A new technology aspires to harness the powerful human sense of smell to enhance our daily lives. Someday this approach might even be used to benefit our health. How is this possible? Step one: Just inhale. We’re living in a playlist world, with many of us curating soundtracks to get us through life’s daily ups…
via Coming to your nose: Scent playlists that could boost your well-being — ideas.ted.com
The videos in this blog are too fascinating not to share. I’m especially interested in the implications for food addiction and diabetes. As someone with a rather acute sense of smell and a love for essential oils, I am super curious about this research. You may find it intriguing as well.
Happy weekend!
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Hi Cristy, I couldn’t play it – it said “an error occurred”. Anyone else have this difficulty?
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Oh no, maybe I can find a different link that works, I will try that. Sorry about it. I think there are two of them and I wonder if I can find another one. I will check back and post them if I can.
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I went back into my link and got the same error message. Maybe try the following link and access it inside this page, since I was able to get it to play from there:
https://ideas.ted.com/coming-to-your-nose-scent-playlists-that-could-boost-your-well-being/
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That worked! Thank you. Really interesting. Not sure about the whole fasting thing, but I definitely use sense of smell as part of my self-care – I have a candle with a lid on it on my desk which I periodically stop and sniff if I need a break, as well as other things dotted around the house.
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That’s a very interesting idea!
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Thanks, love TED Talks and this has fascinating facts about a much overlooked sense, that of sell.
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