While often overlooked, the role of the nervous system in recovery is paramount. In this video, Dr. J and Jodi Cohen – a bestselling author, award-winning journalist, and founder of Vibrant Blue Oil. They highlight the key physical and mental/emotional factors that stress the nervous system, activate the parasympathetic nervous system for optimal recovery, and how it is connected to your vagus nerve, and how it can affect motility.
We often hear meditation and massage are two potent techniques to help with physical recovery from exercise and lower the body’s mental stress response. Jodi here also introduce oils that are so stimulatory, most especially to your vagus nerve, which large divisions of this nerve extends to the digestive system. Also, the vagus nerve sends commands (when the body is not under stress)that slow heart and breathing rates and increases digestion.
Check out this podcast and learn more on how you can apply this to your daily living!
Dr. Justin Marchegiani
In this episode, we cover:
0:18 Parasympathetic
3:54 Vibrant and Blue Oils
7:38 Clove and Lime
20:08 Nutrients that Support the Oils
23:02 “Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body”
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey guys, it's Dr. Justin Marchegiani here really excited to have a awesome podcast guest today Jody Cohen is going to be talking about the parasympathetic summit, which is going to be all about how to promote parasympathetic nervous system, which is about helping your body heal and improve. Jody, welcome to the podcast.
Jodi Cohen: Oh, my God, so honored to be here. Thank you. And I feel like the timing is perfect. For people who don't really know what parasympathetic is your nervous system, your autonomic nervous system, which controls your automatic functions like breathing, heart re digestion, immunity has kind of two gears, when your body thinks there's danger and it has to survive, it presses the gas pedal, and kind of routes all of your blood flow and your oxygen to your arms and your legs so that you can either fight back or flee. And then the danger passes, and you hit the brakes, which is the parasympathetic, and everything returns to normal. And it's kind of like cleaning up after the party, right? You can digest your food, blood flow routes back to your digestion. And what happens especially now when we're so anxious, you know, anticipatory stress makes the body think it's in danger, we kind of get stuck in the wrong gear. And so all of those maintenance cleanup health functions, kind of get put on the back burner. And if they stay on the back burner forever, your health kind of suffers.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: People talk about the parasympathetic nervous system, a lot of times that's connected to the vagus nerve, correct?
Jodi Cohen: Yes, exactly. Your Vegas nerve is really the gearshift between that fight or flight, sympathetic state and the rest and digest parasympathetic state.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and the Vegas that that terminology means the wanderer, so it's the nerve that goes from the brainstem and kind of wanders down and it hits all of the, the organs like you talked about a lot of digestive impacts regarding the parasympathetic because we need good HCl and enzyme so like to be able to get access to all of those nutrients. And to break all your proteins and fats and antioxidants down, we need good digestive support and getting into the parasympathetics helps that.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, I could actually the Vegas nerve wanders through every organ of digestion. So it triggers your mouth to release saliva, which helps start to break down those proteins so that they're better absorbed and your stomach releases hydrochloric acid, it helps the pancreas release digestive enzymes, the gallbladder release bile. And then the most important thing that people don't know is it kind of helps with the motility wave. Think of it as kind of like, you know, the moving walkway that goes through your system and make sure that things don't stay too long in your gut and cause like cebo, or, you know, IBS or any problems, you know, and also make sure that you don't get constipated, so that things leave, so that when you're kind of stuck in fight or flight sympathetic dominance, all you know that the moving walkway doesn't go and that's when problems occur.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So anyone listening to this right now, if you're liking what you're hearing, make sure you click down below, we're gonna put a link for the parasympathetic summit right down below, so make sure you subscribe. I was part of that summit along with a 30 other-
Jodi Cohen: I know, I know. I can't. Well, you know what it is I am anxious. And so I started really early. And so I had almost everything done a month before the deadline. And then wonderful people like you who I've loved and admired said Oh, can I get on? I'm like, oh my god. Yes.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's great. That's Yeah, very cool. So I urge everyone listening to subscribe to get access to that awesome info. So you have a website vibrant and blue oils? Yeah, you use a lot of oils that kind of help people promote healing relaxation. Can you give me like a top three lists that you use to kind of get that parasympathetic nervous response activated?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah. And I just want to back up the reason I found oils, um, I, my now ex has been attempted suicide and had to be hospitalized. And once I knew he was safe, and it wasn't my job to keep him alive. I hit rock bottom, the kids were five and seven at the time, so it wasn't super convenient to sleep all day. And I you know, I knew enough and it was my adrenals I kept trying to ingest remedies to help the adrenals and nothing was working. Um, a friend brought over oils, and I kind of made up a blend that I topically applied for the adrenals and it worked right away. And what I didn't realize is chronic cortisol leads to inflammation of the gut. So my gut was so damaged, that nothing I was taking, like ingesting was really getting absorbed and assimilated. So that's how I got into oils because I realized, oh, even if your gut is really messed up, you can still smell things you can still you know, we know that like nicotine patches or hormone creams go in through the skin. So that's why I got started in oils. And then I started realizing because I've been in clinical practice. The blind spots, you know, if someone is deficient in vitamin D, that's easy. You can supplement with vitamin B, if they're stuck in parasympathetic or a second