“Can Certain Scents Treat Alzheimer’s Disease? Promising Results in Mice”

What if, in the future, we could treat Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders with certain scents? It may sound absurd, but tests with mice that have Alzheimer’s show promising results.

Spanish researchers discovered that when the mice inhaled a natural substance with a characteristic, pungent odor, it had an inhibiting effect on the damage the disease caused to their brains. And in healthy mice that inhale the substance, cognitive abilities are even enhanced.