22 Dec Medscape: What Our Sense of Smell Can Reveal About Our Health
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These are heady times for otolaryngologists, those who study and treat disorders of the nose. It was not always so. Darwin regarded smell as a rudimentary sense because its use in hunting, detecting danger, and other primal activities is now far less critical. And in a 2019 U.K. survey, 250 adults effectively turned up their noses at smell, ranking it the least valued of our five senses.
But smell remains crucial to our well-being. We’re learning more and more that our sense of smell is closely linked to our health — and could one day be used for monitoring our health and predicting disease.
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