Youth Dew, the Jihadi killer
Posted on 01/05/2008 6:11:15 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Wearing too much perfume 'signals depression'
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Last Updated: 3:29pm GMT 04/01/2008
Women who wear too much perfume may be suffering from depression, scientists have said.
The sense of smell appears to be impaired in people with the condition meaning they use more scent.
Smell is already known to have a profound effect on mood and memory with shops and retailers using aromas to induce shoppers to buy certain products.
But a team at Tel Aviv University have found that certain diseases cause the body to attack the olfactory system which governs the ability to detect smells.
This means an impaired sense of smell could be a pointer to serious conditions.
The team suggest depression could have a biological cause rather than being just a psychological disorder and other studies have confirmed patients with depression have a loss of sense of smell and when their condition is treated their senses improve.
Prof Yehuda Shoenfeld, a member of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University is an expert in autoimmune disorders such as arthritis, lupus and rheumatism where the body attacks its own cells.
He found that one of the autoantibodies attacked the olfactory system weakening the sense of smell and inducing depression.
"Our scientific findings suggest that women who are depressed are also losing their sense of smell, and may overcompensate by using more perfume.
"We also believe that depression has biological roots and may be an immune system response to certain physiological cues," he said.
The findings can be applied more widely than just to patients suffering with autoimmune disorders, Prof Shoenfeld said.
"People who are depressed seem to respond well to aromatherapy. Certain smells seem to help them overcome the effects of the biological factors, suggesting that depression may have a biological cause.
"I think that science is able to show that aromatherapy might not be just for quacks. After all, some of these remedies have been used since the time of the Egyptians to treat organic diseases."
He suggested that a "smell test" could be used by doctors to help diagnose depression as well as autoimmune diseases.
Other studies have questioned if depression is a result of a reduced ability to smell rather than the other way around as the condition is also linked to weight loss as people lose their appetite.
Scientists have also used electrodes to establish that the brains of people with depression are less responsive to smells and picked up scents later and at stronger concentrations.
For one is smells to high heaven and secondly it's dangerous to Married Men. It jumps on your clothes just by entering a two foot radius of the wearer. Really, I'M SERIES!
A now departed buddy of mine would actually sniff (discretely) a woman who sat near him at a bar after work. When he first met my wife and she sat between us at the bar he sniffed her and asked if she was wearing Youth Dew. He explained he got into gazillions of fights with his wife, accused him of cheating, for the smell of it on his suits.
And women weren't his problem, booze was.
I bet women who are ovulating wear more perfume than normal.
Personally, I love walking outside by a woman or having her walk by me and having her perfume carry in the wind. It’s not enough exposure to be overwhelmed. It’s a nice random treat.
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Hmmmmm. Not if one considers the impossibility of the task. Maybe it should have been posted under "Religion", since spiffing up the French would be in the realm of the miraculous.
Foreign Affairs: think Pentagon, State Department . . . .
Just pour beer on the suit before you head home. Works for me (but it also explains why I’m not married).
Eau de wee wee ...
I was kidding about banning Youth Dew, but woman wearing it should come with a warning sign :-)
Nah, the Beer Trick won't do it.
Nothing stops Youth Dew. It should almost be listed as a Chemical Weapon ;-)
Justing thinking of that stuff is giving me a headache.
Foreign Affairs: Think state department, etc. .....
But probably not Bill Clinton on a European holiday. :)
Amen! I don’t mind a little bit on others—I don’t wear any. It’s the “Belk’s brigade” that kill me. The ones who not only bathe in perfume but evidently drink it as well. Within seconds, my chest tightens up, my sinuses start screaming, and I’m heading for a migraine. You can’t wait on people and keep but so much distance between you and them.
I read an interesting article once that said people like that have no sense of smell.
An interseting side note—natural perfumes don’t bothr me. The more synthetic something is, the worse and the faster it bothers me. I use no smell detergent, fabric softener, etc. Incense—BLAH! BLAH! Double BLAH! :)
I use Tide with no smell and Bounce free when I can find it. I have been picked on mercilessly for washing everything before wearing—even socks. Don’t care. Something in the dyes/chemicals used in manufacturing sets me off. Hate to go clothes shopping because even touching new clothes makes my face burn. ???
No hives but I hate to even walk down the detergent aisle at the store. Glad to meet you, because most people think I’m looney tunes!
My daughter and her friends would spray the perfume in front of them count to five and walk through the mist. It was never overpowering on them. They learned that trick reading endless girly magazines. It works quite nice. I guarantee you none of those bubbly happy girls were depressed.
How about the potpourri and candle stores? UGH! LOL!
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