Andrew Huberman· PhD
The larger point of this study is that humans are extraordinary chemical sensors of each other, and the tears contain potent chemosensory signals.
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
The larger point of this study is that humans are extraordinary chemical sensors of each other, and the tears contain potent chemosensory signals.
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is is tears um we we we started thinking about tears and looking into tears because tears are a bodily liquid emotional tears that that we emit in emotional situations where where these are situations where non-verbal communication is is critical and key and and tears are a liquid that that is puzzling Beyond ocular maintenance right
the biology of Tears Nome Soo who was on the podcast told us that tears contain hormones that signal to other people phermones excuse me that literally change the biology of the people around you