Inflammation, Candida, the Immune System and Essential Oils - Autism to Zzz Problems. Connecting Dots.

YOUsers of Lumigrate will hopefully benefit from this topic about essential oils and the resources I've selected to support those interested in essential oils. Essential oils are something I've 'respected' related to wellness for a very long time, and I'd had my antennae up about information sources since the 'dawn of time for Lumigrate', which was 2008 when we were creating the website within an innovative boutique medicine center.  And I want to underscore the word 'respect' about essential oils right up front: These are potent potions. Many people think of them as flavors you would add to your frosting, or an herb you'd put in a food dish, but these are really made from plants that are known in traditional medicine for sometimes 'ever' to have effects on the body. (As are many herbs and ingredients used in foods we prepare.)  

I just read a story written by a woman who has found out relatively recently that her longstanding problems diagnosed as fibromyalgia had chronic Lyme as part of the root cause. So she had been scooped up by a friend to spend a weekend that was promised to be of benefit to her -- hot tub, fire, food they'd prepare. Turns out they cooked with a lot of a particular herb that was not her usual 'fare', and it was something that caused her to have symptoms exacerbate! Thankfully the friend also was astute on their shopping trip and firmly informed her about what was in the chewing gum which was toxic and she'd not recognized how much that was contributing, so in the long run hopefully she had a lot of 'lessons'.  She is now on the road to recovery, which is an up and down one for most.  But I hope this helps to set the stage for this topic and the regard I hope everyone has for essential oils. 

Adding in here mid October 2014, I want to provide this link related to EOs and how many MLM/DM/NM (essential, oil, multi-level marketing, direct, network are what all those stand for) are suggesting to people they consume them; the author of this topic sets the story straight AND provides some very good references at the bottom. Here's the link: www.thebarefootdragonfly.com/friends-dont-let-friends-drink-essential-oils/

I actually edited this top portion of this topic (then wove in the paragraph above with a month, continuing to make this thread a 'grater' thread (as in Lumi-Grate grate) on September 25, 2014 to include information that would be helpful for YOUsers to know about, in my opinion. It's at the FDA's website, from August 2014, a letter addressed to the head of Young Living Essential.  You'd look for ICECI, Enforcement Actions, Warning Letters, 2014 should you want to see, or perhaps look for other brands to see if they have had warning letters as well, I just happened to see someone share this instance on Facebook. People have to figure ways around the restrictions that are increasing as the FDA's march to have more authority over more things continues.

This is part of Codex, which is related to Agenda 21 and some might be more familiar with Common Core. It's the triad that has to do with socialistic, world-wide consolidations that have been long-planned and slowing being snuck past the majority of Americans for a while. Eventually everyone who has realized what is going on has had a day of 'aha', referred to as 'when I woke up'. While it's great if people want and can work to address the global, political issues, my primary concern is for YOU to be able get educated about things and be able to find solutions that can help with your health issues if you become proactive, etc. So, back to what I'd originally provided: 

For those who enjoy the history, here's the story -- for those who do not, just skip down below to the YOU model area and go from there. 

I've seen people add them to plastic water bottles because they just wanted lemon essential oil in all their water they used after getting the bottle filled with R/O water, which is a chemical now added that hits the bottle -- not a problem if using glass, but with plastic, even the 'safer' plastic, it's potentially affecting the leaching of chemicals from the plastic to the water/lemon mixture. People are just not thinking of them as what they are... That was a more recent story I can share, an old story is of a CNA overstimulating a patient she was trying to calm down by using more and more lavender as aromatherapy around a patient. The more he'd react, the more she'd spray. That was in 1997, at my first job as an occupational therapist in the Denver metro area of Colorado. 

So here I was in 2007 all the way west in Colorado, much experience under my belt and I had been part of the group talking about what to have included in the center we hoped to collaboratively create in the year before space was purchased by the one who initiated the creation of the center. I was the third of the three providers who initially committed.

I was also assisting with the marketing, which had much to do with who was to come into the business as provider, and had really pushed for a 'happy esthetics', meaning hair, skin, and nails that are done in a way that it's for the wellness of the client and the service providers, as well as everyone in the room or physical space that breathes the air or is exposed to what comes from the 'salon'. And naturally, essential oils would be a BIG part of that, as well as other products that might contain them, or be based in a way they could be added and mixed in a custom way. Oh, I had all kinds of good ideas! (And it turns out that someone ideal was in the area creating a salon concept a few years later which was right in line with that idea, so it was a good one!) 

