… and it turns out she’s not the only one!

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Not only do certain diseases have characteristic smells (from a bakery to a butchers to a fishmongers), but just having an active immune system change your scent. Feat. a lab in a lab coat, pissing evil, and a supersmelling Scot.

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Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:37 Smelly Diseases Exist
2:24 Odour Elusiveness
3:59 Can you smell a cold?
6:57 Using dogs and Scots to detect diseases
10:37 Thanks, Outtro, Outtakes

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References

General
https://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...
https://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2018/09/...
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...

1998 article on different disease’s smells
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc...

1976 article providing various supposed characteristic disease smells (the one I got the 1998 one confused with!)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Diabetes Mellitus translation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB...

Maple syrup urine disease
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/maples...

Trimethylaminuria (smelling like fish)
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/trimeth...

2014 study on immune system smell
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/...
https://www.businessinsider.com/weca...

Another small study on smell, PNAS 2017https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/...

The woman who smelt Parkinson’s
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/sc...

Medical detection dogs
https://www.medicaldetectiondogs.org....

2021 dogs sniffing prostate cancer study
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/art...

Covid sniffing dogs
https://gh.bmj.com/content/7/5/e008024
https://www.medicaldetectiondogs.org....