How Lavender Relaxes Us
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How Lavender Relaxes Us

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 20262 min
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How Lavender Relaxes Us

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than just our imaginations. We can thank the compound, the Nalewa, for lavender's calming

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the same ones that some anxiety medications target, when we inhale the linalo wall and it gets

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Oh Don, it smells great in here. I love lavender. It's been a stressful day, Yael, so I broke out the essential oil diffuser. What is it about lavender that's so relaxing? Do we just feel calmer because we're imagining ourselves wandering around a lavender field? It's more than just our imaginations. We can thank the compound, the Nalewa, for lavender's calming

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effects. At first, some scientists thought that the linalo wall reached certain brain cell receptors, the same ones that some anxiety medications target, when we inhale the linalo wall and it gets absorbed into our bloodstream. But a team of researchers found that the actual smelling part is crucial. They released the linalo wall vapor to both regular mice and mice with

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experimentally induced anosmia, which meant they couldn't smell anything. The regular mice became more relaxed, but the mice that couldn't smell show no change. That led the scientists to conclude that the feeling of relaxation resulted from the linalo wall vapor inducing olfactory signals. Then they did another test

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