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Today I will talk about Adulterated Oils and their Dangers
Today much of the lavender oil sold in America is a hybrid called Lavan din, grown and distilled throughout the world.  Lavandin is often heated to evaporate the camphor, mixed with synthetic linalyl acetate to improve the fragrance, and then sold as lavender oil.  Most consumers don't know the difference and are happy to buy it for $7 to $10 per half an ounce in various stores on the internet.  This is one of the reasons why it is important to know about the integrity of the essential oil company or vendor.




POWERFUL INFLUENCE OF AROMAS

The fragrance of an essential oil can directly affect everything from your emotional state to your lifespan.  The specific mechanics of the sense of smell are still being explored by scientists but have been described as working like a lock and key or an odor molecule fitting a specific receptor site.
When the fragrance is inhaled, the airborne odor molecules travel up the nostrils to the olfactory epithelium or the center of olfactory sensation.  At the Olaf-Ector epithelium or the center of olfactory sensation.  At the olfactory epithelium, which is only about 1 square inch of the nasal cavity, olfactory receptor cells are triggered and send an impulse to the olfactory bulb.  East olfactory receptor type sends an impulse to a particular micro-region, or glomerulus, of the olfactory bulb.  There are around 2,000 glomeruli the olfactory bulb, which receive the impulses from the olfactory receptors and allow us to perceive many smells.  The olfactory bulb then transmits the impulses to other parts of the brain, including the gustatory center (where the sensation of taste is perceived), the amygdala (where emotional memories are stored), and other parts of the limbic system.
Because the limbic system is directly connected to those parts of the brain that control heart rate blood pressure, breathing, memory, stress levels, and hormone balance, essential oils can have a profound physiological and psychological effects.
An article in Scientific American December 15, 2006, raised an interesting question regarding the lock and the key  theory:  "the shape theory doesn't explain why some nearly identically shaped molecules small vastly different, such as ethanol, which smells like vodka, and ethane thiol (rotten eggs)"  Another theory of smell, called the vibration theory is proposed by an Italian scientist named Luca Turin in a paper published in 1996.  The theory that rather than the "lock and key" theory of olfaction, it is the vibrational pr4operties of molecules that enable us to distinguish smells.  He suggests that the olfactory receptors sense the quantum vibrations of each odorant" atoms, which would allow humans to perceive almost limitless numbers of odors, as olfactory receptors are tuned to different frequencies.
While the vibration theory is still somewhat controversial, Jennifer Brookes, a University College London researcher based an MIT, was the lead author on a study that discusses models of receptor selectivity, including those based on shape and other factors like vibrational "frequencies".  Speaking of Turin's theory, she told the BBC in March 2011, It's a  very interesting idea; there are all sorts of interesting biological physics that implement quantum processes that are cropping up.  I believe it's time for the idea to develop and for us to get o with testing it."  A colleague of Brookes,, A.P. Horsfield, of Imperial College London, was also interviewed by the BBC about the vibrational theory and said. "There's still lots to understand but the idea that it connotes possibly be right is no longer tenable really.  The theory has to at least be considered respectable at this point"