377: Clinical Perspective on Essential Oils w/ Dr. Sarah LoBisco
After our listing in Feedspot’s “Top Aromatherapy Podcasts” we thought it was time to get CLINICAL! Classical Aromatherapy vs Clinical Aromatherapy. What’s the difference? In today's episode, you’ll discover a world of knowledge from arguably our most knowledgable guest to date: Sarah LoBisco. Sarah is an NDD/IFMCP who uses essential oils clinically in her practice and teaches clinical applications of essential oils. In truth, she may just be one of the most knowledgeable guests we’ve had on the show to date. I can’t wait for you to dive in. Tune in to discover a world where essential oils are integrated into clinical practices to find out how oils affect your specific psychology, and in turn what effect that has on your physiology. We cover the microbiome, chronic pain, mental health, the metabolism, all with tons of clinical research to support our learning about essential oils.
Sarah shared with us some amazing resources on the microbiome that she discussed on the podcast, and we wanted to share those with you here: Sarah shares that “of course we always say in science, “more studies are needed” as there are few, but good evidence so far.”
Aromatic Studies has a link with references on a lot of the in vitro and in vivo (animal studies). Results indicate build commensals, assist with intestinal permeability, and decrease pathogens.
Here’s a study with 106 metabolic syndrome patients correlating infection treatments with oregano, with no negative perturbance of microbiome or a dysbiosis.
Here’s another study with anxiety subjects that shows a correlation with improvement in anxiety and microbial metabolites shifting (individual differences because everyone’s microbial and metabolites are different).
Here is Sarah’s post on essential oils and the microbiome.
Here are some of Sarah’s papers in integrative, peer-reviewed journals:
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Winter Skin Scrub
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This scrub is great for gentle exfoliation and nourishing the skin with moisture.
Ingredients:
1 cup finely ground oats
1 cup Epsom salts, Himalayan salt, sea salt or sugar for sensitive skin
1 Tablespoon raw, unfiltered or manuka honey
Carrier of choice (olive oil, fractionated coconut oil, jojoba oil, avocado oil) to texture.
10 drops Lavender
10 drops Frankincense and
10 drops Cedarwood to help soothe dry, irritated skin.
Directions:
The more oil you add, the smoother the texture. Use less oil if you'd like it to be more scrubby. Play with it, and see what you like!
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0 (41s): Hello, and welcome to the Essential Oil Revolution. I'm your host, Samantha Lee. Wright, thanks so much for tuning in today. On this show, we talk with Dr. Sarah LoBisco, who is a wealth of knowledge around Aromatherapy supplements, naturopathic medicine, holistic health, and more. You'll hear how her own personal journey of going from first being very skeptical to falling in love with essential oils after a major back injury and surgery helped her move into the world that she is in today, which is helping her patients and her clients work with essential oils and other natural tools to discover the healing power of nature.
0 (1m 29s): It is a fantastic interview. You are going to love Dr. LoBisco, and we'll get to that in a moment, But. first, let's pull a recipe out of our DIY dugout. Today's DIY recipe comes from Kindred Kimber and her recipe is called the Winter Skin Scrub. She says, this scrub is great for gentle exfoliation and nourishing the skin with moisture. To make the winter skin scrub, combine one cup of finely ground oats, one cup Epsom salt or sugar for sensitive skin, one tablespoon raw, unfiltered, or manuka honey oil of your choice, such as olive oil, ha hoba oil, avocado oil, tin drops of lavender, tin drops, Frankincense and tin drops cedar wood to help soothe dry, irritated skin.
0 (2m 21s): She says, the more oil you add, the smoother the texture, use less oil. If you'd like it to be more scrubby, play around with it and see what you like. Thank you so much for your recipe, kindred Kimber. if you have your own recipe you'd like to enter into our DIY duck out, simply email us at DIY Revolution Oils podcast.com. Well, I'm here with Sarah LoBisco, who is a graduate of the University of Bridgeport's, college of Naturopathic Medicine and licensed in Vermont as a naturopathic doctor. She has earned her certification in functional medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine.
