Posted on 10/02/2014 10:53:38 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
Smelly socks have never seemed so life-affirming. According to a study published in PLOS ONE, olfactory dysfunction -- a weakening sense of smell -- is a strikingly good indicator of imminent death.
Five years later, the researchers found that 430 of the original participants had died. Even when they adjusted their analysis to control for age, gender, socioeconomic status, race, and overall health, they found that those with mild to severe smell loss had been more likely to die. Those with severe loss of smell were four times more likely to have died than the superior sniffers.
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LOL!
True, Harry Waugh was the managing director of Chateau LaTour. He was visiting Napa in the 80s, got in a car accident, and lost his sense of smell and never got it back.
I marveled how he could taste wine without that sense. He died at age 97 many years later.
Smell is the first and most persistent sense (it’s how human beings identify their mothers and then places where they have been), so it’s reasonable that when it disappears, you no longer need it, so to speak.
I lost my sense of smell a few years back after a skull fracture. This happens in bleeding in the prefrontal lobe. I sometimes returns, but after all this time mine won’t. I feel lucky though - after this I found that two of my friends lost smell and TASTE in car wrecks. I don’t miss the smell of skunks (or farts)
I guess I better get my affairs in order. Makes me wonder WHY I am painting my house.
That putrid stench I’ve detected coming from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave has recently disappeared.Does that mean that I.... Where do I send the flowers?
I wonder if they factored race into the study.
Sense of smell is highly race based and is also tied to the density of sweat pores on a person’s skin.
Asians = fewest sweat pores = best sense of smell
Blacks = most sweat pores = porest sense of smell
Whites = middle quantity sweat pores = middle sense of smell
Further, sweat carries the pheromones to find a mate; fewer sweat pores means better sense of smell to detect the pheromones.
It’s a nature thing not a rasist thing.
Then those about to die have clearly never “dealt it” if you catch my drift.
My wife has had a lousy sense of smell all her life. One of her first symptoms of an oncoming colds is actually being able to smell stuff.
NO, no no. We need general fear to sell newspapers and create a clamor for bigger government.
Science is so pre-Global-Warming. What are you, a denier?
I cleaned alot of manure out of barn stalls when I was a teenager, horrible smell in the summer. Since then I cannot smell anything that stinks. I am healthy as a horse.
Did you see a medical professional at the time? In some cases, sudden loss of sensation can be reversed with timely use of corticosteroids.
You might check out Semax and Ñ5I-189. Do your research.
My sense of smell is my super power. It’s not a blessing either.
That's why they stopped selling the original Zicam. Lots of people reported that.
Most smells these days you don’t want to smell.
Have 6 raccons, one skunk and one fisher that come on the front porch every night to eat their food.. I can smell different animals, even tell if it`s a fox. This is what happens when city slickers never get in touch with NATURAL ODORS which rejuvenate the olfactory function. Us`n ancient mountain hillbillies can smell a danged revenooer 20 miles away.
Unless of course, you’ve never had a good sense of smell
FWIW, I’ve taken a couple of swigs straight of a 5 oz. Tabasco bottle I keep on my desk at work everyday during the cold and flu season. Haven’t missed more than a half day of work due to illness in the last five years.
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