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My mother, my brother and I all have this smell ability to some degree. I remember when I was a child, my mother could diagnose me with strep by smell. (She wou
by Arete314159 7y ago
My mother, my brother and I all have this smell ability to some degree. I remember when I was a child, my mother could diagnose me with strep by smell. (She would also take me to the doctor.)
None of us in the family can tolerate things like fresh paint, dry cleaner establishments, nail polish, and other chemical smells. My mother tended to avoid the "better living through chemistry" cleaning products popular in the 70's and 80's because they bothered her a lot. I, unfortunately, have developed extreme chemical sensitivity, so I'm on the extreme end of this.
FWIW, nobody on this side of my family has ever gotten cancer (knock on wood). I often wonder if our profound awareness of toxins is also protective, in that we completely avoid things that others would be comfortable working with on a daily basis.
- monocasa 7y agoI've been able to smell infections (which makes sense, the immune response of an infection would mis with your whole microbiome). That's pretty different from smelling Parkinson's.
- etagobla 7y agoExactly. Parkinson's is a mechanical issue and doesn't affect the microbiome -- they proved that with science.
- atombender 7y agoThat's diametrically opposite to the latest research coming out [1]. There seems to be a "gut-brain axis" at work, to the point where some are starting to think the gut is the starting point. We're seeing an increasing number of disorders -- psoriasis [2], lupus, schizophrenia, among others -- where there's an underlying connection to the gut microbiome and to inflammation in general caused by "pathobionts" [3]. [1] https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/2019/02/12/understanding-gut-brain-connection-critical-parkinsons-disease/ https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/2019/02/12/understanding-gut... [2] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738081X18300476 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0738081X1... [3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426444/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3426444/
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- haolez 7y agoI can smell dengue. I learned with myself first :)