0 (3m 6s): Dr. LoBisco also holds a bachelor of psychology and an applied kinesiology certification. She is a speaker, writer and consultant on integrative health supplements, essential oils and more. Dr. LoBisco, welcome to this show. How are you? I am wonderful. I am very happy to be here. Thank you for having me, Samantha. Oh, absolutely. It's our pleasure. So you have quite a lot of trainings under your belt. You've got a lot of experience with functional and naturopathic medicine, essential oils, supplements, you know, all, all of my favorite things in life. So I'm curious, just paint a picture for us of sort of your daily practice of, of working with clients and, and helping them in using all of these different tools and, and combining that with the different frameworks of naturopathic medicine and and functional medicine.
0 (4m 2s): Absolutely, and I will answer that. I just wanna say I really appreciate this service that you're giving all of us, and I've found your podcast and I have been obsessed in listening to it every week and incorporating, you have some of the best guests incorporating some of their expertise into my practice as well. So I just wanna thank you and I, and I hope everybody just knows how lucky they are to have found this podcast and, and use it. So thank you for that. Oh, thank you. Can I just like shrink you down and put you in my pocket and you can just like tell me that every week?
0 (4m 43s): Absolutely. So everything that I, all of my training, I feel it, it compliments each other, especially the naturopathic and, and functional medicine. The, the key component I think in both of those is to really address the underlying root cause In conventional medicine, really the focus is a lot on addressing the symptoms. And when I got my training in naturopathic medicine, which is a different story altogether, but how I got how I got there, I, I got a lot of training on, you know, incorporating conventional care while also keeping with the principles of naturopathic medicine, which is the healing power of nature to treat the cause to first do no harm, which is important in all medical care.
0 (5m 37s): Prevention is the best cure to be a teacher. Doctors are actually supposed to be teaching you how to best care for your body and not to suppress symptoms. And when I got that training, I was one of the first graduating classes in the northeast for naturopathic medicine being licensed. And I wanted And what year was this? This was in 2007. I graduated, there were other schools on the west coast and our school was one of the first, the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine. It unfortunately has closed since then, but I graduated from there.
0 (6m 19s): And I just wanted additional, additional support kind of in implementing what I learned at school with some of the more conventional approaches as well as some of the more biochemistry and genetic genetics and really individualizing care. And that's why I pursued functional medicine and they're so interwoven and connected. So when, when I get a client that comes to me with, you know, I do a lot of gut hormonal and especially mental health when they come to me with a certain symptom or a certain diagnosis, what I'm going to be doing is using those tools that I've learned of lifestyle medicine and my background with learning about conventional medicine, but also learning about how these different, what was the underlying root for that particular person and really personalizing an approach for them.
0 (7m 18s): So that's, you know, why I love essential oils and some of these lifestyle approaches because it's really getting to the foundation of why someone's off balance to begin with. And that's where I guess naturopathic and functional medicine really helped me speak that language and provide the bridge between conventional care and more of this holistic integrative approach of really getting people back in touch with their, their own capabilities and healing potential. I know when you, when you frame your body in that way and really dive into that truth of your body really does wanna be healthy, really does want to heal itself and has the power to do that if you give it the right resources, such a powerful framework to kind of move throughout any healing journey and, and just throughout life in general.
0 (8m 16s): So I really appreciate that, that lens. How familiar are you with quote unquote Classical Aromatherapy and how would you, how do you feel like that fits in or differs with functional and naturopathic approaches? Yeah, that's a really great question. I think first of all, it depends on the Practitioner and how they're applying, what they've learned. I think that's one of the biggest things to take away from whenever anybody is seeking help from a professional, is to really get in tune with how that professional is applying the knowledge they learned and what, what their particular technique is and what their particular belief system is and make sure that it resonates with you.
0 (9m 2s): Classical Aromatherapy is what most people think of, I believe of as Aromatherapy. But there's different schools, and this is one of the confusion that's out there on the web and I think in so many different areas is there's different, different trainings. Some people view it based on a European, German and more American model that's more related to not, maybe not specifically the area or location, but how people are using them. So like in England we might think of more of a massage or an external use of essential oils and they're more cautious about the use of internal or medicinal use of essential oils.
0 (9m 48s): France is more medicinal internal, Germany is more me more research oriented and using essential oils medicinally. And then United States is more massage and external. That's kind of what was thought or what you might find it out there in the information if you kind of Google Classical Aromatherapy. And then there's clinical aromatherapists, which are schooled in more of how different compounds and different, the whole synergy of The Essential oil affects different body systems. And that's more in tune kind of of how I, I use essential oils in my practice.
