Essential Oils And Your Immune System

If you do some research into the Royal English Archives, you’ll discover an interesting little bit. It’s a recipe for “thieves’ oils.” So the story goes: In the 17th century, when all Europe was in the thrust of the Black Plague, a small band of marauding burglars appeared immune to the disease. They would get in the homes of Black Plague victims and have no fear of touching the bodies as they searched for fashion jewelry and money. The King demanded to know their secret.

Their trick had to do with the oils they rubbed on their bodies. Since their household was from a long lineage of apothecaries, they had understanding about ways to utilize oils medicinally and prophylactically versus condition. The King got the precise solution they were making use of against Black Plague and this protected his whole family from the plague.

Today we consider essential oils as simple enjoyable additions to a relaxing massage. However in olden days, some cultures valued oils much more than gold because their powerful recovery buildings were understood.

Essential oils have the exact same function in the plant as blood has to the human. When you cut yourself, blood comes out of the cut. The blood cleans the injury and kills germs so that regrowth of the tissue can start. Likewise, when you cut a plant, resin, or the oil of the plant, is released.

Blood is a transporter. It carries nutrients to the cells. Oxygen is the constituent of blood that provides the blood through the cell walls. When oxygen is taken out of the blood, the cells mutate and emit a harmful gas. This, then, develops a host condition that will certainly reproduce illness. So, too, with plants. Oils act as the defense system in plants.

These oils oxygenate the plant and support nutrients, vital aspects and chemical constituents to every cell in the plant. They contain each of the plant’s healing nutrients including trace minerals, vitamins, hormones, amino acid precursors and other components. They give the plant the ability to damage infections, fend off infestations, initiate and maintain development and repair work structural damage. The essential oil of the plant is literally the life force of the plant.

When essential oils are applied to human skin, they lug the same recovery force as they do to the plant. Because they themselves carry such a high concentration of oxygen, they likewise produce in the human system the greatest level of oxygenating molecules of any compound on Earth. Because the oils are so extremely concentrated, they are at least 50 times more therapeutically powerful than the plant itself or herbs made from the plant.

Essential oils detoxify the body. Oxygen pushes unwanted chemicals out of the cell. Typical cell function and balance is established just when there suffices oxygen.

The absorbability of essential oils into the human system is unsurpassed. If you are deficient in oxygen, your cell membranes will certainly begin to thicken. When this takes place, oxygen is not able to obtain its nutrients through this thick wall. You may have been eating all the dietary food on the planet, but if the blood can not get the nutrients into the cell, you may have well-nourished blood however you won’t have well-nourished cells. Essential oils are soluble with the lipids in the cell membrane and hence go through the cellular wall.

In addition, essential oils have the capability to alter the electrical frequency of the body. Our bodies are electrical. So is everything around us, including our tv, our lights and our microwave. The distinction between us and our electrical devices is that we have a harmonic, meaningful frequency whereas home appliances operate at incoherent, chaotic frequencies. Our appliances have the ability to fracture the frequency at which we run.

We understand that the body awake averages a frequency of 62-72 Hz. Illness sets in when the frequency drops. The frequency of the body drops when the body comes into contact with elements that have lower frequencies: processed food, canned or otherwise denatured food, drugs as well as synthetic vitamins.

Research study has actually shown that simply holding a cup of coffee in your hand can drop your frequency (most likely through the scent which, as we will certainly see, has a more effective result on us than any of us would envision).

The electrical frequency of essential oils ranges in between 52 and 320 Hz. They have the highest frequency of any substance understood to guy. Due to the fact that they are living compounds, their frequency is harmonic with the human frequency.

When essential oils enter contact with our bodies, the frequency of our bodies ends up being raised to a degree so that we end up being unwelcoming hosts to pathogenic organisms.

Essential oils can be applied directly to the skin. Within 21 minutes of being positioned anywhere on the body, essential oil will penetrate every cell within the body. We rub our bodies with oils as certain medicines.

