As we gear up to return to the classroom and more in-person connection and interaction, I wanted to share a new kit to help keep your family healthy, happy, and calm.
Our new Back to School Kit contains three powerful oils to support your mental, physical, and emotional health, as well as your immune health.
Parasympathetic®
The autonomic nervous system exists in two distinct states: the “fight-or-flight” sympathetic state and the “rest-and-digest” parasympathetic state. The parasympathetic state helps to reset the immune system and switch off production of proteins that fuel inflammation. Another key impediment to immune health is an impaired digestive system. If you are not absorbing and assimilating nutrients, which are the raw materials that support the immune system, it is hard to heal. To ensure optimal immune function, you can apply the Parasympathetic® which contains clove oil found to support immune modulation, to the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone) before meals to stimulate the parasympathetic nervous system “rest-and-digest” state.
Parasympathetic® can also help calm your stress response, which diminishes the infectious power of viruses. Viruses can obtain a stronghold in the body when the physical and emotional terrain is out of balance. To help calm your stress response and ensure optimal immune function, you can apply the Parasympathetic® blend to support immune modulation to the vagus nerve (behind the earlobe on the mastoid bone) before meals. When you apply it, take a few deep breaths, with the exhalation longer than the inhalation, to fully relax and activate digestion before meals.
Immune Support™
This blend traces its origins to the bubonic plague, when thieves would steal the gold teeth from the mouths of the dead. When they were apprehended, they were offered a lesser sentence in exchange for sharing how they avoided the illness.
Their secret was this blend of hot oils that strengthen the immune system against flu, colds, and coughs, as well as infections, viruses, bacteria, fungus, parasites, and microbes. In fact, research has found that essential oils high in eugenol, such as Cinnamon and Clove, offer the most protection against viruses.
Heat, including heat from hot essential oils, enhances the efficiency of antiviral and antibacterial immune responses. Much of your body’s immune response is designed to respond to a heightened body temperature, including antiviral and antibacterial immune responses. A fever-range temperature also allows your body to better remember germs it’s exposed to, making it stronger at fighting them off in the future.
Essential oils can safely bring the body’s internal temperature to 102°F, mimicking some of the significant immunity benefits of a fever. Heat helps kill viruses, which is one reason why warm remedies, such as chicken soup or hot tea, are recommended when we are sick. Heating the body for short periods to induce health is called hyperthermia, and it is one of the reasons that healing technologies like infrared saunas, biomats, and Epsom salt baths are effective healing techniques.
To prevent illness or nip it in the bud once it starts, apply Immune Support™ 2-3 times daily on the throat (diluted) or the bottom of the feet. To keep the family healthy, rub the oil on the bottom of the feet before bed (kids can even be asleep when you apply it).
Adrenal®
Anxiety activates your fight or flight system, which triggers your adrenal glands to release stress hormones, like cortisol, to provide emergency energy and help keep you safe from harm. These hormones contribute to anxiety symptoms, like a racing heartbeat, that we experience as anxiety.
Anxiety also increases your need for energy in the form of blood sugar or glucose. This emergency fuel is released from your adrenal glands in response to a signal from your brain in the form of stress hormones such as cortisol and epinephrine. These hormones actually break down your muscle tissue so that the released proteins can be converted into glucose.
Every moment of anxiety means your adrenals are activating the increase of glucose in the blood, so your muscles and your brain have more fuel.
In that way, the adrenals are providing you with the fuel needed to negotiate stress. However, this repetitive firing of your adrenals impedes your brain’s ability to calm them. The anxiety response, triggered by a thought or an event, signals the adrenals to turn on. The adrenals continue pumping out their hormones long after the trigger has been resolved. This hyper-adrenal response characteristic of anxiety has far-reaching health implications—immune depression, digestive dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and diabetes.
Balancing the adrenal glands with Adrenal® can help calm these hormones and, with them, the anxiety symptoms. Smelling Adrenal® through the left nostril or applying to the adrenal glands (on the lower mid-back, one fist above the 12th rib on each side). Dilute to start or if any redness occurs.
Once you address the root causes of anxiety, you can move toward healing the underlying issues, not just managing the symptoms.
Featured Oils:
Ready to get started? Click the links below to order today:
- Adrenal® available here
- Back to School Kit available here
- Immune Support™ available here
- Parasympathetic® available here
