In 2012, Joy Milne, a retired nurse, claimed she could smell Parkinson’s disease. Yes, really. Her husband had been diagnosed with it, but long before that, she noticed his scent had changed—and not for the better. Scientists were sceptical, but after an experiment where she sniffed t-shirts worn by Parkinson’s patients and healthy individuals, Joy correctly identified every case… except one.
Except—plot twist—the “mistake” turned out to have Parkinson’s after all, diagnosed months later. Meaning Joy’s nose had detected the disease before medical science could. Further research found Parkinson’s sufferers produce distinct chemical compounds in their skin, leading to a groundbreaking new diagnostic test.
But here’s where it gets even stranger—Joy can also sniff out Alzheimer’s, tuberculosis, cancer, and diabetes. She’s essentially a real-life superhero, only instead of flying, she’s out there diagnosing diseases with her nose. The catch? She’s decided not to tell people what she smells, because honestly, would you want to know years in advance that something awful is coming for you?
Her ability remains a scientific mystery, but one thing’s for sure—Joy Milne’s nose could change medicine forever.
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They were just all smokeing weed😂😂😂😂 and ahe didnt know what it was😂😂😂
Cancer definitely has a smell, when my dad had cancer i visited many cancer wards around my area and they had a specific smell, now at the time i just put it down to alot of old people being there but there was many people there that weren't that old, i could literally smell the cancer in the air such a strange realization, my dad loved dogs but he wouldn't let our dogs near him because he knew the dogs would smell the cancer on him and become upset knowing hes ill. But if someone is ill it has a smell and we can smell it because we've evolved to do so our ancient ancestors could tell who was sick and who wasn't (idk if that's true but it makes sense right?)
There once was a time, before modern medicine, when part of a doctors diagnostic tools, was their nose
She associate the smell with it not the other way round. Here is a test put some baby oil on you and go around your parents they will show affection as the scent will remind them as you being a baby.
I’m pretty sure you recently did another video about a person who has the ability to sniff out a certain disease but I can’t remember what it was or who they were. Heck it may have just been the long version of this one.
I’m sorry I understand this is science but that’s really disgusting 🤢 🤮
You missed the best part. She identified 7 t-shirts so was considered a unreliable…until awhile later when that person got diagnosed with Parkinson's.
I cannot believe this. I just listened to Scentless Apprentice today for first time in a few decades. It's a song based off a story, a man who had no smell, he was truly born scentless and as side effect, he could smell everything, even minutia particles or atoms of electrolytes including semen too.
Wet nurses refused to feed him, not having a smell, they wouldn't touch him as if cursed because all babies smell good, make people happy, but not him. Scentless. He went to work for a perfume master and was the best ever, but it got to him so bad that in the end, being able to smell everything it drove him mad so he left this world sort of like Cobain did. Couldn't take the smells. In the song, Kurt wails "Go Away" as the character, absolutely driven mad. Seeing this isn't a coincidence. This woman is the scentless apprentice too.
I think I might also be superhuman! I can diagnose Crohn's and Colitis through scent alone… You just need to give me your underwear that's been worn for a 7 day period. I'll be able to tell every time.
This is like the woman who can taste colours
She's lucky to be alive now and not when she would have been burnt as a witch by her neighbors.
No shirt?
A true medical miracle.
Excuse me but a sample size of 6 is not statistically significant, and certainly not something that should lead you to conclude that something is "beyond question". C'mon man, you used to be more rigorous than this.
did you mean this to be a short? you did this topic already
Incredible they must have isolated the specific scent
Wow
And now the twist … she ACTUALLY gave them Parkinson's 😁
I very much doubt she can. Those numbers do not count as a legitimate test of anybodys ability.
Those are amazing odds if she was just guessing…
Joy isnt special. They did this kind of experiment with women and men and had the men run on treadmills. The women identified the smell of ill health on the men’s shirts. It’s something women can do to ensure healthy offspring. Old Spice is single-handedly short circuiting this adaptation with their deodorants and body washes imo
Can we train dogs?
my mum said my fathers feet stopped smelling shortly before he died,no this is no joke or trying to be funny, his feet apparently really did stop smelling which is why mum coined term a mans feet dont smell he int healthy
can people diagnose on her
Very interesting. I wonder how many people also have this ability?
Women have been telling the world it smells funny forever, but they ignore what we say because they can't.
Her superpower is how she cooks and cleans
I don't know why, but it won't be anything supernatural. What about dogs that can detect cancer?. Interesting all the same.
The human sense of smell is highly underrated and underused. The other scientists can do this too if they learned.
The story I heard is it was all six and then one of the control group wound up being identified for having Parkinson's as well and later found out they contracted it
A guy who has in jail said he found out that another inmate had been sniffing his underwear 🤮🤢
Why did they cut the shirts in half?
Actually 7, one of the people in the control group was diagnosed for Parkinson's disease
That's amazing. I wonder what the future holds for this type of diagnosis. Other animals (dogs, etc) can also distinguish different smells like this. Since odors are chemicals, there is surely a future in technologies that diagnose by odors/scents.
This is really cool story. I heard it before but it is fun to hear again. :)
My cat looks at me judgmentally when I laugh at this video. She's obviously jealous🌺