The link to the NY Times article below is a means to help convey the importance of odors, whether or not they are consciously perceived. Simply put, pheromones affect behavior whether or not we smell them.
“A single picture, a few choice words and, yes, a slight odor can elicit a surprisingly intense reaction.”
October 23, 2010
All Politics Is Olfactory
By PETER LIBERMAN and DAVID PIZARRO
James V. Kohl detailedl how quantized energy-dependent microRNA biogenesis links the pheromone-controlled physiology of reproduction to biophysically constrained viral latency and healthy longevity. Links from what organisms eat to the enzyme-dependent metabolism of food also link metabolic networks to microRNA-mediated genetic networks in the context of RNA interference. Drug therapies alter RNA interference by altering cell type differentiation in all cells of all individuals of all species. For comparison, during the past 26 years, Kohl has detailed how the chemistry of protein folding is biophysically constrained at every level of biological organization by conserved molecular mechanisms.
RNA-Mediated Perfuming The Mind