Your body knows when death is near — and it all starts with your nose

Have you ever felt unwell without knowing the cause? A vague feeling, an invisible alert… What if your body was perceiving signals that your mind hadn’t yet interpreted? Recent research reveals a mysterious and deeply troubling link between our sense of smell and awareness of the end of life. Prepare to delve into one of the most misunderstood mechanisms of our brain.

The nose: an emotional compass that’s much more accurate than you might think:

Our sense of smell isn’t just a sensor of scents or childhood memories. It’s directly connected to the most archaic areas of our brain: the amygdala and the hippocampus, where our emotions, instincts, and deep memory are born. A simple smell can bring back a feeling of security… or trigger an invisible alert.

And among the most powerful odors, there is one that our body recognizes without ever having truly “learned” it: that of decomposition.  Uninviting, certainly, but revealing an astonishing biological intuition.

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