Live Like a Girl with Dr. Mindy Pelz - Why Essential Oils Are Your Quick Win For Balancing Hormones – With Dr. Mariza Snyder

Episode Date: August 2, 2021

// R E A D Y • S E T • R E S E T This episode is all about different essential oil blends to help anxiety, lower blood sugar, and improve your sleep. Dr. Snyder also answers some of the questions I've had about essential oils for a long time. Dr. Mariza Snyder is a functional practitioner, women's hormone expert, and the author of eight books: The newest book, The Essential Oils Menopause Solution, focuses on solutions for women in perimenopause and menopause and the #1 National Bestselling book, The Essential Oils Hormone Solution, focuses on balancing women's hormones naturally.  Other bestselling books are The Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils and The DASH Diet Cookbook.  For the past twelve years, she has lectured at wellness centers, conferences, and corporations on hormone health, essential oils, nutrition, and detoxification.  She has been featured on Dr. Oz, Oprah Magazine, Fox News Health, MindBodyGreen, and many publications. Dr. Mariza is also the host of the top-rated Essentially You Podcast, (with over 3 million downloads) designed to empower women to become the CEO of their health. Check out her website, drmariza.com, for women's hormone tips, including recipes and remedies. In this podcast, we cover: Aromatherapy: do essential oils really work? Your head-to-toe guide: where to use essential oils How you can use essential oils to help extend a fast Why lavender essential oils are one of the most popular Which essential oils will help you reduce anxiety, stress, and brain fog // R E S O U R C E S  M E N T I O N E D Gift: Top Hormone Supplement Bonus Guide Hormone Building Foods List Feel the impact of Organifi - use code PELZ for a discount on all products!  Book: The Essential Oils Menopause Solution Continuous Glucose Monitor Non Toxic Essential Oils: Use code PELZ for 10% off // M O R E  O N  D R.  M A R I Z A  S N Y D E R Dr. Mariza Podcast: Essentially You Podcast Dr. Mariza Facebook Dr. Mariza Instagram Dr. Mariza YouTube Channel Dr. Mariza on Pinterest // F O L L O W Instagram | @dr.mindypelz & @theresetterpodcast Facebook | /drmindypelz & /theresetterpodcast Youtube | /drmindypelz Please note the following medical disclaimer: By listening to this podcast you understand that this video is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to substitute for professional medical advice and should not be relied on as health or personal advice. Always seek the guidance of your doctor with any questions you may have regarding your health or medical condition.  

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On this episode of The Resetter podcast, I have such a delightful conversation for you guys with Dr. Maritza Snyder. If you're not familiar with Dr. Maritza Snyder, she put out actually several books, but her most current book is essential oils for menopause. And not only is the book amazing, but I want to tell you that in this episode, she talks about a ton of different blends to help anxiety, to lower blood sugar, to help you sleep. She even went into, she has a newborn baby. She talked about what she used to help her bring down her baby's fever. She also answers some of the questions about essential oils that I've had for quite a while, which, is, is it better to breathe it in? Does it matter where you rub these oils on your body? And how long

do the oils last in your system? One thing I learned from talking to her in this episode is she talks about how oils are a quick win. You can change your state. You can change your moods. You can bring a fever down. You can improve anxiety within seconds. And it'll last up to two hours the effects of oils. So I love this conversation. We talk a ton about anxiety. We talk a ton about menopause. We really highlight how to use oils. And then at the end, she really went and dove into some great strategies for strengthening your parasympathetic nervous system so that you can handle stress better. So phenomenal interview, so much fun. This woman's got incredible energy. Dr. Maritza We'll leave links for everything she has to offer.

Her book is incredible. And I'm just really excited to share this episode with you. I do have to. I love, I'm going to, this is going to be an epic day for me because the fact that you showed up in a bra to the podcast is like, every woman needs to freaking know this. Because this is what a nursing mama does when she's on a mission and she's got to make sure baby's got milk. It's so true.

My son's got to eat, you know? He's totally got to eat. He's totally got to eat. So that was awesome. But what I really want to dive into, and I, again, I know you're probably so tired of talking about this, but I want to be like transparent with the essential oil thing because the first time I heard it, I was like, what? Like you're going to rub something on your third eye and all of a sudden you got intuition.

and I'm going to rub something on my neck and I'm going to feel better. Like I literally thought it was a, it's a bunch of malarkey. Malarkey. I was like, yeah, I'm like a hell no. And I remember telling a friend, like you go steady it, come back, tell me what you think. So can we start off by helping me understand because it's stuck around for a long time. There has to be something to it. Why do essential oils work?

Yes. Yeah. Why do like literally millions upon millions of people use. essential oils around the world. And more so, and even, I mean, clearly the U.S. is taken off by storm, but more so like in Europe, in Canada, Australia, all over, you know, South America. It's just really fascinating. They were in Asia for so long. And so, and I think the reason why they became so popular is that women really were ready to become the CEO of their health again. I remember growing up when I was a little young girl, 80s and 90s, we had co-opted our doctors and we had

outsourced healthcare to our doctors for everything and anything. I remember going to the doctor all the time. Like way, way more than one should have to. And it's just because that we, it's as if they had stripped away our knowing, our intuition. And then you're like,

you're a woman, you don't know nothing. Like, you know, that it just kind of got beaten into us for over years. And I think finally someone was like, uh, we've been knowing,

you know, we, there are a lot of things that we can do in our own home. There's a lot of different natural remedies that we can, that we can use and leverage. And when I think about a lot of the, the ways in which we heal, like how we heal, what we use to heal, plant medicine, like plants, whether it is kale and arugula or broccoli or berries, or it is holy basil, aschaganda,

rhodiola, whatever. We think about all the plants, all the medicinal uses of plants and how they really serve and support our bodies on a cellular level. It's not that big of a leap to imagine that plants are making other secondary metabolites for their own protection, for their own vitality, and that we can leverage that technology or that intelligence or that chemistry for our own good as well. And so I think that's really what it comes down to is that we had had this research. We had been doing this for a while and essential oils are just kind of a concentrated version of a lot of the herbs that we're

