Researchers reveals how odour from other people's sweat helps to treat social anxiety

Researchers from Europe have demonstrated that inhaling odours that are derived from other people’s perspiration can be utilised to enhance the treatment of various mental health issues. In a pilot investigation, the researchers were able to demonstrate that patients who underwent mindfulness meditation while exposed to human “chemo-signals,” or what we generally refer to as body odour, derived from volunteer volunteers’ underarm sweat, experienced less social anxiety. The results of our preliminary study show that combining these chemo-signals with mindfulness therapy seem to produce better results in treating social anxiety than can be achieved by mindfulness therapy alone”. Elisa Vigna said, “We found that the women in the group exposed to sweat from people who had been watching funny or fearful movies, responded better to mindfulness therapy than those who hadn’t been exposed. Ms Vigna continued, “We found that individuals who undertook one treatment session of mindfulness therapy together with being exposed to human body odours showed about 39% reductionsee note 3 in anxiety scores).