Woman's smelling "superpower" detects cancer and Parkinson's

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This woman can smell diseases - and she’s working with scientists to give you her superpower.
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Smartphones have camera “eyes,” microphone ears, speaker mouths - they even have gyroscopes to mimic our sense of balance and spatial awareness. But what can’t they do? Smell. But an MIT physicist is on a mission to change that.
In February 2021, MIT announced the creation of the “Nano-Nose.” As Freethink previously covered, the Nano-Nose was able to detect prostate cancer with accuracy comparable to a dog’s. The current Nano-Nose looks like a slightly chunky smartphone attachment, and is both biological and electronic.
The Nano-Nose contains living cells grown from the ones in our noses responsible for our sense of smell. When exposed to a scent, these receptors go up or down through an electrical current, drawing a picture of the scent. This is then analyzed by an AI, telling us what the Nano-Nose is detecting - technology inspired by what we know, and don’t know, about the nose.
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@freethink 2 жыл бұрын

What do you think we could do with the power to smell disease?

@InternetPersond 2 жыл бұрын

We’d have more power to get a timely and accurate diagnosis.

@andreahawkins5890 10 ай бұрын

After they have a number 2 or if their home is a mess you can smell it. It doesn't smell like number 2 but it is like a bad garlic and sweat smell but not like garlic. I can't describe it.

@andreahawkins5890 10 ай бұрын

There's nothing else that smells like cancer. I haven't studied other diseases smells. I just know what cancer smells like.

@AiguilleVoodoo 2 жыл бұрын

It really doesn't have to be in a smartphone, nor small, to be life changing. Artificial noses could very well be the revolution Theranos pretended to be. Put one in every pharmacy and doctor's office and you would just have to take a 15 minutes appointment every 6 months to get "sniffed". In fact, I'm surprised we're not already training dogs to do just this, at large scale... Prevention through non invasives techniques like this gotta be cheaper than treating patients, I would believe.

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

💯

@freethink 2 жыл бұрын

Great point! Perhaps that's how we'll see the technology deployed first at a minimum.

@grateful. Жыл бұрын

If you want it to sniff low and high blood sugar to warn a person you want it to be small

@steve1750 7 ай бұрын

They were teaching dogs to sniff out cancer and covid, not sure I think in the UK.

@ESumner 11 ай бұрын

I can smell it too, I know my ex husband will have Parkinson’s dementia later in life. For me the musky smell is so strong I could barely even sleep next to him… the pillows, his clothes. Nothing got that scent out… it smells like an old man’s hair, or like a nursing home, or really stale bed sheets, spoiled body oil. No matter how clean he was that smell was there.

@Zadamanim 6 ай бұрын

You should work with scientists to try to isolate what chemical is triggering that smell. There are robots that can smell (detect chemicals) and if we can build ones that have this ability it will help many people, and could possibly lead to early care that can slow the progression of it.

@ESumner 6 ай бұрын

@@Zadamanim I literally wish I could do this… the smell is NEXT LEVEL… but, here’s the catch: I’m autistic and have a very sensitive sense of smell. I wonder if that woman is on the spectrum. For me, I can smell it like I can smell coffee, bread baking… it’s a strong unmistakable smell.

@Zadamanim 6 ай бұрын

@@ESumner Being autistic makes life harder but not impossible... if you have a gift then find a way to use it.

@thearmanahmed_ 5 ай бұрын

My grandfather had cancer. Whenever I was near him, I smelled something. He passed away a year ago (may Allah have mercy on him). Now, I feel that smile coming from myself😢.

@Zadamanim 5 ай бұрын

@@thearmanahmed_ get checked for it early then, most cancer can be treated early on without too many troubles

@rjung_ch 2 жыл бұрын

Second video of this amazing woman, how she was able to smell her husband's Parkinson without knowing it at the time, then at a meeting with many Parkinson patients must have blown her mind. What an incredible woman.

@wovasteengova 2 жыл бұрын

this is a re-upload. But I feel like there might have been another vid of her like a couple years ago

@freethink 2 жыл бұрын

@@wovasteengova Yeah, there was an inaccuracy in our previous upload so we took it down to fix it. She hasn't been covered before on our channel, but she has been covered by other outlets (e.g. www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/scots-gran-who-can-smell-6678179 ).

@wovasteengova 2 жыл бұрын

@@freethink Glad u guys are wanting to put accurate and honest information out there!

@steve1750 7 ай бұрын

@wovasteengova There a couple I believe.