0 (10m 32s): I, I was fortunate enough to study with some really amazing experts in her as well as essential oils and really dig deep, you know, through writing through my own curiosity and writing different papers about how these essential oils work not just in isolated compounds and affect somebody's biochemistry and biology, but also how that is integrated with what different body systems they affect, how that affects their psychology and how that incorporates into affecting someone's physiology. Right? So the mind body connection with The, Essential Oils and also how do, what, what form of application might be best for them.
0 (11m 18s): So I tend to incorporate all of the different types, topical, internal, you know, is as well as, you know, the in inhalation, which is probably the most used, right? When people think of Aromatherapy classically, they think of, oh, you smell an oil and it changes, you know, you relax. And it's so much deeper than that. It's, it's this combination of this aroma with these chemical com compounds and how they, how they affect this emotional component of your brain that allows you to go out of this fight or flight response and into what they call the executive functioning or the prefrontal cortex.
0 (12m 4s): And you can instantaneously get a shift in someone's physiology. And that allows for, how I like to incorporate essential oils is I'll base it on the chemical compounds as well as I'm trying to shift their physiology from one of fear and thinking that, you know, nervousness about all of these different symptoms and, and Empowerment, right, and a relaxation response. And when you do that, that in of itself is allowing the body to heal. Because I think there is, here I I can get a little bit on a soapbox of this, so stop me here, but I think there's no, I'm ready for it. I'm excited.
0 (12m 44s): There's so much fear and medicine and so many people, you know, they get, they watch a commercial on TV and it's like any symptom somebody has, we're automatically, something's wrong with the body and we have to automatically find a solution and suppress that symptom and the body grumbles and grumbles. And if you have what it what you need, right? And your body wants to be well and can get back into balance. And one of the things I love about essential oils is it gets people out of that fear mode, right? They're inhaling, they're taking deep breaths, they're integrating, taking this vago response, right?
0 (13m 24s): So the vagus nerve is helps people with calming, it decreases Inflammation, all of this stuff is going on and being integrated with just inhaling The Essential oil with the chemical compounds and they're just, obviously I'm very, they're, they're one of an, they're an integral part of my practice. I think it's just, I don't think you can separate the mind from the body and when you have something literally in a bottle that I can have my clients use that's going to do that initially in an external way and then Samantha, as you probably know, it opens up a whole door to also an internal connection, right?
0 (14m 11s): When we, when we get out of that fear, fear mode and into this Empowerment mode for our health. Did I answer your question kind of, of how all these different Aromatherapy Yeah, absolutely. No, it's really fascinating and I wanna dive more into the papers that you wrote if we have time. But, but before we do that, can you kind of put everything in context for us with maybe a story of how you've seen a specific Essential oil interact with a, a client of yours or, or yourself and how that's really helped make that shift and what kind of impact that had? Oh, there's a lot. I I, well we love stories.
0 (14m 51s): You don't have to just one, I use a lot of blends in my practice because, you know, they're just, I I'm not schooled in making different blends. That's something I leave up to the experts. I'm, I, I like more about, you know, why things are working and what can help my clients. I, I think one of the, the biggest ones is when I think I have a client that had a lot of diagnosis for mental health and she had also, you know, some blood pressure issues and just a lot of background with some traumas. And we talked about what, what I do as functional medicine is we take a whole patient, hi health history and we'll go through the timeline, right?
0 (15m 39s): So we'll look at different parts of somebody's life where there could be potential triggers where all of a sudden their symptoms started appearing and that unravels into where they ended up today and what could possibly be underlying what is their presenting issue that they come to me with. So she had a lot of these traumas and we saw with each trauma hit, you know, that there was, there was another symptom that emerged until eventually it came into some of these diagnoses. And one of the Oils that I think about, you know, with calming the whole nervous system, bringing that back into balance and having some heart synergy is yelling, laying Essential oil.
0 (16m 22s): And so that Essential oil with some lavender with some brain focusing right So, we think of peppermint, we think of a blend that I use to help people with self-love called, it's a joyful blend. It's got some geranium, it's got yangyang, it's got rose, it's got some citrus Oils, some bergamot, different things, different essential oils to just kind of help that synergy also balance the hormonal response. So she had used that and she said specifically that when she used the yangyang essential oils, she felt tingly and like a shift in her whole mental state and you know, just really able to incorporate The, Essential, Oils with some of the other things that we were doing and have her whole body kind of relax and be able to actually move forward with some of these like dietary shifts, self-care shifts, meditation.
