Peanut Butter Detects Alzheimers

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LongBlade

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/
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Martok

#1
October 09, 2013, 09:16:20 AM
Huh.  Well if it works, why not? 

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LongBlade

#2
October 09, 2013, 09:21:26 AM
Cheap and fast and good, too. What's not to love?
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Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

Martok

#3
October 09, 2013, 09:31:41 AM
No bread and jam? 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

GDS_Starfury

#4
October 09, 2013, 09:36:14 AM
is peanut butter covered under obamacare?
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W8taminute

#5
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. 
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bob48

#6
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
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#7
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. 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

bob48

#8
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.
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'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

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#9
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 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

bob48

#10
October 09, 2013, 02:14:33 PM
'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers'

'Clip those corners'

Recombobulate the discombobulators!

Martok

#11
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). 

"Like we need an excuse to drink to anything..." - Banzai_Cat
"I like to think of it not as an excuse but more like Pavlovian Response." - Sir Slash

"At our ages, they all look like jailbait." - mirth

"If we had lines here that would have crossed all of them. For the 1,077,986th time." - Gusington

"Government is so expensive that it should at least be entertaining." - airboy

"As long as there's bacon, everything will be all right." - Toonces

Gusington

#12
October 09, 2013, 08:15:46 PM
I'll take that blackberry jam.
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mirth

#13
October 09, 2013, 08:30:26 PM
What were we talking about?
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#14
October 09, 2013, 08:32:17 PM
Mirth's girlfriend.  But don't let Mirth know.
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