What body odour reveals about your health
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- Body odour can reveal health conditions, including diseases like Parkinson's, diabetes, and cancer.
- Joy Milne, a retired nurse with hereditary hyperosmia, could smell Parkinson's disease in her husband and others.
- Scientists are developing diagnostic tools using scent biomarkers, such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry for Parkinson's.
- Dogs have been trained to detect diseases like cancer, diabetes, and malaria with high accuracy through smell.
- Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emitted by the body change with diseases, offering potential for early diagnosis.
- Research is underway to create artificial noses and other devices to detect diseases based on odour.
- Malaria-infected children emit a distinct smell that attracts mosquitoes, which could lead to new diagnostic tests.
- Joy Milne's ability has inspired research into non-invasive, early-stage diagnostic methods for Parkinson's disease.