0 (17m 26s): I think one of the things a lot of people find frustrating with naturopathic and functional medicine is sometimes they come to the, the, you know, the doctor and there's like a list of all of these different things to do and lifestyle and it can get overwhelming. Like yeah, just completely overhaul your entire lifestyle choices and habits and addictions and yeah exactly. Taste buds and all like just do it and that can send someone in a fight or flight response, right? So I always, you know, take things slow one thing at a time. If I can start them with some essential oils and just like one or two basic things that really gets them set up for success and it really just calms the whole body down, gets the body ready to say, you know what, we can do this, we can relax, we can get into this state of healing.
0 (18m 11s): And I think that makes all the difference. And, and that's how I really do use them. you know, initially I try to get people started off with some of the, you know, essential oils diffusing them. People are used to taking supplements or pills. So there's usually one or two of of those and they're just, they just synergize, right? So I'm doing stuff to calm down her brain. One of the things everybody's talking about stress and cortisol and lower cortisol and sometimes it's not necessarily what you wanna do when someone's stressed or overwhelmed or in they, what I've been seeing a lot is low cortisol, right? And that can, that can make the body stressed out because it doesn't have enough energy or it's not at the right time of day.
0 (18m 54s): They can have these dysregulated cortisol patterns. So what I like about essential oils is say in the morning they're cortisol's low, they're having a hard time getting up, maybe they have some thyroid issues or you can really use some invigorating Oils in the morning, Oils bring about balance, right? And help tune the nervous system. And then at night there's so many different Oils that when they've, you know, they've done some small studies that show that when you inhale certain Oils like you know, sandalwood, lavender, some of your basic calming Oils, they will lower cortisol. So a lot of people have these dysregulated cortisol rhythms and, and you can use essential oils or or things for that, for that avenue as well.
0 (19m 38s): Digestive issues, I mean peppermints my go-to, there's a lot of peer reviewed studies on using peppermint for, you know, the peer reviewed studies have it specifically enter coated peppermint oil for i b s and there's meta analysises and those are actually where they take a bunch of different studies all at once A and actually analyze and see what the effects were. So it's not just one or two studies, it's actually taking a compilation of different studies and there's more than one meta-analysis on peppermint oil for digestion. So there's, you know, and you got gut issue. That's why I see a lot of gut issues and hormonal issues when I focus on people with mental health issues is because the gut and the brain are so related and your Hormones are related to your neurotransmitter.
0 (20m 27s): So everything's connected and yeah, so those are just some, some ways that I use them. Well I wanna ask you more about the dysregulated cortisol because just, just two weeks ago we had a woman on our show Jamie rafting who talked a lot about using essential oils for stress responses, cortisol regulation, lots of other things. And I just find that area so fascinating. But I think something we didn't talk about when, I'm curious, you mentioned people with like their cortisol's too low or it's just too low or too high at the wrong times or whatnot. And tell me more about that and how essential oils might be able to help someone in that situation or how someone might even know they're in that situation.
0 (21m 14s): Right, so one of the, one of the hot buttons is the term adrenal Fatigue. That, that term you don't wanna use because it, the adrenals can't get fatigued and people get hyperbolic about that. But really it is a good explanation of the adrenal glands not having enough reserve to produce the right amount of cortisol. And that was a pretty hot topic for a long period of time. And you have these different symptoms of low cortisol and it isn't that the adrenal glands have a pathology, it's just that somebody's been bombarded with stress for such a long period of time that their cortisol levels just get low, right?
0 (21m 57s): They've been pumping it out and eventually what happens is they, they plummet, right? Their adrenal glands say this is enough, I'm done here. And initially when someone's in high stress, there's three different phases they get really high cortisol, you know, and they get really high what they call, you know, your adrenaline or your neuro or your catecholamines get high as well. And then eventually what happens to starts to happen is those, those drop right, so your cortisol starts to get lower and maybe those catecholamines are, are taking the hit and then both of them kind of get low and, and your hormone, your D H E A, which is your precursor to your ho Hormones also takes a hit at the final stage.
