Natural Vitality Therapies

06/06/2025

Tangerine EO significantly inhibited A. actinomycetemcomitans—a bacterium well-known for its role in periodontal disease, particularly localized aggressive periodontitis—without being toxic to human gingival fibroblasts (the most abundant cell type in gum tissue surrounding the teeth). The oil also exhibited significant antioxidant activity in the DPPH assay. The results of the study suggest that tangerine EO is a promising natural solution to promote oral health.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11970901/

27/05/2025

27/05/2025

A preclinical study evaluated whether bergamot EO could protect against heavy-metal (cadmium, mercury, and lead) induced toxicity caused by oxidative stress in brain cells. Testing bergamot EO on human brain cells in a lab setting showed that the oil reduced damage and the harmful effects of all three heavy metals, with the most pronounced effects seen against cadmium neurotoxicity. This suggests that BEO might be useful in preventing or reducing the brain damage caused by heavy metals (including oxidative stress, which plays a significant role in neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s disease), particularly cadmium.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12024135/

10/04/2025

Mental health is no joke!! Book into a Mental Health First Aid course if this video makes you wish you knew how to help.

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15/01/2025

You are never too late, too old, or too far behind. No matter how long it takes, what’s meant for you will always find its way to you💯

15/01/2025

Hold space for yourself!!

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Ernest Hemingway once wrote: "The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep going, no matter how shattered I feel inside."

This truth is both raw and universal. Life doesn’t pause when our hearts are heavy, our minds are fractured, or our spirits feel like they’re unraveling. It keeps moving—unrelenting, unapologetic—demanding that we move with it. There’s no time to stop, no pause for repair, no moment of stillness where we can gently piece ourselves back together. The world doesn’t wait, even when we need it to.

What makes this even harder is that no one really prepares us for it. As children, we grow up on a steady diet of stories filled with happy endings, tales of redemption and triumph where everything always falls into place. But adulthood strips away those comforting narratives. Instead, it reveals a harsh truth: survival isn’t glamorous or inspiring most of the time. It’s wearing a mask of strength when you’re falling apart inside. It’s showing up when all you want is to retreat. It’s choosing to move forward, step by painful step, when your heart begs for rest.

And yet, we endure. That’s the miracle of being human—we endure. Somewhere in the depths of our pain, we find reserves of strength we didn’t know we possessed. We learn to hold space for ourselves, to be the comfort we crave, to whisper words of hope when no one else does. Over time, we realize that resilience isn’t loud or grandiose; it’s a quiet defiance, a refusal to let life’s weight crush us entirely.

Yes, it’s messy. Yes, it’s exhausting. And yes, there are days when it feels almost impossible to take another step. But even then, we move forward. Each tiny step is proof of our resilience, a reminder that even in our darkest moments, we’re still fighting, still refusing to give up. That fight—that courage—is the quiet miracle of survival.

What’s the hardest lesson you’ve had to learn as an adult, and how has it shaped who you are today?

23/07/2024

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We tend to focus on autopilot the negative or fearful things in our lives.

04/06/2024

04/06/2024

04/06/2024

Alcohol exerts profound negative effects on the brain, including dehydration, neurotransmitter imbalance, and dysregulated neural circuits. When individuals abruptly stop drinking alcohol, their brains undergo adaptations to recalibrate and restore homeostasis. This period of adjustment involves neurobiological changes that may trigger depressive symptoms. Inhalation of lavender essential oil—2.5% or 5% concentration, twice daily for 20 minutes—improved gut and brain health in subjects experiencing depressive-like symptoms after alcohol withdrawal. While alcohol disrupted the gut microbiome, reducing Bacteroidota and Muribaculaceae species in the gut, inhalation of lavender oil significantly increased the relative abundance of Muribaculaceae and other bacterial species, improving the overall gut microbiome. Additionally, lavender oil significantly reduced brain (hippocampal) inflammatory factors (IL-2, IL-6, IL-1β, and TNF-α) and improved the abnormal expression of Trpv4 and Calml4—genes involved in an inflammatory cascade that leads to cellular damage, dysfunction, and death—in the hippocampal region of the brain. The results suggest that simply inhaling lavender can restore altered brain and gut health by reducing brain inflammation, improving the gut microbiome, and alleviating depressive-like behaviors, therefore helping individuals as they quit drinking alcohol.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332224007194

15/03/2024

Peppermint essential oil provides more than a pleasing aroma. Previous clinical research showed that it helps improve accuracy while performing tasks. A laboratory study recently found that it inhibits acetylcholinesterase and butyrylcholinesterase (comparable to the standard drug galantamine in AChE and more active in BChE), suggesting it may help preserve memory and cognition.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9818812/

15/03/2024

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