Read about Joy Milne today. Scottish woman who noticed her husband smelled different. Not bad. Different. Musky.
Doctors dismissed it. She didn't.
Husband got diagnosed with Parkinson's.
Researchers put her in a room with T-shirts — some worn by Parkinson's patients, some by healthy people. Blind test. She sniffed each one. Got every patient right.
"Missed" one. Person marked healthy.
Eight months later that person was diagnosed. Parkinson's was already in the smell before any test could catch it.
Dogs trained to detect cancer hit 97% accuracy by smell alone. Seizure detection hours before it happens.
Question stuck in my head: how many people have this kind of sharp sense and never said anything because no one would believe them?
Medicine completely ignores the human nose as a diagnostic tool. Might be a massive mistake.
