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ah, global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities, reader, how can we protect habitat, what to do with them all our ways? we can make a difference by choosing smartness solutions over stains, said in our ways global ideas. the environmental series included $3000.00 on d, w, and online and, ah, we perceive our environment with our census. but which sense we rely on most various studies show that culture and habitat implements which of our senses is most important. for people in the english speaking world, it's site in iran, people rely heavily on their sense of taste. and in molly touch is considered by
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some, as the most essential sense. surprising facts and theories about the 5 senses coming up on in good shape. with shana and tim are a couple and one reason they're attracted to one another is that they like each other smell. the scent of a partner can trigger happy hormones. this is how it works. at the back of our nose is a patch of skin called the olfactory epithelium where there were tens of millions of receptor neurons. odor molecules bind to these receptor cells with are converted into electrical pulses that are transported by our nerve fibers to the factory bulb . in the brain, from there they traveled to various brain regions,
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including those responsible for memories and feelings. ah, it explains the attraction between and tim, their noses might have the same sensory system. but hannah has a more key sense of smell. oh women seem to be more sensitive to smell than men, and have more odor revoked memories. her sense of smell health anna, to find a good partner to reproduce with hulu. oh, anna can even sneak out when tim is afraid. oh, he sweats more when he's ready, and few sweat has a specific chemical composition. this activates areas of the brain involved in empathy. the reaction can also warn of potential dangers. women are less likely to be attracted to the smell of
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a male experiencing fear. on may and a sense of smell is heightened during pregnancy, most probably due to the changing hormone levels. this is thought to be one of the bodies protective measures. the embryo has to be protected against toxic substances . anna needs to recognise if certain ruin stuffs could harm her baby, her rotten meat, eggs and fruit give off war odor molecules. my men can also identify these mouths, but by and large, their sense of smell is not as sharp as women's. tim is an exception. he's a somalia, so he has an especially sensitive nose as a child, he couldn't stand the smell of red wine. now he loves its bouquet of various aromas . his brain associates sick with pleasure. whether we love or lose
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a particular smell depends on what the associated with anna. and tim would like to train their noses so as to enhance their experience of the world around them. this involves describing a specific smell in detail and associating it with a particular emotion. it's one way of guarding against the loss of smell as they get older. ah, we don't just have olfactory cells in our noses. we also have smell receptors in our skin, and even in our gut, they respond to the odor molecules of food and optimize the digestion process. amazingly, babies in the womb can already perceive their mother smell preferences. and these have a lasting influence, emotionally, to, ah,
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can shrimp garlic, lavender or cheese cake, improve your mood just by their smell the ship? no, no, a family is testing the hypothesis. first, they're off to the market to buy the ingredients for a shrimp and vegetable stir. frying it's a dish that they like to eat on vacation. they spend their holidays in portugal where daniel has a serv school. so does descent of cilantro, ginger garlic and orange, get them into a summer mood. but 1st, utah makes a cheese cake the way her mother used to do it ah, and childish pans. i'm curious how i'll react because i haven't baked it very often . even though it reminds me most of my childhood. i wonder if it'll affect me or not. fund assessment may muffled on this. we want to find out more about the link
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between smells and feelings. so we're going to ask an expert. i know he just got you all he does well. every situation we live through is stored along with a smell that we experience at the same time. and then that's an association that will always have it. he says he thought we were, you lived experience as they were hoard and then that triggers a positive mood was not my one bask lewis, don't you supposedly pushed him on god? and it's amazing how quickly these associations are formed. as daniel notices when he sawing wood in the garden with his son, is it a thought they both agree? it smells like the home improvement store. oh, you know, when i was a child or used to love woodworking for me too. i was a mother. i tried to build all sorts of things, so it's a really classic child when memory less, the smell of freshly song would, with the whole gazelle, the whole stories. his son uvie has clearly inherited his love of woodwork.
