Ben Greenfield explains why ingesting essential oils is risky: three drops equals about 60 cups of peppermint tea. He shows a safer method: place a drop on your tongue or throat and inhale to absorb it through your lungs instead.
120 milligrams (three drops × ~40 mg per drop).
Approximately 60 cups of peppermint tea.
Placing a drop on the tongue or back of the throat and inhaling so the oil reaches the alveoli for rapid bloodstream absorption.
If you're using essential oils orally, and let's say a person is dropping them directly in their mouth, which I don't do. I'm not suggesting to do. And this is part of the reason why I created these tincture formulations. You know, if you get three drops and you're averaging 40 milligrams, that's 120 milligrams of, let's say, peppermint oil every day, which is what some people do. And that's a lot of information. That is close to 60 cups of peppermint tea in a single moment. Ingested every day. That doesn't sound like a great idea to me. So what I've done is I've created formulations like this spark tincture. And so drops from these.
That was the one that we kind of did. Up the nose. The insufflation up the nose or at the back of the throat?
Yep. And so let's go ahead and take a drop on the tongue right now.
Oh, you don't want to do up the nose live for the camera. I'd do it it.
But I'm going to follow your lead and just go to the back of the throat. Great.
You like to kind of inhale in after you do that drop?
Yeah. Get it into the. Into the lungs, through the alveoli, passing into the bloodstream. So it enters the body immediately.
No kidding. When you inhale like that, you're literally getting alveolar distribution into the bloodstream. That quickly?
Yeah.
Wow.
Yeah, it's immediate.
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