{"id":7485,"date":"2025-05-27T23:23:20","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:23:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:23:20","slug":"scottish-womans-super-smeller-ability-leads-to-breakthrough-parkinsons-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Woman\u2019s Super-Smeller Ability Leads To Breakthrough Parkinson\u2019s Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Milne from Scotland discovered she could \u201csmell\u201d Parkinson\u2019s disease on her husband Les twelve years before his diagnosis. Parkinson\u2019s causes slow movement, stiff muscles, and shaking, but currently has no definitive test\u2014diagnosis relies on symptoms and exams.<\/p>\n<p>Joy noticed a unique musky odor on Les in 1982, before his 32nd birthday. After his diagnosis, she recognized the same smell in others with Parkinson\u2019s and helped researchers develop a new early detection method.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at the University of Manchester created a skin swab test analyzing sebum\u2014the skin\u2019s natural oil\u2014which changes with Parkinson\u2019s. This test is 95% accurate in labs and could soon be used in hospitals in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Joy believes earlier diagnosis would have meant more time and better u<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy Milne from Scotland discovered she could \u201csmell\u201d Parkinson\u2019s disease on her husband Les twelve years before his diagnosis. Parkinson\u2019s causes slow movement, stiff muscles, and shaking,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7486,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions\/7486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailyglow.fun\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}