already using like clove and cilantro and oregano and marjoram, you know, that we've already been using for many, many centuries, and now we can just concentrate them and really get that medicinal benefit from them. Yeah, and that totally makes sense to me. And I think that if you look at the negative side of what we rub on our skin, we know if we put toxic beauty that we create a hormonal shift. So I, my brain can sort of enter into the essential oil world through that thought is like, and I, and I'm so in alignment with you on the plants. And then I think, okay, but if I rub it on my skin, is it getting in at a slower rate? Does it matter where I rub it? Like, how do I know where to put the oil? Absolutely. It's such a great, great question. And so funny that

you had mentioned, like, slathering the stuff that we put on our bodies and having endocrine disrupting properties. Earlier today, I was going to, I'm always resetting my circadian rhythms. I know we've talked about my serious sleep deprivation because of my baby. And the one thing I do every morning is like get my butt outside and boost those mitochondria, get the vitamin D, Mother Nature, all of it. But I also, I'm trying to look young, you know, for a long time. Amazing. Thank you. And so I grabbed a sunscreen and then I almost all of our sunscreens in the house are non-toxic mineral-based sunscreens. But this one I just grabbed and my husband had bought it and I, and I was like, but I was like, you know what? I'm pretty sure he got the right one. And so I didn't look at the

ingredients and I just put it on and then I was like, you know what? Let me look at the ingredients real quick. And sure enough, red red flag, I was like, there is endocrine disruptors in here. And I rubbed it right over my chest where I'm beating this baby. So immediately grab a washcloth with some Castel soap. I'm scrubbing my chest trying to get this screen up. So I think about like, you know, how often like how quickly things absorb into our skin and how our skin in its own way. like is the biggest organ on the body. I personally, my favorite big organ is the liver, but, you know, the skin, you know, the skin's, the liver's having to deal with what you put on your skin.

Yeah. And so I was thinking, you know, when it comes to beautiful chemical constituents, so essential oils are defined as volatile aromatic compounds. And what that means is that if I were to open up a bottle right now, I'm ridiculous that I don't have one in front of me right this second to demonstrate this, I think to just pretend like I'm uncapping a bottle, those volatile constituents, because they're so delicate, is that they evaporate into the air. So if you had walked into the room, the minute that I opened a bottle, a tangerine essential oil, or grapefruit essential oil, that aroma, those molecules are going to

peripherate because it's room temperature in here. And you'll probably smell it the second you hit the room if I had had that bottle open for about a minute. That's just going to happen. And so those, those volatile chemicals, they go straight into the mitral cells of our olfactory bulb, which is cranial nerve number one. And what we know about our sense of smell, just talking about one of the three ways to use them, aromatic, is that our sense of smell is literally directly connected to our limbic system, our reptilian brain, our fight or flight, stranger danger, glaring because our sense of smell is connected to survival.

Like we can smell, I could smell a poopie diaper from a mile away now. You know what I'm saying? Like I can, I can smell a fire. I walked by a house today. I could kind of smell some natural gas. Like, I'm like, huh, what's that? And so we're, we're tuned to picking those things up. Your amygdala is like, is that something I need to be worried about?

And so the same thing, when we breathe in an essential oil, it connects to, it binds to those mitral cells, the receptor sites there, shoots straight into the limbic system. And those chemical constituents can have a profound impact by binding to receptor sites on the amygdala, the hippocampus, and especially the hypothalamus. And so we can actually modulate the way that we respond to a stressor or to a circumstance based on using these chemical constituents. So you like you could, if I'm having a stressed moment, I can just breathe an essential oil and it'll switch me out of that fight or flight brain. Yes, specific essential oil.

Some are going to, some, I'm not, I've never really seen an oil activate, like overactivate a stress response mode or an anxiety mode. But there are specific chemicals that we do know will absolutely begin to shut it down. Let's just use lavender. We started with lavender earlier. It's the oil that we all know, Jack of all trade. She's such a rock star. But she has two chemical constituents in it called linole and linole acetate.

And these very specific chemical constituents literally bind a receptor sites on the cells of the amygdala and the hip and the hypothalamus and literally tell the brain to take a really deep breath. And what we also know is by simply breathing in lavender essential oil, we can instantly lower serum cortisol levels, drop blood pressure and drop pulse rate in a matter of 30 seconds or less. That is how fast it works. And so when we look at, when we've researched, I know, I forget what it's in, I want to say it's the journal of, it's a British journal specifically, I think it's British medicine

that looked at, like compared Xanax to lavender and actually taken it orally. And they have found that lavender oil is just as effective, if not more effective, at lowering anxiety levels in patients who are having anxiety attacks. And so when you look in Europe, the first recommendation that they're going to give, if they know you're having anxiety, is they're going to give you kind of oral little tablets of lavender essential oil well before they ever get to the Xanax or any of the SSRIs or anti-anxiety medications. That's crazy.

That's crazy. And I was reminded of the, you know, the meme of the menopausal woman who's like covered in lavender? I don't know if you have seen that. Yes, like lavender leaves or lavender. She's like, I'm having a rough day and she's like buried in lavender. So there might be something to that. I'm actually thinking maybe now I need to plant some lavender.

my backyard and like roll around it in a little bit. It smells so good. We have, we have lavender. I just love, I love the way that lavender looks. It's so pretty. It reminds me of like a French garden. And so I do love it. But yeah, the, the oil itself is just so much more potent. So you need very little to get the job done. And so I always recommend diluting them with fraction of coconut oil. You know, my Kingston had a fever last Wednesday for the first time. Oh gosh. How'd you do? And so I know, I know as a, you know, as a doctor, I know that fevers are good. Yeah. You know, I'm not trying to kill the fever.

But, you know, it was getting, it got up to 102. I was freaking out a little bit. I wanted, I would have liked it around 99. You know, 99 would find it really good. Did you try to tell his body? I was like, take it down, take it down three degrees. He was, he was not lethargic. He was actually quite to happy, jovial, very sweet.

But you, he was going through it. So one moment, he would be giggling. The next moment, he would be sad and just giggle, Giggle sad. And it was just, it was adorable, but it was, it was heart wrenching at the same time. So I was like, all right, get out the oils. I wrote a book called The Smart Mom's Guide to Essential Oils. My husband finds it in the house.

