 to physical therapy for a better life. I'm your host, Christine Lenders, physical therapist and board certified orthopedic clinical specialist. I am excited to introduce you to my friend, Roberta Hobert, who is a wellness advocate and essential oil specialist and she is going to tell us and explain to us and enlighten us about some of the marvelous benefits of essential oils. Welcome, Roberta. Thank you, Christine. I am so excited to be here. That's the kind of opportunity that wellness advocates look for daily, a chance to bring what, you know, ancient times have taught us, you know, health through plan. So I'm very pleased to be here. Thank you so much. Okay, so essential oils. So I have had this knowledge of essential oils and like kind of had my fingers in, but I leave it to you specialists to know all the research of like how to do everything, but I've been using them for a couple of years now, little bits, pieces in here and I, and I love essential oils and I know that when we play volleyball together, I got stung by a bee and you gave me like, say peppermint or something and it made the sting go away and I get some serious skin reactions from them and then we're playing and you were taking something else or smelling something and playing like an Olympian. And I just am so fascinated that I, you know, we met the other day and I was like, I want to order this. I have really bad allergies. I want to order this. My friend was having me put lavender on my feet before sleep and I love natural stuff and how, how does all this essential oils, these natural plants help to support our bodies or like, how does it work in our system enlighten us? Yeah, it's a very simple answer to that. You know, we're natural, right? So we have the natural compounds that come in essential oils that interact perfectly with our bodies. So let's start like with the beginning. So what are the essential oils, right? So they're like compounds extracted from plants. It could be roots, trees, leaves. And each compound has its unique characteristic. So there's tiny text in the plant that protect the plants from viruses, bacteria, you know, seasonal traps. And that's what we extracted from the plants to use, to help us in this lifestyle. That's what I call, you know, so, so that that's a little bit of essential oils. And so why do teres so special? Because they source where the plant is, where it's the plant most tribes. Like, of course, we can plant pineapple and I don't know, like Peru, but the pineapples they're most happy in Hawaii. So when we do this kind of things, we change the chemical profile of the plant. So that's why the teres so special. They came and they want to learn from the most knowledgeable people, which are the people who work in these farms for centuries. And they go to each country where the plants are happy to extract those oils. And there's this thing called CTPG, which is a guarantee that these oils, they are beyond organic. They don't have heavy metals, pesticides. And this is done through a third party. So Terra runs its own test, but it's also done by third party. So that's why when you think about, we're like talking about wellness industry. This has been growing greatly lately, especially after, you know, these past few years that what we had to deal with, you know, so just thinking that you can trust something, you know, because you see essential oils in every shelf, you see a Ross and and then you compare, you know, the price of one and the other. And then you're like, why is it her value? It's later, right? I don't say it's expensive because, you know, when you're talking about your health, you want the best for your health. So what happens when we what do we do, you know, to extract the essential oil, we take out the essential oil from the plants. And each plants have like some plants have like, like willow tree, where aspirin was inspired from. Yes, it came from from from the willow tree. So what they do, they isolate one or two chemical compounds in the plant. And they make in a lab a synthetic drug. So all the drugs that we see out there, they are inspired on this chemical compounds that come from plants. So why not go to plants as our first, you know, choice? First, I'm not against like, you know, synthetic meds. But I think we are used to popping pills, popping pills, popping pills, popping pills, a little headache, popping pills, like you're popping pills, like you're mentioning about what do I do when I'm like playing stuff, you know? And I take in peppermint. Peppermint also helped me with my headache. I used to be a preschool teacher, like for many years. And I love the kids, the profession and everything. But it was very stimulating, you know, for me, like the sounds and stuff. So I used to have headaches practically daily and taking ibuprofen. And you don't want that toxic load to just sit in your body. So what I started doing, peppermint for headache, just applying over here, a little bit on your neck. And it's like nature just pulls out the headache from you. So you're using this for volleyball too, right? You were using something while we were playing volleyball. What were you using? Peppermint. Well, besides a bunch of other oils that I carry on my little pouch, you guys probably see, oh my gosh, it goes through that pouch all the time. So peppermint, for me, for volleyball, if I inhale, well, that's