Comment on Can I break my sense of taste?
Hegar@fedia.io 4 days ago
Smoke or go into space.
When i smoke too much weed - like as a lifestyle i mean, over the course of months - my sense of smell and thus most of taste pretty much disappears. I had to take a break from being a cupcake taster for an acquaintance because i could not possibly provide useful feedback.
Apparently low-gravity changes how mucus settles (iirc) in such a way that humans have reduced smell and taste in space. Astronauts always want hotsauce in part because everything tastes blander in space.
yyyesss@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve. uh. never heard this about weed. is this common? or like a “you” thing? asking for a friend
Hegar@fedia.io 3 days ago
Smokers (of cigarettes) also dull their sense of smell so i presume it's not just a me thing. Possibly it's stronger for me for some reason like allergies or genetics or some such.
DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Probably smoking, vaping doesn’t have that problem we get heavy metals instead.