Lewy Body dementia - 'that smell'

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PUFA peroxidation, which is a proven cause of both of those diseases, creates volatile and unpleasant-smelling compounds. In general, elevated lipolysis would worsen body odor due to many other such peroxidation products being formed, and this is one reason why a long session of endurance exercise makes people smell unpleasantly. There are other reasons too, but this is one of them.
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Increased Pufa Oxidation May Be Biomarker For Alzheimers

In line with the slow public admission that Alzheimer is a metabolic disease, this study found that the development of Alzheimer's can be predicted by a simple analysis of urine. The predictive biomarker in urine is called octenol (1-Octen-3-ol) and is it is formed in humans through the...

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Elevated prolactin and estrogen, which are also higher in such people, also contribute to the pungent smell. Dogs are very good at detecting that smell even when it is very faint (years before diagnosis) and this is why they now propose to use dogs for early diagnosis, and not just Parkinson's.

The science of sniffs: disease smelling dogs | Understanding Animal Research | Understanding Animal Research

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"...Besides cancer and malaria, dogs can also detect Parkinson's disease. Parkinson's sufferers smell different even years before they have the disease. Dogs could therefore be used in detecting early onset of the disease and treating patients pre-emptively, before the symptoms get irremediably too severe."

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