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  • 12 Tips to Boost a Woman's Sexual Health
    Like any muscle, your sexual health requires exercise. Here are 12 tips to put your sexual health in peak form.
  • Smell Your Way to a Better Mood
    You can change your mood by changing what you smell. Smell has a powerful effect on behavior. Certain smells can brighten our moods and lift our spirits. Some smells we find repulsive and alert us to danger. If smells are such powerful influencers of moods and behavior doesn't it make sense that changing the smell can also change the behavior?
  • Drugs Not the Solution for Low Libido
    North America's 85+ million ageing baby boomers are facing the 'use it or lose it' proposition when it comes to their sexual health. Complaints of low libido are on the rise due in part to the millions of women entering their menopause years. Drug companies are pouring millions of dollars into finding a chemical solution for low libido in women, but they may not have the long-term health of women in mind.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 12
    The delivery of aromas and scent - for a wide variety of reasons - offers huge potential for the health and wellness of future generations. As researchers delve into the science behind scents, the technologic world looks for ways to mimic the precise function in which the human nose detects different scents.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 11
    Can aromas really help to reduce our levels of stress? Rather than reaching for medications to relieve stress, many people are looking for other ways to reduce their levels of stress. Scents are a great way to relax, unwind and reduce stress.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 10
    Did you know your perception of others is influenced by their scent? In an experiment, subjects who were exposed to pleasant fragrances gave higher ratings to individuals than those who were subjected to unpleasant fragrances. So, it wouldn't hurt for us to give ourselves a little spray of our favourite colognes every now and then.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 9
    Researchers have only just begun to scratch the surface about how our sense of smell relates to our various moods. Studies show that eight major factors of mood—such as stress, depression, apathy, happiness, sensuality, relaxation and stimulation—can be affected by fragrances.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 8
    We mwy think our taste buds are the center of taste perception, but the human nose—not the tongue—is the main organ of taste as well as smell. While our taste buds help us to distinguish between substances that are sweet, sour, bitter and salty, our olfactory receptors distinguish all other "tastes."
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 7
    Manufacturers and advertisers alike are often accused of over-exaggerating the effect that fragrances have on our sexuality, claiming that their fragrances will give its wearer the power to attract the opposite sex. Yet are these claims exaggerated?
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 6
    Our sense of smell is directly linked to the area of our brains that controls our memories. The slightest hint of an odour can transport us thousands of miles to some of our earliest memories—even to those we were not aware that we had.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 5
    Women consistently outscore men with their sense of smell. Interestingly, a woman's ability to smell is dependent on the level of various hormones in her body. A woman's sense of smell is heightened during the first half of her menstrual cycle and peaks when she is most fertile and sexually responsive. During ovulation, women are 10,000 times more sensitive to the scent of male hormones than during menstruation.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 4
    Did you know everyone has their own unique "scentprint"? Many factors determine various body scents: age, physical condition, medications, the foods we eat, etc. Within seconds of meeting new people we make sensory decisions about them, one of which is based on how they smell. According to the Sense of Smell Institute, "deep friendships and romantic alliances are dependent upon, what scientists identify as, 'olfactory bonding.'"
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 3
    Like our eyesight, our sense of smell weakens as we age. While researchers search for treatments to help counteract the effects of aging on our sense of smell (and taste), there are four "exercises" that you can do now to keep your nose (and taste buds) young.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 2
    All scent originates as a chemical. Without chemicals, our brain would not be able to perceive, or "read" a scent. Unlike our other senses, our sense of smell is fully mature at birth and is one of the first senses that newborns experience. Their sense of smell helps them to locate their mother and her source of food.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell: Part 1
    In the course of a day each of us takes over twenty thousand breaths, inhales over 438 cubic feet of air and takes in billions of odorant molecules. Yet surprisingly, few of us take notice of more than a handful of scents. Whether or not we are aware of them, these scents have a significant impact on our physical and emotional well-being. Learn some amazing facts about your sense of smell and its power to affect your health and pleasure.
  • Unlocking the Secrets of Your Sense of Smell - Introduction to a 12 Part Series
    Whether you're sniffing wines, savoring gourmet foods, turned on by your lover's scent, relaxing with scented candles or trying to identify that fleeting odor, harnessing the power of your sense of smell will go a long way to enriching your life and providing you with an effective tool to manage your moods.

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