewing the safety of essential oils for hormonal and whole-body health. I have highlighted the basics on assessing...
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Using Natural Approaches and Essential Oils for Relieving Stressed Out Lungs and Sinuses During the Spring Sniffle Season
The Toxic, Stifling Fumes of Our Chemical World This week, I’m taking a little break from my hormone and essential oils’ rampage for a very important and timely breather…natural tips for how to handle the season of spring sniffles! Experts warn that the current increase of fluctuations in temperature and climate condition changes...
A Review of the “Estrogenic” Essential Oils: Clary Sage Oil Part II
The Science to Set the Saga Straight…Hormonal Effects and Essential Oils Last week, I continued in soapbox-style to set the saga straight regarding essential oils and hormonal support. I further debunked the negative claims inferred by the latest study that labeled lavender and tea tree oils as potential endocrine disruptors. I summarized...
The Science to Set the Saga Straight…Hormonal Effects and Essential Oils: An Introduction
Moving Forward from the Chit-Chat on Lavender Oil, Tea Tree Oil, and Man Boobs Last week, I focused on debunking the latest, among many, misleading media-hypes about essential oils. The most current claimed that a study “proved” that lavender and tea tree oil were “endocrine disruptors.” This “evidence” was a repeat of a bad-tasting...
A Brief Review of the Latest Study Regarding Tea Tree and Lavender Oils’ (Isolated Constituents) “Endocrine Disruption” (Found in a Petri Dish, Using Human Cancer Cells)
For the Love of Science, Can We Stop the Chit-Chat on Lavender, Tea Tree, and Man Boobs?! Last week, another ruckus was made proclaiming “new evidence” supported that tea tree and lavender essential oils were capable of hormonal disturbances. (source, source, source, source) I received a few emails asking my take on this latest...
The Mind-Body-Belief Connection: More on the Power of the Placebo (and Nocebo) Effect
Good Expectations, Negative Beliefs, and Their Health Consequences The placebo effect is a phenomenon that occurs when a substance without known medical properties produces a beneficial result in subjects due to their positive expectations of its efficacy. A nocebo effect is when a similarly inert material is used in an intervention and causes...
This One’s for the Boys (and the Women and Partners That Love Them): Male Libido, Hormones, Fertility, and Essential Oils- Part I
Last week, we explored the importance of physical connection and intimacy in relationships. Libido and sex drive are influenced by a variety of interacting factors that are biological, emotional, and psychological. Focusing solely on addressing one aspect, such as hormones or physiological responses, is often just treating one symptom in a complex condition. It...
Libido: The Healthy Relationship-Intimacy-Lifestyle-Essential Oil Connection for Spring Fever
In my series of posts for American Heart Month, we’ve explored that taking care of the physical heart is important, but just one aspect of optimizing our cardiovascular system’s functioning. It is now known that the heart-brain connection and the state of coherence, the synchronization of our physical, mental and emotional systems, has...
The Macrocosm of the 2018 Winter Olympics Meets the Microcosm of the Universal Coherence in Our Hearts
Applying What We Learned About the Heart-Brain to Be Champions in Healing and Wholeness The closing ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics brought with it a final demonstration that with a focus and commitment to a higher cause and a shared goal, anything is possible. Just as athletes continued to break “impossible” records and awed the...
Blood Type, Genetics, and Heart Risk- Balancing Our Genes with Our Epigenetics
In honor of American Heart Month, my February articles are focusing on a broader perspective of cardiovascular health and disease prevention. In the first two posts, I have brought you on a journey that broadens our previously accepted “truths,” and into the mysteries of this central organ and its associated pathways. First, I...