He pulls your own book out. And I have a little, a little fever blend for, for young kids and babies. I usually recommend oils six months and older, although you can, it's your discretion. Like, Mama's using my three months and older. But when you write a book, you have to be conservative about your state. on things. And so six months in Kingston, it was literally a six month birthday that day. And so I was like, well, let's do it. And so I made, we made up a little roller. It was one drop of lavender in a 10-mill roller, two teaspoons and one drop of spearmint. And we just applied it to a little feet. And we gave

them little, little lukewarm bath. It was a little bit of it. And sure enough, we were able to get that fever down to like 99, 99, 98. And so it's just so nice to be able to leverage that, that medicine or the medicinal properties of that and do it in a really just safe and, you know, just a safe and very nourishing and loving kind of way. So it just really felt good that we can lean on that. And then I have my best friend as a pediatrician. I have her own speed dial. You know, I've got great health insurance.

I can get the baby a doctor's appointment immediately. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? And so I think having these types of, I know we're talking about women and hormones, but just an example of like watching that cool him down was really profound. Yeah. And I want to go back to something you said before because I think this is a really key point is that other countries are using things like essential oil.

I mean, I find this with fasting too. Like they're not scared to recommend something natural before something chemical based. Why do you think here in America we don't do that? You're funny. Look at you trying to get me controversial. It's called money. And yeah, I mean, we are, I think a lot of, there's a lot of, you know, moving parts when it comes to our medical system, whether it's health insurance and the pharmaceutical companies. And I think we, and, you know, and I think we played a role too.

I think we were, we've been asking like magic pill me up, baby, you know, and I, that's the thing that's going to fix me, that pill, that, that ambium or that, you know, well, butrin or whatever that cholesterol medication, whatever that may be. And so we, we've definitely been involved in that conversation. We have asked for those types of things. And you and I both know that that health and being healthy, it's a continuum. It's a journey. We're always, we're always on it. And, it takes work. It takes dedication. It takes knowledge.

And you know, you got it. You got to put in the work to really, to really be healthy, especially in this modern world. And girl, you and I both know, it is just a lot easier to take something instead of doing the work. And so I think that between pharmaceuticals and are being more interested in a quick fix than actually really digging into knowing that hormone literacy, you know, doing the fasting, eating the healthy foods, removing the inflammatory foods, you know,

being mindful about what we put on our bodies, moving our body every single day in a way that feels really good to us. And we think about all the steps that that we get to participate in to be healthy. I think, you know, I love it. I love the health journey. I love being a part of that health journey. I know for some people, it can feel very arduous and sometimes feel like they don't have time for it.

Yeah. The way I see it that could be really cool is that we, the work to me is in the lifestyle. So you've got to work the pieces of the lifestyle to balance the hormones to get the immune system strong, however it is. And then if in that time period, what I, the world that I want to live in, the way I visualize this is that then we would lean into the natural first. So the example with your son is perfect because what we would do is let's start with something natural first that has no consequences. And maybe there are some that you can talk about. But

before we go into something synthetic, that a medication, there's not any medication on the planet that doesn't have a side effect that I know of. So there should be sort of a, like to the continuum idea, don't you think that it would be nice if we had sort of gentle stepping stones instead of like, oh, you're in menopause, here's HRT. Oh, your son has a fever. here's a Tylenol. Like there's this manipulation we want to so quickly go to because it solves the problem fast, but temporarily. Temporarily and to what cost, you know, we're looking at, you know, there's this preliminary research on Tylenol and babies and it's not looking so safe as it used to be, you know, that's been, it's a, it's non-negotiable. We're not giving Kingston Tylenol.

We're not giving him baby Tylenol. And I've done my, my due diligence in that research. And then also, like you said, you know, hormone replacement. I know for you and I'm both, it's not something that we're willing to explore until we've explored everything else. And I've got to feel pretty, pretty darn terrible and miserable to want to go in that direction because I do know that, especially when we're talking about synthetic hormones, there again, there are implications or side effects. And they could eventually become more of a hindrance than they are. they become diminishing returns over time for us as women. And so, yeah, I agree. I think we should always have natural options first and foremost, whether it's

supplementation, it is food as medicine, it is potentially essential oils. And I can talk and speak to oils, how I think of them, how I think we should be using them. It could be a little bit different than someone else having that conversation as well. And so, and then having other, you know, more natural options on the table for living in our best life. That's what we're going to see the best vitality, joy and cellular longevity over time. Yeah. So, and I want you to speak to that specifically to perimenopause and menopause in a moment. But let's go back to because this is just sort of a selfish

question. I'm curious. So we can breathe the oils in. Yes. You talked about rubbing it on the feet. Is that the next, what's the next best place to put our oils? Yeah, especially for babies. I mean, a fever is a systemic thing. Okay. So, I mean, spine is a great place too central nervous system right um but so feet and spine are just great you know non invasive really nourishing like nice places to put like someone rubs your back and then puts a little oil on yep hell yes you know what I'm saying and so I always say when it comes to oils topical and I use oils topically all the time when it comes to oils topically the area of concern is the best place so if you got a tummy ache don't put them on your knee you guys you guys

a neckache, don't put them on your little back. You know what I'm saying? And so I have chronic neck problems. I am honestly in a state of we were in a bad, we were in a car accident with Kingston when he was two months old. And I'm still reeling from that accident because my neck didn't need any more trauma to it. And so I've been going to chiropractic care and acupuncture and body work, but three times a week, give or take. And then I slather essential oils on my neck every single day and they are phenomenal for releasing a lot of that tension, that, that just that stuckness, that tightness, and even their great natural allergisics. And so it'll, it's a, over time, I'm sure it's definitely helping. But even in the temporary thing for 30, 60 minutes, I am pain free,

which is amazing. And it sure beats taking, again, a Tylenol or an Excedrin or whatever that may be. And so topically, again, area of concern, dilute them. So I use oils for loving my liver. I use oils for women with menstrual cramps and even congestion there because things can get inflamed. So clearing that out, I love using castor oil packs with essential oil blends, like for the liver, for the gut and for the uterus and ovaries. You can use oils for cuts and scrapes. Like you get a cut. I remember my husband and I were in Italy a cup way back in the day when you.

You could go. You could go to Italy. And we were trying to find this restaurant in this little street. And I wasn't paying attention, nor was he. And he was in his phone. And he ran right into a pole. And like, yeah. And I, you know, when you see something like right when it's about to happen.

