If You Can't Smell These Five Things You Might Die in Five Years

A new study revealed that if there are five things you can't smell it could determine when you will die.

According to the New York Times, researchers looked at more than 3,000 men and women between the ages of 57 and 85, and asked them to identify five different scents: peppermint, fish, oranges, roses, and leather.

Then after five years, they counted up how many of those people had died, and the ones who failed the test were much more likely to no longer be with us.

39% of the ones who failed the test were dead, and 19% who barely passed were dead, compared to just 10% of people who passed with flying colors.

The authors of the study say they are not sure why that's the case, but they think losing your sense of smell is an early warning sign of other age-related issues.

So whether or not you can smell those five things, it is a better way of predicting death than anything else we've come up with so far.

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