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Enhancing Your Sense of Smell and Taste
32:07 - 38:52 (06:44)
Practicing the ability to sniff and enhancing the sense of smell can enhance the connection to things and individuals. Using smelling salts, like ammonia, can activate the pathway from nose to the amygdala and improve perception of scents.
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Practicing nasal breathing can help improve attention, memory recall, and learning ability.
32:07 - 34:48 (02:40)
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Practicing nasal breathing can help improve attention, memory recall, and learning ability. Inhaling deeply followed by smelling an object like an orange or food, can also enhance the ability to perceive different odors.
ChapterEnhancing Your Sense of Smell and Taste
EpisodeHow Smell, Taste & Pheromone-Like Chemicals Control You
PodcastHuberman Lab
This episode discusses the benefits of enhancing sense of smell using ammonia with smelling salts, stating that it triggers an innate pathway in the brain and wakes up the body.
34:48 - 37:58 (03:10)
Summary
This episode discusses the benefits of enhancing sense of smell using ammonia with smelling salts, stating that it triggers an innate pathway in the brain and wakes up the body. The speaker recommends practicing and enhancing the sense of sniffing to have a deeper connection to smells and tastes, including others.
ChapterEnhancing Your Sense of Smell and Taste
EpisodeHow Smell, Taste & Pheromone-Like Chemicals Control You
PodcastHuberman Lab
Dogs can now be trained to sniff out COVID-19 infections with a high degree of accuracy of up to 95%.
37:58 - 38:52 (00:53)
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Dogs can now be trained to sniff out COVID-19 infections with a high degree of accuracy of up to 95%. The unique scent produced by COVID-19 and similar infections in the body can be detected by trained dogs even when visual and auditory distractions are eliminated.