Simply breathing in the fragrance of essential oils is a powerful therapist. The recovery starts in the brain. There are 800 million nerve endings in the nose that spot odors. The nerve from the olfactory bulb extends back toward the mid-brain then on to the pituitary and pineal glands and finally to the amygdala.

You can daily choose fresh ylang ylang flowers, eucalyptus, orange, mint, lemongrass or lemon leaves and whatever natural herbs meet your health requires at the minute. We squash these plants in our hands and just breathe in. We are taking in the scent of the essential oil as it exudes from the plant, just as blood oozes from our skin when we are cut.

Essential oils can likewise be diffused in the air. Research study has actually revealed that oils can eliminate most air-born microbes. A French research study colonized 210 various microbes; within 30 minutes of misting the air with a mix of oils, just 4 colonies remained alive. You can mist your air with the fragrance of an essential oil by merely placing a couple of drops of oil– 10 to 15– in a regular plant water mister diluted with some water.

Enough research study has actually been done that we now have a lot of information on what conditions are influenced by which essential oils.

Possible therapeutic buildings of essential oils:
Rose and lavender work well to deal with sleeping disorders. Rub the oil up and down the spine prior to bedtime.

Peppermint may alleviate nausea, throwing up, fever and soothes indigestion.
Ylang ylang may reduce hypertension and high blood pressure. Bergamot is believed to work for insect bites, cold sores, sore throat and thrush.

Clove is among 3 essential oils where no germs, virus or fungis can live. It is utilized frequently in European hospitals.

Bitter fennel, dill and coriander have actually all been revealed to aid in blood sugar regulation.

We likewise think that the therapeutic effect of food supplements and natural herbs is greatly improved when essential oils are part of the formula.

When herbs and food supplements are prepared for sale, they are dehydrated. This dehydration launches 90 percent of the essential oil of the plant. Without the oil, the majority of the life force of the plant has been vaporized out.

We feel that this is one reason why herbs made use of today are less reliable than when our ancestors used to just go to the fields and pick what they needed. When the essential oil is reestablished into the supplement, you are guaranteed that the nutrients will certainly reach the cellular level in your body.

Introduction to Essential Oil Science

How to Make Lavender Lemonade

sparkling-lavender-lemonadeFlavoring your lemonade with lavender is a great way to utilize the amazing medicinal properties of lavender. Lavender is a wonderful aromatic herb that calms the senses.

Pure lavender oil is an incredible essential oil to use for your own health and wellness. It’s among the gentlest of essential oils, but also one of the most powerful, making it a favorite of households for the healing properties and uses of lavender essential oil. Lavender oil has a chemically complex structure with over 150 active constituents, which explains its effectiveness at helping with a lot of health ailments. Lavender oil possesses amazing anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal, antidepressant, antiseptic, antibacterial, antimicrobial, antispasmodic, analgesic, detoxifier, hypotensive, and sedative properties.

Florida researchers have found that lavender oil benefits include reducing anxiety and lowering pulse rates in nursing students taking stressful tests. And in hospital settings, lavender aromatherapy has been demonstrated to decrease pre-surgery distress and to be more relaxing than massage or merely resting.(1)

Lavender essential oil has other properties as well. It has been shown to reduce depression, improve insomnia and ease labor pains. And anecdotal evidence suggests that lavender oil benefits those with headaches, hangovers, sinus congestion and pain relief.

“Much prior research on lavender has focused on the administration of lavender via an olfactory route. The anxiolytic activity of lavender olfaction has been demonstrated in several small and medium-sized clinical trials.46-53 The efficacy of aromatherapy of lavender is thought to be due to the psychological effects of the fragrance combined with physiological effects of volatile oils in the limbic system.54 These calming effects of lavender oil and single constituents may be the origin of the traditional use of lavender. Lavender oil olfaction has been shown to decrease anxiety, as measured by the Hamilton rating scale,51 and can increase mood scores.

