Hair loss can occur for a variety of reasons, ranging from imbalanced hormones and stress to chemical damage to seemingly genetic factors. Fortunately, there is a chance you can stop hair loss and potentially regenerate new hair with essential oils and scalp massage.


Many of our Optimal Health Network clients struggle with hair loss, so we decided to see if we could stop hair loss and regenerate new hair.

Optimal Health Network Hair Regeneration Oil Blend Recipe:

• cedarwood essential oil
• thyme essential oil
• rosemary essential oil
• lavender essential oil
• carrier oil such as jojoba, grapeseed, or coconut

As explained in the video above, here's how to use this recipe:

• Either use a small glass oil dispenser jar and mix a large batch for future use or mix enough for a single use in a small bowl (use a total of 8-10 drops of essential oil blend per scalp massage).
• Combine the desired amount of essential oil blend with ¼ that amount of the carrier oil (for a 4:1 ratio). For example, if you mix a single use with 8-10 drops, you should add 2-3 drops of base oil. If you mix a larger quantity of 100 drops, add roughly 25 drops of the base oil. NOTE: Most base oils are difficult to measure in drop quantity, so an estimate is fine. Also, coconut oil may need to be heated and melted before mixing and before each use if it is kept at a low enough temperature.
• Shake or the oils together to mix the recipe. If mixing single use in a bowl, use fingers to mix and apply directly to scalp.
• Always mix essential oils with a carrier oil. Undiluted essential oils are too harsh on the scalp.
• Apply the essential oil recipe to the scalp when the hair is dry for the best distribution.
• Massage oil into small section at a time. Dip fingers into the oil mixture at the beginning of each section and when they become dry. (For detailed instructions and demonstration, watch the above video.)

As shown in the scientific study, this process is not guaranteed to work for everyone or for all types of hair loss. If you do not notice slowed hair loss and/or increased new hair growth within 3 months, consider a consultation with Kristina Amelong. Hair grows in three different cycles: anagen, catagen, and telogen. These hair growth cycles don't work well with hormone imbalance. Standard Process's Symplex F and protomorphogens and MediHerb's liquid herbs like Ashwaganda and Rehmannia, along with a therapeutic colon cleanse program, will help to balance your overall hormonal levels - pituitary, hypothalamus, progesterone, estrogen, etc - which all play a role in the hair cycle.

Labels: alopecia areata, baldness, colon cleanse, essential oils, hair loss, hair regeneration, hormone imbalance, stress

Lately, I've felt stressed out, overwhelmed, easily triggered into a deep sense of dread by tasks that I usually handle easily -- answering the work phone, making lunch for my daughter, doing the dishes after a full day -- all simple, often meditative tasks. I would try to remind myself to breathe more deeply or of how much I love this work of life -- helping people, parenting, keeping a house; but, I couldn’t shake the overwhelm.

Now, after five days on Lake Superior, I can reflect that I needed time away to do nothing. I hadn't had more than a few sustained hours away from work for over a year. Yes, I love my work and life, so I often do not get the feeling that I need a vacation, but my mind and soul were craving other things.

When time away on Lake Superior emerged as a possibility, I found it surprisingly easy to cover my responsibilities.

My partner and I jumped into my black Prius, packed up our kombuchas, sardines, wintergreen essential oil, pocket knife, and iPhones, and left Madison. Six hours later, we arrived on the shores of the immense lake, near the Devils Island sandstone sea caves in Cornucopia, Wisconsin -- with nothing to do.

What did I find? Simple beauty: the beauty of my toes meeting the lake as the surf came in and left, came in and left; the beauty of an aquamarine bug I'd never seen before crawling on my hand; of nothingness; of light meeting sand; of a daddy longlegs scurrying across a stone sculpture. I also found memory and transformation. I remembered when, as a child, I would pull those towering, thread-like legs off the beautiful brown body and I felt horrified, horrified that I could add to the suffering of the world. I shivered, and moved on, pleased at the changes in myself. Later that day, I found an amber moon, setting on the eastern horizon of the lake, becoming a glowing tooth and then dropping down to a pinpoint of light. Moon on Lake Superior. I had never seen the moon set in this way. Then, in turn, the Perseid meteor shower. Not even planned. (How did that happen?) Then, the Northern Lights, all in one night, as we sat on a deserted beach next to our campfire.

I like this thing called life.

Sometimes, in these pages, I find it challenging to really share the depth of healing that I'd like for everyone. Yes, enemas work. Daily, I answer the phone or read the emails and find the joy of a story that someone's life has been profoundly improved. Here is one such story I've recently been honored to hear:


I wrote back:


Bob replied:


Yes, I teach people how to colon cleanse, how to relieve physical suffering, how to enhance their lives with an enema, how to feel better. And, I'd like to continue to grow this colon cleanse website to its full potential as a healing resource, to share within its pages the millions of ways there are to restore a body, a heart, and a soul. Yes, the enema, even daily, can restore a life and thus sometimes a soul, like time to do nothing but notice existence on a vacation on Lake Superior. How else do we restore, and grow, the many facets of our lives? Here are a few ideas. If you find time, please share your own journey.

Labels: beauty, colon cancer, colon cleansing, enemas, escape, essential oils, meditation, nature, stress

SOURCE: Ten Days to Optimal Health (Amelong 2006)

Labels: Fibromyalgia, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, stress

by Stephanie Carnes
OHN Contributor

Over 30 million women and 15 million men suffer from low thyroid function caused from environmental toxins, heavy metals, stress, inflammation, and nutritional deficiencies. There are many factors to consider in treating this hormonal problem. Detoxification and diet are key aspects to be considered when looking to boost low thyroid and metabolism.

Labels: detoxification, diet and lifestyle, inflammation, metabolism, stress, thyroid

When discussing how to use herbs to build up your vital energy so that stress isn't tearing you down each and every day, we need to discuss adaptogens. Simply, an adaptogen is a substance that helps you adjust to stress. How do adaptogens work? Adaptogens work by normalizing body functions and strengthen systems compromised by stress; they are reported to have a protective effect on health against a wide variety of environmental assaults and emotional conditions, while they conserve energy within the body. The best effects of an adaptogen will only follow with continual use; taking an adaptogen is like putting a dollar in the bank each day.

In his well-known book, Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers: An Updated Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases and Coping (Freeman 1994, second edition 1998), for example, Sapolsky examines how prolonged stress can cause or contribute to damaging physical and mental afflictions. His lab was among the first to document that stress can damage the neurons of the hippocampus.

At the Optimal Health Center, we work with a tool called the Adrenal Stress Index test, which continually points to stress as a cornerstone of most of the health imbalances that people come to the clinic to resolve. With the individual results of the ASI, we will recommend a variety of adaptogens - eleuthero, licorice, panax ginseng, rhodiola, and ashwaganda.

Labels: adaptogen, Freeman, general adaptation syndrome, ginseng, herbs, IBS, Kerry Bone, low blood sugar, stress, weight issues, whole body medicines