Grandmother Can Sniff Out Parkinson's Disease, Sparks Off Research On Body Odour

Joy Milne, one 65-year-old grandma, has an amazing sense of smell----and can sniff out Parkinson's disease, according to the Daily Mail.

It happened when the illness struck her late husband, Les.

She could sniff out the odor before it hit him. "It's hard to describe but it was a heavy, slightly musky aroma," she said.

However, she never though much of her ability until she told scientists at the University of Edinburgh that she could do it, according to Metro.

They tested her skill. Researchers brought out t-shirts of patients, and she could immediately identify patients of Parkinson's from the scents they left behind.

Hence, new research is being undertaken by Parkinson's U.K. to see if skin odor can indicate the disease.

"Funding pioneering studies like this have the potential to throw Parkinson's into a completely new light," said Arthur Roach, director of research. "Not just on early diagnosis, but it would also make it a lot easier to identify people to test drugs that may have the potential to slow, or even stop Parkinson's, something no current drug can achieve," according to HNGN.