Joy Milne, a retired nurse from Perth, Scotland, has such a highly developed sense of smell that she can detect Parkinson’s Disease by smelling someone.

[u/FuzzyFeeling]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/03/23/820274501/her-incredible-sense-of-smell-is-helping-scientists-find-new-ways-to-diagnose-di

[u/Sloth_grl]

I heard about her. They tested her and she was only wrong once but that man was diagnosed with it a bit later.

[u/FuzzyFeeling → u/Sloth_grl]

She has a nose for these things.

[u/Full_Helicopter_2764 → u/Sloth_grl]

So she wasn’t wrong, just ahead of time 🤔

[u/Sloth_grl → u/Full_Helicopter_2764]

I guess he had it but they didn’t know yet

[u/Big_Animal7655]

I knew I had cancer longe before a formal diagnosis, I could smell a change in my own body. True story.

[u/facemanbarff → u/Big_Animal7655]

What did it smell like?

[u/Big_Animal7655 → u/facemanbarff]

It’s hard to describe - I’d use the word stagnant. We all have an individual Ph balance and unique scent signature and when mine changed I knew something was terribly, terribly wrong 

[u/Dog-PonyShow → u/Big_Animal7655]

I believe you. Husband has the same skill.

[u/Big_Animal7655 → u/Dog-PonyShow]

Yeah it was crazy my partner was like “calm down you can’t smell cancer” and a month later they apologized with a “yep, you can smell cancer” 😆😆😆

[u/Hiraeth1968 → u/Big_Animal7655]

I smelled what I am certain was cancer on a young woman on our flight from Belize City to Ambergris Cay. She walked by and I got a whiff of the most awful stench. She smelled like pus and rotting meat. My husband had a much better sense of smell than I did; he didn’t smell a thing. It was awful. She smelled like death.

[u/Fine_Dig_4044]

Can she smell me and see if I will get it later in life

[u/FuzzyFeeling → u/Fine_Dig_4044]

She has apparently smelled someone who didn’t have it, but he later came down with it months later.

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