basically for anyone. If you put a drop of peppermint and you inhale deeply, for 30 seconds, it's going to help open your airways. And it's a boost of energy. Even if you don't do coffee, but you need that that charge, that's what happens. And then internally, same thing, it kind of acts on your muscular system. It seems like I'm more ready to go. It's just a little, especially on practices, yeah, because it's like go, go, go. Because when we're playing, we play longer, but we have little breaks, but then practice is like go, go, go, right. So that's why I'm like, every time we go to drink water, I pop like a little beadlet, which is like a quarter of a drop inside that little stack. I just put it in my mouth, I pop it, and then I'm able to stick longer, you know, with the intense activity. Well, I could see that. And I want, I want that for myself, you know, anything that we can do to help improve or support our system, like to allow ourselves to, I think, function better, or not even better, but to function optimally, like how about that? How about to sleep well, to function optimally, to think more clearly, like to our biggest potential. I know so many of us, like with the pandemic and everything, struggle with stress and sleep disturbances and being more tired, like I say it, I hear it all the time, I'm tired, I feel listless, I'm not sure what's going on, you know, and we kind of were in like a two year of a haze and now we're breaking out into our haze and we want to have this like vitality that I see you have when you're helping yourself with these essential oils. It's infectious, it's a lifestyle, right? It's a lifestyle that I crave to be back into, like post pandemic, so to speak, like I crave that wellness, I crave feeling my, my best, doesn't it be perfect, but I want to feel my best, I want to optimize my potential, you know? Definitely, and it's simple. Usually, like we, like for these things that you just shared that you want to improve, it's very, very simple, you know, we can help people with all kinds of things, but like sleep, lack of sleep affects us tremendously, like in all areas, right? So even when you are like, for me, if I, I'm tired, I lay down and I've been in this lifestyle for four years, so I think, you know, things like the more you stick to it becomes your, your body responds better to it, you know, your, your mind kind of changes. So I, I am tired, I sleep like for eight hours, nine hours easily. However, for the quality restorative sleep, I just like a drop of either lavender, I'm going to stay with the basic oils, but there's like tons of options that you can use if you, if you don't like to smell lavender, you know, there's cedar wood, there's vertebrae, there's a bunch of other options for you. So you just inhale or you can spray in your pillow and your sleep is going to be more restorative. So I do that, engaging this kind of stuff. And then in the same token, like lavender, like today I was making a waffle, I burned my hand and then I put a little lavender, there's not a blister or anything, it's just, you know, the pain is gone and there's no blister. So, wow, you know, sleep, skin, there are so many options with the oils. Anxiety to lavender is great for, for people who are anxious and, you know, focused rosemary, lemon. We kind of talked about that, you know, the other day and even like the lemon for detox. Oh yeah. I just put a drop in my first water of the day, you know, before eating anything, just, and it's simple. It's like, you know, you're traveling, you know, you're not going to carry a lemon in your purse, you know, it's right there. So yeah, it's amazing like how endless options and benefits that you can get, you know, just by carrying like, we call it like a mini pharmacy, you know. So it's like about 10 oils that you just carry with you wherever you go and you're able to help. Like I did that day, you know, you got stung and, you know, my daughter, we were camping. She got the Portuguese men of war all wrapped up in her arm and then lavender and tea tree and then the burn is gone. And so, yeah, it's just, it's very exciting. You see, if you have like a sore throat, you can apply on your, on this area. There are three ways to use essential oils. So first, aromatically, that's what we, and I already talked a lot about, the linda sticks, them, the seed of emotions, you know, sometimes you smell like a tree, you know, it kind of brings you to the past like Trigroma's house or very responsive, right, that aromatically. And then you can do it topically. Just, you know, on the skin, usually we put on the bottom of the feet because the pores in the bottom of the feet, they're very large. So the absorption is good. Also, behind the ear, lymph nodes and wrist or pressure points, you know, even like the inside of your ankle and things like that. So, and internally. So, some essential oils are not, not because of the quality or it's just the type of the tree, they're not okay for consumption, like for internal use. But, and I'm talking doTERRA, oh yeah, I don't know about any other, like that's all, that's all I've known so far, it's like doTERRA. So like when you do kind of things like engage with the natural remedies and, you know, the topical use and that comes, I'm going to tie that to other things too, you know. So, 22 seconds, it takes for the molecules