Essential oils was an area about to boom back in 2008. Well, that was not to happen, because the decision was made (without consulting me, at least, and I presume the others after we'd signed leases) to go the route of laser skin care for what the clinic provided in that arena. And it wasn't our business, we were just working really hard to collaborate with the agreed upon concept but we were mere renters. I still laugh thinking about the look on one of the others' faces at a meeting when it was said so proudly that the laser equipment also did body sculpting!  

And you should have also seen my face when I walked in one day and they'd installed "Plug In" type air 'fresheners' of the chemical variety. Needless to say that much education was shared that first year, and most of all, I was the recipient. And I am grateful for all the education I received and I hope the others benefitted from the things I knew or did NOT yet know, which we all learned from possibly. We're all in the process of improvement, right? Some of the staff had also worn fragrance that was offensive and would cause problems for the patients/consumers and other workers possibly. This was unbelievable to me as in conventional medicine we're just made aware from the beginning, no fake fingernails, no fake fragrances, etc.

Actually, no fragrances, period, are allowed to be worn by conventional medical workers, typically. So, on many things we didn't 'mesh' about when it came right down to it. And systems are like families, they'll find their way based on who is in charge of things. Which is good, people just have to stay FLEXIBLE and RESILIENT, and keep going. Which I did. 

The good news was that the providers performed wonderful educational seminars, which we'd started in my previous clinic building with the free, weekly "fibromyalgia forum" where we'd invited local providers the group wanted to hear / get education from. So I continued to get a really good foundation underneath me on a variety of subjects and from a functional and integrative medicine perpective. It was really very unique for a health education-inclined occupational therapist. (I'd seen a job announcement when I was 32 on the last day it was open for applying, in the Health Education department of a large university, so had two years steeping literally in the center/hub position for that busy department.)  

The best seminars for launching Lumigrate with were recorded, edited and prepared for when the website launched. As you can see, Lumigrate has a videos tab and we offered a way for the clinic's interested clients to see the videos from the convenience of their electronics devices through the Internet, which was a nice 'trade' for the providers to go to the effort of coming back to record their seminar if it was one we selected for production.

So this was all a 'chapter' of importance and which I hold a lot of respect for all involved. However, we didn't have any experts to contribute about essential oils! And that was one of the 'easiest things' I'd thought we'd be bringing on Lumigrate to our YOUsers, and which I thought we'd get to early on.  We had the YOU! Model I'd created in my previous clinical experience in an allopathic medical building (with brainstorming help from Dr Chris Young, seen on the videos and also in the forums) drawn, then redrawn by another artist until it was 'right' the way we'd created it with our non-professional artistic hands and minds as a molecule-looking model. This has now been viewed by unknown numbers of people, first in the thousands, then the tens of thousands, and by now certainly over 100,000. Just a 'drop in the bucket' compared to how many people can benefit from learning 'what it says'. Health and caring for it rests upon my shoulders, your shoulders, everyone's shoulders, from selecting providers for education or treatment, to what your next sip or bite is, to doing the "paperwork" required to pay for things, etc. 

The business that owned the clinic space went on to turn into what it was destined to turn into, and the three of us withered, sllithered or otherwise went away on our own ways and directions.  Lumigrate and I have operated solo since, and everyone's been "successful" (in terms of we're still here to serve), just in a very different way than any of us thought and envisioned. 

The next phase for me (and Lumigrate) was that I'd need to find new medical experts, and in 2009 Facebook was BOOMING, thankfully, so I readily networked and found the next 'layer' of providers who would essentially help build the content in the Forums with me by integratively discussing various topics. And I continued to find and incorporate some local experts who aren't trying to do more than treat local patients and provide education to the public as a contribution (and it's marketing for them, naturally). Certainly I'll find the connection -- the right connection for me and Lumigrate that I think will help our YOUsers, when it relates to any subject, including essential oils. 

And I investigated some things about essential oils, I'd talked with people representing Young Living and doTERRA, both locally and nationally. Nothing was 'fitting' and there were always other things that were falling into place that I'd work on instead. I personally found a high quality oil at the health store, Natural Grocers, that I liked and it turns out it is carried by Kroger as well. And there are a lot of companies selling things online or retail tht people can independently checked out. The massive numbers of people who distribute (are 'consultants') for these two companies though, has made it be a very popular thing for people to be doing. And I do have concerns about the advise that some of the people have related to me of what 'consultants' or perhaps the actual product manufacturer information have advised them to do. As I said at the top of this topic, these are very potent potions. 

