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Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior

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The Major Components of Our Ability to Smell

Sally Kohn: We are not aware of, you know, the chemicals that we're inhaling and making sense of without our awareness. The human nose has about seven million such receptors lining a structure known as the olfactory epithelium. She says bloodhounds have a billion receptors in their nose, which is why they're so amazing.Kohn: It means a meaningful percentage of your genome is devoted just to these kinds of olfactory receptor subtypes.

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