Like there's nothing you can do for that person, like just yell. You know, and they still run into it anyway. So that happened. And so he literally goose egged right here. His glasses flew like four feet away. And you could see this. goose egg just growing. He had this big little like gash as well. He had it pretty hard. He had a pretty pretty good pace. And he immediately said it was so cute. He immediately like, do you have any,

where's the lavender? And I usually have like three oils on me at all times. Peppermint, lavender and a citrus, like a wild orange or a tangerine. So I had lavender on me. Oh, my God. I'm putting it on. As this goose egg is growing, I'm applying lavender. And literally it shrinks as quick as it grew. And within a minute, The goose egg was gone. The gash was still there. You know, he had a little bit of a gash. But the goose egg literally went from goose egg to no egg, like on his on.

So outside of hopefully no one saw him, he was embarrassed. There was really no consequence to that accident. So in other words, what you're saying is like some moms carry gum in their purse. You're like, you're like, you got the essential oils. You're like, no, I do. Yeah. When you're on the play yard, when your son's off, you're going to be like, some moms are dishing out the snacks and you're going to be like, come on over here, sweetie.

Let me just rub a little oil on you. It's so, it's so true. Yeah, I mean, I'm packing up his little oils just in case. Like I made up his little blends. And then we always have ours. Like I have, I have really bad flight anxiety. And we're about to get on a plane tonight. And it might not be on the planes for a year and a half definitely hasn't helped my flight.

I usually find that when I fly more frequently, I do better. And so we're on this plane. no, I got this baby. So I'm like even more, you know, I can feel that. So I have oils specifically for my flight anxiety. And it can take me from 100 down to like a 20. And I will, I'll never not pack essential oils with me on a plane because they are such a major part of me getting that under control.

Do you put it on your third eye? What do you do? No, I just wrote, I want it. The amygdala is what's firing, right? Okay. I want it in the brain. And so I'm just smelling it. So I usually put it in my part.

palms. I roll it on my palms and just breathe it in and just do some really deep belly breaths. I do a longer exhale. Because I know that exhaling longer is what tells the body to relax. Yeah. And is there, what oil do you use for anxiety other than lavender? I use. So I have a blend that I make up. And it's actually, it's on the floor. I had. I accidentally tossed it. I was using it this morning. I had a little moment. Your shirt. Yeah, exactly. That's what happened. It is a combination of, it is tangerine, probably my favorite oil. Citrus is the same thing.

There's a little bit of lavender in there as well. There's, so there's like five drops of tangerine, lavender, jasmine, and magnolia. And it's super, it's a sexy scent. I'm not going to lie. It's super sexy. And it also manages my flight anxiety. And top it off with fractured coconut oil. And it just smells.

And it's in this gorgeous bottle. It's in this beautiful, ambre pink and red and orange bottle. So just me grabbing it out of bag or grabbing it off my table immediately tells my body, girl, we're going to chill out. You know, and so it just relaxes me. I also have my inner child trauma of urgence. Like I'm a very urgent person, very inpatient, very urgent. I am the queen of action and urgency.

My husband's like, ah, so. Sounds like me. Yeah. This is why we like each. other we just get shit done i get shit done i was like i'm like i like i like that's about me he's like let me guess you get shit done you know and so he's in the bathroom it's a two it's like five minutes before a podcast interview before this one and my husband he's last minute everything and i know he's gonna just he's gonna leave like he's gonna leave when i literally click this the button but i got to keep telling him to

leave you know and so i can't get into my zone to show up if it's the intention and the grounding that i want because I'm worried about this man who won't get out of the bathroom because this is in our bedroom, right? And he's like, has a shirt off and everything. And I'm like, talk about me showing up with a bra. I was going to say, so that's why you came on the podcast with a bra. Exactly. I'm like, could you just get out? And so I'm like, I said, you know what?

I said, I don't know if you notice, but I get pretty anxious when you're still in here and I'm two minutes away from go time all the time. You do this to me. And, you know, it's like, I think you like, you know I'm going to. do a podcast interview and you intentionally stay in here. And so I feel myself getting life. I feel myself like I feel the cortisol coursing. And I'm like, I got to get centered for this interview. He leaves literally on the dot. He doesn't leave until 10 o'clock in the morning. And so I'm right when the interview. So I grab this oil blend and I apply it. And I'm doing my breathwork for

30 seconds before I get on this interview so I can calm that system down. And so that's how like you start to notice your signs. You start to notice. how it feels like you you're kind of get like for me I get super sniffy snappy and I'll say like I got to get on this like it's when I start saying I got to doda da da da and I start firing off those types of commands. Yeah. Then I know I fired up the stress response system. Yeah. That's me all the time.

Be honest with you. Right, right, right. You actually need to do. I interviewed Dr. Ben Lynch on jeans and he ran a gene profile on me and he's like so it looks like you make dopamine. very, very quickly. And Jessica's in the other room just laughing so hard. I'm like, yeah, I'm easily excitable. And he goes, but you don't get rid of dopamine very well. And I'm like, oh, yeah, I can't calm myself down. So that, it was like really interesting to know your self is important. Probably cortisol. Like, I

always have a lot of total cortisol or free cord. Like I crank it, but I can't, I can't metabolize it very fast. And we've seen that in all of my Dutch tests over and over and over again. And I'm like, well, I ever get this under control? I don't think so. And is there a blend that you can rub on your husband to get them to move a little faster? Man, I wish. I have not figured out that blend just yet at all. And he's a night owl. So he's he's in sleeping in and I get it. You know, he was doing a lot of important things for us for the family last night late into the night. And so, you know, and so you wanted to sleep in. But I'm like, could you just like five minutes earlier? Just get out. Get out. And I get it's like maybe one day we'll have a place where it's, I just have a

podcast studio that's not connected to our bathroom. Maybe someday. You'll know you'll have arrived when that happens. Yeah. So that's awesome. So, okay. So again, what I'm thinking, I think the anxiety piece, every menopausal woman resonates with that. So I love that blend. I feel like not only do I need that blend, I feel like I want to like create a, you should create like a little menopausal blend. Maybe they've already created that and like hand it out to every monopausal woman. Yeah, they should.

Absolutely. And I have so many in the book too, the new book. And I can send you that blend. Absolutely. And if you want to keep it super simple, I have a bunch of anxiety blends and and calming blends and depressed blends that really speak. to the mental health piece of what happens with when we shift our hormones and everything changes and our metabolism isn't where it needs like so, you know, there's so many pieces to this puzzle.

