Anosmia, the loss of smell caused by COVID-19, doesn't always go away quickly - but sme... - 0 views
theconversation.com/smell-training-may-help-154140
covid smell research impacts knowledge brain science
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What’s unique about COVID-19 is that it actually is not nasal congestion or that nasal inflammatory response that is causing the smell loss. The virus actually crosses the blood-brain barrier and gets into the nervous system.
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Some people recover their ability to smell within a few days or weeks, but for some people it’s been going on for much longer.
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Food doesn’t taste good anymore because how you perceive taste is really a combination of smell, taste and even the sense of touch. Some people are reporting weight loss due to loss of appetite, and they’re just not able to take pleasure in the things that they’ve previously found pleasurable.
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There’s research that suggests that our sense of smell can influence our attraction to certain people unconsciously.
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There are also people and organizations doing smell training. Smell training is essentially smelling the same odors over and over so that you can retrain your body’s ability to detect and identify that odor.