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Woman Who Can Smell Parkinson's Disease Helped Develop a New Test

#parkinsons#sensesmell#poorhygiene#colorblind#disease
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0:00 imagine because of this some ████ creep is like I think I have the power to taste yeast infections the Marvel intro [Music] so this was a very very interesting story and I'm very happy to share here today uh anybody here familiar with Parkinson's disease yeah dude that's what took my homie Michael J fox he's dead no actually he's still alive sorry but that's what made him took his career yeah shaky and stuff on the streets they're known as the Harlem shakers oh wow really wow yeah that's what I heard in hip-hop Omarion told me Maria so uh for anybody who is not

0:51 familiar with the Harlem uh disease whatever Parkinson's disease is a progressive disorder that affects the nervous system and the parts of the body controlled by the nerves and there is a woman out there who can smell it shut up she like a dolphin that knows when you're pregnant she can ████ what that's a thing that's a thing that's the thing yep that's crazy like dolphins know when women are pregnant people have dolphin birds like people will go women there's some women that really believe in it they will go and they will be put in like a pool with dolphins and the Dolphins will help them birth their babies wow how will they help them birth are they like pushed it's like a whole thing that dolphins are super super connected to like children and they ████ do the sonar ████ like then they ████ just bite

1:42 the umbilical cord Aquaman yeah wow okay well yeah there's there's this way lady out there who can smell Parkinson's disease and the crazy part about it is that now scientists have developed the first ever skin swap test that can diagnose Parkinson's disease in only three minutes thanks to this woman and her great sense it's actually like a molecular clue yeah the deficiency is she the only one that can be the test though because if she dies no one could never she's helped develop the test so now the test can be done by anybody because I thought she was there sniffing all day like oh Parkinson no Parkinson Parkinson's no Parkinson has been for quite some time so basically over 40 years ago foreign

2:48 so over 40 years ago Joy Milne of Perth Scotland was about 10 years into marriage when she noticed her husband Les started to smell a little off specifically around his shoulders and neck while Joy knew she had a strong nose for scent having been diagnosed with hereditary hyper rosmia hyperosmia oh good she couldn't get over the abrupt change in his odor I mean most lives just be like go take a ████ shower you'd think you smell like a ████ well so that's that's basically what it was at first you know figuring it was unpleasant like this musty type of odor she began accusing the then 33 year old Les of poor hygiene and he Oh I thought you could say cheating too yeah yeah it's like typical no no poor hygiene poor hygiene obviously he was upset by this over time

3:39 uh Joy would drop the subject but 12 years later the smell was still going strong and she began to notice less mood shifting when the couple went to the doctor he was diagnosed with Parkinson's okay after years of grappling with the degenerative disorder of on their own joy and less decided to join a support group for patients and their families upon entering the room for the first time Joe was shocked to smell the same must he scent on all the other Parkinson's patients wow oh that's amazing it still would be so ████ funny if she was like are you cheating on me with a woman who has Parkinson's he's like damn whoever this girl is she stinks what does she have over me yeah Parkinson's [Laughter] so uh before Les's 2015 passing

4:30 the former doctor connected Joy with a professor at the University of Edinburgh to see how her Sensational gift Sensational is very good did you make that pun or was that in the article an articles I take credit when I think I did could be used within the medical community as a test they had her blind sniff the t-shirts of a mix of individuals with and without Parkinson's and she got only one wrong during this test or so they thought because the shirts she supposedly misdiagnosed belonged to someone who ended up diagnosed with the disease eight months later wow the time yeah so like her her scent was better than their medical technology too that's so dope wow so since then yeah that's like a bomb sniffing dog yeah Joy has since dedicated her nose to science

5:20 ████ [Laughter] helping doctors at the University of Manchester and England developed new methods of diagnosing the aggressive disease announcing this week that they have now figured it out with this news every time now dude like Scooby Snacks yeah it's cool because you of course like it would be a woman because like women's sense of smell is so much better than men's I wonder if there's like other women that can smell all kinds of things yeah is that like just genetic is that like a fact that women smell better it is a fact ask try it on earth like I think you stepped and dug ████ you could smell yourself pregnant their sense of smell gets heightened because they have to be careful about ████ they eat and all that stuff really yeah I I thought it was a fact that they're better when I got covered my sense of smell heightened and