Yeah. But using an essential oil is a quick win. It's a quick win. That's beautifully. That's what I want for women is I know, again, we talked about that continue. We talked about the lifestyle and implementing all that and what that looks like. And that's, there's a lot of learning and a lot of implementing in there. But sometimes, especially in the beginning where we're struggling.

and we've got a migraine or we're anxious or our brain doesn't work anymore or we are trying to win the cupcakes stare down and we're about to lose it and we have no energy at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. That's when oils come into play. That's when we can use them for that quick win that we all deserve. And what I believe to be true and this is happening because this is my journey is that those little wins that I get to experience that bring me back to who I am and that re-center me and that make me feel like I'm a person again,

that those are those wins that bring me confidence and hope and really open the door for me to keep doing the other things. And that's how I love to use essential oils for women in any phase in our life, whether we're trying to get pregnant or we are in pari menopause or we're in menopause and beyond wherever we are in the spectrum of our journey, that we have these beautiful chemical constituents that we can leverage, leverage in a moment's notice in seconds. We can pull out an oil and literally choose our mood.

We can pull out an oil and reduce our stress. Pull out an oil and feel more happy. You know, reduce their cravings. Have more brain function. Work to get to the gym. Whatever that is, we get to leverage this beautiful, reduce the headache we've got, the tension we're experiencing.

All of it, we can just use with oils. I love that. And is the intensity different? So if I diffuse it and I smell it or I rub it on my skin, is the intensity different at all? I would say breathing it in is the fastest intensity. For most of us as women, you think about, I need more energy. You want to breathe that sucker in. You know what I'm saying?

Like you got to get that in. One, peppermint opens up oxygen capacity, increase oxygen capacity by 7%. So if I want more oxygen to the brain, I want to breathe. and peppermint. If I want to fire off, although this is not your, this is not your issue, Mindy. If I want to fire off some dopamine and some serotonin, I grab a citrus essential oil like a tangerine. So like my instant energy blend is tangerine and peppermint. And I've been using this instant energy blend for 10 years without fail every single day. And it works every single time. Is there a tolerant spot? Like the more you use it, the less you react to it?

You have to use it a lot. I mean, we're talking about you got to be huffing these oils like 50 plus times a day. You know, that's a lot. And so it takes a lot to burn out the receptor, the fatigue the system. I have never, I've never gotten close to that personally. Do they have any research showing like how long the change lasts in your body? So it depends. It depends on, you know, application.

It also depends on the oil. but your body typically metabolizes those chemical constituents within about two hours. You metabolize. That's a good little length of time. And we fully metabolize. And that's a really difference between, you know, pharmaceutical medicine or synthetic medicine is our bodies can hold on to it. You know, you're going to judge me in just a second.

But I have a little croix here. And we know there's forever chemicals in it, girl. You know, I've had it open this whole time. I haven't even had a drink because I've been like, Minnie's going to say something. And those are forever chemicals. No judgment. They're on the lower end of the forever chemicals just to tell everybody if you're like, wait, I can't drink lacroes anymore.

They're on the lower side. But what soda water can we drink, Mindy? Grishtiner. Yeah, that's thank you. And is it, is Pellegrino even make this list? Pelligrino is okay, but mineral-wise, Groschiner has more potassium, magnesium in it than Pelligrino. I love Topo Chico, but they're the worst.

The highest, yeah. Yeah. Those almost taste like a beer. There's almost tastes like a Corona when you have a. That's why I loved them. Yeah. No beer for this gluten-free girl. That's right.

So forever chemicals. So yeah, so you drink this and your body is like, I don't know what to do with this. I don't know what to do with these little teeny chemicals. And so you end up storing them. And so that's what happens a lot with some of our medicine is we end up store. If we can't get rid of it, we end up storing it. But with essential oils, your body, your body is quick to metabolize them through.

And so it is, it is, so let's say you're, let's say you're fighting something. I woke up this morning because I've been, I'm growing a lot, sleep deprivation is, is,

we all, if you are experiencing any of you listening, it is real. It is, you and I have talked about this. Like, you're crazy. You're a perimenopausal and you,

how, he's what, two? You know, he's six months. Six months. Oh my gosh. Show you what I.

Yes. And so I have burned myself out and still got sleep. Like, you know what I'm saying? I had never had a sleep problem. I've had a burnout problem, but I hadn't had a sleep problem. Now I have a sleep problem. And it's not for the lack of wanting to sleep. And so what I've noticed, well, I know for a fact, because we both know this as practitioners,

you don't sleep. Your immune system is like, kiss my ass. You know what I'm saying? So my immune system, I woke up this morning and I had a sore throat. And I was like, and it went away once I woke up. I'm sure if you ever had those sore throats where you're in a launch or you're at a major deadline. And every morning you got this little sum, this little your body telling you, you better watch it.

You know, and so I woke up this morning with my with my sore throat. And I'm thinking to myself, like, I got a red eye tonight. Like, I got to get this together. So I was, I started gargling a couple of essential oils this morning that are great for the immune system. And so cinnamon was one of them, tea tree was one of them, lemon and frankincense. And so these are, I'm just gargling them to help support my immune system. And then I'm applying some oils on the, spine, bottom of the feet, just to help boost my immune system. And what we know is that these oils can really help support the immune system. Well, I'm not saying that they are fighting

off germs or fighting off viruses. I'm just saying that they're helping to support the immune system do its job. Right. So when you, like walk through the world, do you like find that people are attracted to you based off of how you smell? Oh yeah. I smell. Girl, I smell so good. I smell so good. Like I have people, I've had people smell me so many times in like the last decade. Like, and usually because I, I wear some really sexy essential oils too, though. Like I wear Jasmine. Jasmine is like, like follow you through the airport. I'm like, I'm cranking the sexy, sexy oils. Jasmine, Rose. you know,

Neroli. And so Jasmine's the oil of self-confidence, but it's like this, it's like intoxicating. My husband, anytime Alex smells Jasmine on me. He's like, oh my goodness,

you know, just loses his business. So I, and then Rose is just, I think we all just love that beautiful scent. And so I tend to wear oils that I'm really connected to, but that I think just smell. Like,

I'll be honest with you, I don't even own petulie. I don't like it. I do not own it. I've never, worn it, I've never used it. So for being an essential oil researcher, if you came to my house, you will not find Pajuli anywhere. But have I worn some oils like at night before going to bed to boost my immune system or whatever? And they don't, they're not the best smelling. Like, you know,

you know, oregano is phenomenal for so many things. As I call it the obliterator. But let me tell you, no one, no one's sexy smelling like pizza. Nobody. Yeah, yeah, you're only making people hungry around. Yeah, exactly. So what about, what if somebody hates a smell? So I'll give an example. I love the smell of Angarde. Like I could like rub that all over myself and I often do.

