Can Lungs Smell?
Briar learns that lungs have odor receptors.
Welcome to Briar’s daily journal. This is where Briar writes about everything she learns daily, mostly for her own personal record. Never stop learning ♥
12/29/2024
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Can you smell your lungs?
Do humans smell their own lungs?
Do lungs have a smell?
Do lungs smell things?
Can lungs smell themselves?
This is fascinating stuff. It turns out that lungs do have odor receptors. However, they don’t send messages about smells to your brain. Instead, they react to strong smells(like cigarette smoke) and constrict the airway.
I had a thought about lungs. Are they technically exterior because they can be open to the outside? It doesn’t look like it. Unfortunately, lungs are considered internal organs.
During church today we had special guest speakers! There is a missionary couple that launched from our church to Thailand a couple years ago. They came back the US to visit for a couple weeks before they head back. It was incredible to learn all the great things that they are doing on the other side of the world.
During their sermon, the word “propensity” was used in a sentence. I looked it up, and it means “a natural tendency to behave in a certain way.” What a great word.
This evening, I was cleaning my bedroom while listening to another Roots and Refuge podcast. This episode was mostly about her grieving that her oldest son graduated high school this year and moved away. It was a new perspective because that was me this year. I was the oldest child who graduated and moved away.
In the episode she mentioned a lot about the different tragic animal losses they have had on the farm this last year. They had a lot of sheep die, and her guess is that it had to do with a selenium deficiency.
Selenium deficiency can easily become deadly for sheep because of white muscle disease. It especially effects young livestock by stiffness, an arched back, and sudden death. South Carolina(where Jessica Sowards is located) has the lowest amount of selenium in the nation.
-Briar Albaugh