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Peppermint Scent Sniffing
Sniff peppermint or other minty scents to give yourself a quick boost in alertness, attention, and arousal. It’s a non-ingestion tactic: simply inhaling the scent appears to stimulate wakefulness, though the effect is generally milder than ammonia smelling salts.
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“Minty type scents, whether you like them or not, will increase attention and they can create the same sort of arousal response, although not as intensely or as dramatically as ammonia salts can, for instance.”
huberman · How Smell, Taste & Pheromones Shape Behavior | Huberman Lab Essentials · May 1, 2025 · 19:24 · open ↗
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