Well, FINALLY, I found Everything Essential dot me. It was a Facebook share that I saw that was about MS. And I really liked what was at the link. So I put it on the list to look into further. I've done that, and liked what I saw. So in order to step you through how I did this, as I like YOUsers to learn to do these things independently, I'll show you the process as we go here, below. (Though I hope YOUsers always come to Lumigrate if they're wanting the resources the way I prepare and present them.) Clearly our YOU model shows that YOU! being as empowered a consumer is the key. Here's the link to their new website (editing in June 2014): everythingessential.me/

When you go to EverythingEssential you'll see that they have these tabs: 

Home

Health Concerns (which is 'A to Z') -- (They only go to Y by the way, there are a few Z disorders)

Oils and Blends

 

Other Products

 

How to apply oils

 

History and Science

 

Hints and Helps

 

FAQs

Summary

Summary

An autoimmune disorder occurs when the body mistakenly attacks itself.  The immune system normally produces white blood cells to protect the body from antigens such as bacteria, virus, and a variety of toxins that may harm the body.  When the immune system cannot distinguish between healthy body tissue and antigens it can produce an unwanted response and attack itself.  There are over 70 diseases that are known or suspected to be autoimmune disorders.  Commonly know diseases include:

•  Addison's disease

•  Celiac disease - sprue (gluten sensitive enteropathy)

•  Crohn's disease (generally believed)

•  Dermatomyositis

•  Fibromyalgia (probably not an autoimmune disease)

•  Grave's disease

•  Hashimoto's thyroiditis

•  Lupus erythematosus

•  Multiple sclerosis

•  Narcolepsy

•  Pernicious anemia

•  Rheumatoid arthritis

•  Schmidt's syndrome (combination of Addison's and hypothyroidism or type 1 diabetes mellitus)

•  Systemic lupus erythematosus

•  Sjogren syndrome

•  Type I diabetes

•  Myasthenia gravis

•  Reactive arthritis

•  Ulcerative colitis (not conclusive)

 

The following comprehensive list is taken from Wikipedia:

*** Please see the Comment immediately below, I am putting the LONGER list there to streamline this topic for YOUsers -- it's a good list and to see what Wikipedia includes, too -- ***** Mardy

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FROM THE TAB about Science and Research you can choose and find this:

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What Science & Research are saying

Candida, Inflammation & Auto-Immune Illnesses

Kathy - This summary is based on Dr. Bruce Semon's book An Extraordinary Power to Heal (2003). This summary gives general explanations about how yeast can cause so-called autoimmune illnesses and chronic disease. For detailed explanations, including an extensive chapter on how the immune system is supposed to work--and how yeast prevent it from working correctly--we recommend that you read An Extraordinary Power to Heal.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Crohn's Disease, Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Lupus, Multiple Sclerosis, Numbness in the hands, Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Ulcerative colitis:  What do these have in common?  They all respond to dietary intervention and anti-yeast treatment.

Why might chronic diseases ranging from psoriasis to ulcerative colitis to arthritis respond to dietary intervention and anti-yeast treatment? These diseases are all marked by the body appearing to attack itself. They are called "auto-immune" diseases.

I have always considered the idea of the body attacking itself as a strange idea. Why should the body do that? In 40 years of research, the biomedical research community has been unable to come up with any answer. Maybe the concept is wrong.

Maybe the body is not attacking itself primarily. Maybe the primary target is not the body but the yeast Candida albicans. To understand how such terrible diseases can occur, we need to look at the interactions of Candida albicans and the immune system.

Yeast are normal residents of the intestinal tract. After antibiotics, yeast grow to fill in the space left by dead bacteria and the yeast continue to grow at this higher level. The body still must contain the yeast so that the yeast does not invade the rest of the body. If Candida invades the body, the result is often death.

The best way to look at the immune system is to understand that the immune system has both defensive and offensive weapons. The main defensive weapon is inflammation. Inflammation is like putting up a wall, a hot wall, which makes it difficult for invading foreign microorganisms to get through. Inflammation will occur anytime the immune system contacts a foreign invader. But as you know the inflammation is painful. Along with the inflammation, should come the offensive weapons which kill the foreign invader. The problem is that Candida has many tricks to evade the offensive weapons of the body's immune system.

