Essential Oils

Why did I include essential oils on a website about living a healthy lifestyle?

For me, a healthy lifestyle is not complete without essential oils. Dr. Gary Young always said that essential oils are God’s medicine. I completely agree! Essential oils can be used in every aspect of a healthy life, including in the kitchen. You can even cook with essential oils!

My experiences with essential oils are vast and varied. I’ve been using them since I was introduced to them in 2005. I will forever be grateful for that day! They have changed and saved my life, and helped the lives of my family and friends.

I had the amazing opportunity to spend some time working in the clinic that Dr. Young ran in Ecuador. I learned a TON from him and those that worked there. How to use oils, when to use them, what to use, how much to use, plus what to use with them. Essential oils create miracles.  I’ve seen it, and experienced it. I would be remis if I didn’t include essential oils as part of a healthy lifestyle.

I can honestly say that I am alive today because of essential oils. I was diagnosed with toxic black mold poisoning. It can be fatal. It was very advanced. Antibiotics made it worse because they destroy the bacteria in the gut. So I turned to essential oils. The oils I used to fight it worked wonders, and they worked quickly. They killed the mold, and healed my body faster without the use of chemicals or pharmaceuticals. Here are a couple of slides of my blood under a microscope.

This slide shows my blood after they discovered the mold. The big yellow things are the mold.  We watched them grow and divide on the screen as we were looking at the blood. The mold was more alive than my cells were. You can see cells that aren’t round, in half, or shrunken. Those are dead or dying cells. This is one of the nicer slides. Some of them were a lot worse, I just don’t have the pictures of those. Needless to say, I was in big trouble.

This is a slide of my blood after the oils had killed the mold, and I had spent some time detoxing and healing. The cells are nice and round, and you notice that they glow a little. They don’t clump together, but they are healthy live cells. It’s totally different from what it was before.

They literally saved my life!

I have seen them do so many other miraculous things. I love that I don’t have to put my health in the hands of chemicals and pharmaceuticals. They have their place, but for so many issues, oils, and healthy eating are the answer. I truly believe that. I’ve seen it and experienced it.

What Are Essential Oils?

What Most People Don’t Understand About Essential Oils.

I talk to so many people who don’t understand some basic things about essential oils. Things that are necessary to understand, so that you are getting what you need from the essential oils. The two biggest things that most people need to understand are purity and plant distillation.

Purity is so important; it cannot be overlooked. But what is a pure oil? Sure, you can go down to the local health food store and buy essential oils, but what are they? Are they pure? Where did they come from? In the U.S. all you need is 5% of the essential oil in the bottle to be able to call it 100% pure. The rest of the 95% can be fillers and chemicals like synthetic linalyl acetate to improve fragrance and propylene glycol to increase volume. You have to know what you are getting, where it came from, how it was made, how it was sourced, and was it an organic plant?  Most of the oils in the health food stores were created in a lab. They didn’t actually come from a plant. Or if they did, they were not made correctly.

Adulterated and mislabeled essential oils (and I hate calling them essential oils because they aren’t really) present dangers for consumers. One woman who heard of the ability of lavender oil to heal burns, used lavender from the local health food store when she spilled boiling water on her arm. When the pain intensified and the burn worsened, she later complained that lavender was worthless for healing burns. When her “lavender ” oil was analyzed, it turned out to be lavandin, a hybrid lavender that is chemically very different from pure lavender (lavandula angustifolia). Lavandin contains high levels of camphor (12 to 18%) and will burn the skin. In contrast, true lavender contains virtually no camphor and has burn healing agents not found in lavandin.

Adulterated oils that are cut with synthetic extenders can be very detrimental, causing rashes, burns, and other skin irritations. Petrochemical solvents can all cause allergic reactions, besides being devoid of any therapeutic effects.

Purity of oils is so very important!

The Second thing many don’t understand about oils is the need for correct distillation.

Some make the argument that if it looks the same in its chemical composition, what does it matter if it was made in a lab or grown in a field? It’s chemically the same, so they are same thing.

