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Your nose knows when death is imminent
The Guardian ^ | 10/02/2014 | Mo Costandi

Posted on 10/02/2014 7:37:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT:

Those participants who failed the first smell test completely were four times as likely to die within five years than those who correctly identified all five odours.

This held true when other factors known to impact smell - such as race, sex, mental illness, and socioeconomic status - were taken into account, and even milder smell loss was associated with slightly increased odds of impending death.

1 posted on 10/02/2014 7:37:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

I dunno. Something smells about this.


2 posted on 10/02/2014 7:40:29 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("Now is not the time for fear. That comes later.")
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To: SeekAndFind

How fitting....now that we are dealing with OBOLA.


3 posted on 10/02/2014 7:41:09 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: SeekAndFind

Loss of sense of smell is a good predictor of Alzheimers.


4 posted on 10/02/2014 7:42:07 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: SeekAndFind

Very interesting.


5 posted on 10/02/2014 7:42:25 PM PDT by petitfour
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To: ClearCase_guy

Or, doesn’t, as the case may be.


6 posted on 10/02/2014 7:42:41 PM PDT by ziravan (Choose Sides.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This makes me so sad.

My beloved husband lost his sense of smell completely, but we thought it was just related to his Parkinson’s. It seems, in retrospect, to have been a harbinger.

He died within the time frame, and I miss him every minute of every day.


7 posted on 10/02/2014 7:44:11 PM PDT by jacquej ("It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.")
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To: SeekAndFind

Well duh-— a certain percentage of people age 55 and older are going to die within 5 years of something.
Get back with us when they sample a younger age group.


8 posted on 10/02/2014 7:46:00 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: SeekAndFind

I smell the stench of Muhammed.... Just sayin’


9 posted on 10/02/2014 7:50:39 PM PDT by Bullish (You ever notice that liberalism really just amounts to anti-morality?)
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To: SeekAndFind
Oh well. If I can no longer love the smell of napalm in the morning..........
10 posted on 10/02/2014 7:59:43 PM PDT by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: ladyjane

Yes my mom rip had no sense of smell for a long time and then got Alzheimers and her taste buds were gone too


11 posted on 10/02/2014 8:04:26 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: jacquej

Prayers up freepfriend


12 posted on 10/02/2014 8:04:55 PM PDT by al baby (Hi MomÂ…)
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To: ladyjane; shibumi

I have not smelled one single thing since 1981 when a near-fatal injury destroyed my sense of smell.

Am I dead already?


13 posted on 10/02/2014 8:33:46 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I will start to worry when I fail to experience the
stench of the MSM.


14 posted on 10/02/2014 8:34:57 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: SeekAndFind

No nose knows like a gnome’s nose knows.


15 posted on 10/02/2014 8:36:14 PM PDT by preacher (I am not a global warming hoax denier.)
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To: Salamander

Apparently the olfactory nerve is very small and it’s pretty much not protected the way the brain is. You must have had one bad hit to the head. Football?

I knew another person who had his nose cauterized for nose bleeds. They went too far up and he never had any sense of smell after that. Keeps you thin.


16 posted on 10/02/2014 8:53:18 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

Talk about something that stinks.

A skunk is half black and half white and stinks....
just like Obama!


17 posted on 10/02/2014 9:01:24 PM PDT by hapnHal (hapnHal)
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To: SeekAndFind

Jimmy Durante. " "Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"

Yes and "The Schnoz" will be two hundred years old in a few more years.

(wiki source)

18 posted on 10/02/2014 9:09:38 PM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: ladyjane

Football?

LOL

I don’t do sports.

:)

One of our horses jumped sideways and smashed me to the blacktop.

Took out the whole frontal lobe.

Technically, I should not even be here.

Much to the aggravation of the quack neurologist I had to deal with, my sense of taste is totally intact and much better than hubby’s.

I once got really sick from chicken salad that *I* thought tasted odd, but that he assured me repeatedly, ‘smelled just fine’.

Unfortunately, I was right.

:-\


19 posted on 10/02/2014 9:25:53 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Make it worth their while.)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
With that "sense of smell", "The Schnoz" should have lived forever...

   "Inka Dinka Doo" - Jimmy Durante

20 posted on 10/02/2014 9:32:41 PM PDT by Heart-Rest ("Our hearts are restless, Lord, until they rest in Thee." - St. Augustine)
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