of the essential oils penetrate your body. Yeah. And then it goes to your brain. In 20 minutes, all the molecules, they go to every cell in your body. So think of them. So we use shampoo, soap, lotion. And so everything is absorbed from our skin and goes into our cells. What is the idea of the movement? Bring to your house products that are with less toxicity, because you don't want to overload your endocrine system and things like that. So that's the whole idea of the movement, you know, like you start thinking about your toothpaste, your shampoo, your soap, because we interact with these products daily, right? Even like the how you clean your house, the products you use to clean your house. So like on guard, for instance, I don't have it here, but it's like the immunity blend. Yeah. And that blend, we sold like so much of it during the pandemic. Actually, the company grew like crazy during those times, because people had time to learn. Yeah. They had, you know, and they needed, right? Who wasn't freaking out about everything that was happening. Yeah. So, but that same product I used to clean my kitchen counter. I put in the water to mop the floor. And there's there are studies. I know you love the support, right? The scientific support. There are studies that they put Clorox and Ongard in the same surface. Ongard kept the surface away from bacteria and things like that for longer than Clorox. So isn't that amazing? And you're not, like, being exposed to all that toxic load, you know? You're blowing my mind with everything you're saying because I almost want to go back. Ongard for sure. We have been using that to clean the clinics through the pandemic. And at first, I was like, Oh my gosh, don't we need to use something heavier? But we have kept this clinic perfectly sanitized during this whole pandemic. And what was the other thing that you said? You're talking about like the soaps that we use on our bodies, the things that we clean their houses. This morning, I was on a call with someone and they were saying how you need to like have people in your life that love you back and eat vegetables that love you back, consume foods that love you back. And when you think of it that way, use remedies, vitamins, oils, things that love you back. And these things that are supporting our well-being, use cleaners that love you back, right? There's no toxic there. They're not harming you. They're loving you back. And I, when you said that, I just thought of this morning and how it is so true how we look at things, the lifestyle of essential oils and natural healing is we're using plants that love us back, meaning we're using things that are helping to help our system to be its best. I think that's amazing. Yeah, I heard those couple of things and I was like, I can't believe it. Like the light bulbs are going off in my head. Yeah, it's very empowering, empowering, right? And why you don't find these essential oils in shelves? It's because we want to give people power to make choices. We want to build communities like we are here. And, you know, it's just like about essential oils, plants, they've been around for a very long time. It's there's like in the Bible, you hear like Jesus was gifted mirror and frankincense, you know, like Cleopatra helped me across that. Yeah, so she was like one of the most beautiful women in history and they found like huge plantations of frankincense, you know, her property. That was like her secret for beauty, for skin. Well, I mean, there's a lot of and then why we lost that contact, you know, for companies and it's great. It's a great to have other options and stuff. But first, let's try this. That's what I suggest to people when the reason why I started with essential oils was because of my daughter, like she was seven years old. She had respiratory problems like Benadryl weekly because she was always congested and she would get sick often. And so she had to take three medications like daily. And then to me, I was like, but it's not improving. Well, what's happening here? How about her little, you know, filtration organ, her liver, everything, you know, to deal with the heavy load and started taking on guard, like boosting her immune system and then applying having her like male inhale, breathe, diffuse in the house, put on her spine and the bottom of her feet before and after school. And nowadays she hardly gets sick. It's been, you know, yeah. So it's like when you when you use high quality essential oils, you're providing tools to your body to to combat like threats and you're not building resistance. A lot of times when you, you know, when you go to a doctor, you have an infection, ear infection. Oh, take this and type out. Oh, you took this the last time. So let's change. Oh, yeah. Because it builds resistance. It doesn't work as well. You know, yeah. There's a thing about the essential oils, like if you look at the cellular level, you know, like how the outside of the cell, it's oily. So and then we're talking about essential oils. So we penetrate, it works inside the cell. So that's why when you go to a doctor and they go, oh, it's a virus, we cannot do anything, just go home and rest. It's not like that with essential oils, because the essential oils, they penetrate the cell. They go inside the cell and then the bacteria are usually outside of the cell. Yeah. So, yeah. But a lot of