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Smelling another's sweat can cure social anxiety

Unappealing as it may seem, exposure to others' sweat combined with mindful therapy showed a 40 per cent reduction in anxiety. [iStockphoto]

A new study has found that people with social anxiety may benefit from human chemo-signals or basically smelling odours from other people's sweat.

Unappealing as it may seem, exposure to others' sweat combined with mindful therapy showed a 40 per cent reduction in anxiety. Those who underwent only mindful therapy showed a 17 per cent reduction in anxiety.

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