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Last Updated: Aug 29, 2019
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Super Fact of the Day: You can literally smell fear!

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Dr. S K MittalGeneral Physician • 50 Years Exp.MBBS
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Bodily sweat contains different pheromones when you’re frightened or not. People can detect the differences in their smell, and when they sniffed sweat from skydivers, it caused brain regions that react to fear to become active.

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