And then I get in the car with my son and my husband and they're like, what did you just put on? That's horrible. And I've been asked to not have it on when they're around. They both hate that. I know. I'm like, you guys, it's like Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is.

It's like Christmas. I just put some, it's actually in my coffee right now because it's in my coffee. It's what I was, I was wearing on guard. And so I, and I was gargling with Angard this morning too, because I cannot tell you, Angard has probably gotten rid of 50, 50 plus sore throats in the last decade. Like guaranteed it's my go-to, you know. No, they can kiss your butt is what they can do. That's how I feel about it.

It's like my, I remember my mom, my grandmother was complaining about frankincense. Like I'm in the closet rubbing it on me. Go ahead. Your mom. And my grandma's like, I don't like the way this smell. I like the way. My mom's like, I don't care if you don't like the way it smells to her mother. He's like, you just do it because it's good for you.

And so, I mean, I think especially with the guys, like, they're going to get, they're going to have an immune system that they need a boost. And thankful for you for being there to save the day. Thank you. I will tell them that. Yeah. I'll let them. So let's talk a little bit about anxiety.

I want to go back to that because, of course, as I'm listening to you talk, I'm like, oh my gosh, for menopausal women, now I get why you wrote a book on essential oils and menopause because we need a quick win. Yes. And there are other things we can do with our mind when we feel like we've been hijacked, that our brain has been hijacked. So talk about oils that you are specific to women, going through perimenopause and menopause, our progesterone's low.

We have that. I always call it like the body anxiety. Like I can't relax my body. My amygdala is spinning out of control. What can I do oil-wise? And then you have some really great movement ideas and hacks for mindset that help you shift out of that place. Absolutely.

I would say that the average woman, and especially in our 40s into our 50s, we are firing off that stress, that survival mode, that stress response mode, probably 25. plus times a day. I would say that most of us have no idea. We don't even know. When I was in my 20s, I honestly, I thought it was my slight edge. I thought I thought firing off. I thought that nervous energy, which was cortisol, was literally how I was going to kick someone's butt. You know, if I was trying to do whatever the project was, like, that was my stamina that I would like kick that into high gear and be like leverage it until I had severe. chronic fatigue, right, on the other side of that. And so I think a lot of women do mistaken what that

is for a little something, something, a little extra energy, you know? And we, we don't even realize it. Like, I, so, you know, the more that we become more aware and we can be an observer of ourselves, you know, as I watched myself get into that mode with my husband the morning, I was like, oh, I know what's happening with me right in second. And, but a lot of us don't know. So I want to just point out some ways that we can know that we can like increase our vagal tone so that we respond differently over later on like over time. But things to look out for is you're talking very fast. And it's very like, I got to do this. I got to do that. I'm running late. Like you find yourself in kind of like a trauma spiral where you're not solving the problem,

but you're just in your head. Two, your breath is shallow. Three, everything's tight. Four, look around at the people around you. how are they responding to you? Like, are they on pins and needles? Are they, or are they on eggshells? Like, that's a good indicator that you're in a stress response mode. Everyone's like, oh, goodness, stay away from this woman. Which is pretty much everybody around a menopausal woman.

Yes. So just as to. Ready out. So in that moment, you are, you, you recognize any of these signs, these tall, tell signs that you are in it, yet you are flooding the system, that you're, your brain is an overdrive. That limbic system has basically turned off everything else in its in, in pursuit of survival. The first thing you got to do is you got, we have to shift our state, especially with fight or

flight, your body, your brain is expecting you to move. Your brain is expecting in order for it to say, hey, everything is okay. We can start metabolizing all of this, all these energy hormones, all of this fight or flight, energy hormones, we have got to move. So walking outside, getting into yoga, shaking it, just shaking it off. We're just walking in a circle in your living room or wherever you're in your office. And that tells the brain, okay, we're good. We've fought the tiger, the proverbial tiger, whatever that is.

And also in whatever that scenario is, whether you're, you are responding to an email that made you extremely mad or you're responding to a partner, like you're flooding the system. I promise you, when have you ever stayed in that moment? to finish that angry email or to finish that argument with your partner and it went well. Like that it went good. You know what I'm saying? And you always regret it. Always.

You're in that fight or flight brain the minute you let it out. That's yeah. Well, yeah. It never, it never goes well. Like the end result, like maybe you got to fire off whatever you needed a fire off and that felt good. Like you got to give somebody the business. But like on the other side, you know, how did that transfer?

fire for you in your relationship or your situ or that conversation with that coworker or whatever it was. Right. And so changing our state is so critical. And then breath. Breath is probably one of the most powerful ways. At that point, we've kind of lost control of our breath. We're breathing shallow. We have less oxygen going to the brain, oxygen going to the cells. And so our body is in more of a panic mode. So if we can slow down our breath, you know, six breaths in, eight breaths. out so your exhale bigger than your inhale. And if you can grab, I mean, the first thing I ever do is grab an essential oil because that'll move me so much faster. So if I can shake it out, grab an oil, breathe, immediately it sends a different message to the brain. It overrides

the stress response situation and tells the brain, we're cool. We're cool. Everything's good. Now, if you're hearing and you're like, oh, that's great. That's all said and good. But I don't know when this happens to me. Then what I also recommend is grabbing your phone, because you're using it all the time anyway. And throwing it at somebody at that car that just cut you off. You know, you feel. And set some chimes on the phone on the hour. And in those, this is going to preemptively set you up for success. So every hour, something pretty. like a babbling brook do not have the siren you know the thing that goes off on your phone has something really nice and subtle some type of yoga sound and let it go off and then stand up wherever

you're at stand up shake off anyway just shake it off a little bit grab your essential oil your lavender and cedarwood your jasmine your magnolia whatever you love your tangerine your frankincense whatever whatever lights you up whatever makes you feel good now just note that citrus oils literally are like effervescent, happy energy bunnies that like literally pervade the brain. So for me, citrus oils are always my place because girl, although I operate in an energetic state, I don't know about you, but I always want more energy. I'm just going to say, do you know, we have, so we diffuse them in our clinic everywhere. And so at midday, I'll kind of go up and grab some oils and put them on.