sympathetic, that was hard, you know, in a lot of the remedy is that, you know, you can teach people to breathe or meditate people, that's hard. It's not like an instant skill, you can say splash your face with freezing water, you know, which causes the blood flow to come to warm it up. People don't like it either. It's uncomfortable. They didn't like gagging cells with a tongue depressor. But what I realized because the anatomy of the vagus nerve, as you said, it starts at the back of the head. And then it splits and whines around both sides. And it's actually most accessible and the thickest, kind of right here. Like if you touch behind your earlobe, on your master bone. It's like the width of a piano court there, you know, and it's smaller and other places. So that's why they actually do this kind of surgery, it's a little bit like a pacemaker surgery. And they implant an electrical device here, and then a battery down below me, it's pretty invasive. But you can use oils, oils are super stimulatory like clove, which has a million other benefits. And then lime has really small molecules, it's kind of like, you know, when you combine colors, you can take blue and red, put them together and you get purple, which is different than you can add white and make it lavender. You know, you can combine oils, and it kind of draws the best from both of them. So I created this blend, parasympathetic, that's clothing line. And what's super cool is, you know, you might not be able to deep breathe, you might struggle with meditation and fall asleep, but you can dab a little thing right here, you can carry this in your purse, this is a really easy thing to comply with. And then you feel better. You're like, Okay, I'm not constipated. Okay, my I don't feel bloated. Okay, I feel a little bit like calmer and less anxious. You know, and, as you know, like the supplements that people know, help them, like they feel less tired. They're really good at compliance. Once you figure out this is working for me, you're all in.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And it's a good replacement. For some people, they're they're already used to like reaching for a medication, well, let's try something a little bit more natural. That's going to have a good benefit. It's not going to have the side effects. And it's the least you know, good step to other healthy things. I imagine. Yes. What you're doing oils, you're probably now thinking about the food you're eating and other Yes, your habits too. So it kind of creates an awareness, I imagine as well.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, and definitely that cascade. Yeah. You know, it's like crawl before you walk, walk before you run. Yeah. Once you're like, Okay, I did that, like I used to in yoga. You know, sometimes these teachers would be so sneaky and suddenly you're doing like a handstand or headstand. And you're like, had no idea I could do that. What else can I do?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Right? That's awesome. Very cool. Yeah, you have that parasympathetic lead, I think you say clove and lime. Is that true?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I would think like, you'd have maybe like a lavender or something like that. I'm just curious what your –
Jodi Cohen: Well, you know, originally, no, no, and a lot of people that's a great question. Originally, I was thinking like, Oh, it's parasympathetic. It should be sedated. You know, when oils like lavender Kammen meal. No, we know that they're all relaxing, you know, frankincense, even the resins? Yeah, um, but I realized that what it is, is you need to stimulate it. It's kind of like, if you think about, you know, the old cars, we actually have to manually shift gears is to do something active and energizing to kind of change lanes. So this stimulates the vagus nerve, and in stimulating it, it's like, oh, you know, I'm switching gears.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And you're using that access point, with the nerves a little bit more superficial and more Yes, to get access to it.
Jodi Cohen: Exactly, exactly. And the other cool thing is, um, you know, there's a researcher out of tufts Michael Vanek, or talks about the vagus nerve infection hypothesis. And basically, it's this idea that the vagus nerve has such a broad depth and you know, it gets into your system everywhere. So any kind of small minor infection can basically the body can pick it up as you're infected, and it goes into like cell danger response or sickness response. So you get tired so you don't move chronic fatigue syndrome, you have pain so you don't move fibromyalgia. A lot of these things can be traced to an infection in the Vegas nerve and the most likely one of the doctors on the summit, Marco Rubio, he did this extensive research where he was taking ultrasounds of people's necks, and he was finding that often the Vegas nerve was infected there because, you know, we have all these toxins in our mouth that drain out and you know, and they're exacerbated if you have like metal amalgams or any kind of cavitation you know, that has been compromised your root canal. So think about, you know, congestion point a bottleneck. You have toxins draining along the trigeminal nerve, they intersect with the Vegas nerve, you know, the neck has the structure of the limb, the blood vessels, the nerves, you know, any kind of compromise if you know as a chiropractor if things Aren't flowing that can get congested. So the toxins accumulate here. clove actually has, it has this constituent called eugenol. And it's been used in dentistry for years because it does two things. It numbs the pain and it actually helps to address the underlying toxins. So if there is a toxicity or an infection, that's, you know, think of it like you're on an airplane, right? If you're in a row of seats, and you're in the middle row, and the people on either side of you are not petite people, you're not getting that armrest, you know, you're really compressed and congested. So if the Vegas nerve is congested, it's bumping into the vascular system, you're not getting the blood flow, it's bumping into the lymph, you're not getting the drainage. So anything you can do and Dr. Russo actually walks you through step by step, how they started to, you know, topically apply remedies to cause less congestion in the lymph and all of a sudden the Vegas nerve. You can see it in the pictures. It's kind of amazing. What kind of evidence was he doing his trials. He was using Christine sharpeners, he created their Sophia flow cream, which is a combination of essential oils and then other remedies. But what's interesting is that most people don't think about topically, you know, most people are kind of like have lymphie need to dry better shirt rebounder, you know that we don't really have anything for that. But we do. It's these topically applied remedies, we actually have a limp oil. It's a lot of menten and things that kind of help open up vasculature and drainage. And she uses some oils in her product too. They're both good, right? You know, it's kinda like you get out there, right? Yeah, exactly.