Rebecca Lazarou
Rebecca Lazarou is our science advisor here at Herbal Reality. She is currently completing her PhD at Kew Gardens and UCL School of Pharmacy in the medicinal plants and fungi of Cyprus. She is the founder of Laz The Plant Scientist where she sells sustainably sourced herbal medicines she has formulated, and is also a board member for the McKenna Academy.
She completed her degree in Biomedical Science-Human Biology, always with the intention to study herbal medicines after. She then went on to study a master’s at UCL School of Pharmacy, in Medicinal Natural Products and Phytochemistry. Since then she has been a scientific researcher, editor for the academic Journal of Herbal Medicine, and pharmacology teacher at Betonica School of Herbal Medicine as well as other projects. Her career is an ecology of different disciplines spanning across medical science, ethnopharmacology, herbalism, holistic healthcare, cannabis and psychedelics.
You can read more about her work at www.rebeccalazarou.com and follow her educational content on social media @laztheplantscientist.
