Show Notes
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Noam Sobel, PhD, a Professor of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an expert on the human sense of smell. We discuss how the brain processes odors and how smell shapes our lives more than we realize, influencing everything from who we become friends with to how we experience emotions, hormones and aggression. Dr. Sobel also shares his lab’s groundbreaking work on digitizing smell and future technologies that could enable noninvasive disease detection through body odors.
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Timestamps
(00:00:00) Noam Sobel
(00:00:20) Biology of Smell (Olfaction)
(00:04:32) Human Smell, Social Interaction, Handshaking
(00:08:31) Sponsor: LMNT
(00:10:03) Friendship, Body Odor
(00:14:04) Human Chemosignals, Smell of Fear & Contagion
(00:15:48) Aggression, Chemosignals, Men vs Women, Babies
(00:20:38) Sponsor: AG1
(00:21:51) Tears, “Chemical Blanket”, Testosterone
(00:25:37) Digitizing Smells
(00:28:25) Sponsor: Eight Sleep
(00:29:48) Creating Digital Odors; Future Medical Diagnostics
(00:33:43) Acknowledgments
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