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

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How to Gain Control of Your Nasal Cycle

Air flow through one nostril is reflective of a sympathetic nervous system dominance versus parasympathetic. Is it simply the case that this alternating left-right nostril periodicity, which you said I think is on the order of about every two hours? Two and a half. It switches to maximal on one side versus the other. Or is that simply reflective of an overall balancing? Maybe is it the hinge in the seesaw, or is it the tilt of the seesaw? So, I don't have a good answer. To some extent, right nostril, more open is more sympathetic, and left nostril moreopen is more parasympathy.

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