Candida is a very difficult organism for the body's immune system to clear.   Why?

Yeast have a capsule on the outside which prevents the first line (phagocytic) white blood cells of the body from engulfing the yeast and killing it. So the body must rely on the other parts of the immune system.

Candida has other tricks to evade the body's immune system. One of these tricks is to change its outside. The immune system recognizes the outside receptors of the invading organism and then sends out signals to start an immune response. Some of the immune responders then look for cells with those receptors. Candida albicans can change the receptors which it is displaying, making it difficult for the body's immune cells to react appropriately. In essence, Candida albicans is a moving target, which changes its form.

The most important thing to know about Candida is that Candida albicans can make factors which suppress the immune response to itself. These factors can be found in the circulation of people with significant Candida infections. When these factors are purified and placed in cultures of immune cells, these immune cells do not develop the responses to Candida which they are supposed to develop. In other words, Candida can make factors, which prevent the body from reacting to and killing the Candida. These factors prevent the total eradication of Candida from the body.

The Candida can suppress the offensive weapons of the body's immune system. But the inflammation will still be generated because when the immune system detects a foreign invader, there will always be inflammation. The problem is that the foreign invader, the Candida, is not going away, because the immune system's offensive weapons are suppressed. The inflammation will remain and inflammation is painful.

In the intestinal tract, there is Candida, which tries to invade the intestinal wall, and the immune system responds with inflammation. The problem is that the Candida suppresses the immune system's offensive weapons, so the Candida stays and the inflammation is prolonged. This prolonged inflammation is called ulcerative colitis if it occurs in the large intestine and it is called Crohn's disease if it occurs in the small intestine. These disorders are prolonged inflammation resulting from the immune system's inability to clear Candida.

In ulcerative colitis, there is painful inflammation of the intestine rather than regulated containment. As the body fights the yeast in the intestine, some of the cells fighting the yeast circulate and come into contact with yeast on the skin and start an inflammation there, leading to eczema and psoriasis .

Candida causes autoimmune problems such as lupus and rheumatoid arthritis in this way. Candida puts out receptors on its cell surface which are actually human receptors for connective tissue and the immune system. If the body attacks the Candida in the intestinal tract, the body's immune system will attack anything which looks like the Candida. Because of the connective tissue receptors on Candida, the body's immune system may attack other cells in the body which have these receptors.

Many tissues such as the joints have connective tissue and as the body attacks the Candida, the body will also attack these cells. The result is painful joints or other inflamed tissues.

Candida also has receptors which are similar to those in the brain. When these cells are attacked, the result is multiple sclerosis.

In other words, Candida acts as a long term vaccination displaying the body's own cellular receptors to the body's immune system. When the immune system sees such receptors for a long enough time, it will attack cells which display such receptors, which includes the cells of the body. There is research which shows that such immune system reactions occur. The yeast Candida is the primary target. If the Candida is removed the body stops attacking itself.

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So then going to the Science and Research tab at the MS page, this is what you'll find:

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What Science & Research are saying

Dr. Adamson references:  The following 2 articles are references from Dr. Adamson suggesting that MS root cause can be bacterial or viral infections and hence why essential oils seem to help significantly.

From PubMed.com

Arch Physiol Biochem. 2007 Jun;113(3):124-30.

Systemic infections in multiple sclerosis and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis.

Tauber SC, Nau R, Gerber J.;   Department of Neurology, Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany.

Abstract

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS). It has been suggested that viral and bacterial infections contribute to the pathogenesis of MS. This review will give an overview about the influence of viral and bacterial infections on MS and experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE). It will focus on bacterial infections and will also emphasise therapeutic consequences such as the impact of antibiotic treatment on the course of EAE. In summary, a growing body of evidence suggests that systemic infections are a risk factor for the initiation of autoimmune processes including the induction of acute events in MS. Experimental and clinical data strongly suggest early treatment of bacterial infections in MS patients to avoid aggravation and relapse.

