Essentials: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior | Dr. Noam Sobel
In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, my guest is Dr. Noam Sobel, PhD, a Professor of Neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an expert on the human sense of smell. We discuss how the brain processes odors and how smell shapes our lives more than we realize, influencing everything from who we become friends with to how we experience emotions, hormones and aggression. Dr. Sobel also shares his lab's groundbreaking work on digitizing smell and future technologies that could enable noninvasive disease detection through body odors.
Books
- The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin
Articles
- A social chemosignaling function for human handshaking (eLife)
- There is chemistry in social chemistry (Science Advances)
- Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women (Science Advances)
- Human tears contain a chemosignal (Science)
- Interspecies transmission of emotional information via chemosignals: from humans to dogs (Animal Cognition)
- A measure of smell enables the creation of olfactory metamers (Nature)
Resources
Huberman Lab Episodes
People Mentioned
- Jonathan Williams: atmospheric chemist at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
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Dr. Noam Sobel: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior
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