@EyeToTheSkyPerth 2 жыл бұрын

I know if my child is going to go down with flu in the next day or two by the smell of their breath ...not quite as impressive as this lady I know

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

Really useful skill, I wonder if this is genetic or a strong mother’s intuition.

@freethink 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting! Still impressive and useful--and who knows, maybe you'll find you have a nose for other diseases too at some point.

@supernova1976 Жыл бұрын

I have the same sense , breath smell changes totally, it becomes smooky or fungus like. I even noticed my own smell change 6 years ago and I can only describe it as musky oily mold sent. Now I am thinking could it be I have parkensons ? Hmmm

@stst77 8 ай бұрын

I wonder if you are smelling something in the nasal fluids.

@15_heidune72 2 жыл бұрын

Wow. It must suck to go to New York for her.

@jimmytimmy3680 2 жыл бұрын

Or public restroom

@15_heidune72 2 жыл бұрын

@@jimmytimmy3680 or...take out the trash

@jimmytimmy3680 2 жыл бұрын

@@15_heidune72Or walking by sewers.

@InternetPersond 2 жыл бұрын

She said scents are overwhelming so even walking by a bakery in the morning would be extra

@15_heidune72 2 жыл бұрын

@@InternetPersond so basically anywhere that has an odor...so basically everywhere

@euge7569 10 ай бұрын

I worked at a tuberculosis hospital and I can also smell TB, it smells kind of yeasty to me

@MyLifeInTheDesert 2 жыл бұрын

Six months after a second bout of covid (and yes, I was vaccinated) I still have no smell. I miss it so much.

@timborel1111 4 ай бұрын

I can usually smell if someone is an alcoholic. My ex wife smelled me after a wild night and correctly predicted that I would be homeless very soon.

@andreahawkins5890 10 ай бұрын

I can smell cancer. I thought only dogs could. 2 people in the past 20 years I could smell it they are both passed away of cancer throat and stomach. My mother currently has this awful smell and I told her she needs to get checked because she smells like they did.

@themoontalks 7 ай бұрын

Does it smell kinda ... burnt-like almost?

@SweetpeaandLilly 4 ай бұрын

Does it smell like rotten meat?

@nanaadwoa 2 жыл бұрын

She went to the entire continent to smell tuberculosis, now that’s remarkable

@ffrreeddyy123456 2 жыл бұрын

Smells bring good memories. This video is grand to inspire more innovation within the community.

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

In England you have a hard time getting an actual growth investigated good luck telling them your sweat smells acrid and getting any tests done. Doctors also instantly dismiss at home results and online symptom checkers, it would take a lot to win them over to a more patient controlled/intervened treatment and care plan

@stst77 8 ай бұрын

I can smell ants and when i told my family they didn’t believe me then when i got in college i discussed it with my biology professor who explained ants release a scent for each other to follow. She believed me. I can also smell something that’s not body odor but an internal odor that can’t be washed away. The smells are distinct but all are foul meaning some people have this foul smell and others have a different foul smell. However unlike this woman I have no idea what I am smelling but I know it’s something inside the person and it’s not right.

@AntiMason 7 ай бұрын

Same!! I said to someone “you know that disgusting sweet smell when you squish an ant?” And they were like “huh?” Lol

@TheRoadLessChosen 4 ай бұрын

I smell it on myself. I keep saying I smell like onions or I have a putrid smell. No matter how much a I bathe

@aswalnauni 3 ай бұрын

@@AntiMason So people don't smell that?😶 I am starting to believe there should be more research on this now

@AntiMason 3 ай бұрын

@@aswalnauni there definitely should. I can also smell a centipede. They smell far worse than ants.

@aswalnauni 3 ай бұрын

@@AntiMason umm, i haven't met a centipede yet😅, so i don't know how they smell like

@sanjuansteve 2 жыл бұрын

We are more capable than we give ourselves credit.

@sanjuansteve 2 жыл бұрын

I can smell fear in my cat's breath odor for example.

@freethink 2 жыл бұрын

@@sanjuansteve Whoa! It'd be interesting to create a way to test one's skill. Maybe more people have the ability to smell disease than now know about it, or we might all have different degrees of it.

@Valinacamm Жыл бұрын

I'm positive I have this condition. I didn't know there was a name for it. Not sure if u can smell diseases but my sense of smell is crazy compared to other ppl

@TheRoadLessChosen 4 ай бұрын

It’s an ability not a condition! 🤣🤣

@Diablist Жыл бұрын

i can smell if a women pregnant , am not kidding lol i do and it never fails everytime .. some how :S

@EekZombies 11 ай бұрын

Whats it smell like?