 

From the Journal of Autoimmune Diseases

Virus-mediated autoimmunity in Multiple Sclerosis

Nikolaos Grigoriadis(B' Department of Neurology, Laboratory of Experimental Neurology and Neuroimmunology, AHEPA University Hospital, 1 Stilp Kyriakidi Street, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 54636 Thessaloniki, Greece) and Georgios M Hadjigeorgiou ( Department of Neurology, Neurogenetics Unit, Medical School, University of Thessaly, 22 Papakyriazi Street, 41222 Larissa, Greece)

Journal of Autoimmune Diseases 2006, 3:1doi:10.1186/1740-2557-3-1;  Published: 19 February 2006

Abstract

Epidemiological data suggest the notion that in Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is an acquired autoimmune disease and the cause may be an environmental factor(s), probably infectious, in genetically susceptible individuals. Several cases of viral induced demyelinatimg encephalomyelitis in human beings and in experimental models as well as the presence of IgG oligoclonal bands in the cerebrospinal fluid indicate that the infectious factor may be viral. However, the absence of a specific virus identification in MS central nervous system may hardly support this notion. On the other hand, the partial response of patients with MS to immunosuppressive and immunomodulatory therapy support the evidence of an autoimmune etiology for MS. However, the autoimmune hypothesis shares the same criticism with the infectious one in that no autoantigen(s) specific to and causative for MS has ever been identified. Nevertheless, the absence of identifiable infectious agent, especially viral does not rule out its presence at a certain time – point and the concomitant long term triggering of an autoimmune cascade of events thereafter. Several concepts have emerged in an attempt to explain the autoimmune mechanisms and ongoing neurodegeneration in MS on the basis of the infectious – viral hypothesis.

 

 

Candida, Inflammation & Auto-Immune Illnesses

Kathy - This summary is based on Dr. Bruce Semon's book An Extraordinary Power to Heal (2003). This summary gives general explanations about how yeast can cause so-called autoimmune illnesses and chronic disease. For detailed explanations, including an extensive chapter on how the immune system is supposed to work--and how yeast prevent it from working correctly--we recommend that you read An Extraordinary Power to Heal.   .... (and it keeps going ......)

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.....  Notice what you see? They set up a little information about research that sets the stage for adding in their Candida, Inflammation and Auto-Immune Illnesses information that you've seen at that general autoimmune information...  It's very efficient, consistent, and 'reinforcing'.  I really like the way the information is presented at this website. They also are really routing people to the book resource. So, in order to make this easier for YOU, this is some of what you'll find at the "An Extraordinary Power to Heal" links, above.  (BOLDING added by me to help YOUsers with tired or foggy brains and eyes ...)

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AN EXTRAORDINARY POWER TO HEAL, by Bruce Semon, M.D., Ph.D., and Lori Kornblum, was written for people suffering from a wide range of supposedly untreatable medical conditions, ranging from autism to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome to psoriasis. This book documents, through examples of actual cases that Dr. Semon has treated, that many diverse medical conditions respond to anti-yeast therapy. This therapy consists of changing diet and taking the anti-yeast medication nystatin. An Extraordinary Power to Heal goes beyond presenting case examples, however. It allows people to take charge of their health by providing comprehensive and comprehensible explanations of how and why yeast and yeast chemicals cause severe and diverse health problems.

Not only do yeast chemicals – present in people’s intestines and in the foods we eat – cause many major medical problems, but the immune system cannot properly respond to yeast. In An Extraordinary Power to Heal, Dr. Semon explains how our immune system is supposed to function to get rid of foreign invaders, and describes all of the ways that scientists have discovered that the yeast Candida albicans thwarts and evades the immune system. Because the immune system cannot clear yeast, the immune system fights yeast in many ways that actually cause major health problems.

An Extraordinary Power to Heal answers these questions and presents information in a way that lay people can understand. However, one of the most important functions of the book is to answer these questions for health care practitioners as well.

The most common question people ask is, “can my doctor do this for me?” The answer, with this book, is “yes.”

Dr. Semon and Ms. Kornblum have carefully provided all of the scientific information underpinning these observations in footnotes that health care practitioners can read for a more thorough understanding of how yeast causes problems and why yeast problems should be taken seriously. This book, then, is written for both lay people and their health care practitioners.

An Extraordinary Power to Heal has a comprehensive treatment section, explaining in greater detail than in Feast Without Yeast how to implement our 4 Stages diet, what nystatin is and how to prescribe it. It discusses other anti-yeast treatments as well.