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meanwhile, in the kitchen, the cake is ready. here, aromas of a different kind are working their magic. our brains react very attentively to smells, link to food, registering every little detail relevant if it's a little bit burnt on top, it smells particularly tasty, but i think it's the vanilla filling that makes it so fragrant her yagi vanilla is on before that a flu vanilla is a special smell, y'all. i think we have a special relationship to it. it's probably because substance as a chemical vanilla a contained in mother's milk. the article woman opened them with the news to fill it. and that's why we often associate vanilla with the feeling of being safe and cozy. because we associated with being breastfed mid to being nurse at an interesting young research has established various links between smell and mental benefits. lavender is relaxing, orange, uplifting. rosemary energizing vanilla harmonizing and the smell of wood
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revitalizing uta and daniel are now going to see what effect their favorite meal has on their frame of mind. can i put them in a good mood and haven't, i've got a smile on my face. i feel good. would they go right by me? it's new smell alone doesn't trigger a sense of happiness in me loose so that the super hollywood florida has a lot. i think i also need the ambience all the surroundings on allah's wasp over almost. so how can you go about identifying the sense that perk you up? i switched credit to most really you can think about, which is now you personally associate with relaxation. com. she had a fever all concentration who all of nixon english. i also work because there's already a psychological association between the smell and the effect that it's probably going to have to dubuque,
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one year of misery. the child is that they repeat of powers of aroma therapy have long been recognized. smells can also have a positive influence on our mood and day to day life. another sense that contributes to mar wellbeing and development is touch. tactile learning is essential for cognitive development and babies. researchers have established that regular gentle touch can help boost brain development in premature babies. and however much we take it for granted, i sense attach or means all important as we age as well. a simple handshake says a lot about us. it can be friendly, commanding, consoling, or warm hearted. this touching little gesture actually makes a big impression. deb copa contact the physical
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contact to into the impression it has and our intelligence skin fulfills a basic need and humans and animals in this the gun suite is it's very important for our prenatal development of it. and for our emotional well being open for our sense of self and our body image that was without touch, shut our bodies and souls grow ill when or not. but we will burden via caulk on life when say that our bodies react intuitively to every form of touch. if it's gentle and loving, we relax and our fear is subside. touch even strengthens our immune system in a way. touch is our most intimate sense. but we'll get a job to how a touch happens via the skin is low. it's our oldest and largest sensory organ and social communication, oregon assaults. yeah, we can't turn off our sense of touch your colonel. we can close our eyes and not to
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see anything under the olden country for cover our yours and not hear any things who either. but our sense of touch is always with us as any harm in emma 702800 1000000 receptors. and as many as a 1000000000 free nerve endings can be found in our skin. the macro cells mainly register pressure. whereas the tac toe cor puzzles, the mice, news corpuscles respond to vibrations. free nerve endings are largely responsible for sensing temperature and pain. touch can also have a direct effect on our behavior. a gentle touch often makes it easier to settle a dispute with some one dimension visits. i got humans a very special system now from fos, a network of nerve fibers on the hair,
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the skin. aha. how to so purpose, that is to convey a sense of well being 2nd tech, it doesn't relay temperature foods, pressure pain, that or vibration to the brain which melts sick rather well being alone, my dog alighted some gums on until even a quick touch can trigger and very positive feelings come guns positive a few doses. so positive that as studies show a waitress who briefly touches her guests will receive up to 30 percent more tips. touch influences our sensitivity to pay a lot to a hand is plunged into freezing cold water until cold pain ensues. that takes about 30 seconds on average. yet if the person's other hand is being held by their partner, it takes much longer. so what happens if we aren't touched enough?
