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by carbide 3943 days ago
The peanut butter test is interesting. For sufferers of early onset Alzheimer's, the range at which you can detect a smell is different between your left and right nostrils. They used Peanut Butter in this test done by the University of Florida.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter_test

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Before someone freaks out over peanut butter, note that according to Wikipedia an attempt to duplicate these results has failed.
Now you have me worried.
At long last, the fabled credible Google symptom search result revealing that your stuffy nose is a smoking gun indicator of a fatal illness!