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: There's a lot of ways you can skin a cat so to speak. Did you choose those oils? Was it your own clinical experience? Was it research that you saw? How did that?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, that's a good question. So the reason I got into nutrition was my own squirmy kid. You know, my first kid was super easy. I just assumed I was this great. Mom had another 120 minutes later.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I've seen that having two kids now I know exactly what you're talking about.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah. And he was just wild, a wild child. Like I really thought, like, you know, like, you have the parenting baby proof people come to your house. And they're like, and here's this oven lock, because some kids climb in the oven, you know, and with my first one is like, no, no kid, kid climbs in the oven. Oh, number two, you just like that, that I had that kid that did those things. And a friend noticed that he was being really well behaved. And then another mom handed out like a Ritz cracker and he Jekyll Hyde. And she said, You know, my brother was on Ritalin his whole life. And it turns out, he was just allergic to weird foods, you should check that out. I thought, I've done everything else, I can certainly do that. And we took them to nutritionist. She said he's really sensitive to corn, soy and dairy. So we changed his diet. And we had a different kid the next day. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, how did I not know this? So I went back and got a degree in nutrition was trying to work with other screaming kids. And I mean, you know, like, if they can't, if they're wiggling all over it, it's really hard to like, assess them. So I learned this technique called muscle testing, that's a really good way to kind of ask the body questions, and it's what I was doing in my practice to help identify what remedies were good for kids. And so when I first got introduced to oils, I was really, I have never been at this kind of rock bottom, like just so mentally and physically exhausted, like literally getting up to do anything felt like a strain. So, you know, someone gave me this box, and I'm so drained, I'm like, all right, I can muscle test. So basically, it's intuition I muscle test I, every we have a blueprint in the body, right? There's a blueprint for what healthy adrenal tissue is supposed to look like. And sometimes you do things and you don't really realize that's what you're doing. That's what I've been doing my practice the whole time is kind of identifying what organisms stress, and then using supplements to help return that organ to balance so it would function well. And so that was kind of the lens that I was looking through when I was making these formulas. So I was like, Alright, what what combination, you know, we humans have a blueprint. And plants also have blueprints. And humans and plants are bio familiar. So we share similar blueprints. So kind of like you can combine different colors to you know, match a picture in a landscape, you can combine different oils to match the blueprint of a healthy organ. So I was using intuition to come up with the formulation, you know, for a start, kind of identify this needs to be in it. And then I would play with what you know, 10% of this 20% of this, the different variables and then I have a team of people that kind of help me test it, and they test and then they can kind of mentally say like you We increase, you know, the Roman kameel from, you know, 12% to 13. So we're just constantly refining and tweaking it. And then I go and I research, you know, okay, why? Why does balsam of Peru, which is a resin that's drawn from these plants in you know, the Amazon in Peru and Brazil seem to help with sleep? What chemical constituents are present in this plant? Why is it working? And I would every single time be like, Oh, that makes complete sense. Why this is helping. And so that's, that's my process. It's a little bit nutty, but it always seems to work.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Interesting. And you know, I also, I'm just curious, though, with your son, what were the oils that really helped because one thing I like about oils with kids, is some kids don't want to swallow stuff. And they may be something in reverse, right? So it's hard to get them to do stuff. So you can kind of covertly put some on your fingers rub their behind their ears and kind of get it in their bloodstream. So I like that what oils that you found were the best on on Macs.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Hey guys, it's Dr. Justin Marchegiani here really excited to have a awesome podcast guest today Jody Cohen is going to be talking about the parasympathetic summit, which is going to be all about how to promote parasympathetic nervous system, which is about helping your body heal and improve. Jody, welcome to the podcast.
Jodi Cohen: Oh, my God, so honored to be here. Thank you. And I feel like the timing is perfect. For people who don't really know what parasympathetic is your nervous system, your autonomic nervous system, which controls your automatic functions like breathing, heart re digestion, immunity has kind of two gears, when your body thinks there's danger and it has to survive, it presses the gas pedal, and kind of routes all of your blood flow and your oxygen to your arms and your legs so that you can either fight back or flee. And then the danger passes, and you hit the brakes, which is the parasympathetic, and everything returns to normal. And it's kind of like cleaning up after the party, right? You can digest your food, blood flow routes back to your digestion. And what happens especially now when we're so anxious, you know, anticipatory stress makes the body think it's in danger, we kind of get stuck in the wrong gear. And so all of those maintenance cleanup health functions, kind of get put on the back burner. And if they stay on the back burner forever, your health kind of suffers.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: People talk about the parasympathetic nervous system, a lot of times that's connected to the vagus nerve, correct?
