Essential Science: A Scientists Mission To Bring Essential Oils Research To The Masses

A Scientists Mission To Bring Essential Oils Research To The Masses

by Nicole Stevens,

(article from doTERRA Living Magazine, Spring 2012)

My research with essential oils began completely by accident. I had just started a Master’s Degree program at Brigham Young University, and my original thesis plan was a study of medicinal plants of Oman. The project was even going to include travel to the Middle East to collect specimens and talk to shamans. I began learning Arabic, got a passport, packed my bags and waited excitedly. The trip was scheduled for Sept. 14, 2001. But then, on that fateful September 11, the whole world changed.

So did my thesis project. My program advisor told me about something that had been waiting on the back burner for some time – a study of the natural plant extracts called essential oils that were suspected to have activity against cancer cells in vitro. I jumped at the idea. My dream has always been to delve into cancer research.

What a joy it was to discover that essential oils not only had remarkable anti-cancer activities, but they made the whole lab smell delightful!

After completing my Master’s thesis in which I screened seventy essential oils and several oil blends against five different cancer cell lines, I yearned to continue studying these amazing compounds. As a researcher at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, I looked at whether essential oils might fulfill another role in the fight against cancer, paired with a strong dose of light energy. At the University of Utah, I found that doTERRA’s essential oils showed impressive antimicrobial potency as well,even when extremely diluted.

If my experience has shown me one thing, its that scientists have barely uncovered the top of the iceberg when it comes to essential oils. Their potential for promoting health, fighting disease, and enhancing life is incredible. The challenge is, how do we spread the word? How do be bring true science to the masses?

I think “SCIENCE” (that nebulous, sexy, fear-inducing, eye-glazing notion) is rather like dietary fiber. Everyone knows we need it, and they like the idea of it, but its just so darn indigestible! Anyone can find an article on PubMed, but you would probably need a dictionary and a degree in molecular biology just to slog your way through it.

There is a disconnect between the exciting scientific research currently happening and how accessible it is for regular people who would love to understand and apply it. That’s where doTERRA’s Scientific Advisory Board comes in.

When Dr. David Hill approached me several years ago with the idea of a Scientific Advisory Board, I was stunned. There would be experts in the field of medicine, science and analysis, colleagues who could coordinate their own research and being to distill down the mountain of other research results available; perhaps digest some of the scientific jargon into everyday language and brainstorm about all the projects we’d like to do. Yes please, sign me up!

I’m very pleased to be a member of doTERRA’s current Scientific Advisory Board. Although our group is new and still discovering its potential, I believe it is truly revolutionary. We want to apply science to a field of study that, for too long, had been considered ‘homeopatic mumbo jumbo”. Many modern Americans prefer their FDA-approved synthetic drugs without even realizing there may be natural alternatives with scientifically proven benefits.

Perhaps we area at the brink of a mighty wave of change, a fusion of our ‘enlightened’ Western medicine with centuries-old traditional medicine. More people are experiencing for themselves how essential oils work. The members of the Scientific Advisory Board hope to add even more relevance by dabbling in the why.

I plan to continue my own research with essential oils, which includes a project that explores how essential oils affect enzymatic activity. There are several references in current scientific literature about the ability of certain essential oils to increase beneficial enzymatic activity, and I hope to obtain results on how doTERRA’s oils compare.

Scientists, petri dishes, and test tubes all over the world are providing thrilling evidence to support what essential oils users have known for years – that these complex, beautiful plant products really work. And hopefully, with greater scientific understanding comes a greater acceptance of essential oils as legitimate, highly useful players in medical practice.

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Nicole Stevens is a member of doTERRA’s Scientific Advisory Board. She has a Master’s Degree from Brigham Young University and has spent much of her career working to develop the credibility and scientific understanding behind essential oils. Nicole has worked with the UNLV Cancer Research Center to study a procedure that uses targeted photosensitizing chemicals and specific wavelengths of light to destroy cancer calls, and she has also worked with the University of Utah to further study the efficacy of essential oils in eliminating microbial pathogens.

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Exploring Clinical Applications of Essential Oils

Home, Field, Clinic, or Operating Room:

Exploring  Clinical Applications of Essential Oils

-by Dr. Paul Winterton, MD

“The CPTG Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade oils procured and distributed by doTERRA are the only essential oils that I’m comfortable prescribing as a physician trained in the western medical tradition.”

