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Title: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: LongBlade on October 09, 2013, 09:10:28 AM
OK, this is weird but interesting.

QuoteThe patient closed his or her eyes and mouth and blocked one nostril. The clinician opened the peanut butter container and held the ruler next to the open nostril while the patient breathed normally. The clinician then moved the peanut butter up the ruler one centimeter at a time during the patient's exhale until the person could detect an odor.

The distance was recorded and the procedure repeated on the other nostril after a 90-second delay.

The clinicians running the test did not know the patients' diagnoses, which were not usually confirmed until weeks after the initial clinical testing.

Patients in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease had a dramatic difference in detecting odor between the left and right nostril—the left nostril was impaired and did not detect the smell until it was an average of 10 centimeters closer to the nose than the right nostril had made the detection in patients with Alzheimer's disease.

Source: http://www.futurity.org/can-peanut-butter-smell-test-confirm-alzheimers/
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Martok on October 09, 2013, 09:16:20 AM
Huh.  Well if it works, why not? 

Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: LongBlade on October 09, 2013, 09:21:26 AM
Cheap and fast and good, too. What's not to love?
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Martok on October 09, 2013, 09:31:41 AM
No bread and jam? 

Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: GDS_Starfury on October 09, 2013, 09:36:14 AM
is peanut butter covered under obamacare?
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: W8taminute on October 09, 2013, 10:03:09 AM
It is but you have to pay 10,000 dollars for it.  If you refuse then you can either pay a penalty of 100,000 dollars or go to jail. 
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: bob48 on October 09, 2013, 02:00:03 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 09, 2013, 09:31:41 AM
No bread and jam?

Blackberry jam on toast is awesome  :P
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Martok on October 09, 2013, 02:08:14 PM
Blackberry??  :o  To each his own, I suppose.  :P 

I'm mostly a strawberry guy myself, although I like raspberry and grape as well. 

Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: bob48 on October 09, 2013, 02:09:28 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 09, 2013, 02:08:14 PM
Blackberry??  :o  To each his own, I suppose.  :P 

I'm mostly a strawberry guy myself, although I like raspberry and grape as well.

Oho - looks like I'm gonna have to send you a jar of Blackberry Jam for Christmas.
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Martok on October 09, 2013, 02:11:19 PM
Quote from: bob48 on October 09, 2013, 02:09:28 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 09, 2013, 02:08:14 PM
Blackberry??  :o  To each his own, I suppose.  :P 

I'm mostly a strawberry guy myself, although I like raspberry and grape as well.

Oho - looks like I'm gonna have to send you a jar of Blackberry Jam for Christmas.
Well at least I'll something to give my mom, then.  ;D 

Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: bob48 on October 09, 2013, 02:14:33 PM
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/tag-2937/blackberry-jam-recipes.aspx?page=2

Yum!
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Martok on October 09, 2013, 02:51:59 PM
I'll leave 'em all to you Bawb.  :)  I don't know what it is about blackberries, but they're one of the few berries I've just never cared for (including anything blackberry-flavored). 

Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Gusington on October 09, 2013, 08:15:46 PM
I'll take that blackberry jam.
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: mirth on October 09, 2013, 08:30:26 PM
What were we talking about?
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: besilarius on October 09, 2013, 08:32:17 PM
Mirth's girlfriend.  But don't let Mirth know.
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Arctic Blast on October 09, 2013, 09:18:05 PM
Quote from: bob48 on October 09, 2013, 02:09:28 PM
Quote from: Martok on October 09, 2013, 02:08:14 PM
Blackberry??  :o  To each his own, I suppose.  :P 

I'm mostly a strawberry guy myself, although I like raspberry and grape as well.

Oho - looks like I'm gonna have to send you a jar of Blackberry Jam for Christmas.

I'm with Bob...love me some blackberries.

Agreeing with the palate of an Englishman is just wrong...
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: bob48 on October 10, 2013, 12:54:49 PM
 ;)

...burp!

Edit.....Oh look - post numba 4000.
Title: Re: Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers
Post by: Martok on October 10, 2013, 01:01:39 PM
Woot!  Well done, Mr. Blackberry Jam.  8)