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)
Posted on 10/02/2014 7:37:57 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Until as recently as 1987, British coal pits employed caged canaries as sentinels that alerted miners to the presence of poisonous gases. Being more sensitive to them than we are, the birds would get distressed before the gases reached levels that are dangerous to humans, giving the miners time to evacuate and avoid suffocation.
According to new research, the sense of smell is the canary in the coalmine of human health. A study published today in the open access journal PLOS ONE, shows that losing one’s sense of smell strongly predicts death within five years, suggesting that the nose knows when death is imminent, and that smell may serve as a bellwether for the overall state of the body, or as a marker for exposure to environmental toxins.
The study involved more than 3,000 participants, all of them between 57 and 85 years old, from the National Social Life, Health, and Aging Project (NSHAP), a longitudinal study of factors affecting the well-being of older people living in America.
In 2005-6, Jayant Pinto of the University of Chicago and his colleagues asked all the participants to perform a simple test that involved identifying five common odours (rose, leather, fish, orange, and peppermint), using the number of incorrectly identified odours as a score of the severity of smell loss.
Five years later, the researchers tracked down as many of the same participants as they could, and asked them to perform this smell test a second time. During the five-year gap between the two tests, 430 of the original participants (or 12.5% of the total number) had died. Of these, 39% who had failed the first smell test died before the second test, compared to 19% of those who had moderate smell loss on the first test,.
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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.
I dunno. Something smells about this.
How fitting....now that we are dealing with OBOLA.
Loss of sense of smell is a good predictor of Alzheimers.
Very interesting.
Or, doesn’t, as the case may be.
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.
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.
I smell the stench of Muhammed.... Just sayin’
Yes my mom rip had no sense of smell for a long time and then got Alzheimers and her taste buds were gone too
Prayers up freepfriend
I have not smelled one single thing since 1981 when a near-fatal injury destroyed my sense of smell.
Am I dead already?
I will start to worry when I fail to experience the
stench of the MSM.
No nose knows like a gnome’s nose knows.
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.
Talk about something that stinks.
A skunk is half black and half white and stinks....
just like Obama!
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)
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.
:-\
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