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2022-01-18 Science & Technology
Genetic risk factor found for Covid-19 smell and taste loss, researchers say
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Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-18 07:15|| || Front Page|| [4 views ]  Top

#1 “Some people have it and some do not. Inborn genetics may partially explain why.”

Research into ethnic targeting? Perhaps a look at neuronal impacts on the hypothalamus, on and off switches. Hunger, or reproduction, that sort of thing.
Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-18 07:26||   2022-01-18 07:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Or like the genetics that make some people smell soap in cilantro (like my Dad did)
Posted by Frank G 2022-01-18 08:40||   2022-01-18 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 Always had a crappy sense of smell (no pun intended), so no biggie....
Posted by Mercutio 2022-01-18 08:50||   2022-01-18 08:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Something like 60% of people produce an odor in their urine after eating asparagus. But something like 50% of those people can't smell it.

People are strange.
Posted by Bobby 2022-01-18 08:55||   2022-01-18 08:55|| Front Page Top

#5 Been many days ... but coffee is starting to
smell and taste like coffee again.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-01-18 13:07||   2022-01-18 13:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Been many days ... but coffee is starting to
smell and taste like coffee again.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-01-18 13:08||   2022-01-18 13:08|| Front Page Top

#7 How about that stutter?
Posted by Frank G 2022-01-18 13:11||   2022-01-18 13:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Yep... still shaking...brain fog....
Posted by NN2N1 2022-01-18 15:55||   2022-01-18 15:55|| Front Page Top

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