The book is organized into six sections. The first section explains how the foods we eat can trigger illness. The second section explains how yeast chemicals cause illness and devotes specific chapters to specific problems that yeast chemicals cause or make worse. These problems include Autism, ADD and ADHD, Depression, Allergies, Food Addiction, Tourette’s Syndrome, headaches, and other problems.

The chapter on Autism is particularly comprehensive. In that chapter, Dr. Semon explains how the “gluten free casein free” diet really is part of a good anti-yeast diet. The companion cookbook to An Extraordinary Power to Heal, Extraordinary Foods for the Everyday Kitchen, is completely wheat/gluten and milk/casein free as well as yeast free.

The third section explains how the immune system is supposed to work to destroy foreign invaders such as yeast, but how yeast thwarts and evades the immune system. This section gives full explanations for how yeast causes or makes worse medical conditions associated with immune problems, including Multiple Sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s Disease, ulcerative colitis, eczema, psoriasis, ear infections, chronic vaginal yeast infections and other conditions.

The fourth section explains anti-yeast treatment in great detail. This section gives you a step by step, day by day and week by week plan for changing your life and your health.

The fifth section addresses theoretical and policy issues. Finally, the last section gives specific information for informed consent for treatment, nystatin dosing, how to include this diet on an IEP (individualized educational plan), travel tips, and other information.

We hope that you enjoy this book, and that reading it helps you or someone you know take charge of their health and feel better.

What’s inside An Extraordinary Power to Heal

Contents

 

- See more at: http://nutritioninstitute.com/?page_id=70#sthash.U0QCgSoi.dp...

...... AND IT GOES ON TO SHOW the CONTENTS .. it's really a well done website to encourage people to be able to see what's in the book in order to know if it's something they wish to purchase (or ask their health care provider or agency or whatever 'organization' might have some funds to do so if the cost is prohibitive to them). I like to plant the seed of idea that many proactive patients have invested in a copy of a book (consider used stores or online, naturally) to 'provide to the provider' and nudge and say 'please learn this, this is something I've researched and believe to be something you're unaware of or not yet doing, and I think it is important". YOU ... look at the YOU! Model graphic ... can do this!  Or naturally a website resource suggested, perhaps Lumigrate even. Perhaps not even to do with helping 'me' but helping others in my path (other patients). 

I've had a 'consumer' who regularly attended the afore-mentioned education forum bring me a used book from her book store and say 'I want to know what you think about this book.' It was not only an outstanding book about fibromyalgia, and I was totally unaware of it -- but it was written by the MD who hadn't yet learned of FM when he had treated me for chronic fatigue syndrome! He'd learned of Myer's Cocktails not long after I became his patient and he tried them on me (and other patients) and they were a 'magic bullet' and made me the biggest fan ever of 'integrative' and functional medicine.

I went on to need to work out of town for two months at that time, so he sent me with the instructions and recipe, plus a set of all the vitamins and mineral solutions that made up the IV nutrition, and the MD I found to administer them to me was then inspired to go on and study integrative and functional medicine. She used my stuff to try on eight chronically ill patients in the next week and they'd had good results! (She worked for a remote satellite primary care office for the large regional hospital of western Colorado and ended up leaving the US for her new pursuits. Her assistant at that time now works for the medical office within that same system, and is drawing blood on people who are going to my old surgeon/doctor from the 2006 hysterectomy that got botched by nursing errors afterwards and had me angrly thinking 'someone has to DO SOMETHING to let the patients know about how to navigate the medical system today', and by January 2007 I was enrolled and attending a business visioning/planning class by the local business incubator.)  

Yes, it's a small world and everything happens for a reason, perhaps. What might initially be a hard situation pushes people out and to move on to new situations where they influence and are influenced. And on and on we all go.... 

A decade before is when the foundation got laid for my appreciation about 'outside the box' medicine. I'd had my IgG food allergies found by a similar type of 'out of pocket doing things insurance doesn't pay for' MD, back when it was thought I had MS, but thankfully there was no myelin in the CSF. I got things turned around due to the dietary changes I did at that time. I've now had a very educated MD (who you can find at Lumigrate, Marc Spurlock, MD), look at my 1995 CSF lab results and in 2 seconds he checked a line item and said 'that indicates virus'. I would hope a neurologist would know that today, but in 1995 this was not the case, at least in Fort Collins, Colorado by my neurologist.

