Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's true with the new car smell and the smell of vinyl, which is really the off-gassing of chemicals such as formaldehyde, and we take a breath of it and get a high. Some people are even addicted to the "new couch" smell or the "new car" smell. As soon as we smell it we should realize that we are contaminating ourselves with these chemicals we are breathing -- these molecules of toxins -- into our bodies, absorbing it into our body tissues.
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Mike: Well said, Randall. |
Luca Turin
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 Now the believers in shape have to explain why fully two-thirds of all reported enantiomer pairs smell similar.
At the same time, I had finished the first version of my paper and submitted it to Nature. The premier scientific journal in the world, Nature could definitely make, and probably unmake, a career. Since I hope that not every reader of this book will be a professional scientist, a few words of explanation are in order. Nearly every scientific journal has a declared field. Nature is one of the few that covers all science. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Ahh, the fragrant smell of... cigarettes?
You would think that a hall full of 45,000 people buying and selling natural health products wouldn't smell like an ash try right outside the front door, but you'd be wrong. The predominant smell of the show wasn't essential oils, or rosemary, or fragrance, but rather cigarette smoke. You couldn't escape it.
Smokers surrounded every building with an impenetrable wall of airborne carcinogens. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When they're using poor quality meat, it really stinks. That smell you get when you open up a bag of food is the putrefied meat smell. You don't get that smell in my food when you open it, do you Mike? It smells just like baked goods.
When you see salt in the bag, this is usually over-salting the food. The body becomes unbalanced in its sodium content. It creates bloating and heart conditions in pets, just as it does in humans. When you're using the kelp, you're getting a more balanced sodium dose through the kelp. It is more natural for the body to maintain homeostasis. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When you smell chlorine, what you smell is, in part, those VOCs. When you smell ammonia, VOCs are what you smell, and what is really scary is the way these chemicals react with each other. Every year, believe it or not, 60,000 people end up having an accident with chlorine in their homes. Three people a year, on average, die -- and thousands have serious injuries. If you get chlorine or sodium hypochlorite in your eye -- that's what's in chlorine bleach -- after four seconds of it being in your eye, it is likely to cause damage that's non-repairable. Four seconds. |
KC Craichy
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 To get our shampoo to smell like watermelon or strawberry, chemists must manipulate our neurosensors, making us believe that we are detecting the smell of those fruits. No one is standing over a perfume bottle squeezing essence of watermelon into the bottle! Instead, combinations from among the 6,000 available chemicals are combined to create smells that range from "new car smell" to facsimiles of very expensive French perfumes.
Perfumes and colognes were once reserved for special occasions only. |
Mike Adams
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 Here's a (shortened) description of Greeley, as printed in Fast Food Nation:
You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. The smell is worst during the summer months, blanketing Greeley day and night like an invisible fog. Many people who live there no longer notice the smell; it recedes into the background, present but not present, like the sound of traffic for New Yorkers. |
Luca Turin
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| This explains why, aside from fragrance-chemistry textbooks, treatises on war gases are the only chemistry texts where smell is systematically described.* Whatever the reasons for his interest in these odd compounds, he developed methods for the synthesis of many isomers of chlorinated phenyl mustards. Doing this involved punching in the chlorine atoms in all the different positions that the benzene ring would allow and must have been fairly dull, particularly since he repeated it with chlorine's heavier relatives one and two floors below in the periodic table, bromine and iodine. |
| Once again, the smell of a molecule is the sum of its parts.
Why is all this amazing? Let us go back to -SH for a minute. If you look at the periodic table of the elements you will find that S (sulphur) sits immediately below O (oxygen). This says that they have the same number of electrons in their outer shell, and since chemistry is essentially the study of the mating habits of outer-shell electrons, these two should have something in common. And indeed they do: for example, there is an -OH version of every thiol (-SH) compound. The -OHs are known as alcohols. |
David Steinman
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 The rotten egg smell was definitely the methyl-isothiocyanate (MITC), and the people were being slowly and profoundly poisoned even as public officials told them it was okay to return. Some people smelled gas. Some people said it just smelled bad. The poison was floating in the air.
Agricultural Commissioner Kraft and his helpers came out. They were going around sniffing and deemed everything safe. No detection devices or monitoring devices were brought out.
The health officials probably figured the hosing down of the people completed their duty. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| That smell you get when you open up a bag of food is the putrefied meat smell. You don't get that smell in my food when you open it, do you Mike? It smells just like baked goods.
When you see salt in the bag, this is usually over-salting the food. The body becomes unbalanced in its sodium content. It creates bloating and heart conditions in pets, just as it does in humans. When you're using the kelp, you're getting a more balanced sodium dose through the kelp. It is more natural for the body to maintain homeostasis.
Mike: Garlic powder is an interesting ingredient to see. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 Working together, smell and taste now don't have as crucial a function, but they too play a part in the aging process.
Taste: When you age, you're usually less sensitive to taste and also to textures like oiliness. A decrease in taste can be caused by a decrease in nerves that determine taste or because of things like dry mouth (naturally or as a side effect of medicine), which makes food taste less appealing. So you crave the stronger tastes of more salt and sugar. Remedy: Try more herbs and pepper.
