A new study has surprisingly revealed that smelling other’s body odors can reduce anxiety.
Swedish researchers conducted this new experiment using armpit sweat in their study. And the results suggest that anxiety can reduced with the help of human ‘chemo signals’.
Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden reported in their study that when exposure to odors combined with mindfulness therapy, anxiety reduced by about 40 percent.
According to research, this odor can help humans perceive danger from food or smoky fires.
Swedish researchers say that smelling others’ body can tell our emotional state, that is, whether a person is happy or worried.
For the study, researchers asked 48 women with anxiety to smell some samples of armpit sweat while also receiving a traditional therapy called mindfulness.
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Some of these 48 women given actual armpit sweat to smell while others given clean air.
The study Results
When the results of the study came out. The women who smelled the underarm sweat had a greater effect of the therapy.
Researcher Elisa Vigna, head of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, says that a person who is very happy. And a person who is scared after watching a movie clip both have the same effect on the body’s sweat. So there may be something about the human ‘chemo signals’ in sweat in general that affected the enzyme treatment during this study.
“It’s also possible that simply being exposed to the presence of another human caused the effect during this study. But we need to confirm that now,” he says.
In fact, we are now conducting another study with a similar design to confirm the findings of the recent study, he added.
According to a report by the British Broadcasting Corporation, some preliminary results of the research will present at a medical conference in Paris this week.