So you can see with my personal example, perhaps, how this topic and information I'm linking from at EverythingEssential 'ties it all together' -- connects the dots. So I hope the dialogue and 'story' I add to this helps YOU see how to apply this to YOUR health issue. And helps you realize there are MANY providers, increasing in numbers all the time, trying to get 'out of the box' and do things that are more in line with why they became medical providers. But it's VERY difficult to be 'outside the system', so please support these providers if you are able and interested.  

Dr. Spurlock provided a topic at Lumigrate called "Are You Loaded?" and it's about "Load Theory" -- genes that are loaded down (versus what helps them, which offsets load, naturally) will then lead to symptoms and illness and away from the natural state of wellness of the body. (Here's the link, but you can find it in the Forum in the chronic pain /fatigue / fibromyalgia section, there's a forum with Dr Spurlock's name included in the title of the forum.... )  I HIGHLY suggest EVERY YOUser of Lumigrate uses it as a starting point.  

www.lumigrate.com/forums/health-issuesdis-eases/fibromyalgia-chronic-pain-and-chronic-fatigueexhaustion/fibromyalgia/f 

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Naturally, you (YOU!) want to figure out what their 'game is' at Everything Essential (as with any provider, website, etc.), so "follow the money" as the saying goes.  I did. I presume YOUsers do about Lumigrate too. And then how that fits in overall with the industry and the restrictions that are imposed by the FDA, etc. Consumers have to 'find the dots' and then 'connect the dots', rather than having someone say 'if you have this, take that'.  

 

Lumigrate baffles people because there is no 'money' making on it (up to this writing at least) -- no ads, no sponsors that are listed besides that I say that I have created it as a way of providing information to people, which is free for people to access and DIY. When people require more assistance then that is where, in theory, our support and income would come from.

 

There simply aren't enough people aware of the content and of my providing health information concierge and 'detective' services who are willing AND able to pay for my expertise in guiding them around the health information maze, so it's not supporting me yet; I've totally supported it with my personal funds. In the future when the issues of the Internet and what consumers are doing get more settled, we'll perhaps carry products. Things were just too 'changing' in the times we upstarted (2009) to really see what we'd be best doing so I opted to just keep it simple and get information to people. With the core concept being YOU need to LEARN all the ropes and then figure out what YOU are going to do, take, ask advise about and to whom, etc.

 

Those things have always been part of the plans and things have not ever 'come together' for it to come to fruition. Rome wasn't built in a day and neither are some websites.  

 

So naturally I wondered about this website and if they sell doTerra. 

 

They don't. They do, but they don't; they refer those needing a connection. They're promoting essential oils overall and are doTerra aligned, I would say.  You can see what they say about it yourself. They urge people if they've had a doTerra person in their community to work with them, and if not, they connect them to that resource. This seems ethical to me, their encouraging using anyone you've already had contact with, and that is an important concept that I look for in terms of who I suggest as resources to link out to from Lumigrate to encourage YOUsers in their 'continuing education'.  

 

I guess from my standpoint, if I met someone selling something and they didn't connect me up with what I was looking for in education and I found a website like this one that I really liked and wanted to support, I'd not feel badly about going the route of the website I liked and supporting them. These are our personal ethics as consumers to think about. Lumigrate teaches about the mind, body and spirit for wellness and our integrity and what we know to be the reality of how we conduct ourselves affects our state of mind and wellness.   

 

Here are a few other tidbits from their website that I wanted to bring here so you see what they say -- and naturally allows you while you are HERE to decide if you're going to take my advise or not and take the link out and go 'see the sites'. 

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NOTE: The advice shared in this site has not been evaluated by the FDA. The products and methods recommended are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any illness or disease, nor is it intended to replace proper medical help. As members offer or look for answers, kindly understand that essential oils work to help to bring the body into balance - thus helping the body's natural defenses to restore homeostasis. Essential oils are not used to "treat" medical problems.

 

And repeatedly this is seen on their content pages: "Parts of this were taken with permission from Essential Oils Overview and Reference Guide, published by: The Family Tree, 2008"  Sounds like a good book! I wonder if they sell it at their website.  Okay, I set you up with homework on that -- now GO and see!  Learn! I hope this topic sets YOU up well with a good foundation about essential oils and gives you some direction of where to start for a resource or two. 

 

And I hope this is a site which is worth your time and energy to explore in your learning process. It was for me!  ~  Mardy