And I always go to citrus. Always. You are a sister from another mother. I know we're soul sisters. I was like, let me guess. You grab that. And so tangerine is my energy bunny. It's my everything.

I love tangerine. And so I just grab that little tangerine oil. And it's going to send those happy, beautiful effervescent bunnies into the brain and say everything is cool. And you take some deep breathing. When you pair it with deep breathing, you literally now have control of your stress response system. And if you can remind yourself to do it on the hour with your little chime, you are preemptively helping to increase your vagal tone, helping to tell the brain,

everything is good preemptively so that when you get that text message or that email or whatever happens that tries to trigger you, your brain will be like, no, that's cool. I'm good with it. So over time, what would be the best thing is that I'm not triggered by that stimulus. I'm not triggered by that response. My brain handles it differently because I,

I have, I have retrained it to respond differently. And that's how essential oils can support with breath work in the long term. Wow. I love that. So let me just recap that because that was, that was awesome. So you set a time on the hour. It's a, this is like a prevention tool. Yes. You do your breathing longer exhale than inhale. Do you get up and move around? You get up. You can dance and then you rub some oils on you. And then you go back to your work. Yep. You're talking about 60 seconds tops. Yeah, that's amazing. And I love this idea because we've talked a lot in my clinic about, like, how do you exercise your parasympathetic nervous system? We're overusing our sympathetic

nervous system so much. You know the polyvagal theory where we're like going into this freeze mode. And I strongly feel that it's going to take a lot of conscious creation on our parts to bring back that parasympathetic strength because it doesn't just naturally happen. You've got to mature it and develop it. So it's been bullied out. Yeah. And this is a great, great and beautiful, simple, and enjoyable way. I mean, I love, I breathe fast.

You breathe. I mean, you know, but I love deep breathing when I'm really conscious. And but I, what I'm more than anything, I love breathing in essential oils. They just make me so happy. They just feel so good. you know, and I, that's what the beautiful thing is, is just really in the moment, just enjoying that moment, like enjoying the beauty of just being present in that moment, maybe even set an intention for yourself for the next hour, you know, having a little bit more grounding.

Like, I want to just, I want to experience more joy in this next hour. I want to feel, I want to experience more presence in this next hour. Whatever that may look like, you can even set an intention with that. And so you can, you can consider it. If you want to get woo-woo with it, you can be an annoying, anointing yourself with that in that next hour of intention. And so, but that's how I feel about oils. They just feel so good.

And the fact that they can have such a powerful response, a very positive response on the body, I rarely ever encountered an oil or, you know, I've shared essential oils with millions and millions of women around the world. And I, I can't really recount many instances where they have been an issue, you know, that there have been, you know, side effects that were unwarranted. It's pretty rare. Yeah. Oh my gosh.

That's amazing. And so all of your blends and like the little hacks, those are in your book. Yes. Yeah. Yes. From brain fog to energy to anxiety to cravings, all of it, any of it, to liver blend, to gut blends. You know, I used to have a gut blend that I had my best friends used to make before they ate like this crazy gluten breakfast. Like it's a preemptive.

And I was just like, that is not the point of this blend. Right. Well, hey, use it anywhere you can. But you and I talked on Instagram about this. What about fasting? You know, when you're in a fasted state and you're going into these longer fast, you know, I would think rubbing some oils on you could help you go a couple more hours and be able to pass a little longer. Yeah, we think about why we end up backing out of a fast early, right? It's usually energy issue, right? Or it's a stress issue. It's an emotional eating concern. Something that comes up, right? And we're just like, you know what? I got to break this. I, I, I, I I'm stuff's coming up for me. And instead of reaching for that, why wouldn't we just reach for a calorie-free option? Right. Why don't we just reach for? So whether it's an instant,

if you need a little bit more energy to get you through, peppermint and tangerine, you need to reduce some of that stress and overwhelm that has you wanting to go grab for something. You know, lavender and cedarwood, magnolia, a citrus oil too will do that. Brinkinsense will do that. Any of those will do that for you.

And then maybe it is brain fog. Like your brain just is, isn't running like you're running out of steam then grab peppermint's great rosemary my favorite combo is peppermint rosemary um frankincense and a citrus like like a wild orange that and rub it behind the back of your neck and that'll put that'll put you back in the game um i call that my gift stuff oil you know just get you back in so those will accept definitely extend you know if you're trying to go from a 15 hour to a 17 hour and it's the first time you've ever done it definitely implement oils into that routine to get you those next two hours.

Oh my God. I love that. You know, we do a free five-day fast every month. And I'm teaching people the different lengths. So next month, we're going to do a 36-hour fast. And I'm going to show people how to go into it and come out of it. I'm going to use oils. I'm going to have everybody grab your book and we'll play with the different oils and

see what we get. Their fun thing would be we got a lot of people wearing the continuous glucose monitors or the keto mode. Jo, are you seeing changes in blood sugar? Oh, yeah. I, um, mine's coming. I had my head levels on for a month. And then I, I, I renewed the subscription. And so it's, I think it's arriving in a couple of days. And I love, I mean, to watch real time in that technology, you and I both know, insulin resistance is definitely a major concern for us as women, especially as we enter into our 40s and beyond. And 88% of adults have some level of metabolic dysfunction. It's only 12% of us that don't.

You know, it's a very small number. And so a lot of the chronic conditions that we are most concerned about are really being driven by these wayward blood sugar swings. And there was a couple times where when I wore the CGM, it wasn't very often. I think my average was 80 milligrams per deciliter the entire month, was pretty good. And most of the time when I ate, I would only spike to 95. Like I kept with an optimal. But there was a couple occasions where I spiked to 1.30. And I was like, oh, my goodness.

And I have a feeling people are spiking to 1.30 every single day. Yeah, probably. And so I spiked to 1.30. And what was really fascinating is your body goes into emergency mode. It's like 130 milligrams per deciliter. Blood is like sugar is in the blood. We have to handle this. All hands on deck.

