The Essential Oil Revolution - Health, Purpose, and Aromatherapy

412: Five Cool Ways Essential Oils Can Holistically Support Hormone Health

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What You’ll Learn:

In this episode, I wanted to expand on how essential oils can support healthy hormones in a holistic and integrative way. Since essential oils have multiple mechanisms of action, and contain hundreds of biological compounds, this podcast could have gone on for an inordinate amount of time. Thankfully, I narrowed it down to five key areas within a 30 minute time span.

Here’s a summary of the key points. 

  • An overview of the five key ways essential oils benefit hormones (2 min)
  • The many factors that relate to hormonal balance that essential oils can influence, due to their multiple mechanism (3 min)
  • How stress impacts hormones (8.40 min)
  • The five ways essential oils affect hormones through modulating stress (9.30 min)
  • Essential oils that balance cortisol levels (12.30 min)
  • Essential oils that impact the vagus nerve and how why this supports the stress response (14.30 min)
  • How essential oils influence our emotions and how this relates to hormonal balance (16.30 min)
  • Why “exercising our noses” may help keep our memory intact (17.40 min)
  • Essential oils that to support emotional health (18 min)
  • Three ways essential oils impact brain function to modulate mood (19 min)
  • Which essential oils impact serotonin, dopamine, and neural synapses for better brain communication (19.30 min)
  • Psychoaromatherapy (21 min)
  • How essential oils can influence trauma and neuroplasticity (22.50 min)
  • The interaction of essential oils, neurotransmitters, and hormones (24 min)
  • Essential oils that impact sleep (25.50 min)
  • Studies on various essential oils that modulate estrogen, cortisol, and oxytocin (27. 30 min)
  • Why clary sage is a favorite oil for hormonal health (29 min)
  • Other ways essential oils may modulate hormones (30 min)
  • Closing thoughts: free and additional resources, soon to be available limited openings in my practice, essential oils consults, and a shout out to our sponsors (31 min) 


    • Blogs, Articles, and References:

    • Optimizing Hormones and Sexual Health Using Functional Medicine and Essential Oils with The Girlfriend Doctor, Dr. Anna Cabeca, DO, OBGYN, FACOG (Ep. 406)
    • Essential Oils for Hormones: Holistic Support for Healthy Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone, Thyroid, and Oxytocin Balance
    • Essential Oils for Thyroid Health
    • Essential Oils for Hormones: Holistic Support for Healthy Estrogen, Progesterone, Testosterone, Thyroid, and Oxytocin Balance
    • A Summary on Supporting Mood with Essential Oils & A Little Olfactory Boost to Help Feel More Gratitude 
    • The Stress-Hormone-Brain Connection & How Hormones Influence Brain Signaling, Emotions, and Mental Health  
    • The Best Single Essential Oils to Lower Cortisol, Balance Hormones, and Help Reduce Stress: Part II
    • Essential Oils for Stress Relief by Jade Shutes
    • Aromatic and Incense by NW School of Aromatic Medicine 
    • Thyroid Hormone Regulation and Metabolism 2014. Physiol Rev. (PMID: 24692351)
    • The Best Essential Oils for Sleep by The Sleep Foundation
    • Mint-Chocolate Water, Upper Lip Peppermint Sniffing, Peppermint Fat Bombs & More: How Peppermint Can Enhance Performance (My article on Ben Greenfield Life)
    • Why Detoxing and Cleansing Are the “In” Things in Health and How Essential Oils Can Help
    • Examining the “Hormonal Effects” of Essential Oils: An Introduction Highlighting Sage Oil: Part I (My article on NaturalPath)  

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