0 (22m 42s): So there's kinda three different phases of adrenal and you can tell this some functional medicine doctors. Now I'm in New York state, so I have some caveats with what I can order. A lot of my clients have a primary care and they, and they order through their primary care. But you can take salivary tests and do it at different times of the day and also do a cortisol awakening response test where you can tell where someone's cortisol levels are throughout different times of the day. And that'll tell you the dysregulation. So cortisol's supposed to be high in the morning because that's what wakes you up and it's supposed to go lower at night. You can see people where it's extremely, you know, low in the morning and extremely high at night and their sleep's dysregulated.
0 (23m 29s): You can look at that and I can usually tell by what people tell me too. When you take a good health history, I'm dragging in the morning, can, can't wake up, it takes me two hours, I need my coffee and then at night I can't sleep, I'm awake, I maybe need a glass of wine or something to unwind. And you start seeing these different patterns. And I can use different herbals, I can use essential oils. You, like I said, i I have people use peppermint in the morning. Things like black pepper, rosemary, some of these stimulating essential oils on the nervous system to help their body rejuvenate. We do some things, lifestyle things are really important and making sure people's blood sugars aren't too low to help them really revitalize that, those adrenal glands.
0 (24m 18s): And then at nighttime you can do things that are soothing and calming. Lavender, german ca you know, chamomile, some of these calming citrus Oils, which are good. Well citrus Oils I actually like to use in the middle of the day cause those are good for focus and they're also good for, they calm the brain but also help focus at the same time. So, so that, that's kind of the picture. I think a lot of people are like that acute stress response and instantaneously using an Essential oil can be really helpful. But if you have these dysregulated or chronically low cortisol and you know, you wanna look at that at the same time, Essential, OilsAre balancing, right?
0 (25m 3s): So you can't really do wrong with using essential oils whenever you feel like you need them throughout the day. But you can also use them st strategically and individualize them. And that's kind of the fun part that I enjoy doing is like, you know, when to use them and when you'd get the most bang for your, for your drop I guess during the day. Yeah, I love that. That's great. Well, well Sarah, I'm curious if there was anything that sort of launched you into essential oils so deeply. Did you have a personal story or what made you interested in incorporating them into your practice?
0 (25m 44s): Yeah, that, that's actually the, the funny story with how I got into naturopathic school because I always laugh at this. My, my mom had started with essential oils and I was actually going to school. I wanted to be a physician assistant. I was taking some pre-med courses and working in a pharmacy as a pharmacy technician and you know, I had some, I had to wait to get into the PA school cuz something happened with my application. Long story. So I was in nursing school at the time at that point and she, she started having menopausal symptoms and she found these essential oils and I was totally horrified.
0 (26m 29s): I was like, these are not FDA approved. You're gonna mess up your Hormones, what are you doing? Mom and I, at the same time, around that time I suffered a back injury. I'd had chronic back pain my whole life and I, I had to have surgery because I was in nursing school and I was trying to lift a patient and it did, did not end well. She kind of knew me and I, I, you know, was course correcting and not in my best mental state at that time. I was pretty disappointed with how, you know, what I was gonna do next. And she's like, she got an essential oils desk reference and I had time on my hands cuz I was in bed recovering.
0 (27m 12s): She's like, just read this. So me being the geek, I was, I read like the whole Essential oil desk reference like once or twice. And then I was like, all right, I will try these Oils. There's looks, there's, looks like there's legitimate science here. And I was astounded like I I I was like, oh my gosh. I literally would go through bottles of anti-inflammatory medica, you know, over the counter. And I, I was getting relief for the first time, you know, in 20, in 20 years. I had a bad back since I was 16 and no one could figure, or I shouldn't say 20 years since I was like 10 or 11 and no one could figure out how someone so young had that.
0 (27m 55s): But you know, and then I, I was at the pharmacy and I was like, you guys, these, this stuff works. And I was just intrigued and I started, you know, sharing 'em with other people and I started, I be, long story, I became a chiropractic assistant, started working with his, his patients with essential oils for a while before I found out about naturopathic medical school. And I said, this is cool. I wanna go here because I need to figure out how these things are working so I can incorporate them with conventional care safely. Cuz you learn about herbal drug interactions and all of that at naturopathic school as well.
