Podcast 443: Oregano Oil

On this episode, Martin Pytela welcomes Ms. Judy Gray to the Life Enthusiast podcast. Her background of Nutrition & Masters in Science led her to founding North American Herb & Spice 40 years ago. Today, we discuss how her company came to be, the healing benefits of Oregano Oil &  and their other amazing remedies you might not know you were missing from your cupboard!

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MARTIN: Hello, this is Life Enthusiast podcast. And my name is Martin Pytela, I’m the health coach here. And today I have the honor and pleasure of visiting with Ms. Judy Gray, the founder and CEO of North American Herb & Spice, a company we dearly love and support. Miss Gray.

JUDY: Yes! Thank you so much.

MARTIN: Mm-Hmm I thought it would be well worth it for people to understand just how wonderful the products are and why they are so wonderful. I mean, my general perspective and my frequent saying is, hey people, we are in the industrial food experiment and it’s not going well.

JUDY: You are so absolutely right. And this is why many years ago I decided that I had to do something about it. I was director of nutrition at a cancer hospital who used nutritional supplements and they had about 500 different supplements. And I was not really happy with all of them, because I didn’t like these synthetic ingredients. And maybe even the formulations on some of them, I wasn’t really happy with them. And it gave me an opportunity to see if these things really work or not. And many of them, I just wasn’t satisfied with. So then I became the clinic administrator for Dr. Cass Ingram, and I asked him if he used, you know, what he used, and everything. And if he was happy with all of the supplements and everything, and he was he wasn’t, of course. Some are, you know, he really loved. And and some he was just not satisfied with. So then, I had two family members with serious illnesses. One was pancreatic cancer, and so it was my turn to see, I was helping them get well. And I got both of them well.

QMARTIN: Wow! Seriously?

JUDY: And the oregano, and that was my main “arma materia”, if  you will.

MARTIN: So which year was this approximately?

JUDY: Oh, this was in the early nineties.

MARTIN: Okay.

JUDY: Yeah. So it was very early nineties. And so I was really so amazed at how well that this oregano was working. I started out with the herb first of all. And then I kind of graduated to the oil of oregano. and you may see my little friend here.

MARTIN: The visiting chief pet officer.

JUDY: Yes. Houdini my helper. And he’s the chief pet officer at Hoodi’s foodies. His own company now.

MARTIN: Okay, so question here, did you find or did you fall up on the wild from the beginning?

JUDY: Well, yes. And I’ve been in Turkey in the seventies I was there. And I had seen little tiny bottles of the oil in the souks (open-air markets) and I thought it was very interesting, but I really couldn’t get much out of them. I couldn’t understand exactly how they used it or what they believed it was good for or whatever. So I didn’t know exactly what their uses were and anyhow, so I thought well we’ll try this. And I tried it topically, first of all. And it brought out like black toxic soot out of the body, I tried it as a rub. And then I found out that I had to work with it not straight but to use it in combination with a carrier oil. So I did that, and I tested many many different carrier oils,