Believe it or not, your lungs are six weeks old - and your taste buds just ten days!

[BradSmith]

The tongue is covered with around 9,000 taste buds that help us to detect sweet, salty, bitter or sour flavours, explains Professor Damian Walmsley, scientific adviser to the British Dental Association.
The taste buds themselves are a collection of cells on the surface of the tongue, each housing about 50 taste cells. The buds renew themselves every ten days to two weeks.
However, anything that causes inflammation, such as infections or smoking, can damage the taste buds and affect their renewal - deadening their sensitivity.


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1219995/Believe-lungs-weeks-old--taste-buds-just-days-So-old-rest-body.html#ixzz0co4gj2wp



I don't know if this is the right place for this as I'm new but I thought people would find it interesting. It also has info on lungs and the liver and a few other important parts.

Peace!

[lostdaze]

Ive been curious about taste and smell, Ive read so many threads of people saying their sense of smell has returned in just days or weeks.

Its been 6 weeks + for me and I think my sense of taste and smell has maybe improved some, but not very much.

Im wondering if it gets better or if everybody is just exaggerating about it.

[BradSmith]

I don't know about vaping because I haven't gotten my kit yet. But I know that other factors can play a large role as well. I used to weld a lot as part my job and I can say for sure that when I stopped welding after getting laid off I could tell within a couple of weeks that I had been missing out.

I also had a severe reaction to an ulcer medication that ended up completely peeling all the skin off my body including by fingernails and thumbnails and even inside my mouth nose and ears. I was completely without taste for about three weeks and then it slowly came back. I think it took about three weeks to leach all the medication from my system and then another two weeks or so to regain my sense of taste.

[mwahle1]

My sense of taste has increased a bit. My sense of smell is off the scale; it has improved an unbelievable amount—not an exaggeration what so ever.

[lostdaze]

My sense of taste has increased a bit. My sense of smell is off the scale; it has improved an unbelievable amount—not an exaggeration what so ever.

How long did it take tho?

[Harlequin]

I found that both taste and smell improved dramatically within about two weeks.

[mwahle1]

I hate to tell you, but my sense on smell came back strong the first week of being smoke free. Maybe, since I was such a heavy smoker for so long, my sense of smell was completely shot while I was smoking.

[lostdaze]

I smoked 2 packs a day for 36 years, I have noticed some improvement in my sense of smell, I just dont feel it is all that great of a improvement. I also noticed it within the first couple of weeks.

Maybe my sense of smell was never that far gone to feel it was such a improvement.
Also being winter time its hard to notice smell so much other than stink in the house.
Maybe in the spring I will notice it more than I do now.

[cerios]

I don't know about vaping because I haven't gotten my kit yet. But I know that other factors can play a large role as well. I used to weld a lot as part my job and I can say for sure that when I stopped welding after getting laid off I could tell within a couple of weeks that I had been missing out.

I also had a severe reaction to an ulcer medication that ended up completely peeling all the skin off my body including by fingernails and thumbnails and even inside my mouth nose and ears. I was completely without taste for about three weeks and then it slowly came back. I think it took about three weeks to leach all the medication from my system and then another two weeks or so to regain my sense of taste.

Let me guess................
These were FDA approved drugs?

[lostdaze]

Let me guess................
These were FDA approved drugs?

No kidding that is a horrible thing to happen, I cant even imagine going thru something like that.