How dazzling are dogs?
Not only are they man's best friend providing steadfast companionship and defending our homes and families, but now we all know that they can also notice cancer and help us achieve prosper organics living. A study in the EU Breathing Journal found that dogs were able to detect lung cancer in humans by smelling their breath. They were correct over 70% of the time. Analysts accept that there had been a particular chemical compound the dogs smelled so as to notice the malignancy. Analysts accept that cancerous cells give off different metabolic waste products than normal cells and that these have a different odour. These dogs were even able to discern the most significant difference between folk with lung cancer and folks with lingering obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Dogs can also detect other kinds of cancer through smell. One dog named Marine has been given training to perceive cancer of the colon and can do so with 97% accuracy. She even beats the normal blood tests for cancer by a full 25%. Another test used dogs to recognise bladder cancer and achieved over 40% accuracy. Analysts at the Pine Street Foundation in California trained five dogs to sniff both breast cancer and lung cancer on a patient's breath.
The dogs had a precision rate between 88-99% and even navigated around odours like smoke.
And dogs can do far more than just sniff for cancer. There are dogs that are given training to detect hypoglycemia in insulin-dependent diabetics. These dogs live with their owners as companions, but they also are there for medical purposed. Hypoglycemia could be a deadly situation for a diabetic and these dogs can alert their owners when their blood sugar analysis levels are getting low, long before a crisis situation.
A dog's ability to smell is one of its strongest features and is about one thousand to ten thousand times stronger than a human's sense of smell. On average humans have 5,000,000 scent receptors, while dogs have hundreds of millions of them. When dogs smell something, they sniff and collect the air in a special chamber in their nose. Dogs are able to breathe out while keeping this air in the chamber which allows the scent molecules to accrue until there are enough of them for the dog to identify what it is. And dogs have another organ in their nasal cavity which helps them smell and taste. It's called Jacobson's organ and it means that they can not only smell the air, they can taste it too. If you have ever seen a dog almost grinning and holding his mouth in a moderately open position, you may be witnessing the dog using his Jacobson's organ. This pose is referred to as a Flehman Reaction and is most frequently used when smelling the piss or sexual markers of other dogs.
And not only can dogs uncover smells at a phenomenal rate, they can also remember them at an incredible rate. Their olfactory memories are amazing and they can recall smells long after being exposed to them. They also gather info from the odours like the health of an animal, sex, age and even what they ate for their last meal.
So what can we do with this new information? There are 2 ways to proceed. One, we can do more to train dogs to recognize cancer. It's a low-cost, low intrusive solution that may help with initial cancer screening. Second, analysts must do more to figure out precisely the way in which the dogs are doing it so that they can apply this knowledge to form machines and screening tests. But once again, nature in her wisdom has provided a natural solution to one of the greatest health concerns facing folks today.
Not only are they man's best friend providing steadfast companionship and defending our homes and families, but now we all know that they can also notice cancer and help us achieve prosper organics living. A study in the EU Breathing Journal found that dogs were able to detect lung cancer in humans by smelling their breath. They were correct over 70% of the time. Analysts accept that there had been a particular chemical compound the dogs smelled so as to notice the malignancy. Analysts accept that cancerous cells give off different metabolic waste products than normal cells and that these have a different odour. These dogs were even able to discern the most significant difference between folk with lung cancer and folks with lingering obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
Dogs can also detect other kinds of cancer through smell. One dog named Marine has been given training to perceive cancer of the colon and can do so with 97% accuracy. She even beats the normal blood tests for cancer by a full 25%. Another test used dogs to recognise bladder cancer and achieved over 40% accuracy. Analysts at the Pine Street Foundation in California trained five dogs to sniff both breast cancer and lung cancer on a patient's breath.
The dogs had a precision rate between 88-99% and even navigated around odours like smoke.
And dogs can do far more than just sniff for cancer. There are dogs that are given training to detect hypoglycemia in insulin-dependent diabetics. These dogs live with their owners as companions, but they also are there for medical purposed. Hypoglycemia could be a deadly situation for a diabetic and these dogs can alert their owners when their blood sugar analysis levels are getting low, long before a crisis situation.
A dog's ability to smell is one of its strongest features and is about one thousand to ten thousand times stronger than a human's sense of smell. On average humans have 5,000,000 scent receptors, while dogs have hundreds of millions of them. When dogs smell something, they sniff and collect the air in a special chamber in their nose. Dogs are able to breathe out while keeping this air in the chamber which allows the scent molecules to accrue until there are enough of them for the dog to identify what it is. And dogs have another organ in their nasal cavity which helps them smell and taste. It's called Jacobson's organ and it means that they can not only smell the air, they can taste it too. If you have ever seen a dog almost grinning and holding his mouth in a moderately open position, you may be witnessing the dog using his Jacobson's organ. This pose is referred to as a Flehman Reaction and is most frequently used when smelling the piss or sexual markers of other dogs.
And not only can dogs uncover smells at a phenomenal rate, they can also remember them at an incredible rate. Their olfactory memories are amazing and they can recall smells long after being exposed to them. They also gather info from the odours like the health of an animal, sex, age and even what they ate for their last meal.
So what can we do with this new information? There are 2 ways to proceed. One, we can do more to train dogs to recognize cancer. It's a low-cost, low intrusive solution that may help with initial cancer screening. Second, analysts must do more to figure out precisely the way in which the dogs are doing it so that they can apply this knowledge to form machines and screening tests. But once again, nature in her wisdom has provided a natural solution to one of the greatest health concerns facing folks today.
About the Author:
Erricka Broonkinsr is an author at the same time a healthy living fan. Read on her article of Prosper Organics about organic skin care stopping cancer.
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