The term peanut butter in your ears is a bad thing, but maybe peanut butter in your nose is a good thing. Researchers in Florida have devised an Alzheimer’s smell test, capable of confirming an AD diagnosis. The key ingredient is peanut butter. Before you grab a jar and take a whiff, it is a bit more complicated than that.
The testing was done with participants having their eyes close, one nostril closed and the distance from the jar measured. Each nostril has to be measured separately after a 90 second wait period. According to the report in the Journal of the Neurological Sciences, patients in the early stages of Alzheimer’s demonstrated a significant difference between their left and right nostrils in their ability to smell an open container of peanut butter.
Because I eat peanut butter almost everyday, I probably shouldn’t take the test. My olfactory may now be desensitized. I do know that I can smell cooked cabbage or an open can of tuna from a hundred yards.
I don’t know what that means.
PMO
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