Jodi Cohen: Yes, exactly. Your Vegas nerve is really the gearshift between that fight or flight, sympathetic state and the rest and digest parasympathetic state.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and the Vegas that that terminology means the wanderer, so it's the nerve that goes from the brainstem and kind of wanders down and it hits all of the, the organs like you talked about a lot of digestive impacts regarding the parasympathetic because we need good HCl and enzyme so like to be able to get access to all of those nutrients. And to break all your proteins and fats and antioxidants down, we need good digestive support and getting into the parasympathetics helps that.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, I could actually the Vegas nerve wanders through every organ of digestion. So it triggers your mouth to release saliva, which helps start to break down those proteins so that they're better absorbed and your stomach releases hydrochloric acid, it helps the pancreas release digestive enzymes, the gallbladder release bile. And then the most important thing that people don't know is it kind of helps with the motility wave. Think of it as kind of like, you know, the moving walkway that goes through your system and make sure that things don't stay too long in your gut and cause like cebo, or, you know, IBS or any problems, you know, and also make sure that you don't get constipated, so that things leave, so that when you're kind of stuck in fight or flight sympathetic dominance, all you know that the moving walkway doesn't go and that's when problems occur.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: So anyone listening to this right now, if you're liking what you're hearing, make sure you click down below, we're gonna put a link for the parasympathetic summit right down below, so make sure you subscribe. I was part of that summit along with a 30 other-
Jodi Cohen: I know, I know. I can't. Well, you know what it is I am anxious. And so I started really early. And so I had almost everything done a month before the deadline. And then wonderful people like you who I've loved and admired said Oh, can I get on? I'm like, oh my god. Yes.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's great. That's Yeah, very cool. So I urge everyone listening to subscribe to get access to that awesome info. So you have a website vibrant and blue oils? Yeah, you use a lot of oils that kind of help people promote healing relaxation. Can you give me like a top three lists that you use to kind of get that parasympathetic nervous response activated?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah. And I just want to back up the reason I found oils, um, I, my now ex has been attempted suicide and had to be hospitalized. And once I knew he was safe, and it wasn't my job to keep him alive. I hit rock bottom, the kids were five and seven at the time, so it wasn't super convenient to sleep all day. And I you know, I knew enough and it was my adrenals I kept trying to ingest remedies to help the adrenals and nothing was working. Um, a friend brought over oils, and I kind of made up a blend that I topically applied for the adrenals and it worked right away. And what I didn't realize is chronic cortisol leads to inflammation of the gut. So my gut was so damaged, that nothing I was taking, like ingesting was really getting absorbed and assimilated. So that's how I got into oils because I realized, oh, even if your gut is really messed up, you can still smell things you can still you know, we know that like nicotine patches or hormone creams go in through the skin. So that's why I got started in oils. And then I started realizing because I've been in clinical practice The blind spots, you know, if someone's deficient in vitamin D, that's easy. You can supplement with vitamin B, if they're stuck in parasympathetic or a second sympathetic, that was hard, you know, in a lot of the remedy is that, you know, you can teach people to breathe or meditate people, that's hard. It's not like an instant skill, you can say splash your face with freezing water, you know, which causes the blood flow to come to warm it up. People don't like it either. It's uncomfortable. They didn't like gagging cells with a tongue depressor. But what I realized because the anatomy of the vagus nerve, as you said, it starts at the back of the head. And then it splits and whines around both sides. And it's actually most accessible and the thickest, kind of right here. Like if you touch behind your earlobe, on your master bone. It's like the width of a piano court there, you know, and it's smaller and other places. So that's why they actually do this kind of surgery, it's a little bit like a pacemaker surgery. And they implant an electrical device here, and then a battery down below me, it's pretty invasive. But you can use oils, oils are super stimulatory like clove, which has a million other benefits. And then lime has really small molecules, it's kind of like, you know, when you combine colors, you can take blue and red, put them together and you get purple, which is different than you can add white and make it lavender. You know, you can combine oils, and it kind of draws the best from both of them. So I created this blend, parasympathetic, that's clothing line. And what's super cool is, you know, you might not be able to deep breathe, you might struggle with meditation and fall asleep, but you can dab a little thing right here, you can carry this in your purse, this is a really easy thing to comply with. And then you feel better. You're like, Okay, I'm not constipated. Okay, my I don't feel bloated. Okay, I feel a little bit like calmer and less anxious. You know, and, as you know, like the supplements that people know, help them, like they feel less tired. They're really good at compliance. Once you figure out this is working for me, you're all in.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And it's a good replacement. For some people, they're they're already used to like reaching for a medication, well, let's try something a little bit more natural. That's going to have a good benefit. It's not going to have the side effects. And it's the least you know, good step to other healthy things. I imagine. Yes. What you're doing oils, you're probably now thinking about the food you're eating and other Yes, your habits too. So it kind of creates an awareness, I imagine as well.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, and definitely that cascade. Yeah. You know, it's like crawl before you walk, walk before you run. Yeah. Once you're like, Okay, I did that, like I used to in yoga. You know, sometimes these teachers would be so sneaky and suddenly you're doing like a handstand or headstand. And you're like, had no idea I could do that. What else can I do?
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Right? That's awesome. Very cool. Yeah, you have that parasympathetic lead, I think you say clove and lime. Is that true.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah. Yeah.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I would think like, you'd have maybe like a lavender or something like that. I'm just curious what your –
Jodi Cohen: Well, you know, originally, no, no, and a lot of people that's a great question. Originally, I was thinking like, Oh, it's parasympathetic. It should be sedated. You know, when oils like lavender Kammen meal. No, we know that they're all relaxing, you know, frankincense, even the resins? Yeah, um, but I realized that what it is, is you need to stimulate it. It's kind of like, if you think about, you know, the old cars, we actually have to manually shift gears is to do something active and energizing to kind of change lanes. So this stimulates the vagus nerve, and in stimulating it, it's like, oh, you know, I'm switching gears.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: And you're using that access point, with the nerves a little bit more superficial and more Yes, to get access to it.
