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In this episode, Nikki interviews Hana Tisserand from Tisserand Institude about the importance of research when it comes to aromatherapy.

Hana Tisserand is an essential oil educator and a co-founder of Tisserand Institute, a global resource for evidence-based essential oil education. Coming from a background in translation and adult learning, her focus is on making research understandable, and making science enjoyable.

In this episode, Nikki and Hana go over

• How Hana started her aromatherapy journey
• The importance of aromatherapy research - confirming that what we are doing does work
• Speaking a medical language with aromatherapy help the medical field and professionals see the benefits as the lingo is similar for them to understand
• Where people can find research studies
  • PubMed
  • Google Scholar
  • https://tisserandinstitute.org/materia-aromatica/
• If research papers aren’t open access, or to hard to understand, what someone can do to access and better understand the study
• How to reference studies when the studies are mentioned in books
• The importance of giving credit where credit is due
• Terms to look for in the study - significant, statistically significant, clinically significant
• The importance that at the end of each research study it states that more research is needed
• Tisserand Institutes research database - Materia Aromatica, that currently contains 21 essential oil profiles, with more beeding added.

To learn more about the essential oil database of research from Tisserand Institute you can visit: https://tisserandinstitute.org/materia-aromatica/

Connect with Hana

Website: https://tisserandinstitute.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RobertTisserandEssentialTraining

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tisserandinstitute/

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This podcast is for information purposes only. We are certified clinical aromatherapists and holistic health professionals. If you have a medication concern, please refer to your health team. Everyone’s health is unique to themselves, so the topics and suggestions stated may or may not apply directly to you. Please reach out to an aromatherapist to work with or consider training to become one yourself!

Show music: Happy Dreams - By David Fesliyan