What’s it like to be able to smell cancer? Alzheimer’s? Diabetes? Parkinson’s? When a nurse noticed a change in her husband’s scent, it sent her down an extraordinary path of discovery - that she could smell multiple diseases and conditions. Meet Joy Milne, and hear from two women who have found different ways of getting through life with highly sensitive senses of smell. GUESTS:  <ul> <li><a href="https://www.heatherream.com">Heather Ream</a> is a <a href="https://highlysensitiverefuge.com/sensitive-to-smells-smangry/">writer</a> from East Tennessee, who is also a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP)</li> <li><a href="http://www.taketwoproductions.ca/">Wendy Helfenbaum</a> is a television producer, translator, journalist, and <a href="https://www.womansday.com/health-fitness/advice/a57154/super-smeller-hyperosmia/">writer</a> who has an exceptionally sensitive sense of smell</li> <li><a href="https://www.npr.org/transcripts/817977005">Joy Milne</a> is a retired nurse from Perth, Scotland. She can smell Parkinson’s, tuberculosis, Alzheimer's, cancer, and diabetes.</li> </ul> Photo: iStock<a href="https://www.wnpr.org/donate" rel="payment">Support the show: https://www.wnpr.org/donate</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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