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Scientists Found Our Actual Sixth Sense

Scientists Found Our Actual Sixth Sense

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You know that racing heart feeling? Or when you KNOW you’re about to get sick before any symptoms show up? That’s not magic, it’s Piezo.

Dr. Ardem Patapoutian won a Nobel Prize in 2021 for discovering this pressure sensing protein that gives us our true “sixth sense.”

Now scientists believe Piezo might explain why some people experience anxiety and depression differently and are testing whether we can actually RESTORE this internal sense to help treat mental health conditions.

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