The following are selected examples of clinical trials on lavender aromatherapy:

Dunn and colleagues demonstrated anxiolytic activity of lavender oil aromatherapy in patients in intensive care units. Subjects received at least 1 session of aromatherapy with 1% lavender essential oil. Significant anxiolytic effects were noted in the 1st treatment, though 2nd and 3rd treatments did not appear to be as effective.47
Alaoui-Ismaili and colleagues found that the aroma of lavender is considered by subjects to be very pleasant and is correlated with changes in the autonomic nervous system.56

Tysoe and colleagues conducted a study of lavender oil in burner use on staff mood and stress in a hospital setting. A significant number of respondents (85%) believed that lavender aroma improved the work environment following the use of the lavender oil burners.57

Diego and colleagues demonstrated that people receiving lavender oil (10%) olfaction for 3 minutes felt significantly more relaxed and had decreased anxiety scores, improved mood and increased scores of alpha power on EEG (an indicator of alertness), and increased speed of mathematical calculations.58

Lewith and colleagues investigated the effects of lavender aromatherapy on depressed mood and anxiety in female patients being treated with chronic hemodialysis.59 The effects of aromatherapy were measured using the Hamilton rating scale for depression (HAMD) and the Hamilton rating scale for anxiety (HAMA). Lavender aroma significantly decreased the mean scores of HAMA, suggesting an effective, noninvasive means for the treatment of anxiety in hemodialysis patients.
Lavender aromatherapy, with or without massage, may also reduce the perception of pain and the need for conventional analgesics in adults and children, though more rigorously controlled trials are needed.60″ (2)

DIY Lavender Lemonade with Lavender Essential Oil

Ingredients

1 cup raw honey
12 cups pure water
1 drop lavender essential oil (where to find)
6 lemons, peeled and juiced
Lavender sprigs for garnish

Directions

Mix all ingredients together and chill. Add more water or raw honey if needed.

Other ways you can use Lavender Oil for Anxiety and Headaches

Mix 5 to 6 drops of Lavender essential oil to your bath water if you have dry skin.
Diffuse 10 to 12 drops of Lavender into the air during your workday for natural stress relief.

Add 2 drops of Lavender per ounce of your favorite lightly scented, unrefined organic oil (like almond oil or olive oil) for a body oil with all the benefits of lavender for improving your skin, relaxing your mind, warding off insects or helping you sleep.

Lots of science behind this one folks:

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Low Blood Sugar Blues? What to do

When I was younger I struggled with chronic dropping blood glucose for many years without understanding that was my problem. My head would spin, I ‘d get that black-out sensation when standing up too quickly, and I felt a bit clammy and a bit queasy.

I still get this way every now and then if I make a mistake in my diet. That brings us to the apparent question: What causes the uneasy signs related to dropping blood sugar? And exactly what can we do to stay clear of these signs?

How the body deals with sugar

There are 2 main categories of sugar in the diet plan: one is intrinsic in real, whole foods, and the other is added sugars, including table sugar and a range of sugars by various names that are added to processed foods. An example of the former is fructose in an apple, and an example of the latter is fructose in a packet of white sugar or so-called sugar-in-the-raw.

When we eat sugar our body can utilize it for energy and shop the unused sugar. But in order to do this, the pancreas excretes a hormone called insulin whose task it is to get rid of sugar that is distributing in the blood and deposit it in different cells, including skeletal muscles and fat tissue. Low blood sugar (or when chronic, called hypoglycemia) is when sugar levels drop too low to give your body energy. Your brain feels it and rewards you with a feeling that someone is ending up the lights.