0 (28m 39s): That's great. Well I have to ask too, what, what essential oils were you using for your, your back and how were you using them? Oh my gosh. I was using a lot of essential oils. I was using a blend with clove, peppermint, hilic prism. I was using a winter straight winter green with, cuz there's methyl salicylate, which is like a precursor to aspirin. I was using a lot of straight winter, green, straight peppermint. I used a grounding, grounding blends, a lot of fur Oils, a lot of, what else did I use?
0 (29m 21s): I used and I used, it was a pretty acute pain. So with a acute, acute stuff I t I went ha heavy at first. And even when I was in naturopathic school I had another disc, I had one disc removed and then I had another disc that, that went out while I was actually studying for like the first part of my boards and So we did, that's when we did a lot of applied kinesiology, which is this form of nervous system feedback through muscle testing and you can, you can help your body figure out what it needs to to heal. And we did a lot, I did a lot of Oils then too.
0 (30m 1s): And I remember I was just in the back just standing and applying pepper peppermint oil and I take that to class with me and I was amazed cuz I could still function. And then, you know, eventually I, I used it like every 20 minutes and then eventually it would be like every couple hours and then, you know, I was able to, to not need it. But initially I was pretty heavy on a lot of the, the Oils cuz it was a, I don't recommend this for every, you know, everyone, but I was, I really had a strong belief in their ability because I had seen it before and I knew at that point nothing else had worked for me prior.
0 (30m 43s): So that's what I relied on and it was, I've been happy with the, the results. I, like I said, I have, I have a whole disc, I a whole disc mis missing in my back, but I do yoga. I, I don't really have pain as long as I do my yoga every day and some of my stretching and use my oil. So I'm grateful for that. Yeah, yeah. Well I love how how these things tend to, to happen and lead people into their, their co their callings, what they do now. Yeah. To help other people. Well this has been fabulous and man, I I wanna ask you so many more questions, but we, we gotta wrap up soon, get to our, our closing questions.
0 (31m 25s): Is there any last advice or any last words that you wanna share? Maybe, maybe you know, an interesting segment from one of the papers you've written or really anything you wanna share before we close out? I think a lot I've done, you know, I've done some studies or I've, I've read, I've poured through some of the research on, you know, these different compounds in the bad in The, Essential, Oils, these different constituents and how they specifically for any of the practitioners out there can really interplay with our cellular receptors and the membranes and how this actually can change.
0 (32m 8s): There's a hot topic out there called epigenetics, which is we can't change our d n a but we can change how it functions. And essential oils were probably one of the most powerful tools to do that. They, when you inhale or when you apply an Essential oil or safely take it internally, it creates an array of different physiological effects in the body and it's greater than the sum of its parts. And there's all of these different compounds in one drop of an Essential oil and they balance each other out. So when people say, how can an Essential oil do so much?
0 (32m 50s): And they think that it might sound silly that an Essential oil can be focusing can be uplifting. And at the same time, if you look at something like a citrus oil also get out stains on your counter. It really can. And I think the versatility, the overall safety of them, I think is important to, to consider. And I think if more people use them in, you know, both conventional medicine, just even starting out with Aromatherapy or even in integrative medicine, I think, I think physicians and, and patients would be pleasantly surprised at how they could speed up some of their healing processes.
0 (33m 38s): And yeah. And also there is information out there that, you know, in animal studies as well as a couple of, a couple of small studies as well as a few with over a hundred human studies that show that essential oils do affect people's metabolism and they do tend to selectively impact the pathogens versus the commensals in the gut. And I can provide those links if people want those. Cuz that to me is just a symbol of their power of really balancing and that they, they probably know better than our brains do on what to do in our body.
0 (34m 23s): So yeah, please send those links on. I'll put those in the show notes. Okay. Below, I'm sure a lot of people would be really interested in seeing those Sarah, this has been incredible. Like I've learned so much in this small amount of time from you and been inspired. It's amazing to me, every time I talk to a new guest and talk about essential oils, it just sort of rein inspires me every single week to, you know, not take these little bottles for granted and use them and share them. And so thank you for, for reinvigorating that in me and for the work that you're doing. It's amazing.
