December 28, 2011 in Essential Oils, Wellness, Women's Health by empoweringwellness

A Guide to Health for 40-something Women

This is the fourth article in a six part series on women’s health. In today’s post, I include an essential oils formula for adrenal fatigue. During this stage of your life, it’s especially important to maintain hormonal balance and adrenal health is critical.

Your 40′s are full of change.

During this decade, a women begins the transition into perimenopause, the five-ten year period before the onset of menopause. Hormonal shifts such as an excess of estrogen and declining progesterone often lead to unpredictable moods, heavy flow, hot flashes, night sweats, headaches and weight gain.

Tips:

1. Strengthen the digestive system by adding digestive enzymes and probiotics to your daily regimen
2. Magnesium, selenium, iodine and vitamin A help improve thyroid function
3. Regular exercise and proper nutrition are especially important

Essential Oils Blend for Adrenal Fatigue / Burnout

• 3 drops Pine Needle essential oil
• 2 Frankincense essential oil
• 2 drops Pine Bark essential oil

This formula is wonderful for “re-setting” the adrenal/pituitary response. It is best used in a fractionated coconut oil or grapeseed oil base. Pine needle or balsam fir oil is excellent for burnout and exhaustion. Its rejuvenating properties aid in balancing adrenal hormones and have a positive effect on the nearby kidneys. Frankincense helps to regulate the endocrine system by balancing hormones in the body (especially the pituitary and pineal glands.)

Frankincense also oxygenates the brain. Pine bark essential oil acts a restorative to the adrenals and tired bodily systems.