We have all experienced join pain and muscle aches, regardless of our age and activity level. The causes range from simple aches following exercise to debilitating pain from a serious accident, surgery or chronic illness.

Alleviating these symptoms and treating the source of pain is sometimes a challenge for the practicing orthopedic surgeon. In addition to desiring confirmation of a particular diagnosis and treatment plan, patients following a slip and fall, or with chronic bone and joint illness are often desperate for relief from pain and stiffness.

Essential oils, have become a frontline therapeutic modality for me in my practice. Their powerful anti-inflammatory effects can be utilized in many athletic and clinical settings. Whether at the finish line of a marathon, in the clinic seeing patients for injuries, or conducting preoperative evaluations and postoperative follow-up, essential oils are a mainstay of treatment in my orthopedic practice.

When patients arrive at my clinic, they are immediately introduced to oils as they inhale the ultrasonically diffused aromatic compounds in my lobby and every exam room. The antiviral and antiseptic properties of essential oils have been demonstrated in many laboratories and provide excellent cold, flu and infection prevention for my patients and employees. In the exam room, every patient is a given a therapeutic warm, moist towel compress with essential oils, followed by an application of anti-inflammatory rub on the area of tenderness of post-operative incision site. I also recommend capsules of essential oils to take internally.

In the locker room or on the field, I instruct the chiropractic physicians, physical therapists, and athletic trainers in application of anti-inflammatory essential oil rubs. They have also utilized ultrasonic (Phonophoresis) and electronic (Iontophoresis) devices during massage to improve penetration, absorption, and distribution of the essential oils. The symptomatic relief has been wonderful for my patients, and certainly reflects well on me as their physician.

Finally, patients can treat themselves and their families with essential oils as they become acquainted and comfortable with their topical, aromatic, and internal applications. Use of essential oils in the home, in tandem with healthy lifestyles, can be a powerful preventive measure for avoiding unnecessary trips to the emergency room or clinic.

The CPTG (Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade) oils procured and distributed by doTERRA are the only essential oils that I’m comfortable prescribing as a physician trained in western medical tradition. Every product has been harvested from its unique environment, meticulously processed and analyzed for its therapeutic purity and potency. This is extremely important to me as a physician. We trust manufacturers for traditional, FDA approved, Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen, that every pill in the bottle has the same concentration of medicine. Likewise, ever time a patient leaves my clinic with a sample of oil, I need to know that the purity and potency is the same in every bottle.

I look forward to working more closely with my musculoskeletal colleagues regarding the clinical applications of essential oils, and hope to expand their use at home, on the field, in the clinic, and in the operating room.

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(Article from doTERRA Living Spring 2012 Magazine)

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Paul W. Winterton is a Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon, and a member of doTERRA’s Scientific Advisory Board. He earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1993 and completed his Orthopedic Surgical Residency at the Mayo Clinic in 1998. Following residency, he completed two fellowshops at The Institute For Bone and Joint Disorders in should and knee reconstructive surgery/sports medicine,  as well as foot and ankle reconstruction in Phoenix, Arizona.

Currently, Dr. Winterton serves on the Board of Councilors for The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.  He is a strong proponent of the practical use of essential oils and dietary supplements in the home, as well as in the traditional western medical clinical setting, particularly with regard to bone and joint well being.

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With doTERRA essential oils, my friend David can walk again!

True doTerra Tesimonial:

Written by Holan Nakata

David Johannes

I met David Johannes in 2009. I met him through a  couple Reedson and Rosina Edwin who happened to run into my store and we discussed alternative health. Rosina experienced great results so Reedson introduced David to Howard Nakata and me.

At the time David was on 19 medications with diabetes, high blood pressure, thyroid issues and had renal failure with dialysis. It was my start of learning the importance of living healthy, how painful diabetes is and how it affects the people around and also emotions. He was unable to walk for the most part, using a wheelchair whenever I saw him.

David’s family and our family became friends. That’s the beauty of direct sales and health, the relationship goes beyond seller buyer. We were invited to family events and parties.

It’s amazing what hope alternative health can bring. Although western medicine has the ability to keep a person alive, sometimes it does not bring back the quality of life. In addition to a deteriorating health, a little bit of dignity fades away.

David took control of his health changing the way he ate, and took natural supplements. I saw the love of his family who also made the changes in their diet and routine to match David’s even when healthy. I found that families that work as one experience great results.