Feeling the sugar blues? (this may be a precursor to diabetes)

Blood-Sugar-levels

Right here are some signs and symptoms of low blood glucose:

Weakness
Feeling tired
Shaking
Sweating
Headache
Hunger
Feeling anxious or anxious
Feeling irritable
Problem thinking plainly
Double or blurred vision
Feeling uneasy
Quick or pounding heart beat
Blackouts or near blackouts, seeing stars
If you’ve had hypoglycemia throughout the night, you may get up tired or with a headache. And you may have nightmares. Or you may sweat so much throughout the night that your pajamas or sheets are damp when you get up.1.

Webmd.com notes, “You can deal with a sudden episode of low blood sugar level by eating or drinking something with sugar in it. Some examples of “quick-sugar foods” are fruit juice, soda, milk, raisins, and tough candy.” However is this excellent guidance or is it tossing fuel on the fire? Possibly in a medical emergency situation this might be a fast fix, but it’s actually not good health advice generally. It’s much better to alter your diet plan to avoid blood sugar imbalances in the first place. The medical viewpoint that it’s okay to have a cookie to even out your blood sugar level can ultimately turn you into a diabetic.

Reversing the trend.

While the medical neighborhood might blame low blood sugar level on avoiding meals, not eating soon enough after your previous meal, not consuming sufficient treats or exercising at an unusual time,2 if you are on a great diet plan, none of these ought to cause the low blood sugar blues.

When you eat the ideal foods, unless you are suffering from disease such as diabetes, you can stay clear of the ill effects of dropping blood glucose. The very best diet plan is one that does not contain added sugars, limits fruits and is extremely low in carbs.

It’s a high-fat, high-protein, low-carb diet that makes the difference

There are also lots of other health advantages to consuming in this manner also.

The internet’s opened natural health master, Joseph Mercola, DO, states, “Overconsumption of carbs is the primary driving aspect for insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Sadly, the traditional medical wisdom has unwisely been extolling the virtues of consuming massive quantities of carbohydrates for many years, even placing them as the ‘foundation’ of the extremely flawed food guide pyramid.”2 Eating carbohydrates, except at a minimum and only as carbs exist in genuine, entire foods, is a practice that has to be eliminated in order to have a great diet plan. This will care for the majority of dropping blood sugar, high blood sugar level and hypoglycemic problems.

Nutrition for blood sugar.

Increase intake of protein.

Limit carbs and sugar intake

Use supplements to regulate proper blood sugar levels.

Sources.

1. Webmd.com.

2. Mercola, DO, Joseph, The Diet Doctor Everybody Loves– Gary Taubes, mercola.com, Sep 20, 2012.

3. Taubes, Gary, Is Sugar Toxic?, New York Times, Ap 13, 2012.

4. University of Maryland Medical Center.

The 4 Foods to Completely Avoid

We know at a minimum we need to supplement our modern diets with the 90 Essentials (Healthy Start Pak )

However this doe not give us license to eat a bunch of junk!

What has been referred to as the “modern” diet is truly health-defying. It’s making people sick every day and leading to major diseases such as heart disease, cancer, kidney failure, liver illnesses, skin eruptions, headaches and more. Certainly there are a lot of nonfoods that people should avoid, but these are the top four:

1. Non-organic Foods. If you are not eating organic or biodynamic food, then you are not only receiving a sickening dose of pesticides, but you are also ingesting chemicals that mix with other chemicals and create chemical reactions that are cumulative (they interact and build up within your body).

2. Artificial Ingredients. No matter how you look at it, your body DOES NOT regard any artificial ingredient as helpful or “friendly,” so it works to eliminate it as soon as you eat it. If it can not eliminate artificial ingredients, your body stores them and these, in turn, create disease like cancer. There are tens of thousands of artificial ingredients, and here are a few common ones: MSG, dyes, synthetic vitamins, flavorings, aspartame, etc.

3. Bad Fats. Fats are not bad, but “bad” fats are very bad, causing heart disease, clogged arteries, skin problems, hormone imbalances and a lot more. Instead of remembering all the bad fats, like canola oil, it would be more helpful to just know about the good ones: organic olive oil, organic coconut butter, organic butter, fish oils and flax seed oil.

