James Tad Geiger

James Tad Geiger MD is a board certified anesthesiologist practicing acute care anesthesia and clinical aromatherapy in Arizona. He completed residency at USC and Internship at St. Mary's Center in San Francisco where he remained to perform cardiac anesthesia with his father, a Cardiothoracic surgeon, for 16 years. At St. Mary's he developed and lectured on Fast Track Cardiac Anesthesia programs for early recovery from anesthesia and was chairman of the critical care committee.

Currently Dr. Geiger is on staff at several medical centers,orthopedic hospitals and surgicenters where he has introduced therapy with essential oils into the operating and recovery rooms. Dr Geiger's special interest is consulting in the development of patient services for Integrative Therapies and Medical Spa services which care for the needs of those seeking integrative treatments. Dr. Geiger's speaking presentations are suitable for conventions, resorts, spas and business meetings worldwide. He is the author of The Sweet Smell of Success: Health and Wealth Secrets (LifeSuccess Publishing/ Feb 2009).

The Sweet Smell of Success analyzes two important aspects of life, health and wealth: as the OilMD, Dr. Geiger presents a medical viewpoint regarding the health secrets of essential oils and exotic juices as superior medicinal foods; he also presents successful wealth-building strategies for developing your own ideal network marketing business as a distributor of essential oils and juices.

The OilMD's messages appeal to health and fitness-conscious youth, "boomers", women and men of any age, families, caregivers such as chiropractors, massage therapists, medical/dental professionals, and especially the spa industry. Those with lifestyles allowing themselves to frequent spas, medispas, clinics, and resorts appreciate the tremendous benefits of the specialized services associated with these plant based products, increasingly offered in the spa setting.

The OilMD educates the public, medical professionals, complementary alternative

medicine(C.A.M.)practitioners, spa and business industries on how to integrate aromatherapy and juice therapy phytonutrition practices and programs into their lives and businesses.Applications using superior medicinal foods, integrated with one's personal allopathic and alternative medical care paradigms are safe and effective, manifesting a synergy of health benefits. Through educational awareness of mind-body skill sets, such as guided imagery and law of attraction principles, the OilMD will continue to help people live long and live well.

Testimonies

"Listen to my good friend, the OilMD. He can show you how to turn a little bottle of oil into a whole lot of money."

Bob Proctor Best Selling author of You Were Born Rich and featured coach in The Secret

"The art and science of therapy with essential oils is fascinating. I've personally experienced the positive (and surprising) effects of essential oil of ginger as a remedy for nausea after anesthesia.I highly recommend this book for a smart, refreshing approach to health and wellness."

Leslie Householder,award winning, best selling author of The Jackrabbit Factor:Why You Can, and Hidden Treasures:

Heaven's Astonishing Help with Your Money Matters.

"If you are looking for answers to those questions that have plagued you as to how to get more income and more health, then get inspired and work this book."

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"A holistic approach to building wealth includes body, mind and spirit. Dr. Tad offers wealth builders ways to engage not only the mind, but the senses in feeling healthy and wealthy!"

Karen Russo, author of, The Money Keys:Unlocking Peace, Freedom & Real Financial Power.

Essential oils are the life force of aromatic plants.

They've been used to enhance the health of body,mind and spirit for more than 6,000 years. Clinical aromatherapy is the art and science of understanding

health care needs and which essential oils may help fulfill them. Now, an anesthesiologist medical doctor Dr. Geiger, The OilMD, has revealed strategic secrets about aromatherapy in the 21st century.

The Sweet Smell of Success Health and Wealth Secrets promotes wellness through nature using essential oils and juices as integral pieces of the Wellness Revolution. This book reveals secrets to health and is designed to assist all peoples understand the art and traditional practical applications of aromatherapy and juice therapy.

The scientific aspects of aromatherapy and supplementation with exotic juices are presented here with the art of medicine to enlighten, influence and inspire medically oriented health care professionals and spa industry service providers with the therapeutic benefits and factual value of essential oils and juices as superior medicinal foods.

This book reveals secrets to wealth and is designed to educate and inspire people who desire to own and operate their own business and be part of the trillion dollar Wellness Revolution.This book is a marketing tool to recruit and sustain distributors in network marketing.

Advanced education in clinical aromatherapy had led me to provide special ginger oil that has prevented post-operative nausea and vomiting(PONV)for

thousands of my anesthesia patients since 2001.His groundbreaking article,The essential oil of ginger,Zingiber officinale, and anesthesia was published in the International Journal of Aromatherapy 2005.Without the dreaded PONV,"same-day" surgery patients really can go home the same day while avoiding the

problematic risks and expense of anti-nausea drugs. Costs come down. Patient satisfaction goes up.

Serving on committees and presenting lectures and in-services including those on the safe use of essential oils in hospitals and surgicenters with the goal to improve patient care and satisfaction while decreasing costs.Dr Geiger's special interest is consulting in the development of patient services for Integrative Therapies and Medical Spa services which care for the needs of those seeking integrative treatments.

