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From the article: The researchers say that in the lung, the taste receptors are not clustered in buds and do not send signals to the brain, yet they respond to
by AngryParsley 16y ago
From the article:
The researchers say that in the lung, the taste receptors are not clustered in buds and do not send signals to the brain, yet they respond to substances that have a bitter taste.
The bitter-sensing cells in your lungs aren't connected to the brain, so you can't get any sensory information from them. They just cause passageways in the lungs to dilate.
- forensic 16y agoI did read that. My thought was that, if your lungs have bitterness receptors and you experience physiological change based on them, then inhaling certain kinds of air that lack the bitterness may flush out the bitter taste and produce physiological change that corresponds to a lack of bitterness. It's hard to separate out the effects of oxygenation and heat and focusing on the specific point when the air enters your lungs though. So yeah I'm being unscientific.