I watched the BBC interview with the doctor who had this project. In his opinion, it’s a game-changer. And he says that he’s had several other people to come around and note they could smell the same thing. The problem is...how you package this and start to identify how the scent occurs.
Hey, a new perfume line. Eu de la parkinsense.
Cool that she has this gift.
I know a woman who says that she can smell cancer. She detected it in her husband before the doctors did.
If she can do this I bet you could train a Labrador to do exactly the same thing.
I once did a project with a well known food company - met a young woman whose sense of smell was just bizarre. She was also a trained food chemist, so by sniffing a bottle of juice or a bottle of tea, could tell which flavor chemicals were added in approx. what proportions. off-notes or variances that were imperceptible to others stood out like a beacon to her.
What... exactly... does she smell?
Wonder how she does rabbit hunting.
Parkinsons is brought on by a chemical change in the brain. The brain produces less dopamine in Parkinsons patients. It seems possible this change in body chemistry could produce an odor change.
My mother-in-law’s little rescue mutt can tell (smell, I presume) when her blood glucose level is wrong (too high or too low). I think he has saved her life a few times.
I knew a doctor with Parkinson’s, and a good friend, now, who went through several t-shirts a day with massive musky sweating and apparently discolored the t shirts with their increased sweating.
Good doctors for centuries have relied on their olfactory senses, to go with their visual and auditory senses. They use all of their senses to make a diagnosis along with using their stethoscope and touch and feeling their patients.
So a non MD person with excellent olfactory sense might be able to sense this terrible disease and others.
I had a close friend, who had parkinsons - he smelled "off" as well. It is not such a far fetched concept.....we perspire normally - if our chemicals are "off" or out of whack - it makes sense that tainted sweat would follow
except my wife, she always smells of lilacs
A recent ‘Castle’ TV show had a woman who had a heightened sense of smell. She was called ‘the Nose’. Glad some people have this gift. Probably glad I don’t. The women in the show was tormented by any unusual scent. Very uncomfortable to watch.
I think I am losing my sense of smell. I have to check out my dogs real close to tell when they need a bath.
Strong perfume still gives me a headache and I can smell cigarette smoke a block away, almost. Other smells, even good smelling food is getting less.
Husband was taking some sort of drug, for ulcerative
colitis I think. It was made from horse urine; and
the horseflies would chase him and sting him. It
left big welts and was painful.
I don’t know what causes parkinsons smell, but old people smell is thought to be caused by a chemical called 2-nonenal
Certainly disease can emit an odor due to one’s internal chemistry.
I knew a guy in college who stank like limberger cheese, especially his feet.
He went to a homeopathic health practitioner who told him to start drinking fenugreek tea.
Apparently the herb radically altered his body chemistry, because he started to smell like maple syrup.
People who eat a lot of red meat often suffer constipation, bad breath and body odor in general, I’ve noticed. Having decomposing meat remaining in the colon for days is unhealthy. Gotta balance meat consumption with lots of veggies and grains—roughage!