Quark 7,098 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 o<(0_0)>o A new study suggests older adults who lose their sense of smell may be at an increased risk of early death. Researchers tested the ability of over three thousand seniors to identify five odors ... Including peppermint, fish and orange. Five years later they followed up to see how many of the participants were deceased. They found those who scored lowest on the smell tests were substantially more likely to have died than those who scored the highest. It's still unclear why smell loss contributes to earlier death ... but in this study, it was a bigger predictor of mortality than a diagnosis of heart failure, cancer or lung disease. Experts say smell dysfunction does not cause death ... but it may be an early warning of a serious health problem. http://www.wilx.com/home/headlines/The-Smell-of-Death-277864351.html Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenART 429 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 this is very interesting, and slightly weird imo Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sia 314 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 wait...stop.. so basically old people smelled things and died Don't be insecure if you heart is pure, you're still good to me if you're a bad kid baby. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born Brave 2,072 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 I would like to NOT be able to smell fish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staryu 6,162 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Weird. My sense of smell is really bad and I'm 19, but it has always been this way. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Above You 57 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 My mum lost her sense of smell after getting flu years ago... Is that related? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quark 7,098 Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Actually this article, did not explain the details very well. But what is actually going on, is that some of these seniors were not able to distinguish the smells between the fish, pepperment, ect. That is why they are loosing their smell sense. So it is actually better if you were able to distinguish these smells. The seniors that did not do very well in distinguishing the smells, died a few years later. Therefore lacking a sense of smell means that something wrong is going on inside of you health wise. wait...stop.. so basically old people smelled things and died I would like to NOT be able to smell fish. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Economy 52,861 Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Ive always had a bad nose tho. I cant smell what most people cant for some reason... My dad is color blind... I probably got a nose version of that, some sort of nose defect Am i gonna die earlier???? :omg: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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