What Is It That People With Parkinson's Smell?

A nurse in scotland found out that her husband had parkinson's. She noticed a subtle, musky odour coming from his upper back. Researchers working with joy were able to work out that the smell was coming predominantly from the upper back of parkinson's patients. As they looked closer, they worked out there's this compound called sebum. It's produced on the skin in large quantities in the upper back. Sebum seems to react to specific volatile organic compounds like dodecan asitone and ethelacetate that are produced in particularly high concentrations in parkinson's s. The combination of these voltal organic compounds with sebum is leading to yeast cells that naturally grow