{"id":647823,"date":"2026-11-01T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647823\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T12:50:08","slug":"can-odors-from-our-bodies-signal-alzheimers-cancer-and-other-diseases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/647823\/","title":{"rendered":"Can odors from our bodies signal Alzheimer\u2019s, cancer and other diseases?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"U72POCBR6NDJHNPY5YWWW2NQLU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">When social anthropologist Hanna Marie Ihleb\u00e6k i<a href=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/download\/76577224\/Blood_20Sweat_20and_20Tears_20-_20Making_20Sense_20of_20Senses_20in_20Expert_20Nursing_20ODA_20002.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/download\/76577224\/Blood_20Sweat_20and_20Tears_20-_20Making_20Sense_20of_20Senses_20in_20Expert_20Nursing_20ODA_20002.pdf\">nterviewed nurses<\/a> at a Norwegian cancer ward for her PhD dissertation, she was surprised to learn that many of them relied on their sense of smell in their work. \u201cUrine infection is really distinct, I can recognize that smell in the corridor!\u201d one of the nurses said. Another claimed to be able to pick out digestive bleeding and cell necrosis. \u201cI don\u2019t know what I would have done without my ability to smell,\u201d said a third. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When social anthropologist Hanna Marie Ihleb\u00e6k interviewed nurses at a Norwegian cancer ward for her PhD dissertation, she&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":647824,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-647823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}