4. Sugar. Sugar is poison when it’s in its isolated form found in table sugar, cake, cookies, ice cream, pie, candy, breath mints, sports nutrition bars and drinks. Few people realize as well that all fruit juice is merely sugar water. Sugar is perhaps the biggest contributor to disease and can be linked to cardiovascular disease, inflammatory disease, metabolic disease, cavities, cancer, skin eruptions, immune system suppression, diabetes, obesity, hormone imbalances, hair loss, etc

. If you can avoid the above “foods,” then you will substantially eliminate your chances of suffering from a major illness. Instead of taking chemicals, make sure you are getting all 90 Essential Vitamins and Nutrients by taking a Healthy Start Pak at a minimum!

US to drop guidance to restrict nutritional cholesterol by end of year

A U.S. advisory panel examining national dietary guidelines (for Canada and the U.S.) has actually chosen to drop its care against consuming cholesterol-laden food.

At a December 2014 conference, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee discussed its decision to no longer deem cholesterol a “nutrient of issue”.

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The last set of standards, launched in 2010, stated to eat less than 300 milligrams per day of dietary cholesterol (one additional huge egg yolk has 210 milligrams).

The 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is currently completing its report to the federal government detailing its scientific recommendations to utilize as the basis of its dietary guidelines. The final set of nutritional guidelines, due at the end of this year.

The committee did not reverse cautions on high levels of exactly what is typically thought about “bad cholesterol,” which has actually been linked to heart problem and possibly other health problems.

For decades, the government has warned against diet plans high in cholesterol. Now lots of nutritional experts think that cholesterol consumption may not substantially impact cholesterol blood levels or enhance the risk of cardiovascular disease in healthy adults. People with diabetes, nevertheless, might be more susceptible to the impact of nutritional cholesterol on blood cholesterol.

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Coffee Intake May Lower Endometrial Cancer Danger

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PHILADELPHIA– Women who consumed about four cups of coffee each day appeared to have actually lowered endometrial cancer risk compared to those who consumed less than a cup every day, according to a research published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. Melissa A. Merritt, PhD

“We utilized a ‘nutrient-wide association research study,’ a brand-new strategy to systematically evaluate the association of dietary elements with endometrial cancer threat,” stated Melissa A. Merritt, PhD, a study fellow in cancer epidemiology at Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. “This method was inspired by genome-wide association studies that look at genetic danger elements for cancer, however in our case we investigated 84 foods and nutrients in place of genes as risk factors for endometrial cancer.

“We confirmed observations from previous studies that having a high versus low intake of coffee was associated with a minimized threat for endometrial cancer, and for the majority of other dietary elements there was no association with endometrial cancer danger,” Merritt added.

“Coffee intake deserves investigating additionally to see if coffee can be used for the prevention of endometrial cancer. However, prior to scientific suggestions can be made, more researches are needed to evaluate this question in other research studies and to attempt to separate the parts of coffee that may be liable for any impact on endometrial cancer,” Merritt said.

Merritt and colleagues examined the association of 84 foods and nutrients based on nutritional surveys from a prospective cohort research study, the European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) Study. They then verified nine foods and nutrients recognized from the EPIC study as having associations with endometrial cancer threat in 2 prospective cohort studies, the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) and NHSII, two cohorts based at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, and Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, respectively.

Amongst the EPIC research participants, those who consumed about 3 cups of coffee per day (750 g/day) had a 19 percent lower risk for endometrial cancer compared with those who drank less than one cup of coffee daily. Among the NHS/NHSII participants, those who drank about four cups of coffee each day (1,000 g/day) had an 18 percent lower danger for endometrial cancer compared with those who never drank coffee.

This study focused on 1,303 endometrial cancer cases in the EPIC research, and 1,531 endometrial cancer cases from the NHS/NHSII research studies.