Jodi Cohen: Exactly, exactly. And the other cool thing is, um, you know, there's a researcher out of tufts Michael Vanek, or talks about the vagus nerve infection hypothesis. And basically, it's this idea that the vagus nerve has such a broad depth and you know, it gets into your system everywhere. So any kind of small minor infection can basically the body can pick it up as you're infected, and it goes into like cell danger response or sickness response. So you get tired so you don't move chronic fatigue syndrome, you have pain so you don't move fibromyalgia. A lot of these things can be traced to an infection in the Vegas nerve and the most likely one of the doctors on the summit, Marco Rubio, he did this extensive research where he was taking ultrasounds of people's necks, and he was finding that often the Vegas nerve was infected there because, you know, we have all these toxins in our mouth that drain out and you know, and they're exacerbated if you have like metal amalgams or any kind of cavitation you know, that has been compromised your root canal. So think about, you know, congestion point a bottleneck. You have toxins draining along the trigeminal nerve, they intersect with the Vegas nerve, you know, the neck has the structure of the limb, the blood vessels, the nerves, you know, any kind of compromise if you know as a chiropractor if things Aren't flowing that can get congested. So the toxins accumulate here. clove actually has, it has this constituent called eugenol. And it's been used in dentistry for years because it does two things. It numbs the pain and it actually helps to address the underlying toxins. So if there is a toxicity or an infection, that's, you know, think of it like you're on an airplane, right? If you're in a row of seats, and you're in the middle row, and the people on either side of you are not petite people, you're not getting that armrest, you know, you're really compressed and congested. So if the Vegas nerve is congested, it's bumping into the vascular system, you're not getting the blood flow, it's bumping into the lymph, you're not getting the drainage. So anything you can do and Dr. Russo actually walks you through step by step, how they started to, you know, topically apply remedies to cause less congestion in the lymph and all of a sudden the Vegas nerve. You can see it in the pictures. It's kind of amazing. What kind of evidence was he doing his trials. He was using Christine sharpeners, he created their Sophia flow cream, which is a combination of essential oils and then other remedies. But what's interesting is that most people don't think about topically, you know, most people are kind of like have lymphie need to dry better shirt rebounder, you know that we don't really have anything for that. But we do. It's these topically applied remedies, we actually have a limp oil. It's a lot of menten and things that kind of help open up vasculature and drainage. And she uses some oils in her product too. They're both good, right? You know, it's kinda like you get out there, right? Yeah, exactly.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: There's a lot of ways you can skin a cat so to speak. Did you choose those oils? Was it your own clinical experience? Was it research that you saw? How did that?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, that's a good question. So the reason I got into nutrition was my own squirmy kid. You know, my first kid was super easy. I just assumed I was this great. Mom had another 120 minutes later.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I've seen that having two kids now I know exactly what you're talking about.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah. And he was just wild, a wild child. Like I really thought, like, you know, like, you have the parenting baby proof people come to your house. And they're like, and here's this oven lock, because some kids climb in the oven, you know, and with my first one is like, no, no kid, kid climbs in the oven. Oh, number two, you just like that, that I had that kid that did those things. And a friend noticed that he was being really well behaved. And then another mom handed out like a Ritz cracker and he Jekyll Hyde. And she said, You know, my brother was on Ritalin his whole life. And it turns out, he was just allergic to weird foods, you should check that out. I thought, I've done everything else, I can certainly do that. And we took them to nutritionist. She said he's really sensitive to corn, soy and dairy. So we changed his diet. And we had a different kid the next day. Wow. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, how did I not know this? So I went back and got a degree in nutrition was trying to work with other screaming kids. And I mean, you know, like, if they can't, if they're wiggling all over it, it's really hard to like, assess them. So I learned this technique called muscle testing, that's a really good way to kind of ask the body questions, and it's what I was doing in my practice to help identify what remedies were good for kids. And so when I first got introduced to oils, I was really, I have never been at this kind of rock bottom, like just so mentally and physically exhausted, like literally getting up to do anything felt like a strain. So, you know, someone gave me this box, and I'm so drained, I'm like, all right, I can muscle test. So basically, it's intuition I muscle test I, every we have a blueprint in the body, right? There's a blueprint for what healthy adrenal tissue is supposed to look like. And sometimes you do things and you don't really realize that's what you're doing. That's what I've been doing my practice the whole time is kind of identifying what organisms stress, and then using supplements to help return that organ to balance so it would function well. And so that was kind of the lens that I was looking through when I was making these formulas. So I was like, Alright, what what combination, you know, we humans have a blueprint. And plants also have blueprints. And humans and plants are bio familiar. So we share similar blueprints. So kind of like you can combine different colors to you know, match a picture in a landscape, you can combine different oils to match the blueprint of a healthy organ. So I was using intuition to come up with the formulation, you know, for a start, kind of identify this needs to be in it. And then I would play with what you know, 10% of this 20% of this, the different variables and then I have a team of people that kind of help me test it, and they test and then they can kind of mentally say like you We increase, you know, the Roman kameel from, you know, 12% to 13. So we're just constantly refining and tweaking it. And then I go and I research, you know, okay, why? Why does balsam of Peru, which is a resin that's drawn from these plants in you know, the Amazon in Peru and Brazil seem to help with sleep? What chemical constituents are present in this plant? Why is it working? And I would every single time be like, Oh, that makes complete sense. Why this is helping. And so that's, that's my process. It's a little bit nutty, but it always seems to work.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Interesting. And you know, I also, I'm just curious, though, with your son, what were the oils that really helped because one thing I like about oils with kids, is some kids don't want to swallow stuff. And they may be something in reverse, right? So it's hard to get them to do stuff. So you can kind of covertly put some on your fingers rub their behind their ears and kind of get it in their bloodstream. So I like that what oils that you found were the best on on Macs.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, so I definitely use parasympathetic. But you know, kids are so intuitive. Like, I think as we get older, we forget or we feel uncomfortable that you know, when the phone's ringing, we somehow know it's going to be our mother or, you know, we lose track of that. So with kids, I always kind of do a smell bar and I let them pick whatever they like best he loved orange. And orange is, you know, all of the citrus blends are really calming. And they also help with focus. And you know, a lot of them that are expensive, like Neroli and bergama. You know, those are kind of touted, but orange is super affordable, and kids love it. So he would like to smell that we'd have him do that before he did homework. You know, I give him a little foot rub before bed. But that was just I just let him pick it That was his favorite. But the ones that helped him the most. Definitely parasympathetic adrenal, because he'd get really wire you know, he was like a firecracker. He was always on. So just helping him to calm down. And then sometimes like liver because he, you know, he he inherited my ashkenazic liver, which is, you know, I think the reason that a lot of the traditional Jewish foods are like beets, borscht, chopped liver, you know, we eat all of the foods that we need so that our liver actually works because I think we have a little bit of a genetic detriment-
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: When you use that adrenal and liver, what would those oils be to support those organs?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, I have it all listed out on my site. But and actually in the I have a book coming out in March of 2016, that I'm going to share the recipes because with COVID It breaks my heart, you know, you really can't get anything into Australia these days. And it's super hard to get things to Europe and I and India and I have these people that are like I think my, my poor husband could really benefit and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm just going to give out the recipe.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's March 2021. Right?
