{"id":98099,"date":"2019-11-03T11:04:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T19:04:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/is-treating-cancer-with-odors-the-future-of-cancer-therapy"},"modified":"2019-11-03T11:04:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T19:04:27","slug":"is-treating-cancer-with-odors-the-future-of-cancer-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/is-treating-cancer-with-odors-the-future-of-cancer-therapy","title":{"rendered":"Is Treating Cancer with Odors the Future of Cancer Therapy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-treating-cancer-with-odors-the-future-of-cancer-therapy2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time you inhale through your nose, olfactory receptors in your nasal passages enable your sense of smell to function. These receptors consist of protein complexes that help you detect chemicals floating in the air.<\/p>\n<p>But research now shows that those types of receptors aren\u2019t only found along your breathing passages. They\u2019re all over the body in a wide variety of organs, and they influence what organs like your liver and intestines are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Added to that, cancer cells possess their own collection of olfactory receptors that affect how they function. And those receptors, some researchers believe, might represent one of cancer\u2019s vulnerabilities \u2013 and a key to destroying cancers with scents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time you inhale through your nose, olfactory receptors in your nasal passages enable your sense of smell to function. These receptors consist of protein complexes that help you detect chemicals floating in the air. But research now shows that those types of receptors aren\u2019t only found along your breathing passages. They\u2019re all over the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98099\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}