Woman's smelling "superpower" detects cancer and Parkinson's | Just Might Work by Freethink
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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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What do you think we could do with the power to smell disease?
We’d have more power to get a timely and accurate diagnosis.
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.
There's nothing else that smells like cancer. I haven't studied other diseases smells. I just know what cancer smells like.
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.
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.
@@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.
@@ESumner Being autistic makes life harder but not impossible... if you have a gift then find a way to use it.
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😢.
@@thearmanahmed_ get checked for it early then, most cancer can be treated early on without too many troubles
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.
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Great point! Perhaps that's how we'll see the technology deployed first at a minimum.
If you want it to sniff low and high blood sugar to warn a person you want it to be small
They were teaching dogs to sniff out cancer and covid, not sure I think in the UK.
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.
this is a re-upload. But I feel like there might have been another vid of her like a couple years ago
@@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 ).
@@freethink Glad u guys are wanting to put accurate and honest information out there!
@wovasteengova There a couple I believe.
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
Really useful skill, I wonder if this is genetic or a strong mother’s intuition.
Interesting! Still impressive and useful--and who knows, maybe you'll find you have a nose for other diseases too at some point.
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
I wonder if you are smelling something in the nasal fluids.
Wow. It must suck to go to New York for her.
Or public restroom
@@jimmytimmy3680 or...take out the trash
@@15_heidune72Or walking by sewers.
She said scents are overwhelming so even walking by a bakery in the morning would be extra
@@InternetPersond so basically anywhere that has an odor...so basically everywhere
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.
Does it smell kinda ... burnt-like almost?
Does it smell like rotten meat?
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.
I worked at a tuberculosis hospital and I can also smell TB, it smells kind of yeasty to me
Six months after a second bout of covid (and yes, I was vaccinated) I still have no smell. I miss it so much.
i can smell if a women pregnant , am not kidding lol i do and it never fails everytime .. some how :S
Whats it smell like?
@@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 😒🤯
She went to the entire continent to smell tuberculosis, now that’s remarkable
Smells bring good memories. This video is grand to inspire more innovation within the community.
We are more capable than we give ourselves credit.
I can smell fear in my cat's breath odor for example.
@@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.
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
It’s an ability not a condition! 🤣🤣
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.
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.
Same!! I said to someone “you know that disgusting sweet smell when you squish an ant?” And they were like “huh?” Lol
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
@@AntiMason So people don't smell that?😶 I am starting to believe there should be more research on this now
@@aswalkanya there definitely should. I can also smell a centipede. They smell far worse than ants.
@@AntiMason umm, i haven't met a centipede yet😅, so i don't know how they smell like
Absolutely amazing.
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
I can smell when my sister is ill. Have been able to do that ever since she was a baby, no idea why though
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
Yeah, one time my husband’s fart was soo strong, I could taste the meatloaf he had for dinner 🤢 🤮
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!:)
But I'm told I'm crazy when I say I can smell serotonin and pheromones.
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.
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?
Futurama Smell-O-Scope
Exciting stuff!
Only legends will know that this video was reposted 😅
Haha...
Patrick isn't it ?😶
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.
@@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
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. 🤔
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! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@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.
How accurate ?
Cant we make same type of chemical thingy such as turnusol paper which can detect stuff like this for cheap .
But where is the Source?
what are the music that's running inthe background
Which food she likes the most ?
Dogs are the best people
I am actually shocked that covid did not affect her sense of smell.
I have hyperosmia and covid made my sense of smell (and taste) even more hightened
@@kme3894I have both too and stress heightened my senses too. It’s hard specially if it’s odor and smoke
It's terrible. I can smell when someone's sugar is too high. I can't go anywhere. It makes me sick
I have this ability.
Since everthing has its unique smell, it seems possible. But, doesn't inhailing could make us sick too?
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.
I was thinking more like sniffing the air when someone sneezes or coughs. or smelling CO2 @@stst77
I read about it on "Atomic Habits". I wonder if she the same woman
I've just finished the book? Don't remember this..
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.
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".
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.
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While im having the worst nose
artificial intelligence is in everything these days
Let’s hope it is not just her upper lip.
Is it like how old people smell a way like is that it cause not all the elderly smell funny
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
@@luchirimoyababies have such a sweet smell and little boys and little girls as well as teenage boys and girls smell differently.
Cant we read brain data of a dog and make sense of the difference (learning ) between parkinson person and non parkinson .
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.
@@Callummullansthanks, i also like the way you have described. curious why not in place already :)
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.
@@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 .
@@azizutkuozdemir M'kay do it, I will read about your work in the newspaper.
Gone too far to prove she doesnt have covid
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Cap
Is this April fool video??
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
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.
Bullshit!
I can see cancer with my naked eye!
Cancer usually walks around on the streets with un-natual hair colors and a victim hood!
Yeah, they’re called GQP
@@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 Not even a nice try.
The ones complaining about others being victims are often the ones who are wanting victimhood.
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 😊