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Yet another reason to have dogs on your bed at night. The don't specify the actual scents? Just that there was a selection of seven.

ano-ther 3y ago
> Individuals assigned to the olfactory enrichment group were provided with an odorant diffuser (Diffuser World) and 7 essential oil odorants (rose, orange, eucalyptus, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, and lavender; from The Essential Oil Company, Portland, OR) in identical glass vials that each fit into the diffuser. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200448/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200...
- darkclouds 3y ago
  Cool I can go to bed with nosegays poking from my nostrils. Perhaps this is why people smelt posies during the plague because it increased their IQ, or is there some sort of antipathogenic effect in the odour?
  - viciousvoxel 3y ago
    it's because the graveyards and charnel houses were overflowing with rotting bodies, and there were people were walking around with weeping, infected sores (buboes) -- it really stank!
    - hkt 3y ago
      They also believed miasma (bad smells) spread disease. They weren't a million miles away from the idea of airborne pathogens, but they were obviously incorrect about sweet smells having protective properties. That said, I've wondered if the flowers thing selected in favour of people with hayfever - if you're producing more mucus and expelling it, that might lower your exposure. I've never seen a study on it, though.
      - darkclouds 3y ago
        > that might lower your exposure. I've never seen a study on it, though. You wont, the scientific community perfectly represent the Thomas Pynchon saying "'If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" Besides (UK) Govt water quality legislation creates a massive health and cancer industry! Makes a mockery of the so called intelligence of the law! However serotonin does have a positive effect on the immune system, so is there an indirect effect smelling and seeing a nice bunch of flowers?
Meculitio 3y ago
Urgh no thanks. But I would be curious if a dog at that age is better or worse for the immune system.

ano-ther 3y ago

> Individuals assigned to the olfactory enrichment group were provided with an odorant diffuser (Diffuser World) and 7 essential oil odorants (rose, orange, eucalyptus, lemon, peppermint, rosemary, and lavender; from The Essential Oil Company, Portland, OR) in identical glass vials that each fit into the diffuser. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200448/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1200...

darkclouds 3y ago
Cool I can go to bed with nosegays poking from my nostrils. Perhaps this is why people smelt posies during the plague because it increased their IQ, or is there some sort of antipathogenic effect in the odour?
- viciousvoxel 3y ago
  it's because the graveyards and charnel houses were overflowing with rotting bodies, and there were people were walking around with weeping, infected sores (buboes) -- it really stank!
  - hkt 3y ago
    They also believed miasma (bad smells) spread disease. They weren't a million miles away from the idea of airborne pathogens, but they were obviously incorrect about sweet smells having protective properties. That said, I've wondered if the flowers thing selected in favour of people with hayfever - if you're producing more mucus and expelling it, that might lower your exposure. I've never seen a study on it, though.
    - darkclouds 3y ago
      > that might lower your exposure. I've never seen a study on it, though. You wont, the scientific community perfectly represent the Thomas Pynchon saying "'If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers" Besides (UK) Govt water quality legislation creates a massive health and cancer industry! Makes a mockery of the so called intelligence of the law! However serotonin does have a positive effect on the immune system, so is there an indirect effect smelling and seeing a nice bunch of flowers?

Meculitio 3y ago

Urgh no thanks. But I would be curious if a dog at that age is better or worse for the immune system.