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

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The Power of Thought

No yoga teacher that we found could willfully switch between left and right nostril flow. This was one of the strangest. A lot of sandalwood odors and bare feet. So autonomic arousal can drive the shift potentially. If I suddenly enter a bout of stress, for instance, does it switch because that's reflective of the autonomic nervous system? Yes. In other words, is the unilateral smelling through, or unilateral nostril smelling periodicity that when we named it something, I could think of the wrong thing.? We're trying to answer exactly that question.

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