Essential Oils Synergy and Medication: Part II We are in the final stretch of completing our three factors to consider when choosing an essential oil. For several weeks, I have discussed the first two concepts: the complexity and diverse actions of essentials oils and their individualized and epigenetic effects. Most recently, I began...
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Digging Deeper into the Three Most Import Factors to Consider When Choosing an Essential Oil: Factor Two
When addressing anything physical or with the mind it’s imperative to realize the limitations with searching for the answer in research, a blog, experts’ advice, and in media hype regarding essential oils. While these suggestions could be helpful in a general way, it is best to consider the science and clinical reports while also...
Essential Oils for Mood Support
Recently, I was published in Natural Path with a two-part series entitled, “Medicating Stress & Depression Away: Search for the ‘Dr. Feel Good’ Pill.” On my homepage, I took a step-back from my article series on hormonal health and essential oils and reviewed these articles. I expressed the urgent need to find solutions...
The Safety of Sage Essential Oil Part I: Camphor, Thujone, “Toxicity” Oh My!
The Nightmare Down Chemistry Lane Continues… Using Isolated Compounds to Scare the Droppers Out of Essential Oils Lovers’ Hands! My scientifically-induced trauma keeps resurfacing as studies continue to extrapolate isolated compounds found in essential oils to essential oils’ effects. Due to the misleading hype in recent headlines that used this logic to...
A Review of the “Estrogenic” Essential Oils: Fennel Oil Part II
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...
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...