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Sniffing Out the Cause of Smell Loss

Chasing Life

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How Common Was Smell Loss?

Before covetis, a quarter of people over the age of 50 had some level of smell loss. People can't tell if their food has gone bad when they take it out of the fridge. The sense of smell is this harbinger of how cognative function is occurring in the brain. There was a patient with bumaningi who lost her ability to smell because she had a benign tumor that went through her nose and into heractory nerves. She would go through these months and then years without being able to smell anything at all. And so after hearing about your zara, i just felt like you were kind of losing joy for life."

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