@Diablist 11 ай бұрын

@@EekZombies I cannot explain, but it’s noticeable enough for me to know that this person is pregnant.. maybe due to hormone changes pregnancy hormones discharge a smell that somehow I identify 😒🤯

@andypierce7073 2 жыл бұрын

But I'm told I'm crazy when I say I can smell serotonin and pheromones.

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

Some people are on the back foot in identifying with their senses and have a very small uncharted relationship with the world. In fact I think the majority.

@Oyuki-Mayonesa 2 жыл бұрын

Please tell us what serotonin and pheromones smell like? And since you can smell pheromones... can you tell me what part of the body you smell them coming off of? The chest, the head?

@rebeccalindsay5795 Жыл бұрын

I can smell when my sister is ill. Have been able to do that ever since she was a baby, no idea why though

@TheRoadLessChosen 4 ай бұрын

Smell and feel are the last two senses needed to make AI sentient. After Covid I can smell some crazy things in onions, my body, energy drinks.

@OGPimpin 2 жыл бұрын

Futurama Smell-O-Scope

@brams77 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely amazing.

@ginadisantis2684 2 жыл бұрын

How and where can I find out what different diseases smell like? I smell so many odd things that aren't of the regular smells. just very curious. sometimes I taste smells. if that makes any science to U? please let me know where I can go to find this information out. Thank U

@Oyuki-Mayonesa 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, one time my husband’s fart was soo strong, I could taste the meatloaf he had for dinner 🤢 🤮

@NahoBlackLove1234556 5 ай бұрын

That's hyperosmia if it is a higher sensitivity to smells. Are the "tastes" accurate to the smell or a little random? Maybe you have Synesthesia as well. Look into it!:)

@e.v.k.3632 2 жыл бұрын

But where is the Source?

@azizutkuozdemir 2 жыл бұрын

How accurate ? Cant we make same type of chemical thingy such as turnusol paper which can detect stuff like this for cheap .

@steve1750 7 ай бұрын

I had covid just before christmas 2023 I could smell myself even showering 2-3 times daily and the sweat had wax type feel. My cat would not come near me. I have Parkinson's also and said to my doctor about this, and she said that out of all the patients that she has seen that had covid, only two had reported the smell and the wax like sweat, both have Parkinson's. 🤔

@TheRoadLessChosen 4 ай бұрын

After Covid in November I started noticing the smell of my body. At one point, before that, I told my wife I smell like Taco Bell. But now I swear it’s like onions and food taste differently. I love onions and eat them quite a bit but now I hate them because they have a taste I identify immediately. I tried an energy drink and also immediately tasted that same putrid smell/taste. Then, I had an organic onion just by chance and that nasty taste was gone and the organic onion brought back that taste I once loved. Idk, I think I have something wrong with my body. But my wife said, it’s nothing, I smelll like I always have. Smh, I stink! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@steve1750 4 ай бұрын

@TheRoadLessChosen We will never know what that virus has done to us. I think peoples attitude toward each other has changed also. But I swear I smelled putrid. Lol. Thanks for the reply.

@sundayvictor4367 2 жыл бұрын

Only legends will know that this video was reposted 😅

@vishalroygeek 2 жыл бұрын

Haha...

@Deevro9 2 жыл бұрын

Patrick isn't it ?😶

@freethink 2 жыл бұрын

You're all legends in our book 😉. Apologies for the double post, there was an inaccuracy in the previous upload and we had to take it down.

@sundayvictor4367 2 жыл бұрын

@@freethink No need to apologize. More grace 😇 and love 😍 to freethink. I love this channel so much that i have watched about 98-99.99% of the videos you guys have posted and have recommended some of my friends to check the channel out. Am a big fan

@confusedbugger 2 жыл бұрын

Exciting stuff!

@user-vl4vo2vz4f Жыл бұрын

Dogs are the best people

@azizutkuozdemir 2 жыл бұрын

Which food she likes the most ?

@suraj18m48 2 жыл бұрын

I read about it on "Atomic Habits". I wonder if she the same woman

@CFX_Trades 8 ай бұрын

I've just finished the book? Don't remember this..

@cellofcells 2 жыл бұрын

Since everthing has its unique smell, it seems possible. But, doesn't inhailing could make us sick too?

@stst77 8 ай бұрын

Obviously not. Others are inhaling the same smell but just aren’t distinguishing it. Think of it like this, you can smell a cake but it isn’t going to turn you into a cake. It’s just a smell.