Dr. Geiger's keynote speaking presentations are suitable for conventions,resorts,spas and business meetings worldwide.

Excerpt from Chapter One The Art of Aromatherapy

Environmental Awareness

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted from the adhesives, sealers, and plastics used in manufacturing your home and vehicle. Styrenes, benzenes, and formaldehyde are just a few of the VOCs found in that new-car smell. VOC concentrations can give off vapors reaching unhealthy levels in a closed environment heated by the sun. In the United States, new car manufacturers are allowed 128 times the VOCs that are allowed in Australia.

The vaporized chemical compounds such as benzene, a known carcinogen found in gasoline, and formaldehyde, a tissue preservative used by pathologists, can cause symptoms such as eye, throat, and nose irritation; headaches; nausea and vomiting; and dizziness. Fortunately, these high concentrations of VOCs dissipate a few months after the car is manufactured.

For me, the sweet smell of success isn't at the hospital either. In the operating room, where unpleasant odors prevail, hospital employees sometimes deodorize with peppermint oil diluted in alcohol. Often there is no written policy or procedure for use of "peppermint spirit," too much oil is often used, causing excessive vapors that burn our eyes. Tearing vision is difficult to fix when you are "scrubbed in" and have to maintain a sterile environment. Instead, I prefer to apply one of my own essential oils, such as ginger, to my disposable face mask to help overshadow the foul odors and calm my stomach.

Aromatherapy is one of the fastest-growing fields in alternative medicine and is quickly working its way into the mainstream. It is commonly used in hospitals and clinics for various applications such as pain relief and for side effects of nausea from chemotherapy, rehabilitation of cardiac patients, and relief of anxiety and pain for women laboring at childbirth. You may be wondering, "If essential oils are so valuable and effective, why isn't everyone using them to stay healthy and energetic?" The answer is simple. With the beginning of modern medicine in the twentieth century, essential oils, like herbs, have been pushed aside for synthetic wonder drugs.

Medical Awareness

There is no doubt that modern medical science has given us some incredible lifesaving medicines. That is one reason I became a doctor. However, our reliance on synthetic drugs is a double-edged sword: It's made us healthier, but at the same time, some are suffering from heart attacks and strokes that often result from side effects of synthetic drugs, adverse interactions, and errors in drug administration.

Ironically, many forward-thinking doctors of today are looking back to a simpler and safer time of healing. As you read this, countless scientific labs across the globe are investigating the remarkable science of aromatherapy and the healing properties of essential oils that have existed for centuries. These essential oils include the ones used in ancient Egypt as well as many newly developed oils to fulfill the ever-increasing demand of the individual consumer and industrial giants. There is documentation of oils as successful remedies for many common ailments including pain, host infections of all kinds, bronchitis, and digestive problems. There are very many articles to choose from when researching. Here are several examples of essential oil studies.

* Scientists reporting on the power of peppermint oil for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) analyzed patients with symptoms for four weeks and discovered that peppermint oil reduces abdominal pain, bloating, constipation, and digestive distress. Enteric-coated capsules also worked well in 75% of pediatric patients with IBS (Kline 2001).

* As published in the journal Medical Hypotheses, an open trial that followed 56 patients revealed that ginger powder was found to contain micronutrients that reduced pain and swelling in patients with rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and muscular discomfort (Srivasta 1992).

* In a double blind placebo controlled human study, elderly patients with acute knee pain benefited from three weeks of aroma-massage applications of a combination of oils of ginger and orange (Yip 2009).

* The Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy published a study in which the essential oils of cinnamon and lemon were among fourteen tested for bacteria and virus-fighting ability. The study concluded that all fourteen of these oils, when vaporized, were effective against respiratory pathogens such as influenza (Inouye 2001).

Plant Influences

When essential oils are used properly, they are safe, effective, free of side effects, and most of all, very enjoyable. Oils can also be readily integrated into allopathic medical specialties as well as other types of wellness practices. Essential oils operate within body chemistry guidelines. The natural oils from plants act as messengers providing various phytomolecules that naturally influence the organs systems of the body along hormonal and neurological pathways.

It's phenomenal the way that body hormones rise and fall in response to the time of the day or night. Plants also respond to cycles of light and dark. The circadian rhythms of the body clock and its chemistry follow physical laws and can be altered by a great many factors, not just the jet lag experienced during long-distance travel across multiple time zones. All of the bodily processes and our decision-making processes are influenced by smells and oils from plants in a multiplicity of obvious and subtle manners. Our reactions to smells occur innately with or without our awareness.

As I mentioned earlier, aromatherapy is also working its way into the mainstream of cultural events. Think you can smell only with your nose? Think again. Now you can visualize the scent of human pheromones as shown at an MIT art show, The Fear of Smell--The Smell of Fear, in the works of the artist of odor, Sissel Tolaas. She consulted with manufacturer International Flavors and Fragrances to microencapsulate scents into the paints she uses in her artwork.

