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Chasing Life

Smelling Your Way To Love

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Do you ever walk past someone who smells absolutely alluring? Maybe you even do a double take? Scent is a major component of our attraction to those around us, but how much does it actually impact our romantic decisions? Pheromones have long been documented in the animal kingdom, but what about in humans? On this episode, professor Tristram Wyatt joins Dr. Sanjay Gupta for a deep dive into the world of pheromones, how they work and the search for the mysterious human sex pheromone. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Some people will walk down the street and snout someone's perfume or cologne and right

0:07.8

away they suddenly remember their high school girlfriend or boyfriend.

0:12.2

That's Dr. Zara Patel.

0:14.1

She's a professor at Stanford University.

0:16.8

She's also a rhinologist.

0:19.0

That means she's a nose expert.

0:21.4

And that's really one of the amazing parts of snout.

0:24.8

Our cell proofs wrote entire volumes of vux on the way that smell kind of voka memory.

0:31.9

And it's one of the most ancient, I would say, nerves and systems in our bodies.

0:39.6

I spoke to Dr. Patel earlier this season about the loss of smell and taste caused by COVID.

0:45.0

And during that interview, she brought up something pretty intriguing.

0:48.9

The idea of human attraction stemming from her individual sense.

0:54.4

Do we all have our own scent?

0:56.2

I've heard that.

0:57.2

I mean, if we could, if we were good enough smellers, would we be able to detect someone just

1:02.5

by their smell?

1:04.0

Yeah, well, you know, we do.

1:08.4

And some of those smells are just kind of the way our bodies give off scent.

1:14.6

But some of it is really on a really such a low level that we're only physiologically

1:20.8

able to pick up on other people's smells.

1:23.6

We're just reflexive beasts after all said.

1:26.4

Yes, they're done.

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