Smell – Story at a glance
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- Your sense of smell is your most primal sense and exerts surprising influence over your thoughts, emotions, moods, memories, and behaviours.
- Aromatherapy allows you to harness the olfactory power of plants, using their essential oils to enhance your physical and emotional health.
- Essential oils have been scientifically shown to be particularly helpful in treating stress, mood, sleep, pain, nausea, memory, and energy.
- A recent study revealed that humans can distinguish more than one trillion sensory stimuli, instead of 10,000 as previously thought.
- There is recent evidence that humans do indeed produce pheromones, contrary to prior belief. For example, you can actually smell fear or disgust