great things about, you know, having these things, like you don't, you don't need to be like crazy like I am. You being in my house and they are everywhere. It's amazing. However, you know, having just a few and starting that, building that intimacy with it. Yeah. It's amazing. I just want to tell you, though, that coming into your house, I already was eating healthier and feeling and feeling, you know, like I talk about self care and how, you know, we all have our path in life and you go through rough times and you go through good times and you kind of get shifted a little bit from your, your path maybe. And, and so you want to get back on that path. And I remember when I came over the other day, just being surrounded in that lifestyle. And, and I've been, I'm craving, getting back to it, right? I've been craving, getting back to it for years since I started moving around and getting a little more unsettled. And I already was eating healthier and feeling like, fueling my body better just from being around it. And so I think it's so important for people to hear that there's these things out there for us to, to support ourselves. And like, how could someone get in touch with you or how could they learn more about it? If they wanted to, if they're like me, like, okay, get me started. I want to, I bought the thing for my allergies because I take Xurtec just every day and, and I, I want to support my body better like your daughter. And so let my own immune system do it instead of putting a pill that stops the histamine reaction. You know what I mean? So that my nose doesn't get all congested. But how can someone, if they're like, Oh my gosh, I have to talk to Roberta. I want to, I want to find out how I can add essential oils in my life. Like maybe they need like allergy something or maybe they're not sleeping well and, but they don't like lavender. How can they get in touch with you or find you? Okay. So either through Instagram, I have a page in Instagram. Okay. It's mostly in Portuguese, like the posts that I, that I do there, but I'm, I'm trying to improve that, you know, bring some more things in English. Also, I do have a website it's doterra slash Roberta Robert. Okay. So you can go there and it kind of, it'll bring you to straight to my website. Okay. Or you can give me a call, you know, because what I like to do is to have this conversation, like how can I help you? What is the major things that you want to improve in your life with it? It's good to, because each person is different, right? Like, for you, you, you're like, Oh, the multivitamins. I'm like, Yeah, that's the number one thing in the area, you know, because we do follow that pyramid of wellness and, you know, it's just, it's not all about essential oils. essential oils are a vehicle to the lifestyle, because of that response, the emotional response is something like that you feel immediately, immediately. But, you know, the, the supplements, the science behind also, like I, the co-impact that that was one of the things that kind of, I don't know if we have much time, but that kind of touched my heart, like deeply was that work of going into like developing countries, mostly of the places that we bring our oils are like countries that are not as fortunate as we are. And so the terror kind of cut the middle man in between. So they work directly with these producers and those communities like building hospitals, schools, bringing water, like drinkable water. So that, that's the, you know, where like, I'm like, I, I, I want to align myself with something greater than, you know, we can, we can reach so much through the company that yeah, it's amazing. So give me a call or send me a message, message on Instagram. What's your phone number? 808-330-3707. Okay. And your Instagram was tell me again. Roberta underscore Robert underscore. Okay. Now that's great. I know we should talk a little bit more next time. I think we have like a minute or so left, but maybe just a minute and about the whole bringing it into different countries and different situations. Like I know you mentioned hospitals during the pandemic and high stress areas that they're bringing essential oils and corporations for the workers to kind of keep that sense of common wellbeing while they're working so hard. And I think that is really amazing. I know it's a whole different show and hopefully you'll come back and be with us. Definitely. I would love to, to share more. That's, that's where my heart is. And I think I found like a way to, to bring something good to people's life, you know, like using the, the, the heart of the company and the products and everything is like, it's just amazing. You should come to convention with me one of these days. I'll come next time. I would love to. I would love to. Oh my gosh. Well, we have to wrap it up. Roberta, thank you so much for coming on and sharing your wisdom. I learned so much more actually listening to you today too. And thanks to Think Tech Hawaii and all the producers and sponsors for allowing us to be here today. Life is better when you're a physical therapist. Aloha everyone. Thank you so much for watching Think Tech Hawaii. If you like what we do, please like us and click the subscribe button on YouTube and the follow button on Vimeo. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn and donate to us at thinktech Hawaii.com. Mahalo.