Essentials: How Smells Influence Our Hormones, Health & Behavior | Dr. Noam Sobel

In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, Andrew Huberman speaks with Dr. Noam Sobel, a professor of neurobiology at the Weizmann Institute of Science and an expert on the human sense of smell. The conversation covers how the brain processes odor and how smell shapes social behavior, from handshaking to friendship formation. Sobel discusses human chemosignals, including the smell of fear, aggression, and the role of tears as a chemical signal connected to testosterone. He also describes his lab's work on digitizing smell and the future possibility of noninvasive disease detection through body odor.