Jodi Cohen: March 2021, March 16. It's an essential oils to boost the brain and heal the body.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Awesome. That's great. So what else can people do? We talked about parasympathetics. Right. We know the adrenal plays a major role and different things. Obviously, food nutrition can help with that. What are some things clinically they use? Yeah, clients or on the oil side that you see adrenals.
Jodi Cohen: So Titus, two, who's a colleague and a functional neurologist, which means that he is looking at what part of the brain You know, it was cute. At one point, I took my son to a functional neurologist, and he had all these little personality things that I thought were him, you know, like he couldn't walk a straight line to save his life. He would like what diagonal Walker, he would always spill stuff on himself, he had no spatial awareness. And it turns out, his left brain was much more dominant than his right hemisphere of the brain. So we have Dr. Robert millio, who really talks about using oils to kind of balance the hemispheres. And to kind of a quick parasympathetic trick Titus two talks about how anxiety and panic attacks is over activation of your right frontal lobe. And so to kind of calm and balance that you then activate the left frontal lobe, and that puts the two hemispheres in balance. And functional neurologists use essential oils a lot in their practice, because your your nose, your olfactory nerve, you know, number one goes directly to you know, sometimes in the body, the right brain controls the left body, your olfactory channels go directly to this frontal part. Yeah, exactly. So you can just smell something, you know, it can be anything you like, it can be lavender, it can be orange, it can be parasympathetic, you know, you can actually like dry breathing, plug one nostril, smell through the left nostril, that activates the left frontal lobe balances the brain, you feel less anxious. I anxiety is my thing. My daughter's thing too. I have panic attacks, I have all these things and that always helps you I basically, even if I'm walking my dog, this is in my pocket in case I need it. So that is my favorite quick fix.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: What about high levels of cortisol? Obviously, high levels of cortisol can cause anxiety, right? So you mentioned maybe that plays a big role. Anything you do to help with the high adrenaline or high cortisol state? Yeah, add any like nutrients in to kind of be supportive to those oils.
Jodi Cohen: I mean, there are tons of nutrients that are helpful. And you know, if you're able to digest like, there are a lot of adaptogenic herbs that I love, like ashwagandha rhodiola. But one thing that I've, I think that oils work like adaptogenic herbs, like one of the things, you know, I've done those 24 hour cortisol tests where you're spitting in the tube. And what I found is that it's not flatline. It's not like my cortisol level is either too high all the time or too low all the time. You know, it's too high at night when I'm trying to go to sleep and too low in the morning when I need energy. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. And you know, if you think about the nutrients that you can take the supplements, you kind of have to turn it right. You know, like, if you're already too high, and you're taking something that makes it higher, that's not going to be such a positive experience. So with oils, we have two blends. One is the adrenal blend that just kind of evens you out. If you're too high, it takes it down or too low brings you up, and then one for the hypothalamus. And this is something that most people don't talk about, they just assume that all cortisol is related to the adrenals, not realizing that it's a bit of a cascade, the hypothalamus, pituitary axis, your hypothalamus in your brain controls all your endocrine organs, it's constantly reading the environment and signals in your body to figure out how do we return it to balance you know, like, when you're driving, at one point, you might be a little too far to the left. So you just course correct, your hypothalamus is your course corrector. And it does that by sending chemical messages to kind of the COO, the one who executes your pituitary gland, which then sends message to your thyroid, your adrenals, all of your endocrine organs. So sometimes it's called this negative feedback loop, the hypothalamus sends these messages out, then messages come back. And it kind of course, corrects, like, oh, we're good on cortisol, we don't need more. And if the, you know, the hypothalamus is kind of overwhelmed, you know, like, my friend likes to say you can't move along when the house is on fire, you know, if there's so much going on, it can be like your phone, and it just doesn't get the right information and send things out. So we have a blend, it's hard to get things into the brain. I mean, that's the biggest challenge. And the biggest Aha, with oils, they're super small and fat soluble. So they cross the blood brain barrier. So we have one, it contains pine, which has a lot of research on it, but you just put it right here. And it's almost like it sends the right frequency, the right blueprint, whatever you want to call it, to return the hypothalamus to balance so that it's then sending better messages to the adrenal so that you're not so hyper cortisol or hyper cortisol.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's good. Excellent. Yeah. So you got your book coming out this March 16 2021, what's the book gonna be called?
Jodi Cohen: It's called “Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body.” And you can grab it on Amazon presale, Amazon pre sells anything, you know, you basically they match the best price ever. So if you if you're a bargain shopper, and we're actually going to have a gift card so that you can add a stocking stuffers so that if you want to buy the book, you know, we'll send you a little coupon that you can put into the stocking with like a deal on getting an oil like parasympathetic to go with it. It's great.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and your favorite so far as what parasympathetic.
