Hi everyone and welcome to the Smell Podcast, I’m your host, Katie Boateng. This week, join me in listening to an episode with Luke Pierce aka the Tasteless Foodie on Instagram. Luke shares his story about living with ageusia with all of us. Ageusia is defined as  the loss of taste functions of the tongue, particularly the inability to detect sweetness, sourness, bitterness, saltiness, and umami (meaning "pleasant/savory taste"). It is sometimes confused with anosmia – a loss of the sense of smell but they’re not the same thing.

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This week, join me in listening to an episode with Dr. Stella Lee, MD and John Moore, Clinical Research Coordinator, both with the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. We discuss their work on the NOSE or Neuromapping Olfactory Stimulation via Encephalography project and their Smell Loss and Neurological Function During and After COVID-19 Infection study and much more.

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This week, join me in listening to an episode with Michelle Alemi, an acquired anosmic originally from Haddonfield, New Jersey and currently living in San Francisco, California working as a traveling nurse. Michelle experienced a traumatic brain injury in February 2018 which led to her loss of smell. In addition to her new reality living with anosmia, Michelle was diagnosed as a teenager with diabetes so we discussed what it’s like for her to manage both anosmia and diabetes, specifically when it comes to diet.

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This week, join me in listening to an episode with Dr. Zack (Tsahi) Hayat, a congenital anosmic due to Kallmann Syndrome currently living in Herzliya, Israel. We talk about what it was like for him growing up without a sense of smell, his current work as a professor, and much more.

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This week, join me in listening to an episode with Toby Fife, an artist who is currently living in Hawaii. Toby and I chat about his time living abroad, the accident that led to him becoming anosmic, and much more.

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Hi everyone and welcome to the Smell Podcast, I’m your host, Katie Boateng. This week, join me in listening to an episode with Dr. Greg Pask, an insect neurobiologist. His bio on the Middlebury College website states that he is “interested in understanding the powerful sense of smell insects use to locate food, find mates, and communicate with others.” Greg is a professor there and the college is located in Vermont. We had a great conversation about how insects use their sense of smell to navigate the world, his work as a professor, and much more.

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This week, join me in listening to an episode with Dr. Richard Doty, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Smell and Taste Center and creator of the UPSIT or University of Pennsylvania smell identification test. Dr. Doty and I speak about how he got involved in the world of smell, how the Smell and Taste Center got started, why the UPSIT was created and much more.

This week, join me in listening to an episode with Lisa Vatch. Lisa is a congenital anosmic who grew up and currently lives in Montreal, Canada. She works as a lawyer and she shares her story about what it was like growing up without a sense of smell, how she started one of the first websites dedicated to anosmia and the Canadian Anosmia Foundation back in the early 2000s, and much more.

This week, join me in listening to an episode with Glo del Monte. Glo is from Glasgow, Scotland. We talk about her anosmia journey and what that has been like for her. She’s a wardrobe mistress in the theater and used her sense of smell to do the sniff test to tell if garments could go another show or two without washing. She has a very interesting story!

This week, join me in listening to a conversation with Duncan Boak, Founder  and Nina Hill, Director of Director of Development & Operations for Fifth Sense, a UK based charity for for people affected by smell and taste disorders. Duncan was previously on the podcast highlighting the work of Fifth Sense back on episode 18 from Christmas day of 2018. This time, we get to talk about what Fifth Sense has been up to over the last two years, meet Nina and understand her new role with them, and much more!