let's smell your breath,
your skin, your eliminations, your toes
Healers, midwives, medical professionals
have long documented the use of smell in pre-diagnosis
Why Ida Meister, working in the fields of oncology and neuroscience, loves her amygdala click here
I've heard doctors speak of smelling ketones on the breath of diabetics ...
"... early stages of basal-cell carcinoma, a type of skin cancer, can be detected by analysing the odour of a person’s skin using gas chromatography and mass spectrometry ....
Dr. Buszewski is now tweaking his device so that it works with the bio-marker profiles of a range of diseases.
If he can do this successfully, olfactory diagnosis could become mainstream without a wagging tail in sight."
read here - Olfactory Diagnostics: Smelling Bad
The Economist 28 August 2008 click here
photo: Greenman Lura Astor