David’s diabetes, blood pressure was under control, and other vitals returned. The doctor relieved him from 19 medications to two medications for his kidney. David was able to travel to Kosrae off dialysis for a week to see his mother. Sometimes, he would walk with a walker, a cane, with an unsteady gait.

As he awaits a kidney transplant, David continues to live healthy.

Howard Nakata introduced doTERRA to David in 2010. With great results that David had so far, he took a look at doTERRA and saw the emotional help it can make. It wasn’t until February 2011, when Dr. David Hill came to teach the Aroma Touch.

It was a special class, Dr. Hill wanted to share the Neuropathy Technique as he had family members who had diabetes.

Dr. David Hill asked for volunteers that were diabetic with diabetes. The first person who volunteered was borderline diabetes and still had circulation and could not be used to demonstrate the effectiveness of the oils.

The following is a video of David Johannes surprising guest and family walking strong to share doTERRA essential oils:

People on our team volunteered David Johannes. It was there I learned about neuropathy that causes numbness, or tingling, or the ability to not feel. Dr. Hill also showed that diabetes affected circulation, in addition to seeing discoloration, people went up to feel how hard the calves were.

Without circulation, it is difficult for a wound to heal or to fight off infection. It is for this reason, thousands of diabetics every year lose their limbs, something David Johannes knows all too well, losing one leg.

After Dr. David Hill used the Neuropathy Technique for ten minutes on David. You could see color of his legs come back. They called the people to feel his calf and it and is was soft. David who went to the class on a wheelchair was able to walk with a steady gait without a cane because he could actually feel his steps. From that day, his family continued to do the technique and his walking improved.

What impacted David was not only the technique but the care that Dr. Hill showed, he showed genuine concern and compassion. He was especially moved when Dr. Hill said do not charge for this technique as people that have diabetes have a hard enough time.

David says that he walks to the park with his newborn daughter. People go up to him and ask “Weren’t that the guy on the wheelchair?” Now David looks forward to fathering his daughter, and maintaining health is beyond him but for those around him.

doTERRA gave him more than an ability to walk. It gave him love, hope, dignity, and a mission to share with others.

This was when I told myself, doTERRA is a company I can support with a mission I can share for the rest of my life.

This was a beginning of a start of a multitude of testimonies of Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade essential oils and how it is important to have 100% Pure Essential Oils with therapeutic value. The results show that there is a difference in CPTG Essential Oils.

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Healing Hands: Help For Japan

We are well on our way towards our commitment of $250,000 of in-kind donations towards the disaster relief efforts in Japan.  We have arranged for more than $100,000 of doTERRA product to be shipped to Japan this week.  This includes a significant number of boxes of doTERRA On-Guard Hand Wipes.

On Guard™ Hand Sanitizing Wipes provide the protective properties of dōTERRA®’s proprietary On Guard blend of Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade® essential oils in the convenience of a portable hand wipe. Each biodegradable wipe is formulated to kill 99.99% of most germs that can make you sick. The On Guard blend of wild orange, clove, cinnamon, eucalyptus, and rosemary can be an important part of a defensive hygiene strategy during seasons of flus, colds, and other infections outbreaks

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The Humanitarian organization we are working through was thrilled to receive such a valued product in times of emergency and wanted all of the On-Guard Hand Wipes would could make available to them.  Dr. Hill has advised that in addition to On-Guard Hand Wipes during times of emergencies, the most four essential oils to have are On-Guard, Lemon (or any citrus oil), Melaleuca and DigestZen.  We are arranging for shipment of these products to Japan in the coming weeks.

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Also, we encourage everyone to have a stock of these products in their personal emergency supply kits.

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In addition, effective immediately all donations to the doTERRA Healing Hands Foundation for the remainder of March will go towards the purchase of doTERRA products (at company cost) to be shipped to Japan to assist in disaster relief efforts.  You, your friends and family should all feel comfortable in knowing that 100% of donations to the Foundation will go towards products to be utilized in relief efforts, with none of these funds used to pay administrative costs.

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Again, our thoughts and prayers are with the people in Japan.  At times like these we are thankful for life and all the blessings that are ours.  We are particularly thankful to be part of doTERRA – a community of amazing people armed with products that can make significant and meaningful contributions to the world in challenging times

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