Essentials: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior | Dr. Noam Sobel

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.

Show notes: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/essentials-how-smells-influence-our-hormones-health-and-behavior-noam-sobel

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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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