Aphrodisiacs and Endorphphins

New endorphin and aphrodisiac products claim to encourage intimacy and stimulate sexual desire. These products are manufactured with delivery systems that use the sense of smell to increase the effectiveness the body's natural endorphin and aphrodisiacs hormones. The vomeronasal organ (VNO) is the smell receptor organ of the five senses that is involved in chemical communication between human beings.

Synthetic chemical triggers that mimic human pheromones, such as perfume from spray bottles, can be spritzed onto the body for other people to pick up the scent. Essential oils can be applied directly to skin and absorbed. Male and female essential oil-impregnated nontransdermal skin patches worn on the arm can be sniffed to stimulate low libido. Pheromone-like scents stimulate the erotic centers in the brain. When the VNO detects pheromones and certain phytomolecules in essential oils, it sends a message, perhaps sexual, to the brain.

The effect evoked by a scent passing into the brain is a primitive and stimulating process. When an invigorating scent traversing the hypothalamus causes release of noradrenaline, a primal response is felt. An energizing scent passing into the thalamus causes a euphoric response following the release of encephalins into the bloodstream. A provocative scent flowing along pathways to the pituitary gland causes release of endorphins, which act as an aphrodisiac on the sex glands.

Stimulation by scents in the hypothalamus in the midbrain causes release of serotonin and a sedative response. These instinctual responses represent survival, emotional, sexual, motivational, and memory stimulation resulting from conscious and unconscious perception of scents that directly influence our primitive thoughts and actions. Certainly the most important sex organ is the brain. Guiding thoughts and scents together along the path to pleasure and intimacy is needful for humans of all ages. Check out my Romantic Encounters product, blended with specific essential oils that are endorphin and aphrodisiac-activating, as discussed in chapter 9.

Commercialized Aromatherapy

As consumers, we are witnessing our sensibility to scents and smells being taken to a new synthetic level. Large corporations make substantial profits selling the sweet synthetic smell of success in household "aromatherapy" products. These items range from synthetically scented laundry soaps to spray room fresheners. There are enough of these products in the marketplace to make you literally nauseated and headachy, as you may have noticed when walking down certain aisles of your neighborhood supermarket.

Essential oils and other functional fragrances can now be stabilized in cyclodextrins--complex molecules that allow a controlled release in many environments, including the supermarket. Cyclodextrins are utilized as carriers for natural colors, flavors, vitamins; solubilizers of lipids; stabilizers of oil in water emulsions; and aroma modifiers in a variety of processed foods. The food industry widely uses irradiation and chlorine solutions to sanitize and prolong product shelf life of fresh-cut fruits and vegetables, a growing segment of the marketplace.

Concerns about the potential formation of carcinogens and ineffective antibacterial properties from usage of chlorine have prompted laboratory researchers to find alternative resources to use as preservatives. The use of cyclodextrins as carriers for phytomolecules with high antioxidant-carrying capacity and antimicrobial properties--such as essential oils--in fresh-cut products is extremely promising.

Futuristic Aromatherapy

* The growth of different microorganisms responsible for spoilage of fruit and vegetables can be diminished using essential oils linked to cyclodextrins. Essential oils are antimicrobial in general, and rosemary, oregano, coriander, thyme, sage, and the phytomolecules cinnamaldehyde and eugenol from cinnamon essential oil, are suitable alternatives to chlorine and irradiation for preservation of perishables.

* Commercial aroma-dispensing systems are utilized to provide "signature aromatherapy scents" for corporations, hotels chains, and department stores. These scents are dispensed using the buildings' ventilations systems and with smaller units located near elevators and in lobbies. The scent of lavender and rosemary diffused into social areas calms and soothes customers. Oil of orange dispersed in waiting rooms of dental offices reduces patients' anxiety and improves their mood (Lehrner, 2005). Oil of lemon diffused in banks keeps the tellers alert.

* Movie theaters in Japan have diffused specialized scents precisely timed with the action and music for any given scene in a movie. Also in Japan, mobile phone users will be among the first to send each other aromatherapy-scented email attachments, and watch music and video clips enhanced by smell on their phones. For the time being, people can use their mobile phone or wireless connection to send one of two hundred fragrance recipes to an aromatherapy-generating device via infrared or to a home gateway unit.

* Computers outfitted with peripheral applications such as Universal Serial Bus ports, can utilize scent-releasing devices that trigger release of scents, while you browse certain websites. (Subscribe to real, interactive Smell-O-Vision Internet television at www.scenttv.tv.) In public settings such as airports, robotic detectors can analyze the air for dangerous scents and can sound an alarm for potential threats.

All these futuristic aromatherapy inventions are insignificant compared to these seven spectacular natural wonders:

* To love

* To laugh

* To see

* To touch

* To hear

* To taste

* To smell