@cellofcells 8 ай бұрын

I was thinking more like sniffing the air when someone sneezes or coughs. or smelling CO2 @@stst77

@carolinemacrae6227 2 жыл бұрын

I bet Joy can tell the difference between a morgellons afflicted person from a non morgellons afflicted person. Cdc would.d crap themselves if she can tell the difference.

@susheelkumar-yd4qi 2 жыл бұрын

what are the music that's running inthe background

@cyberspelunker1980 4 ай бұрын

I have this ability.

@ajsdriver7988 5 ай бұрын

It's terrible. I can smell when someone's sugar is too high. I can't go anywhere. It makes me sick

@CynthiaWord-iq7in 7 күн бұрын

Wow all these people..and I have never heard of this. Dogs & cancer was all I knew.

@robinenochs1320 Жыл бұрын

I am actually shocked that covid did not affect her sense of smell.

@kme3894 Жыл бұрын

I have hyperosmia and covid made my sense of smell (and taste) even more hightened

@whitepouch0904 11 ай бұрын

@@kme3894I have both too and stress heightened my senses too. It’s hard specially if it’s odor and smoke

@nxxxxzn 2 жыл бұрын

this is a dystopia. they'll be able to locate any person anywhere in the world, if every smartphone carries this sensor. "oh he's being smelled right there. from home he went to work, then a strip club, than a whorehouse. let's show him relevant ads".

@Durch-Laucht 2 жыл бұрын

We can already do that. GPS, WiFi, Cellular can locate you very accuratly. The tech itself is not dystopian, but what we will do with it.

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

🤣😭🤣

@mynameisnotshane6501 2 жыл бұрын

While im having the worst nose

@azizutkuozdemir 2 жыл бұрын

Cant we read brain data of a dog and make sense of the difference (learning ) between parkinson person and non parkinson .

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

This is a brilliant idea and easy for anyone to do all you would need is a trained cancer identifying dog in a brain cap and log the brain waves present when in contact with someone who has cancer. Knowing these brainwaves and assuming all dogs smell cancer any dog with a brain cap could be used to identify by smell.

@azizutkuozdemir 2 жыл бұрын

@@Callummullansthanks, i also like the way you have described. curious why not in place already :)

@thombaz 2 жыл бұрын

There us no such a thing that can "read a dog brain" neither anything powerfull enough to analyze it. Not even talking about there is a difference in the working of the brain. And not even talking about the thing that a brain didn't only have one job, to smell, but million others.

@azizutkuozdemir 2 жыл бұрын

@@thombaz i dont think it is true . there are egm machines and you do not have to analyse each detail you just have to see what pattern occurs between the one that is sick and the one that is not . if you see clear indicator and repeatable then you have your solution .

@thombaz 2 жыл бұрын

@@azizutkuozdemir M'kay do it, I will read about your work in the newspaper.

@J-masterz 2 жыл бұрын

artificial intelligence is in everything these days

@jaylove5555 2 жыл бұрын

Let’s hope it is not just her upper lip.

@xanv8051 Жыл бұрын

Is it like how old people smell a way like is that it cause not all the elderly smell funny

@luchirimoya 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, kids and elders smell different than adults. Kids smell sour? Citrusy? And elders... I wouldn't even know how to describe it, they just have that old people smell lol

@stst77 8 ай бұрын

@@luchirimoyababies have such a sweet smell and little boys and little girls as well as teenage boys and girls smell differently.

@Haameme 2 жыл бұрын

Gone too far to prove she doesnt have covid

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@cheekmeat Жыл бұрын

Cap

@aitortillasa235 2 жыл бұрын

Is this April fool video??

@eliasf.fyksen5838 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, so not to be a party pooper, but not a big fan of the whole put it in every smartphone idea. If odor truly contain the amount of information you say it does, then it will by result be able to finger print people at a distance. Not something I would want smartphones going around doing

@Callummullans 2 жыл бұрын

There are already these features on some smartphones even lower end ones like sign in with your fingerprint. This would most likely be a plug in hormone detector.

@omarelias1490 2 жыл бұрын

Bullshit!

@setaripantheon8801 2 жыл бұрын

I can see cancer with my naked eye! Cancer usually walks around on the streets with un-natual hair colors and a victim hood!

@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they’re called GQP

@thombaz 2 жыл бұрын

@@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 Not even a nice try.

@Catlily5 2 жыл бұрын

The ones complaining about others being victims are often the ones who are wanting victimhood.

@zerozamora5073 8 ай бұрын

Hay #freethink i was wondering if u could help me get in contact with the people in the video i beleve i might be able to help with there reserch in some way 😊