Smell: As you age, you're more likely to lose smell than taste. |
| When you add food to your body, it can go in one of three directions: (1) burned up and used as energy for your body, (2) stored up and turned into fat
Makes Sense: smell and Taste
While it may seem that smell and taste are there solely to allow us to enjoy the aesthetics of eating, they're actually there for a life-or-death reason. Historically—before the Food and Drug Administration, before chemists, before lab rats-smell and taste helped us decide whether foods were safe to eat. |
Mike Adams
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| Here's a (shortened) description of Greeley, as printed in Fast Food Nation:
You can smell Greeley, Colorado, long before you can see it The smell is hard to forget but not easy to describe, a combination of live animals, manure, and dead animals being rendered into dog food. The smell is worst during the summer months, blanketing Greeley day and night like an invisible fog. Many people who live there no longer notice the smell; it recedes into the background, present but not present, like the sound of traffic for New Yorkers. |
Luca Turin
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| Tragically, Wright died without ever realizing that the solution to the problems that had beset him for the previous twenty years beckoned to him from the library shelves. Not in an obscure publication, mark you, but probably within reach of his hand, in the most famous of all physics journals, Physical Review Letters.
It was contained in an article published from the labs of the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Some people are even addicted to the "new couch" smell or the "new car" smell. As soon as we smell it we should realize that we are contaminating ourselves with these chemicals we are breathing -- these molecules of toxins -- into our bodies, absorbing it into our body tissues.
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Mike: Well said, Randall. Now, we are about to wrap this up, what I'd like to ask you as a last question here to maybe give our readers a brief about your website, www.HundredYearLie.com. That's a fantastic resource. Can you tell people what they can find there? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Maybe you can't smell yourself because your nose has been dulled from years and years of use of these products, but I tell you what - everybody else can smell you! And we're tired of it. Take those products, throw them away and try to live a day without smelling like an artificial fragrance factory, for God's sake.
And while you're at it, throw out the antimicrobial soap. Er, wait a minute, that might be an EPA violation. Better call a chemical waste processing facility and see if they can take it off your hands in an environmentally responsible way. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 But it's very easy to smell your own armpits and get a sense of what's going on. Try going 24 hours with no deodorant. If you can't stand the smell from the outside, just imagine what your body smells like on the inside! Maybe it's time for some plants in your diet, ya think? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 They can also be trained to smell bladder cancer in your urine. Search Google for "dog sniffing bladder cancer" if you don't believe me.
If dogs can smell cancer, it's not unreasonable that some people might be able to detect it as well. Some holistic health practitioners that I know tell me that they can smell cancer in patients. That's because cancer emits a specific odor, and a lot of people who are using deodorant are simply trying to cover up odors that could actually serve as a health indicator.
Most Americans can't imagine going through a day without using deodorant. |
Jack Challem
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 As a result, eating becomes an exercise in quickly satisfying our hunger instead of turning on our senses of sight, smell, and taste.
There is (at least to me) a boring sameness when it comes to the greasy smell and taste of fast foods. Overprocessing has ruined many traditional tasty foods. Consider the modern tomato, which is picked green (so it can be shipped without bruising) and sprayed with ethylene gas to turn it red. The tomato never really ripens, and it tastes like pulp. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| And remember that your favorite "clean" smell is often caused by chemicals that are present to mask the noxious odor of other chemicals. Plus, 15 percent of us are allergic to the common fragrances. To compound the problem, we're spending more time indoors. So make sure to open your windows as often as possible and bring fresh air in (even once a week in the heat of summer or cold of winter).
IN (rARA&E New car smell is more delightful than fresh pie, but it's also ripe with chemicals. Perhaps to the disappointment of your sniffer, it's best to air out new cars. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Maybe you can't smell yourself because your nose has been dulled from years and years of use of these products, but I tell you what - everybody else can smell you! And we're tired of it. Take those products, throw them away and try to live a day without smelling like an artificial fragrance factory, for God's sake.
And while you're at it, throw out the antimicrobial soap. Er, wait a minute, that might be an EPA violation. Better call a chemical waste processing facility and see if they can take it off your hands in an environmentally responsible way. |
Joseph Campbell
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| Compare the following view of the Bodhisattva Darmakara: "Out of his mouth there breathed a sweet and more than heavenly smell of sandalwood. From all the pores of his hair there arose the smell of lotus, and he was pleasing to everybody, gracious and beautiful; endowed with the fulness of the best bright color. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 It is possible, however, that because patients on omega-3 treatment could detect the "fishy" smell of their supplements while those on placebo would not get the fish smell (a problem that cuts across many studies of herbs and supplements), there was a placebo effect. Although interesting, this study is an isolated one, and little else has been done to look at the relationship between omega-3 fatty acids and mood. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 When nothing else subsists from the past, the smell and taste of things gain entry "into the immense edifice of memory."
It was a long time ago, but what I remember so vividly about my tonsillectomy is the smell of the ether. "Just take a deep breath," the surgeon intoned.
It was my first disobedient act against the medical community. I held my breath for all I was worth. But within seconds I understood the terrible truth: I had lost. I inhaled the dreadful stuff. Then falling, falling... |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Use of zinc sprays in the nose has the potential to cause loss of smell. Since this type of loss of smell is permanent, nasal zinc sprays and gels should be avoided.
ZINC CONTAMINATION
Supplemental zinc above the UL of 40 mg has caused mild gastrointestinal distress. Acute zinc toxicity can cause diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Zinc toxicity has occurred from food and beverages contaminated from storage in galvanized containers. Zinc fumes, such as those inhaled by welders of galvanized metal, have also caused zinc toxicity. |
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