0 (35m 3s): Before you go, we always love to ask our guests a couple closing questions. And the first one you've kind of already partly answered, you do yoga every day, but are, are there any other things you try to make sure you do every day to help yourself stay healthy? Obviously essential oils in the yoga, and I think just being mindful and deep breathing. I, I, I like to have some flexibility with, you know, this morning with my mornings, I don't have really a rigidity to it. I like to allow this space, but I do like to just stop and I do some prayer and meditation and some intentions and, and then I'll, I'll inhale my Oils and do a little movement with the yoga.
0 (35m 49s): And I feel that can really set me up for a really good start to the start to the day and just throughout the day, just pausing. And that's where Essential OilsAre amazing, right? Because you have to, or you don't have to, but it's optimal to actually stop and breathe as you're breathing in The, Essential, Oils. And that can really help refocus my brain, especially if I'm, you know, working on a project or just prior to when I see a client, I will, I will try to be in a centering space. And I think that when you get the body and that relaxation response, there's a lot of, a lot of balancing and, and healing potential. So those are some things I like.
0 (36m 31s): Well finally, what's just one thing we should all Ditch completely and replace with something healthier today? I think it's this, and this is easier said than done, but to really work on empowering, replace the fear with the Empowerment. And there's so much, I've already alluded to this, there's so much fear around symptoms and around different bodily bodily pathologies. And I, we don't need to be victims and we don't need to be hopeless. I think that's what one of the great things is about essential oils in your show is Samantha is when we realize that there are answers and that if we look for the root cause, we can empower ourselves to take action.
0 (37m 23s): We don't have to stay in this state of, you know, I guess there's a lot of where people are feeling where they don't, they can't move, right? They're just almost learned ho helplessness and we can get out of that. And if you're having a problem getting out of it, it could be a brain problem. So maybe seek somebody that can do some integrative support where you can move from the state of fear into victimhood or move from fear and victimhood into Empowerment. And if you, I think we need to stop blaming ourselves and people in brain health and look at our brain health versus it is a mental health or a character defect.
0 (38m 10s): And one of the cool things with essential oils is they can help you move from that place of helplessness and into this place of, like I said, back from that limbic area to the prefrontal cortex to empower you to move forward and to take some action. Mm. I love that. Thank you so much. And I've, I've personally experienced that before, that feeling of just sort of feeling almost paralyzed to, yeah, paralyzed is the way that thing, right to take take. Yeah. Thank to take that step. you know, sometimes it's like I know that if I just, you know, get out of bed or if I just make myself a cup of tea or I just like go on a walk, I'll feel better. But sometimes that feels like really hard, like a mile long, hard, you know, road to travel down and just simply, you know, grabbing the bottle of oil next to me and sniffing it right from the bottle.
0 (39m 2s): It almost doesn't matter what it is. Although my personal favorite Frankincense for this, it just helps you, like what you said, move into a different part of your brain and take that next step, whatever that is. I think that's really well said. Well, thank you so much, Dr. LoBisco has been incredible. Do you work with people remotely around the world or do they have to be local? Yeah, or in the state of New York. I have a virtual practice, but because of the licensing laws, I tend to just see people in New York. But I do have a community membership program. I just started too, where people can join my community and I offer education on essential oils, wellness, I do q and as monthly and just give them some additional resources as well for wherever they're located.
0 (39m 54s): So I do have that option as well. And I also do essential oils consults, which is different than my naturopathic medicine consultations, but I do offer those as well. Okay. What's the best place for people to go to find all that? They can either go to my website, which is break free medicine.com, or they can go to get oiling slash Sarah LoBisco and there is links for resources and it'll have my different courses, my community membership. I also teach a functional medicine course for practitioners on the clinical applications of essential oils there. So link for that as well.
0 (40m 35s): Well, great. Well, we'll make sure we put a link for all that in the show notes as well. Make it easy for people to find you and connect with you. Thank you so much. This has been wonderful. I really appreciate your time that you've spent with us here and the wisdom you've shared on The Essential Oil Revolution. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, Samantha. The Essential Oil Revolution is created by me, Samantha Lee Wright. Thanks so much for tuning into today's episode. Make sure you tune in next week. We have a very big announcement for the show, so make sure you are subscribed so you know when that comes out. Big, big news, no spoilers, but it's big.
0 (41m 19s): And with that lovely cliffhanger, I'll just say keep on learning, keep on discovering, and most importantly, keep on treating yourself well. You are worth it.
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