Jodi Cohen: I love parasympathetic. And honestly, with everything that's going on, we have a blend called circulation that has a lot of Cyprus, I've found and a lot of clinicians have found like, if you're concerned about getting sick, Cyprus does a really wonderful job of kind of protecting the lung lining. So, you know, they talk about this current concern, it kind of happens in two phases, right? It either gets into the lungs and the lungs lining a solid and it doesn't go any further and it was a minor cold, or it gets into your system and causes a cytokine storm. So you kind of want to make sure that that bouncer at the gate of your lungs is really working well. And so the circulation oil, I just put over my lungs and also helps if I need to, I'm on deadline and I have to get something done. I put a little bit at the base of my skull, because that improves oxygen flow in the blood and when you have more blood and more oxygen flow, it's easier to focus.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Love that. That's awesome. Very cool. Well, any other clinical pearls so we have the parasympathetic summit, um, in that but other great speakers 50 Plus you said we'll put the link down below so if you guys are loving it, click down below make sure you register. We also got the link for Jodi's website, vibrantblueoils.com those are gonna be there for you as well. March 16 2021, we'll get the book up there pre presale Amazon like anything else. Go you know, listen to the show. Listen with?
Jodi Cohen: You know what's funny? Like we're about to come into Thanksgiving, holiday gratitude. And the fastest way that you can shift yourself into parasympathetic is mindset and gratitude. So if you're worried about what's going on in the world, just focus on what you're grateful for. It could be something as simple as the ability to move your body and to take a breath and to have you know, it's a gorgeous day here in Seattle to have a sunny sky, you know? Yep. So, you know, I guess I would just like to leave on that. Note that how you choose to experience the world is in your control, and you can always be grateful for things.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I like it. Yeah. When you need the world to kind of conform to the things that you want, then you tend to be like, let down yeah. When you can basically put your focus on the things that you want to appreciate, right? Yeah, in the driver's seat. So like, that's definitely an empowering.
Jodi Cohen: Yes. Yes. You always get to be you always are in control of how you feel and how you think.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well, thanks so much, Jody, head over to vibrantblueoils.com, parasympathetic summit links down below. Hope you guys enjoyed today's podcast. Have a good one. Jodi, great chatting with you.
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, so I definitely use parasympathetic. But you know, kids are so intuitive. Like, I think as we get older, we forget or we feel uncomfortable that you know, when the phone's ringing, we somehow know it's going to be our mother or, you know, we lose track of that. So with kids, I always kind of do a smell bar and I let them pick whatever they like best he loved orange. And orange is, you know, all of the citrus blends are really calming. And they also help with focus. And you know, a lot of them that are expensive, like Neroli and bergama. You know, those are kind of touted, but orange is super affordable, and kids love it. So he would like to smell that we'd have him do that before he did homework. You know, I give him a little foot rub before bed. But that was just I just let him pick it That was his favorite. But the ones that helped him the most. Definitely parasympathetic adrenal, because he'd get really wire you know, he was like a firecracker. He was always on. So just helping him to calm down. And then sometimes like liver because he, you know, he he inherited my ashkenazic liver, which is, you know, I think the reason that a lot of the traditional Jewish foods are like beets, borscht, chopped liver, you know, we eat all of the foods that we need so that our liver actually works because I think we have a little bit of a genetic detriment-
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: When you use that adrenal and liver, what would those oils be to support those organs?
Jodi Cohen: Yeah, I have it all listed out on my site. But and actually in the I have a book coming out in March of 2016, that I'm going to share the recipes because with COVID It breaks my heart, you know, you really can't get anything into Australia these days. And it's super hard to get things to Europe and I and India and I have these people that are like I think my, my poor husband could really benefit and I'm like, Oh my gosh, I'm just going to give out the recipe.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's March 2021. Right?
Jodi Cohen: March 2021, March 16. It's an essential oils to boost the brain and heal the body.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Awesome. That's great. So what else can people do? We talked about parasympathetics. Right. We know the adrenal is play a major role and different things. Obviously, food nutrition can help with that. What are some things clinically they use? Yeah, clients or on the oil side that you see adrenals.
Jodi Cohen: So Titus, two, who's a colleague and a functional neurologist, which means that he is looking at what part of the brain You know, it was cute. At one point, I took my son to a functional neurologist, and he had all these little personality things that I thought were him, you know, like he couldn't walk a straight line to save his life. He would like what diagonal Walker, he would always spill stuff on himself, he had no spatial awareness. And it turns out, his left brain was much more dominant than his right hemisphere of the brain. So we have Dr. Robert millio, who really talks about using oils to kind of balance the hemispheres. And to kind of a quick parasympathetic trick Titus two talks about how anxiety and panic attacks is over activation of your right frontal lobe. And so to kind of calm and balance that you then activate the left frontal lobe, and that puts the two hemispheres in balance. And functional neurologists use essential oils a lot in their practice, because your your nose, your olfactory nerve, you know, number one goes directly to you know, sometimes in the body, the right brain controls the left body, your olfactory channels go directly to this frontal part. Yeah, exactly. So you can just smell something, you know, it can be anything you like, it can be lavender, it can be orange, it can be parasympathetic, you know, you can actually like dry breathing, plug one nostril, smell through the left nostril, that activates the left frontal lobe balances the brain, you feel less anxious. I anxiety is my thing. My daughter's thing too. I have panic attacks, I have all these things and that always helps you I basically, even if I'm walking my dog, this is in my pocket in case I need it. So that is my favorite quick fix.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: What about high levels of cortisol? Obviously, high levels of cortisol can cause anxiety, right? So you mentioned maybe that plays a big role. Anything you do to help with the high adrenaline or high cortisol state? Yeah, add any like nutrients in to kind of be supportive to those oils.
