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/ [1]
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/ [2]
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 BlendsOther ProductsHow to apply oilsHistory and ScienceHints and HelpsFAQs
See more very helpful information under the general category of auto-immune diseases [3].
(A GREAT GRAPHIC OF NERVES, DONE WELL BY AN ARTIST -- so definitely go see the website source -- take the trip on the link and see the sites as I say!)
The nervous system is composed of multiple nerve cells connected with Axons that deliver the electrical impulses to and from the brain. The Axon is protected by a sheath of fatty acid substance called the Myelin sheath. Multiple sclerosis is a condition wherein the body mistakenly attacks this Myelin sheath (hence an autoimmune disease) which in turn disrupts the communication between the brain and various parts of the body.
The early symptoms may come and go and hence it is difficult to have a definitive diagnosis. The early symptoms may include numbness, tingling, or weakness in the extremities. Trouble swallowing, bad balance, dizziness, poor memory or concentration, or trouble with hearing or with vision may also occur. Since, as damage to the nerves continue, further deterioration is experienced later symptoms may include the inability to walk or talk.
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
Candida, Inflammation & Auto-Immune Illnesses
Kathy - This summary is based on Dr. Bruce Semon's book An Extraordinary Power to Heal [4] (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 [4].
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.
So then going to the Science and Research tab at the MS page, this is what you'll find:
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 [4] (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 [4]. .... (and it keeps going ......)
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 [5] 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 [6], 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.
- See more at: http://nutritioninstitute.com/?page_id=70#sthash.U0QCgSoi.dp... [7]
...... 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.
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [9] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
Links:
[1] http://www.thebarefootdragonfly.com/friends-dont-let-friends-drink-essential-oils/
[2] http://everythingessential.me/
[3] http://www.everythingessential.me/HealthConcerns/AutoImmuneDiseases.html
[4] http://www.nutritioninstitute.com/power_to_heal.html
[5] http://www.nutritioninstitute.com/fwy.html
[6] http://www.nutritioninstitute.com/extraordinary_foods.html
[7] http://nutritioninstitute.com/?page_id=70#sthash.U0QCgSoi.dpuf
[8] http://www.lumigrate.com/forums/health-issuesdis-eases/fibromyalgia-chronic-pain-and-chronic-fatigueexhaustion/fibromyalgia/f
[9] http://twitter.com/lumigrate
[10] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/inflammation-candida-immune-system-and-essential-oils-autism-zzz-problems-connecting-dots#comment-2665
[11] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/inflammation-candida-immune-system-and-essential-oils-autism-zzz-problems-connecting-dots#top
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[13] http://www.lumigrate.com/user/register?destination=node/2157%23comment-form
[14] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/inflammation-candida-immune-system-and-essential-oils-autism-zzz-problems-connecting-dots#comment-2701
[15] http://alternativemedicine-blog.blogspot.com/2014/09/steps-on-how-to-use-essential-oils-for.html
[16] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/inflammation-candida-immune-system-and-essential-oils-autism-zzz-problems-connecting-dots#comment-2739
[17] http://www.survivingcipro.com/articles-authored-by-you/cipro-magnesium/
[18] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/inflammation-candida-immune-system-and-essential-oils-autism-zzz-problems-connecting-dots#comment-2767
[19] http://www.eeoils.me/
[20] http://www.lumigrate.com/forum/inflammation-candida-immune-system-and-essential-oils-autism-zzz-problems-connecting-dots#comment-2781
[21] http://www.biospiritual-energy-healing.com/essential-oil-safety.html
Comments
This is the comprehensive list that was taken from Wikipedia and cited and used at the Everything Essential dot me website which I'd said in the *** area, above, would be here in comment, below to streamline the above topic for YOUsers BUT offer the full information presented as our 'example' topic for Everything Essential dot com.