The 9 foods/nutrients that were found to have associations with endometrial cancer in the EPIC cohort were overall fat, monounsaturated fat, carbs, phosphorus, butter, yogurt, cheese, potatoes, and coffee.

Total fat, monounsaturated fat, and phosphorus were connected with lowered risk for endometrial cancer, and carbohydrates and butter consumption were associated with enhanced danger for endometrial cancer in the EPIC cohort, however these findings could not be confirmed in the NHS/NHSII cohorts.

The coordination of EPIC is economically supported by the European Commission (DGSANCO) and the International Agency for Research on Cancer. The nationwide cohorts are supported by Danish Cancer Society (Denmark); Ligue Contre le Cancer, Institut Gustave Roussy, Mutuelle Générale de l’Education Nationale, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM) (France); Deutsche Krebshilfe, Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum and Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Germany); the Hellenic Health Foundation (Greece); Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro-AIRC (Italy); Dutch Ministry of Public Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS), Netherlands Cancer Registry (NKR), LK Research Funds, Dutch Prevention Funds, Dutch ZON (Zorg Onderzoek Nederland), World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF), Statistics Netherlands (Netherlands); ERC-2009-AdG 232997 and Nordforsk, Nordic Center of Excellence Program on Food, Nutrition, and Health (Norway); Health Research Fund (FIS), Regional Governments of Andalucía, Asturias, Basque Country, Murcia (no. 6236) and Navarra, ISCIII RETIC (Spain); Swedish Cancer Society, Swedish Scientific Council and County Councils of SkÃ¥ne and Västerbotten (Sweden); Cancer Research U.K., Medical Research Council (United Kingdom). The NHS/NHSII were supported by the National Institutes of Health. Merritt declares no conflicts of interest.

Substance found in peanuts, red wine may prevent Memory Loss

A compound discovered in common foods such as red grapes and peanuts may help prevent age-related decrease in memory, according to brand-new study published by a professor in the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.

Ashok K. Shetty, Ph.D., a teacher in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Medicine and Director of Neurosciences at the Institute for Regenerative Medication, has been studying the possible advantage of resveratrol, an anti-oxidant that is discovered in the skin of red grapes, along with in merlot, peanuts and some berries.

Resveratrol has been commonly proclaimed for its prospective to avoid heart condition, however Shetty and a team that consists of other scientists from the health science center believe it likewise has favorable effects on the hippocampus, a location of the brain that is vital to functions such as memory, discovering and mood.

Since both human beings and animals reveal a decrease in cognitive ability after middle age, the findings might have ramifications for dealing with memory loss in the senior. Resveratrol may even have the ability to help people afflicted with severe neurodegenerative conditions such as Alzheimer’s condition.

In a research study released online Jan. 28 in Scientific Reports, Shetty and his research team members reported that treatment with resveratrol had evident benefits in terms of knowing, memory and state of mind function in aged rats.

“The results of the study were striking,” Shetty said. “They suggested that for the control rats who did not receive resveratrol, spatial knowing ability was largely maintained but capability to make new spatial memories substantially decreased in between 22 and 25 months. By contrast, both spatial learning and memory improved in the resveratrol-treated rats.”.

Shetty said neurogenesis (the development and development of nerve cells) roughly doubled in the rats provided resveratrol as compared to the control rats. The resveratrol-treated rats also had actually significantly enhanced microvasculature, indicating improved blood circulation, and had a lower level of persistent inflammation in the hippocampus.

“The research provides novel evidence that resveratrol treatment in late middle age can help improve memory and state of mind function in aging,” Shetty said.

This study was moneyed primarily by the National Center for Complementary and Natural medicine (NCCAM) at the National Institutes of Health. Shetty’s laboratory is now examining the molecular systems that underlie the improved cognitive function following resveratrol treatment. He likewise plans to perform researches to see whether lower dosages of resveratrol in the diet for long term periods would offer similar benefits to the aged brain.