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the skip feeders. julian did sarah lots of buddies which show that in both humans and animals. a lack of touch leads to illness or even death taught. shoot. one of the oldest forms of therapeutic touch is certainly instinctive reaction to stroke part of the body that's in pain. this led to the development of medical massages. gabriela mal, you'd keep guess worked with professor mila early housing to develop a psychoactive massage. designed to soothe body and soul. it can even help alleviate depression escaped to for sheen. and there are studies on different psychoactive massages as well as classical massage, eyes which show that they induce deep relaxation. mo, anti with stress reduction,
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and anti depressive effects. upper levels of stress hormones in the blood sink, while levels of the bonding hormone oxy, towson rise, and the special network of nerve fibers that conveys a sense of well being is activated, affordable food permitted. this kind of massage can also bring peace and comfort to healthy people, to the amos, to help them get better in tune with their bodies. every form of touch gets under people's skin. we can even detect and recognize things with our feet. that's because the soles of the feet and the toes are covered with lots of receptors. we couldn't stand or walk without them. this experiment shows that we can even use our feet to see him because have something heart shaped italy i think i know. yeah. i mean, we're c shall
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e hm. and we all unconsciously touch ourselves during the course of the day, our face around $400.00 times alone. jesus said, still, we want to self direct away men and volunteering, which we also call nervous gestures. d hm. has many different meanings. does i know one is to assure ourselves of our own physical existence, existence, ferguson. that's another is that it's a means to reduce stress. however, self touch alone isn't enough to make us happy. and unfortunately, touch is becoming increasingly rare in our society. we often hold our cellphones more frequently than our partners it thus mat bush um some folks might find cuddle parties to be strange. she owned or cush, lace elsewhere, complete strangers to touch one another from according to pre set rule. especially
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ma reagan. but for many people singles, for instance, about it's an experience that's more than skin deep kinda sadness ah, and statistic show couples who regularly touch one another stay together longer artists tend to have more of an eye for the settled ease of color than others. while musicians can detect nuances and found, and radiologist can deduce crucial changes in the body, simply by looking at black and white images. these sent 3 superpower is, can be trained by exercising certain brain south and improving their function. and these hands are special. they can feel things that remain hidden to other people. pia hemmings hands min, everything to her with less than 5 percent vision. she's almost blind. i,
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my name is an i task my hands and my every day help it so i need them to orient myself. if they allow me to do my work, they can see for me and they can even save lives, saving lives, helping others in this berlin clinic for breast cancer prevention. pos, blindness is not a hindrance. on the contrary, her special gifts are appreciate and here she and other visually impaired women work with a team of doctors as tactile palpation examiners. pia can feel the smallest changes to tissue. her sense of touch is especially keen as, as the case with many blind people cry girls from because we've always had to work with our fingers and our sense of touch, much more consciously in our everyday life. we can train our sense of touch to focus on the smallest changes to breast tissue, and i hope it doesn't bother us that we can't seem to have oh, can only see very little as there's actually nothing to see. i only need to feel
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for lawson chron and her patients can definitely rely on her di fall and have had gynecologist contests for areas this size in the clinics. but we can find these smaller beat size lamps, not point 4 centimeters down to the really small ones here and the customer doesn't want ruskin, clunk, o. d, a has suffered from her impairment her entire life. over the years, her congenital glaucoma permanently damaged her optic nerves to stop her from going completely blind. she's had more than 30 operations. starting at age 6. was vice every my car. i remember what my hospital room looked like when i was a small child in what the bed looked like. but i remember the big job on the windows in the children's ward canutson with visual tv. but i do remember in kindergarten, friends, oh, have the kinds of memories lenise do? well, i'm not in the hospital all the time. i am so hungry flesh can am on the mystery and car hosking. it means
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a lot to fear that she's not housebound due to her impairment. staying at home is not an option. 9 years ago, p and received a new cornea and an artificial lens. the 34 year old is afraid of losing the 5 percent vision. she still has left, but she also knows she's come a long way. ah, mister club, i say i was, i was around 16 or 17 when i started asking myself why me that there's no use in wondering why it is what it is. i just have to live with that one is more sets i got on that laden i. instead, her goal is to keep looking forward every day over 55000000 people worldwide live with lim, last prosthetics play a vital role and rehabilitation. helping people manage everyday life. and even
