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504. Introducing “Off Leash”

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Losing Your Smell

Tadra lost her sense of smell shortly after a piece in the New York Times was published. Losing one's sense of smell can be depressing and disorienting when we notice how much we rely on ordinary smells in daily life. So like many people who lose their of smell, tathel tried something called smell training to try to reawaken her nose. It's a practice of daily, repetitive sniffing of a few distinct odors. And after three weeks, hersense of smell returned.

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