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The unexpected link between taste and smell

Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter

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How Do You Smell Bacon?

The most important thing to know about old faction is how effective, pleasurable, displeasurable, emotional it is. We are hard wired for a certain set of bitters, to absolutely hate them. You're born loving sweet, hating bitter. And your soft preceptress ase does not mature at birth in humans but in weeks, they mature and then you like dilute salt. Sweet, salty, sour, bitter are four hard wired tastes. Some people add mamy to that - that one's actually a little controversial. Will look at poisons? They don't all taste alike. So what you've got to do is make a bunch of receptors so you can respond to different things

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