Essential Oils with Dr. Ann Huntington

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I am Dr. Diana Mercado. Marmarosh. I'm a family medicine physician practicing in rural Texas. I used to be hindered by my adhd, but I now. See it as a gift that helps me show up as a person. I was always meant to be both

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Hello. I am so excited to be chatting with you guys today about a really cool topic that most of us might not be aware about. And so it's, you're in for an amazing treat. Today we are gonna be talking about essential. Oils, and I want to introduce you. A real close friend of mine, Dr.

Ann Huntington. She's actually a physician. She's an internal medicine trained hospitalist medicine physician, and she's also a fellow of the American College of Physicians. And she. She's been very busy during this pandemic. She has lots of expertise in quality, patient safety, peer review, privileging and credentialing.

And she was actually the director, medical director of over 50 hospitalists. And she was able to successfully lead them through this pandemic and help all the patients and her colleagues. She really believed in lifestyle. And she thinks that this is the foundation to medical care and integrative medicine.

And she is actually the founder and c e o of give more Naturally it's l C and it All about essential oils, and she's launching an unbranded C m E course for physicians on the safety and research of essential oils as an integrative tool. So she's gonna tell us all about how she got into this area and if there's any tools or tips that might be helpful for focusing or for improving our mental health.

So I'm super excited about today's. So Dr. Huntington, as I've always, everybody probably already heard it in my intro, but you and I are having a conversation as two colleagues, but these are just our opinions, right? These are not meant to be Taken as we are their physician.

So they have to go talk to their own physicians and figure out whether this is for them. But anyways, Dr. Huntington, tell me how you got into this essential

Dr. Ann Huntington: oils. Thank you and thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Thanks for that introduction. I guess I'll go backwards to my outpatient practice for about seven years after I finished residency, I was an outpatient doc, primary care internal medicine doc.

And then I also did inpatient medicine as well, a hybrid role and As I got into that role, I realized there were so many things that I wish I could do that I just didn't have all the tools for. I could certainly help people control their chronic diseases, very complex situations, and, get tight control of their diabetes and their hypertension and really help them.

But I started delving into lifestyle medicine and as many people know and our listeners will know, lifestyle medicine is really the status and practice, study and practice of medicine through a healthy lifestyle. So through whole food, plant-based medicine whole food, plant-based diet, regular exercise, appropriate sleep and stress management, and reducing toxins and healthy relationships, and all of those t