And then you have this massive insulin response to risk. And what ends up happening is you dip. You go, you drop into like 55. You drop out of like the ideal like 70 or like or 65 is still okay. Like now you're in the stranger danger mode where you're way low blood sugar. And that sends a signal to the brain because for some reason the brain didn't get the memo that you ate that crazy thing to drive it up to begin with. And this is just a over correction. And the brain's like, eat, eat something sugary right now.

And so what a lot of us don't realize is that when we're in that snacking mode or, or that emotional eating mode or just eating sugar to get us through the day. We are in this crazy loop, this cycle of up and down, up and down. And whether you're not aware of it, but the brain is sending out major emergency signals to you to fill in that gap again, to raise that blood sugar. And that drives anxiety, that drives mood swings, that drives crazy cravings, just all a brain fog. And I can see how it can become a really scary. you know, a really scary, vicious cycle.

So what oil do I rub on myself at the moment? Yes, peppermint. Peppermint. Yes. I love this like quick, quick win. The quick win has you help me reframe oils with that idea. But go ahead. What were you going to say about peppermint?

So the Journal of Neurology, Dr. Alan Hirsch did this big study where he looked at cravings and he wanted to know if essential oils could help. And citrus oils were there. They did pretty good. But the number one oil that decreased cravings by like 75, percent was peppermint by simply breathing in. So if you know you're having an emotional craving moment or whatever that may be, and you're reaching for the pantry or wherever,

grab that peppermint essential oil and breathe it in, it'll literally, it'll buy you the three minutes that that craving is going to exist in you. And walk away from the pantry, though. Right. And walk away. I love it. Okay.

Well, I could chat forever. And it's so funny. Like we've talked so much. And the more I talk to you, the more I want to talk to you. So I love it. But I know we have time restraints here. So five rapid questions for you.

Yes. The first, if you were sent on a desert island and you could only bring one oil with you, what would it be? The oil would be, my initial gut was Jasmine. I bring Jasmine.

Really? Okay. Okay. It's not very utilitarian, but I love it. Okay. Okay. Well, I'm surprised just because it's not an oil that I use.

So now you got me wanting to go get Jasmah. Jasmine. I have a Jasmine bush out in front. Do you ever find yourself like just like sitting around it? Like you just love, I just love Jasmine. I'd love to say that I sit. But so that would be. That would be a good idea.

Walk back and forth around it. That's right. Let me walk circles around it. I'll try that. Then maybe that'll make me want to sit. So, okay, if you could go back and talk to your 20-year-old self and give her some advice, what would you tell her? I would say that not everything is an emergency.

And, you know, you deserve a lot of grace and love. And your childhood trauma does not define you. Ooh, that was powerful. I asked a lot of people that question, but that was good. Okay, you're giving a class on hormones to a bunch of 13-year-old girls that just got their period. What are you going to tell them? I'm going to tell them that their menstrual cycle is their fifth vital sign, that hormone

literacy is the thing that they've got to own and to track their cycle on an app. They really have a great sense of what's going on with their bodies. I love how you are spot on, girl. Like you just got the answers ready to go. You don't even have to think. You're a professional. So, okay. And then what hormone book, or it could be a mindset book, like what book has really

dramatically changed your how you've approached your own hormonal health. Absolutely. The number one book that I'm reading that's really having a massive change on me is by Dr. Nicola Perla do the work. Yeah. I think a lot of our hormone issues are actually trauma, the root causes like other root causes. And a lot of it is is our traumas for us as women in particular. And that ties to our worth or lack of worthiness. You know, I think about a lot of us, we're just on the go, go, go. Or what, you know, I think a lot of it is we feel we got to show up for everyone else or we got to overachieve so that we can feel that empty gap of a lack of worthiness. And so that I think that book is so profound and powerful because I think we all have

a little bit of work to do in that department to love ourselves a little bit more. Yeah. Really? That's interesting. Yeah, I guess we do. I have a good friend who's a naturopath in Canada and I brought her on the podcast and She just wrote a book called Women Unleaf. It'll come out in the fall.

And it's all about that. How our traumas when we're younger, when we're in the womb, actually create our hormonal imbalances when we're older, which is like, that's mind blowing right. Yeah. I just barely touched upon it in this book, but I knew I needed to bring it to the surface, you know, of just like, what is a root cause for why we are struggling, especially we as women, you know, and we could overdo it. You know, we can just, we can really step into a lot of.

of that and it can feel like chaos for us and we are just like but we have to do this thing because we were told we had to and that's that's how I show up in the world and so I did touch upon that because I know that for me a lot of what was a driver for my hormone issues was my driving myself into the ground because I I didn't and I you know you and you don't know that it's a belief you don't realize it's you know that's the thing about it there are these deep seated believes that we just, we just own and don't really, don't realize we own it. And that's why, honestly, that is such a good point because what I love about podcasts like this and like what you and I are trying to do out in the world is normalize menopause.

And if we don't bring it to the surface and talk about all the messiness of it and the ups and downs of it, then there are women out there that are struggling with irritability and anxiety and they have no outlet. They feel like what they're experiencing is wrong. And I feel like we've got to bring these conversations up so as women, we can heal each other and we can see ourselves in each other so that we can start to heal our hormones. I 100% agree. Yeah, there's a lot under the surface that we've got to, that we've got to like bring up.

And there's a lot of things that that finally come up for us as women in our 40s and our 50s that we just didn't address in our teens, 20s, and 30s that are now up for review. And we either deal with them or they come back for us again and again. And it can show up and manifest in how our metabolism is functioning and autoimmune conditions and the pain that we're experiencing, the emotional turmoil that we're having. And so I'm really grateful for these types of conversations. So women can open the door for what that deeper work looks like. like. I love that. Up for review. That was good. You got some good one liners, girl. Okay, last question.

If you could have one message that you put in every person's brain on the planet that you'd really want them to see, what would that message be? You are worthy and perfect and loved for exactly who you are. Hey, resetters. I just want to start off by saying thank you so much for all your wonderful reviews and those of you that have left me comments on iTunes, I just greatly appreciate your thoughtfulness and how much you guys are enjoying these episodes. And it seems like you're enjoying them as much as I am enjoying doing them. One of the things that I've learned in just interacting with so many people

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