Smelling the disease – a potential new tool for Parkinson diagnosis
Six years prior to her husband diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease, Joy Milne started to smell a unique odor from his body. Later on, she noticed, that this scent is shared by all the Parkinson patients in the Parkinson’s charity she volunteered in. When confronting the neuroscientists, she passed a blind test of 12 samples with 100% accuracy (one, actually was an early diagnosis of the disease). The origin of the smell may come from the sebaceous glands, which secrete an oily,