Achlorhydra Autoimmune Active Chronic Hepatitis
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis
Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Addison’s Disease
Agammaglobulinemia
Alopecia areata (Accepted) T-cells
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Ankylosing Spondylitis (Accepted)
Anti-GBM/TBM Nephritis
Antiphospholipid syndrome
Antisynthetase syndrome
Aplastic Anemia
Arthritis Sometimes
Atopic allergy
Atopic Dermatitis
Autoimmune cardiomyopathy
Autoimmune hemolytic anemia (Accepted) II
Autoimmune hepatitis
Autoimmune inner ear disease (Accepted)
Autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome (Accepted)
Autoimmune peripheral neuropathy
Autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome (Accepted) Unknown or Multiple
Autoimmune progesterone dermatitis
Autoimmune thrombocytopenia purpura (See Idiopathic thrombocytopenia purpura)
Autoimmune uveitis
Balo disease/Balo concentric sclerosis
Bechets Syndrome
Berger's disease
Bickerstaff's encephalitis
Blau syndrome
Bullous Pemphigoid
Castleman's disease
Chagas disease (Suspected)6
Chronic Fatigue Immune Dysfunction Syndrome
Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy
Chronic lyme disease Suspected
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (Suspected) anti-elastin, Abys against epithelial cells
Churg-Strauss syndrome
Cicatricial Pemphigoid
Coeliac Disease (Accepted)
Cogan syndrome
Cold agglutinin disease (Accepted)
Cranial arteritis
CREST syndrome
Crohns Disease (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD") (Accepted)
Cushing's Syndrome
Dego's disease
Dercum's disease (Suspected)
Dermatitis herpetiformis
Dermatomyositis (Accepted)
Diabetes mellitus type 1 (Accepted)
Dressler's syndrome
Discoid lupus erythematosus
Eczema
Endometriosis (Suspected)
Enthesitis-related arthritis
Eosinophilic fasciitis (Accepted)
Epidermolysis bullosa acquisita
Essential mixed cryoglobulinemia
Evan's syndrome
Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva
Fibromyalgia (Suspected)
Fibromyositis
Fibrosing aveolitis
Gastritis
Gastrointestinal pemphigoid (Accepted)
Giant cell arteritis
Glomerulonephritis Sometimes
Goodpasture's syndrome (Accepted) Anti-Basement Membrane Collagen Type IV Protein
Graves' disease (Accepted)
Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) (Accepted) Anti-ganglioside
Hashimoto’s encephalitis (Accepted)
Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Accepted)
Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Hidradenitis suppurativa (Suspected)
Hughes syndrome (See Antiphospholipid syndrome)
Idiopathic Inflammatory Demyelinating Diseases
Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
Idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (Accepted)
IgA nephropathy (Also Berger's disease)
Inflammatory demyelinating polyneuopathy
Interstitial cystitis (Suspected)
Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) (Suspected)
Kawasaki's Disease (Suspected)
Lichen planus
Lou Gehrig’s Disease (Also Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Lupoid hepatitis
Lupus erythematosus (Accepted)
Ménière's disease
Microscopic polyangiitis
Mixed Connective Tissue Disease (Accepted)
Morphea (Suspected)
Multiple Myeloma
Multiple Sclerosis (Suspected)
Myasthenia gravis (Accepted)
Myositis
Narcolepsy (Accepted)
Neuromyelitis optica (Also Devic's Disease)
Neuromyotonia (Suspected)
Occular cicatricial pemphigoid
Opsoclonus myoclonus syndrome (Suspected)
Ord thyroiditis
Pars planitis
Pemphigus
Pemphigus vulgaris (Accepted) II Anti-Desmogein 3
Pernicious anaemia (Accepted)
Polymyalgia rheumatica
Polymyositis (Accepted)
Primary biliary cirrhosis (Accepted) Anti-p62, Anti-sp100, Anti-Mitochondrial(M2)
Primary sclerosing cholangitis
Progressive inflammatory neuropathy (Suspected)
Psoriasis (Accepted) T-cells
Psoriatic Arthritis (Accepted)
Raynaud phenomenon
Relapsing polychondritis (Accepted)
Reiter’s syndrome
Rheumatoid arthritis (Accepted) III Rheumatoid factor, Anti-MCV
Rheumatoid fever
Sarcoidosis (Suspected)
Schizophrenia (Suspected)
Schmidt syndrome
Schnitzler syndrome
Scleritis
Scleroderma (Suspected) Anti-topoisomerase
Sjögren's syndrome (Accepted)
Spondyloarthropathy
Sticky blood syndrome
Still's Disease
Stiff person syndrome (Suspected)
Sydenham Chorea
Sweet syndrome
Takayasu’s arteritis
Temporal arteritis (also known as "giant cell arteritis") (Accepted)9 IV
Transverse Myelitis
Ulcerative Colitis (one of two types of idiopathic inflammatory bowel disease "IBD") (Accepted)
Undifferentiated connective tissue disease
Undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy
Vasculitis (Accepted)
Vitiligo (Suspected)
Wegener's granulomatosis (Accepted) Anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic(cANCA)
Wilson’s syndrome
Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [9] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
AlternativeMedicine blog at blogspot dot com has a nice article and then continuing links/ resource for those who are interested in addressing allergies using essential oils. Here's the link:
alternativemedicine-blog.blogspot.com/2014/09/steps-on-how-to-use-essential-oils-for.html [15]
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [9] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
I'm adding this here (as one place on Lumigrate, it'll go other places or another place as well) because in the comments section someone talks about becoming a believer in essential oils after using magnesium oil to remedy 'being floxed' -- this is at a website called Surviving Cipro. People with certain medical conditions react with tendon problems from this class of antibiotic.