6:10 did not decrease I could smell like my neighbor farting three houses when I was sick I swear to God I would like when I went yeah like I ordered soup and things were salty that like should just be like normal like wonton soup oh yeah that's crazy because when people had covered they lost their sense of smelling reverse whoa for one reason like I was not able to eat most things because it was too intense yeah how like things that were normal to me was too flavorful yeah too salty too too yeah maybe you're on to something though maybe you said it stayed that way no thank God because I was like I wouldn't be able to eat anything and yes you are right uh on basically almost every test women consistently score significantly higher than men in their sense of smell uh and one researcher has also claimed that the

7:00 superior olfactory ability of male of females is evident even in newborn babies can you imagine because of this some ████ creep is like I think I have the power to taste yeast infections the Marvel intro yeah and then all these guys line up because they're like I might have it in my dick and he's like oh God so fast oh my God I like the voice you chose for that guy it's basically that female body inspector I have it in my day taste it you can have that one by the way the one role that I didn't want

7:51 the yeasty dick guy just trying to foil the plants I know can you imagine you guys are born with a innate superpower and obviously we're not talking about laser eye vision but like something like smelling Parkinson's disease would you would you submit yourself to science and for the better betterment of humanity I mean yeah I mean it seems like it happened right it doesn't seem fun though like having to smell bad odors in your career like poor girl doesn't sound like a fun one it's not like you're like smell this she knows it's gonna smell terrible faster than everyone it makes me believe that everybody has maybe one or two of these they just never get in the situation to figure out what it is she would have never known like everyone's got an anomaly of some sort well because like you know in in quest aichi we got this dude who has perfect head spins and then he didn't know until

8:42 like National Geographic did like a special on him that he doesn't have the ability to like be off balance like you know your inner earphones his will automatically adjust you know like when you're drunk you lose balance he doesn't yeah he can't have that so that's the reason why he can tell level better than like a tool maybe he should have been a title ████ yeah it's like a weird thing and he should have been a construction worker can he do the Slackline thing like easily I don't know if he can do that but it's his head it's what he's on his head like when we were doing like stage Tech he could tell the uh the Builder if it was off you know that's that'll be a good thing like what if there was a series of tests we can do when we're kids and then they'll be like oh you know what you got really good balance or like really good things you know because the test that I got when I

9:32 was in school is they checked me for lies they checked my ears and I had to raise my hand which thing came out and those tests are like making sure everybody's normal but like to be normal yeah we got it we gotta let's do this we gotta do that we gotta figure out the other tests to see who's a mutant you know because his his was crazy because he has the Guinness World Record for the amount of spins on your head see if he knew that earlier he could have been a really good construction worker yeah we're walking on a tight on his head it's something to do with it when he's on his head I don't know what it is we probably all got something you guys know Aaron from barbell no so there's a uh that company I own um one of the guys that works with me his name is Aaron and he's colorblind but he has ████ like I don't know autistic Vision or some ████ like that like we'll get samples samples will come in and

10:22 he's like oh this this this uh shade of like Maroon is off and I'm like how the ████ do you know and he goes a color blind guy I still tell from the shade of gray that it's way off that's crazy is he called her blind to color deficient these color blind yeah and he has the whole level thing too like he'll be like oh that TV is Hun crooked and then when we actually measure it it's like a quarter inch off one on one side or he'll be like we'll get a t-shirt sample he's like oh the left sleeve is like tighter than the right sleeve maybe it's that things right off the bat he just tells and I'm like what you know that thing if you're if you're deficient in one then the other things get heightened maybe oh maybe but he could tell all these crazy things so he was teaching our old photographer how to color correct on Adobe and I'm like you don't even know the colors but then he says he was like I can tell by what it's supposed to be and his color correction was way better than our uh photographer

11:14 because I'm like that too I'm like that's off all this stuff but I'm usually wrong I'm like yo that painting's ████ crooked dog really so would he know if he was watching I Love Lucy that that's not in color uh he would because you know um what was it called Forum well they don't watch everything in black and gray right isn't colorblind like more like sepia Browns and like in like stones yeah it's like trendy filter yeah but we bought them those color blind uh correction glasses and then he put them on the first time and we were like we gotta see what his reaction is he's like he looks at grass he's like that's what grasslands yeah he was just looking at like ████ like just it was just like what the ████ fire trucks are red as ████ I'm like what the ████ oh my God

12:09 at least you know he's not racist right yeah foreign

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