Jodi Cohen: I mean, there are tons of nutrients that are helpful. And you know, if you're able to digest like, there are a lot of adaptogenic herbs that I love, like ashwagandha rhodiola. But one thing that I've, I think that oils work like adaptogenic herbs, like one of the things, you know, I've done those 24 hour cortisol tests where you're spitting in the tube. And what I found is that it's not flatline. It's not like my cortisol level is either too high all the time or too low all the time. You know, it's too high at night when I'm trying to go to sleep and too low in the morning when I need energy. Exactly, exactly. Yeah. And you know, if you think about the nutrients that you can take the supplements, you kind of have to turn it right. You know, like, if you're already too high, and you're taking something that makes it higher, that's not going to be such a positive experience. So with oils, we have two blends. One is the adrenal blend that just kind of evens you out. If you're too high, it takes it down or too low brings you up, and then one for the hypothalamus. And this is something that most people don't talk about, they just assume that all cortisol is related to the adrenals, not realizing that it's a bit of a cascade, the hypothalamus, pituitary axis, your hypothalamus in your brain controls all your endocrine organs, it's constantly reading the environment and signals in your body to figure out how do we return it to balance you know, like, when you're driving, at one point, you might be a little too far to the left. So you just course correct, your hypothalamus is your course corrector. And it does that by sending chemical messages to kind of the COO, the one who executes your pituitary gland, which then sends message to your thyroid, your adrenals, all of your endocrine organs. So sometimes it's called this negative feedback loop, the hypothalamus sends these messages out, then messages come back. And it kind of course, corrects, like, oh, we're good on cortisol, we don't need more. And if the, you know, the hypothalamus is kind of overwhelmed, you know, like, my friend likes to say you can't move along when the house is on fire, you know, if there's so much going on, it can be like your phone, and it just doesn't get the right information and send things out. So we have a blend, it's hard to get things into the brain. I mean, that's the biggest challenge. And the biggest Aha, with oils, they're super small and fat soluble. So they cross the blood brain barrier. So we have one, it contains pine, which has a lot of research on it, but you just put it right here. And it's almost like it sends the right frequency, the right blueprint, whatever you want to call it, to return the hypothalamus to balance so that it's then sending better messages to the adrenal so that you're not so hyper cortisol or hyper cortisol.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: That's good. Excellent. Yeah. So you got your book coming out this March 16 2021, what's the book gonna be called?
Jodi Cohen: It's called “Essential Oils to Boost the Brain and Heal the Body.” And you can grab it on Amazon presale, Amazon pre sells anything, you know, you basically they match the best price ever. So if you if you're a bargain shopper, and we're actually going to have a gift card so that you can add a stocking stuffers so that if you want to buy the book, you know, we'll send you a little coupon that you can put into the stocking with like a deal on getting an oil like parasympathetic to go with it. It's great.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Yeah, and your favorite so far as what parasympathetic.
Jodi Cohen: I love parasympathetic. And honestly, with everything that's going on, we have a blend called circulation that has a lot of Cyprus, I've found and a lot of clinicians have found like, if you're concerned about getting sick, Cyprus does a really wonderful job of kind of protecting the lung lining. So, you know, they talk about this current concern, it kind of happens in two phases, right? It either gets into the lungs and the lungs lining a solid and it doesn't go any further and it was a minor cold, or it gets into your system and causes a cytokine storm. So you kind of want to make sure that that bouncer at the gate of your lungs is really working well. And so the circulation oil, I just put over my lungs and also helps if I need to, I'm on deadline and I have to get something done. I put a little bit at the base of my skull, because that improves oxygen flow in the blood and when you have more blood and more oxygen flow, it's easier to focus.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Love that. That's awesome. Very cool. Well, any other clinical pearls so we have the parasympathetic summit, um, in that but other great speakers 50 Plus you said we'll put the link down below so if you guys are loving it, click down below make sure you register. We also got the link for Jodi's website, vibrantblueoils.com those are gonna be there for you as well. March 16 2021, we'll get the book up there pre presale Amazon like anything else. Go you know, listen to the show. Listen with?
Jodi Cohen: You know what's funny? Like we're about to come into Thanksgiving, holiday gratitude. And the fastest way that you can shift yourself into parasympathetic is mindset and gratitude. So if you're worried about what's going on in the world, just focus on what you're grateful for. It could be something as simple as the ability to move your body and to take a breath and to have you know, it's a gorgeous day here in Seattle to have a sunny sky, you know? Yep. So, you know, I guess I would just like to leave on that. Note that how you choose to experience the world is in your control, and you can always be grateful for things.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: I like it. Yeah. When you need the world to kind of conform to the things that you want, then you tend to be like, let down yeah. When you can basically put your focus on the things that you want to appreciate, right? Yeah, in the driver's seat. So like, that's definitely an empowering.
Jodi Cohen: Yes. Yes. You always get to be you always are in control of how you feel and how you think.
Dr. Justin Marchegiani: Well, thanks so much, Jody, head over to vibrantblueoils.com, parasympathetic summit links down below. Hope you guys enjoyed today's podcast. Have a good one. Jodi, great chatting with you.
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