This is a good article about it that I saw, although I don't agree with everything that the writer suggests near the bottom, or I would prefer to see her giving ideas of resources of where people could look, for instance relate to taking probiotic with antibiotic. Really, should people not be taking probiotics always? Maybe, you'll have to see what you think.
And magnesium oil, I don't believe, is considered an essential oil --- but I do like that the person who submitted that comment tracked some down and tried it after doing research about what to do after being 'floxed'. And I REALLY like that the author of the article admitted she was angry at her doctor, talked to him, realized that she shouldn't be angry at him --- how's he supposed to know, he has less ability to look into things than we do based on the crazy whirlwind of patients they have to keep up with these days. It ends up resting on the patient at least in part. And in reality, it ends up resting on the patient totally in terms of who pays the price for the repercussions... it's your body that will suffer. And I've been in that situation more than once, things that were really unbelievable oversights for someone who is given the authority to write prescriptions, but then I have to also say that I was either not feeling well and/or busy or trusting too much in the person I was paying to advise me and give me prescriptions when appropriate. At the end of the day I think we heal emotionally and mentally more if we take that responsibility.
I did not know that many foods I was eating were not good for me -- you cannot know what you have not yet learned. But I was the one who ate them, it was my doing. I was injured, I believe, by vaccines --- yet even after I knew about vaccines downside, I still agreed at least on three occasions to have them. And I paid the price. I know what I was thinking, I understand at the time I foresaw it being necessary for my new career or the next job, and I could not forsee the impact it would overall have 'loading down' my body further. And I had some of these types of 'big gun' antibiotics too. May we continue to do better every day.
www.survivingcipro.com/articles-authored-by-you/cipro-magnesium/ [17]
Live and learn. Learn and Live Better! ~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [9] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
I wanted to provide another resouce about essential oils / EOs here.
This is just a simple comment I found in a Facebook group conversation thread by someone knowledgeable (in a group of knowledgeables about some mega base / wellness stuff, I've put much in the forum that's dedicated to political action, community groups, social media/ Facebook in 2014 and so far 2015 because there had just become an incredible evolution as time went on with the massive numbers using Facebook significantly. Groups for years were building and splitting and building new groups and cross polinating, it appeared to me, and those who were committed to their groups and were valid and sincere kept getting further with things. And by 2014 I was finding incredible information in groups, like never before. Everyone was kind of progressing together over the years! And then I'd see 'support groups' where the people were truly not interested in learning and being proactive, they were spinning around in the same patterns of talking about symptoms and some basics to address them but not going any deeper. I became suspicious of who was running them more than ever.).
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [9] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!
I acutally found this website today when searching on essential oils in combination with Codex (which is part of Agenda 21; the education arm is Common Core and the health products arm is Codex). There's a very good overview about Codex from my perspective that I added onto the blog thread about Agenda 21/Codex, and then I settled in to merrily explore some of the cool information this gal provides at Biospiritual Energy Healing dot com. Much of her foundation is from Bruce Lipton if that gives you a point of reference.
Here's the link: I encourage YOU to go. Once again, safety with essential oils (EOs) is so important as they're potent and important tools for healing. I do hope that we will always have the freedom to use them, I hope that there are enough people now selling essential oils and getting enough people seeing how influential they are that there will be more understanding of Codex's reality and what all it entails and there will be more people getting active about it. Active can mean telling someone else and helping them become awake, we don't all have to be out holding picket signs, writing letters, etc. But we all need to be doing what we can and putting increased attention of our resources (time, energy, money = resources) toward activism. And showing people the lovely and FUN things that are not as 'hard to do' as changing how we eat! Grins!
www.biospiritual-energy-healing.com/essential-oil-safety.html [21]
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! ~ Mardy
Live and Learn. Learn and Live Better! is my motto. I'm Mardy Ross, and I founded Lumigrate in 2008 after a career as an occupational therapist with a background in health education and environmental research program administration. Today I function as the desk clerk for short questions people have, as well as 'concierge' services offered for those who want a thorough exploration of their health history and direction to resources likely to progress their health according to their goals. Contact Us comes to me, so please do if you have questions or comments. Lumigrate is "Lighting the Path to Health and Well-Being" for increasing numbers of people. Follow us on social networking sites such as: Twitter: http://twitter.com/lumigrate [9] and Facebook. (There is my personal page and several Lumigrate pages. For those interested in "groovy" local education and networking for those uniquely talented LumiGRATE experts located in my own back yard, "LumiGRATE Groove of the Grand Valley" is a Facebook page to join. (Many who have joined are beyond our area but like to see the Groovy information! We not only have FUN, we are learning about other providers we can be referring patients to and 'wearing a groove' to each other's doors -- or websites/home offices!) By covering some of the things we do, including case examples, it reinforces the concepts at Lumigrate.com as well as making YOU feel that you're part of a community. Which you ARE at Lumigrate!