Will Every Disease Have a Smell?

Noam Sobel says it is an overextension, but you can almost say that every disease will have an odor, and high-resolution digitized smell will be used in medical diagnosis. The technology is not close.

Every disease is a specific metabolic process. A metabolic process produces metabolites, and metabolites have a smell. Jump ahead to 4K odor transmission. When digitized smell reaches the equivalent of 4K vision and hearing available now, each person will have an electronic nose in the bathroom, in the toilet, running diagnostics all the time. In current hands, that resolution is not coming soon. A report on it might wait until retirement, and only if vision remains, and it is not anywhere in the very close future.