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outperform people who are non disabled in the paralympic long jump, athletes with prosthetic legs, nearly rival olympic athletes. and now, smart prosthetics that integrate a i are improving mobility and comfort even further. and artificial hand that learns an intelligent and artificially intelligent ah, this is its teacher and its owner seemingly effortlessly, woods, gung bower can perform movements with his prosthetic arm all based on artificial intelligence. it is opened up entirely new possibilities for him. it then can be heard through. no, i no longer think about what i want to do with the presentation. it, it just works completely automatically out. the message, buzz gung bower is
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a farmer managing a farm was always his dream job. nothing else was ever an option. for him but then he seriously injured himself when he reached into the blades of a combine harvester. doctors couldn't save his arm. so he needed a prosthesis to replace the lost hand. it had a german prosthesis manufacturer, physiotherapist done, ye, lavista felt trains patients to use a prosthesis with artificial intelligence with the basic training last several weeks. and begins with a special learning cuff klein. there are 8 pairs of electrodes in the cuff. they pick up muscle impulses coming from both count bowers arm and peasants. an app makes the impulses visible and stores them as movement patterns as kept aneb.
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let us have been pleasant bleaching connection between the calf and the asset. as in cat, the cat contains a large number of electrodes it is re, which communicates the muscular tensions involved, gangs body to the act. but on the left coast at fin, the sleeve of gung bower learns to move his amputated hand. it's important that for each movement, the muscle impulses and are as different as possible. that way the prosthesis can assign a movement to each impulse. it helps him to know that movement patterns such as opening or closing the hand, remain in the brain even after an amputation. if the muscle impulses can be assigned to specific movement, the prosthesis can use a i to learned which of the movement patterns it should respond to with which movement. the electrodes in the prosthesis register the impulses in the arm with the i. the patterns it detects can be assigned to specific movements and
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stored while both gun bower trains for several weeks, the technicians make his prosthesis. it is now able to adapt to individual movement patterns. it's an enormous improvement involved gong, bowers, quality of life, benefit from an operational point of view. it's simple room if you mentally open a hand or the hand open was if you close it, it closes it. if you rotate ok there rotates, but you don't even have to think about it either. the prosthesis simply execute the movement. but he has to practice a lot. it's the only way for the prosthesis to keep learning. the high tech devised costs around 60000 bureaus, including therapy and individual fitting him and the same from well to be honest, i can't really imagine life without a prosthesis to think on. so i use it all day,
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depending on what activities i do during the day or on my private life. even when it comes to simple things like eating normally, if you need the prosthesis with your everywhere, is it thanks to his push thesis, vote gun bowers, dream of being a farmer isn't over. together with his team engineer, easton law, chappelle designs, individual arm prostheses to keep the process as simple and affordable as possible . the use software that creates a so called digital twin of the prosthetic for each customer. or model relies on sunday and 3 d scanners to our users, or a family member or friend would scan the residual them. we collect that 3 d data and geometry and, and start creating sockets. the socket is how the device attaches to the person as really emerging man, a machine. it's not only an attachment mechanism to the human body, but as lined with muscle sensors. so a child out of the box after 10 or 15 minutes of training,
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they can actually start moving their hands according to estimates world wide, just 5 percent of people with lim loss have access to medical care. easton, la chappelle, is on a mission to change that and revolutionize the prosthetics industry. time now for coach rally i to show us another exercise we can do at home with high end, well come today i will present a lovely exercise. it's called side lunch. take a wide that step to the side and return through starting position with 10. read each side for 5. when you go deeper, it's
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a little bit more exhausting with, with this exercise your strengthen your entire leg from your hips through your toes blue. that's all for this episode. stay active and see you next time on in good shape. with
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