WRONG!!!!

An oil produced chemically in a lab is entirely different than an oil that has been properly distilled from a living plant created by God. Plants have a life blood just like we do. Have you ever broken the stem of a plant and liquid seeps out? That’s the life blood of the plant. When the right plants are distilled in the correct way, all the amazing properties of the plant’s life blood are transferred to the essential oil. Because the very life force of the plant is contained in the essential oils, and because this life force synergizes so favorably with the human body, essential oils are a powerful support for all the systems of the human body.

We know that essential oils have an “intelligence”. They go to work in the places they need to in the body, and they do it without us making them do it. This property comes in an essential oil when it comes from a living plant. Oils made in a lab DO NOT have these properties.

There are some oils that are made/distilled, but not done in the proper way. There is much more involved in the quality of an essential oil than most people realize. The oils must be distilled SLOWLY at low temperature and low pressure. They must also be the right species of plant.  When an oil is not distilled properly, it does not have all the elements (what we call constituents) necessary to be therapeutic oils. In turn, they don’t work with the body as they are supposed to.  If the plant you are distilling is not the right species, it will not have the correct constituents.  Like lavender vs. lavandin. Having an oil distilled from the right plant and in the correct way is of paramount importance!

If you have more questions about this, please fill free to contact me!

Which Essential Oils Do I Use?

The ONLY essential oil company I trust is Young Living Essential Oils.

I have personally worked with Dr. Gary Young. I have been on the farms, seen the plants, and learned about their organic farming practices. I have been in the distilleries and seen the oils distilled. I’ve watched as they check to make sure the pressure and temperatures are always correct. I have been in the labs where they test EVERY batch of oils that is distilled. They make sure it meets the standards, which are strict, for it to be a therapeutic grade oil. They send them to 3^rd party labs for verification. I have used them and seen the befits for myself, my family, and hundreds of others. I’ve seen what happens when people use an oil that is not pure, and see the difference between pure oils and synthetic, adulterated oils.

Young Living oils are the authentic, and the best oils you can buy anywhere!

The other reason I love Young Living is they believe in a whole healthy lifestyle. They use the oils to create a ton of other products to support that healthy lifestyle. No Chemicals! All 100% organic (real, with no shortcuts)! They have einkorn!

They have supplements for everything and for all ages. And because they put essential oils in  the supplements, it makes them more bioavailable. This way we are getting more nutrition from them than regular vitamins and supplements. Plus, the vitamins are plant sourced, and not created in a lab

Because essential oils contain such high amounts of oxygenating molecules, they act as an effective delivery agent to bring food nutrients through the cell wall to feed the cell’s nucleus. Without an adequate delivery agent to assist the cells to receive needed nutrients, the cells can become deprived of needed nutrition. Without adequate nutrition, a cell’s wall thickens, hindering further delivery of nutrients. When malnutrition occurs, the cells begin to deteriorate, creating health problems. Essential oils are known for their ability to “fly” through the thickest cell walls. They have the ability to restore malnourished cells back to health. In fact, essential oils are nature’s most effective catalyst and delivery agent for feeding your body’s several trillion cells.

Young Living has lotions, soaps, and shampoos with no chemicals or synthetic fragrances. Why use a fake scent when you have the world’s best essential oils for that? Here’s a picture of what I collected from my own bathroom.

They have a whole line of makeup and skin care products. No chemicals! I feel so great knowing that I’m using products that are actually helping my skin, not damaging it from allowing chemicals soak through my skin to my blood stream.

I love their nutritious snacks, and my favorite is NingXia Red! They wrote a whole book on the NingXia wolfberry. It is a powerhouse of nutrition! It still blows my mind, even after 10 years.  Here’s a couple of graph’s from the book.

They have so many other products: a whole line for babies and kids, weight loss support products, sunscreen, and much more! There are many other good products out there, but there aren’t many that have real essential oils in them from a company that I trust.

If you want more info on Young Living or have questions, you can shoot me a message on this website or on my Facebook page . You can also check out my Young Living website here too.